6. Itm, by this mariage will ensewe coldnes of amytie with Spayne and Burgondye, and a feare that the French Kynge, havinge manye titles and chalenges to contryes possessed by the Bellum Kinge of Spayne, as Naples, Millayne, Flaunders, Burgundye, the Q. may bee broughte to a conjunction of a warre with Fraunce againste Spayne, as Q. Marye was with Kinge Phillipp againste Fraunce, wheareby Callys was loste. Sociale. Aunsweres to the objections. 1. It cannot be denied but yt weare to be wished that hee were elder, and yeat his stature and personage is not childishe, but manlye and comlye; but as yt is hee shall have cause to esteeme the Q. Matie as shall become him, both because shee is in personage, beautye and all giftes of nature the best and goodliest princes in Christendom. Shee is also in sighte to beholde not inferior to eny other princes of the Dukes owne age, neither is hir age to be judged by here visage, but thereby shee may be esteemyd of equall age with him. Shee is also a Q. of a realme suche one as all Christendome, nor the reste of the knowne world, hath the leke to bee maryed, consideringe her personn, hir giftes, and here kyndomes. Shee is also so wise yt is probable shee shall always provoke De Religione and direct him to love and honor here: besides that nichil. hee hath no kyndoms nor countryes to resorte unto, nor warre to mayntayne, as Kinge Philipp hadd, who by pretence thereof absented him selfe, and by absence abated his love. To light a 2. Althoughe at the firste suche thinges as are either to be liked or misliked have a voise for a tyme, and with tyme they also alter, so as it is a proverbe that a wounder lasteth proverb for not ix daies, this mariage cannot have such misso weightie a lykinge as Kinge Phillipps justely hadd. When the Emperor Charles, his father, leeved, a Prince feared for his attemptes and conquestes, and King Phillipp was invested in a greate parte of his fathers dominions, and by the Emperors death approchinge, was to bee a monarch of greate puissance as matier. eny was in Christendome, the offence conceaved againste him at the firste was cheefelye by certaine Protestantes, partlie in respect of religion, partlie for that some of them weare not in creaditt and estimation, as theie had beene; but the example of that attempte with the sequell is sufficient to make others beware of the leeke. 3. The necessitie, also, and the longe expectation of the Q. mariage, with the longe desier of here good subjectes to have here maried, will staye the mislikinge of this prince. Consitheringe, also, that hee is to come hither but a kinges youngest brother, and not a monarke, so as hee shall have occasion to require and procure the good will, firste, of the Q. Matie, and next of all here estates of all sortes; and, beinge a straunger heere, shall thereby bee constrayned to use him selfe gentelye and favorably towardes all sortes without difference, whiche wilbe plausible to the multitude.. 4. Itm, in the compacts of mariage maye also be provided suche orders as untill further proofe bee had of him, and that hee shall have a sonne by the Q., hee shall not intermeddell with any parte of the governement of the realme to move any suspection, but as shalbee limited and requisite to ease the Q. Matie of here perpetuall care of governement. 5. This is an incident not yet happened, nor muche like hereafter suche to happen, for the kinge, his brother, is This sithence newlie maried, with a wiffe leeke to have children; hath happenand, by proofe, as it is reported, hee is knowen able ed. realmes. to gett children; but to staie the feare of that inconveniance it may bee also provided by lawes, surely of both the realmes, that if the Queenes Matie of Ingland shall have too sonnes, Union of the the one may be Kinge of Fraunce, thother of Eng- turpe. land; and if God shall so dispose the matter there should bee but one sonne, then the case must be suffered, with promision, that the crowne of England How our actes will bynd an heire of both. Quere. CAMD. SOC. 12. I One sonne. durum. maye remayne in suche estate as if the Prince, beeinge Kinge of Englande and Fraunce, shall afterwarde have too sonnes, the kingdome may bee divided. If the Queene have Daughters. no sonne, but daughters, then, consideringe the crowne of Fraunce is not dissendable to daughters, as the crowne of England is, the perill is avoided. 6. It weare good that the Scottishe Q. weare maried, and it is leekely that, beeinge younge as shee is, shee will not longe abyde unmaried. 7. It is more likely that heereby the Kinge of Spayne will more curteously use the Queene and here subjectes, for, by hard dealinge, hee shall nothinge gayne of Ingland, but rather provoke harme to him selfe and his countryes. The Commodities that mighte ensue upon the mariage with the Duke of Anjoye. The mariage with the Duke of Anjoye is honorable, for hee being a sonne and brother to the Kinge of Fraunce, the children also that shall come of that mariadge shalbe princely, and in respectes more comfortable for the subjectes to serve and obeye them. Yt shalbe also comfortable, by conjunction of good amitye Fragilis with the crowne of Fraunce, with the which in former tymes only the wares of Ingland have beene most cruell and hurtefull. Amicitia. Honorable The Q. Maties mynde shalbe also more in this satisfied, in that shee hath alwayes professed that if shee maried, it should bee like a kynges daughter, in the ranke of princes. if it be as sauffe. And by this mariage the Q. shalbe delyvered of the continuall feare of the practizes withe the Queene of Scottes, on whome dependeth almoste the onlye prosperitie of the Q. hole liffe and raygne; so as here Matie may delyver if shee please, and permitte hir to marrye whome shee liste: and indeede it weare convenient shee weare also maried after that the Q. shalbee married. Itm, heereby the Kinge of Spayne shall bee made more con formable to renue and keepe bothe the amitye and treaties of the intercoise with the Q., whereof the doubte is nowe suche, as howe to recover and keepe them dependeth upon his plea sure. Itm, the Popes mallice, with his bulles and excommunication, and the spight of his dependantes, as well heere at home as abrode, shalbe suspended and vanished awaye as a smoke. Itm, the Emperor and his brother shall heereby have the Queene in more estimation then it seemith, for all their faire wourdes, thei haue hadde. [Note in the handwriting of Sir W. Mildmay.] To the matier of Religion, which is the greatest thing, he hath said nothing, and to the rest the aunsweres are not so weightie as the objections, if they be well considered. PRECEDENCE AT A CORONATION. [The subsequent Order of Precedence, dated in 1572, had been probably made out originally in reference to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, which took place on the 15th January, 1558-9. It is from a folio MS. volume containing entries of irregular dates between the commencement and the termination of the reign of Elizabeth. In the list of the nobility, with the places they ought to occupy in such a solemnity, will be noticed the names of several Peers not created until some time after the coronation, as the Earl of Leicester in 1563, Lord Buckhurst in 1567, and Lord Burghley in 1571, &c. The probability therefore is, that the transcriber corrected the original from which he copied according to the date when he was writing. It is to be remarked that what follows is the earliest entry in the volume, but some few of the additions would seem to have been made even thirty years later. In Nichols's Progresses of Q. Elizabeth, i. 299, is an “Order of Proceeding to Parliament” in 1572, with which what follows may be compared, and by which in some material points it may be corrected.] The proceedinge to a Coronation. Messengers of the Chamber. Esquiers for the Body. Clarkes of the Chauncery 6. Barons of thexchequer 2 and 2. Judges of the comen pleas. Judges of the K's Benche 2 and 2. L. Chief Baron of thexchequer. L. Chief Justice of the comen pleas. L. Chief Justice of England. Knightes of the privie Counsell. Knightes of the Garter. Barrons youngest sonnes. Barrons eldest sonnes. Earles youngest sonnes. Dukes younger sonnes. Marquises eldest sonnes. Comptroller. Thresorer. |