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A10670	Votivæ Angliæ: or The desires and vvishes of England Contayned in a patheticall discourse, presented to the King on New-yeares Day last. Wherein are vnfolded and represented, manie strong reasons, and true and solide motives, to perswade his Majestie to drawe his royall sword, for the restoring of the Pallatynat, and Electorat, to his sonne in lawe Prince Fredericke, to his onlie daughter the Ladie Elizabeth, and theyr princelie issue. Against the treacherous vsurpation, and formidable ambition and power of the Emperour, the King of Spayne, and the Duke of Bavaria, whoe unjustlie possesse and detayne the same. Together with some aphorismes returned (with a large interest) to the Pope in answer of his. Written by S.R.N.I.	Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.	1624 (1624)	STC 20946.1; ESTC S117031	21,745	45

your Courage but animate your Designes and your Subiects will execute them For give them but the worde of Commaund to resetch it by Warre and your Majestie will then see they will act wonders with theyr Swordes not onlie answerable to your desires and expectation but beyond the Emperours the King of Spaynes and the Duke of Bavaria's beleife and your Nobilitie and Gentrie out of theyr true zeale and innate affection to the famous Princesse your Daughter her Husband and Posteritie will flye from Thames to Rhyne as to a Fayre or Wedding and you shall have more Gentelmen in this action then ever Germane Armie beheld or Spanish confronted And although money which is the true cyment and synewes of Warre seeme now scarce in your Kingdomes and that your Bounties hath made your Exchequer and Treasor emptie yet if your Majestie will be pleased to secure but this one doubt and feare of your Subjects that your Souldiers may eate and not your Courtiers devoure the monyes which a Parliament will give and rayse you for this enterprise you shall then assuredlie finde an Indyes in your England and more huge sommes of mony cheerfully Contributed then that action can anie way take upp or expend you shall finde that one Herauld will doe more good then all your Ambassadors have performed And as the Mathematicians hold that the rightest and straightest Lyne is still the shortest Soe your Majestie shall undoubtedlie finde that the rightest and shortest way for you to recover the Pallatynat will bee by your Sword When Scotland was not yet added by your Majestie to England England holding herselfe bound in poynt of Honnor hath sent a blacke Prince into Spayne a Drake and Essex into Portugal and an Essex Willoughbie Norrice and Fourbisher into France with statelie Fleets and Regiments to restore Disinherited Kinges to theyr Kingdomes whoe were yet but our Confederates and will not your Majestie whoe hath so happilie Vnited and Wedded Scotland to England and whoe is the powerfullest Monarch that ever swayed the Brittish Sceptre attempt and performe the like for the Prince Pallatyne your Son in Lawe and the Husband of your onlie Daughter our Princesse our hands harts and swordes beeing of as good and of as excellent a temper as ever our Predecessors were having as it were hands of Steele and hartes of Diamonds for the attempting and finishing of this Honnorable Enterprise If the King of Spayne will not abandon his Cousen the Emperour should your Majestie abandon or rather should you not assist and protect the Count Pallatyne your Son in Lawe agaynst the Emperour Or if there ensue hereon anie breach betwixt your Majestie the King of Spayn hath he not given you just cause to undertake that warre which is soe Iust Honnorable and Charitable as to the eyes and censures of the whole world it beares its perswasion with it And if your actions and resolutions be such that you resolve rather to give Spayne cause to feare you then to take anie to make your Majestie feare Spayne your Maiestie shall then infalliblie fetch securitie out of danger and drawe honnor out of shame yea if you wil couragiouslie resolve to cut this Gordion knot with Alexander and to passe this Rubicon with Caesar you shall then trulie and tryumphantlie participate of the ones Fame and of the others Glorie and this indeed will make your Maiestie live after Death and reviue agayn in your fame as the Phaenix doth out of her ashes And noe sooner shall your Drummes beate and your Coullers bee displayed uppon the banckes of Rhyne but your Majesties sword shall put a newe face uppon Germanie and make England consequentlie assume her olde one which was ever woont to looke more Martiall and lesse Effemynate lesse contemptible to our Friends and still more terrible to our Enemyes It is an action and resolution full of Religion full of Equitie and full of Glorie whervnto the honnor of your Kingdoms and your Royall person and your Maiesties naturall affection towards your Princelie Children doth both envite and conjure you to attempt and perfect it It is a worke and labour infinitlie worthie of your Sword your Sceptre your Crowne yea it will bee one of the most precious Iewels and Diamonds which your lyfe can possiblie give to the adorning of your Raigne or your Death to the embellishing of your Tombe or Chronicle Is the recoverie of the Pallatynat a great action Consider I beseech you that you are a Great King a Potent Monarche doth it produce difficulties what important enterprise ever was or can there bee without them or what cannot the hartes and swordes of Great Brittayne make easie and as success comes some tymes short of our hoapes soe manie tymes it goes beyond them doth it threaten Danger whie there is the more Glorie to surmount it and beeing well and firmlie begunne it will bee alreadie halfe ended Sith there is nothing more Couragious then a good Cause nor more Victorious then the Truthe And although your Majestie delight and glorie to bee tearmed A Prince of Peace yet lett your Peace live and flourish in Honnor and not wyther and dye in Contempt and shame For God whoe is the Protector of Princes will rather releeve then ruyne them and rather desire and authorise theyr restoration to then theyr deprivation from theyr Countryes and it will bee farre easier to beleeve then to represent the joy which all the best and truest harted of your Subjects will conceyue when they shall see your Majesties sword as deeplie ingaged in the quarrell of the Pallatynat as your Sceptre and Honnor is in the cause therof Our famous Elizabeth did beate Spayne and shall our Royall and Potent King IAMES feare it Besides we see our trustie Neighbors and Friends the Hollanders relye uppon the poyntes of theyr Swordes for the preservation of theyr Estates and Lyues and therin they infalliblie finde the securitie of the one and the safetie of the other by Detecting and Detesting the Treacheries of Spayne which is still more prevalent and powerfull in theyr calmes of Peace then in theyr tempests of Warre and it will bee noe small felicitie to your Majestie to see these valiant and constant Confederates how couragiouslie they will second your Warlike attempts in this restoration and how constantlie and resolutelie they will marrie theyr Forces to yours and with theyr best powers pushe foorth the Chariot of your triumphs agaynst the House of Austria Proceed Great King with this action soe full of Glorie and Honnor and the God of Heaven and Earth make your Majestie still happie in your Peace and victorious in your Warres And because it is a difficult poynt to satisfie our selves and the tyme together yet notwithstanding I hope that your Majestie will pardon this boldness and affection of myne except it bee held a Crime to honnor my Kinges Daughter and to desire the prosperitie and welfare of the Prince her Husband and theyr Royall posteritie which next unto that of your owne sacred Majestie and then of the Illustrious Prince Charles your Sonne I will neyther cease to doe with my best zeale nor fayle to performe with my most religious wishes and prayers From my Chamber in your Citie of London this New-yeares Eue and I beseech the Lord to give your Maiestie manie happie and ioyfull newe Yeares and Dayes Anno Dom. 1624. Your Ma ties most humble and most faythfull Subject till Death S. R. N. I. FINIS

therfore that it is rather more to bee feared then doubted that as hee first tooke Aix and Weesell for the Emperour and ever since keepes them for himselfe that right soe hee intends to deale with the Pallatynat and if your Majestie vvould but turne your back to Spayne and your eyes to the Pallatynat you will then confirme my oppinion wheras with a fearfull jelousie I apprehend that turning your backe to the Pallatynat and your eyes to Spayne you maye peradventure passionatlie oppose and contradict it For as the diseases and iniquitie of our tymes and the Vanitie of our Natures are such as manie tymes wee see Ambition gives a Lawe to Nature and the strongest sword proves most commonlie the best right and tenure Soe notwithstanding that the Emperour bee puffed upp with joy and pride for this his good success yet the King of Sayne thinckes that the Pallatynat is but a debt dewe to his Vertue and a tribute to his Ambition and Greatnesse And that your Majestie maye the more perfectlie and apparantlie consider them destinctlie or joyntlie and soe looke from theyr tongues to theyr hartes from theyr wordes to theyr actions and from the barke of theyr Friendshippe to the tree of theyr Intents Swartsenbourgh from the Emperour brought onlie Complements but noe deeds not hoapes of restitution of the Pallatynat Bosquet from the Archdutchess under the cloake of trust and consignation carried away Frankendale the last hostage and pledge of that Province and last of all Mexia with his statelie Embassye pretended from the sayd Princess but intended from the King of Spayne came to Comply with your Majestie to make fayre weather of all sydes to keepe everie byrd in his neast and your Majestie Sword still rusting in his scabberd yea if the hartes of Inijoca Mendoza and Columba whome I reverence and honnor for the honnor of theyr places were as visible and transparent as Iulius Drusus wished his house Then notwithstanding all theyr veluett wordes and silken protestations and vowes your Maiestie should see without perspective or spectacles that the most retyred Article and secret mysterie of theyr Kinges Commission to them is To give theyr Infanta to our Illustrious and famous Prince Charles but infalliblie with this proviso and reservation still to keepe the Pallatynat for the behoofe and use of the King theyr Master And what else doe all these severall Ambassadours in England and whervnto tend all theyr severall legations but onlie to conceale the Ill which is and to pretend the Good which is not in the designes and resolutions of the King theyr Master For in all theyr Treaties and Negotiations with your Maiestie and your mynisters what doe they else but purposlie play theyr prizes in practising theyr chiefest invention Arte and skill to procrastinate the restitution of the Pallatynat making everie daye produce newe Difficulties and Evasions till in the end they have made the Cure woorse then the Disease and which without the helpe and assistance of your Maiesties sword will verie shortlie prove incurable and meerlie Physique after death For the Emperour the king of Spayne and the Archdutchesse doe onlie feed your Maiestie with the emptie ayre of hoapes and with the bitter sweet sugar of manie flattering and false promises that they will restore the Pallatynat to the Prince your Sonne in Lawe whiles they in the meane tyme with as much treacherie as silence doe heerbye onlie gayne tyme in working and procuring theyr owne ends to repayre and renewe the fortifications of that Countrie till in the end they like Molewarps have therein taken firme footing and made those Cities and Castles which were easie to subdue become difficult and the difficult impregnable For the King of Spayne playes the Practicke with your Majestie whiles you professe the Theorie to him you give him contemplation for action hee returnes you action for contemplation for whiles you are entertayning and flattering your thoughts with hoape hee and his Factor the Duke of Bavaria hath crowned his hoapes and front with the Lawrels of the Pallatynat that daintie peece and rich and bewtifull Prouince of Europe neyther is it your Maiestie alone but the French King likewise who hath given too confident an eare to the Syreen tunes and charmes of Spayne for whiles their practises and machynations threw him to a pernitious sacrilidgious Warre against his owne Protestant subjects then Spayn recovered the Valtolyne and deflowred the Fortes and passages of the Grisons and whiles he by his Gondomar lull'd your Maiestie asleepe with the melodie of the Match then hee finished the Conquest of the Pallatynat Onlie your Majesties dishonnor heerin is farre greater then that of the French King because his remisnesse permitted but his Confederates to bee ruyned but your Maiestie your Confederate your Sonne in Lawe your onlie Daughter his wife and their Royall posteritie Thus as the Cyclope Polephemus devoured his passengers one after another soe doth the King of Spayne ea●e upp whole Countries and Provinces And wherto tends all this formidable Ambition power and greatnesse of his but onlie to fill the sailes of his glorie Whiles your Ma tie and other Potentates and Princes of Christendom most inconsideratlie I may say shamefullie ride at Anchor in the Portes of false securitie and therfore of true danger and wherunto tends all this but in the end to aspire to the whole Empire of the West as your Majestie heard though would not beleeue from your last Assemblie of Parliament which our sinnes and your Enemies caused you to make and intitle but a Convention All Europe can beare witnesse of your Majesties two yeares pious interceeding and Christian endeavours and resolution to have the Palatynat restored by Treatie and although the Emperour hath superficially promised and the King of Spayne artificiallie vowed it yet still your Majestie sees contrarie effects and still they fortifie the Pallatynat not for but against the Prince your Son in Lawe as if they had given a Definitive sentence and periode to theyr resolutions and made it an Orthodox Article of their Fayth still to keepe and never to restore it to him or his posteritie yea the Emperour is soe glutted with his victories and the Duke of Bavaria soe sursetted with his good fortunes in both which the King of Spayne insults with joye and triumph with exhileration that they are now soe farre from thincking of restitution as they disdayne it Alexander the Great whose generositie was yet farre greater then his fame shewed such testimonies of his moderation and Magnanimitie as hee gave those whome he subdued and conquered more cause to reioyce then repyne at his Victories yea hee shewed infinit Vertue and Charitie in his power and these twoe cannot bee better shewen then in giving lymitts to power But it seemes the Emperour is continuallie soe inflamed with choller and transported with revenge towards the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe as hee is whollie unmindfull eyther of Charitie or Vertue hee mought have added glorie

Lawe hath contrariwise much reason to hope that your Majesties Royall woord and promise ingaged for the restoring of his Pallatynat added to the consideration of your owne Honnor which inviolablie tyes you therto will in the end incyte and stirre you upp to Drawe your sword for the effecting and performance therof For the wordes of Kinges should bee sacred and their promises inviolable the Lawes of Nature and Nations tying them to the obligation of the first those of Grace and Heaven obliging them to the performance of the last And if your Majestie be pleased to forget yet the representiue Bodie of England the Lords Knightes and Burgesses of your Highe Court of Parliament must and will remember that your Majestie protested unto them solemnlie That eyther by Treatie or by the Sword you would cause the Pallatynat to bee restored though to the hazard of your owne Kingdoms Or if your memorie which in all other actions is exquisit and excellent should forget your promise in that poynt yet the Iudgements and understandings of your Malesties subiects are more then assured and confident that your Royall penne affirmed it to your Printer and hee to vs in your Declaration wherof looke how manie thousand Bookes there are extant soe many witnesses without exception there will remayne against your Ma tie that you onlie made that promise and protestation purposlie to breake it For till they see the contrarie the most loyall and faythfull of them will never beleeue it sith your Majestie may performe it but will not and sith at your pleasure you haue the meanes both to humble the pride and to scourge the power of the Emperour and to make the Duke of Bavaria repent with blood and teares for his insatiable Ambition and Vsurpation in vsurping and bereaving the Pallatynate from your Children And because the affayres of the World resembling the ebbing and flowing of the Sea are still subiect to revolution change and onlie constant in unconstancie as alsoe that Euripides sayth good is never seperated from Evill and that it is impossible for us to avoyde misfortunes or adverse accidents because Plutarque tells us that Prosperitie is still transitorie never Permanent Soe I beseech your Majestie to confider that if uppon any unexpected Accident you should breake and haue Warres eyther with France Spayne or the Netherlands what a braue assistance of German Reistres you should still haue at your Commaund from the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe of his Subiects and Friends if hee had agayne the Commaund of his Countrye and alsoe how necessarie those troupes of Cavalrie would bee for your Maiesties service eyther to make or divert to beginne or end a warre Wherof if Henrie the IIII. of France of immortall same and memorie were still living hee could giue your Maiestie a true president and instance therof in himselfe when his affayres were soe weake and desperate as hee was inforced to haue recourse to their assistance the which Lewes his Sonne now raigning hath verie unkindlie denyed to acknowledge and requite to the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe now in the extremitie of this his affayres and afflictions And to ascend from earthlie regards to heavenlie Considerations If all these former Motiues cannot prevayle with your Maiestie to purchase and effect his desire yet lastly hee hopes that you will drawe your Sword to performe it for that Religions sake which is immediatly derived from God or for Gods sake from whome as from the blessed and sacred Fountayne of all Happiness all true Religion hath its true byrth lyfe and propagation and farre the sooner hee hopes that your Maiestie will attempt it with Courage and prosecute it with resolution Sith God hath made your Maiestie the Defender of the Faith and hee and all the Churches of his Pallatynat did and then agayne will professe the same Fayth which you Defend wheras now they are infected with the dregges of Idolatrous Poperie and poluted and defyled with the mystes and fogges of prophane Superstition But Illustrious Prince Pallatyne because it is a disputable question whether thy Courage or Misfortune bee greater therfore I grieue with sorowe and lament with Griefe to see all these fayre hopes of thine soe untimelie wythered and reduced to nothing and thou hast nowe tryed to thie preiudice and seene to thyne owne Woefull and fatall experience That hope which is built uppon other mens promisses and maintayned by forraigne power proves most commonly ruynous And will not your Maiestie then bee sencible of this fruitlesse and fatall hopes of the Prince your Sonne in Lawe which were whollie grounded uppon the sand of your promises as yours are uppon the snowe of the Emperours and the King of Spaynes For to represent you Truth in her naked coullers not in an adulterated attyre and tincture and soe to poynt at that poynt of the Compasse from whence the contrarie wyndes haue blowne your Maiestie all these severall tempests of dishonnor and your Sonne in Lawe these stormes of adversitie hath it not beene your too much connivencie in relying uppon the deceiptfull flatteries of the Emperour and your too excessiue confidence in trusting to the temporising promises of the King of Spayne which hath occasioned it For by their Ambassadours and Letters haue they not depaynted you the restitution of the Pallatynat soe easie as in assurance therof you became passionatly resolute that you had farre lesse reason to doubt then to beleeue it And yet to the whole world aswell as to your owne Subiects it administreth more cause of admiration then beliefe to thincke that your Majestie who is the wisest learnedest yea one of the most potent Kinges of the world should thus bee contented with Drosse for Golde with shame for Honnor and fedde with verball promisses in steed of reall performances For your Majestie knowes and your Subjects are not ignorant that Carlile Bristoll Belfast and Weston have spent infinite much and yet gotten just nothing from the Emperour by theyr severall legations as also that that which they spent abroad and your Majestie at home in Entertaynments Feasts and Guifts on the Emperours the King of Spaynes and the Archdutchesse Ambassadours would undoubtedlie have reconquered the Pallatynat and what is this but their malicious and pernicious policie to drayne your Majesties purse drie and to exhaust your Exchequer therby purposlie to clippe the winges of your Courage power and resolution from flying to the restoration of the Pallatynat Neyther shall your Majestie have just cause to accept against mee for heere joyning the King of Spayne with the Emperour in the Detention therof sith their swordes and forees aequallie Conquered it or if not the King of Spayne as the vulgar beleeue for the Emperour yet undoubtedlie the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria as the cleerest sighted knowe for the King of Spayn because uppon the vvhole the Emperour is more the King of Spaynes servant and creature then the Duke of Bavaria is the Emperours and

to his Victories and Raigne if his Ambition finding prosperous successe could have beene content with measure and moderation soe uecessarie in all Christians and soe requisit and relucent in Princes But what or whie speak I of Charitie or Moderation in the Emperor when all the world can testifie with mee that his quarrell is soe implacable and his malice and revenge soe inexorable to the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe and the Princes and Nobles of Germanie his adhaerents as hee hath given them all just cause to flye to such remedies as dispayre gives to necessitie therby to seeke to preserue their lyues with their honnors and their honnors with their lyues And as hoape mought but feare cannot bee capable in them to declyne their vallour and courage soe had they not then reason to banish hoape when they apparantlie sawe they could hoape for nothing but for Dispayre in the mercylesse mercie of the Emperour Hee leaves them still proscripts although it had beene farre more Noble for him whoe holdes the first and noblest Rancke of Christendom rather to have made them taste the fruytes of his mercie then to feele the effects of his Indignation and is still so erreconcilable and vindictiue as if hee hath vowed to adopt and make revenge a Vertue and resolved and sworne that it shall bee the last thing which shall die with him Neyther cann your Majestie justlie conceyue that this inveterate malice of the Emperour and boundlesse Ambition of the King of Spayne is onlie bent and intended against the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe but likewise by vertue and reason of the same rule of Vsurpation against your royall selfe Sith wee cannot cutt a finger but wee wound the Arme nor cutt offe an arme but wee indanger the whole Bodie And what doth this Imperious swallowing downe of the Pallatynat by the Emperour the perfidious usurping of the Cantons of the Grisons and the eager threatning the totall subversion of the Netherlands by the King of Spayne else portend and implye but onlie to cut off the letts and obstacles that with the more facilitie they maye after make theyr approaches to assayle your own Kingdoms Domynions which treacherous designes and resolutions of theirs if your Majestie will not now beleeue and accordingly seeke and endeauour to prevent It is to bee feared yea I saye agayn it is to bee feared that wee yonr Subjects shall feele them hereafter when wee shall have just cause left us to lament but neyther meanes power nor tyme to remedie and prevent it For thincke what your Majestie will and saye what you please yet your best subjects and not the woorst Witts and Statesmen of your Kingdoms knowe that when the Emperour and King of Spayne beate Princelie Fredericke the Sonne that at that verie instant and act they undoubtedlie threatned Royall Iames the Father and that in the loss of the Pallatynat your Majestie uppon the whole is dangerouslie wounded and strucke at through his syde aswell in the honnor of your Sacred person as in the wellfare and safetie of your Estates and Kingdoms Give not cause O Great King that the malice of the Prince your Sonne in Lawes Enemyes prevayle aboue your pittie and affection nor theyr Vsurpation aboue your Iustice and although some Spanish Englishmen and English Spanyards playe the Mercurie with you to bring the Argus eyes of your judgment and power asleepe seeming to have new Mynerva's inclosed in theyr braines therbye to inchant your sences and to cast your affection and Vnderstanding into a Lethargie yet it will bee a just and honnorable resolution for your Majestie that in regard the Emperour will affoord noe favour to the Count Pallatyne your Sonne that therfore according the sence and letter of the same rule hee deserves to have none given or shewen him by your Majestie his Father in Lawe and as your Royall hart is the Temple of Equitie and Iustice soe can there anie thing bee more just and equitable then to make the Vsurper restore yet it is as necessarie as just for your Maiestie to cause this restoration of the Pallatynat sith to speake to the Emperour or King of Spayne of the restitution therof is but to speake to the wynde And it is to deceiue your Majesties deepe knowledge and to betraye your solide judgment to thincke that ever it will bee restored except by your Sword Noe noe it must bee your Sword not your Tongue not your Treaties not your Letters not your Ambassadours which must refetch it if ever your Majestie desire and intend to haue it refetched For all other meanes are fledd and have now abandoned and forsaken you and this of Warre is onlie left you to effect it which will not fayle nor cannot deceive you in the performance therof For otherwise like Ptolomais in Suydas you maye pleade your selfe to death in expectation and hoape therof by Treaties before you see it restored And that the policie of the Emperour the King of Spayne and Duke of Bavaria maye in all respects equalize theyr Ambition and Malice in the resolute and constant Detention of the Pallatynat maye it please your Majestie agayn and agayne to cast the eyes of your Consideration to see how closlie they have dealt with the Pope to fulminate and thunder out from his Vatican some false and irreligious Aphorismes therbye the better to over-vayle and the more authentically to couller out the monstrous Deformitie of this theyr Vsurpation therin Wherof of his 29. I will at this present content my selfe to select propose unto your Majestie the three last 1. 27. That it is not now in the power eyther of the Emperour or the King of Spayne to replace Frederick and his Heyres in the Pallatynat and Electorat 2. 28. That it is an uniust request of the Kinges of England and Denmarke and of the Electors of Saxonie and Brandenbourg to seeke to revoke the Popes Confirmation of the Duke of Bavaria in the Pallatynat and Electorat 3. 29. That the Pope cannot revoke the Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria without preiudice to the authoritie of the Sacred Catholique Church Thus the Pope or rather thus the King of Spayne and the Emperour whoe have caused the Pope falslie and maliciouslie to pronounce a sentence and Decree in their owne favour agaynst the Lawfull right of the Count Pallatyne you Sonne in Lawe and his Heyres wherbye your Maiestie maye palpablie see and plainlie observe the letts and difficulties yea the impossibilitie which your Majestie maye expect for the restoring of the Pallatynat And although I justlie confesse my selfe for Power Learning and Iudgment to bee the verie meanest of all your Majesties subjects yet because I more triumph in my Fidelitie to you my sacred Souveraigne and in my zeale to all your Royall Posteritie then the Emperour doth in his Imperiall Crowne the King of Spayne in his Indyes or the Duke of Bavaria in his newe Conquest and usurpation of

the Pallatynat I therfore most humblie beseech your Majestie to pervse and consider these three Aphorismes which I returne to the Pope in answere of his 1. That it is nowe in the Iustice of the Emperour and in the power of the King of Spaine to replace the Count Pallatyne Frederick and his Heyres in his Pallatynat and Electorat 2. That it is a Iust Charitable Honnorable resolution of the Kinges of England and Denmarke as alsoe of the Electors of Saxonie and Brandenbourg eyther with theyr pennes or swordes to seeke to annihilate and frustrate the Pope his Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria in favour of Fredericke and his Heyres and that theyr Connivencie now therin towards the Pope will infalliblie prove Crueltie to themselues and theyr owne heyres for ever heerafter 3. That the Decrees of the Church and Consistorie of Rome are revokable as having noe affinitie and resemblance with those of the Meades Persians and that the Pope and his Colledge of Cardynalls can when they please revoke theyr Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria and restore it to the true owner therof Fredericke Count Pallatyne and his heyres without anie newe or farther prejudice to the authoritie of theyr Catholique Church Sith if it were for the obtayning of their owne ends or the propagation of theyr Romish Religion as it is for our Protestant not onlie everie age but almost everie Popes raigne abounds with presydents of the same nature which those are infinitlie blynde whoe see not and extreamlie partiall ignorant or malicious whoe will not acknowledge And because in my shallowe concceipt and capacitie it is pittie that these three Aphorismes of the Pope should returne without Interest I therfore adjoyne and send his Holliness these other three to my three formes which in all Humilitie and Dutie I likewise prostrate to your Maiesties pervsall consideration 1. That the Princes Electors of Germanie maye make an Emperour but that the Pope cannot make an Elector nor consequentlie unmake one beeing made because it meerlie and properlie belongs to a Civill power and not to an Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction 2. That the transaction and Donation of the Pallatynat and Electorat made by the Pope from the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe to the Duke of Bavaria doth both subvert the fundamentall Lawes and Dignitie of the Empire and alsoe oppose and assault the prerogatives and safetie of Germanie and of all other Kinges Princes and Free Estates of Christendome 3. That the Connivencie of the Emperour and Princes Electors in tollerating the Popes sayd transaction and Donation of the Pallatynat as aforesayd openeth a Doore to the unjust intrusion of Rome over the Libertie Souveraigntie and indepencie of Germanie which hencefoorth will never bee in the power eyther of the Emperour or of the Princes Electors agayne to make fast and shutt if now they doe not Having thus given six Aphorismes to the Pope for his three I now agayne in all humilitie and Dutie embolden my selfe to recommend to your Maiesties Gracious pervsall and consideration three tymes three others which I direct and send joyntlie to the Emperour and King of Spayne or rather agaynst them to your Maiestie and the whole world therby to unmaske theyr Ambition and Vsurpation in the unjust detention of the Pallatynat from the Illustrious Prince your Sonne in Lawe 1. That the Emperour invaded the Pallatynat by the Counsell and Instigation and Conquered it by the Armes and Threasure of the King of Spaynes and without it hee could never have Conquered it And it is cleere and notorious to all the world that as the Emperour cannot subsist without the assistance of Spayne that therfore in his Detayning of the Pallatynat that the King of Spayne is more your Sonne in Lawes and your Maiesties enemie then the Emperour for take away the cause and the effect followes as take away fuell and the flame and fire will bee soone extinguished 2. That those whoe knowe the Court of Rome doe apparantlie knowe and Confesse that without the close interceeding and secret solicitation of the King of Spaynes Ambassadours and Ministers to that effect in that Court that neyther the Emperour nor Pope had dared eyther to have taken the Pallatynat and Electorat from the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe to whome by all the Lawes of Heaven and Earth it appertayneth nor to have given them to the Duke of Bavaria whoe hath no other right nor clayme therto but onlie that which his excessive Ambition and insatiable desire of Vsurpation suggests and gives him 3. That it is in the power of the King of Spayne to make the Emperour and the Duke of Bavaria restore the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe and therfore that if they restore it not that then your Maiestie may iustlie and trulie conclude it lyes not in his will 4. That it is as easie for the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe to bee restored to his Pallatynat and Electorat by the helpe of your Maiesties sword as impossible for the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria to keepe it without the assistance of the King of Spayne 5. That as long as the Pallatynat and Electorat is detayned and possessed by the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria soe long to common sence and unprejudicate judgments it is as cleere as the Sunne that their Lawe in the Detention therof is whollie and solie derived from the will and resolution of Spayne which is theyr Cynosura wherbye they steere all theyr actions and theyr Delphos from whence they fetch all theyr Oracles and Instructions 6. That it is a Castillian policie to make the Archdutchesse a Negotiatrixe in and for all Treaties depending betwixt your Majestie and the Emperour for the Pallatynat and Electorat and that shee beeing a verie olde and sicklie Princesse having as it were her Lyfe on her Lippes and her feete on the brincke of her Grave That when shee Dyes the sayd King will then cause all her promisses Contracts and assurances to dye with her and to bee lykewise buried in her Grave which are or which may bee anie way displeasing or opposite to his ambitious Designes and resolutions 7. That if the King of Spayne take not the reall and actuall possession of the Pallatynat during the lyfe of the Duke of Bavaria that hee will infalliblie doe it immediatlie uppon his Death And in the interim the Cardes are soe cunninglie shuffled betweene them that uppon the Whole Bavaria is but Spaynes Depositor and the King of Spayne Bavaria's Patrone and protector 8. That the restoring of the Pallatynat which your Majestie makes a matter of Estate the quenchlesse revenge of the Emperour and the boundless Ambition of Spayne have caused the Pope to make it meerlie a matter of Religion 9. That your Maiestie shall in the end finde that Spayne to have the fuller pretext and fayrer couller for his Ambition in causing this injust