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A31592	Cabala, sive, Scrinia sacra mysteries of state & government : in letters of illustrious persons, and great agents, in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Queen Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charls : in two parts : in which the secrets of Empire and publique manage of affairs are contained : with many remarkable passages no where else published.; Cabala, sive, Scrinia sacra.		1654 (1654)	Wing C184_ENTIRE; Wing C183_PARTIAL; Wing S2110_PARTIAL; ESTC R21971	510,165	642

the increase of Gods Worship and by not only defending but propagating the jurisdiction of the Pontifical authority There have been many and shall be hereafter whom the bountie of Kings hath enriched with fading riches and advanced to envied titles and yet mindful posterity will not celebrate your name with eternal Prayses for having attayned these but if your Councels should reduce those most powerful Kings and people unto the bosom of the Romane Church the name of your Noblenesse would be written in the book of the living whom the torment of Death toucheth not and the Monuments of Histories shall place you amongst those wise men in whose splendor Kings walked but with what comforts in this life and what rewards in the life to come God who is rich in mercy would reward you they easily see who know the art and force by which the Kingdom of heaven is conquered It is not only our Pontifical charity to whose care the salvation of mankind pertaineth but also the piety of your Mother who as she brought you into the world so she desireth to bear you again to the Romane Church which she acknowledgeth for her mother that moved us to desire that you were made Partakers of so great felicity Therefore when our beloved son the religious man Didacus de la Fuente who hath wisely administred the affaires of your Princes in this City prepared his journie for Spain we commanded him to come unto your Noblenesse and present these our Apostolical Letters by which the Greatnesse of our Pontifical charity and the desire of your salvation may be declared Your Noblenesse may therefore heare him as the interpreter of our mind and as one indued with these virtues which have won him the love of forraign nations being a Catholique and religious priest He certainely hath reported those things of you in these parts of the world that he is worthie to be imbraced of you with singular affection and defended by your authority being a servant to the Glorie and salvation of the Brittish Kings and people This thing truly will we pray for to the father of mercies that he will open to your Noblenesse the gates of his Coelestial kingdom and afford you frequent Documents of his Clemency Given at Rome at St. Marie the Greater under the Ring of the Fisherman the 19. of May. 1623. and of our Popedom the third John Champolus To his Sacred Majestie ab ignoto My most Gratious King THese things which your Majestie did lately command to be spoken unto you and now to be repeated in writing are not such as they can be made by legal and Judicial proofes both because they by whose testimony they may be confirmed do for fear of a most potent adversarie withdraw themselves And also because they think it a crime to come into the Embassadours house yea even they are afraid to do it who have commandement from your Majestie but neither was it lawful for the Embassadours themselves to speak these things especially not to such as they directed when the order of the affaires required it because they had never the freedom to speak unto your Majestie and no audience was given or granted them in the absence of tht Duke of Buckingham An example certainly unusual with other Kings and never to be taken in good part unlesse it be perhaps when the King himself wanting experience and being of weak judgment and no wisedom some one that is familiar and inward with the King a man wise and circumspect of great judgment and no lesse experience supplies the Kings place But here when all things go preposterously and the King himself being a most prudent and experienced Prince he that is familiar or favorite doth in all things shew himself a rash headie young man a Novice in managing of businesse and to the Crown of Spain most offensive Certainly by all just right this man was to be kept away from the audience of the Embassadour of the State We may also be bold to say that his presence so earnestly desired of him doth argue a great fear in him and a great distrust in him as well of his own upright conscience as also the Kings wisdom Hence therefore it is come to passe that your Majesties most faithful Vassals dare not so much as indirectly disclose their minds to the King though they take it in very ill part that a very good King should be driven into such streights And that a man pleasing himself in his own designs should use the favours of Princes so sinisterly that he doth of set purpose stir up breach of friendship and enmity between most Mighty Kings Besides who can without a discontented mind endure that the greatest affaires and of greatest moment if any in the Christian world can be so tearmed shall be ordered or concluded at the pleasure of your Parliament and from thence all things carried on with a headlong violence at his will and pleasure and a most deadly war to be preferred before a most happie Peace When as neverthelesse I am not ignorant that not so much the restitution of the Palatinate as the very claime to it will very difficultly be obtained or recovered by force of armes Let your Majestie exactly consider as it useth to do whether this be not an evident argument of that I have said that the conference or treatie about the Palatinate was taken from the Councel of State a society of most prudent men only for this cause that almost everie one of them had with one consent approved the proposition of the most Catholique King and did not find in it any cause of dissolving that treaty Hereupon the Parliament of this Kingdom was procured by the Duke because he thought his plots would be most acceptable to the Puritans not without great injury to your Councel of State from which he fled and disclaimed by way of an appeale and with such successe that we may be bold to say that the Parliament is now above the King Nay which is more that this daring Duke propounded many things to the Parliament in the Kings name your Majestie being neither acquainted with them nor willing to them Yea and that he propounded many things contrary to your Majesties service Who is there that doth not see and commend the royal disposition of the Prince adorned with so great endowments of his mind that he doth not in them all shew and approve himself to be a very good son of a very good King And yet neverthelesse that the Duke doth so much presume upon his favour that he contemneth all men as knowing that those who are obedient to his Highnesse will also subject themselves to his will I would to God he did direct those his actions to the good of the Prince But that is a thing so far from the opinion of good men that they rather believe that he who hath overthrown the marriage with Spain will be of no lesse power to the breaking of any other marriage

death of Mr. Secretary Walsingham SIR VPon this unhappy accident I have tryed to the bottom what the Queen will do for you and what the credit of your Sollicitor is worth I urged not the comparison between you and any other But in my duty to her and zeal to her service I did assure her that she had not any other in England that would for these three or four years know how to settle himself to support so great a burthen She gave me leave to speak heard me with patience confessed with me that none was so sufficient and could not deny but that which she lays to your charge was done without hope fear malice envy or any respect of your own but meerly for her safety both of state and person In the end she absolutely denied to let you enjoy that place and willed me to rest satisfied for she was resolved Thus much I write to let you know I am more honest to my friends then happy in their cases What you will have me do for your suit I will as far as my credit is any thing worth I have told most of the Councel of my manner of dealing with the Queen my Lord Chamberlain tells me he hath dealt for you also and they all say they wish as I do but in this world that is enough I will commit you to God for this time and rest Your constant and true friend R. ESSEX Earl of Essex to the Queen MY dutiful affections to your Majesty always overweighed all other worldly respects that seeking in all particulars to manifest my truth I have maimed my estate in general as I dare in the heat of my thoughts compare with the greatest that ever vowed for faithful service so is there not the meanest that hath overslipped me I will not say in recompence but in some gracious estate of service Thus whilst my faith wrestleth with my fortune the one winns breath to beat th' other down Though I have no hope to repair the ruines of my oversight yet I cannot but presume your Majesty will suffer me to preserve them from blowing up and what youth and forward belief hath undermined in mine estate providence by a retired life may underlay In which discontinuance from Court there shall be added if any thing be added increase of loyalty Nor so solitary shall be my course as it shall seem to proceed of discontentment but of necessity and all actions both with living and my life so forward as though some may have overrun me in fortunes none shall in duty Next my allegiance to your Majesty which shall be held most sacred and inviolable the report of mine Honour challengeth chief interest which that I may preserve in my wonted state reason draws me to stay my self slipping from falling That of late by what secret and venemous blow I know not my faith hath received some wounds your Majesties wonted grace withdrawn assures me But truth and my patience in this case were one with me and time in your Princely thoughts did wear it out from me Let time be Judge I will leave you with as great lothness as I were to lose what I love best But your favour failing in which I have placed all my hopes and my self less graced after seven years then when I had served but seven dayes may be a reason to excuse if there were no other reason These things pressed out of a distressed mind and offered in all humility I hope it shall not be offensive if I choose this wearisom course rather to be retired then tired If any of envy take advantage of absence seeking by cunning to draw me into suspition of discontentment my conscience is setled in your never erring Judgment that if he come with Esau's hands and Jacob's voice your Highness will censure it a wrought malice under such simplicity It is true that grief cannot speak but this grief hath made me write lest when I leave you I should so far forsake my self as to leave this unsaid To your gracious acceptance I commit it and with all humble and reverent thoughts that may be rest ever to be commanded to die at your Majesties feet RO. ESSEX Again to the Queen FRom a mind delighting in sorrow from spirits wasted with passion from a heart torne in pieces with care grief and travel from a man that hateth himself and all things that keepeth him alive what service can your Majesty expect since your service past deserves no more then banishment or prescription in the cursed'st of all other Countries Nay nay it is your Rebels pride and success that must give me leave to ransom my life out of this hatefull prison of my loathed body which if it happen so your Majesty shall have no cause to mislike the fashion of my death since the course of my life could never please you Your Majesties exiled Servant RO. ESSEX Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Chancellor to the Earl of Essex My very good Lord IT is often seen that he that stands by seeth more then he that playeth the game and for the most part every one in his own cause standeth in his own light and seeth not so cleerly as he should Your Lordship hath dealt in other mens causes and in great and weighty affairs with great wisdom and judgment now your own is in hand you are not to contemn or refuse the advice of any that love you how simple soever In this order I rank my self among others that love you none more simple and none that love you with more true and honest affection which shall plead my excuse if you shall either mistake or mistrust my words or meaning but in your Lordships honorable wisdom I neither doubt nor suspect the one nor the other I will not presume to advise you but shoot my bolt and tell you what I think The beginning and long continuance of this so unseasonable discontentment you have seen and proved by which you aim at the end If you hold still this course which hitherto you find to be worse and worse and the longer you go the further you go out of the way there is little hope or likelihood the end will be better You are not yet gone so far but that you may well return The return is safe but the progress is dangerous and desperate in this course you hold If you have any enemies you do that for them which they could never do for themselves Your friends you leave to scorn and contempt you forsake your self and overthrow your fortunes and ruinate your honour and reputation You give that comfort and courage to the foreign enemies as greater they cannot have for what can be more welcome and pleasing news then to hear that her Majesty and the Realm are maimed of so worthy a Member who hath so often and so valiantly quailed and daunted them You forsake your Country when it hath most need of your Councel and aid And lastly you fail in your indissoluble

July 1628. Your most affectionate friend and humble servant BUCKINGHAM Directed To my very worthy and much-respected friends The Vicechancellor and Senate of the University of Cambridge The Vicechancellor of Cambridge to the King upon the Dukes death Dread Soveraign THe fatal blowe given your most loyal servant whom your Majesty made our Patron and Chancellor hath so stounded our University as like a Body without a Soul she stirs not till your Majesties directions breathe life again in the choice of another And although I am but one of many and therefore having to do with a multitude cannot absolutely assure the effecting of your pleasure yet I dare undertake for my self with the rest of the Heads and many others truely and faithfully to labour in your Majesties desires and now presume to send fair and strong hopes to give them full satisfaction Humbly intreating the continuance of your Majesties love and care of your University the onely stay and comfort of this her sad and mournful estate occasioned by such an unexpressible disaster cherishing her self with that blessed word your Majestie used upon her last Election That howsoever your Majesties appointment shadowed out another yet your Self in substance would be her Chancellor This as an indelible Character in her memory shall ever return as all thankful observance so to God prayers full of cordial zeal for your Majesties long and happie Raign King Charles to the University of Cambridge for a new Election RIght Trusty and Welbeloved We greet you well As We took in gracious part your due respect in electing heretofore for your Chancellor a man who for his parts and faithful service was most dear unto Us so now We are well pleased to understand that you are sensible of your own and the common loss by the bloody assassinate of so eminent a person and that you desire and expect for your comfort an intimation from Us of a capable subject to suc●eed in his room This expression on your part hath begotten in Us a Royal affection towards you and more care for your good out of which We commend unto free election of you the Vicechancellor and Heads and of the Masters Regents and Non-Regents according to Our ancient Custom Our Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Holland lately a member of your own Body and well known unto you all whose hearty affection to advance Religion and Learning generally in Our own Kingdoms and especially in the Fountains cannot be doubted of Not that We shall cease to be your Chancellor in effect according to Our promise but the rather for your advantage We advise you to the choice that you may have a person acceptable unto Us and daily attending on Our person to be Our Remembrancer and Sollicitor for you upon all occasions And your general concurring herein shall be to Us a pledge of Our affections which We are willing to cherish Given at Our Court the 28 of August in the fourth yeer of Our Raign CAROLUS Rex The Earl of Holland to the University Mr. Vicechancellor and Gentlemen the Senate of the University of Cambridge THe condition of man is so frail and his time so short here that in the sum of his account there are few accidents can deliver him worthy to posterity yet to prevent my destiny in this defect you have made my name to live by your general and free election of me to be your Chancellor the which will give me so to the world not my merit I take but my beginning by this Creation and will endeavour to proceed with such strength in my serious affection to serve you all as you shall see this Honour is not conferred upon an unthankful person It is my hap to succeed the most excellent example of the best Chancellor who had both will and power to oblige you for the first none can exceed me that am tyed by my education to serve you for my power although it be but short in all other things yet in what concerns you my Master whose word you have and whose thanks you will receive in my behalf will for his own sake if not for mine accept of all humble requests for you which may conduce to the support of every particular good that can any way advantage your whole Body or advance the several members of our University For whose increase of fame and honour I do wish from an affectionate heart as I profess my self obliged being Your most thankful friend and humble servant Henry Holland The University of Cambridge to the King Serenissimo Magnificentissimo Principi CAROLO Dei gratiae Britanniae Regi c. Serenissime Potentissime Monarcha Carole Defensor Fidei Pater Patriae DUm ad Majestatis tuae pedes discumbimus veniam humillime deprecamur temeritatis nostrae Quod Majestati tuae in illud gloriae fastigium evectae ad quod nulli Principes a multis retro seculis provenere Chartas has ineptas ausi sumus querimonias obtrudere sed nullum jam in terris effulget Majestate tuâ aut illustrius aut magis beneficum sidus cujus coelesti aspectu mortales afflicti ab adversis ad salutis portum perduci possint Sensimus nos persaepe laesi sensimus vivificam charitatis tuae auram divinam clementiam amplectimur benignitatem incredibilem sempiterna veneratione adoramus Quae enim per te nobis pax data sit quae privilegia indulta confirmata quae gratia candor misericordia beneficentia nobis impertita nec nos effari possumus nec ulla secula conticere O nos foelicissimos sub tuo Sceptro Carole qui certe miserrimi essemus si Regio Majestatis tuae Patrocinio ac favore destitueremur irruunt in nos omne genus illiteratorum hominum longum haerent in nostris malis sine magno numine non amoventur Centum olim annos cum oppidanis nostris de summa privilegiorum decertavimus quinquaginta cum Typographis Londinensibus adeo crudelis est ac pertinax malitia quae literis bellum indicit Typographis per tuam in nos pietatem nuper compositis oppidani veterem odii Camarinam incipiunt commovere Ita ab Oppidanis ad Typographos a Typographis ad Oppidanos nostra in gyrum calamitas circumacta volvitur infinitis controversiarum nodis astringimur jugulamur Deflexis genibus Excellentissimam Majestatem tuam imploramus ut qua serenitate suam Academiam semper aspexerit eadem dignetur huic causae ad dictum a se diem interesse Et Deum Optim Max. precabimur ut te nobis quam diutissime conservet clementissimum Principem Patrem indulgentissimum In cujus salute totius Regni incolumitas tranquillitas Literarum publica seculi foelicitas bonorum omnium vota abunde continentur Servi Majestati tuae devoti fideles subditi Procanc ' Senat ' An Order made at Whitehall betwixt the University and Town of Cambridge Decemb. 4. 1629.

By which Quadrat I conceive that he meaneth the four principall humours in mans body to wit Choler Blood Flegme and Melancholy which if they be distempered and unfitly mingled the dissolution of the whole doth ensue like to a building which falleth to ruine if the Foundation or Base of it be unsound or disordered and in some of these the vitall spirits are contained and preserved which the other do keep in a convenient temper and as long as they do so the soul and the body dwell together like good friends So that these four are the Base of the conjunction of the other two both which hee saith are Proportion'd equally by Seven and Nine In which words I understand that hee meaneth the influences of the superior substances which govern the inferiour into these two differing parts of man to wit of the Stars the most powerfull of which are the seven Planets into his body and of the Angels which are divided into nine Hierarchies or Orders into the soul which in his Astrophel he saith is By Soveraign choice from the Heavenly Quires select And lineally deriv'd from Angels race And as much as the one do govern the body so much the other do the minde wherein it is to be considered that some are of opinion how at the instant of the conception of a child or rather more effectually at the instant of his birth the conceived Sperme or the tender body doth receive such influence of the heavens as then reigneth over that place where the conception or birth is made and all the Starrs and virtuall places of the Celestiall Orbs participating of the qualities of the seven planets according to the which they are distributed into so many Classes or the compounds of them it cometh to passe that according to the variety of the several aspects of the one and of the other there are various inclinations and qualities in mens bodies but all reduced to seven general heads and the Compounds of them which being to be varied innumerable waies causeth as many different effects yet the influence of some one planet continually predominating but when the matter in the womans womb is capable of a soule to informe it then God sendeth one from heaven into it Eternal God In Paradise whilome did plant this flower Whence he it fetcht out of her native place And did in stock of earthly flesh enrace And this opinion the Author expresseth himself more plainely to be of in another work where he saith There Shee beholds with high aspiring thought The Cradle of her owne Creation Amongst the seats of Angels heavenly wrought Which whether it hath been created ever since the beginning of the world and reserved in some fit place until due time or be created upon the Emergent occasion no man can tell but certaine it is that it is immortal according to that I said when I spake of the Circle which hath no ending and an uncertaine beginning The messengers to convey which soule into the body are the Intelligences that move the Orbs of heaven who according to their several natures do communicate unto it several proprieties and they who are governors of those Stars that have at that instant the superiority in the Planetary aspects whereby it cometh to passe that in all inclinations there is much affinity betweene the soule and the body being that the like is between the Intelligences and the Stars both which communicate their vertues to each of them And these Angels being as I said before of nine severall Hierarchies there are so many principal differences in humane souls which doe participate most of their proprieties with whom in their descent they make longest stay and that had most active power to work upon them and accompanied them with a peculiar Genius which is according to their several governments like the same kind of water that running through various conduits wherein several aromatical and odoriferous things are laid doth acquire several kinds of taste and smells for it is supposed that in their first Creation all soules are alike and that their differing proprieteis arrive unto them afterwards when they passe through the spheers of the governing Intelligences so that by such their influence it may truly be said Nine was the Circle set in heavens place Which verse by assigning his office to the nine and the proper place of the Circle doth give much light to what is said before And for further confirmation that this is he Authors opinion read attentively the sixth Canto of the third booke where most learnedly and at large he delivereth the Tenets of this Philosophy and of that I recommend to you to take particular notice of the second and thirty second Stanzaes and also of the last staffe of his Epithalamium and surveying his workes you shall find him constant disciple of Plato's School All which compacted made a goodly Diapase In nature there is not to be found a more complete and more excellent concordance of all parts then that which is betweene the compaction and uniting together of the body and soul of man both which although they consist of many and most differing faculties and parts yet when they keepe due time with one another do altogether make the most perfect harmony that can be imagined and as the nature of sounds that consist of friendly consonants and accords is to mingle with one another and to slide into the eare with much sweetnesse where by their unity they last a long time and delight it whereas on the contrary side discords do continually jar and fight together and wil not mingle with one another but all of them striving to have the victorie their reluctation and disorder giveth a soone end to their sounds which strike the eare in a harsh and offensive manner and they die in the very beginning of their conflict In like sort when a mans actions are regular and that being directed towards God they become like the lines of a Circle which all meet in the Center then his musick is excellent and compleat and all together are the Authors of that blessed harmony which maketh him hapyy in the glorious vision of Gods perfections wherein the mind is filled with high knowledges and most pleasing contemplations and the senses are as it were drowned with eternal delight and nothing can interrupt this joy this happinesse which is an everlasting Diapase whereas on the contrary part if a mans actions be disorderly and consisting of discord which is When the sensitive part rebelleth and wrastleth with the rational and striveth to oppresse it then this Musick is spoiled and instead of eternal life pleasure and joy it causeth perpetuall death horrour paine and misery which unfortunate estate the Poet describeth elsewhere as in the conclusion of this staffe he intimateth The other happy one which is the never failing reward of such an obedient body and etherial and vertuous mind as he maketh to be the seat of the bright Virgin Alma mans