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James, and was equally unsuccessful. The Ills that attended this Affair werethese, that thereby " the Protestant Religion was entirely rooted out of Bo-“ hernia, the Electoral Dignity transferr’d from the Palatine Family, the Pa- Spanhemius’/

" latinate itself lost, the Liberty of Germany overthrown, and the famous Li- fft- °f ihecc brary of Heidclburgh was carried to Rome, to the irreparable Prejudice of latine.'^ Pa *

" Learning.”

So that Gondomar had good Reason to fay, in one of his Letters to theDuke of Lerma, printed in the History of that Duke’s Life, p. 28. " That be" had lull’d King ’James so fast asleep, that he hoped, neither the Cries of his“ Daughter, nor her Children, nor the repeated Sollicitations of his Parlia-" ment and Subjects in their Behalf, should be able to awaken him.”

The learned Spanhemius in his History of Louyj'e Juliane, Elect rice Pala- °f

tine, (Daughter of William Prince of Orange, and Mother to the King of P aninTUUS ‘Bohemia, who out-liv’d her Son, and was one of the greatest Patterns ofVirtue, that any Age has produced) sums up what relates to this Affair, withthis Remark, " That never Prince was more oblig’d to a Sister, then King" Charles the First was to the Queen of Bohemia ; since it was only the Con-cc fideration of her and her Children, who were then the next Heirs after" him to the Crown of England, that prevail’d with the Court of Spain to" permit him to tee England again.”

In Opposition to these Accounts, generally receiv’d of the Spanijh Matchand Palatinate , this Passage in our noble Historian, [Lord Clarendon ] is to betaken Notice of.

" Sir Francis Cottington, who was Secretary to the Prince, and not grown clarendon’/

“ Courtier enough to dissemble his Opinion, had given the Duke [of Buck- Hi J L °f thetc ingham] Offence, before his Journey into Spain *,— and improv’d that Pr

judice after his coming thither, by disposing the Prince all he could, to the" Marriage of the Infanta ; and by his Behaviour after his Return, injustify-" wg to King James, who had a very good Opinion of him, the Sincerity of" the Spaniard in the Treaty of the Marriage, That they did in Truth desire“ it, and were fully resolv’d to gratify his Majejly in the Business oj' the Pala-" tinate; and only defr'd in the Manner oj it, to gratify the Emperor, and the" Duke of Bavaria all they could, which would take up very little '■Time." AUwhich being so contrary to the Duke’s Purposes and Resolutions, his Displea-sure to Cottington [afterwards Lord Cottington , and Chancellor of the Ex-chequer] was sufficiently manifest.

But to conclude; the Relation of the Spaniflo Affairs, and Journey to Spain,given with ■ Solemnity, by the Prince himself and the Duke, at a Conferencebetween the two HouJ'es of Parliament, (which Conference his Royal Highnessa °d the Duke were desir’d to manage) required in all Reason, and goodManners, to be judg’d by that Age and Posterity most credible and authen-tick, viz.

When, at this Conference, the Prince had made a short Introduction to Clarendon’/the Business, and said some very kind Things of the Duke, of his wonder-ffil Care of him whilst he was in Spain , and the great Dexterity he used in Bo«kl. p. 17.getting him away, he refer?d the whole Relation to him ; who said, " That The Prince“ the true Ground of the Prince’s Journey into Spain, which he well" sinew had begot such a terrible Panting in the Hearts of all good Englifj- Spaniih ^ * *men, had been only to make a clear Discovery of the Sincerity of the Spa- Match to the<c niard ; and, if his Intentions were real, to put a speedy End to it, by Pkrltam,nt -

.. * she Offence was, by giving his Opinion to King James against the Journey ; in that he be-! ev it would render all that had been done towards the Match fruitless ; for that Spain, whenIf. the Prince in their Hands, would make new Overtures more advantageous to them, efpe-Cia y Con ccrning Religion, and the Exercise of it in England. Clarend. Book. 1. p. >Z.

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