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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07033	A pithie, and most earnest exhortation, concerning the estate of Christiandome together with the meanes to preserue and defend the same; dedicated to al christian kings princes and potentates, with all other the estates of Christiandome: by a Germaine gentleman, a louer of his countrey.; Ad potentissimos ac serenissimos reges commonefactio. English	Marnix van St. Aldegonde, Philips van, 1538-1598.	1583 (1583)	STC 17450.7; ESTC S107814	25,937	82

the same is willingly deceiued flattring himself hath no care of his own honor liberty or life For first the desire of gouernmeÌ„t is vn satiable like to a flaming fire which the more stuf mater that it findeth the further it doth stretch and extend it selfe wasting all as it goeth Againe who seeth not that by this manifest vsurping of Portingale eueÌ„ in the face of the whol world the king of Spaine meaneth not to submit himselfe to any lawes rytes or capitulations whatsoeuer For if he had thought himself to haue had any right in the sayde succession why did he by force preuent the lawes or by fire and sworde the holy decree of the ludges wherfore hath he abused King Antony the Queene mother to the most christian King the Duke of Bragrance euen the Prince of Parmats sonne and to be briefe all those that pretended any title to the sayd kingdome Shall we then yet thinke that either conscience iustice or equitie can take place in him who so euidently hath declared that in matter of gouerment he will not take or measure his right other then with the power and force of his armies that hee who with his money hath armed the Turke against the Venetians so turned that storm from himselfe vnto his confederates in Ciprus can thinke himselfe bound vnto any couenants treaties or agreements whatsoeuer That that mans fierie ambition who hath not kept any couenants with the inhabitaunts of Grenado the Indians or Flemings any longer then he founde them profitable to himselfe caÌ„ be stayed by any bonde of league or confederacie of aliance Either what conscience right or lawe can binde him who by the principles or precepts of his religion together with the Byshopp of Romes authoritie thinketh himselfe released from all bondes of fayth or promise shall we hope that he who coulde not by any bonds of mariage be restrayned froÌ„ Incest for any loue or duetie of matrimony absteine froÌ„ adultery for any naturall loue forbeare parricide or for any sworne fayth refrayne from periurie being besides so ambitious as all men know so desirous to enlarge the bounds of his Empire so far transported with pursuit of reuenge may by any proposition of equitie right lawe or Iustice be cooled and brought to reasonable order in whatsoeuer matter As if it were not as lawful for the Bis of Rome to dispeÌ„se by his Bul as wel with the lawes bounds and limits of kingdomes and Prouinces as with the bands of matrimony and faith so solemnly sworne But to what purpose is it for vs to think vnder pretence of law iustice to moderate that mans ambitioÌ„ who hath bene long resolued that he hath lawfull and iust title to inuade other mens kingdomes and if he may to bring the same into his subiection For among all princes potentates and Christian common wealthes who is there against whoÌ„ he thinketh not him selfe long since to haue had sufficient and iust cause to moue warres He will accuse the King of Fraunce that he did not onely not hinder his brothers attempts in Flanders but also ayded him with men money and Weapons and so beganne the warres That in the behoofe of the Queen his mother he hath in warlike maner assaulted the Ilandes apperteining to his obedience fought with his nauie and not onely receiued harboured Don Anthony his enemy supposed rebel in his kingdome but also aided and assisted him both with men and money also that he succoured the low countries asmuch as possibly he could To the Queene of England he will alleage that first by the Popes Bulles she is denounced an heretique and therevpon excommunicated then that in diuerse dealinges both by Sea and by land she hath shewed herselfe to be his enemie that in her dominions she hath harboured and ayded his enemies with men munition money and shippes that she hath fauoured Don Anthony in all his enterprises and that vppon euery opportunity she hath intercepted his nauie and treasure comming from the Indyes Amongest the Germaine Princes some he wil accuse for succouring the Prince of Orenge and others for their parsonal presence in the Flemish wars Against some he wil raise controuersies in respect of their territories by means of the Bishop of Frisenguen against others for the preeminence of the electorate generally he wil accuse al to be either heretikes or to be confederate with those that haue shaken of the Bishop of Romes obedieÌ„ce whome altogether the Pope will as heretofore he hath done command to be by force reduced to their dueties And I pray you is not al this sufficient to serue for a very good colour to make him who accounteth of all the Popes precepts as of heauenly reuelations And of his excommunications as of celestiall thunderboltes to assaile them Who of him selfe is a sworne enemy to religion abhorring it as the plague of the worlde who in all his counsailes purposes practises and leagues that euer he made hath no other meaning but to roote it out and quight to suppresse it and who being the most ambitious prince aliue doth yet protest that he had rather lose all his dominions and dignities then leaue any sparke of this religion vnqueÌ„ched And to be brief who maketh no more accounte of the Germaines then if they were Turkes Sarazens or Moores Yea will not the Pone thinke himselfe to haue as full power after his thunderbolts of excommunication to exhibite Germany as a pray to king Philip as had his predecessours to giue it to his Father the Emperour Charles Pope Paule the thirde and his predecessour Clement the feuenth did threaten Charles the fifth with excommunications because hee thought it requisite to pacifie the trouble arising in Germany for matter of religion rather by the aucthoritie of a general councell then by proceedinge by force of armes yea in the ende with their thonderboltes of excommunication they droue that good prince for still he relented to them to such an exigent that as an extreame remedie he was forced to make wars with al extremitie And shall we now think that the Pope do want means to perswade the king of Spaine who of himselfe is sufficiently inclyned that way that he hath iust cause by meere strength to reduce them to the faith of the Romishe Church If any man thinke that the feare hereof toucheth no more but the protestant princes also that they which still haue perseuered in Popery need not doubt or mistrust any thing Let him call to mind that the Henries Ottoes Frederickes and other most mightye and in all commendable vertues most excelleÌ„t Emperors your predecessors most noble princes did in their daies professe the same faith religion with the popes and yet coulde not escape their thonderbolts and most wrongfull excommunications But that some of them see their Empyres translated and gyuen to forraine princes Others came bare footed and bare headed to aske them forgyuenesse and submitting them selues to

ouercome with the necessity of his own affaires seemed to find it somwhat reasonable so suffered the reuoking of the said bandes out of the countries to the end with them to keepe and defende the passages of Italy Spaine togither with his houlds in Affrica against the ordinary incursions of the â—urkes and Moores being neuerthelesse fully resolued as himselfe could not but coÌ„fesse which also the Spaniaras in their writings haue testified vpon the first commodity to returne the saide garrisons who with armes open force should blot out the iniury supposed to be wrought againste the Spanith name and with a more stricte bonde should bridle and restraine the ouer great liberty and authority of al these prouinces For the compassing thereof there fel out nothing more fitte and apparant then the Kinges constant and perpetual desire care and zeale earnestly strictly to establish the Romish religion in the lowe Countries which caused him in all his letters written out of Spaine ordinarily to accuse the Duchesse of Parma and the chiefe Lords and Magistrates of the country that they were not earnest enough in these causes saying that he well perceaued that vnlesse they vsed more violent remedies then afore tyme the Romish religion woulde soone be extinguished throughout Flounders which for his part he woulde neuer permit but rather to hazarde whatsoeuer lands and kingdoms he yet possessed Wherefore that he willed and ordeyned that the rigour of the edicts and placards of religioÌ„ shuld be executed without dissimulation and that they should not vpon any whatsoeuer occasion be moderated qualified or in anye wise mitigated but rather that their strictnes shoulde be augmented and increased to that end that they shuld create new Bishops whom they should make inquisitours for matters of Faith that Granuel Archbishop of Maliâ—es a little before become a cardinal who by reason of his intollerable ambition and inordinate desire of gouernment had incurred the malice of al estates should be made head and president of that colledge that to the end the sayd bishops might more diligently attend to the said inquisitioÌ„ some of the spoiles of diuers Abots other Prelates of the countrey whom they accused to be to negligeÌ„t in persecuting punishing of the heretiks shuld be distributed among them with al that the hearing of all causes if neuer so smallye they pertained to matter of religion should be reserued to them whervpon euen at one time by one means al sorts of people of the said cuntries were greuously offended The princes great Lords could not patiently suffer the administratioÌ„ of the affaires to be taken from them coÌ„mitted to one Granuel a new maÌ„ a stranger The nobility coulde not like that authority ouer their liues goods shuld to the preiudice of their country customes be coÌ„mitted to vnknown beggerly base persons who coueting their goods tresurs might easely find means to accuse betraye them The magistrates rulers of cities and towns did murmure that the iudgments priuiledges of the cuntry coÌ„trary to the kings oth so soleÌ„nly sworn shold be taken froÌ„ them put into the hands of rascals such as besids were by oth bound to a forraine prince the pope of Rome and had already giuen out sufficient testimony proofe of their cruelty couetousnes To be briefe the whole cominalty generally complained that in stead of sheepheards they were committed to the custody of rauening wolues coÌ„tinually gaping after their goods so that sundry merchants determined to seek new habitations in forrain countries which diuers of theÌ„ did indeed al these things being rehearsed to the king in sundri suplications peticions messages ambassages the states instaÌ„tly requiring that by such innouatioÌ„s so faithfula people to their princes might not be forced any whit to deminish their accustomed obedieÌ„ce so far was he froÌ„ giuing audieÌ„ce or harkning to their peticions that contrariwise obstinatly refusing all their demands he would that eueÌ„ the decrees of the counsel of Trident whereby in maner al the lawes customes of the cuntry were infringed should be published throughout the said prouinces And in deede by that meanes hee fouÌ„d the coÌ„modity of the time so loÌ„g looked for For in case his preceptes tooke place the aucthority of the inquisitours once established and the lawes and customes of the countrey infringed it would be no hard matter to put to death all such as had either aucthority or countenaunce among the people and so also the Spanishe garrisons together with a new forme of regiment might easely be brought in but contrarywise if herein they refused to obeye his decrees as there was no other likelihood considering how al sortes of people were by these demaundes oppressed then necessarily must insue both tumultes and disorder for the pacifiyng whereof the Spanish garrizons must needes be returned and so how so euer the world went the obstinate reiecting of the Kinges commaundement should as a matter of Treason minister cause sufficient to chastize the people with fire and swoorde Neither was he deceiued in the euent of this counsaile For some of the chiefe Nobility hauing exhibited a certaine request into the Court wherein was prooued that the kinges commaundement concerning Placards was not onely pernicious to the common wealth but also daungerous to them selues requiring therefore that the publication of the sayd Placards might cease vntill the king were informed of their demaÌ„ds by suche notable persons as to that end should expresly trauail to his maiestie the people thereby conceiuing hope of greater liberty tooke vppon them and peraduenture somewhat more then was requisite openlye to professe the reformed religion which the king and Spaniards did so greatly detest and abhor This so honest and aparant occasion ministred vnto the king means first to condemne such of the nobility of treazon as had exhibited the sayde request and so to execute the ambassadours which by the gouernesse coÌ„mandement went vnto him then vnder the conduct of the Duke of Alua to send the old spanish bandes into the low countries to the end vnder pretence of religion to put to death al such of the chiefe lords nobles of the country as coulde not brook their demeanures to establishe paines of death against al good men to entangle the people with charges impostes grieuous bondage to erect fortresse castles in their towns and finally to depriue the estates and magistrats of al aucthority the nobility of al dignity preeminence the people of their substaÌ„ce welth the towns of their lawes customes priuiledges freedoms and finally all the prouinces generally of their auncient honor dignity power so to open a way to the counsell so long before taken for the establishing of the seate of their premeditated wars in the low countries Al which things the world knoweth so wel as also how the Duke of Alua hath endeuored to bring theÌ„ to effect that I shal not here neede

to make any further demoÌ„stratioÌ„ or repeticioÌ„ Vndoutedly any man that wold open the eyes of his vnderstanding narrowly consider of these counsailes demenures might plainly perceiue that al these drifts tended not to the subduing of the lowe countries who refused no kind of obedience but rather to the laying of a firme foundatioÌ„ of the spanish monarchy that they leuel at And indeed the Duke of Alua immediatly vpon his ariual in the low cuntries determined to set vpon the City of Coulogne vnder pretence that she had admitted into the nuÌ„ber of Burgeses the king of Spayns pretended rebels at the same time sought also to bring into his subiectioÌ„ the city of MuÌ„ster in Westphaly both which interprises had at one time takeÌ„ place had not the prince of Orenge who theÌ„ had leuied a strong power in Germany interrupted his whol deuises vtterly subuerted the course of his counsel practises which notwithstaÌ„ding he did not neuertheles forbeare to prescribe coÌ„mand lawes to the inhabittants of Coulogne or with great threts to moue the magistrats to his obedience At the same time also he firste delt with the bishop of Treuers who promised al helpe and fauour in the aduancement of the Kings affairs to the great preiudice of the Palatin elector of hapy memory after grew to debate with him for the chiefe town of his countrie which he affirmed to be vnder the King his maisters protection He also limited to the Duke of Cleue suche counsailours as should no otherwise gouerne his Countrey then as if it had wholy ben vnder the absolute commaunde of the king of Spayne he sought to binde the Earle of Embden vnto him as his vassall vnder colour of protection and safgard He commaunded the inhabitantes of Liege to furnish him of weapons furniture victuals To be brief he exccuted vpon al borderers all absolute authority commandement power And as for the princes that were farther off first he quarrelled with the most high and noble Queene of England vnder colour pretence of entercourse and emprisoned such English merchants as vsually trafiqued in the said prouinces he commaunded her to banish whoÌ„ he lift whiles himselfe not onely harboured and friendly entreated in the low countries sundry lewd persons which had beene attainted of treason against their soueraigne but also enriched them with giftes and yearly pentions By sundry deuises and driftes did they solicite the Queene of Scots being then prisoner to worke some new trecherous deuise they loded with honor and rewardes the murderers of the regent of Scotland vsing both theÌ„ their counsailes and endeuours in sundry their affaires And what not they found means by the Popes bul to pronouÌ„ce the Queene of England an heretique and vnlawful inheritour They raysed troubles against her in the hart of her Realme They put her in daunger of her life They did by publication habandon her Realme to the first that woulde or could surprise or seaze vppon it and expressely charged Don Iohn of Auctrich perticularly immediately vpon the quieting of the lowe countries to leauy mortall warre against her to marrye the Queene of Scottes and with her to appropriate to him selfe the Realmes of Englande Scotlande and Irelande These thinges when they coulde not compasse to their mindes by reason of the warres reuiued amonge the Estates of the lowe Countries they sought to bring to passe thorough Irelande whether they transported in outwarde shewe in the Popes name but in trueth by the commaundemente motion and will of the King of Spaine a number of Italians and Spaniardes that they passing through that I le which they hoped to finde wholy at their deuotion into the realme of England might the more commodiously subdue and bring it vnder their power and authoritie And had not the King at the Duke of Aluaes perswasion who wondred at the difficulties and lettes that happened in this enterprise thought it best to referre this matter to a more conuenient time the waight of all this warre had longe since bene transported into Englande in hope that that beeing first gotten the Spaniard thereby being at quiet on that side of the Sea might haue a more readye way to subdue all the whole lowe countries And as for Fraunce whiche by reason of the Kinges noneage was troubled with domesticall dissention they omitted no manner of inuentions or pollicies but emploied their whole industry care and study to wrappe and entangle it more and more in ciuill warres to the end that when the same so florishing and mighty a Realme were with her own weapons almoste subuerted and destroyed they might as their leasure with more opportunitye and as conuenieÌ„t time serued with the lesse a do subdue it neither neede I here much to stande vppon those meanes whiche they haue vsed to heape more coales vpon these ciuil flames what helpes they haue ministered to the nourishing of these discordes with what affection they haue trauailed in it what actions among parties clokinges leagues and conspiracies they haue inuented wherwith to maintein and vpholde this miserable kindling For the most Christian king doth euidently wel know that diuers times they haue procured his subiects to rebel and sought means again to bring them to take armes yea and least any man should thinke they did it for zeale to their Catholique religion they haue with promises of greate summes of ready monie sought to seduce the heartes of the Princes defenders of the reformed religion neither is he ignorant how often he hath ben informed that sundry times they haue endeuoured to corrupt seduce and winne from their sworne allegiaunce the particuler gouernours of townes fortresses and hauens on the sea costes how they haue with great diligence laboured euen the King of Nauai promising him great summes of money in case he would break the peace last concluded yea howe they haue proceeded euen to his highnes perswading him to take armes to the subuersion of the King his brother and the desolation of his whole kingdome whome when they perceyued nothing prone to serue their mischieuous tournes they haue sought to make away with poyson and sworde hauing to that ende hired expresse murderers who since haue by law ben executed I wil not here speake what number of pentioners the King of Spaine hath bounde to his deuotion not onely in the priuie councel of the King of France but also of all other Christian Kinges Princes and potentates through whom he doth at his pleasure trouble the estates of some procure the rising of others subiects ouerthrow and supplant whatsoeuer counsails are holden against him and to be briefe make them determine and like of all that he thinketh commodious to himself This is manifestly and well knowen to all Kinges and Princes to whose detriment these thinges are put in practise none dare the while speak any worde of al these matters or once open his lips against them so greatly are all mens mindes ouertaken with feare and astonied at

the onely name of the Spanish nation What shall I say of our Germany which being in greater daunger then any other Prouince yea almost already swallowed vp in this monsterous gulfe of Spanish ambition doth as in outward shew it were sufficiently warranted make no account of her own danger weening that the fire which hath coÌ„sumed her neighbors houses is entred euen into her own bowels doth no whit touch her at all so that this Empire which aforetime was woÌ„t so valiantly to defend both her owne liberty and the liberty of al christiandome doth now seem to be more cowardly rechlesse in preuenting the establishing of that yoke that threatneth the whole world then any other nation It is euident that the King of Spaine hath in Germany not onely his peÌ„sioners priuy whisprers which reueale to him al their Princes couÌ„cels enterprises but also a publike cousailour in the chamber of the empire by whoÌ„ he vnderstandeth the whole affaires of al the countrie determineth al maters as if he wer a prince of the Empire in the degree of the rest He hath also his place by his Embassadors in al the assemblies of the Empire he carefully coÌ„sidereth of al that is done in al their diets he endeuoureth to learne all their secrets hath no lesse intelligence notice the seueÌ„ electors themselues and what may be more vnworthy or more contumelious to the Germain natioÌ„ either more dangerous fit for the surprising of their liberty then not to cal any Emperiall diet any conuocation in the Empire any counsayle any assembly of estates yea almoste execute any administration of priuate iustice without the presence counsayle and as I may almoste say without the will and commaundenent of the Kinge of Spaine But vnder what pretence forsooth by reason of the precinct of Burgundy which beeing numbred among the Emperiall precinctes the king of Spain must be accompted among the Princes of the Empire And what is this most Noble Princes other then a manifest mockery and contempt of you your aucthority and auncient glory Yea and wittingly before your faces and with your owne consent a snarling of you in the haulter of Spanishe bondage The emperor Charles hauing by force oppressed Germany and beeing inuyroned with his spanish and Italian legions called an Emperiall diet at Ausburge as I weene in the yeare 1548 Wherein he declared that in diuers parts of the low countries there were sundry Townes and prouinces which in olde time were wont to take their lawes and be subiect to the Emperial chamber wherevnto they did ordinarilye appeale To be briefe that they had alwayes beene holden and reputed among the precincts of Germany wherevpon sundry and many questions and controuersies did oftentimes arise he would therefore saide he at once both end their quarrels and doe a great pleasure to all Germanie and therefore purposed to decree that as well those Prouinces which he had in the nether Germany as also the rest that lay in the Belgique Gaule beeing reduced into an Emperiall precinct should from thenceforth be reputed holden and tearmed The precinct of Burgundy and that in respect therof he and his successors should disburse towarde the charges of the Empire twise so much as euery two Electours were to contribute to the warres against the Turke and so they should hereafter remaine exempt and free not onely from all kindes of contributions and collections of mony but also from al iurisdiction of the chamber and the lawes and decrees of the Empire Here may we beholde the price of the spoiles of our iurisdiction aucthority and power also the rewarde of our bondage This is that small summe of money wherewith the moste sacred dignitie and freedome of our Empire is supplanted authority giuen to aforeine prince with whom we haue no bond of affinity correspondence of language neighborhod or agreement of lawes and customes to enter into our diets to haue a place in our assemblies to giue his voice in our Emperial chamber to be briefe to peruse and consider of al our counsailes and actions either publike or priuate If to serue a maister notwithstanding he be neither rigorous he hauty be of it selfe a misery who seeth not our Germany in moste miserable estate where the King of Spaine may if he wil commaunde at pleasure But what need I say he might if he would sith al the world doth plainly see that in effect he doth commande both far and neer For what is it that the Spaniard hath not gained by the erectioÌ„ of this precinct of Burgundy except that he doth not onely rule there at his pleasure but also vseth al absolute authority ouer the precinct of Westphaly which time out of minde was accounted one of the chiefest and mightiest in all Germany yea he so commaundeth there that there is none which dare in any wise controll or gainsay him As for example Haue not the inhabit antes of Liedge hitherto obeyed his Empire either the Duchyes of Cleue and Iuliers and finally the whole territories of Coulogne and Westphaly beene at his deuotion And yet not content with this kinde of commaundement he seeketh after a newe sorte of obligation to subdue and conquere them and so to extend his Empire generally ouer all Germany Therefore to say nothing of those men who being in possession almoste of all the straightes of Germanie euen from the foote of the Alpes to the Ocean Sea are moste readye to obey his commaundementes and dare not refuse any of his requestes neither to speake of those who being by bloud alliance league and neere affinity vnited and knit vnto him do commaund ouer Istria Carinthia Croatia the most part of Pannonia yea and beare soueraigne authority euen in Bauaria possessing all the heades and springs of the Riuers of Licus Aenus and Danow and are pearched ouer the heades of Augusta Ratispone and other mighty Emperial cities to hold my peace also of those who holding as it were the rudder of the Empire in hope hereafter to attaine to the succession of the kingdome of Spain will not once oppose them selues against his rising and might who seeeth not whervnto this vnquenchable thirst ambition of the young Duke of Banaria Bishop of Frifinguen doeth tende who beeing egged on by the King of Spaines industrie armed with his authority and kindeled with his commaundementes is so inflamed and burneth in so wonderfull ambition that he can not be satisfied with anye Bishoplike dignities or princely authorities whatsouer he hath almost in a moment atteined vnto so greate and mightie power that in strength he may compare with sundry Kinges of Europe and is iustly to be doubted of and feared among all the Princes of Germany And in truth there be sundry noble Realmes in Europe which neither in greatenesse and extent in multitude of people in strength of souldiers or in aboundance of all thinges necessary are to be compared with the principalities that pertaine to his

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