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But thus far there were few signs of any vigorous resolution for active measures in an affair which could scarcely fail to lead to war. "I believe," said Henry to the States ambassador, "that the right of Brandenburg is indubitable, and it is better for you and for me that he should be the man rather than Neuburg, who has always sought assistance from the House of Austria.
"I ponder well at this crisis," he said to his friend Caron, "the intelligence I received some months back from Ratisbon, out of the cabinet of the Jesuits, that the design of the Catholic or Roman League is to bring this year a great army into the field, in order to make Neuburg, who was even then said to be of the Roman profession and League, master of Julich and the duchies; to execute the Imperial decree against Aachen and Mulheim, preventing any aid from being sent into Germany by these Provinces, or by Great Britain, and placing the Archduke and Marquis Spinola in command of the forces; to put another army on the frontiers of Austria, in order to prevent any succour coming from Hungary, Bohemia, Austria, Moravia, and Silesia into Germany; to keep all these disputed territories in subjection and devotion to the Emperor, and to place the general conduct of all these affairs in the hands of Archduke Leopold and other princes of the House of Austria.
Weakness of the Rulers of France and England The Wisdom of Barneveld inspires Jealousy Sir Dudley Carleton succeeds Winwood Young Neuburg under the Guidance of Maximilian Barneveld strives to have the Treaty of Xanten enforced Spain and the Emperor wish to make the States abandon their Position with regard to the Duchies The French Government refuses to aid the States Spain and the Emperor resolve to hold Wesel The great Religious War begun The Protestant Union and Catholic League both wish to secure the Border Provinces Troubles in Turkey Spanish Fleet seizes La Roche Spain places large Armies on a War Footing.
When the Prince of Neuburg embraced Catholicism, thus complicating matters in the duchies and strengthening the hand of Spain and the Emperor in the debateable land, he seized the occasion to assure the agent of the Archduke in London, Councillor Boissetot, of his warm Catholic sympathies.
They would hold Rheinberg, Groll, Lingen, Oldenzaal, Wachtendonk, Maestricht, Aachen, and Mulheim with a permanent force of more than 20,000 men. And they could do all this in four days' time. A week or two later all his prophesies had been fulfilled. "The Prince of Neuburg," he said, "and Marquis Spinola have made game of us most impudently in the matter of the treaty.
Neuburg complained that Philip in writing to him did not give him the title of Duke of Julich and Cleve, although he had been placed in possession of those estates by the arms of Spain. Philip, referring to Archduke Albert for his opinion on this subject, was advised that, as the Emperor had not given Neuburg the investiture of the duchies, the King was quite right in refusing him the title.
That this plea was true, appeared from his despatch, which was filled with a detailed account of a fictitious debate in the council: but the falsehoods which he had sent to England had occasioned the arrest and imprisonment of several royalists, and Manning was shot as a traitor at Duynwald, in the territory of the duke of Neuburg. Clar. iii. 563-569. Whitelock, 633.
This duchy was still ruled conjointly by the Electoral House of Brandenburg and the Palatine of Neuburg; and a marriage between the Prince of Neuburg and a Princess of Brandenburg was to have inseparably united the interests of the two houses.
Henry knew full well that Neuburg was depending on the Austrians and the Catholics, and that the claims of Saxony were only put forward by the Emperor in order to confuse the princes and excite mutual distrust. The King's conferences with the great financier were most confidential, and Sully was as secret as the grave.
Weakness of the Rulers of France and England The Wisdom of Barneveld inspires Jealousy Sir Dudley Carleton succeeds Winwood Young Neuburg under the Guidance of Maximilian Barneveld strives to have the Treaty of Xanten enforced Spain and the Emperor wish to make the States abandon their Position with regard to the Duchies The French Government refuses to aid the States Spain and the Emperor resolve to hold Wesel The great Religious War begun The Protestant Union and Catholic League both wish to secure the Border Provinces Troubles in Turkey Spanish Fleet seizes La Roche Spain places large Armies on a War Footing.
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