VOTIVAE ANGLIAE: OR THE DESIRES AND WISHES OF ENGLAND. Contained in a Pathetical Discourse, presented to the KING on New-year's Day last. Wherein are unfolded and represented, many strong Reasons, and true and solid Motives, to persuade his Majesty to draw his Royal Sword, for the restoring of the Pallatynat, and Electorat, to his Son in Law Prince FREDERICK, to his only Daughter the Lady ELIZABETH, and their Princely Issue. AGAINST THE TREACHEROUS USURPATION, and formidable Ambition and Power of the Emperor, the King of Spain, and the Duke of Bavaria, who unjustly Possess and detain the same. Together with some Aphorisms returned (with a Large interest) to the Pope in Answer of his.  
Written by S. R. N. I.  
Printed at Vtrecht. MDCXXIIII.   

TO GREAT britains GREAT hope, CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES, etc.  
SIR:  
THis my ensueing Discourse of Votivae Angliae, which in a Manuscript I sent to the King your Father, on New-year's day last; I now (in zeal and humility) direct and send to your Highness in Print; I wrote it then to his Majesty, in favour of the neglected Estate, and dejected, and deplorable Fortunes, of the most Excellent Princess (the Lady Elizabeth) your Sister; of the Illustrious Prince Pallatyne her Husband, and their royal Progeny, for the unjust loss, and shameful detention of their Pallatynat and Electorat, by the Triumvirate of Usurpers, the King of Spain, the Emperor, and the Duke of Bavaria; I send it now to your Highness, that (next under God) you (resembling yourself) will please to lend your best assistance and give your best furtherance, to draw forth the King your Father's Sword for the happy restitution and reconquering thereof, whereunto the ties of Religion, Empire, and Honour, infallibly oblige him.  
The eyes of the whole Christian world, (as so many Lynes conducing to their Centre) are constantly and curiously fixed on the Glorious action, to see whether Great Britain (in this just and famous quarrel) will courageously resolve to redeem her lost Honour, or else cowardly consent to lose it without any further sense, or hope of redemption.  
Your Highness cannot look on yourself without seeing your Illustrious Sister; nor see her without looking on her Princely Posterity, sith you have as deep Interest in their Blood, as your own heart hath in you. O then how can your Highness (whom Grace and Nature, your Blood and your Virtues, have made one of the greatest Princes of the world) permit to see, or live to permit; That these Austrian Princes (whose malice is as boundless as their Ambition and Treachery) should, in a time of a firm & settled Peace, thus perfidiouslie bereave them of their Honnors, and thus treacherously rob them of their Inheritance and Patrimony, yea and reduce them to so extreme a point of Calamity and Misery, that you are enforced to behold Pity▪ Grief, Despair, and Ruin, to act their several parts upon the Stage, and Theatre of their afflictions. O that this Affront and Indignity, should be offered them in the Reign of a King so Wise, and Potent, as your Father; and tolerated in the life of a Prince so generous and magnanimous, as your Highness, her Brother, yea her only Brother, as she is your only Sister.  
But the King of Spain (the head and Oracle of the House of Austria) hath not only wronged the Princess your Sister in Germany, but your Highness likewise in Spain, as if (in an inveterat and premeditated quarrel) he made it aswell his delight, as glory, to abuse, and seek the disgrace and ruin of the Blood of Great Britain; Whereof I hope your Highness, this Illustrious and famous Parliament, and the thrice Noble Duke of Buckingham, hath now made the King your Father sensibly confident, as before he was confidently incredulous thereof.  
In a reciprocal requital and revenge whereof (because these manifestly malicious affronts of Spain, towards our Sovereign, and his Royal posterity, are of too contemptible and pernicious a Nature, to be suffered; and of too fatal and dangerous a consequence to be digested and tolerated) all the Subjects of this Kingdom, (except those fiery Transalpine, and factious Transmaryne English, who have only their bodies here, but their hearts in Rome and Spain,) do vehemently desire War with Spain, as knowing it necessary for our Estate, and safe and honnorable for our King, and his Royal Posterity; yea, they all universallie applaud this high and prudent Court of Parliament, for motioning and seeking that War, infinitely honour your Highness for soliciting and advancing it, and exceedingly bless the King your Father for approving and consenting thereunto, by his Royal Declaration, which will make his Name famous, and his Fame immortally glorious to all posterity.  
Yea it seems Heaven and Earth concur with us in this happy resolution, to take down the Ambition and pride, and to curb the power and malice of Spain. For the distaste of the French, the Defiance of the Hollanders, the jealousy of Savoy, and Venice, and the zeal and resolution of England, (now demonstrated in her Representive body the Parliament, who cheerfully proffer their whole Estates and Lives, to so Just, so necessary, and so Honnorable a War,) the Honour and safety of our own Estate; the Glory of GOD, and the defence and protection of his afflicted Spouse the Church, doth again and again invyte your Highness' Sword, and conjure his Majesty's last and speedy resolution to begin this War.  
For it is not enough for the King your Father, your Highness, and the Parliament, to give a form to your Military Consultations, except ye (cast off all delays, remove all lets, obstacles and procrastinations, which may retard or oppose it,) give a life to that form, and a resolution to that life by drawing your Contemplation into Action, that our Ships and selves may be in a readiness to prevent Spain, ere spain be ready to prevent us; and of power to strike him, ere he can possibly be sufficiently powerful to threaten us; and that our Regiments and Squadrons be enrolled, and in sight of their Colours, and ready to March at the very first call of the Drum, sith England, and Scotland, never saw fear but in the fronts and faces of our Enemies, and always went to the Wars as to a joyful Wedding, or to an assured Victory and Triumph.  
Great Prince, you saw and understood what a world of joyful Bonfires, (or fires of joy) we made, when your Highness returned from Spain, with as much safety as you went forth with danger, yea our zeal and affection is so ardent to your Highness, because your Obedience is such to the King your Father, that we shall justly hold ourselves wronged of the Parliament, if they (for themselves & the whole Kingdom) be not Petitioners to the King your Father, that he will please to ordain, that we may Religiously keep and observe two new Holidays and Festivals, and that they may be henceforth marked with Rubrickes in our Almanacs, to the end that not only ourselves but our Posterity may yearelie celebrate and observe them, with a world of Bonfires of joy and joyful shouts and acclamations of rejoicing; viz. The 5th of October, the day of your Highness' arrival from Spain, and the 24th of March following, the day that your Match with Spain was broken off, and Wars declared for the restoring of the Count Pallatyne and his Heirs to their Pallatynat and Electorat. That as we therein do now participate of the causes of our joy, so they hereafter may enjoy them by feeling and enjoying the effects thereof; For, for the honour & safety of our King, and of all his Royal Posterity, and for the flourishing prosperity & welfare of the Church and Estate of the Israel of our Great Britain; he is not a true Subject, a faithful and loyall-harted Britton, Noah nor the son of an honest man, that is not ready and willing to bear his life on the point of his Sword, and (if occasion present) to lose it, rather than to retain and preserve it in so Just and Honnorable a quarrel.  
And your Highness (for seconding and fortifying of this your Royal Father's Warlike resolutions, against his Majesties, your own, and your Illustrious Sister's Enemies, in the Two main points of our Welfare and Honour, (England's preservation, and the Pallatynats' restitution) will accumilate and heap up, a whole world of Blessings and benedictions, on your Princely head from your Father's good Subjects; who with one Tongue, one heart, one affection, and one soul, will (with as much joy as zeal, and as much zeal as Duty) Pray unto God for the long prosperous and victorious Life of the King your Father, (my Gracious Sovereign) of your Royal self, of our Gracious Princess your Sister, of the Illustrious Prince her Husband, and their Royal posterity, The which none shall perform with more true Zeal, and unfeigned Devotion, than  
Your Highness, his most humbly Devoted Servant. S. R. N. I.   

The Printer to the Reader.  
Gentlemen, the Author his remote absence from the Press, hath occasioned me to commit many Errors, whereof he is innocent, his deserts crave and deserve you to reform them, and I likewise desire it, aswell for your satisfaction, as for mine own excuse.  
Farewell.   

My Most Sacred Sovereign:  
I Should not be that which God hath made me to be, your Majesty's most obedient and most faithful Subject, if I were not a thousand times more jealous and zealous for the preservation of your Majesties, and your royal children's welfare and honour then of mine own life; But sith Grace hath made me so fortunate, and Nature so happy, as also composed me of a temper, that I had rather die for speaking the truth, then live either to Conceal or Dissemble it to your Majesty; Therefore in the behalf of the forsaken Prince Palatyne, your Son in Law, of his sorrowful Princess your only Daughter, and their mournful posterity, for the loss of their neglected Patrimony the Pallatinat, wherein my Conscience (guided by the truth) informs my soul that your Majesty's honour extremely suffers. Give me leave, O give me leave my Most Gracious King (in all humility and Duty) to send these ensewing motives and reasons, to your Majesty's serious perusal & consideration, thereby to incite and stir up your Royal resolutions, for the refetching and reconquering thereof, whereon at present the eyes of the whole Christian world are constantly fixed. And thou great God of Heaven, who (at thy pleasure and in thy providence) swayest the hearts and hands, the affections and actions of all the Kings of the Earth thy Vicegerents; So bless my Sovereign and all his senses in the reading thereof, that his Majesty's judgement prevail over his passion, his Courage outbrave his fear; that naked Truth may take place of disguised Imposture, and royal justice triumph over hoodwincked and treacherous Usurpation.  
Although it be true, that the Prince Palatyne your Son in Law, committed a first error of Estate, in assuming and taking on him the Crown of Bohemia; will your Majesty therefore commit a second in permitting him to lose his Pallatinat: or because he wanted no Ambition but judgement to attempt that; must your Majesty's tie. therefore want affection, zeal, and equity to him, to the Princess your Daughter and their royal Issue, to tolerate & suffer this. You likewise saw and suffered the Emperor to chastise him from Bohemia; and therein you showed an act of justice, which celebrates your fame to all Europe; but if your Majesty permit him for ever to ruin him, and absolutely to Deprive him of his and his children's Patrimony, that willbe a Dishonourable testimony of too great disrespect, and want of affection in your Majesty as being their Father, and of too much fear & pusilanimity as being a Great and Potent King; and this will not only blemish but eclipse it to all the world. Do I speak of Dishonnor, O then I beseech your Majesty to consider, how long Honour is purchasing, how soon lost, and that having sacrificed all the actions of our life to preserve it, we need but one Error to ruin it; and as the meanest Gentleman is bound to this rule, so the greatest Princes and Monarches of the world, have (consequently) the greatest shares and interests in the prevention thereof. For the true Matchiavillians and Empirics of Estate, who term honour but smoke, are deceived and ignorant of Honour; Sith to define it aright, it is the purest gold of a King's crown, and the richest Diamond to embellish and adorn it; yea, it is a great part of that which makes a King a King, because it gives him just reason to Command his subjects, & they as just cause to obey him; and which is more, the retaining thereof pure, and the preserving thereof immaculate, makes him to be both feared and beloved of all his neighbour Princes, who otherwise will have just cause to neglect & Contemn him, because he first contemned and neglected it. So were your Majesty's tie. only a spectator, and not an Actor, or had you no Interest in the Pallatynat, you should then receive no Dishonnor not to attempt, or seek the restitution thereof. But sith (for the good of your Disinherited Children) you have as deep Interest in that famous Province, as you have in the Royal blood which streams in their hearts and veins, will it not be an honour for your Majesty to restore it to them, sith it was lost with shame, and a shame if you restore not them to it with honour: And in regard the Emperor and Duke of Bavaria have conquered it from them by Usurpation, will it not be an action as full of Compassion as glory, for the King of Great Britain to reconquer it from them with justice.. And although peradventure, the current of other men's affections and passions, transport your Majesty from the true way of truth, in believing that the Dishonnor of this loss, falls only on the Count Pallatyne, & no way reflects on your Royal and Sacred person, yet the best of your subjects believe, though the worst are so treacherous to affirm the contrary, that the Honour of your three Crowns and Kingdoms, do infinitely suffer in the loss of this one famous Province, because it is the Inheritance of the Prince your Son in Law, the Dowry of his Princess your Daughter, and the Patrimony of those Royal plants their Children; In which consideration, is not the loss thereof as worthy of your Compassion, as the reconquering is of your Courage. For if your Majesty who is a potent and mighty Monarch, permit this Illustrious (though poor) Prince your Son in Law to be deprived of his Pallatynate, and Electorate (and consequently ruined in his reputation for ever) you have far more reason to rest confident then incredulous; that the Austrian Princes excepted of the one side, and those Princes to whom you are allied by blood or affinity of the other, as you will assuredly make him the pity, so you will likewise infallibly make yourself the laughture of all the rest of the Princes of Christendom.  
But how can the Prince Pallatyne hope of so great, and so just a felicity that your Majesty will restore him to his Pallatynat, sith you might have done it with far facility and less charge, when Heidelberg the head, and Manheym and Frankendale, the two eyes of that Province courageously held out, and were yet in life and vigour; and that 5000. of your subjects then added to these Valiant bands, which were already there under the Conduct of Noble Vere, and Brave Boroughes, etc. would not only have prevented the ambitious Designs, but also ruyned the covetous resolutions of the Emperor, and Duke of Bavaria in the usurping thereof; which now 15000. can difficultly effect. How can he hope for it, when (under the cloak of consignation & sequestration) he sees with fear that your Majesty hath given away Frankendale to its Deprivation; How can he hope of this courtesy from your Sword, when your Majesty, and your Ambassadors, your tongue and your pen have actually consented to dishonnor him, by despoiling him of his Honnors: For as the Emperor justly razed out his Title of King of Bohemia, so your Majesty derogated from the affection of a Father, to ommit and exclude those of Count Pallatyne and Elector, in all your Treaties, and negotiations with the Emperor, the King of Spain, the Archdutchesse, and the rest of the Prince's Electors of Germany, unless your Majesty were desirous, that the said Count Pallatyne your Son in Law, should be by his enemies degraded of his Honnors and Dignities before his time, which untimely omission & connivency of your Majesty, hath in undervalewing him, extremely undervalewed yourself, and made the pride of the Emperor, and his Duke of Bavaria, fly a pitch both beyond themselves and beyond Ambition. How can he hope for it, sith your Majesty now permits that the Dukes of Brunswick, and Lunebourg, Count Mansfield, the Landgrave Maurice, with other Noblemen their adherents and partisans, who have wedded his quarrel, should now be abandoned by your Treaty, and held unworthy to be affected and protected by your Majesty's ties. royal favour and assistance; that they whoe have so valiantly and constantly defended his cause, (and in it the general good and peace of Germany) should now by your Treaty of Suspension of Arms, be enforced to let fall their swords out of their hands, and with them their lyues, That they whoe (partly out of affection to him, and partly out of your Majesties own procurement and solicitation to themselves) have prodigally spent their wealth and blood for his sake and service; should now by him and your Majesty, be abandoned as a prey, and sacrificed as Victymes to the implacable revenge of the Emperor and Duke of Bavaria; an Act so odious and dishonnorable in the sight of God and man, as neither your Majesty, nor the Prince Pallatyne your Son in Law, can hear it proposed without extreme ingratitude, nor consent thereto without infinite shame and eternal Dishonnor, both to your persons and memories. How can he hope for it, when he understands that many of your Courtiers (with less judgement than passion, and more Envy than truth and Charity) do without controlment, term the Princes of Germany Traitors for having assisted him, and yet what have they not hazarded for his affection, and attempted for his service. How can he hope for it, when your Majesty permitted the Emperor, and Duke of Bavaria, to violate in hostile manner the Royal protection, wherein you took and received that which remained of the Pallatynat, and when you had commanded your said Son in Law to Disarm, and he and all his Army to desist and retire, that then contrary to your royal promise to him, as also to your own expectation, you should permit his Enemies to conclude and finish their Conquest of his Country; Which in effect was to ruin him whom you promised to assist, A scar and sicatrice, which will infallibly remain apparent and notorious upon the face of your Majesty's reign, except the remedy and resolution of your Sword redeem and deface it. How can he hope for it, when as the common compassion of those who are least Compassionate, are I wish I could as soon remedy as Pity your dejected Estate; and that this of your Majesty towards him, comes far too short the rules of vulgar Charity, much more the bonds and ties of Natural and Royal affection, sith your Majesty is so far from remedying his wrongs, as you will not pity them, and which is worse, you can▪ but will neither pity, nor remedy them. How can he hope for it, when you have permitted that all his fortunes be only reduced to hope, and his fear to Despair. How can he hope for it, when (sith it is an injury as Publius Mimus reporteth, To laugh at other men's Calamities and misfortunes) that so many of your Subjects, and which is worse, of your Courtiers, lycentiouslie insult and triumph at his overthrows, and scoff at his afflictions, without considering that he is the Husband of our Princess, and our Kings only Daughter, and his Children our Royal plants, of the Stock and Blood royal of Great Britain, and without receiving any punishment, or check from your Majesty, for the base enormity of this their foul ingratitude, and incivill Disrespect and Contempt, whom you may easily discern, distinguish, and find out from your faithful and loyal hearted Subjects, sith there is as great Difference betwixt the last and the first, as there is between true Protestants, and insolent and dangerous Papists. And to conclude and shut up this point, How can he hope for it, when you will not honour or affect his Princess your Daughter, and their famous and flourishing Posterity so much, as in these their immerited miseries, to receive and harbour them into the Sanctuary of your Kingdom, It being the last courtesy and consolation, which Nature tells me their Princely birth deserves, & your royal Blood owes them.  
And yet again, this neglected and dejected Prince your Son in Law, hath chose much reason to hope, that your Majesty's Royal word and promise engaged for the restoring of his Pallatynat, (added to the consideration of your own Honour, which inviolably ties you thereto) will in the end incyte and stir you up to Draw your sword, for the effecting and performance thereof; For the words of Kings should be sacred, and their promises inviolable, the Laws of Nature and Nations, tying them to the obligation of the first, those of Grace and Heaven obliging them to the performance of the last. And if your Majesty be pleased to forget, yet the representive Body of England, the Lords, Knights, and Burgesses of your High Court of Parliament, must and will remember, that your Majesty protested unto them solemnly; That (either by Treaty or by the Sword) you would cause the Pallatynat to be restored, though to the hazard of your own Kingdoms; Or if your memory (which in all other actions is exquisite and excellent) should forget your promise in that point; yet the judgements and understandings of your Malesties' subjects are more than assured and confident, that your Royal pen affirmed it to your Printer, and he to us in your Declaration, whereof look how many thousand Books there are extant, so many witnesses (without exception) there will remain against your Majesty's tie. that you only made that promise and protestation purposely to break it; For till they see the contrary, the most loyal and faithful of them will never believe it, sith your Majesty may perform it but will not, and sith at your pleasure you have the means, both to humble the pride, and to scourge the power of the Emperor, and to make the Duke of Bavaria repent with blood and tears, for his insatiable Ambition and Usurpation, in usurping and bereaving the Pallatynate from your Children.  
And because the affairs of the World (resembling the ebbing and flowing of the Sea) are still subject to revolution & change, and only constant in unconstancy, as also that (Euripides saith) good is never separated from Evil, and that it is impossible for us to avoid misfortunes or adverse accidents, because Plutarque tells us, that Prosperity is still transitory, never Permanent. So I beseech your Majesty to consider, that if upon any unexpected Accident, you should break, and have Wars either with France, Spain, or the Netherlands, what a brave assistance of Germane Reistres, you should still have at your Command from the Count Pallatyne your Son in Law, of his Subjects and Friends, if he had again the Command of his Country, and also how necessary those troops of Cavalry would be for your Majesty's service; either to make or divert, to begin or end a war. Whereof if Henry the FOUR of France (of immortal same and memory) were still living, he could give your Majesty a true precedent and instance thereof in himself, when his affairs were so weak and desperate, as he was enforced to have recourse to their assistance, the which Lewes his Son now reigning, hath very unkindly denied, to acknowledge and requite to the Count Pallatyne your Son in Law, now in the extremity of this his affairs and afflictions. And to ascend from earthly regards to heavenly Considerations; If all these former Motives cannot prevail with your Majesty, to purchase and effect his desire, yet lastly he hopes that you will draw your Sword to perform it, for that Religion's sake which is immediately derived from God, or for God's sake, from whom (as from the blessed and sacred Fountain of all Happiness) all true Religion hath its true birth, life, and propagation; and far the sooner he hopes, that your Majesty will attempt it with Courage, and prosecute it with resolution; Sith God hath made your Majesty the Defender of the Faith, and he and all the Churches of his Pallatynat did, and then again will profess the same Faith which you Defend, whereas now they are infected with the dregges of Idolatrous Popery, and polluted and defiled with the mists and fogs of profane Superstition.  
But Illustrious Prince Pallatyne; because it is a disputable question, whether thy Courage or Misfortune be greater; therefore I grieve with sorrow and lament with Grief to see all these fair hopes of thine, so untimely withered and reduced to nothing, and thou hast now tried to thy prejudice, and seen to thine own Woeful and fatal experience, That hope which is built upon other men's promises, and maintained by foreign power, proves most commonly ruinous.  
And will not your Majesty then be sensible, of this fruitless and fatal hopes of the Prince your Son in Law, which were wholly grounded upon the sand of your promises, as yours are upon the snow of the Emperors and the King of Spain's. For to represent you Truth in her naked colours, (& not in an adulterated attire and tincture) and so to point at that point of the Compass, from whence the contrary winds have blown your Majesty all these several tempests of dishonnor, and your Son in Law these storms of adversity; hath it not been your too much connivency in relying upon the deceitful flatteries of the Emperor, and your too excessive confidence in trusting to the temporizing promises of the King of Spain which hath occasioned it; For by their Ambassadors and Letters, have they not depainted you the restitution of the Pallatynat so easy, as in assurance thereof, you became passionately resolute that you had far less reason to doubt then to believe it. And yet to the whole world aswell as to your own Subjects it administereth more cause of admiration than belief, to think that your Majesty who is the wisest, & learnedest, yea one of the most potent Kings of the world, should thus be contented with Dross for Gold, with shame for Honour, and fed with verbal promises in steed of real performances; For your Majesty knows (and your Subjects are not ignorant) that Carlisle, Bristol, Belfast, and Weston, have spent infinite much, and yet gotten just nothing from the Emperor, by their several legations; as also that that which they spent abroad, and your Majesty at home, in Entertainments, Feasts, and Gifts, on the Emperors, the King of Spain's, and the Archdutchesse Ambassadors, would undoubtedlie have reconquered the Pallatynat, and what is this, but their malicious and pernicious policy to drain your Majesty's purse dry, and to exhaust your Exchequer; thereby purposely to clip the wings of your Courage, power, and resolution, from flying to the restoration of the Pallatynat; Neither shall your Majesty have just cause to accept against me, for here joining the King of Spain with the Emperor in the Detention thereof; sith their swords and forees equally Conquered it, or if not the King of Spain (as the vulgar beleeue) for the Emperor, yet undoubtedlie the Emperor and Duke of Bavaria (as the clearest sighted know) for the King of spain; because upon the whole the Emperor is more the King of Spain's servant and creature, than the Duke of Bavaria is the Emperors, and therefore that it is rather more to be feared then doubted, that as he first took Aix and Weasel for the Emperor, and ever since keeps them for himself; that right so he intends to deal with the Pallatynat; and if your Majesty would but turn your back to Spain, and your eyes to the Pallatynat, you will then confirm my opinion, whereas (with a fearful jealousy) I apprehend, that turning your back to the Pallatynat, and your eyes to Spain, you may peradventure passionately oppose and contradict it; For as the diseases and iniquity of our times, and the Vanity of our Natures are such, as many times we see Ambition gives a Law to Nature, and the strongest sword proves most commonly the best right and tenure. So notwithstanding that the Emperor be puffed up with joy and pride for this his good success, yet the King of Sayne thinks that the Pallatynat is but a debt dew to his Virtue, and a tribute to his Ambition and Greatness.  
And that your Majesty may the more perfectly and apparently consider them destinctlie or jointly, and so look from their tongues to their hearts, from their words to their actions, and from the bark of their Friendship to the tree of their Intents; Swartsenbourgh from the Emperor, brought only Compliments but no deeds not hoapes of restitution of the Pallatynat; Bosquet from the Archdutchess, (under the cloak of trust and consignation) carried away Frankendale, the last hostage and pledge of that Province; and last of all Mexia (with his stately Embassye) pretended from the said Princess, but intended from the King of Spain, came to Comply with your Majesty, to make fair weather of all sides, to keep every bird in his nest and your Majesty Sword still rusting in his scabbard; yea if the hearts of Inijoca, Mendoza, and Columba, (whom I reverence and honour for the honour of their places.) were as visible and transparent as julius Drusus wished his house; Then (notwithstanding all their veluett words and silken protestations and vows) your Majesty should see without perspective or spectacles, that the most retired Article, and secret mystery of their King's Commission to them is; To give their Infanta to our Illustrious and famous Prince Charles, but infallibly with this proviso and reservation, still to keep the Pallatynat for the behoof and use of the King their Master; And what else do all these several Ambassadors in England, and whereunto tend all their several legations, but only to conceal the Ill which is, and to pretend the Good which is not, in the designs and resolutions of the King their Master; For in all their Treaties and Negotiations with your Majesty and your ministers, what do they else but purposely play their prizes, in practising their chiefest invention, Art, and skill, to procrastinate the restitution of the Pallatynat, making every day produce new Difficulties and Evasions, till in the end they have made the Cure worse than the Disease, and which (without the help and assistance of your Majesty's sword) will very shortly prove incurable, and mere Physic after death; For the Emperor, the king of Spain, and the Archdutchesse, do only feed your Majesty with the empty air of hoapes, and with the bitter sweet sugar of many flattering and false promises, that they will restore the Pallatynat to the Prince your Son in Law, whiles they in the mean time (with as much treachery as silence) do heerbye only gain time (in working and procuring their own ends) to repair and renew the fortifications of that Country, till in the end they (like Molewarps) have therein taken firm footing, and made those Cities and Castles which were easy to subdue, become difficult, and the difficult impregnable; For the King of Spain plays the Practice with your Majesty, whiles you profess the Theory to him; you give him contemplation for action, he returns you action for contemplation; for whiles you are entertaining and flattering your thoughts with hope, he and his Factor the Duke of Bavaria, hath crowned his hoapes and front with the Laurels of the Pallatynat, that dainty piece and rich and beautiful Province of Europe; neither is it your Majesty alone, but the French King likewise, who hath given too confident an ear to the Syreen tunes, and charms of Spain; for whiles their practices and machynations threw him to a pernicious & sacrilidgious War against his own Protestant subjects, than spain recovered the Valtolyne, and deflowered the Forts and passages of the Grisons, and whiles he (by his Gondomar) lulled your Majesty asleep with the melody of the Match, than he finished the Conquest of the Pallatynat. Only your Majesty's dishonnor heerin is far greater than that of the French King; because his remissness permitted but his Confederates to be ruined, but your Majesty, your Confederate your Son in Law, your only Daughter his wife, and their Royal posterity. Thus as the Cyclope Polephemus devoured his passengers one after another, so doth the King of Spain ea●e up whole Countries and Provinces. And whereto tends all this formidable Ambition, power, and greatness of his, but only to fill the sails of his glory; Whiles your Majesty's tie. and other Potentates and Princes of Christendom most inconsiderately (I may say shamefully) ride at Anchor in the Ports of false security, and therefore of true danger; and whereunto tends all this, but in the end to aspire to the whole Empire of the West, as your Majesty heard though would not believe, from your last Assembly of Parliament, which our sins, and your Enemies, caused you to make and entitle but a Convention.  
All Europe can bear witness of your Majesties two years pious, interceding, and Christian endeavours and resolution, to have the Palatynat restored by Treaty, and although the Emperor hath superficially promised and the King of Spain artificially vowed it; yet still your Majesty sees contrary effects, and still they fortify the Pallatynat, not for, but against the Prince your Son in Law, as if they had given a Definitive sentence and period to their resolutions, and made it an Orthodox Article of their Faith, still to keep and never to restore it to him, or his posterity; yea, the Emperor is so glutted with his victories, and the Duke of Bavaria so sursetted with his good fortunes (in both which the King of Spain insults with joy, and triumph with exhileration) that they are now so far from thincking of restitution, as they disdain it; Alexander the Great, (whose generosity was yet far greater than his fame) showed such testimonies of his moderation and Magnanimity, as he gave those whom he subdued and conquered, more cause to rejoice then repine at his Victories, yea he showed infinite Virtue and Charity in his power, (and these two cannot be better shown then in giving lymitts to power.) But it seems the Emperor is continually so inflamed with choler, and transported with revenge towards the Count Pallatyne, your Son in Law, as he is wholly unmindful either of Charity or Virtue, he might have added glory to his Victories and Reign, if his Ambition finding prosperous success, could have been content with measure and moderation so vecessarie in all Christians, and so requisite and relucent in Princes; But what or why speak I of Charity or Moderation in the Emperor, when all the world can testify with me, that his quarrel is so implacable, and his malice and revenge so inexorable to the Prince Pallatyne your Son in Law, and the Princes and Nobles of Germany his adherents, as he hath given them all just cause to fly to such remedies as despair gives to necessity, thereby to seek to preserve their lyues with their honnors, and their honnors with their lyues. And as hope might but fear cannot be capable in them to decline their valour and courage; so had they not then reason to banish hope, when they apparently saw they could hope for nothing but for Despair in the merciless mercy of the Emperor. He leaves them still proscripts, although it had been far more Noble for him (who holds the first, and noblest Rank of Christendom) rather to have made them taste the fruits of his mercy, then to feel the effects of his Indignation; and is still so erreconcilable and vindictive, as if he hath vowed to adopt, and make revenge a Virtue, and resolved and sworn, that it shall be the last thing which shall die with him.  
Neither cann your Majesty justly conceive, that this inveterate malice of the Emperor, and boundless Ambition of the King of Spain, is only bend and intended against the Prince Pallatyne, your Son in Law; but likewise (by virtue and reason of the same rule of Usurpation) against your royal self. Sith we cannot cut a finger, but we wound the Arm, nor cut offe an arm, but we endanger the whole Body; And what doth this Imperious swallowing down of the Pallatynat by the Emperor, the perfidious usurping of the Cantons, of the Grisons, and the eager threatening the total subversion of the Netherlands, by the King of Spain, else portend and imply, but only to cut off the lets, and obstacles, that with the more facility they may after make their approaches to assail your own Kingdoms & dominions; which treacherous designs and resolutions of theirs, if your Majesty will not now believe, and accordingly seek and endeavour to prevent; It is to be feared, yea I say again, it is to be feared, that we yonr Subjects shall feel them hereafter, when we shall have just cause left us to lament, but neither means, power, nor time, to remedy and prevent it. For think what your Majesty will, and say what you please, yet your best subjects, and not the worst Wits and Statesmen of your Kingdoms know, that when the Emperor and King of Spain, beat Princely Frederick the Son, that at that very instant and act, they undoubtedlie threatened Royal james the Father; and that (in the loss of the Pallatynat) your Majesty upon the whole, is dangerously wounded and struck at through his side, aswell in the honour of your Sacred person, as in the welfare and safety of your Estates and Kingdoms.  
Give not cause O Great King, that the malice of the Prince your Son in Laws Enemies prevail above your pity and affection, nor their Usurpation above your justice, and although some Spanish Englishmen, and English Spaniards, play the Mercury with you, to bring the Argus eyes of your judgement and power asleep, seeming to have new Mynerva's enclosed in their brains, thereby to inchant your senses and to cast your affection and Understanding into a Lethargy; yet it will be a just and honnorable resolution for your Majesty, that in regard the Emperor will afford no favour to the Count Pallatyne your Son, that therefore (according the sense and letter of the same rule) he deserves to have none given or shown him by your Majesty his Father in Law; and as your Royal hart is the Temple of Equity and justice, so can there any thing be more just and equitable, then to make the Usurper restore; yet it is as necessary as just, for your Majesty to cause this restoration of the Pallatynat; sith to speak to the Emperor, or King of Spain, of the restitution thereof, is but to speak to the wound, And it is to deceive your Majesty's deep knowledge, and to betray your solid judgement, to think that ever it will be restored, except by your Sword. No, Noah, it must be your Sword, not your Tongue, not your Treaties, not your Letters, not your Ambassadors which must refetch it, if ever your Majesty desire and intend to have it refetched, For all other means are fled, and have now abandoned and forsaken you, and this of War is only left you to effect it, which will not fail, nor cannot deceive you in the performance thereof; For otherwise like Ptolomais in (Suydas) you may plead yourself to death in expectation and hope thereof by Treaties, before you see it restored. And that the policy of the Emperor, the King of Spain, and Duke of Bavaria, may in all respects equalise their Ambition and Malice, in the resolute and constant Detention of the Pallatynat; may it please your Majesty again and again to cast the eyes of your Consideration, to see how closely they have dealt with the Pope, to fulminate and thunder out from his Vatican some false and irreligious Aphorisms, thereby the better to over-vayle and the more authentically to colour out, the monstrous Deformity of this their Usurpation therein; Whereof, of his 29. I will at this present content myself to select & propose unto your Majesty the three last.  
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27. That it is not now in the power, either of the Emperor, or the King of Spain, to replace Frederick and his Heirs in the Pallatynat and Electorat.  2. 
28. That it is an unjust request of the Kings of England, and Denmark, and of the Electors of Saxony, and Brandenbourg, to seek to revoke the Pope's Confirmation of the Duke of Bavaria in the Pallatynat and Electorat.  3. 
29. That the Pope cannot revoke the Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria, without prejudice to the authority of the Sacred Catholic Church.   
Thus the Pope, or rather thus the King of Spain and the Emperor, who have caused the Pope, falsely and maliciously to pronounce a sentence and Decree in their own favour, against the Lawful right of the Count Pallatyne, you Son in Law, and his Heirs; whereby your Majesty may palpably see, and plainly observe, the lets and difficulties, yea the impossibility which your Majesty may expect, for the restoring of the Pallatynat. And although I justly confess myself (for Power, Learning, and judgement) to be the very meanest of all your Majesty's subjects; yet because I more triumph in my Fidelity to you my sacred Sovereign, and in my zeal to all your Royal Posterity, than the Emperor doth in his Imperial Crown, the King of Spain in his Indieses, or the Duke of Bavaria in his new Conquest and usurpation of the Pallatynat; I therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty to peruse and consider these three Aphorisms, which I return to the Pope in answer of his.  
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That it is now in the justice of the Emperor, and in the power of the King of Spain, to replace the Count Pallatyne Frederick (and his Heirs) in his Pallatynat and Electorat.  2. 
That it is a Just, Charitable, & Honnorable resolution of the Kings of England, and Denmark, as also of the Electors of Saxony, and Brandenbourg, either with their pens or swords, to seek to annihilate and frustrate the Pope his Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria, in favour of Frederick and his Heirs, and that their connivency now therein towards the Pope, will infallibly prove Cruelty to themselves, and their own heirs for ever hereafter.  3. 
That the Decrees of the Church and Consistory of Rome, are revokable, as having no affinity and resemblance with those of the Meads & Persians, and that the Pope and his College of Cardynalls, can when they please revoke their Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria, and restore it to the true owner thereof Frederick Count Pallatyne, and his heirs, without any new or farther prejudice to the authority of their Catholic Church; Sith if it were for the obtaining of their own ends, or the propagation of their Romish Religion, as it is for our Protestant; not only every age but almost every Pope's reign, abounds with presydents of the same nature; which those are infinitely blind who see not, and extremely partial, ignorant, or malicious who will not acknowledge.   
And because (in my shallow concceipt and capacity) it is pity that these three Aphorisms of the Pope, should return without Interest; I therefore adjoin and send his holiness these other three to my three forms, which in all Humility and Duty I likewise prostrate to your Majesty's perusal & consideration.  
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That the Prince's Electors of Germany may make an Emperor, but that the Pope cannot make an Elector, nor consequently unmake one, being made, because it merely and properly belongs to a Civil power, and not to an Ecclesiastical jurisdiction.  2. 
That the transaction and Donation of the Pallatynat and Electorat, made by the Pope from the Count Pallatyne your Son in Law, to the Duke of Bavaria, doth both subvert the fundamental Laws and Dignity of the Empire, and also oppose and assault the prerogatives and safety of Germany, and of all other Kings, Princes and Free Estates of Christendom.  3. 
That the connivency of the Emperor, and Princes Electors, in tollerating the Pope's said transaction and Donation of the Pallatynat, as aforesaid, openeth a Door to the unjust intrusion of Rome, over the Liberty, Souveraigntie, and indepencie of Germany, which henceforth will never be in the power, either of the Emperor, or of the Prince's Electors again to make fast and shut, if now they do not.   
Having thus given six Aphorisms to the Pope for his three, I now again in all humility and Duty embolden myself, to recommend to your Majesty's Gracious perusal and consideration, three times three others, which I direct and send jointly to the Emperor, and King of Spain, or rather against them to your Majesty, and the whole world, thereby to unmask their Ambition and Usurpation, in the unjust detention of the Pallatynat, from the Illustrious Prince your Son in Law.  
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That the Emperor invaded the Pallatynat by the Counsel and Instigation, and Conquered it by the Arms and Treasure of the King of Spain's, and without it he could never have Conquered it; And it is clear and notorious to all the world, that as the Emperor cannot subsist without the assistance of Spain, that therefore in his Detaining of the Pallatynat; that the King of Spain, is more your Son in Laws, and your Majesty's enemy, than the Emperor: for take away the cause and the effect follows, as take away fuel and the flame and fire will be soon extinguished.  2. 
That those who know the Court of Rome, do apparently know and Confess, that without the close interceding, and secret solicitation of the King of Spain's Ambassadors and Ministers, to that effect in that Court; that neither the Emperor nor Pope, had dared either to have taken the Pallatynat and Electorat, from the Count Pallatyne your Son in Law; to whom by all the Laws of Heaven and Earth it appertaineth, nor to have given them to the Duke of Bavaria, who hath no other right nor claim thereto, but only that which his excessive Ambition, and insatiable desire of Usurpation suggests and gives him.  3. 
That it is in the power of the King of Spain, to make the Emperor and the Duke of Bavaria restore the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Count Pallatyne your Son in Law, and therefore that if they restore it not, that then your Majesty may justly and truly conclude, it lies not in his will.  4. 
That it is as easy for the Prince Pallatyne your Son in Law, to be restored to his Pallatynat and Electorat by the help of your Majesty's sword, as impossible for the Emperor and Duke of Bavaria to keep it without the assistance of the King of Spain.  5. 
That as long as the Pallatynat and Electorat is detained and possessed by the Emperor and Duke of Bavaria, so long (to common sense, and unprejudicate judgements) it is as clear as the Sun, that their Law in the Detention thereof, is wholly and solely derived, from the will and resolution of Spain, which is their Cynosura, whereby they steer all their actions, and their Delphos, from whence they fetch all their Oracles and Instructions.  6. 
That it is a castilian policy, to make the Archdutchesse, a Negotiatrixe in and for all Treaties depending betwixt your Majesty and the Emperor for the Pallatynat and Electorat, and that she being a very old and sickly Princess, having as it were her Life on her Lips, and her feet on the brink of her Grave, That when she Dies the said King, will then cause all her promises, Contracts, and assurances to dye with her, and to be likewise buried in her Grave, which are or which may be any way displeasing, or opposite to his ambitious Designs and resolutions.  7. 
That if the King of Spain take not the real and actual possession of the Pallatynat, during the life of the Duke of Bavaria; that he will infallibly do it immediately upon his Death; And in the interim, the Cards are so cunningly shuffled between them, that upon the Whole, Bavaria is but Spain's Depositor, and the King of Spain, Bavaria's Patron and protector.  8. 
That the restoring of the Pallatynat, which your Majesty makes a matter of Estate, the quenchless revenge of the Emperor, and the boundless Ambition of Spain, have caused the Pope to make it meerlie a matter of Religion.  9 
That your Majesty shall in the end find, that Spain, to have the fuller pretext, and fairer colour for his Ambition, in causing this injust Detention & Usurpation of the Pallatynat; will for his last shift and imposture, clap the whole fault thereof on the Pope, by affirming he now sees that it wholly derogates from the Honour and Office of Christ's Vicar, and consequently from the Laws and Constitutions of the holy Catholic Church; for Clement IX. to annihilate and revoke the Donation of the Pallatynat and Electorat, to the Duke of Bavaria, which his Predecessor Gregory XV. gave him, and that he being the Catholic King, he dares not transgress the Commands, nor disobey the will and Decrees of the Pope, who is the head of the Catholic Church, the Successor of Saint Peter, and Christ's Vicar on Earth.   
These Aphorisms most sacred Sovereign, are true, not feigned, and every way worthy of your belief and Consideration; For your Majesty shall in the end find, that the Emperor and the King of Spain, will not understand the language of Restitution, because their Swords and Pens have ever practised and profess the Contrary. Yea, you have small cause and less reason to apprehend or fear the Emperor's power, who indeed is of very small or no power, without that of Spain. And if Spain will still Countenance and Command this his usurpation of the Pallatynat, than he is your Son in Law's Enemy, as much, or more▪ as the Emperor, and so to be esteemed and held of your Majesty, and no osherwise. And for the rest of the German Princes who side with the Emperor; you have no cause to stand either in need or in fear of their Forces & power, for although the honour of the Empire be frequent in their tongues, yet their own Interest and ends, are more deeply rooted in their hearts, and take up the first place in their resolutions.  
Your Majesty hath a long time, yea too long time looked from the Prince Pallatyne your Son in Law, in suffering him thus to be Dejected and deprived of his Pallatynat; yea, and the whole world spare not to speak and affirm this truth; that you are more desirous of rest then of Honour, in permitting and tollerating it; He is a Prince fuller of hoapes then of misfortunes, and his Valour and Virtues, make him more Worthy to be an Emperor, then to be beaten by an Emperor. And all these crosses and losses of his; are but the assaults of Fortune, the exercise of his patience, and the trial of his generosity and Constancy. Your Majesty hath seen him ruined, and yet it lies in your power and pleasure to repair those ruins of his, and to make him as happy as now he is miserable.  
Look upon the Princess, his wife, and your only Daughter, and you shall find that all her Husband's misfortunes and losses, do no way blemish but rather Illustrate her virtues, as if her fortitude and resolution, were to Devyne to be outbraved by any earthly Crosses and afflictions. For the remembrance of Reason & Honour, of her Blood and her Virtues, coming to form itself in her understanding, makes her to entertain different accydents and afflictions with an equal erected constancy, and although she have only this Comfort and Consolation left her, that she is not the cause of her Misfortune; yet those who fee her Beauty, and know her Virtues, do likewise know, that she who is one of the Greatest Ladies of the world, should not be reduced to this point of misery and misfortune, to be one of the Poorest and least of the world; Sir, God hath made her your Daughter, and our Princess, and adorned her with so many Virtues, as she rather deserves to be Empress of the whole world, than Lady of a small Province; She inheriteth the Name and Virtues, the Majesty and generosity of our Immortal Queen Elizabeth, and is a Princess of such excellent hoapes and exquisite perfections, that I cannot speak of her without praise, nor praise her without admiration, sith she can be immytated by none, nor paralleled by any but by herself; And yet will your Majesty neglect her, and will you not draw your Sword in her just Quarrel, whose Fame and Virtues hath drawn most hearts to adore, all to admire her.  
Look upon those Princely plants their Children, and your Majesty shall find, that their looks and fronts do already in their Infancy, justly threaten to revenge their Father his losses and indignities; and sith they are Descended from your Royal Blood and loins, will your Majesty suffer them to be ruined, as soon as borne, and that the Greatness of their Blood should only serve to make their afflictions and misfortunes the greater; Harmless and Innocent souls, what have they done to your Majesty, that you should suffer them thus to be Disinherited, or rather what should not Nature prompt you to do for them, again to restore them to their Patrimony and Inheritance; For if you will affect them you must pity them, and you cannot sufficiently pity them, except you remedy and revenge their wrongs, by repairing the ruins of their decayed and Shipwracked fortunes, in that of their Fathers.  
All the actions of Demetrius savoured of Royalty, and none will so much royalize your Reign, and immortalize your Fame, as this of restoring your Children to their Patrimony; your famous Predecessors and Progenitors of either Kingdom, were too generous sensible and Delicate to digest or pack up the least affront or injury whatsoever, though from the greatest Princes and Potentates of the world, much less so great a one as is this of the Loss of your dearest children's Patrimony, from so weak a Prince as the Emperor, (whose power gives the lie to his form, and comes far too short of his Dignity and reputation) wherein the Honour of your Sacred person, and also of all your Kingdoms and Estates, do most extremely (O that I might not say shamefully) suffer, for they made it both their practice and glory to strike those first, who made but the least show or shadow, either to threaten them, or to withhold that from them which they ought to restore; Yea, they have passed the Seas with royal Fleets and Armies, aswell for Defending their Confederates, as for keeping and reconquering of a poor City; And will not your Majesty then take Arms, for the regaining and restoring of so rich a Province as the Pallatynat, to the Prince your Son in Law, to the Princess your Daughter, and to their Royal posterity, which is one of the goodliest Countries of Europe, and wherein there are so many strong Cities, and Castles.  
And as the French (in Rome) give out against the Duke of Savoy, that the delays which the Pope made in the judgement of the Marquisat of Salusses were insupportable, that they had too long Disputed and pleaded for their own, and that therefore it was high time (yea more than time) for them to decide that quarrel with the Cannon, in the plains of Piedmont; So hath your Majesty just cause to say to the Emperor, the King of spain, and Duke of Bavaria, for the restoring of the Pallatynat; yea let your Courage but animate your Designs, and your Subjects will execute them; For, give them but the word of Command to resetch it by War, and your Majesty will then see they will act wonders with their Swords, not only answerable to your desires and expectation, but beyond the Emperors, the King of Spain's, and the Duke of Bavaria's belief, and your Nobility and Gentry (out of their true zeal and innate affection, to the famous Princess your Daughter, her Husband and Posterity) will fly from Thames to Rhyne, as to a Fair, or Wedding, and you shall have more Gentlemen in this action, than ever German Army beheld, or Spanish confronted. And although money (which is the true cement and sinews of War) seem now scarce in your Kingdoms, and that your Bounties hath made your Exchequer, and Treasor empty; yet if your Majesty will be pleased to secure but this one doubt and fear of your Subjects, that your Soldiers may eat, and not your Courtiers devour the monies which a Parliament will give and raise you for this enterprise, you shall then assuredly find an Indieses in your England, and more huge sums of money cheerfully Contributed, than that action can any way take up or expend; you shall find that one Herald will do more good than all your Ambassadors have performed. And as the Mathematicians hold, that the rightest and straightest Line is still the shortest; So your Majesty shall undoubtedlie find, that the rightest and shortest way for you to recover the Pallatynat will be by your Sword. When Scotland was not yet added by your Majesty to England, England (holding herself bound in point of Honour) hath sent a black Prince into Spain, a Drake and Essex, into Portugal, and an Essex, Willoughby, Norrice, and Fourbisher into France, with stately Fleets and Regiments, to restore Disinherited Kings to their Kingdoms, who were yet but our Confederates, and will not your Majesty who hath so happily United and Wedded Scotland to England, and who is the powerfullest Monarch that ever swayed the British Sceptre, attempt and perform the like for the Prince Pallatyne your Son in Law, and the Husband of your only Daughter our Princess; our hands, hearts, and swords, being of as good, and of as excellent a temper as ever our Predecessors were, having as it were hands of Steel, and hearts of Diamonds, for the attempting and finishing of this Honnorable Enterprise; If the King of Spain will not abandon his Cousin the Emperor, should your Majesty abandon, or rather should you not assist and protect the Count Pallatyne your Son in Law, against the Emperor. Or if there ensue hereon any breach betwixt your Majesty & the King of spain; hath he not given you just cause to undertake that war, which is so Just, Honnorable, and Charitable, as to the eyes and censures of the whole world, it bears its persuasion with it; And if your actions and resolutions be such, that you resolve rather to give Spain cause to fear you, then to take any to make your Majesty fear Spain, your Majesty shall then infallibly fetch security out of danger, and draw honour out of shame; yea, if you will courageously resolve to cut this Gordian knot with Alexander, and to pass this Rubicon with Caesar, you shall then truly and tryumphantlie participate of the ones Fame, and of the others Glory; and this indeed will make your Majesty live after Death, and revive again in your fame, as the Phoenix doth out of her ashes. And no sooner shall your Drums beat, and your Colours be displayed upon the banks of Rhyne; but your Majesty's sword shall put a new face upon Germany, and make England (consequently) assume her old one, which was ever wont to look more Martial, and less Effemynate, less contemptible to our Friends, and still more terrible to our Enemies.  
It is an action and resolution full of Religion, full of Equity, and full of Glory, whereunto the honour of your Kingdoms, and your Royal person, and your Majesty's natural affection towards your Princely Children, doth both invite and conjure you to attempt and perfect it; It is a work and labour infinitely worthy of your Sword, your Sceptre, your Crown; yea, it will be one of the most precious jewels and Diamonds, which your life, can possibly give to the adorning of your Reign or your Death, to the embellishing of your Tomb or Chronicle; Is the recovery of the Pallatynat a great action? Consider I beseech you, that you are a Great King & a Potent Monarch; doth it produce difficulties? what important enterprise ever was, or can there be without them, or what cannot the hearts and swords of Great Britain make easy, and as success comes some times short of our hoapes, so many times it goes beyond them; doth it threaten Danger? why there is the more Glory to surmount it, and being well and firmly begun it will be already half ended; Sith there is nothing more Courageous than a good Cause, nor more Victorious than the Truth.  
And although your Majesty delight and glory to be termed, A Prince of Peace; yet let your Peace live and flourish in Honour, and not wither and dye in Contempt and shame. For God, who is the Protector of Princes, will rather relieve then ruin them, and rather desire and authorize their restoration to, than their deprivation from their Countries, and it will be far easier to believe then to represent, the joy which all the best and truest hearted of your Subjects will conceive, when they shall see your Majesty's sword, as deeply engaged in the quarrel of the Pallatynat, as your Sceptre and Honour is in the cause thereof; Our famous Elizabeth did beat Spain, and shall our Royal and Potent King JAMES fear it; Besides, we see our trusty Neighbours and Friends the Hollanders, rely upon the points of their Swords for the preservation of their Estates and lives; and therein they infallibly find, the security of the one, and the safety of the other, by Detecting and Detesting the Treacheries of Spain, which is still more prevalent and powerful in their calms of Peace, then in their tempests of War, and it will be no small felicity to your Majesty, to see (these valiant and constant Confederates) how courageously they will second your Warlike attempts in this restoration, and how constantly and resolutely they will marry their Forces to yours, and with their best powers, push forth the Chariot of your triumphs against the House of Austria.  
Proceed Great King with this action so full of Glory and Honour, and the God of Heaven and Earth make your Majesty still happy in your Peace, and victorious in your Wars; And because it is a difficult point to satisfy ourselves and the time together; yet (notwithstanding) I hope that your Majesty will pardon this boldness and affection of mine; except it be held a Crime to honour my King's Daughter, and to desire the prosperity and welfare of the Prince her Husband, and their Royal posterity; which next unto that of your own sacred Majesty, and then of the Illustrious Prince Charles your Son, I will neither cease to do with my best zeal, nor fail to perform with my most religious wishes and prayers.  
From my Chamber, in your City of London, this New-year's Eve, and I beseech the Lord to give your Majesty many happy and joyful new Years and Days. Anno Dom. 1624. Your Maᵗⁱᵉˢ most humble, and most faithful Subject till Death. S. R. N. I.  
FINIS.