British Library, Additional MS 22591
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Since they that haue the honor to app
ther the courage/ nor the Conscience to acquaint you w
fearefull discontents of the time/ but suffer you to loose the
peoples hartes soe sleightlye as if they were not worth
keepinge/ I A poore vnknowne Subiect whoe never had
happynes to come neere yo
to take anye other Oathe in yo
giance/ have ventured vpo
of neede/ when all places, are indeede voyde (w
and highe Ambition seeme to fill) as to thrust my selfe into
yo
Councell / or Earle Marshall of England/ and more disco
then the noble office of telling truthe/ wherein if yo bold=
nes make me forfeite my discretion/ my loyaltie I hope will
begg my perdon / and the rather because I p
I am not alltogither w
was my duetie not long since to take notice of two Proclama=
c
king/ wherein it is yo
loving Subiects of w
by giving them not onlye a bare voluntarye power but a subpena
charge and comission/ to informe against all those
anye time hereafter offend in that kinde/
Nowe yo
Companye keepers in this Towne/ and therefore cannot but
be guiltie of manye thinges
obedience to yo
to my selfe at this time pr
where to beginne or whom to accuse in p
A Cryme, For I vowe to God and yo
into noe meeting, but I finde the pr
talking of the warres of Christendome/
Countrye or such like Treason/ and would to God they would
stopp there, and p
aboue them / but such is the rage/ and follie of thoughts
tongues/ as they spare not yo
have horror to speake it) to discant upo
is nowe their comon Pastime/
That you are our true and lawfull kinge/ there is none
soe divellish affected as to denye, but some there bee w
find such fault w
Elizabeth were alive againe/ whoe (they saye) would never
lanced Christendome as they haue done w
They make A mocke of the word greate Brittanie & offer
to prove
wont to bee/ lesse in reputac
ritches, lesse in all manner of vertue/ and whatsoever els is
required to make A State greate and happie
and suffer yo
For Ireland, they saye you content yo
and lett others receave the profitt
As for
wont to be A great controversie betweene vs and Rome,
they saie flatlie that yo
to question it nowe then the Papists; for they were nev
defended in their lives, wittnes the Iudges privie Instruccio
the Pursivants open p
more then Parliam
Lastlye that you are the
but of w
they saie it cannot bee because there be corrupc
in it/ and howe farre it is from being millitant / they call
heaven and Earth to wittnes / therefore they conclude it must
be the Church dormant or none/ and to saie the truthe S
are the securest Sinners in
These are the thinges that haue most readylye offered the
selves to my remembrance / because they followe one anoth
in A kinde of Order, but if I would reporte all
and extravagant Speeches I haue heard of this nature, I must
be faine to racke my memorye/ and I feare yo
yet rather then leave the least shaddowe of suspition vpo
plaine dealing by seeminge too Curtall in the p
soe necessarye A duetie I will venture to add these fewe/
They that take the affaires of yo
to harte not being able to discerne the compassion of your
bowells/ but iudging thinges by the exterior of yo
will hardlye be p
they see the lamentable Estate wherein you suffer them to
bee reduced/ come neerer to distruction then the nature of
Fatherlye correction/
They are not ignorant
you would haue done somethinge for them / but they also knowe
the course you haue taken / hath bine more formall the
more chargable then honorable and are of opinion
yo
not bine able to gett their petitions answered abroade
The verye Papists themselves S
saie/ that the Prayers and monyes yo
late in yo
ymployed in redeeming of yo
for, to gett the Enemye out of yo
engines might haue bine found a great deale more p
the meane tyme they doe not onlye build but fortifye theire
p
you tollerate all thinges abroade they doubt not ere long but
they shall haue tollerac
Our godliest Preachers doe all readye praie against
evill daye w
there be order given they shall preach nothing but court devinity,
yet A man maye easelye perceave by the verye choyse of their
Texts/ and the teares in their Eyes
speake their consciences/
The p
their materiall Church repayred/ since the spirrituall & more
worthie is suffered to goe to wracke, and some of them not
dareing to medle w
men, and yet not knowing howe to hold their peace vpon soe
suddaine warning / thinke it their safest Course to talke of
nothing but ecclesiasticall matters, wherein they all agree
that yo
p
In yo
yo
dren and when the wine is in their heades/ Lord haue mercy
vpon their tongues/
Even in everye gameing ordinarye where men haue scarc
leasure to saye grace/ yet they take tyme to censure yo
acc
haue lost the fairest game at Mawe
want of making the best advantage of the fiveth finger and
playing yo
playe bootie / and give the signe out of yo
playe w
in Christendome. In fine that there is noe waye to recover
yo
that hath cozoned you / w
be hard enoughe for him w
I cannot forgett howe I haue seene some/ when they haue
lost their monye fall A cursing and swearing for the loss
harts laie there, and tell them of yo
answere in A Chafe you must give loosers leave to speake/
The Marchants and Tradesmen/ I nor noe man els canne
accuse of being sensible of anye thinge/ but what toucheth their
owne p
the Courte will shortlye put downe theire exchange; and appr
because one of their occupation is made Treasuror
henceforeward all thinges must be bought & sould there./
The Lawyers seeme not soe much offended
removed the Garland of their p
Seale into the hands of A Churchman/ as
leive yo
of their Cause) whoe they saie haue bine wrongfullye outed,
and therefore you ought to graunt them A writt of forcible
reentrie/ w
executed by
The
misteryes of the Courte/ doe apparantlye perceive/ that the
Conde of Gondomer haue taught some of yo
to iuggle/ onlye to make them passivelye capeable of his owne
coniureing and that by the penetrating facultie of a yellow
Indian demon he hath at his comaund. Hes is m
nett w
parte / and most faithfull of yo
they saie/ yo
yo
not thinke the devill him selfe could soe abuse the tymes
wee live in/ as to make thinges passe in the fashion they doe/
contrarye to all sence of conscience/ & reaso
Behold Svox populi/ by soe much more
like it selfe then the First / by how much it comes shorte of itt
in witt and discretion/ for thoughe the Second cogitacons are ev
held the best, yet wee see the comon people for
when they give themselves to talking p
and incounter everye time more foolish then other/ the reason is
because they never thinke before they speake/ but rashlye vent w
soever getts into their fancie/ be it true/ false/ or probable/ good
badd/ or indifferent
Neverthelesse by these overflowings of their Mouthes yo
ma
and my Lords of yo
of their follies w
yf it be lawfull for mee to confesse the truthe is
yo
c
of punishmPublique politique designe,
to sound their greiffes / and make their compl
directions vnto amendm
it sufficient to sett downe the bare discourses w
yo
of kings euill should be brought before you, I feare that both yo
Ma
inge them/ I will rather praye heaven to giue yo
of cureing all Evills, w
and allthoughe I cannot end better then w
good A Prayer, yet nowe I haue begun to speake to my Lord the
kinge, let him not be offended w
ther and offer at last a fewe of my owne conceptions by waye
of humble remonstrance/ not
spedd) to come from an Informer to bee A Councellor, but because
I beleive that there are some thinges right worthie of yo
consideracrepr
A greate/
The greate Spectator of yo
exercise is to multiplye the obiect in the artificiall glasses of
fraude and flatterie / are soe distracted w
counterfeite/ as they cannot discerne
But wee
p
by yo
fects, that cover the glorye of yo
allaye the reverence due to the other excellencies of yo
for my owne parte I cannot see them/ and thinke it not enoughe
to murmur as manye doe/ but must shewe my selfe soe affectionate
to my Prince and Countrye as to advise yo
I promise to doe w
will beare/
The generall torrent of discontent
seditious noyse over yo
God it hath made noe open breache vpo
certainlye it hath verye much weakened their affections/ w
haue ever bine held daungerous of soe neere Neighborhood
as como
The Sources from whence it riseth are two, disorder at home,
and dishonor abroade, for
read in the newe booke of Patents as that I can make any longe
house of Parlyam
not onlye pr
spotts in the comon wealthe, but serve you likewise at the same time
w
But for the other w
spirritts/ and soe excells in matter of complainte, as tell it receive
redresse all other clamors ought to hold their peace/ I dare pr
to knowe as much of it as another, and p
the share of A private gent
not what inclinat
my outward observation, but the verye nourishm
solitarye thoughts/ If then yo
ecute my mellanchollie office of telling truthe/ and freelye ad=
vertise you / what this grand greivance is that cryes soe lowd
for rep
of the decaie of our Countryes honor/ a trade wherein wee were
wont to outbuy all our Neighbours/ and make the great Ingrosser
of the West Indyes himselfe banckrupt/
But since yo
to proud of soe great an addition it seemes the hand of heaven hath
thought good to curbe our felicitie in this pointe/ for we have lived
to see that brave stocke of forraigne reputac
yo
for acquireing of newe/ it is A thinge soe long since growne out of
vse / as maye be verye well be reckoned amongst those other in=
venc
of time / and honor is cleane forgott and our Pilotts nowe A dayes
knowe noe other rowte then that of their owne Fortunes/ according
to w
then if wee see the godelye vessell of this State misguided / & shame
fullye exposed to all manner of daunger, sometymes by being run
A ground vpon the sands of shallowe and vncertaine policie/ but
most of all being kept at anchor (full as it is of leakes & rotten
ribbs) in the deepe gulfe of securitie where it takes in more mat
ter of ruyne and corruption in Sixe monthes, then can be pumpt
out againe in seaven yeares/ nor can our Statesmen excuse
negligence hereafter w
never did heaven blowe more favorable to our advantage then
it hath done of late / had wee the grace to haue fitted our sayles
to the fairenes of
Rhemora that hath hung A long tyme vpo
and still continewes of that p
vnlesse God of his mercye put out his helping hand / it will rath
sincke vs then suffer vs to goe forward in anye course
to our p
seemes they haue forbadd vs vpo
to deale anye more in matters of worthe/ and reserving to them
selves the ritche prices and triumphs of the time / haue thought it
sufficient for vs to sheere our sheepe/ and to fetche some spice to
make gingerbread / Not soe much but the verye Pedlers of
Countryes/ whom wee our selves sett vpp for our owne vse are
nowe become our m
fellowes in anye grownd of Christendome
These thinges are the more Irksome to vs by reason we did
least syspect them at yo
wee should haue lost, but rather infinitelye have gathered by cha
inge the weaker sexe for the more noble to be our comaunder, and
haueing w
w
are in nothing more miserable then in that we had soe much reason to
thinke our selves happye/ or nowe that wee see how contrarye to our
hopes all thinges haue succeeded/ and howe vglye wee have suffered
our brave possibillities to passe awaye one after another as in A
dreame our greatest comforts are changed into equall dispaire and
our most reputed blessings into most apparent curses. Of all
fitts that descend fro
w
haue too much of his Fathers blessing / and I feare we haue to much
cause to complayne of his ma
of hath long since turned vertue into vice and health into sicknes,
As longe as other Princes keepe themselves w
and follow yo
anye waye reproached
dome by the name of the kinge of Peace/ but nowe that both our
sworne Enemies, and foresworne frenndes haue taken vp Armes
w
prizeing vpo
parts nowe that there is question of Gods glorye as well as your
owne/ and that the cause of yo
nowe I saye to continue still the same and still v
moved as yf you
were noe kinge of this world but stood allreadye possest of the
kingdome of heaven by vertue of
Beati Pacifici
this certainely
is such a strang peece of supererrogatiue as will serue to astonish
this pr
will rather revoake in doubt yo
pect former dispo peaceable disposition all this while hath not
p
out of meere impatience/ and desire of ease. Pardon me O kinge yf
I speake to you in A language you are not accustomed to heare/ it is
I knowe parte of yo
open to/ as my Lords the Bishops doe verye well obserue/ but it
the world sees. for thoughe I feare it lies still in yo
the blazing starr was not more spectable in our Horrison nor
gave the people more occasion of talke / heaven grant it maye not
be A cause of more mischeiffe in Christendome then the oth
A signe of. It is in yo
daunger both at once/ yf you will at lengthe but knowe yo
strength / and take A resoluc
two faire occasions that come as it were A Woeing to yo
this tyme/ the least of which highlye deserues the honor and good
fortune of yo
humaine and devine respects. As I dare saye yf the noble Armes
of martyres were sent downe vpo
A newe/ they could choose noe other quarrell to dye in / nor hope
for a suerer waye to recover againe their crownes of glorye. The
one is to reestablish yo
pr
versiallye desired and soe conformallie desired to christia
and good manners/ as I doubt not but they haue long since pased
the presse of yo
meanes they are not suffered to come forthe in publique viewe, I
shall not therefore neede to ripp vp these questions of state fro
the begin
w
must needs saie somew
yo
Ma
of/ either to purge them of ill counsell / or happilie to quench in
them betimes the daungerous thirst of Ambition / w
wRhyne and Danuby might afterwards attempt the Ocean,
yet to lett them drincke still and soe deepe in the Cupp of affli=
ction / as not to be able to stand vpon their leggs / but reele vpp
and downe w
of all the Nations vpon Earthe/
Hac ratione potest Iustus fortasse videri /
At tam Crudelis non potes esse Pater
But some will saye yo
to themselves/ and w
to leade them home; But alas in theire case howe vaine is all
comforte w
spedd. The Guide you sent (as expert as he made himselfe in the
Enemies waies) is come short of his vndertaking, and insteed of
giving end to the Princes miseryes / hath onlye lighted vppon A
culouslye blest his confidence/ as that he had pHercules
labour w
men for ever, whoe before he went gave him for another lost Am=
bassador/ It would never appeare to them in the least forme of like
lyhood (saving the Creditt due to Gondamors co
councell of Warre would be at the charge of getting a cou
by force of Armes/ that they meant afterwards to restore at the
kissing of A hand. They are knowne to be A people soe circu
and advised in all they doe/ as they never resolue vpo
w
equall warrant. And therefore if they had made keepinge of
wordes in matters of this Nature, they would questionlesse haue
iudged it more convenient to haue take yoBohemia,
then given theires for the Palatinate / w
surrender, they were first obliged to conquer, and conseque
vndertake A newe warr to noe p
not trust yo
be wondered at, that they haue deceaved you/ but that they had
the meanes to doe soe; For not onlye the Prophett Baall, but eu
Ba alams asse might easilye for see/
highe waye of p
niards would haue you/ whoe/ howe he vseth them/ that are at his
mercie/ I am sorrie yo
Schoole master as himselfe / whoe will make noe scruple to whip
you and yo
edlye p
will be to late to wish you had beleeved Cassandra/ the voyce of
yo
other busines/ and could not be in quiett/ till they had intreated
yo
fitt to be revoked. But yo
passed yo
not breake it/ as if you were the onlye vnfortinate Prince in
world/ that were tyed to be faithfull to yo
yo
A graunt fro
Ma
of noe effect / and w
of framinge to himselfe I knowe not what Chymeras of Iea=
lousye betweene his owne absolute power and his peoples hum=
ble desire/ would have bine soe farr fro
opposition / as he would rather have given them A charge vnder
hand to haue made it / And by that meanes recalled his benefit
this experiment / there might p
sued/ for then it is to be feared the Spanish Ambassador woulde
haue bine discharged/ for ever asking such vnreasonable thinges
againe / the onlye hope whereof makes him flatter the State and
tell yo
to be vndeceived, for if wee were/ wee should not staye till we
sawe the Mowntaines that are p
into Smoake; The Poore Palatinate shewes vs sufficientlye w
wee were and are to looke for from the Spaniards/ whoe yf
he were resolved to giue vs shortlye soe much of his owne as
is ymagined/ he would never keepe soe griping fro
is ours/ But I crye the Spaniard mercie/ It is not he good ma
but the revengfull Emperor that doth vs this wronge / as yf the
Emperor w
selfe refractorye to the least title of his knowne will. Wee
maye as well suppose the Sea turbulent w
lowe Spheres to move w
Primu: I grant
see the Spanish Forces and designes turne to another way / but
soe as they involve w
rupture of the Palatiante and all the stirrs about it, w
out w
as wee could wish him / and his Comissarie the duke of Bavara
doe nothing but what became him. It is the Catholique vsurper
tweene them they hold fast yo
w
w
thinge fro
hee
tooke it not, w
iniurye / and ought to p
dignation, for yf you p
still for paym
coyne/ wee shall be shrewdlie tempted to beleive for once the
other Princes of theire Religion / doe constantlye giue out
yo
the contrarye onlye to drawe monye from the Parlyam
w
A greate deale of poyson and fall vpo
Iudgm
Enemies to
yo
as not to be beleived by yo
I hope God in his mercie will avert soe great A disaster, &
instant this malitious invention w
w
and royallye ingage yo
scarcetie of meanes anye waye discourage you / for yo
not what secrett treasures lyes hidd in yo
soe good an occasion as this / will be brought forthe and laide at yo
feete/ in great heapes then the world ymagines/ yo
Parlyam
and Fortunes/ and everye good englishman hth confirm'd it in
this p
dome to make the right vse of soe greate A guift; for therein co
sists all the dau
of Warre / everye man knowes are two/ Men and Monye/ And
would to God yo
one as they are of the other, then should wee not p
selves as wee doe to the greate whoremaster of Babilo
for A fewe Clodds of his Earthe give vp the honor of our Cou
trie/ and violate
ledge of our wants makes him pr
vs to this base and impyous adulterie/ thoughe I verelye beleif
in this pr
For yf yo
tye the holie knott of vnion / and make A firme covenau
w
as the Spanish Mynes / or yf wee doe/ wee will take a cou
haue it / w
to supplye yo
of that wherew
advertise yo
well as Subsidyes/ For if wee be at the Charge of maintay
a watche / it is reason wee should p
of it / especiallye considering howe hardlye wee ca
and howe Easilye men/ There are many thowsand of yo
subiects able and prop
to rebell for want of ymploym
but that Englishmen can earne their wages at this worke as=
well as anye other Nation: Sure I am, it is to be found in verye
good historyes
haue thought it none of their worst stratagems to cladd a great
parte of their owne people in English Cassocks to make them=
selves more terrible to the Enemie/
Count Mansfeild is A gallant man / and deserves not
onlye to be well paide/ but highlie rewarded/ for the good
not arrived when he did/ those fewe all worthie Cou
ours / that would not goe awaye before they sawe the last dau
borne, had bine miserablye sacrificed to the Spaniards butcherye,
w
for a while, but nothinge should haue lasted blacke/ soe longe as
the Storye of it/ w
certainlye haue blurd
But as he came thither by one accident / soe for ought we know
he maye goe awaye by another, And therefore it were fitt to
procure more certaine Soldiers / for soe certaine A warr, For
as my Lord digbye did verye well shewe towards the Ende of his
narrac
haue their wives Children and Frennds dwelling in the Palatinat
but such to whom all places are alike / soe they maye be sett on
worke, and vpo
paye, How much better were it for yo
desire/ and send over an Armie of good English/ whoe you maye
be sure/ will neither chang Partye nor spoyle
fastlye adhere / as much out of affection as obligac
and p
aright, wee doe not contribute to this warr, soe much to regaine
the Palatinate / as to redeeme the Creditt of our Nation/ w
all the monye in the kingdome is not able to doe w
There are as I have heard two reasons made to oppose this Re=
solution / the one the odds of the Charge / the other,
of getting thither, To the first I answere breifelye
warr, the best is ever cheapest/ and the shortest the best / I meane
not the shortest beginning/ but the shortest ending, And for
it is to be pr
Royall/ by taking it vpo
greatnes sake be seene to send anye forces, but such as shall be
able to make their waye / yf not, at least they maye have com=
mission to take lodgings by the waye/ for those shall come after,
And soe thoughe they come shorte of their Iourneyes ende/ they
maye happilye make an end of that they goe for the Sooner, In
plaine tearmes S ir the Palatinate is verye ill seated for vs to
warr in/ it being both remote from the Sea/ and surrounded on all
sides w
sons Foxes tayles / to sett these our parts of Christendome on
Fire, for w
and haue the Catholique king for their head / whoe sticks close
to them in all adventures/ whereas yo
w
it as a bodye w
but that there is hope it will rise againe at the first sounde of
yo
the easiest to be resuscited and most vsefull for the pr
are the vnited Provinces of the Lowe Cou
est and neerest to the head / during this time of dissoluc
bine fay
and are indeed the Armies, And would ere this haue caryed them
into their owne cou
Enemie at home. If then yo
Foote out of the Palatinate / the speediest course will be to give the
Hollanders yo
w
selfe/ you maye for Ceremonies sake lent the Prince yo
Lawe an Armie / to dispose of as he shall see cause/ all wayes p
that you councell him vnderhand to his best advantage, soe shall the
Spaniards be paid in his best
their owne possessions / whereas if you confine the action to
Palatinate / and content yo
you see the Enemie as wise as A thousand Serpents, It will never
haue an end but drawe it selfe into A thousand such A circle of con=
tinuall trouble/ as wee maye looke to see A dozen yeere hence, two
suhc Armies, keepe one another at A Baye in the Palatinate/ as they
doe nowe in the lowe Countryes
I will not shewe soe little respect vnto yo
talke anye longer in soe cleere a case, but will heere conclude my
reasons w
and Christendome right in this greate affayre. And lett it be noe
longer said that the Spaniards hath more witt / then the English Eye
sight/ or
of kine to him, then yo
It remaynes nowe
of our bretheren Gods Children in France / against whom the Fire=
brands of hell haue kindled A p
It being the heavenlye cause of religion and noe other for w
are made to suffer, wherein yo
as is possible for A man to haue/ when his neighbours house is on
Fire/ Indeed soe much as it would ill become a pr
in mynde of it at anye time / but this when it seemes a dead sleepe,
possesses all the land/ and that we had rather perrish the
Enemies approache/ but cannot be heard/ The watchmen of the Pallace
that stand in highe Places / though they cannot but see the dau
dare not they gie the Alaru
Lastely
and worst of all the Church men / who are the Seers of
Israell and ought to discrie from the holye place
plotts / are they that doe most of all connive at the stupditie of the
time / all of them allreadye aleadge for the excuse of their weaknes,
the strong opynion they haue of yo
in vayne either to advertise or advise yo
of it / as a mortall man can compr
thinke a greate deale more/ otherwise it could not be/
should soe varye as they doe/ fro
I graunt that all wise Princes haue ever reserved to the
taine cases of State / w
arcana Imperij
/
and wee should be too iniurious to yo
should grudge the like prS ir, we that have reasonable
soules, cannot but vse them, in soe important a matter, and doe finde
a great deale of difference betweene yo
pointe, for thoughe the haue lockt vp in the Clossetts of their breasts
incom
effects haue bine seene to come abroade befoure the cause could be
knowne/ yet at last it came to be evident / that these their secrett de=
signes ever intended to the publique good and the instrumentall
meanes were onlye such Heteroclites as did transcend, and not over=
throwe comon reason/ whereas yo
but diametrally opposite to prove mans vnderstanding / and soe farre
from giving vs anye hopes of good effects hereafter, as they do allready
fullfill the vtmost of our feares, in soe much as wee haue noe waye
lefte to put our selves out of astonishm
dome blamelesse/ but by stranglye beleiving
Princes have libertie to gov
of worldlye pollicye/ yo
meanes and advantages by the coercive power of some secrett reve=
lation / And as david whoe was a King after Gods owne hart, might
not for all that / build God A Temple, because he had his handes in
bloud/ soe happilye yo
for the Church of God/ because likewise you haue yo
w
as they are w
knowes the sweetnes of yo
clemencie and mercie you have sway'd the septer, would thinke it
litle lesse then blasphemie to accuse you of any thing
But God iudgeth not like man / and whoe can hinder the eternall
fro
in his Church of late/ since you are his Liveten
and have received of his heavenlye grace both sufficient power and
right to oppose such innovations
O the goodnes and devine providence of God
ma
as doe necessarilye inferre and transferr a right of p
those poore p
it/ I doe as verilye beleive/ as that there were A Text for it in the
Appocalipse/
omnipotente pr
of his Church/ as to continue vpo
thend
the faithe for theirs.
neither as you are kinge of France/ nor defender of the Faithe,
yet ought you to pr
for reason of State/ w
Protestants of France/ be vtterlye extirpde &
dome re
not thinke Eng
w
then begine to beleive Com mines
spake of/ whoe being in discourse w
wee had soe often and w
saide.
them for their Sinnes/ and when the Sinnes of Eng
then those of Fraunce/ he would likewise send the French thither to
scurge them/ And howe willinglye would
imploym
newe cause of their hatred/ The vertue of our Auncestors sticks
in their stomacks and the true p
consciencs / they whoo beleive they doe good service in cutting theire
owne Cou
would doubtlesse thinke themselves damn'd/ yf they should not doe
much more to strangers and their au
occasion/ nor shall they want power-full inticem
enterprise/ his Holynes himselfe will be their temptor, thoughe
thankes be to God he is nothing soe cun
I knowe not by what Pontificall furie he hath pr
tigac
anye but Antechrist out of his witts haue soe abused his most
Christian Child/ as to put him vpon the Conquest of England/
before he was m
his Apostolique letters, I had an opynion/
had devised them to give yo
cause / but having since bine made certaine they came from Rome,
and that I finde them incerted in A French Catholique writer
(
auce priueledge du Roy
) I knowe not what to wonder att most,
whether at them that saye The Pope cannot erre at all/ or at him,
that he should err soe muche. I assure my selfe this famous Epistle
hath long since bine pr
neverthelesse I will crave leave to make you see how vglie it
shewes in English/
To
our deare Sonne in Christ Iesus lewis
the most
Christian Kinge. Pope Gregorye the
xv th
Most deare Sonne in Christ /
Healthe and our Apostolique benediction. The highe exploits of
yo
bring A great deale of Comfort to our Fatherlye Care / aswell in regard
of the glorye of yo
(as wee doe w
some places w
of A cruell governem
soe fitt an oppertunitie made yo
the dignitie of the Catholique religion, O fayre apprentishippe of a
Royall warrfare/ and worthie of A most Christian kinge/ what an
admirable thing is it/ that
and idlenes vse to passe awaye in Sports and delights/ yo
imploye soe generouslye/ soe fortunatelye in appeasing differences,
conducting Armies, and beseiging the places of Heretiques, and all
not w
is allmost inceredible that the very first stepp of yo
carrye you to soe highe and troublesome an enterprise / &
and difficulties w
for A spurr to the greatnes of yo
renoune of yo
to thend/ that as you are nowe held in everye mans opynion
boult of warre, and buckler of peace, soe you maye hereafter bee
esteemed the praise of Israell/ and glorye of the world/ Fro
of our Apostolique dignitie / whereto it hath pleased God of his goodnes
to raise vs of soe vnworthie great a grace/ Wee asist yo
w
remedies. And thoughe wee doubt not but yo
constant in the worke you haue begun/ Neverthelesse we have thought
good to add our exhortac
haue of the advancem
are to giue waye to yo
to God for his bountye towards you/ and as wee both hope & wish shall
hereafter be a greate deale more/ for you having yo
w
wisedome/ doe well knowe
the truthe of orthodoxall Faithe. And vnlesse God keepe
principallitye can subsist w
w
cast the verye Saints the
much as in them laye to put them out of the number of
Institutions of our forefathers/
Popes/ and the Ceremonies of the Churche / these are the disturbers of our
christian Comon wealthe/ and the reprochers of France, whom the great
God hath reserved to be exterminated in the first yeare of o
then that all Europe/ w
hopes shortlye to hoyse vp sayle vpon the Ocean vnder yo
th'end that place w
tiques and Rebells maye one daye serve for A marke of yo
wee are confidentlye p
bee able ever to direct you fro
wee would haue you remember, that the Saints of heaven assist
(whoe takes vpo
fellowe Soldiers. The same God
drye land/ and turned the waves of the Sea into walls/ to give safe pas=
sage to his Childrens Armie/ will certeinelye be as favourable to you,
And then we shall haue good cause to hope hereafter when you haue
established yo
maye one daye by the p
to the Occident imitating the glorie of yo
borne as muche respect to the exhortations of Popes / as to the com=
maunde
stepps you followe/ invites you to it / Soe did the first of yo
in defending the Apostolique authoritie and p
Religion/ laied the best and surest foundation of yo
Followe deare Sonne/ whoe are
of heaven/ poure out yo
haue not knowne God, to thend the devine treasure of Heaven maye be=
longe vnto you by iust acquisic
most affectionately our Apostolique Benediction/
Giuen at Rome in great St maryes
vnder the greate seale of the Fisher
the 4:th of September 1621: the firste
yeare of our Pontificate./
Behold the Netts St Peters Successors hope to catch England
w
be not therefore offended w
tremble/ thoughe not for feare / yet for greiffe to sea yo
neglect both yo
occasion/ the Pope needed not to haue bine soe foolish as to adu
vs/ wee should easilye haue bine soe wise of our selves/ as to vnder
stand howe neere the Protestants of France concerne England, They
are indeed soe manye hostages w
yo
that Countrye/ and to loose them were noe other in my opynion/ then
willfullye to tempt God to deliver vs into the handes of our Enemys.
to haue bretheren there/ but they once gone/ yo
will quicklye shewe whose Child he is / and howe incomepatible
dience he owes him is/ w
then the title you haue vpo
A knott / what can yo
keepe his enmitye still clog'd by cherrishing and mayntayninge soe
good a partie in this Countrie/ who (you maye be sure) wilbe soe farr at
yo
nor haue the holye motions of Gods spirritt bine alltogither wantinge
to yo
is vnlawfull to doubt)
that the first
tyme
yo
shewes of compassion / and sent them awaye astonished w
wordes, did you not tell them,
suffer you to assist yo
you were not well satisfyed of the iustice of their quarrell/ yet for the
they might assure themselves/ you would ymploye the vttermost of yo
Forces in theire defence /
passed betweene them and their kinge/ and could finde wherein they
had not offended. That you were more ingaged in theire behalfe then
p
kinge after the deathe of his Father/ you caused an expresse Article
to be incerted/ That those of the reformed Religion / as long as they
comported themselves as good Subiects / should be peaceably maine=
tayned / and enioye the Benefitts of the Edicts in as ample manner
as they had done in his Fathers liffe Tyme / w
willfullye infringed / you held yo
honor to take theire cause in hand/ and see them righted as you vowed
to God you would/ confirming this yo
soe highe nature/ as thoughe I doubt not but they proceeded out of
zeale/ yet dare not for the respect I owe yo
this place. And
Religion credulous/ My Lord of Buckingham himselfe fell vpo
his knees and besought yo
much
and came awaye praysing God/ for
ma
(w
the land of promise/ for notw
had made them / they mett w
be deceaved in their expectacons, w
till they sawe nothing done / because yo
came a great Prince /
to flatter/ or dissemble w
would haue told them soe at first. But alas what are they the
better for yo
their vnderstandinge /callamitye/
True it is such was their humilitie and discresion as they desired
yo
theire favor/ before you had remorse to anye other / not out of anye hope
they had it would p
A course most suteable to yo
good to send my Lord of Doncaster into France / to mediate
in the choise of whose p
in the Ambassage it selfe / for thoughe they were but strangers and
newlye aryved in yo
could not tell them) w
bare to the true service of God and his m
his well wishes were his owne / and his Instructions yo
howe soe farre soe ever the one went before / he was nowe bound to
followe the other/ All he could doe voluntarie was to vse his best
deligence in matter of tyme / as I assured my selfe he did / though it
was his misfortune to meete w
arrived at the French Kings campe/ the Can
at Mountaban as he could not of A long tyme be heard/ And whe
with much A doe he had p
was soe vnsavorie / as both his busines and himselfe fell sicke vpo
it / by occasion whereof more time was spent in this owne voyage,
then our Au
Fraunce / and after all he came home pittifullye complayninge of
the ill satisfacc
not take his Faithfull accompt for finall paym
worthye yo
conceived) w
all was one, for he found the younge Kinge as abstinate as ever,
in the pursuite of his Armes/ and not to be p
vpon bare intreaties/ And to speake the truthe it was not to bee
gac
favour at yo
the Animositie hee beares them p
hee hath that they have allreadye too much dependance vpo
yo
Lewis the xith to make him lett the duke of Brittanie alone / I doubt
not but his counsell/ (as feirce A warrior as he is) would have advised
him for the best/ But this was A pointe of Rhetoricke beyond his
Lordshipps Comission/ and all that was lawefull for him to vrge,
was easilye avoyded either by flatt refusall or vaine excusall/ soe
he was forct the Second tyme to returne out of Fraunce w
leaving behind him any signe he had bine there; That appeared
onlye here at home by my Lord Treasurors accompts/ there hauing
bine issued as much monye out of the Exchequor for the defrayinge
parte of the poore Churches necessities/ as yo
wards to consider (thoughe to late) when you told the deputyes you
could haue wished you had given them the monye that my Lo
had and would cost you in this treatie/ And w
haue done them a greate deale more good then the other, For they were
soe farre fro
rather infinitlye disadvantaged them, it noe waye slackned or ap=
peased the furye of their Prince/ whoe continued his assaultes vpo
them everye daye more cruellie then other. And yet was of
w
endeavours more difficult,) they imposed measure and modestie vpon
their Armes/ and in divers cases chose rather to suffer the
the extremities of warre in their defence / Besides manye of theire
parte seeing yo
thought it noe pointe of wisedome to declare themselves before they
sawe the yssue of it / w
Soe as the verye pr
(were there noe other motive) doth sufficientlye oblige you in pointe
of Iustice to doe some thinge for them. And in the name of God w
should hinder you after soe manye vowes and p
soe easie and meritorious a worke/ p
Achitaphell hath buzzed into yo
Protestants of Fraunce/ the French Kinge might likewise be drawe
to asiste the Papists of England against yo
to God wee are not there yet/ for thoughe our Papists have had more
scope given them of late / then all that love theire Could haue wish't/
yet are they not growne to such A formidable height / as that this
Illac
France haue lawes made in their favor, and townes given them for
theire securitie/ But the Papists of England can expect nothinge
fro
assurance/ then what proceeds from meere connivencie/ Besids
the tenetts of the owne are knowne soe conformable to civill gou
as they are (and of right ought to bee) p
both in p
denyed this libertie/ because both their positions and dispositio
alltogither repugnant to the Peace and safetie of the State/ well may
they conspire in Sects by two and two/ but to rebell openlye
stables will not suffer them; If they were in case to shew the
in theire right colors/ we should quickelye haue newes of theire
Frenndes beyond the Seas/ there being A greate Prince in
that openlye p
him as his owne prop
but yo
them from haveinge anye forraigne assistance / there is noe waye
but one to keepe them in such order as they maye not be capabl
The Church of Rome as it is for the most p
worldlie pollicye/ soe doth it aboue all other excell in this/
holds the parts firmelye linck't togither, and possesses them (by I
knowe not what fascination) w
they p
others interests/ where as wee if wee praye once A weeke/ more
out of Custome / then anye devotion for
Church/ wee haue p
it is / that the Catholique cause makes such A noyse in
and carryes all before it in these troublesome tymes; for amongst
them it is not enoughe to p
whereas wee thinke God sufficientlye honored yf we beleive
his truthe/ lett him defend it as he will/ or if at anie time/ wee
be vrged to fight for our Religion / wee vse onlye
sworde/ whilest our Adversaries make theirs victorious w
materiall/ and confound more in one daye w
Peter or St Paule could ever converte w
that have given their power to the Beast send Armes/ and yo
that should fight the battaile of the Lord Embassage: In a worde
whilest yo
of theires, they finde meanes to conquer a whole Province of
yo
generac
at the last daye / for bearing more firme affection to the Alcoran
of Rome the
That I maye yet give yo
of these thinges, lett it be lawefull for me to change
Faithe of Religion throughe out Christendome/ and see what will
necessarilye resulte. Suppose yo
were Prapists and
the maior p
Papaists/ The Kinge of Spaine/ the Emperor, and all the tribe of
Austria of the confession of Ausburge/ yo
Princes of Germanye theire confederates Romaine Catholiques,
suppose (I saye) the difference were in all p
onlye turn'd, doth yo
deafe at suche crying occasions/ w
in Com
pleasure a hunting / whilest yo
made A Preye to the Comon Enemye/ Noe assuredlye you woulde
haue found another manner of busines of it / and seene yo
forced to pr
dieu et mon ) before
droit
beati pacifici
) you should then haue seene
ference betweene A Puritan Pa
and dispise the other
The Popes Bulls and his fierye beasts the Iesuitts woulde
haue bine continuallye vpon yo
neither safe nor quiett, till they had thrust you into Acition, And
for one Preacher of ours/
to this purpose/ you should haue had all theires treate of nothing
els/ noe pr
or sparinge in A case that soe highlye concerned their holy mother
the Church / what then shall the true Religion because it teacheth
noe doctrine/ but w
the gospell be
therefore neglected? (God forbidd) they
taine the excommunicac
would desire noe better ground for their opinion the
And it would not but anger the verye Saints themselves to see
their Enemies tryumphe over them w
yo
of yo
an ill sence. But if my observations haue not erred/ in some p
of Christendome where I haue lived/ there is noe Religio
for A Sou
in soe much as I wonder
for pollicye sake will suffer anye other in their dominions
For let A Protestant Kinge (I meane one
people of that profession) be never soe notoriouslie wicked in
his person/ nor soe enormious in his governem
vice w
remove the au
daye newe yoakes/ let him take reward and punishm
handes of Iustice/ and soe distribute them w
or wronge / or maye make his followers doubt whether there be
A Heaven or A hell / w
helpe and pr
excell in mischeiffe/ Rapine and oppression as Nero (compared w
him) maie be held A verye Father of the people/ when he hath done
all
(for all that) have anye occasion to feare / but maie boldlye goe in &
out to his Sports w
Allthoughe everye daye of his raigne bring forth A new Prodigi
to greive all
he not need either to take the lesse drincke when he goeth to bed,
or the more thought when he rises. He maie sollace himselfe as
securelye in his bedd chamber / as the grave Signior in his Seruglio,
haue the Lordes spirituall for his ma
for his
hee kisse the Minions w
w
respecte as Catholique Princes vse to give their Confessors, (A
packe of Ravenous wolves Currs
Comon wealthe and one of the m
Beasts/ and onlye made for them to praye vpon) That like theire m
soares not whole but smoath / and barke at everye man
circled w
all the kingdome mo
getts/ hugg his Ingeners & crye w
servitude / his poore Protestant Subiects will onlye thinke he is give
them of God for the punishm
not because he is good / but because he is theire Kinge/ not because he
rules according to Iustice and equitie/ but because his power is
the ordinance of God / yea the Preachers of greatest note & creditt
will hold themselves bound in duetie to praise him against theire
Consciences/ and laying A side devinitye make the pulpitt a Stage of
Flatterye / where you shall therein endewe him after a most poetical
manner, w
good / as would make all that heare them happie / yf they could beleiv
the thinges of Princes/ as well as those of God/ in spight of
nor doe their Fatherhoods thus/ out of simplicitie or ignorance/ for they
are well read in the blacke booke of the Courte / but of A pollitique
and officious purpose to sweeten the peoples myndes and keepe the
from rebelling / these are the fruites and p
Religion/ w
tyes the Subiect to such wonderfull patience & obedience/ as doth
allmost verifye that bold speeche of Machavell/ when he said Chris=
tianitie made men cowards/ And if it be soe advantagious to a bad
Prince / howe much more to A good? for thoughe duties are & must
be paide to both/ yet is there a greate deale of difference in
and p
of bare charitie and mutiall Frenndshipp/ the one receives his
peoples service and obedience as meere almes given for
sake / the other as A Free benevolence wherein men extend the
w
mirrit then his power/
The experience yo
raigne/ will better declare this truth/ then anye discourse of myne,
I will therefore digresse noe further in this pointe / but by waye of
inference returne to the marke I ayme at / w
yo
howe can yo
assist a Religion
humaine Societie/
of heaven / and makes men obeye Kinges as Angell doe God
good, In short a Religion that haes the Iesuitts w
because they are the kinges Enemies/
Howe ill advised then is that young Prince that seekes with fire
and sworde to drive this holie and onlye true opinion out of this king=
dome/ what can he pr
king martires? would he haue all his subiects agree that it is law=
full to kill kinges and none left to write against co
would he have all his great ones to take pentions of his ambitious
neighbors/ to wincke at everye publique pr
augm
designes of his envious Superiors in the Romaine Hierarchie who
haue A long time thought the Crowne of France too goodlye a thinge
for him or anye French man to possesse / conformable to w
is A Famous worke composed by A spanish Author, where, for
the better p
it fitt there should be but two Monarchies/ A spirrituall and
temporall/ the Pope to haue the one / and his m
pose litle Lewis the Iust by reason of the straight Alliance w
Spaine/ and the devout observance to Rome maie p
more assurance of his liffe and Empire then Henrye the great his
more whorthie Father, Neverthelesse yf he were old enough to
be wise/ hee would never teach his people soe daungerous A
lesson as to knowe their owne strength/ nor move them to take vpp
Armes in anye occasion / by compelling them to defend themselves,
in A iust cause/ how faithfull fatall this indiscretion hath p
as great Princes as himselfe / both auntient & moderne exa
doe sufficientlye instruct But I cease to wonder at him
to lying Prophetts / and suffers himselfe to be ledd awaye by the
spirritt of Illusion / That w
is/ yoof you haue in these good
people/ as to stand newter betwixt his madnes &
He is blinde and knowes not what hee doth / But God hath opened
yo
all plea of Ignorance. It is nothinge soe grevious or scandalous
in him to murther and scatter Christs flocke / as it is in yo
to looke one/ whoe are aswell his deputie Sheppard as his vice Roy
Indeed you are nothing nor can be considered in anye capacitye,
function/ or dignitie/ wenioye oblige you to take
the cause of these poore men to hart, and imploye yo
meanes for their pr
to doe miracles for them / whoe will not suffer them to perrish for
his name sake/ but it is expected both of God and man /
put to yo
w
noe sooner exceed wordes and shewe yo
resolution / but the Foot ball will be pr
sent them for
much to graunt/ yo
more/ for
it in yo
Enemies at what rate you please / A traffique farr better becom=
ing A great Prince then that of titles offices and such like pettye
Comodities of Courte/
I would here willinglye make an ende but that there is one
motive more offers it selfe to my conceipt/ w
pr
ever expressed A desire worthie of yo
of yo
not contribute his best indeavors to soe good A worke/ is vnworthie
to be of either/ Onlye it is to be wished
vpo
maye give vniversall satisfacc
of Vnion) It is not to be done by choosing yo
out of eache Nation / not by making Scottish men Lords of England,
and English men Lords of Scottland/ nor yet by mixture of mar=
riage / w
people soe / noe nor by the more Subtile waye that is now practised
of making England as poore as Scottland/ these are too weake
and cou
that were wont to thirst after one another bloud/ it must be some
thinge of more vertue that must charme the dissonant humors of
these two Nations and make them forgett whose fortune it was to
bee envyed, and whose contemned in tymes past / And if any thing
vpon Earthe can doe it/ it will be their fellowshipp in Armes in
some fortunate warre, where honor and dau
devided/ and noe Iealousie or contention rise/ but of well doing
One victorye obteyned by the ioynt valors of English and Scotts,
will more indelibly Christen yo
then anye Acte of Parlyam
If then yo
of this yo
vnecessarie pollicie of keeping the two Nations in co
tion / and cou
remaynes but to bring out Forth yo
the Coniunction of yo
vnion/ they shall noe sooner behold that comon Engsigne of honor,
wherein they have both equall Int
diversitie will be thought vnworthie their remembrance/ and
then the Enemye shall quickelye Finde to his cost that the twoe
mightie and populous kingdomes of England and scottland haue
but one head and one harte/
Now albeit yo
occasions as the world can afford/ yet that of France seemes
most prop
of our auntient enmitie/ soe would it be made to feele the effects
of our reconcilem
strict Alliance
to be soe suspected England/ had not the Scotts of old bine our
backe Frenndes and shewed them selves in all occasions more af=
fectionate to the French then to vs/ yo
at this daye haue seene yo
had not wee pr
never come to haue bine Kinge of England. This will seeme
noe ridle to them w
historie of these times. And if Eng
p
offencive and defensive was at the strongest/ what might not
England and Scottland doe nowe in France where there is a=
nother manner of p
vs; surelye wee might drive all
of Berrye/ & make another kinge of Burges/ But I will not labor
in vayne to make yo
God Allmightie I knowe hath fil'd yo
soe sealed it vp fro
Conquests but splended robberyes / as you are pleased to ex=
presse yo
I intend to incyte yo
as well w
tell the kinge he maye doe all he can/ for my p
my selfe blest of Heaven / yf I maye but obtaine my humble
desire w
nor glorye (the como
yo
mee soe hardye as to wish it, were there anye other hope in yo
Armes but to right the wronged world and acqu
itt yo
selfe of yo
Behold S ir asmuch as I am able to pr
more then I shall haue thankes for/ but that is the least p
of my pr
service deserves this and A greate deale more of an honest
man / And hee that seekes rewarde for well doeinge/
knowes not the valewe of A good conscience/
I shall be content to remayne vnknowne, soe as I make
yo
you/ the misfortunes of yo
maye be pleased to consider howe long you haue offended
all the world, and forgive mee/ lett it not seeme strange or
evill in yo
A cause my Soule loves above all that is mortall/ and for
the Advancem
serue / that disswade you from it
Finis of
Tom Tell Trothe./