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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75315	The anatomie of the French and Spanish faction. With a full discovery of who they are; and what they have done, from before the beginning of King Iames his raigne unto this present. Declaring in particulars, how the many miseries and the calamities which we have, and do indure by blood, rapine, and many insupportable impositions, have proceeded directly from them, seconded by the ambitious spirits of the bishops. Wherein also all our grievances, and their subtle and horrible plots are instanced; to give a more full and ample satisfaction unto all. Published according to the order of Parliament.		1644 (1644)	Wing A3060; Thomason E35_29; ESTC R20722	7,562	16

THE ANATOMIE OF THE FRENCH And SPANISH FACTION With a full Discovery of who they are and what they have done from before the beginning of King Iames his Raigne unto this present Declaring in particulars how the many miseries and the calamities which we have and do indure by Blood Rapine and many insupportable Impositions have proceeded directly from them seconded by the ambitious Spirits of the Bishops Wherein also all our grievances and their subtle and horrible Plots are instanced to give a more full and ample satisfaction unto all Published according to the Order of Parliament LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop 1644. THE ANATOMIE OF THE FRENCH and SPANISH Faction BEfore the Norman Conquest the French looked long upon the affaires of England with a greedy eye and in those innocent times maintained a partie here in England to make good their Faction The Spaniards as they are more grave in their deportment so they are more retired in their Counsailes and being then alwayes in Warres either to establish or increase their more VVesterne territories had hardly the leisure to think on England untill the Allyance of King Philip with Queen Mary since which time being taken either with the wealth or the pleasure of this Isle they have alwaies either openly by warre or privately by policie been industrious either to assault it or betray it I will not wipe off the dust of antiquity from the story of the French to represent unto you what were the designes which many yeares since they nourished to unite this Kingdome unto France neither will I ravell out your expectation or the time in any discourse upon the Spaniard more then what shall concern our present purpose which is to declare unto you how the French and Spanish for these late yeares have desperately conjoyned into one resolve of mischiefe for the subverting of the Protestant Religion and the ruin of this Kingdome which was of late the envy and is now become the pitty and the astonishment of Christendome Yet before I arrive unto their latter practises on which I chiefly would insist it will be worth your observation to consider how eagerly both nations did ambiate the marriage of the renowned Queen Elizabeth who alwayes overcame her enemies and her Sex The first who did court her in the way of marriage was Don Iohn de Austria thinking thereby to reduce our Island and Religion to the Spanish Principles but the Queen who knew very well before what was the ambition and the arts of Spaine could no wayes bee induced to heare of that illegitimate Prince The second was the Duke of Alenson brother to Henry the third then King of France a gallant Gentleman indeed and who wheresoever he came did winne upon the hearts of all by his valour and his courtesie but as the Kingdome was then blessed in a brave Queen so was the Queen blessed with as brave a Counsell and that marriage by reason of the diversity in religion and many considerations of State being also rejected the Duke returned into Flanders where either by greife or poyson he died strangely in the flower of his Age of an issue of blood which abundantly came from him out of all the passages of his bodie In the same manner also died his Elder Brother Charles the eight King of France neither did his other brother Henry the third who before hee was King of France swayed the Imperiall Scepter of Polonia descend unto his grave by a naturall or timely death so true is that of the Satyrist Ad generum Cereris sine caede sanguine pauci Descendunt Reges et sicca morte tyranni By a dry death without some bloody end Few Kings to Ceres sonne in law descend Herein you may observe how just are all the works and how constant are the wayes of God their Father Henry the second of France promised his Father on his death-bed that he would make no more warre with the Protestants nor be the occasion of any more effusion of blood in France for Religion but soon after his death forgetting his Covenant with the dead and overcome with the evill counsell of his Queen the warre began anew and the old wounds being opened the land again did sweat with blood But marke the event this Henry being afterwards at a Turnament in which himselfe would be a tilter he was struck through the eye with the splinter of a speare of which not long afterwards hee dyed His sonnes Charles and Francis miserably ended their contracted dayes by a terrible evacuation of blood the wit of Iustice punishing that blood in their bodies which they had caused to issue out of the body of the Kingdom Henry the third a great contriver of that most horrid massacre and Author of much Protestant bloodshed at the battels of Dreux and Moncontour was killed afterwards himselfe by a Friar and both the Murder and the Murderer commended by Xistus then Pope of Rome neither of such faire hopes of posterity was there any one left of the great and glorious name of Valois to succeed in the Kingdom of France I have obviously inserted this that the world might take notice how deere unto God is the safety of his people and that he hath pacified the crying blood of the Protestants with the destruction of the families of the Monarchs of the earth If you would give me the reading of it I could furnish your observation with another story which because it is very memorable I will here insert it and then returne from whence a little I have digressed Henry the third being slaine the Crowne of France was devolved unto Henry of Burbon King of Navarre who had married Margaret sister to Henry the third she was a Lady of a delicate constitution both of mind and body and admirable for her vertues and her vices who finding that the Peers of France had estranged their hearts and their loyalties from her husband by reason of his religion she perswaded him for the assurance of his Crowne and the safety of his person to turn Catholick again which indeed once before he did which was at the massacre of Saint Bartholomews some 3 or 4 dayes after the solemnization of his marriage But though that superstition be blind what cannot the Iesuits see They conceiving that this alteration of his Religion was but dissolation in the King they corrupted a villain with gold and the certainty of salvation as if the way to heaven was by murder to destroy him this desperate caitiff under the pretence of private businesse of great importance having passed the guards had accesse unto his Majesty and finding him on the top of the staires stooping and prepared to listen to him hee struck at his brest with his knife and missing it by a more mercifull errour he struck his knife through his lip against his teeth The villaine apprehended and the tumult appeased a great Personage standing neare unto his Majesty said unto him Sir You have denied God

they whom these promoted and countenanced did bear the greatest sway did abound with extravagant Censures no lesse unconscionable then terrible by oppressing the common people and maintaining illegall taxations and inducing Prerogatives far beyond the presidents of all former times and surely had it not been for those exceeding powerfull Popish factors the high Commission had not decreed so eagerly to oppose true Religion by Suspension deprivation Excommunication Fines and imprisonment much lesse some Bishops and inferior Ecclesiasticall Courts had not adventured with such animosity to propose or with such violence to prosecute their own superstitious articles as if they had bin Canons concluded on by the whole Church of England or as if the Articles of these men which consisted only of Bishops Deans Archdeacons c. as every Bishop or slye Officiall thought good ought to binde the the whole Church being so partially if not corruptly represented For are Cathedral Churches any other but such places which Queen Elizabeth and her Councell for some political ends were pleased to let rest in some part of that popish splendor and magnificence which might take with the neighboring Princes of the contrary Religion and not render her and her people utterly reconcileable to the Church of Rome The Parochiall Churches then were better cleansed from Popish Reliques according to the well setled constitution of other reformed Churches and now forsooth better refined Parochiall Churches must again be reduced to a Cathedrall garbe because it is more ceremonious and majesticall and therein more resembleth Rome Thus with the overswelling greatnesse of those cabinet Councellours men were preferred to places of Iudicature in the Common wealth which I suppose either could not or would not maintain Iustice but were alwaies forced to advance prerogative above and against Law the subiects by many woefull complaints can witnesse how many millions of monies in few yeares have been wrested from them under the name of Lone Knighthood Shipmony c. all which though unlawfull yet were they either justified by the most part of the Iudges and the people miserably oppressed The next plot which they no lesse endeavoured then obtained was to weaken his Majesty both at home and abroad and indeed which way could they weaken him more in England then to imploy the cabinet counsell to perswade him to make sale of his own proper hereditary land and so without Parliaments to raise mony for the supporting of his royall dignity by unlawfull and unusuall meanes which could not but much withdraw the dutifull affection of the subiect from him wherein his chiefest strength consisted and how could they have devised more to lessen the reputation of his wisdome and puissance with forraign Princes then by inciting his Maiesty as if hee had married the conditions as well as the daughter of France to begin a warre with Spaine and then to conclude it partly without and partly against the approbation of the Parliament and so afterwards to France it selfe To this may be added the taking of Rochell for all the ayde of his Maiesties ships the little assistance and countenance which of late times hath been from England afforded to the Netherlands and from all their premises it may be concluded that there were all destructive wayes to the Protestant Religion and therefore promoted and prosecuted by great persons Popishly addicted to the ruine of our Peace our Lives Liberties and which is yet much dearer to us our Religion Was the plot small may we think by billetting of souldiers in all parts of this Kingdome by intending to bring in forraign forces especially many hundred of German horse and by proposing Martiall law to be put into execution which now we see to take effect yet it was under pretence of law when there was neither Reason Law nor Equity for the raising of forces or any such great summes of mony as there was raised which yet had they been imployed in any reasonable proportion for the good of the King or Kingdome neither King nor Kingdome had been so distressed as now they are but the truth is as such vast summes were illegally extorted so they were as fraudulentally disposed without his Maiesties privity even to the strengthening of the professed enemies of our Religion which now threaten the subjugation if not the utter extirpation of it The next plot was for brasse mony and the making of it currant whilst the French of all other nations were permitted to carry our gold and silver away were they of what Sexe Age or condition soever How much the Queen Mother had for her part is not nor ever will bee certainly knowne but it is conceived upon very good ground that she and her Iesuiticall traine have had two millions of mony which is tenne times as much as the Queen her daughter brought into this land and if this hath not been a heavie burthen to poore England let all men Iudge But this is not all have not the Iesuites had free egresse and regresse and intimate acquaintance with Canterbury Wren and the rest of the Popish Bishops whereby they procured the discountenancing yea the suppressing of the most able and faithfull Divines and Ministers of the Gospell when in the mean time who were advanced and put into places of trust or preferment but Arminians and Socinians whose poysenous tenents in some and many things are steps to Rome in others more dangerous as being more subtilly contrived We cannot here omit by their instigation the receiving into favour of many great Delinquents who fled from the Iustice of the Parliament the cessation of Armes in Ireland to bring over the warre and Popery into England the Queens negotiation beyond the Seas for the continuance and fomenting this unnaturall warre partly in her owne person and partly by her seconds And to this end the pawning of the Iewels of the Crowne The severall plots daily contrived to corrupt our soldiers citizens nay even our Divines themselves all which are unquiet and dangerous issues and effects of the French and Spanish Counsells And now when they can proceed no further in their mischievous devices they indeavoured to continue the last and worst of all which is still managed by the help of their old sure freinds who are so gracious at Court and that is the separating of his Maiesty from his high Cour● of Parliament and in keeping him from them as also in causing an ill opinion in some people and Counties against their own representative body so advisedly now a●sembled and at first aggregated from all shires And indeed of all other practices this is most fearfull destructive and the most desperate for who could imagine did it not evidently appeare that the Papists both of the French and Spanish faction should have such an influence on his Majesty as to make him beleive that his Parliament is set against him and the good of the land and that Privadoes and Sycophantes at Court are better affected and more able to seek for the good and safety of the King and Kingdome then they are as if it were probable the wisdome and till now the never suspected integrity of both the Houses of Parliament by which the King and Kingdome have alwayes flourished could ever prove so treacherous to King or Kingdome or be so carelesse of themselves and their posterity as to doe things dishonest and treasonable or if it were possible that men for the most part who were never greatly intrusted by his Maiesty or the State should bee able to give more faithfull Counsell or be lesse subiect to erroneous advices then they are who now sit in our high Court of Parliament Surely as after many storms at sea wee now begin to see the day and land again so great thanks for their pains prudence and patience is to be given to God by us to whom no doubt the benefit will redound FINIS This is Licensed and entred into the Register Book of Stationers Hall