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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

or knowe of anie one King or Queene that dyd with greater mildnesse of lenitie tollerate or suffer within his or her dominion a sect of religion opposite to the lawes by him or her establyshed especiallye the same hauing sundrye times rebelliously attempted against their crown state and dignitie Let them looke if there be men of iudgement into the ages passed euen amongest the Heathen and into the present time among all the Princes of Europe and if there bee not anie to be found that hath dealt with the lyke lenitie as her Maiestie hath done why then doo they so falselye slaunder her Doe they not knowe that shee is the sacred and annointed Queene appointed by God to gouerne them If they doo why doo they not then with all penitencie and humilitie loue honor and obey her and praying to God to conuerther seeing such is theyr desire and not by traiterous mischiefe seek to murther and depriue her They learned not that of the ancient Christians in the primitiue church But they will saie she hath executed many seminary priestes I confesse she hath in deed by cutting them off preserued her realme from many diseases that rankled within the same But yet hath shee proceeded therein in so gracious and mercyfull a sorte that shee hath witnessed sufficientlye to the worlde howe loth shee is to come vnto bloud so long as there is anie other remedie in the world to bee vsed For her MAIESTY knoweth her councell knoweth you and I and the whole worlde knoweth that the comming of these Seminaryes priestes and Iesuites to reconcile men as they tearme it to the obedience of the Romane church is directlye and absolutely to alienate and diuerte their minds from her Maiestie and to incline them to bee readie to assist anie enemie eyther within or without the Realme that shall colour his cause vnder the pretext of religion Her Maiestie I saie and Councell and all good subiectes knowing this and foreseeing the daunger that might thereof insue forbadde by Act of Parliament these Seminaryes to enter into her Realme or to vse or exercise anye such seditious doctrine limiting there withal a time to such as were within the Realme to departe out of the same But this sufficed not these good fellowes thinke no lawes good or to bee obeyed but such as they make themselues In they came as fast as before greate numbers of them were taken and imprisoned whom though her Maiestie deseruedly and with great iustice especially the daylye mischiefe stirred vp within the Realme by theyr seditious practises considered might haue executed as traitours and rebelles yet the greatnesse of her princely clemencie and compassion was so loth to come vnto bloud that shee caused them all once more to bee pardoned and to bee put out of the Realme but with expresse commaundement neuer to returne in lyke sorte in dooing otherwise they should bee sure to finde no fauour All this woulde not serue theyr turnes but in despight of her Maiestie and contempt of her lawes sundrie of them returned of which some of them beeing taken haue receiued the hire of theyr gracelesse disobedience and rebellious attempte But that her Maiestie seeketh not bloud as they most falsely giue out appeareth by her clemencie vsed to sundrie of them taken by her souldiers in the Lowe Countries who though they were of sir William Standley his crewe and adherents her most professed enemies yet seeing they were not taken within England shee graciously pardoned them and caused to be set at libertie in giuing some litle recompence to those souldiers that had taken them prisoners Where is then her rigour you speake of I hope the king of Spaine keepeth another manner of rule in his Countries ouer all Spaine Portugall Lombardie Naples and Cicilia whosoeuer speaketh a word or maketh the lest sign in the world to mislike his religion there established or anie one pointe or ceremonie thereof his cruell ministers the Inquisitours cause without remission to bee burnt aliue as for example There was this last yeere a Citizen in Antwarpe one Gyles Rat a shoomaker that going into Spaine about some busines was apprehended for smiling at the Image of our Ladie brought before the Inquisitours and by them presentlye condemned to fire and with him an English-man for the lyke cause whose name the Gentleman that sawe them burned knew not but hee tolde mee that at the time of their execution there mounted on a scaffolde thereby two Iesuites forbidding the people vpon paine of Excommunication to praie for them saying that they had deliuered them both ouer in bodie and soule to the deuill as those that died obstinate and wilful heretikes I woulde faine knowe how hee would doo with Ministers if hee shoulde catch them in Spaine as the Queene hath done priests in England As for his Lowe Countries I neuer heard but of two taken and that was at the siege of Dermond and they were both put in to sackes by the Spaniardes and throwen into the riuer This is in deede tyrannie and not that which her Maiestie doth who is alwaies readie to receiue into grace and fauour those of whome shee hath anie hope that they will become good subiects and hath as I haue heard offered euen at the houre of their death her princely mercy and fauour to some of them if they woulde haue promised to become good subiects Oh how different from this is their proceeding heere which you see so highly commended But it is the nature of men especiallye of those whose iudgements are not setled as they shoulde bee alwaies to mislike and loath those thinges to which they are accustomed thinking other to them vnknowen far better If you did but once see the tyranous vsage explication that is vsed in matter of religion to the poore people vnder the Spanish gouernment in this Countrie I doubte not but you would be of another opinion especially the woful slauerie considered in which the cleargie or rather the rauening multitude of Iesuites Friers Monkes and priests doo keepe their minde subiected It is not sufficient that they holde their mindes in a perpetuall despaire pronouncing vppon euerie friuolous point damnation vnto them but withal they compell them perforce to offeringes to buying of pardons and indulgences to giue them money towardes the reparation of their Churches pictures images and waxe candles alwaies hauing one deuice or other in hand to robbe them and to drawe from them their substance for whosoeuer yeeldeth not to euerie of these demands is presentlie an heretike The best houses in the Towne they take violently from the true owners and appropriate vnto themselues saying it is meete that God should first be serued before man There is no one daie but the poore citizens are punished and pestered with one or other of their orders of Friers Monkes Mendicants Capuchines Candles and monie towardes the reparation of their Churches and which they must not bee denied vnlesse you will bee presently accused for an

one pennie Wherevpon hee mooued the Duke but nothing woulde come so that without finding anie man that tooke compassion of his distresse his owne Countriemen beeing vnable to helpe him he ended his lyfe though with patience vertuously and well yet the state of so honourable a Gentleman considered most pittifully and in great miserie To recite vnto you the names of those that doo yet liue so poorely and vncomfortably in his pension woulde bee too long and therefore take them all in generall Charles Paget onely excepted and examine them one from another from my Lord of Westmerland downward euen to the verie lowest and if there bee in the whole worlde a more miserable and discontented troupe of Gentlemen than they are let mee neuer bee credited in anie thing else that I shall tell you And because you shall your selfe the better iudge I wyll tell you what paiment they haue of such pensions as the king hath giuen them They had granted them at Bruges the first daie of August in the yeere one thousand fiue hundred eightie and eight a generall Liberanca to receyue three moneths paie a peece of their pensions since that time they haue followed the Duke from Towne to Towne making vnto him sundrye requestes for the payment thereof But if they haue vntill this present daie obtayned the same then let mee not be credited in anie parte of the rest which I shall heere intreate of In deede some small time past Cosimo beeing wearyed with their importunities and lamentations addressed them to Baptista Spinola a baker dwelling it Antwarpe giuing them his Letter and sending the same by one H. Haselwood requesting him to relieue those distressed English Gentlemen and to buy their Liberanca which he doubted not but they would sell good cheap greatly to his profit the whole summe was ten thousand crownes which Cosimo promised him should be allowed and paid in the reckoning he had with the king Haselwood in the name of the rest offered him the sayd summe for sixe hundred But Spinola vtterly refused the same saying he wold not take it for two hundred and withall hee desired that hee might not medldle anie more with the king wishing that hee had not medled with him so much So that they were fain to returne pennilesse and doo at this instant liue in so poore and pittyfull sort that truly my heart grieueth to see it insomuch that I knew a Gentleman that solde his parte there being foure and twentie pounds for three pounds But perchance you will saie he giueth great pensisions and entertaineth manye of our Nation it is true in deede in shew hee doth so and therewyth doth bleare the worldes eyes with a shew of greate liberalitie But his paiment and vsage considered God is my iudge and witnesse I speake vnfainedly I account it a farre happier estate to bee a doore-keeper in that your blessed soile than to be heere a pensioner to the king of Spaine I leaue the iudgement of the truth thereof to those that haue tryed it you haue many amongst you confer with them and examine them vppon their consciences as for my part in good faith I cannot imagine cause why he entertaineth vs vnlesse it be to vse vs as stales to allure others considering the hatred that he and his beare vs and so vnder the dissembled colour of a false affection to ouerthrow vs all at last Thus much I dare boldly saie because through the conference I haue had with them I doo know assuredly that euen those of our nation which doo most serue his turne howsoeuer in outward apparance they seem for some particular causes to magnifie and extoll his liberalitie yet in their owne secret conceits they do imagine know nothing in the world to be more reprochfull base and contemptible than to be an Entertain do in the king of Spaines seruice As for example you shall easilie see what account is made of them At such time as preparation was made at Brussels for the voyage of Englande when they all expected to bee made knights coronels captaines and conducters of the armie and to be filled with crownes they were so farre from those matters with which they flattered themselues that in stead of being honored and aduaunced they were the onelye reiected and contemned people that followed the Courte all men beeing releeued with some moneths paie they onely excepted and which is more whereas they mooued the Duke sundry times to knowe his pleasure how hee woulde dispose of them in this iourney telling him besides that vpon the well vsage of them depended much matter of importaunce as the alluring drawing vnto them other gentlemen of theyr kinsmen and friendes who vppon hope of the lyke good vsage honour and aduauncement woulde bee able to doo greate seruice vppon their landing where contrariwise in seeing them come ouer so poore in shew without credite monie or armes lyke lackies for so were the wordes of theyr request it woulde bee a cause to terrifie them from vndertaking anie such course They were by the Duke scornefully and with derision reiected neither did he vouchsafe to giue them anie other aunswere than onely that hee woulde thinke vppon it But on the night that they thought to embarke he departed leauing them all behind not thinking them anie waie worthie to bee called vppon or to bee taken with him Wherevpon the Lord Westmerland and Paget and sundrie others layd their heads together and made their complaint to the Duke of Pastraua by whome they were as basely and scornfully handled as by the other insomuch that a great Spaniarde standing by asked them whether they thought the king of Spaine not puisant inough to winne England without them and theyr friendes Vppon which answere the Lord Paget that verily thought hee shoulde haue beene made one of the priuie Councell and now finding himselfe to bee had in so small account conceiued such an inward griefe that from that time forward hee neuer ioyed tyll his dying daie Sir William Standley also tooke it in such heauie and disdainefull sorte that he was not called to the counsell of warres whereas hee presumed and so gaue out that no man in the army knew more or was better able in this voiage than himselfe that he sequestred himselfe from the Country and came malecontent and hired an house in Antwarpe where hee liued a most melancholy lyfe foure or fiue moneths and oftentimes would burst out into such impassionate speeches that the world verily imagined he wold haue professed himselfe into a cloister Besides the loue the Spaniarde beareth vs appeareth by the speeches hee dayly vseth in publyke assemblies concerning vs. Once seeing certayne Englysh-men passe by as they stood a great manie of them in a ring as they vse together vppon the bridge in Antwarpe they sayde They wondered what the king made with such vermine in his countrie one of them swearing a greate oath that looke how many English-men there were in the Lowe countries there