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A57342	The Rise & fall of the late eminent and powerful favorite of Spain, the Count Olivares ; the unparallel'd imposture of Michael de Molina, executed at Madrid in the year 1641 ; the right and title of the present Kind of Portugall Don John the fourth, with the most memorable passages of his reign unto the year 1644 translated out of the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese by Edw. Chamberlayne ...	Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1533; ESTC R24148	60,098	190

Orders of Knighthood which were worth to him 40000 Crowns per an' made himself great Master of the Kings Wardrobe Master of the Horse Great Chancellor of the Indies which three Offices were worth him 200000 Crownes per annum but much more considerable were the vast sums received from the Indies for when the Fleet set sail from Sevill and Lisbon he caused to be shipt abundance of Corn Wine and Oyle Custome-free which he sent from his County of Olivarez and selling the same in the Indies at four times their worth in Spain caused the Moneys to be employed in Spices Jewels Indigoes c. which are there at a low price bur of great value in Europe so that without cousening the King hee hath this way gained many Millions which Wise men perswade themselves were never spent in the Kings service As for his zeal to augment his Masters greatness some are of opinion That the excess of so eminent a Vertue was in him a Vice which produced great Mischiefs for he was so passionate in the pursuance of that designe that he feared not to discontent the People the Nobility the Princes the Queen her self so hee might content the King and carry on his design First for the People whose Love is the main foundation and strongest prop of Monarchies This blind passion carryed him away so far as to endevor to abolish in Spain divers priviledges and Liberties to the end hee might render the King more absolute over his Subjects Hee extorted from the Laity and Clergy by the Mediannates an invention of his own which was the Payment of half an years Revenues of all Offices and Benefices that were bestowed also by abasing and raising the value of Coyne an intollerable grievance to the Subject and by many other Impositions raised above Two hundred and sixteen Millions of Gold Such like endeavours were the first ground of the totall revolt of the Catalonians who together with the people of Aragon had so great Priviledges and Liberties that they passed rather for a people recommended then subject to the Kings of Spain whence it hath ever been Arcanum Imperii amongst the Kings of Spain to endeavor to infringe those Priviledges that rendred suspitious the Loyalty of those people Insomuch that in all the Wars with France the Kings of Spain durst not suffer their Armies to march that way Those of Aragon in that notable business of Don Antonio Perez were by Philip the second not without much craft and force brought into absolute subjection but the Catalonians continued stedfast in the maintenance of their Priviledges and very difficult to be reduced to such subjection because being borderers upon France by sea and land they could commodiously receive thence assistance or succour Nevertheless the said zeal of the Conde Duke put him upon that attempt so that at a Parliament holden at Barcellona the chief Citie of Catalonia the jealous Catalonians took no small distaste that the Duke endeavoured to invade their Privileges by not suffering their Commissioners to be covered in his presence which had used to be covered in the Kings presence After this the Duke proceeding in the like attempts to diminish their Priviledges yet to keep them in obedience quartered Souldiers upon them after the fashion of Lombardy but the Catalonians not being able to endure the insolence of the soldiers took Arms killed drave away their soldiers killed also their Vice-Roy the Conde di Coloma put themselves under the protection of the French Thus was lost the most populous part of all Spain a Countrey above 800 miles in compass and the onely Countrey of all Spain wherein is to be found all materials necessary for making and rigging ships The Castles Manors Villages great Towns and Cities stand so thick that they seem rather one continued Citie then a Province To this may be added the inexpressible losse of the Kingdome of Portugall with all the dependencies upon that Crown in the East and West Indies Africa and Tercera Islands by the miscarriage of the Conde Duke in discontenting that Nation which shall be related at large as a most remarkable History There have ever been a certain Antipathy enmity betwixt the Spaniards and Portugals as great as between the Spaniard and French But since they have been subject to the Kings of Spain have been so averse from the Government that the Parish Priests and Preachers at the end of their Mass and Sermons were wont to exhort the people publickly to say two Ave Maries to the end that it would please our Saviour and the blessed Virgin to deliver them from the Tyranny as they termed it of the Castillians expecting always some favourable occasion to make an universall Revolt Notwithstanding in the year 1636. the new Tax called the Fifth part was generally imposed that is Five per Cent. upon all Estates and Merchandise which being judged not only very grievous but also most unjust gave occasion to all the Southern part of Portugall to rise in arms and had no question set the whole Kingdom on fire had it not been quencht by the great care of the Infanta Margarita of Savoy the Kings Aunt then Governess The Court of Spain observing hereupon the inclinations of that people to an universall revolt resolved to use the best means to secure it In the first place to allure forth the great Duke of Briganza who for Riches power number of Tenants affection of the people and kindred was the chief Nobleman not onely of Portugall but of all Spain and which was more then all had an undoubted right to the Crown of Portugall and therefore certainly it was a cruell pity in Philip the second to seiz upon this Kingdom and yet to leave the pretender to the Crown not onely alive but greater and higher then ever he was It being an infallible Maxime That nothing can bee sufficient to secure his Loyalty who hath power enough to justifie disloyalty To make sure of the Duke they first offred him the Government of Milan which he modestly refused resolving not to stirre forth of Portugall Hereupon the Conde Duke was resolved to try all ways imaginable to which the Rebellion of Catalonia seemed to offer a fit opportunity for this design for the Conde Duke politickly gave out that the King was to goe in person against the Catalonians and therefore that all the Nobility in the Kings dominions were to appear within 4 Months at Madrid to wait upon the King in this Expedition But the Duke of Braganza wel knowing the affection of the Portugals and suspition of the Castillians to the end that hee might take off the one and assure the other retires himself to his Countrey house there to follow his hunting excusing himself to the Conde Duke that his affairs at present were in so bad a condition that hee could not appeare abroad with that splendor and dignity that became a person of his Quality and that he was confident he could doe his

in the kingdom of Congo and Angola the great Island of St. Laurence of Soffala and Mozambique on the Continent thence passing the mouth of the red Sea they have setled a Trade with Socatra and Calaiate thence passing the Bay of Persia and the mouth of the great river Indus which gave occasion of the name to those countries they subdued Calecut Cochim c. the Island of Goa Cial Daman c. thence towards the river Ganges they conquered Ceilam Malacca Sumatra Solor Larantuca c. thence farther forward they entred into the kingdome of Pegu into Juva major and minor into the kingdome of China where they held a strong place called Macao In summe the Kingdoms Provinces Islands Cities that the Nation of Portugal hath conquered abroad may be compared to the ancient Roman Empire nor hath their valour been much inferior to that of the Romans if we consider the warre they have made with the King of Cambaia who for puissance riches and military courage surpaspassed Xerxes Darius or Pyrrhus the warre they have made with Isamalucco Idalcam in the kingdom of Decam both equall to mighty Kings whose Armies consisted of Persians Turkes Janizaries Arabs Moors and the best warriers of all the East the warre they have waged with the Moores of Malacca Sumatra and Molucco who were as well provided of Artilry as any of the Princes of Europe also with the Kings of Bengala Peug Siam many other formidable powers It is true that during the time that Portugal was under the Catholick Kings many places were lost yet there remains to this day under the command of K. John the fourth above fifty Towns and Forts accounted impregnable as Mozambique Cuama Monomotapa Mombaza Mascale Diu Damam Bazain Chiaul Onor Barcelor Mangalor Cananor Cranganor Cochim Coulam Negapatan Meliapor the Isle of Ceilam the kingdome of Jafanapatan the Cities of Manac and Nombre de Jesu then more Northward Azarim Danu Agazim Maim Trapor and many other places in all which are maintained Governors and Souldiers besides in the head Citie Goa there is a Viceroy with all Courts of Justice whither many Kings of the East send Tribute and Ambassadors to maintain amity with the King of Portugall insomuch that the Portugall Trade extends itselfe into the East neer four thousand leagues by which are maintained all the Garrisons all the ships whereof there are oftimes two or three Fleets and much wealth sent home every yeare Upon the coast of Africa the Crown of Portugall yet possesseth divers places so well fortified that the neighbouring Moores could never yet recover them In America the famous country of Brasile belongs to the King of Portugall one thousand foure hundred leagues on the coast thereof containing 14. governements whereof the head City is Saint Salvadar But to return to the Frontiers of Portugal where we left the Portugals and Castillians making inrodes wasting the Country surprising the Towns ofts kirmishing but never yet in any set Battel untill the year 1644. where both Armies met upon the borders of Portugall in a plain called Campo-Mayor The Spanish Army consisting for the most part of strangers was under the conduct of the Marquess de Torrecusa and the Portugal Army consisting of Natives with some few Hollanders were under the command of Matthias de' Albuquerque The batail was fought with as much order as courage on both sides but the Spaniard being more numerous especially in Horse after severall furious charges put the whole Army of Portugal into disorder seised upon all their Artillery and Baggage killed Albuquerques horse under him and took many prisoners yet after all the Generall being mounted upon another horse rallied some of his best Souldiers and charging afresh recovered all put to flight the whole Army of their Enemies and chased them above 3 miles Of the Spanish Army there were slain 1600 men upon the place amongst whom was the Lieutenant General the General of the horse and the General of the Artillery 5 Campmasters 2 Adjutants of horse 3 Sergeant-Majors 23 Cornets the Count de Montixo together with very many Cavaliers of the Orders of Saint James Calatrava and Alcantara there were taken 4000 Armes and above 1000 Horse Of the Portugal Army were slain not above 300. amongst whom 2 Campmasters and one Sergeant Major one Captain of horse and eight of Foot but there were taken prisoners divers Noblemen Commanders and Officers which were hurryed away by the Castillians in their flight Not long after was imprisoned in Lisbon the Marquess de Montalban D. George Mascarenas Lord Treasurer President of the Councell of the Indies and a Councellor of State together with some others upon suspition of a conspiracy against his Majesty but upon Examination it being discovered that the suspicion was cunningly raised by the Castillians with intent to deprive his Majesty of the service of his most able Ministers and to make the World believe that the Portugall Nobility were discontented with their King they were set at liberty and their honors repaired by his Majesties Proclamation In this condition stood the King and Kingdom of Portugall in the year 1644. and in this condition it may probably continue for many years First because the Catholick King will not probably quit his pretences here sooner then he hath done in the Netherlands Secondly because the Nation of Portugall beareth such extraordinary affection to the whole Family of their present King and such exceeding hatred to the Castillians that they will choose rather to be extirpated and destroyed then bee brought again under the yoke of the Catholick King Thirdly because the Catholick King is not able during the warr with France to gain any thing upon that Kingdom either at home or abroad as hath bin evident ever since King John the Fourth came to that Crown Fourthly because it is so much the interest of France to keep the Crown of Portugall apart that the peace with Spain will never bee concluded without including Portugall Lastly supposing that by all the States of Christendom contrary to their owne interest the Kingdom of Portugal should be abandoned to the fury of the Spaniard and granting that Philip the second made himself master thereof by force yet if their then impuissance and distractions be remembred and their present power and unanimity be consider'd it must necessarily be concluded That the Re-union of Portugal with Castile is morally impossible FINIS * A Grandee of Spain is any Nobleman that hath the priviledg to be alwayes covered in the Kings presence as all Noblemen had before the time of Charls the fifth