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A72894 A briefe discourse of royall monarchie, as of the best common weale vvherin the subiect may beholde the sacred maiestie of the princes most royall estate. VVritten by Charles Merbury Gentleman in duetifull reuerence of her Maiesties most princely Highnesse. Whereunto is added by the same gen. a collection of Italian prouerbes, in benefite of such as are studious of that language. Merbury, Charles. 1581 (1581) STC 17823.5; ESTC S112612 39,761 95

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him For it appeareth that he directed all his actions vnto the stablishing and stengthning of those Estates onely which he knew should necessarily descend vnto his lawfull and lyneall heyres after him litle or nothing regarding the succession of them which were to be elected at the will and pleasure of others VVherefore as he fetched both men and money out of Germanie for to serue his other tournes withall abroade so tooke he from thence also A thing which I my selfe haue hard much lamented by the Germaines the best parte of all their Munition As out of VVITTEMBOVRGE a citie of the Duke of SAXON he tooke two hundreth and twentie peeces of great Ordinance a hundreth out of GOTTA from the LANGRAVE also he had 200. peeces and out of STRAVSBOVRGH he tooke all the best that they had Sending thereof 50. peeces vnto NAPLES other 50. to MILANE and 400. into FLANDRES he did the like also with many other their Dutche Commodities transporting them either into SPAINE or into his countries of AVSTRICH for to inlarge and make riche his owne house and posteritie withall And this is a thing common vnto all elected Princes that haue Estate but for terme of Life carelesly to cōsume the Treasores of the countrey dissipating the publicke demaines and conuerting them into priuate menshandes either of their owne fauorites or of their kinsefolkes How countryes are impouerished by Princes elected As of the Cities and Prouinces belonging vnto the Sea of ROME the Popes haue made awaye almost the one halfe for the aduauncement of their owne priuate houses Pope SIXTVS the fourth of that Name after the death of GVIDIBALDO DE MONTEFELTRO Duke of VRBYNE procured the dukedome vnto his kinseman de ROVERE The which dukedome not long after Pope LEO the tenth translated from FRANCESCO MARIA DE ROVERE vnto his Nephew LORENZO DE' MEDICI Pope ALEXANDER the sixte gaue REGIO and MODENA two good Townes in Italie in dowrie with his daughter vnto ALFONSO Duke of FERRARA CLEMENT the seuenth aduanced his Nephew ALEXANDRO vnto the Dukedome of Florence And PAVLVS tertius the Romane exalted his house of FARNESE vnto the Dukedome of PARMA and PIACENZA All which Estates were either conueyed out of the Ecclesiasticall Monarchie or by the meanes and charge therof procured As GVICCIARDINE in his storie of the warres of ITALIE reporteth that the forenamed LEO the tenth what with warring against the duke of VRBYNE and with mainteining the costlinesse of his sister MAGDALENA and his owne pride and prodigalitie he left the Church worse by 40. thousand Dueates a yeare then he found it besides the iewells and ornamentes of the pontificall treasor which he engaged In the like maner all Temporall Princes I meane such as are elected when they see that they can not leaue their estates vnto their Children they seeke by sale or by gifte to make the best commoditie of them during their owne liues As RODVLPHVS th'Emperour for a summe of money exempted all the Cities of TOSCANE out of the subiection of th' Empire And ROBERT OF BAVIER gaue three Imperiall cities at one time vnto his sonne FREDERIKE he gaue also the Liberties vnto NVRENBOVRGE As OTHO the third did vnto ISNE LODOWIKE of BAVIER did the like vnto the citie of EGRE HENRY the first soulde what he coulde whereby th' Empire was brought so low as that CHARLES duke of Burgony was able to make warre against the whole bodie of the same If then an Italian will not sticke to weaken the Popedome the pride and strength of his Nation nor a Germaine to deminish the power of th' Empire a Dignitie which the Germanes pretende to be dewe and proper vnto them onely Much lesse may we thinke that a Hungarian will obserue any more respecte in Polonia being chosen vnto that kingdome or a Spagniarde vse any more courtesy in Italy being elected vnto the Popedome But rather it is to be thought that they seeing them selues called by this vnorderly way of Election vnto new gouernementes will seeke for the better stablishing of the same to alter in what they can the state and course of the countryes whervnto they are so called tourning their lawes into theirs their customes into theirs their Religion into their owne Religion For commonly we see that all men are of that nature to thinke alwayes their owne religion best their owne customes commēdablest their owne lawes soundest desiring to bring and induce al others vnto the same lawes customes religiō that they them selues are of The Turke would haue all his people to acknowledge MAHOMET The kinge of Spaine all his subiectes to holde with the POPE The Greekes thought all other nations barbarous in respecte of them selues The Italians likewise in these dayes are not ashamed to call all Oltramontani vs that are on this side the Alpes barbari as though none knew what Ciuilitie mente but they The Venetians will say when they heare a man speake in a language which they vnderstand not Mo parlate Christiano as though no language were good or christianlike but theirs So VVILLIAM the Conquerour sought to surpresse and extinguish our English speeche commaunding all our lawes to be writtē in his owne language as it appeareth also by the termes of our pastimes of hawking hunting karding dycing Tennis and such like which for the most parte doe yet remaine in the NORMANE tongue VVherfore it is euident that all elected Princes which come out of forreine Countryes in the maner as we here meane to the ende to rule and raigne onely and not for loue alliance or freindship sake will in what lyeth in them both for their greater glorie for the better strength of their Estates seeke to change the Religion lawes customes and language of the places whervnto they are so elected But you will say that your meaning is not to fetch your Prince so farre of but to haue him neerer home euen of the same countrey wherof he is to reigne because you will be sure that he shall neither change customes not bring in any language You say well but let me aske then who shall haue the choosing of him there at home in his owne countrey If the common people choose him you may looke for nothing else but factions seditions Tot capita tot sententiae so many men so many kinges If he be chosen by the Souldiers as the Emperours were otherwhiles of ROME then shall he not be allowed of by the Senatours if elected by the Senatours then can he not be receiued of the Souldiers VVhich inconueniences being of later yeares better wayed of by the wiser It was thought expedient that the Election of th' Empire should be reduced vnto a certaine number of seuen Princes who because the Pope as then GREGORIE the fifth was a SAXON borne were all appointed of the Germaine nation Namely the duke of SAXON the Counte PALLATINE the Marchese of BRANDINBOVRGE the three Bishoppes of MAGANZA COLLENE and TREVERIE and the seuenth to waye downe