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A80492
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A copie of a letter sent to the most illustrious and high borne Prince Rupert by the grace of God Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, &c. / Translated out of High Dutch. Printed according to order.
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1644
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Wing C6158; Thomason E6_4; ESTC R2718
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moving cause which wrought any thing in that work arose from that present assembling In so much that neither your wrongs had beene in any more hope of redresse then before and yet hitherto it hath beene onely a warre of many moneths and two more joint Ambassadours or your Selfe great Prince of liberty but for their sakes whom you seek to destroy What may it possibly be then which provoketh you thus against that Kingdome Is it the Justice of the quarrell for which you fight For your Religion I suspect it not for had that beene altered questionlesse they had released you before this time Yet I know you have beene often and craftily dealt withall during your restraint to alter that And this I cannot passe by the providence of God who so appointed that you should not fall into the hands of your enemies till you had actually leavied warre against the Emperour and that your liberty could not be obtained untill the assembling of the Parliament that the Kingdome of England might have therewith to stop your mouth touching the Justice of their Cause and to upbraid you with ingratitude toward them who were the chiefe Instruments of your present freedome For if to fight against the forces of the Emperour be to fight against the Emperour what doth the English Parliament to day you did not in Germany yesterday And to all intents and purposes of that kinde your Royall Grandfather of blessed memory furnished your Father and so did King Charles the Prince Elector and your Selfe Or is Prince Rupert lesse subject to the Emperour then the Parliament of England to their King that they must even to the hazard of all obey his personall commands who may so erre that the Kingdome enwrapt in the safety of the Parliament may bee destroyed when if Prince Frederick and Prince Rupert should faile or be destroyed by the injustice of the Emperour Ferdinand Prince Maurice may succeed and if he miscarry a younger brother so that there is no such danger either of the common wealth of the Palatinate or of the Illustrious Family if both the Prince Elector and your Selfe should which God avert suffer much more then the losse of Patrimony Let this be farre from the thoughts of any reasonable man Why doe I seeke for any other inducement plainly that which drew you to that party could be no other then respect of particular advantage hoping by so strictly adhering to the King your Uncles side to winde your selfe so farre into his favour 〈◊〉 now at last if his Majestie shall prevaile no let may hinder 〈◊〉 from taking Armes for you as you for him Yet give me 〈◊〉 to tell your Highnesse that so soone as thâ—◠〈…〉 abroad of a grant of your liberty I presently apprehended that the Spaniard and their faction had some thing to doe for you in the troubles of England which were then in conception because they had never beene so kinde unto you till that time and in your common Cause the two Ambassadours could obtaine nothing which was equall So at length have your enemies when they had before hindered your Allies from arming to assist you and afterward when with much labour some appeared for you disarmed them and armed your selfe against your selfe Then which what can be more done to your dishonour and dammage But in case victory shall be with the Parliment it is much to be feared that the sufferings of your House more then twenty yeers neglected will not easily be taken into their thoughts or if every Branch besides your Selfe and Prince Maâ—rice be thought worthy of the Kingdome of Englands helpe and charge notwithstanding their extreme burdens and late troubles the Commons of England will except against you both as not willing to have new burdens laid upon their shoulders for their sakes by whom they have already groaned under so many If on the other side the Partee you sight for shall be victorious it is not to be hoped that those Counsellors and their creatures who have dealt so perfidiously by your Royall Father by the Prince Elector your Brother and your whole Family for now they have that Kings eare more obnoxious then ever they had before those noble Lords who were and are your friends being retired from the Court will change their Religion their Natures or Dependencies being Persons in heart if not in publike profession Papists or Pensioners unto the Spaniard or dependents of the one or the other Will those which now fight for and with Papists in â—ritantie undoe what they have effected there by fighting against Papists in Germany And as Prince Rupert may not expect any assistance by all reason of Religion and Conscience from the Catholikes of Britaine which now and in this Cause are his greatest friends against the Emperour and Catholike King so neither from King Charles against them by the law of Gratitude forsooth the one of which released the Prince out of prison and sent him to his Uncle the other protecteth the Kings Ships though he takes the Parliaments by reprize To the more indifferent party it will be sufficient to say The French are too potent Protect the Spaniard in Artois and Flanders in point of State or make them beleeve the Palatinate not worth the recovering although your enemies account it well worth the keeping But that the Prince may not thinke of Germany perswade him to the conquest of Madagascor and intitle him to the Dutchy of Cumberland which are seated farre enough from his own Country Although your Highnesse could not but have taken it better and with lesse suspicion to have a promise made you of restoring unto you that which is properly your owne But I assure you Sir whatsoever your Selfe or some of you may intend You all fight for the King of Spaine And that you may the better know what these men are like to doe for you in time to come consider with your Selfe what they have already done They have drawne you either from peaceable abiding with your Royall Mother and the Prince Elector at the Hage or from pursuing your Right and Patrimony in Germany by joyning with the Princes of the Euangelicall Union to hazard your life in Battails Sieges Skirmishes in which if valiant Prince Rupert shall lose his life the King of Spaine can be no loser They have throwne the envy of all their Cruelties Spoiles and Villanies in Prince Ruperts face in every troop almost I heare pretending his Authority and using his name to all their Outrages and what in them lieth drawne the whole Electorall Family into hatred and by these things into feare of a helplesse condition For it is the Kingdome of England under God which must performe for that House if ever it be done the great worke of Restauration Lay downe therefore now at length High boâ—â—e Prince your Armes and although the Kingdome of England for all it hath done or meant to have done for you deserve to be thus rewarded be not cruell to your Selfe and Princely Family Sir pardon me I have told you the truth God open your eyes and heart also FINIS