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A13572	The strangest aduenture that euer happened: either in the ages passed or present Containing a discourse concerning the successe of the King of Portugall Dom Sebastian, from the time of his voyage into Affricke, when he was lost in the battell against the infidels, in the yeare 1578. vnto the sixt of Ianuary this present 1601. In which discourse, is diuerse curious histories, some auncient prophesies, and other matters, whereby most euidently appeareth: that he whom the Seigneurie of Venice hath held as prisoner for the space of two yeres and twentie two dayes, is the right and true king of Portugall Dom Sebastian. More, a letter that declareth, in what maner he was set at libertie the xv. of December last. And beside, how he parted from Venice and came to Florence. All first done in Spanish, then in French, and novv lastly translated into English.; Adventure admirable, par dessus toutes autres des siecles passez & present. English	Teixeira, José, 1543-1604.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1601 (1601)	STC 23864; ESTC S118296	67,947	90

dated the fourth and came by the way of Paris For which and for all the honours and graces you haue done me in them I often kisse the hands of your sacred selfe They will me that I should answere as one accused to certaine demaunds set downe therein which in obedience to your worthie commaundement I purpose to do and for my better vnderstanding as also all others whatsoeuer the demaunds shall be set downe in order following The first demaund For what cause the King of Portugall Dom Sebastian without leauing any heire vnto his kingdome would put his life in hazard of losing passing at the age of 24. yeares and a halfe into Affrick a countrie of Infidels and a land extreamely hot and vnfaithfull The second demaund What iudgement I make of his life whether he died in the battell or saued himselfe And what I thinke of the bodie that was buried as his in the church of Bethlehem a couent of Monkes of the order of Saint Ierome a league from Lisbon in the beginning of the yeare 1583. The third demaund Wherefore being aliue he would not discouer himselfe that he might be vsed like a King and freed from so great miserie as is well knowne the slaues in Barbarie do endure The fourth demaund Where he hath bene all this long continuance of time and how chance he came to Venice not to France or some other place where without doubt he might haue receiued better entertainment according as appertained to his condition And whether by my sight of him I know him assuredly The fift demaund What they were that procured his libertie What further tidings I haue of him and whether he determine to passe any further then this citie The sixt demaund Admit that this prisoner be the same king of Portugall Dom Sebastian and that by the helpe of God fauour of his most christian Maiestie as also other Princes and estates of Christendome the Seigneurie of Venice do so acknowledge him what meanes and remedies hath he to recouer his kingdomes and to reestablish himselfe in the possession of them An answere to the first demand For answer to the first demand I say that the principall cause which prouoked king Sebastian to passe into Affricke was as being a very christian Prince honorable and iust his enflamed desire to increase christianitie and to make the name of God knowne through the wide vniuerse And as after he came to the yeares of discretion he alwayes maintained and chearished this ●ope so such an apt occasion instantly offering it selfe he did ●mbrace it with all affection But worthy Lord the better to giue notice of what I intend I must deriue my course from higher ●nstances discoursing of the race and successe of the later Barba●ian kings to wit Muley Mahamet Xarifa and Muley Ma●uco sirnamed Abdelmelech who would terme himselfe the ser●ant of the most high this the vncle the other the nephew yet both royall pretenders Muley Mahamet father to Muley Hamet the bastard now raigning in Barbary had three legitimate sonnes Muley Abdela Xarifa Muley Abdelmumen and Muley Abdelmelech otherwise called Maluco of whom we now are come to make mention This was a very wise Prince and of mighty valour he ioyned to his owne inheritance all the kingdomes of Barbary and them he discretly gouerned while he liued At point of death he named for principall heire his eldest sonne Muley Abdela Xarifa conditionally that he should giue to his two brothers part of his kingdomes Muley Abdela succeeding thus his father not onely denied to fulfill his commandement but concluded vpon the death of his brethren Who hearing thereof in the city of Miquines where as then they kept tooke counsell to withdraw themselues into Turky and so trauelling thence after they had dispatched some hindring difficulties within a few dayes they arriued with their mother and sister at Tremessen a city of the Turkes At the same time reigned in the kingdome of Fez the onely sonne to Muley Abdela Xarifa named Muley Mahamet Xarifa who by expresse charge sent a man to Tremessen and there he murthered Muley Abdelmumen as he was at his prayers in the Temple Muley Maluco then being at Constantinople where then bare sway the Sultan Selim Muley Abdela aduertised of this murther although himselfe had before procured it made shew as if it displeased him greatly and with chiding his sonne caused iustice afterward to be done on the murtherer After some few yeares his houre of death approching he left as his only heire the sayd Muley Mahamet his sonne without making any mention of his brother Muley Maluco who still kept himselfe at Constantinople intending to request succour of the great Emperour Muley Maluco being certified of his brothers death made such meanes vnto the Sultan Amurath who reigned then after the death of his father Sultan Selim that he gaue him ten gallies for his passage to the realme of Argell or Argiere and commandement to the king of that countrey to leuie so many men as he could and then to accompany him in his owne person till he had seated him in the kingdomes and lands of Barbary Muley Maluco hauing bene at Argiere departed thence in company of the sayd king and with him three thousand Turkish harquebuziers all arriuing together at Tremessen where with ten peeces of artillery and other munition the inhabitants vnited their forces with them From thence he iourneyed with his power into Barbary and there after diuerse fightes with the king his nephew he tooke possession of Teza which was yeelded to him without any resistance And proceeding onward he came to Fez where then was Muley Mahamet with thirty thousand horse and ten thousand harquebuziers there was likewise an Andalusian Colonnell that came and ioyned eighteene hundreth Andalusians with him The ordinance on either side played very roughly Muley Mahamets part did small dammage but Muley Malucos very much discomfiting almost all his nephewes horsemen and forcing them to a speedy flight On the other side the foote after diuerse hote skirmishes came to handy blowes continuing the fight so long and with such fury as darke night was faine to terminate the battell Muley Mahamet beholding his troupes thus vanquished and considering it was beyond his strength to make any further counter-quarrie against his vnckles forces withdrew himselfe into Morocco and such in his company as bare him best affection His vnckle tooke the way to Fez where he was honorably receiued and few dayes after gaue free liberty to Bacha king of Argiere to depart home againe with his men wherof seuen hundreth remained there still with him Muley Maluco vnderstanding that his nephew prepared to charge him with a fresh encounter went thence to Miquines where continuing his resolution within a while after the two armies began to shew themselues neare to the towne of Halé where the vnckle ouerthrew againe his nephew and his forces which amounted to forty thousand horse and ten thousand harquebuziers Muley Mahamet seeing

of our Lord 696. Then afterward by the Moores Capelicastrum This was a Parliament and colonie of the Empire and one of the greatest and most important townes of Lusitania whereof the Moores were Lordes The King thinking one while in this siege and of the Fortresse of this cittie because it was built on a high mountaine that it was a matter verie doubtfull and difficult to take and subdue to purchase ayde and help of God by the intercession of our blessed Ladie the virgine concluded in his soule if he might happen to win the said citie to make her great offers and to erect in his kingdome a great and notable monasterie of Monkes of the order of the Cisteaux whereof ensued the said monasterie of Clairuaux which should and did flourish greatly through the world and so doth to this day The King Dom Alphonso soiourned then in the towne of Coimbre which then was the capitall place of all the kingdome within some few dayes after the King departed from the saide towne to be present at the siege with his sonne and traine and as he was vpon the way there came before him two or three religious men of the said order who demaunded of him on the behalfe of Frier Bernard place for beginning the building of the monasterie which he had promised The King considering apart by himselfe and remembring that he had made this promise is his heart and yet had not imparted it to any person whatsoeuer and seeing that Frier Bernard who was distant off from him more then three hundred miles knew therof he took it as a good augurie or presage and began to hold it for certaintie that the heauenly Architect would not slack his grace toward him but that without all doubt he should conquer the said citie Hauing then giuen good and charitable welcome to the religious men he said My brethren you come in a verie apt season let vs iourney on together and I will recount it vnto you as also make accomplishment of my promise so soone as I haue recouered the citie of Santaren frō the Moores which I haue besieged by my son soldiers Three dayes after the arriuall of the King there the citiie was wonne and taken more by the help of heauen then by the valour and strength of the Christians albeit no way to disparage their deseruing they fought like hardie and very valiant men The King doing the dutie of a most braue Prince and Captaine seeing him selfe in extreame great danger at the entrance of a gate which he had wonne wheron is an imag of our Lady and is called the gate of our Lady Alamarma which is as much to say as fasten o● mine Armes the very portugall words which the King vsed then to his Squire because one had vntied the buckles of his armour The King being made Lord of a place of such weighty importance marked out forthwith to the saide religious men a great quantitie of ground whereon they should begin to build their monasterie which afterward increased in such sort as in short time the number amounted to 999. They liued in particuler little celles dispersed among the vallies and mountaines and on feast dayes they would meete together to praise the Lord. The religious men of this monasterie doe hold by tradition that their number shall neuer amount to a thousand because if they giue the habite to one within the church they shall find another to be dead without This hath bene assured to me by persons of good yeares religious men of the said monasterie who call themselues d' Alcobaça among whom are diuers of my kinred A thing which right worthie Lord may verie wel be so For if if we shall giue credite to Camden an English historian who yet liueth at this day and is an author worthie of beleefe he certifies to to vs in his Brittania that in the land which at this day is called England which such as are seene in Cosmography know to be no greater thē the kingdom of Portugal with that of Algarbe in Lusitania a tyrant King put to death twelue thousand religious persons because they followed the part of another who was the true and rightfull King The same Camden doth tell vs that these religious people were of a monasterie which was diuided into three seuerall bands and that the least companie of them contained seuen hundred compleate But to come to our purpose these religious folke of Alcobaça builded by succession of time in the great breadth of ground granted them by the King Dom Alphonso seuen citties so do the Spaniards call them and the Latines oppida siue vrbes because that almost all of them are engirt with walles and haue castels as in France Poissy Meulan Mante Vernon c. Philip II. King of Castille would haue sold the iurisdiction of them as he hath sold others in Spain belonging to the Church This moued the fathers of the said monasterie to turne ouer their papers and was the cause that we saw with our eies a donation so deuout and holy made to the blessed mother of God our Ladie of Clairuaux whereof Saint Bernard hath bin Abbot Now reuerend Lord may it please you licence me to come to the declaration of some words in the prophesies which perhaps may seem difficult to some wheresoeuer Concerning that of S. Cyril the Hermite Tempore annorum 54. c. This proposition hath lately beene declared elsewhere speaking of the King Dom Sebastian who was borne in the yeere 1554. the 20. of Ianuarie betweene eleuen and twelue of the clocke at night as I well remember I lacking bookes here and haue not my memorie so good worthie Lord now as in times past my trauails banishments sicknesses especially the last hath depriued me of the better part so that I cannot now cite some common knowne Psalmes without booke which I had in my yonger yeeres by heart and could say readily Concerning that of S. Isidore Occultus Rex bis piè datus c. This may be verie wel applied to Dom Sebastian my Lord and king because that after the twelfth of Ianuarie the day whereon his father died aged but sixteene yeeres and seuen moneths till the twentie of the said moneth An. 1554. when he was borne at Lisbone throughout all Portugall day and night they made continuall processions fastings and prayers with very much deuotion and great store of tears as the reuerend father doctor Sampaye makes known in his Epistle to the reader The reason was because the Portuguezes feared that the kingdom should fal into the Spaniards hands For that when the King D. Iohn 3. grandfather to to King D. Sebastian gaue his daughter Mary as wife to Philip then prince of Castille it was said by the contract of this mariage that if it happened that the King D. Iohn should deceasse without children he that should be borne of Philip and Mary should be heyre to the kingdome of Portugall whereto the people then consented

receiued sworne and confirmed by the people King of the said Realme who being slaue to a particular man his good fortune fauoured him so much as not to be knowne and he mette with another slaue of his companie an Affricane Gentleman who spake verie well the language of the Coimbre and called himselfe Gaspar de Gran. This man made his maister beleeue that this slaue Dom Antonio was a Priest which would neuer be redeemed thence because his kindred were very glad of his life in imprisonment for thereby they had in meane while the benefite of his goodes and rents wherefore he gaue him counsell that it were much better for him to make some reasonable composition then to be a looser altogether In the end the matter was so concluded that for the raunsome of the Prince and the said Gentleman the summe of sixe hundred Cruzadoes must be paid him which are Crowns valuing fiftie solz or souse Tournois And the Mores parted thence with them neuer trauelling but by night but hiding them selues all the day time and on the fift or sixt day after they arriued in the night at the gates of Arzile where entring masqued they left their slaues receiued their money and then returned backe to their houses If the Lord Dom Antonio had bene knowne for such as he was and had fallen into the power of the king of Barbarie his matter had sorted a quite contrarie way for the slaues to the king are kept in very strong guard and if they hold tenne thousand crownes rent there will be demaunded fiftie thousand for their raunsome which if they will not make promise of they must endure the sharpe bastonnadoes The slaues that are to other particular men are much more nearer their libertie either by getting such a summe of money sauing themselues otherwise or enlarged at length by the meanes of their Mistresses It is a thing verie ordinarie in Barbarie worthie Lord for the women Moores do extremely loue Christians many times they receiue libertie by the meanes of them and likewise get very good gifts frō them In like sort diuerse are freed and scape vnknowne by meanes of the religious Fathers of the most holy Trinitie which are called the Order De Redemptione captiuorum in Fraunce we call them Mathurines There is commonly Monkes of this Order in Barbarie who deale with the Moores for the raunsome of Christians which Monkes do passe through all the Realmes of Barbarie clothed in their habits with verie much libertie and haue great credit with the Moores Among whom if they find some man of qualitie that is not knowne at all they compound immediatly for his raunsome and counting downe the money or promising to pay it in a limited time they set him at libertie I thinke reuerend Sir because I can yet vnderstand no further of matters passed that my Lord the king Dom Sebastian hath neuer bene held as prisoner or if he haue it was his good happe to meete with an honest maister with whome he liued so long as till he could obtaine his libertie or compasse the meanes to make an escape And as we do imagine he hath bene wandring among the Aethiopians as your worthie selfe may gather by the translation of two letters written vnto me the one from the Father doctor Sampayo the other from Dom Iohn de Castro the originals whereof remaine in my custodie with seuen or eight other letters of theirs which they did send to me frō Venice In this demaund likewise your reuerend Lordship praies me to tell you for what reason my Lord the king Dom Sebastian did not come into Fraunce or to any place else where doubtlesse he might haue bene receiued according to his qualitie namely with better entertainment then he had at Venice I answere that being by Gods grace restored to libertie himselfe will deliuer the causes that mooued him to go and present himselfe before the Lords there and those likewise which withheld him from comming into Fraunce or elsewhere according as your selfe haue alleaged As for my knowledge of him it sufficeth me to heare the speech of him I being in one place and he in another But comming to the sight of him I can demaund and know diuerse notable things of him which is impossible for him to haue altogether forgotten for assuredly he can and will resolue me in one or other For since the time I became religious which was at two and twentie yeares and 26. daies of mine age he being then aged 12. yeares one moneth and 28. daies I haue seene him in diuerse quarters of Portugall and conferred with him of very important affaires Before I was religious he being aged seuen or eight yeares I serued as a Page to his Grandmother his fathers mother who was sister to the Emperours Charles the fift and Ferdinand and graund-mother to the most Christian Queene Maria de Medicis and for this reason he is very neare kinsman to the sayd Maiesty cosin germaine remoued by the fathers side Iohn the sonne of Catherine and likewise cosin germaine remoued by his mothers side Iane who was eldest daughter to the sayd Charles the fift brother to Catherine This which hath bene sayd ioyned with the translation of the two missiues ensuing may serue as answer to your fourth demaund The translation of a letter from the father Doctour Sampayo To the Rright reuerend father and Doctor the father Frier Ioseph Texere Portugueze Counceller and Almoner to the most Christian King in our couent of the friers preachers at Paris Most reuerend father and maister I Haue heretofore written to your fatherhood concerning this present matter and because I know not whether my letters haue bene deliuered you or no I determined to send one more after the rest Perswade your selfe holy father and euen as God shall deale with my soule in the article of death that no other motiue stirres me hereunto but onely brotherly affection truth and zealous loue to the liberty of my countrey The King Dom Sebastian our Lord is prisoner here in this city and so hath bene for two and twenty monethes whom God in his iudgements concealed to himselfe hath permitted to come hither transported to this place very poorely and robbed by fiue of his owne seruants which he entertained in Cicilie But so soone as he arriued here in this city where he hoped to find good fauor and support immediatly the Embassadour of Castile persecuted him most cruelly perswading the Seigneurie that he was a Calabrois a theefe c. For this cause the Lords imprisoned him and rigorously proceeded against him here they keepe him close shut vp not suffering him to be seene nor enlarged nor execute any act of iustice vpon him Quia nullam inuenient in eo causam Because they can find no iust cause against him Our sinnes are great great is the strength of Spaine and the malice of the Iewish Portuguezes in this countrey whereof some weare red bonnets and others blacke but the last

are most dangerous They thinke that they can impeach what God hath ordained ab aeterno as the diuell would haue done the death of Iesus Christ by the meanes of the wife of Pilate That this is very true I sweare to your fatherhood by the passion of Iesus Christ that this man is as truly the King Dom Sebastian as I am knowne to be Frier Stephen de Sampayo And if it be not found to proue accordingly let me not only be condemned as a lyer but for a renegate a blasphemer and an hereticke For this haue I endeuored my very vttermost diligence in my Portugall voyage I haue bene on one side and another and vnderstand secretly that he hath all the markes on his body without failing in any one of them as he had in his infancy onely the wounds excepted which he receiued in the bloudy day at Affricke He giues the reason of his life and yeelds account of all his passages in such sort as there is no vnderstanding so obstinate and blind but must thereby be vtterly vanquished and God be my helper as this is the truth These Lords do expect that Kings and Princes should vndertake this businesse at whose instance they would admit vs to haue sight and knowledge of him because they would not be faulty toward the Spaniard for they say they would not incurre the ill will of any one This is an occasion whereby your reuerend fatherhood may purchase more honour and performe farre greater seruice to God thē euer any Portugueze did in comming hither bringing such letters of fauor with you as may obtaine for vs the sight of him and by examination to apprehend the very certainty for here you shall find with vs more thē twelue persons of all the estates of his time to know him by He hath bene so vnfortunate that leauing all his companions scattered through the world he is here arriued without any one of them Dom George de Lancastre Duke of A●eyro whom he left in Aethiopia were sufficicient for his deliuerance if he were here present I humbly pray your fatherhood that vpon sight of this present letter you would speedily iourney hither for your personall being here is very necessary considering withall that a religious man your brother of the order of S. Dominicke vses these perswasions to you one that desires your good honor and quiet with as earnest affection as his owne It is seuenteene monethes since I put hand to this seruice I haue bene in Portugall and returned thence as I haue told you it is impossible for me to be abused as some are who thinke this man not to be the King Dom Sebastian but that the Seigneurie detaines another hidden in stead of him This man here knowne and reknowne for such by the Concierges by the Iudges by the greater part of the Senate and by his owne Confessor yet such is the inuention of this worlds children as they imagine themselues more powerfull then God and would presume to abolish so maruellous a worke of the Lord. I haue written to the Gouernour and to many other I know not what the sinnes are of our Portugezes in Fraunce who were wont to oppose their liues to extreame daungers and hazard losse of their goods with very good zeale for a figure and will they not now with so much honor in an action of truth and glory make their owne aduantage and benefit not for a shadow but for a rightfull King whose life both in the prison and abroad rauisheth all the countrey with admiration by the meanes of his fastings prayers and disciplines notwithstanding all which his strength is not a iot impaired for he is of very maruellous fortitude Whosoeuer will say that this man is a Calabrois and that he speakes not a word of Portugall he lies he is the true King of Portugall Dom Sebastian and speaketh Portugall though somewhat corrupted because it is 22. yeares since he spake the language vsually Whosoeuer sayth that they haue shewne him to vs he lies for to delay and winne time withall these Lords sent me to Portugall to be enformed of the markes of his body telling me that otherwise they would not let me see him and that the Portugals had such forward desire to be free from the Spaniards as they would maintaine if need were that their king Dom Sebastian was but a Negro Now albeit that I haue brought so many authentical markes approued by publicke instruments from a Notary Apostolicke I haue intreated that we may haue sight of him to examine him and make knowne the truth or falshood of the case by the certifications which I brought hither with me as also a Chanon of Lisbone that came along with me It was answered vs from the Senate after diuerse and sundry contestations that it was not a matter belonging to them to know whether he were a king or no without some Kings and Princes moued the same to them on his behalfe I speake so amply to your fatherhood because you may perceiue with what zeale I write at this instant I iustifie againe vnto you and sweare by the eternall God by his only begotten sonne and by all our faith that this prisoner is our true Lord the King Dom Sebastian If your reuerend selfe would come with letters from his most Christian Maiestie I beleeue that without any hinderance they would shew him to vs and vpon acknowledging let vs haue him enlarged We are now going to moue our request to his Holinesse that it might please him to set a helping hand to this businesse considering it is a case so iust and meritable of pitty wherein we doubt not but to haue his furtherance With this present I haue sent you the oath of the holy King to the end that you may make it publicke by impression and by the first conuenient meanes I will send you a letter which his Maiesty wrote to his holinesse with an Elegie wherein he makes the discourse of his life Once more I earnestly intreate your fatherhood as much as possibly remaines in me that by no meanes you will let slip so notable an occasion well worthy to carry his deseruing talent and that in person you would manage a matter of such importance which beside imploring the strong arme of the King and the fauor of all Princes hath necessarily need of the assistance of all loyal Portuguezes For what account of himselfe can the reuerend father Frier Ioseph Texere render to the world so firme and constant a louer of his countrey What excuse can he alleadge though there may be many for not giuing furtherance to this affaire Will he incur the infamie of N. who for his offences should be seene that this king doth liue What hath your fatherhood done against the kingdome that you should not present your selfe before all the world with plaine and open lookes Oh for the loue of God I beseech you consider in your soule with what sincere affection I

marke which he had naturally imprinted as it were on his person He is wounded on the brow of the right eye and on the head as many witnessed when they saw him in the Affricke battell he hath abundance of great wounds on his armes and legges he speakes Portugall as mingled or corrupted wherein he is not much to be blamed considering he hath not spoken it in the space of two and twentie yeares according to the resolution he tooke with his friends and companions because they might passe the better vnknowne His hand writing is the selfe same obseruing still the same maner and method all which are verie well remembred by diuerse that haue both scene and knowne them in times past In the secret notes of his bodie there is none likewise wanting albeit he haue many very notable as is iustified by good testimonie approued by the publike Notaries of Portugall It is impossible to find another man in the world that should haue all the selfe same markes and it seemes that God had thus signed him from the wombe of his mother with so manie rare and signall markes to make him knowne by meanes of them in so vnhappie and miserable a time euen as he hath likewise preserued him for the fulfilling of so great and auncient Prophesies which haue so copiously spoken of him May it please God but to permit that the prosperities in the accomplishment yet remaining to him may aunswer in like certaintie to the foretold aduersities which he hath passed alreadie Things standing in this estate we haue demaunded audience of the Seigneurie which twice hath bene graunted vs by the Senate with verie good will And there we deliuering the rumor that ran abroad of the imprisonment of our King Dom Sebastian by meanes wherereof all Portugall was moued and all Christendom held it for meruellous and strange we requested that he might be seene and knowne and if he were found to be the true King Dom Sebastian that he might be so held and esteemed of euerie one If vpon their suffering him to be thus questioned and seen by vs we returned and auouched him to be the same we would submit our selues to such imprisonment as they thought meet and suffer what punishment they would please to appoint if herein we dissembled or dealt false with them Before these audiences could be obtained we offered them a Charter in parchment whereby we gaue them to vnderstand that we desired no other grace or fauour but what hath beene graunted in the like case by Philip. 2. King of Castille he hauing more interest in this matter then they about two Portuguezes who in Portugall did feigne themselues seuerally to be the true King D. Sebastian he caused them to be kept in a publique prison where all the world might haue seene and spoken with them to the end that they might not be abused by them and they were soone found to be villaines and deceiuers whereby the Portuguezes were quickly resolued We required moreouer that good order might be taken for his diet and that his person should be safely regarded while this affaire were further proceeded in least his enemies might compasse his death by poison for if anie such thing should so come to passe the Portuguezes would report continually that the Seigneurie of Venice had murdered their proper naturall lawful and true King when it should plainly appeare that he was no Calabrois whence would arise such ill will betweene the Portuguezes and the Venetians as the Seigneuries name should for euer be scandalized through the world See here the substance of all that we could doe yet we continued still in our right with all the diligence we could possibly vse calling neuer for anie other thing then iustice And as we grew great in the poore opinion of our hopes Diego Manuel chanced to arriue there by whose comming we were somewhat more comforted perswading our selues now to obtaine thorowly what we desired because he had brought letters of great importance which mainly might set forward our earnest sute And to strengthen vs yet more Sebastian Figuera came hither likewise the 4. of this moneth with letters from the States in general of Holland from the Prince Maurice vnto the Seigneurie in fauour of the King Dom Sebastian which were deliuered on the morrow for the Lords had appointed vs to be heard againe as that daie Now aduise your selfe very well whether I haue reason or no to thinke strangely of you and to expect your presence here for obtaining of this glorie wherein you haue so seriously trauailed vntil this day If you haue any remēbrance of heauen or anie high and generous spirit here haue you a subiect meet to employ it in I beleeue you reserue to your self the sur-name of a Portugueze for nothing but to ioyne it only with that of Texere This should be the hidden treasure whereof in the end of the yeare 1598. you called to the finding your good friend the knight Buodo when you made your passage into Holland If you be desirous of glorie and happinesse we shall soone haue you here deuide your selfe in peeces for the Prince and you shall find the effects thereof in the mercies of God In sooth I know not how you haue abstained from comming barefoote hither considering how zealous you haue beene for the good and profite of our countrie and such a professed enemie beside to the Spaniard and in times past of high courage for vndertaking of anie worthie attempt seeing vnder heauen is not the like case as here offers vnto you besides being free for whosoeuer to embrace Awake your spirites either now or neuer and seeing you haue so much credite in those parts pray importune your friends in any place wheresoeuer and if you may obtaine letters from his most Christian Maiestie the famous Queene of England the generall States of Holland and from all the Princes and Lords of France that this Seigneurie may suffer the prisoner to be known what he is true or false or at least to enlarge him because to this houre they will neither let him be knowne nor seene but faile not to come with what fauours you can compasse And say that deniall herein maybe made vnto you yet you must not slack your comming in a busines so expedient for you shall do no mean seruice to your Prince as you haue done heretofore and that verie notably and had we but your presence here we should hold it sufficient Doe not let fall to ground so great an aduenture seeing you haue done so much alreadie for a shadow and giue the like counsell vnto your friends for neuer can hap like occasion to this On one side the enterprise is put into your hand on the other the recompence doe like a defender of your countrie and your merite shall be more then following times can acknowledge Notwithstanding let me thus condition with you that you shall not be so couetous a louer of your selfe as to

vrsum conteret sceptrū e●us possidebit c. In tractatu qui incipit Requiritis à me ô ill●strissima turba Danaûm lib. 2. In English thus The compressing Eagle the name whereof is inestimably written in fiue markes shall destroy the minister of iniquitie bruise the Beare and shall possesse his scepter c. In the Treatise that beginneth You require of me O illustrious company of Grecians The second booke An explication of some pointes contained in this Discourse In the Epistle to the Reader THe cause why the religious persons of Alcobaça sought among their papers some priuiledges and Donations of the Kings of Portugall was because his Maiestie Catholique Dom Philip II. King of Castille pretended to sell the iurisdiction of seuen townes whereof the said Monasterie is Lord. And because this diuine Oracle was imprinted at Lisbone it was made dangerous to declare the said cause Wherefore the father Doctor Sampayo said by way of parenthesis that it was not good to speake of it at that time In the Oath of the King Dom Alphonso The said King commaunded to his successours to come to the field with their shield of armes containing fiue scutchions fashioned like a crosse in each of which should be figured the thirtie pence for which our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ was sold c. as more plainly is declared by the Notarie Apostolike Thomas de la Croix in his certificate assuring that they were so figured on the seales It may be that this commandement was obserued at the first beginning of the Realmes of Portugall but whether since then to this present we do not find that it hath bin kept chiefly since the raigne of Alphonso third of that name and fift king of Portugall who was Earle of Bullen in Fraunce He adioyned to the crowne of Portugal the Realmes of Algarbes which were giuen him by Dom Alphonso le sage King of Castille and Emperour of the East in dower of mariage with Domne Beatrix his daughter not to meddle at al with the crosse the first armes of Portugall for first of all Portugall bare for armes a shield argent without any other thing he placed round about the shield which cōtained the fiue that fashioned the said Crosse seuen scutchions of gold in a field Geules which are the armes of the realmes of Algarbes and since then to this present the kings of Portugall haue euermore held the same armes as they do at this day Stephen Garibay in his abridgement of the history of Spaine speaking of the Armes and Colours cals those Castelles of the Realmes of the Algarbes which engirt the Scutchion of the armes of Portugal Orla in French Geule or a border affirming that no other kingdome of Europe beares them but Portugall By which reason we may say that the Geule or border which we see about the armes of Fraunce to wit that of the order of S. Michael and that of the holy Ghost of the Golden Fleece in Burgundie and that of the Garter in England c. are but borrowed thence Now to returne to our armes the King Dom Emanuel seeing himselfe in Europe Lord of the kingdome of Portugall and of the Realme of the Algarbe which is in the prouince of Spaine in Affricke of the other Realme of Algarbe which is in the prouince of Barbarie of all the coast of Guinee euen to the Cape de bonne Esperance and from thence vnto the red sea and of a great number of the Isles situate in the sea of the said Affrica in Asia of the Realme of Goa and of a verie spacious Monarchie considering he held nine Kings his subiects and tributaries and foure Queenes in America of Bresil a prouince of very large extension he bare a Sphere for his deuice which signified the rule that Portugall had in the foure quarters of the world Adioying likewise the Crosse of the Order of the warfare of Iesus Christ because the King of Portugall being graund maister of the said Order is Lord of diuerse lands and townes in Portugal and of all the authoritie which the Portugueses possesse abroad from thence And because sundrie persons haue demaunded of me how they should vnderstand these Scutchions and pence I here tell them that the fiue Scutchions in the Azure field set in one shield the field whereof is Argent each of them figured with fiue white pence do signifie fiue kings Moores vanquished by one Christian king The kings of the Moores subdued are Ismael and his foure confederates the vanquisher is the king Dom Alphonso the first king of Portugall from whom grew this commaundement As for the pence because many haue alleaged to me that in the fiue Scutchions there are but xxv pence and not thirtie as other Authors and my selfe haue written I should be infinitely eased if in remouing their doubt they wold but heare me Would you find thirtie pence Count first of all the three Scutchions aboue and below which containe fifteene pence next them that are trauersed on the right side so that that in the midst be counted twise considering it spreads vnto either hand and there you shall find other fifteene pence which ioyned to the first complete the number of thirtie and thus they may rest satisfied in their demaund To the Testimoniall of vassellage and feoffement And because I haue already rendred my selfe tributary and all such as shall appertaine to me to the blessed S. Peter and his successours c. WE finde in the histories of Portugall that in the yeare 1169. when Pope Alexander the sixt approued the election of the King D. Alphonso and confirmed his kingdome to him the king by the consent of his Portugueses made the said kingdome feudatarie to the holy Church of Rome promising to pay as in tribute euery yeare two pounds of gold In the time since there is no memoriall found at all that this tribute hath bene payd as likewise none of our Historians do shew vnto vs that these fiftie Maruedies of gold haue bene payed to the Monasterie of our Ladie of Clairueaux And me thinks worthy Lord that it were not much from the purpose to make here a digression thereby to acquaint your reuerend worthinesse vpon what reason the king Dom Alphonso had such deuotion to this Monasterie of Nostre dame de Clairuaux The king Dom Alphonso and S. Bernard did both liue at that time and the king being informed of the wisedome learning and reformed life of this holy man and what miracles God wrought by his meanes in fauour and for the benefite of the faithful he began verie quickly to receiue him into good grace and opinion At this verie time the king had sent his sonne Sanche to besiege the Citie of Santeren called by the auncient Tordules S●alabis of Scabelisque the first founder and by the Romanes Presidium Iulium by the Christians Santirenae by reason of the holy Irena a virgin a Martyr who suffred death there for the Christian faith in the yeare