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A81708	A discoursive coniecture vpon the reasons that produce a desired event of the present troubles of Great Britaine, different from those of Lower Germanie Considered in the maine passages that seeme parallel, but upon a further survey are discovered to be otherwise. By Calybute Downing, L.L.D. pastor of Hackney.	Downing, Calybute, 1606-1644.	1641 (1641)	Wing D2103A; ESTC R223289	13,681	46

consil q. 2. cut off chiefe of the Nobilities heads who set their hands to the complaint against ill Counsellors and petitioned for composing all in honorable safe waies Thuan. li. 41. and that for crimes never published and therefore for ever suspected which raised such a mischievous mixture in mens mindes as fixed a resolution to have Spanish blood pay the arreares for ever that he was held up to goe on at this rate hath cast downe the power of the elder house of Austria in lower Germany whence the Eagle first tooke his flight Comineus Com. li. 8. to mount to the top of the Capitol upon the malicious mistake of Lewis the eleventh Now let us reflect a little and see how his Majesty carrieth the like proceedings to a more prosperous point giving full way to sequestre and punish all malignant delinquents wherein his Highnesse holds close to his own prudent principles to rule by Counsell especially in extraordinary confounding causes when the ordinary private set Councell of Princes is concluded too short and insufficient as never intended for universall advice in such domestique designes as worke upon the body and soule of a State especially if some of those Counsellors who have pulled hardest to be interested in publique affaires be found faultiest and the fomenters of the dissentions Pet. Mat. hist pacis l. 6. n. 3. driving the interests of a false and forraine friend Opes factionis Salust Bell. Iugur long since sworne Protector Regni Angliae and hath ever since beene so wise as to have Pensioners at devotion knowing that seditions make Conquests easie where he hath a party This indeed is the root of all these ruinating courses which is the next consideration to be examined for a hoped different event and will satisfie all rationall disingaged Statists concerning his Majesties deserting many of his Ministers as Piaculares publiciodii victimae as Pliny perswaded just Trajan Now to make this manifest wee must lay downe what principles necessitated Philip irrecoverably to correspond and support such kinde of instruments Meteran li. 1. especially his Spanish tooles of State crosse to his Fathers last advise and you will finde it to be the making himselfe head of the holy League concluded in the Councel of Trent upon his owne conditions to make the Westerne world his holy Land and a fifth Monarchy then he began to execute the Canons of the Councell with a Writ De excommunicato capiendo farming all the Popes Fines at a quit rent of his own rating making this a Title to have footing by a faction in all Dominions he aimed to embrace now for this worke he was to have Ministers that must live in the bowels of neighbour kingdomes to be their death Witnesse the Guisian faction that wrought so malignantly upon Scotland with reference to England When they perswaded the Queene Regent to get a guard of Italians Thuan. li. 23. this engine had the maine spring turned by Spanish reason of State Sure the performing of this pleasing trust cast him upon many most unpleasing passages which were too sutable to his disposit●on as well as his designe which was severe even to cruelty For I cannot beleeve that Q. Maries temper notwithstanding all provocations by her Mothers divorce and her danger of disinheriting by the Protestant party did put her into such waies of wasting her Countrey and Conscience if King Philips company and counsels had not engaged her neither was it a passage of pitty but policy that made him mediate for Queene Elizabeths life Repraesent pacis general ca. 6. being he had no hope of Issue and meant to marry her and would not in any case she were removed because the French King Francis the second had obtained Mary Queene of Scotland the next heire to the Crowne and hee was wiser than to let so considerable a Kingdome that moderateth Christendome fall into French hands so that to returne and leave digressing this service of an Ecclesiastique voluntiere filled his head and hands full of bloody businesse as see how he ventured all to settle that Councell in these petty Provinces what waies he went to extirpate the Protestants of France Instance the interview of Baion when Alva went in his roome attending his Queene to give the French King and their Mother Katharine de Medices a meeting Thuan. l. 37. when Alva had Plena mandata à Philippo to communicate in Arcano and all was covered and coloured with his presenting his Majesty with the order of the golden Fleece when the maine designe was the proposing of a plot for the Parisian Maatins in imitation of the Sicilian Vespers which hee delivered as a Master-piece from King Philip Io. Baptista Hadrian apud Thuan. li. 37. Fazellus de rebus Siculis li. 8. Dec. 2. who communicated it to the Pope Gregory the thirteenth to beg a benediction for a cursed Conspiracy for which invention or rather imitation of his predecessor Peter of Arragon Philip well merited to have his name written in Rubricks in the Gregorian Kalender Stylo no vo reformato not as a Saint but sanguinary hater of reformation Yea further it may bee Physically conjectured that the same blood begat that cruell Counsell which put him upon deliberation against his owne best blood Charles his brave eldest Son who upon Spanish reason of State Pet. Mat. hist pacis li. 6. nar 14. and no other ground rendered but feare of his Religion must die and have only the favour to chuse his death Yea this politique zeale worked to the last gaspe with him as that free faithfull Author testifieth Idem nar 16. Philippum animam agentem filio suo summo ardore bellum in Haereticos commendasse and to make it impossible ever to meete in medium waies of moderation Mariana de los yerros del govier de los Iesuit cap. 10. he made choise of the Iesuits for his conscientious Casuists which cunning Confessors have composed a Somma poenitentiale according to the compasse of their Grandizing Masters conscience crosse to the quiet of all Christendome Hispaniam pari justitia continuit major privato visus dum privatus fuit omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset Tacit. hist 1. and the good of humane society which they keepe as Cases reserved Inter arcana dominationis So that all the world may see how King Philip and his successors are held to it to stand by their Ministers without they will lay down their designe of enlargement of Dominion Antonio Perez part 2. cart 33. but while that humour reigneth they must be unjust if it be for a kingdome and shall have use of such instruments that they dare not remove but by sudden ruine Whereas a moderate Prince who hath no such service and Ministers burne not with black secrets to make themselves deare and over-awe him may with honour safety transcendent justice and great content bequeath notorious suspected ill Counsellors to a solemne

place you consider the proceedings issuing from these Royall Presences and you will finde them conclusive for his Majesties honor and the publique peace I will not deny but there was something proposed and put on by some that in good time may have little thankes for their paines which in the State Ecclesiastique drive to a change but that was not his Majesties designe but as it was represented to him as a Nationall question to be determined by his Wisdome But Philip raised the question and was warme in the Worke as see it in a particular The first offence given and taken in both States was about fourteene Bishops with their Canons the one of Trent with Regall limitations and the other of England with mitigating variations the Inquisition to execute the one and the High Commission the other but in far different waies Meteran hist Belg. li. 2. For Philip did erect de novo 14 Bishops out of Abbots ruins revenues and in a Republike against an express priviledge in termes with the scandall of the Nobility who well understood that so cautious a Prince would never so provoke such jealous Peeres but that he conceived the creating of these new Ministers an assured meanes to tie them short and silent in all their State-assemblies as over-awed by their presence and so in event reduce the force of such freedome into forme that they might waxe weary and be content to want them and so he worke his will especially considering how this notorious Innovation was transacted at Rome by a Bull of Faculty from Paul the fourth Thuanus hist lib. 33. which must needs be carried with great power and privacy because Philip was at odds and odious to the Pope about the present businesse of Naples It was to be beleeved that some great matters were to be managed by this new engine procured with so much care and cost both of time and treasure with such a dash of reputation and danger of rebellion and the States being not so sleepy as to suffer themselves to bee supplanted by a cunning consequent of a pernicious and unpleasing President could not but stirre Now take up these circumstances and they quite change the case for it is one thing to erect 14. new Bishops therby laying the foundation for setling of a Faction and shaking the present Government by mixing instruments distributed into all Provinces as dependants at absolute devotion one thing I say to erect 14 new Bishops another to protect 14 olde Episcopall Sees represented to his Majesty as a necessary ancient usefull State in that kingdome and the manner of composing the question falls in much with the maine Inchoavere sibi annum ultimum Reipub. prope supremum Tacit. hist lib. 1. Philip maintaining those moderne Prelates beyond all moderation his Majesty relinquishing these as not standing with the present State of affaires For though he hath done much for them yet he will not undoe his State Civill to support the Ecclesiasticall in accidentals So that in Politique possibility we may hope a correspondent event to the reall difference of these proceedings And now wee have seen a difference in the designe and the maine meanes to compasse it in the next place let us consider the instruments how they were called or thrust themselves into the affaires of the State and with what successe they fell in with their Masters Counsels or furthered their owne upon his greatness goodnes Now you shall finde Philip the second for atchieving of his end forenamed chose himselfe instruments fit for usurpation of absolute dominion and without doubt was the leader of these Ministers especially at the first For Archbishop Cardinall Grandvell was trusted in traverse worke by Charles the fifth not taken for an ambitious piece of aiery aspiring timber but this Austrian Eagle proposed such glorious objects to these Harpies as pleased his eyes and cared not if it burnt their feathers Yea he was so radically resolved that when his prudent sister Thuan. hist lib. 38. Margaret of Parma moderatrix of Belgia proposed waies of moderation his nature seconded and set on by his ends boldly broke through all her mediation and some of his owne promises and protestations which were wrought out of him by present importunity and impossibility to proceed True he went severall waies but alway to the same ends which was to make an end of all those Provinces rather than hee would misse of his minde though he found it Durissimam Provinciam therefore concluded her removall and to send the daring Duke of Alva in her place Now there is an infinite distance and must needs have successe in sutable way for a Master upon ill ends to imploy bad servants and uphold and hold them to it as his businesse upon judgement and for a prudent Prince not used to vicious waies and so not jealous to bee misinformed by Ministers that thrust themselves upon odious unwarranted actions supposing that his Majesty must owne them and their proceedings it is true that such a gracious Master merited to have better servants or by this time to have made them so but this case will infallibly afford a more blessed conclusion both in the judgement of God and man than where indifferent instruments were driven to degenerate to serve one mans will and lay the foundation of all mens misery And it were not amisse to make this evident by the severall carriages of these Princes towards their Ministers as to instance only in two grand Creatures of King Philips compared with the ambitious imbracers of his Majesties affaires so far as they are disturbed not to speak of their Collaterall auxiliaries of State Take Archbishop Grandvell a forreiner yet making an imbracement of all the businesse of Belgia first or last all touched upon him and joyne to him the Duke of Alva a great Commander in the conquered kingdome of Naples and compare them with whom you see cause and then take a view how their Masters dealt with them and it will be the shortest and the surest rule of the uses they meant to make of them Few without an Italians cunning and a Spanish Iesuited conscience could ever have gotten leave of themselves to put in practise such false and fatall Counsells as Bishop Grandvell executed for grant that as a great Church man of vast desires and designes he had over-acted in the proposall of the project of fourteen new Bishops supported with the new Inquisition and Canons sure hee would never have set himselfe to make good his mistake by so much mischiefe as a Civill war if King Philip had not put him on to assure his fraud by force in the promise of Alva his Army as you find these two men shifting interests and crushing all opposites by Combination sure these Dominationum Provisores as Tacitus Purveyors of Tyrannie that proceeded against the Law of Nations Arms and Leagues whose truces Treaties Pacifications had all Treachery under them had in reason of state in which