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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68000	A declaration of the true causes of the great troubles, presupposed to be intended against the realme of England VVherein the indifferent reader shall manifestly perceaue, by whome, and by what means, the realme is broughte into these pretented perills. Seene and allowed.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.	1592 (1592)	STC 10005; ESTC S101164	40,397	78

whyle that these lesse iniuries were continued a matter of farr greater mischief was practized to witt the rebellion of the kinges naturall subiectes of his Netherlandes VVhere the people by reason of their great welth were brought vnto pride the nobillitie throughe ouer-lauish expences declyned vnto pouerty and the newnesse libertie of heresy redy to fynde acceptance with either party they were the sooner and more easely seduced by the English The first attēpt being begū by certaine rogues vagabōdes appointed to the spoiling of Churches lefte the name of Gheuses to those rebelles euer after and these Gheuses being thus stirred vp there was to begin withall 60 thousād poūd sterling sent ouer vnto the prince of Orange for the leuying of those Ryters that he broughte against the duke of Alua. The which somme of mony was paide by sir Thomas Gressam in Antwerp By these attemptes and practizes the king was cōstreyned to withdrawe the forces that he had intended bent against infidells to employ them in his owne countries against his owne subiects VVith whome being nowe enbranled in warres there was sent by sea from Spaine for the paymēt of his soldiers aboute the somme of 600. thovvsand ducats the which mony was ceased vpō in the west partes of Englād notwithstāding the Q. had giuen her pasporte for the saf passage thereof by which meanes the kinges affaires were greatly let and hindred and thereupon followed a generall arrest of all marchants shippes and goodes in the lowe countries And this action tending to some further great inconueniēce the councell assembled at Hampton court and consulted at sundries tymes in the Queenes presence whether it were best openly to breake with the king of Spaine or not and after long deliberation the whole bodie of the councell concluded not to breake with him in any vvise But to make present restitution of the said mony for diuers causes and the rather for that they had but late before displeased the French king in assisting his Huguenotes and taking his townes and might not vvithout imminent perill incurr the enmitie of two such potēt princes But notvvithstanding this their generall resolution being also consented vnto by the Queene M. Cecill did aftervvardes secretly persvvade her vnto the cōtrarie whereby the decree made by the vvhole body of the councell was brokē contrarie to the prerogatiue of the councell of Englād which is knovvne to be greater thē the auctoritie of any kinges councell els in Europe And hereupon was the arrest of marchants goodes continued and a stay of trafyke betwene Spaine England and the lovv countries for three yeares together to the vndoing and detriment asvvell of many of the subiects of England as of sundrie the marchantes of the other countries But in the meane vvhile al such fugitiues and traitors as had in the lovve countries cōmitted any enormious crimes or could pilfer or violētly robbe or take away any thing from the king or his other subiects were receyued and harbored in England which vvas novv become the open receptacle of churchrobbers and priest-kilers Yea the very belles of the steeples of Churches vvere caried into England and there cast into artillery And one called Monsieur de Lumay being also fled thether receyued there such instructions that he came ouer into Holland surprised the tovvne of Briell vvhich vvas the first tovvne in all those partes rhat vvas possessed by manifest rebelliō and the presidēt that Flushing and diuers other townes shortly after followed And to assist them in these proceedinges there were sent ouer with troopes of English forces Morgan Sir Humfrey Gilbert and Chester And then followed North Cotton Candish and Norris all being Coronells coming the therwith whole regiments And albeit these supplies were still continued and men mustred and pressed perforce to go ouer vnto this seruice yet was it colourably shadowed to be don without cōsent of superior aucthoritie and the sending of thē thereby dis-auowed But on the other syde when any English for their encreasse of knowlege in military affaires did come ouer or did intēd to come ouet to serue the king of Spaine they were either before their departure or vpon their returne imprisoned and punished I may not heere omitt that after the warres of Barbarie made by Sebastian king of Portugall wherein the Mahometaines were assisted with munitiō against the Christians by the English and thesaid King was slaine the nobillitie and people of the realme of Portugall hauing according to their lawes and customes receyued the Cardinall as the eldest of the blood royal to be their king and he being very aged and not lykely to marry and haue issue were entred into consultation about the succession of the crowne which being vnderstood in England and also that the Cardinall was enclyned vnto the king of Spaine as his next heire there was an Embassador forth-vvith sent ouer from England to offer the Portugales assistance for the exclusion of the king of Spaine But this and the former practizes being cloked vvith much conning vvere either deemed able to passe vnespied or els these kyndes of molestatiōs vvere not thought sufficient And therefore it vvas held necessary to attēpt the robbing of the kinges treasure els vvhere the better therevvith to maintaine his rebelles against him in the lovve countries And albeit M. Haukins and some others had had but ill successe in such attemptes before there vvas novv one Franncis Drake sent foorthe vnto the VVest Indies vvhere in the streight of Darien vnderstanding of certaine mules that vvere to passe laden vvith gold and siluer from Panama to Nombre de Dios he put himself in ambuscade vvith an hundred shot and sett vppon tvvo vvhole companies of mules vvhich came only vvith their driuers and there very resolutely tooke avvay their gold not being able to cary the siluer vvith him throughe the mountaines And coming tvvo dayes after to the house of Crosses he slevv 6. or 7. marchantes and valiantly sett the house on fyre vvherin vvas burnt the value of 200. thovvsand ducats in marchandize And so he retyred home againe tovvardes England vvhere not longe after for that he had giuē such good proof of his dexteritie it vvas determyned that he should be employed againe as being the fitest man to atchiue an enterprize of stealing And therefore vvith shippes vvel furnished and prouided for his purpose he vvas sent foorth to attēd lie in vvaite for more of the Kinges his subiects treasure And in the southe seas on the back-syde of America vvhere no pirates had bene before him and therefore the lesse prouision made to vvithstand them there he and his company met vvith a ship in the porte of Valparizo vvherin vvere but 8. Spaniardes vvho taking the English for freindes receyued them on boord vvhere being once entred they couragiously tooke out of it 37. thousand ducats in gold And at another place called Taurapaza they boldly ventred on shore vnto a Spaniard that

help and amonge others to the French king Vnto whose ayd he sent in the first troobles 3. thowsand Spaniardes who were present at the battaile of Dreux And afterward from the lowe countries he sent the Counte of Mansfeild at two seuerall tymes both with horse and foote He sent also the Counte of Arenberg the Baron of Erge and diuets others to assist thesaid king at sundry tymes All which forces sent by the King of Spaine from tyme to tyme into Fraunce himself of his princely and liberall mynde euer maintayned payed at his owne charges And there is nothing that more declareth his moderation iustice and equitie towardes his Christian neighbours then his sweete and Christianlyke demeanour towardes the realme of Fraunce VVhere neither by the minorites of the late kinges nor ciuill discentions of the subiects he would take aduantage to chalenge or encroache any parte of that countrie VVhereas yf he had bene so greedy and ambitious as his aduersaries do bely him to bee he would not haue omitted in so many oportunities to have chalenged all Fraūce to hymself VVho hathe at this present thesame right by his daughter and farr more cleere then had somtyme the noble prince King Edward the third of England thereunto And yet as the world seeth he neither thē nor now hath chalēged any such thīg at all this is a singular praise and an eternall glory to this most puissant prince of all ages and in this tyme especially to be maruayled at that he attēpteth nothing nor wageth any warres that are not iust honorable and allowed bothe by the lawes of God and man And as touching the Queene of England I will omitt some great and especiall acts of amitie shewed by himself vnto her whē he was maried vnto her sister whereof her self is not ignorant but dothe best know them And I will briefly relate some points before touched First vpon the deceasse of Queene Mary his wyf he gaue vnto this Queene al her Iewelles which rightly appertayned vnto himself And being aboute the conclusion of a peace with the Frēch king after the taking of S. Quintynes he delt very instantly for the rendring of Calis vnto the English insomuch as vvithout the restoring thereof he refused the accord stode so resolute vpon this point that in the end the French vvere faine to tell him that albeit the English did solicite him to include the deliuery of Calis in his peace yet had they secretly alredy cōcluded their peace with them without that condition And this was donne by a close practize of M. Cecill who sent ouer one Guido Caualcante an Italian to conclude it vvithoute the knowlege of the Queenes Ambassadors vvho vvere there appointed to solicite it VVhich extreme duble dealing could not yet brede any auersion in his mynde against the English insomuch that after they began to fall from the doing vnto him one iniurie in the neck of another which still encreased from a fewe to many and from lesser to greater yet would he neuer begin any attempt against them nor neuer make somuch as any shewe of any one acte of hostilitie whatsoeuer vntill such tyme as they came so farr as to the very taking of his townes into their owne possessions as is aforesaid VVhich is a most great and sufficient argument of his grounded affection vnto that Queene and countrie For moste rarely is it foūd that any King or Prince could so continually disgest and ouersee such great vvronges and iniuries as he hathe receyued from England and much lesse himself that hathe greater meanes to reuenge them then any other potentate lyuing in the world And had doubtlesse lōg since dōne it had it not proceeded of a most singular affectiō vnto that Prince and people hope of redresse and amendment Thus much may serue to shewe whether the King of Spaine hathe soughte so many yeares to trooble the state of England But contrariwise vvhether the state of England hathe so long soughte the disturbance of him and almost of all other their neighbours I leaue the reader to iudge by the premisses the cōfirmation of those I referr to the testimony of all the nations of Europe to the end there may be a sufficiēt number of witnesses to check the extreme impudenof the malitious aduersary who is not ashamed to say that the repose of Christendom by the king of Spaines vvarres by no other meanes is nowdisturbed which otherwise mighte come to an vniuersall peace But as touching the vniuersall peace yf it were to be such as this pacifier would prescribe it vnto him I must needes confesse that I do greatly doubte vvhether the king of Spaine would thereunto be perswaded because in al-lykelyhode it must be in this manner First that he should recall such forces as of great compassion vnto the naturall people of Fraūce he hathe sent thether to defend them against a relapsed Huguenote that vvould make them renegates from the faith as himself is Secondly that he should suffer his rebells of Holland and Zealand quietly to possesse the places they do hold and to take vnto them all the rest of the low countries also conditionally that the English mighte still kepe the possession of such porte townes as they haue haue some half a dosen more annexed vnto them Thirdly that the English rouers might peaceably go to his Indies and there take away his treasure and his Indies also And these fewe aricles being thus accorded then might England Fraunce the Netherlandes and Germany be in farr better possibilitie to extirpate the Catholyke religion in Italy to bring the Moores into Spaine then to conclude that vniuersall peace which passeth all vnderstanding And include in the-same the great Turk the king of Fesse and Marrocco and other infidells with whome England is alredy leagued And thus hauing declared sundrie of the iniuries dōne by the English vnto other princes and people espetially vnto the King of Spaine his subiects also in what laudable most honorable manner the said King hathe demeaned himself vnto thē and other his Christian neighbours It shall now be necessary to touch the presēt estate wherein the realme of Englād stādeth The which for the better intelligēce of the reader I will reduce into fower pointes and in conclusion it shall manifestly appeere vvhether some fewe persons accused or their chiefest accuser are or is the cause of the present and expected calamities of England The first shalbe touching matters of faith and religiō wherein there was neuer such great and wonderfull confusion The second touching exterior enemyes whereof the realme had neuer somany nor none so puisant The third of the sundry competitors for the crowne and the vncertainty of the successor The fourth and last shall concerne the ouerthrow of the Nobilitie and the generall oppression of the people THE realme of Englād hathe at sūdry tymes bene subiect to diuers great molestations aswell throughe ciuill dissentiō as