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city_n	call_v	name_n	son_n	5,947	4	5.1300	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11808	The second part of Vox populi, or Gondomar appearing in the likenes of Matchiauell in a Spanish parliament wherein are discouered his treacherous & subtile practises to the ruine as well of England, as the Netherlandes faithfully transtated [sic] out of the Spanish coppie by a well-willer to England and Holland.; Vox populi. Part 2	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 22104; ESTC S116994	34,288	68

the Kings Maiesty which is heynously taken of all the land whereupon I hoped that the Parliament would haue soone beene dissolued but my art failed me and I haue gained nothing but disgrace the enmity of the Prince and Duke together with the hate of the whole Land insomuch that your selfe S. Gondomar were wont to passe free and vnmolested The better sort neuer gaue you ill vse except at once or the second time when the Offendors were imprisoned and punished we cannot passe though no violence I confesse is offered but wee haue the bans and reuilings of the multitude I meane the baser sort wishing we had neuer come here The Diuell driue vs home againe withall I had three or foure of the Proclamations for the banishing of the Preists and Iesuits pasted on my wall hard by my doore a Coachfull of my Gentlemen were by chance hard by the Savoy ouerthrowne but Lord what a shout was there among the multitude for ioy some interpreting the same to be mal●m●men to our Nation but Deo gratias there was no harme done But are not these affrontes and vnseemely dealing of the Common people with Embassadours soundly punished Yes indeed quoth Gondomar it is much against his Majesty and the will of the State who by publique proclamation haue vpon a seuere penalty forbidden any whatsoeuer eyther by word or deede to doe them any affront or iniury but it seems our dealing hath deserued it how happeneth it then that these are not restrayned replyed the M. of Mandesario Is it impossible quoth Gondomar to charme the tongues of a multitude beside they are people of the worser condition No Nation more benigne and curteous to strangers then English for of the better sort we are respected with all obseruance but let vs proceede with the contents of my Lords Letter Heere came foorth about February likewise a Proclamation for the banishment of all Preists c. out of the Kingdome of Ireland but it is to be hoped that there be so many of the cheife Magistrates and Gentlemen in Ireland so well affected to the Catholique cause that it will doe vs no great hurt in those parts though the cracke be terrible Count Mans field arriued not long since in England and had great intertainment but what his errand or bussnesse was I could neuer learne A notorious practice of the Spaniards to discouer the businesse of a Turkish Embassador with the estates at the Hage in Holland though I tryed all the meanes I could to know I am wanting in nothing insomuch as in some ingenious and good intelligencer That quoth Gondomar is a fault which must be remedied I remember of late yeares there came a great personage a messenger call him Embassadour I may not from a Vis●er in Constantinople to the Estates of Holland to the Hage and there was sent from Antwerpe to insinuat into his acquaintance afterward into his seruice a naturall borne Spaniard who had beene formerly a slaue in CONSTANTINOPLE and spake the Turkish tongue as naturally as if he had beene borne there withall he knew the freinds and kindred of the said Turkish Gentleman and could call them by their names and told him he was such a mans sonne of the Citty who being taken Prisoner when he was young by the Spaniards Of the truth hereof enquire of Cap. I. B. he was detayned as a Galley-slaue amongst them many yeares and hauing now made an escape fled to him for succour and desired to serue him as an Interpreter he beleeuing all true that he sayd entertayned him to attend on him in his Chamber it fortuned that on a time when the Estates of North-Holland were inuited by the Prince of Orange to a Supper or Banquet at his Court in the Hage and with them this Turkish Embassador one of the Company a Dutch man of North-Holland obseruing his carriage and countenance and remembring that his garbe and condition was Spanish and moreouer avowing he had seene him in Spaine caused him in despight of his new maister to be searched and at the instant found about him directions how to carry himselfe and which was the maine plot to discouer what was the Turkes errand to the Estates hereupon it being the time of Peace he was banished and at Delft put into a Boate and sent away vpon paine of his head neuer to returne into Holland againe but these diuises are like Stratagems in warre once eluded neuer to be put in practise againe Well to proceede Prouision for making ●kady the Nauy he writes vnto vs moreouer how and with what alacrity the Parliāment with one consent haue granted Subsidies for furnishing and rigging vp the Nauy and preparation for war But writes he nothing quoth Velasco where it is thought they will appoint Sedem Belli the home of that warre That quoth Gondomar is a secret among them but I thinke his Maiesty will reserue that to himselfe Why quoth Lewes de Velasco there should be nothing so secretly carried amongst them but we should know it The times replyed Gondomar are not now as heretofore and when I was in England our best intelligencers and the Catholiques are not in that grace as they haue beene we haue had in times past many friends euen in the Parliament House but they haue now so sifted and cull'd them out yea if but suspected that we haue little hope of diuing into their Actions The Prince of Orange with the Estates of the Low-Countries haue taken the same course for whereas their intendments and resolutions where and when to make a warre was knowne in common to them all of the Councell so that what they determined or concluded of wee knew it the same night or the next morning witnesse the surprise of Breda with a turfe Boate and their enterprise vpon Antwerpe the Prince of Orange reserues that within his owne brest whereby things are now carried with farre more secrecy The enterprise vpon Bred● in Brabant and good successe then before But how happened it quoth C. Monterey that Breda as I haue heard was surprized notwithstanding By meere accidents quoth Gonzales de Cordua for Antonio Lancavechia the Gouernour which happened not in seauen yeares before lay that night from home I meane the Castle at Geertrudenberge sixe miles off when the same night came letters vnto him from a friend on the other side The friend was suspected to be Mounsier Barneuelt which reuealed the plot but leauing his sonne Deputie Gouernour he durst not open them for vpon the opening once of a loue letter that came to his Father from a Lady his Father charged him neuer to meddle with looking into any letter that was directed to him againe but laying them vp till his father came home the Castle and Towne wherein were 5000. men horse and foot with threescore and ten hidden close vnder curses miraculously taken the griefe whereof as some thinke cost the Prince of Parma his life But quoth