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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10985	A treatise of the interest of the princes and states of Christendome. Written in French by the most noble and illustrious Prince, the Duke of Rohan. Translated into English by H.H.; De l'interest des princes. English	Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638.; Hunt, Henry, 17th/18th cent.	1640 (1640)	STC 21253; ESTC S119221	39,359	136

Imprimatur Prid. Id. Jul. M.DC.XL Tho. Broun A TREATISE OF THE INTEREST OF THE PRINCES AND STATES OF CHRISTENDOME Written in French by the most noble and illustrious Prince the Duke of Rohan Translated into English By H. H. Printed at Paris M. DC.XXXX TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE JOHN LORD FINCHE BARON OF FORDWICH Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and one of his Majesties most honorable Privie Councell c. MY LORD THis little Booke being written by so excellent a person as the Duke of Rohan and treating of so weighty a Subject as the Interest of the Princes and States of Christendome being received also with good esteeme by some judicious men I thought it not amisse to communicate the same imploying the advantage of so many spare minutes during my abode in France as to make it speake English Then being invited to expose it to the light to the publike view the publike voyce taught it to implore your Lordships protection whether be considered the quality of the Author the gravity of the Matter or Knowledge in the Originall wherein it was penned For as the Author was noble and eminent in his place in like manner is your Honour shining in your orb as a starre of the first Magnitude lending a most benigne and gracious influence to the just causes of the oppressed distressed fatherlesse and widow The Matter is of politick maximes and divers remarkable occurrences in sundry Republikes and to whom now can this be more aptly addressed then to a principall Minister of State in whom Prudence Science and Integrity in a sweet harmony doe all concurre to make a perfect conduct of affaires for the glory of God the honour of the King and the good of this Church and Common-wealth Lastly the Originall from whence it was derived being French your admired knowledge and unparallell'd expressions in the same language may speake you as well a patterne in the originall as a Patron in this translation For my owne part if it may be permitted to say any thing of my selfe I speak confidently My Lord with your permission that albeit I had not so much vanity as to perswade my selfe that any thing could proceed from me worthy your reception or advantagious to your Honour since that my act herein shewed more of duty then merit and its insufficiencie demanded rather pardon then remuneration yet had I some kinde of assurance that a favourable acceptation would entertaine what I most humbly present seeing the most heroick minde disdaines not the meanest services but like the Sunne that nobler Planet spreads his indifferent rayes upon all as well on abject as glorious objects These and such like considerations made me adventure but with all reverence and humility to prefix here your most Honorable Name that thereby this Book might live and withall incessantly beseeching him whose name is I AM to preserve and continue Yours in perpetuall being in all honour and prosperity and to write your name in a larger volume the Book of life For which end the Lord be still your Keeper and Seale you with that great Seale the holy Spirit of promise to the day of redemption So prayeth My Lord Your Lordships most humbly devoted HENR HUNT THE CONTENTS OF THE INTEREST OF THE Princes and States of Christendome THe preface pag. 1. Of the interest of Spaine pag. 4. Of the interest of France p. 13. Of the interest of the Princes of Italie pag. 18. Of the interest of the sea of Rome p. 22. Of the interest of the Duke of Sauoy pag. 24. Of the interest of Germanie p. 26. Of the interest of the Suisses and of the vnited Prouinces of the Low-Countries p. 31. Of the interest of England p. 34. THE SECOND PART OF The interest of the Princes and States of Christendome the Preface p. 38. THe first discourse vpon the affaire of the League p. 40. The Second discourse vpon the warre of Sauoy p. 58. The Third discourse vpon the difference that happened betvveen Pope Paul V. and the Republike of Venice the yeare 1605. p. 64. The Fourth discourse concerning the Truce of the Low-Countries with the King of Spaine pag. 81. The Fifth discourse vpon the affaire about the succession of Cleues and Iulliers p. 93. The sixt discourse vpon the Election of the Count Palatine to the Kingdome of Bohemia pag. 103. The Seuenth descourse vpon the commotions that happened in Italie for the succession of the Dutchies of Mantua and Montferrat p. 117. FINIS OF THE INTEREST OF THE PRINCES AND STATES OF CHRISTENDOME THE PRINCES commaund the People and the Interest commaunds The Princes The knowledge of this Interest is as much more raised aboue that of Princes actions as they themselues are aboue the People The Prince may deceiue himselfe his Counsell may be corrupted but the interest alone can neuer faile According as it is well or ill vnderstood it maketh States to liue or die And as it allwaies aimeth at the augmentation or at leastwise the conseruation of a State so likewise to get thither it ought to varie according to the times So that to consider well the interest of the Princes of this time wee need not remount very high but onely take the standing of the present affaires For this purpose one ought to lay for a ground that there be two Powers in Christendome which are as the two Poles from whence descend the influences of peace and warre vpon the other states to wit the howses of France and Spaine This of Spaine finding it selfe augmented all at once hath not beene able to conceale the designe shee had to make her selfe Mistresse and cause the Sunne of a new Monarchie to rise in the West That of France is forthwith carried to make a counterpoise The other Princes are annexed to the one or the other according to their interest But forsomuch as this interest as it hath beene well or ill followed hath caused the ruine of some or the greatnesse of others I haue purposed to publish in this present Treatise First what was the true interest of these two mightie Powers and then of the other which seeme in some manner to depend on their protection Next of all I shall shew how much has beene the digression from this true interest either because the Prince hath not well vnderstood it or else for that he was disguised by the corruption of his Ministers OF THE INTEREST OF SPAINE SPAINE is at the head of Europe where the Ocean serues her for bounds vpon the entrance of the Mediterranean sea which separates the same from Affricke hauing the Pyrenean mountaines for barriers against Frāce On this great Country so well situated do depend many States spread in diuerse parts of the world Philip King of Spaine who attempted to extend this vast power to the top of all greatnesse finding himselfe lesse sitt for warre then ciuill businesses judged that Monarchies got as it were in post by the valour of warlike Princes are not of