The History of the Reign of Philip the Third King of Spain volume 1
The History of the Reign of Philip the Third King of Spain volume 1
Watson Robert
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Though the ratification was not fuch as the ftates wifhed it to have been, yet it fhould teem to have been no fmall grati- fication to them, that the king had granted a declaration, however qualified and expreded, of their being a free people, over whom he pretended to no authority. In return for the complaifance of the archdukes on this occasion, they would gladly have given the declaration required, that thefe princes had fully performed their engagement, but thought it was mpoffible to give ...it confidently with truth. PHILIP III. KING OF SPAIN. 259 ground to'fufpect that the motives by which the BOOK prince was actuated, on this occafion, were not 111- perfectly pure and difmterefted, but that he dread- I607# cd the diminution of his power, if peace were eflablifhed, and, partly on this account, was de- firous of the continuance of war The reafoning, however, which he employed, was fpecious, and made a ftrong impreflion on the minds of many of his countrymen. As the court of Spain, he faid, had on former occafions given the mod unquestionable evidence of their duplicity, fo at pre fen t it was impoflible to doubt of their being actuated by fome finifter defign.
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