I Should not bee that which God hath made me to be , your Majesties most obedyent and most faythfull Subject , if I were not a thousand times more jealous and zealous for the preservation of your Maiesties , and your royall Childrens welfare and honnor then of myne owne life ; But sith Grace hath made me soe fortunat , and Nature soe happie , as alsoe composed me of a temper , that I had rather die for speaking the truth , then liue eyther to Conceale or Desemble it to your Maiestie ; Therfore in the behalfe of the forsaken Prince Palatyne , your Sonne in Lawe , of his sorowfull Princesse your onlie Daughter , and their mournfull posteritie , for the losse of their neglected Patrimonie the Pallatinat , wherin my Conscience ( guyded by the truthe ) informes my soule that your Maiesties honnor extreamlie suffers . Giue mee leaue , O giue me leaue my Most Gratious King ( in all humilitie and Dutie ) to send these ensewing motiues and reasons , to your Maiesties serious pervsal & consideration , therby to incyte and stirre up your Royall resolutions , for the refetching and reconquering therof , wheron at present the eyes of the whole Christian worlde are constantlie fixed . And thou great God of Heaven , whoe ( at thie pleasure and in thie providence ) swayest the harts and hands , the affections and actions of all the Kinges of the Earth thie Vicegerents ; So blesse my Soveraign and all his sences in the reading therof , that his Majesties Iudgement prevayle ore his passion , his Courage out-braue his feare ; that naked Truth may take place of disguised Imposture , and royall Iustice triumph ore hoodwincked and treacherous Vsurpation .

Although it be true , that the Prince Palatyne your Son in Law , committed a first errour of Estate , in assuming and taking on him the Crowne of Bohemia ; will your Majestie therfore commit a second in permitting him to lose his Pallatinat : or because hee wanted no Ambition but Iudgment to attempt that ; must your Ma tie . therfore want affection , zeale , and equitie to him , to the Princess your Daughter and their royall Issue , to tollerate & suffer this . You likewise sawe and suffered the Emperour to chastice him from Bohemia ; and therin you shewed an act of Iustice , which celebrates your fame to all Europe ; but if your Majestie permit him for euer to ruyne him , and absolutelie to Depriue him of his and his Childrens Patrimonie , that wil be a Dishonorable testimonie of too great disrepect , and want of affection in your Majestie as being their Father , and of too much feare & pusilanimitie as beeing a Great and Potent King ; and this will not onlie blemish but eclipse it to all the world . Doe I speake of Dishonnor , O then I beseech your Majestie to consider , how long Honor is purchasing , how soone lost , and that having sacrificed all the actions of our life to preserue it , wee neede but one Errour to ruyne it ; and as the meanest Gentelman is bound to this rule , soe the greatest Princes and Monarckes of the world , haue ( consequentlie ) the greatest shares and interrests in the prevention therof . For the true Matchiavillians and Emperickes of Estate , who tearme honnor but smoke , are deceived and ignorant of Honnor ; Sith to defyne it aright , it is the purest golde of a Kinges crowne , and the richest Diamond to embelish and adorne it ; yea , it is a great part of that which makes a King a King , because it giues him just reason to Commaund his subjects , & they as just cause to obey him ; and which is more , the retaining therof pure , and the preserving therof immaculate , makes him to bee both feared and beloved of all his neighbour Princes , whoe otherwise will haue just cause to neglect & Contemne him , because he first contemned and neglected it . Soe were your Ma tie . onlie a spectator , and not an Actor , or had you noe Interest in the Pallatynat , you should then receiue noe Dishonnor not to attempt , or seeke the restitution therof . But sith ( for the good of your Disinherited Children ) you haue as deepe Interest in that famous Province , as you haue in the Royall blood which streames in their hartes and veynes , will it not be an honnor for your Majestie to restore it to them , sith it was lost with shame , and a shame if you restore not them to it with honnor : And in regard the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria haue conquered it from them by Vsurpation , will it not bee an action as full of Compassion as glorie , for the King of Great Brittayne to reconquer it from them with Iustice . And although peradventure , the current of other mens affections and passions , transport your Majestie from the true way of truth , in beleeuing that the Dishonnor of this losse , falls onlie on the Count Pallatyne , & no way reflects on your Royall and Sacred person , yet the best of your subjects beleeue , though the woorst are soe treacherous to affirme the contrarie , that the Honnor of your three Crownes and Kingdoms , doe infinitly suffer in the loss of this one famous Province , because it is the Inheritance of the Prince your Sonne in Lawe , the Dowrie of his Princesse your Daughter , and the Patrimonie of those Royall plants their Children ; In which consideration , is not the losse therof as worthie of your Compassion , as the reconquering is of your Courage . For if your Majestie whoe is a potent and mightie Monarcke , permit this Illustrious ( though poore ) Prince your Sonne in Law to bee deprived of his Pallatynate , and Electorate ( and consequentlie ruyned in his reputation for euer ) you haue farre more reason to rest confident then incredulous ; that the Austrian Princes excepted of the one side , and those Princes to whome you are allyed by blood or affinitie of the other , as you will assuredly make him the pittie , soe you will likewise infalliblie make your selfe the laughture of all the rest of the Princes of Christendom .

But how can the Prince Pallatyne hope of soe great , and soe just a felicitie that your Majestie will restore him to his Pallatynat , sith you mought haue donne it with farre facilitie and lesse charge , when Heidelberg the head , and Manheym and Frankendale , the two eyes of that Province couragiously held out , and were yet in lyfe and vigour ; and that 5000. of your subjects then added to these Valiant bands , which were alreadie there vnder the Conduct of Noble Vere , and Braue Boroughes , &c. would not onlie haue prevented the ambitious Designes , but also ruyned the covetous resolutions of the Emperour , and Duke of Bavaria in the vsurping therof ; which now 15000. can difficultlie effect . How can hee hope for it , when ( under the cloake of consignation & sequestration ) hee sees with feare that your Majestie hath given away Frankendale to its Deprivation ; How can hee hope of this courtesie from your Sword , when your Majestie , and your Ambassadours , your tongue and your penne haue actually consented to dishonnor him , by dispoyling him of his Honnors : For as the Emperour justlie razed out his Title of King of Bohemia , soe your Majestie derogated from the affection of a Father , to ommit and exclude those of Count Pallatyne and Elector , in all your Treaties , and negotiations with the Emperour , the King of Spayne , the Archdutchesse , and the rest of the Princes Electors of Germanie , vnlesse your Majestie were desirous , that the sayd Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe , should be by his enemies degraded of his Honnors and Dignities before his tyme , which untimely omission & connivency of your Majestie , hath in undervalewing him , extreamly undervalewed your selfe , and made the pride of the Emperour , and his Duke of Bavaria , flye a pitch both beyond themselues and beyond Ambition . How can he hope for it , sith your Majestie now permits that the Dukes of Brunswicke , and Lunebourg , Count Mansfield , the Lantgraue Maurice , with other Noblemen their adhaerents and partisans , whoe haue wedded his quarrell , should now bee abandoned by your Treatie , and held unworthie to bee affected and protected by your Ma ties . royall favour and assistance ; that they whoe haue soe valiantlie and constantlie defended his cause , ( and in it the generall good and peace of Germanie ) should now by your Treatie of Suspension of Armes , be enforced to let fall their swordes out of their handes , and with them their lyues , That they whoe ( partlie out of affection to him , and partlie out of your Majesties owne procurement and solicitation to themselues ) haue prodigally spent their wealth and blood for his sake and seruice ; should now by him and your Majestie , bee abandoned as a prey , and sacrificed as Victymes to the implacable revenge of the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria ; an Act soe odious and dishonnorable in the sight of God and man , as neyther your Maiestie , nor the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe , can heare it proposed without extreame ingratitude , nor consent therto without infinite shame and eternall Dishonnor , both to your persons and memories . How can he hope for it , when he understands that manie of your Courtiers ( with lesse judgement then passion , and more Enuie then truth and Charitie ) doe without controlement , tearme the Princes of Germany Traytors for hauing assisted him , and yet what haue they not hazarded for his affection , and attempted for his service . How can hee hope for it , when your Maiestie permitted the Emperour , and Duke of Bavaria , to violate in hostile manner the Royall protection , wherin you tooke and receyued that which remayned of the Pallatynat , and when you had commaunded your sayd Sonne in Lawe to Disarme , and hee and all his Armie to desist and retyre , that then contrarie to your royall promise to him , as alsoe to your owne expectation , you should permit his Enemies to conclude and finish their Conquest of his Countrye ; Which in effect was to ruyne him whome you promised to assist , A scarre and sicatrice , which will infallibly remayne apparant and notorious upon the face of your Majesties raigne , except the remedie and resolution of your Sword redeeme and deface it . How can hee hope for it , when as the common compassion of those whoe are least Compassionate , are I wish I could as soone remedie as Pittie your deiected Estate ; and that this of your Majestie towards him , comes farre too short the rules of vulgar Charitie , much more the bonds and tyes of Naturall and Royall affection , sith your Majestie is so farre from remedying his wronges , as you wil not pittie them , and which is worse , you can ▪ but will neyther pittie , nor remedie them . How can hee hope for it , when you haue permitted that all his fortunes bee onlie reduced to hope , and his feare to Dispayre . How can hee hope for it , when ( sith it is an injurie as Publius Mimus reporteth , To laugh at other mens Calamities and misfortunes ) that so manie of your Subjects , and which is woorse , of your Courtiers , lycentiouslie insult and triumph at his overthrowes , and scoffe at his afflictions , without considering that hee is the Husband of our Princesse , and our Kinges onlie Daughter , and his Children our Royall plantes , of the Stocke and Blood royall of Great Brittayne , and without receiving any punishment , or checke from your Majestie , for the base enormitie of this their foule ingratitude , and incivill Disrespect and Contempt , whome you may easilie discerne , distinguish , and finde out from your faythfull and loyall hearted Subiects , sith there is as great Difference betwixt the last and the first , as there is betweene true Protestants , and insolent and dangerous Papists . And to conclude and shut up this poynt , How can hee hope for it , when you will not honnour or affect his Princesse your Daughter , and their famous and flourishing Posteritie so much , as in these theyr immerited miseries , to receyue and harbour them into the Sanctuarie of your Kingdom , It beeing the last courtesie and consolation , which Nature tells mee theyr Princelie byrth deserues , & your royall Blood owes them .

And yet againe , this neglected and dejected Prince your Sonne in Lawe , hath contrariwise much reason to hope , that your Majesties Royall woord and promise ingaged for the restoring of his Pallatynat , ( added to the consideration of your owne Honnor , which inviolablie tyes you therto ) will in the end incyte and stirre you upp to Drawe your sword , for the effecting and performance therof ; For the wordes of Kinges should bee sacred , and their promises inviolable , the Lawes of Nature and Nations , tying them to the obligation of the first , those of Grace and Heaven obliging them to the performance of the last . And if your Majestie be pleased to forget , yet the representiue Bodie of England , the Lords , Knightes , and Burgesses of your Highe Court of Parliament , must and will remember , that your Majestie protested unto them solemnlie ; That ( eyther by Treatie or by the Sword ) you would cause the Pallatynat to bee restored , though to the hazard of your owne Kingdoms ; Or if your memorie ( which in all other actions is exquisit and excellent ) should forget your promise in that poynt ; yet the Iudgements and understandings of your Malesties subiects are more then assured and confident , that your Royall penne affirmed it to your Printer , and hee to vs in your Declaration , wherof looke how manie thousand Bookes there are extant , soe many witnesses ( without exception ) there will remayne against your Ma tie . that you onlie made that promise and protestation purposlie to breake it ; For till they see the contrarie , the most loyall and faythfull of them will never beleeue it , sith your Majestie may performe it but will not , and sith at your pleasure you haue the meanes , both to humble the pride , and to scourge the power of the Emperour , and to make the Duke of Bavaria repent with blood and teares , for his insatiable Ambition and Vsurpation , in vsurping and bereaving the Pallatynate from your Children .

And because the affayres of the World ( resembling the ebbing and flowing of the Sea ) are still subiect to revolution & change , and onlie constant in unconstancie , as alsoe that ( Euripides sayth ) good is never seperated from Evill , and that it is impossible for us to avoyde misfortunes or adverse accidents , because Plutarque tells us , that Prosperitie is still transitorie , never Permanent . Soe I beseech your Majestie to consider , that if uppon any unexpected Accident , you should breake , and haue Warres eyther with France , Spayne , or the Netherlands , what a braue assistance of German Reistres , you should still haue at your Commaund from the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe , of his Subiects and Friends , if hee had agayne the Commaund of his Countrye , and alsoe how necessarie those troupes of Cavalrie would bee for your Maiesties service ; eyther to make or divert , to beginne or end a warre . Wherof if Henrie the IIII. of France ( of immortall same and memorie ) were still living , hee could giue your Maiestie a true president and instance therof in himselfe , when his affayres were soe weake and desperate , as hee was inforced to haue recourse to their assistance , the which Lewes his Sonne now raigning , hath verie unkindlie denyed , to acknowledge and requite to the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe , now in the extremitie of this his affayres and afflictions . And to ascend from earthlie regards to heavenlie Considerations ; If all these former Motiues cannot prevayle with your Maiestie , to purchase and effect his desire , yet lastly hee hopes that you will drawe your Sword to performe it , for that Religions sake which is immediatly derived from God , or for Gods sake , from whome ( as from the blessed and sacred Fountayne of all Happiness ) all true Religion hath its true byrth , lyfe , and propagation ; and farre the sooner hee hopes , that your Maiestie will attempt it with Courage , and prosecute it with resolution ; Sith God hath made your Maiestie the Defender of the Faith , and hee and all the Churches of his Pallatynat did , and then agayne will professe the same Fayth which you Defend , wheras now they are infected with the dregges of Idolatrous Poperie , and poluted and defyled with the mystes and fogges of prophane Superstition .

But Illustrious Prince Pallatyne ; because it is a disputable question , whether thy Courage or Misfortune bee greater ; therfore I grieue with sorowe and lament with Griefe to see all these fayre hopes of thine , soe untimelie wythered and reduced to nothing , and thou hast nowe tryed to thie preiudice , and seene to thyne owne Woefull and fatall experience , That hope which is built uppon other mens promisses , and maintayned by forraigne power , proves most commonly ruynous .

And will not your Maiestie then bee sencible , of this fruitlesse and fatall hopes of the Prince your Sonne in Lawe , which were whollie grounded uppon the sand of your promises , as yours are uppon the snowe of the Emperours and the King of Spaynes . For to represent you Truth in her naked coullers , ( & not in an adulterated attyre and tincture ) and soe to poynt at that poynt of the Compasse , from whence the contrarie wyndes haue blowne your Maiestie all these severall tempests of dishonnor , and your Sonne in Lawe these stormes of adversitie ; hath it not beene your too much connivencie in relying uppon the deceiptfull flatteries of the Emperour , and your too excessiue confidence in trusting to the temporising promises of the King of Spayne which hath occasioned it ; For by their Ambassadours and Letters , haue they not depaynted you the restitution of the Pallatynat soe easie , as in assurance therof , you became passionatly resolute that you had farre lesse reason to doubt then to beleeue it . And yet to the whole world aswell as to your owne Subiects it administreth more cause of admiration then beliefe , to thincke that your Majestie who is the wisest , & learnedest , yea one of the most potent Kinges of the world , should thus bee contented with Drosse for Golde , with shame for Honnor , and fedde with verball promisses in steed of reall performances ; For your Majestie knowes ( and your Subjects are not ignorant ) that Carlile , Bristoll , Belfast , and Weston , have spent infinite much , and yet gotten just nothing from the Emperour , by theyr severall legations ; as also that that which they spent abroad , and your Majestie at home , in Entertaynments , Feasts , and Guifts , on the Emperours , the King of Spaynes , and the Archdutchesse Ambassadours , would undoubtedlie have reconquered the Pallatynat , and what is this , but their malicious and pernicious policie to drayne your Majesties purse drie , and to exhaust your Exchequer ; therby purposlie to clippe the winges of your Courage , power , and resolution , from flying to the restoration of the Pallatynat ; Neyther shall your Majestie have just cause to accept against mee , for heere joyning the King of Spayne with the Emperour in the Detention therof ; sith their swordes and forees aequallie Conquered it , or if not the King of Spayne ( as the vulgar beleeue ) for the Emperour , yet undoubtedlie the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria ( as the cleerest sighted knowe ) for the King of Spayn ; because uppon the whole the Emperour is more the King of Spaynes servant and creature , then the Duke of Bavaria is the Emperours , and therfore that it is rather more to bee feared then doubted , that as hee first tooke Aix and Weesell for the Emperour , and ever since keepes them for himselfe ; that right soe hee intends to deale with the Pallatynat ; and if your Majestie would but turne your back to Spayne , and your eyes to the Pallatynat , you will then confirme my oppinion , wheras ( with a fearfull jelousie ) I apprehend , that turning your backe to the Pallatynat , and your eyes to Spayne , you maye peradventure passionatlie oppose and contradict it ; For as the diseases and iniquitie of our tymes , and the Vanitie of our Natures are such , as manie tymes wee see Ambition gives a Lawe to Nature , and the strongest sword proves most commonlie the best right and tenure . Soe notwithstanding that the Emperour bee puffed upp with joy and pride for this his good success , yet the King of Sayne thinckes that the Pallatynat is but a debt dewe to his Vertue , and a tribute to his Ambition and Greatnesse .

And that your Majestie maye the more perfectlie and apparantlie consider them destinctlie or joyntlie , and soe looke from theyr tongues to theyr hartes , from theyr wordes to theyr actions , and from the barke of theyr Friendshippe to the tree of theyr Intents ; Swartsenbourgh from the Emperour , brought onlie Complements but noe deeds not hoapes of restitution of the Pallatynat ; Bosquet from the Archdutchess , ( under the cloake of trust and consignation ) carried away Frankendale , the last hostage and pledge of that Province ; and last of all Mexia ( with his statelie Embassye ) pretended from the sayd Princess , but intended from the King of Spayne , came to Comply with your Majestie , to make fayre weather of all sydes , to keepe everie byrd in his neast and your Majestie Sword still rusting in his scabberd ; yea if the hartes of Inijoca , Mendoza , and Columba , ( whome I reverence and honnor for the honnor of theyr places . ) were as visible and transparent as Iulius Drusus wished his house ; Then ( notwithstanding all theyr veluett wordes and silken protestations and vowes ) your Maiestie should see without perspective or spectacles , that the most retyred Article , and secret mysterie of theyr Kinges Commission to them is ; To give theyr Infanta to our Illustrious and famous Prince Charles , but infalliblie with this proviso and reservation , still to keepe the Pallatynat for the behoofe and use of the King theyr Master ; And what else doe all these severall Ambassadours in England , and whervnto tend all theyr severall legations , but onlie to conceale the Ill which is , and to pretend the Good which is not , in the designes and resolutions of the King theyr Master ; For in all theyr Treaties and Negotiations with your Maiestie and your mynisters , what doe they else but purposlie play theyr prizes , in practising theyr chiefest invention , Arte , and skill , to procrastinate the restitution of the Pallatynat , making everie daye produce newe Difficulties and Evasions , till in the end they have made the Cure woorse then the Disease , and which ( without the helpe and assistance of your Maiesties sword ) will verie shortlie prove incurable , and meerlie Physique after death ; For the Emperour , the king of Spayne , and the Archdutchesse , doe onlie feed your Maiestie with the emptie ayre of hoapes , and with the bitter sweet sugar of manie flattering and false promises , that they will restore the Pallatynat to the Prince your Sonne in Lawe , whiles they in the meane tyme ( with as much treacherie as silence ) doe heerbye onlie gayne tyme ( in working and procuring theyr owne ends ) to repayre and renewe the fortifications of that Countrie , till in the end they ( like Molewarps ) have therein taken firme footing , and made those Cities and Castles which were easie to subdue , become difficult , and the difficult impregnable ; For the King of Spayne playes the Practicke with your Majestie , whiles you professe the Theorie to him ; you give him contemplation for action , hee returnes you action for contemplation ; for whiles you are entertayning and flattering your thoughts with hoape , hee and his Factor the Duke of Bavaria , hath crowned his hoapes and front with the Lawrels of the Pallatynat , that daintie peece and rich and bewtifull Prouince of Europe ; neyther is it your Maiestie alone , but the French King likewise , who hath given too confident an eare to the Syreen tunes , and charmes of Spayne ; for whiles their practises and machynations threw him to a pernitious & sacrilidgious Warre against his owne Protestant subjects , then Spayn recovered the Valtolyne , and deflowred the Fortes and passages of the Grisons , and whiles he ( by his Gondomar ) lull'd your Maiestie asleepe with the melodie of the Match , then hee finished the Conquest of the Pallatynat . Onlie your Majesties dishonnor heerin is farre greater then that of the French King ; because his remisnesse permitted but his Confederates to bee ruyned , but your Maiestie , your Confederate your Sonne in Lawe , your onlie Daughter his wife , and their Royall posteritie . Thus as the Cyclope Polephemus devoured his passengers one after another , soe doth the King of Spayne ea●e upp whole Countries and Provinces . And wherto tends all this formidable Ambition , power , and greatnesse of his , but onlie to fill the sailes of his glorie ; Whiles your Ma tie . and other Potentates and Princes of Christendom most inconsideratlie ( I may say shamefullie ) ride at Anchor in the Portes of false securitie , and therfore of true danger ; and wherunto tends all this , but in the end to aspire to the whole Empire of the West , as your Majestie heard though would not beleeue , from your last Assemblie of Parliament , which our sinnes , and your Enemies , caused you to make and intitle but a Convention .

All Europe can beare witnesse of your Majesties two yeares pious , interceeding , and Christian endeavours and resolution , to have the Palatynat restored by Treatie , and although the Emperour hath superficially promised and the King of Spayne artificiallie vowed it ; yet still your Majestie sees contrarie effects , and still they fortifie the Pallatynat , not for , but against the Prince your Son in Lawe , as if they had given a Definitive sentence and periode to theyr resolutions , and made it an Orthodox Article of their Fayth , still to keepe and never to restore it to him , or his posteritie ; yea , the Emperour is soe glutted with his victories , and the Duke of Bavaria soe sursetted with his good fortunes ( in both which the King of Spayne insults with joye , and triumph with exhileration ) that they are now soe farre from thincking of restitution , as they disdayne it ; Alexander the Great , ( whose generositie was yet farre greater then his fame ) shewed such testimonies of his moderation and Magnanimitie , as hee gave those whome he subdued and conquered , more cause to reioyce then repyne at his Victories , yea hee shewed infinit Vertue and Charitie in his power , ( and these twoe cannot bee better shewen then in giving lymitts to power . ) But it seemes the Emperour is continuallie soe inflamed with choller , and transported with revenge towards the Count Pallatyne , your Sonne in Lawe , as hee is whollie unmindfull eyther of Charitie or Vertue , hee mought have added glorie to his Victories and Raigne , if his Ambition finding prosperous successe , could have beene content with measure and moderation soe uecessarie in all Christians , and soe requisit and relucent in Princes ; But what or whie speak I of Charitie or Moderation in the Emperor , when all the world can testifie with mee , that his quarrell is soe implacable , and his malice and revenge soe inexorable to the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe , and the Princes and Nobles of Germanie his adhaerents , as hee hath given them all just cause to flye to such remedies as dispayre gives to necessitie , therby to seeke to preserue their lyues with their honnors , and their honnors with their lyues . And as hoape mought but feare cannot bee capable in them to declyne their vallour and courage ; soe had they not then reason to banish hoape , when they apparantlie sawe they could hoape for nothing but for Dispayre in the mercylesse mercie of the Emperour . Hee leaves them still proscripts , although it had beene farre more Noble for him ( whoe holdes the first , and noblest Rancke of Christendom ) rather to have made them taste the fruytes of his mercie , then to feele the effects of his Indignation ; and is still so erreconcilable and vindictiue , as if hee hath vowed to adopt , and make revenge a Vertue , and resolved and sworne , that it shall bee the last thing which shall die with him .

Neyther cann your Majestie justlie conceyue , that this inveterate malice of the Emperour , and boundlesse Ambition of the King of Spayne , is onlie bent and intended against the Prince Pallatyne , your Sonne in Lawe ; but likewise ( by vertue and reason of the same rule of Vsurpation ) against your royall selfe . Sith wee cannot cutt a finger , but wee wound the Arme , nor cutt offe an arme , but wee indanger the whole Bodie ; And what doth this Imperious swallowing downe of the Pallatynat by the Emperour , the perfidious usurping of the Cantons , of the Grisons , and the eager threatning the totall subversion of the Netherlands , by the King of Spayne , else portend and implye , but onlie to cut off the letts , and obstacles , that with the more facilitie they maye after make theyr approaches to assayle your own Kingdoms & Domynions ; which treacherous designes and resolutions of theirs , if your Majestie will not now beleeue , and accordingly seeke and endeauour to prevent ; It is to bee feared , yea I saye agayn , it is to bee feared , that wee yonr Subjects shall feele them hereafter , when wee shall have just cause left us to lament , but neyther meanes , power , nor tyme , to remedie and prevent it . For thincke what your Majestie will , and saye what you please , yet your best subjects , and not the woorst Witts and Statesmen of your Kingdoms knowe , that when the Emperour and King of Spayne , beate Princelie Fredericke the Sonne , that at that verie instant and act , they undoubtedlie threatned Royall Iames the Father ; and that ( in the loss of the Pallatynat ) your Majestie uppon the whole , is dangerouslie wounded and strucke at through his syde , aswell in the honnor of your Sacred person , as in the wellfare and safetie of your Estates and Kingdoms .

Give not cause O Great King , that the malice of the Prince your Sonne in Lawes Enemyes prevayle aboue your pittie and affection , nor theyr Vsurpation aboue your Iustice , and although some Spanish Englishmen , and English Spanyards , playe the Mercurie with you , to bring the Argus eyes of your judgment and power asleepe , seeming to have new Mynerva's inclosed in theyr braines , therbye to inchant your sences and to cast your affection and Vnderstanding into a Lethargie ; yet it will bee a just and honnorable resolution for your Majestie , that in regard the Emperour will affoord noe favour to the Count Pallatyne your Sonne , that therfore ( according the sence and letter of the same rule ) hee deserves to have none given or shewen him by your Majestie his Father in Lawe ; and as your Royall hart is the Temple of Equitie and Iustice , soe can there anie thing bee more just and equitable , then to make the Vsurper restore ; yet it is as necessarie as just , for your Maiestie to cause this restoration of the Pallatynat ; sith to speake to the Emperour , or King of Spayne , of the restitution therof , is but to speake to the wynde , And it is to deceiue your Majesties deepe knowledge , and to betraye your solide judgment , to thincke that ever it will bee restored , except by your Sword . Noe , noe , it must bee your Sword , not your Tongue , not your Treaties , not your Letters , not your Ambassadours which must refetch it , if ever your Majestie desire and intend to haue it refetched , For all other meanes are fledd , and have now abandoned and forsaken you , and this of Warre is onlie left you to effect it , which will not fayle , nor cannot deceive you in the performance therof ; For otherwise like Ptolomais in ( Suydas ) you maye pleade your selfe to death in expectation and hoape therof by Treaties , before you see it restored . And that the policie of the Emperour , the King of Spayne , and Duke of Bavaria , maye in all respects equalize theyr Ambition and Malice , in the resolute and constant Detention of the Pallatynat ; maye it please your Majestie agayn and agayne to cast the eyes of your Consideration , to see how closlie they have dealt with the Pope , to fulminate and thunder out from his Vatican some false and irreligious Aphorismes , therbye the better to over-vayle and the more authentically to couller out , the monstrous Deformitie of this theyr Vsurpation therin ; Wherof , of his 29. I will at this present content my selfe to select & propose unto your Majestie the three last .