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Show , ., H ( Objinvatioll.f upon a Libell, publijhcd, In Am1o ' ,S9!:.'-· --'---"'- - bl Cap1 . tulation·5 of Grace, and Accord; Such,as whete-noura e, ' ' h' r. h b ah va1·es fhould have been preferved~ unt? tm, 1UC ~17te- rJl, and 1 A11~bority, as He, in J1~ftice, :>auld clatm; C?r a Pr.1zcc, moderately minded, ·would feek to h~~e. And thts C01~rfo ihe held, interch an geably~ feeking ~o mtt~gate, th~ Wrath of the K ing ~ ~nd the Dtjpair of the Countr;e.r; Ttll fuch Tune, as; ~fter thcl)eath, of the Duke of .A~jou; (Into ~hofe Hands, ~c ~ording to her Jlfajefliu pred1chon, but agamft her good hkm~, they had put themfelve~ ;) ~he Enemy ~re~og then~, t~e "?nt d l'rovinces were recetved,mto her .i71t~ifhe.r Proteftt~m.wh lch \~as, a her fu ch Time , as the King of sp~in, hb-ad d1~fcovercd him(df, r.ot onel y J n Imp!ttctlble Lo!·d to them, . uta 10, a frofejfed Enemy, unto her 11.1/ajefly; havmg, at!_?ally,t?vaded Irelrmd, <: nd de!lgned the Invajion of England. For 1t 1s to be n o~ed~ that the like Offers, which were then made unto her MaJejfY; had been made to her, long before; bu~ as long, as her Mcl)cjfy conceived, any Hope , either of Makmg, theu Peace ; Or t~ tenaining her own with sp.1in, {he would never hea_rken theleunto. And yet n~w, even at iafr, her Majefly retaiO~d,' a fin~ ular, and evident Proof, to t he World , ofher Jufrtce, ~nd l\lloderation; In that,fhe refufed, the Inheritance) and s.over(ug1tty of thofe Goodly r rovil;ces; which by the States, wtth much rn'fiance, was preifed upon her ; and b~ing ~ccepted, woui.d have wrought, greater Contentment, and Satufa[J10n~ both to her / eople~~ md theirs;Being CtJU1tlrie1 ,for the Sct~e; Wealth; Co'?tmodtty of Trajficlz.; Affection to our N JtlOn; Obedtetrce of the Su~ eC1sl well ufed,) mofl: convenient, to have been annexed, to tde Crown o~ En(!J.t11d · And withaH one Chctrge 1 Danger, and Offence o sp.;in; ?nel_r, to ')k l! pon ?er '· the Defenc~ '· and Protet1ion , of their Ltberttes: Whtch Ltbertro.r, and Prtvt!edges, are of that Nature, as they may jufil y, efteem the~felve~·, but Conditionall subje&s:, to the King of spain; More JUfily t~en Aragon: A?d may make her Majefty,as jufilyefieern, the 2nctent Confed~raC1es, and Treaties, with Burgundy, to be, of Force, rather, with t~e People, and N<Jtion, then, with the Line, of the Du~; becaufe,tt was never an AbfoluteMonarehy. So as, to fumme up, her l ltajefli;. r Proce;dings, in t his great .Allion, they ha~e but this; Th[ t_, they have fought, fi rfi, to reftore them to spam ; Then, to keep them from Strtmger.r; And never, to purchafe them, to Her Self. . . . But during all that time, the Kzn~ ofspam, k~pt one tenour, in his Proceedings, towards her MaJefly; Brea~mg forth_> m?re an'd more into Injuries and Contempts: Her subjells, t radmg In-to Spain have been ~any of them Burned; Some cafi into the Gallies; ' Others hav' e died in Prifon' , without any oth e r crt·m es committed, but upon Q!iurells, pickt upon them, f9r ther Religion here at home. Her ltferohan~s, at the Sack of A11twerpe, w~re; diverfe of them, fpoyled, and put to their RanfonteJ thouglJ · Obfervationsupon aLibell,publijled, ln Anno' '591 . th'?ugh they could not ~e charged» wi_th any Part- taking: Nett her, upon the Complatnt, of Do{Jor 1Pt/fo11, and Sir EdrtJard HPrfey, could any Redreffi be had. A generall Arre.ft, was made, by the Dn/ze, of Alva, of Englifh men.r,both Goods"> and rerflnu, upon pretence, that certain Ships, frayed in this Realm, laden with Goods, and Money, of certain Merchants) of Genoa, belonged1 to that King: which Money, and Goods, was, afterwards, to the uttermofl: value, refrored, 11nd payed ·back : Whereas our Men : wete far, from receiving, the like ']uftice, on their fide. Dollo;. l'vfan, her AfajeJl!e.r Em~ajfadour, ~eceived, during his Legation, fundry Ind'gOines, h1mfeJf, betng Removed, out of Mddrid and Lodged, in a f/i!lage; As they are accufiomed, to ufe the Em~ baj]ttdours of Moore.r: His Sonn, and Steward, forced, to afllfr at a M.1js) with Tapers in their Hands; Befides fundry other Con~umelies, and Reproaches. But the Spoyling, or Damnifying, of a Mer· chant; Vexation, of a Comfnon Sub jell; Difhonour of an Embajfadour; Were rather, but D fmonfirations of ill Difpofition then Effects; If they be com pared, with Actions of State; VI' herein He, and his Miniflers, have fought the Overthrow, o£ this Government: As in the }"ear 1569. when the Rebellion, in the North part of England, brake forth; Who but theVuk_eof Alva) (then the Kings Lie'l!etenant, in the Low.:.Collntrie.r,) an~ Dolt GHerrf!, of Efper, then hts Emba Jjador Lieger here~ were dtfcovered to be chief Inflr~tmentJ) and Pral1ifers; Having com plotted, ~ith the Duk..e of Norfolk., at the fame time; As was proved, at the fame Du/ze.r Condemnation, that an Arm;, of ~oooo. Men, fhould have landed at Harwich, in aid of that Part, which the (aid Du/ze had made, within the Realm; And the faid Du/ze) having fpent and imployed, 150000. Crownes, in that Preparation. ' Not contt'nted thus, to have conforted, and affi.fred, her Maje. ftie.r Rebell.r, in England; He procured, a Rebellion, in Ireland: Arming;) and Sending thither, in the year 157,, an Arch-ReheU/ of that Country, James Fitz Morrice, which before was fled: An.d truly to fpeak, the whole courfe ofMoleltation, which her .JI,fajefly hath re~eived, in that Re~lm, by the Rijing, and Keeping on, of the frijb, hath been nourdhed, and fomented, from Spain. but afterwards' moftapparently, in the year, I s8e, he invaded, the fame Ireland, , with spauifh Forces, under an Italian colonell By Name ean}efopho, being but the Fore-runners, of agreate; Power; ·Which, by Treaty, betwee~ Him, and the Pope, fhould have followed: But that, by the fpeedy Defeat, of thofe former) they were difcouraged, to purfue the AfJion: Which Invajion, was proved, to be done, by the King.r, own Orders; both by the Letters, of Secretary Efcoueda, and of Guerres, to the King: And alfo, by diyers other Letter I, wherein, the particu~ar Conferences, were let down , concerning this Enterprife, between Cardin~ll R.iario, the Popu Legate, and the K~ngs Deputy in Spain; Touchmg the GeneraU, the Number of ~fen, the Contribution of Mo- T 2 ney |
