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A11787	A Second part of Spanish practises, or, A Relation of more particular wicked plots, and cruell, in humane, perfidious, and vnnaturall practises of the Spaniards with, more excellent reasons of greater consequence, deliuered to the Kings Maiesty to dissolue the two treaties both of the match and the Pallatinate, and enter into warre with the Spaniards : whereunto is adioyned a worthy oration appropriated, vnto the most mighty and illustrious princes of Christendome, wherein the right and lawfulnesse of the Nederlandish warre against Phillip King of Spaine is approued and demonstrated.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Verheiden, W.; Strategia e organizzazione (Firm)	1624 (1624)	STC 22078.5; ESTC S1714	34,814	46

preparing of that cruell Fleet that both France and England had been a prey vnto their enemies Wheras those good Princes notwithstanding had nothing at all endamaged him neither was he by any juiustice provoked to that warre vnlesse peradventure it be that he thought this occasion sufficient that the Pope at the will and desire of Phillip had excommunicated those two flourishing Kingdoms for their exercising and ministery of the Reformed Religion who for the extirpation and eradication of that Religion Phillip as a Cato Maior with the puissance of the Romish Censores or correction masters vseth to haue regard vnto all the Kings and people of the earth and therefore to correct and punish them which is indeede a matter known vnto you all for which no man can sufficiently wonder at the shamefulnesse thereof and might now neither be passed by nor omitted And that Phillip in these warres of France dealt most earnestly and with the greatest diligence and alacrity with the Duke of Feres and other Spaniards of the League whom he as companions had assisted in that warre to haue estranged the Right and Title of the Crowne of France not onely from the succession or descent of the Kings blood and kinred but euen from all Frenchmen and to haue drawne the same to Spaine These things are so certaine O Princes that there is no man which doubteth of the truth hereof But to what end do I bring these into your Remembrances What is this to maintaine the purpose I haue in hand For this end it serueth thereby to proue how exceeding great the ambition is of this most cruell Tyrant and to the end you may perceiue and see how greatly not onely we but euen all of you together must keep good watch and looke vnto it For like as the nature of the Vine is to extend the branches as the armes thereof farre and wide and therewith embraceth and layeth hold vpon euery thing that is neer it if it be not lopt and pruned Euen so shall Phillip if you doe not all at once make resistance at the last destroy and devoure all Christendom with most cruell and bloody warre Moreover he by his Btibery and secret conspiracy had lately effected so much in Scotland that some of the chiefe of that Kingdome should haue received and taken in twenty thousand Spaniards if they had not been punished after the matter was knowne and revealed according as their treason deserued I need not to thinke with my selfe that I can sufficiently expresse with words what treasons what perills what daungers he so oftentimes hath attempted against the Queene and Kingdome of England Can ambition and violence proceed yet any further Yes truely For the like treacheries practised hee a little before against the Principallity of Collen the Dukedomes of Gelders Gulich Cleane the County of Berghe and that ancient Emperiall Towne of Aken All which is most manifestly and apparantly knowne by good Testimony and by his owne letters And who knoweth in what lurking hole and corner of hipocrisie and dissimulation he hideth and sheltreth his most mortall hate against the most mighty Princes of Italy whom as soone as the wind of the first oportunity shall blow very suddenly shall be turned into coales and ashes by his vnquenchable and fearefull great flames of Warre Doe ye not yet see and perceiue enough ô Princes what treacheries and deceits that Philip prepareth for your most happy Kingdomes and Prouinces which are your Patrimonies Considering there is no man so blind nor senselesse who seeth not and vnderstandeth not that the ambition of Phillip neuer resteth but dayly draweth him from land to land and raiseth a new warre out of war So that he by warres sinne mischiefe and meere villanous deceits and treacheries vnder the pretence of a seeming-peace seeketh to deject and detrude euery one of you from the seate of your Gouernment For this his desire is vnsatiable and immoderate and cannot be included nor shut vp neither in Heauen nor in Earth If that all Phillips Kingdomes which he useth commonly in that long traine or taile of his most proud Titles and Termes of Honour were put or layd into one of the Seales of Critolaes ballance and in his other seale his Ambition or greedie desire of Honour All the Kingdomes would scarcely weigh the quantity of one graine in comparison of his Ambition Alexander the Great looked about for more worlds when he had conquered the whole world but Phillip would if he could with the Gyants assault the heauens And therefore O Princes and you most peacefull Princes I intreate you and I would admonish you that you judge no more of the occasion and lawfulnesse of our warre but in your judgements and opinions to hold it for good and I exhort you most earnestly againe and againe that you by all meanes both in your vnderstandings and with all your powers will take heed of the treacheries robberies and mischievous practises of Phillips deceit In former times whenas the Athenians partly with warre and partly with deceits and treacheries sought to get unto themselues certaine neere adjacent places as the Cities of Syracusa Lacaedemon Messena and Catina they by their immoderate Ambition and desire of others Rights drewe such an hatred upon their owne heads that Darius the most mighty King of Persia with the whole country of Grecia voluntarily undertooke and prosecuted warre against them unto which euery man ranne and hasted as to quench a publicke flame But you O most Illustrious Princes ought long ago to haue expelled Phillip with your conjoyned forces from you and from your prosperous States that seeketh continually your liues and Kingdomes by most unjust warre and by most wicked enterprises And it concernes and is fitting not onely for you who for a long time since haue beene provoked spurred and stirred up thereunto by the many injuries and ambition of Phillip but euen you altogether who see and perceiue that he incroacheth with violence upon the limmits of your neighbours and with an easie and slow pace creepeth and incroacheth towards your Countries It standeth you upon in time to looke unto it to the end that your neighbouring Countries being conquered and brought under his slauery and bondage Tyranny when you lest thinke upon it do not incroach upon you When as Phillip of Macedon the Father of Alexander the Great after the Battell with the Tribaldes had entertained a long dissembling warre with the Athenians the Thebeans assembled themselues for this occasion fearing lest when the Athenians had bene conquered the fire of their neighbouring-warre might haue flowne unto them And a little before there being a confederacy made betwixt two of the mightiest Cities who before had bene at extreme enmity with each other terrified thereby and by their Embassadors all the Country of Grecia esteeming it so that a common enemy ought and must be repelled with common force so that if the first invasion of Phillip of Macedon had had good successe he

A SECOND PART OF SPANISH PRACTISES OR A RELATION OF MORE Particular wicked plots and cruell in humane perfidious and vnnaturall practises of the Spaniards WITH More Excellent reasons of greater consequence deliuered to the Kings Maiesty to dissolue the two treaties both of the Match and the Pallatinate and enter into Warre with the Spaniards WHEREVNTO IS ADIOYNED A WORTHY ORAtion Appropriated vnto the most Mighty and Illustrious Princes of Christendome wherein the right and lawfulnesse of the Netherlandish warre against Phillip King of Spayne is approued and demonstrated PRO. 20.28 Mercy and truth preserue the King and his Throne is vpholden by mercie PRINTED M.DC.XXIV MORE EXCELLENT REASONS OF GREATER CONSEQVENCE DELIVERED TO THE Kings Maiesty to dissolue the two Treaties both of the Match and the Pallatinate and enter into Warre with the Spaniard FIRST it is to be observed that the State of Spaine not content with those ordinary prouisions for the exercise of the Romane Religion by the Infanta and her family which other Princes in like case would haue demaunded and which his Maiesty with great reason might at the beginning of the Treaty haue conceived they would haue beene contented with Haue with great vehemency upon advantage of having the Princes Person in their possession pressed a generall conniuence for all his Maiesties subiects of the Romane Religion to the great dishonor of Almighty God in the sincerity of his seruice in this Realme and to the great derogation of the Lawes of this Kingdome And lastly to the great discouragement and griefe of all his Maiesties well affected subiects from whose generall discontent they expect as well appeareth a consequence of no small mischiefe Secondly it is obserued that during the continuance of this treatie and by reason of the same Popish faction haue exceedingly increased in this Realme both in multitude and boldnesse And whereas they haue beene divided heretofore amongst themselues into the part of the Iesuites depending vpon Spaine and the secular Priests otherwise They are generally now strongly vnited together depending no lesse vpon Spaine for temporall respects then vpon Rome for spirituall And considering the house of Austria hath beene alwayes a capitall enemy to our Religion to increase their owne greatnesse by extirpiting the protestant party in all places where they can prevaile It cannot but be of most dangerous consequence to the safety of the King and the Realme vnlesse remedy be prouided with speede for the abating of that party here at home which cannot be during the time that these Treattse are on foote Thirdly it is obserued that by aduantage of these Treaties and thereby keeping of his Maiesty in hope of a generall peace they haue contrarily vnder the pretence of assisting the Emperour oppressed the Protestants party in most parts of Christendome being the ancient Alies and confederates of this Crowne to the endangering not onely of the whole State of the reformed Religion but also of the Common safety of all the professors of the same Fourthly during the time of these Treaties of loue with his Maiesty they haue with all kind of hostility set vpon his Maiesties sonne in Law the husband of his onely and most Royall Daughter inuadeing his Townes and Territories in all places and infine dis-inherited him with all that Royall Off-spring of all his ancient Patrimoniall Honors and Possessions to the great dishonor of his Maiesty and extreame griefe of all his well affected Subiects And now also at the last when they should come to make good the hope of restitution they haue layd new grounds for endlesse delayes and turned pretended difficulties into apparant impossibilities not forbearing also now to annexe as a Condition to the weake hope of their vncertaine and imperfect resolutions That the eldest sonne of the Count Pallatine should be brought vp in the Emperours Court so restlesse are their desires to worke the ouerthrow of Religion by all possible devices Lastly it is apparant how manifoldly from time to time they haue deluded and abused his Maiesty with their Treaties how small respect they haue shewed to the Prince his Greatnesse and worth what endignities they haue offered againe and againe to his highnesse by importuning him vpon all aduantages to forsake his Religion contrary to the custome of all Princes and contrary to the ancient Lawes of Honor and Hospitality who ought to haue beene vsed there withall Princely freedome and pressed to nothing vnto which he was indisposed considering with what confidence being so great a Prince he had put himselfe within their power although it pleased God to guide and fortefie so his Princely heart that he constantly withstood all their attempts and stratagems to his owne immortall honor and to the vnspeakeable comfort of the good people of his Fathers Kingdome Wherevnto may be added their infinite aduantagiousnesse and endlesse delayes in their Treaties And finally what dishonor they haue obtruded vpon our Nation and Religion in inviting still to new Treaties and turning al to the aduantage of their owne particuler ends being true to nothing but their owne grounded Maximes with which neither the Match nor the restitution of the Pallatinate can possibly consist but vppon such termes as threaten to our State an incurable mischiefe AN ORATION OR SPEECH OF THE RIGHT AND LAWFVLNES of the Netherlandish Warres against Phillip King of Spaine Vnto the most Mighty and Illustrious Princes of Christendome Illustrious Princes of Christendome GReat and Mighty are the Kingdoms in your possession which extend far and wide throughout all the world but much more great and farre more excellent are the vertues and knowledge by which you hold preserue and governe the same righteously even to the vttermost extent of felicity In the meane time let me now intreat you ô most peaceful Princes that you will heare me with a friendly and well-affected minde the sequell hereof and fundamentally will understand wherefore the Spaniards doe most falsely accuse vs That this peace was violated and broken by vs which accusation I hold to be very grievous Among other Conditions Lawes and Contracts of this peace this was one of the chiefest and weightiest That Don Iohn should not admit any Spaniard or stranger nor any of them by whose counsell and advise it was evidently knowne that the Provinces were brought into that extreme spoyle into the Councell And contrarily hee called and sent for them to him kept them in his Court and in his most secret chambers That Baptista Taxis a most notable Spie and enemy of our common affaires who a little before had beene Secretary vnto Duke d' Alva who was not onely adioyned to his priuy Counsell but also was made and set ouer them Besides him one Octauius Gonzago an Italian as also hee tooke vnto him one Escouedo a crafty Spanish Fox vnto whom hee adioyned certaine Netherlanders But what Netherlanders I pray you Those who partly had beene the stirrers vp and fauourers of so many miseries who were both hated of