the said Kings: Whereasin truth, the said Emperor and King of Spain, or either of them, never really intended such restitution as afore∣said, and whereas the said King of Spain never really intended the Marriage according to those Articles propounded, but the said Empe∣ror and the King of Spain intended only by those Treaties to gain time to compass their own ends and purposes, to the detriment of this King∣dom (of all which, the said Earl of Bristol neither was nor could be ignorant,) the saidlate King James by entertaining those Treaties, and con∣tinuing them upon those false Assurances given unto him by the said Earl, as aforesaid, was made secure, and lost the opportunity of time, and thereby the said Dominions, Territories, and Possessions of the said Count Palatine, and the Electoral Dignity become utterly lost; and some parts thereof were taken out of the actual possession of the said King James, unto whose pro∣tection and safe keeping they were put, and com∣mitted to the said Count Palatine; and the most excellent Lady Elizabeth his Wife, and their Children, are utterly now dispossessed and be∣reaved thereof, to the high dishonour of our said late Sovereign Lord King James, to the disherison of the said late Kings Children, and their Poste∣rity, of their ancient Patrimony, and to the dis∣advantage and discouraging of the rest of the Princes of Germany, and other Kings and Princes in Amity and League with his Majesty.
II. That the said Earl of Bristol being Ambas∣sador for his late Majesty King James, as afore∣said, in Annis supradictis, and having received perfect, plain, and particular Instructions and Directions from his said late Majesty, that he should put the King of Spain to a speedy and punctual Answer, touching the Treaties afore∣said: And the said Earl well understanding the effect of those Instructions and Directions so gi∣ven unto him, and taking precise knowledge thereof; and also knowing how much it con∣cerned his late Majesty in honour and safety (as his great Affairs then stood) to put these Treaties to a speedy conclusion: Yet nevertheless he the said Earl, falsly, willingly, and traiterously, con∣trary to his Allegiance, and contrary to the trust and duty of an Ambassador, continued those Trea∣ties upon Generalities, without effectual pressing the said King of Spain unto particular Conclusi∣ons, according to his Majesties Directions, as a∣foresaid; and so the said Earl intended to have continued the said Treaties upon Generalities, and without reducing them to Certainties and to direct Conclusions, to the high dishonour of his said late Majesty, and to the extream danger and detriment of his Majesties Person, his Crown, and Dominions, Confederates and Allies.
III. That the said Earl of Bristol being Ambas∣sador for his said late Majesty, as aforesaid, in the years aforesaid, to the intent to discourage the said late King James for the taking up of Arms, entring into Hostility with the said King of Spain, and for resisting him and his Forces, from at∣tempting the Invasion of his said late Majesties Dominions, and the Dominions of his said late Majesties Confederates, Friends and Allies; the said King of Spain having long thirsted after an Universal Monarchy in these Western parts of the World, hath many times both by Words and Letters to the said late King and his Ministers, extolled and magnified the greatness and power of the said King of Spain, and represented unto his said late Majesty, the supposed dangers which would ensue unto him, if a War should happen between them; and affirmed and insinuated un∣to his said late Majesty, That if such a War should ensue, his said late Majesty during the rest of his life, must expect neither to Hunt nor Hawk, nor eat his Meat in quiet: Whereby the said Earl of Bristol did cunningly and traiterously strive to re∣tard the Resolutions of the said late King, to declare himself an enemy to the said King of Spain (who under colour of Treaties and Allian∣ces, had so much abused him) and to resist his Arms and Forces, to the loss of opportuni∣ty of time, which can not be recalled or regained, and to the extream danger, dishonour, and de∣triment of this Kingdom.
IV. The said Earl of Bristol upon his dispatch out of this Realm of England, in his Ambassage aforesaid, having communication with divers persons of London, within this Realm of Eng∣land, before his going into Spain, in and about his Ambassage concerning the said Treaty: For the Negotiation whereof, the said Earl purpose∣ly was sent; and he the said Earl being then told, that there was little probability that these Treaties would or could have any good success, he the said Earl acknowledged as much; and yet nevertheless, contrary to his Duty and Al∣legiance, and to the Faith and Truth of an Am∣bassador, he the said Earl said and affirmed, That he cared not what the success thereof would be; for he would take care to have his Instructions, and pursue them punctually; and howsoever the business went, he would make his Fortune there∣by, or used words at that time to such effect; whereby it plainly appeareth, That the said Earl, from the beginning herein, intended not the Ser∣vice or Honour of his late Majesty, but his own corrupt and sinister ends, and for his own ad∣vancement.
V. That from the beginning of his Negotiati∣on, and throughout the whole managing thereof, by the said Earl of Bristol, and during his said Am∣bassage, He the said Earl, contrary to his faith, and duty to God, the true Religion professed by the Church of England, and the Peace of this Church and State, did intend and resolve, that if the said Marriage so Treated of as aforesaid, should by his Ministry be effected, that thereby the Romish Religion and Professors thereof should be advanced within this Realm, and other his Majesties Realms and Dominions, and the true Religion and Professors thereof discouraged and discountenanced. And to that end and pur∣pose, the said Earl during the time aforesaid, by Letters unto his late Majesty, and otherwise, of∣ten counselled and perswaded his said late Maje∣sty to set at liberty the Jesuits and Priests of the Romish Religion; which, according to the Good, Religious and Publick Laws of this Kingdom, were imprisoned or restrained, and to grant and to allow unto the Papists and Professors of the Romish Religion, free Toleration and silencing of all the Laws made, and standing in force a∣gainst them.
VI. That by the false Informations and Intelli∣gences of the said Earl of Bristol, during the time aforesaid, unto his said late Majesty, and to his Majesty that now is, being then Prince) concern∣ing the said Treaties; and by the Assurances afore∣said given by the said Earl, his said late Majesty, and the Prince his now Majesty being put in hopes, and by the said long delay used, without producing any effect, their Majesties being put into jealousies and just suspicion, that there was