upon the Citie of Amsterdam will not
out of their stomacks.
But yet there is one thing which works
more then all this, and that is the great
convenience, or rather necessity of maintaining
amity with England, and of doing
nothing that may intrench upon that interest,
or give occasion to hazard that
peace, the purchase where of made after
so dear an experience, that the Hollander
(whose interest is Peace and Trade) cannot
but value it the more highly now it is
established, and avoid the splitting of
their Merchant-men any more upon the
Rocks of England; For, they say plainly,
If the Prince of Orange be made Generall
and Admirall, as his Father was,
it would not be long ere his mothers kindred,
Charls Stuart and the rest of that
party would get opportunity to come in
hither, and then how could the peace be
preserved with England? Indeed, the
geat plea of Holland against the resolutions
of the other six Provinces, is to this
purpose, and it hath reason with it: wheras