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A34709	Cottoni posthuma divers choice pieces of that renowned antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet, preserved from the injury of time, and exposed to publick light, for the benefit of posterity / by J.H., Esq.; Selections. 1672	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1672 (1672)	Wing C6486; ESTC R2628	147,712	358

multa abundant c. King Hen. 2. elected King of Jerusalem by the Christians Richard the first conquered the Kingdome of Cyprus and gave it unto Guy Lusigrian whose posterity raigned there until of late years Kings of England are superiour Lords of the Kingdom of Scotland and are absolute Kings of all the Kingdom of Ireland England is not subject to Imperial and Roman Laws as other Kingdoms are but retaineth her ancient Laws and Pura municipialia King Henry the sixth was Crowned King of France at Paris The Kings of England did use the stile of a Soveraign viz. Alti conantis Dei Largiflua Clementiae qui est Rex Regum Dominus Dominorum Ego Edgarus anglorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Omniumque Regum Insularumque Oceani Britanici Circumjacentium cunctarumque Nationum quae infra cam includuntur Imperator ac Dominus A REMONSTRANCE OF THE TREATIES OF AMITY AND MARRIAGE Before time and of late of the House of AVSTRIA and SPAIN with the Kings of England to advance themselves to the Monarchy of Europe Written by Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronet LONDON Printed in the Year 1672. A REMONSTRANCE OF THE TREATIES OF AMITY AND MARRIAGE Before time and of late of the House of AVSTRIA and SPAIN c. Most Excellent Majesty WE your Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons of your Realm Assembled in this your Parliament having received out of your meer grace your Royal command to declare unto your Highness our advice and Counsel for the further continuing or final breaking of the two Treaties between your Majesty the Emperor and the Spanish King touching the rendition of the Palatinate to the due and former obedience of your Illustrious Son the Prince Palatine and that of Marriage between the Lady Mary Infant of Spain and the most excellent Prince your Son now Prince of Wales We conceive it not unfit to offer up to your admired wisdom and consideration these important Motives that induced our subsequent advice and resolution By contemplation whereof we assume to our selves that your Majesty apparently seeing the infinite Calamity fallen of late unto the Christian world by means of these disguised Treaties of Amity and Marriage before time frequently used with your progenitors and now lately with your self by the House of Austria and Spain to advance themselves to the Monarchy of Europe will graciously be pleased to accept our humble advice Maximilian the Emperor and Ferdinand of Spain uniting by marriage the possessions of the House of Austria the Netherlands Arragon Castile Sciciliae and their new discoveries to one succeeding heir began though a far off to see a way whereby their Grandchild Charls might become the Master of the Western world and therefore each endeavoured by addition of Territories to facilitate that their desired end France was the only obstacle whose ambition and power then was no less than theirs he lay in their way for Gelders by siding with Duke Charls for Navarre by protecting Albert their King for their peeces in Italy by confederation with the State of Venice and for Naples and Millain by pretence of his own They were too weak to work out their way by force and therefore used that other of craft Lewis is offered for his daughter Claude the Marriage of Charls their Grandchild it is at Bloys accepted and to them confirmed by oath the claim of France to Naples by this released one hundred thousand Crowns yearly by way of recognition only to France reserved who is besides to have the investure of Millain for a sum of money which the Cardinal D'amboyes according to his Masters Covenant saw discharged Ferdinand thus possessed of what he then desired and Maximilian not meaning to strengthen France by addition of that Dutchy or repayment of the money broke off that Treaty to which they were mutually sworn affiancing Charls their Heir to Mary the Daughter of Henry the 7th to whose son Arthur Ferdinand had married Katharine his youngest daughter This double knot with England made them more bold as you see they did to double with France but he Prince of Wales his untimely death and his fathers that shortly followed enforced them to seek out as they did another tye the Spirit and power of Lewis and their provocations justly moving it they make up a second Marriage for Katharine with Henry the eighth Son of Henry the seventh and are enforced to make a Bull dated a day after the Popes death to dispence with it and consummate per verba de praesenti by Commissioners at Callis the former Nuptuals of Charles and Mary publishing a Book in print of the benefit that should accrew to the Christian world by that Alliance Henry the eighth left by his father young and rich is put on by Ferdinand to begin his right to France by the way of Guyen and to send his forces into Spain as he did under the Marquess Dorset to joyn with his Father in Law for that design by reputation whereof Albert of Navarre was enforced to quit that State to Spain who intended as it proved no further use of the English Army than to keep off the French King from assisting Albert until he had possessed himself of that part of Navarre which his successors ever since retain For that work ended the English Forces were returned home in Winter nothing having advanced their Masters service The next year to assure Henry the eighth grown diffident by the last carriage of Maximilian and Ferdinand whose only meaning was to lie busying of the French King at home to make an easie way abroad to their former ends project to the English King an enterprise for France to which they assured their assistance by mutuall confederacy at Mecklin for which Bernard de Mesa and Lewis de Carror for Castile and Arragon and the Emperor in person gave oath who undertook as he did to accompany Henry the eighth to Turwyn Ferdinand in the mean time dispatching the Vice-roy of Naples into Italy to busie the French King and Venetian that the English King with facility might pursue the conquest of France Henry the eighth had no sooner distressed the French King but Ferdinand respecting more his profit than his faith closed with Lewis who renounced the protection of Navarre and Gelders so bee and Maximilian would forsake the tye they had made with Henry the eighth The Vice-Roy of Naples is instantly recalled from Bressa a true with Spain and France concluded Quintean sent to the Emperor to joyn in it Don John de Manuel and Diego de Castro imployed to work the Emperor and Charles the Grandchild to exchange the marriage of Mary Henry the eighths Sister with Reve the second daughter of the French King and Lewis himself to take Elanor their Neece to wife and to clear all dispute about the conditions a blanck is sent from Spain to the French King to over-write what he please Henry the eighth perceiving this

Councels in this kind but what we borrow in the Rolls of Summons wherein the form stood various according to the occasions until it grew constant in the form it is now about the entrance of Rich. 2. The Journal Rolls being spoiled by the injury of times or private ends This King in the fifth of his Raign called a Parliament and therein advised with his Lords and Commons for suppressing of Llewellen Prince of Wales and hearing that the French King intended to invade some pieces of his Inheritance in France he summoned a Parliament Ad tractand ordinand faciend cum Praelatis Proceribus aliis Incolis Regni quibuslibet hujusmodi periculis excogitatis malis sit objurand Inserting in the Writ that it was Lex justissima provida circumspectione stablita That Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbetur In 34. Super ordinatione stabilimento Regis Scotiae he made the like Convention His Son the second Edward pro solennitate Sponsalium Coronationis consulted with his people in his first year in his sixth year super diversis negotiis statum regni expeditionem Guerrae Scotiae specialiter tangentibus he assembled the State to advise the like he did in the eighth The French King having invaded Gascoin in the thirteenth year the Parliament was called super arduis negotiis statum Gasconiae tangentibus And in 16. To consult ad refraenand Scotorum obstinentiam militiam Before that Edward the 3. in his first year would resolve whether Peace or War with the Scotish King he summoned the Peers and Commons super praemissis tractare consilium impendere The Chancellor in Anno quinto declareth from the King the cause of that Assembly And that it was to consult and resolve whether the King should proceed with France for recovery of his Signiories by alliance of marriage or by war And whether to suppress the disobedience of the Irish he should pass thither in Person or no The year following he re-assembleth his Lords and Commons and requireth their advice whether he should undertake the Holy Expedition with the French King that year or no The Bishops and Proctors of the Clergy would not be present as forbidden by the Canons such Councels the Peers and Commons consult applauding the Religious and Princely forwardness of their Sovereign to this holy enterprize but humbly advise a forbearance this year for urgent occasions The same year though at another Sessions the King demanded the advice of his people Whether he should pass into France to an enterview as was desired for the exepediting the treaty of marriage The Prelates by themselves the Earls and Barons by themselves and the Knights of the Shires by themselves consulted apart for so is the Record and in the end resolved That to prevent some dangers likely to arise from the North it would please the King to forbear his journey and to draw towards those parts where the perils were feared his presence being the best prevention which advice he followed In the following Parliament at York the King sheweth how by their former advice he had drawn himself towards the North parts and now again had assembled them to advise further for his proceedings to which the Lords and Commons having consulted apart pray further time to resolve until a full assembly of the State to which the King granting adjourneth that Sessions At the next meeting they are charged upon their Allegiance and Faith to give the King their best advice the Peers and Commons consulting apart deliver their opinions and so the Parliament ended In the 13. year the Grands and Commons are called to consult and advise how the Domestick quiet may be preserred the Marches of Scotland defended and the Sea secured from forrein Enemies the Peers and Cammons having apart consulted the Commons after their desire not to be charged to counsel in things Des quenx ils mont pas cognizance answer That the Guardians of the Shires assisted by the Knights may effect the first if pardons of Felony be not granted The care of the Marches they humbly leave to the King and his Counsel and for the safeguard of the Seas they wish that the Cinque Ports Marine towns discharged for the most part from the main burthens of the In-land parts may have that left to their charge and care and that such as have lands neer the Coasts be commanded to reside on those possessions The Parliament is the same year reassembled Avisamento Praelatorum procerum necnon communitatis to advise de expeditione guerrae in partibus transmarinis at this Ordinances are made for provision of Ships arraying of men for the Marches and defence of the Isle of Jersey naming such in the Record as they conceive fit for the imployment The next year De la Pool accompteth in Parliament the expences of the wars a new aid is granted and by several Committees in which divers are named that were no Peers of Parliament the safeguard of the seas and defence of the borders are consulted of In the 15 year De assensu Praelatorum Procerum aliorum de consilio the Kings passage into France is resolved of Anno 17. Badlesmere instead of the Councel declareth to the Peers and Commons That whereas by their assents the King had undertaken the wars in France and that by mediation of the Pope a truce was offered which then their Soveraign forbore to entertain without their well allowance the Lords consult apart and so the Commons returning by Sir William Trussel an answer their advice and desire is to compose the Quarrel approve the Truce and the Popes mediation The Popes undertaking proving fruitless and delays to the French advantage who in the mean space allied with Scotland and others practized to root out the English Nation in France This King again assembled the year following in which the Peers and Commons after many days meditation resolve to end it either by Battel or Peace and no more to trust upon the mediation or message of his Holiness In the 21 year the chief Justice Thorpe declaring to the Peers and Commons that the French Wars began by their advice first the True after by their assents accepted and now ended the Kings pleasure was to have their Counsels in the prosecution the Commons being commanded Que ils se deveroyent trait ensemble se quils ensenteroient monstrer au Roy aux gravitur de son consilio Who after four days consulting humbly desire the King to be advised by his Lords and others more experienced then themselves in such affairs To advise the King the best for his French imployments a Parliament was summoned Anno 25. Herein the King for a more quick dispatch willeth the Commons to elect 24. or 30. of their house to consult with the Lords these to relate to their fellows and the conclusion general by

close and foul play entertaineth an overture made by the Duke de Longavil then prisoner in England for a Marriage of Mary his Sister with the French King which effected the two subtile Princes failed of their ends Lewis dead and Francis succeeding he made his first entrance a league with England the recovery of Millane which he did the protection of his neighbours and reduction of the Swisses from the Imperial side for which he imployed to them the bastard of Savoy Maximilian and Ferdinand seeing by this all their new purchases in danger and that they had now no disguised marriage again to entertain the credulity of Henry the eighth they work upon his youth and honour The Emperor will needs to him resign his Emperial Crown as wearied with the weight of Government and distraction of Europe which needed a more active man then his old age to defend the Liberty of Subjects and Majesty of Princes from the Tyranny of France That he had made the way already for him with the Electors that he would send the Cardinall Sedunensis with ample commission into England to conclude the resignation which was done That at Aquisgrave he will meet Henry the eighth and there give up his first Crown from thence accompany him to Rome where he should receive the last right of the Imperiall dignity putting Verona into his protection then assailed by the Venetians and giving him the investiture of Millane in feodo more Imperiali then in possession of the French to tye his aid the faster against these States Hereupon Henry the eighth concluded a defensive league with the Bishop of Mesa and Count Daciana authorised Commissioners from the Emperor Arragon Castile and sendeth his Secretary Master Pace with money for Maximilian had already borrowed and broken to entertain the Swissers into pay and confederacy against France Charles the Grandchild must feign a difficulty to sway his League untill the Emperor at Henry the eighths cost was fetched from Germany to the Netherlands to work his Nephew to it who in the interim had closely contracted a peace by the Grandfathers consent with France No sooner had Maximilian received ten thousand Florins of the English King to bear his charge but the Treaty of Noyon was closely between him Arragon and Castile concluded whereby the ten thousand Crowns for recognition of Naples was passd from France to the Emperor and Charles himself affianced to Loysia the French Kings daughter and also darkly carried that when Master Pace at Agno came down from the Emperor with his Signature of the confederacy the French Kings Ambassador went up the back Stairs with six thousand Florins and the transaction of the Pension of Naples to Maximilian and there received his confirmation of the Treaty at Novon notwithstanding the same day the Emperor looking upon his George and Garter wished to Wingfield Henry the eighths Ambassador that the thoughts of his heart were transparent to his Master So displeasing was this foul play to the Cardinall Sedunensis the Emperors chief Counsellor that he writ contra perfidiam Principum against the falshood of his own Lord a bitter Letter to the English King who finding again how his youth and facility was overwrought by these two old and subtill Princes his vast expences lost his hopes of France lesned and that of the Emperor vanished for Maximilian is now conferring the Title of Rex Romanorum to one of his Nephues concludeth by mediation of the Admiral of France a peace with that King a marriage for the Dolphin Francis with the Lady Mary and the re-delivery of Tournay for a large Summe of Money Not long after Maximilian dieth leaving the Imperial Crown in Competition of France and Castile Charles whose desire was as his Ancestors to weave that vvreath for ever into the Austrian Family began to fear the power of his corrivall vvith vvhom the Pope then sided and the English King stood assured by the late marriage of their two Children To draw off the Pope he knew it vvas impossible he vvas all French To vvork in Henry the eighth he found the inconstancy of his predecessors and the new match to lie in the vvay To clear the one he is fain in his Letters into England to load his two Grandfathers vvith all the former aspertions his years and duty then tying him more to obedience then truth but that he vvas a man and himself now that mutuall danger vvould give assurance vvhere otherwise single faith might be mistrusted France vvas in it self by addition of Britany more potent than ever this man had rejoyned to it some important pieces in Italy and should his greatness grow larger up by accession of the Imperiall Crown how easie vvere it to effect indeed what he had fashioned in Fancy the Monarchy of Europe As for the young Lady who was like to lose her husband if Henry the eighth incline to this Counsell and assist Castile in pursute of the Emperor he was contented for Loisia of France espoused to him by the Treaty at Noyon was now dead to make up the loss of the Lady Mary by his own Marriage with her a match fitter in years for the Dolphin was an infant as great in dignity for he was a King and might by the assistance of her father be greater in being Emperor Thus was Henry the eighth by fears and hopes turned about again and Pacy forthwith sent to the Electors with instructions money who so wrought that Charles was in July chosen Emperor and that it was by the sole work of Henry the eighth himself by Letters under his hand acknowledged From Aquisgrave he commeth Crowned the next year for England weddeth at Winsor the Lady Mary concludeth by league the invasion of France and to divide it with Henry the eighth by the River of Rodon making oath at the high Altar at Pauls for performance of both those Treaties Hereupon France is entred by the Eng●ish army and Burbon wrought from his Allegiance by a disguised promise of this Emperor of Elianor his Sister for wife to raise forces against his Master which he did but was paid by the English King The French King to carry the wars from his own doors maketh towards Milan whereby Burbon and his forces were drawn out of Province to guard the Imperialls in Italy At Pavie they met and the French King was taken prisoner and forthwith transported into Spain where at Madrid the Emperor forced his consent to that Treaty whereby he gained Burgundy and many portions in the Netherlands leaving Henry the eighth who had born the greatest charge of all that Warre not only there unsaved but calling a Parliament at Toledo taketh by assignment of his States Isabella of Portugall to wife procuring from Pope Clement a Bull to absolve him of his former oaths and Marriage working not long after by Ferdinandus his Chaplain the Earl of Desmond to Rebell in Ireland and James the fifth of

prices of what shall be bought for his Ma●esties service must in like proportion be inhaunced on him And as his Majesty hath the greatest of Receipts and Issues so must he of necessity taste the most of loss by this device It will discourage a great proportion of the Trade in England and so impair his Majesty's Customs For that part being not the least that payeth upon trust and credit will be overthrown for all men being doubtful of diminution hereby of their personal Estates will call their moneys already out and no man will part with that which is by him upon such apparent loss as this must bring What danger may befall the State by such a suddain stand of Trade I cannot guess The monies of Gold and Silver formerly coyned and abroad being richer then these intended will be made for the me part hereby Bullion and so transported which I conceive to be none of the least inducements that hath drawn so many Gold-Smiths to side this Project that they may be thereby Factors for the strangers who by the lowness of minting being but 2 s. Silver the pound weight and 4s for Gold whereas with us the one is 4. and the other 5 s. may make that profit beyond-sea they cannot here and so his Majesty's mint unset on work And as his Majesty shall lose apparently in the alteration of monies a 14. in all the Silver and a 25. part in all the Gold he after shall receive so shall the Nobility Gentry and all other in all their former setled Rents Annuities Pensions and loanes of money The like will fall upon the Labourers and workmen in their S●●tute-wages and as their receipts are lessened hereby so are their Issiues increased either by improving all prices or disfurnishing the Market which must necessarily follow For if in 5. Edwardi 6. 3. Mariae and 4. Elizabethae it appeareth by the Proclamations that a rumor only of an alteration caused these Effects punishing the Author of such reports with imprisonment and pillory it cannot be doubted but the projecting a change must be of far more consequence and danger to the State and would be wished that the Actors and Authors of such disturbances in the Common-Wealth at all times hereafter might undergo a punishment proportionable It cannot beheld I presume an advice of best judgment that layeth the loss upon our selves and the gain upon our enemies for who is like to be in this the greater Thriver Is it not usual that the Stranger that transporteth over monies for Bullion our own Gold-Smiths that are their Brokers and the Forreign Hedgeminters of the Netherlands which terms them well have a resh and full Trade by this abatement And we cannot do the Spanish King our greatest enemie so great a favour as by this who being the Lord of this Commodity by his W●st Indies we shall so advance them to our impoverishing for it is not in the power of any State to raise the price of their own but the value that their Neighbour Princes acceptance sets upon them Experience hath taught us that the enfeebling of coyn is but a shift for a while as drink to one in a dropsy to make him swell the more But the State was never throughly cured as we saw by Henry the eighths time and the late Queens untill the coyn was made up again I cannot but then conclude my honourable Lords that if the proportion of Gold and Silver to each other be wrought to that parity by the advice of Artists that neither may be too rich for the other that the mintage may be reduced to some proportion of Neighbour parts and that the Issue of our Native Commodities may be brought to overburthen the entrance of the Forreign we need not seek any way of shift but shall again see our Trade to flourish the Mint as the pulse of the Common-Wealth again to beat and our Materials by Industry to be a mine of Gold and Silver to us and the Honour Justice and Profit of his Majestie which we all wish and work for supported The Answer of the Committees appointed by your Lordships to the Proportion delivesed by some Officers of the Mint for inhauncing his Majestie 's monies of Gold and Silver 2. September 1626. The first part The Preamble VVE conceive that the Officers of the Mint are bound by Oath to discharge their several duties in their several places respectively But we cannot conceive how they should stand tyed by oath to account to his Majesty and your Honors of the Intrinsick value of all Forreign coyns and how they agree with the Standard of the State before they come to the Mint for it is impossible and needless In the one for that all Forreign States do for the most part differ from us and our money infinitely amongst themselves In the other it being the proper care of the Merchants who are presumed not to purchase that at a dearer rate then they may be allowed for the same in fine Gold and Silver in the coyn of England within the charge of coynage And therefore needless To induce the necessity of the Proposition they produce two instances or examples The one from the Rex Doller and the other from the Royal of Eight wherein they have untruely informed your Honours of the price and value in our monies and our Trade of both of them For whereas they say that the Rex Doller weigheth 18. penny weight and 12. grains and to be of the finest at the pound weight 10. ounces 10 pence weight doth produce in exchange 5. s. 2. d. farthing of sterling monies We do affirm that the same Dollar is 18. d. weight 18. grains and in fineness 10. ounces 12. d weight equal to 4. s. 5 d.ob of sterling monies and is at this time in London at no higher price which is short thereof by 13. grains and a half fine Silver upon every Dollar being 2. d. sterling or thereabout being the charge of coynage with a small recompence to the Gold● Smith or Exchanger to the profit of England 3. s. 6. d. per Centum Whereas they do in their circumstance averr unto your Honours that this Dollar runs in account of Trade amongst the Merchants as 5. s. 2. d. ob English money It is most false For the Merchants and best experienced men protest the contrary and that it pas●eth in exchange according to the Int●insick value onely 4 s. 5. d. ob of the sterling money or neer thereabouts and not otherwise The second instance is in the Royall of Eight affirming that it weigheth 17. penny weight 12. grains and being but of the fineness of 11. ounces at the pound weight doth pass in Exchange at 5 s. of our sterling moneys whereby we lose 6 s 7 d. in every pound weight But having examined it by the best Artists we find it to be 11. ounces 2. d. weight fine and in weight 17. penny weight 12. grains which doth equal 4. s. 4. d. ob

how many delays there were we may easily see that such a sum by Parliament granted is far sooner and more easily gathered If any will make the successes of times to produce an inevitable necessity to enforce it levied whether in general by excise or imposition or in particular upon some select persons which is the custom of some Countreys and so conclude it as there for the publick State Suprema lege he must look for this to be told him That seeing necessity must conclude always to gather money as less speedy or assured then that so practised which cannot be fitter then by Parliament the success attendeth the humors of the heedless multitude that are full of jealousie and distrust and so unlike to comply to any unusual course of Levy but by force which if used the effect is fearful and hath been fatal to the State whereas that by Parliament resteth principally on the regal person who may with ease and safety mould them to his fit desire by a gracious yielding to their just Petitions If a Parliament then be the most speedy assured and safe way it is fit to conceive what is the safest way to act and work it to the present need First for the time of the usual Summons reputed to be 40. days to be too large for the present necessity it may be by dating the Writ lessened since it is no positive law so that a care be had that there may be one County day after the Sheriff hath received the Writ before the time of sitting If then the sum to be levyed be once agreed of for the time there may be in the body of the Grant an Assignment made to the Knights of every County respectively who under such Assurance may safely give Security proportionable to the Receipts to such as shall in present advance to the Publick service any sums of money The last and weightiest consideration if a Parliament be thought fit is how to remove or comply the differences between the King and Subject in their mutual demands And what I have learned amongst the better sort of the Multitude I will freely declare that your Lordships may be the more enabled to remove and answer those distrusts that either concern Religion Publick safety of the King and State or the just liberties of the Common-Wealth For Religion a matter that they lay nearest to their conscience they are led by this gro●●d of jealousie to doubt some practise against it First for that the Spanish match which was broken by the grateful Industry of my Lord of Bucking out of his Religious care as he there declares that the Articles there demanded might lead in some such sufferance as might endanger the quiet if not the State of the reformed Religion here Yet there have when he was an Actor principal in the Conditions with France as hard if not worse to the preservation of our Religion passed then those with Spain And the suspect is strengthened by the close keeping of this Agreement in that point there concluded It is no less an Argument of doubt to them of his Affections in that his Mother end others many of his Ministers of neer imployment about him are so affected They talk much of his advancing men Papistically devoted some placed in the camp of nearest service and chief Command And that the Recusants have gotten these late years by his power more of courage and assurance then before If to clear these doubts which perhaps are worse in fancy then in truth he took a good course it might much advance the Publick service against those squeymish humors that have more violent passion then setled judgment are not the least of the opposite number in the Common-Wealth The next is The late misfortunes and losses of Men Munition and honour in our late Vndertakings abroad Which the more temperate spirits impute to want of Councel and the more sublime wits to practise They begin with the Palatinate and by the fault of the loss there on the improved credit of Gondomar distrusting him for the staying of supplyes to Sir Horace Vere when Colonell Cecill was cast on that imployment by which the King of Spain became Master of the King's Children's Inheritance And when Count-Mansfield had a Royal Supply of Forces to assist the Princes of our part for the Recovery thereof either plot or error defeated the Enterprize from Us to Spains great advantage That Sir Robert Mansfield's expedition to Algiers should purchase only the security and guard of the Spanish Coasts To spend so many hundred thousand pounds in the Cales Voyage against the advice of Parliament onely to warn the King of Spain to be in a readiness so to weaken our selves is taken for such a sign of ill affection to him amongst the multitude The spending of so much Munition Victuals and Money in my Lord Willoughbie's journey is conceived an Vnthrifty Error in the Director of it to disarm our selves in fruitless Voyages nay to some over-curious seems a plot of danger to turn the quarrel of Spain our antient enemy that the Parliament petitioned and gave supply to support upon our Ally of France and soon after a new happy Tye gave much talk that we were not so doubtful of Spain as many wish since it was held not long ago a fundamental Rule of Their security and Our's by the old Lord Treasurer Burleigh That nothing can prevent the Spanish Monarchy but a fastness of the two Princes whose Amity gave countenance and courage to the Netherlands and German Princes to make head against his Ambition And we see by this dis-union a fearful defeat hath happened to Denmark and that party to the great advantage of the Austrian Family And thus far of the Waste of publick Treasure in fruitless Expeditions An important cause to hinder any new supply in Parliament Another fear that may disturb the smooth and speedy passage of the King's desires in Parliament is the late waste of the Kind's Lively-hood Whereby is like as in former times to arise this Jealousie fear That when he hath not of his own to support his ordinary charge for which the Lands of the Crown were setled unalterable and called Sacrum Patrimonium Principis that then he must of necessity rest on those Assistances of the people which ever were only collected consigned for the Common-Wealth From hence is is like there will be no great labour or stiffness to induce his Majesty to an act of Resumption since such desires of the State have found an easie way in the will of all the Princes from the third Henry to the last But that which is like to pass deeper into their disputes and care is the late pressures they suppose to have been done upon the publick libertie and freedom of the Subject in commanding their Goods without assent by Parliament confining their persons without especial cause declared and that made good against them by the Judges lately and pretending a Writ