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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

into their power many other cities and prouinces And finally is that Vlisses-like-wit Alexander Farnesius Duke of Parma brought out of Italie who like vnto a most craftie and cunning bird-catcher with the song of his lenitie and promises of great rewards insnared and captiuated all the Cities and Townes of Brabant and Flaunders Of this Prince I could say very much which I am constrained to omit Yet this one matter I cannot passe by in silence That although in the time of his gouernment hee effected many things very great and eminent for Philip yet could hee not escape of being suspected as if hee would haue vndermined the King in the gouernment because that through his gentlenesse linitie and amitie he had drawne vnto him the affections of all the Netherlanders and that hee also seemed perspicuously to haue looked into and also to beare a hatred to the wickednesse and fraudulent treacheries and deceites of the Spaniards Therefore Philip gaue him fungos or Toads-bread to eate which Agrippina had so commended to the Emperour to the end that by the power and operation thereof he might be admitted counted and receiued into the number of the gods But I pray you what was that at last for a peace which as a Comet or bright shining starre shined vnto vs out of the firmament of the Spanish trecheries vnto which the Duke of Parma counselled vs at what time the Arch-enemy stood as it were ouer our heads and that the incredible great Spanish Fleet filled and couered the great Ocean or main Sea A Fleet which was so terrible to behold that I can hardly iudge whether the Fleet that Xerxus had which couered the Sea called Mare Ponticum had a greater number of Shippes more Souldiers or greater warlike preparation With this Fleet Phillip had thought totally to haue suppressed vs who were at that time ravished as it were with that pleasant and delightfull sound of peace Yet when this Fleet by the onely power of the Almighty God was wonderfully destroyed and brought to naught then presently by the Emperours Embassadours hee offered these Prouinces a new Treatie of Peace to the end that he thereby might transport all his Army and power of warre out of the Netherlands into France The treacheries which many yeeres before he had plotted against that kingdome beganne then to haue a wonderfull good progression For his naturall kinsman Henry being made away by paracide or his murthering of a kinsman and the state of all that kingdome being vtterly confused with Ciuill warre then the matter and the present occasion required that he with Armes and a mighty Hoast should prosecute his designe in that flourishing and famous great Kingdome of France which Kingdome hee by violence hauing taken in and conquered he might thereafter without any trouble at all haue subiugated those Netherlandish Prouinces and all the other Kingdomes of Christendom What Is it yet lawfull for me or may I yet speake any more of Arrereges or residue of the dangers of this Reipublicke Yes it is lawfull for me and it shall be lawful for me alwayes to stand for the dignity of my natiue Countrey and to confesse the truth Like as all good Orators or eloquent speakers doe euer keepe some of their most forcible and ponderous Arguments to the last And like as experienced Generals vse to place their best souldiers in the last rankes euen so Phillip in these latter yeares presented a peace vnto these Netherlands which should be adorned and confirmed with notable fidelity the whole foundation and chiefe ground worke thereof lay and consisted in the vertues mercy endeuors diligence and in the loue of the Arch-duke Ernestus his sisters sonne who after the Duke of Parma was placed in the gouernment of these Prouinces He promised these Prouinces a peace not such a peace as should be limited with any grieuous or heauie conditions and contracts like as the former was but such a peace as they themselues would wish or desire In the meane time Phillip sent his great and huge Armies into France and his secret murtherers into Holland to haue murthered the Illustrious Prince Mauritts Earle of Nassow a famous and notable imitator of the vertues and valour of his father and a singular defender of our Liberty and by such an odious and treacherous villainy to haue made him away like as they but a little before by a most cruell and trecherous hand had murthered his most worthy and valiant father the Prince of Orange And finally Phillip concluded many more mischieuous and more wicked purposes against these Prouinces then euer before he could haue bethought himselfe of I doe not speake any thing vnaduisedly ô Princes but that which thousands besides me of good reputation can testifie in faith and verity and that which Phillips owne letters doe make good What then Meaneth the king of Spaine that our States by any propositions of peace can bee diuerted from their enterprises and designments Doth he not yet know and vnderstand that all our affections are so abdurate and hardned that we will far rather yeeld and giue place to Armes and Warre then to any kind of new inuented peace-treacheries after what manner soeuer the same might be propounded Or thinketh he peraduenture that the affections of our States euery day lie open to his desire and appetite What Is he yet ignorant that the counsels of all our people with a generall consent and vniformity of voices are long agoe vnited and knit fast together in this point and that they will farre rather honourably in warre and Armes liue and die for their Lawes and for their natiue Country then from henceforth shamefully to sinke or quaile vnder his treacheries and deceits What doe I say sinke or quaile Nay to come into the extreamest euills of Tyrannie to bee bound with vntolerable and inhamane bonds of slauerie and to bee reckoned and accounted among those slaues that are bought and sould We haue prepared made ready and sharpened a perpetuall and an euerlasting warre and Armes against him we neither haue nor may cast our eyes vpon any other peace then vpon such a peace as is grounded confirmed and may bee maintained with force and Armes But in regard that a little before I beganne to speak of France and to proue that our warre partly was joyned with that same therfore I will proceede to adde some other matters hereunto by the which you may evidently see and perceiue how many treacheries traps and deceits that Phillip hath laid for them He hath a long time since as you know O Princes laboured and endeuored to assaile France with all the violence and force of his warre to the end that he by the occasion of the Civill dissentions in France might effect so much by his wars and charges that if he could not swallow and devoure the whole Kingdome yet that at the least he might get a great part thereof For he had made his full reckoning and accovnt before hand by

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

their natiue Countrey and of all good men viz. Barlemont Megan Hierge Flojon Hautepenny Assonuille and other plagues of their Countrey who hauing ordained the Law of Lentulus Cataline and Cassius established the same with their counsels deeds viz. That all those that by preseruing the Common-wealth would be preserued should be declared for enemies By this counsell and aduice the Spaniards presently euen at the beginning of this peace should haue surprized the Towne of Gent if the good and profitable counsell and also the valiant deeds of the States had not hindred the same For don Iohn himselfe could not refraine nor keep in his hatred and enmity any longer which he bore to the Netherlanders but had quickly forgot that sacred oath which he had sworne vpon the Euangelists before the Bishop of Shertogenboseh and the Popes Nuncius or spirituall Embassadour He had promised and sworn that hee would deale with all the souldiers in the Netherlands who were 15000 about their Arrearages to the end that they thereupon might bee discharged like as in the agreement of the peace had beene concluded And contrarily thereunto he promised the Souldiers in the Kings behalfe anew to haue greater meanes honours offices and rewards and held a most mischieuous counsel with Fronsberghen and Focker Collonels of the German souldiers part of whose wicked counsell hee effected and the rest being hindred by the States he could not effect But yet to the end that you may see and know the ground of this Businesse I will in few words declare vnto you how the matter fell out For vnder these two conditions or couenants viz. in maintaining of the Romish Religion and in yeelding lawfull obedience to the King did the whole Treatie of the peace consist And when the States which had sworne hereunto with an high Oath then were they presently admitted that those affaires concerning the Land which presently in the beginning of the treatie of peace were begunne but could not be concluded vpon that they should be dispatched and concluded in the next assembly of the States But yet Don Iohn whose affection burned with a lust and longing desire by some secret and concealed practice to breake the peace and to begin the warre againe casting all these conditions and promises at his heeles made a way for those complaints which Phillip and all the former Governours had vsed as a cloake to cover all their intended w●cked imgainations against the Rei-publicke viz. That the Hollanders and Sealanders neglected and despised the Romish Religion and by that meanes the commandement of the King was neglected Vpon this Anvile did they hammer night and day they assayled the States and were exceeding troublesome vnto them counselling them that they altogether should beginne the warres against Holland Sealand and the Prince of Orange who was the most eminent Champion against the vniust government of the Spaniards who indeede had beene exceeding beneficiall to the whole Common-wealth In this counsell Don Iohn had his eye vpon these two obiects which should be exceeding profitable and serviceable to further his intent that by their Ciuill warres the substance and treasure of the land might be exhausted and they being weakned and bruysed by their owne Warre that then he with the more ease and conveniency might suppresse them together Whereas he still persisting with these desires and intreaties being as it were dasht against a Rocke by a Tempest The States answered him that it were better and more profitable for the Common-wealth That concerning all those matters whereof Don Iohn made his complaints to haue them by a friendly composition decided and vnited in the assembly of the States and if they could haue imprinted or perswaded him to haue beleeued the same we had never fallen into the miseries of a Ciuill Warre For what is more repugnant to the common good and to all humane Lawes and Iustice then to try by warre those controversies which may be decyded by Right and Reason Arch●damus though no Christian King but of a stately honourable any provident Nation sayd That it was vnlawfull to take Armes against those who were willing to haue the matter tryed by Law When and iniury had beene offered to the Romanes themselues they did not presently begin with wars but did first send Clarigatum that is they caused those things that were stollen or taken away to be more apparently and manifestly demanded againe But how profitable good and wel-ordred is the cumstome of the Common-wealth of the Venetians which I lately saw and observed where they will not suffer that the principall Nobles themselues of that flourishing Common-wealth should contend chide or maintaine enmity among themselues for or about other mens small and petty affaires But they bring the same into their Senate or Councell and there they desire pray and admonish them that they will remember and be mindfull that they are all of them Saint Markes children which name they haue given their Rei-publicke and that they are brethren and Burgeses of such a free and happy government and that it was not beseeming for them for any particular businesse to cherish and foster any private dissention or hatred which might thereafter prooue to be more generall to the perill and danger of that Rei-publicke Which custome aboue all other affaires ought to be vsed in the affaires concerning the Land and ought to be esteemed of in all wel-ordered Common-wealths If this were so we should not see one City so against another oftentimes in one Province or Rei-publicke or one Noble-man so against another of the contrary party to threaten warre murther destruction burning and blaking nor violence to assault each other But now to returne to our former purpose in respect that there are two sorts of Warres the one with words by way of Iustice the other with violence The first being proper to men the second to vnreasonable beasts And that wee must necessarily avoyde violence vnlesse the course of Iustice be denyed vs. Therefore we must beleeue that the States farre rather would haue decyded those controversies by their good and wholesome counsels by reason and conference then to make them greater by Warre and spilling the blood of the Citizens Contrarily Don Iohn complaineth of the States very publiquely Hee reprooues and vpbraids them all for Rebels and then deales with the High-dutch Souldiers no longer by secret dealing in the affaires very prejudiciall to the Common-wealth with whom very cunningly hee had long time dealt with all but then began he very publickly to deale with them so that the whole discovery of that businesse by divers intercepted letters was fully come to the knowledge of the States And many things they dayly saw with their eyes as first when he removed his Court and family with his Councell-companions to Bergen in Henegow being a very strong Towne and very fit for his conjurations and complottings and commanded that the same should bee provided with a strong Garrison Moreover when as he surprized

would not haue held up nor rested untill he had conquered and subjugated the whole country of Grecia The Romanes in former time perceauing that the power of the Carthaginians increased and grew great they had an especial care that the Carthagenians should not grow so great as to ouer-master them And for that end they sent their souldiers to relieue the Mamertines from the beleagring and to relieue Spain from seruitude of the Africans Although that the Venetians are not very lightly incited to warre but when the matter of necessity constrayneth them Yet they neuer tefused to send their warlike power for the succour of others that were under them when they perceaued that their neighbours contended with each other with an vnreasonable and an immoderate violent ambitione These and the like even to an innumirable examples or foredeedes doe teach you how carefully you must take heede of that most pestilent evill of the Spanish ambition and do shew or proue that it is a righteous and just cause that even all you with one consent with us prosecute a warre against that Tyrant For our States do know that the occasion of their warre against Phillip is not onely exceeding just and righteous and ever was but also that they at no time now nor never may cease their warre that they may make no peace with Phillip but alwayes must mainetaine warre against that Tyrant For we are taught by our friends how we must take heed of our enemies For if Phillip do gape and long so earnestly and with such diligence for your Kingdomes like as you see he daily doth how then shall we speed For assuredly he wil never lay aside Armes before that he hath subjugated all the Netherlands under him because it is a Countrey so fit for his purpose who out of them may attempt many enterprises upon your Kingdomes and dayly may beginne to raise new warres against you and draw out of them Souldiers Armes and all manner of warlike provision against your adjacent Countries And therefore he would farre rather cast the greatest part of Christendome for a prey to the Turke then to cease these warres At the last Parliament in Germany he would not consent to furnish the Emperor with any soldiers nor assistance against the Turke and the reason was because he might the better vexe Christendome with warre Doe yee yet doubt of this O yee Princes which you your selues haue seene that Phillip in the beginning of our ciuill commotions had far rather loose two Kingdoms Tunis and Goulet which the Turkes under their General Sinam Bascha then recouered from him then that hee would for a while cease his warres with us or would remoue his Souldiers out of these Prouinces against the most deadly and mortal enemy of all Christendome And you know how many Souldiers how much Armes and what charges Phillip hath been at and wasted to maintain this war against us So that if you would but reckon up the same you shall find that he might haue bought and purchased two Netherlands with that mony although notwithstanding they be very great rich and exceeding copious So that there is no doubte of this but Phillip would far rather endure the greatest losse that might betide him then that he would leaue Bellgium with out bellum or the Low-countries without long encountrings of warre with out strife without souldiers that they might liue in peace and quietnesse freely and wholy according to their Lawes and priuiledges For by this war and with the conquest of our Prouinces he wil lay and establish the strongest foundation and surest ground-worke of his Monarchy Sole-dominion Tyrannie and cruel Gouernment For when he saw and perceaued that these Countries were so singularly fitting for his cruel treacheries and desgnments and that our Lawes and Liberties contraryly did wholy oppose the same therfore sought he first of all with warre with force and violence to plucke vp teare in sunder and with violence to oppresse the same to the end that his subiects of other Kingdoms which at this present he hath subiugated or else might subiugate hereafter from this our concording and generall defence of our Lawes and Liberty might take no example or instance with the greater courage and alacrity to stand for and maintaine their liberty What do you then iudge ô you most peaceful Princes or what is your conclusion that our States ought to doe who chiefly seek for the common good of their natiue Countrey Verily it cannot be with them as it is vnder the Gouernment of a cruel Tirant and as it usually is in ill-gouerned Reipublicks they are not vsed to be lead and to submit themselues at any time with cap and knee as flatterers doe to the wills desires and lusts of their superiour Lords nor to be dealt with all as hired slaues considering that they neuer would admit nor suffer that their Lawes Liberties nor their Reipublick should bow or submit vnder the yoake of vniust and vnlawfull Government But haue as good fathers of their natiue-Countrey as good fighters for their freedome and Defendors of their Lawes like as it must be in a Reipublick which is moderately and ciuilly gouerned by their Prince directed their designes wils and gouernment of their superiour Lord according to their Lawes and the preseruation of their Liberty Do you think that the Spaniards shall spoyle and cruell vexe and torment our Reipublick and that we with shame will leaue and quit the same Shall we neglect our deare countrey and liberty Must we despise the lawes of our predecessors And shall they peruert turn topsie-turvie our ciuill orders and policy into tyranny And shall we with wringing hands look vpon the coarse and behold the exequies or funerall of our patria and natiue countrey Shal they rend teare in peeces the body of our common-wealth and like most ravenous beasts deuoure the same And shall we like slaues with praying and intreating hardly preserue our own liues goods and meanes Or do ye not far rather laud extol with the highest commendation of honour this will and affection of our States for their manumising and preseruing of their deare and natiue countrey Incite and exhort you them to proceed as they are best able and to the vttermost of their powers for the preservation and manumising of their owne liues and liberty Come not these things daily into your remembrances when you think of the Netherlandish warre or discourse thereof which I haue now demonstrated and with sure and infallible and vncontrollable reasons proued vnto you viz. that our States all the Netherlanders being drenched and soaked in misery and oppressed with the cruelty of the Spaniards and being expeld out of their natiue countrey of meere necessity were constrained to take Arms against Philip. And that now all the other treacheries infidelities iniuries which the Spaniards during the time of these wars haue done vnto the Netherlanders being so great so inhumane and so incredible that they