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The second remedy I deliver with less assurance, 

 as that which is more removed from the compass 

 of mine understanding: and that is, to treat and 

 negociate with the King of Spain, or Archduke 

 Ernest,* who resides in the place where these con 

 spiracies are most forged, upon the point of the law 

 of nations, upon which kind of points princes enemies 

 may with honour negociate, viz. that, contrary to 

 the same law of nations, and the sacred dignity 

 of kings, and the honour of arms, certain of her 

 majesty s subjects, if it be not thought meet to 

 impeach any of his ministers, refuged in his domi 

 nions, have conspired and practised assassination 

 against her majesty s person. 



* Ernest, Archduke of Austria, son of the Emperor Maximi 

 lian II. and governor of the Low Countries, upon which govern 

 ment he entered in June, 1594; but held it only a short time, 

 dying February i| following. It was probably in pursuance of 

 the advice of Mr. Francis Bacon in this paper, that Queen 

 Elizabeth sent to the Archduke in 1594, to complain of the 

 designs which had been formed against her life by the Count de 

 Fuentes, and Don Diego de Ibarra, and other Spanish ministers 

 concerned in governing the Low Countries after the death 

 of Alexander Duke of Parma in December, 1592, and by the 

 English fugitives there ; and to desire him to signify those facts 

 to the king of Spain, in order that he might vindicate his own 

 character, by punishing his ministers, and delivering up to hei 

 such fugitives as were parties in such designs. Camdeni Annals 

 Eliz. Reginae, p. 625. Edit. Lugduni Bat, 1695. BIRCH. 



