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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11806	Vox populi, or Newes from Spayne translated according to the Spanish coppie ; which may serve to forwarn both England and the Vnited Provinces how farre to trust to Spanish pretences.	Scott, Thomas.	1620 (1620)	STC 22100.2; ESTC S100489	19,312	28

houses for Priests holy vestments bookes beades crucifixes and the like religious appurtenances I haue caused the execution of their office to be slackned that so an open way may be given to our spirituall instruments for the free exercise of their faculties And yet when these Pursevants had greatest authoritie a small bribe in the Countrey would blinde their eyes or a little greater at Court or in the Excheaquer frustrate and crosse all their actions so that their malice went off like squibs made a great crack to fright childrē and new borne babes but hurt no old men of Catholique spirits And this is the effect of all other their courses of proceeding in this kinde in all their iudiciall Courts whither knowne catholiques convicted as they stile them are often summond and cited threatned and bound over but the danger is past assoon as the officer hath his fee payd to him then the execution goeth no further Nay upon my conscience they are glad when there are offenders in that kinde because they are bountifull and the officers doe their best to favour them that they may increase and so their revenue and gaine come in freely And if they should be sent to prison even that place for the most part is made as a Sanctuary to them as the old Romanes were wont to shut up such by way of restreint as they meant to preserve from the peoples fury so they live safe in prison till we haue time to worke their libertie and assure their lives And in the meane time their place of restraint is as a study unto them where they haue opportunitie to confer together as in a Colledge and to arme themselves in unity against the single adversary abroad But quoth the Inquisitor generall how doe they for bookes when they haue occasion either to write or dispute My Lord replyes Gondamor all the Libraries belonging to the Romane Catholiques through the land are at their command from whence they haue all such collections as they can require gathered to their hand aswell from thence as from all the Libraries of both Vniversities and even the bookes themselves if that be requisite Besides I have made it a principall part of my imployment to buy all the manuscripts other ancient and rare Authours out of the hands of the Heretiques so that there is no great Scholler dies in the land but my Agents are dealing with his bookes In so much as even their learned Isaack Causabons library was in election without question to be ours had not their Vigilant King who foresees all dangers and hath his eye busie in every place prevented my plot For after the death of that great scholler I sent to request a view catalogue of his bookes with their price intending not to be out-vyed by any man if mony would fetch them because besides the damage that side should haue received by their losse prosecuting the same story against Cardinall Baronius we might haue made good advantage of his notes collections castigations censures and criticismes for our owne party and framed and put out others under his name at our pleasure But this was foreseene by their Prometheus who sent that Torturer of ours the Bishop of VVinchester to search and sort the papers and to seale vp the ●tudy Giving a large and princely allowance for them to the ●elicks of Causabon togither with a bountifull pension pro●ision for her and hers But this plot fayling at that time hath of ever done so Nor had the Vniversitie of Oxford so triumphed in their many manuscripts given by that famous Knight S. Thomas Bodly if eyther I had been then imployed or this course of mine then thought upon for I would labour what I might this way or any other way to disarme them and eyther to translate their best authours hither or at least to leave none in the hands of any but Romane Catholiques who are assuredly ours And to this end an especiall eye would be had upon the Library of one S. Robert Cotton an ingrosser of Antiquities that whensoever it come to be broken up eyther before his death or after the most choice and singular pieces might be gleaned and gathered up by a Catholique hand Neyther let any man thinke that descending thus low to pettie particulars is unworthy an Ambassadour or of small avayle for the ends we ayme at since we see every mountayne consists of severall sands and there is no more profitable conversing for Statesmen then amōgst schollers their books specially where the King for whom we watch is the King of Schollers and loves to live almost altogether in their element Besides if by any meanes we can continue differences in their Church or make them wider or beget distaste betwixt their Clergy and commō Lawyer who are men of greatest power in the land the benefit will be ours the consequence great opening a way for us to come in betvveene for personall quarrels produce reall questions As he was further prosecuting this discourse one of the Secretaries who wayted without the chamber desired entrance and being admitted delivered letters vvhich he had nevvly received from a Post directed to the President and the rest of the Councell from his Catholike master the contents whereof vvere to this effect Right trusty vvelbeloved Cousens and Counsellors we greete you wel Wheras vve had a hope by our Agents in England and Germany to effect that great vvorke of the Westerne Empire and likewise on the other side to surprize Venice and so incircling Europe at one instāt infolding it in our armes make the easier roade upon the Turke in Asia and at length reduce all the vvorld to our catholique commaund And whereas to these holy ends vve had secret and sure plots and proiects on foot in all those places and good intelligence in all Courts Know now that vve haue received late and sad newes of the apprehension of our most trusty and able Pensioner Barnevelt and of the discovery of other our intendements so that our hopes are for the present adjourned till some other more convenient and auspicuous time We therefore will you presently upon sight hereof to breake off our consultation and repaire straight to our presence there to take further directions and proceed as the necessity of time cause should require With that his Excellencie and the whole house strook with amazement crost their foreheads rose up in sad silence and brake off this Treaty abruptly and vvithout tarriance tooke horse and posted to Courte From vvhence expect newes the next fayre vvinde In the meane tyme Let not those be secure vvhom it concernes to be rovvsed up knowing that this aspiring Nebuchadnezzar wil not loose the glorie of his greatnes who continueth still to magnifie himselfe in his great Babel untill it be spoken thy kingdome is departed from thee Dan. 4.