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A11800	Symmachia: or, A true-loues knot Tyed, betvvixt Great Britaine and the Vnited Prouinces, by the wisedome of King Iames, and the States Generall; the kings of France, Denmarke, and Sweden, the Duke of Sauoy, with the states of Venice being witnesses and assistants. For the weale and peace of Christendome.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 22089; ESTC S116960	20,946	37

SYMMACHIA OR A TRVE-LOVES KNOT TYED BETVVIXT GREAT Britaine and the Vnited Prouinces by the wisedome of King IAMES and the States Generall the Kings of France Denmarke and Sweden the Duke of Sauoy with the States of Venice being Witnesses and Assistants FOR THE WEALE AND PEACE OF CHRISTENDOME TO THE READER I Am to let all men know that besides those grieuances which I haue fauourably and sparingly mentioned minced in these following Papers I heare of another one arising which is of greatest moment and likeliest to produce most alteration if it be not preuented And that is the hard and extreme measure which the Merchant Aduenturers here setled meet with in their Staple commodity Concerning which if there be not order presently taken to giue them contentment in some good and indifferent manner but that they be forced to seeke courses for reliefe of themselues by their Petitions and Complaints to his Maiestie whereabout I heare they are meditating a worse businesse then that of East Indya will breake forth to trouble both States and alien hearts from each other For it concernes the King Peeres and Commons when the Wooll is puld from their backes by any abuse since euerie condition of men in the Land and almost euerie person haue interest in that Commoditie This breach therefore I wish with all my heart were stopt by timely prouision and the rude boorish and proud disposition of such in these parts restrained as by their too strickt surly and imperious courses for their priuate profit prouoke the complaint of our people and driue them to seeke ease and remedie by the shift of place and trade where they may hope to be better vsed and to finde loue respect and iustice with indifferencie SYMMACHIA Or A true-loues knot AS there is nothing of more moment in humane considerations for the advancement of religion then the supportance fauoure and protection of potent Princes and States who are or ought to be nurseing Fathers and nurseing Mothers to this end soe there is nothing of more moment to inable the Kingdome of greate Brittanie and the Vnited Provinces to be such since the cheefe butthen and honor of this worke lies vpon their shoulders then to vnite themselues in perfect amitie togither The enemye both to our Religion and State seemes to obserue this better then our selues since they haue vsed all endeauors to make breaches betwixt vs and to keepe vs off from each other at an vnprofitable distance where the force of our cold amitie could haue no powrefull effect to assist each other or oppose them They haue preuailed very farre to thir end especially vpon that part where they had least hope and where they imployde the least force of their witt I meane vpon the Netherlandish side where jelousie to see vs treate with the enemye hath caused many people in the Vnited Provinces to behaue themselues towards vs as Coy Dames vse to doe who thinke to winne their louers to more longing by rude tricks of vnkindenes I intend not to repeate the particulars least I should be thought rather to reuiue old quarrells by renueing there memorie then to stop farther breaches by burying all fomer iniuries in obliuion Yet I must say that if they should thinke wee put vp those affronts offered to our Nation in Groenlant and the east Indyes eyther out of feare of their strength or our owne weakenes they should iniurie vs no lesse in the conceit then they haue done in the act Religion only hath bownd our hands and wee are satisfied that the State doth disclame it and cast it vpon priuate persons otherwise wee were as well able to scourge them as to defend them from scourging It were an ingratefull part in them whilst wee indanger our selues by houlding vp theire chinnes to keepe them from sincking that they s'hould with their heeles kick vs vnder water But because wee beleeve and know that these wronges proceede not from the State but from such persons for the most part on both sides as loue Mammon better then Christ and count gaine the only godlyness therefore wee are not apt to heare or beleeue all that is suggested nor to see all that is true but to hope and promise our selues better vse for the future since they knowe and must confess that neyther themselues not the proudest or potentest Nation vpon earth can vpon equall terms without politick surprisall assure themselues to beate vs and be our Masters nor dare without manifest advantage prouoke vs to the triall But since humor hath beene soe stird vpon both sides that Prudence and moderation hath had enough to doe to keepe vs from breaking out into blowes it was a timely worke of wisedome in their State to seeke to stop the gap and a gratious worke of our prudent prince to giue them audience notwithstanding the contrarie noise which buz'd about his eares and to renue that ancient league betwixt vs which was like to breake into enmitie The foole hardy can charge hotly and ingage a State in warre it must be the wise and aduised who only know how to make an honorable retreite It is fit vpon both sides that now this league is renued wee should be more carefull hereafter to preserue it then heeretofore wee haue beene And to indeere the merrit of our State in this respect it is fit to touch vpon some particulars whereby our Kindenes to them may be discerned therby to beget reciprocall kindenes in them toward vs. 1. Obserue first wee were the parties wronged and they the wrongers yet they stood stifly out and sought no reconcilement till wee vnderhand seeing their necessitie both inticed them to seeke and assured them to finde what they sought Heerein being their superiors in force wee shewed our selues not to be their inferiors in wisedome which the wisest amongst them will acknowledge though the weake will not see it but attri bute all to our duty as if they ouer-reached vs in wit when it is only wee that ouer-reach them in Kindenes 2. Observe the motion of the whole body of the State in Parliament the concurrance of Nobles Clergie and Commons in this case of theirs their humble earnest and vnanimous sutite to his Majestie for this end their speedy and carefull that I may not say curious penning of the Lawe for their assistance equally as for our owne Kingdomes in these wordes Most gratious souvereigne wee your Majesties most humble faithfull and loueing subjectes by your Royal authoritie now assembled in your high Court of Parliament haueing entred into serious and due consideration of the weightie and most important causes which at this tyme more then at any other tyme heeretofore doe presse your Majestie to a much greater expence and charge then your owne treasure alone can at this present support and manietaine and likewise of the iniuries and indignities which haue beene lately offered to your Maiestie and your children vnder coloure and du●eing the tyme of the Treatyes for the Marriage

with Spaine and the restitution of the Palatinate which in this Parliament haue beene cleerely discouverd and layed open vnto vs and withalll what humble aduice with one consent and voyce wee haue giuen vnto your Maiestie to dissolue those Treatyes which your Maiestie hath beene gratiously pleased to our exceeding joy and comfort fully to yeeld vnto and accordingly haue made your publique declaration for the reall and vtter dissolution of them by meanes where of your Maiestie may be happilie ingaged in a sudden warre wee in all humblenesse most ready and willing to giue vnto your Maiestie and the whole world an ample testimonie of our dutifull affectons and sincere intentions to assist yow therein For the maintenance of that warre that may heere vpon ensue and more particularly for the defence of this your Realme of England the secureing of your Kingdome of Ireland the assistance of your Neighbours the States of the vnited Provinces and other your Majesties friends and allies And for the setting foorth of your Royal Nauie wee haue resolued to giue for the present the greatest ayde which euer was granted in Parliament to be leiued in so short-à tyme And therefore wee doe humbly beseech your Maiestie c. Thus yow see in the body of our Lawe the State of the vnited Provinces is specially nominated and ranged in vnion with his Maiesties Kingdomes of England and Ireland and the gift limited for the defence especially of those three Which though selfconceited eyes ouersee yet is argues much respect and loue neyther doe I beleeue they haue giuen or receiued the like acknowledgement before to or from any other State nor can wee redely finde in Historie the like interchange of loue betwixt forteigne people recorded 2. Obserue the most excellent Prince of Wales his forwardnes and extraordinarie diligence to accomplish this worke I dare not say whatsoeuer I thinke that the whole frame was first of his composure but I am sure he was a principall Agent in the happy conclusion 3. Obserue his Maiestie how readely and gladly he grāted when it cam to the vpshot soe that he seemed to hold off before for politique respectes First to beget a feeleing in our friends of their owne estate who did not in his Maiesties judgement seeme sensible enough for a long tyme eyther of their owne danger or of this his royall fauoure and benefite Secondly to make his owne subiectes the more eager and earnest by the delay and so giue them tyme to debate the businesse to vnderstand the charitie and vtilitie of the worke and to open their purses the wider Thirdly to secure the Enemye by this meanes till all were ready that so wee might reflect vpon them by a thinne and slight shadow the open and grosse iniuryes they had done vs before vnder the couerture of treatyes and trust Now for the better vnderstanding of his Maiesties minde in all pointes proportionable to this description I haue inserted his privy Counsels letter to the Lords Lifetenants of Sheeres in England for the assistinge of the Earls and Commanders in rayseing men within their seuerall Countyes and that by his Majesties speciall direction for the ayde of the Vnited Provinces AFter our harty commendations to your good Lordshippes whereas the States Generall of the united Provinces haue by theyr Ambassadors humbly solicited his Maiestie as wel to renewe the anciant defensiue league betweene his Kingdomes and their Provinces as also to permit them for the better confirmation thereof to rayse some good number of voluntary souldiers within his Dominions to be imployed in theyr service in these hazardous times when the Emperour and the Romish Catholique league are preparing and drawinge downe towards theyr Countreyes divers great and threatniug Troopes to joyne with those Armies that allreadie lye vpon theyr frontiers ready to take the first opportunitie of advantage against them And that his Majestie in a constant pursuite of the good amitie and correspondentie with those Provinces hath treated and concluded a league vvith theyr Ambassadors and giuen way and permission for the raysinge of six thousand voluntary souldiers for theyr service and assistance for theyr better strength and defence against those forces of the Emperour and Romishe Catholique league Which his Maiestie hath the rather assented to in regard of his owne interest both for the security of his owne Dominions and the great part his sonne in Law his onely daughter and his grand children haue in the preservation of the Vnited Provinces where they now remaine as refugers And because the time of the yeare is so farre spent as it will be requisite to vse all possible expedition in the raysing and transportation of these men We haue thought it requisite to giue your Lordshippes this intimation of his Maiesties good pleasure and assent for the levyinge of the sayde voluntaryes to the end you may not onely permit and further our very good Lords the Earles of Oxford Southampton and Essex and the Lord Willoughby appointed Collonels and for that purpose deputed by the States Ambassadors and such other Captaines and officiers vnder them as they shall substitute to leavy and take vp such voluntary souldiers as sball be vvilling to goe ouer in theyr company but that withall you affoord them your best direction assistance and furtherance therein and giue notice of this his Maiesties pleasure to the deputie Lieutenantes Iustices of peace and other his Maiesties Ministers within the precinct of your Lieutenancy To which we doubt not but you will all readily and effectually apply your selues both in respect of the generall cause and for the ease and benefit the Countrey will finde in being disburthened of many vnnecessary persons that now want imployment and liue lewdly or vnprofitably in the Countrey And if any of those voluntaries shall after they haue accepted impresse money and so ingaged themselues into the service withdrawe themselues or runne away from theyr Captaines or Conductor his Maiesties pleasure is that vpon any such complainte you yeeld your best assistance for the apprehendinge and recoueringe of those fugitives and them to comit to prison vntill they submit themselues or otherwise punish them as is vsuall in such cases And so we bid your Lordshippes hartly farewell 20 of Iune 1624. 4. Obserue the Peoples willingnes generally to offer themselues to this seruice and the expression of extraordinarye ioy assoone as they heard the Drummes beate and that the intent of their intertaniement was published to serue the States of the Vnited Provinces against the King of Spaine and the Arch-Duchesse soe that these wordes were forced to be altered by command for present respects of State 5. Obserue the Nobles and those none of the meanest striueing for imployment in this warre not for the gaines of these poore and in comparison of them petty places but to honor their Nation to shew the world amongst what people they were nobles to defend religion and that State which ioynes with our owne to defend it

For I know the Common people beleeue and giue it out for a manifest truth as men that will beleeue no better how that royall Payer with their Princely children lye heere at the charge of this State and that exactions are layde vpon the people to mainetayne them in that humble condition wherein they liue which notwithstanding it be farre too meane for the dignitie of such persons yet in the vulgar eye it seemes therefore to be to haughtie because they think it comes out of their purse and to proceed from their beggarly beneuolence This falsehood is bred and nourished by the Spanish faction who would do worse then slander them if they could and doe this to make the Countrie hate them and thereby to prouoke the people for their sake to mutinee and rise against the present gouernement of the illustrious Lords as if they were the occasion of this causeles and needles cha●ge by harboring these distressed Princes in their Dominions The knowledge of this was one of the principal motiues which caused me first to put penn to paper in this subiect because I saw the honor of my King Countrie and of these Princes traduced and tost vp and downe by lewde lyeing and ignorant tongues For in stead of charging this State with their aboade heere as these fellowes faine and giue out they are euery way helpefull to it spending therein many thowsand pownds starling by the yeere and causeing much to be spent all which comes out of England into these parts And I present it to the consideration of my superiors whether it were fit for all their honors and safetyes to crye this off or to make the truth of it some way publiquely knowne that the malitious mouthes of men may in this respect be closed and that the people may know they beare no burthen but their owne yea that wee also doe helpe them out of loue to carry part of that which belongs to them wholly to beare out of duty to God and their Country Thirdly I humbly present this motion to the consideration of my superiors whether they thinke it fit or no for the consolidation of this league and for the preseruation of perpetual amitie betwixt both Nations to equall vs if not with their owne at least with the cheefe of other Nations who serue them as wee doe since wee haue beene are and are like to bee as good studds and props to this State as they or any of them haue beene are or can bee Let not the aduantage of language make a stricter band then that of hearts and hands If their tongues goe before ours our hearts and hands goe in front with them and haue euer done so to do this State seruice Neither speake I this to disparage them or any of them It is no disparagement for the best of them to march with vs Neither speake I this to detract from their deseruings but by comparison of theirs to set off our owne which hath beene nothing inferior to theirs and so to beget equall respect for equall merrit in all ranckes and degrees Fourthly I present to the wise consideration of my superiors whether they thinke it fit or no that in both the Indyes and all other places of trade or fishing their people be straightly commanded carefully to mainetaine peace that they sell not our loue for a little lucre nor inuade our simple trust and innocent securitie with fraude or violence vpon base aduantages of tyme and odds of number or the like circumstances of trecherie and iniurie which as they may be shadowed with the cloake of Iustice so they may serue our Enemyes who seeke to deuide vs as shaddowes to accuse the vnited Provinces of iniustice and thereby to incense our State to sodaine rage and sharpe reuenge against them as against perfidious Enemies And I could therefore wish that if any should dare to disobay the Edicts of the State published for pacification they may be persued as publique Enemyes who by their practise testifie the treason of their hearts whilst they endeauoure to giue distaste to our State thereby to breake the loue and league betwixt Great Brittanie and the vnited Provinces that so their Troian Horse or Spanish Iennet may come in at the breach Fiftly I would heere speake of honors and rewards to be propounded for the souldiar of all sorts and degrees but that I am afraide to be laught at for my labor or if not so yet to be answered with that Common Error which goes currant for an axiome of State That Commonweales are incapable of this power to conferre honors I see amongst the Romans seuerall rewards and honors of all sorts distributed freely and constantly to the best deseruers Thereby to incourage all of euery ranck high and low the witty and valiant in their seuerall kindes to do their best and to aduenture for the publique good Titles honors lands immunities wreathes chaines ornaments places in the theater with diuers other previledges and lastly statues and triumphes were appointed for the well deseruing souldiar And it is to be obserued that whereas the Legionarie bands which were natiues had siluer chaines the Auxiliarie which were strangers had gould chaines to encourage them and to binde them to the State by benefits as the others were bownd by naturall loue and duty But it may be obiected that these honors conferd by the Romane Commonwealth were acknowledged by reason of the Monarchie and did extend as vniuersally as the Romane command and power it selfe which tutched almost the worlds circumference but it is not so with petty Commonweales whose acts seeme therefore to be priuate and to be contained in narrow listes And this is true nor would I therefore desire for the wel deserueing souldiar any honor or preuiledge but a publique acknowledgment and respect within the Vnited Prouinces or wheresoeuer they haue power or command this they haue power to confer as wee see the State of Ireland gaue the title of King to H. 8. by act of parliament who before was written Lord of Ireland only and what the States could giue would sufficiently content the souldiar desirons of honor and binde them the rather to the place and seruice whilst they should there haue that due reuerence and acknowledgement which in other places they should not finde but vpon remouall loose And for ought I see the Honors conferd by absolute Princes are of force no farther then their owne forces carry them and giue them life and anthority as wee see in the Emperiall Courts who will not be acknowledged for such in greate Brittaine and surely Sir Robert Dudly what State or stile so euer he walkes vnder in Florence must in England if euer he returne vaile bonnet and teturne to his English titles I say therefore had a worthy Commander after long and good seruice some publique acknowledgement of his merrit some title or note of honor some preuiledge or extraordinarye respect and allowance thought it went no farther then within