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A11787	A Second part of Spanish practises, or, A Relation of more particular wicked plots, and cruell, in humane, perfidious, and vnnaturall practises of the Spaniards with, more excellent reasons of greater consequence, deliuered to the Kings Maiesty to dissolue the two treaties both of the match and the Pallatinate, and enter into warre with the Spaniards : whereunto is adioyned a worthy oration appropriated, vnto the most mighty and illustrious princes of Christendome, wherein the right and lawfulnesse of the Nederlandish warre against Phillip King of Spaine is approued and demonstrated.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Verheiden, W.; Strategia e organizzazione (Firm)	1624 (1624)	STC 22078.5; ESTC S1714	34,814	46

A SECOND PART OF SPANISH PRACTISES OR A RELATION OF MORE Particular wicked plots and cruell in humane perfidious and vnnaturall practises of the Spaniards WITH More Excellent reasons of greater consequence deliuered to the Kings Maiesty to dissolue the two treaties both of the Match and the Pallatinate and enter into Warre with the Spaniards WHEREVNTO IS ADIOYNED A WORTHY ORAtion Appropriated vnto the most Mighty and Illustrious Princes of Christendome wherein the right and lawfulnesse of the Netherlandish warre against Phillip King of Spayne is approued and demonstrated PRO. 20.28 Mercy and truth preserue the King and his Throne is vpholden by mercie PRINTED M.DC.XXIV MORE EXCELLENT REASONS OF GREATER CONSEQVENCE DELIVERED TO THE Kings Maiesty to dissolue the two Treaties both of the Match and the Pallatinate and enter into Warre with the Spaniard FIRST it is to be observed that the State of Spaine not content with those ordinary prouisions for the exercise of the Romane Religion by the Infanta and her family which other Princes in like case would haue demaunded and which his Maiesty with great reason might at the beginning of the Treaty haue conceived they would haue beene contented with Haue with great vehemency upon advantage of having the Princes Person in their possession pressed a generall conniuence for all his Maiesties subiects of the Romane Religion to the great dishonor of Almighty God in the sincerity of his seruice in this Realme and to the great derogation of the Lawes of this Kingdome And lastly to the great discouragement and griefe of all his Maiesties well affected subiects from whose generall discontent they expect as well appeareth a consequence of no small mischiefe Secondly it is obserued that during the continuance of this treatie and by reason of the same Popish faction haue exceedingly increased in this Realme both in multitude and boldnesse And whereas they haue beene divided heretofore amongst themselues into the part of the Iesuites depending vpon Spaine and the secular Priests otherwise They are generally now strongly vnited together depending no lesse vpon Spaine for temporall respects then vpon Rome for spirituall And considering the house of Austria hath beene alwayes a capitall enemy to our Religion to increase their owne greatnesse by extirpiting the protestant party in all places where they can prevaile It cannot but be of most dangerous consequence to the safety of the King and the Realme vnlesse remedy be prouided with speede for the abating of that party here at home which cannot be during the time that these Treattse are on foote Thirdly it is obserued that by aduantage of these Treaties and thereby keeping of his Maiesty in hope of a generall peace they haue contrarily vnder the pretence of assisting the Emperour oppressed the Protestants party in most parts of Christendome being the ancient Alies and confederates of this Crowne to the endangering not onely of the whole State of the reformed Religion but also of the Common safety of all the professors of the same Fourthly during the time of these Treaties of loue with his Maiesty they haue with all kind of hostility set vpon his Maiesties sonne in Law the husband of his onely and most Royall Daughter inuadeing his Townes and Territories in all places and infine dis-inherited him with all that Royall Off-spring of all his ancient Patrimoniall Honors and Possessions to the great dishonor of his Maiesty and extreame griefe of all his well affected Subiects And now also at the last when they should come to make good the hope of restitution they haue layd new grounds for endlesse delayes and turned pretended difficulties into apparant impossibilities not forbearing also now to annexe as a Condition to the weake hope of their vncertaine and imperfect resolutions That the eldest sonne of the Count Pallatine should be brought vp in the Emperours Court so restlesse are their desires to worke the ouerthrow of Religion by all possible devices Lastly it is apparant how manifoldly from time to time they haue deluded and abused his Maiesty with their Treaties how small respect they haue shewed to the Prince his Greatnesse and worth what endignities they haue offered againe and againe to his highnesse by importuning him vpon all aduantages to forsake his Religion contrary to the custome of all Princes and contrary to the ancient Lawes of Honor and Hospitality who ought to haue beene vsed there withall Princely freedome and pressed to nothing vnto which he was indisposed considering with what confidence being so great a Prince he had put himselfe within their power although it pleased God to guide and fortefie so his Princely heart that he constantly withstood all their attempts and stratagems to his owne immortall honor and to the vnspeakeable comfort of the good people of his Fathers Kingdome Wherevnto may be added their infinite aduantagiousnesse and endlesse delayes in their Treaties And finally what dishonor they haue obtruded vpon our Nation and Religion in inviting still to new Treaties and turning al to the aduantage of their owne particuler ends being true to nothing but their owne grounded Maximes with which neither the Match nor the restitution of the Pallatinate can possibly consist but vppon such termes as threaten to our State an incurable mischiefe AN ORATION OR SPEECH OF THE RIGHT AND LAWFVLNES of the Netherlandish Warres against Phillip King of Spaine Vnto the most Mighty and Illustrious Princes of Christendome Illustrious Princes of Christendome GReat and Mighty are the Kingdoms in your possession which extend far and wide throughout all the world but much more great and farre more excellent are the vertues and knowledge by which you hold preserue and governe the same righteously even to the vttermost extent of felicity In the meane time let me now intreat you ô most peaceful Princes that you will heare me with a friendly and well-affected minde the sequell hereof and fundamentally will understand wherefore the Spaniards doe most falsely accuse vs That this peace was violated and broken by vs which accusation I hold to be very grievous Among other Conditions Lawes and Contracts of this peace this was one of the chiefest and weightiest That Don Iohn should not admit any Spaniard or stranger nor any of them by whose counsell and advise it was evidently knowne that the Provinces were brought into that extreme spoyle into the Councell And contrarily hee called and sent for them to him kept them in his Court and in his most secret chambers That Baptista Taxis a most notable Spie and enemy of our common affaires who a little before had beene Secretary vnto Duke d' Alva who was not onely adioyned to his priuy Counsell but also was made and set ouer them Besides him one Octauius Gonzago an Italian as also hee tooke vnto him one Escouedo a crafty Spanish Fox vnto whom hee adioyned certaine Netherlanders But what Netherlanders I pray you Those who partly had beene the stirrers vp and fauourers of so many miseries who were both hated of

you for You haue evermore with a valiant constant and persevering courage resisted and rejected that most intolerable and most cruell seruitude and thraldome of the Inquisition or Faith-presse And if they now say that the authoritie respect and commandement of the King consisted therein and that you in respect thereof would not giue way nor be obedient vnto the same wherein indeed consisteth your glory and whereof you may justly boast Yet you confesse to your great commendation that you haue given these occasions vnto the accusations of Don Iohn That you being free from all faults yet in this you are and will be faulty And herein you may boast That you with an especiall providence and wisedome haue carefully watched and kept your selues so that at no time neither by any of these nor any other Spanish trecheries periuries tricks or traps you haue been cousoned debaucht nor insnared that you were the first which were inflamed with a singular constancie and courage to deliuer the Reipublicke from the grievous yoake of tyranny and cruell government That you with the toarch of your libertie haue been a light to enlighten all the other Provinces And that you had farre rather by these long-during warres be spent die and indure all kinds of misery and adversitie then to forsake your customes lawes and priviledges I beseech the Lord God by whose only conduct grace and assistance you haue atchived such admirable things that you may prosperously continue perseuere therin from henceforth perpetually Now will I turne me againe vnto that from which I haue digressed and recommend vnto your judgment and arbittrement Oh Christian Princes all what I haue spoken of the deeds of Don Iohn Take notice iudge and speake what you thinke thereof Considering that of all the States parts there is nothing omitted which by the law and contract they had promised to doe and contrarily for Don Iohns part of the ten parts of the agreement or composition which wholly he ought to haue performed he hath not discharged any one point thereof well nor honestly as hee ought And hereby you may see with what justice and equity we vndertook this businesse and how we having vndertaken the same haue dealt and proceeded therein For when the States perceiued that all their hope and trust for the cashiering of those great numbers of the Germane souldiers was frustrate and that they were laid in the cities townes and mouthes of the frontier garrisons and that they kept Namen Charlemont being Cities and Castles that were very well provided to the end that Don Iohn that way might receiue and bring into the Netherlands that great army which hee had desired of the King in his letters and moreover they perceiving that the hate and enuy of all the souldiers was turned vpon them and that they with an exceeding greedy desire longed for the pilaging of the greatest Cities And that they attended onely but for the least signe and token of their Prince to have falne rauenously and furiously as raging beasts and to haue ceized vpon the liues goods and meanes of the Netherlanders That Don Iohn himselfe and other naughty people daily threatned the ruine and subversion of our natiue Countrey That they by the demostrations hand-writings mouthes and letters of their confederates were themselues conuinced That they all had agreed to set the cities and towns on fire and to haue slaine all the Nobles and chiefe of the Citizens to haue destroyed the Netherlands and to have rooted out the Reipublick Who is he then that would not be awaked and stirred vp for the defence and preseruation of the common good Who is he that with good counsell would not prevent the trecheries of Iohn Who would be so vnprovident and such a coward that would not defend and maintaine his owne life with weapons and warre Assuredly reason hath taught the learned necessitie the Barbarians custome the heathens and nature it selfe the vnreasonable beasts to repell violence with violence euen to their vttermost ability You your selues Oh great and gracious Princes which possesse kingdomes freely and in prosperitie may easily know and vnderstand this and know also that even so it must be done But what do I say that you must know it All the Spaniards our enemies do know it and will freely confesse the same For they demonstrate it in their deeds that the same hath been just and is so yet For considering that Henricus Castellanus being a bastard and the great Grand-father of King Phillip did expell Peter his lawfull brother and right heire out of the kingdome because he seemed to vse tyrannicall dealing and because he seemed to dominiere contrary to the lawes and customes of his kingdome And that King Phillip vpon the same conditions that he inherited Spaine did inherit the Netherlands viz. that he should maintaine and religiously obserue the lawes and customes Wherefore then may not we as the Spaniards did reject Peter even as wel reject Phillip who oppresseth his subjects with an vnjust and vnlawfull government and expel him with our armes for euer out of our Provinces But I feare O Princes that I haue too much abused your patience and that my oration seemeth to haue run such a course that I neede not adde any thing more thereunto Yet I intreat your leaue that you be pleased to suffer me though very briefly to continue in that which Phillip sought to effect after the government of Iohn by the deceit of an hypocriticall and dissembled peace to the end that you may clearely see and perceiue wherfore that we so long as the world stands may neuer make any peace with Phillip but now and for euer without ceasing are bound to Warre against him The very name of peace I confesse is exceeding sweete a peace that is good and sound But betweene peace and that bondage which is cloaked covered and falsly folded vp in a concealed peace is indeede a very great difference Peace is a still and quiet liberty but that bondage or all manner of feare thereof is the extreame of all euils and mischieues Such was the peace if a man may call that peace which induced or rather seduced the Netherlanders even vnto Collen When at the States by their Embassadours and letters vnto you and your predecessors Oh all you Princes of Christendome had againe intreated that you by your authorities respect and exhortations should ratifie establish confirme and looke vnto that peace which Phillip after a new cousening manner should make that the same should not be deceitfull Like as he certainely and most maliciously by his deceit ouer-threw the fame For the Spaniards then made no delay but presently brought in new dissentions into Artois and Henego●e causing them to fall away from the other Provinces over the which they euen vnto this present haue dominiered Afterwards by force of Armes violently they surprised Mastricht and moreouer and aboue they partly by violence and partly by great promises haue sovght to get

would not haue held up nor rested untill he had conquered and subjugated the whole country of Grecia The Romanes in former time perceauing that the power of the Carthaginians increased and grew great they had an especial care that the Carthagenians should not grow so great as to ouer-master them And for that end they sent their souldiers to relieue the Mamertines from the beleagring and to relieue Spain from seruitude of the Africans Although that the Venetians are not very lightly incited to warre but when the matter of necessity constrayneth them Yet they neuer tefused to send their warlike power for the succour of others that were under them when they perceaued that their neighbours contended with each other with an vnreasonable and an immoderate violent ambitione These and the like even to an innumirable examples or foredeedes doe teach you how carefully you must take heede of that most pestilent evill of the Spanish ambition and do shew or proue that it is a righteous and just cause that even all you with one consent with us prosecute a warre against that Tyrant For our States do know that the occasion of their warre against Phillip is not onely exceeding just and righteous and ever was but also that they at no time now nor never may cease their warre that they may make no peace with Phillip but alwayes must mainetaine warre against that Tyrant For we are taught by our friends how we must take heed of our enemies For if Phillip do gape and long so earnestly and with such diligence for your Kingdomes like as you see he daily doth how then shall we speed For assuredly he wil never lay aside Armes before that he hath subjugated all the Netherlands under him because it is a Countrey so fit for his purpose who out of them may attempt many enterprises upon your Kingdomes and dayly may beginne to raise new warres against you and draw out of them Souldiers Armes and all manner of warlike provision against your adjacent Countries And therefore he would farre rather cast the greatest part of Christendome for a prey to the Turke then to cease these warres At the last Parliament in Germany he would not consent to furnish the Emperor with any soldiers nor assistance against the Turke and the reason was because he might the better vexe Christendome with warre Doe yee yet doubt of this O yee Princes which you your selues haue seene that Phillip in the beginning of our ciuill commotions had far rather loose two Kingdoms Tunis and Goulet which the Turkes under their General Sinam Bascha then recouered from him then that hee would for a while cease his warres with us or would remoue his Souldiers out of these Prouinces against the most deadly and mortal enemy of all Christendome And you know how many Souldiers how much Armes and what charges Phillip hath been at and wasted to maintain this war against us So that if you would but reckon up the same you shall find that he might haue bought and purchased two Netherlands with that mony although notwithstanding they be very great rich and exceeding copious So that there is no doubte of this but Phillip would far rather endure the greatest losse that might betide him then that he would leaue Bellgium with out bellum or the Low-countries without long encountrings of warre with out strife without souldiers that they might liue in peace and quietnesse freely and wholy according to their Lawes and priuiledges For by this war and with the conquest of our Prouinces he wil lay and establish the strongest foundation and surest ground-worke of his Monarchy Sole-dominion Tyrannie and cruel Gouernment For when he saw and perceaued that these Countries were so singularly fitting for his cruel treacheries and desgnments and that our Lawes and Liberties contraryly did wholy oppose the same therfore sought he first of all with warre with force and violence to plucke vp teare in sunder and with violence to oppresse the same to the end that his subiects of other Kingdoms which at this present he hath subiugated or else might subiugate hereafter from this our concording and generall defence of our Lawes and Liberty might take no example or instance with the greater courage and alacrity to stand for and maintaine their liberty What do you then iudge ô you most peaceful Princes or what is your conclusion that our States ought to doe who chiefly seek for the common good of their natiue Countrey Verily it cannot be with them as it is vnder the Gouernment of a cruel Tirant and as it usually is in ill-gouerned Reipublicks they are not vsed to be lead and to submit themselues at any time with cap and knee as flatterers doe to the wills desires and lusts of their superiour Lords nor to be dealt with all as hired slaues considering that they neuer would admit nor suffer that their Lawes Liberties nor their Reipublick should bow or submit vnder the yoake of vniust and vnlawfull Government But haue as good fathers of their natiue-Countrey as good fighters for their freedome and Defendors of their Lawes like as it must be in a Reipublick which is moderately and ciuilly gouerned by their Prince directed their designes wils and gouernment of their superiour Lord according to their Lawes and the preseruation of their Liberty Do you think that the Spaniards shall spoyle and cruell vexe and torment our Reipublick and that we with shame will leaue and quit the same Shall we neglect our deare countrey and liberty Must we despise the lawes of our predecessors And shall they peruert turn topsie-turvie our ciuill orders and policy into tyranny And shall we with wringing hands look vpon the coarse and behold the exequies or funerall of our patria and natiue countrey Shal they rend teare in peeces the body of our common-wealth and like most ravenous beasts deuoure the same And shall we like slaues with praying and intreating hardly preserue our own liues goods and meanes Or do ye not far rather laud extol with the highest commendation of honour this will and affection of our States for their manumising and preseruing of their deare and natiue countrey Incite and exhort you them to proceed as they are best able and to the vttermost of their powers for the preservation and manumising of their owne liues and liberty Come not these things daily into your remembrances when you think of the Netherlandish warre or discourse thereof which I haue now demonstrated and with sure and infallible and vncontrollable reasons proued vnto you viz. that our States all the Netherlanders being drenched and soaked in misery and oppressed with the cruelty of the Spaniards and being expeld out of their natiue countrey of meere necessity were constrained to take Arms against Philip. And that now all the other treacheries infidelities iniuries which the Spaniards during the time of these wars haue done vnto the Netherlanders being so great so inhumane and so incredible that they