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A92099	Prince Ruperts declaration to the King of Portugall. With the answer thereunto, in defence of the Parliaments proceedings with a relation of what passed between the two fleets on the river of Lisburne. / Sent up in a letter from Captain Thorowgood Captain of the Admirall.	Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682.; Thorowgood, Captain.; John IV, King of Portugal, 1604-1656.	1650 (1650)	Wing R2295; Thomason E598_7; ESTC R203410	10,311	16

PRINCE RUPERTS DECLARATION TO THE KING OF PORTVGALL WITH The ANSWER thereunto in Defence of the Parliaments Proceedings With a Relation of what passed between the two Fleets on the River of LISBURNE Sent up in a Letter from Captain Thorowgood Captain of the ADMIRALL LONDON Printed for George Whittington at the Blew-Ancor near the Royall Exchange in Cornhill 1650. The DECLARATION of Prince Rupert to the KINGDOM of PORTUGALL Concerning the coming in of the English Fleet of the Parliament of England into the River and Port of LIX ALthough the most insolent and horrid proceedings of the Rebels party in England commonly known by the name or notion of Parliamentarians whereas in truth they are nothing else but tumultuous factious seditious Souldiers and other disorderly disobedient refractory persons conspiring together and reteining nothing of the ancient form and Government of lawful Parliaments might be a sufficient notice to awaken all Christian Princes seriously to attend the aimes designs of those pernicious Conspirators least the fire now kindled in England may perchance in a short time come to their own doors especially if these circumstances following be duly reflected on That these persons have not onely from time to time for many yeares past taken up Arms and in a hostile manner made Warre upon their Soveraigne Lord and King but having by certaine Wiles and false devices got him into their possession by an unheard of and unparallel'd example under colour of Justice cut off his Head as if he had been a person subject to the Orders and Decrees of an enraged multitude That after the death of their Soveraigne Lord and King they have by publick vote and so farre as in them lies dethroned his undoubted Sonne Heir and Successour of all accesse to his hereditary right in the Crowne and by an Act of Engagement do daily enforce the People to abjure Kingly Government That they are sworne and professed enemies to all civill and setled Government both in Church and Common-wealth and do labour to bring all to a party in both for that these persons having laid the foundation of their greatnesse of their power upon these and such like detestable principles in their own Countrey what may we think may they attempt in neighbouring Nations when time and occasion shall serve yet that which is of a more near relation and concernment to the Kingdom of Portugall may be sufficiently gathered from other Circumstances here ensuing 1. That this Fleet of the Rebels was procured by the solicitation of the Spanish Ambassador now residing in London and is to remaine here or upon these Coasts untill another Fleet come to joyne with it and whatsoever may be pretended their design is not meerly against our person and his Majesty the King of great Brittain his Fleet under our Command but to joyne with the Castillian and to go with him into the straits against the French and then to come against this Countrey as by the confession of the Spanish Ambassadour his Secretary and some of the Councel of State of England to some persons of quality in England it hath been discovered so although it should so fortune they should have their ends upon us and his Majesty the King of great Brittains Fleet under our Command now remaining in this Harbour of Lisborne yet there is not any likelihood of an end of their designes against this Kingdom and People for who will not presume and inferre that this solicitation and Agency of the Spanish Ambassadour is not to oppose and overthrowe his Majesties Enemies and who will not believe but there is some great designe between these people and the Castilians in hand against the peace and tranquillity of this Kingdom whereas it is certain that there came an Agent from the Rebels for Castile in the Admirall of their fleet who if not gone away with the Merchant-men bound for St. Lucas that came in company with the Fleet is still aboard the same Ship If it be replyed that likewise by this Fleet they have sent an Agent to his Majesty the King of Portugall which may be an argument of their desire to keep an equall Amity with both these Princes It is answered that this Agent which now comes to Portugall was not thought of 3 weekes before the Fleet put to Sea and was procured by the Merchants of London as was made known by a Petition they addressed to the pretended Parliament in that behalfe in contriving of which Petition there was principle actors two Brothers that lived here called Bushells and that still have a Brother living here who is a person notoriously interressed in the behalfe of the Rebells this Agent is likewise to be maintained by the same Merchants and the publick body of the pretended Parliament or those who have now the supream sway of England whatsoever further orders may be pretended have no further Interest in the Agent then thereby to make his Agency a Cloake to cover and conceale their designes 2. It doth appeare by div●rs Letters written froe London to Merchants in this Town that it was publickly voted in the pretended Parliament and by the Councell of State now ruling in England that if his Majesty the King of Portugall should receive his Majesty the King of great Brittain his Fleet commanded by us or give liberty for the sale of any goods surprized by us at Sea in the Ports of his dominions they would make Warre against him so that if this resolution stand to what end can their sending of an Agent hither be unlesse it be that he may serve as a spy to hold correspondency with his Brother Agent that is gone for Spaine and to give him intelligence of such advantages as may be taken for the supplanting of this Realme 3. The manner of the coming of this Fleet doth much augment the suspition of a designe in the businesse for whereas our being here with a Fleet of his Majesties the King of great Brittain who is an Ally and confederate of this Crown doth by the Lawes of the whole world in all reason and equity challenge a safety and protection as long as we continue in the Port. For these People to come into the Port with so many Ships of so great strength under the pretence of assailling us and to advance in that manner as they did wanting leave or silence obtained from his Majesty the King of Portugall for the same was so highly an audacious Act as if they held the Law of Nations and the right of all forraigne Princes in as great contempt as they have held the Lawes of their own Countrey and the rights of their native King And it is to be feared that if the Forts and Castles belonging to his Majesty the King of Portugall had permitted them to enter and to have spoiled the Fleet under our Command there rage would not have ended there but would have attempted something of the City and his Majesty the King of Portugall his Ships

now lying in the Harbour that so an entrance might be made for the Spaniard who now lies upon the Frontiers with an Army or the Kings preparation of shipping to defend his Rights in Brazeele against Hollanders might be disappointed and beaten down and perhaps it hath not been without some mystery or designe that at their first entrance the Lieutenant of their Admirall was sent ashore and had private meetings and consultations in Bushells house and that Mr. Taytam and Mr. Ell and other Masters of English Ships entertained in the service of the King of Portugall should go to and from the Rebells Ships in the night and other times without the leave or privity of the King or any Minister of state under him 4. Notwithstanding the audacious and insolent attempts of these People before resited were repulsed by the Forts and Castles of his Majestie then King of Portugall yet what have they since done they have onely retired a little out of the reach of the Castles and do now block up the very port it selfe whereby we do not onely loose the priviledge and libertie of the Port for as long as free ingresse and egresse is denied we cannot be said to injoy the liberty of the Port but a high affront is done to the whole Nation in that the principle port of their Kingdom in the very sight of the King and his Court is thus abused by a Company of declared Rebels who have not any ri●ht or priviledge in Law to make Warre and thereby not onely that Petition which is due to the Forces of his Majesty the King of great Brittain their Ally and Confederate is violated but the Trade and commerce of their own Countrey in consequence of reason must needes be dissolved and undone A thing which the Law of Nations doth not permit to any Soveraigne Prince or State in Warre with a just enemy in the Port of a common Friend as by the stories and practice of all Nations both ancient and moderne it may be made appeare and therefore we have much reason to hope that the Honour of the Portuguez Nation wil not indure such insolency to be committed by these People who being Rebells to their Prince having in Law no right or priviledge in War are to be deemed and esteemed as Pirates and Sea Rovers and whatsoever else worse may be but will heartily and seriously joyne with his Majesty the King of Great Brittaines Fleet under our Command for the cleering of liberty of their Port they assuring to us that just Protection which we claime for the vindication of their own Commerce and Trade the prevention of the disigns of their and our implacable enemies to give demonstration to the whole world how little the insolency of these People is to be endured that so the peace amity and correspodency between the Crowns of England and Portugall may in all things be continued firm and inviolable according to the intent and meaning of the Articles and capitulations of peace had and made between them THE ANSWER TO Prince Ruperts DECLARATION ALthough the Paper Intituled The Declaration of His Hignesse Prince Rupert be so full of notorious lies false grounds unprobable surmises that it is not likely to produce any other effect upon serious and intelligent spirits that know any thing of the state of our affairs then to move them to a further discovery and contempt of his most Illustrious arrogancy Yet because there may be many ingenuous men as well of our own as the other Nation who meerly through ignorance in matter of fact may have their judgements much dazled by the Authority of such splendid and Majesticall impostures and chiefly because the present drift of the Paper is to raise jealousies between the most renowned King of Portugall and the Fleet of the Parliament of England I shall not think it time much misspent to give some short animadversion upon it not taking much notice of his filthy and scurrelous Rhetorick wherewith he endeavours to disfigure the beautie and actions of that great Councell upon which the name of God is so gloriously written That the Parliament of England for many years past hath been in Armes against the late King of England contending for their own most just Rights and the native Liberties of the People intrusted with them and which they are bound by all Obligations both humane and devine to maintaine and preserve against all the efforts of Tyranny whatsoever is famously known to the whole world what issue it hath pleased God to put to that great difference by delivering up the power and Person of that King into their hands and what hath fithence been done upon him and declared against his Sonne Heir apparent to those evill Counsels which devided between the Head and Shouldiers of his Father we are in no wise afraid or ashamed to heare of the most railing accusations that our adversaries can bring against us wil unto us be matter of filling our mouths with the praises of our God who hath done terrible things in righteousnesse for the good of his people and hath wrought out for them so great salvation by such unheard of and unparalel'd wayes Neither do we take it for any disparagement to us our Parliament and Nation that we are so vile in the esteeme of this vagabond German a Prince of Fortune whose Highness is nothing else but haughtiness his Principality meer Piracy and the plurality of his Person an affectation so singular that no reall Prince can chuse but smile at who after he was cudgel'd out of England from his Trade of plundering did in a short time after set up at Sea and was even now ready to put forth out of this Harbour and to take his pastime with the Leviathan in the great waters had not this audacious Fleet of Rebels come in the very nick of time to put an Imbargo upon his Highnesse And truely it is no marvell that he hath ever since been so exceedingly transported with choller and foames so beastly at the mouth calling us Rebells theeves and professed enemies to all Government hereby endeavouring to render us as much as in him lies odious to all Nations and Princes especially to the most renowned King of Portugall as by his whole discourse may appear the present scope thereof being to possesse his Majesty with apprehensions of some strange designe intended by this Fleet against the Peace of his Kingdom To that end his way is in the first place to make His Majesty beleeve that this Fleet was procured by the sollicitation of the Spanish Embassadour in London to remain about this Coast till another Fleet should come to joyn with it and having had their ends upon the sacred person of His Highnesse and his fleet to go with the Castilians into the Streits against the French and then to come against this Country This likely tale forsooth is made good by the confession of the Spanish Embassadors Secretary and by the discovery