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Show CrartSiqufil.? oftheHiftorte ofthe orld. ali their allegationsiin maintenance thereofiT hat the Atamertines di eaenen andalltharthey had,intothe Romans hands.(as the e ee seat om :orom i fndeshow themeffengers of thofe folke; heey ; ofone part had already admitted the Carthaginians ;could b faendrcin Pepubldeastnof alles ae-vd ble a 50 AERA AR _ [ftherefore the Mamertines,by no lawfull fartendrie ofthemfelyes and theit p elf ons,were become fubiect vnto Rome,by what bettertitle could the nseee mertines, agairift cheir moft ancient triends the Carthagizians, than they. might laheal dedthe Campanes;againtt the Semnites; without thefame condition 7, which was(asth , gothemfeluesiconfeffedyby noneat all. But let it be fuppofed, that fome point feruin . clearethis doubt,is loft in all Hiftories;Doubtleffe it is; tHatno company of Pytaes Theeties, Out-lawes, Murderers, orfuch other malefactors; can by any, godd facceffe of: their villanie, obtainethe priviledge ofciuill focieties,to, make leagueor truce;yca.or to requirefaire warre but are by all meanes,as moft pernicious vermine, to be rooted out ofthe world; I will not take vponme,to maintainethat opinion of fone Cinilians thata Princeis not bound:to hold his faith with one,of thefe; it wete aPofition ofill confequence: This I hold ; that no one Prince, or State, can giteptotection to fuch asthele,aslong as any other is vfing the {word ofvengeance againft them; withourjbecomming acceflary to their crimes.Wherefore; we may,eftcemethis. adtion of the Re: 10manei,folfarre from beinginftifiable,by any,pretenice ofConfederacie made withthem; asthatcontrariwife, by.admittingthis neft ofMurderers and, T heeues; into their protegion,theyiuftlyideferued to be warred vpon themfelues,by, the people ofSiti yeasal- though-Adef/ane hiad bin taken,and the Mamertines all flainc, creany newes ofthe Confederacie had beene bronght vntothe befiegers. The great Alexander, was{0 farre pexfwadedheereins that hedid put to fword all the Braachiade( a people in Sagdiang en teeed their Citic; notwithftanding thatthey ioyfully entertained him as their Lordand Kidgsbecaufethey were defcended froma Companie ofMélefans,who togtatifie king Xerxes, had robbeda Temple, and were by him rewarded withthe Towneand Counaottit,whichthefe oftheir pofteritie enioyed. Neuertheleffe,.in courfe ofhumane inftice lodg ané'peaceable poffeffion giuesius acquifitum,a kind ofright by prefcription wate thar Whichwas ficft obtained by wicked meanes :and doth free the. defcendants, "from thecrimeoftheir Anceftors,whofevillanies they docnotexercife,But that the fame gehetationof'Theeues, which, by a deteftable faét hath purchafedarich Towne, fhould beacktiowledgeda lawfull companiefCitizens, there.is no thew ofright. For.euen = Congtierour,that by open warre obtainetha Kingdome, doth not confirmeshis; ti- ebythofevictories which gaue him firft poffeffion : but length oftimes requifite, to ; a him,vnleffe by fomealliance with the ancientinheritots, he can berter the vio- enceofhisiclaime; as didour King Henriethe firft, by his marriage with Mande, that of Edmund Ironon. daughter of Atalcelme, King ofthe Scats,by Atargaret, the Neete ) J peeneithore Iconclude;that the Romanshad no better ground (if they had fogood of. iuftice; in this quarrell,than had the Gothes,Hunnes, Vandalls, and other Nations, of er Vifitation,was burntto the ground. Cwarresthat they made vponthe RomawEmpire,wherein Rome her felfe,in the time : §. TIIT. Of the Nandof Sicil, > 50 1.1. The qualitie ofthe Hand; andthe fifi inhabitants thereof. being now no lon< : T= defenceofthe Mamertines, orthe poffeffion of‘Meffane, ; fersfince the firft vitories of4ppioe Clandins, the obietts ofthe Romas hopes ge,ate i ut the Dominionofall Scici/ being the pr ize, for which Remeand Cartha haue a to contend: it will be agreeable vnto the or der, which inthe like cafes weehath which hu:fife makea briefe colleGtion,of things,concernin ¢ that noble Iland, as ia this ‘pre- fone Baas ofmanygreat. aéts, performed,as well beforeand after, e That |