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A80377 A letter from the King of Spain written to the Pope of Rome Licens'd, September 29. 1690. Spain. Sovereign (1665-1700 : Charles II); Catholic Church. Pope (1689-1691 : Alexander VIII) 1690 (1690) Wing C593aA; ESTC R206551 1,490 2

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A LETTER FROM THE King of SPAIN Written to the POPE of ROME Licens'd September 29. 1690. Most Holy Father WE have by the Hands of your Nuncio the Patriarch of the Indies received a Letter whereby your Holiness recommends to us a General Peace and especially that of Italy And although we have at the Expence of Provinces States and Dominions which were sufficient to make them great Kingdoms many times with joy facilitated the publick Quiet yet we cannot at this time refrain our selves to tell your Holiness That seeing the King of France doth in no ways keep either Peace or Truce and having broken his Treaties with all the Princes of Europe they are obliged to joyn themselves for their Natural Security and thereupon have sought the Necessary Means of War to secure themselves He hath made War upon the Emperour without Cause or Reason having at the same time raised a Rebellion in Hungary against your Prince and that he might uphold the said Rebellion hath brought the Turk into Christendom hath kindled a Fire even in Austria by which the innermost Provinces of the Empire have been set on Flames Christendom trembled at the formidable Siege of Vienna which City though manfully defended and preserved by a Miracle yet the Damages Devastations Ruins and Horrors that were the Consequences of it are unspeakable and without number An infinite number of Families carried into Slavery which lost at once their Souls and Liberty can sufficiently attest this The Images have been profaned and the Rivers died with the Blood of the Innocents But to pass over in silence this sorrow lest the Calamities that befel Christendom should raise another sorrow in the tender Heart of your Holiness because they were caused by a Prince that stiles himself Most Christian The unjust War in the Palatinate with such horrible Burnings as was never practised by the most barbarous Nations must be in fresh Memory with your Holiness seeing the miserable sighs of the Subjects overwhelmed by the Troops of France are continually in our ears Your Holiness cannot be ignorant of the violent Spoils committed on the three Electoral Princes of the Empire viz. of Mentz Cologne and Trier and even your Holiness could not deliver from this Tyranny the City and State of Avignon it being an old Patrimony of the Holy Sea What hath he lest undone against all respect both by the Clergy in France and his Ministers at Rome by Threatnings and other Actions to shew his little regard to your Holiness but seeing your Holiness knows this too well it is needless but just to remark it What Prince what State and what Republick is there which hath not these last Years felt the Ambition of France Let Genoa speak which was almost consum'd by his Bombs let the Duke of Savoy tell it whom he would at last have trampled upon as well as all Italy and brought under a vile Yoak of Slavery and seeing what hath been said cannot be denied how can we Most Holy Father treat of an Accommodation before the Power of him be humbled whom neither Religion Justice Faith nor Oath can restrain By all which as well as our Treaties we find our selves bound in no wise to part from our Allies and Confederates and standing fast in this Resolution we must represent this only to your Holiness That the only means to obtain Peace is to continue the War and that Italy may be freed and brought to its former tranquility the League must be compleated and by the Care of your Holiness procured with all the Princes and Christendom at last secured against the Violences of its Common Enemy and the Emperor afforded the help that your Predecessour of pious Memory accorded him We hope for this from the great Justice of your Holiness and that you will hereunto give your assent upon the knowledge of Truth and the strength of our Arguments and pour out upon us your Holy Blessing Our Lord keep c. Printed after the Copy of Jacob Scheltus 1690. ADVERTISEMENT The Folly of Priest Craft a Comedy The Secret History of the Dutchess of Portsmouth in which an Account is given of the Intreagues of the Court during her Ministry and of the Death of King Charles the Second Both Printed for Richard Baldwin Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1690.