j" r - the ' ' v "° 
 
 Duke of Anjou s 
 
 SUCCESS ion 
 
 CONSIDERED, 
 
 As to its Legality and Confluences ; 
 
 WITH 
 
 R. E F L £ C T IO N S on the French King’s M E¬ 
 MORIAL to the Dutch, and on what may 
 be the Intereft of the feveral Princes and States 
 of Chriftendom, with Refpeft to the prefent 
 Conjuncture. 
 
 To which is added at large, becaufe refer’d to in the Book, 
 
 The CJaufe of Louis XIV’s Contrafl: of Marriage, re- 
 nouricing-the Sptwifb Succeflion. 
 
 His Ratification of the fame. 
 
 His Queen, the Infanta ? s Renunciation. 
 
 The Article of the Treaty of the Pyrenees, and 
 TheClaufe.of Philip IVh Will, confirming the laid Re¬ 
 nunciations. 
 
 Cfje Cljttti Chition. 
 
 LONDON, Printed, and fold by A. Baldwin in Warwick- 
 lane, near the Oxford-Arms. 1701, 
 
\ ' P RE FA CE ;• 
 
 W HAT Follows being the fudden Thoughts 
 of one that wipes well to the Jnterefl. 
 of Europe in general , and o/GreaC' 
 Britain in particular, he hopes they will be taken, as 
 kindly as he meant them honeflly, . We haVe,..mfon to - 
 blefs the Almighty, for the happinefs of . our Conjlitu- 
 tion, that our own Princes ( if any of them p>ould 
 ever he fo wicked as to attempt it) haVe no ■right 
 ( without our own Confent) to dfpoje of our. Purfes >. 
 and much lefs of our Allegiance , and Perfons hy Wills . 
 mdCodicils, as eVery ordinary. TMan does of his Goods, 
 and Chattels. It remains then , fince Toe are. free fwh 
 fuch dangers at home , that thofe concern d fhould bethink 
 themfelves of proper Meaftres to present any fuch At¬ 
 tempts upon us from, abroad. We don’t know how far 
 a late Precedent of that Nature may be drawn into Ex¬ 
 ample. . We ought to confider -that bejides Foreign Pre-- 
 tenders, there are others alledg’d. to be come from En* 
 glifli Loins, that claim d right to our Succeffion.. 
 It’s hard to [ay what may-be brought upon us of this * 
 Nature, by. a Match faid to be- in propo/al betwixt a * 
 certain Princefs, and a third. Grandfon, which perhaps ■ 
 may give rife to another lenvixt a.Titular Prince, 
 and form near- KjnJwoman. It concerns m then, fmee ? 
 
 oun- 
 
Preface'. 
 
 our- eftablified Line of Succeffion can fcarcely make 
 up a Plurality , to take care that no Foreigner have 
 an opportunity of offering to fettle it for us, as they 
 have do?iefor others. In order to this, it’s pojfibleto 
 do either too much or too little • both which Extremes 
 theWifdom of the Nation knows bejl how to aVoid.. ‘But 
 fo far may be fafely advanc’d, that to enter into Fo¬ 
 reign-Alliances , efpecially with fmh Protejlants as can 
 afjtjl m with a NaVal force, and to take all proper Me¬ 
 thods for preferring a pod Correfpondence with-our 
 Neighbours at home , would feem to be one of the heft 
 Methods to deprive thofe of the Power that we have 
 reafon to think have themft Inclination to give us trou¬ 
 ble on that Head. ' ' 
 
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 The Duke of Anjou y Succeffm 
 
 C O N S JbD- R E D, &c. : 
 
 T HE Duke ofv//yVs Succeflion to the Crow.n 
 of Spain, and the Conftquences that'may at¬ 
 tend it, is a- Subje& of fuch Importance and 
 universal Concern, that it defervedly exercifes 
 the Tongues and Thoughts of all men of fenfe. 
 
 As to the Succeffipn it felfs it's generally known, (t.) 
 That this Prince is advanced to the Throne of Spain , con¬ 
 trary to the Laws of that Kingdom $ which do not allow 
 the Alienation of the Crown, nor that it ibould fall un¬ 
 der the Dominion of a Stranger, the Succeffion being 
 fettled by the content of the States of the Kingdom on the 
 Houfe of drragon or Auftria. : 
 
 2. That it is contrary to the Renunciation made by 
 Lewis 13. and the Infanta Mary Ann his Wife, at the time 
 of their Marriage5 the Legality of which was not then 
 controverted. 
 
 3. That it is againft the Renunciation made by Lewis 
 XIV. theprefentFra?o& King, and his Wife the Infanta 
 Mary Therffe, at the time of their Marriage. 
 
 4. That it is againft the Treaty of the 'Pyrenees, of 
 which that Renunciation was the chief ground-work. 
 
 5. That it is contrary to the Will of 'Philip IV. pur- 
 fuant to that Renunciation. 
 
 6. That it is contrary to the Treaty of Parition, a- 
 greed on betwixt France , England and Holland, • 
 
 B 7. That 
 
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 7 - That it is exprefly contrary to all the Arguments- 
 formerly made ufe of by Lotm XIV. againft the Renun¬ 
 ciations by his Father and Mother, and by himfelf and 
 his Wife, and is direftly chargeable with the lame Inju- 
 ftice againft the Dauphin and the Dukeof Burgundy, that 
 he formerly charged upon the above mentioned Re¬ 
 nunciations and is by confequence condemned in that 
 very Memorial, which pretends to juftify the Duke of 
 Akjshs Succeffion, fince it exprefly aflerts the Dauphin’s 
 right to the Crown, and the. nullity, of. his Mother’s Re* 
 nunciation. 
 
 Thefe things being uncontrovertably true , It remains- 
 that the Duke of ^injou can have no other Title to the 
 Crown of Spain, but what he claims by the Will of his- 
 late Catholick Majefty Charles H. For tho- the unani¬ 
 mous defife of. the Subjefts of Spain be alfo alledged, it is - 
 only brought in as a fecondary Plea j upon which the Me¬ 
 morial lays no great ftrefsj befides, we hear nothing of 
 any previous Invitation by, the Cortes ot States of: Spain ... 
 lb that this Argument has no lolid bottom. If there be 
 any future Agreement, of the States to the Duke of 
 Anjou s, Title, it will certainly be look’d upon by the 
 World as the effeft of Force, and not of Choice, which 
 lays his Title open to dangerous obje&ions. 
 
 To return to the late King of Span’s Will, which is the 
 Duke of Anjou % beft Tenure y we find there is this to be 
 laid againft it., i. That it is contrary to a-former Will,,, 
 and that alfo the Will of the Father to the laft Teftator, 
 which is no great Argument of Piety in- thole that put: 
 him upon making ft. We ftiall fay nothing as to his own - 
 part in it, fince Decency commands us to tread loftly on 
 the Grave of adeceafed Prince, and Compaffion forbids- 
 us to difturb the Alhes of a Monarch after his death, who - 
 enjoy’d fo Ikde of the Comforts of Life. 
 
 2. This: 
 
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 2. This Will can in no ways be efteem’d fo valid as 
 /that of Philip IV; becaufe the, latter was made purfuant 
 
 to the Treaty of the Pyrenees, and the (oleum Renunci¬ 
 ation of two (ucceffive Kings and Queens of France , 
 ratified by all the Legiflative Power of France. and Spain : 
 whereas the Will of King Charles II. is contrary to all 
 thefe, 
 
 3. The Will of ‘Philip IV. was agreeable to the civil 
 Law, and the Decretal of Pop e'Boniface VIII. which fays, 
 that every Renunciation made upon Oath by a Daughter above 
 12 Tears of age , in favour of her Father, in order to Con¬ 
 tract of Marriage, by xohicha fujfcientdowry is affigndher, 
 ought to be good , in Law, tho jhe be then under the JurifdiBion 
 Of her Father. All which Conditions met in the Queen 
 of France^ Renunciation. Whereas the late King of 
 Spain s Will is contrary to this Decretal, which certainly 
 all Roman Catholicfa ought to have a fpecial regajrd to. 
 
 4. The Will of Charles II. of Spain, is objected againft 
 by the Emperor, as made when that Prince was in no 
 Condition to di&ate, much lels to write a Will fo well 
 digefted, and fo fubtly fram’d, and introduc’d by fuch a 
 politick Preface, as this Will appears to be. This Ob- 
 jeftion has fo much the more ftrength, that it is founded 
 upon the known weaknefs both of Body and Mind, which 
 that poor Prince had laboured under for fo long a time, 
 and does no way look like the Compofure of one. 
 ftruggling with the violence of fuch a Diftemper as he 
 died of. 
 
 5. ’ Tis objeSed againft this Will, that ’twas the con¬ 
 trivance of a French Faftion, and forc’d upon that un¬ 
 happy Prince, ahnoft in Mticulo mortis, by the Cardinal 
 De Porto Carero, on pain of being denied Absolution 5 
 the rnoft frightful thing in the world to a bigotted T?apifi, 
 fuch as that Prince was known to be. This Obje&ion is 
 
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 fo much the more forcible, that the late King of Spain 
 was obliged by all the Ties of Laws;, Treatys,'Nature* 
 and Inclination, to prefer a Prince of the Hoiife of Aujiria 
 to all others for his Succefior ;■ and itsfaffickntly known, 1 
 that but a very little before the making of this Will, he- 
 had made another-in favour of the Arch-Duke. 
 
 6. It’s objected againft this Will, that the Spaniards- 
 were brib’d and be&or’d into a compliance with it by the 
 Menaces of the French, £<c. and the marching of their 
 Troops before that Prince’s Death, to take pofleffion of 
 the Dominions of Spain ; that the French King claim’d 1 
 By virtue of the Treaty of. Partition,’ which it would 1 
 ftem by the Memorial prefentedto the Dutch, the French- 
 ehtred into for no otherend: 
 
 7. Ids objected agsinff this Will, that it feems no way • 
 likely to prevent the unking of : the Crown of Spain to 1 
 that &P prance, tho that be one of the chief pretended ; 
 ends of it.. This wilf appear by the Will it (elf, which, 
 heaves'the Duke of Anjou at liberty to accept the Crown' 
 of France, in cafe the Duke of ‘Fnrgundy die without ' 
 Mile Male, provided be call the Duke of TSerry - to fuc- ‘ 
 ceed him : as King of Spain,- Thatthis is a very dangerous ■ 
 and imprafticable Provifo, wiiireadily appear if we con-. 
 Sder the Ambition that’s infeparable from moft Crown’d' 
 Head?,, and particularly from-the Family of Atjdurhon, ■■ 
 and'the Genius of Fiance. It-s well enough 1 known;- 
 thae the delign of that-Crown- for the Univerfal Monar¬ 
 chy, is not of Yefttrday 5 and that in order to-it, the- 
 unking of the Crown of Spain to that of France, hasbeen 
 oke of the things that the Court of France hath moft paft" 
 Sonately driired, and indupTrioufty attempted. The cafe 
 being (b, it’slcarcely fuppofable, that a prince of- fuch a 
 high-Spirit, as the Duke of Anjou appears to be, will* 
 readily quit- his -preteafiohs to the Grown of' Spain, of*' 
 
 ' - vyiiich. 
 
which he has the poffeffion, ey'n tho the Crown: of 
 P^weftould likewife devolve upon him. , . 
 
 It's" in vain tp objett the Example 
 left the Crown of Poland, to take upon hitri Tbit "of 
 France, after tbe death of his Brother'C/Wr/ IX. JTh? 
 cafe is no way parallel, the Crown of c Poland is infinite¬ 
 ly fhort of that of Spain : Nor had Henry.UL any Title 
 to it by Birth,, or opportunity, of keepid,g.it v .by reafon of 
 its diftance.frbai France, '.and, the Co.nftitmion.of the Go¬ 
 vernment $, whereas the Duke of A'njm.ia the cafe above- 
 mentioned, will, claim ..the Crown of- Spain as bis Birth¬ 
 right, .wilf-have,ian opportunity of putting .His Friends 
 into the Admiaiftr.ation, and by.' tKa't meaos of acquiring 
 a ftrongFattion in .Spain to fupport. it 5 ’and b^efidts this 
 he-will have the Power of France to -maintain’ if This 
 cannot be rejetted as a vain Speculation, by. thofe who 
 confider, .that the two Kingdomslyeycontiguous, and' 
 that the. King.of Spain may- have Wfrenih Troops in 
 readinefs when he pleafes, to force fuch Spaniards into- 
 a compliance as be refrattory to it. 
 
 But becaufe this-Hypothefis may be-objetted again/ 1 ' 
 as too remote* fince -tis probable the, Duke of Burgun¬ 
 dy may have Heirs -enough for the Crown of France 
 We fhall now come to thofe things, that feem nearer in ! 
 vievv. And,, 
 
 1. It mu ft be granted, that the Duke of is.a 
 
 Prince of Prance , and by conic cjuence that Nature- ob¬ 
 liges him to love bis native Country. 
 
 2. It muft be allowed," that he ows his Acceffion to 
 
 the Crown of Spain altogether , to his Grandfather the- 
 prefent French-King. . . . . . 
 
 3., It cannot be denied, that he is under a neceflity to 
 govern himfelf chiefly by his Grandfather’s advice, and 
 muft depend upon his Prptettion for the continuance of- 
 his new-Dignity. From- 
 
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 From ail which it naturally reCults, that the 
 aentof Spain under the Duke.of muft be fdad-^ 
 
 miuiftred, as to fall in with the defigns of Letch XlV. 
 otherwife it is in his power to deveft: the Duke of Anjou. 
 of his Sovereignty when he pleafes, and to poffefs his 
 Father the Dauphin of what is afferted in the Memorial 
 to be his Birth-right. 
 
 It is in vain to objed, that th t Spaniards will not allow 
 their new King to take thofe meafures: for ’tis evident 
 they have no Power to do it. His Grandfather can affift 
 him at pleafure with fiich a Land and Naval Force as they 
 are in no condition to refift, tho their whole. Power were 
 united againft him, much lets will it be poflible for them 
 to do it, when their own King a&s in concert with him. 
 This is demonftrable if we confider, i. That the Duke 
 of Anjou will always have a confiderable Fa&ion, be-' 
 caufeof the neceffary dependance that many of the Gran¬ 
 dees, &c. muft have upon his Perfon and Court. The 
 power of conferring Honours and beneficial Polls in the 
 Church, State, Army and Fleet, hath irrefiftible Charms 
 attending it. The Governments of Ter», Mexico , 
 Sicily, Naples, Milan , and that of the Spanifh Nether¬ 
 lands , and the great Pofts in the Church, Armies, &c.. 
 of thofe Kingdoms and Provinces, befides what his Ma- 
 jefty has to difpofe of in the feveral Kingdoms that go 
 under the general Denomination of Spain , conferr’d upon, 
 needy and ambitious Grandees,or others, by the private in- 
 terceffton of France ^nd the free Gift of the Duke of Anjou , 
 will certainly oblige them to profecute his Intereft, tho ner 
 ver fo oppofite to that of their Country. This Age affords 
 but few Inftances of men that are proof againft fuch 
 Temptations. What Kingdoms are there in Europe, 
 where Princes that have been minded to advance their 
 Prerogative, have not found Perfonsof the higheft Ranks, 
 
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 capable of being brib'd by Honours, Places and Penfions, 
 to.Sacrifice their Religion and Liberty Jo tlie ambition 
 of their Monarch* ? And why Ihouldwe think that Vir¬ 
 tue predominates in Spain more than in other Nations ? 
 2. If we confider that the King of France hath for many 
 years been the declared Champion of Popery, againftthat 
 which is called the Northern Fierefy : If we confer, 
 that his Eye to the Spahijh Succeffion was. one of .the 
 principal reafons for that cruel and otherwile impolitick 
 Perfecution of his Proteftant Subje&s, bccaufe he knew 
 it would recommend him and his 'Family to the bigotted ■ 
 Spaniards 5 and if we likewjfe confider with what Im¬ 
 pudence the arrogant Court of Inquifition declared a- 
 gainft their late King’s joining in confederacy againft 1 
 France, with thofe they are pleafed to call, Hereticks:. 
 We may foon be convinced that his Intereft in thpfe' 
 wafpifla Ecclefiafticks is, and may be fuch,. as. will bring. 
 there ft of Spain to a fpeedy compliance. He has ho more 
 to do but to poffefs them with an opinion that he will: 
 imploy the united Power of Spain and France for the. 
 propagation of the Gatholick Faith, and.the Extirpation 
 of Hereticks5 and then he may allure himfelf of all the 
 affiftance that Prieftcraft can make him. Had it not been; 
 for thefe and fuch like Considerations, there’s not the 
 leaft reafbn to doubt, but the : Spaniards who are-’ 
 known to be politick enough, would rather have call’d 1 
 the Arch Duke to their Throne, than have endangered 
 their Liberty by the Power of France : but as matters 
 are at prelent, they had no other way left them, but to > 
 bug their Chains, and make their unavoidable Slavery-as-, 
 eafy to them as poffible: It being dangerous to provokes 
 thole, whole Power they muft of neceffitylubmit to.. 
 
 That Spain will every day become more and moieliable 
 to the Power oiFrance , and in danger of being fubje&ed ; 
 
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 by that Crown, is further evident from thisThat the 
 Spaniards tnuft unavoidably be indebted to the French 
 Sing in great Sums 5 for befideswhatbe has formerly 
 alledg’d to be wanting of the Infantas Portion, he offers 
 to reimburfe the Dutch feveral Millions that are owing to 
 them/by the Spaniards, on condition that they evacuate 
 tWSpaniJh Garifons in the Jfetherlands, where their 
 Troops keep poffeffion at prefent. He likewife promifes 
 them the affiftance of his Fleet, to drive the Moors from 
 before Ceuta; and in cate of a War with the Emperor, 
 which feems unavoidable foon or late, there’s no queftion 
 but all the expence he is at in oppofing the Emperor on 
 that head, muft be charg’d to the account of Spain ; and 
 as it’s probable, the Emperor will endeavour to engage 
 Allies in the Quarrel with him, that have a Naval Force 
 capable of giving the French a diverfion, and of fecuririg - 
 the Weft-Indies to the Houfe of Auftria, that will ftill 
 contra# a further debt upon Spain for the affiftance of 
 the French Naval Force, for which the French Sing will 
 no doubt expeft or take very good fecurity of Frontier 
 Towns, Sea-Ports, whole Provinces, or other wife. Nay 
 luppoling there ffiould not yet be any a#ual War for 
 fome years upon this account, the very Expencesof bis 
 Marches and Countermarches, and of his Naval Prepa¬ 
 rations to let and maintain bis Grandfon upon.the Throne 
 of Spain; will lay fuch a burden of debt upon that 
 Crown, as will always afford a good pretcnce’for the 
 prelent, or any future King of France , to endeavour 
 the (eiz’rog of it 5 and who, knows what private :Articles' 
 of this nature there may be betwixt himf and his Grahd- 
 * fbn, and his. Truftees the Frenchify d Spaniards F For 
 now adays it feems, it’s the cuftom of all Treaties to have 
 foch Articles. If this {hould be the cafe, the Duke of 
 J- ftu has made no bad Exchange, if he’ be but really 
 
 Viceroy 
 
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 Viceroy oF Spain, and the Dominions thereunto belong¬ 
 ing, under his Grandfather or Father, it’s infinitely bet¬ 
 ter than any Appanage he could pretend to, as a Son of 
 trance. ' 1 , ; 
 
 This it’s fuppos’d may be enough to convince thofe 
 Gentlemen of their miftake, who fay, that when, the 
 Duke of Anjou is once fettled in Spain , he will be ; as mudi 
 a Spaniard, as if he had been born there.- Ovid’/- Nefcio 
 qua natale fohrm , hath fomething in it unanfwera'ble. 
 There are fpeaking Inftances to be giv’n of Princes that 
 have preferr’d the Intereft of their native Country, or 
 Countrymen at leaft, to that of a new acquir’d Crown. 
 We commonly blame our own King James I. for fqme- 
 thing of this i and thofe who have wrote his Life, give 
 feveral Inftances to prove it, tho his Countrymen lay, 
 our Hiftorians have done him no great. Juftice in that 
 matter. . . ; . 
 
 But admitting, that no attempt (hall be made to fub- 
 jeft the Crown of Spain to that of France v its certain 
 the French Court will gain fo much by the Duke of 
 Anjou's Succeffion, as to have the Spaniards for their 
 good Friends and Allies, and perhaps to join with them 
 in future Wars 5 and there’s no doubt but the Spaniards 
 will think themfelves happy to come ofF fo eafily. Their 
 young King muftnotin decency be denied the Conver- 
 fation of his French Acquaintance all at once. The Vi- 
 fits of the French Nobility to the Court of Madrid, is very 
 like to become ala Mode. The Refidence of French Mi- 
 nifters there muft not be controverted, and the advance¬ 
 ment of feme of that Nation to Ports of Honour and Profit 
 will be juftifi’d by the prafticeof other Kingdoms in paral¬ 
 lel cafes rail which will be improv’d for keeping this Prince 
 tight to the Interefts of France $ and if thofe methods 
 fhould kindle any vexatious Jealoufies in the minds of the 
 C Dons, 
 
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 Dons, there’s one infallible way ftillleft, of finding Pen-*, 
 Goners to do it of their own number. There’s a thou- 
 land ways to flatter the Spaniards into a belief of the Ad- - 
 vantages that muft needs redound to them from fuch an v 
 Alliance. A few well contriv’d Rhodomontades," and zea- 
 lous Chimeras, will go a great way with a People fo far 
 gone in Pride and Bigotry. The French Court know 
 this to be their weak fide, and have begun to manage 
 their Attacks accordingly : What die is meant by thofe 
 lofty Encomiums that eccho from Verfails, of the Gal¬ 
 lantry and Wifdomof the Spanijh Nation, and'of the large- 
 nefs of their Empire? &c. Their Grandees are carefs’d 3 : 
 and if large Sums, and larger Promifes will do the work, 
 to be lure they {ball not be wanting. They are now 
 told, that France and Spain fnall henceforward be one 
 Nation. The. former Outrages committed upon them- 
 are excus’d, as the Refults of the Conjunctures of Times,, 
 but nothing fuch- is to be fear’d for thefuture.. : We may 
 eafily conceive that a Relpite- from Wars within theifc 
 own Bowels, muft be very acceptable to that langui filing.; 
 Monarchy. It’s no fmall Advantage, that they have now 
 a profpeCt of- a lafting Peace from their neareft and moft- 
 formidable Enemy. If tothis, Propofals be made them - 
 of joining- with France , in promoting Trade, and parti¬ 
 cularly to recover their Woolen Manufactory, and be¬ 
 twixt them to engrofs that Trade to the Straits and to 
 ( which the; French have attempted by themfelves,. 
 with far Ids probability of Succels-j we may be litre ’twill 
 be taking-. ■ " 
 
 If it (hall be further propos’d, toendeavour the Recon* 
 queft of fome part of their old Dominions in Europe. 
 as the Seven Provinces, and f ~Periugd, or of their new 
 ones, in \Jmrka, it muft certainly be very tempting. If. 
 to this:it Ihouid be added, that they (hall have the. Affift- 
 
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 atice of; the French for the effecting both, and at the fame 
 time for rootirigout Herefy, and replaming;the : Catholick 
 •Faith, their Prieftswill tell them; they are.R'eMs-to Heaven 
 ifthey negleft the Opportunity. 'Then.-what is it that 
 all Europe, and the.Proteftants in particular, ,have not to 
 fear from . this formidable Conjunftion of .the Sword of 
 France, and. the .Pnrle o i-,Spaing. T^emay.'.aftuTd b.tir 
 -felves,, that the See .oERomfr arid;the Princes/of ;ft 4 Nwill 
 be glad to give Wings to a defign of that Nature :: It’s 
 more their Intereft now, than it wasin i $ 83 ,, when they 
 zealoufly contributed to divert the Power o^Spamivosi 
 looking towards .themfelves, and'-lent them ; to ruin the 
 Northern Herefy, with their invineible Armado.': France is 
 now more formidable alone, then Spain was at that time, 
 and much more when (be can entirely depend upon a Ca- 
 tholick Ring,of her; own Lineage and.making.-The young 
 Politic Pope cannot,be ignorant, that fometimeor other 
 • he may be in danger of having Gens d’Arms fent him 
 from a Prince of the Family of Bourbon, inftead of the 
 Hackney that he claims, as his due for the Kingdom of 
 Naples ; and therefore will certainly think it his Intereft, 
 to cdnfe’crate him a whole Army of Horfe in return, pro¬ 
 vided he’ll make ufe of them in a Northern Expedition. 
 The. Cardinal Zealots, who chofe Albani, becaufe they 
 . knew Him to be willing, 1 and qualified for maintaining the 
 . Dignity of'the Papal Chair, will be ready to concur with 
 him in every thing that may. recover the loft Territories 
 of-the Church. No doubt but they have an Occafion 
 in their Eye, which they efteem very proper for giving 
 a- vent to their Zeal. There’s ! a certain Prince in the 
 Worldp whomlthey eall a< Cqnfeffor, becaufe hefacrific’d 
 three Crowns ito. his Z’ealfof the Pontifical Tiara 5 we 
 have it printed in the Antwerp Gazette, publifh’d by the 
 Authority of this young Catholic King, That he hop'd in 
 
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 a little tme io congratulate the Nominal Prince of Wales sp¬ 
 ort a good Succefs equal tohk own, arid told him, he might 
 depend upon his Friendlhip and ; Affiftar.ee. It will be 
 none of the fault of the Spanifi Inquifitors, if- he be mif- 
 taken in his hopes, or fall ffiort of his Promife. If the 
 Gaufe of Religion be not fuffieient ground of Quarrel, 
 it’s but letting up a-Chamberat Madrid , like that at Metz , 
 and they will foon find Caufes-of another Nature.. Pre- 
 fcriptkmof time is- not allow’d'to be a fuffieient Plea by 
 the Modern French State- Cafuiftsjand thereforewere there 
 none later, the old Expeditions of Sir Franck Drake and 
 Sir Walter Raleigh, and the Affiftance given by Qi Eliza¬ 
 beth to- the Hollanders,, to eredt themfelves into a Free- 
 State, wheo’they revoked from under the Dominion of 
 Spain , and our efponfing the Title of K. fames- of Scot¬ 
 land, in oppofition to-that of their Infanta', will be caufe, 
 enough ; nay rather-than fail; our taking Jamaica from 
 them in Olivers time, our own-Settlements in the Wefi- 
 Indies, to whichthey pretend the Right ofdifcovery, may 
 be infilled upon. Its invaintoalledgparticular Treaties'jOr 
 the General Treaty at Refwic.pn defence:of our Pelves. The 
 Treaty of Partition is of alater Date than anyofthofejand 
 . the fame diftindtion betwixt the Defign and: the Terms 
 that ferves to'palliate the Breach of that, will: excufe the 
 violation of alkhe reft; and befi,des r :if that wilfnot de,. 
 ; we know the determination of : the Council ;o£ Con fiance, 
 ThatFaitfrishotto be kept with Hereticks. . 
 
 The nest thing-to'be- confidered is, the French 'King’s 
 
 • Memorial; ■ - • " ... . .;;i; k 
 
 By what has . been al ready - laid,. it Lwilhap pear to. be .of 
 . more advhritage to France ; to have all'the;Domibions r i)f 
 
 • Spain - govern’d: by her ; Councils, united to .berXl.o^n, 
 or fuhje-fied ro her ss-an Homager or Vice-royalty^.than 
 to. have-, had' the Share allotted-'her by. the Partition 5 
 
 ’ ■ w-hich.; 
 
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 -which makes the 'truth of: that . Allegation 'very, fufpicbu% 
 'Tl?ni'. fi?e, French 'King, by accepting the late K of Spain / 
 
 . Witt,, haih prefer cl 'the publicly Peace }o hi? own ^Advantage. 
 
 The Refle&bn upon the Treaty of Partition, .(/).’2,),as 
 pfodtiSiiie of infinite Troubles, and Misfortunes cohmon to 
 <///- Europe, founds but oddly from.the mouth of thofethat 
 were the fitft propofers of it, and laid down Arguments 
 to proye the, great Advantages that muft of neceffity re- 
 ■ dound from it, in order to perfwade all Europe to engage 
 in it. If the Propofers of this .Objection forefavv thofe 
 infinite Troubles, and common .Misfortunes to .Europf, 
 before .they enter’d into the Treaty, it-wasthe'.higheft 
 Injuftiee for them to engage in it. It’s own’d by the 
 Memorial, /). ii; That the high Dignity of Kings, does not 
 e-Jccufe them from confidently ,: whether the Wars they ; under¬ 
 take'be juft. And let-the .Monarch be. never fo great, 
 that enters intoa War that he knows to be unjuft, he who 
 is higher than the higheft of Rings, has pronounc’d'them 
 aceurs’d,- that (lied innocent Blood : but if the Juftice of 
 • that Treaty was never difputed till the Grown of Spain 
 - came to be offer’d to a Grandfon of France,.; it would 
 feem that the faying of a great Prince and Legislator too. 
 That a Gift blinds the Eyesoflhewife,hxooapfikab\e in * 
 shisCaje. v \iif.b ,:7 
 
 The nice diftin&ion betwixt pfis Defign, and the Terms < 
 ■ of the Treaty, fmejls more of the Ferula than of the Seep-- 
 .-ter, but will appear to b,every ill founded,-if we confider,. 
 that the defign of the Treaty, by the majority of-the 
 Treaters, was to preferve -the peace. of Europe, by pre- - 
 -:>yenting.theUnion of the Grownsof ,Spain and France ,, 
 -which is now eluded -by this furrept itiousv Will, ; and ,the 
 Peace of &r^e as much endangered by that Conjunction,, 
 as'if the two Crowns were,upon the, Head of one and the 
 fame Perfon. • There. ,is 4 hrnioif»^on|]d.tqjfgjafcibujfe • 
 
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 that the French King hath (aid feveral times firice the late 
 King of Spains Death, That henceforward France and Spain 
 fhall he one ; and that his Minifter hath declar’d to the Di¬ 
 et of the Empire, Thai now he defigns to keep a good Corre¬ 
 spondence with the King of Spain, which puts him in a better 
 Condition than formerly , : to ajfift the Princes of the Empire , 
 and to preferve the Peace of Europe 3 to which he might 
 as well have added, and to difurb the Peace of Europe too. 
 It’s own’d, p. 4, That the late Will) and the Death ofthe late 
 K. 0/Spain, makgthe difference betwixt theTreaty now , and 
 the Treaty then: which plainly (hews the partiality of the 
 French Court, and that they make their own Intereft the 
 Rule of Jufticeand Injuftice. The Treaty leaves no room 
 to diftinguilh betwixt the Defign and the Terms of it, 
 whether the K. of Spain die or live. It’s evident* that 
 ’twas not- to be put in Execution till the Death of that, 
 Prince 5 fo that all the Difference muft refult from the 
 Will, his Death is only alledg’d in the Memorial, as a 
 word of courfe, to fill up room and amufe the Reader. 
 
 Whereas’ris faid in that fame Page, Thai the defign 
 of the Treaty was to maintain a general Peace, but the Terms 
 of it now the King of Spain is dead, and hath made fueh 
 a Will, cauje ah miverfal War: It s a fair Vindication of 
 the Honefty of the Defigns of the other Parties concern’d 
 in the faid Treaty; arid a demonftration of the French 
 Guilt. We have the Word of a King and a Prophet too 
 for ir, That an Upright Man will perform what he bargains , 
 tho it be to his hurt. If this be the Do&rine.of Heaven, it’s 
 no hard matter to guefs whence that other Do&rine comes, 
 whieh teaches us to breakTreaties and Oaths, on pretence 
 of a diftin'ftion betwixt the Defign and the Terms 5 other- 
 wile the divinely infpir’d Penman would have inverted 
 the Propofition, andtoldus, -that an Upright Man will riot 
 perform what hefwears, if it be to his hurt, becaule when 
 
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 he fwore he dehgn’d his own advantage 5 but' it proving 
 now to be his hurt, he miift keep tothe dehgn, and not 
 to the terms of his Oath. 
 
 That thekeeping to the,'Terms of the Treaty, would 
 caufe an univerfal War, if the French had the honefiy.to 
 perform their part,, is demonftrably falfe, and contrary to 
 what they fo frequently boafted of before this Will 
 was obtain’d,' viz-. That the Parties concern'd in the Treaty 
 of partition were able to put- it in execution in fpite of all 
 Oppofers: Nay it s in a great part own’d by'the Memorial- 
 it felf in that fame Page, where it’s fa id, that the French 
 King might have pojfibly obtain’d more considerable advantages 
 by his own Arms,, than the Share allottedhim bythe {Trea¬ 
 ty, had he deftgn’d to make ufe oft hem omoccajion. of the. 
 Kingof Spain’s Death: then-who can doubt but he might 
 have much more eafily poffefsM himfelf of that (hare by 
 thehelpofthe Englifh-md Dutch i -r 
 
 ■ The main Objection lies lit this, That the Emperor der 
 clitfdfoyning in the Treatyof’^Partition, in hopes of hiving 
 the Arch Duke declared Siieceffor to the whole 3 and that iff 
 the French Court had not- accepted : the Will , the j 4 rch Duke 
 was of courfe declared Vniverfal -Heirto all the- Dominions 
 of Spain. But what of all this ? were not the French, 
 Englifl) and Dutch, able to oblige; the Arch'Duke- to- 
 content himfelf with Spain, the Wejl-Indies and the Ne¬ 
 therlands, whatever difpofition the King of Spain had 
 made by his Will? It’s known to beftipulated in the 
 Treaty, that the Arch Duke (hould not go into any of 
 the Dominions of Spain during the King of Spain’s Life, 
 nor cOuld he have done it to any purpofe, but in the 
 Terms of the Treaty after his death.. The French King; 
 had his Troops ■ ready long before his Catholick Majefiy 
 left this World, to; have feiz’d u pon the (hare allotted him¬ 
 felf by the Treaty, which would have made the-Arch 
 
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 Duke’s PafTage into Spain very uneafy, upon any oilier 
 conditions; and thone fhould have found means to get 
 thither, the united Forces of thofe three Nations could 
 fbon have diflodg’d him, had he not agreed to the Trea¬ 
 ty. This the French cannot but be fenfible of, when they 
 know what a large Conqueft they made upon the Do¬ 
 minions of Spain during the laft War by their own 
 Angle Force, againft the united endeavours of the Em¬ 
 peror, Spain, England and Holland. But fomething they 
 mull fay, and they are relolved to fay what’s nothing to 
 the purpole, rather than be filent. W hy did not they ac¬ 
 cording to the Treaty join with the other Allies, in giv¬ 
 ing the Emperor two Months time after the K. of Spain's 
 Death, to confider whether he would accept the Treaty 
 or not? As the late King of Spain's W ill dilappointed the 
 Emperor in his expectation of having the Arch Duke de», 
 clared Succeifor, it likewife gave France an opportunity 
 of {hewing her fmceriiy and Juftice to all the World, 
 by keeping to the Treaty, and propofing ftill to let the 
 Arch Duke have his allotted {hare. W ho can tell but the 
 Emperor would have accepted it ? It’s no way improbable 
 but he would, finee he finds himfelf difappointed of his 
 expectations as to the King of Spain's Will, and finee 
 ’tis evident, that the honour and advantage he muft reap 
 from the Monarchy of Spain , tho thus difmembred, is far 
 beyond what he can exped from his Son’s continuing 
 Arch Duke. Had the French done thus, they might 
 have had fome reafon to fay,that they defign’dto preierve 
 the General Peace of Europe ; but finee contrary to the 
 Treaty, they have via &modis obtain’d a Will in their 
 own favour, and refolv’d to ftand by it, they have laid 
 a juft Foundation for a Univerfal War, and given juft 
 Provocations to their Allies to join with the Emperor in 
 .afferting the Eight of his Family to all the Dominions of 
 
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 Spain ; which fhould they think fit to do, may in the end 
 prove as great a difappointment to. the Houle of Bourbon 
 as the late King of Spain's Will is to the Houfe of Auflris. 
 
 It’s pleafant to hear theMemorial Cay,That his Allies had 
 no right to thofeDominions allotted him by the Treaty ; when 
 the World knows that he could claim no other right to 
 them but by virtue of that Treaty. He had refign’d all 
 the other right that he could pretend to.before his Match 
 with the Infanta , without which Refignation that Match 
 had never been agreed to, and as has been faid already, 
 his Renunciation and hers were ratified afterwards by 
 the Treaty of the Pyrenees. It’s in vain for the French 
 to allege, that he had no Power to give away his Son’s' 
 Right; for if it were fo, he was unjuft in entring into 
 that Marriage Contrad and Treaty, and he hath re¬ 
 peated hisinjuftice again by giving the Dauphins and 
 Duke of Burgundy's Right, to the Duke of Anjou) and 
 fince they infill: fo much upon the. nullity of that Renun¬ 
 ciation, it confirms the fufpicion that the Duke of Anjou 
 is only to ad as Viceroy to the Crown of France, other- 
 wife they do but jeft with the world in talking thus of 
 Right, when in the fame Breath they juftifie what they 
 have done contrary to that pretended Right. Be that how 
 it will, it’s certain that this Plea lays an eternal Founda¬ 
 tion of Quarrel betwixt the Crowns of France and Spain, 
 if the Duke of Anjou, and the Heirs of his Body be any 
 thing elfe but Viceroys, lo far is it from truth, that the 
 accepting of the late King of Spain's Will is the bell: way 
 to prelerve the Peace of Europe. 
 
 It’s no lefs pleafant to hear them tell ns, That it. was not 
 his Majefy's defign to acquire by a Treaty the KJngdoms of 
 Naples and Sicily, the Province of Guipufcoa, and the 
 Dutchy of Lorrain. But his principal end being to maintain 
 the Peace, he .treated upon that foundation alone. Had the 
 D maintaining 
 
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 maintaining the general Peace, beea the alone Foundation 
 of his Treaty, there was no need of his treating at all, 
 lie had no more to do, but to obferve the'Treaty of the' 
 Pyrenees, wherein he renounc’d for him.felf knd his Suc- 
 ceffors for ever, all pretenfions to the CrdWn of Spain ; 
 and if he had done fo, we may very, well venture to fay, 
 his Allies would not have forc’d thofe Kingdoms and Pro¬ 
 vinces upon him: fo that if he did not treat for thefe, he 
 treated either for nothing at all, or elfe to frighten the Spa¬ 
 niards to give him the whole, which is the likelieft of the 
 two, as the Event hath verified. 
 
 As a further Teftimony of Gratitude to his Allies, the 
 Memorial tells us, That perhaps he might have obtain d more 
 confiderable Advantages by his Arms , if he had defignd 
 to make ufe of 'em on occafion of the K,- of Spain’.? Death. 
 To which it is eafy to reply, that perhaps he might have 
 loft greater Advantages by theirs, which will foon ap¬ 
 pear to be no Paradox, when we confider, that if in or¬ 
 der to maintain the Treaty of the Pyrenees, and to keep 
 the Peace and Ballance of Europe , they had join’d with 
 the Emperor and Spain to attack him, and lent a good 
 ftrong Fleet toharrafs his Coafts and bombard his Towns} 
 He would not have found it fo eafy to withftand their Uni¬ 
 ted force now, as he did during the laft War, confider- 
 ing how his Men and Mony are exhaufted. From all which 
 we have reafon to conclude, without a perhaps, that they 
 would have given him a feverer vomit than they did at 
 the Conclufion of the late War, when they made him 
 difgorge fo many large Provinces, and ftrong Towns. 
 It is no lefs abfurd in the Memorial to tell us, what feats 
 he could have done with his Arms, if he had defign’d to 
 make ufe of them on cccafion of the K. of Spain's Death, 
 when all the World knows, that he not only threatned both 
 branches of the Houfe of Jujlria with his. Arms, if they 
 
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 did any thing to prevent the execution of the Treaty'Ibf 
 Partition, but march’d his Troops to the Frontiers o iSpaih, 
 to be in a readinefs tofeize font dr able, kc.. affoon as his 
 Brother-in-Law died, which for ought we- know, fright- 
 ned that poor weak fpirited Prince out of-this World, 
 looner than he might have gone. 
 
 The prefenees,/'. 5. that he muft have been engag’d in a 
 long and bloody War, and that the Spaniards were putting 
 themfelves in a poftureto keep their Monarchy United, if 
 lie had not accepted the Will,are empty and trifling. What 
 could that enfeebled and fcattered Monarchy. have done 
 to keep it felf united againft the joint Power of France, 
 England, and Holland ? They are not able of themfelves 
 to have refilled France alone, and much lefs all; three to¬ 
 gether ; the Emperor could give them no Affiftance by 
 Sea, nor could he have hindred their being-invaded by 
 Land; It’s in vain to objefr, he could have given France 
 a diverfion on the Rhine, for Lem XIV had cut him out 
 work enough at home, by encouraging thofe Princes that 
 oppole the 9^ Ele&orate, and complain of other Griev- 
 ances, to arm againft.him; or if that would not have done, 
 he could have had recourfe to the old and never failing 
 Contrivance of the moft Chriftian Kings, which is, to en¬ 
 gage the Turks to invade Chriftendom. The French and 
 Dmb are both on the fame Continent with the Emperor, 
 and were more capable of invading him than he is of in¬ 
 vading them : thofe parts of the Spanijh Dominions af- . 
 fign’d to France by the Treaty, might have been torn from 
 the body of the Spanish Monarchy, before the Emperor 
 could come to their Relief, and the Confederate Fleets 
 could eafily have torn off America, which is the Soul of 
 their Monarchy, and then it muft have perifh’d for ever 5 
 of this the Spaniards were fenfible enough, and therefore 
 had no other wa y left them, but either to agree to the 
 D 2 Treaty 
 
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 Treaty of Partition, which would have been both tothelr 
 lofsand difhonour, or to endeavour to break that Trea¬ 
 ty, by throwing themfelves into the Arms of a-Nation that 
 fcorn to be Daves to their Word; and by this means to be 
 rather intire Bond-men, than difmembred Freemen. This 
 may ferve for an Anfwer to the D. of Savoys afferting his 
 Right, in cafe of the Arch-Dukes acquiefcing to the Trea¬ 
 ty of Partition; all the World knows that that petty Prince 
 mnft have unavoidably fought his own .Ruin, if he had 
 offer’d to attempt it againft the Emperor, France, England-, 
 and Holland. 
 
 Enough has been (aid already to prove, th'at no Prince 
 of the French Blood had any Right to the Crown of Spain, 
 but we fhall here once for all confider that Affertion Mat¬ 
 tered up and down the Memorial, and particularly in jt>. 6 . 
 That the late K of Spain by his Will, hath at laft done juft 
 tice to the true Heirs. It were to be widl’d, that the Au¬ 
 thor of the Memorial had come to-a-fix’d determination 
 what this Jufticeis, for fometimes he alledges this Juftice 
 was due only to the Dauphin, and for that end declares 
 the Nullity of his Father and Mothers Renunciation, and 
 here he talks of Juftice done to the true Heirs by the King 
 of Spains Will, which excludes the Dauphin and Duke of 
 Burgundy, and all that fhall afterwards become Kings of 
 France, and fettles it on the D. of Jnjon, &c. fo that the 
 Juftice of an Hereditary lineal Succeffion, which in moft 
 Kingdoms of Europe , hath coft lo many thoufands of de¬ 
 luded Subjects their Lives, is quite deftroy’d by this Noti¬ 
 on and Piaclice-. Befides, the Memorial contradifts it felf 
 in this matter, as has been already obferv’d ; for if Lewis 
 XIII and XIV\t Renunciations were unjuft, the Dauphin’s 
 muft needs be fo too. And rho the Dauphin be fuch a 
 good natur’d Prince as to declare, That he jball be glad to 
 fay faring, his whole Life , the Kjng my . Father, and the 
 
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 JQttg my Son : Tisa Queftion whether the Duke of Bur¬ 
 gundy will be, a Prince of fuch Temper : perhaps there 
 may be a time when fomeor other will.whifper him in 
 the Ear, that the Court of France had' two different no* 
 tionsof Juftice atoneand the lame time, one that there 
 could be no juft ice ina Father’s renouncing, the right of 
 his eldeft Son ; and another that a Father might j.uftly 
 renounce the right of his eldeft 6’on, in favour of the 2d: 
 and fince both thofe .Notions are juft, that muff be moil 
 juft, which is moft for his glory and advantage; and 
 therefore fince it is more glorious and more advantageous 
 to be King of France,. Navar and Spain, &c. then to be 
 only King of France and Navar. It will be moft juft for 
 his Brother the Duke of Jnjou to come home and ' poR 
 fels his Appanage in France , and reftore him the Crown 
 of Spain, which is his Birth-rigbt: If this be the cafe, as 
 ’tis no way impoffible, the longeft Sword muft determine 
 thejuftice; and thus the Peace of Europe is excellently 
 well fecur’d by the late King of Spain's Will, &c. 
 
 We (hall abfblve this Head with one Qbfervation more, 
 which is, that in order to have made the King of Spain's 
 Will juft, there ought at leaft to have been an equal" Au¬ 
 thority and Solemnity at the Ratification of it, as there 
 was at the Ratification of Louis XI Vths Contraft of Mar¬ 
 riage,' and of the Treaty of the Pyrenees , which that Will 
 totally fubverts. 
 
 Having confidered the chief parts of the Memorial, it re¬ 
 mains only to take a view of fomeoth’er particulars in it. 
 
 P. 147 He alledges, “That lo many confiderable Dcmi- 
 iX nionstSeing added to France, according to the difpofi- 
 “ non of the Treaty, might have given juft Jealoufy of 
 “ the Power of France , and that therefore the States 
 “ Ihould prefer the Succeffion according to the-Will, to' 
 ST the Treaty of Partition. But who fees not that the- 
 
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 States, and all Europe, have more reafon to ; be jealous of 
 the addition of the whole Dominions • of Spain to the 
 Crown of Frame , or which is all one, that the Entire 
 Spanijb Monarchy fhould be tinder the Govermeiit of 
 French Counceis. Since the Breach of the T reaty of Par¬ 
 tition is fuch a frefli Inftance of French levity, and the 
 greateft Contempt and Affront that could have been put 
 upon bis Majefty of Great Brittain and the States, who fliall 
 be Guarantees, that this Breach (hall ftop here, and that 
 it Ihail not be attended with further Contraventions of o- 
 ther Treaties to the difturbance of their Peace, and of the 
 Univerfal Repole of Europe. When the King of Great 
 Brittain and the Dutch entred into the Treaty of Partition, 
 they were made to believe that the French defign’d no o- 
 ther thing by it, but the preventing of new Wars, or as 
 they exprefs’d it in their joipt Memorials to the other , 
 Potentates of Europe, that the Conjuncture of affairs 
 rendred that Treaty as neceffary as the pulling down or 
 blowing up of a Street or f ome Houfes, to prevent a whole 
 Citys being on Flames-. They had no reafon to think, that 
 the French after being gratify’d fo far, would grafp at the 
 whole Spanish Monarchy, or offer at giving any further 
 trouble to Europe on that account, and therefore what¬ 
 ever their Subjefts did fuggeft as to the danger of .their 
 Trade' to the Mediterranean, they bad good ground to 
 believe, that the French would have obviated thofe fears 
 by a faithful performance of the Treaty on their part; 
 butfince it hath happen’d otherwile, they have all imagi¬ 
 nable reafon to fay, that the Fears of their own Subjects, 
 and thole of England , were the effects of a wife forelfight, 
 and that therefore it’s highly realonable to lay'more ftrels 
 upon the Judgment of the one and the other in time to 
 come, either as to Treatys or Events, than it would feem 
 by the Memorial they have done hitherto. 
 
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 This is a fufficienbAnlwer,'to what’s aflerted in, the 8 &nic£ ' 
 rial, png. if That there’s ne prejudice to be perceiv’d' arifing tor the 
 States from the King's accepting]!he Will, hut further, thePeople 
 of Holland and England botb,areveryapprehenfiveof Prejudice 
 to be perceiv’d arifing from this praftife of th& Fremh"\Comt.\ 
 and the former efpecially, think they have very, good reafon 
 for it, when the French King hath promis’d in bis Letter to the 
 Qiieen Dovoager and Rcgencyof Spain > That his chief can (hall be 
 to reftore the Spanilh ■ Monarchy to the hightjl Point jtf Glory] it ever 
 arrived at. This puts them in mind, that they themleives did 
 formerly make a part of the Spanifh Monarchy, that their Re¬ 
 volt from under its Tyranny was a confiderable diminution to 
 its Glory, and hath been no fmall caufe of its declining ever, 
 fince. ’ They likewife know, and ftill .fmart under the fenfe of 
 it, 'that France hath oftnef than once attempted to.poflefs them- 
 felvesof the whole Netherlands, and particularly, of. their, feven 
 Provinces, on pretence of giving him ill Satisfaction ; for it’s now 
 become one of the moft awful things of the World, to have 
 great' Monarchs complain of receiving ill Satisfaction, or of 
 being ill fcrved. Nothing Iefs than the ruin of thofe poor Re- 
 publicks or Kingdoms fo complained of, : is fufficient tonfatisfie 
 Royal Indignation. Befldes, they are now upbraided with Ihftn- 
 cerity in demanding what they never defign'd to obtain, and of framing. 
 Vows contrary to the Jnterell of their Rtpublick. This is not only 
 enough to draw the Refentments of Lewis■■ XiV upon them, 
 but likewife to increafe their own People againft-them: they are 
 likewife threatned if they don't obferve fuck a Coridtitt, as may merit 
 the honour of his Jffefiion, and the continuation of his good Will •, 
 and upbraided with not behaving themfeives anfwerably to-the 
 proteClion they have receiv'd of His Majcfly , and his Jnceftors. 
 Tbefe are Grimes of an higher Nature than giving him ill fatis- 
 fadfion, which occalioned their Countries being overrun'by 
 the French Troops in 1572, and therefore the poor States have 
 reafon to expedt feverev Treatment now than they met with 
 then, if they don’t quickly make their Peace, by breaking the 
 Treaty of Partition too, and acknowledging the Duke of Jnjow 
 as King of Spain. Thus they and we are like to be rewarded 
 for our kindnefs in entring into a Treaty by which France was to 
 be aggrandized with an addition of Rich confiderable Domi¬ 
 nions as is own’d in the Memorial, and in which we atfted with 
 
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 To much difintereftednefs, that the French generoufly confefs' 
 fag. 13. [Ve ftipulated no particular advantage to,our fclvcs. Upon 
 the whole. Cnee the Memorial, fag. 11. fays, That it would not. 
 be confident with the King's Equity, and his tender affeSion to the 
 King of Spain, to turn his Arms againft a Nation , for no other 
 reafon } but becaufe they offer'd their New King , His Majefty's Grand- 
 fon, the Crown of one of the moft potent Monarchy's of Europe: 
 We hope it will be allow'd to be as much dneonfiftent with E~ 
 quity and Gratitude to his Allies, .that His Majefty fhouldturn 
 his Arms againft two Nations, for do other reafon, bqt becaufe 
 they were willing to add feveral Kingdoms and Provinces to 
 ■France, which is already by far the moft potent Monarchy in 
 Europe , and that they have a greater refpeft for His Majefty," 
 himfelf, and bis Kingdom, than for his Grandfon and his. 
 
 This Kindnsfs was fo much the more confiderable, that the 
 French had. no reafon to expeft it from either of thofe Nations, 
 who, had they intended any thing elfe by it, but to fecure the 
 Peace of Europe , had the faireft Pretence in the World to 
 have declin’d it. They knew well enough, that the French 
 King had precluded himfelf from all claim to any part of the 
 Spanilh Succeffion by the Treaty of the Pyrenees , which tho he 
 had broke it again and again, they were not oblig’d to think it 
 annull’d upon that account, but might (had not their Inclina¬ 
 tions to Peace overrat'd their juft Caufes of Re'fentment) have 
 made it a handle for a new Confederacy againft him upon his 
 offering to feize any of the Spanilh Dominions, after his Bro- 
 ther-in-Law’s death. And as their kindnefs ought to be fo much 
 the more valued, that it was free and difmterefted from all civil 
 Advantages, as the Memorial it felf owns*, the French ought 
 to value it nothing the lefs, that their Allies difeovered them- 
 felves to be free from Bigotry, as well as from fecular Interefts 
 in this Treaty; for they ftipulated nothing in favour of the 
 Protsftants of France , who are perfecutcd in the moll barba¬ 
 rous manner that ever People were, ncr in favour of thofe of 
 Germany, who are oppreffed and.run down on pretence of 
 the dth Article of the Treaty of Refwhk , becaufe the French 
 had oppreffed them in the fame manner before that Treaty, 
 which if Lewis XIV lhouid declare againft, as not being the 
 fenfe he takes that Article in, his neighbouring Princes of Ger¬ 
 many would net dare to extend it to the ruin of the Proteftants 
 as they have done. And 
 
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 and this the Allies might have infilled upon, before they 
 had entred into that Treaty with France, and ’tis proba¬ 
 ble would have done fo, had they not prefer’d the Peace 
 of the whole to that of any part. But it feems that no 
 Conceflions or Difintereftednefs either in Civil or Reli¬ 
 gious things, is able to fatisfie this new fondnefs of the 
 French King as a Grandfather, if all Europe don’t facri- 
 fice their Honour and Intereft, to the Advancement of 
 his Grandfon, which in the Memorial it felf is agreed 
 to be contrary to the Right of the Dauphin his own 
 Son. 
 
 The next Head to be confidered is, the Influence that 
 this Succelfion may have upon the Affairs of Europe, and 
 what may feem to be the Intereft of the feveral Princes 
 and States of Chriftendom, with Relation there¬ 
 unto. 
 
 The firft we (hall confider is Holland, becaufe that 
 Country lies next to Danger, and in all probability will 
 be one of the firft that may feel the Effects of this Con- 
 jun&ion The Reafons are thefe. 
 
 1. The Spaniards look upon them as Rebels, and the 
 French King by his promife to endeavour to reftoreSpain 
 to the height of its ancient Glory, feems engaged to af- 
 fift them in reducing the Hollanders. 
 
 2. He feems likewife engag’d to it as the declar’d 
 Chanpion of that, which they call the Catholick Faith, 
 the advancement of which the late King of Spain recom¬ 
 mends to his Succeffor, tho’ he ftiould Sacrifice all to it; 
 And it’s very well known, that next to Great-Britain, 
 Holland is the great Bulwark of the Reformation. 
 
 As the Dutch are next to England, the great Barri¬ 
 er of theProteftant Intereft, they are the like as to the 
 Civil Liberties of Europe, and next to us the greateft 
 Obftacle in the way of an Unfverfal Monarchy, againft 
 E which 
 
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 which they have done more than any other Nation in 
 Europe befide our felves, which the French have experi¬ 
 enced to their Mortification, and therefore are.like e* 
 nough to improve their Advantage againft them. :■ 
 
 4. The prefect Conjuncture of Affairs lays them more 
 open than ever to a French Conqueft. Flanders and Bra¬ 
 bant, their natural Barriers are now no more to be ac¬ 
 counted fuch. The Spaniards kept thofe Provinces, not 
 for any Advantage they reap d from them , for every 
 Man knows they were a great charge to that Monarchy; 
 but their chief Reafon of keeping them, was to be a 
 Thorn in the fide of F ranee, or a Bone for the French to 
 gnaw upon, by which means they were fure to give 
 them a Diverfion, when at any time they had a 
 mind to attack the Body of their Empire, becaufe the 
 Confervation of thofe Provinces in the Hands of Spain ,was 
 of fuch Confequence to the Emperor ,England and Holland, 
 as being in Tome fort a Joint Barrier to all of them, that 
 they would never fuffer the French to take entire pof- 
 feffion of them 
 
 But the Scene of Affairs being now chang’d,and France 
 and Spain acted by the fame Councils, both thofe 
 Crowns will be glad of the opportunity of reducing 
 the Dutch, the former upon the Accounts above men¬ 
 tioned, and the fatter, befides the Caufes of Hatred to 
 the Dutch, common to them both, can never exped 
 fuch an eafie and fair opportunity of bringing them back 
 to their Ancient Allegiance, which will be the pretence 
 atleaftfor a time. 
 
 The danger of the Hollanders is increafed by the fol¬ 
 lowing Reafons. 
 
 1. That the Inhabitants of the Spanifb Netherlands are 
 their Enemies on Account of Religion ; the Flemmings 
 being fuch bigotted Papifts, that they think all Prote- 
 
 ftants 
 
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 -flants damned or little better, i. That they hate Them 
 upon the Account of TRADE, the’Seat of 1 which 
 was formerly at Antwerp, but is now removed to 
 Jmfierdam. That they bear them a Grudge up¬ 
 on fome late Emergencies,, and charge them with 
 feeking Advantages over them indire&ly by the late 
 Treaty, for having the Electoral 'Prince of de¬ 
 
 clar’d Succeflor to-Spain. 4;'ThattheT)utch^Pbrts and 
 Harbours are fo neceflary for the; French that without 
 them, 'they can neverwellfpcceedintheir Defigns;for tho 3 
 ■Aieippm and;dj%s^hicfi^^ 
 at the command‘-bf'the French 'Court;' gives. iheitfAiore 
 advantage for their Shipping inthenarrbw Seas, then 
 formerly they;had,jiet till, the Dutch be rendfed uncapa- 
 ble of. difturbing them with their fleets, they can never 
 befafe in• any naval,Expeditibh's'oPDefigns upoh thefe 
 Parts of Europe. Nor cah’the’StapTebf’Trade bebrqiigHf 
 back to the Netherlands, .tillthe'Dutch be broken at Sea. 
 
 The Cafe being thus with the Dutch, Ids their In- 
 tereft in the firft Place, to cultivate a good Correfpom 
 dence with Great-Briim, ] to. enter into, a'League Qf- 
 fenhve and Defcnfive : with' us, and in order to-make it 
 firm and durable, to take fuch Meafures in time to come 
 as may wipe off the Imputation of a felfifh and incroach- 
 ing Temper, in Matters of Trade, and to behave them¬ 
 selves fo as that we may have no-/further Dccafion td 
 complain of' their open or fetfet Endeavours tohinder 
 the Trade of all or any of thefe Nations. 
 
 It is likewife their Intereft to.keep a good Correfpon- 
 derice with; thd Northern Crowns, J . who are capable of 
 aflifting them witli Fortes by Sea and Land. They mu Pc 
 do the like With' the Elector of Bmdenbiirgh, and the' 
 three Princes 'of the Hpofe of Brunjlvick, they being 
 capable to over- ballance the Bifliopof Maw//er,the Elector 
 E 2 cf 
 
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 of CclogH, the Dnke of Nevohwrg and Chapter of Liege, 
 their Popijb Neighbours, in Cafe of a Religious War, 
 which the prefent Juncture of Affairs feeras to threa¬ 
 ten. 
 
 It is their Intereft, in the mean time, to cultivate a 
 FriendfMp with thofe Neighbours, and to endeavour to 
 bring them into a defensive League, becaufe of the com¬ 
 mon Danger they are all threatned with by the Conjun¬ 
 ction of France and Spain ; and, above all, they ought 
 to beware of too precipitant Refolves, as to any League 
 with Francefho their Affairs be never fo prefling: Their 
 too much hafte in that Matter, without confulting Eng- 
 gland and their other Protefiant Neighbours, may be fatal 
 to themfelues and to all Europe. The falfe Steps they 
 took formerlo in clapping up the Peace of Nimeguen too 
 foon, contrary to the Opinion of their Stadtholder and 
 their Alley the Elector of Brandenburgh, may ferve them, 
 as a Caution in this Matter, 
 
 We come next to corifider what may be the Intereft of 
 England, in the prefent JunctureAnddn the firft place, 
 it feems abfolutely neceflary to enter- into a ftriCter Ami¬ 
 ty and Friendfhip with the Dutch than ever. To this 
 End the Joint Endeavours of King and Parliameut are 
 requifite, that if poflible all thofe Caufes, real or imagi¬ 
 nary, that were formerly made ufe of to embroil ns with 
 fuch ufeful Neighbours may be remov’d, and all Affairs 
 relating to Trade amicably adjufted, and fo far concerted 
 as the Nature of the Things will bear, that they may 
 not be the Seeds of future Divilions. 
 
 In the Reign of the glorious Queen Elizabeth it was 
 found to be thee indifpenfible Intereft of England to fup- 
 port the Dutch. And the mifchievous Confequences of 
 our Differences were reprefented by two Pitchers fwim- 
 miug together, with this Motto, Si collidimur frangimur , 
 
i. e. If we he dajhed together we are broke. It’s more our 
 Intereft now than ’twas then, to keep a good Under- 
 ftanding and to avoid all Divifions with them. The Spa¬ 
 niards, who at that time were the Championsof Popery, 
 and the Pretenders to the Univerfal Monarchy, had. 
 France to oppofe them, and no other Countries near 
 us, from whence they could conveniently invade us but 
 Flanders, which was liable to the Attacks both of the 
 Dutch and French; whereas France and Spain are now 
 conjoin’d, and Flanders under their Command. So that 
 we may be-invaded both from France and Flanders , nay, 
 and from Holland too, if once the French become Ma¬ 
 tters of that Country, which they may foon be, if we 
 don’t ufeourutmoft Endeavours, and cordially join with 
 the Hollanders to prevent it. 
 
 This we are oblig’d to by Intereft and Gratitude. The 
 Affiftance they gave us in the late Revolution, to which 
 we owe all that we enjoy as Men and Chriftians, hath 
 not only repaidms with Intereft what we did for them 
 in Queen Elizabeth's time, but laid us under an Obliga¬ 
 tion of taking care of their fafety as well as of our own. 
 
 That it is our intereft to do fo, will foon appear, if 
 weconfider, that there is no other Foreign Nation fo 
 capable as the Dutch', of giving the French a Diverfion 
 by Sea and Land, if they fhould attempt to invade us. 
 ’Tis certainly our intereft to keep the War at a diftance 
 as long as we cam? and rather to have the Seat of it a- 
 broad than in. our own Bowels: This we have fucceff- 
 fully put in pra&ice in Queen Elizabeth’s Reign and that 
 of his prefent Majefty. We have the fame Opportunity 
 of doing it ftill, fo long as the Dutch preferve their 
 Liberty. We can either aflift them by Forces from 1 Eng¬ 
 land or hire Troops from Germany and the Northern 
 Crowns to join with, them againft F^wce,ifneed be. That 
 
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 will give the French a fufficient-Diversion upon the Con* 
 tinent; and it’s well enough known what the Dutch and 
 we are capable of doing at Sea, either offenfively or de- ■ 
 lively, as eccalion requires. 
 
 But if, on any Account or Pretence whatfoever, we 
 fnould be fo much infatuated, as not to, take Joint Mea- 
 fures with the Dutch for our Mutual Support, we may 
 ealily forefee that the Conferences will be as follows, 
 
 1. That the Dutch muft either be totally brought un-' 
 
 der the Power of France, and their Government dilfolv’d, 
 or they muft be forc’d to fubmit .to, fuch Terms as the 
 French {hall impofe. ■ : . . v • 
 
 2. If that be the Cafe, then we are cut off from all Op¬ 
 portunity of giving the French a Diverfion, by* landing 
 Men peaceably on the Continent. 
 
 2. We are not only depriv’d of that powerful Af- < 
 liftance which the Dutch are capable of giving us by Sea, 
 but muft have their whole Naval Force in conjun&ion 
 with that of France and Spain. to fight againft, and that 
 they will be an Over-match for us in that Cafe is. not to 
 controverted. 
 
 4. We are not only in danger of having all our Trade 
 to the Mediterranean cut off, but that to the Baltic, and 
 the Eafi and Weft-Indies totally deftroy’d. We found in 
 the late War what a mighty Interruption Da Bart and 
 his Bunkirkers gave to our Eaft-Country Trade, which 
 may foon convince us, that, when once the Sea-ports of 
 Holland, Zealand and Flanders are in the Hands of the 
 French, we cannot trade with fafety to any of thofe 
 Parts. For our Commerce to Ftirky and the Mediterra¬ 
 nean, we muft refolve to light our Way through the 
 Straits, and if we Ihould befuccefsful in doing fo againft 
 fuch an united Naval Force, as we juft now fpoke of, 
 which is next to impoflible, the Portuguefe and Italians 
 
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 will not dare to entertain us in any of their Harbours; 
 nor, were they willing, can it be long ere they run the 
 fame Fate with the Dutch, they being in no capacity to 
 withftand the united Power of F ranee, Spain and Ifoh 
 lands and befides, thefe Nations will find Methods to 
 foreftall the Markets by Woollen Manufactures, (Pc. of 
 their own. Oul' Trade to ths Eajl-Indies will he liable 
 to the fame Inconveniehcies $ we are not only in danger 
 of being attack’d, as going and coming, but of having 
 the French and Dutch Factories in thofe Countries uni¬ 
 ted againft ours, in order to deftroy them; ana tho’ this 
 were not fo, being over-matched at Sea, we can have no 
 opportunity to export our Commodities when they are 
 brought home, as we have hitherto done 5 and Trade 
 falling into fuchadecay, our People mull: of neceffity 
 become poor, which will render us uncapa’ole of con- 
 fumingmuch of thofe Commodities at Home. We (hall 
 labour under the like Inconvehisncies as. to our Weft? 
 India Plantations and Trade. The French have Settle- 
 ments fo near us, and the Spaniards are fo jealous of Ri¬ 
 vals in that Trade, that they will fpeedily and readily 
 concur to ruine us there. ’Tis true, that at prefect our 
 ftrength is confiderable in thofe Parts, but when we are 
 not able to relieve and incourage them, as it cannot in 
 that cafe be reafonably fuppoled we (hall, thole Planta¬ 
 tions muft by confequencebeoyer-run by our Confederate 
 Enemies. 
 
 5. Our Trade being thus dellroy’d by Sea, Poverty 
 muft needs come upon us like an armed Man, our (hip¬ 
 ping muft decay, which befides the Lofs of the vaft 
 Treafure, which the Nations has now in Stock that way, 
 will mine innumerable Families, not only thofe that be¬ 
 long to Seamen and Mafters of Ships, but ‘Merchants 
 and Tradefmen that liv’d and were imploy’d by buying, 
 
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 making, exporting and carrying Manufactures to and 
 again. The Conferences of this will quickly affedfc all 
 Degrees of People from the King to the meaneft Day- ■ 
 Labourer, the Revenues of the Government muft fink, 
 in all its Branches, and thofe who have their Dependance 
 upon it muft bethink themfelves of a new way of Li¬ 
 ving. The Landed-Mens Rents muft fall, the Huf- 
 bandman and Grazier will not find their wonted Ac¬ 
 count in their Labour and Induftry; fo that by necef- - 
 fary Confequence, we muft become poor and defence- 
 left. 
 
 6. Holland being thus run down, we are laid open to 
 an Invafion, whenever France and Spain think fit, and 
 we are cut off from all poflibility of Help from the 
 Continent. Thefe are the Conferences that muft ne- 
 ceffarily enfue our Not concerning our Pelves in the 
 Support of the Dutch, who if they find themfelves re¬ 
 duced to Extremity for want of Aftiftance, will follow 
 the Example of the Spaniards, and make the beft Terms 
 they can for themfelves, to prolong the Term of their 
 Liberty, there being fome Comfort to be the laft that 
 Ihali be deftroy’d. It appears by Sir W. temples Letters, 
 
 [ printed for Mr. tonfon , Vol. I. Page 127.] that they 
 were very near taking fuch Refolves, when the Dangers 
 that threatned them were fcarcely fo great, at leaft not 
 greater than now $ his Words are as follow, ‘ If the 
 c French fhall carry Flanders , as they very well may in 
 c another Campagne, by the Weaknefs and Diforders 
 ‘ of the Government here, the Dutch are fenfible that 
 e they muft fall to be a Maritime Province of France, up- 
 ‘ on the beft Terms they can. 
 
 What immediately follows, being this Great States¬ 
 man's Opinion of the Dangers that would thence accrue 
 to other parts of Europe, and particularly to England, its 
 
 thought 
 
thought fit to infert it as follows: t The Empire will 
 ‘•exped to . fee them foon at the Rhine , and thereby Ma- 
 4 ffersof four Electors, and what a Condition England 
 ‘ will beleft in by fuch an Accelhon of Maritime Forces,as 
 4 well as Provinces to fuch a Power as France is already, 
 
 ‘ is but too eafie and too melancholy a Reflexion. 
 
 If this was the Opinion of that able and experienced- 
 Minifter then, we have good Reafon to conclude that 
 our danger is much greater at prefent. The French are 
 now actually at the Rhine, poftefs’d of Stwburg, one of 
 the moft important Places upon that River, and without 
 the trouble or hazard of a Campagne, have the Li¬ 
 berty to enter Flanders when they pleafe •, and that they 
 have a difpofition to do fo, and are in a readinefs for it, 
 is plain enough, from the proffers that havejately been 
 made to the Government of the Netherlands , the Threats 
 imthe Memorial exhibited to the Dutch, and the Orders 
 that are given for all Proteftant Strangers to retire from ■ 
 Dunkirk. 
 
 Tis in vain f;o objedfc, That the Spanifh Government - 
 will not allow of it: The fame Means that have been 
 us'd to oblige them to acceptthe Duke of Anjou for their 
 King, will have influence fufficient to oblige them to 
 that and much more. There’s no want of pretences for 
 the Neceffity of it. That known one of preferring thofe 
 Provinces from any Invafionby England and Holland,that 
 have not as yet acknowledged the Duke of Anjou and 
 that other of diflodging the Dutch Troops from the 
 Spanifh Garifons, and deputing the Money requifite 
 for that end, are fuch invincible Arguments as the Go¬ 
 vernment of Spain is no ways able to anfwer at pre- 
 fent. -Eefides, it’s no prudence ia them to teftifie any, 
 thing of diftruft of Louis XIV. at this time, left he be 
 provoked to alfert another fort of Title to their Crown, 
 F than 
 
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 than any that is to be claim’d from their own Invitation ' - 
 cr their late King’s Will 5 and therefore confidering that 
 whiift they muft be at Peace with France, the Netherlands ' 
 is not of that fame Importance to them as ■ formerly’, ‘ 
 there’s no probability, that they will give any Difguft ; 
 to the French on that Account, and much lefs break 
 with them. • ; , i: . 
 
 T here-are two other Confiderations that make this- 
 Conjunction of France and Spain more dangerous to £«- 
 glaud. than the Attempts of the Spaniards alone, when- 
 they aimed at the Univerfal Monarchy. 
 
 The i ft is, thatthofe two Kingdoms lie Contiguous- 
 and can eaiily communicate Councils and Forces •, where¬ 
 as the two Branches of the Houfe of Auflria, were fepa- : - 
 rated from .one another at a vaft diftance, and could 
 not join their Forces without great Charge and Trouble 
 in tranfporting them by Sea, and long and troublefom 
 Marches by Land, the French can invade us with eafe 
 from their own Country, and Flanders too, without fa¬ 
 tiguing their Troops, as the Spaniards in their Cafe were 
 obliged to do. 
 
 The 2d is this, That the French have our abdicated'; 
 King and his pretended Iffue, upon which they may 
 found a Quarrel with us, and, beftdes Papifts, too many 
 unreafonable and ill-principled Proteftants, that adhere 
 to his Title: And how dangerous that - fort of Men is, 
 we had like to have found by woful Experience, had 
 not the Almighty prevented the horrid Defign of the Af- 
 faffination and French Invafion. Or if they Ihould think 
 fit to lay afide that Prince’s Claim, to keep him and his 
 Iflue ftill Prifoners there, or to difpofe of them fome 
 other way, they have a Prince of the Houfe of Savoy, 
 and feveral of their own Blood, who have as good 
 Titles by Birth to the Crown of Great-Britain, as the 
 
 Duke 
 
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 0 uke.'OGrown of Spam y.'mdi by ta¬ 
 king'll ftep'or.'two further from the dire&Xine, which 
 in fuch a Cafe Mi break no fquares, they may attempt 
 to fet one of them upon our Throne. Who knows but 
 the prefent Humour and Ambition of the French, back'd 
 , with fo much Power, and.encour&g’d by fuch; a favourable 
 :Opportunity, may.put;them uporr this Projedb It would 
 - be a very good way to outvy the Houfe of Jlufiria : They 
 .found a Method to give;their Eagle two Tleads; and by 
 ;this iMeans the French might engraft their Lillies upon 
 • thtee Stocks. Sodriuchfor!our Jntereftfo.Join,in\a ftriift 
 (League with the Dutch for: Mutual Support.: 
 
 In the next place, It Would feem to be our Intereft to 
 enter into a League with the Emperor and Empire, for 
 Maintaining :the Common Liberty of Europe, againft the 
 •Formidable.Growth of the power of Frawe,, and Avert¬ 
 ing the Arch-duke’s Title to the Crown of Spain .The 
 Advantages accruing to us by this, would be, ... 
 
 il‘ That by this Means: the French would have a 
 powerful.(Diverfion on the Upper-Rhine, and in 
 ■for.in.that cafe the Emperour "would be incourag’d to 
 ufe his utmoft Efforts, to right life Family, and avenge 
 Himfelf for the Injufticedone him, which would oblige 
 the French King to fend powerful Armies to oppofe him 
 in both thofe Countries, andby.confequence prevent his 
 Attempts upon Holland and England, or at leaft be a good 
 Way to imake them abortive. 
 
 2. By this Means the Auftrian Party in Spain would 
 be animated to oppofe the. French Intereft as much as in 
 them lay:; and,: by entring into a good Correfpondence 
 with the King of Portugal, might give the French Forces a 
 great Diverfion on that fide, and make their Imprelfions 
 elfewhere the lefs effertual, it being the belt way, for lef- 
 fening the Force of a Stream,; to divert it into feveral 
 Channels, F z 3. By 
 
?. By Vertue of this League with the Emperor,.it’s 
 very probable we might obtain an eafe from Eerfeeutm 
 for our Proteflant Brethren, notonly in the.Empire bu't 
 in Hungary and other Countries under his own imme¬ 
 diate Power. This it’s, highly reafonable to think he 
 would grant, as an Acknowledgment!/afiour..Kindnefs, 
 and on the accouut of his. owmlrtterefty that, the Trench 
 may not improve the Perfection m'ihhgay as a'Back¬ 
 door toiet in the Turks again upon the Empire. If this 
 were obtain’d it would makegood the Defeat of the 
 Treaty of Refwick, on that Heady which hath ruin ? d.To 
 many Hundreds of Proteflant Churches, and expofes tlfe 
 Reformed in the Empire to fuch barbarous Perfections, 
 particularly thofe of the Talatinate *, for whom, in this 
 Cafe, the Emperor might eafily obtain, nay command 
 Liberty at the Hands of his Brother-in-law, the Eletfor 
 Palathi, 
 
 4. This League betwixt England, Holland and the Em¬ 
 pire, would be one of the fureft Methods in the World 
 to prevents Religious War-, and by confequence blow 
 the Tempefl over upon Italy, which-the Court of. Rome 
 defigns fhould disburden it felf upon us. 
 
 But in cafe the Conclave of fame fhould have fo much 
 Addrefs under the Conduct of their young Politick Head 
 as to find Methods to-cement the different Interefts of 
 the Emperor and Prance, and to unite them againft the 
 Reformation, by Inter-marriages, the Conceffion ofMi- 
 hu to the Houfe of Jujlria.and a Promife of the Atfiftance 
 of F ranee to make the Emperor abfolute in Germany $ 
 provided he refigns his Pretenfions to the Spanifh Sue 4 
 ceilion, it would feem neceflary that we fhould be pro¬ 
 vided againft it. This project ’tis true will be. hard to 
 execute, and fome may think it impolitick in France to 
 fall in with it, becaufe the Emperor by this means will 
 
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 become too redoubtable, but confidering the Bigotry 
 that pofletfes both thofe Families, the known MSxim of 
 the-Romifh Church, that the Propagation of her Faith 
 muft be preferr’d to all other Interefts, and that tho’the 
 Emperor were abfolute in Germany , the United Force of 
 - France, Spain and the Netherlands] fupported by the trea- 
 -America, will bean Over-match for him, the 
 'Propofal may be more tempting to a weak and ambitious 
 Min^ than we can imagine. ■ 
 
 ; Be that how it-'will, it’s certain the Proteftant Inte- 
 i'eft ; is in : very , great 'danger,-aS : Matters are now, and 
 fnuft be much -more fo, if filch a Conjunction lhould 
 happen. Therefore it is requifite that they lhould be¬ 
 think themfelves of Methods for their oWn Security in 
 all Events. TheRomifh Idolatry hath- a great Advan¬ 
 tage over the Reformation, iti thefe following Particu¬ 
 lars: ■ .. 
 
 (i.) That it better fuits the ambitious Defigns of 
 Princes who have a mind to be arbitrary: For a^Tar- 
 gefs to the Church, they may foon be abfolv’d from all 
 Obligations 1 tO-' maintain their Subjects-iti the:pofleflioh 
 of their Property ; €oronatioii-Oaths,- : Inftruments of 
 Government,' FdUa Conventa , Claims of Right, Golden 
 Bulls, Conflitutions of Diets, Parliaments and Cortes, 
 -othMiafoyow itfilly ar$ but fo>many Cobwebs, <thataro 
 e3fily°fvfep : 'db'Wh by-the ‘Pope’s Uifp'enfatJon. - 
 ders, Alfalfmations, Maflacres, and the greateft' of 
 Crimes tfiat ; Hell canfuggelt,-or that bepravcLMen cam 
 ! execute,- may ealily be hallow’d by the PopeV Confe- 
 erkioii. : ’To break -Faith with Heretieks is a- Vertue, to 
 obferVe it is a .Crime, by the-Determination of their 
 Councils'-, fo that’we cannot take too many Precauti¬ 
 ons againft that Religion, and the Princes that' profefs 
 it, Honour and- good Nature^ does fometimcsioyercome 
 
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 the Poifon of their Principles, but that is- not to -be re¬ 
 lied on. 
 
 A fecond Advantage that Popery has over the Refor¬ 
 mation is this, That according to their Principles, Men 
 may be as wicked as they pleafe. and yet force their way 
 to Heaven, by Pardons, Indulgences, Jubilees, Pennan- 
 ces, Soul MafTes, &c. but bell of all by persecuting 
 and deftroying thofe they call Hereticks, this is a ready 
 Attonement for the greateft Cruelty,- or moft unnatural 
 Lulls and therefore a Principle that' the Reformed ought 
 to provide againft, as one of the moft prevailing upon 
 deprav'd Nature, that ever the Author of falfe Religi¬ 
 ons invented. 
 
 A third Advantage they have over the Reformed is 
 this, That the Romanifts have a fix’d and certain Head, 
 who protetts and affifts them all over the \yorld, and 
 to him they have recourfe in all Exigences. The Pope 
 or rather the See of Rmne, is the Centre of their Uni¬ 
 on ; and, tho' their Differences amongft themfelves be 
 greater, more numerous, and purfued with as much 
 Acrimony as thofe among Proteftants, ; , the Pope and his 
 Conclave are, fo politick as to keep, all of them within 
 the Pale of the Church, and, to the fhame of fome Pro¬ 
 teftants don’t narrow the Terms of Communion, fo gs 
 to throw any of them out; nor are their- different .Opi¬ 
 nions an Obftruttion to the Civil Preferment of any 
 Layman of this or that Sett. ./ 
 
 In order to counter-ballance thofe Advantages, it fol¬ 
 lows naturally, ThatProteftant Princes and States fhould 
 enter into a League offenfive and dqfenfive upon the Ac¬ 
 count of their Religion.. That the Government of eve¬ 
 ry Proteftant Kingdom and State fhould take care that 
 no Proteftants, who agree in the eftablifh’d Dottrine of 
 their refpettive Kingdoms or States* (hould for their 
 
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 difFa-ences in other things be made uncapable of Eccleli- 
 aftical or Civil Preferment;, that there lhould be a mu¬ 
 tual Forbearance of one auother in thofe minute Differ¬ 
 ences, and no other .Terms of. Communion impos’d up¬ 
 on any, but thofe that are the revealed Terms of Sal¬ 
 vation. There’s no reformed Nation in the World fo 
 guilty of this as England, and therefore it’s our Intereft 
 more than others.to beware of it. 
 
 The? the Principles of .the Reformation for , which is 
 all one, true ChriftianityJ are fo noble and fublitae, that 
 they will notallow us to look for a Spiritual Head any 
 lower , than Heaven,...it does not therefore follow, but 
 Proteftants may agree upon a -Common Proteftor and 
 Civil Head on. Earth. This falls naturally upon the Go¬ 
 vernment of our Ifland, and was gloriously perform’d by 
 Q -Elizabeth , notwithftanding the difadvantage ofher 
 Sex : Why thofe. who fucceeded her, till the. late Revo¬ 
 lution; did not aft the fame part; the Reafons are fo well - 
 known that they .need not be. infilled on. " 
 
 But now that God hath blefs’d us with a Prince, the 
 Hero of his Age, and the Reprefentative of a Family, 
 which for an hundred Years paft, hath been the Scourge ■ 
 of Popery, and the Buckler of the Reformation; what is 
 it that can hinder, the Proteftant World from acknow¬ 
 ledging. him as their Common Proteftor? In order to 
 this it.feems to be the Intereft of this Nation to enable 
 his Majefty to aft as fuch, and to affift. him in an Enqui¬ 
 ry, to. find out and prevent the Caufes why the Prote¬ 
 ftant Intereft has. declin’d fo much of late all over the ' 
 World. Therewas no Caufe of wondring at it, when ! 
 Louis XIV. triumphed, every-where without controul; . 
 and when the Throne of Great Britain was become a 
 Votary to Rome. But if the Conquefts of that Church 
 lhould ftill.continue.to be enlarg’d, when England and 
 '. .. HoU_and } d 
 
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 Maud, the two great Proteftant Powers of- Europe 'Hre 
 united under one gallant Proteftant Prince, who hath 
 diftinguilhed himfelf as much by his Zeal for his Reli¬ 
 gion, as by his Valour in the Field, it muff needs argue 
 an unpardonable Defect fome where, which certainly no 
 good Proteftant will refufe to join with his Majefty, in 
 finding out, and endeavouring to remedy. 
 
 In order to enable his Majefty to take upon him this 
 glorious Province, tis not only seceftary that there 
 ftiould fee fuch a League amongft Proteftant Princes and 
 States, as above-mention d; and that they ^ ftiould all 
 agree to give his Majefty full Power to enquire into the 
 Invafions made upon the Proteftant Liter eft, through the 
 World, and, in the Name of the. whole, toproteft a- 
 gainft them, and demand and attempt a Redrefs*, but 
 that all Differences among our felves (hould likewife be 
 fo far compromifed, as it ftiall not be in the power of a- ' 
 ny future Prince or Party , Domeftick or Foreign, to arm 
 Proteftants of one Denomination, againft thofe of ano¬ 
 ther, on any pretence whatfoever. That was the Me¬ 
 thod taken in the late Reigns to introduce Popery Sla¬ 
 very, and therefore having already fuffered under it, we 
 ftiould be the more careful to avoid it. Nor ftiould this 
 Precaution extend only to Differences in Matters of Re* 
 iigicn, but alio to thofe of another Nature, which have 
 been made ufe of to foment Civil Differences amongft us, 
 fuch as Mens different Opinions about the Extent of Pre¬ 
 rogative, or the Prmkdge and Power of Parliaments ; 
 by which we have been and continue ftill to be divided, 
 under the odious Diftinftions of Whig and lory. There’s 
 no wife Man of either of thofe Denominations, but 
 when fedately difcours’d, will tell you, that he's for 
 preferving the true Englilh Conftitution; then fince it 
 is fo, and that the known Laws of the Land are the 
 Boundary 
 
r 41): 
 
 Boundary betwixt Prerogative and Property. What ' 
 reafon is there that.any;Man who is willing to give that 
 Security for his Allegiance, which the ; Law requires, 
 Ihould be look’d upon with an evil Eye, or be thought 
 uncapable of ferving the State. Such Differences , as 
 they weaken our Mutual Confidence in one another, and 
 render usuneafie at home, make us alfo the lefs confide¬ 
 rable abroad, and more fubjeft to the Intrigues of Fo¬ 
 reign Princes and States. It was a judicious Obferva- 
 tion of Sir William Temple, in the fecond Volume of his 
 Letters, Page 229. where he writes thus to Sir. John Tre- ■' 
 vor, from the Hague, July.22, t 6 jo. ‘lam forry the; 
 
 ‘ Bulinefs of Conventicles gives you fomuch trouble, '. 
 
 ‘ and would vvilh we were at a good end of a 1 ! fuch : 
 
 ‘ Controverfies which make his Majefty appear abroad 
 ‘ to have fo great and confiderable a Number of Subjects 1 
 ‘ that have not learnt to-obey him, and confequently i 
 
 * make up no part of his Strength, but feera rather to 
 4 lelfenit, and amufe People both at home and abroad 
 4 with Imaginations of Changes: Yet Monfieur Van Beu- 
 
 * ninghen hath reprefented it hither as a Bufinefs which 
 4 his Ma jefty will eafier Mafter than you feem to be con- 
 4 fident of, but their Intereft here may help them to be- 
 4 leive, as well as to defire it: upon the Expe&ation of 
 4 fo many Perfons and Stocks as will be brought over to 
 
 * them upon this Occafion , and makes, as they Tup- 
 4 pofe,a confiderableincreafe of their Trade and diminu- - 
 4 tion of ours. 
 
 Thefe Differences in Opinion are not the only E- 
 vils we labour under, we are alfo divided in Matters of 
 Trade, Company againft Company, and all of them a-' 
 gainft the trading of any other but themfelves. It’s' 
 known what Influences thofe Divifions have had. upon 
 feme late Ele&ions5 what further influence they ma jm 
 G have 
 
( 40 . 
 
 have that way upon the Government at lad, arid by' 
 confequence upon our Peace, is not eafiiy forefeen, arid 
 cannot be prevented without difficulty, if thofe whofe 
 buftnefs it is don’t take fpeedy and proper Meafures to 
 bring thofe Differences to an accommodation. 
 
 The fame is to be faid as to the Grievances complain’d; 
 of by the Scots andIrifh; Care ought to be taken, that 
 what they juftly complain of (herald be fpeedily re- 
 urefs’d. The Advicts offuch Perfons or Trading Com- 
 panies who have different Views from what the Parlia¬ 
 ments of thofe two Kingdoms think to be their indifpen- 
 iable Inrerefrs,.feem not fo proper to be follow’d in thofe 
 Matters, an amicable Conference betwixt Gommiffio- 
 ners chofen by the Parliaments of all the three Nations* 
 authoris’d for that end by his Majefty, would feem to 
 be a proper Expedient for removing fuch' Mifunder- 
 fratidings as are already cropp’d in, and to prevent fuch 
 for the future: Our Union is our Safety 5. further Divi- 
 tion'. in the preftnt Conjuncture, may open a Back-door 
 for the common Enemy, and until further Methods can- 
 be rdblv’d on, it would feem neceffary, that nothing 
 fcould be done which looks like a- denial of any thing 
 that thefe two Nations can juft'y claim as the Right of 
 their Confutation. His Majefty hath again and again de¬ 
 clar’d very gracioufiy, that he mil never believe , that the- 
 true Inter eft of hk Crown anti hk People' can be oppoftte 5.' 
 •which is a fair Warning for all Perfons to beware of the- 
 Conferences that may follow any Attempts to divide, 
 thofe two interefts that ought to be infeparable.. 
 
 His Majefty having given his Subje&s fuch Affuranees; 
 on his part, it remains, that we (hould give him all duel' 
 Marks of Fidelity and Confidence an ours ^ and fincehis; 
 Ma jetty’s Courage in War , and Conduct in Peace, are 
 & well known as to be own’d by his very Enemies the 
 
 high- 
 
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 higheft deference ought to be paid to his Council and Ad¬ 
 vice, as to what is neceffary for enabling us to defend our 
 felves, and to affift our Neighbours as occafion requires 5 
 whether this is beft to bedone by raiting Forces at home, 
 and fending them abroad, of by making ufeofour native 
 Strength to defend qur felves,and hireing Foreign Troops, 
 to affift our Allies, and under what Regulations and 
 Provifos for the fecuring of pur Liberties againft fuch 
 Dangers as may be reaforiably apprehended from Armies, 
 in out Pay at home or abro.id, muftbe left, as ic’s fit ic 
 ftiould, to the wife Determination of King and Parlia¬ 
 ment 5 betwixt.whom when they meet, may Heaven 
 create a good underftanding. 
 
 In the mean time if his Majeftyand his Parliament 
 lhall agree upon it as the Intereftof the Nation, to en¬ 
 ter into aLeague.with the Dutch and the Empire, &c. 
 to oblige the French King to ftand to the Treaty of Par¬ 
 tition , or to affert the Archdukes Right to the whole 
 Succeffion, thus much we may venture to fay, That the 
 Naval Force of England and Holland , commanded by 
 fuch Perfons, as the King and the Nations confide in, 
 may in all probability bringthe Warto a fpeedy Coii- 
 clufion. This we have good reafon to belive if befides 
 what is neceffary for our Defence at home, we fend 
 fuch Squadrons abroad as may fecure theTreafure of the 
 Weft-Indies for the life of the League. By this means 
 we poffefs our felves of the moft valuable part of the 
 Spanilh Monarchy, till the Succeffion be fo fetled, as to 
 keep the Ballance of Europe in its due Scituation. We 
 cut off the Sinews of War from the common Enemy, 
 and'make Spain and its Dominions in Europe a burden 
 to the French inftead of an advantage. 
 
 In order to allthefe great Ends. It’s requifite that 
 more than ordinary care be taken of his Majeftys facred 
 G 2 Perfon, 
 
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 Perion, our own Safety, as well as that of all Europe, feetns 
 •next to the Divine Protection, to be:wrap'd up. in his 
 Angle Lite ^ and that it may be in .danger by Affaffins, 
 our former Experience, the late publication oiCimnocl^s 
 •prteended Letter, the known Temper of our Enemies, 
 .the prefent Conjuncture of Affairs, and fufpicious Ad¬ 
 vices from abroad, gives us too juft caufe to appre¬ 
 hend. . • ' : 
 
 . ThefeCouAderations having fwelled already beyond 
 the Proportion intended at hr ft, what follows Thai! be 
 difpatch’d in as few words as poflible. It’s, probable that 
 ■the prefent Conjuncture may occaAon a change in the 
 Conduct of the Court of Vienna. Ir feems r to be their 
 Intereft, to grant a fpeedy Redrefs of all thofe Grie¬ 
 vances complain’d of by the Princes, and States of the 
 .Empirein Matters Religious or Civil,. It’s a. very falfe 
 ilep in Government for Princes to invade the Rights 
 L of their.Subjects, but efpecially thofe relating to Coh- 
 •feience , over which there’s none but the Tribunal of 
 Heaven can claim any Jurifdiftion. It’s a point which 
 by all Men. that have any regard to Religion is, ac¬ 
 counted the moft tender of any, and as they are the 
 nioft fenfibly touch’d with Injuries of that Nature, their 
 i&efentmems of them make th« deepeft.Impreflion. Ids 
 •therefore the Emperor’s Intereft to forbidall Violence on 
 . that Head immediately.. It’s a.Mortificatiori indeed to 
 haughty Princes to be oblig’d to. yield to. the demands of 
 their Subjects-:, but when they are founded upon Juftice, 
 ■and that at the fame time thofe Princes (land-.in need of 
 the- Purfes and Swords- of their People,, ids their Inter- 
 eft to grant their Deftres- Ithadbeen well if the Houfe 
 of Auftria had learn’d Wifdom in this Matter from for¬ 
 mer Experience. There’s fo much freedom interwoven 
 ia the Conftitudon. of the Empire, that-Men. of Senfe 
 
 there. 
 
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 there, as well as in fome other.-farts of the-World, 
 think it a very great hardlh'ippu'aiporr them,' that they 
 anuft purchafe .good Laws.at the-Expence of • their Trea- 
 fure and Blpptl,-;vvheriF by; all therNotions e>f Goverri- 
 menf, . that we have, fr.dm Reafon' or ReligibiV-Pr inces 
 Teem antecedently oblig’d by the Command of the ; great 
 Legislator to concurr in, making fitch Laws, without 
 any . fitch Confideration. As it is the Intereft of the 
 Emperor todothps, it’s the .Intereft of the Ble&brs arid 
 Princes of the Empire to, accommodate theft* Differen¬ 
 ces with him upon as reafonable;Terms and asfpeedily 
 asmay be y their Appeal ;to. France will but exafperate 
 Matters, and endanger their; Liberty:'. It’s ^particularly 
 the Interefi ofthe Proteftarit Princes and . States to ; be¬ 
 ware of his Mediation. It .would feem more proper for 
 them to have recourfe in all fuch Cafes to the Interpo- 
 fi'tion of England and Bolland. j efpecially in theprefenf 
 Scitnation of-Affairs, when the Power of France is ag¬ 
 grandiz’d to fuch a formidable height. . 
 
 As to the Cantons of Stvijferland and their Allies, it’s 
 like that the prefent Juncture will fcarcely"oblige them 
 to abandon their Neutrality, beeaufethey are liable 
 to Invafions on both fi.des yyetconfidering that France 
 is now at-Peace mthSpain, it’s the Intereft ofthe Swiffers 
 to fecure themfelves againft the Defigns of France, by 
 , frefh Alliances, and confidering that the Proteftants are 
 by far the moft numerous: part ;of the- Swiffers, joining 
 • of the Reformed Cantons, in mProteftant League, feems 
 abfolutely neceffary,. and on the whole, it’s their Inter¬ 
 eft to help to keep the Ballance betwxt France and 
 . Aitftria, in an equal Counterpoife, by. fuch Methods as 
 ..t-heirPrudence fuggefts;’. . 
 
 ; For the Princes and-Statcs of Italy, it’s evidently their 
 - intereft to,do die fame,. to the Balance' of Chriftendm• 
 
 fee 
 
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 for to which fide foever it incline, they are in danger 5 
 but confidering that die two Branches of the Family of 
 Bourbon lye contiguous to one another, and have a great 
 Naval Force 3 it’s certainly their Intereft that the Spani{h 
 Succeffion fhould rather be fetded on the Arch-Duke, 
 and to contribute towards it privately, till an Oppor¬ 
 tunity offer for doing it otherwife. 
 
 It’s the fame, as to the Portuguife ; but as their Dan¬ 
 ger of being fwailowed up immediately obliges them to 
 ad with Caution, it’s an equal Obligation Upon the 0- 
 ther Princes of Europe, to prevent the Addition of that 
 Kingdom and it’sFcreign Plantations, to the Houfe of 
 Bourbon j and when any Endeavour of that Nature is 
 made by the Potentates of Chrifimdom, ids the undoub¬ 
 ted Intereft of Portugal to join them with their utmoft 
 Strength, and to contribute to the fame underhand, un¬ 
 til fuch time as they may avow it with fafety. 
 
 For the Northern Crowns, they muft needs exped to 
 have their Neighbouring Dominions on the Continent 
 fpeedily fwailowed up, if once the French become Ma¬ 
 ilers of the Netherlands. Their Navagation muft in a 
 little time after become meerly precarious, and their Re¬ 
 ligion and Liberty at the Mercy of the Houfe of Bourbon. 
 Butfince its the Maxim of thofe two Crowns always to 
 take different (ides, it’s in the Power of the Englilh and 
 Dutch tin Conjundion with the Empire to engage the 
 ftrqngeft on our fide, and to oblige the other to their 
 good Behaviour, on painoffmartingfbrit,in cafe they 
 take Meafures contrary to the Proteftant Intereft, and 
 and the Liberty office. 
 
 For the Hans Towns on that fide, the Form of their 
 Government and the Intereft of their Trade will oblige 
 them to join with the Afferters of Liberty; and 
 for the Repnblick of Poland, their Intereft is the fame. 
 
 They 
 
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 They have as ranch 1 Reafon as any People whatever, to • 
 dread the EricfCafe of the French Power, {or befides that 
 jt'wlil be fatal to their-Liberty and Form of Government* 
 they mull: take Care of giving the French an Opportu¬ 
 nity of revenging the Affront put upon them* by reject¬ 
 ing the Prince of Conti, and confidering the Sufpicion 
 that fome have of their King to redder himfelf'Abfolute, ■ 
 and the Crown Hereditary, and ■ that they have their 
 inteftine Broils to ftruggle with; it’s probable, that the 
 Trouble they give to Sweden , will be of no long duration, 
 the Ele&or of Brandenburg, alone is capable of doing ' 
 much to bring that War to a Period', and confidering his 
 own Interefi, and the new Obligations laid upon him by ' 
 the Emperor, there’s ground to believe, that lie will take 
 effectual'Meafures in that Affair: ; 
 
 The CzarofM^^ ffeem'd by his late Ramble int&> 
 thefe Parts of the world, to have no -Inclination 1 to the! 
 French Interefi, but, on the contrary, to hate it; and 
 therefore it cannot be his advantage to carry on the De- : 
 figns of France by difturbing the Peace of the North. ‘ 
 That will only expofe his own Dominions and the 
 Greek Church to the future Attempts of France and 1 
 Rome, and totally mine his Trade, which he feems de- 
 (irous to advance: But, if he continue obftinate, it’s in; 
 the power of the Englifh, Dutch arid Swedes to give 
 him a Naval Meeting on the fide of Archangel, befides. 
 what the latter are capable of doing by Farid, which 
 may foon convince him, that it is more his Interefi to; ' 
 turn his Arms againft the effeminate PerfiariS and other 
 Eafterimgs where ; he mhf, fin Abetter Eooty Witff fewer 
 Blows. ■ 
 
 For theSatisfadion.of the Reader,, we {half conclude 
 withthe Articles oftheFf erieh. King’s- Contra^ of Mar^ 
 
 rage 
 
( 4 *> 
 
 riage, wherein he renounces the Spanilh Succeffion for - 
 himieif and his Heirs, the Article of the Treaty, of the ( 
 Pyrenees upon the fame Subjed, and the Article of Philip 
 the Fourths Will relating to it, that the State of the prq- ;. 
 fentControverliemaybefetin its full Light. 
 
 The Clanfe of Renunciation, in the Contract ofMarraige he- 
 tmxt his moft Cbriftim Majejly and Dona Maria The- 
 reiao/Auftria, 
 
 T Hat forafrauch as their moft Chriftian and Catho- . 
 
 lick Majefties are come and do come to-conclude 
 a Marriage, in order to the perpetuating and fecuring, by 
 means of this Tie ofAffection, the publick Peace of Chri- 
 ftendom, and between their Majefties, that Love and A- 
 mity, which every Body hopes there is between them. 
 As alfo for what concerns and imports the Good of the 
 Republick and the Prefervation of the two Crowns, ' 
 which being fo Great and Puiflant, they cannot be uni¬ 
 ted into One; and that from henceforward th-. OccaGons . 
 offuch a Conjunction may be prevented. Therefore ' 
 confidering the Quality ofthe Subjeb, and other juft 
 Reafons, more efpecially that ofEqua-ity, which ought 
 to be preferred. Their Majefties A gree and Ordain, by 
 Contraband..covenanted Compact between themfelves, 
 which ihall-iffue'forth, and obtain the Place, Force and' 
 Vigour ofa-firm and-eftablifti’d Law for ever, in fa¬ 
 vour of their Kingdoms, and for the common Welfare 
 of both, . That the moft Serene Infanta of Spain, Dona. ; 
 Maria- Therefa, and the Children begot bf her Body, 
 whether Male or Female, and their Pofterity, i ft, or . 
 2d, 3d, or 4th Generation born after her, in what De¬ 
 gree foever they maybe; that is to. fay,-for ever, nei¬ 
 ther can fucqeed, nor may fucceed to the Kingdoms, 
 
 Eftates, 
 
( 49 ) 
 
 Eftates, Signiories and- Dominions which belong or (ball 
 belong to. his Catholick Majefty, and which are com¬ 
 prehended under, the Titles and Qualities mention’d 
 in this prefent Capitulation, nor to any of his other 
 Kingdoms, Eftates, Signiories, Provinces, adjacent 
 Iflands, Captainfhips, nor to the Frontiers which his 
 Catholick Majefty,pofTeffeth at prefent, or which do 
 dr may belong 'to. him," as well within as without the 
 Kingdom of Spain, and winch for the future his Ca¬ 
 tholick Majefty or his Succeffors, fhall.have or polfefs, 
 
 5 r which ftrall belong to himor,them; nor to any that 
 ; ^re comprehended in thefe, or depend upon' them; 
 lior to any of th'ofc which hereafter at any time what¬ 
 ever may accrue to him, or which lie may acquire or 
 add to his faid Kingdoms, Eftates or Dominions,, or 
 which he may regain, or which may efcheat td.him by 
 Devolution , of by any other Title, Right' or Rcafqn 
 whatsoever, tho’ it were during the Life of the faid 
 moft Serene Infanta, Dona Mark Therefa , or after her 
 Death'in- the Life-time of any of her Off-fpring, hrft, 
 fecond , .third bpm, or-further, whereby, any Ground 
 or Grbunds in Law, b-y which either ot Right, or by 
 the Laws and Cuiftoms of the faid Kingdom, Eftates or 
 Dominions, or by the Difpofals of Titles, by which they 
 might fucceed Or, pretend to fucceed to, the laid King¬ 
 dom's; may be faid to belong jto 
 
 themfrbmtlie Succefliony in all which Cafes'the faid 
 Dona 'Mark fherefa fays and declares her felf to be 
 from henceforth excluded, and to remain truly and 
 lawfully excluded, together with all her, Children and 
 Pofterity, Male or Female, tho’ they would or could 
 fay or. pretend- , that in their perfons neither the faid 
 Reafons of State, nor any others, upon which the faid 
 Exclufion might be grounded , could .be of force, or 
 H • • could 
 
( 5 ° )' 
 
 could or ought to be confidered, or that they fhould 
 alledge (which God forbid) that theSucceffion of 
 the Caiholick King, or his rrtoft ferene Princes or In¬ 
 fants, and abundance of Males which he has and may 
 have for his lawful SucceiTors were fail’d and extinct. 
 As a'ifo, notwithftanding all the Laws and Cuftoms of 
 the Crown of France, which , to the Exclufion of the 
 Sue cifors to that Crown, dppofe thertlielves tO the 
 abo\ e-mentioned Exclufion, as well at prefent as for 
 the time to come: Upon 'which Cohfidpratioiis join’d 
 together, and every one in particular, their faid Ma- 
 jeii.es abrogate whatever they contradict or impeach 
 being contained in this Contract, aiid whatever may 
 hinder the Accomplifhment and Execution thereof, ana 
 that for the Approbation and Ratification of this prefent 
 Capitulation, they derogate from all things prejudicial 
 to it, and hold them derogated. 
 
 The Ratification of His Mofi Chrifiian Majefiy. 
 
 W E, with the Advice of the Queen, bhr thrice 
 honoured Lady and Mother, and our moil; 
 beloved only Brother the Duke of Anjou, feveral Prin¬ 
 ces, Dukes, Peers, and Officers, of our Crown, and 
 other great and remarkable Perlonages of 'our Council, 
 after we have caus’d the faid Treaty to be read ^bfd biy 
 Word, have agreed to it, approv’d and ratify’d, and do 
 agree to it, approve and ratify, it, in all and every the 
 Points and Articles by thefe Prefcnts Sign’d with out 
 Hand, prOmifing, upon tlie Faith and Word of a King 
 inviolably to fulfil, obferve and hold, without ever go¬ 
 ing or coming in oppofition to it, direftly or indirectly, 
 in any fort or manner Whatever; abrogating to that 
 end, as we do hereby abrogate, all Laws, Cultoms, and 
 
 Difpo- 
 
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 Difpolalsto the contrary; for fucli is our Pleafure. In 
 witnefs whereof, we have affixed our Seal to thefe Pre- 
 fents. Given at Tboloufe the 24th of November , in the 
 Year of Grace 1659. and 17th of Our Reign. Sign’d 
 Lotus ; and below, by the King Lomenie. 
 
 The Alt of Renunciation by the Infanta, 
 
 T H E Lady Mam Therefa , Infanta of both Spains , 
 and by the Grace of God future Queen of France, 
 eldeft Daughter of the moft: High, moft Excellent, and 
 Potent Prince, Dm Philip IV. by the fame Grace Catho- 
 lick King of.both Spains, ,my Lord, and of the moft High, 
 moft Excellent, Potent' Princefs, the Lady Jfabella, Ca- 
 tholick Queen, who refts in glory. By this Inftrument 
 .and Aft of Pronunciation, and what is therein over and 
 above contain’d,'be it notorious andmanifeft, tothofe 
 who have any .knowledge of it, in any manner what¬ 
 ever jt.be, thathy the,fecon.d and fourth Article of the 
 Treaty of my Marriage, promis’d with the moftQigh, 
 moil: Excellent, and moft Potent Prince Louis XIV. moft 
 Chriftian King of France , concluded in the Iflarid call’d 
 yhe Ip of-Pheafants, in the River Bidajfoa, within the 
 Jurifdiftion of the Province of Guipufcoa,. and thefe King¬ 
 doms, with that of France , the 7th of November , of the 
 laft Year ,1659. it was .refolv’d and decreed, that the 
 .King my Lord, becaufe,andin confideration of this Mar- 
 . riage, and | to, the end .I fhould carry along with me my 
 Dowry,'”ancl my own proper Goods,Lhould promlfe fliat 
 he would, give ine 500060 Crowns in Sun-Gold,' .which 
 , lhpuld .be paid and deliver’d at the place, and within the 
 Terms fpecified in the faid Article, tothe moft Chriftian 
 ;King, or to fuchPyrfon.as fhouldliave his Power; and 
 that after'thai,! fbould content my felfand reftfatisfied 
 ..H 2 .- - - ai ^ 
 
MM 
 
 end defiit from all Claims and Acb.ons which belong’d, 
 or might belong to me, esrher at prefent or for th.e fu¬ 
 ture, to the Eftates and Inheritance of the molt Serene 
 Queen the Lady Ifi.beHa my Mother, and to the future 
 Succeffion to the King my Lord, whom God have in 
 his keeping, and to all that might belong or appertain 
 to me as the Daughter and Heirefs of their Catholick 
 Majefties, and to their Right and Sovereignty, and to 
 any other Title, thought of, or not thought of, kncrtvn 
 or unknown, as well by the Paternal and Maternal 
 Line, direct or collateral, mediate or immediate; and 
 that being to folemnize the Marriage by prefent pro- 
 mile, I rauil relinquifh and renounce all my Rights and 
 Actions to the King my Lord, or to the Perfon who 
 fhall represent him; and that it is his His Majeftie’s Will 
 and Pleafure, as is ftipulated and declar’d more particu- ; 
 larly by the laid fecond and fourth Articles, which I have 
 read and heard red feveral times, being to confent that 
 this Aft fhould be drawn up, and which I am willing 
 fhould be here inferred, and fet down Letter for Letter, 
 and Word for Word. 
 
 The Se venteenth Article of Philip the Fourths Will confirm¬ 
 ing this Renunciation. 
 
 F Or the fulfilling of thefe Treaties, the Infanta, Ma¬ 
 dam Maria, my Daughter, paffed that Renuncia¬ 
 tion under a folemn Oath in the City of Fontarabie , 
 June 2. 1660. Counter-fign’d by Don Ferdinand de Fon- 
 feca Ruiz de Confer a, our Secretary of State and Notary 
 Publick of thofe Kingdoms; and altho’ we hope that 
 the faid Infanta, our Daughter, and the moft Chriftian 
 King her Husband, will fulfil and obferve whatever is 
 above-mention’d, and whatever is over and above 
 
 con- 
 
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 contain’d in the faid Treaty of Marriage, and in the 
 Renunciation, , to be an Obligation of Juft ice and Con- 
 fcience; neverthelefs, that we may by all the moft direct 
 .ways Secure the fulfilling of it in a Matter and in 
 an Affair wherein confifts the Peace andRepofe of all 
 Chriftendom, behaving our felves as we do in the Qua¬ 
 lity of a Father, and Natural Lord of all our King¬ 
 doms, Eftates and Demefnes, by virtue of that Sove¬ 
 reign Authority, which we in all due-Right poffefs, 
 to difpofe, and for the greateft benefit of our Subjects 
 and the common Caufe, to provide for their better Go¬ 
 vernment, and to prevent the great Damages-that may 
 enfue from a Conjunction of the two Crownsy and their 
 Dependencies, of our own proper Motion, certain Know¬ 
 ledge and Royal and Absolute Power, of which-it is our 
 Pleafure to make ufe, and which we do make ufe of 
 with a notorious and entire Affurance of the Example 
 of our Kingdoms and Dominions, by excluding .the eld- 
 eft Children and their Pofterity, by reafon, and becaufe 
 of Treaties of Peace and Marriage, and for other Con- 
 fiderations Us thereunto moving, we declare, that the 
 moft Serene Infanta, Madam MariaTkerefa, our Daugh¬ 
 ter, and the Children which fhe fhall-have by this Mar¬ 
 riage, Male or Female, and their Poftery, fhall be and 
 remain excluded : And forafmuch as through neceffity 
 we exclude them from all Right or Hope which they . 
 (hall or may have in any cafe whatever, that may hap¬ 
 pen to any of our Kingdoms, Eftates and Dominions, for 
 ever and ever, as if they had never been born. We de¬ 
 clare, That thisExclufion, and all that has been fettled, 
 and which we fettle, in consideration of it, in thePerfon 
 of the Infanta, Madam Maria Tharefa, our Daughter, and 
 her Pofterity by this Marriage, or Female, ought to 
 be fo obferv’d; and forafmuch as there is a neceffity for 
 
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 it, We will and Command, that it be obferv’d, fulfill’d 
 and executed in the Perfon of the moft Serene Queen, 
 Madam our Sifter, and her Pofterity, in conformi¬ 
 ty to her Treaty before Marriage and the Renunciation, 
 and what his Majefty Don Philip III. our Lord and Fa¬ 
 ther fettled by his faid Law, and by his laft Will above 
 recited,concerted and accorded between the two Crowns; 
 and we approve it upon the fame Conditions^ and with 
 the fame Force as Laws ought to have, that are granted 
 and made among Sovereign Princes, ufing their abfolute 
 Power. And werevoke, annul, derogate and abrogate 
 all and every Law and Laws, Rights, Settlements and 
 Cuftoms, which.may in any manner, whatever it were 
 or may be, hinder this Exclufion, as if every one were 
 exprefs’d, that particular mention were made of it. We 
 alfo declare, That if it fhouid fo happen, which God 
 forbid, that the moft Serene Infanta, iliouldcometo. be 
 a Widow, without having any Iffueby.this Marriage, 
 and that he fhouid return into Spain, for the convenien- 
 cy of the Publick good; or, upon juft. Confiderations, 
 fhouid marry again with ourconfent, or of the Prince, 
 our Son, after our deceafe. We Ordain, and fuch -is 
 our Will and Pleafure, That neither the;.faid Exclufion 
 nor Renunciation Ihall deprive her of any thing, but. that 
 file and die-Children of the fecond Wedlock, provided 
 it be not in France v may be capable, of fucceeding in.. the 
 -faid Kingdoms, Eftates, &c. 
 
 The Thirty third Article of the Treaty..of the,f yrenees. 
 
 A Nd to the end,-that this-Peace, -Union, Confqdera- 
 cy and good Correfppndence, may,, as is defit’d, 
 be fo much the more, firm, durable, -.and -indjiffolvable, 
 die faid two Principal Minifters, the. Cardinal Duke, .and 
 
 die 
 
the-Marquis Count Duke, by Vertue of the fp.ecial Powers 
 which they had for this End, from their two Lords and Kings, 
 Have agreed and concluded, in their Name, the Marriage of 
 the molt Cliriftkn King with tlie moft Serene Infanta, the La¬ 
 dy Mary Therefe , eldeft Daughter to the Catholick King, and 
 the fame Dm/ of the date of thefe Prefents,'have made and 
 figif d a - particular Treaty, to which they refer concerning the 
 Reciprocal Conditions of thefaid Marriage, andthe'Time of 
 its Celebtatioiiy which feparate Treaty, rind the Capitulation 
 of Marriage, are of the fame Force and Vigor, with the pre* 
 fent Treaty iff Peace, as being the principal and molt worthy 
 ji'aft of it, as'Well as the greateft and. moft precious Fledge of 
 'thh Certainty of ife Duration./; ■ - ' 
 
 From all thefe Solemn and Authentic ASs we may eafily 
 fee through the Jilftice of the French Pretentions to the Suc- 
 ceflion oi Spain. By thefe it is.alfo evident, that, this Succei- 
 lioh is in the "Opinion of the United WifdOm of the ‘Spanilh. 
 Nation, contrary to their Intereft.' There’s.nO ground to al- 
 ledge, that it is chang’d, as to that Matter, fincethe making 
 of this Treaty ; for the Reafo'nsori. which thefe Renunciations 
 were founded are permanent aild durable, both in relation to 
 Europe, anti that particular Kingdom : The Precautions in their 
 King’s Will againffc admitting Foreigners into Offices of Truft 
 arid Council iignifie"nothings the'whole Juntoeritrrifted with 
 , the 'Ad'miniftratiori is 'capable of hrirrig ’gain’d, -arid-fo much the 
 more, that they have a Cardinal-Prieft at their Head. There’s 
 none fo likely to betray,, or that have fo frequently betray’d 
 • Kingdom's and Stated, as Men Of that Otd£r,7when'admitted 
 . tb any . ilia're of Council bf ASioriy 'It’s thfe 1 Iht^rdft of Spain, 
 to endeavour as 'miich as in theiii lies to have thgif'Government 
 reftor’d on the Foot'of thefe Treaties •, to encourage thePre- 
 teriiions of the’ Imperial Family in the molt fecret and polite 
 Mariner, and when any.pfobable Attctapts are made for affer- 
 tihg tliehi, to gxert their'whqleyStrength, and. Ih'rike off the 
 French Yoke ; they muff otheriwife refolve fo become a Pro¬ 
 vince of France, and in a' little' time to lofe their Sovereignty; 
 tho’ they may retain the Name of it. They have Inftances 
 enough in Europe to Convince them of the danger of being fo 
 treated j but there’s no need of looking any farther than their 
 
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new French Matters; they have from time to,time annex’d 
 other Soveraignties to their Crown ; by which they have ag¬ 
 grandiz’d themfelves and impoverilh’d thofe Countries fo uni¬ 
 ted, the better to keep them under fubjeftion. That this may not 
 be their Fate, they muft take fpecial care that the Enolijh and 
 Dutch have not the nfe of their Ports deny’d them, and that the 
 Traders of thofe Nations be not difeourag’d by new. Indulto’s 
 upon their Bullion, or hindrance of their woollem Manufacto¬ 
 ries, &c. on any Pretence whatfoever j for as we cannot well 
 drive a Mediterranean-Trade without the ufe of their Harbours, 
 and particularly Cadiz. if once we be reftrain’d in that, it will 
 ifl'ue in their own ruine, and deprive them of the only Friends 
 that are capable to defend them in the enjoyment of what Liber¬ 
 ty they have left, or in the recovery of what'they have loft.' 
 
 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 S ince the Writing of this, the Scene of Affairs in the North is 
 alter’d, by the defeat of the Mufcovites before Nerva, : ; 
 which, if duly improv’d, may be of great Advantage to the 
 Houfeof Jttftra and thofe that joynthem, to bring the French 
 to Reafon. The Northern Crowns, being now deliver’d from 
 an impending Storm, are at leifure, if they pleafe, to affift his 
 Imperial Majefty with a conflderable Force by Sea ; and as this 
 may be of ufe to. him, it will be one Of the.belt Methods'to 
 prevent their falling out betwixt themfelves: The Emperor has 
 it in his Power, as they are Princes of the . Empire, to give 
 them iuch Incouragement as may readily induce them to it. 
 
 . In that cafe the King of Poland, bythe Jealoufies of his new 
 . Subjects, the -Danger of lofing his old Ones, and Promifes of 
 _ Favour which the Emperor-may grant’ him,'.will probably be 
 forc’d to lay down his Arms, and fo much the more readily, 
 that his Enemies are Victorious. -Nor would it be improper 
 . to encourage the Cz.ar to turn his Arms Eaftward. or Southerly, 
 
 ■ where his Lawrels, that are. Wither’d by the'Northerh Frofts, 
 . may be reviv’d again by the Beams of'the; Sun.’ This, would 
 : be one effectual Way to prevent! new Troubles from the Turks , 
 and give his Imperial Majefty a good opportunity of obliging 
 fome other People to aCt more like Chriltians. 
 
 F I N I S.