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A10672	Vox cœli, or Newes from heauen Of a consultation there held by the high and mighty princes, King Hen. 8. King Edw. 6. Prince Henry, Queene Mary, Queene Elizabeth, and Queene Anne, wherein Spaines ambition and trecheries to most kingdoms and free estates of Europe, are vnmasked and truly represented, but more particularly towards England, and now more especially vnder the pretended match of Prince Charles with the Infanta Dona Maria. VVherunto is annexed two letters written by Queene Mary from heauen, the one to Count Gondomar, the ambassadour of Spaine, the other to all the Romane Catholiques of England. Written by S.R.N.I.	Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.	1624 (1624)	STC 20946.4; ESTC S122495	52,043	108

of Iustice and Nature to enforce him to illigitimate Don Anthony the Prior of Cra●o who was the first and neerest heire vnto that Crowne and Kingdome thereby to exclude him as indeed he did or if he had not an itching and longing desire to swallow and devoure that Kingdome of Portingall which all Christendome and Rome her selfe knew was still more Catholique then Spaine yea and then when he had ingaged his royall word to the rest of the Pretendants as the aforesaid Don Anthony the Dukes of Savoy and Parma Katherine of Maedicis Queene mother of France and Katherine Dutchesse of Braganca that he with them would stand to the sentence of the Chamber of Lisbone to know to whom the right of the Kingdom most properly and lineally descended That then this King Phill. 2. forgat his conscience to God and his promise to these Princes fearing others right and distrusting his owne brought an Army to the gates of Lisbone ere the Pretendants or Portingals themselues dreamt thereof or had meanes or leasure to defend themselues whereby such was insatiable ambition vsurpation and couetousnes that in a plain and setled peace he devoured this rich noble Kingdome making it not only tributary but a Province to Spaine And was this also Religion or to plant the Catholique faith or rather was it not manifest treachery and apparant vsurpation sith if Don Anthony had not all the world knowes the Dutches of Braganca had more right to this Kingdom then King Phill. P.H. Yea that policy King Phil. learnt of the Emperour Charles 5 his Father who when himselfe and King Francis the first of France contended for the Empire of Germany whiles Francis was bribing of the Electors Charles brought an Army into the field and so enforced them to elect and chuse him Q.M. I must confesse I have ever held the Portingalls to be zealous and good Romane Catholiques but as Navarre lay fit for Biscay and Galicia so Portingall lay exceeding commodious for Andoulosie and so if my husband King Phillip had not seconded his right of descent by the law of his sword perhaps hee might have had a bad neighbour in Portingall which he and his Councell timely fore-seeing they as wisely prevented And howsoeuer although hee hated Don Anthony yet I know hee loved the Dutchesse of Braganca well but when we speake of Crownes and Kingdomes Religion will make this surprise of Portingall a matter of State though to speake truth State can never make it a matter of Religion Q.A. How well King Phillip loved the Dutchesse of Bragāca I know not but this I am sure of that both Monsieur de Boyses Monsieur de Bisseaux and Monsieur de Marais Ambassadours with King Iames my Husband for the two last French Kings Henry 4. and Lewes 13. tolde me that Phillips hatred and rage was so great against Don Anthony that he begged his body which lyes in a Coffin of Lead in the Cordeliers Church at Paris to be delivered his Ambassadours and so sent him into Spaine but as they said these two most Christian Kings their Masters answered Phillip that there was little Religion lesse charity to take vp and remooue the ashes of a dead Prince and King as was Don Anthony and so his body still remaines in Paris P.H. If Spaine were so malicious to a dead Prince how ought those that are living to beware and take heed of him H. 8. As a guilty conscience can never finde rest so it may be that King Philip was afraid of a second Don Anthony as of a second Sebastian P.H. But King Philip 3. his sonne hath farre more reason to feare Don Anthonie his two Princely Sons Don Emanuell and Don Christopher and of Don Emanuell his two generous and Illustrious Sonnes Don Maurice and Don Lewes all foure living who are famous and royall reserued Peeces of Shipwrack of that royall Kingdome and blood of Portingall Q.M. O but they are poore and want friends and meanes to advance their iust title to that Crowne if they have any E. 6. Their right and title to Portingall is iust and therefore cannot and should not dye Q. E. If the French forces had met mine at the Groyne Penecha or Lisbone or had the Portingalls risen my Norris Drake and noble Essex in despight of Philip and his forces had pluck'd the Crowne of Portingall from his head and seated it on King Anthonies P.H. No no. Don Anthonies Sonnes are beloved of the Nobilitie of England France and the Netherlands and Don Emanuels wife is Sister to that valiant and incomparable Captain Maurice of Nassaw Prince of Orange So if fortune smile and a favourable gale blowe these disinherited Portingall Princes may one day prove prickes and thornes to the sides of Spaine For all Portingall knowes that their veines and hearts streame with pure Portingall blood yea with the remainder of the royall blood of that Kingdom which Philip 3. his last entertainement together with the Prince his Sonne at Lisbone had almost found true but that his Maiestie departed with as much feare secresie and shame as he came with resolution popularity and glory In the intetrim these Portingal Princes remaine prodigious and ominous Comments to Spaine Q. M. Did Spaine think so it would quickly make the Princes ride Poast into another world Q.E. If Spaine should send these Princes poast into another world either by the backe doore of poyson by the wicket of poynard and not by the great and fore-doore of Nature it would draw the fists of most Christian Princes about King Philips eares and make all Portingall solemnize their Funeralls with their swords drawne and their Cities gates shut E. 6. Indeede I have heard that the Commons and especially the Nobility of Portingall begin extreamly to distaste the imperious pride and ambitious cariage of the Spaniards and many of them let not to say boldly and publiquely that Philip enjoyes the Kingdome by vsurpation and not by right Q. M. Not by right Why Pope Gregory 14. approued his Title and confirmed his Conquest of the Kingdome of Portingall Q.E. So did not our Sauiour Christ whose Successour and Vicar the Pope pretends himselfe to be P. H. In the meane time Spaine domineeres at her Conquest of Portingall and well she may for it is one of the fairest flowers of his Garland and of the richest Diamonds of his crowne H. 8. But the other Kings of Chistendome haue iust cause and reason to grieue and storme hereat for as it was Portingalls mischance then to fall and vaile Bonnet to Spaine so it may be theirs to morrow for to a Prince and people so greedy and ambitious of Empire as is Spaine all fish is good that comes to his hooke or net P.H. Thus Spaine devoures Kingdomes as the Cyclope Polephemus did passengers for he surprizeth no more then he meetes withall and yet will not Christendome beware of Spaine Italy H. 8. WE have past from Navarre the West Indies and Portugall now let vs

Woolsey and Gardyner and leaue out the Parliament for you onely proposed it them but for forme and had secretly concluded it before hand your selfe Q. M. Suppose I did I might doe it of mine owne authoritie and prerogatiue Royall Q. E. But you offred no faire play to the Parliament though in asking their aduise when the Contracts were ready to be sealed Q. M. But I had reason to follow mine owne Iudgement not their Passions H. 8. Nay nay Daughter you contrariwise followed your own passion not their Iudgements so God gaue limits to Philips Ambition and your owne desires by making you forsake earth he England E. 6. But wise King Iames is opposite to my Sister Mary aswel in Religion as sexe and therfore I hope nay I assure my selfe he will first consult this match with his Parliament ere he conclude it with Spaine P. H. If the voice of the Parliament be free and not enforced I make no doubt but the Pope the King of Spaine Gondomar and all our Recusants will come short of their hopes for the match H. 8. Daughter what benefits proposed you to the Parliament by your match with Spaine Q. M. Strength Profit Honour which England King Iames and Prince Charles will likewise now find if the match hold E. 6. As for strength if England would know its selfe it need not expect or hope for any from Spaine for Spaines assistance hath alwayes proued fatall and ruinous to those who haue vsed it And if England would assume the ancient generositie of her Ancestors and forsake her new fangled pride and prodigalitie Wee know it is strong enough to beate Spaine and all his Kingdomes and Prouinces no way so weake to feare that Spaine should make England a P●●uince for it were farre safer for England and Englishmen if they wore worse cloathes and had better hearts and swords and if they were more martiall and lesse effeminate Q. E. For Profit what Indies are richer then England For if England want money her selfe is still more powerfull and capable to inrich it selfe if it would be lesse vaine and more frugall and industrious c. What is a fewe hundred thousand pounds to England if England be thereby exposed to the danger of Spaine or that it be againe fetcht from them by the Bye as it was brought in by the Mayne for was profit ever cheape when it was bought with losse and repentance with teares and bloud or shall not euery Ducket be weighed and counterpoised downe with a farre greater preiudice and inconueniency for if the Match hold will not our Recusants looke a-loofe will not Spaniards be so ambitiously insolent to attempt to out-looke English will not the Pope steale in by degrees and the King of Spaine breake in either like a Torrent or a Thunderbolt when his Factors and Agents haue made all things ripe and in a readinesse will this be Englands profit P. H. For Honour England and Scotland were free Royall and ancient Monarchies when indeed Spaine was not Spaine but dis-ioynted and dissevered Provinces yea for Pompe State and Glory our Princes were Kings when their Kinges were scarce Princes nor their Princes Nobles Therefore GREAT BRITAINE by the Match can conferre and adde honour to Spaine but not Spaine to GREAT BRITTAINE Q. A. I could neuer yet affect the Match of Spaine for either of the two Princes my Sonnes for the Spaniard is by nature as trecherous as proud and although Northampton perswaded me thereto yet I loued true-hearted Salisbury who alwayes diuerted me from it as in the depth of his Allegiance and the profunditie of his wisedome Iudgement well fore-seeing they would proue fatall and ruinous to England E. 6. It is strange to see with what insatiable desire and Ambition Spaine couets England for he hath alreadie attempted it by treachery by force and now by the Match of his Daughter the Infanta to Prince Charles Q. M. You meane King Philip the 2. and not this present King Philip the 3 And as Don Iuan de Taris the Ambassadour of Spaine told King Iames at his first comming to the Crowne of England that the Ambition and malice of Spaine to England dyed with that Prince and was interred and buryed with him Q. E. But was this King Philip the third and his Councell neuer acquainted with that horrible Gunpowder Treason whereby it was intended and resolued that England should haue beene blowne vp ouerthrowne and ruined in a moment Q. M. O no he is too Catholike a King to haue hearkened much lesse to haue approued that Passionate plot Q. E. You might haue said that execrable and damnable plot of treason but that you will still seeke to diminish and extenuate Rome and Spaines Treasons Q. M. You infinitely wrong the Pope and King of Spaine to suspect much lesse to beleeue that they were acquainted with that Powder-plot Q. E. No went not Faulkes that hellish Incendary once to Rome about it and the younger Winter twice to Vallidolide Q. M. Yea about some other businesse it may be although I must confesse it was very immediately before that Treason was discouered P. H. Gondomar told me that both the Pope and King of Spaine abhord that Treason Q. A. I feare they abhord it for griefe it tooke not effect Q. M. If euer this King Philip hated England yee may be sure now he loues it for else he would neuer seeke to match his Daughter to it Q. E. What force and trechery cannot effect now affection in the match shall Wherein King Philip is of Lysanders minde who when the Lyons skinne will not serue he will sowe on a peece of the Foxes tayle E. 6. So he come into England he cares not by which way he ariue P. H. So the Daughter come not into England England neede not feare the comming of the Father Q. M. Count Gondomar will beate his head and his horse shoes but he will bring in the Daughter and already his hopes the probabilities are great for hee is exceeding great and familiar with King Iames. Q. E. Else he could neuer haue gotten open the Prisons-doores for the Romane Priests and Iesuites P. H. Nor haue made Rauleighs head to caper beyond his body Q. A. Nor haue kept backe an Armie from my Sonne and Daughter the King and Queene of Bohemia when so many hundred thousand valiant English Souldiers desired and longed to haue serued them in their warres Q. E. Nor haue shipt away so great a quantitie of Ordnance for Spaine which one of these dayes will returne Bullets to our hearts E. 6. Nor haue procured a gallant Fleete to secure the coast of Spaine against the Turkish Pyrates vnder coulour of going to Argier and Barbary P. H. That Fleete was fitter to haue gone to Mexico Q. A. So indeed it might haue returned with glory and Gold whereas now I feare it will with losse and repentance I will not say with shame Q. E. I know by Experience it is

needs bee made a Province to Spaine for they both haue consulted and finde that what could not be effected during the Reigne of old Henrie may in these of young King Lewes his Sonne P. H. It is not impossible rather likely for France abounds in a monstrous height of Pride and Sinne And the old Cleargie of France admit of so many new orders of Fryers and Nuns that almost all is out of order and the seuenteene Millions which the Duke of Suilly left by accompt to the Queene Regent is all long since spent and twice seventeene more So as although the Polleta be still on foote Monopolyes never so rife the Finnances or Exchequer drawne dry and exhausted yet the King is extreamely in debt to his Nobilitie and Pensioners and is not this Musicke for the King of Spaine H. 8. Had Great Henry liued he would haue remedied and preuented these calamities Q. A. But his Sonne King Lewes is not so happie to doe it no nor his Creator the Duke of Luynes so discreet and honest to aduise and councell him therevnto P. H. The neglect thereof may make one or both of them to repent it and peradventure the Kingdome too for alreadie the Commons grieue hereat and the Nobilitie would but cannot remedy it Q. M. Spaine loues France therefore France need not feare Spaine P. H. The Panthers skin is faire yet his friendship is fatall and his breath infectious Q. E. Indeed if France loued not Spaine it need not feare it Q. M. King Philip loues King Lewes dearely Q. A. Not halfe so well as he loues his Kingdome of France Q. E. In truth France hath reason to haue a vigilant eye ore Spaine for as long as shee sleepes in her bed of pleasure and securitie perhaps one of these dayes Spaines Ambition may awake her with Drumme Trumpet and Cannon P. H. O no not as yet for if the King of Spaine were so ill aduised his Councell is not for they like old experienced Foxes will never permit him to discover himselfe much lesse his Resolutions and least of all his Ambition and sword vntill the Sunne hath attaynd the Meridian Q. M. I know not what my Nephew meanes by this Mathematicall Riddle Q. E. I was never greatly skild in the Mathematickes and yet consuming my Youth Yeares and Cares for England I haue reason to vnderstand his knowledge Wherefore Sister sith he is a Noble and famous Prince let vs heare him for he hath some mystery to reveale twixt France and Spaine Q. M. He loues France and hates Spaine and which is worse he was an Heretique therefore his tongue can make no Spherall Melodie E. 6. But his Heresie hath brought him hether to Heaven tho and he is a famous and Noble Prince therefore Cosen Wales speake on of France and Spaine for now we are all resolved to heare you Q. E. I gaue him my Fathers name and he inheriteth my resolution and courage and the King his Fathers wisedome therefore he can neither flatter nor dissemble Q. A. Speake on Henry P. H. Know all men by these Presents that if Spaine did see the Heart and Bowels of France weltring in its bloud and flaming in the fire of an intestine Civill-warre if it did see the Princes banded against the King or the King against the Protestants these riffeling of the Lovare and of Paris and his Maiestie beseiging of Rochell Sancerre Sedan Nismes or Saumury or denouncing Warre to all those of that Religion If it did see sixteene Parisian Tribunes carrying away the Court of Parliament prisoners to the Bastille and Chastellets the rebellious Barycadoes and a bloudie Massacre in Paris and generally in all the Cities of the Kingdome if hee did see some Princes of the bloud or two great Dukes as were Du Mayene and Merury Captivating and Deboshing the obedience and affections of the French Nobilitie Cleargie and Commons and covering their pernitious Designes and trecherous attempts vnder the Cloake of the holy League If it did see Calais Dourlaus Amiens Montdidier Valencienes Blauet and Croyden or other strong Cities or Forts of France bearing out the redd ragged Crosse in stead of the three yellow Flower Deluces and a second Mendoza for his Ambassadour sate as premier President and Oracle in the Lovare Towne-house and Parliament That then Phillip the III. of Spaine loues his Sonne in Law Lewes the thirteene of France so well that he would vse him as King Phillip the second had an eager desire and had almost done great Henry his Father Q. M. Why how was that P. H. Right as my God-mother Queene Elizabeth hath formerly told you nothing but to depriue him of his Kingdome E. 6. It were better that all the Iesuites were hanged and the young Queene of France sent home to Spaine with her Portion to the King her Father Q. E. But wee see strange alterations in the Court of France for some dare but will not and others would but dare not informe the King hereof Q. A. France hath reason yea it it high time for her to looke to her selfe for the Agents Iesuits and double Pistols of Spaine are busie and their Swords and Pikes are not Idle For whiles France playes the Theorie Spaine playes the Practique Of the Netherlands H. 8. How doth Spaine and the Netherlands agree E. 6. Spaine hath so long invred and enforced the Hollanders to bloud and warres as now at Sea and Land they are become such braue Souldiers and Mariners as they feare not Spaine and to loue Spaniards they vow t is impossible much lesse to obey them Q. M. It is pittie that King Philip the second ended not the chastising and Conquest of these Heretique Hollanders ere King Philip the third beganne it or that he cannot reduce them to obedience by ending these warres with more fortunacie and lesse danger and dammage Q. E. Nay Sister it is pittie that these two Kings of Spaine and the Archduke Albertus and Isabella haue from time to time beene so ambitious inhumane cruell and revengefull to drowne the face of the Netherlands with many deluges of blood in seeking to preserue their libertie liues and Consciences from the cruell Tyranny and Inquisition of Spaine P. H. Indeed for this fortie yeares the Netherlands hath beene the Schoole and Theatre of Mars whereon there hath beene more braue Souldiers and renowned Captaines slaine then in any Country of the world or in many precedent Ages and yet all this blood is not capable to quench Spaines Ambition and Tyranny in seeking to deuoure those Provinces Q. A. Hath not Spaine assaulted the Netherlands as well by Trechery as Hostillitie Q. E. Yes witnesse the damnable Villaine Gerrard who long since murthered William the famous Prince of Orenge their Lieutenant Generall and father to Maurice that valiant and incomparable Captaine who now succeeds him in his Principalitie Q. M. O Sister cast not so base an aspersion on King Philip my Husband to affirme he was accessary to the