22 t A REPORT OF THE SPANISH GRIEVANCES. 



Now, Mr. Speaker, for the last part ; wherein his 

 lordship considered the petition, as it was recom 

 mended from us to the upper house ; his lordship 

 delivered thus much from their lordships ; that they 

 would make a good construction of our desires, as 

 those which they conceived did rather spring out of 

 a feeling of the king s strength, and out of a feeling 

 of the subjects wrongs ; nay more out of a wisdom 

 and depth, to declare our forwardness, if need were, 

 to assist his majesty s future resolutions, which de 

 claration might be of good use for his majesty s 

 service, when it should be blown abroad ; rather, I 

 say, than that we did in any sort determine by this 

 their overture, to do that wrong to his highness s 

 supreme power, which haply might be inferred by 

 those that were rather apt to make evil than good 

 illations of our proceedings. And yet, that their 

 lordships, for the reasons before made, must plainly 

 tell us, that they neither could nor would concur 

 with us, nor approve the course ; and therefore con 

 cluded, that it would not be amiss for us, for our 

 better contentment, to behold the conditions of the 

 last peace with Spain, which were of a strange nature 

 to him that duly observes them ; no forces recalled 

 out of the Low Countries ; no new forces, as to 

 voluntaries, restrained to go thither ; so as the king 

 may be in peace, and never a subject in England but 

 may be in war : and then to think thus with our 

 selves, that that king, which would give no ground 

 in making his peace, will not lose any ground, upon 

 just provocation, to enter into an honourable war. 



