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A20476	The explanation. of the true and lavvful right and tytle, of the most excellent prince, Anthonie the first of that name King of Portugall, concering his warres, againste Phillip King of Castile, and against his subiectes and adherentes, for the recouerie of his kingdome. Together vvith a briefe historye of all that hath passed aboute that matter, vntill the yeare of our Lord. 1583. Translated into English and conferred with the French and Latine copies. By the commanundement and order of the superiors.; Explanatio veri ac legitimi juris, quo serenissimus Lusitaniae Rex Antonius eius nominis primis nititur. English	António, Prior of Crato, 1531-1595.; Hollyband, Claudius, 16th cent.	1585 (1585)	STC 689; ESTC S100205	44,552	60

make the sayde recusation in case the sayde Alfonsus woulde not admit the same Whereat the sayde Alfonsus conceaued greate displeasure and made greeuous complaint thereof to certayne speciall men that fauoured the Kinge of Castiles parte at whose handes hee obtayned so muche fauour that they went with him to king Henry to whome they declared this matter as they thought most fit for their owne purpose alleging vnto his maiestie that Don Anthonios Agent had propounded this scruple of recusation for no other intent but onelye to hinder and diuerte thelection of the sayde Iudges for this purpose that Don Anthonio after the death of the sayde king Henry might with the more facillitye attayne to the kingdome This complaint wrought so effectually in the minde of the sayde kinge Henry that forthwith without hearing the saide Agent in his answere and defence touching the same he commaunded him to be cast into close prison where he was deteined by the space of nine daies vntill the sayde Gouernors and Iudges were ordeyned and established according to the kinges will and minde Vppon the accomplishment wherof king Henry caused the sayd Agent to be deliuered out of the prison where he remained commaūding him neuerthelesse immediatlye to repaire home to his owne house and not to returne to the Court without his Maiesties speciall licence Whereby the same king most manifestlye vttered his extreme hatred against the saide Don Anthonio beeing his owne nephewe sith before that tyme as is before alleaged in this treatise he had giuen his consent to the saide Agent yea and expresly commaunded him freelye to prosecute the cause of the sayde Don Anthonio Within a while after the kinge commaunded Don Anthonio then remayning at Colimbre to repayre to his Maiestie to Lisbone to take an oath to obey the Iudgement that should be giuen touching the righte of the Crowne by the Iudges in that behalfe appoynted Affirming that the other pretenders woulde doe the like by themselues their Ambassadors or agentes Vppon this commaundement Don Anthonio came to the king and when the said oath was offered vnto him he aunswered he was ready to take the same in case the king of Castile would doe the lyke but if hee refused it there was no reason why eyther the sayde Don Anthonio or any of the other pretenders should bee constrained thereunto Notwithstanding kinge Henry persisted and in greate rage commaunded him to take his oath in so much that in thend he did so with this protestation firste made in the presence of certaine of his friendes that hee tooke not the same oathe with a franke and free will but by compulsion and commaundement of the king The next day after Don Antonio had taken this oath king Henry caused the Popes letters pattents to be shewed vnto him wherby the same Henry was constituted to take notyce and information of the cause touching Don Anthonios legittimation and theruppon commaunded him to appointe his procurer to pleade his cause before his maiesty as iudge And that yet neuertheles within foure and twentye houres the sayde Anthonie shoulde departe againe thirtie miles from the Courte Whereunto Don Anthonio answered that the King coulde not bee Iudge in the cause for two reasons thone for that he was partie himselfe thother for that in his former actions hee had plain elye shewed a great hatred against him alleaging a fresh example thereof in that the said King Henry had lately before imprisoned his Agent for prosecuting his cause as he thought conuenient by order of lawe And that therfore he doubted he coulde not finde any other that would take vppon him to pursue and follow his busines Vppon this aunswere the king with all expedicion sendeth woorde to the sayde Agent that hee might freely come to the courte and prosecute the cause of Don Anthonio denying expresly that himselfe was partie therein and therefore signifying how his will and meaning was to proceede therein yea and that he woulde proceede against the sayde Anthonie as contumax for defaulte of answere in case he refused to pleade his cause before him to informe him therin as should be meete and conuenient Wherefore King Henry graunted vnto the sayde Agent his lybertye and commaunded him to prosecute Don Anthonios cause Now when the saide agent was returned to the Court he prayed one of the kinges confessors to be a meane to his maiestie that syth he was by the kinges commaundement vrged to take vppon him the prosecution of Don Anthonies cause he might therefore freely employ and endeuoure himselfe in the same as hee shoulde thinke to bee moste meete and conuenient for the safegarde and preseruation of his maysters righte and tytle And that his maiestie woulde neyther bee displeased nor take in euill parte if he proceeded in the same sorte that hee did when as is afore recyted in this treatyse hee soughte to remooue the sayde Alphonsus of Alburquerque as a person suspected But if hee myghte not prosecute the cause freelye as appertayned then hee besought his maiestie to voutchesafe to discharge him of that burden and to graunt him lycence to returne agayne to his owne house where he dwelt when King Henry commaunded him to bee sente for to take the charge and administration of those goodes whiche Don Anthony possessed in Portugall when he remayned in Aphrica When the Kinge was aduertised hereof his maiestie gaue in commaundement agayne to this Agent to prosecute this cause freely before him in as good and ample sorte as he should thinke moste behouefull When Don Anthonie sawe himselfe thus pressed to pleade his cause before the king that his maiestie purposed to giue sentēce against him for default of answere he commaunded his Agent to nominate the witnesses which were there at hand protesting hee had yet further proofes to produce whereuppon hauing giuen perfect instructions to his Agent Don Anthonie departed from the Court within the tyme appointed by the king Then the king commaundeth those three witnesses to bee called before him whiche were produced before thaforesaid Bishop and conseruatour of the priuileges of thorder of the knights of S. Iohn at Malta Who being come before the king persisted in their former depositiōs made before the saide conseruator to wit that they were presente when marriage was secretly celebrated betweene the saide Lodowike Jolenta The king vppon the hearing thereof vsed great threatning speeches vnto thē saying he would cause them al three to be hanged in case they would not vpō their oaths confes they were wōne by promises and otherwise by Don Anthonio or some other in his behalfe to giue thaforemencioned testimony before the conseruator And when two of those witnesses affirmed that no bodie had induced or perswaded them thereunto and that their deposition therein was according to the plaine and simple trueth the Kinge caused them to be committed to prison and the thirde witnes for feare reuoked part of his former deposition saying he was not present when the said marriage

he slewe aboute sixe hundred spanyardes therin and had her rendred vnto him howbeit at the very same instant he was so furiously assailed by the marquis of saint Crosse himselfe cōming in a very great strōg ship called the galeon saint Martin that in the end he was vanquished for want of ayde For hee was not ayded by anye other sauing onelye the sayde Erle of Brissack who fighting valiantlye with two shippes greatelye endomaged thennimie but yet at laste seeing himselfe sore wounded and that he laboured in vaine being not seconded by others as was convenient he made his retrait in tyme retourning into Fraunce with the losse of manye of his men and his shippes in euill plight Duringe this greate battaile the Lorde of Sansolenne viceadmyrall to the Lorde Strossi and the lorde of Fumei captaine of fiue shippes for wante of winde as they pretended neuer inuaded thennemies These two lordes when they sawe the lord Strossi ouercome retyred with twentie shippes to king Anthony into thisle of Tercera His Maiestie vppon notice of thill successe of the battayle cōceaued greate sorrowe as he had good cause and that moste specially for the deathes of the lordes Strossi the Constable both lordes of greate valor and tooke it in verye euill parte that Sansolenne and Fumei had so miserablye forsaken them in the battayle These lordes of Sansolenne and Fumei shortly after by his maiesties lycence retyred into Fraunce leauing in thislande about two thousand and fiue hundred frenche souldioures for the defence of the Kings person in case thennemye woulde assalte thisle But the Marquis of sainte Crosse hauing loste in the battayle aboute two thousande of his best soldiours durst attempte no further againste thislande of Tercera but onelye stayed for the fleete whiche came out of the Easte and Weste Indyes and when they were ioyned with him hee tooke them vnder his conduction and so retourned presently towarde Spayne with all his atmye Vppon the aduertisement whereof King Don Anthonio with all expedition gathering together all the shippes aswell frenche as others whiche were at the sayde Islande of Tercera and other places there aboutes to the number of seuen and thurtye shippes embarqued himselfe with two thousande frenche souldioures and as manye Portugalls to thintent to passe therewith to thislande of Madera belonging to the Crowne of Portugall but then holden by the King of Castile But when the monethe of October was come at what tyme the sea beginneth greatelye to swell in those parties there arose so mighty and furious a tempest in the middest of their iourney with a contrary wind that it was vnpossible for thē to passe any further and for their shippes to keepe company together but being dispersed diuerse waies arryued with great trauaile and daunger part in Fraunce and parte with the Kinge in thisle of Tercera After the Kinge had soiourned there aboute twentye dayes and sette suche order in thislande as was conuenyente hee departed from thence with fiue shippes towarde Fraunce and arriued there with the helpe of a fauourable wynde within twelue dayes taking in his companye Ciprian de Figuereds who till then had gouerned the sayde Islandes of Assores and appointing in his place Emanuell de Silua Earle of Torres Vedras of whome more shall be spoken hereafter His maiestie beeing arriued in Fraunce was there agayne verie honorablye receaued aswell by the moste Christian kinge as by the Queene-mother who then offred to giue him any assistance to preuaile against his ennemye and as time and occasion should serue to restore him to his kingdome naminge vnto him shortelye after the Duke of Ioyence for generall of tharmies Whiche for that cause shoulde thereafter be prepared But in the meane tyme the kinge of Castile seeking all possible meanes for the cause afore alleaged to bring the sayde Island of Tercera and the rest of thislandes of Assores vnder his subiection appointed therefore to be prepared for the yere following another myghtie and greate armye of manye gallyons galeies other vessels both greate and small to the number of a hundred and twentye Of whiche nauye the Marques of sainct Crosse was appoynted generall agayne In the meane space King Don Anthony vnderstanding thereof omitted nothing that might tend to the defence and preseruation of thisle For by the fauour assistance of the queenemother hee prepared a Nauye and leuied two thousande frenche soldiours to bee for that cause employed vnder the conduction of Mounsir de Chartres a noble gentleman and of greate valour of whome the queenemother had made speciall choyse amongest manye for that seruice This Mounsyr de Chartres with the sayde nauie and number of soldiours aboute the beginning of spring tyme departed towarde the sayde Isle of Tercera to furnishe it with a stronge garrison and defende it againste thinuasion of the King of Castile arriued there with a fauourable wynde without anye misfortune Nowe when the Kinge of Castiles armie was ready amounting to a hundred and twentie sayles and ten or twelue thousande fighting menne the Marques of sainct Crosse departed with the same from Lisbone about thende of Iune 1583. and arriued before the sayde Isle of Tercera the foure and twenty of Iuly following and hauing spent two or three daies in viewing where to land his men beste vppon the thirde daye after by the●lpe and benefite of his Galleyes which contrary to many mens opinions he brought thither he landed his men of war in a certaine place least suspected by the captaines inhabitants of thisland where remained but a verie small garrsion By reason whereof it came to passe that before the principall body of the garrisō which was two miles of could come thither then'nimy had leasure to land almost tenne thousande fighting men and had halfe intrenched them Firste therefore Mounsyr de Chartres came thyther in all expedition with his regimente of Frenchemen and hotlye skirmished with the enemies wherein manye were slayne on eyther side but specially of the Spanyardes At laste also came therle of Torres Vedras gouernoure of the Isle with a good number of Portugall souldioures and men of the Islande well armed and sufficientlye trayned And perceauing in what case thinges stood treated with Mounsyr de Chartres touching the ioyning of present battayle with the ennemy Herevpon they all prepared themselues to fight the squadrons being set in order are apoynted to march against the ennemy But for that the Marquise had twice as many men in his army as were in King Anthonies and also it seemed very late in the day to gyue this battayle the sayde Erle propounded to Mounsyr de Chartres to differre it tyll the next daye and that in the meane space he would cause victuals gunpouder munition and other necessaries to be brought into a conuenient place amongst the rockes of the Isle to the intent to make their retraite thither to staye for ayde out of Fraunce or the other Islandes if they fortuned to loose the victory