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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

or was any way preiudiciall vnto vs or the match which we seemingly intended but I had my Leame-hounds ready in euery corner to draw after them dry foote and fetch the Authors coram nobis to their cost as one Dr. Euerard of St. Martins was for his bold and malapert inueighing and continually preaching against vs and the match silenced by my onely meanes for I sayd and often told my best freinds till the mouthes of such Rabshecahs were stopped no vnitie or sincere reconsiliation of either Nation for the effecting of which now was the time could possibly be expected One whiting besides a Dr. of deuinitie Mr. Clayton for his Spanish Ewe in a Sermon at St. Paules crosse was layed vp for his lauish tongue and had like before to haue smarted for a Sermon he made before his Majestie at Wansted in Essex in August some two yeares since taking for his Text remember Lots Wife Luk. 17.32 And I thinke Ward of Ipswich escaped not safely for his lewd and profane picture of 88. and their powder Treason one whereof my L. Arch-bishop I sent you in a letter that you might see the malice of these detestable Heretiques against his Holinesse and the Catholique Church Neither was there any publique speech made openly in any Court of Iustice were it in either house of Parliament Starre-Chamber Countrey Assize yea nany times vttered priuatly in the Court but I got an inkling and made good vse thereof yea I was partaker of Gossips newes in the Citty brought to mine owne bed chamber by my well knowne and priuate freind c. Mrs. M. of Fleet-street Indeede Signior Gondomar quoth one herein consisteth the pythe and marrow of your seruice but if you please proceed I againe entertained to my no small charge Intelligencers in euery Countrey indeed Catholique Priests whose liberty out of prison I obtained for that very purpose for being abroad they did vs a threefold seruice First they gained soules to God freinds to the King my maister and money good store in our purses for I got out of English Catholiques to mine owne vse threescore thousand pounds at the least For the first it hath bene certified me for a certaine by report from many of their own mouthes that the numbers of soules which they haue gained into the bosome of the Church since the remission of the penall Lawes against them and their freedome by my meanes obtained amounteth to the number of eight and thirty thousand and odde Secondly they haue confirmed the Catholiques and made them so fast for the King our Maister that they haue auowed vnto me diuerse times that rather then misse of the Match they would make vp the best part of the Infanta's portion out of their owne purses yea though it were with the selling or pawning of all their plate and Iewels Within the Cittie for a small matter I feede certaine discontented and necessitous Catholikes of the English to walke the common and most frequented places of the Citty of London as St. Paules Church the exchange now and then among the Ordinaries to learne the Common newes out of which many times I picked good matter Neither could the States of Holland or the Embassadours of any other Forraine Prince carry their businesse so close but with my Maisters golden Key I could finde a meanes to diue into their Cabbinets reseale and seale againe their packets without the helpe eyther of Arthor Gregory or his old acquaintance Phillips It was not one of my worst peeces to hold the English in suspence with an apparant ouerture of the Match and dilatory promise of Golden Mountaines with the age of old Saturne againe when euery oake on Greenewich parke Sudaret roscida mella till the pallatinate was lost beyond recouery a matter of maine consequence for hereby Bohemia with the rest of the Emperours Territories being secured aboue our maister may at pleasure call to his ayde the Emperours forces who it seemeth for this purpose hath made a League with the Turke for these twentie yeares together with the strength of Tilley Die caese ●●●mer and the D. of Bauaria ioyned with his owne forces suddainly for now is the time giue Holland such a Camisado as the best wits of the * So the Spaniard scornfully cals the Hage where the States vsually reside Cheife Chamber will be to seeke of their old-ward and wonted pollicie Yea quoth Don Pedro but imagin this plot were resolued vpon shall we thinke the Princes of Germany King of France and England and other their old freinds and allyes will stand still as idle Spectators and not runne in with their swords drawne to their rescue Or that the Hollender who hath beene so long weather beaten at sea is not able to discerne this storme a farre off and take in his Sayles ere it shall hazard his shippe yes without doubt and howsoeuer wee may flatter our selues with the easinesse of the Conquest wee shall assuredly finde it as hard a taske as euer Spaine vndertooke It is true you say quoth the Admirant of Castille what haue we gained of them for these fiftie yeares space and vpward euer since Don Iohn of Austria the Duke of Alua Lewes Requesens were Gouernors and vndertooke the Low-Countrey Warres but sound knocks with the fruitlesse expence of many a million Quoth Lewes de Velasco a shorter cut for the Conquest of those Rebells had beene long since taken The error of the Duke of Alva had the Duke of Alva beene so wise as to haue secured himselfe of Brill Flushing and the rest of the Frontier and Sea-Townes he then might haue beene Maister of all the rest within at his pleasure for so long as they were open and free they were to the others as the mouth to the stomake or body which could not possibly famish so long as it was supplyed continually from England and other places but this by the way All what quoth Gondomar I haue already said is but a praeludium or small Preface to those proiects I had in my braine if as vnluckily it hapned the Treaty had not suddainly broken off but beene spunne out a yeare or two longer which indeede was the maine plot and had beene effected The Prince in Spaine before he was looked for had not the comming ouer of prince CHARLES in Person into Sraine with the Duke of Buckinghaus spoyled all for howsoiner we made a seeming shew of reioycing at his comming and did him all honnor beseeming so great and worthy a Prince yet to speake the truth my Lords you all know we wished him a thousand miles off and I beleeue some of the English themselues were here sorry that he had engaged himselfe in so long and teadious a Iourney But quoth the Duke of Hijaz standing vp and turning himselfe to the Duke of Medina Coeli and the Archbishop of Toledo How may it be conceiued that the Prince of England his arriuall in Spaine should eithet praeiudice vs

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