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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87768	The King of Spains cabinet council divulged; or, A discovery of the prevarications of the Spaniards with all the princes and states of Europe, for obtaining the universal monarchy.		1658 (1658)	Wing K574; Thomason E1659_3; ESTC R209003	57,749	166

Widow vvhose husband was put to death for his Religion a little corn and a third for sending his friend who was banisht in England a little money He rebaptized some children and caused some to be cut out of their mothers vvombs and stabbed with daggers Some vvives were violated in the sight of their husbands and if they resisted they were hanged as was done at Lyle teste Speculo Hisp Tyran p. 36. But it would be too long to relate all and therefore I remit my Reader ad Spec. dictum p. 36 37 38 39 c. where the tyrannies of the Spaniards at Lyle Tornay Roterdam Mecklin Zutphan Narden Harlem Owdwater Mastrickt and Antwerp are described Anno 1576. The Spaniards mutinying for want of pay took Antwerp and killed two thousand Citizens and Souldiers besides such as were drowned or burnt they hanged some Women naked with huge heavy stones at their feet drove stakes through the naturall parts of others and extended some upon the Racks by the Breasts as they also hung some men with as much immodesty as cruelty out at their vvindows by the genitals crying and howling with torment till they either ransom'd themselves with money or confest what they had hidden They rackt children before their parents and killed them c. whereby they got so much money as by the computation of such as knew it amounted to forty tuns of gold that is two millions of Pistols besides Plate Jewels and other things of price Nor was the dammage of the fire much less where they also got so much that a common Souldier would make nothing to play ten pistols a throw at Dice some made Hilts to their Swords others to their Daggers yea and some whole Corslets and Helmets of beaten Gold Thuan lib. 62. Anno 1610. The Inquisition of Spain prevailed with the King to banish all the Mores out of the kingdomes of Granada Andaluzia Valentia and Murcia and transport them into Barbary where many thousands of them perisht with hunger thirst and other cruelties cast upon them partly by the Spaniards and partly by the Barbarians Metteranus CHAP. XXVII The Cruelties and Barbarities of the Spaniards in America BEcause some may perhaps make slight of the barbarous Excesses of the Spaniards upon the Low Countrey people saying That they were the kings enemies as having revolted from him and therefore they ought to be treated like enemies as they had deserved though that vvay of correction exceeds all measure let us now see vvhether they have carried themselves more gently to the Americans the Indians and others beyond our Orb. 1. That the Spaniards had no right at all to those Countries as being so farre distant from Spain and governed by Kings of their own and never so much as in the least sense provoking them to a war the more moderate Spaniards themselves are forced to acknowledge yea and they say moreover That when the Spaniards came first thither they were received entertained and treated like Gods or sons of Gods abating them only the adoration worship and observance of their chief Gods 2. Bartholome de la Casa a Dominican Frier and a Bishop lib. de Tyran Hisp in India occident dedicated to Charles the fifth and his son Philip and printed at Sevil Anno 1552. saith That the people of that Nation were as peacefull as sheep not very covetous nor ambitious content with little solitary and almost Heremetical against whom came the Spaniards like greedy wolves and not onely like wolves but like Lyons and Tygers He further adds That in the space of forty years above twelve millions yea above fifteen millions of men were destroyed by the Spaniards in those Islands A certain Spanish Captain ravisht a Kings wife Others knockt out the brains of small children and crusht them against the Rocks and stones sindged and burnt the bodies of some Lords and Princes of the Countries and threw them to their Doggs beat down their houses and fired them and forced them out hanged queen Anacaon and another condemned some men to vvork in the Mines and their Wives to the Countrey labours affording them little or no food so that in tract of time those kingdomes grew quite dispeopled they used them in stead of Mules and Asses driving them long journeys overladen with insupportable burthens in such sort as that once of four hundred there returned no more then six they took all their victuals and provisions from them and starved above 30000 of them at once They forced the great-bellied vvomen to carry packs c. In Nova Hispania they destroyed above four millions of men in twelve years time and in the Citie of Mexico they treacherously massacred the flower of the Nobility and aftervvards many Citizens c. 3. The same Author also saith That to vvrite down all the tyrannies of the Spaniards exercised in Guatimala would require a Book of a foot and a half thick Nor vvere their proceedings otherwise in Naco and the Honduras where in 12 years compasse they destroyed above two millions of men It was to no purpose at all for the poor Indians to oblige the Spaniards for they became the more cruel by their kindness and simplicity as torturing them a thousand vvayes to make them confess vvhere their gold vvas tumbling them into deep ditches and pits upon stakes pointed vvith iron to lengthen and encrease their torments and dragging their children into slavery c. 4. In the kingdome of Guatimala in the space of sixteen years they killed above five millions by various tortures Nor gave they their prisoners any sustenance but granted them leave to catch and eat other Indians c. 5. In the kingdome of Excalisco they burnt eight hundred Villages and sold the sons of Princes to one another for slaves In Jucatano a Princes son was sold for a Cheese and a hundred Indians for a horse they hunted the Indians like wild beasts and gave them as a see to their Dogs 6. The Indians have been so ill used by the Spaniards that they abhorre the name of a Christian and had rather dye in vvar then live in slavery to the Spaniards In the kingdome of Venecula they destroyed above five millions of persons and used the like cruelty in the kingdome of Florida as overloading the people with burthens and when they fainted cutting off their heads and leaving them in the high-wayes In the Island de la Plata they killed above 1503 men at once yea and amongst the rest they also basely murthered such as came to serve them In the Isle of Cuba 7000 infants were starved in three moneths time the Spaniniards having so exhausted their mothers with continuall labour and hunger that their breasts grew dry and so the poor babes could not be nourished Bartholo de la Casa 8. Spain says de la Casa is in great danger to be invaded and destroyed by other Nations for this tyranny And again towards the end of his book Vnless the King sayes he do better preserve