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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11786	An Experimentall discoverie of Spanish practises, or, The Counsell of a well-wishing souldier, for the good of his prince and state wherein is manifested from known experience, both the cruelty, and policy of the Spaniard, to effect his own ends : chiefly swelling with multiplicity of glorious titles, as one of the greatest monarchs of the earth, that being admired of all, his greatnesse might amaze all, and so by degrees seeking covertly to tyrannize over all, when as indeed and truth, the greatest part of his pretended greatnesse is but a windy crack of an ambitious minde.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?	1623 (1623)	STC 22077; ESTC S1713	30,960	58

reuinue then heretofore The footing we had in France was rather a greatnesse of trouble to us then of strength it was alwayes in division it held us alwayes in continuall fluxe of treasure and bloud we never attempted in the Front but that attempted us in the Rear which did both distract our Armies and aggravate our charge It is a Territory so separate from us by nature as we could not aduantage upon it either for offences or reliefe without the accesse of difficulty and charge that a State must undergoe when it runnes the necessity of such an undertaking by sea where the warre was bent upon a great Continent a populous Nation a plentifull Countrey and intire in its selfe and that can be succoured without passing the Seas In these things we found such disadvantage as haue beene the undoing of our Expeditions in steed of departure of this broken Dominion we had in France his Majestie hath brought another whole Kingdome to England undevided from us in feare from whence we haue these benefits The backe dore that was open in the assistance of our enemies both to offend us and divert our attemps from them is now open to us and his Majestie hath the key of it it saveth us the money and the men that we were forced to employ 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 Queene Elizabeths time that in every Nationall quarrell betweene 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 whereby we may at one the same time be able both to undertake any action abroad defend our selues at home without either much danger or great cost Secondly by reason his Majestie hath the neighbourhood of the powerfull 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 owne 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 undertooke any great thing without them insomuch as our losse of France may probably be in part imputed to the breach we suffered in their friendship 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 National seperation 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 drawne both of us into one and the same cause in quarrell as well of policie as of Religion And lastly this 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 owne strength when wee receiue these two points into our consideration yet for the first the occasion whereof they haue derived from our difference in Religion I may say the wrath of God hath beene evident against them in the confusion of their plots One thinkes it should be a horrour to them for to thinke of attempting any farther that way for those of them that haue made a covenant with bloud wee stand not either in feare or neede of their numbers but we may both spare and suppresse them And farre be it from me to thinke 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 owne weapons 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 wealth of the Kingdome if I should call the Councell of Spaine it selfe to giue judgement in the cause I should neede no better sentence to condemne their opinions who thinke the King of Great Brittaine poore their Master knowes it well enough he shall finde it otherwise whensoever hee shall undertake to attempt us or wee them Now for Spaine his Majestie there though accounted the greatest Monarch of Christendome yet his estate being enquired throughly his roote will be found a great deale too narrow 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 which is the reason hee is more powerfull to assault then defend and therefore are compelled to haue continual garrisons of that charge he is unable to maintaine he hath more to doe with shipping then any other Prince and yet hath few men at his devotion but by extreame charge and those of worst sorts his poverty hath therefore appeared in the mutinie of his Low Countrey Armie for want of pay which was great cause of his ill successe there I cannot see how his estate can be much better now then it was For though it be true that his charge is somewhat lesse yet it is likewise true that his Subsidies in Spaine be also diminished as well in respect of his insupportablenesse as of indispositiō of his Revenues out of the Indies deayed And indeed but for his Indies hee were the poorest Prince in Christendome Now it serues the better for the finding his weaknesse or strength to enquire whether he be able to stand upon the termes of defiance and yet hold his Indies I thinke not for his Majestie of Great Brittain joyning with the States of the Vnited Provinces is of power to 〈◊〉 Armadoes the one to blocke up Spaine 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