Use of some such Places, for sure Accesse and Recesse of our People and Soldiers in Safety, and for Furniture of them with Victuals, and other Things requisite and necessarie, whilest it shall be needful for them to continue in those Countries, for the Aiding therof in these their great Calamities, Miseries, and imminent Daunger, and untill the Countries may be delivered of such strange Forces as do now oppresse them, and recover their Ancient Lawfull Liberties and Maner of Gouvernment, to live in Peace as they have heeretofore done, and doe nowe most earnestly in lamentable manner desire to doe; which are the very onely true Endes of all our Actions nowe intended, howsoever malicious Tongues may utter their cankred Conceits to the contrary, as at this Day the Worlde aboundeth with such Blasphemous Reportes in Writings and Infamous Libels, as in no age the Devil hath more abounded with notable Spirites replenished with all Wickednesse, to utter his Rage against Professours of Christian Religion. But thereof we leave the Revenge to God, the Searcher of Hearts, hoping that he beholding the Sinceritie of our Heart, will graunte good Successe to our Intentions, whereby a Christian Peace may ensue to his Divine Honour, and Comfort to al them that Love Peace truely, and wil seeke it sincerely.

An Addition to the Declaration, touching the Slaunders published of her Majestie.

AFTER we had finished our Declaration, there came to our Hands a Pamphlet written in Italian, printed at Milan, Entituled Nuouo adviso, directed to the Archbishop of Milan, conteyning a Report of the Expugnation of Antwerpe by the Prince of Parma. By the which we found our self most maliciously charged with two notable Crimes, no lesse hateful to the World, then most repugnant and contrary to our own natural Inclination. The one, with Ingratitude towards the King of Spaine, who as the Author saith) saved our Life being justly by Sentence adjudged to Death in our Sister's Time: The other, that there was some Persons procured to be corrupted with great Promises, and that with our intelligence as the Reporter addeth in a Parenthesis in these words (as it was said,) that the Life of the Prince of Parma should be taken away: And for the better proving and countenancing of this horrible Lye, it is further added in the said Pamphlet, that it pleased the Lord God to discover this, fand bring Two of

the wicked Persons to Justice. Now knowing how Men are maliciously bent in this declining Age of the World, both to judge, speak, and write maliciously, falsely_and unreverently of Princes: And holding nothing so Dear unto us, as the Conservation of our Reputation and Honour to be blamelesse: We found it very expedient, not to suffer Two such horrible Imputations to pass under silence, least for lacke of Answere, it may argue a kind of Guiltines, and did therefore think, that what might be alledged by us for our Justification in that Behalfe, might be most aptly joined unto this former Declaration now to be published, to lay open before the World the Maner and Ground of our Proceeding in the Causes of the Lowe Countries.

And for Answere of the First Point wherwith we are charged, touching our Ingratitude towards the King of Spaine, as we do most willingly acknowledge that we were beholding unto him in the Time of our late Sister, which we then did acknowledge very thankfully, and have sought many Ways, since in like Sort to requite, as in our former Declaration by our Actions may appeare: So do we utterly denie as a most manifest Untruth, that ever he was the Cause of the saving of our Life, as a Person by a Course of Justice sentenced unto Death, who ever carried our self towards our said Sister in Dutiful Sort, as our Loyaltie was never called in Question, much lesse any Sentence of Death pronounced against us: A Matter such, as in respect of the ordinarie Course of Proceeding, as by Prccesse in Lawe, by Place of Tryal, by the Judge that should Pronounce Sentence, and other necessary Circumstances in like Cases usual, especially against one of our Qualitie, as it could not but have bene publiquelie known, if any such Thing had bene put in Execution. This then being true, we leave to the Worlde to judge howe maliciously and injuriously the Author of the said Pamphlet dealeth with us, in charging us by so notable an Uniruth with a Vice that of all others we do most Hate and Abhorre. And therefore by the manifest Untruth of this Imputation, Men not transported with Passion may easily discerne what Untruth is conteined in the Second, by the which we are charged to have bene acquainted with an intended Attempt against the Life of the said Prince: A Matter, if any such Thing should have been by us intended, must have proceeded, either of a mislyking we had of his Person, or that the Prosecution of the Warres

in the Lowe Countries was so committed unto him, as no other might prosecute the same but he.

And First for his Person, we could never learne that he hath at any Time, by Acte, or Speach, done any Thing that might justly breede a Mislike in us towards him, much lesse a Hatred against his Person in so high a Degree, as to be either Privie, or Assenting to the taking away of his Life: Besides, he is one of whom we have ever had an Honourable Conceite, in respect of those singular rare Partes we alwaies have noted in him, which hath won unto him as great Reputation, as any Man this Day Living carrieth of his Degree and Qualitie: And so have we always delivered out by Speeche unto the World, when any Occasion hath bene offered to make mention of him. Nowe, touching the Prosecution committed unto him of the Warres in the Lowe Countries, as all Men of Judgment know that the taking away of his Life carrieth no likelihood that the same shall worke any Ende of the said Prosecution: So is it manifestly knowen, that no Man hath dealt more Honourablie then the saide Prince, either in duely observing of his Promise, extending Grace and Mercie, where Merite and Deserte hath craved the same: And therefore no greater Impietie by any coulde bee wrought, nor nothing more Prejudicial to our selfe, (so long as the King shall continue the Prosecution of the Cause in that forcible Sort he now doeth) then to be an Instrument to take him away from thence by such violent Means, that hath dealt in a more Honourable and Gracious Sort in the Charge committed unto him, then any other that hath ever gone before him, or is likely to succeede after him.

Now therefore how unlikely it is, that we having neither Cause to mislike of his Person, nor that the Prosecution of the Warres should cease by losse of him, should be either Authour, or any way assenting to so horrible a Fact, we referre to the Judgment of such as looke into Causes, not with the Eyes of their Affection, but do measure and weigh Things according to Honour and Reason. Besides, it is likely if it had bene true that we had bene any way Chargeable, (as the Author reporteth) the Confessions of the Parties executed, (importing such Matter, as by him is alledged) would have been both produced and published; for Malice leaveth nothing unsearched, that may nourish the Venime of that Humour.

The best Course therefore that both we and all other Princes can holde in this Unfortunate Age, that overfloweth with Nombers of malignant Spirits, is through the

Grace and Goodnesse of Almighty God, to direct our Course in such sort, as they may rather shewe their Willes through Malice, than with just Cause with Desert, to say ill, or deface Princes, either by Speach or Writing: Assuring our selves, that besides the Punishment that such Wicked and Infamous Libellours shall receive at the Handes of the Almightie for depraving of Princes and Lawfull Magistrates, who are God's Ministers, they both are, and alwayes shall be thought by all good Men, Unworthie to live upon the Face of the Earth.

Given at Richmount the First of October, 1585; and the 27th Yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lady the Queene; to be published.

Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queene of England, Her most Excellent Majestie. 1585.