NOTES 



OF 



A SPEECH 



CONCERNING A WAR WITH SPAIN. 



THAT ye conceive there will be little difference in 

 opinion, but that all will advise the king not to en 

 tertain further a treaty, wherein he hath been so ma 

 nifestly and so long deluded. 



That the difficulty therefore will be in the con 

 sequences thereof; for to the breach of treaty, doth 

 necessarily succeed a despair of recovering the Pala 

 tinate by treaty, and so the business falleth upon a 

 war. And to that you will apply your speech, as 

 being the point of importance, and besides, most 

 agreeable to your profession and place. 



To a war, such as may promise success, there are 

 three things required : a just quarrel ; sufficient 

 forces and provisions ; and a prudent and politic 

 choice of the designs and actions whereby the war 

 shall be managed. 



For the quarrel, there cannot be a more just 

 quarrel by the laws both of nature and nations, than 

 for the recovery of the ancient patrimony of the 

 king s children, gotten from them by an usurping 

 sword, and an insidious treaty, 



