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A51173	Megalopsychy, being a particular and exact account of the last XVII years of Q. Elizabeths reign, both military and civil the first written by Sir William Monson ..., the second written by Heywood Townsend, Esq. ; wherein is a true and faithful relation ... of the English and Spanish wars, from the year 1585, to the Queens death ; with a full account of the eminent speeches and debates, &c., in the said time ; to which is added Dr. Parry's tryal in the year 1584 ; all written at the time of the actions, by persons eminently acting therein.	Monson, William, Sir, 1569-1643.; Parry, William, d. 1585. True and plain declaration of the horrible treasons.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2465; ESTC R7517	94,931	102

yet they were forc'd to quit them and to retire into the Castle My Lord at last in despite of the Enemy gained the Market place where he found greatest Resistance from the Houses thereabouts and where it was that that Worthy Gentleman Sir John Wingfield was unluckily slain The Lord General Essex caused it to be proclaimed by Beat of Drum through the Town that all that would yield should repair to the Town-House where they should have promise of Mercy and those that would not to expect no Favor The Castle desired Respite to consider untill the morning following and then by one general Consent they surrend'red themselves to the two Lord Generals Mercies The Chief Prisoners Men and Women were brought into the Castle where they remained a little space and were sent away with Honorable Usage The noble treating of the Prisoners hath gained an everlasting Honor to our Nation and the General 's in particular It cannot be supposed the Lord Generals had leisure to be idle the day following having so great business to consider of as the securing the Town and enjoying the Merchants Ships Wherefore for the speedier dispatch they had Speech with the best men of the City about the Ransom to be given for their Town and Liberties 120000 Duckets was the Summ concluded on and for Security thereof many of them became Hostages There was likewise an Overture for the Ransom of their Ships and Goods which the Duke of Medina hearing of rather than we should reap any profit by them he caused them to be fired We found by Experience that the destroying of this Fleet which did amount to the value of six or seven Millions was the general impoverishing of the whole Country For when the Pledges sent to Sevil to take up money for their Redemption they were answered that all the Town was not able to raise such a Summ their Loss was so great by the loss of their Fleet. And to speak truth Spain never received so great an Overthrow so great a Spoil so great an Indignity at our Hands as this For our Attempt was at his own Home in his Port that he thought as safe as his Chamber where we took and destroy'd his Ships of War burnt and consumed the Wealth of his Merchants sack'd his City ransomed his Subjects and entred his Country without Impeachment To write all Accidents of this Voyage wete too tedious and would weary the Reader but he that would desire to know the Behavior of the Spaniards as well as of us many confer with divers English men that were redeemed out the Gallies in exchange for others and brought into England After we had enjoyed the Town of Cadiz a Fortnight and our men were grown rich by the Spoil of it the Generals imbarqued their Army with an intent to perform greater Services before their Return but such was the Covetousness of the better Sort who were inriched there and the fear of Hunger in others who complained for want of Victuals as they could not willingly be drawn to any farther Action to gain more Reputation The only thing that was afterwards attempted was Pharoah a Town of Algarula in Portugal a place of no Resistance or Wealth only famous by the Library of Osorius who was Bishop of that place which Library was brought into England by us and many of the Books bestowed upon the new erected Library of Oxford Some Prisoners were taken but of small account who told us that the greatest Strength of the Country was in Lawgust the chief Town of Argarula twelve miles distant from thence because most part of the Gentlemen thereabouts were gone thither to make it good expecting our coming This News was acceptable to my Lord of Essex who preferred Honor before Wealth And having had his Will and the Spoil of the Town of Pharoah and Country thereabouts He Shipped his Army and took Council of the Lord Admiral how to proceed My Lord Admiral diverted his course for Lawgust alleadging the place was strong of no Wealth always held in the nature of a Fisher-Town belonging to the Portugals who in their Hearts were our Friends that the winning of it after so eminent a place as Cadiz could add no Honor though it should be carried yet it would be the Loss of his best Troops and Gentlemen who would rather to die than receive Indignity of a Repulse My Lord of Essex much against his Will was forc'd to yield unto these Reasons and desist from that Enterprise About this time there was a general Complaint for want of Victuals which proceeded rather out of a desire that some had to be at home than out of any necessity For Sir William Monson and Mr. Darrel were appointed to examine the Condition of every Ship and found seven weeks Victuals Drink excepted which might have been supplied from the Shore in Water and this put the Generals in great hope to perform something more than they had done The only Service that was now to be thought on was to lie in wait for the Carrecks which in all probability could not escape us though there were many Doubts to the contrary but easily answered by men of Experience But in truth some mens desire homeward were so great that no Reason could prevail with or persuade them Coming into the height of the Rock the Generals took Council once again and then the Earl of Essex and the Lord Thomas Howard offered with great earnestness to stay out the time our Victuals lasted and desired to have but 12 Ships furnished out of the rest to stay with them but this would not be granted though the Squadron of the Hollanders offered voluntarily to stay Sir Walter Rawleigh alleadged the scarcity of Victuals and the Infection of his Men. My Lord General Essex offered in the Greatness of his Mind and the Desire he had to stay to supply his want of Men and Victuals and to exchange Ships but all Proposals were in vain For the Riches kept them that got much from attempting more as if it had been otherwise pure want though not Honour would have enforced them to greater Enterprises This being the last Hopes of the Voyage and being generally withstood it was concluded to steer away for the North Cape and afterwards to view and search the Harbors of the Groyn and Ferrol and if any of the King of Spain's Ships chanced to be there to give an Attempt upon them The Lord Admiral sent a Carvel of our Fleet into these two Harbors and aparrelled the men in Spanish Cloaths to avoid Suspicion This Carvel returned the next day with a true Relation that there were no Ships in the Harbors And now passing all places where there was any hope of doing good our Return for England was resolved upon and the 8th of August the Lord Admiral arrived in Plymouth with the greatest part of the Army And the Lord General Essex who staid to accompany the St. Andrew which was under his Charge and reputed of his

MEGALOPSYCHY BEING A Particular and Exact ACCOUNT Of the last XVII Years OF Q. Elizabeths Reign Both MILITARY and CIVIL The First written by Sir William Monson one of the Queens Admirals The Second written by Heywood Townsend Esq WHEREIN Is a True and Faithful Relation of all the Expeditions Attempts Designs Successes and Errors both of the English and Spanish Wars from the Year 1585 to the Queens death With a Full Account of the eminent Speeches and Debates c. in the said time To which is added Dr. Parry's Tryal in the Year 1584. All written at the time of the Actions by Persons eminently Acting therein LONDON Printed for W. Crooke and sold by W. Davis in Amen Corner M.DC.LXXXII A TRUE and EXACT ACCOUNT OF THE Wars with Spain In the REIGN of Q. ELIZABETH Of Famous Memory BEING The Particulars of what happened between the English and Spanish Fleets from the Years 1585 to 1602. SHEWING The Expeditions Attempts Fights Designs Escapes Successes Errors c. on both sides With the Names of Her Majesty's Ships and Commanders in every Fleet. Being a Patern and Warning to Future Ages Never Printed before Written by Sir William Monson who was a Captain in most and Admiral of several of those Fleets in the said Wars and Dedicated to his Son LONDON Printed for W. Crooke and sold by W. Davis in Amen Corner M.DC.LXXXII TO THE READER By way of Advertisement YOu have here put into your hands a Piece of English History of a time of great Actions You will hardly meet more Truth in any History than you will find in this All circumstances considered there could not in any thing be greater opportunities of Truth they being written by Persons of Eminent Characters and Considerable Actors in the same times These very Authors Wise and Heroick Actions make no inconsiderable part of the History it self The First is a Relation of the Military Transactions of the Nation for nigh Twenty Years beginning Anno Domini 1585 from which time to Queen Elizabeths death there was yearly set out a Fleet against the Spaniards with a full Account of all the Expeditions Stratagems Attempts Successes and Miscarriages that happened in that War on both sides wherein is shewed the Valour and Heroick Acts of those great Souldiers that were so plenty in that Age as Cumberland Suffolk Essex Sheffeild Drake Rawleigh Hawkins Forbisher Carlee Burroughs Bellingham Fenner Southwell Crosse Seymour Crosse Winter Beeston Palmer Barker Bostock Sackvile Goring Norris Williams Leicester York Greenvile Vavasor c. And Sir William Monson the Author of this who was Admiral in several of the said Expeditions against the Spaniards and also a Member in her last Parliaments The second part is the full and exact Account of the Four last Parliaments both Lords and Commons of Queen Elizabeth taken from the original Records of their Houses by Heywood Townsend Esquire a Member thereof with the particular Speech and Behaviour of the Wife and Learned Statesmen Lawyers c. which that time was fo fruitful of viz. Egerton Burleigh Buckhurst Cecill Walsingham Hatton Bacon Rawleigh Hobby Crooke Coke Moore Fortescue Pophan Yelverton Finch Maynard Spelman Wentworth Hobart Manwood Jones Digby Caesar Anderson Winch c. With other passages of History in those times that is runs contemporary with Sir William Monsons Relation both together being the Account of the Military and Civil State of Affairs of nigh 20 Years of the last part of Queen Elizabeths Reign being the most eminent time of Action in all her Government With Sir William Monsons Directions and Advice to his Son by way of Dedication to excuse it s not coming forth sooner may be to avoid such Offences which must necessarily be given by a faithful and exact Historian that writes of the present Age when the Parties are living that were Actors in it it may by this time be supposed that such Objections against its now coming forth may be over You have added at the end of this the Tryal Condemnation and Execution of Dr. Parry for a Conspiracy against the said Queen written also at the time of his Tryal and Execution So that what is here offered for thy use is nothing but what was written at the time of the Action or by the Persons who were Actors and of such Quality that it is quite out of all suspicion there should be the least Falshood in this it being never at all designed for the publick in the life-time of the Authors Therefore neither Profit nor Honour did the Authors expect although their exact and careful Accounts of Truth must be no small benefit to the curious Reader There is lately published a small Book of 1 s. 6 d. price called The Connexion being choice Collections of some principal matters in King James his Reign and passages betwixt this Book and Rushworth Nalson and the rest that begin at King Charles I. Sir WILLIAM MONSON TO HIS Son JOHN Dear Son THE Custom of Dedicating Books hath been ancient and they have been usually dedicated either to Great Persons for protection or remuneration or to Familiars out of friendship and affection or to Children in respect of nature and for admonition And to this end it is that to you I commend the reading of the Discourse following that so beholding the 18 years War by Sea which for want of years you could not then remember and comparing them with the 18 years of Peace in which you have lived you may consider three things First that after so many pains and perils God hath lent Life to your Father to further your Education Secondly what proportion his recompence and rewards have had to his Services Lastly what just cause you have to abandon the thoughts of such dangerous and uncertain courses and that you may follow the ensuing Precepts which I commend to your often perusal And in the first place I will put you in mind of the small Means and Fortune I shall leave that you may rate your Expences accordingly and yet as little as it is 't is great to me in respect I attained to it by my own endeavours and dangers and therefore no body can challenge Interest in it but my self though your Carriage may promise the best possibility Beware you presume not so much upon it as thereby to grow disobedient to your Parents for what you can pretend to is but the privilege of two years of age above your younger Brother and in such cases Fathers are like Judges that can and will distinguish of offences and deserts according to truth and will reward and punish as they shall see cause And because you shall know it is no rare or new thing for a man to dispose of his own I will lay before you a Precedent of your own House that so often as you think of it you may remember it with fear and prevent it with care The Great Grandfather of your Grandfather was a Knight by Title and John by name which name we desire

imagine you see a Beast in the shape of a Man It is a humour that for the time pleaseth the Party drunk and so bereaves him of sence that he thinketh all he doth delighteth the Beholders but the day following he buys his shame with repentance and perhaps gives that offence in his drunkenness that makes him hazard both Life and Reputation in a Quarrel You have no man that will brag or boast so much of the word Reputation as a Drunkard when indeed there is nothing more to a mans imputation than to be drunk A Drunkard is in the condition of an excommunicated person whose Testimony betwixt Party and Party is of no validity Avoid good Son the company of a Drunkard and occasions of drinking then shall you live free without fear and enjoy your own without hazard Whoredom is an incident to Drunkenness though on the contrary all Whoremasters are not Drunkards It is a sin not washed away without the vengeance of God to the third and fourth generation Besides the offence to God it giveth a disreputation to the party and his Of-spring it occasioneth a breach betwixt Man and Wife encourageth the Wife oftentimes to follow the ill example of her Husband and then ensueth Dislike Divorce Disinheriting of Children Suits in Law and Consuming of Estates The next and worst sin I would have you shun is Swearing I do not advise you like a Puritan that ties a man more to the observing of Sundays and from taking the Name of God in vain than to all the rest of the Commandments but I wish you to avoid it for the greatness of the sin it self for the Plague of God hangeth over the House of the Blasphemer Swearing is odious to the Hearers it giveth little credit to the words of him that useth it it affordeth no pleasure as other sins do nor yieldeth any profit to the party Custom begetteth it and Custom must make one leave it For your Exercises let them be of two kinds the one of Mind the other of Body that of the Mind must consist of Prayer Meditation and your Book let your Prayers be twice a day howsoever you dispose of your self the rest of the time Prayers work a great effect in a contrite and penitent Heart By this I do not seek to persuade you from such Exercises and Delights of body as are lawful and allowable in a Gentleman for such increase health and agility of body make a man sociable in company and draw good Acquaintants many times they bring a man into favour with a Prince and prove an occasion of preferment in his Marriage they are often times a safeguard to a mans Life as in vaulting suddenly upon a Horse to escape an Enemy I will especially commend unto you such pleasures as bring delight and content without charge for others are fitter for greater men than one of your Fortune to follow Hawking and Hunting if they be moderately used are like Tobacco in some cases wholesom for the Body but in the common use both laboursom and loathsom they alike bring one discommodity as comonly Vices do that they are not so easily left as entertained Tobacco is hot and hurtful to young Bodies and Stomachs and augments the heat of the Liver which naturally you are subject to It is offensive to company especially the Breath of him that takes it it drieth the Brain and many become Fools with the continual use thereof Let your Apparel be handsom and decent not curious nor costly A wise man is more esteemed in his plain Cloth than gay Clothing It is more commendable to be able to buy a rich Suit than to wear one A wise man esteems more of a mans Vertues and Valour than of his Vesture but seeing this Age is fantastical and changeable you must fashion your self to it but in so mean and moderate a manner as to be rather praised for Frugality than derided for Prodigality He that delights in curious Cloaths is an Imitator of a Player who measures his Apparel by the part he acts And as Players appear upon the Stage to be seen of the Spectators so do the Gallants proclaim their Braveries in open Assemblies Whilest I live and you not marry I shall temper this Expence but when I die remember what I say seek Advancement rather by your carriage the curiousness the reputation you gain by that will be lasting when this will appear but like a Flower fading Frame your Course of Life to the Country and not to the Court and yet make not your self such a stranger to great persons as in Assemblies they should ask others who you are I confess the greatest and suddenest rising is by the Court yet the Court is like a hopefull and forward Spring that is taken with a sharp and cold Frost which nips and blasts a whole Orchard except 2 or 3 Trees for after that proportion commonly Courtiers are preferr'd And he that will thrive at Court must make his dependency upon some great person in whose Ship he must imbarque all his hopes and how unfortunate such great persons are oftentimes themselves and how unthankful to their Followers we want not Precedents He that settles his Service upon one of them shall fall into the disfavour of another for a Court is like an Army ever in War striving by stratagems to circumvent and kick up one anothers heels You are not ignorant of the aptness of this Comparison by what you know of me whose case will serve you for a Prospective-glass wherein to behold your danger afar off the better to prevent it Yet reverence Lords because they are Noble and one more than another as he is more notable in virtue Be choice of your Company for as a man makes election of them he is censured Man lives by Reputation and that failing he becomes a Monster Let your Company consist of your own rank rather better than worse for hold it for a Maxim The better Gentleman the more gentle in his behaviour Beware they be not accused of Crimes for so it may touch you in Credit and if you lose your Reputation in the bud of your Youth you shall scarce recover it in the whole course of your Life Let them be civil in carriage for commonly such men are sensible above all let them be learned for Learning is a Fountain from whence springs another Life let them be temperate in Diet and Expence so shall you learn to live in health and increase in wealth Beware they be not cholerick in disposition or arrogant in Opinion for so you shall become a Slave to their Humours and base by suffering A cholerick man of all others is the worst Companion for he cannot temper his rage but on any slight occasion of a Friend becomes an Enemy Value true Friendship next to Marriage which nothing but Death can dissolve for the fickleness of Friendship is oftentimes the ruine of ones Fortune Beware of Gaming for it causes great vexation of Mind If

I would do it if it were to kill the greatest subject in England whom I named and in truth then hated No no said he let him live to his greater fall and ruine of his house 2 It is the Queen I mean I had him as I wished and told him it were soon done if it might be lawfully done and warranted in the opinion of some learned Divines And so the doubt once resolved though as you have heard I was before reasonably well satisfied I vowed to undertake the enterprise for the restitution of England to the ancient obedience of the Sea Apostolick Divers Divines were named Doctor Allein I desired Parsons I refused And by chance came Master Wattes a learned Priest with whom I conferred and was over-ruled 3 For he plainly pronounced the case onely altered in name that it was utterly unlawful with whom many English Priests did agree as I have heard if it be not altered since the book made in answer of The execution of the English Justice was published which I must confess hath taken hard hold in me and I fear me will do in others if it be not prevented by more gracious handling of the quiet and obedient Catholick subjects whereof there is good and greater store in England than this age will extinguish Well notwithstanding all these doubts I was gone so far by letters and conference in Italy that I could not go back but promised faithfully to perform the enterprise if his Holiness upon my offer and letters would allow it and grant me full remission of my sins 4 I wrote my letters the first of January 1584. by their computation took advice upon them in confession of Father Anibal a Codreto a learned Jesuite in Paris was lovingly embraced commended confessed and communicated at the Jesuites at one altar with the Cardinals of Vandosmi and Narbone whereof I prayed certificate and enclosed the same in my Letter to his Holiness to lead him the rather to absolve me which I required by my Letters in consideration of so great an enterprise undertaken without promise or reward 5 I went with Morgan to the Nuntio Ragazzoni to whom I read the Letter and certificate enclosed sealed it and left it with him to send to Rome he promised great care of it and to procure answer And so lovingly imbraced me wished me good speed and promised that I should be remembred at the altar 6 After this I desired Morgan that some special man might be made privy to this matter lest he dying and I miscarrying in the execution and my intent never truly discovered it might stick for an everlasting spot in my Race Divers were named but none agreed upon for fear of beraying 7 This being done Morgan assured me that shortly after my departure the L. Fernehurst then in Paris should go into Scotland and be ready upon the first news of the Queens fall to enter into England with 20 or 30000 Men to defend the Queen of Scotland whom and the King her Son I do in my conscience acquit of any privity liking or consent to this or any other bad action for any thing that ever I did know I shortly departed for England and arrived at Rie in January 1583. from whence I wrote to the Court advertised some that I had a special service to discover to the Queens Majesty 8 which I did more to prepare access and credit than for any care I had of her Person though I were fully resolved never to touch her notwithstanding any Warrant if by any device perswasion or policy she might be wrought to deal more graciously with the Catholicks than she doth or by our manner of proceeding in Parliament meaneth to do or any thing yet seen I came to the Court then at Whitehall prayed audience had it at large and very privately discovered to her Majesty this Conspiracy much to this effect though covered with all the skill I had she took it doubtfully I departed with fear And amongst other things I cannot forget her Majesties gratious speech then uttered touching the Catholicks which of late after a sort I avowed in Parliament she said to me that never a Catholick should be troubled for Religion or Supremacy so long as they lived like good Subjects Whereby I mistrusted that her Majesty is born in hand that none is troubled for the one or the other It may be truly said that it is better than it hath been though it be not yet as it should be In March last while I was at Greenwich as I remember suing for St. Katherines came Letters to me from Cardinal Como dated at Rome the last of January before whereby I found the enterprise commended and allowed and my self absolved in his Holiness name of all my sins and willed to go forward in the name of God That Letter I shewed to some in Court who imparted it to the Queen what it wrought or may work in her Majesty God knoweth onely this I know 9 that it confirmed my resolution to kill her and made it clear in my conscience that it was lawful and meritorious And yet was I determined never to do it if either policy practice perswasion or motion in Parliament could prevail I feared to be tempted and therefore always when I came near her I left my Dagger at home 10 When I looked upon her Majesty and remembred her many excellencies I was greatly troubled And yet I saw no remedy for my Vows were in Heaven my Letters and Promises in Earth and the case of the Catholick Recusants and others little bettered Sometimes I said to my self Why should I care for her what hath she done for me have I not spent 10000 Marks since I knew her service and never had peny by her It may be said she gave me my life But I say as my case stood it had been Tyranny to take it And I fear me it is little less yet If it please her gratiously to look into my discontentments I would to Jesus Christ she had it for I am weary of it And now to come to an end of this tragical discourse In July I left the Court utterly rejected discontented and as her Majesty might perceive by my passionate Letters careless of my self I came to London Doctor Alleins Book was sent me out of France 11 it redoubled my former conceits Every word in it was a warrant to a prepared mind It taught that Kings may be excommunicated deprived and violently handled It proveth that all Wars Civil or Forraign undertaken for Religion is Honorable Her Majesty may do well to read it and to be out of doubt if things be not amended that it is a warning and a Doctrine full dangerous This is the Book I shewed in some places read and lent it to my Cousin Nevil the accuser who came often to mine house put his finger in my Dish his hand in my Purse and the night wherein he accused me was wrapped in my Gown six moneths at least