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colour, which all have been spent upon the effusion 

 of Christian blood : and now this year the levies of 

 Germans, which should have been made underhand 

 for France, were coloured with the pretence of war 

 upon the Turk ; which the princes of Germany 

 descrying, not only break the levies, but threatened 

 the commissioners to hang the next that should 

 offer the like abuse : so that this form of dissembling 

 is familiar, and as it were hereditary to the king of 

 Spain. 



And as for his succours given to the French king 

 against the Protestants, he could not chuse but ac 

 company the pernicious counsels which still he gave 

 to the French kings, of breaking their edicts, and 

 admitting of no pacification, but pursuing their sub 

 jects with mortal war, with some offer of aids ; 

 which having promised, he could not but in some 

 small degree perform ; whereby also the subject 

 of France, namely the violent Papist, was inured 

 to depend upon Spain. And so much for the king 

 of Spain s proceeding towards other states. 



Now for ours : and first touching the point 

 wherein he chargeth us to be the authors of troubles 

 in Scotland and France ; it will appear to any that 

 have been well informed of the memoirs of these 

 affairs, that the troubles of those kingdoms were in 

 deed chiefly kindled by one and the same family of 

 the Guise : a family, as was partly touched before, 

 as particularly devoted now for many years together 

 to Spain, as the order of the Jesuits is. This house 

 of Guise, having of late years extraordinarily flou- 



