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A08539	A relation of the solemnetie wherewith the Catholike princes K. Phillip the III. and Quene Margaret were receyued in the Inglish Colledge of Valladolid the 22. of August. 1600. VVritten in Spanish by Don Ant. Ortiz and translated by Frauncis Riuers and dedicated to the right honorable the Lord Chamberlayne.; Relación de la venida de los reyes católicos al Colegio Inglés de Valladolid. English	Ortiz, Antonio, fl. 1600.; Rivers, Francis.	1601 (1601)	STC 18858; ESTC S119506	42,027	86

know his error and acknowledged the true God so by the very same meanes God is glorified with the constancie of these Inglish youthes who break through so many dangers and perils because they wil not adore and follow the Idol of heresie erected in their country but rather labour to reduce it to the knowledge and obedience of the true Catholike Church The reasons and motiues which the Earle of Ponion Rostro Don Francisco Arias de Bouadilla of the Kinges Councel general gaue to the counsail of the inquisition to the counsail Real of Castilla to the counsailes of Italy the Indies and the crowne of Aragon and to the Iunta de Cortes de Castilla which in Spaine is as the lower house of the parlament in Ingland in behalfe of the English Seminary of Valladolid in April 1600. IT appeareth sufficiently how relgious and honorable a work the foundatiō of the Inglish seminaries in these kingdomes hath bin how worthy they ar to be fauored as wel by the great priuileges which his holynes hath giuē them as by the special fauours which our soueraine the Catholike king that now is the glorious memory of his father haue done them with more then heroical liberality piety at the very times when by piracy oftē inuasions of other Inglishmen theire kingdomes subiects were most endamaged declaring therewith the excellency of this work and that they had prudently considered the important reasons why it should be fauored The same likewise may be confirmed by the testimony of Cardinal Baronius one of the greatest most learned writers of this age who speaking of these seminaries saith that this age of ours is most fortunat in that it hath deserued to bring forth so many holy preists crowned as he saith with more noble crownes of martirdō thē that of S. Thomas of Canterbury seing they died not only with the same constancy for the defence of the ecclesiastical liberty as that renowmed martir did but also to cōserue and restore the Catholique faith in theire coūtry concludeth with these words let my soule depart saith he in company of these iust and glorious champions Botius also a learned and graue author in his booke of the markes of the trew Church of God recounteth these Inglish Seminaries for a most euidēt testimony proofe that our religion is founded in the truth seing it indueth those that professe it with such courage and inuincible fortitude Boterus an other author no lesse graue and learned commendeth this work as one of the most glorious that hath bin in the church of God since the Apostles time Lastly the Bishop of Tarazona that wrote the history of Ingland other prelats men of authority and great numbers of wise and learned men of these kingdomes qualifie this worke for the most noble marke and blason in matter of faith religiō that our kingdom of Spaine this day enioyeth Although any one of these testimonies were sufficient to declare the qualitie of this holy worke yet for that many principal persons haue so great estimation and desire of the continuance and increase therof as they perswade themselues the wāt of sufficēt notice to be the only cause why it is not generaly fauored and furthered of all I haue thought good to lay downe certain particular reasons motiues wher in is discouered the quality of the worke reducing them to three heades the first of piety and religiou the secōd of Christian nobility and honor and the third of commodity Motiues of piety The first motiue and the most general is that to help these seminaries is to sustaine with temporal almes the faith of Christ the spiritual good of a kingdō which so dependeth of the labours and industry of these Priests brought vp in these Seminaries that if they failed the vtter ruine and decay of Religion in that natiō would follow And therefore if it be an act of piety to repare the ruines of material temples and ransome any one Christian from the captiuitie of infidels it must needes be a far greater to build the Church of Christ and redeeme from the tyranny of heretiks these vertuous young-men of whose safety dependeth the saluatiō of so many soules in theire country as after-ward by theire meanes shal come to know and imbrace the Catholike Religion The second is that this kingdome which we succour was the first that in the whole world publiquely professed the faith of Christ and for this respect is called the first childe of the Church and the dowry of our blessed lady and in it flowrished afterwards the same faith for more then a 1000. yeares togeither in which time it brought forth many holy kinges Queenes Bishops and other glorious saintes and Martirs And lost not the profession of this faith so longe kept by any fault of the people or corruption of manners and euil life as in other countries hath hapned but by the miserable fall and infortune of King Henry the 8. and some of his children as to the world is euident by the continual resistance which the Inglish Catholikes haue made so many yeares to heresie neuer giuing it one houre of peaceable possession though it haue cost them theire bloud which they haue shed with so great constancy and courage as highy edifieth and astonisheth the whole Church of God to see it The third and more particular is that the Catholikes for whose succour and comfort these Priests are brought vp are on the one side the most afflicted with so long and rigorous a persecution and on the other the most approued with patience and longanimity and the people to whome the profession of theire religion costeth more deare them to any other nation in the world The fourth and not the least is the purity and integrity of life of these lawdable youngmen and the many tallents and graces wherewith God almighty enricheth them and the account and estimation which they haue of the holy dignitie of preisthood for which many of them renounce their inheritance which is more to be admired after they be Priests notwithstanding they know that many of theire companions sent from the Seminaries in particular from this of Valladolid are at this present in prison and that others haue bin cruelly tormented and others vnmercifully put to death by the heretiks and that the diligence which they vse in their pursute is incredible Yet for all this they are not a whit dismaid nor seeke occasiōs to spend theire time in other countries more then is necessary to furnish them selues with learning but procure to hasten theire mission to England as much as in them lyeth departing after with so great alacrity courage and comfort that they leaue theire companions and those that send them ful of admiration and holy desirs to beare them company in theire glorious entreprise The first reason is that the end and institution of these Seminaries is like vnto that which our Sauiour Christ Iesus purposed