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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

it then a verball which is so haynous to the eare and reputation of a souldier But I heare an obiection against this suite which I dare not mention without craueing pardon aforehand and this it is as they say God knowes the truth of it That if Sollicitors were discharged and better payment made then diuers of the Natiues should loose excellent offices the Generall State let goe a faire improuement and diverse great persons could not put their monyes out to vsurie vpon such vnreasonable conditious I cannot beleeue this profitable sinne can barre the doore against iust reformatiō though the insolencie of the Solicitors would perswade me to beleeue it who presumeing as it seemes and as the successe shewes vpon supportance dare affront the greatest Commanders and vse them as seruants not like Masters by whome they liue Sometyme Solicitors haue beene put vpon Captaynes by force and they authorized to take from the Captaynes ordinance the best part of his meanes though the solicitor neuer advanced him a penie of mony aforehand but because he contracted with his Predecessor Soe that if a cunning Companion who hath a little spare monie can insinuate himselfe into the bosome of a needy or negligent Commander and supplyeing his preseut wants fasten a peece of mony vpon him and procure from him an inconsiderate contract for his life only let it be neuer so vnreasonable yet his successor must continue it and make it good nay perhaps increase it out of his meanes and so successiiuely from generation to generation if the wars should continue it would continue like a rent-charge vpon the Captaine or campanie whereby it cometh to passe that though a Captayne who venters life and all for the State hath but a terme of life in his Captaineship Yet the sollicitor for layeing out a hundred or two hundred pownd hath halfe the Captaynes meanes and a perpetuitie in that halfe though he doe nothing for the State but helpe to vndoe it Besides though these persons be taken on that the souldiar may haue sound pay for which the Captayne payes soundly as I haue partly shewed yet their payment is soe bad that there are few Captaynes I might say safely none put haue iust cause to complaine if their iust complaints might be heard and redressed But such is the vnequall condition of the persons and the odd and disrespectiue carriage of the tyme towards them that the Captaine contracting with the solicitor is bownd for his part and the solicitor is his owne iudge and carues himselfe what amendes he list●eth out of the Captaynes meanes but the solicitor contracting with the Captaine is notwithstanding loose for his part or as good as loose since he cares notfor keepeing his day but often puts the Captaine to borrow and pawne his credit and clothes vpon interest for payment of his companie when notwithstanding he payes vse to the sollicitor for aduanceing it aforehand Nay say the Captaine forbeares it a moneth or two as sometyme it falls out yet he payes vse for it and the sollicitor will not abate a stiuer though the one looseth and the other gaines by this meanes a dooble vse There is also a gaines made to the solicitor by payment of light money which he knowes the Captayne must be forced to put away cannot keepe to change with many other grosse and intollerable abuses of which I haue heard Captaynes complaine and which crye out for the with-houlding of the labourors due is a cryeing Iam. 5. 4. sinne eyther to the State for redresse or to God for judgement I see what account David made of his worthies and souldiars and how pretious their blood was in his fight when refuseing to drinke of the water they fetched for him with perill of their lines Hee powred it out to the Lord and sayde My God forbid it me that I shonld doe 1. Chro. this thing Shall I drinke the blood of these men that haue 11. 18. put their liues in ieopardie for with the ieopardie of their liues they brought it therefore he would not drinke I wish that all solicitors and vsurers would consider this storie well and then they wonld not except they were right Nabals make it their dayly trade to drinke vp nay to be drunke with the blood of such men and that whilst they are watching that these may drinke the safer and fighting for safeguard of that mony whose vse eates them vp to the bare bones But if these lewes and bloodsuckers will not consider it yet it concernes Dauid and the worthies of this State to looke to it better and to their care and conscience I commend it For if this be not reformed as it shewes inward corruption and putrifaction ripe for dissolution so it may at one tyme or other by one meanes or other put the State to straights and difficultyes did not the auxiliarie Bandes take care for it to defend it and respect it as their owne Countrie Which care of theirs appeared the last yeere at the comming out of that Placat which gaue them generally so much discontent and that in the instant when they expected the Enemy Which had beene a fit tyme and occasion to tempt them to mutinee but that faith h onor and religion restrayned them yea such a tyme as would haue occasioned some Nations then to crye for gelt and reformation or also to lay downe their armes Whereas then all these troopes both British and French did nobly and loyally resolue not to dispute the point before the fight but first to fight and so to dispute the point against the Enemye with the edge of their anger and points of their swords that they might by their deserts moue the States to repeale their act and to shew they meritted augmentation by way of largesse rather then abatement or abridgement by way of defalcation which they would intimate by humble petition without disputation after the seruice was done and the Enemye gone off and not before And this resolution they generally followed whereby they deserued dne consideration and I doubt not in tyme but they shall finde it They are Tyrants and not Fathers of the Commonwealth who take occasion to be euill from the goodnes of their people so that the better the subiect or inferior is the worse the superior shews himselfe to bee and the more he is content for peace and quiet and conscience to suffer the more the other puts vpon him and forceth him beyond his strength to beare and suffer It shall not be soe amongst you saith our sauiour to his Disciples I hope the illustrious Lords are our sauiours Disciples also and I am sure then It shall not be soe amongst them Secondly I beseech the State to consider whether or no it be fit to vindicate the honor of our king State and Nation together with the King and Queene of Bohemia from the base aspersions cast vpon them by rumor and lyeing multitude in the point of their present maintenance

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