And further in the time of hostilitie betwene the Empire, wherewith as then the king of _Poland_ ioyned against the great Duke of Muscouie, went these matters otherwise then? Could either the English marchants, or anie other frequent the _Narue_ in _Liuonia_, or any other partes of the Dukes dominions freely, and without daunger? Did the Hanse men which then were for their king and Emperor, deliuer and restore againe the shippes which they had intercepted and taken, from those which made such attempts? Many mens goods surprised by the Hanse men and others, as then intertained against the _Moscouite_, and by them still detained, without anie precedent prohibition of passing to the said _Moscouite_, are hereof very good witnesses. It is also a thing well knowen, that the noble Prince of _Orange_, and the States, exercised the like iustice, as well against the Hanse men, as others in times past. And verely the foresaid Princes in these arrestes did that which was according to the tenour, and prescription of the lawes of the equitie of nations. For that same priuiledge of Newtralitie, is in such sort to bee vsed and inioyed, that in helping one of our confederates, we hurt not another: so that hee which helpeth one, & thereby damnifieth another, falleth from his priuiledge and contract: not because he helpeth one of his confederates, but because he doeth preiudice another, and by that fact of his, makes himselfe an enemie, as offering the first iniurie, and therefore in so doing, he is to bee taken and reputed for an Adherent, and Assistant to the enemie, and a very enemy himselfe. This then beeing the state of these thinges, what lawe, what reason, or example may be obiected to the contrary, but that it is lawfull for the Queene of England, whose scepter, diademe, kingdome, liuing, and life, are greedily thirsted after by the Spaniard, so potent and so malicious an enemie, to doe that against his fautors and fauourers so often premonished, which was lawful for the Emperour, for the Empire, for the king of Swethen, for the king of Denmarke, for the Prince of Orange, for the States of Netherland, yea for the _Hanse_ men themselues to doe in the like cause, but not in the like danger, and extremitie as this is. [Sidenote: Anno Do. 1302.] Nay, if wee thought it requisite to alleadge any thing out of the priuiledges themselues, whereof they haue so often, and so much complained, as being many yeeres withheld from them by iniustice, wee might offer the charter of _Edward_ the first king of England, to be perused, granted in the third yere of his raigne: in which charter wee reade these expresse wordes. [Sidenote: An exception in the priuiledge.]