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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

r. K. of Molosses p 71. l. 13. for his Catholique r. his Catholique Maiestie p. 74. l. 5. for selfe for Ioy read selfe to Death for ioy Vox Coeli The Introduction HEauen beeing Gods Throne and Earth his Footstoole it is impossible any thing can bee here spoken and acted but wil there be heard revealed and detected for not onely our hearts but our thoughts not only our tongues but our intents lye open and are obvious transparent to the glorious and relucent eyes of Gods most sacred Maiestie who being the sole Architector preseruer both of Heauen and Earth rules that by his presence this by his providence and both by his power and that we Men are not by many thousand degrees so great in his eyes as the smallest Pysmires are in ours who lookes still on our Designes and Actions sometimes with approbation now with pitie then with contempt and anon with Choller Indignation being himselfe the prime Presydent the great Moderator the mightie Councellor the eternall and euerlasting Jehovah who can and will giue Lawes to all the Kings and Princes of the earth as they doe to their subjects by their subordinate and yet transcendent power drawn from his most sacred Majestie of Heaven as the Starres who actually deriue their light borrow their lustre from the refulgent beames and glorious bodie of the Sun And as this great God seated in his Coelestiall throne of Glory with his all-seeing and sacred eyes beholds in Heaven the thoughts and actions of men heer on earth so likewise out of his indulgent mercy and prouidence he likewise giues the same authority and power to his Angels Saincts and Martyrs to do the like who clad in white Robes the Ornaments of sanctitie and puritie with Palme branches in their hands the Emblems of Peace and Ioy and Crownes and Coronets on their heads the rewards and marks of Glory Follow the Lamb Christ Iesus wheresoever he goe still singing these joyful Io Peans and Epithalamians of Haleluiah and Glory be to God on High Peace on Earth and good will towards men By vertue of which Deuine priuiledges the maske of Spaines boundlesse Ambition being discouered pulled off in supporting the Pope seeking the encrease of his spirituall Iurisdiction whereby his Holinesse in Exchange may enlarge that of Spaines temporall Monarchy so as that shall haue feet to goe and these wings to flie to the height of earthly greatnesse whereby the Catholike Kings ayme out of the ruines of Rome and Germany to erect another Empire in the West and endeauour by degrees to make most of the Kingdomes and Free Estates of Europe become Provinces unto Spaine as some by force some by policie some by treachery and now England by the Match of the Infanta his Daughter with our most Illustrious and Royall Prince Charles next to his Royall Father King Iames our most Dread Soueraigne the hope of Englands life and the life of its Ioy and hope I say the newes of these projects and resolutions of Spaine hauing with as much fortunary as celeritie passed the Clouds and pierced the vaults and windowes of Heaven it fast arriued there to the vnderstanding of that immortall maiden Queen Elizebeth whose heart ever loued England as her soule did Heaven and of whose flourishing welfare and prosperity I cannot truly averre whether she still remayne more jealous or ambitious Whereat grieuing with as much disdaine as she disdained with griefe knowing that her Nephew and God-sonne Prince Henry participated and burned in her zeale that the insatiable and bloud-thirsty Ambition of Spaine might not erect his Trophees vpon the Tombe of Englands downfall and the ruines of her subversion she speedily acquaints him with it whom although Heaven had purified and devested of his Earthly passions yet such was this young Prince his never dying zeale to Englands ever living Glory that his Highness could not refraine from looking red with anger and pale with feare at the report knowledge thereof They consult hereon and hold it both expedient and necessary to acquaint other English Princes herewith especially those whom they knew stood deeply and sincerely affected to England So Prince Henry acquaints his Mother Queen Anne herewith Queen Elizabeth her Brother King Edward 6. and both they their Father King Henry 8. who so upon advise hereof could not refraine to looke on England with the eyes of affection and pitie and on Spaine with those of indignation and contempt So these fiue great Princes and Queens prepare themselues to Consult on this most important busines when loe they are suddenly met and assayled with a doubt of no mean consequence and consideration viz. Whether or no they should admit and receiue Queen Mary into this their Consultation whom not her Roman merits but the praiers of the Protestants had brought to Heauen When at first they considring that in heart soule she alwaies loved and preferred Rome and Spaine before England they resolved to exclude her but at last upon riper and more mature deliberation considering that she knew many secrets of Spaine whereof peradventure they were ignorant as also that from her innate inveterate malice to England she might either in jest or earnest bewray somthing that might turne and redound to the good of England they all consented she should bee advertised hereof and so admitted which was instantly performed and as the rest of these Royall Princes envied Spaines ambition and pitied Englands dangers So to speak the truth and no more Queen Mary still resembling herselfe both in her speeches and lookes testified the contrary Vowing that as she loued Philip the II. the Father so shee would still honour Philip the III. his Sonne Thus these three Princes and three Queenes not daring to consult in Heaven on any thing without permission of the Superiour powers they all reprayre to the sacred throne of the Lambe of that Great Maker and conducter of Heaven and earth whose Tribunall is environed with more sparkling and bvrning Sunnes then we see Starres in the Firmament and who is waited and atended on by many millons and Maryades of Angels Where in signe of Gods glory and their humilitie these Royall personages fall on their faces to his blessed feet and so proffer vp their Petition to his heauenly Majestie to haue authority and place given them to Consult on this important businesse betwixt England and Spaine There petition read and considered God out of the profunditie of his immense affection and favour towards the prosperity of England Wherein for the space of well neere One hundred yeares his Sacred Maiestie hath seen himselfe truely served and glorified ratifies their request and approues and authoriseth their sitting When departing from Gods most sacred throne they were by a full Quire of Angels with Trumpets Tymbrels in their hands vshered into the golden Star-chamber of Heaven which was purposely prepared for them when taking their severall seates the doore shut and guarded by

murther of William Prince of Orenge much lesse authorised or commanded it P. H. All the Ocean betweene Holland and Spaine cannot wash off that Murther from your Husband King Philip for his proscription to murther him beares it and his Lieutenant the Duke of Parma commanded the Count Assonuille to deale with Gerrard about this murther who promised him twenty-fiue thousand Crownes to effect it which O griefe to speake it he did E. 6. But his valiant Sonne hath long since had revenge for the death of his Father Q. A. If he haue not he resolues to haue it H. 8. But hath not Spaine since attempted or broached any other Treason towardes the Hollanders P. H. O yes very lately for whilst Spaine is Spaine Holland will never forget how neere hee was to haue extinguished her libertie and surprized their State by infecting and corrupting their Secretary Barnevelt a man of so profound wit and deepe iudgement and experience in matters of State as he was not onely the Oracle of the Netherlands but the Ornament and Wonder of Europe yea of his time Q. E. See see the fruites of Spaines Gold and the effects of his boundlesse Ambition for it is a common custome with him if not by the mayne yet surely by the bye to breake the necke of great Princes and free Estates publique Ministers whether they are great Souldiers or great Statesmen or both Q. A. Yea the Web of this Treason was so cunningly wouen and so subtilly and finely spun as if the Netherlands had not broken Barnevelts necke he long ere this had assuredly broken the necke both of their libertie and State Q. M. Well Barnavelt is gone and now Spaine needs not feare his pollicie P. H. Nay Barnavelt being dead and Maurice that famous Prince of Orenge liuing Holland need not feare either the trechery or force of Spaine H. 8. But Nephew I heare that the Vnited Provinces of the Low-Countries will this Spring haue Warres with Spaine for their Peace is neere expired and ended P. H. A braue noble and wise resolution of theirs E. 6. Heretofore England taught the Hollanders wit and valour and now they resolue to shew England the way to those two Vertues Q. M. But the Gold and Silver of Spaine will prevaile against them and weigh them downe P. H. But the Hollanders had Ships enough of their owne and Gold Silver and Men from England therefore they disdaine to feare Spaine nay rather they vow before the next Summer to make Spaine feare them H. 8. See see a handfull of men dare attempt that against Spaine which Great Brittaines huge infinitie will not Q. E. And yet their cause and reason is Englands viz. their Consciences Liues and Countries Q. A. Pray God England and France interpose not to crosse the Warres and seeke to conclude a Peace betwixt Holland and Spaine E. 6. But the Hollanders are resolued to make King Iames a large Offer to protect them against Spaine Q. M. But King Iames loues Spaine too well and therefore will not hearken to or regard their proffer for his Maiestie is resolved not to protect them P. H. The more is the pitty Q. E. The more my griefe Q. M. And without griefe or pitty the more is my ioy Q. E. I protected the Netherlands in despight of Spaine E 6. But Spaine went neere by your Leicester to betray both you and them H. 8. If King Iames would now protect the Netherlands how easily might hee refetch backe Flushing the Brill and the Ramekins E. 6. Nay how easily did his Maiestie depart with them to the Netherlands P. H. It infinitely reioyceth mee to vnderstand the Hollanders braue resolution and forwardnesse to haue warres with Spaine Q. M. But there is a secret tricke to coole their courages which they least thinke of H. 8. As how Daughter Q. M. Why to Pistoll this Prince of Orenge as they did his Father Q E. Heaven forbid it P. H. God defend it Q. M. Why 't is but one for another for hee knowing Barnauelt a Traitor to his Countrey because a Pensioner to Spaine caused the Lords States to put him to death why then in exchange and requitall should not a Pensioner of Spayne either poyson or pistoll the Prince of Orenge E. 6. These diabolicall resolutions and bloudy Positions come from Hell Q. E. And thither they goe that professe and practise them Q. M. The King of Spaine is too religious to authorise so execrable a Murther Q. E. But the Pope as holy as he is will pardon it and yet the world I hope knowes that the K. of Spaine cannot be so religious as his Holines Q. A. It were good then for Holland to bee carefull of their Prince of Orenge his life as all the World knowes his Excellencie is of their safetie and preseruations P. H. And it will likewise behoue them to obserue withall as I hope they doe how subtilly and trecherously Spinola takes their neighbour Townes for the Emperour and keeps them for the King of Spaine his Master E. 6. And if the Warres goe on 'twixt Holland and Spaine as I hope they will It will be needefull for Spaine to haue a speciall care of his West-Indies from the Holland Fleets H. 8. Wherefore onely Spaines West-Indies or rather why not all the Worlds West-Indies sith their red and white earth sets all the World on fire and in Combustion Q. A. Surely ere this Summer passe and the next appeare the Hollanders vow to haue a heaue at them Q. M. Nay I hope the contrary for the West-Indies is the maine onely prop of Spaine which if once found out and taken away from them will quickly make the greatnesse of his Ambition and Empire to totter P. H. Till when all other Kingdomes and Estates of Christendome may thinke themselues exempt from Spaines feare but shall never bee from his danger Q. E. This Holland perfectly and apparantly knowes and it were a great happinesse for the rest of Europe if they would heerein imitate their Generosity Valour and wisedome who stand on their Guards with their swords drawne and their match lighted ready to giue fire as being constantly and vertuously resolued neither to loue trust nor feare Spaine ENGLAND H. 8. But now leaue we all other Countries and come wee to England from whence being descended wee by the Lawes of Nature are eternally obliged to honour and loue it yea to preferre it and its prosperitie and glory to all other Countries of the world wherfore let vs see Spaines Ambition and Enuie towards it and how he hath from time to time borne himselfe to the English Q. M. There is no Kingdome in the world that Spaines loues better then England Q. E. Nor no people vnder the Sunne that it hates more then Englishmen E. 6. For Peter King of Castille most ingratefully and basely abused our famous and generous Edward the Blacke Prince the Ornament of Armes the Glory of England and the Honour of the World and

Sonne yet he knowes he is his Subiect Q. A. All the world cannot better teach the Prince my Sonne to obey the King his Father then already he knowes and doth but I could wish that King Iames my Husband would not inforce his affection to this Spanish Match Q. E. If he marry the Infanta shee may proue a false and vnsecret Secretary to the Prince her Husband and a dangerous Princesse to the State for he giuing her his heart his Highnesse can hardly reserue any corner thereof for himselfe P. H. Yea then every Spanish Traytor and English Rebell will shroud themselues vnder the authority and greatnesse of the Princesse E. 6. So if England match with Spaine Spaine vndoubtedly will in a short time ouer-match England Q. A. And infallibly take the Crowne from it Q. M. Borrow it peradventure to see it not to weare it P. H. I feare to weare it neuer to returne it H. 8. Yea for once gone it is gone for euer Q. E. And then shall Englands strong men fall vpon the edge of the Sword her Virgins bee defloured and murthered her Wiues defiled and slaine in sight of their dying Husbands and their Children young Babes shall haue their braines dashed against the wals in sight of their dead Parents P. H. Yea then shall our Nobility and Gentry dye vpon the swords of those Barbarous Castillians and those who escape and suruiue their fury shall bee fettered and led Captiues and slaues to worke in the Mines of Peru and Mexico E. 6. Then shall our Priestes who are now cloathed in the white robes of Righteousnesse bee drowned in those of their owne scarlet blood No Church no Temple no Preaching no Sacraments but all couered with the thick fogges of Romes superstitious Idolatries and Egyptian darknes Q.A. Yea then the King my Husband the Prince my Sonne my excellent Daughter the Queene of Bohemia her Princely Posterity and if Spaine possibly can all Great Brittaines blood Royall shall be rooted out and exterminated as if they neuer had beene or at least no remembrance left of them or of the name of Great Brittaine Q. M. This were musicke indeed for Rome and Spaine to dance at and for Gondomar to laugh himselfe to death for ioy Q. E. But I hope God of his mercy will confound all those who wish or desire it whether it be Gondomar the Iesuits Englands Recusants Spaine the Pope or the Divell The Conclusion of the Consultation H. 8. But heere let vs make a stand and shut vp our Consultation and sith so many millions of imminent dangers desolations and miseries attend and hang over the head of England by this Match of Spaine let vs goe to suffrages and Votes that plurality may giue sentence whether it shall bee a Match yea or no for what wee conclude I make no doubt but our great God with his owne voyce will ratifie and confirme H. 8. Q. M. Whereunto we all consent and agree E. 6. Q. E. Whereunto we all consent and agree P. H. Q. A. Whereunto we all consent and agree H. 8. I am against the Match E. 6. I am against the Match P. H. I am against the Match Q. M. I am for the Match Q. E. I am against the Match Q. A. I am against the Match H. 8. Daughter Mary wee are fiue against you one therefore the Match of England and Spaine hath end ere beginning and is absolutely cast without reuocation And now let vs bre●ke vp our Consultation and againe repayre to the Throne of the Lambe of our sacred God both of Heaven and Earth to acquaint his Diuine Maiestie with all the particulars thereof and therein to receiue his Heauenly pleasure and Commaund When the Angell opening Heauens Starre-chamber a great concourse and afluence of Saints and Angels singing most Diuinely conduct them to the Blessed Tribunall where the whole newes of their Consultation being already arriued to the vnderstanding of the Almightie It pleased his Diuine and Coelestiall Maiestie to call foorth Queene Mary whom he sharpely reproues checks in loving Spaine to be so vnnaturall to hate her natiue Countrey of England Then he infinitly Disproues the Match of Prince Charles with the Infanta of Spaine as derogating from his Diuine Glory and Englands safetie and prosperitie and so to Conclude very joyfully cheerefully approues of their Consultation which for the more grace and authoritie he makes and reputes as his owne When Commanding these three Princes two Queenes for Queene Mary was now put by and excluded to send vnto England by its owne Tutulary Angell foure seueral printed Copies of this their Consultation The first to be deliuered to King Iames the second to Prince Charles his Sonne the third to the High Court of Parliament and the fourth to the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Priuy Counsel the which in his Sacred presence was speedily performed and effected When a great shout of Ioy and an Vniuersall plauditie being hereunto giuen by all the Angels and Host of Heaven These fiue Royall Personages againe followed the Lambe CHRIST IESVS where he went This Consultation thus ended Queene Mary biting the lippe at her checke and Disgrace and grieuing to see the Match of the Infanta with Prince Charles thus vnexpected dash'd and consequently the Pope frustrated of his hopes and the King of Spaine of his Ambitious desires Shee cals Mercury to her and withall possible speed sends him away likewise to England with these two ensuing Letters which shee had written the one to Count Gondomar the other to all the Romane Catholikes of England Queene Mary To Count Gondomar Ambassadour for Philip the III. King of Spaine resident with IAMES King of Great BRITTAINE YOur Excellencie may vnderstand that I haue dispatch'd Mercurie to you in England to aduertise you of a Consultatiō held here in Heaven by my Father King Henry VIII my Brother King Edward VI. my Sister Queene Elizabeth Queene Anne Prince Henry and my selfe concerning your Masters pretences and hopes of England by the Match of the Infanta his Daughter with Prince Charles which al the other fiue haue opposed as preiudiciall Dangerous and my selfe maintayned as profitable and Honourable for England For louing Philip the Father I must wil euer Honour Philip his son They haue likewise ript vp vnmasked Spaines former Ambition Crueltie and Treacherie aswell towards England as other Kingdomes and States of Europe the discouery and relation whereof I could neuer silence nor prevent your Excellencie must giue me leaue to signifie that I feare your Secretaries are not so honest as your self Politike For you are hereby these Princes brought on the Stage in your naked and naturall Colours therefore I could wish you to be more modest and not so busie Only to the vtmost of your mortall power knit the knot of this Match for if it holde the heart of England will be soone broken or if the cōtrary it wil infalliably breake the necke of the King

your Masters generall hopes pretences and also of your owne particular credit and reputation aswell in England as Spain you haue many eies ouer you although your sweet wordes and promises lulle King Iames asleepe you will neverthelesse go neere to be circumuented by those you seeke to circumuent If you can bring in the Infanta doubt you not but she will vsher in the Pope and consequently he the Catholike King your Master Forget not to continue and fortefie your Intelligence with the Seminaries and Iesuits of England as also with the Catholike Ladyes of that Kingdome and especially with those of the Nobler ranke and who are most powerfull at Court for they may open a passage for your Master when none else dare At any hand vse the prime of your Art Inuention to keepe the King of England poore be sure to rivet this nayle soundly to his Maiestie that there is no Vertue so Royall and Magnificent in a Great King as Liberality I am sorie to heare that Englands Nauie Royall doth so prosper and flourish In which regard consideration the King your Master shal do well to build store of new Ships in Biscay Ostend and Dunkerke for if Spaine master England at Sea England can neuer withstand Spaine by Land for now the English are Effeminate and you Spaniards Souldiers I doubt not but by this time there is such order taken in Spain that the English Fleet at Alicant Cartagena shall returne home with losse shame and repentance whereby you may teach them that it is only proper for Spaniards to Domineere at Sea and that the Sea and Maritine actions are now Spaines no longer Englands Element So whiles England lyes gasping on her bed of Peace securitie let the King your Master provide for warre Continue to sow Diuision in the Church of England and rather augment then diminish your Pensions to you know whom If there be any Army to goe out of England either for Bohemia the Palatinate the Netherlands or Venice deale so effectually with King Iames that either it be so small as it can doe no great hurt to Catholikes or bee a meanes to cause them to stay so long that it be impossible to doe any good for Protestants I commend your Excellencies policy in being sharpe and bitter against those who either Speake write or Preach against the King your Master and his pretences for now you hauing the Honour and felicitie to see your selfe tyed to King Iames his Eare his Maiesty to your Girdle the disgrace and punishment of these wil terrifie others Be sure to be intimately acquainted with all Factious and Discontented Catholikes for they will proue fine Agents Instruments to execute your Masters commands I am glad to see King Philip so sleight and disrespect King Iames as he hath not this many yeares sent him an Extraordinary Ambassadour especially now for Treating and Concluding this Match for the more you and he Debase the Honour and vndervalue the Reputation of England the more you aduance and prise that of Spaine But that which grieues me most is because God himselfe hath opposed and confirmed the breach and delaceration of the Match but I hope that for the Catholike Kings sake our Holy Father the Pope and our blessed Mother the Church will so interpose their Prayers to his Sacred and Diuine Maiesty that very shortly he wil reuoke change his Resolution and relish that which hee now Distasteth Through your zeale and industry I likewise doubt not but before a few yeares be past and blowne over to see England made a Province to Spaine her Nobilitie most murthered and the rest caryed away Slaues to worke in the Mines of Peru and Mexico the Pope Installed all Heretikes rooted out either with Fire or Halter Let your Excellency proceed as you haue well and happily begun and feare not but you shal enioy your wishes the King your Master his hopes and my selfe and all the Roman Catholikes of England our desires In the meane time I kindly greet and salute your Excellency and by your next Dispatch for Spaine fayle not to signifie that I kisse the Catholikes Kings hand Written and sent from Heaven Your Excellencies Friend MARIE Queene Queene Mary To the Roman Catholikes of England of both Sexes and of all Rankes MY Heart on Earth and my Soule in Heauen hath euer so deepely affected you and your Religion as to the vtmost of my power I will neuer permit that any aduerse accident or Stratagem whatsoeuer shall endamage you or preiudice it to which end now by Mercury whom I haue purposly sent vnto you I wold not fayle to aduertise you of a Consultation which hath bin heere held by my Father Henry VIII my Brother Edward VI. my Sister Queene Elizabeth Queene Anne Prince Henry and my selfe tending to the safetie and glory of England to the vnmasking of Spaines pretentious Ambition and Treacherie to many Estates of Europe and more especially to the vtter breach of the Match betwixt Prince Charles the Infanta of Spaine which two last points I alone maintayned and defended but they all most violently Contradicted and Opposed In which Consultation I write it aswell with Griefe as Pittie Count Gondomar hath beene narrowly both sifted and censured and all his Actions brought on the Table and made apparant and obvious to the dimmest Eye to the weakest Iudgement and Vnderstanding the which I haue now signified his Excellency by a particular Letter Wherein I haue prayed him to haue a more iealous and curious Eye ouer his Secretaries as I know England hath ouer him And to the end your Soules and Consciences may haue Spiritual food Consolation I wish and exhort you to put all your Wits on the tender-hookes to bring in the Infanta Or else neuer expect the Pope and consequently not the Catholike King For else all your Intelligence with Rome and Spaine your Correspondence with the Iesuites and Count Gondomar will not preuaile nor your poyson Poniard or Powder take effect if the Match doe not And because King Iames wants Money and his Exchequer is drawne dry and exhausted if hee stand on a greater summe then the Catholike King can or will giue you shall do a most acceptable seruice to our Blessed Father the Pope and to our Holy Mother the Church That you Lords and Knights morgage your Manners and Plate and you Ladyes and Gentlewomen pawne your Ringes and Iewels to make vp the expected Summe For the Match once consumated you know and Count Gondomar can perfectly teach you a thousand wayes to refetch it with a ioyfull and golden Interrest I highly prize and applaude your Ioy when you saw Bohemia wonne the Palatinate assaulted towards which Victories and Conquests your bountiful Contributions gaue a great stroke which although Ferdinand for the present cannot recompence yet doubt not but Philip shortly and futurely will Sith his Ambassadour Gondomar makes him confident that you are as fast nayled to his Scepter as his Catholike Maiestie is to the Popes tripple Crowne Be you still the eyes of Count Gondomar and let him still continue your Oracle for you can neuer desire a better Solliciter then himselfe nor a stronger Protector then the King his Master But in very deed I much feare that this great Parliament will teach the Protestants of England wit and you Romane Catholikes repentance If Holland the Palatinate or Venice be in the Field be not you Idle in your Houses or in England for although Douer be shut you shall finde Ports enough open for it is for the Progression and Aduancement of the Catholike Cause for the Seruice of the great Catholike King and if all things hit well you shall not repent your selues of your Valor Generositie employed spent in his Service What though God haue heere approued of this Consultation against the Match yet his great Vicar the Pope will Confirme the Match against the Consultation Therefore make you your Peace with the Pope doubt not but his Holinesse both can and will at his pleasure mak his with his God Howsoeuer be ruled and beleeue in the Pope who is the Head of the Church For you know out of the Church there is no Saluation I like well that there daily Trauels some of your wisest Gentlemen for Spaine and now you see there is no feare to bring home Priests and Iesuites for Count Gondomar hath found out the Art and Mysterie to open the Doores of Wisbich the Gatehouse and the Clicnke at his pleasure To liue Idle is Effeminate and base bee you therefore like your selues still busie and in action for as in matters of Religion and Pietie so in those of the State the Practique is alwayes more Honourable then the Theorie In a word as long as Heritike Kinges raigne in England your zealous Catholikes shall there finde but little Peace and lesse Ioy and yet I must needs confesse that God seemes to beare a particular affection to King Iames but withall you know the second meanes must be vsed which I write to my comfort I see his Maiestie neglects So if Gondomar continue in England and the Match dye not then I hope a little time will worke all thinges to the best Till when I salute you all and will still pray with you for the Prosperitie of the Great cause Written and sent from Heaven Queene MARIE FINIS

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