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A00271	The copy of a letter lately vvritten by a Spanishe gentleman, to his freind in England in refutation of sundry calumnies, there falsly bruited, and spred emonge the people. The originall vvhereof vvas vvritten in Spanish, since the authors being in England, vvho by reason of a ship of those that miscaried of the late Armado, vvas taken, and there detained prisoner, vntill his deliuery by ransome. Now newly translated into Englishe, for the benefite of those (of that nation) that vnderstand not the Spanishe tounge.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.	1589 (1589)	STC 1038; ESTC S116630	20,141	40

Countries arryuing at Stockholme was demaunded of the Kynge of Swethen whether it were true that the Queene of England had put herself in possession of any the Kynge of Spaine his countries or townes there yea quoth he it is true Then quoth the Kynge she hathe euen stakte downe her owne crowne and standes in faire possibilitie to be put out of all Methinkes your self or any indifferent Englishe protestant whose zeale dothe not ouerbeare his discretion may muche maruell that England so much and so many wayes seeming to be troobled is so litle pittied of other people in the world abroade And beeing gouerned by a woman your case muste be the more capable of pittie seeing men naturally are giuen to compassionate that sexe But alas my good freind you may see these false faces dismasked long since and all the world to be aswell acquainted with Englishe clamours as is the fysher of Nylus with the teares of the Crocodile Neither can any of those vaine false lying libells that from thence are spred abroade any whit now a dayes serue your turnes other then to noosell vp those that you can keepe from seeing or hearing the contrary for how cuningly soeuer the couloured woordes therein are contriued men make your actions the comentaries In the durance of your expyred yeares your prince enioyed the fulnesse of her pleasure and her fauorytes their vncontrouled aucthoritie then advancinge their felicitie and vsing all benefytes of tyme after all which you now rest doubtfull whether your play will conclude as a comedy or tragedy the truthe of all felicitie beeing tryed at the last and no assured happynesse afore the end When I enter into consideration of the present state of your country I call to remembrance that at my beeing at Salamanca some fyue yeares paste an Englishe Gentleman shewed me the woorke of an old Englishe poet beeing the moste renowmed that euer wrote in the Englishe tounge in the begining whereof were certaine verses which in manner of a prophesy so perfectly discribed then the future state of England that at this day it is the very liuely pourtraict thereof ad Viuum I requested of him the sence in Spanishe and the meeter in Englishe which is thus VVhen faith faileth in priests savves And lords hestes are held for lavves And robbery is reckned purchase And leachery is counted solace Then shall the land of Albion Be broughte to great confusion Althoughe I haue hard that by the new lawes of England it is made a trespasse no lesse then treason to talke of old prophesies yet haue I presumed to repeat thease English rymes because they are comon to be redd in publyke printed bookes amonge your selues That the authour had the spirite of prophesy I will not say but how this accordeth with the present tyme your self shall see First touchinge the failing of the faith it is manifest that he ment no other then the faith Catholique which had so lōge lasted so vniuersally bin belieued and was there then preached taughte by priests for ministers at that tyme were vnmade and created which faith is now failed in those apostataes from whence your ministers fetche their original diuers of them being yet lyuing that somtyme said Masse in the Catholique Churche and do nowe say Comunion in the protestant congregation The effect of which great defect of faith hathe in a short season so sufficiently appeered not only in the encreasing companies of many sortes of protestants puritanes Anabaptistes and louing families but euen in the bringing foorthe of sundry such monsters as dare boldly deny our sauiour Christ himself whereby you may see that forsaking the faith that contemned all heresy you haue embraced a doctrine that conteyneth all blasphemy Euery man in his owne particuler experience hathe had such infynite examples of your notable corruption of English iustice that he seeith it is better to haue a bad cause supported by the fauour of the courte then a good cause withoute the credit of a courtier The aucthoritie of those lordes hauing of late dayes extended so far as to the discharging of suche oute of prison as haue lyen vpon executions leauing their creditours vnsatisfied Suche was the soueraigne puisance of the late Lorde of Lecester that he could not only extinguishe his owne manifest murthers and open iniustice but his Lord-ships will was a lawe sufficient to defend the faultes of others and his great plenty of protections of more force then vertue Mony mighte and fauour doe so sway the iustice of England and so alter the condition of euery case that more wilfull murthers capitall fellonies and criminall offences are now pardoned then euer afore There are none that can liue whome they list to kill nor none can offend whome they please to fauour Truthe it is that there is nothing punished more then vertue nor nothing permitted more then vice There is no blasphemy comparable to the denyall of feminine supremacy nor no offence against God so grieuously punished There is no deathe so terrible as that which is ordayned for deuoutest Christians nor nothing more offensyue then the faithe of their forfathers who yf they were aliue and Catholiques their children would condemne and quarter for traytours According to your good Religion and wel ordered lawes the rest of your actions do rightly concurr and your open allowance of rapyne and robbery dothe manifest to the world that you haue made a resignation of all honnour and abandoned all honesty not caring what the whole world present not all posterities to come shall accompte of your actions the blot blemishe thereof beeing so reprochefull that Englād somtyme so famous for vertue and iustice is now esteemed a receptacle for pyrates and a den of theeues And those litle companions that are there dayly hanged for tryfles beeing suche for the moste parte as your selues haue robbed first by employing them in your seruice withoute giuing them their payes wherein hauing consumed their owne substance are afterward enforced to steale for the very maintenance of lyf Are not hanged somuch for the facte as for the manner of comitting it for yf they did it in any place oute of England were it neuer so farr westward nor neuer somuch in value it should be reckned very righte and lawfull purchase And they should be so farr from the danger of hanging that they should be rewarded with the dignity of knyghthoode Touching the sinne of Leachery I can litle say other then by heare say And that is it was neuer more comon in the country nor of more creditt in the courte no not before the enlarging of Kenelmworthe Castell nor in the erecting of Haumbey house nor during the tyme of the setting vpp of all the edifices situate vpō the lyke foundation as it hathe bin since the very finishing of Rauleghs Arcke Thus you may see how Faith is fayled Robbery allowed and Leachery moste delighted in The cōfusion to follow is

haue so farr exceeded there faultes afore as the taking of armes in defence of their priuileges as they then vntruly spake is differēt from the denying there soueraigne electing another Yet such grace and fauour do they fynde euē at this day that yeilding thēselues and their cities vnder his obediēce they are not only absolutely pardoned but vvhich is more meruelous they are vvith great summes of mony ritchly revvarded And such subiects of his that as rebells do yet remaine out vnpardoned are themselues the cause thereof because they seeke it not It is further to be considered that there is no Kynge in Europe that hathe more different natiōs of more diuers landes languages to his subiects then his Maiesty hathe The entire Monarchie of Spaine conteyning sundry kyngedomes is gouerned in one moste flourishinge and peaceable estate and the Prouince of Portugall newly anexed there vnto remaineth in more better condition then it was in other tymes afore The nobilitie thereof notwithstanding some resistance at the first after that they had maturely cōsidered the cause together with his maiesties mercyfull disposition lefte of to preferr the pretence of Don Anthonio were not only receiued into his great grace and fauout and confirmed in their owne auncient possessions but were further gratifyed by his Maiesty with sundry great honours and dignities And the comon people eftsoones released of many great taxes and tributes that their former princes had imposed vppon them He hathe of Italians those of the Kyngdomes of Napl●s and Sicilia the duchie of Millan and of diuers Iles of the Mediterraneum sea He hathe Germaines of the Duchie of Luxembourge And Burgundians of the higher prouince beeing all gouerned in great quyet and farr better estate then euer vnder any other their former Princes Hauing found no conquest thraldome mutation or inconuenience whatsoeuer to auoy them but fully enioy the comfortes and comodities of their countries vnder the obedience of such a soueraigne as hathe more better mighte meanes to defend them then any Prince his people in the world moste free and farr from any lykelyhoode of rebellion In which same obedience his subiects of the Netherlandes had doubtlesse longe liued had they not bin situate so neere the noysome infection of their Englishe neighbours whose pernitious venim hathe not only anoyed them but also Fra●●●ce and Scotland the nexte inhabitants on the ●ther sydes And whose malice so exceedeth were th●r● meanes according that they would not leaue neither Europe nor India free from such infection And for a further proof of his Maiesties mylde nature and 〈◊〉 benignitie I shall desire you to con●●der that there is nothing that can possibly more moue and stir vp the indignation of a Prince then the open disloyall and repugnant insolency of his owne people And that no subiects in our dayes haue exceeded his all the vvorld will witnesse Notwithstanding all which looke whether any bloudy cruel or vnchristian desire of reuenge hathe apeered in him and looke whether it be possible that more lenity mighte be shewed vnto such then his Maiesty hathe donne The truthe whereof beeing so apparent plaine manifest I leaue vnto your owne self in cōscyēce to discerne whether thease examples of his Maiesties proceedings will not sufficiently awnswere vnto all the calumnies and lies that his aduersaries can possibly inuent to make him odious Looke whether after such a generall reuolt wherein so many had so iustly deserued to loose bothe their liues liuings whether their lands are deuyded to straungers there wyues violated their Children marcked with hot Irons there goods robbed and taken from them c. Or rather whether they do not liue in all securitie and quiet possession of their owne And yf by reason of the restrainte of their trafique they are not presently in their former aboundance they may wholly impute that vnto you beeing the only cause theerof But of the like compassion had of a Prince on his people yon cannot shevve any examples paste or present in the whole world This Sweete and gratious disposition of his Maiesty beeing so publyke notorious how is it possible that euer such vnchristi● cruelty could more be intended to the Englishe nation then to any others or that any man offence can imagine why he should more hate them then any his owne treacherous and rebellious subiects His great wisdome well seeing and obseruing that the originall of this rancour principally proceedeth from some fewe in present aucthoritie whose vngratious designes are executed by persons neither of honour nor honesty And others of the vulgar sorte of people who with applause of their superiours concurr in thease courses he can well discerne rather to do it of litle discretion then of great malice themselues not beeing of capacitie to consider the equitie or iustnesse of the cause And his Maiesty espetially considereth that great multytudes are ouer borne by the impious tyranny of powrable persons ontwardly to condescend to that which inwardly they contemne sustayning contrary to the nature of so noble a Nation the generall reproche of particuler mens dishonorable actions whose case doubtlesse he dothe rather pittie then desire to punish All the world knoweth that his Maiesty hathe euer had a most singuler affection to the Englishe people and your selues by experience haue perfectly found it There could neuer kynge cōdescēd to cōditions more honorable profitable for you then his Maiesty did at his beeing in England I suppose mōsieur of fraunce in his late mocke mariage neuer offred you the like His Maiesties actiōs were withoute dissimulatiō as the cōsequēce well declared for beeing maried to your Queene and proclaymed Kynge yet soughte not to setle himself in the Crowne nor to possesse any portes townes or castells in the whole countrie But after the deceasse of the moste vertuous Queene Mary his wyf gaue place and quyet entrance vnto the Lady Elizabeth Giuing also vnto her all his said wyues Iewells which himself mighte iustly haue claymed and kepte And presently after her coming to the crowne he then being vpon conditions to cōclude a peace with the frenche kynge vppō the taking of S. Quintines did moste earnestly stick at the rēdringe of the towne of Calis to the Englishe againe she hauing at that present her ambassadors there and as it seemed for the same purpose but after his Maiesty had so earnestly vrged this matter that vnlesse it mighte be graunted there could be no accorde the french then flatly confessed that notwithstanding the Englishe ontwardly solicited for Calis yet they had secretly assured them that their Queene cared not therefore which his Maiesty afterward founde so in dede and perceaued the fraude that it imported But to leaue thease deuyses to other like dooble dealings let vs returne to the tyme when our Kinge remained with you in England and see with what affable curtesy he entreated you what great liberalitie he vsed to all sortes in generall and what honorable pensions