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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

Lawe hath contrariwise much reason to hope that your Majesties Royall woord and promise ingaged for the restoring of his Pallatynat added to the consideration of your owne Honnor which inviolablie tyes you therto will in the end incyte and stirre you upp to Drawe your sword for the effecting and performance therof For the wordes of Kinges should bee sacred and their promises inviolable the Lawes of Nature and Nations tying them to the obligation of the first those of Grace and Heaven obliging them to the performance of the last And if your Majestie be pleased to forget yet the representiue Bodie of England the Lords Knightes and Burgesses of your Highe Court of Parliament must and will remember that your Majestie protested unto them solemnlie That eyther by Treatie or by the Sword you would cause the Pallatynat to bee restored though to the hazard of your owne Kingdoms Or if your memorie which in all other actions is exquisit and excellent should forget your promise in that poynt yet the Iudgements and understandings of your Malesties subiects are more then assured and confident that your Royall penne affirmed it to your Printer and hee to vs in your Declaration wherof looke how manie thousand Bookes there are extant soe many witnesses without exception there will remayne against your Ma tie that you onlie made that promise and protestation purposlie to breake it For till they see the contrarie the most loyall and faythfull of them will never beleeue it sith your Majestie may performe it but will not and sith at your pleasure you haue the meanes both to humble the pride and to scourge the power of the Emperour and to make the Duke of Bavaria repent with blood and teares for his insatiable Ambition and Vsurpation in vsurping and bereaving the Pallatynate from your Children And because the affayres of the World resembling the ebbing and flowing of the Sea are still subiect to revolution change and onlie constant in unconstancie as alsoe that Euripides sayth good is never seperated from Evill and that it is impossible for us to avoyde misfortunes or adverse accidents because Plutarque tells us that Prosperitie is still transitorie never Permanent Soe I beseech your Majestie to confider that if uppon any unexpected Accident you should breake and haue Warres eyther with France Spayne or the Netherlands what a braue assistance of German Reistres you should still haue at your Commaund from the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe of his Subiects and Friends if hee had agayne the Commaund of his Countrye and alsoe how necessarie those troupes of Cavalrie would bee for your Maiesties service eyther to make or divert to beginne or end a warre Wherof if Henrie the IIII. of France of immortall same and memorie were still living hee could giue your Maiestie a true president and instance therof in himselfe when his affayres were soe weake and desperate as hee was inforced to haue recourse to their assistance the which Lewes his Sonne now raigning hath verie unkindlie denyed to acknowledge and requite to the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe now in the extremitie of this his affayres and afflictions And to ascend from earthlie regards to heavenlie Considerations If all these former Motiues cannot prevayle with your Maiestie to purchase and effect his desire yet lastly hee hopes that you will drawe your Sword to performe it for that Religions sake which is immediatly derived from God or for Gods sake from whome as from the blessed and sacred Fountayne of all Happiness all true Religion hath its true byrth lyfe and propagation and farre the sooner hee hopes that your Maiestie will attempt it with Courage and prosecute it with resolution Sith God hath made your Maiestie the Defender of the Faith and hee and all the Churches of his Pallatynat did and then agayne will professe the same Fayth which you Defend wheras now they are infected with the dregges of Idolatrous Poperie and poluted and defyled with the mystes and fogges of prophane Superstition But Illustrious Prince Pallatyne because it is a disputable question whether thy Courage or Misfortune bee greater therfore I grieue with sorowe and lament with Griefe to see all these fayre hopes of thine soe untimelie wythered and reduced to nothing and thou hast nowe tryed to thie preiudice and seene to thyne owne Woefull and fatall experience That hope which is built uppon other mens promisses and maintayned by forraigne power proves most commonly ruynous And will not your Maiestie then bee sencible of this fruitlesse and fatall hopes of the Prince your Sonne in Lawe which were whollie grounded uppon the sand of your promises as yours are uppon the snowe of the Emperours and the King of Spaynes For to represent you Truth in her naked coullers not in an adulterated attyre and tincture and soe to poynt at that poynt of the Compasse from whence the contrarie wyndes haue blowne your Maiestie all these severall tempests of dishonnor and your Sonne in Lawe these stormes of adversitie hath it not beene your too much connivencie in relying uppon the deceiptfull flatteries of the Emperour and your too excessiue confidence in trusting to the temporising promises of the King of Spayne which hath occasioned it For by their Ambassadours and Letters haue they not depaynted you the restitution of the Pallatynat soe easie as in assurance therof you became passionatly resolute that you had farre lesse reason to doubt then to beleeue it And yet to the whole world aswell as to your owne Subiects it administreth more cause of admiration then beliefe to thincke that your Majestie who is the wisest learnedest yea one of the most potent Kinges of the world should thus bee contented with Drosse for Golde with shame for Honnor and fedde with verball promisses in steed of reall performances For your Majestie knowes and your Subjects are not ignorant that Carlile Bristoll Belfast and Weston have spent infinite much and yet gotten just nothing from the Emperour by theyr severall legations as also that that which they spent abroad and your Majestie at home in Entertaynments Feasts and Guifts on the Emperours the King of Spaynes and the Archdutchesse Ambassadours would undoubtedlie have reconquered the Pallatynat and what is this but their malicious and pernicious policie to drayne your Majesties purse drie and to exhaust your Exchequer therby purposlie to clippe the winges of your Courage power and resolution from flying to the restoration of the Pallatynat Neyther shall your Majestie have just cause to accept against mee for heere joyning the King of Spayne with the Emperour in the Detention therof sith their swordes and forees aequallie Conquered it or if not the King of Spayne as the vulgar beleeue for the Emperour yet undoubtedlie the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria as the cleerest sighted knowe for the King of Spayn because uppon the vvhole the Emperour is more the King of Spaynes servant and creature then the Duke of Bavaria is the Emperours and

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