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A09559	The Spanish pilgrime: or, An admirable discouery of a Romish Catholicke Shewing how necessary and important it is, for the Protestant kings, princes, and potentates of Europe, to make warre vpon the King of Spaines owne countrey: also where, and by what meanes, his dominions may be inuaded and easily ruinated; as the English heretofore going into Spaine, did constraine the kings of Castile to demand peace in all humility, and what great losse it hath beene, and still is to all Christendome, for default of putting the same in execution. Wherein hee makes apparant by good and euident reasons, infallible arguments, most true and certaine histories, and notable examples, the right way, and true meanes to resist the violence of the Spanish King, to breake the course of his designes, to beate downe his pride, and to ruinate his puissance.; Traicte paraenetique. English.		1625 (1625)	STC 19838.5; ESTC S118337	107,979	148

THE SPANISH PILGRIME OR AN ADMIRABLE DISCOVERY of a ROMISH CATHOLICKE Shewing how necessary and important it is for the Protestant Kings Princes and Potentates of Europe to make warre vpon the King of Spaines owne Countrey Also where and by what meanes his Dominions may be inuaded and easily ruinated as the English heretofore going into Spaine did constraine the Kings of Castile to demand peace in all humility and what great losse it hath beene and still is to all Christendome for default of putting the same in execution Wherein hee makes apparant by good and euident reasons infallible arguments most true and certaine Histories and notable examples the right way and true meanes to resist the violence of the Spanish King to breake the course of his designes to beate downe his pride and to ruinate his puissance LONDON Printed by B. A. and are to be sold by Thomas Archer at his shop in Popes head Alley ouer against the signe of the Horse-shooe 1625. THE EPISTLE OF THE French Translator to all the Protestant Kings Princes and Potentates in the Christian World Most excellent Princes IT was my hap to contract amity with certaine Gentlemen of Arragon and other Spaniards not Castillians for to them I wot not how to carry any affection which should exceede the prescript rule of the Gospell of whom I vnderstood many things t●uching matters of State which were to me strange and vnknowne by reason that there were amongst them some personages exceedingly well learned and most conuersant and expert in all Histories and notably well seene and practised in the affaires of the World There was one aboue the rest in their company a man of great spirit iudgement and experience who had seene a great part of Europe and hauing beene for a long time in Portugall had dealt and conuersed with the Portugals whose Language he spake naturally and had read all the Histories of that Realme and was so well acquainted with all their affaires and knew them all so particularly that I did greatly wonder at it For in things that were to come I found him in manner of a Prophet in so much that for the viuacity and quicknesse of his spirit and the long experience which hee hath had he seemeth to me to haue as great knowledge in things to come as if he saw them present before his eyes He made proofe vnto me by many reasons which did not onely plainely conuince my opinion but did as it were bind me hand and foote that these voyages and others of like kinde would neuer draw with them any other profit nor serue to any other purpose then to waken the sleeping dogge and to re-enforce the common enemie Now considering that Don Philip King of Castile hath a Councell the most choise and excellent such as neuer Prince in this World had a better his seruitors most loyall and faithfull great forces and abundance of treasure vpon the which all other things doe depend and yet notwithstanding all this hee doth not leaue daily to cause diuers Bookes to be imprinted in his fauour and defence I doe therefore desire to haue drawne from this learned and worthy person some thing written with his owne hand which I might present vnto your Maiesties and to this end did I diuers times make request vnto him but I could neuer get him to yeeld or condescend thereunto Wherefore bethinking with my selfe that as pouerty griefe and melancholie doth bury and as it were kill the spirits of a man so the commodities of this life contentment and cheerefulnesse doth reuiue and quicken them I determined because I saw him sad pensiue and melancholicke by reason of his exile and misfortunes out of his owne Countrey to procure his pleasure and contentment knowing that by this meanes I might obtaine the accomplishment of my desire I did therefore set open my gates and my House vnto him I presented him with my Purse and made him partner of my Coyne I cherished and entertained him for many dayes and for loue of him some other of his company And by this curtesie I made him so beholding to me that afterwards hauing many times held dispute and conference together I caused him in the end to take his Pen in hand Thereupon did he compose in the Castillian Tongue this Discourse which he entitled Trattado paranaetico and he presented it vnto me The which when I had read a most strange admiration or astonishment did rauish me for that I neuer saw I will not say in so little a Volume but not euen in great Bookes so many curiosities reported so many and diuers Histories things so secret and particular admonishments so necessary to be embraced nor counsels so iust to be followed And knowing perfectly the excellency of this worke and how greatly important it would be to be seene of your Maiesties and by the Kings Princes Potentates and Common-weales of Europe And albeit I know my stile to be rude and barbarous yet such was my ambition I confesse mine owne infirmity that I was not willing that any other should haue the pleasure in doing it In some places I haue augmented it holding it so to be needfull for the better and more cleere vnderstanding of the History Touching the originall I thought it reason not to abridge or cut off any part thereof I most humbly beseech in regard of your most Christian Maiesties to receiue it with that good affection which Princes oweth to their Subiects who for his seruice will not esteeme to hazard the losse of all that hee possesseth much lesse to make himselfe vncapable for the obtaining of that which of right is due vnto him and who for the good and honour of his Countrey will spend his life most freely and willingly God preserue and blesse the most Christian persons of your Maiesties with so great abundance of spirituall graces and assist you and make you to prosper with so many riches of temporall blessings as is possible to his diuine Maiestie Amen The most faithfull Subiect of the most Christian King of France and loyall Seruant to the most wise and excellent King of England I. D. Dralymont The Publisher to the Reader FRiendly Reader thou hast in this little Pamphlet an incomparable treasure a rich store-house and magazin full of precious speeches true Histories rare examples liuely reasons and wholsome counsels the which if their Maiesties and the Kings Princes Potentates and Common-weales of Christendome would embrace follow and put in execution without doubt they should soone obtaine and find a medicine for so many mischiefes a remedy for so great and continuall afflictions and intollerable trauels wherewith their Subiects haue for so many yeeres wrastled and contended And I dare assure them that by obseruing the aduise here giuen them they shall preserue their Estates in time to come from all danger for euen as the great fishes doe persecute and deuoure the small and little ones so in like manner those neighbours which are most mighty

and Townes holding the party of the king deceased did conuey themselues into Portugall where they were receiued by the king Fernand and had most honourable entertainment with most notable fauours rich presents and incredible gifts which hee gaue vnto them most bountifully In so much that from thenceforth the Castres did continue still and inhabit in Portugall from whom are descended those which are there of that name now at this day Hierom Guliel cap. 23. fol. 81 pag. 2. The like happened to Diego Lopez Pacheco a Portugall albeit not for so iust and honourable a cause who going from Portugall into Castile for being charged with the death of the Queene Dame Iues de Castro in the time of the king Don Peter of Portugall hee was then created Lord of Beiar and his children also made Lords of other peoples of whom the Marquesse of Villana the Dukes of Escalon and many other great Lords haue their descent and originall In like manner in the time of king Juan of Portugall of happy memory Alias Iohn the Acugnas and Pimentels went into Castile and of them are descended directly in the line masculine the Dukes of Ossuna and Counties of Benauent and in a manner all the Princes and Lords of Castile and Dame Iulian de Lancastre Duchesse of Auero in Portugall Now at this day the Nobilitie of Spaine doth greatly want such places of refuge and sanctuarie and now The Nobilitie of Spain want places of refuge and sanctuary at this day the least Prouost or Marshall is sufficient to arrest the greatest Lord of the countrey yea though it were the brother of the King himselfe in so much that the Princes and Lords of Spaine doe as heartily desire to see some Realme or Prouince set at libertie as they doe their owne safetie The sorrow griefe of the Princes and Lords of Spaine to see the inuasion vsurpation of Portugal the desire they haue to see it at libertie None can tell how great an affliction and notable a misery famine is but hee that wanteth bread to eat and the Nobilitie of Spaine doth at this day with great griefe finde that to be true which they most of all feared in the time of Charles the fifth whose greatnesse they had euen then suspected and for this cause they did shew themselues mightily aggrieued at such time as King Philip did enterprise the vsurpation of Portugall Conestagio a Genouois in the booke which he hath written in fauour of the sayd Philip and which is intituled The vnion of the Realme of Portugall with the Crowne of Castile doth tell vs both the one and the other of these matters And although in that worke of his there be many true reports yet we doe know him for a great and notable Lyer and euen the very first word of that booke is an vntruth in that he hath entituled it The vnion of Portugall with the Crowne of Castile The oth of K. Philip. for king Philip in the assembly of estate which he held at Tomar in the yeare 1581. where the Portugals against their wills and by force did receiue him for their king promised and sware with a solemne oath neuer to intermingle the matter and affaires of Portugall with those of Castile The Explication of the Genealogy of the French K. now raigning The authour whereof was Frier Ioseph Texere but to keepe for euer the Monarchy of Portugall entire in the same estate and in the same manner as the kings his precessors had alwayes preserued and maintained it paying all the pensions fees and wages to all the officers of the kings house both Spirituall and Temporall in like sort as they were payd in the times of the true and good kings forepassed Somewhat of this matter a man may see in the end of the booke of Explication of the Genealogie of his most Christian Maiestie where it is spoken of the first king of Castile Moreouer the said Conestagio as a man of a maligne and peruerse spirit is a most vngratefull enemy of that nation which hath both aduanced and honoured him For wee knew him at Lisbon when he serued Anthonio Caulo and afterwards with Stephen Lercaro 3. fol. 62. a Marchant of Genoa He hath in his booke these words In Castile this succession gaue great matter whereof both to muse and to talke both in priuate and in publike for that the king caused the Estate of Portugall to be vnited to his other Realmes and Dominions not caring how nor in what fashion it were done so it were effected The which the Nobilitie tooke very ill in so much as it seeemeth that all the great men of Spaine since the time of Charles the fifth to this day could not away nor like of the greatnesse of the king because thereof it hath proceeded that hee maketh lesse reckoning of them then did the ancient kings of Castile and hee constraineth them to be equall to their inferiours as well in iustice as otherwise If Don Antonio king of Portugall were liuing hee could witnesse how after that the enemie was entred into Portugall with a huge armie and had taken Lisbon hee being then in the towne of Badaios many Lords of Castile did offer him to haue entrance into the sayd towne and did promise him all their best aide and assistance to seize vpon the enemie himselfe The which the said Prince could not effect nor put in execution for that within few dayes after he was dispossessed of all the realme in the citie of Puerto of Portugall He could also certifie vs how that seeing in these parts many great Lords of Castile did send vnto him offring him their seruice and assistance in case that he would set foot in Portugall the which matter he communicated if I bee not deceiued to the king and principall Lords of France and principally to the estate and Councell of England Notwithstanding touching this desire of libertie it is a matter which doth principally touch the Princes great Lords and Hijos de Algo of Spaine For as concerning those masters of the long robe and the rascall sort of Castilians they take a pleasure in this their slauery and seruitude vnder the king because they alone doe command and rule all and triumphing ouer others haue the principall and chiefe managing of all the affaires of the Realme yea and euen the gouernment of the king himselfe in their owne hands And although they doe hate him most extremely and doe wish ill enough to his person yet notwithstanding they doe wish so well to their owne country and doe so delight to see themselues to haue the command ouer all others that if they know any thing either in publike or in priuat which might hinder and endamage his tyrannie they will not faile onely in regard thereof to aduertise him of it such is the naturall disposition of the Castilians Iosephus de bello Iudaice lib. 1. cap. 3. who being issued and sprung

in question for then they will sooner grow to blowes then to words The French Translatour This is a thing most certaine and assured and the Portugals do so regard their hononur and they are so ambitious of the same and it is so recommended vnto them from the father to the sonne that if they should lose but one iot thereof they would grow starke mad as men that had lost all sense and vnderstanding Fernand Magellan his great impatiency and folly Fernand de Magellan a Gentleman of Portugall vpon an opinion that his King had done him much wrong did conceiue such a despight thereof that he fled from Portugall and retired himselfe to the King of Castile purposing to discouer vnto him the enterprise of Peru. Now see the folly or rather madnesse of the man his discontentment proceeded of no other matter but of this for that the King had denied to giue him a pension onely of halfe a Duckat monethly for his sonne for the custome of Portugall is that all the Gentlemen shall take a pension which they call Moradia of the King according to the degrees and qualities of their Nobilities which they doe properly call Fuero and they are to bee enrolled in the bookes of the Kings house which they call the Booke of the Kitchin or the Booke of Matriculation The qualitie of Magellan was to bee one of the Knights of Hidalgo that is to say Feal or one that doth Fealtie his pension was euery moneth three Duckats and hee had a petition to the king that his sonne might be admitted into the same qualitie as himselfe was and that he might haue the like pension Of these demands the King granted the one The reason why Magellan did disco the enterprise of Peru to the king of Castile and refused the other for he accepted his sonne for one of his Knights Feal but hee would not giue any more then two Duckats and a halfe for his pension obseruing therein the custome of his predecessours who did not vse to giue to the children so great a pension as to the fathers saue onely when by the death of their parents they came to succeede them in their inheritance And for as much as in Portugall the manner is that the Nobles haue their place and precedence according to the degree and qualitie of their Nobilitie and they which are of one like degree and qualitie doe take their place each of other according to the quantitie of the ponsion more or lesse which they receiue Magellan did take in so euill part this refusall of the King made vnto his sonne of halfe this duckat onely because by meanes hereof he should lose his precedence that he became most foolishly enraged as a man that had lost all sense and vnderstanding and to shew the extreme griefe and sorrow which he tooke for the losse of so small an honour he purchased to himselfe the name and estimation of a Traitor and for such a one doe all histories recount him because he did not performe that du●ie and deuoire to his king which he ought him but did giue it vnto a stranger and he was the occasion that things came to that passe that the two realmes of Portugall and Castile were vpon the point to haue fallen at variance each with other So that it was the extreme and ambitious desire of honour which made Magellan thus mad and will worke the like effect with all true Portugals and it was not the desire of getting a little piece of money as some haue taken it and haue not been ashamed to set downe as much in writing for the matter and subiect incident hereunto doe shew the contrary I speake not this without cause for that S. Goulart de Senlis in his translation imprinted at Paris by N. Bonfons in the yeare 1587. and in the three and twentieth Discourse doth affirme as much The words of Osorius touching this matter Hier. Osorius of the deeds of Emanuel klng of Portugall lib. 11. are these Notwithstanding the Portugals for that they are vnmeasurably desirous of honour and doe thinke that their Nobilitie is greatly increased and augmented by the adding of a little money vnto their liuing that they do oftentimes imagine and are perswaded that they ought stoutly to fight and contend for such a small summe of money as if their whole safetie reputation and dignitie did depend thereupon This being so you will say perhaps that it is greatly to be wondred at how the Castilians should then bee able so easilie to subdue and conquer the realme of Portugall as they haue done the same being so great and so puissant a Monarchie Hereunto I answer that it would be a long and tedious matter to recount all the reasons thereof and in verie trueth it so happened rather for want of resolution then for any defect of colour or courage for the Castilians are not better souldiers then the Portugals as we haue before shewed and it did well appeare how about fiue thousand foot and some thousand horse did defend themselues for the space of foure moneths and twenty dayes against more then twentie thousand old souldiers vnder the Duke de Alua the others being but new souldiers and plaine country peasants The reasons why the Castilians took Portugal so easily and if there had not beene such abundance and store of treasons it may bee that the Duke himselfe had found but bad entertainment and woult haue passed any further But Portugall was altogether vnprouided of Chieftains and leaders all of them being lately slaine in Africa with their king Conestagio li. 1. fol. 45. pa. 2. as Conestagio in the end of his first booke doth sufficiently set downe vnto vs where he hath these words Sebastian went into Afrike leauing his realme quite and cleane without mony without any of the Nobilitie without any to succeed or inherit it and in the hands of such Gouernors as were but badly affected towards him The Translatour In this battell died the Duke de Aueyro great graund-child of Don Iuan the second king of Portugall two Princes his cousine germans one of the sonnes of Theodosius Duke of Bragancia and one other that was heire to the Marquisat of Ferrara and foure Counties as it is reported in the life of the King Don Sebastian by a Jew Duard Nonnes de Leon a Iew his book of Censures c. named Duard Nonnes de Leon who contrary to the lawes of Portugall which excludeth all Iewes and such as are descended of the Iewish nation from al honors dignities yet was made of the Councel of the realme of Portugall by the King Catholike who preferred him to that honour onely in recompence of a Booke which hee made called the Booke of Censures and is not onely most infamous but full of hereticall vnaduised propositions it was written against Frier Ioseph Texere a Portugall of the order of the Friers Preachers who is at this day a personage greatly renowned