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A40886	The history of Portugal from the first ages of the world, to the late great revolution, under King John IV, in the year MDCXL written in Spanish, by Emanuel de Faria y Sousa, Knight of the Order of Christ ; translated, and continued down to this present year, 1698, by Capt. John Stevens.; Europa Portuguesa. English	Faria e Sousa, Manuel de, 1590-1649.; Stevens, John, d. 1726.	1698 (1698)	Wing F427; ESTC R2659	486,393	616

Souza de Macedo one of the Counts creatures who for some words spoken to the Queen had been ordered into banishment but unknown to her lay concealed at Court In order to raise him to the Honour of prime Minister the King begged of the Queen that she would forgive his offence and consent that his banishment should be remitted but notwithstanding his repeated instances and submissive intreaties she remained implacable Alphonso thinking to Conquer her obstinacy by extenuating the crime put into her hands the order of Council for his banishment wherein it was expresly set down that rather for to satissfy her resentment than for that his fault deserved such punishment they had for some days thought fit to send him into exile This which should have been a motive to appease so enraged her that she flew out into many extravagant speeches unbeseeming a private woman and much more a Queen The Queen 's undecent behaviour towards the King and after venting her fury in this undecent manner without any regard to the King's presence she flung into another Room whence she sent a billet to him demanding to have Antony de Souza severely punished The King hoping her passion would fall by degrees and that she might be brought to reason shewed not her billet according to custom to the Council of State but she on the contrary becomming dayly more intractable and he not able long to hide his resentment their animosities swelled to such a pitch that the Court was almost empty all men shunning him as declining and she admitting none to her presence being wholly Transported with the desire of Revenge Mean while Antony de Souza appeared more openly in the pallace than he had done before being always well attended to prevent danger But there wanted not those who soon spread it among the People that he threatned the City in case he were expelled the Court that he would repair to the Army with the which he would return to punish their Rebellion with fire and Sword Many such like discourses were framed and given out on purpose to incense the People against the King and fix their affections upon his brother as their deliverer from Tyranny and oppression Things being thus disposed the Infante to requite the Queens Favours and raise himself one step nearer to the Crown resolved by open Force if other means failed to expel Antony de Sousa from the Court. In order hereto on the 5th of October 1667 he went from his House to the Pallace accompanyed by a great Number of the Nobility The Infante heads the Rabble and all the Rabble of the City following in a most Tumultuous manner Being come to the Pallace he stayed till all the Councellors of State summoned by him the day before were come that the foulness of the Action might be somewhat disguized by their presence They being all come he enters with them the King's Bed-Chamber before he was awake who was not a little surprized to see such a croud Rush in upon him at so unseasonable an hour Then the Infante told him that his Crown and Person were in extream danger the multitude being in Arms about the Pallace demanding Antony de Souza should be delivered to them to receive condign punnishment for the affront he had done to the Queen To these words he added more threats in the name of the People but as he would have run on the King in a rage interrupted him calling aloud for his Sword The Infante according to his usual dissimulation calmly offered him his which he would not accept The Noise of the Multitude filling the Pallace brought the Queen to the King's apartment where she found him in a violent passion and enquiring as if she had not known what the matter was he told her that Antony de Souza in malice and despight to his Authority had been murdered and that now they came in Tumultuous manner to force him to pardon the murderers But she who knew better replyed that Souza was living which the King would not believe till the Duke of Cadaval having dragged him from his lurking place brought him into his presence At his sight he was somewhat appeased and then the Queen Infante and the rest of their followers left him abruptly When they were gone the King said he forgave them who had so undecently urged the expulsion of Antony de Souza to which the Count de Sabugal then present insolently answered they stood not in need of pardon but deserved praise and this he repeated till the King told him he would bestow pardon and praise where each was requisite So much is regal Authority depressed when faction prevails Antony de Souza this Tumult being over continued still in the Pallace which the Infante observing consulted with his Friends what was next to be done One among them hotter than the rest said the next thing was to assume the Crown whilst the Peoples affection stood for him but he took him up very short being unwilling as yet to have the secrets of his heart pryed into as fearing an Action done in that Tumultuous manner could not be durable Antony de Sousa and Emanuel Antunes the remaining Friends of the King forced to fly It was resolved that Antony de Souza and Emanuel Antunes should be threatned with death unless they departed the Pallace They perceiving no power was left in the King or their friends to protect them stole away privately without the King's knowledge by Night Next Morning the King missing them ordered search to be made for them The King abandoned by all Men. but in vain for his orders were wholly neglected In this Condition finding himself forsaken by his Friends and oppressed by his Enemies he knew not which way to turn himself or of whom to ask Advice His Council sided with the Infante his Queen favoured him the People followed and the Nobility adhered to him Thus all things being in extream Confusion even the moderate party began to think no way was left to settle Peace and restore Tranquility but the assembling of the Cortes or Parliament The Magistrates of Lisbon and the Common Council were the first that petitioned the King to summon the three Estates but he being sensible the only design was to dethrone him put them off from day to day without any positive Answer Whereupon they took the boldness to write to all the principal Towns of the Kingdom exhorting them by importunate petitioning to extort the King's Consent A few days after the Council of State at which were present the King Queen and Infante unanimously made their Application to him to the same effect but he being the more convinced it was a design lay'd against his Person became the more obstinate in refusing so that nothing was done for that day But the next day the Council meeting again and sending him a most audacious remonstrance full of invectives against his Conduct and urging the necessity of assembling the three Estates and

Inhabitants King Emanuel as to Stature was tall somewhat lean his Hair dark-brown his Forehead high his Eyes green and pleasant his Arms so long that when hanging down his Fingers reached below his knees He was much addicted to all Sports as Riding Dancing Musick and Feasting very Devout and therefore on Holy-days went to several Churches extraordinary Charitable a lover of Astrologers and Jesters He reformed several Religious Houses that lived not regularly 9. His Structures were so many His Structures and other Work and so great it would swell to a Volume to particularize them in short they were Thirteen Monasteries in Portugal besides all those in Asia Africk and America and besides Repairs in other Places Eight great Churches the great Hospital of Lisbon Five Palaces Custom-houses Store-houses many Magazines plentifully stored and above Twenty Forts of considerable Magnitude besides many of less note Also several Bridges Moles Fountains and other Works were begun and finished by him To encourage Gentlemen to serve in Africk he instituted new Commendaries to Reward those that deserved well and allowed Wages to an Hundred Knights for their Entertainment there He first gave the hundredth Penny of his Revenue to Pious Uses By him the Laws of the Kingdom were digested into Method and Registers made of all Estates and Foundations as also a Book of the Arms of the Nobility Kings at Arms and Rules of Blazon were of his introducing into Portugal Antony Rodriguez the first Master of that Science here being sent to most Courts of Christendom to inform himself perfectly therein The Chronicles down to his own days he caused to be corrected Rewarding Edward Galvam and Ruy de Pina who laboured in that Affair He had three Wives the first Elizabeth Widow of Prince Alonso in her Right he was at Toledo sworn Heir to the Crowns of Castile and Leon. The second was Mary Sister to the former both Daughters to King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth of Castile and Aragon The third was Ellenor Daughter to King Philip the First of Spain Sister to the Emperor Charles the Fifth and Niece to both his former Wives 10. By his First Wife he had Issue His Wives and Issue Prince Michael who died at Zaragoça not quite Two Years of Age having been Sworn Heir to all the Kingdoms of Spain By the Second Wife he had First John his Successor Secondly Elizabeth Wife to Charles the Fifth and Mother to King Philip the Second Thirdly Beatrix Wife to Charles the Third Duke of Savoy Fourthly Lewis Duke of Beja and Constable of Portugal Father to Antony Prior of Crato who tho a Bastard aspired to the Crown Fifthly Ferdinand Duke of Guarda who left no Issue Sixthly Alonso the Cardinal and Archbishop of Lisbon Seventhly Henry the Cardinal and Archbishop of Braga Lisbon and Evora who afterwards was King Eighthly Edward Duke of Guimaraens who married Elizabeth Daughter and Heiress of James Duke of Bragança by whom he had two Daughters Mary the eldest married to Alexander Farnesius Duke of Parma and Katherine Dutchess of Bragança from whom tho the younger are Descended the late Kings of Portugal Ninthly Mary Tenthly Antony who both died in their Infancy By the Third Wife First Charles who died in Infant Secondly Mary who died a Maid at the Age of 57 Years having been disappointed of several Matches that were proposed for her CHAP. XI The First Part of the Life and Reign of John the Third of the Name and Fifteenth King of Portugal from the Year of our Lord 1502. till 1543. 1. KIng John the Third King John the Third his Birth was Second Son to King Emanuel and the First by his Second Wife born at Lisbon on the 6th of June 1502 about Two in the Morning It was observable that this being the midst of Summer when the Weather is usually settled fair just at that time there arose such a terrible Storm of Wind Rain Thunder and Lightning that none living had ever seen the like Whilst this Prince was Baptizing there broke out such a Fire in the Palace as alarmed the whole Court and gave occasion to various Conjectures on what it might Prognosticate 150● The Prince was just a Year old when his Father Assembling the Cortes or Parliament at Lisbon caused him to be sworn Heir to the Crown At three Years of Age he was weaned Being come out of his Infancy he was given in charge to Gonzalo Figueyra a Noble Citizen of Lisbon the Queen his Mother still overseeing his Education The Bishop of Tangier taught him his Grammar and Lewis Teyxeyra instructed him in the Laws yet he profited little in either never thoroughly understanding any Book that belonged to them Nor was he more successful in Astrology taught him by Thomas de Torres then Famous in that Science and Physick In short at the end of his Studies the Prince was found very ignorant for tho' he had an excellent Memory he never applyed himself to Learning and his Masters feared disobliging him In the Year 1512. the Prince fell down from a Gallery in the Palace 1512. so that for 24 hours the Doctors despaired of his Life After that he came to himself and recovered a small scar of a hurt received in the fall remaining on his forehead Next he had a violent Fit of Sickness which once passed he continued healthy all the remaining part of his Life At this Age the King began to make himself acquainted with Business to which he applyed himself better than to his Book 2. The King 1515. later than had been expected settled the Prince's Family and appointed all the Officers of his Houshold among which his principal Favourites were D. Lewis de Silveyra and D. Antony de Ataide D. Lewis de Silveyra was suspected to incense the King against his Father after his marrying Queen Ellenor Sister to Charles the Fifth once designed for the Prince as was said in the forgoing Chapter 1519. Hereupon D. Lewis was banished the Court but as soon as ever King John came to the Crown he was recalled It being the Custom to Proclaim the new King the third day after the Death of his Predecessor 1521. this Solemnity was for several urgent Reasons King John proclaim'd deferred till the sixth day when it was performed with the usual Ceremonies The new King understanding that a Fleet was fitting in France in order to make new Discoveries in India and Brasil and that several French Pirates infested the Portuguese Seas sent D. John de Silveyra to put that King in mind of the Ancient Friendship betwixt those two Crowns and require redress of those Wrongs This Embassador had an Honourable Reception but no Success in his Business Ayres ●e Sousa went Embassador to the new Pope Adrian 1522. then at Zaragoça in his way to Rome to Complement him upon his Promotion to S. Peter's Chair 1523. D. Lewis de Silveyra King John's Favourite was sent to the Emperor Charles

the Infidels came on to succour them they were received with such a volley of great and small shot as laid many dead before the Town the rest flying with more speed than they came on 6. D. Philip Mascarenhas having ended his Vice-Roy-ship in India and obtained leave of the King to return home The Affairs of India imbarked for Lisbon and died by the way The Count de Aveyras sent by the King to succeed him dying also in the Voyage as was said before the Sealed Patents which are always laid up to provide for such exigencies being opened it was found that the care of the Government was committed to D. F. Francis dos Reys Primate of India Francis de Melo de Castro and Antony de Sousa Coutinho Having entred upon the Government they fitted out a Fleet of 22 Sail Commanded by Antony de Sousa Coutinho one of the Governours This Fleet set sail in order to recover Mascate some of them entred that Bay but receiving much harm from the Cannon of the Town they stood out again and came to Anchor in the River Lafette 100 Leagues from Mascate They had lain there but a few days before they discovered a mighty Fleet of Arabs Commanded by one Hali a Moor. Antony de Sousa received them with such gallantry that after the Battle had lasted many Hours he obtained a Compleat Victory killing above 5000 of the Infidels Captain Antony Lobo in this Action being boarded by two of the Enemies Vessels set fire to his own Powder and blew himself up and both them Antony de Sousa returned to Goa where he found D. Vasco Mascarenhas Count de Obidos whom the King had appointed Vice-Roy upon the News of the Death of the Count de Aveyras Within a very few days the whole City running into Mutiny offered the Government to Antony de Sousa who rejected their offer then they pitched upon D. Bras de Castro a Turbulent Man who presently accepted of it which done they seized upon the person of the Count and kept him Prisoner But God shewed how displeasing to him this Rebellious Government was by the Judgments that immediately attended the beginning of it for the Dutch before the expiration of the Truce began a War which proved the most fatal to the Portugueses of any they ever had since the Conquest of that Countrey The Hollandrs resolving to break the Truce fitted out 10 Ships under the Command of John Mansucar who coming to Tutocorim seized all the Money laid up there to buy Pearl and at the same time took a Ship bound from Cochim to China D. Bras de Castro immediately prepared to oppose them Ceylon was the place next to danger as being that they had always aimed at Emanuel Mascarenhas Homem was Governour there who hearing of the preparations of the Dutch sent four Companies to secure Calaturé the safety of Columbo depending on that Port. This reinforcement not coming in time the place fell into the hands of the Enemy and for Columbo all the people of the Countrey flocking thither could not hold out long for want of Provisions The News of this loss being carried to Manicravare where Lope Barriga Commanded the whole Garrison mutinied because according to the Orders received from Mascarenhas he designed to march them to Columbo and killing some that opposed them sent him away and took the Field The King of Candia thinking to make his advantage of this disorder marched a good body of Forces towards them and offered them large terms if they would come over to his Service They answered him with their Weapons and after a fight which lasted many hours retitired to Columbo Emanuel Mascarenhas the Governour having gathered what Forces he could into the City designed to oppose the mutiniers and fired three pieces of Cannon They resolved to be revenged being reinforced by two Companies of Foot which deserted to them from the City but the Religious and Inhabitants to prevent the mischief they saw impending opened one of the Gates and let them in Emanuel Mascarenhas took Sanctuary in a Monastery and the City chose for their Governours Gaspar de Araujo Pereyra D. Francis Rolim and Francis de Barros da Silva and to Command in the Field Gaspar Figueyra da Serpa an experienced Soldier He hearing the Dutch with some Natives were abroad gathering Cinnamon marched to cut them off but they having intelligence of his march were gone before so having reduced some Towns that had revolted he returned to Columbo The Governours receiving advice that the Dutch were raising a Fort at Angratota which would Command all the Countrey about Columbo sent Gaspar Figueyra with 500 Foot to drive them thence Gaspar Figueyra marched with expedition and having secured all the Avenues by which the Enemies might receive any relief carried on a Trench so close to their work that having raised a Platform and planted thereon one piece of Cannon he so incommoded them that after 10 days the Dutch surrendred upon discretion 110 of them were taken 40 Jaos and 300 Chingalas who were severely punished as being for the most part Subjects to the King of Portugal At the same time John Botado who was in the Inland with a Company of Portugueses and some Blacks was set upon by an Officer of the King of Candia with 3000 Men and though the Blacks forsook him the Portugueses fought so desperately that they put the Indians to flight leaving so many dead that those who saw them could not be perswaded they had been killed by so few John Botado with his Men retired to Columbo Four Ships and one Caravel sailed this Year from Lisbon for India and two Ships from thence arrived in Portugal Anno 1653. 1. KIng John had resolved not to make any great Efforts to carry the War far into the Spanish Territories The War proceeds coldly on both sides concluding it his securest course to fill his exchequer fortify his Towns and build Ships whilst the Spaniards wasted themselves with their Wars in Italy and Flanders were diverted from putting Portugal into any danger This was the reason that he kept no more Forces afoot in Alentejo then served to secure the Frontiers and consequently the actions there were of small moment and few of them worth relating The most considerable was a party of 950 Horse and 100 Musketiers Commanded by Andrew de Albuquerque Generall of the Horse which defeated 1300 Spaniards killing 200 of them among whom was their Lieutenant Generall of Horse the Count de Amarante and taking above 400 Prisoners Neither did this Year produce any Exploits of note in the other Provinces which continued in full Peace bating some small Alarms given on bothsides which only served to keep the Garrisons upon their Guard without any damage done on either side 2. In the midst of all his fortunate Successes the King received one Fatal blow which outbalanced many of his former prosperities This was the death of his Eldest Son Prince Theodosius Prince Theodosi-the

Northern Countries Discoveries in North America In the Year 1500 sailed from Lisbon Gaspar Cortereal to attempt some Discovery in the Northern Seas He discovered a Country which by Reason of its delightful Groves he called Verde that is Green The People were but Barbarous of a middle Stature very Swift expert at shooting with the Bow and skilful at casting Darts whose Points are hardned in the Fire cloathed in Skins living in Caves and Cottages and having no Religion but believing in Auguries and very jealous of their Women The following Year he returned thither to make some farther Discovery but he staying long his Brother Michael went out in Quest of him with two Ships in May 1502 and neither returning another Brother prepared to seek them but was hindred by the King It being believed both these Brothers were lost in that Country discovered by the first the Name of it was changed to that of Tierra de Cortereales About the middle of this Year the Cortes being Assembled the King caused his Son to be sworn Heir to the Crown The Country tho Poor gave the King 50000 Duccats to carry on the War in Africk On the 4th of October was born at Lisbon the Princess Elizabeth her Birth being attended with the same Prodigies of Storms as her Brother 's was she was afterwards married to the Emperor Charles the Fifth her Dower above a Million of Ducats 900000 in Money and the rest in Jewels 8. Elizabeth 1504. Queen of Castile and Aragon died this Year 1504 at Medina del Campo Her Death was concealed from Elizabeth Queen of Portugal her Daughter because she was near her time of Delivery and accordingly on the last Day of December was brought to Bed of a Daughter called Beatrix after Dutchess of Savoy There followed upon it such Terrible Earthquakes that whole Towns being swallowed up 15●5 the People fled Distractedly to the Mountains The 〈◊〉 of Egypt threatens Jerusalem The New Year began with Threats from the Soldan of Egypt that he would destroy the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem unless the Portuguese desisted from their Conquests in India where Edward Pacheco was now doing Wonders and King Ferdinand of Castile from invading the Moors An Account of the Portuguese Conquest● in India But these Menaces were little regarded both Kings proceeding in what they had undertaken Now returned the King's Embassadors sent to Pope Julius and with them came a Merchant Ship which being infected with the Plague spread it throughout all Spain Edward Pacheco returned at this time from India leaving that Part of the World astonished at his Actions King Emanuel himself went out to receive him at landing with a numerous Train he walked under a Canopy with the King his Actions were set out in the Church by the Bishop of Viseo An Account of them was also given to all Forreign Princes and they were made known to all the Kingdom After all this Honour the same Pacheco was cast into Prison loaded with Irons and tho he cleared himself of all that could be laid to his Charge he was only turned out of Goal and left to live upon Charity as did his Son and Grand-Son after him till in the time of King Sebastian the prime Minister Giles Yanez de Costa obtained him the grant of a Commendary and because none was then Vacant gave him that he had obtained for his own Son 9. On the third of March 1506. 1506. at Abrantes was born the King's fourth Son Birth of the King 's fourth Son Lewis an admirable Prince for his Judgment Learning and Valour So addicted to Warlike Affairs that a Fleet of 60 Sail was provided for him to go into India but the Design was disappointed He served under the Emperor Charles the Fifth at the taking of Tunis and gained Honour He was never married but had a Bastard-Son by the Lady Violante Gomez this was Antony who afterwards upon the Death of Henry the King and Cardinal aspired to the Crown Upon the 6th of April A great Mutiny on Account of a supposed Miracle it being Sunday certain Persons in the Church of S. Dominick fancied a Crucifix in one of the Chappels cast forth a miraculous Light a New Convert that had been a Jew said it was the Reflection of the Sun from a Window Hereupon without farther Examination they dragged him out of the Church and burnt him The Rabble assembled about the Fire one of the Friars with vehement Speeches Encouraging them Two other Friars ran about the Streets crying out Heresie Heresie with Crucifixes in their Hands Above 500 Men gathered in Arms who slew as many of the New Converts burning their Bodies The number increasing upon Monday Morning they murdered Men Women and Children dragging them from the very Altars whither they fled for Sanctuary so that this Day above 1000 perished This was continued the third Day to the number of 400 being destroyed so that in all they amounted to 2000 murdered among them many that were not New Converts for the desire of Plunder was more than the Zeal of Religion as it is in all Mutinies whatever the Pretences be The King then at Avis was highly offended at this Insolency He took away the City Charter and sent thither the Prior of Crato and Baron of Alvito to punish the offenders Some were hanged others had their Goods confiscated and the two Friars burnt all that belonged to the Monastery were banished 10. James de Azambuja was sent to erect a Fort on a Point of Land in Africk 1507. opposite to the Island Magador Birth of the King 's fifth Son it was called Fort Royal. July the 5th the King and Queen being at Abrantes was born their fifth Son whom they called Ferdinand 1508. He was a great lover of History and no less addicted to Warlike Affairs The following Year the Limits of the Conquests on the Coast of Africk were settled betwixt the two Crowns of Spain and Portugal All Eastward of Belez de la Gomera was assigned to the Spaniards thence Westward was allowed to the Portuguese This Year 1509 was born the Prince of Portuguese Poets 1509 Luis de Camoens On the twenty third of April Birth of Camoens the great Portuguese Poet the Queen was delivered at Evora of her sixth Son called Alonso At Seven Years of Age Pope Leo the Tenth sent him a Cardinal's Cap afterwards he had both the Archbishopricks of Lisbon and Evora and the Abby of Alcobaça all at one time This Year also the Work continued from the time of King John the First and Founder of the famous Church and Monastery of Batalla which ought to have been finished was interrupted and nothing done to it since so that ever after that mighty Fabrick remains Imperfect Mondragon a French Pirate having the foregoing Year taken a Rich Ship coming from India had now fitted out Four great Galleons upon the same Design The King sent out some Ships

and they as soon retired till they drew him into the ambush He was at first surprized seeing himself Attacked by that fresh body but recovering himself divided his men and sent one part to charge those that had drawn him on whilst the other engaged those that lay in ambush In this manner the Fight continued a considerable time after which fresh Troops appeared coming from Badajoz to the assistance of the Spaniards and others from Elvas to sustain the Portuguese These last were 1600 Foot and four Squadrons of Horse under the Conduct of the Count de Obidos Now the face of Affairs was changed for the Portuguese obtained a Compleat Victory The first of the Spanish Troops were cut in pieces and the last retired with the loss of 176 Horse Of the Portuguese 37 were killed in the ambush and 16 in the Engagement after it 8. The Assembly of the States The Cortes or Parliament held or Parliament of Portugal being the only Authority that could establish the Crown and raise such supplies as were necessary for the support of it the King fixt their Meeting for the 18th of September and that day the Session was commenced with all the Ceremonies usual upon such occasions The Bishop of Elvas performed the Office of Chancellor acquainting that Assembly in the King's Name with the causes of their being convened He represented the great Blessing of Liberty the King 's extraordinary Care to repair the Harms done by the Spaniards the mighty Power he had as well by Sea as Land the Alliances he had made Abroad and put them in mind how he had never lay'd any Impositions upon his People but maintained the expence of his House upon the private Patrimony of his Family and that being now much exhausted he recommended it to them to find out means to support so great a Charge assuring them of his Royal Protection and that their Liberties and Privileges should be religiously preserved Great was the expectation the King had conceived of this Assembly nor was he disappointed for they gave such Testimonies of their Duty as exceeded even his Hopes They returned Thanks for his Care in asserting their Liberties for delivering them from the Yoke of Spain for the Alliances he had made Abroad and for all his good Intentions offering him their Lives and Fortunes and sending him a Blank Paper that he might dispose of their Estates as he thought fit for the support of the State and purchasing his Brother's Liberty who was kept Prisoner by the Spaniards ever since the beginning of the War having been put into their hands by the King of Hungary in whose service he had been nine Years The King returned the blank as it was sent to him and had more plentiful supplies granted him than he himself would have demanded The Parliament settled two Funds the one for Land the other for Sea-Service All other expences were to be supplied out of the Patrimony of the House of Braganza 9. D. John Rodriguez de Souza y Vasconcellos Count of Castelmelhor A Conspiracy to seize Carthagena discovered and the Portugueses secured went over to Brazil in the Spanish Fleet in the Year 1639. In 1641. he was sent by his General to the Spanish Plantations in the West-Indies The News of the Revolution of Portugal being then brought to the Fleet the Spaniards cryed down the New King's Title and exclaimed against the Portugueses as Rebels This sensibly touched the Count de Castelmelhor yet he was forced to bear with it being in no condition to make his resentment appear without his certain destruction There were seven Portuguese Gallions in the Fleet and in them 3000 Men. With the Officers of these Ships he conspired to seize the Fleet as also the Town and Cittadel of Cartagena in new Spain before which they were then at Anchor Most of the Officers were already engaged in this Design and all disposed for putting of it in execution but the Count having communicated it to Antony Tenezedo a Portuguese in whom he confided as having done him many signal favours he discovered the whole matter to the Governour of the Cittadel who immediately apprehended the Count and had him Condemned to Death This Sentence had been executed within two days had not the Count appealed to the Court of Madrid and the Admiral of the Fleet having had the Sentence confirmed by the Council there no hopes remained for his deliverance but in God Whilst the Admiral sent into Spain to have the Sentence confirmed the King of Portugal got intelligence of what had hapned He immediately sent away a Caravel Commanded by a Captain in whose Conduct he had great confidence ordering him to sail for Cartagena and use all possible means to deliver the Prisoner The Weather proved favourable to the Design the Captain Arrived safe and found means to let the Count know he was come to rescue him To this purpose he agreed with a Dutch Captain who Commanded a Frigat in that Port for the Caravel being so leaky that it could not be put to Sea again he burnt it In the mean while the Count with ready Money and large promises corrupted a Corporal and two Spanish Soldiers that had the keeping of him and they altogether got aboard the Dutch Frigat which carried them safe to the Island of Tortuga where they were favourably received by the French Governour Thence they went over to the Island Tercera and lastly arrived at Lisbon where they were bountifully rewarded by the King Anno 1643. 1. THE hatred the Spaniards and Portugueses bore to one another was too great to suffer them to lie still Though the Season was not yet fit for Action the Frontiers were never free from incursions D. Sancho Manuel a Portuguese Major-General thinking no difficulties too great to be surmounted marched out with 150 Horse judging that a sufficient number to plunder the Town of Fituro in Castile four Leagues from the Frontiers of Portugal His Design being divulged and the Spaniards believing his Forces greater than they were they abandoned the Town leaving it to be ransacked by the Soldiers without the least opposition But the retreat proved not without danger for the Spaniards of the neighbouring places assembling to the number of 200 Horse Charged them before they could recover their own Frontiers and that with such resolution that the Portugueses were at first forced to give ground But having quitted all the Booty which encombred them they rallied and giving a fresh Charge worsted those by whom before they had been drove Night coming on put an end to the Battle The number of the Dead was equal and the Victory had been dubious but that the Spaniards got away in the dark leaving the Booty and the Field to the Portugueses This small Action was the cause of a greater for the Marquess de Elecha General of the Spanish Horse resolving to revenge that loss entred Portugal with 500 Horse and 300 Musketiers surprized the Town of Sabugal fired 13