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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

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

VOTIVAE ANGLIAE 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 TREACHEROVS VSVRPATION 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. Printed at Vtrecht MDCXXIIII TO GREAT BRITTAYNES GREAT HOAPE CHARLES PRINCE OF WALES c. SIR THis my ensueing Discourse of Votivae Angliae which in a Manuscript I sent to the King your Father on New-yeares day last I now in zeale and humilitie direct and send to your Highnesse in Print I wrote it then to his Maiestie in fauour of the neglected Estate and deiected and deplorable Fortunes of the most Excellent Princesse the Ladie Elizabeth your Sister of the Illustrious Prince Pallatyne her Husband and theyr royall Progenie for the vniust losse and shamefull detention of theyr Pallatynat and Electorat by the Trium-virat of Vsurpers the King of Spayne the Emperour and the Duke of Bavaria I send it now to your Highness that next under God you resembling your selfe will please to lend your best assistance and give your best furtherance to drawe foorth the King your Fathers Sword for the happie restitution and reconquering thereof whervnto the tyes of Religion Empire and Honnor infalliblie oblige hym The eyes of the whole Christian world as soe manie Lynes conducing to theyr Centre are constantlie and curiouslie fixed on the Glorious action to see whether Great Brittayne in this iust and famous quarrell will couragiouslie resolue to redeeme her lost Honnor or else cowardlie consent to lose it without anie further sence or hoape of redemption Your Highness cannot looke on your selfe without seeing your Illustrious Sister nor see her without looking on her Princelie Posteritie sith you have as deepe Interest in theyr Blood as your owne heart hath in you O then how can your Highness whom Grace and Nature your Blood and your Vertues haue made one of the greatest Princes of the world permit to see or liue to permit That these Austrian Princes whose malice is as boundless as theyr Ambition and Treacherie should in a tyme of a firm setled Peace thus perfidiouslie bereaue them of theyr Honnors and thus treacherouslie rob them of theyr Inheritance and Patrimonie yea and reduce them to soe extreame a poynt of Calamitie and Miserie that you are inforced to behold Pittie Griefe Dispayre and Ruyne to act theyr severall partes uppon the Stage and Theatre of theyr afflictions O that this Affront and Indignitie should bee offred them in the Reigne of a King soe Wise and Potent as your Father and tollerated in the life of a Prince soe generous and magnanimous as your Highnesse her Brother yea her onlie Brother as shee is your onlie Sister But the King of Spayne the head and Oracle of the House of Austria hath not onlie wronged the Princess your Sister in Germanie but your Highness likewise in Spayne as if in an inveterat and premeditated quarrell hee made it aswell his delight as glorie to abuse and seeke the disgrace and ruyne of the Blood of Great Brittayne Wherof I hoape your Highness this Illustrious and famous Parliament and the thrice Noble Duke of Buckingham hath now made the King your Father sensibly confident as before hee was confidentlie incredulous therof In a reciprocall requitall and revenge wherof because these manifestlie malicious affronts of Spayne towards our Souveraigne and his Royall posteritie are of too contemptible and pernitious a Nature to bee suffered and of too fatall and dangerous a consequence to bee digested and tollerated all the Subiects of this Kingdome except those fierie Transalpine and factious Transmaryne English whoe have onlie theyr bodyes heere but theyr harts in Rome and Spayne doe vehementlie desire Warre with Spayne as knowing it necessarie for our Estate and safe and honnorable for our King and his Royall Posteritie yea they all vniversallie applaud this highe and prudent Court of Parliament for motioning and seeking that Warre infinitlie honnor your Highness for soliciting and advancing it and exceedinglie blesse the King your Father for approving and consenting thervnto by his Royall Declaration which will make his Name famous and his Fame immortallie glorious to all posteritie Yea it seemes Heaven and Earth concurre with us in this happie resolution to take downe the Ambition and pride and to curbe the power and mallice of Spayne For the distaste of the French the Defiance of the Hollanders the Iealousie of Savoy and Venice and the zeale and resolution of England now demonstrated in her Representive bodie the Parliament whoe cheerfullie proffer theyr whole Estates and Lives to soe Iust soe necessarie and soe Honnorable a Warre the Honnor and safetie of our owne Estate the Glorie of GOD and the defence and protection of his afflicted Spouse the Church doth agayne and agayne invyte your Highness Sword and c●niure his Maiesties last and speedie resolution to beginne this Warre For it is not enough for the King your Father your Highness and the Parliament to give a forme to your Militarie Consultations except yee cast off all delayes remove all letts obstacles and procrastinations which may retard or oppose it give a life to that forme and a resolution to that life by drawing your Contemplation into Action that our Ships and selues may bee in a readiness to prevent Spayne ere Spayn bee readie to prevent us and of power to strike him ere hee can possiblie bee sufficientlie powerfull to threaten us and that our Regiments and Squadrons bee inrolled and in sight of theyr Coullers and ready to March at the verie first calle of the Drumme sith England and Scotland never sawe feare but in the fronts and faces of our Enemyes and alwayes went to the Warres as to a Ioyfull Wedding or to an assured Victorie and Triumph Great Prince you saw and understood what a world of ioyfull Bonfires or fires of Ioye wee made when your Highnesse returned from Spayne with as much safetie as you went foorth with danger yea our zeale and affection is soe ardent to your Highness because your Obedyence is such to the King your Father that wee shall iustlie hold our selues wronged of the Parliament if they for themselues the whole Kingdom be not Peticioners to the King your Father that hee will please to ordayne that wee may Religiouslie keepe and obserue two newe Holidayes and Festivals and that they may bee henceforth marked with Rubrickes in our Almanacks to the end that not onlie our selues but our Posteritie may yearelie celebrate

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

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

Detention Vsurpation of the Pallatynat will for his last shift and imposture clappe the whole fault therof on the Pope by affirming hee nowe sees that it whollie derogates from the Honnor and Office of Christs Vicar and consequentlie from the Lawes and Constitutions of the holie Catholique Church for Clement IX to annihilate and revoke the Donation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria which his Predecessor Gregorie XV. gave him and that hee beeing the Catholique King hee dares not transgresse the Commaunds nor disobey the will and Decrees of the Pope whoe is the head of the Catholique Church the Successour of Sainct Peeter and Christs Vicar on Earth These Aphorismes most sacred Souveraigne are true not feigned and everie way worthie of your beleife and Consideration For your Maiestie shall in the end finde that the Emperour and the King of Spayne will not understand the language of Restitution because theyr Swordes and Pennes have ever practised and professe the Contrarie Yea you have small cause and lesse reason to apprehend or feare the Emperours power whoe indeede is of verie small or noe power without that of Spayne And if Spayne will still Countenance and Commaund this his usurpation of the Pallatynat then hee is your Sonne in Lawes Enemie as much or more as the Emperour and soe to bee esteemed and held of your Maiestie and noe osherwise And for the rest of the Germane Princes whoe syde with the Emperour you have noe cause to stand eyther in neede or in feare of theyr Forces power for although the honnor of the Empire bee frequent in theyr tongues yet theyr owne Interest and endes are more deeplie rooted in theyr hartes and take upp the first place in their resolutions Your Majestie hath a long tyme yea too long tyme looked from the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe in suffering him thus to bee Dejected and deprived of his Pallatynat yea and the whole world spare not to speake and affirme this truthe that you are more desirous of rest then of Honnor in permitting and tollerating it Hee is a Prince fuller of hoapes then of misfortunes and his Vallor and Vertues make him more Worthie to bee an Emperour then to bee beaten by an Emperour And all these crosses and losses of his are but the assaults of Fortune the exercyse of his patience and the tryall of his generositie and Constancie Your Majestie hath seene him ruyned and yet it lyes in your power and pleasure to repayre those ruynes of his and to make him as happie as now hee is miserable Looke uppon the Princesse his wyfe and your onlie Daughter and you shall finde that all her Husbands misfortunes and losses doe noe way blemish but rather Illustrate her vertues as if her fortitude and resolution were to Devyne to bee outbraved by anie earthlie Crosses and afflictions For the remembrance of Reason Honnor of her Blood and her Vertues comming to forme it self in her understanding makes her to entertayne different accydents and afflictions with an aequall erected constancye and although shee have onlie this Comfort and Consolation left her that shee is not the cause of her Misfortune yet those whoe fee her Bewtie and knowe her Vertues doe likewyse knowe that shee whoe is one of the Greatest Ladyes of the world should not bee reduced to this poynt of myserie and misfortune to bee one of the Poorest and least of the world Sir God hath made her your Daughter and our Princesse and adorned her with soe manie Vertues as shee rather deserves to bee Empresse of the whole world then Ladye of a small Province Shee inheriteth the Name and Vertues the Majestie and generositie of our Immortall Queen Elizabeth and is a Princesse of such excellent hoapes and exquisite perfections that I cannot speak of her without prayse nor prayse her without admiration sith shee can bee immytated by none nor parraleld by anie but by herselfe And yet will your Majestie neglect her and will you not drawe your Sworde in her just Quarrell vvhose Fame and Vertues hath drawne most hartes to adore all to admyre her Looke uppon those Princelie plantes theyr Children and your Majestie shal finde that theyr lookes and fronts doe alreadie in their Infancie justly threaten to revenge their Father his losses and indignities and sith they are Descended from your Royall Blood and loynes will your Majestie suffer them to bee ruyned as soone as borne and that the Greatnesse of theyr Blood should onlie serve to make theyr afflictions and misfortunes the greater Harmlesse and Innocent soules what have they done to your Maiestie that you should suffer them thus to bee Disinherited or rather what should not Nature prompt you to doe for them agayne to restore them to theyr Patrimonie and Inheritance For if you will affect them you must pittie them and you cannot sufficientlie pittie them except you remedie and revenge theyr wronges by repayring the ruynes of theyr decayed and Shipwracked fortunes in that of theyr Fathers All the actions of Demetrius savoured of Royaltie and none will soe much royalize your Raigne and immortalize your Fame as this of restoring your Children to their Patrimonie your famous Predecessors and Progenitors of eyther Kingdom were too generous sencible and Delicate to digest or packe upp the least affront or injurie whatsoever though from the greatest Princes and Potentates of the world much lesse soe great a one as is this of the Losse of your dearest Childrens Patrimonie from soe weake a Prince as the Emperour whose power gives the lye to his forme and comes farre too short of his Dignitie and reputation wherin the Honnor of your Sacred person and alsoe of all your Kingdomes and Estates doe most extreamlie O that I might not saye shamefullie suffer for they made it both theyr practise and glorie to strike those first whoe made but the least shew or shaddowe eyther to threaten them or to withholde that from them which they ought to restore Yea they have past the Seas with royall Fleets and Armyes aswell for Defending theyr Confederates as for keeping and reconquering of a poore Cittie And will not your Maiestie then take Armes for the regayning and restoring of soe rich a Province as the Pallatynat to the Prince your Sonne in Lawe to the Princesse your Daughter and to theyr Royall posteritie which is one of the goodlyest Countries of Europe and wherin there are soe manie strong Citties and Castles And as the French in Rome give out agaynst the Duke of Savoy that the delayes which the Pope made in the judgement of the Marquisat of Salusses were insupportable that they had too long Disputed and pleaded for theyr owne and that therfore it was high tyme yea more then tyme for them to decyde that quarrell with the Cannon in the playnes of Piedmont Soe hath your Majestie just cause to saye to the Emperor the King of Spayn and Duke of Bavaria for the restoring of the Pallatynat yea let