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H E mofl Illufirious and Potent Prince, Clmrlex Ch,-Ila,

r the Second, King of Spain, had fca‘i'ce given up the 2d._I{;
his lafi Breath, when all E:4rope," which was al- of Spain,
ready very attentive on thisifad Event, found “P0” “"’‘£°’‘

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J that Spam for the- future was to embrace the Ways and
— Cufioms of Fwmcc. And that by an uncommon Trick of calls time’

State, a Forg’d Will was produced, which Invited to the D14’;?r0f~
Succeflion of all the Kingdoms, Dutchies, and l’rincipa+ ;:‘“3§:C:?{, -
litiest of Spain not an indifputable Relation, and withal fig; 5’
the Eldefi o the Family, but an Ally of Sixteen Years, i 9
Defcended from a»Woman Excluded from all manner of.
Pretenfien to t-hofe Dominions,-, and this.C0ntrary»t0 Oaths
and Treaties ,-~ contrary to a Former Difpofition of the 1.33."
ther and Gra~ndFather, and to the Rights of Birth in fuch 3*
degree, as [according to the Lawsof Spain, was to Succeed,
whenever the Line-Male was Extinct ,~~contr-ary to the

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of all Europe: Which proves, as well in general as particu-
lar, That the Crown of Spain {hould not have fallen to
Philip of Bear-Iaoié, Duke of .A2zjou, but to Leqpold-r0f-Au/fria,
‘R_0”gg,;;5;......  . ..  ..-   c 
Defcended To make  .clelar,Fl_e‘tfi us take arV1€‘vVkOf\€f1€§2'r1?»f;‘12.SA§)h€?’
.0ft/J6 _ have pail. azyrzp I16 11 , as every one ncys IV t a eve
M~l16-1-W Two Ages ago, and was the -Son of the Emperor M’axzmz-
of Wfirfi lm, the happy Ofi’-fpting of the Family or A74/Erizz. He

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igm./3 of had Two Sons, we. Cbmlex, who was the is-lgle1j5:l:‘»oi*ri at

Auftria Gbem‘ in Flam1er:,- and Ferdinand, who was «the sYounger,'

sf,’-W. /W‘ Born at Medina in Spain: The latter was the Firfi: E732: eror
cfféllli.
B} Fertli- - . _ . ~ . .- y _ . .
mad L Emperor, but the Firfl as Kmg of Spam. The P£t1tItiOI1
who fm- which was made of thofe Domin-ions between the Two
”f3i€' 4” B1‘GtherS.:-it I/Verzmiin the Year I__f;{?._i. W£.13l‘u4<.3h,i That C/m'7'Ze:
“;.“*_?”j""”.”.r-r":-'6 who was th€3’Eld€fi?, was to have Spain, toigether with Ew-
*m’n..lm of ~ 1 ll Fla dew ° and that Ferdzlm-. d who was the
Elder Era  3-nc 3 77 J  V‘, J . ,
.3/yer, V Younger, and almofi _a Child, ihould have the Territories
that are in German]. Fenlimzml refied content with his Bro-
ther’s happy Lot, . who was already -become Emperor 5 and
he was the more eafily inclined fo to do at that time, be-
caufe that though his {hare was but fmall, there was no rea-
fon or power which could do any thing in prejudice or his
other Rights, which he was willing to fufpend ior a time
out of pure R€l:§)€(5lZ to his Elder Brother: That is tofay,
That he always referved to H'i111feil7 and Succeilors a Power
t0;.te1.l.*ZC- Pzz-{;Fe{§ion’of. that large Inheritance, ifgtlie Eider
‘Branch ihouldtl1appe-n,rtohail, A t it J   .   r ‘
,;t-e»_1m-A_,,£,. Under the fEw'o-mfable ‘influences of this folifd“-Rule of
_::refer-,~E’:l' s-Life and Death, LFe_m’i72ém;’ has tranfinz'tted his Pofierityg b t
§]Jé’1_1¢i>I€ of his Son who was likewife called C/5m'Ze.r, t and by his Grand-
 {on and Great Gsrandfon,‘  .F_'c’4f_'tf-:7t'71(.f7z(./‘._s‘_. the Second and
.TL—r%,e,<I;{.t",’,,.,r the Third in a right iine cqiowno to; Leojvo/a’ the prefent Ern-
.::1;;r’eF.»e; perors: And to the end hemight.mai11tain- the Union: of

- W £6-=0»“5~ the Faniivly and follow the fenfe of the Agreement of?/Vormx,

will of‘

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Spain) W Le apisonited that the Branch or Spam, bxcludrng the Fe-

;-,,g d0,,;,1] males, ihould fucceed to his‘ Sons. To C/5m’/es, the Fifth, ‘

.»;?t'£z'e-tit or Firl’r, according to the Spmziards, and after P/5z'Zz' isthe
‘ Fi1'fi,itl3e S_€COI1CiJ_,t1:;i€ Third, and the Fourth, Succeeded
the .latel~y:Doe~:ea1edr‘Cr/amrles of Happy Memory. ~

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the {aid Ferdinand the Third, and Silier to Ltapoltf; 9» that hrs;
was doubly related to the Emperor,- as well by the .iRi"i.t).}:er"ss«=
fidc, and by the Line of his Predeceffors of the E-iouie of
Auffrizz. _ I
i Thefe Reafons, and feveral others, which regard the Coma
mon Coni’titutions.of Kingdoms, and particulariy that of
Spain, did incline Philip IV. Father of the latelydeceas’d
CI5fl7‘[<3’.f_, not to fufl’er that Maria Te;-efa his Eideii Daughter,
married to Lem’: the XIV. King of Fmme, lhouid he admit-
ted directly or indirectly to fucceetl to the Kingdoms and
Provinces of Spain, but that both lhe and her Pofierity, of

 a what Sex or Quality foever, lhould be for ever excluded.

Befides, he made a Wili in the Year 166;, by which he ex»
prefly invites the Collateral Branch of Aggflrizz to the Succefii-
on of Spain upon the failing of the Spmrzfla Line.

The Peace of We/iplm/za, whi, h was Signed 1648, did not
hinder, but that a Cruel War did break out between Spain
and Frame, attended‘ with feveral Calamities, which conti-
nued for forne years, and feem’d to have heen in a way to
continue much longer, to the great prejudice of both Nati-
one, as well by reafon of the Preparations, as of the Alliances
which were made on both fides. Wherefore all pains was
taken to put a hop to the Violence of lb implacable a hatred,
by fetling a good~Underf’tanding between them; and nothing
feeming to much to contribute to this as a Marriage, the
chief Endeavyours were direéied this way.

The French King at firii hat. an Eye upon [Margaret of Sa-
‘my; and it was thought that he hadlo much Love for her,
as to incline him to marry her; but it was no hard matter to
make this Prince 5 firfl Elames abate, by propofing to him a
much more advantageous Aiiiancein the Perfon of the Iizfmzm
of Sgiaira. 

Some reafons of importance made the Frame}; very much de-
fire this Marriage; and Cbrzifézm, the King’s own Aunt, a
Lady of great Soiidiiy and Judgment, having gone front Turin
with Zi«:27.-rrgrairefi her Daughter, ihe came to Z;z}3r<—':,r where lhe
met the King her Nephew; and generoufly exhorted him
not to thinit of Marrying her Daugher, but rather to make

choice of the Izzfarzta of Spmz, as well for the Common Goat;
t o

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of CI>ri/iemlomt,-: as for~t~hesAdva\ntage‘offo many States, which
were brought-to ruin-by folong a War.

  Whatthis prudent Lady would have perfuadedthe King her
Nephew to, generoufly preferring the publick Good to her
own private Interelt, was a bufineis full of very confiderable
difliculties. The Spaniard: had a long time before tePtify’d
an infuperable averfion to this Alliance, efpecially when they
refleéted on the fatal Confufions that perfons of a temper very
contrary to theirs, would caufe in a Government, if the iliue
of this marriage fhould happen to afpire to the Succeflion of

the Kingdoms of Spain, under the fpecious pretext of Rela«- '
tion by the Mother’s tide. This difliculty feem’d, and that i

too upon good grounds, of fuch’ confequence, that it was
firmly refolved not to give way to it, unlefs that the Infamvz
would prefer the Friendlhip of {o confiderable a Husband to
confiderations, which otherwife perhaps might be of weight;
Maria-Terefa then mufi renounce not‘ only for her felf, in cafe
of Widowhood with Oflspring, but alfo for her Children of
both Sexes, that {'0 the pofietity of France might not have the
leaft hopes of {baring in the Succeffion of Spain.

This did not in the leafii trouble the Infimm, who, accord- -

ing to the way of the world, did look to the prefent, without
vexing her Head with the uneafy Thoughts of uncertain Fu-
turity; {he eafily renounc’d both for her felf and Pofierity
for ever, all hopes of the Spamfl; Inheritance , that {he

might have a prefent Share in the Flourilhing Crown of p

Fwwce; confidering, that if {he ihould have Children, they
might be abundantly happy, tho’ they were as far from the

Crown of Spain, as from the Humour of the Spaniards. King 

Philip her Father, and ‘Lemar her Husband, were not averfs-«

from this fre"e»Con'i'ent of the ~.Infomm..» _
It’s true, that King Philip was undera prudent Fear, That

if the Renunciation was not made in plain and clear Terms,

the Miniflers of Fmms, who were always inclin’d to captions  
interpretations, would take occasion to do ~the fame~in—-th—is~

junéture, to attain to theirdefigns, which then prevail’d by

'§o"rce 5 And, that his Fear was not groundlefs, Experience has‘ 1

but too much lhown : For the’ the Matter and Senfe of Trea-
ties he never £0 clear, yet the Letter being more obfcure, they

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wrefitit intoa wrong fenfe by Force of ‘Arms, as far as their

Intetefi and Power will allow.
For which reafon Cardinal Mamzriee, and Don Lewzét Mm»

dez. ale Ham, both Chief Miniflers of two Kings, and their

Plenipotentiaries , after they had endeavour’d very much at
the Pyre-mean Treaty, to agree about the Peace ; and after they
had with extraordinary Care treated of the Form of the Re-
nunciation, they agreed at length withjoy upon a moi‘: am-
ple One, containing molt exptefs

as a Law for the future.  
The moi’: Chrillian King had c;loatb’d his Ambaffador with

a full Power to agree to this Renuneiation: The fame ha-
ving likewife been done by the Emperor. with refpeél: to his
Anubaflador. And fmce, as T:te.e Liroim fays, That the Law
of Nation: prevails in tbixg: which are treznfizfied by Faith, éy A!-
limace, lay Treaties and 04%;; med tlmt there :5: 4 great difference
between the PuI2lz'cktFaz'tl2 am! the Private Fm’:/2 ; témtitbe Pezblieé
Faith owes in Force to t/.7e Digmry, and the Priezmte to the Form of
the Agreement; No body doubted but that what was done
with refpeét to the Renunciation, lhould have been more Is-
ligioully obferv’d,fince both its Dignity and Perm,in the '1“ rea-
ty made about it, did equally contribute to give it Power and
Force. A e

‘Twas upon this Foundation. ttulyrworthy oi the ll./iaieliys.
Royal, that fo lolemn an Agreement, and -the fit-ll and moii‘.
nohle Part of the Pyrememe Peace was built.

It was imeofliblie to find eut Words more lltong, or more
effeétual, than thofe» the I:rzfa‘m'¢z and the King her Elttshand
made uie of 5 the one to exprefs her Renunciation, the other
to expreis his Confetst. There,in the molt ample mam:zer,yeu
tied a Rehuheietion of all and every one of the Rightsflfitles,

Laws,  Cottllitutions, Difpeiitiens, Remedies and
Pretexta by which the he mm; (uniels ihe h;2ppen’d to he a
‘lJ~Vidow 'Wii:i1Gut any Offspring) on her Children of Cltllfiif.

833. bum G-‘ll: tltat Matti2age~, could at any t1
the Sz:.:eee{~hon of the Spanifh Dotttittiens.
 7:“.*t.s;f.;°.e wetealtegether ettelttdetl tftom
the liege teo was inttteated ta-give his Apeiiow
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dome, and for the Peace or all C/m/femlam, f7.1b{'crihed with Ht
;% the Pyremzzatz Treaty, Notvem'b._7. 1659. and {i0‘r«’d in na
 merous Aflembly of the Minifters of hath Ptirijcgs ‘.\;.E'3 31”‘   .~ ‘rm
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Let any one who 15 thfintetefied, and free from P H" e E0
but read the Fourth; Fifth, and Sixth r‘ax‘agra;=hs of ti’: :30“, SC
.~ . 4-’ .“‘ 2- 072-
 :_'‘m‘ if M4’/Wgép at:‘d_w1thout much enquiry ha {ha}! rsgeqfl {O
  that no Dtf 0ht10- i 0 do . - “’ " y ' -
, e A > P It or t \.I' could he made rnr an t?
A Pzcttext found, by which a Maletghfld Oi: Fmme CO’u,.&‘&f- . Y . Ii"
to the Crown of .S’.€e::72 fince he is excluci d {-1- I We
 .,~ be‘ c: “ A - K ’ 6 aom all hopes P‘
2 ..tf;.t~3 t _y .,cntenccs F0 clear, Words fo exp:'ef7:~i and Clan- W
I 1'35 10 GT€*£C9.&€O1_‘,v and deciaratorv. - There is iiere’ n _d i 1:
Schoei-hhifts and Suéterfzges to hbfcure the elea :33 tile‘: of It
. ‘ >/ . ‘ in
:3 % God, who ii the Searcher of Hearts, and who wlas Ce3Kil1n(3\. 5
upon as a V‘/ztneié 11:. thefe Conventions do’s not «Howe f I
> a::ihi.z;'i1ous Ex ~1icati‘0ns: 3 - , " . 0 t .
g 5' tic Gar ii). Th The Cmfs Of Chnfl 2 The Hohnefé 1‘
¢4;g,,.J:..,,.W,; 01 we U595 , . e Canon of the Mag, algdfihe RLOya1HO_ E
55;» O.zt;’::. I“lf_>U1‘ S by 3“ Which: b0th Parties were to {wear in the F ' t’
*; ot the E’y:«emzwa Peace, cannot admit or fufier that the Wmctin 1
3;. fhouki thy one thin and the 1 i   '   or 5» ‘
ii‘ The meahing hang], interxtionseciiffhatiptliaer. A A‘
F % a t 0.et at contraéted and 5
t 16 perpetual Exclufion of the Line of Frnmc are I )1 t
he feen by the publick Reafons, and hythe'T’reaty Effigrfnfg 1

and ratified by the Fame!) King

AmM_,e The fame Catholick King, P,!g;']g/o1V_ who mufi be am) , d
5%.’! of to have Undfifliood the Senfe of this A teernent We‘
Philip IV’ plainly in his-xi“/iii]: made the 14th of Dgcerrm; I66’ répeats It
That _1~:mg appeints fevetal age different Iiii[}o5g'i.1b- W.“
concemmgthe Succeflibn of Spam, . he am) F2! 3 155, 1 >

‘ t things about the Danger that threatengd 8 am andigfs /hm. am‘

. e Jam, by reafon of the Marriages made \,7{/'i[[7;1  p at   16”” €77’
of Fame, unlefé there was a Bar put to l1irdei't:~O},1Z Family
of any that was or fhoulti be born of therh 1- “Ch iccmmon
of Spain. He gives a full Account of 3“ th; 8 ti ep Crown
cautions which he was ob}ig’d to ufe with his c‘:fi-,3rV, mé Pie"
.Mm»z‘a Terefiz his Daughter, and with his Owl:  ‘With
of Boméon , to the end, that no Child of F? me E zz,a£ve:,6

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Eagle or Fernale,  b 6.7???’ V.ri‘:€{f}€£‘
‘ y any tnatmer of way or Q
3 a :1 any

occafion, COHIC to enjoy (133 states «md Dominigns of S .
4 ‘ yam‘.
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He mentions Word by word the_Articles that had been lately
made to avoid all Occafions, which might give even (he mofi

. remote Grounds to fear, that the C°rown.'of' Spam ihould be
« United to that of France; He partrcularrzes fome Lines of
and tho’ he knew very well that his Daughter r

Suceeflion ;
couid not fail to have at numerous Iffue by King Leztm his
Son-in-Law, fince {he was fruitful, and had already brought
forth the Dauphin and two Daughters; yet not forgetting
the Pyremzezm Peace and Agreements, he excludes the Pot"re-
riry of Frmzce from coming in any manner of way _to the
Poiifefiion of the Spmzifh Dominions ; Not only the Males; in
whole petfons both Kingdoms might be united, but alfo the
Females, who by reafon of the Salique-Law could not be ale»
]ow"d to reign in Fwmce, and coniefquently could not unite
Spain to it, though they were admitted to that Sueceiiion.
But he rather turns himfelf to his own Family of Azrflria, and
invites the Childrenof his Silier Many, who had died in r646,
after having had feveral Children by the Emperor Femlitzaiial
the Third; and among others, the Moi’: Augufi Leopold. Nay,
he goes farther ; and that the Fremb Line might be abfolutely
excluded from the Kingdoms and Dominions of Spain, he

appoints that in cafe the Houfe of 24»,/Zria came to be extinéi“;
the Succefiron lhould fall to the Pofterity of Catherine of Saw_;’,_

his Aunt, who had died” 159 7.

So that the
Fiat;/E’ of"
At1l’rria-
bar mi tea
dzfimm /252..
Pjgiaf.

i All which is a clear andstcertain Proof of the Exclu lion of the .;.i

French Line, and of the undoubted Right of the Houfe of

_Auflrz'zz.

The lately deceas’d King Cbarlcs was not a Stranger to to
Authentic Tefiimonies of the Truth; the perpetual Renunt:ia-
tiou of his Sitter, and of her Poflerity was notorious; The
Will of hisFather Philip did particularly nominate aSueceli"or
of the Houfe of x:’u/¢’ria. Cbmleshirnfelf honourki the Empe-
rot Leopold, and confider’d him as his Relation bythe Zt3"ather’s
fide, as his Uncle by the Mother’s fitle-, as theEldel’t of the
Houle 05.1-’1at,’frzL/2 as to both Branches; and as apparent Succeil
for, hy virtue of the Willof his Father, as bouritiiul and lain-cl
by reaion oithe partheshad lateiy given him. in the iiingdorn
of Hmrzg./N)‘; not to mention feveral other reafons that he had
to honour and efieem him ; yea, being yet aiive, he gave.
hima ‘ve.r}f~ aeip_le power over the forces of Spirits.  
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Neverthelefs,‘ according to the Revolutions and Turns of

the World, fame of the Spamzfl: Minifiers, won by the bright.

nefs of a certain Neighbour’s Gold, ufed all means tofinchne J
the weal; and languilhtng King another way, to take utm off

from his ‘own-Family, and wheedle him over to the sFre:4c,_’a fide,
which he formerly look’d upon with great aversion. They
themfelves acknowledgd and fuppos’d the validity of the In-
farzt.az14,«zridTerefa’s Renunciation, and oi’ King £’[n'Zz'p’s Will 5

with all things which had been done for excluding of they ,
Heirs of France; but the reafon of all they make to be this,

«viz. The Fear of the Union of both Crowns; which Fear

e now cealing, and the Union being hinder’d, there lhould be

The King
of Spain
had nei-
ther defigni
nor power
to make a
Will.

way made for the Aeceliion of the Children of Fr/mce to the
Crown of Spain. ‘ s t t

Then they forge a Will, which by the help of fome Law-
yers they put into form, in favour of the Duke of Anjou ;
and prefs the dying King to fign it, when his Heartwas

patch’d and confur'n’d, and his Brain diflblv’d into Phlegm; ~ t
a fine piece‘ of work this, which will raife the Wonder of ‘

future Ages, both in Schools and Courts ; efpecially if one
would buteconfider the Sequel and Coherence of the whole

Affair, which isin other places fufficiently notorious, ‘as well '

as thofe Circumfianceséalready related.
By the former Will of Philip IV. the Cafe is clear, certain,

and without limitation for an Heir of the Houfe of Aufiriir; s

in the late Will of Charles the Second, they feign a Limitati-

on, which is yinconfilient with it both in Words and Senfe.-  
The Son claims in the lat’: a Power to make a Will, which
r they that forged the fecond, endeavour to take away from th

Father. « T” t
The renouncing of the Sifter and the Aunt,containsan uni-

lverfal, unlimited and direcft Exclufion; but the pretended .

‘vVil1ofCZnzr[es will needs fay, That it has an Oblique Re-
.firié?tion in it, direcftly contrary to thofe Terms and lntenti-L
tons above alledg’d. The former ‘Solemn Aéts declare ibr the

Etioufe of Auffria, and in order to their greater force and cer- ‘

tainty, they are ellabliilfd as Fundamental Laws. Butis to

love the Houfeof Aztffria, and to l’trengthen its Seeu:itjy*, the s
rdeprmng It of the Kingdoms already {'0 renowned for the ‘r
‘ Name of ziuflrm-in the Gra.ndi7ather’s~tinte, and the nomifl3- '
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ting -Fremb Succeffors R Reafon_,;theref'ore tliroughly-concurs
with the Letter, for a total Exclufion of the French Pofierityrg
and it isnot true, that in the Treaties and Con_tra<§?cs between
‘Spain and _Frm2§e, no more than inthe Teliarnent -of 195212;,

e the Union of Crowns was the foie and only Reafon. .

For why ihoulclit elfe have been neceiifary to give itiaway
to the Females or Younger Family? when in France it goes
to the Eldeihand the Females are for ever excluded the Crown
of ‘France; this woulrlbe in vain to fear the Union of the two

Crowns, inea Perfon which is abfolutelyuncapahle of ei-i
thcr. " i‘ s

The Duke of Drfeanr, one of the Sons of Anne of Au/trim,
was heretofore paisid by in lilence, and by virtue‘ of his Mo-
ther’s Contraéi: of Marriage, has always been negleétedg
which in the mean time would be_contrary to all this, if re-
gard was had only to the Fear of \ Uniting the Two
rowns.

~. And in the lat‘: place, the Crafty Inventor of the late‘Wi_ill. s

has been [0 bold as to do a manifefi Injury to the tmot't’Serene
Daughters of the Emperor Leopold, inafmuch as he endea-
vours to exclude all and every
-Will, although he has not the leafi ground to fear in
them the Throne of France and Spain uniting by 7Inheri-=

It is therefore evident, that the Predecefibrs of the late King

of Spain have had forne other Motive than that of the fole .\

fear of the Union; they having bent theirwhole care to pre-

vent any Prince of Fmmefrorn comingto theThrone of Spain, ‘
upon the account of the Publick Tranquility ,
‘ particular benefit of the Houfe of Auflria, g V

and for the

And if we examine the dangerof the faid Union, what is

I there to afihre the prefent Spaniards againfi the Union‘, which

they never ceafe exclaiming againfi? Is'_it the Faith of France

To often given,

 kle and as variable as a

and fo often broken? Is it the G-ravityof the
Arts of its Enemies is grown as fie-c
Weathercock colt by frequent and
fudden Whirlwinds? Is it the Trouyble or the Contempt of a
Crown, in the vacance of a neighbouring one, which lies pet-

Sp/zrziczwfs, which by the

petually at catch againfithe Neigh‘houringStates,. tillthey are
Isit the certainty of an Eternal De-
s e s . I r fitny

rred7uc’d into Provinces ?

 

of them from the pretended,

 

hinyagatihnii Tueh 5De‘atihwhe‘reby the Duilte of Anjoz} may ?fu‘r-

vive all his other Brothers which are at prefent alive ? Will he
then quit Spain, which wiil be by that time fect1r’d to him by
To many Ties,and fo profitable both forirs Dominions which
abound in Gold, and for the commodioufnefs of itsHarbours:“
And if Fortune fhould malteway for the Duke of Berry/,would
the ‘Duke of Anjou content himfelf with his Paternal Crown
aldne, and readily furrender this up, which he has already in
Poffefiion? A it

The Prudence of the Spaniardsistoo well known to imagine
that they could heartily approve fuchTrifiing Perfuafionsand
fuch Empty Reafons, beingupon thevery point of feeing in
Small that terrible Sliaverytwhich they mufi groan under in
Great, if they don’t timoufly refleét on their true Interefi, and:
join themfelves to the Houfe of Aufiréa. , ‘\

l The meannefs with which thofewho forg’d the Will, have
already proiiituted the refi of the Spaniards, deferves pity,

. finceby a hafly and inconfiderate Judgment, they acknowa
iedgethetnfelves to be much infetiorlto the French ; they who .

till then in their Writings ,and by ifeveral Aétions have'defen-

aided the preheminence of Spain, as being equal to that of the e A .

Emperor , and much above all other Nations. At prefent
they o”fl'er France the preference, which they fo long difputed
with them; and which is yet more furprizing, they offer it

too inifo mean and abijeét a Stile, as can fcarce be reprefentedw

in anyother Words than their own. It isimpoflible to exalt

the'Grandeur of France with more Servile Submiflion than» ,

the Spaniard: do, 'when‘they fay, That if the Crown of France
came to be vacant, the Duke of Anjou Ihould have a greater,

inclination for it than for that of ,Sp;zz'n; and that if in that '

cafe he’fl1ould" happen to defpife Spain, and return to France,

tsheyihotild be forc’d to contentthetnfelves, that aYottngerof‘ .

the Houfe of France Ihould come to honour Spain with his Pre-

fence and Government. Poland has not yet forgot the Exam-M

ple of P:&z‘?_z',p of Valor}, who fled to Frame. Whatever there-

fore Spain may think, the can,’t beforehand have an Idea at A

ihehiaifiigrht, and confider her new fubmiffion to a new King,

without abaling and degrading her {elf co.nfidet'.ably. d
Bet thefe Kali things are of a private concern, whereas the

ether things mentionfdT”befo’re are of a publick», and may be of-:

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« p¢rnlCi0llS confequence forrhe future, whateverway we confi-

gcg them here. The force of Peace, Treaties, Religion, and
the very Laws of Spain lye at the flake, and are call’din que-
tiion.

The French Writers themfelves can’t deny this, not eve n
the Arch-Bilhop of /lmbrmz, who. has made himielf famous
among ’ern, by a Libei heretobre puhliihed , under the
Title of  Defence of the Right cf the M0/E C/9rg'flz'.47z

Q zzeerz .

iThat «Author writing in the (Bid Work with great care
againfi the Spaniards, in favour of the French Army, which
then invaded Flanders, and not thinking it fit that he ihould
be thought to refleét upon the Pragmatick Sanéiion of Spain,
he endeavours toelude it by all potiihle means, and magitieri'-
ally to iutlrufi the Spaniard; in what was hurtful or profita-
ble to them. A The laid Sanélion, with the other Laws of
Spain , are in a Book Entituled, Nam: Recepilation, or 3 New
Colleétion printed at Madrid, 1640. This Santiiion in mott
exprefs Terms, excludes the French from the Succeflion of
Spain; {o that it leaves no Power to Lem’: the XlVth.
and his Brother, nor to any of their Children, to iucceed
to the Kingdom of Spain, or any of the States depending.
thereon. ’ o i

The faid_Archbiihop acknowledges very well the exprefs
Terms of that Law, and puts himfelf to a deal of pains to
overthrow fo firong a Bulwark. He repeats the Quirks and
Shifts of fume Lawyers,which theFlemz}’la and Spaniard; had al-p
ready anfWer’dl"o fully,that theFrencb~might be alltam’d to men-

tionthemagain: And that he mighttfeem to fay fomething of his L

ownghe endeavours in whole Chapterrganed at the endxofhisbie
bel,to diiprove"thePseai”ons of the ult*fulhet"s ofthatLawdraw“n
from the Pubiickintereii of Europe; fayin-.g.That it Wanted the
Authority of a Legillator,and the Solemnity of a Publication; as

if the Publielt was only concern’d in increafing the Power-of. L

France, without any regard to the Houfe of Au/iria,-sand the
Qriet of Europe; whence it would follow, that no Monarch
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veould efiabliih any Contlitutions without theapprobation of

France, though they were never ('0 conform to the molt Anci~
ent Cuiloms of former Ages, lt’s enough that in that San-
élitm of Spain, the Ftiettdfisip and Honour of the Houfe of
An,/iris did prevail, aléer they had before been conlfirm’-ii by
Agreenaents whi;h the Fmcb had nude and {wore to. A ifs
enough that the {aid l3f?.-gt-'tIsa~l.’lCl{ Satiéliozt has been made and

publilhed by a wifeand pE'l.,lL‘it,3l}E King, on the requetl, and by

the advice of the States of the Kingdom, ‘according to the
tflintlom of their Atzcellors, as alfo according to other Laws of
a later date.

This Fzuthor forgets hit]-hffidfg and condemns the Sa1ique-
Law, and the Authority of his own Kings, if he denies the
force of this Sans:'Z-‘ion, in the form and matter of which, all
the former Gufloms have wholly ceafecl.  

The averlion of the French to the Female Sex has not al-
ways been to thong as to exclude them with their Children
and Relations from the Succefiion; and neverthelefs whatthe
Salique-Law brought in by proeefs of time, has forbid, is as
clear ‘asthe ‘Sun. a ~ t e r

 

  

 

The French Authors are not ignorant of the Solemn Adi‘

which has been made not many Ages fince, which forbids to
admit the Daughters of France, who are in the Apcnage of a
Royal Brother,to the Sueceffion after his Death, tho’ till then
they had tome part in it. t

In the Firfl Family of the Kings of France theYounger Bro- 

thers had alfo their part in the Crown fo far, that even Ba-
ilards were not excluded. Thus Clovir, who was the firfl
Chriflian King, being dead, his four Sons divided the King-
dom in as many parts. C/aildebert had that of Parir, Cladomer
that of Orleans, ' Ciatarim that of Soifon, and Tbeodoric, their
Natural Brother had that oftMetz: At length thcfe Four
Kingdoms being united. in Clotarém by the Death of the refl,
his F our Sons again made a like Divifion of it, each of them
retaining the Title of King of France. '

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This way of Divilion continued likewife in the Second Ft...

 

mily of the Kings of France almoli to its end, and all the Chi}. i

dren of the Kings of France were called Kings. Yet none can

i fay that thofe things have been uniufily changed aftfirwards,

and that they ought not to have been alter’d.

Hugh Caper, who brought the Sceptre to the Third Family,
was the firli that made the Law, and gave place to Apajzagey,
as may be {eenby an Adi of 17.82, pronounced only in the
prefence of Thirty Nobles; yet the Female Heirs did not
think themielves excluded by the Aft, until the Reign of P/325-
pip le Bel, who er-tptefly cleclar’d againfi their Succeii.
ton. .

’Tvvere eafy to remark fevera-l like Changes touching the
Forms of Laws in Ancient Times, in the Hiliory of France.
Now what Frenchman dare aceufe thefe Cbgfiges of Iniullice,
or declare them null? or who will accufe their Kings of want
of Natural Aifcétion in excluding their Daughters , even
againfi their will, and without having renountfd their Right
to it ? Who dare declare the prefent Laws of no force, becaufe

 ~ they differ from the Ancient ones ? Not to ‘fpeak of thole Sha-t

(lows of Modern Parliaments, which make it clearly appear,
that it were ridiculous in France to make the Ancient Laws the

Standard of the prefent ones.

Wherefore the Archbllhop of/Irnbrurz does but beatthe Air,
when he {peaks in a Florid, but Empty Stile, againfi the fore-
faid Sanétion ; profiituting by that means the Royal Sinccrity
and the Sacrednefs of Oaths, in the Opinion of all thole who
are not blinded with Partiality: But the Evidence and the Real-
fonablenefs of that Law appears’ to all the World.

Kings fhould have but one Tongue, and one Pen, and there
it nothing that [hitter more brightly in a Prii(2ce.,tban Hoinefiyrznd Sin-
cefity. Things that are prorriifed, agreed upon, and {worn
to, if ever they ought {to be obfcrved, they lhould be (0,

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Gods on Earth. It is not lawful that what proceeds out of
their Lips ihould not take cileéi. The Contraéts of Kings arc

notliable to School Dgiputes, they defpife the Sophifms of the s
PLRl)l.‘-lli‘5 and they reqU.;re an obfervation yfo much the more

fincere, by how much they are agreeable to the matter of Re.

nunciations, to the Laws of Nations, to the Decreesol? the

Common-Law, and to the Statutes of Ecclefiafiical Ca.

nons. a —

The French. Flemifh, and Spam’/I2 Lawyers, and fome of
other Natiorr, do teach, “ That Stipulations made of the inn.
“ heritance of a perfon in Life, particularly with relpeét to a
“ Marriage that is concluded, are approv’d by univerfal Cu.
“ from. That the Example of almoll all the World, is for

s v“ the validity of Renunciations; and that too, though no

“ Oath ihould intervene,even notwithiianding the Minority of
‘-‘- the Perfon, when they are made by a General Confent, and

“ for the Publick Good : That in the Oaths made by Heirs,‘

‘Ethere is implied a Solemn Confent of their Fathers, and
“ an lmprecation againii them 5 {o that they are as much
“ oblig’d in Confcience, to {ee the thing perfornfd, as thofe
“ who formally {wore and promis’d it. That Succeifion is con-
“ vey’d to Children by a certain lnfiinét of Nature, and not
“ by any Law of Nature. ‘That fome Things are founded on

t“ fome Natural Reafons, yet not (0 as that they can’t be

"‘ changed, alter’d or revolsfd. That one Civil Law may be
That Laws are arbrittary to thofe, in
5‘ favour ofywh-om they were made, ¢’9"c.

Should one be at the pains to read all the Books that have
been writ thefe Thirty Years, he {hall find that the Francis
have been fickle and incontlant, and that they have no regard
to Treaties, Laws, or Latter Wills , when they find it their
advantage to break or oppofe them. And this certainly

‘ lhould excite all the Powers of Europe, who have any regard

totheir own’Welfare, in the prefent Junéture of Affairs, to
take jut’: meafures in favour of the Houfe of Au/iria, againii n
the Powetsand Avatice of France; '

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The Franc)? put a malicious ‘Glofé upon the ‘pr‘ud'en't and
‘wife »COnfiituti0n, vvhich*is’to~be feen in the Canon Law,
-ftouching Renunciations confirmed by -Oath, Cap. Qgaamfig
tie Pzzéfir ,- as if the Author of the {aid Confiitution, either

.t of Vain-glory, or out -of aDefign to ‘firengthen the
gapal Authority, had made that exorbitant Decreml, and
had endeavoured by a New Law to confirm that Dignity
=30 which the See of Rome has lattainedlby cunning and
2 CCC-It.

;'51‘he Pyreneam Treaty, which was {'0 ‘prodigal of ‘the Spa.

"vzzflv Dominions to the Fremlz, and the»Sacrednefs of re» a

‘peated ‘Oaths, by which France has more than once Ree»
hounded all Claim ‘to the Succeflionof Spain, now com-

lain of being maltreated andtrampled under foot, and of
being quite altered -and deformed by Law Quirks and
School ~Quibbles. P

The prefent Pope ought to refent the Contempt that is

A thrown on his Predecefibr, and on the Sec of Rome ,- lince

the Contraét -of M=arriage, which ‘is now thought -»Nul“l,
had the ,Apoil’to1ica1>Benedié’cion to give itthe more force,
and make it more"folemn and facretl,  

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The FremI3'viol'ate Treaties, deny Kings the power 0».
making Laws, flight Willstiand Tefiaments, and in a word,
over-turn all ’-th"-ofe tliings upon which the Peace and Secu-«
rity of Society and Government is founded. They have

no regard to the publick Good of ‘Emvpe, and provided

‘ they can but raife the Glor and Power of Fmmc,they dorft

c'a-revif the whole '-Univer ~e befides-{hould Perifh.

Tl1e*Wa*y"to the T7 niverfal‘ Monarchy is ntowinoite open

“to the King of France than ever; and it canit be thought lie
will fie-p -in his‘Ca’reer'which he has begun Vvitli fo much
Craft and Stlccefs, ‘U-I1'lCfS all the ‘fell of lEf4ro’pe, fenfible
of the Injuries donelthem by Fmme, do flir up tl1ei'nfel—vest, A
and without lofingtime, examine what they are obliged to
be -deg
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«do in -Favour~of~the Houfe of kiuflria, le.ll~it lhould.
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prived‘ of its ancient Patrimony, and left Italy, Englzmi,’

Porn: al, the Uniterl Protviizces, and the ref’: of Germany, be
Robb’d of their beloved Liberties, andol their Riches and

Glory. —

We heartily contlole the Fate of Spczfin that it has lg
fo villanoufly feduced; to act after fuch a mean and re 
way as it has done of late. That Spain, Wl11Ch has fo longs

difcovered the Shares, and refilled the cruel Defigns of;

Fmtzce, lhould now bafely. fubmit to it, yield her‘ felfia
Slave, and quite lofe her former Greatnefs and‘ Glory,
which {he mull cegrtainlydo if {he don’t firddenly and vigo=..

rroully Alfift the Houfe of Au,/z‘7£¢z.r

We don’t in the lealt doubt but that the evident danger‘
which the Dominions and Trade of other Nations are in,
will perfuacle them to arft with all their might in favour of?
the juft Caufe of the I-Ioufe of Az4flrz°oz, and make them join.
together for their own Safety and Tranquility.  

Neither can we douht but that his Holinefis, according
to his great Prudence, does perceive the little regard the
Frem/5 have for keeping of Peace, or obferving Covenants.
and Oaths; how much they profane the Name of God.
and the Holy Gofpel; how haughty they are in their
Threats; how infupportable their Government is,-i_ how
treacheroufly atftiave they are in Foreign Courts ,- and what
they are capable to undertake, if the Spaniards, who fo»
long nobly Refified them,continueing1orioufly to fubmit to
them, and keeptheir Neck. under that intolerable Yoke. "

We deplore the Scandal, that mull follow thereupon ,- We;

iforefee the approaching danger of our Neighbours, and few»

vere Calamities. which threatenfome remote Nations.

The Emperor Leopold, who was always Peaceable and a.
lover of jullice, is Enemy to none but the Turks, and that
too only when they provoke him’. =1-le is the Avenger of  
the Cl1ri‘lli:u.1 Dignity, and a Religious Obferver of Laws,
 and Oaths... BL1\.E,Wha.t. lhould he do now when he

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is Robb’d of his Patrimonia1Rigl'1t3 which upon tnai1§i:;;__
counts belongs to the Houfe oi Awfl'rm, and fo infoientiu,

Invade the Fiefs of a the Empire? The other Princes of Ea-;

rope who have been Injured by Fwmce, mufi certainly fee

that there is no more effectual way to fecure their Peace:
and Profperityj than by bringing Fwmce down, andiOgpo— a

{mg of it with all their Force.

For my part I flop here, and advife them only uponbthe
account of the Dangers with which they are Threatnerij
and upon account of their Safety which is now in a very
tottering Condition‘, to remember what has been {aid of
Ao1d,“1"’o zzmée ufe cf the prefent Time. a Time runs away vvith  >>
rapidity and fwiftnefs, and when Men neglect the firftv
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