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religion_n	king_n	prince_n	queen_n	3,203	5	6.8163	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11788	A true souldiers councel; Experimentall discoverie of Spanish practises.	Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?, attributed name.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 22078; ESTC S114763	30,552	55

in a second Army for the withstanding the invasion on that side and not saues it us onely but renders it to bestow in undertakings of profit which we were wont to spend upon defences We haue another valiant Nation to assist us whose service in Low Countrie warres hath often and alwaies given this testimony of their affection and faithfulnesse even in Queen Elizabeths time that in every Nationall quarrell between us and others which hath often happened and very remarkeable betwixt us and the French they haue voluntarily and brauely sided with us making the danger common both to themselues and us which was drawn out but particularly against the English The joyning of Scotland hath made us an intire Iland which by nature is the best fortification and the most capable of all advantages of strength that by Art can be added unto nature wherby we may at one the same time be able both to undertake any action abroad and defend our selues at home without either much danger or great cost Secondly by reason his Majestie hath the neighbourhood of the powerfulst nation by sea that now is in the world at his devotion a people by nature more worthy of credit with us then any other the use of whose neighbourhood our own histories will commend unto us if we enquire of the ages past even then when they wanted that power and knowledge in their industry which they now haue as well in matters of peace as warre the memories of those times will tell us that we seldome undertook any great thing without them in so much as our losse of France may probably be in part imputed to the breach we suffred in their friendship and though they were then of the same Religion with England as likewise now they are yet the present condition that we doe both of us stand in for point of Religion doth place us in an estate of better assurance with them then the conditions of those times did for then considering no main Nationall separation in the Church Religion was but a common bond unto them and inclined them to particular side where now it hath the motiue in it to make defence with against an opposite Church in such a Nation as hath drawn both of us into one and the same cause in quarrell as well of policie as of Religion And lastly their Army is the best Millitary Schoole of the world from whence our Land-services may be sufficiently appointed at least with Officers Now for the hearts of our people and the wealth of our Kingdome though it may be some of his Majesties ill-affected subjects could be willing we should distrust our own strength when we receiue these two points into our consideration yet for the first the occasion wherof they haue derived from our difference in Religion I may say the wrath of God hath been evident against them in the confusion of their plots One thinkes it should be a horrour to them for to think of attempting any farther that way for those of them that haue made a covenant with bloud wee stand not either in fear or need of their numbers but we may both spare and suppresse them And farre be it from me to think that many men of those that hold no communion in the Church with us should giue other Nations the cause to say that in England are the false men that take up Gods weapons against him and their own vveapons against themselues in favour of a forraign Ambition that makes the pretence of Religion but a port hole to lay his Artillery out at or his scaling ladder to assault by Now the second point touching the vvealth of the Kingdom if I should call the Councell of Spain it selfe to giue judgement in the cause I should need no better sentence to condemne their opinions vvho think the King of Great Brittain poor their Master knows it vvell enough he shall finde it otherwise vvhensoever hee shall undertake to attempt us or vvee them Now for Spain his Majestie there though accounted the greatest Monarch of Christendome yet his estate being enquired throughly his roote vvill bee found a great deale too narrovv for the top of his Dominions are so farre in distance asunder as they cannot giue reliefe time enough one to another upon an alarum vvhich is the reason he is more povverfull to assault then defend and therfore are compelled to haue continuall Garrisons of that charge he is unable to maintain he hath more to doe vvith shipping then any other Prince and yet hath fevv men at his devotion but by extreme charge and those of vvorst sorts his poverty hath therfore appeared in the mutenie of his Lovv Country Armie for vvant of pay vvhich vvas great cause of his ill successe there and I cannot see how his estate can be much better now then it vvas For though it be true that his charge is somevvhat lesse yet it is likevvise true that his Subsidies in Spain be also diminished as vvell in respect of insupportablenesse as of indisposition of his Revenues out of the Indies decaied And indeed but for his Indies he vvere the poorest Prince in Christendom Novv it serues the better for the finding his vveaknesse or strength to inquire vvhether he be able to stand upon the termes of defiance and yet hold his Indies I think not for his Majestie of Great Brittain joyning with the States of the Vnited Provinces is of power to raise Armadoes the one to block up Spain the other the Indies the least successe that may be hoped for out of this enterprise the cutting off his returne would beggar him the feare of this project was the thing that stopped his Greatnesse to the Vnited Provinces when hee departed with his pretence of Soveraignty to them and that feare is an Ague he is not yet cured of This is a right design and a great one such a one as I wish we had the treasure and valiant bloud of our Ancestors to bestow upon for the expence wherof we haue nothing to shew now but two poore Ilands Iarsey and Garnsey And to say the truth in that case if all the Ilands or Lands that belong unto the Crown of England were offered to his Majestie I should not giue my advice to receiue them much lesse to conquer them Now for the disposition of the Low Country men I assure my selfe there cannot be a thing more desired then they to joyn with his Majestie in any undertaking especially in this for they are sorie they understood the King of Spaines weaknesse so little in Queene Elizabeths time when her Majestie so much affected their joyning with her and that now they know it his Majestie being greater in power will yet suffer such an enemy to all Christian Princes chiefly to those of his Majesties Religion to creep into his bosome For all the greatnesse he hath he holds by the curtesie of his Majesty and to that end Courts it he knows he were undone else To

which treacherous overthrow of these two noble Captains by don Consolis de Cordua called the great Captain Commander of the Spaniards in these parts they wrested from the French most of the places in Italy which they keep untill this day And therefore howsoever other men be opinionated of the Spanish faith and fidelity with your Majesty and State yet for my part I will think of them and their promises as a Noble man of Athens thought of a certain Oratour Your words quoth he my friends are like the Cypresse which although great and high bear no fruit And truely as they are Spaniards I cannot well blame them for they well know that the Crown of Spain is at stake and all the Indies and his other Signiories and therfore will not fail to put in practise all tricks that may win the game though it be by foule play For if he haue not peace with England at this time it is not unknown unto him that the foundation of his Monarchy will be shaken in peeces And we cannot but see this and yet will take no advantage therof wherby we may secure our selues both for present and future times we may be compared to the Athenians of whom I haue spoken before who by Titus Livius report were men who knew what to doe but would not doe it which is a fault so ominous to all states that it not onely presenteth it selfe against but likewise followeth disasters and ruin to the Common-wealth that refuseth For opportunitie doth not attend upon Captaines and Councellours pleasures but sheweth it selfe on a suddain and if not imbraced passeth away without returning And therfore the advantages that one State that are enemies hath of another happen so seldom to the Globes as Saturn finisheth his course but in 30 yeares But our enemy is free and I speak it to his honour from this base and earthly resolution for it is reported of them by this speciall vertue they haue raysed their state to so high a pitch which is that no people can readier finde the occasion or sooner take or resolue it when it is offered And doubtlesse to say the truth I am much more fearfull of the Spanish proceedings for that he goeth by precedent which is an excellent kind of discipline as well in Martiall as civill actions especially when the action is grounded upon a sure foundation And as all Kings and Captaines which desire to attain to great things doe imitate some one Prince or Generall that hath preceded them so doubtless haue the Kings of Spain for these many yeares imitated in all their actions as neer as the time and States with whom they haue contended would giue them leaue that noble valiant and politick Captain Phillip of Macedon who indeed laid the foundation of his sons Monarchy and this was his Maxime That where force could not prevail he alwaies used bribes and mony to corrupt the principall of the inhabitants Insomuch that at a certain time at the assault of a Citie which to a Captain of his seemed impregnable and therfore thought to divert his purpose in the besieging therof Then art a fool quoth he for I will haue this great Citie notwithstanding the walles and ramparts if the Gates be so big that an Asse laden with gold can but enter And questionless if your Majestie would but search into the Spaniards proceedings since he had the Indies you should acquaint your selfe with many such presidents of their part to be a warning to you to look at this time advisedly to your own safety lest you fall into the like misfortunes And although I could alledge many which for brevities sake I omit yet I will recite one lest it should be thought I knew none which is viz. When Ferdinand of Aragon saw by the sword he could not get the country of Rows●●ton and Perpignan out of the hands of Charles the French King which as they say had been ingaged to Lewis the 11 he fell to practise with them of Religion wherfore he corrupted with a great summe of mony one Oliver Maillandor as some say Iohn de Madron a Franciscan Frier Confessor to the Lady Brawnen the Kings sister who under the root of Religion cloaking his hypocrysie and coveteousnesse perswaded this simple Lady that unlesse restitution was made of those Territories to the King of Spain his government could not prosper nor please God she being moved in conscience with this Friers perswasions brake this matter to Lewis of Amboise Bishop of S. Albie the Kings Schoolemaster who together with her so terrified the Kings conscience that hee not onely made restitution of the said Territories by the said Bishop but likewise freely released to the King of Spaine the said Ferdinand all the mony that Lewis his father had paid for them Marry with condition that the said King and his Successors should ever loue and honour the King of France that he should make no warres against it nor aide with mony victuals nor counsell any enemies therof nor permit them to haue passage through their Dominions And thus were the countries restored to the Frenchmens griefe But the French King misreckoned himselfe in the Spanish fidelity for having occasion to warre in Italy shortly after he was no sooner past the Mountains but the King of Spaine forgat all his kindness and began to practise a leagu with his enemies So as I inferre mighty Prince that either by shew of Religion or subtle and sophisticall Arguments or in desire you haue to trust some about you on whose shoulders ever in regard of your opinion of their wisedomes and fidelities you cast your selfe and your care of your estate in all or either of these you are like without the more grace of God to receiue disadvantage in this your peace-making and yet perhaps no fault in them For it seemes to me wonderfull that the truth of things being one yet may falshood be so apparelled with the habits of likelihood and truth as changing countenance it is often retained in stead therof As for as much as upon this Treatie now in hand not onely dependeth your own happiness the happiness of your noble Issue States Kingdoms Subjects or whatsoever else is deer unto you but likewise the happiness or unhappiness of all the Princes of Europe So most gracious Lord in respect of these great and mighty dependances as well in regard of your own particular as generall good of the Christian Common-wealth which so long hath groaned under the fear of the Spanish greatness digest and distinguish every particular and in a point in your own person without trusting of any man with a matter of great importance which although it will be very intricate by the diversitie of so many things as will offer themselues to be considered yet renoumed Soveraign it will be very profitable to your Highness and most acceptable and pleasing to the people when they shall hear and see the great care the King hath of them and their