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A11026	Newes from Rome, Spaine, Palermo, Geneuæ and France With the miserable state of the citty of Paris, and the late yeelding vppe of sundrie towns of great strength, vnto the king. Translated out of Italian and French into English.		1590 (1590)	STC 21293; ESTC S106067	5,735	15

Newes FROM ROME Spaine Palermo Geneuae and France With the miserable state of the Citty of Paris and the late yeelding vppe of sundrie Towns of great strength vnto the King Translated out of Italian and French into English LONDON Printed for Thomas Nelson and are to be sold by William Wright 1590. Newes from Rome IT is credibly reported by Letters from Chiauenna that there was one of the Famelie of Lucemburge a Papist by profession and yet a seruaunt to the French King passed through Chiauenna with thrée score horse and staied there one day And the next day following hee departed from thence to Zappei de Briga towards Venice He goeth in the behalfe of the house of Burbon from sundry the chéefe of the Nobilitie of Fraunce to deliuer a message to the Pope and to haue conference with him and the Princes of Italy for the firme establishing of Henry de Borbon King of Nauarre now the lawfull French King vnder whose obedience they are willing to liue Which thing hee very boldly auouched vnto the Popes face and told him that they sought to haue it confirmed with quietnesse Adding further that if the Pope and those Princes of Italy would not allowe therof that they would defend the same with fire and sword And hazarde their landes and liuings in maintenance of his right Wherevpon the Pope after due consideration taken gaue aunswere to the Messenger viz. That fore much as hee saith he is lawfully descended thereunto And that the chiefe States and Potentates of Germany are determined to defend him for the recouerie of his saide right That he would not any more sende ayde to trouble and vexe him as heretofore hee hath done so as the King would acknowledge himselfe established therein by the Popes meanes And in so doing and yéelding vnto some such Popishe conditions as the Pope would deliuer him in writing he would therein further him to the vttermost whereto this Messenger made aunswere that he knew certainly that the King would neuer condescended thereunto Whereat the Pope replied saying That were it not that the King is a Hugonite by profession hee worthely deserueth to beare thys title Viz. The great Caesar of the World With which glorious Title he offered to grace and honour the King so as he would chaunge his Religion IN the Citty of Rome there is an olde auncient Monument long since erected of stone and it is called Pasquill whereon many notable thinges are from time to time set vppe in the disgrace of the Pope of Rome Vppon which saide Piller there was sette vppe soone after the departure of this Champian thrée seuerall pictures either of them being contrarie to the other The first picture was as it is here liuely pourtraghed forth Viz. First the Pope set out gorgiouslie in his Robes and triple Crowne and a straunger holding him by the beard with a dagge set close to his brest pronouncing this sentence vnto him viz. Redde Rationem villicationis tuae Which being seene to the Common people made them greatlye to murmur and bée of sundry imaginations Some were of this opinion that it pretended the murdering of the Pope or some treason to his holinesse others imagined that it prophesied the fall of the Popes kingdome and alteration of the Antichristian Religion and state of Rome and others supposed it to bee done onely in the derision therof Whereuppon some fauourer of Christian Religion in the Cittie of Rome that durst not openly bee knowen wrotte certaine verses vppon eyther of those seuerall Pictures and after scattered them in the streetes of Rome where soone after spéedy searche was made for the Author of them but he coulde not by any meanes be found out 〈…〉 Thou Pope that doest for gold deceaue full many soules And séekest nought at all but spoile of Christians blood Fall downe before thy God whom thou doest still offend And let Repentance be the staffe of all thy stay Els shalt thou soone perceiue Gods wrath is on thy head Vnto thy charge preache truth cast of thy paltry trash Thy Masses and thy Markes of plaine Idolatry Séeke not to blinde those men that doe thy folly sée But of thy wicked life sée iust account thou make Gainst God doe not rebell nor those whom he annoints But shed forth brinish teares for all thy déedes amis Els shalt thou bée cut off and kingdome troden downe By him that now in France of right doth were the crown FINIS THe second Picture before recited was in this manner There was Pictured forth the King of Spaine lying in his bedde sore sicke and a Phisitian standing before him who taking the King by the hand and féeling of his powlees saith vnto him Viz. Durabit tempore Curto The vearses made vpon that Picture were these Blind King what dost thou mean to bath thy hands in blood Of Innocents and such as guiltlesse be Thou couetst to obtaine the glorie of this world Which is like sléeting Snow that melteth in the Sunne Thy golde doth thée besot and God thou doest forget Thou thirstest after that which thou shalt neuer winne Thy kingdome is too large and that doth thée bewitch Thou aimest ful at France yet doest thou misse the marke Because thou woldst therby procure swéet Englands harm Well maist thou send to seas thy shipping tall and huge To doe thy neighbour hurt and gaine thy selfe no good But when thou so hast done thy selfe if so thou liue Shalt sée and saie with me that God is sore displeasd And bids thée be content thou hast not long to liue Séeke therefore for thy end and set thy soule at rest So shalt thou liue for aie else die with great vnrest FINIS The third and last picture was in this manner viz. The Citie of Geneua defended by the hande of almightie God though assaulted by the Duke of Sauoy was deliuered from daunger of the Dukes forces and hee forced to flie awaie naked looking backe vpon the sayde Citie of Geneua and crieth out saying Nessio amplius quo vadam The verses written on the third Picture were these Thou Sauoy Duke that headlong séemst to runne To spoile a Citie of no smal account Whose wals and gates are kept by God himselfe Who bids thée backe or he will daunt thée so As greatly shall returne to thy vnrest Retire thou thence and say as other did When seuen stout Kings by force did it bessiege God doth and will defend it still from harme It is not force of Canon can do good To winne thy will of that faire maiden towne Shoote thou strong bullets it for to disgrace They will rebound euen backe vnto thy selfe Retire for shame and if thou manage armes Bestow thy force gaynst them that wil thée feare Euen such I meane as fight against the Lord And dayly séeke his Gospell to deface But if thou be of that disloyall minde And wilt not pray to God to pardon thée And so repent thée of thy former misse Then flie from God

Geneua sure is his FINIS These Pictures and Vearses did so farre incense the Pope with all the fraternitie of Friers Monkes and Abbey lubbers in Rome that they fell in a rage cursing and condemning with bell booke and candle the Deuiser Painter and Author of those pictures and vearses and did oppose themselues agaynst the authors thereof swearing to pursue them to death if euer they were knowen The Newes from Spaine is THat the King is sickly verie weake and wonderouslie gréeued with his great losses of men munition which he hath sustained within these two yéeres as wel within his owne dominions as also on the coasts of England and Ireland France and Flanders He was lately complotting of a new intended mischiefe and with some conuenient spéede pretended a new Inuasion for England whereto hee made great preparation and to that purpose sent sundrie traiterous persons secretly into England being seminary priests to perswade the people from their obedience and to hearten on leude and wicked members to become fauourers and associates of that Inuasion But I thinke no subiects in England hauing séene the fruites of the Spanish and Popish dissembling will now become fauourers of such treasons nor be harborers of such traitors But all things therin doth fall out contrarie to the King of Spaines expectation For now his owne subiects do resist him and haue made plaine deniall for comming at anie time héereafter in warlike sort agaynst the Realme of England For which cause the King of Spain hath put to death sundrie of his chiefe Captaines and men of good birth and calling and hath sworn the death of the Duke of Medina for that cause onely Who in the defence safetie of himselfe hath taken an Iland and sundrie men of calling and souldiers doe take parts with him and are become verie mutinous against the King of Spaine This Duke de Medina was chiefe Generall of the huge armie of Spaniardes that came by sea to inuade England when it pleased God that the most part of them were slayne with the sword and drowned in the sea the successe of whose voyage danted the heartes of all Spaniardes for euer for inuading this lande Which as the Almightie hath sundrie times defended from danger so no doubt but he will still defend and supporte the same from Turke Pope and all other enimes whatsoeuer which thing is likely by the praiers of good Christians to be the more easily compassed for that God is the anchor-holde of Englands hope and safetie The Newes from Palermo in Cicilie THe certaine newes is that the Nobilitie of Palermo in Cicilie being within the dominiōs of the king of Spain haue of late vtterly banished from thence the Spanish Inquisition which hath of long time continued there amongest them in verie sharpe sort and was vnto them of Palermo wonderfull grieuous for such was the seuere procéedings of those Inquisitours that they would spare no man woman or childe from the fierie and extreame tortures of death that did once repine mislike or speake against the superstition of their Friers and idolatrous religion there vsed Wherevpon the Pope the King of Spaine and chiefe of the Inquisition are determined to send power thether and to make warre against them onely to constraine them againe to receiue the sayd Inquisition which they vtterly refuse to doe and are all sworne to the contrarie The Newes from Geneua THat whereas the Citie of Geneua was lately besieged with a mightie power brought thether by the Duke of Sauoy who intended to haue rased the walls thereof made a conquest of the Citie and to haue put the Citizens with their wiues and children to the sworde yet God be thanked the Citizens haue of late greatly discomforted the Dukes power and caused him to remoue his forces further which is greatly weakned both by sword and sicknes so that there is great likelyhood you shall heare of the Dukes departure thence verie shortly to the better quietnesse of the Citizens thereof The Newes from France and miserie of Paris SInce the most wonderfull and miraculous worke of God now bruted in the cars of the world concerning the great victorie which he gaue vnto the Christian King Henrie of Bourbon a man for his valor worthie euerlasting honor it is not vnknowen how after he had pursued the enemie in chase full fiue houres and more and hauing put many thousands of them to the sword though they were more thē thrée to one And after that he had put the Duke de Main to flight who since hath withdrawen his wife and children from Paris vnto Perone that sundrie towns hath since yéelded them selues to the mercie of the Kings Maiestie as Vernon Mentz and sundrie other townes of strength are nowe presently like to be deliuered into his Maiesties handes Great and likely was the signe that God fought for this gracious King when the night before the battaile hee shewed a miraculous token of victorie to the Kings side namely by a pitched battaile séene in the skie where in fight of many thousand persons the lesser number did ouercome the greater as it fell out afterward by the Kings side who being but a smal number did put many thousands of the greater number to the sword Since which his good successe the King hath gotten the townes of Corbeyle and Melum Corbeyle was yéelded vp vnto his Maiestie but the town of Melum hee won by the sword where was great effusion of bloud vpon the enemie These townes stand vpon the riuer of Seine and Laigney vppon the riuer of Marnes by meanes whereof his Maiestie hath stopt vp all the passages of the riuers so as no aide can come vnto them of Paris The King is at Clow and hauing cut off them at Paris from receiuing in anie succour of victuall or otherwise hee hath besieged Meos and sendeth some of his forces agaynst Saint Dennis The Pope hath lately sent his Legate into France to disch●rge the King of the excommunication which was before pronounced against him saying he did it before by false information and hopeth that hee will become a most Christian King and that the Crowne of France doth of right appertaine vnto him and to that purpose the Pope hath written to the Cleargie commanding them to obey and praie for the King vpon paine of his excommunication It is wonderfull to sée the present and gréeuous estate of the inhabitants of Paris which City is stil with hold from the Kings Maiestie yet they haue sought to the King since the departure of the Duke de Maine to receiue the said Citie vpon conditions whereto the King will not grant Hée willeth them to yéeld it vp vnto him as his right to stand to his mercie which they haue refused to doe but in the end it wil be the worse for themselues They of Paris doe continue séeking to haue spéech at Noyse and doe verily thinke that the Duke de Maine will forthwith send them some great and mightie armie to succor them beeing now hardly pressed vp for want of victualles which thing is vnpossible for him to doe by reason of the passage which is stopt vp as is before specified The greater parte of the inhabitants in the Citie of Paris are ouerruled by their gouernours that they begin to grewe mutinous amongst themselues And the Friers doe dailie preach vnto them perswade them still to resist the King though it be with the losse of their owne liues Which thing the poorer sort are constrained to consent vnto though contrarie to theyr willes and by reason of their want they are readie to kill one another for victuals Death stands there in euerie mans doore and threatneth their vtter ruine for their wilfull stubburnnesse and though the poorest doe liue in greate penurie yet the richest among them doe make many a hungrie meale So that nowe it is the cōmon report of euerie French man in France They of Paris cannot hold out aboue ten or twelue-daies at the most Those of Quillebeufe haue taken a gally which came from Roane laden with goods of the Duke de Aumal and oth●r chiefe men who had taken those goods from out the houses of the Kings seruants Thus haue you heard how wonderfully God hath defended the Kings Maiestie euen in the daunger of death where at such time as the enemie made full account to haue slayne the King in his flight he was by Gods prouidence constrained to the himselfe and in the flight compelled to warme himselfe and to escape in a souldiers iacket This was the will of God to confound him that sought the confusion of his King and as the same God that so defended him hath sent him since towns of great strength to resist and tame the fury of so mightie a so so doubtles the same God wil stil deliuer him from danger and spéedily send him his chiefe and strongest Cities and walled townes yet detained from him and as well deliuer his chiefest enemies into his hande as also to drawe the hearts of all his subiects vnto him maugre the mallice of such miscreant hel-hounds and detestable traitors or the hellish crew of the vnholy League nowe vp in armes agaynst his Maiestie for whose spéedie confusion and ouerthrow all the true and faithfull fauourers of the King will continually praie And for the prosperitie and defence of their most gracious King and Countrie FINIS