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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14618	Further obseruations of the English Spanish pilgrime, concerning Spaine being a second part of his former booke, and containing these particulars: the description of a famous monastery, or house of the King of Spaines, called the Escuriall, not the like in the Christian world: a briefe relation of certaine dæmonicall stratagems of the Spanish Inquisition exercised on diuers English men of note of late times, and now liuing in England. A relation of the founding of a military order in Rome, to wit, of the immaculate Conception of our Lady, the blessed Virgin. Composed by Iames Wadsworth, Gentleman, lately conuerted into his true mothers bosome, the Church of England, and heretofore pentioner to the King of Spaine.	Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656? English Spanish pilgrime. aut	1630 (1630)	STC 24928; ESTC S119406	21,866	56

building It reaches one hundred in breadth and is distinguished into many pretty knots and beds set with all kind of herbs and flowers and watered with many pleasant Springs and Fountaines This Garden is much higher then the Orchard adioyning and you ascend from hence thither by a walke of many staires set with trees on both sides There are accounted to bee aboue forty Fountaines of pure water within the walles of the Monastery There are so many Closets and Keyes belonging to this Monastery that there is a speciall Officer appointed to be Master of the Keyes which Keyes are kept in a Closet by themselues and are esteemed to exceed some thousands The third part of this famous Monastery of Saint Laurence is possessed by 300. Monkes of the Order of Saint Hierome whose yeerely Reuenues amount to aboue 35000. Spanish Ducats and the rest goes to the King and his family To conclude it is furnished with so many Halles Parlors Dining-roomes Chambers Closets Offices Lodgings and other necessarie Roomes that it may well suffice foure Kings at once to keepe their Courts in There are certaine credible reports of men of credit and vnderstanding that some yeeres after that King Philip the second had begun this great worke he comming thither with the Earle of Lemos and hauing shewed him the plot and disclosed his purpose in the finishing of so great a work which would amount to an incredible charge he demanded the Earle to tell him freely what he thought of the Worke. The Earle stoutly and with a noble spirit answered the King saying Your Maiestie as you are the greatest Monarch of Christendome so are you reputed the wisest among Kings now considering the great charge that your Maiesty is at in your warres in Italy in France and the Low-Countries with the Great Turke and elsewhere together with your ordinary and extraordinary expences and the likelihood of warres with the Queene of England All these things considered it would bee a blemish to your wisedome in the World If your Maiestie should goe forward with this Building and the charges will make you sinke before it bee finished The King replied notwithstanding all his wars and other charges Hee would goe on with this and hoped by the grace of God to see it finished to take pleasure and comfort in it in his life the which hee did and enioyed it seeuen yeeres and that after his death it should bee a Receptacle for his bones and likewise for the Kings that should succeed him to be for a Court in their liues and for their Funerall after their deaths Likewise it is crediblely reported that when the worke was finished and the Officers brought the Booke of accounts the totall of the Charges was twentie seuen Millions of Duckats which amounteth in our money to Nine Millions of Poundes The King hearing the Totall said I haue taken great care many yeeres and troubled my Head much heretofore to haue that finished I will now trouble my head no longer with the Charges wherefore he commanded the Booke of accounts to be cast into the fire A BRIEFE RELATION OF CERTAINE DEMONICALL STRATAGEMS OF THE SPANISH Inquisition exercised on diuers English Gentlemen of late times now liuing in England in the yeere 1620. IN the Court of Madrid was apprehended a worthy and discreet Gentlemen then and as yet fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Master Henry Roe who went ouer with the Lord Ashton as his seruant in his embassage to Spaine Who desirous of the spanish tongue as also to view the vniuersitie of Sallamanca departed with leaue from the Embassadour to reside for some space there But not long after being importuned by Master Charles Maynard brother to my Lord Maynard and Master Edward Filmer sonne to Sir Edward Filmer then at Madrid to suruey other parts of Spaine as Granado Cordonath and Sciuill For the effecting of which teadious iourney some 300. english miles returned some insupportable brasse mony by a Iesuite brother then to the gouernour of Madrid to receiue it of him at his arriuall there Thus departing from Sallamanca came to Madrid to my Lord Embassadours house and some 3. weekes after his comming went at the day appointed to the Gouernours house to receiue his money and because he was not well experienced in the brasse coyne tooke with him a seruant to on Master Prinn an English Merchant Now there stood readie at the Gouernors house a familiar of the Spanish Inquisition who saluted Master Roe very courteously and asked him if he were not the Gentleman that was to receiue such a summe of money of his Master and said that his Master commanded him to attend his comming and that the money was readie some halfe a dozen houses off If he pleased to take paines to goe thither Master Roe little fearing any treacherie went with this fellow who by his apparell seemed Hombre de bien They come quickly to a faire house where the familiar carries M. Roe into an vpper roome where were some sixteene todos vestidos de negro con capas Iespadas There was only one in a gowne who seemed to bee the chiefe amongst them and the Master of the house he very kindly salutes Master Roe asked him if he were not such a Gentleman that should receiue such money and where he lay Master Roe all this while fearing nothing pluckes out his bills of Exchange to r●ceiue his money and tells him that he lay in the English Embassadours house hee asketh him againe and againe of this last point Master Roe still answered him as before Whereupon hee for the present leaues Master Roe consults aside in the same roome with some of his fellowes and comes againe to Master Roe tels him that he must haue patience and that he was taken Prisoner by the spanish Inquisition A second with a great deale of complementall grauitie tooke his sword A third pickt his pockets emptying him of all his money and papers A fourth brings a smith vnto him to fetter his legges with weightie Iuyues A fift was inquisitiue to know if he had any riding clothes to trauell in who told him he had at the Embassadours house which made them shake their heads in token of feare to fetch them thence Heere they deteined him from two of the Clock in the afternoone till eleuen or thereabouts at night which time they set him sidewayes by reason of his fettered legges on a Mule attended by a guard of some forty in number who brought him safe out of the towne on his iourney and then the greater part of them returned to Madrid But the first place I rested in was called Torede Ladronis in English the Towre of Theeues where the Captaine of the Guard comforted him but withall in delusion tould him that hee should be eased of his fetters the next day and from thence they continued their iourney to Vallidolid where on the way they met with a flemmish Gentleman riding to Madrid one acquainted