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A10672	Vox cœli, or Newes from heauen Of a consultation there held by the high and mighty princes, King Hen. 8. King Edw. 6. Prince Henry, Queene Mary, Queene Elizabeth, and Queene Anne, wherein Spaines ambition and trecheries to most kingdoms and free estates of Europe, are vnmasked and truly represented, but more particularly towards England, and now more especially vnder the pretended match of Prince Charles with the Infanta Dona Maria. VVherunto is annexed two letters written by Queene Mary from heauen, the one to Count Gondomar, the ambassadour of Spaine, the other to all the Romane Catholiques of England. Written by S.R.N.I.	Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.	1624 (1624)	STC 20946.4; ESTC S122495	52,043	108

Vox Coeli OR NEWES FROM HEAVEN Of a Consultation there held by the high and mighty Princes King Hen. 8. King Edw. 6. Prince Henry Queene Mary Queene Elizabeth and Queene Anne wherein SPAINES ambition and trecheries to most Kingdoms and free Estates of EVROPE are vnmaskd and truly represented but more particularly towards ENGLAND and now more especially vnder the pretended match of Prince CHARLES with the Infanta DONA MARIA Whereunto is annexed two Letters written by Queene Mary from Heauen the one to Count Gondomar the Ambassadour of SPAINE the other to all the Romane Catholiques of ENGLAND Written by S.R.N.I. Printed in Elisium 1624. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS AND GRAVE ASSEMBLY OF THE HIGH COVRT OF PARLIAMENT The fruition of all Temporall Blessings The felicitie of all Spirituall Blessings Lords Knights Burgesses TO you who are the re-presentiue body of England and the Epitomie and Compendium of this great Volume of our Estate To you who are assummoned by our King and sent vp by our Country to obay the first with your best Fidelities to serue the second with your chiefeft zeale and endevours and to affect and honour both with your most religious prayers and wishes To you from whom God for his glory our Soveraigne for his honor and safety and our Church and Common-weale for their flourishing welfare and prosperity doe expect much by your transcendent and honourable imploiments To you I say and to no other do I present this Consultation termed Vox Coeli to your consideration and dedicate it to your protection And because in point of integritie and dutie I hold my selfe bound to bring the truth neerer to your knowledge or rather home to your vnderstanding May it please you to be informed that about some three yeares since at the first setting of the last high Court of Parliament when our King was so earnest in proposing the match of our Noble Prince his Sonne with the Infanta of Spaine When the King of Spaine coulourably pretended though not really intended to be deepely affected to entertaine and embrace the said motion When Count Gondomar his Ambassador made shew to be a zealous solicitor and a most actiue and officious stickler for compassing and finishing it When our Romish Catholiques became passionately and insultingly confident of the free toleration of their Religion and in the skie-reaching mountaines of their ambitious and superstitious hopes were already preparing to erect their Groves and Altars to set vp their Idols and Images and consequently to introduce their Pope and his Masse in the Temples of our God when all Prisons were vnlocked and open to all pernitious Priests and dangerous Iesuites and that many others like Caterpillers and Vipers came flocking and swarming from diuers parts of Europe to poyson and eate out the soules of our people with their Idolatrous doctrine of Antichrist and to withdraw their hearts and consciences from their Alleagiance and Fidelity to their naturall Prince Countrey purposely with more treachery then Religion to subiect them to a forreine power iurisdiction When the Emperour had beaten the King of Bohemia from Prague and the Duke of Bavaria with the assistance of the Swords Souldiers and Treasure of the King of Spaine had in a setled truce assaulted and taken many Towns in the Palatinate contrary to their promises to our King of his Maiesties to the Prince his Sonne in Law and contrary to the publique peace of Germany and Christendome Then then it was that to pull off the Maske of Spaines ambition and malice who with the fire of this match sought to set England all flaming in a mournefull and miserable combustion thereby to bury her glory in the dust and her safety in the cinders of her subuersion and ruines that as Prometheus fetch'd fire from heauen so the fire of my zeale to the good of my Prince Countrey likewise fetch'd from thence this Royall consultation for the discovery of our apprant and imminent dangers and in knowing them to know likewise how to prevent them Which resolving to make publique because it is solely tended to Englands publique glory and prosperity I contrary to my expectation but not to my feares saw my hopes nipt in their blossomes and my desires stifled in their births because the Seas of our Kings affection to Spaine went so lofty and the windes were so tempestuous that it could not possibly be permitted to passe the Pikes of the Presse When albeit my zeale and fidelity againe and againe infused new audacity and courage to my resolutions to see it salute the light yet it was impossible for me or it to be made so happy because I saw Allureds honest Letter Scots loyall Vox Popoli D. Whiting D. Everad Claytons zealous Sermons and others suppress'd and silenced as also Wards faithfull picture which yet was so innocent as it onely breathed forth his fidelity to England in silent Rethorique and dumbe eloquence Whervpon inforced to take a law from the iniquity of the time with much reluctation and more griefe I hushed vp my said Consultation in silence and because I could not serve my Prince and Country in that booke of mine I therefore then renewed my constant resolution and zeale to serue them in my most fervent prayers and my most religious and zealous wishes the which I haue ever since faithfully and constantly performed Sitting thus to behold the constant inconstancie of the World which presents as many different accidents to our knowledge as obiects to our eye and being iealous vigilant and attentive to that which did or which might any way appertaine to my Soveraigne and his Princely posterity to his Dominions and Subiects I was enforced to see O that I had beene so happy as not to haue seen the perfidious Progresse of Spaines new treacheries and vsurpation vpon many Countries of Europe For first his Cousine Leopaldus hath devoured the Dutchy of Cleaves and Iulliers then he and his forces have taken many other fre Townes and whole Bishopricks in the Counties of Luxembourg and La Marcke as also in the frontiers of Swisserland and Loraine then he and his Factor the Duke of Bavaria for him hath finished his absolute Conquest of the Palatinate that dainty rich and fertile Prouince of Germany the Dowry of our onely Princesse the inheritance of the Prince her Husband and the Patrimony of their Royall issue wherein the honour of our King and of his three famous Kingdomes doe most extreamely suffer I saw him conquer the cheifest Cities Forts and Passages of the Grisons and hath brought their liberties and liues to their last gaspe and periode yea to the mercilesse mercy of his not generous but bloody sword which being vnder the protection of the French King doth likewise cast a wonderfull staine and blemish on the lustre of his honor and Crowne if he speedily take not his revenge thereof by leauing these his honest Confederates as free as he found them and as great Henry his Father left

come to Italy to see how Spaine is beloued or feared of the Italians and how he hath behaved himselfe there E. 6. In Italy the King of Spaine is nayled to the Pope as most of the Colledge of Cardinalls and all the Iesuites are to him yea he hath the greatest and richest territories thereof as the Kingdome of Naples the Dutchy of Millane and the Island of Cicily and in a manner the Marquesse of Monaco and Finall the Dukes of Montova Parma and Vrbin the Princes of Massa and Piombino with the free States Genova and Luca doe all march vnder his banner and call onely on his name yea he hath so incircled the Pope as hee is rather his prisoner then his spirituall Father for if his patrimony of St. Peter be the Temple his Naples and Millane is the Cloyster to impall it so as hee hath no impeachment or obstacle from making himself sole Lord of Italy but the great Duke of Tuscany and the prudent and potent Seignorie of Venice Q.M. O but the Pope need not feare the King of Spaine for Spaine is the Popes hand so the Pope is Spaines tongue For the Catholike King is his Holinesse Champion and his Holinesse the King of Spaines Oracle E. 6. I had thought that the Popes alwayes loved the King of France better then those of Spaine Q. E. O no there is reason to the contrary for Spaine hath receiued Romes hellish and bloody Inquisition and France is so wise and couragious as it reiecterh and disdaines it P. H. Nay there is another reason likewise for although the former Kings of France were brave and victorious yet king Lewes that now is feares the Pope and loves him not whereas king Phill. of Spaine loves him but feares him not Q.M. If the Popes had not loved Spain they would neuer haue given him Naples Cicilly nor permitted him to inioy that rich populous Dutchy of Millan which is the patrimony of the house of Orleans and is now fallen to the right of France Q.E. Surely there is a great Vnion betweene the Popes and the Kings of Spaine for Spaine makes the Pope ride on his pontificall Chaire and the Pope makes Spaine flie in Phaetons Chariot about the foure corners of Christendome P. H. But the Pope loued not Spaine so well to giue him either the Marquisat of An●●nitana or the Dutchy of Ferrara when he begged it of him by his Ambassadours H. 8. But did Spaine seeke Ferrara and the Marca of Ancona of the Pope Q.M. Yea and vpon good grounds and solid reasons too for that lay commodious for Millane and this for Naples and both would serue as Bridges to passe into that braue and proud State of Venice The State of Venice Q.E. NOw you speak of the grave and Noble Venetians as they haue long since pull'd off the Maske of Spaines itching desire to deflowre their beautifull Adriatike Sea Nimph so they haue resolved no more to trust Spaniards For of late notwithstanding their prudent decree to the contrary grounded vpon some priuate reasons of State they both thinke in their hearts and know in their soules and consciences that it was only the ambition double Pistols of Spaine that laid the foundation of the last treacherous and execrable attempt against their Citie and consequently against their whole State notwithstanding that some perfidious Frenchmen degenerating from the honour of their Country and Ancestors were corrupted and seduced by the gold and flattering promises of Spaine to bee the chiefest Agents and forlorn Hope in that damnable attempt and to make this as cleare and apparent as the Sunne That Illustrious and wise Senate well knowes that at that very instant and nick thereof the Duke of Ossuna Vice-roy of Naples hovered with his Fleet and Land forces to lay hold and embrace that occasion Q.M. Sure Sister you wrong the Duke of Ossuna and in him king Philip his Maister for I haue heard that the said Duke did then Arme vpon newes of a great Fleet of Gallyes comming from Constantinople to Rhodes vpon the irruption of intelligence betwixt the great Turke and the French King for the eseape of the Polonian Prince Coreski for the which the Barron of Sancy the French Ambassadour was at least confined if not imprisoned at Constantinople and that therfore for the safety of the kingdom of Naples it behoved the said Duke to fortifie his Ports of Apulia Ottranto and Calabria as well with Fleets as Regiments P.H. The King of Spaines Ministers never want pretexts and evasions for their designes but if the Duke of Ossuna for affirming hereof should sweare Botta Dios and par la Sanctissiam Virgina till he were damn'd yet that wise Senate especially the Councell of Tenn will never beleeve him Q.E. O but Ossuna and the King of Spaine his Master shall give me leave to joyne in opinion with the prudent Venetians and therfore I highly praise their foresight and applaude their generosity in keeping a brave Navall Army on their Seas and strong Garisons in their Castles and Cities for the security of their State as also for keeping of their Exchequer rich and their Arsenall and Magasins aboundantly stored and furnished H. 8. But hath Spaine offered the Seignory of Venice no other wrongs and offronts but this Q.E. O yes for although that prudent State say little yet they remember and will not forget how busie his Ambassadour and Agents were at Rome to give fire to the quarrell betweene Pope Paulus Quintus and themselues about banishing the Iesuites from their State and for imprisoning the Chanon of Vincensa as also how readily and earnestly they proffered the Pope that a great Spanish and Neopolitan Army should instantly enter their State and put all to fire and sword P.H. And they likewise remember how the King of Spaine that thereby his Regiments mought fish in troubled waters get firme footing in their Country hath often incens'd this Emperour Ferdinand then Duke of Gratz to invade their frontier Townes in Friull and the Trevisan Q·E. But Nova Palma Brescia Pescare and Verona are obstacles and stops to the Designes both of the Emperour and King of Spaine yea that wise State is so watchfull and vigilant that in time of peace they make their greatest preparations for Warre And it were a blessed happinesse and a safe felicity for most Kingdomes and Estates of Christendome if herein they would emulate and imitate the example of these wise and noble Venetians which is neither to trust much lesse to feare Spaine Q.M. But as wise and as strong as the Venetians are as their Church and Pallace of St. Marke was not built in a day so are not all the Designes and resolutions of the King of Spaine and therefore a time may come but I say no more Q. A. O I gesse at your minde you would have the State of Venice made a Province to Spaine that thereby he may finde a way for his Fleets to convey his Armies into high

Instrument and executioner to cut off the two noble heads of Biron in Paris and D' Albigny in Turin Q.M. Why the Catholique King is the vniversall King and therefore it is not strange if in all Countries of the world hee haue his farre fetch'd policies Agents and Instruments to make his stratagems and resolutions take effect for those who are obstacles to his will and pleasure his verball friendship shall alwayes prove their reall overthrow and subversion howsoeuer he and his Ministers pretend and make shew of the contrary Q.A. Nay let vs leaue Biron and D'Albigny in their Graves for mee thinkes it is a poore charity to rake vp the ashes of the dead And for our better information let vs take a survey of the courtesie or rather of the cruelty that Spaine hath offered Savoy E. 6. None knowes nor can deliuer the particular truth thereof so well as your Royall Sonne Prince Henry Q.M. But I feare my Nephew will be too partiall in the delivery hereof betweene the King of Spaine and the Duke of Savoy because I haue heard that of the two Princesses their daughters he preferd that of Savoy before this of Spaine H. 8. No no my Nephew Henry is a iudicious and iust Prince therefore I know hee will not wrong Spaine to doe right to Savoy Q. A He resembles King Iames his Father to well whoe will still loue the King of Spaine although therein he hate him selfe therefore speake on fayre Sonne P. H When Great Henry of France my honoured Vncle made warres vpon the present Duke of Sauoy for the recouery of his Marquisat of Saluses then this Phillip King of Spaine vnder the pretence and shewe to ayd the Duke his brother in Lawe against the French sent him many troopes and Regiments of Spanyards for the preseruation of his State when the peace being made betwixt the King and the Duke and the exchange for Saluses with the Countreyes of Bresse and Gex ratified and acomplished These Spanish Regiments being quartered in Carbonieres Mountemellion Savillan Pignoroll and other places of Sauoy Piedmont they vpon no reqvest or assommons made them by the Duke would depart thence but being commaunded the Contrary by the Count de Fuentes Viceroy of Millan as he was from the King his Master from Spaine they peremptorily resolued and vowed to keepe firme footing which they along time did vntill at last that wise Valiant Duke being thereunto constrained for the securitie of his estate whose emmynent and vtter subuersion he apparantly sawe before his eyes he very nobly cutt all their throates H. 8. Beleeue me his Highnesse of Sauoy did well for it was an act most worthy of his iudgement and generositie Q M. But the King of Spaine the Dukes of Lerma Pastrama Denia Albecurque Tolleao and all the Counsell of warre of Spaine vowe to haue their reuenge of this affront Q. E. Spaine hath done his woorst to Sauoy alreadie for as long as France loues Sauoy Sauoy needs not feare Spaine at least mine Authors tell me soe who are that famous Captaine the Duke of Dedis guieres his valiant son De Crequy noble Du Termes Q. A. Though this one wronge be one too many yet is these all the wronges that this King of Spaine hath offered this Duke of Sauoy P. H. Noe Madame for although the Duke winke and seemes with father Aubigny to haue the art of forgettfullness yet he well remembers how Don Iuan de Taxis Spaines Ambassadour in France told Lullins Arconas and Alimes his Highnesse Ambassadours at Lyons that the Kinge his master would Contribute towards the Exchange of the marquisat of Saluces conditionally it remayned on that side the Alpes from the French and since how his Catholique Maiestie hath performed nothing He remembers Spaines Plott vpon his Castle of Nice the key not only of his Countryes but of Italy when his Spanish Galleyes lay at Villa franca to bereaue him of his Children He remembers how the Spanish Cardynalls oppose his precedency at Rome with the Duke of Florence and how the Catholike King or his Viceroy of Millan for him was the match and Incendiary to set fire twixt the Duke of Mātoua him for the Marquisate of Montferrad Q. E. Wee may see what a kind brother in Lawe the King of Spaine is and what it is to build vpon his affiance afinity promises and asistance P. H. I am glad the Duke of Savoy and the Princes his children haue now purchased the length of Spaines foote E. 6. They haue reason to haue it for they were all enforced to take it with their swordes Pikes and Lances at Cassall● Verceile and other wheres Q. A. As longe as Savoy loues not Spaine The Marquis of Lullius and Monseur De Gabaleon told me it needes not feare it Q. M. O but as long as Spaine Knockes at the gates of Sauoy and Piedmond he may at last enter Q. E. Sauoy hath reason to enter Millan not Spaine Sauoy Q. M. But tyme and the policie and Swords of Spaine cut all donations and rightes in peeces P. H. Savoy hath had warninges enough to beware of Spaine and therefore as I euer loued that generous Duke soe I hope that he and the Illustryous valliant Princes his Sonnes will neuer want armes of steele and heartes of Diamonds to our braue Spaine who with such ambition and malice seekes to out braue it France H. 8. But what sayes France of Spaine Q. M. My honoured father all the world knowes that Spaine hath euer loued France well Q. E. Yea too too well and so well as France will neuer loue Spaine much lesse trust it in requitall Q M. Why hath not Spaine reason to ballance and counterpoise the power and greatnesse of France P. H. Yea but not to seeke to make that famous flourishing Kingdome become a Prouince to Spaine Q. M. Spayne neuer wish't it much lesse attempted it Q. E. Yeares more often then France hath Prouinces or Spayne Cittyes P. H. Why who was the Avthor and Protector of the League but first Spaine then the Pope and next the Devill Q. M. O that was onely to preserue Catholiques and the Catholique Religion and to exterminate and roote out Heretiques and was not this well done of the King of Spaine sith he is the Catholique King E. 6. Nay now the least child in France knowes that Religion was onely the pretext but Empire and Dominion the obiect of that League How else dared Mendoza Spaines Ambassadour in Paris seeke the Crowne of France for the Infanta of Spaine or how els dared the Iesuites his ministers in their seditious Sermons and pernicious Pamphlets aduance her right to the Crowne and Kingdome when God and the world knowes shee had none to it Q. M. Why it was when God had caused that good Fryer Iames Clement to kill that bad King Henry the third at Saint Clou and when indeede that Kingdome was without a head and then the King of Spaine had reason to

needs bee made a Province to Spaine for they both haue consulted and finde that what could not be effected during the Reigne of old Henrie may in these of young King Lewes his Sonne P. H. It is not impossible rather likely for France abounds in a monstrous height of Pride and Sinne And the old Cleargie of France admit of so many new orders of Fryers and Nuns that almost all is out of order and the seuenteene Millions which the Duke of Suilly left by accompt to the Queene Regent is all long since spent and twice seventeene more So as although the Polleta be still on foote Monopolyes never so rife the Finnances or Exchequer drawne dry and exhausted yet the King is extreamely in debt to his Nobilitie and Pensioners and is not this Musicke for the King of Spaine H. 8. Had Great Henry liued he would haue remedied and preuented these calamities Q. A. But his Sonne King Lewes is not so happie to doe it no nor his Creator the Duke of Luynes so discreet and honest to aduise and councell him therevnto P. H. The neglect thereof may make one or both of them to repent it and peradventure the Kingdome too for alreadie the Commons grieue hereat and the Nobilitie would but cannot remedy it Q. M. Spaine loues France therefore France need not feare Spaine P. H. The Panthers skin is faire yet his friendship is fatall and his breath infectious Q. E. Indeed if France loued not Spaine it need not feare it Q. M. King Philip loues King Lewes dearely Q. A. Not halfe so well as he loues his Kingdome of France Q. E. In truth France hath reason to haue a vigilant eye ore Spaine for as long as shee sleepes in her bed of pleasure and securitie perhaps one of these dayes Spaines Ambition may awake her with Drumme Trumpet and Cannon P. H. O no not as yet for if the King of Spaine were so ill aduised his Councell is not for they like old experienced Foxes will never permit him to discover himselfe much lesse his Resolutions and least of all his Ambition and sword vntill the Sunne hath attaynd the Meridian Q. M. I know not what my Nephew meanes by this Mathematicall Riddle Q. E. I was never greatly skild in the Mathematickes and yet consuming my Youth Yeares and Cares for England I haue reason to vnderstand his knowledge Wherefore Sister sith he is a Noble and famous Prince let vs heare him for he hath some mystery to reveale twixt France and Spaine Q. M. He loues France and hates Spaine and which is worse he was an Heretique therefore his tongue can make no Spherall Melodie E. 6. But his Heresie hath brought him hether to Heaven tho and he is a famous and Noble Prince therefore Cosen Wales speake on of France and Spaine for now we are all resolved to heare you Q. E. I gaue him my Fathers name and he inheriteth my resolution and courage and the King his Fathers wisedome therefore he can neither flatter nor dissemble Q. A. Speake on Henry P. H. Know all men by these Presents that if Spaine did see the Heart and Bowels of France weltring in its bloud and flaming in the fire of an intestine Civill-warre if it did see the Princes banded against the King or the King against the Protestants these riffeling of the Lovare and of Paris and his Maiestie beseiging of Rochell Sancerre Sedan Nismes or Saumury or denouncing Warre to all those of that Religion If it did see sixteene Parisian Tribunes carrying away the Court of Parliament prisoners to the Bastille and Chastellets the rebellious Barycadoes and a bloudie Massacre in Paris and generally in all the Cities of the Kingdome if hee did see some Princes of the bloud or two great Dukes as were Du Mayene and Merury Captivating and Deboshing the obedience and affections of the French Nobilitie Cleargie and Commons and covering their pernitious Designes and trecherous attempts vnder the Cloake of the holy League If it did see Calais Dourlaus Amiens Montdidier Valencienes Blauet and Croyden or other strong Cities or Forts of France bearing out the redd ragged Crosse in stead of the three yellow Flower Deluces and a second Mendoza for his Ambassadour sate as premier President and Oracle in the Lovare Towne-house and Parliament That then Phillip the III. of Spaine loues his Sonne in Law Lewes the thirteene of France so well that he would vse him as King Phillip the second had an eager desire and had almost done great Henry his Father Q. M. Why how was that P. H. Right as my God-mother Queene Elizabeth hath formerly told you nothing but to depriue him of his Kingdome E. 6. It were better that all the Iesuites were hanged and the young Queene of France sent home to Spaine with her Portion to the King her Father Q. E. But wee see strange alterations in the Court of France for some dare but will not and others would but dare not informe the King hereof Q. A. France hath reason yea it it high time for her to looke to her selfe for the Agents Iesuits and double Pistols of Spaine are busie and their Swords and Pikes are not Idle For whiles France playes the Theorie Spaine playes the Practique Of the Netherlands H. 8. How doth Spaine and the Netherlands agree E. 6. Spaine hath so long invred and enforced the Hollanders to bloud and warres as now at Sea and Land they are become such braue Souldiers and Mariners as they feare not Spaine and to loue Spaniards they vow t is impossible much lesse to obey them Q. M. It is pittie that King Philip the second ended not the chastising and Conquest of these Heretique Hollanders ere King Philip the third beganne it or that he cannot reduce them to obedience by ending these warres with more fortunacie and lesse danger and dammage Q. E. Nay Sister it is pittie that these two Kings of Spaine and the Archduke Albertus and Isabella haue from time to time beene so ambitious inhumane cruell and revengefull to drowne the face of the Netherlands with many deluges of blood in seeking to preserue their libertie liues and Consciences from the cruell Tyranny and Inquisition of Spaine P. H. Indeed for this fortie yeares the Netherlands hath beene the Schoole and Theatre of Mars whereon there hath beene more braue Souldiers and renowned Captaines slaine then in any Country of the world or in many precedent Ages and yet all this blood is not capable to quench Spaines Ambition and Tyranny in seeking to deuoure those Provinces Q. A. Hath not Spaine assaulted the Netherlands as well by Trechery as Hostillitie Q. E. Yes witnesse the damnable Villaine Gerrard who long since murthered William the famous Prince of Orenge their Lieutenant Generall and father to Maurice that valiant and incomparable Captaine who now succeeds him in his Principalitie Q. M. O Sister cast not so base an aspersion on King Philip my Husband to affirme he was accessary to the