of Iustice and Nature to enforce him to illigitimate Don Anthony the Prior of Craâ—o who was the first and neerest heire vnto that Crowne and Kingdome thereby to exclude him as indeed he did or if he had not an itching and longing desire to swallow and devoure that Kingdome of Portingall which all Christendome and Rome her selfe knew was still more Catholique then Spaine yea and then when he had ingaged his royall word to the rest of the Pretendants as the aforesaid Don Anthony the Dukes of Savoy and Parma Katherine of Maedicis Queene mother of France and Katherine Dutchesse of Braganca that he with them would stand to the sentence of the Chamber of Lisbone to know to whom the right of the Kingdom most properly and lineally descended That then this King Phill. 2. forgat his conscience to God and his promise to these Princes fearing others right and distrusting his owne brought an Army to the gates of Lisbone ere the Pretendants or Portingals themselues dreamt thereof or had meanes or leasure to defend themselues whereby such was insatiable ambition vsurpation and couetousnes that in a plain and setled peace he devoured this rich noble Kingdome making it not only tributary but a Province to Spaine And was this also Religion or to plant the Catholique faith or rather was it not manifest treachery and apparant vsurpation sith if Don Anthony had not all the world knowes the Dutches of Braganca had more right to this Kingdom then King Phill. P.H. Yea that policy King Phil. learnt of the Emperour Charles 5 his Father who when himselfe and King Francis the first of France contended for the Empire of Germany whiles Francis was bribing of the Electors Charles brought an Army into the field and so enforced them to elect and chuse him Q.M. I must confesse I have ever held the Portingalls to be zealous and good Romane Catholiques but as Navarre lay fit for Biscay and Galicia so Portingall lay exceeding commodious for Andoulosie and so if my husband King Phillip had not seconded his right of descent by the law of his sword perhaps hee might have had a bad neighbour in Portingall which he and his Councell timely fore-seeing they as wisely prevented And howsoeuer although hee hated Don Anthony yet I know hee loved the Dutchesse of Braganca well but when we speake of Crownes and Kingdomes Religion will make this surprise of Portingall a matter of State though to speake truth State can never make it a matter of Religion Q.A. How well King Phillip loved the Dutchesse of BragaÌ„ca I know not but this I am sure of that both Monsieur de Boyses Monsieur de Bisseaux and Monsieur de Marais Ambassadours with King Iames my Husband for the two last French Kings Henry 4. and Lewes 13. tolde me that Phillips hatred and rage was so great against Don Anthony that he begged his body which lyes in a Coffin of Lead in the Cordeliers Church at Paris to be delivered his Ambassadours and so sent him into Spaine but as they said these two most Christian Kings their Masters answered Phillip that there was little Religion lesse charity to take vp and remooue the ashes of a dead Prince and King as was Don Anthony and so his body still remaines in Paris P.H. If Spaine were so malicious to a dead Prince how ought those that are living to beware and take heed of him H. 8. As a guilty conscience can never finde rest so it may be that King Philip was afraid of a second Don Anthony as of a second Sebastian P.H. But King Philip 3. his sonne hath farre more reason to feare Don Anthonie his two Princely Sons Don Emanuell and Don Christopher and of Don Emanuell his two generous and Illustrious Sonnes Don Maurice and Don Lewes all foure living who are famous and royall reserued Peeces of Shipwrack of that royall Kingdome and blood of Portingall Q.M. O but they are poore and want friends and meanes to advance their iust title to that Crowne if they have any E. 6. Their right and title to Portingall is iust and therefore cannot and should not dye Q. E. If the French forces had met mine at the Groyne Penecha or Lisbone or had the Portingalls risen my Norris Drake and noble Essex in despight of Philip and his forces had pluck'd the Crowne of Portingall from his head and seated it on King Anthonies P.H. No no. Don Anthonies Sonnes are beloved of the Nobilitie of England France and the Netherlands and Don Emanuels wife is Sister to that valiant and incomparable Captain Maurice of Nassaw Prince of Orange So if fortune smile and a favourable gale blowe these disinherited Portingall Princes may one day prove prickes and thornes to the sides of Spaine For all Portingall knowes that their veines and hearts streame with pure Portingall blood yea with the remainder of the royall blood of that Kingdom which Philip 3. his last entertainement together with the Prince his Sonne at Lisbone had almost found true but that his Maiestie departed with as much feare secresie and shame as he came with resolution popularity and glory In the intetrim these Portingal Princes remaine prodigious and ominous Comments to Spaine Q. M. Did Spaine think so it would quickly make the Princes ride Poast into another world Q.E. If Spaine should send these Princes poast into another world either by the backe doore of poyson by the wicket of poynard and not by the great and fore-doore of Nature it would draw the fists of most Christian Princes about King Philips eares and make all Portingall solemnize their Funeralls with their swords drawne and their Cities gates shut E. 6. Indeede I have heard that the Commons and especially the Nobility of Portingall begin extreamly to distaste the imperious pride and ambitious cariage of the Spaniards and many of them let not to say boldly and publiquely that Philip enjoyes the Kingdome by vsurpation and not by right Q. M. Not by right Why Pope Gregory 14. approued his Title and confirmed his Conquest of the Kingdome of Portingall Q.E. So did not our Sauiour Christ whose Successour and Vicar the Pope pretends himselfe to be P. H. In the meane time Spaine domineeres at her Conquest of Portingall and well she may for it is one of the fairest flowers of his Garland and of the richest Diamonds of his crowne H. 8. But the other Kings of Chistendome haue iust cause and reason to grieue and storme hereat for as it was Portingalls mischance then to fall and vaile Bonnet to Spaine so it may be theirs to morrow for to a Prince and people so greedy and ambitious of Empire as is Spaine all fish is good that comes to his hooke or net P.H. Thus Spaine devoures Kingdomes as the Cyclope Polephemus did passengers for he surprizeth no more then he meetes withall and yet will not Christendome beware of Spaine Italy H. 8. WE have past from Navarre the West Indies and Portugall now let vs
them And after the triumphes and treacherous progression of the house of Austria in Germany The King of Spaine hath now made a body of his and the Imperiall forces and this Summer intends to play his bloody prize for the totall ruine and subversion of the Netherlands who to the eye of the world and to humane iudgement must shortly sink if the two Kings of great Brittaine and France doe not make them swim by speedily sending them braue succours and assistance in this their vrgent necessitie And whereunto tends all this treacherous ambition and formidable vsurpation and greatnesse of the King of Spaine but to cut out a passage with his sword and to make his troopes and regiments flye o're the Alpes for his erecting and obtaining of the Westerne Empire And whereunto tends it I say but to make his territories and Dominions to encirculize great Brittaine and France yea to be their Cloyster and to make and esteeme those two famous Monarchies but onely as a fatall Church-yard to burie and interre themselues in But Illustrious and generous Sirs is this all the malice and treachery which Spaine hath offered towards England O no nothing lesse for vpon that iourney which was as dangerous as suddaine of our Prince into Spaine then whom the world hath not a braver Hath not the King of Spaine dealt treacherously with him about his match with the Infanta his Sister yea have they not in his Princely person violated the Lawes of Hospitality and the Priviledges of Princes when being vnder his own roofe by attempting to tye him to formes which were diametrally opposite to his honour yea to be so audaciously impudent as with much violency and virulency to seeke to put a rape vpon his Conscience and Religion in their profered enforcement of his ConversioÌ„ to Popery as if their Infanta had bin to him more precious then his soule or that he had beene so wretchedly grounded and instructed in pietie that his Highnesse would haue forsaken his God purposely to haue obayed and adored the King of Spaine who is not nor cannot be a greater King then he is a Prince And to step yet a degree farther was it not a hellish policie and a diabolicall designe and resolution of the Councell of Spaine to advise our Prince vpon his return into England to warre vpon the Protestants and to proffer him an Army to suppresse and exterminate them The Protestants I say who are those by whom our King his Father raigneth and without whom his Maiestie can never subsist nor raigne nor his highnesse successively aspire or hope to aspire to his Crownes and kingdomes after him sith they are the life the vigour the heart and the soule thereof And will our King and our Prince our Parliaments and our Protestants of England then ever forget this inveterate rage and infernal malice of Spain against them as also the rest of their imperious and insulting cariage towards his Highnes and towards great Brittaine as if they priz'd it at so low a rate and made their boundles ambition so excessively over-value their own Spain that that were in the Crisis of her weakenes and misery and this in the prime verticall point of her power and glory And when his Highnes pressed them for the restitution of the Palatinat which they had ofteÌ„ promised to the King his Father then they temporized so cunningly and subtillized so treacherously with him that every day brought forth new delayes and difficulties till in the end they had made the cure worse then the disease having taken firm footing therein were enforced to vnvaile vnmask their dissimulation and faintly and coldly to affirme that they would treate with the Emperour for the restitution thereof but could not promise it Thus having abused first our King the Father and then our Prince the Sonne they have now likewise betrayed and ruined our Princesse the Daughter in their final Conquest and resolute detention of the Prince her Husbands Palatinate that Princesse I say whose royal and sublime vertues make her the honour of her time the ornament of her sexe and the Phaenix Princesse of the world VVhereunto adding the absolute breach of the Match long since prophetically delacerated and cast in Heaven by the Princely and Royall Authors of this Consultation and since the same breach here on earth likewise so happily confirmd by the King as also by the Prince so all these premises considered hath not EnglaÌ„d reason to hate Spain in regard Spaine hates it especially because of these two main ensuing points important considerations First for that the King of Spaine is a greater more professed Enemy to our sacred King his royall posteritie then either the Emperour or Duke of Bavaria and is so to be held and esteemed of vs. Secondly that therefore to denounce warre to him and to make it good as soone as it is denounced is as Honourable as necessary and as iust as honorable for England As vpon New yeares day last I made these two points apparent and manifest to the King in my Discourse intituled Votivae Angliae which I sent his Maiestie in the behalfe and favour of the Prince Palatine his sonne in law for the restoration of his Palatinate Hauing thus with as much disdaine as griefe seene his inveterate malice towards great Brittaine towards our King and his Royall posterity and consequently the eminent danger wherinto our profound security hath throwne precipitated vs in particular and vnderstanding likewise how the said King of Spaine with Xerxes threatens the Seas and Mountaines of Europe in generall Being as well in heart as tongue an Englishman and therefore knowing by Grace what I owe by Nature to my naturall Prince and Countrey like Cressus his dumbe sonne I would not I could not be silâ—nt thereat but must expose this Consultation of Vox Coeli to the light and sight of the world I meane to the light of your knowledge and the sight of your consideration vnder the secure Target and safe shelter and sanctuary of your auspicious protection To you therefore great Brittaines greatest Palladines and Champions to you the invincible Bulwarke of our King and his Royall progenie and the inexpugnable Cittadell and Acrocorinth of our Estate To you I say the conscript Fathers of our supreamest Senate doth it in duty present it selfe and in humility prostrate it selfe which when your first leisure hath curiously read and your best zeale carefully and maturely considered Then by all that true English blood which streameth in your heart veines by all the love which your Country beares you and by all the duty and affection which reciprocally you owe to your Country I both request and coniure you To tell our King that it is nothing for his Maiestie to haue made a braue and generous Declaration of warres against Spaine except he speedily second it with execution without which it will proue a vaine Fantasma and an abortiue Embrion Tell him that it
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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
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 Anâ—â—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
Woolsey and Gardyner and leaue out the Parliament for you onely proposed it them but for forme and had secretly concluded it before hand your selfe Q. M. Suppose I did I might doe it of mine owne authoritie and prerogatiue Royall Q. E. But you offred no faire play to the Parliament though in asking their aduise when the Contracts were ready to be sealed Q. M. But I had reason to follow mine owne Iudgement not their Passions H. 8. Nay nay Daughter you contrariwise followed your own passion not their Iudgements so God gaue limits to Philips Ambition and your owne desires by making you forsake earth he England E. 6. But wise King Iames is opposite to my Sister Mary aswel in Religion as sexe and therfore I hope nay I assure my selfe he will first consult this match with his Parliament ere he conclude it with Spaine P. H. If the voice of the Parliament be free and not enforced I make no doubt but the Pope the King of Spaine Gondomar and all our Recusants will come short of their hopes for the match H. 8. Daughter what benefits proposed you to the Parliament by your match with Spaine Q. M. Strength Profit Honour which England King Iames and Prince Charles will likewise now find if the match hold E. 6. As for strength if England would know its selfe it need not expect or hope for any from Spaine for Spaines assistance hath alwayes proued fatall and ruinous to those who haue vsed it And if England would assume the ancient generositie of her Ancestors and forsake her new fangled pride and prodigalitie Wee know it is strong enough to beate Spaine and all his Kingdomes and Prouinces no way so weake to feare that Spaine should make England a Pâ—â—uince for it were farre safer for England and Englishmen if they wore worse cloathes and had better hearts and swords and if they were more martiall and lesse effeminate Q. E. For Profit what Indies are richer then England For if England want money her selfe is still more powerfull and capable to inrich it selfe if it would be lesse vaine and more frugall and industrious c. What is a fewe hundred thousand pounds to England if England be thereby exposed to the danger of Spaine or that it be againe fetcht from them by the Bye as it was brought in by the Mayne for was profit ever cheape when it was bought with losse and repentance with teares and bloud or shall not euery Ducket be weighed and counterpoised downe with a farre greater preiudice and inconueniency for if the Match hold will not our Recusants looke a-loofe will not Spaniards be so ambitiously insolent to attempt to out-looke English will not the Pope steale in by degrees and the King of Spaine breake in either like a Torrent or a Thunderbolt when his Factors and Agents haue made all things ripe and in a readinesse will this be Englands profit P. H. For Honour England and Scotland were free Royall and ancient Monarchies when indeed Spaine was not Spaine but dis-ioynted and dissevered Provinces yea for Pompe State and Glory our Princes were Kings when their Kinges were scarce Princes nor their Princes Nobles Therefore GREAT BRITAINE by the Match can conferre and adde honour to Spaine but not Spaine to GREAT BRITTAINE Q. A. I could neuer yet affect the Match of Spaine for either of the two Princes my Sonnes for the Spaniard is by nature as trecherous as proud and although Northampton perswaded me thereto yet I loued true-hearted Salisbury who alwayes diuerted me from it as in the depth of his Allegiance and the profunditie of his wisedome Iudgement well fore-seeing they would proue fatall and ruinous to England E. 6. It is strange to see with what insatiable desire and Ambition Spaine couets England for he hath alreadie attempted it by treachery by force and now by the Match of his Daughter the Infanta to Prince Charles Q. M. You meane King Philip the 2. and not this present King Philip the 3 And as Don Iuan de Taris the Ambassadour of Spaine told King Iames at his first comming to the Crowne of England that the Ambition and malice of Spaine to England dyed with that Prince and was interred and buryed with him Q. E. But was this King Philip the third and his Councell neuer acquainted with that horrible Gunpowder Treason whereby it was intended and resolued that England should haue beene blowne vp ouerthrowne and ruined in a moment Q. M. O no he is too Catholike a King to haue hearkened much lesse to haue approued that Passionate plot Q. E. You might haue said that execrable and damnable plot of treason but that you will still seeke to diminish and extenuate Rome and Spaines Treasons Q. M. You infinitely wrong the Pope and King of Spaine to suspect much lesse to beleeue that they were acquainted with that Powder-plot Q. E. No went not Faulkes that hellish Incendary once to Rome about it and the younger Winter twice to Vallidolide Q. M. Yea about some other businesse it may be although I must confesse it was very immediately before that Treason was discouered P. H. Gondomar told me that both the Pope and King of Spaine abhord that Treason Q. A. I feare they abhord it for griefe it tooke not effect Q. M. If euer this King Philip hated England yee may be sure now he loues it for else he would neuer seeke to match his Daughter to it Q. E. What force and trechery cannot effect now affection in the match shall Wherein King Philip is of Lysanders minde who when the Lyons skinne will not serue he will sowe on a peece of the Foxes tayle E. 6. So he come into England he cares not by which way he ariue P. H. So the Daughter come not into England England neede not feare the comming of the Father Q. M. Count Gondomar will beate his head and his horse shoes but he will bring in the Daughter and already his hopes the probabilities are great for hee is exceeding great and familiar with King Iames. Q. E. Else he could neuer haue gotten open the Prisons-doores for the Romane Priests and Iesuites P. H. Nor haue made Rauleighs head to caper beyond his body Q. A. Nor haue kept backe an Armie from my Sonne and Daughter the King and Queene of Bohemia when so many hundred thousand valiant English Souldiers desired and longed to haue serued them in their warres Q. E. Nor haue shipt away so great a quantitie of Ordnance for Spaine which one of these dayes will returne Bullets to our hearts E. 6. Nor haue procured a gallant Fleete to secure the coast of Spaine against the Turkish Pyrates vnder coulour of going to Argier and Barbary P. H. That Fleete was fitter to haue gone to Mexico Q. A. So indeed it might haue returned with glory and Gold whereas now I feare it will with losse and repentance I will not say with shame Q. E. I know by Experience it is
were the last Acts of Augustus which embellished his raigne and that old Pericles made the greatnes of his generosity and courage to revive flourish on his Tomb when hee caused the Athenians to warre vpon the Pelopenessians Tell him that Philopaemenus affirmeth that peace is the best time to meditate of war Tell him that to transport warre into Spaine is to avoide and prevent it in England as Hannibal said to King Antiochus that the only way to make warre against the Romanes was to begin it in the heart and bowels of the Dominions of Rome and so to vanquish Italy by Italy Tell him that Plutarch affirmes there is no Action so royall or magnificent in a King as to take Armes to assist and revenge his Confederats vniustly oppressed and ruined much more his owne Royall children and that if the Palatinate be too farre that Flanders and Brabant are hut the skirts and Suburbs of England Tell him that Agesilaus said that words are feminine and deedes Masculine and that it is a great point of honor discretion and happinesse for a Prince to giue the first blowe to his Enemyes Tell him that Spaniards hate vs why then should we love them that we can beate them at our pleasures why then should we feare them Tell him that if it goes not well with Holland it must needes goe ill with England and that if wee doe not preuent their ruine that we cannot secure our owne danger Tell him that in matters of warre it is dangerous to make a stand shamefull to retire and glorious to advance Tell him that Philip of Spaine is of Pirrhus his minde who said that having devoured and conquered all Europe he would end his dayes in iolity and pleasure in Macedonia And therefore that it is time yea high time to strike vp our Drums against him because as well our safety as our Honour envites vs to it And now turning from his Maiestie to you the Illustrious and famous body of this great and famous Court of Parliament whereof the King is the head to you I say who are the creame and flower of his Subiects O hold it no disparagement that I tell you That sith in all matters of Order Policie and Reformation that delayes and protractions prove still dangerous many times fatall That you beware least as your Consultations flie away with the time that occasion and opportunity flie not away with your consultations sith Time must be taken by his fore-locke and then as Iulius Caesar saith we haue winde and tide with vs. Thinke what a happinesse what a glory it is for England to haue wars with Spaine sith Spaine in the Lethargy of our peace hath very neer vndermined our safety and subverted our glory And let vs dispell those charmes of security wherein England hath bin too long lull'd and enchanted asleepe And if feare and pusilanimity yet offer to shut our eies against our safety yet let our resolution and courage open them to the imminency of our danger that our glory may surmount our shame and our swords cut those tongues and pens in pieces which henceforth dare either to speake of peace or write of truce with Spaine No no to take the length of Spaines foote aright we must doe it with our swords not with our neckes for the first wil assuredly establish our safety and the second infalibly ruines VVarres warres then yee with cheerfull hearts and ioyfull soules let vs prepare our selues for warres That our great Brittaine the beauty of Europe as Europe is the glory of the world lie no longer exposed to the apparant danger and mercilesse mercy of this Castillian Rat of this Crocodile of Italy of this Vulture of Germany of this wolfe of Ardena but let vs all signalize our fidelities to our Soveraigne by our courage and immortalize our zeale to our Country by our valour and resolution herein· That we may all be of Alcibiades his opinion that the bed of Honour is the best death that there is no better recompence of death then glory nor no richer glory then to die for our Prince Country And here I had imposed silence to my pen and infused a period to this my Epistle had not the dignity of your places the qualitie of your imployments the nature of the time and the consideration that I am an Englishman commanded me to insert and anex these few lines by the way either of a Supplement or a Postscript Although I can adde nothing to your affection and care for the good of our Countrey yet give me leave I beseech you to substract from this mine owne fidelity and zeale 1. That you be carefull that our warres both by sea and land be plentifully stored with mony powder and shot which indeed is the veignes and Arteries the sinewes and soule of warre 2. That you cry downe all gold and siluer Lace and all Silkes Veluets and Taffities and cry vp wooll cloath and blacke Cuirasses and Corslets insteed thereof that thereby England as a blacke and dismal cloude may looke more martiall and terrible to our Enemies 3. That our English Romanists may be taught either to love or to feare England 4. That there be provision made and especiall care had to secure his Maiesties Coasts Seas and Subiect from the Ships of Warre of Dunkerke and Ostend by whom otherwise they will he extreamely indomaged and infested 5. That by some wholesome Statute and Order you clense the Citties and Countrey the Streetes and highwayes of all sorts of Beggers by providing for their labour and reliefe whereby many hundred thousand Christian soules will pray vnto God for his Maiestie and to powre downe his blessings vpon all your Designes and Labours whereby without doubt our warres will succeed and prosper the better I will no farther vsurpe on your patience But here withdrawing the Curtaine of this Preface invite your eyes and thoughts to the sight and consideration of this Consultation S.R.N.I. The Printer to the Readrr GEntlemen I heartily beseech you to amend and correct your Bookes with your Pens that in the reading thereof the Authors innocency suffer not through the Delect of my remissenesse in your Censures and exprobation Farewell Errata Page 4. Line 8. for imiat read innate p. 7.16 for States r. State p 11. l. 14. for so r. so if Ibid. l. 26. for Monsier de Boysils read Monsieur de Boysile p. 12. l. 18. for Peeres r. Peeces p. 21. l. 6. for Derne 1. Berne Ibid. l. 28. for Fort Trentes r. Fort Fuentes p. 22. l. 14. for Millan and Spaine read Millan to Spaine p. 20. l 6. for Du Fremes r. Du Termes Ibid for Faxis r. Taxis Ibid. for Lullias r. Lullins p 30. l. 7 for Morcanques r Mirargues p. 32. l. 21. for Bouelle 1. Bonelle p 38 l. 32. for D. of Sicily r. D of Suilly p. 41. l. 4. for Samury r. Samur Ibid. l. 22. for Merary r. Mercury p 68. l. 31. for B of Molosses
Englands Tutulary Angell with a naked brandished sword in his hand all things being hushed vp in silence and all heavenly duties and ceremonies performed these sixe Royall personages begin their Consultation in this manner The Consultation H. 8. BEfore we descend to speak of Spaines ambitiō and Envie towards England or of the Match now in question betwixt England and Spaine with the dāgers which threaten presage vs wil ensue therof it will not be impertinent rather necessary that we mount up the steps of this last century of yeares and so take a cursory though not a curious survey with what Ambition Crueltie and Treachery the Kings of Spaine from time to time haue knocked at most Kingdoms and Estates of Europe in the unfolding and dilating whereof you must not expect much light from me rather I from your selues sith as your yeeres so your raignes succeed me Navarre E. 6. ANd as you all know my yeares were so few and my raigne so short that neither these nor this made me capable to diue into the affaires of Princes and Kingdomes and yet I must confesse it was both with griefe and pitie that I reade with what vsurpation and treachery Ferdinand King of Aragon depriued Iohn of Albret and Katherine his Queene of their flourishing Kingdome of Navarre who for meere griefe and sorrow dyed immediately after having no other claime nor title to this Kingdome but an insatiable desire of Empire and Dominion which the Aragonois and Castilians wonne with the points of their Swords Q. M. O but Navarre lay fit and commodious for the Provinces of old Castille Biscay Galasia besides the Kings of Spaine are the Catholique Kings therfore it is both proper and naturall for them to bee vniuersall Q. E. It is indeed both naturall proper to them to be ambitious and tyrannicall for I am confident that as Catholique as they are they loue Earths Empire better then Heauens Glory and sure I cannot but lament to see Navarre made a Prouince to Spain which more is the griefe of Christendome and the shame of the Royall line of Burbon now the French King whose patrimonie and inheritance it is and will not King Lewes recouer it P. H. Had Great Henry his Father lived he would vndoubtedly haue reconquered Navarre with as much glory as it was lost with shame and pitie yea the Turrets of Pampelone and Fonterarby had long since cast off the ragged Staffe to beate out the three Flower de Luces Q. A. So mought King Lewes his Son too if the Pope and Iesuites diverted not his thoughts from that honourable and glorious Enterprise E. 6. Surely it is against the lawes of Conscience and the rules of Religion for the Kings of Spaine thus to vsurpe Navarre or were they so just as they pretend they were holy they would restore and not retayne this Kingdome Q. M. O the Catholique Kings are too wise to commit such grosse Errours of State as to restore for it is Conquest and Possession and no way restitution which affoords them best melody Besides sith they are the Catholique Kings they cannot be irreligious much lesse vncharitable H. 8. Why then Davghter the Kings of Spaine are of Pirrhus and Lysanders mind whose limits and confines of their Countries they held so farre as their Swords and Lances could extend them Which being so they are onely Catholique in title not in effect much lesse in heart or soule for if Vsurpation be Religion I know not what is Heresie E. 6. The Pope may but our Sauiour Christ never authorised or approved Vsurpation Q. M. But the Kings of Spaine know the Popes will and pleasure as they doe Gods and this beliefe I am sure is both Catholique and Apostolicall Q. E. See see with how much ignorance wilfulnesse with what blind zeale and poore implicit faith my Sister is perpetually lincked to Rome and Spaine P. H. If so Vsurpation be Romes Doctrine Spaines Delight and practise my soule did well to make me hate the one and detest the other The West Indyes or New Spaine H. 8. BVt leaue we Nauarre weeping and groaning vnder the burthen of the miserable seruitude to Spaine O how since Columbus de Cortez and Pizarro with as much judgement as fortunacy discovered to Castille the rich America and in it the Gold and Siluer mines which hath giuen winges to his Ambition to flie to the height of this earthly Greatnesse wherein we see Spaine seated and founded How it hath both grieued and amazed me to vnderstand how at Cuba Hayta Peru Panama and Mexico and in all these Vast Iles and spacious Continents that the Spaniards with a more then hellish Crueltie haue slaine such infinite Millions and Meryades of those poore Indians wherby in a manner they haue wholly depopulated these populous Countries and not only made rivers but whole seas of their Bloud and of whose inhumain and bloudie Crueltie I may justly say that as all former ages cannot shew the like President so our posteritie will difficultly belieue it And yet behold the horrible Hipocrisie of these insulting and vsurping Castillians for demaund them the reason of these their bloudie and execrable Massacres of those poore armlesse and harmlesse Indians and of the rooting out and exterminating of all their Princes and Nobility they with as much falshood as impiety will affirme that sith their King is the Catholike King so this is to plant the Catholique faith in the remote and new found Worldes of the World whereby wee may obserue that Religion must still bee the pretext and cloke of their bloody Vsurpation when Heauen Earth knowes and sees that it is first gold then a greedy desire of Dominion and Empire which is the true cause and sole obiect thereof E. 6. But if that bloody resolution against these huge numbers of poore Indians tooke place in the heart and Councell of Charles 5. must it needs follow that the like inhumanity and cruelty should liue in this of Phill. 2. and Phill. 3. his Sonne and Grand-childe so as this blood-thirstie malice of spleene and gall against there poore Indians must bee hereditary to the Kings of Spaine as now by custome and intrusion and by the ignoble connivencie of the Princes Electors the ambition to enioy the Empire of Germany is to the house of Austria from whence they are descended Portingall Q. E. MY royall Father obserued well that Religion was only the pretext but welth and Empire the sole obiect of Spaines ambition for although Charles 5. vsurped those places of America from the Indians who indeed knew not Christ yet what Religion or Catholique was that of Phill. 2. his Sonne vnder hand to precipitate and throw Sebastian King of Portingall into the vnnecessary and vnfortunate warres of Affrica against the Moores where hee losed his life with his ambition and then after his decease to worke so on the impotency feare and ignorance of olde King Henry his successour as contrary to the lawes
aduance his Daughters Title to France in right of her mother Elizabeth that Queene of Peace notwithstanding the fundamentall power of the Salique Law to the contrary H. 8. You are deceiued daughter for it was a good King and a bade Fryer or rather a Diuell in a Fryers weede to set handes on the Lords anoynted but this arrow came out of the quiuer of Spaine and Hell for that bloudie and execrable murther was no sooner perpetrated but then Instantly followed the proposition of the Infantaes Title to France which apparantly makes the murther to be Spaynes Q.M. It was the Dukes of Mayene Mercuaeur who drewe the King of Spayne to assist the League and in it France Q. E. No No Contrariewise it was the Kinge of Spayne that debouchd and drewe these two Dukes and with them almost all the Nobilitie to forge and contriue this League and in it to ruine France for already France was almost Spayne and the Infanta had vndoubtedly borne the Crowne If Great Henry his Victorious sword had not pulld off Spaynes maske and so cutt her Title and its pretences in pieces Q. M. But see the equitie and Iustice of King Phillipe for when Henry that Heretique King came to the Crowne he restored him Calais Dourlans Valencienes Blauet and all other townes and Castles which he had formerly wonne and Conquered in France P. H. But all this was not worthy thankes for Phillipe alone restored that which hee could not nor dared not to Keepe Q. M. Nay obserue farther how religious King Phillip was in imitation of King Agesilaus for hee kept his Fayth inuiolable towards Henry IIII although he were an heretique King P. H. Nay obserue how irreligiously and treacherous Kinge Phillip was to King Henry 4. in imitation of Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes for hee violated his fayth and Friendship towards him in debaushing of Biron Mirargues Loste whose promises and gold made them Traytors to their King and Country E. 6. Surelie I thinke it is incydent and I feare it will proue hereditary to the Kings of Spayne to conquer more by treachery then by the sword Q. E. But had Great Henry liued he would haue requited these courses of Spayne as also that of Guignard and Chastell who although the report runne otherwise had their greatest light and encouragement from beyond the Pyreene mountaines for to speake truth hee in heart could neuer be drawen to loue Spayne P. H. Yea that Spayne knew full well for when the French Iesuites his Ministers had vnlocked the mistery they like bloody Schoole-masters soe diuelishlie instructed and fortified that monster of men Rauilliack their execrable and damnable desciple that hee soone sent him hither in a bloody Coffin Q.M. But you will not say that the King of Spayne was accessary to Henry 4. his murther P. H. No but I will say that if the truth were knowne the opening of that veine would make many great Birds yea and many learned ones too bleede themselues to death and peraduenture the wounds and scarres thereof would bleede an hundred yeares hence Q. A. The Marshall of Lauerdin whistered mee a word concerning this which I shall neuer forget onely hee requested my secrecie therein so the King of Spaines Larma and the Queene Mother of France her D' Anchre his Mariana and her Cotton shall giue me leaue to thinke Q. M. Questionlesse it were the sinnes of that King and the finger of Heauen that cut off the threed of his life Q. E. Questionlesse you are deceiued Sister for it were the sinnes of France who made the Knife and the treasons of Spaine and Rome which made that Parricide Rauilliack performe H. 8. Well in despight of Rome Spaine and Hell that victorious and glorious King is wasted hither in triumph therefore leaue wee him with God and God with him and let vs see since his deplorable death how kinde K. Philip of Spayne hath beene to King Lewes his Sonne Q. M. So kinde that hee hath matched King Lewis to his eldest Daughter the Ifanta Anna and his eldest Sonne Prince Phil. to the Eldest Princesse of France Madame Elizabeth that now these two mighty Kingdomes and Houses seeme to bee but one Q. E. This is faire to the eye of the world but it will bee excellent if the End of these matches proue fortunate for France H. 8. Who were the Match-makers P. H. S. P. Q. S. or to bee better vnderstood Spaine Pope and Queene Regent Q.E. If King Philip of Spaine be Heyre as well to his Fathers Ambition as to his Kingdomes hee will loue France so well as to push and fish for it P. H. What force could never effect hee hopes those Marriages now will E. 6. Indeede the Snake lurkes vnder the fairest greene leaues and the Aspik vnder the purest and sweetest Roses Q. E. No Kings of the world know better how to dissemble then the Catholique Kings P. H. You speake Scripture not tradition Q.M. And you Tradition not Scripture H. 8. But what intertainment had the Infanta of Spaine in France P. H Noble Royall Glorious E. 6. What traine of Spaniards brought shee with her into France P. H. A very great traine for Monsieur de Marais the French Embassadour with the King my Father told mee that Monsieur de Bonelle Master of the Ceremonies to the French King reported that when the first of them were entring Paris at St. Iaques Gate that the last were but comming downe the Pyrene Mountaines Q. A. But what did all this rabble of Spaniards doe in France P. H. To speake truth they fell presently to skrewing and working themselues into the State by begging and buying of Offices Places Pensions and gouernments both in Church and Common-weale and by making Pensioners for Spaine and consequently a bridge and passage for the King their Master to enter H. 8. But how did the Parliaments the Privie Councell and the Nobilitie of France brooke and digest this Q E. Yea that is a question of State indeed P. H. As for the Parliaments and Privie Councell many of them are so Iesuitiz'd as they are Spaniards in heart though French in tongue and therefore they were so farre from preuenting as they gaue way to it onely for the Princes and Nobilitie some few excepted they resembling themselues vowed and swore that their swords should cut the Pens and Tongues in pieces of any Spaniard whatsoever that dar'd propose or attempt it for they spake aloud and affirm'd the Florentines had taught them wit E. 6. A braue resolution of the French Nobilitie for the greatest of a State haue alwayes the greatest interest in the State those Princes and Nobles are therefore highly to be applauded and praised and such of the Privie Councell and Parliament who tacitely are delinquents and traytors to their Prince and Countrey deserue to bee found out arraigned and sacrificed to the good of the Common-weale either with a sword or a halter Q. M. But what said the Clergie of France to
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