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A14618	Further obseruations of the English Spanish pilgrime, concerning Spaine being a second part of his former booke, and containing these particulars: the description of a famous monastery, or house of the King of Spaines, called the Escuriall, not the like in the Christian world: a briefe relation of certaine dæmonicall stratagems of the Spanish Inquisition exercised on diuers English men of note of late times, and now liuing in England. A relation of the founding of a military order in Rome, to wit, of the immaculate Conception of our Lady, the blessed Virgin. Composed by Iames Wadsworth, Gentleman, lately conuerted into his true mothers bosome, the Church of England, and heretofore pentioner to the King of Spaine.	Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656? English Spanish pilgrime. aut	1630 (1630)	STC 24928; ESTC S119406	21,866	56

building It reaches one hundred in breadth and is distinguished into many pretty knots and beds set with all kind of herbs and flowers and watered with many pleasant Springs and Fountaines This Garden is much higher then the Orchard adioyning and you ascend from hence thither by a walke of many staires set with trees on both sides There are accounted to bee aboue forty Fountaines of pure water within the walles of the Monastery There are so many Closets and Keyes belonging to this Monastery that there is a speciall Officer appointed to be Master of the Keyes which Keyes are kept in a Closet by themselues and are esteemed to exceed some thousands The third part of this famous Monastery of Saint Laurence is possessed by 300. Monkes of the Order of Saint Hierome whose yeerely Reuenues amount to aboue 35000. Spanish Ducats and the rest goes to the King and his family To conclude it is furnished with so many Halles Parlors Dining-roomes Chambers Closets Offices Lodgings and other necessarie Roomes that it may well suffice foure Kings at once to keepe their Courts in There are certaine credible reports of men of credit and vnderstanding that some yeeres after that King Philip the second had begun this great worke he comming thither with the Earle of Lemos and hauing shewed him the plot and disclosed his purpose in the finishing of so great a work which would amount to an incredible charge he demanded the Earle to tell him freely what he thought of the Worke. The Earle stoutly and with a noble spirit answered the King saying Your Maiestie as you are the greatest Monarch of Christendome so are you reputed the wisest among Kings now considering the great charge that your Maiesty is at in your warres in Italy in France and the Low-Countries with the Great Turke and elsewhere together with your ordinary and extraordinary expences and the likelihood of warres with the Queene of England All these things considered it would bee a blemish to your wisedome in the World If your Maiestie should goe forward with this Building and the charges will make you sinke before it bee finished The King replied notwithstanding all his wars and other charges Hee would goe on with this and hoped by the grace of God to see it finished to take pleasure and comfort in it in his life the which hee did and enioyed it seeuen yeeres and that after his death it should bee a Receptacle for his bones and likewise for the Kings that should succeed him to be for a Court in their liues and for their Funerall after their deaths Likewise it is crediblely reported that when the worke was finished and the Officers brought the Booke of accounts the totall of the Charges was twentie seuen Millions of Duckats which amounteth in our money to Nine Millions of Poundes The King hearing the Totall said I haue taken great care many yeeres and troubled my Head much heretofore to haue that finished I will now trouble my head no longer with the Charges wherefore he commanded the Booke of accounts to be cast into the fire A BRIEFE RELATION OF CERTAINE DEMONICALL STRATAGEMS OF THE SPANISH Inquisition exercised on diuers English Gentlemen of late times now liuing in England in the yeere 1620. IN the Court of Madrid was apprehended a worthy and discreet Gentlemen then and as yet fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Master Henry Roe who went ouer with the Lord Ashton as his seruant in his embassage to Spaine Who desirous of the spanish tongue as also to view the vniuersitie of Sallamanca departed with leaue from the Embassadour to reside for some space there But not long after being importuned by Master Charles Maynard brother to my Lord Maynard and Master Edward Filmer sonne to Sir Edward Filmer then at Madrid to suruey other parts of Spaine as Granado Cordonath and Sciuill For the effecting of which teadious iourney some 300. english miles returned some insupportable brasse mony by a Iesuite brother then to the gouernour of Madrid to receiue it of him at his arriuall there Thus departing from Sallamanca came to Madrid to my Lord Embassadours house and some 3. weekes after his comming went at the day appointed to the Gouernours house to receiue his money and because he was not well experienced in the brasse coyne tooke with him a seruant to on Master Prinn an English Merchant Now there stood readie at the Gouernors house a familiar of the Spanish Inquisition who saluted Master Roe very courteously and asked him if he were not the Gentleman that was to receiue such a summe of money of his Master and said that his Master commanded him to attend his comming and that the money was readie some halfe a dozen houses off If he pleased to take paines to goe thither Master Roe little fearing any treacherie went with this fellow who by his apparell seemed Hombre de bien They come quickly to a faire house where the familiar carries M. Roe into an vpper roome where were some sixteene todos vestidos de negro con capas Iespadas There was only one in a gowne who seemed to bee the chiefe amongst them and the Master of the house he very kindly salutes Master Roe asked him if he were not such a Gentleman that should receiue such money and where he lay Master Roe all this while fearing nothing pluckes out his bills of Exchange to r●ceiue his money and tells him that he lay in the English Embassadours house hee asketh him againe and againe of this last point Master Roe still answered him as before Whereupon hee for the present leaues Master Roe consults aside in the same roome with some of his fellowes and comes againe to Master Roe tels him that he must haue patience and that he was taken Prisoner by the spanish Inquisition A second with a great deale of complementall grauitie tooke his sword A third pickt his pockets emptying him of all his money and papers A fourth brings a smith vnto him to fetter his legges with weightie Iuyues A fift was inquisitiue to know if he had any riding clothes to trauell in who told him he had at the Embassadours house which made them shake their heads in token of feare to fetch them thence Heere they deteined him from two of the Clock in the afternoone till eleuen or thereabouts at night which time they set him sidewayes by reason of his fettered legges on a Mule attended by a guard of some forty in number who brought him safe out of the towne on his iourney and then the greater part of them returned to Madrid But the first place I rested in was called Torede Ladronis in English the Towre of Theeues where the Captaine of the Guard comforted him but withall in delusion tould him that hee should be eased of his fetters the next day and from thence they continued their iourney to Vallidolid where on the way they met with a flemmish Gentleman riding to Madrid one acquainted

r. Nunca sino ala conquista de Spana l. 19. r. Print p. 26. l. 20. r. Wildford Castle FVRTHER OBSERVATIONS OF THE ENGLISH SPANISH PILGRIME CONCERNING SPAINE BEING A SECOND PART OF HIS FORMER Booke c. IN the Countrey of Segoria vpon the Carpetan borders stands a village heretofore of small note but now famous for the stately monastery called Scorialis or commonly the Escuriall from the drosse as some guesse which in old time came of the iron about those parts The former buildings of that village were till of late very meane and homely more for the profit then pleasure of the poore husbandman The soyle about it is barren and stony affording very hard passage for carts and carriages whereupon there is but little prouision of corne and wine but good store of cattell by reason of the good feeding and sweete temper of the ayre whereas the more inland parts of the Countrey are somewhat scorched with ouer-much heate this bloweth many coole blasts from the snowy neighboring mountaines whence flowes good store of water enriching the ground with grasse and beautifying the fields with a continuall greennesse Beyond this village westward about a mile at the foote of an high hill in an inclosed valley seuen leagues from Madrid stands that stately pile dedicated to the honor of St. Laurence being the labour of foure and twenty yeeres a building of incredible cost and magnificence and such as no former age could paralell So that it may iustly be accounted one of the greatest wonders of this latter world Besides the charges of rich vestments massy vessels of gold and siluer and other pretious furniture it stood the King of Spaine according to his booke of accounts in one thousand two hundred Sesterces which makes about three millions of money or according to others nine millions of pounds The whole fabrik is built in a square except on that side toward the Kings Pallace and on the backside of the Church looking towards Madrid which seemes to resemble a cradle or gridiron vpon which St. Laurence was broyled Euery side but this extending two hundred and twenty paces Some account the whole length of it from North to South no lesse then seuen hundred and twenty feete and from East to West according to the common measure fiue hundred and seuenty Each corner of the building is garded with a faire tower made more for neatnesse then strength and beautified from the bottome to the top with many faire windowes The whole fabricke may be diuided in three parts On the South side stands the monastery of Monks of St. Hierome which takes vp almost one halfe of it Toward the Northside stands the Colledge for yonger nouices of the same order and forreigne children chosen and maintained by the King at a common table among themselues Somewhat Eastward stands the Kings owne Pallace being his Mansion house in the summer time Before you come to this stately edifice you may first obserue on the outside lying before it an open walke beginning from the westside of the Monastery and thence compassing all the Northside being two hundred foote broade on the West part betweene the Monastery and the partition and one hundred and forty foote broad on the North all beautified with a faire pauement of small square stones In the middest according to the length of the building on that side where the adioyning mountaine ouer-lookes it A faire great gate opens it selfe betweene eight huge pillars on both sides of it one aboue another vpon which are foure other lesser pillars and in the midst of the front stands a curious statue of S. Laurence This great gate opens to the Church the Monastery and the Colledge On both sides of it are other lesser gates That on the right hand affordes a passage to the chops of mechanicall arts for the vse of the Colledge That on the left opens a way to the lodgings of the younger Students or Nouices On the same side also is a lesser gate through which you may passe into the Kings Palace In a faire front ouer the entrance to the Church stand vpon their pillars and bases the statues of sixe Kings of Israel each of them eighteene foot high whose heads and hands are of white Marble the rest of a courser stone Let vs enter now into the interiour parts of this goodly Fabricke and first when you are vp the staires which leade to the chiefe entrance of the Church a large open walke offers it selfe vnto your view separating the Monastery from the Colledge In this walke are broad steps all along which leade to the entrance of the Church and thence to another open Plaine and so to a narrow Alley thorow which those of the Monastery on the one side and those of the Colledge on the other may passe to the Church and from thence into the lower station of the Quire Now the place where this Quire stands is foure-square hauing three great Alleyes or Iles or Cloysters in the square which are accounted for the Nauis or body of the Church Adioyning to this place of the lowermost Quire is an open Court on both sides from which the lower Quire it selfe and two Chappels scituated towards those two Courts receiue their light Aboue this lower Quire stands the Church it selfe with its proper Quire also which Church besides the vpper and lower stations of the Quire and the great Chappell is fouresquare of it selfe and is sustained by foure pillars and other necessary props and it hath three collaterall Alleys or Cloysters after the manner of the former In this Church are two paire of faire Organs hauing each of them two and thirty registers or keyes This Church also hath no lesse then sixe and thirty Altars and a stately dore by which they goe into a large vault at the time of Supplications and diuine Orisons This Church is higher then the inferiour Quire by thirty foot and the Quire of that is so much higher then the Church The pauement of the Church as likewise of the vpper and lower Quire is checquered with white and black Marble In the roofe of the Quire are expressed by the Painter the Sunne Moone and Starres with all the hoste of Heauen in most glorious manner and on the walles the portraitures of diuers and sundry vertues and some histories of S. Laurence and S. Hierome The seates are all made of precious wood of diuers kinds and colours in Corinthian worke On the Southside of the Church is a faire Porch arched and beautified with diuers pictures In this Porch is a cleare Fountaine built about with Iasper and Marble hauing seuen cocks and cisternes where the Monkes vse to wash their hands when they goe to celebrate their diuine Seruice The pauement also of this Porch is checquered with white and blacke Marble The Vestry is next a stately place all arched and paued as the former The chests and presses and other places where they keepe their holy Vests and ornaments of the

They were the cause that others did thee sell. Such Locusts our Land to eate vp still striue May our Kings Northwinde to Romes sea them driue For I dare boldly say t is Englands doome That they should liue with vs who sweare for Roome We haue their heads but Serpentine to bite Rome has their hearts and their allegeance quite A Climactericke yeere hang'd one of late Who sware for Pope against our King and State His dissect parts might teach them to espie Those parts that liu'd against should by vs die He many from receiued Truth seduc'd Who to frequent our Church affore time vs'd T' was iust then to hang the body of him Who t' hang mens soules great merit would it deeme Now may his holinesse him canonize As good as Becket for Treasons and lies He with his associates often went To a wench which was to confession bent T' was knowne she was a whore then well she might Make her confession to a Iesuite They kept their Rule and might then shew their skill Liue chaste thou canst not keep a close whore stil. Such hellish firebrands Papists did incense Against one who liued the Truths defence Whose pretious life because they could not waste The dumbe cattell their cruelty must taste And sith they could not take off that one heade These tales must all off where a man might reade Their rubrick cruelty on th't earth and heare Those dumbe beasts bespeake vengeance in Gods eare I sp●ake all this for to congratulate Thy ransom'd glory and most happy fate G●●s ●oote alone scaped out of their snare Thy body also and thy soule most rare Which soaring vp toward God is fixt aboue Nor Pope nor Spainiard can it moue Vlisses valour thou dost farre excell The towring Son of Thetis fame dost quell They had their Homers to relate their fame Thou need'st them not thy workes can write thy name Iliads of euill could them outweare Braue Spirit a world of euills thou didst beare Nor beare alone but breake them through and showes The Trophees of thy glory from thy foes To be a true Conuert thou art spoken English Spanish Pilgrime is thy token T. H. A. B. C. C. C. To his friend M. Iames Wadsworth concerning his booke GOe stately forward in thy Spanish pace And boldly stampe defiance in the face Of Romes proud Harlot let her know she must Lie prostrate now to scorne not to her lust She that can make faire statues speake may looke On her owne image speaking in thy Booke Reproach vnto her selfe that all may see Her vices and her sinnes Anatomy T is happy the beguiled Fathers sonne So wisely should delude delusion And in such mists of error should descry And tract the footesteps of an Heresie Which leauing now at length perchance it shall Be found a Comet and presage a fall To Romes vpholders whose chiefe strength doth lie In iugling and in false Diuinitie But though they stand thy Booke I take no lesse Than writings to intaile thee happinesse I. N. C. C. C. To his experienced good friend Mr. Iames Wadsworth vpon his Booke THy Booke 's a Pilgrime and 't had need be so If 't meanes to owne thee for its Master who From Parents Countrey and Religion too Nere stucke to fly thy Natiue faith to shew But 't may be styl'd a Diamond whose rays Affords vs light to view Romes mask't assays Nor that vnworthyly for't cost a prize Nere purchast by the coine but miseries The Gallies and the Inquisition Of which thou hast of which thou mighst made one Are now become thy storys Maist thou liue Till mercy of the times occasion giue For our oppugnd religion to fight With some Immaculate-new-ordered Knight But though thou dy'st yet these shall euer liue And proue thy fames most true preseruatiue And in despight of enuy shall become So many mottoes grau'd vpon thy Tombe R. G. C. C. C. To his good Friend the Author SPaine prisoner tooke thy soule thy body France This liu'd in Dungeon that in Ignorance But England soule and body would haue free Scorning contention and foule heresie Spaine was thy Hell and France thy Purgatorie England's thy Heauen on earth aboue 's thy Glorie Thou sinnes Anatomist canst by thy fate With skill the scarlet whore euiscerate Her subtile discipline her sorcerie Her baits of honor thou dost here discrie Thus hauing made her whoredome to appeare To boast of honesty she well may feare G. B. To his friend Mr. Wadsworth the Pilgrime FOrward braue Pilgrime let thy trauelling braine Giue birth to more Mineruaes though to Spaine Imposture pawn'd thy Parents yet is that state Checkt by discouery of thy reaching pate The speaking Crosse did steale thy Fathers heart Thou speaking Crosse to his designes dost thwart Delusions credit and impostures guile Beguilts its posture painting in thy stile Did Callis dungeon thee obscurely keepe We know that truth oft times lyes in the deepe Did the darke dungeon thee bestride with night Romes proiects and thy clearenesse came to light Darknesse displai'd and night being thrust away Thou clear'd we must confesse th' hast wonne the day Mans life 's a Pilgrimage cease not to trauell From shore to Sea from Sea to sand to grauell Th' antagonists of truth we know by common-sence Trauels the high way to experience E. R. Mag. Coll. Cant. To the modest and courteous Gentleman the Author of the English Spanish Trauailer COuld my weake iudgement vpon trust be tooke Or could I adde a lustre to thy booke Beyond its natiue glory I would then Striue to exceed my selfe and my owne penne But nothing can be added to your worth Onely my wonderment to set it forth And silence name best showes that least what I write Should like your glorious fame seeme infinite To my worthy friend Mr. Iames Wadsworth ALthough you haue discouered nobly well The Iesuites and sonnes of Machiauell Yet on this Booke which doth their Arts descry They practise yet a greater Policie For Sir I dare not thinke but that you know Who are the Merchants that engrost it so Spies for S. Omers and the Doway Crew And such as feare what good thy booke may doe Intelligencers Mumblers of the Masse Disguis'd and skin'd in Sattin as the Asse Was in the Lyons hide but their long eares Hang out too farre Yet where their craft appeares Or where they are discouer'd openly Such bookes as those by the whole sale they buy And hide them from our view And this was one Of many reasons caus'd th' impression To be renewd That he his booke repaires Comes not from his ambition but theirs A. B. of C. C. C. GEntle Reader I intreate thee before thou reade ouer this Booke to mend with thy Pen these few faults that alter the sense being committed in the Authors absence Pag. 1. lin 1. for Segoria r. Segovia p. 18. l. 5. r. Cheney Roe p. 20. l. 22. r. he p. 23. l. 20. r. Venetia p. 24. l. 9.

is eight square hauing eight windowes by which all the galleries adioyning receiue their light In the middest of that porch is a pleasant fountaine whose conduits and aqueducts are of Iasper The refectory or dining roome of the Monks is a most magnificent piece Next to the chamber of the Keeper of the robes is a way to another chamber for the entertainement of strangers next this the Kitchin with the porch of it wherein beside many other commodities are diuers fountaines of hot and cold water To the refectory is ioyned the Cloyster of the Hospitall wherein are two great cisternes The Hospitall it selfe is ioyned to this Cloyster whose dining roome reaches to the Kitchin Porch Beside these foresaid places there are three other houses wherein are made and conserued all those things which pertaine to the distillation of waters That Walke which leades from the Couent to the Hospitall is for them that are recouered from their diseases to exercise themselues therein From that great Porch aforesaid is another passage to the vault where daily orizons are said Here are pourtrayd the Histories of the new Testament from the Annunacition of the blessed Virgin to the second comming of Christ. In the midst of this fouresquare Vault or Cloyster is a pleasant Garden distinguished into diuers beds and knots most curiously In the midst of it is a pretty fabricke of eight corners representing the forme of a Church built of a blacke stone and adorned on the inside with diuers coloured-Iasper In foure of the corners stand foure great Giants vomiting water into foure marble cisternes In the middest of this Arbor lyes the principall path of the Garden Now from the said Vault you passe to the Chapter-house and an other house like it These two roomes together with their Porch haue their roofes set forth with most exquisite pictures and their pauement checquered with white and blacke Marble round about them are seates for the Monkes and each hath his sumptuous Altar The way to the Monks Cells is from the great Porch also wherein by winding staires you ascend to the Priors vpper Cells and other chambers and cocklofts beside all couered with Lead The Priors lower habitation is an excellent building all vaulted and archt exhibiting diuers Histories of holy Scripture which are included in artificiall Crownes and studds wrought with flowers the pauement also is checquered with white and black Marble The Priors vpper Cell is built toward the North West on both sides of which are the Cells of the other Monkes The Chamber or Dormitory where the Nouices lodge ioynes to the Monkes Cells The Monkes beds are all in a row ouer the Wardrobe and Refectory We come now to the Library which is seated aboue the chiefe entrance to the Monastery It is one hundred fourescore and fiue foot long and two and thirty foot broad in whose arched roofe are the representations of diuers Arts and Histories to which place is adioyned another roome for the vse of the Library The Library it selfe is distinguished into three partitions In the first and principall are painted and delineated all the Arts and faculties and at the foot of euery ones picture all the bookes of that facultie marshalled in seemely order all gilt and of the same binding Here is to bee seene a great parchment booke wherein are exactly expressed in their proper colours all kind of liuing creatures which are knowne to be in the world The other partition containes nothing but ancient Manuscripts of Diuinity in Latine Greeke and Hebrew with the pictures of their seuerall Authors set before them Likewise the third roome is furnished onely with Manuscripts of diuers faculties and languages the Authors whereof are in like manner expressed to the life Let vs come in the next place to describe the Colledge and the Kings Palace These two take vp the North part of the building Their Porch or entrance is an open Gallery which lyes before the Church right ouer against the great Porch of the Monastery To this Porch is ioyned another by which the Youth which apply themselues to learning passe daily into a little roome to heare Mattens and Vespers This place is shut vp with three brazen grates In the great Court separating the Colledge from the Monastery is a common passage to the Schooles where are taught all Arts but especially Law Physick and Diuinity This place hath its peculiar Courts and Cloysters and Galleries to one of which adioynes the Refectory of the Colledge with its Porch Neere the Porch stands the Kitchen betweene its proper Court the Court of the common Schoole to which is ioyned the Childrens Schoole and their Refectory On the Northside thorow a narrow gate and entry is a passage to the Kings Palace In the Porch or entrance are three Mansions or Offices with their Courts built partly for those which ouersee the purueiance of corne and victuals and partly for the vse of the Kitchin These houses are ioyned together for the seruice of diuers tables By the same Porch is a way to a faire roome where the Nobles of the Kings bed-chamber the Captaine of the Guard with others of Noble ranke and quality dine and sup daily This way also you may passe to the Galleries and other offices belonging to diet and workmanship Those Galleries round about containe other chambers both aboue and below On the same side is another Portall by which they passe from the Palace to the lower Quire Church Colledge and Monastery Neere this gate is a walke where the Kings Watch and other officers vse to meete Toward the Eastside are lodgings for Ambassadors which reach to the great Porch and run out as farre as the Palace In the same Court are other houses for the Kings owne vse and from hence by a Gallery thorow a stately Portall you enter into the Kings owne lodgings built behind the Chappell where you meet with an open Court with Porches and Cloysters On the West side next the high Altar is another Gate whereby the King passes to the Monastery the Colledge and other offices of the Court The Kings Porch lookes towards the Northside of the Church Hereupon the Church wall is curiously painted the famous battell of Higuervela wherein King Iohn the second ouerthrew the Moores and Saracens of Granado Which picture represents the story most exactly and to the life and shewes both the order and manner of their fight with the seuerall habits and weapons both of Horse and Foote which were then in vse This picture was drawne from the first copy which was made at the time of the battell in a faire linnen cloth aboue one hundred and thirty foote long and found since by chance in the Tower of Segouia which History the Kings Maiesty caused to bee painted againe vpon that wall for a perpetuall remembrance of so noble a victory This piece is well worth the sight In the last place we come vnto the Garden lying toward the East and Southpart of the