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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05410	A discourse of the vsage of the English fugitiues, by the Spaniard	Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.; Wadsworth, James, 1572?-1623, attributed name.; Scarlett, Thomas, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 15562; ESTC S106916	37,206	82

the chiefest harme their conspiracies haue done hetherto hath ben to themselues and they confounded in their own deuises And yet for all this so many tragicall endes of their so many traiterous proceedinges are they not moued with any sparke of repentaunce Neyther hath the ruine of so many of you their countrie-men wrought and contriued by their practise allurement and perswasion bred in them anie feeling of remorse of conscience but rather are thereby animated incouraged to set new deuises abroch with meaning in deed by sowing seditions among you by opposing you against the state to make you the onely instruments of the others ruine and so to make the waie open to the Spanish tyrant to which end there is no weeke but they receiue spies and spials from you Insomuch that I speake vpon good assuraunce there are at this instant among you aboue three hundred seditious beggerlye priests sent ouer by them to no other purpose A little before the comming of the Spanish fleet they sent foure priests and two Iesuites in disguised apparell throughly instructed to sound the meaning of such Gentlemen as they thought to be of theyr religion and to incline their minds to the Spanish cause incouraging them to take Armes against her MAIESTY to which end they printed in English many hundreds of bookes in Antwarpe barrelling them vp vntill such time as the Armie should haue bene landed and then their meaning was to haue dispersed them full of the most blasphemous speeches and proud traiterous menaces as well agaynst her Maiestie as against you all in generall as neuer I thinke the like was heard of Besides they haue obtained of the Pope and of the king that as many as had their voices in the parliament house at such time as the Queene of Scotland was adiudged to die of what degree so euer they were should be depriued not onely of theyr liues and liuings but that their posteritie also shuld be for euer dis-inherited and disanulled The lyke also they threatned in their bookes to all such as well noble men as others that should after the landing of the Spaniards armie persist in arms against the same But all this by the goodnesse of God hath but serued to discouer their wicked intentions and to animate all true Christian Englishmen to persist with the greater loue vnitie and courage in their obedience to her Maiestie But returning againe my speeches to you O vnnatural English-men to those whom you should obey trecherous and vnfaithfull and of those that you doo obey contemned and made slaues how can you indure to thirst after the destruction of so sweete a countrie in which you receiued your being and that gaue you nuriture being yong What religion must that be that animateth you to seeke subuersion of so benigne a princesse and of so glorious an estate The olde worthie Romanes thought it the most heroycall thing that might bee to vowe themselues sometimes to death for their countrie and euen to spend their liues in defence of their alters temples and monumentes of their Elders and you seeke to see your Countrie bathing in the bloud of your parents kindred and friendes to see your cities temples and auncient monuments flaming in the fire to see your virgines defloured and further to bring the noblest nations to perpetuall slauerie and seruitude yea and that of the most base wicked proude and cruellest nation that liueth a nation not yet fully an hundred yeeres since wholie they receiued Christianitie and as yet are in their heartes a greate number of them pagans moores from profession of which they are onelye helde by the seuere bridle of the sanguinarye and most cruell Heathen Inquisition But that Paganisme of theirs which in theyr profession they dare not shew they do in theyr tyranie blasphemie sodomie crueltie murther adulterie and other abhominations sufficiently discouer If the Nunamantines Saquntines and Nessatiagis burnte their townes slewe theyr wiues and children and familie themselues rather than they woulde receiue the yoake of worthie and vertuous Nations that inuaded them What should we then doo whome our vertuous auncestours haue lefte honoured with the innumerable trophies of many victories rather than to indure the insolent wicked and tyrannous gouernment of that Nation whome all Europe hath in horrour leauing to our posteritie after vs a perpetuall seruitude and bondage and an euerlasting memorie of our cowardise But leauing this vntill a fitter time I hope this that is alreadie sayde shall bee sufficient to make you cleerely and plainely vnderstande that there is not to bee obtayned the sweetnesse lybertie and tranquilitie of conscience which you expecte and looke for but rather turmoile and griefe of minde with a perpetuall grudging and remorse of conscience scandalized with infinite and innumerable examples of ill lyfe impietie sodomie blasphemie defamation and periurie On the other side towardes her Maiestie and the state of your country you shall be helde reputed as a traitor and of those whom you shal here serue no better who make no further reckning of any of vs than as of base people fugitiues out of our cuntrie for debt theeuerie or some one hainous crime or other thinking it a matter impossible howsoeuer we disguise the same vnder pretext of religion that anie man beeing in his countrie of honest calling or meanes to liue should be so senselesse as to exchange the same for a condition so base beggerly and infamous as that which wee doo heere indure And so did a Spanish Captaine in playne tearms signifie ●o sir William Standley as they passed in the ordinarie boote betweene Antwarp and Brussels But now to the third point of my Discourse concerning the mislike which sundrie of you haue of her Maiesties gouernment and the state of your countrie at this present to seeke to transport your selues hether as into a hauen of blis securitie I will by comparing the one with the other as neere as I cā let you see the difference between thē both and so consequently your errour as neere as I can gesse by report of sundrie cōming thence informed this your disliking proceedeth of two points The one that your lawes are too rigorously and seuerely executed against such as professe the catholike religion The other that the aduersarie hath buzzed a feare into your heades making you beleeue that the fortes of your state are too feeble to resist so mightie and puisant an enemie as the Spanish king whose mightie treasures many dominions armies of men they magnifie to the skies and therefore perchaunce you couet to ioyne betimes with the partie which you doo thinke most aduantagious for your future securitie aduancement First touching the persecutions of Catholikes which our traitors heere so much exclaime vpon filling whole volumes therewith and aggreuating the same in tearmes most bitter and lamentable to foraine Nations Let vs see what reason they haue I would faine demand one question If euer they dyd reade heare