As for this army, it has much disorder, and I believe that there are people within it possessed by the devil, who take pleasure in setting fires everywhere, that I will be much relieved to be away from it.

There is a distinction between friend and enemy,

but they ruin one as well as the other.

Frederick V of the Palatinate,

while on campaigns in 1622.

Christ,

Christ,

Jesus,

and then, Frederick Frederick V had been busier than ever in his correspondence to James I of England.

Since 1624 began, he had approached the idea of greater English involvement on the continent

with his English emissary, Johann Joachim von Rustorf.

Rousdorf was of the opinion that James would only act on the continent to restore Frederick to his

palatine by force if French support could be insured. The situation, Roussdorf assured Freddie,

was the same in Paris. Neither France nor England was willing to act and hire the command of Ernst of Mansfield

without sure guarantees of joint cooperation.

James I, whose foreign policy was now concerned with maintaining a Spanish friendship,

while finding a way to bring his own son-in-law back to power, stalled for time continuously,

frustrating French attempts as well as Dutch attempts, to solicit a guarantee of English moves.

Going even against his very parliament, which he was meant to heed the advice of, James

seems to have remained convinced that only by continuing to be on good terms with Spain,

could England pursue its policies with security?

Brennan Purcell, in his book The Winter King, provides the greatest account of Frederick's diplomatic

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