Swede was Master of the whole Countrey round about But whether the one or the other this is certain that those two Kings spent there some dayes in such brotherly amity and friendship that any man would conclude all bitternesse and rancor was pass'd over Whereof this may serve for proof that the King of Denmark amongst other familiar discourses made mention of that League we formerly spake of And the Dane doth insist upon a near union wherein he esteem'd it necessary that these two Northern Kingdoms should he united and desired with great instance from the King of Sweden that he would send his Ambassador into Denmark for that purpose Thereupon his Majesty of Sweden before his going to Gottinburgh where he had commanded the Senatours of the Kingdom and Deputies of the three Orders to meet him that he might discharge his faith and promise to the King of Denmark and most liberally perform all things Which the Swede readily puts in a way to be encounted that tended to the amity of the Kingdoms and the confirmation of the late concluded Peace gave Order for such an Embassay at Malmoe in Schonen with ample instructions with all speed to establish the League the Dane had so earnestly sought and he promis'd The Lord Baron Stenot Bielcke Senatour of the Kingdom and Sir Peter Julius Coyet Counsellour of State who were design'd for that Embassay chearfully undertook their charge Sending Ambassadors and being set forwards on their Journey with all expedition on the 19. day of March the same year they arriv'd at Coppenhagen There they were received in such sort Who were in appearance received with all integrity as was suitable to the honour of their Royall Masters being brought in and treated with such great observancy of respect and reverence that any one would thence ominate an happy event and such as was desired to that Embassay For the Senatours of the Kingdom were very large in expressing their fowardness and their sincere desire to maintain that mutuall correspondence not onely in the solemn admission of our Ambassadours to the King of Denmark but also in all private conferences sharply inveighing against the publique Ministers of other States who had entangled them in that War by several insinuations and devices But how far different was the purpose of these Danes 't will be no hard matter for any man to guess who shall understand by the subsequent Narrative But not so in effect that the Danes in pretense of a League had no other aim but by their engines and devices if not wholly to overthrow yet for the most part to evacuate and defeat the Treaty at Roskild and by protracting the concluding of Peace to gain time and on the first occasion that presented it self by force and fraud to regain their lost Provinces the latter of which many of the Danish Nobility have not been asham'd to talk of openly 'T was a strange thing that the Danish Ambassadours the Lord Axell Vrop and Peter Reetzi both Senatours of the Kingdom should in their first meeting with the Swedish Ambassadours at Coppenhagen the 29. of March refuse to draw up as was their charge any grounds and foundations of that League so much desir'd first at Tostrup then at Roskild by the Danish Commissioners and lastly at Fredericksburgh by the King himfelf The Danes refusing to deliver the gounds of the League in writing Yet on the last day of the said moneth of March they had another meeting and then after many delayes they pretended a form of that League in words but would not exhibit it in writing till the Swedes had first exhibited theirs To say the truth 't was a matter of no great moment and of little concern which part should first cast their Articles into paper but that there were hot coals cover'd under these embers For what else did the Danes design but to sift out the meaning of the Swedes and to rake together matter to pervert it and render them odious to other Nations as if they onely did eagerly pursue those things whereby other men might in any kinde sustein loss or prejudice And that they might carry their Imposture the more smoothly But at last done they desired that whatsoever pass'd in word or writing in reference to the League Secrecy is imposed on both sides should be kept close and secret from all the world But they were most imprudently catch'd by their own Law which they had devised to tye up others For they acknowledg'd that the Project But not observ'd by the Danes which the Swedes had first drawn and delivered was lost afault hardly to be excus'd in any servant much less in such Guardians of secrets as they look upon themselves to be Yet this carelesseness might be excus'd had they not in a manner published to all men what ever was either written or spoken Who revealed all to Beunengen the States Ambassador who did obstruct all and especially to Beuningen Ambassadour of the States of the united Provinces by whose direction and counsell they ordered and managed still their Designes and Determinations insomuch that he hath often boasted that he was the onely hinderance of the conclusion of the League betwixt the Swedes and Danes Letter P. Letter P. But the event will declare what profit hath accrewed to the Kingdom of Denmark or may for the future be expected by hearkening to so perverse Councells This is certain that his Majesty of Sweden had no other regard in this League Whereas the Swedish whole aim was to to preserve the Northern Kindoms in Peace Letter Q. but to secure the trade of the Baltick sea and preserve the Kingdom of Denmark from the attempts of other Enemies Which if ever was then most necessary and as all the Swedes Proposalls in reference to the Leagne so that last Letter Q. do clearly manifest that he had no other scope but to preserve those Northern Kingdoms without the prejudice and detriment of any other as the precise words in the Eleventh Article of the former approved Proposalls being rad will discover On the contrary the Danes had far different designs But the Danish design was to make the treaty at Roskild of none effect as the dubious event of Wars might give the advantage and directed all their craft that under colour of contracting a straiter League they might shrink from the obligation of the Treaty at Roskild and that by tying up the Swedes they might suspend the execution of very many of those points upon the dubious event of Wars wherein the Swedes must be immediately involved not observing that the Treaty spake absolutely and took force immediately from the ratification of the Peace Many things might here be alledged touching the unreasonable demands of the Danes wherewith they had the confidence to urge the Swedes in their Projects but because they are partly though but colourably either mended or expunged in their last Letter R.
and are partly manifest by conferring the Swedish and Danish projects we shall pass them over Letter R onely reciting what was the main cause of breaking off that Treaty In the Third Article of the transactions at Roskild The cause of the breaking off of that private Treaty amongst other things it was provided that the Kingdoms of Sweden and Denmark should joyntly endeavour to impead the passage of any Fleet of War through the Sound itno the Baltick Sea to the end that the King and Kingdom of Sweden together with the Kingdom of Denmark might preserve their power and command which they have alwayes joyntly held to this day in the Baltick Sea and from all prescription have reteined inviolate against all Opposers of what kinde or under what pretence soever The occasion of this caution was not onely a negotiation some years since carried on by a Resident of Poland at the Hague touching a League then to be made between the King of Poland The Danes having violared the former Treaties and the States of the united Provinces of which this was one main drift that a Dutch Fleet of War should be equipped and sent into the Baltick Sea but also the Fleet that was sent in the year 1656. contrary to the Priviledge of these Northern Kingdoms though by consent of the King of Denmark as Joynt Commander and that not onely sent through the Sound to relieve and supply the enemies of the King of Sweden by bringing in a forreign Navy into the Baltick Sea but also enforc'd by some of the Danes Men of War contrary to the Faith both of his word and writing to a great and generall mischief Which to prevent for the future and to stop the claim of any other Nations who might seek to send any Fleet into the Baltick Sea pretending a consent of one of the Joynt-Commanders of that Sea the Swedes found it necessary most effectually to oblige the King of Denmark not onely from any such consent in the future but also that whensoever any Fleet should endeavour to pass in the dislike of either of those Kings the other should joyntly oppose their passage Which the Swede would prevent in time to come For it was the intent of his S. R. M. of Sweden in case he should at any time make War upon his Enemies to secure all things behinde him and especially Sea-ward nor to permit that any State by the like Attempts in future should challenge a passage by prescription in the wrong and prejudice of those Northern Kingdoms But it is not materiall to discover at large that the Command of the Baltick Sea and consequently the power and right of prohibiting any Fleet of War doth joyntly belong to these two Kingdoms since there was never yet any dispute thereof between the said Kingdoms neither have either of the Kings at any time interposed when the other hath used or claimed his power against Intruders We have an example of this in that Renowned King of Swedes the great Gustavus Adolphus who was never controul'd or resisted whilest he destroyed that Fleet which the Duke of Fridland had provided in the Baltick Sea under the Commission of the German Emperour Ferdinand the Second In the like manner when Christian the Fourth King of Denmark gave chase to a ship which under Commission from the King of Poland would have exacted Customs near the City of Dantzick the King of Swedes never expressed any dislike The same thing is likewise testified at large by the severall writings of those Kings then published Sure it is that the Swedes might yield to the Danes desires that the third Article of the transaction of Roskild as also at Tostrup was set down in this form That no Enemy should be permitted to send a Fleet of War into the Baltick Sea But in this sense as the Danish Commissioners themselves expounded it that no forreign Fleet under what pretence soever should pass into the said Sea though not esteem'd enemy to one of the Nations and that in this case Forreign and Enemy were words Synonimous and equivalent Hence it was that to make it the more apparent in the said third Article those two appellations went together chiefly because the Danes pretended the word Enemy must therefore be added lest other States might thence apprehend matter of dislike or suspition But indeed the Danes who in their own Right and also by vertue of the Agreement at Roskild were oblig'd to jovn with his Majesty of Sweden in prohibiting all forreign Fleets from the Baltick Sea to preserve themselves from a publique guilt of violating the Peace steer'd a quite contrary course and that they might put a stop upon the procedes of the Swedes successes in War But the Danes seek to elude used all artifice to extricate and acquit themselves from that obligation Which to accomplish they thought a fit opportunity presented it self in the debates of the League wherein they might slyly elude and change that absolute Covenant of excluding forreign Fleets from the Baltick Sea into a Conditionall one or to speak plainly to defer it to a day and time not at all prefix'd For although that often cited third Article of the transaction at Roskild doth clearly affirm that either of these confederate Kings was bound not onely by all means possible to hinder the passage of any Forreign Fleet of War by the Sound into the Baltick Sea but also that no other Prince besides the said Kings should presume to furnish or use any Fleet of War in that Sea By limitting the third Article at their pleasure to have this sense yet the Danish Commissioners had the confidence to limit that Obligation in their Projects that it was to be understood when those Wars the Swede was now engag'd in should be ended and that not till then they were oblig'd to the performance as it evidently appears by the fourth and fifth Article of the Danish Projects last by them produced But this possibly might be pass'd by had they not abus'd the true and evident meaning with forc'd interpretations For whereas the Swedish Ambassadours did plainly demonstrate that that added condition or to speak truly the delaying of mutual aid was needless for that there was no intent to involve the Kingdom of Denmark in the Wars the Swedes then had in hand but rather the promis'd Assistance was onely Naval consisting in a certain definite number of ships sufficiently appointed which the Kingdom of Sweden could not stand in need of neither against the Muscovite Pole nor Emperour of Germany then King of Hungary and Bohemia forasmuch as none of these were powerful at Sea and that the League had reference onely to those who being no neighbours to the Baltick Sea should attempt to infringe the just Dominion of those Kings To which the Danes gave this answer That no Forreigner during the Swedes Wars with the Muscovite Pole or the House of Austria of the Imperial Line would dare
of a strait League between those two Northern Countreys whereof they gave them sufficient hopes Moreover some further Articles were consented to And private Articles were agreed upon Letter M. Letter M. which were privately concluded the Dane so desiring it yet were enforced with the like authority that the former had by the subsciptions of those honourable Mediatiours and the Commissioners We might observe the same candor in the Danes with the above noted about the beginning of the Treaties at Tostrup when in their Project they used for the most part ambiguous terms onely to the end that they might reserve to themselves matter sufficient to wrest them in the future to a sense injurious to us in the mean time colourably affirming that their sense was the same with what the words of the Swedes Commissioners carried But this appear'd yet more manifest at Roskild and chiefly in that the Danes at the making of their Protocoll or Registry were found guilty of that which in the Cornelian Law de falsis is under a very sharp penalty restrained For when the Swedish Commissioners in comparing the Projects of the Instrument of Peace Yet the Danes do falsifie the Articles had observed amongst other things that the Danes had not alwayes in perspicuous terms express'd the sense of the Swedish Projects they not onely desired upon that ambiguity the Danes exposition but also that no stop might be put to the behoofful Work of Peace they were content upon condition their verball explication might for the better caution be inserted in the Protocoll or Registry lest by a different interpretation some controversie might arise between these Northern Nations in succeeding times Yea to the end the certainty might be clear and manifest the Swedes in many things of chiefest moment did dictate to the Danish Pens the sense of each party Hence it was that the Swedes were the more facile and were content to conform to the expressions of the Danes in many places of their Projects Yet contrary to our hopes we afterwards found that the Danes dealt very disingenuously herein notoriously depraving the Protocoll or Registry as shall in its proper place hereafter appear But whatsoever there is of this would signifie little since by vertue of the Peace made all miscarriages befor and in the Treaty were to be buried in oblivion had they not after the Peace concluded renewed matter of jealousie and distempers And give cause of jealousie after the peace concluded stifling that mutuall confidence that should have been reviv'd and restor'd betwixt the two Kings In the mean time his S. R. M. of Sweden understanding that the Treaties at Roskild were in a manner drawn to a conclusion commands part of his Army to march to Wordinburgh part to Corsoer that they might pass over into Jutland and Fuhnen before the ice was thaw'd When the Swede had given order for a march out of Zealand Count Tot was ordered to prepare for his departure to Schonen to take possession in his Majesties name of those Towns and Castles that were to be surrendred by the Danes But the News had scarcely come to the King of Sweden being yet at Ringsted of the finall conclusion of the Peace when there posted to him Owen Juull from Coppenhagen with Letters Credentiall from the King of Denmark By reason that he refuses to deliver the Forts in Schonen according to agreement offering onely Elsingburg an inconsiderable place informing amongst other things that the King could not render his Forts up in Schonen so soon as was expected for that it was impossible by reason it began to thaw to bring the Swedish Army out of Sealand yet that he was ready to deliver up the Castle at Helsingburgh without delay for his security And that they might the more cleanly impose upon the Swedes he pretended that the King of Denmark had not means enough to maintain those Garrison Souldiers in Schonen whilest the Swedish Army remained in Sealand Nor would the said Juul desift from that pretence although the King of Sweden undertook to make provision for those Souldiers Wherefore his Majesty of Sweden dismiss'd the Agent with such Answer as suited with the present state of Affairs and was not a little moved therewith it being easie to guess what the Danes then designed For what security could he promise himself with his Army in an Island void of all defence if those Fortresses in Schonen were denied him He had been wholly at the Danes disposall and might have been brought to utmost extremities if the Danes had found aid from abroad And this was the suggestion of Beuningen then Ambassadour from the States of Holland into Denmark who made them solemn promise At the perswasion of Beuningen upon assurance of supplies from Holland that if the surrendry of those Forts could be delay'd upon that pretence they should have sufficient supplies brought into Denmark for their relief as soon as the sea was navigable Adding further if they were distress'd for money he would procure them a large supply whereof also as the report went he gave them some earnest in lending them money at the present Thereupon the King of Sweden recall'd his Army with all haste which was gone part to Wordinburgh Whereupon the Swede recalls his army Then the Dane condescends to surrender Schonen Letter N. part to Corsoer having sent his Secretary Ehrenstein to Roskild with strict Injunction to the Commissioners for preventing all occasion the Danes might use to make deniall that there should be a particular Recess appointed concerning the rendition of Schonen Letter N. To which when the Danish Commissioners had easily consented for they had proceeded so far in words before the Swedish Army made ready once more to march away But then the Frost slackned And when the Swedish Army was to march the second time the weather slackens Letter O. and the Ice was not able to bear so great a weight and the rather for that five or six dayes had elaps'd in sending and recalling the Army And now his Majesty of Sweden desir'd to return into his Countrey when Letters are brought him from the Danish King Letter O. wherein was contained not onely the confirmation of what hath been said of the Rendition at Schonen but also he himself was invited into the Castle of Fredericksburgh to a personall conference Which latter part was also seconded by two of his chief Peers sent to Roskild And the two Kings meet personally in great confidence The King mislik'd it not and therefore came with a small attendance It was remarkable what great confidence each King had of the other and hard to say which of the two was most forward to give credit to the other whether the King of Sweden were more confident who adventur'd himself with so small a guard among the Danes that were more numerous or the King of Denmark who adventur'd his Person out of his Metropolis whilest the
in this business then that which commonly in the like case use to be kept and observ'd amongst others especially if the thing be not specifically determined That every one knows well enough that the Peace made with the enemies is restreined onely to Europe and not extended to other places scituate out of it as the Spaniards once answered the English nay that during the while the Treaties for a twelve years Truce betwixt the Spaniard and States General lasted the Equinoctial Line was proposed as the limit and boundary within which the Peace and Truce was of full force and vertue but on the other side of it the War was still to be continued The very same case if approved by either party would be this that some places in regard of their scituation though subject to the jurisdiction of one and the same Lord should by a particular agreement be annoyed and infested with War whilest others under the same Lord should enjoy a quiet Peace which Peace nevertheless had there not been a previous agreement and had Peace been simply concluded ought to have been extended to all places without any difference In like manner if there were no difference made in the Treaties between the moveable goods and immoveable goods that were seized all then would come under the same law as much as concerns restitution although in our case there was a peculiar and an express covenant as we shall hereafter more at large prove If therefore a distinction might be made betwixt places as was above said and also betwixt goods moveable and immoveable taken in the time of the War why not betwixt persons too that had seized any thing during the War as the Eleventh Article of the Agreeements at Roskild would clearly lay it before us And truly that any unbiassed and unprejudiced man that considers the said Article unlesse he will purposely dote should fully and sufficiently understand that in it is established first that all immoveables to wit Provinces and Fortresses taken from the Kingdom of Sweden in the heat of the War wheresoever scituated should be restored to his Sacred Royal Majesty of Sweden Secondly that restitution should be made of all moveables taken from the Swedish Subjects before the beginning of the War as also of three ships laden with salt and detein'd in the Sound or the true value of them Thirdly that all moveables which during the War might have been taken before the Transaction at Tostrup by souldiers and others that followed the Camp and by such as endamaged the enemy not onely as belonging to some company but as maintained at the charge of the Principal Officers are plainly not liable to the restitution by an argument à contrario principally grounded on these words What goods and moveables soever besides after that time from the subjects of the one party or of the other c. Fourthly That all moveables whether ships guns merchandize and such like taken by vertue of Commissions by private men who onely at their charge and chiefly for their own proper benefit set out and furnish ships to make prize but brought into Port before the Pacification at Tostrup should likewise be free from restitution But fifthly if any private man making Prize under publique Commission had taken away any thing by Sea or Land and had not before the Pacification compleated at Tostrup brought it in to such a Port where according to the forme used amongst the more civiliz'd Nations it might be declar'd as lawful Prize according to the Lawes of the Admiralty that that was to be restor'd to its lawful owner Therefore that two things are principally requisite to make such things as were taken away not liable to restitution to wit that they were not onely taking during the War but brought into Port before the 18th day of February 1658. when the Pacification at Tostrup was made Nor that the Danish Commissioners which were present at the Treaties at Roskild could deny that those words Of Prizes taken during the time of the Commission but not as yet brought into Ports were added by the Swedes for the good and profit of the Subjects of his Sacred Royal Majesty of Sweden and made use of onely for the caution and benefit of the African Company of Sweden and therefore ought in no wise to be frustrated and avoided but according to Justice and Equity to stand in full force and vertue Which if really so as it cannot be otherwise and that Carloffe cannot make himself out to be any other then one that under Commission from the Danes hath done dammage to the Swedes in Africk nor hath not brought the greatest part of his Prize to Gluckstad before June to wit some moneths after the time limitted it necessarily follows that the Danes by vertue of the Pacification at Roskild are bound to make real satisfaction to the Swedish Company For it is very certain that Carloffe had set on foot and acted this villany at the charge and hazard of himself and his complices nor could the Danes prove with all their endeavours that he either received any money from the King of Denmark to arm and set out his ship or that any of his Soldiers were bound in this action by Oath to the King of Denmark or lastly that they had the least pay promised them Whence it was that the Danish Commissioners though the Swedish Ambassadors oftentimes desired it would not produce a copy of the Commission and Instructions that were given to Carloffe because they were afraid that the tenor of that would make it appear that Carloffe was onely a private man making Prize under publique Commission and no real Officer of War of the King of Denmark But though the Swedish Ambassadors were not so happy as to see that commission yet they could plainly collect that Carloffe in that he convey'd himself privately and by stealth from Gluckstad and implor'd the aid and protection of other Commonwealths and States did principally look at the benefit and profit of himself and his complices and not of the Kingdom of Denmark and that the cause of his fear was lest the Danes should desert him in this business and force him to perform the Agreements at Roskild in that point Unless you will rather say that Carloffe fled by the command and advice of the Danes because they suppos'd that by this means they might the easilier free themselves from making satisfaction Besides the Swedish Ambassadors put the Danish Commissioners in minde that it was no new and unusual thing for those that made Prize under a publique Commission to seize upon fortified places and do dammage as well by Land as by Sea That that was manifest enough from the actions of the Companies of the East and West Indies in Holland who besides their Traffique wag'd such a kinde of War under a Publique Commission when as the Members of those Companies though some of them be of a Publique capacity are to be considered onely as private men in
of Owen Juul remitted part of his right and by publique Proclamation made at Gothenburgh did most strictly command the abolition of all monethly Contributions for the future the day of payment of which was not yet past As for the other insolencies committed by the Soldiery which the Danes complained of as no one can do any more then prohibit them so it is sufficient if those that command them inflict due punishment upon the Offenders The third violation of the Agreements The third accusation against the Swedes that they went not out of Denmark about the beginning of May answered that they accuse the Swedes of was that the Swedish Army did not according to to their Covenant go out of the Danish Dominions about the beginning of May. But this is a strange kinde of impudence to say nothing worse to demand of his Majesty of Sweden that he should quit the Provinces in the Dominion of the Kingdom of Denmark before they had performed those things which are required to the execution of the Transaction at Roskild For the acquitting of the Provinces is the last thing in point of time that ought to be executed within which there should be nothing left undone that was to be done by either of the parties covenanting but onely that which requires a permanent and continual Act. And unless a plenary and as to all things an absolute execution of the Peace was performed before there was no necessity for the quitting of the Forts and Provinces afterwards Nay if his Sacred Royal Majesty of Sweden would have stood strictly upon his right he was not bound to draw his Army out of Sealand in as much as the delivery of the thousand Horse according to the condition upon which he promised to quit it was not yet performed That one may justly say that by this onely action the Swedes deserv'd very well of the Danes Nor were they backward in shewing their readiness in other things as appears in their quitting of Laland the city Nasko Falstre Monen and Langland which were surrendred in their due time and as soon as possibly they could that any man might easily gather that the Danes immediately after the Peace was made did use all their endeavour to scrape up matter to make a new War on the Swedes Neither are we here led by vain suspicions Evidences that the Danes did not intend to continue in peace with the Swedes are set forth or rumours of the unstable multitude but by evident grounds and discoveries such as to all impartial judges will make undeniable proof that the Danes purposed nothing less then Peace For what could be in their end in charging his Majesty of Sweden with violating the Peace in that he gave way that the moneys formerly leavied should be got in for the necessary support of the souldiery but onely that by a notorious misconstruction of the Covenants they might rake together some matter of a new War Or how could all that zeal and fervency to the ratifying of a perpetual confederacy with the Swedes so suddenly have vanished had it not been counterfeit and made to this very purpose that by pretence of a League they might discharge themselves of the third Article of the Treaty at Roskild and that they might continue their League made with the States of Holland to the prejudice of the Swedes Why should they have so abhor'd to joyn their Fleet of War with that of the Sweds but that they might thereby get a fair way wholly to defeat the Agreements at Roskild when they should be therefore accus'd of violating the Peace Which Counsel was contriv'd by Beuningen as he himself plainly took on him What made them appear so wayward and averse in the business of Holstein complaining that heavier and heavier burthens were imposed on them then had been promised but that they might after a while take occasion to evacuate all the Agreements Why should they refuse to proceed to the promised division of the Ecclesiastical Goods of the Chapter of Sleswick before the departure of the Swedish Army although the Duke of Holstein himself urg'd it had they had any purpose to stand to their conditions Why should the King of Denmarks Counsellours in Holstein who saw evidently enough though they pretend to have been dubious that a Peace was on foot betwixt the Swedes and Danes suggest to their King such pestilent Counsel together with such odious reproaches against the Swedes but that they were assur'd they would be very grateful and acceptable Let. GGG Letter GGG Why should they being as they themselves confess'd in so necessitous a condition go on to make new levies of souldiers Or why did Rosewing by Gersdorffe's warrant take care to secure Coppenhagen with a Garrison of Dutch Souldiers but that they were devising of a new War Letter HHH Why did they refuse to bring in the Horse they had promised Let. HHH pretending falsely they were not able that they might be provided with sufficient force to deal with the Swedes Why did Owen Juul affirm himself to the King of Swedes at Gothenburgh that the business of Holstein was agreed and Gyldenlow the Lieutenant General at Flensburgh that the African or Guine Controversie was compounded but that they might make him secure and incite him to depart ere his business was dispatched Why did the Danish Commissioners appointed for the Executive Treaties at Coppenhagen never produce their Plenipotentiary Commissions Why would they not bring a Register if they intended really and were willing their purpose should be understood Why did they themselves retard the Treaties if they were desirous to bring them to issue Why was not that committed to writing which was suppos'd to be agreed on on all hands but that they never intended it should be binding to them Why should they refuse on the morrow what they had this day allowed but that they would suspend the execution of the Peace as the circumstances and change of time did either promise prosperity or threaten adversity to the Swedes What could be the reason they did not freely perform any one thing tending to the execution of the Peace but that in time following they migt have this to say that all things were unjustly forc'd and extorted from them by compulsion and threats It was not a talk of the vulgar but a Maxime of the Peers of Denmark that the Peace in hand betwixt the two Kingdoms could not be durable that they were not bound by a contract occasioned by force and fear that those Provinces were not alien'd but lent and must shortly be rendred back with interest that other States and Re-publicks would not adventure to let the Swedes establish Monarchy in the North that they would not want most powerful foes whose united strength they would be unable to resist that sometimes there was scarce a moment pass'd twixt great height and a down-fall that the doubtful chance of War would afford opportunity of revenge when least look'd for