at Court since the death of his son I fear the newes that Charles Gleman did shew you was true For I can assure you Marquesse Hamilton was much troubled till I had spoken with him There be some have done no good offices betwixt you Pray have a care of the Letter I mean the man Mr. Gleman did shew you and keep as many friends as you may I have spoken with no man but my Lord Keeper who is yours or not his own as he sweares And Mr. secretarie Conway is yours bodie and soul I never heard of the like of him for he flies at all men that be not yours Here is much admiration that they hear not from you but I thank God the King is not troubled at it for I do assure him that it is the better that he heares not from you for now he may be confident that you keep your day in comming away which doth much please him I will write nothing of my own businesse though there be nothing done in it but do hope that you will not see your Servant perish If I be too tedious I pray pardon mee it is my love that makes me so and yet I have an humble suite unto you which is to begg at your hands for patience for now is the time to shew it or never for all the eyes of the world are upon you and this is the time to win Honour and fame and for Gods-sake carrie the businesse with patience betwixt my Lord of Bristol and you for here be those that do laugh in their sleeves at you both I beseech you let me hear from you what you will command me for I will do nothing as near as I can but what will give content For you have that power in me that you need but say and it is done if it lie in my power so shall you ever command Your faithful and obedient Servant till death Jo. Hipsley London 1. Septemb. 1623. Sir Dudley Carleton to the Marquesse of Buckingham Right Honourable BY the dispatch of the fourteenth of this present which I sent by Jonson the Post I advertised your Honour at large in the two several Letters of the occurrents of these parts and therewith sent a copie of my second proposition which I made the day before in the Assemblie of the States General touching the businesse of Cleves and Juliers in conformitie to your Honours Letters of the 30th of the last The answer thereunto was deferred until yesterday and then brought me only by word of mouth from the States by Mounsieur Magnus of Zealand and Mounsieur Zulestein of Vtrecht and was to this effect That the States having sent my former proposition of the third of December to their several provinces from which this latter did differ in substance save onely in respect of the time for the restitution of the Townes which was prolonged for the space of a month all they could do according to the constitution of their government was to send this my second proposition likewise unto their provinces which they had done the day after I made the same and until they receive more expresse order from their principals they were to rest upon their former answer Wherein they declared their good intentions to accommodate this businesse so it might be with safetie to themselves and satisfaction of their neighbours And herein they were to expect the resolution of the Elector of Brandenbergh from whom the time did not yet serve to know his mind Mean while they humbly beseech his Majestie to make a gracious construction of their proceedings I was the day before with Mounsieur Barnevelt who is President this week to sollicite their answer who excused himself upon the smalnesse of their number many of the States being absent and of two Provinces all the Deputies So as to give a determinate resolution according as was required they could not And to make answer in general terms since his Majestie rested not satisfied with the former he doubted another of the same kind would not please him So as it seems this Message in place of an answer in writing proceeded of his Councel By discourse both with him and those which came unto me upon this subject I find their diffidence of the purpose of the Spaniard rather increased then otherwise upon the news of Leavies intended on the Arch-Dukes side to the number of 9000 foot and 1000 or 1200 horse and their delay in taking a determinate resolution no way disswaded but rather counselled by all other Princes who have interest in this businesse Their Embassadour at Paris having advertised them by reiterated Letters That Don Pedro di Sarmientos his offer to his Majestie touching the execution of the Treatie of Zanten is absolutely disavowed by both the Kings of France and Spain And this French Embassadour Mounsieur du Maurier having made it appear unto them that at Brussels they have the same conceit of it as a thing done without authoritie Besides the Princes of the Union have written lately expresse Letters to the States wherein they perswade them to extraordinarie vigilance upon the Spaniards and particularly in this businesse of Cleves and Juliers the translated Copies of which Letters I send your Honour herewith And the Prince of Brandenbergh being young himself and having his Councel divided in opinion doth nothing absolutely without reference to this State and he when I put them in mind how they themselves were the authors and framers of the Treatie of Zanten they stick not to say plainly Temporamutantur et nos so as I am daily more and more confirmed in my former opinion That there is no way left to accommodate this businesse but by a private agreement between the Princes Pretendents But Strickius the Agent of Brandenbergh being absent at Cleves I do not hear how this Negotiation proceeds Amongst the particularities which passed in discourse between Mounsiour Maguns and my self I insisting upon restitution of the Townes as the meanes to prevent an imminent war upon the quarrel He asked to whom they should restore them unlesse the Princes were agreed and that they might know which of the Princes should receive him and whom they should have for their neighbour Whereby it appeares this course will on this side remove all difficulties It is advertised hither by Mounsieur Langrack the States Embassadour at Paris that the apprehension they had in the Court to have this businesse ended without the French Kings intervention caused Mounsieur de Refuges to be summoned to make an other journey expressely hither in regard he had formerly the managing thereof Notwithstanding that Mounsieur de la Nove was already named for this extraordinarie Embassage But Refuges excusing himself upon his indisposition sent all his memorial of what passed when he was here in the treatie of Zanten with his private opinion upon the whole matter to serve as an instruction to la Nove. By the other Letters of the 28. of this present Stil
I made no doubt of the power that every King had over his own Subjects notwithstanding where it was articled betwixt two Kings that there should be a free admittance of each others Commodities unto their several Kingdomes and after a Command should be given prohibiting either of them unto their Subjects the making use thereof it could not but be understood a defrauding and deluding of the Articles and the true intention of them but I told him I came not to dispute this now for the Secretaries Letter had desired me to take notice of another resolution therefore I desired that there might be a speedy and publique declaration made of what was therein signified unto me or if there were any new resolution that I might understand it To which he answered pretending that he spake it as a freedom which he used with me but came out with it in such a manner as I saw he was full of it That the truth was that they would proceed here as they were proceeded withal in England That the King my Master had lately given leave to the Hollanders to transport Artillery out of England and had denied the like to their Embassadours having required it which was as he said directly against the articles of peace wherein it was Capitulated That neither should assist with any kind of armes the enemy of the other He said farther That the English had taken Ormuh and there was no satisfaction given concerning that businesse nor appearance of any intention to do it and concluded That when the Articles of Peace should be observed to them they would do the like I told the Conde I had not understood any thing of those particulars which he mentioned and therefore could say nothing unto him neither thought I fit to give him any further answer being loath in a businesse of this importance where the Articles of Peace between these Kingdoms are in question to do any thing at guesse but to advertise it to the King my Master and to proceed according to such order as he shall please to give me I do therefore intreat your Honour that you will be pleased to acquaint his Majestie with what hath passed wherein I doubt not but his Majestie will observe the distraction and inconstancy of their proceedings here at present in Commanding what his Majestie will have found by this Secretaries Letter and taking presently after new resolutions After this language which the Conde hath used unto me I cannot expect any reason or justice here and the Merchants have many suites depending wherein they have received great injuries whereof I have not hitherto complained because I was in continual hope of procuring redresse and their suites proceeded on I cannot say as I would have wished but according to the stile here and in such manner as they have done in former times I doubt not but his Majestie will therefore likewise please to consider what a stop there is likely to be here of all businesses concerning the Commerce and either proceed as occasion shall there be offered in the like manner or take such a Course for settling things in better order as to his wisdom shall seem best I have fince had some overtures made unto me that the said declaration shall presently come out in the mean time I would not wish that the Merchants should adventure any thing trusting to their courtesie here By my last unto your Honour which was of the 20th of May I advertized the advice which was given hither That the Galeons that bring the Plate were upon the way for these parts Since when there is newes of their arrival at St. Lucar excepting two of them which perished in their journey hitherward the one sprung a leak in a calm day and sunk so fast that there were onely saved 52 men the rest which were about 200. persons were all drowned neither was any of her fraight saved The other was their Admirante which corresponds with our Vice-Admiral which likewise sprung a leak but all the men aboard were saved and a good part of her silver There is lost upon Register in these two Ships three millions and it is thought that there perished in them above a million in silver and goods unregistred Upon order that was lately sent unto the Assistente of Sevil for the perfecting the Grant of the Millions to the King by the said City there being doubt made whether it was a lawful Concession or no The Assistente called together those that had voices in the said grant of the said Millions and made a speech unto them wishing a general Conformity to what his Majestie had desired of them but the proposition was very distastful unto the greater number who little expected to have heard that businesse revived again And the people having gotten notice upon the breaking up of that meeting of what had been there propounded in a tumultuous manner ran after the Assistente who was returning to his house and hearing such a clamour behind him thought that the people had been disquieted by some accident and stayed to have appeased them but by the curses which he heard and the blowes he received by the stones which were thrown at him he quickly found against whom the fury of the people was bent and so made all the haste he could to his own house which at length he recovered sore wounded and with much hazard of his life The Irish Priests and others of that Kingdome which reside in this Court begin to grow very busie here and do promise great matters unto this King in the assistance which his Majestie shall find in Ireland whensoever he shall please to attempt any thing against that Kingdome but for any thing I can learn there hath been as yet so little ear given unto them that they have not descended to make any particular offer But they are treated here with much Courtesie Tyr-Connel being made a Page to the Queen and the rest receiving good satisfaction I will be as vigilant as I can to trace out their steps and I hope I shall be able to give seasonable advertizement of their proceedings Howsoever since secret Councels may be held and resolutions taken which I may misse of I doubt not but the King our Master considering the present jealousies and distastes betwixt these Crowns will be vigilant to secure that Kingdom that there may be nothing neglected upon which they may here take any sudden advantage By the English Merchants that reside in Malaga I have received advice that 3. Scottish Masters of Ships have lately had a sentence pronounced against them by the D. of Medina Sidona wherein their Ships and all their goods are confiscated for having brought Holland Commodities to that Port and their persons condemned to the Galleys which notwithstanding their apellation unto the Councel of War here which ought to have been admitted them was presently put into execution The same day that I received the advice I gave in a Memorial to the
226. refuses to be Admiral for the Lord Stewards place 102. no man in Parliaments durst touch him 226 Letters of Mart against the Spaniard 344 Libel against King James by the Papists called Corona Regin 151 152 Liberty of a free Subject 19 a pretence 229 Of Kings invaded by the Spaniard 191 Of Westminster impeached by the Lord Steward and Earl Marshal 68 69 where Liherties are to be impleaded 69 Liege King of Spain raises a Fort there 279 Offered protection by the French King 283 Lievtenants of Counties chosen 76 Londoners deceive the King in his Customes undo all other Townes transport silver enemies to the Duke 226 Low-Countries offers of those States to Sir Edward Cecyl 130 their proceedings in affairs 317 to 320 how much bound to England 339 Jealous of the English their courses for Religion 321. carry themselves strangely to the English 331 apt to fall into faction 324 desire the King of England's protection 337 why they haste not to conclude 339 Send Embassadours into England to treat 342 Lude Count 285 Luines the great French Favourite 176 177. M. MAconel Sir James a fugitive Scot seeks to be entertained in Spain 209 Magnus of Zealand 317 Malecontents of King James and King Charles their Reigns 225 Mansel Sir Robert before Argier Commands against the Turks 140 141 142. Mansfelt Earl hates the house of Austria entertained by the Venetians how obedient to the Palsgrave 189. In the Low Countries 328 329 Maqued a Duke a Pyrate 166 Marriages of Princes of different Faiths in what manner 106 Marshal of England his office power c. once hereditary Marshal of the Kings house 63 64 Masques in France 278 279 Master of the Horse to the King 102 Mathewes Sir Tobie 251 252 253. Match with the Infanta of Spain the proceedings 15. See Infanta Many things yeelded to for it 236 The Portion and all the temporal Articles were settled 23 25 Difficulties in it from Rome and Spain 233 234 236 238 239. The Prexie 106 107 Betwixt the Priree of Wales and Madam of France 275-279 Concluded 292 53 agitated betwixt the Emperours Son and the Infanta Donna Maria 167 Isabella Clara Engenia moves for the Prince of Poland 167 Betwixt the Emperours Daughter and Palsgraves Son 170 171 Maurice of Nassaw Prince of Orange a blunt Prince 324 331 against the Novellists 321 322 would reconcile Sir Horatio Vere and Sir Edward Cecyl 323 he and the Prince Conde differ ibid. gives away Colonel Hyndersons Regiment contrary to an act of the States 329 desires the protection and friendship of King James 331 332 337 338 Melon seeds sent out of Italie to King James by Sir Henry Wotton 195 Merchants of England denyed the free entrance of their Commodities in Spain 46 47. the order of prohibition staid 52 168 ill used there 48 Michel Sir John sues injustly in Chancery 83 84 Middlesex Earl sues to the King for grace 203 fined 204 will not consent to any diminution of the Crown revenues 266 begs time for his defence 268 Modena Dutchesse 188 Mole an Englishman in the Inquisition concerning King James his Book for Allegiance 194 Montague after Bishop of Chichester imprisoned by the House of Commons who so he had nothing to do with him 115 Requires the Papists to prove certain questions 115 116 Three Bishops defend him 116 117 118. and his Pook Appello Caesarem so much desliked by the Puritanes 116. 118 Montgomery Earl taxed 27. See 302. Murray Schoolmaster to the Prince of Wales a Puritane preferred to be Provost of Eaton 66 67 68. N. NEcessity onely drives men to Sea 102 Newburgh Duke in Spain 165 166 shares in the Palatinate 335 Nithisdail Earl his Conference with the Spanish Embassadours 247 Nove Mounsieur 319 O. OFfice of the Originals 70 Ogle Sir John gives Extracts of the Duke and Embassadours Letters 137. See 322. Olivarez Conde the Favourite of Spain his and the Duke of Bucking hams farewell 16 his protestation to the Earl of Bristol 40 saves the Marquesse of Ynoiosa from the prosecution of Sir Walter Aston 52 his Rodomontade 289 The Condessa of Olivarez prayes for the Duke of Buckingham 33 Opinions of some in the Church dangerous 117 Ornano Colonel Monsteur of Orleans his Governour 286 Ossuna Duke Vice Roy of Naples counterfeits madnesse to cover his disloyalty 182 Threatens the Venetians because they would not be robbed by him 183 Confirmed in his Government avoids the Spanish trap 184 Oxford Earl 22 imprisoned 209 secks to the Duke of Buckingam but gallantly 312 P. PAlatinate of the Rhine cause of breach in the Spanish Match 17 35 38 234 235 307. mangled by the Emperour by guists 335 difficulties in the restitution of it 171 172 346 Ever beaten upon 245. 248 the upper settled on the Bavarian 335 Pardon of the Lord of St. Albans 60 Parma Duke 186. imprisons his bastard son 188 Parliament of England House of Commons no where before Henry the 1. thwart the King their priviledges graces of Kings 65 grown in the late Reigns tumultuous and licentious 224 private grudges made publick businesse 230 what men dangerous in Parliaments 215 See 226. Of Spain grant their King 60. Millions of Duckets which the Cities will not ratifie 45 Palsgrave a disperate enemy to the Emperour 172. promised restitution conditionally 241. content to submit 337 Passages betwixt the Keeper Lincoln and Don Francisco a Spaniard concerning Peace or war betwixt England and Spain upon breach of the Match 77 Paul the Father of Venice 187 Peckius 333 Peeres Judges in Parliament 6 Pennington Sir John 141. will not deliver up the Kings Ship for the French service 147 148 his advice concerning the Contract of the French for the use of some English Vessels 150 Persian Embassadour his suit to King James 12 Philibert of Savoy Viceroy of Sicily his good affection to King James 158 at Messina 182 dares not fight the Turkish Fleet which he finds too strong for him 186 Philipa Sir Robert 264 mediates with the Duke for the Earl of Bristol 265 Pirates of Algier 142 Of the Levant seek for pardon 156 formidable â—58 infest the Coasts of Spain 206 207 Popes their arts 172 Porcheres 301 303 Portland Earl See Weston Sir Richard Presents given on both sides in Spain 16 Prisoners in the Fleet and the damned in Hell compared by the Keeper Lincoln 65 Priviledges of Parliament 65 made a colour 227 Procession upon the Jubile in Spain by the King Queen c. 51 Proclamation concerning the signature of Bills 82 Protestants of all parts beholding to King James 110 111 Provost of Eaton hath cure of soules must be in Orders 66 67 Purbeck Lady so she much affects her husband 313 Complains highly of the Duke and his Family 313 314. Puritanes see Allegiance haters of the Gavernment begun in Parliaments fall upon the Councellours of State willing to clip the King 225 Putean had a hand in Corona Regia the Libel 152 Q. Queen of Bohemia her virtues
and Pleas of Assises at York held before several Judges in that Circuity with some Presidents useful for pleaders at the Assises never Englished before in Octavo Reports or Cases in Chancery collected by Sir George Cary one of the Masters of the Chancery in Octavo A perfect Abridgment of the Eleven Books of the Reports of the Lord Cook written in French by Sir John Davis and now Englished in Duodecimo Reports or new Cases of Law by John March in Quarto Statuta pacis containing all Statutes in order of time that concern a Justice of Peace in Duodecimo Three Learned Readings the first by the Lord Dyer of Wils second by Sir John Brograve of Joyntures third by Thomas Risden of forcible Entryes in quarto The Learned Arguments of the Judges of the Upper Bench upon the Writ of Habeas Corpus with the opinion of the Court thereupon in Quarto The Book of Oaths with the several forms of them both Antient and Modern in Duodecimo The Office of Sheriffes and Coroner by J. Wilkinson of Bernards Inne with Kitchins return of VVrits newly translated into English in Octavo Synopsis or an exact Abridgment of the Lord Cook 's Commentary upon Littleton being a brief Explanation of the Grounds of the Common Law Compos'd by that learned Lawyer Sir Humphrey Daveuport Knight Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer in Octavo Miscellania Spiritualia or devout Essay's by the Honourable Walter Mountague Esquire the first Part in Quarto The History of the Civil warrs of France written in Italian by Henrico Catarino D'Avila translated into English by Sir Charles Cotterel Knight and William Aylsbury Esquire in folio E. of Sommerset to K. JAMES BY this Gentleman your Majesties Lieutenant I understand of some halt you made and the Cause of it at such time as he offered to your Majestie my Letters But soon after your Majestie could resolve your self and behold me nothing so diffident of you but in humble language petitioning your favour for I am in hope that my condition is not capable of so much more misery as that I need to make my self a passage to you by such way of intercession This which followes after I offer your Majesting though not as to your self for upon lesse motive you can find favour for me Now I need onely move not plead before your Majestie as my Case doth stand for what I seek to have done followes upon what you have already done as a Consequence and succeeding growth of your own act But to the effect that your Majestie may see that there is enough to answer those if any such there be as do go about to pervert the exercise of your Power and to turn it from its own clear excellency for to minister unto their passions I have presumed to this end to awake your Majesties own Concelpt upon this subject which can gather to it self better and more able defences in my behalf upon this view for though the acts of your mercy which are not communicable nor the Causes of them with others as derived from those secret motives which are only sensible and privie to your own heart and admit of no search or discovery to any general satisfaction and that under this protection I might guard my particular sufficiently yet my Case needs not hide it self but attend the dispute with any that would put upon it a monstrous and heavy shape For though that I must acknowledge that both life and estate are forfeit to you by Law yet so forfeited as the same Law gives you the same power to preserve as it doth to punish whereby your Majesties higher prerogative doth not wrestle with it nor do you infringe those grounds by which you have ever governed so as the resistance is not great that your Majestie hath for to give life and which is lesse in the gift of estate for that the Law casts wholly upon your self and yields it as fit matter for the exercise of your goodnesse Once it was your Majesties guift to me so it may be better not taken then a second time given for it is common to all men for to avoid to take that which hath been once their own And I may say farther that Law hath not been so severe upon the ruine of innocent posterity nor yet Cancelled nor cut off the merits of Ancestors before the politique hand of State had contrived it into those several forms as fitted to their ends and government To this I may adde that that whereupon I was judged even the Crime it self might have been none if your Majesties hand had not once touched upon it by which all accesse unto your favour was quite taken from me Yet as it did at length appear I fell rather for want of well defending then by the violence or force of any proofes for I so far forsook my self and my Cause as that it may be a question whether I was more Condemned for that or for the matter it self which was the subject of that dayes Controversie Then thus far nothing hath appeared wherein your Majestie hath extended for me your power beyond the reasonable bound neither doth any thing stand so in the way of your future proceedings but rather make easie the accesse of your Majesties favour to my relief What may then be the cause that Malice can pitch upon wherefore your Majestie should not proceed for to accomplish your own work Aspersions are taken away by your Majesties letting me become subject to the utmost power of Law with the lives of so many of the offendours which yieldeth the world subject of sorrow rather then appetite to more bloud but truth and innocency protect themselves in poor men much more in Kings Neither ever was there such aspersion God knowes in any possibility towards your Majestie but amongst those who would create those pretences to mislead your Majestie and thereby make me miserable If not this whereof the virtue and use was in the former time and now determined there is not any but your pleasure It is true I am forfeited to your Majestie but not against you by any treasonable or unfaithful act Besides there is to be yielded a distinction of men as in faults in which I am of both under the neerest degrees of exception yet your Majestie hath pardoned life and estate to Traytors and to strangers sometimes the one sometimes the other Nay to some concerned in this businesse wherein I suffer you have pardoned more unto then I desire who as it is reported if they had come to the test had proved Copper and should have drunk of the bitter Cup as well as others But I do not by this envy your favours to any person nor seek I to draw them in the yoak with my self but applaud your Majesties goodnesse m. Sir W. Elvish being in that respect in a neerer possibility to come at me Besides this to Elvish your Majestie hath given estate which is a greater gift then life because it extends
and vexations of my place I do most freely and willingly acknowledge one man cannot be more bound unto another then I am to your Lordship and if I do not make a thankful return let me be held an ungrateful Monster which is the worst of Villains I have been so ambitious as to desire to extend my gratitude so far as that the King may have cause to thank you for preferring me and that your Lordship may blesse the time you did it To effect that I shall delight to live a miserable life for a time The course which must of necessitie be held to do it I will acquaint your Lordship with very shortly which I hope you will be pleased to approve and assist me in And then I will expresse my thankfulnesse to you that way If that course shall not like you I will not onely deliver you up my places but whatsoever I hold from the King and live privately upon mine own estate For I will never fell so good and gracious a Master nor so noble and constant a friend ruined and undone God blesse you and send you your hearts desire As for my self I never desired to quit the World and all the fooleries in it till now Your Lordships Faithfullest servant and Kinsman Middlesex The Earl of Middlesex to his Majestie 26. April 1624. Sacred Majestie and my most gracious Master YOur goodnesse is such to me your oppressed servant in this my time of persecution as I know not how to expresse my thankfulnesse otherwise then by pouring forth my humble and heartie prayers to the great God of heaven and earth to grant your Majestie all happinesse here and everlasting happinesse hereafter Between 5. and 6. of the clock upon Saturday in the evening I received my Charge from the Lords assembled in Parliament with an Order by which I am commanded to make my appearance at the Bar upon Thursday next by 9. of the clock in the morning with my answer And in the mean time to examine my witnesses This Charge of mine hath been in preparing by examining of witnesses upon oath and otherwise 23. daies And hath been weighed by the Wisdom of both Houses and doth concern me so neerly in point of honour and faith to your Majestie to answer well as I value my life at nothing in comparison of it I may grieve though I will not complain of any thing my Lords shall be pleased to Command but do hope that upon a second consideration they will not think three daies a fitting time for me to make my Answer and to examine witnesses in a cause of such importance and so neerly concerning me when twenty three daies hath been spent almost from morning until night in preparing my Charge I know the House whose Judgment I shall never desire to wave is the proper place for me to move to be resolved herein and therefore shall upon Wednesday morning make my humble motion there to have 7. daies longer time as well to make my answer and appearance as to examine my witnesses which are many and upon several heads But because the Prince his Highnesse and many of the Principal Lords are now with your Majestie at VVindsor my most humble suit to your Majestie is That you would be pleased to move them on my behalf to yield me so much further time that my Cause may not suffer prejudice for want of time to make my just defence that which I have propounded being as moderate as is possible With my most humble and heartie prayer to Almightie God for continuance of your health with all happinesse I humbly kisse your Royal hands and will ever rest Your Majesties most humble c. Middelsex The Earl of Carlile to his Majestie 14. February 1623. May it please your most Excellent Majestie THough my present indisposition deprives me of the Honour to attend your Majestie with the rest of the Commissioners with whom your Majesty was pleased to associate me yet I most humbly beseech your Majestie to give me leave in all humility to represent unto your Majestie what my heart conceiveth to be most for your Majesties service in the present conjuncture of your affaires During this time of my distemper I have been visited by divers Gentlemen of quality who are Parliament-men none of those popular and plausible Oratours but solid and judicious good patriots who fear God and honour the King Out of their discourses I collect That there are three things which do chiefly trouble your people The first that for the subsidies granted the two last Parliaments they have received no retribution by any bills of Grace The second that some of their Burgesses were proceeded against after the Parliament were dissolved And the third that they misdoubt that when they shall have satisfied your Majesties demands and desires you will neverthelesse proceed to the conclusion of the Spanish match It would be too much importunity to trouble your Majestie with the several answers which I made to their objections and would be too great presumption in mee to advise your Majesties incomparable wisdome what should be fittest to be done for your Majesties honour and the contentment of the people yet if it would please my Lord the King to give his humblest Creature leave to give vent to the loyal fervour of his heart restlesse and indefatigable in continual meditation of his Gracious Masters honour and service I would thus with all humble submission explain my self That there is nothing which either the enemies of this State or the perverse industry of false-hearted servants could invent more mischievous then the misunderstanding which have grown between your Majestie and your people nothing that will more dishearten the envious Maligners of your Majesties felicity and incourage your true hearted friends and Servants then the removing of those false feares and jealousies which are meer imaginarie Phantasmes and bodies of ayr easily dissipated whensoever it shall please the sun of your Majestie to shew it self clearly in its native brightnesse lustre and goodnesse God and the World do know the scope and the end of all your Majesties pious affections and endeavours to have been no other then the setling of an universal peace in Christendom a felicity only proper for your Majesties time and only possible to be procured by your incomparable goodnesse and wisdom but since the malice of the Divel and deceitful men have crossed those fair wayes wherein your Majestie was proceeding abusing your trust and goodnesse as Innocencie and goodnesse are alwayes more easily betrayed then wilinesse and malice you must now cast about again and sail by another point of the compasse and I am confident your Majestie will more securely and easily attain your Noble and pious end though the way be different The meanes are briefly these three First let your Majesties enemies see that the Lion hath teeth and clawes 2. Next imbrace and invite a strict and sincere friendship and association with those whom neighbourhood and
my hands amongst other Letters that same day I found him exceedinglie troubled in reading it nor did he forbear to tell me it must for a time be concealed for he feared if they should come to the knowledge of it they would give order to stay the Prince Upon these motives and in this manner I parted with it wherein I humbly submitting my self to his Highnesse Construction I remain Your Graces humblest servant to command Ed. Clark Madrid 1. Octob. 1623. Mr. Edward Clark to the Duke My Lord THe Infanta's preparation for the Disposorio was great but greater sorrow good Ladie to see it deferred It hath bred in them all some distraction The multitude know not what to conjecture what to say but cry Piden el Palatinato They confesse the demand just but unseasonable and do publish that the Disposorio past the Infanta on her knees should have been a suitor to the King to restore it making it thereby her act and drawing the obligation wholly to her I must confesse I want faith to believe it and the rather because I see it reflect secretly and malitiously upon your Lordship who are made the authour of all the impediments that happen not by your enemies onely but by those that should suppresse it Which troubles me so much that I hasten all I can my return since I know no other then to be Your Graces faithful servant Edw. Clark Madrid 6. Sept. 1623. Sir Anthony Ashley to the Duke May it please your good Lordship IF any thing had happened worth your knowledge I had either come or sent to Theobalds in your absence being ascertained that your Lordship had been already particularly informed of what passed in the Higher House betwixt the Earl of A. and the L. S. which is the onely thing of note and is thought will beget some noveltie Your Lordship may be most assured that your Adversaries continue their meetings and conferences here in Holborn how to give his Majestie some foul distaste of you as making you the onely authour of all grievances and oppressions whatsoever for your private ends And I hope to be able within few daies if promise be kept to give you good overture of a mutual oath taken to this purpose amongst them The rumour lately spread touching his Majesties untimely pardon of the late Lord Chancellours Fine and Imprisonment with some other favours intended towards him said to be procured by your Lordships only intimation hath exceedingly exasperated the rancor of the ill affected which albeit it be false and unlikely because very unseasonably It doth yet serve the present turn for the increase of malice against you I can but inform your Lordship of what I understand you may please to make use thereof as your self thinketh best I most humbly intreat your good Lordship to keep Letters of this nature either in your own Cabinet or to make Hereticks of them for I am well acquainted with the disposition of some Pen-men in Court. Upon Message even now received of my poor Daughters suddain dangerous sicknesse I am constrained unmannerly to post unto her being the onely comfort I have in this world and do purpose God willing a speedie return In the mean time and even with my heartie prayer I commend your good Lordship to Gods merciful and safe keeping This 12th of May 1621. Your honourable good Lordships faithfully devoted A. A. Sir Wa. Rawleigh to the Duke 12. Aug. IF I presume too much I humbly beseech your Lordship to pardon me especially in presuming to write to so great and worthie a person who hath been told that I have done him wrong I heard it but of late but most happie had I been if I might have disproved that villanie against me when there had been no suspition that the desire to save my life had presented my excuse But my worthie Lord it is not to excuse my self that I now write I cannot for I have now offended my Soveraign Lord for all past even all the world and my very enemies have lamented my losse whom now if his Majesties mercie alone do not lament I am lost Howsoever that which doth comfort my soul in this offence is that even in the offence it self I had no other intent then his Majesties service and to make his Majestie know That my late enterprise was grounded upon a truth and which with one Ship speedily set out I meant to have assured or to have died being resolved as it is well known to have done it from Plymouth had I not been restrained Hereby I hoped not onely to recover his Majesties gracious opinion but to have destroyed all those malignant reports which had been spread of me That this is true that Gentleman whom I so much trusted my Keeper and to whom I opened my heart cannot but testifie and wherein if I cannot be believed living my death shall witnesse Yea that Gentleman cannot but avow it that when we came back towards London I desired to save no other Treasure then the exact description of those places in the Indies That I meant to go hence as a discontented man God I trust and mine own Actions will disswade his Majestie Whom neither the losse of my estate thirteen years imprisonment and the denial of my pardon could beat from his service nor the opinion of being accounted a fool or rather distract by returning as I did ballanced with my love to his Majesties person and estate had no place at all in my heart It was that last severe Letter from my Lords for the speedie bringing of me up and the impatience of dishonour that first put me in fear of my life or enjoying it in a perpetual imprisonment never to recover my reputation lost which strengthened me in my late and too late lamented resolution if his Majesties mercie do not abound if his Majestie do not pitie my age and scorn to take the extreamest and utmost advantage of my errours if his Majestie in his great charitie do not make a difference between offences proceeding from a life-saving-natural impulsion without all ill intent and those of an ill heart and that your Lordship remarkable in the world for the Noblenesse of your disposition do not vouchsafe to become my Intercessour whereby your Lordship shall bind an hundred Gentlemen of my kindred to honour your memorie and bind me for all the time of that life which your Lordship shall beg for me to pray to God that you may ever prosper and over-bind me to remain Your most humble servant W. Rawleigh Sir Henry Yelverton to the Duke 15. March 1623. May it please your Grace MY humble heart and affection hath wrote many lines and presented many Petitions to your Grace before this time though none legible but one sent by my Lord Rochford within five daies after your most welcomed arrival from Spain I have learned the plain phrase of honest speech My Lord I have honoured your name long and your own virtue much I never found
Councel of State representing the rigorous and unjust proceeding against the said Scottish Masters and desired that they would send their order that the Apellation might be admitted and that their persons might be presently returned off of the Gallies I likewise repaired to the Conde of Olivarez acquainting him with the proceedings of the Duke and was able to give him some examples of divers Hollanders that had been treated in the like occasion with far lesse rigour Whereupon there is Command given according to what I have desired and whatsoever shall become of their goods I have a promise from the Conde of Olivarez that their persons shall be treated with all Courtesie It is published by the Ladies of the Palace that the Queen is with Child which hath filled this Court with much joy and her Majestie hath so much better health now upon her being new with Child then she hath had of the rest that they are already here full of hopes that she will bring them a Prince c. Your Honours c. Wa. Aston The Abstract of a Letter from Sir Walter Aston to the Lord Conway 17. July 1624. HE acknowledgeth the receipt of his Majesties Letters of the 27. of June by Mr. Wych and is busie in preparing to put those Directions in execution and that being done will give a speedy and full account The Marquesse Ynoisa dispatched away a Post to Spain from Calice and by him gave as malicious an account of his usage at his departure from England and also of all other late passages there as malice it self could have dictated He omits no libels or infamous songs nor spares his own inventions where they may serve to incense The Credit they are like to give to their Embassadour the height of discontent they are now in the assurance given them of the weak and mean estate of all things in England may tempt them to offer the giving us a blow where we are weakest And therefore no necessary preparations for defence to be neglected on our part None of their Armado stirres yet but only 4. Gallions appointed to accompany for some daies the Nova Espagna Fleet that put to Sea the fourth of this present Sir Walter Aston doubts that the light he hath received of the present state of things in England and the Arguments to answer their Objections will hardly be applyed to give any satisfaction things being in so much distemper there And where the best answers on both sides are recriminations he conceives little is to be expected but a direct falling out The cause of their retarding Mendoza's coming for England hath been their desire to see the issue of the proceedings with their Embassadour All the Grandees and principal persons of Spain are summoned to give their attendance with their armes which is done by three Letters 1. Admonitoria 2. Apercibitoria 3. Executoria The two first are already set forth And there is order likewise given for the Battalon to be in a readinesse which is the same as the Trained Bands in England This is an ancient practise there upon suspition of forraign invasion or domestique Commotion There are leavies new making according to custome for supplying of Garrisons and though these Leavies are greater then usually yet not much worthy of note An Embassadour arrived there for Denmark his coming being given out to be to negotiate the businesse of the Palatinate and to make overtures for a Peace with Holland but if nothing be heard of this in England it is not like to be true A Request presented unto the King by a Consulta from the Inquisiter general c. to procure a Jubile from Rome for expiation of the late great Contempt done by a Frenchman to the Sacrament The King promiseth to do it and he the Queen and the whole houshold will endeavour to deserve it by fasting and other duties In his answer to the Consulia there is a passage that intimates his intention of looking abroad with his armes The Frenchman was condemned burnt publiquely and dyed a Roman Catholique There have been divers processions in expression of the general grief for that action The King Queen his Brothers and Sister with the Grandees and the Councel went in procession about the two square Courts of the Palace where there were 4. Altars built one by the Kings care the rest by the Queen the Infanta Cardinal Don Carlos and Dona Maria who joyned in the care of one of them The greatest riches of Diamonds and Pearls that were in the Churches thereabouts and in the Kings store were presented on those Altars and were at ten millions They intend to dispatch one Jaquesse Brones Secretary of the Councel of Flanders by post into England to bring Don Carlos warrant to come away and to stay Agent in England until the arrival of another Embassadour which will not be long They stay the giving out of the order for the free admittance of English Merchandizes until they see what will be done with their Ships in the Downs c. Sir Walter Aston to the Duke 20. of Octob. 1624. May it please your Grace I Assure my self that your Grace is very confident that I have not only pursued the Complaint which I here made against the Marquesse of Ynoisa with the duty of a Minister in obedience to the King my Masters Command but as passionately interested against his person who maliciously attempted to stain if it had been possible the honour of the Prince his Highnesse and your Graces my noblest friend And certainly my Lord I should be infinitely afflicted in not having brought this businesse to that issue which I thirsted after could I accuse my self of having omitted any thing that might have sharpned them here against him But the Conde of Olivarez with a strong and violent hand hath delivered the Marquesse from any exemplary punishment which would certainly have been inflicted upon him had he been left to the Councel of State and without care either of the King his Masters honour or engagement hath saved the Marquesse and left the envy of it upon his Majestie if the King our Master will so please to understand it In my last unto your Grace which was of the 24th of the last moneth I humbly intreated you to procure me his Majesties leave to return into England for some few moneths which suit I do here again renew unto your Grace Howsoever in respect of this novelty in the Marquesse his businesse I will forbear putting my self upon the way until I hear of the receipt of this dispatch since if his Majestie shall please to give any demonstrations here of his sence of their unworthy proceedings I would be loath that those Commands should find me out of the way with the remembrance of my duty I rest Your Graces c. Wa. Aston Sir Walter Aston to the Duke the 10th of Decemb. 1625. May it please your Grace THe Portugal Armado put to Sea on the 12th of the last moneth Stil