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The history of Great Britain being the life and reign of King James the First, relating to what passed from his first access to the crown, till his death / by Arthur Wilson.
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Wilson, Arthur, 1595-1652.
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for at my hands Thus the Beams of Majesty had an influence upon every branch and leaf of the Kingdom by reflecting upon the Root their Representative Body every particular expecting what fruit this Sun-shine would produce striving as much to insinuate into him as he did into the general so that there was a Reciprocal Harmony between the King and the People because they courted one another But when the Kings Bounty contracted it self into private Favourites as it did afterwards bestowing the affection he promised the whole people upon one man when the golden showers they gaped for dropt into some few chanels their passions flew higher than their hopes The Kings aims were to unite the two Kingdoms so that the one might corroborate the other to make good that part of his Speech by this intermixtion wherein he divides England and Scotland into halves But the English stumbled at that partition thinking it an unequal division and fearing that the Scots creeping into English Lordships and English Ladies Beds in both which already they began to be active might quickly make their least half the predominant part But he was Proclaimed King of Great Britain England must be no more a Name the Scotish Coyns are made currant and our Ships must have Saint Georges and Saint Andrews Crosses quartered together in their Flags all outward Ensigns of Amity But those English that had suckt in none of the sweets of this pleasant Stream of Bounty repined to see the Scots advanced from blew Bonnets to costly Beavers wearing instead of Wadmeal Velvet and Satin as divers Pasquils written in that Age Satyrically taunted at Which is not set down here to vilifie the Scots being most of them Gentlemen that had deserved well of their Master but to shew how cross to the publick Appetite the Hony-comb is that another man eats But the King like a wise Pilot guided the Helm with so even an hand that these small gusts were not felt It behoved him to play his Master-prize in the Beginning which he did to the life for he had divers opinions humours and affections to grapple with as well as Nations and 't is a very calm Sea when no billow rises The Romanists bogled that he said in his Speech They were unsufferable in the Kingdom as long as they maintained the Pope to be their Spiritual Head and He to have power to dethrone Princes The Separatists as the King called them were offended at that Expression wherein he professed willingly if the Papists would lay down King-killing and some other gross errors he would be content to meet them half way So that every one grounded his hopes or his fears upon the shallows of his own fancy not knowng yet what course the King would steer But these sores being tenderly dealt with did not suddenly fester but were skinned over The King desirous of the Title Pacificus did not only close with his own Subjects but healed up also that old wound that had bled long in the sides of England and Spain both being weary of the pain both willing to be cured The King of Spain sent the Constable of Castile with a mighty Train of smooth-handed Spaniards to close up the wound on this side where the old Enmity being well mortified they were received with singular Respect and Civility The King of England sent his High Admiral the Earl of Notingham with as splendid a Retinue of English to close it on that Who being Personages of Quality accoutred with all Ornaments suitable were the more admired by the Spaniards for beauty and excellency by how much the Iesuits had made impressions in the vulgar opinion That since the English left the Roman Religion they were transformed into strange horrid shapes with Heads and Tails like Beasts and Monsters So easie it is for those Iuglers when they have once bound up the Conscience to tye up the Vnderstanding also EARL OF NOTTINGHAM GEORGE CAREW EARL OF TOTNES And to satisfie the Kings desires about an Vnion betwixt England and Scotland the Parliament made an Act to authorise certain Commissioners viz. Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord Treasurer of England Charles Earl of Notingham Lord High Admiral of England Henry Earl of Southampton William Earl of Pembroke Henry Earl of Northampton Richard Bishop of London Tobie Bishop of Duresme Anthony Bishop of Saint Davids Robert Lord Cecil Principal Secretary Edward Lord Zouch Lord President of Wales William Lord Mounteagle Ralph Lord Eure Edmund Lord Sheffeild Lord President of the Council in the North Lords of the Higher House of Parliament And Thomas Lord Clinton Robert Lord Buckhurst Sir Francis Hastings Knight Sir Iohn Stanhope Knight Vice-Chamberlain to his Majesty Sir Iohn Herbert Knight second Secretary to his Majesty Sir George Carew Knight Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen Sir Thomas Strickland Knight Sir Edward Stafford Knight Sir Henry Nevill of Berk-shire Knight Sir Richard Bukley Knight Sir Henry Billingsley Knight Sir Daniel Dun Knight Dean of the Arches Sir Edward Hobby Knight Sir Iohn Savile Knight Sir Robert Wroth Knight Sir Thomas Chaloner Knight Sir Robert Maunsel Knight Sir Thomas Ridgeway Knight Sir Thomas Holcroft Knight Sir Thomas Hesketh Knight Atturney of the Court of Wards Sir Francis Bacon Knight Sir Lawrence Tanfield Knight Serjeant at Law Sir Henry Hubberd Knight Serjeant at Law Sir Iohn Bennet Doctor of the Laws Sir Henry Withrington Sir Ralph Grey and Sir Thomas Lake Knights Robert Askwith Thomas Iames and Henry Chapman Merchants Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons or any eight of the said Lords and twenty of the said Commons Which Commissioners shall have power to assemble meet treat and consult with certain select Commissioners to be nominated and authorised by Authority of the Parliament of Scotland concerning such Matters Causes and things as they in their Wisdoms shall think and deem convenient and necessary for the honour of the King and common good of both Kingdoms Yet the good intentions of this Vnion took no effect as will follow in the sequel of this History But there were a great many good Laws made which are too voluminous for this place having a proper Sphere of their own to move in Thus the King sate triumphing as it were upon a Throne of his Peoples Affections and his beginnings had some settlement for being loth to be troubled he sought Peace every-where But our inbred distempers lay upon the Lee intermixt with other gross dregs that the Princes lenity and the Peoples luxury produced For the King minding his sports many riotous demeanours crept into the Kingdom the Sun-shine of Peace being apt for such a production upon the slime of the late War The Sword and Buckler trade being now out of date one corruption producing another the City of London being always a fit Receptacle for such whose prodigalities and wastes made them Instruments of Debaucheries divers Sects of vitious Persons going under the
him to put himself into his hands being unusual with Princes But he that valued his Honor above all earthly things was the more indeared to him in that he gave him by this access an opportunity to express it and protested That he earnestly desired a neerer conjunction of Brotherly affection with him for the more intire Unity betwixt them The Prince repaying his Noble expressions with the like Civilities le ts him know how Sensible he was of those high Favours he had found during his abode in his Court and presence which had set such an estimation upon his worth that he knew not how to value it but he would leave a Mediatrix that should make good his defects if he would do him the honour and make him so happy as to preserve him in the good opinion of her his most fair his most dear Mistris And so imbracing each other they parted This kind Farewell was upon the twelvth of September the King leaving the Prince to be attended to the Sea-side by a numerous train of Spanish Courtiers whereof the Principal were Cardinal Zapata the Marquess Aytone the Earl of Gondemar the Earl of Monterie the Earl of Baraias who was Steward of the King's houshold but now the Manager of the Prince's Domestical Affairs These Grandees and others had at Saint Andero a fair opportunity to see some of the Navy Royal of England and were feasted aboard the Prince's Ship But at their return towards the shore the Prince being with them in the Barge a Tempest overtook them with that Fury that they could neither fetch the Land nor make to the Ships again and night and darkness joining with the Storm the Rowers fainting with labour because they thought themselves at the end of their Work their horror and fear almost heightned to Despair In this Calamity yeilding themselves to the Mercy of the Seas they spied a light from a Ship neer which the wind had driven them that gave new life to Hope and plucking up their Spirits to fetch that Ship with the danger of being broken to peeces by the Ships side at last they got aboard This cooled the heat of their Ceremonies so much so that when the Tempest was over they parted And the Prince arrived safely at Portsmouth upon the fifth of October following and the next day at London where the Peoples joy elevated above Bonfire-expressions might teach misguided Princes that LOVE is the firmest foundation of security and Happiness When the Prince and Buckingham met at Saint Andero the Spanish entertainments did not take them off from minding their Business The Duke had time in his Recess to mature his Conceptions And whether his adverseness to the Spanish in affection wrought upon the Prince or whether the Prince's affection that was wrought upon in the Spanish Court lost the Vigor and Virtue by losing the Object or whether the united Operations of both cannot be determined But one Clark a Creature of the Dukes was posted back to Madrid to the Earl of Bristol to command him not to deliver the Procuration for the Espousals which the Prince had sealed and sworn to perform till he had further Order from England pretending the Infanta might after the Espousals betake her self to a Cloister and defraud him of a Wife Bristol was much troubled at this Restriction That a public Act of such Eminency betwixt two such great Princes highly obliging should be smothered up by a private Command from one of the Parties that had not power to do it having in true Justice tyed up his own hands and when the Dishonour of it would so much reflect upon the other Party and therefore he resolved notwithstanding the Prince's command if the Dispensation came to make the Espousals within ten days according to the agreement And he would bear himself up from the authority he had under the great Seal of England to perfect this Work if he had not within the limited time a Command from Our King to the contrary CHARLES BY THE GRACE OF GOD PRINce of Wales Duke of Cornwell etc. The Duke being jealous of Bristol from some particular Discontents and ill Resentments betwixt them and the Prince fearing he would be too forward in the Espousals assoon as they landed in England posted towards the King who was then at Roiston where they gave him a fair and plausible Narration of their Proceedings laying the load upon the Spanish Delaies and Bristol's miscarriages Which the King as a Father to his Son and as a friend to his Favourite indulged to taking their Account without examination as good and just payment And his good Brother of Spain must now be dallied with by Talion Law not falling off in a direct line but obliquely that the King might thereby measure out to himself a way to his Ends. And these two great Opposites to Spain the Prince and Duke must prepare it by closing with those of the Council about the King and others of the Nobility whose judgment not prejudice made them averse to the Spanish Superciliousness cementing their Power with that strength that a Parliament must be called and the People consulted with That they discovering to the King the fraudulent proceedings of the Spaniard the King's Integrity and Justice in breaking the Treaty might the more appear to the People and by that means they should be mounted upon the Wings of the Peoples affections as Enemies to that which was so contrary to them The News of a Parliament to break the Spanish match was quickly carried about and according to their thoughts it took much with the People and gained them much respect and Honour But the first thing they did was to procure an absolute Command from the King to the Earl of Bristol to suspend the delivery of the Proxie till Christmas though the Dispensation came which they effected and sent away with all speed In which Letter Bristol had instructions to demand the Restitution of the Palaâ—inate and Electoral Dignity which were both waved and neglected in the Conclusion of the Treaty but now are set a foot again to let the King of Spain see the Edge of their Eargerness was taken off For saith the Letter It would be a great disproportion for me to receive one Daughter with joy and contentment and leave another in tears and sighs But Bristol's power of deferring the Espousals till Christmas was to be reserved to himself and not made publick till the Dispensation should come to discover it And there was a Clause in the Procuration left by the Prince that the Power of that should be in force but till Christmas and then to expire so that the Execution of it was to be respited till it were altogether invalid And the Spaniard for his greater affront must make all Provision ready for accomplishing so glorious a work that all the Eyes of the Christian World looked upon either with dislike or affection The King of Spain to be his own