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A02254	The proceedings of the Grisons, in the yeere 1618 VVherein are truely and cleerely laid open the lawfull and vrgent causes of calling an assembly of the commons: and of their due proceeding and honourable prosecution of iustice, which they were enforced to vse against some false and perfidious patriots, in a full congregation, and with absolute power met together at Tosana. Imprinted and published by commandement of the lords the heads, the counsailours and commons of the three confederations of the renowned free states of the Grisons: in maintenance of the truth, and romoouing all manner of calumniation.; Grawpündtnerische Handlungen des M.DC.XVII. Jahrs. English	Graubünden (Switzerland)	1619 (1619)	STC 12390; ESTC S103461	32,839	93

takes bribes to the summe of a thousand Florens and more betweene both parties in difference and in the end shamefully deceiues the one and the other To defend a Traitour and saue him harmelesse from danger of the Law hee tooke a bribe of a thousand and fiue hundred Crownes In another case of difference he tooke seuen hundred eightie Crownes of one partie and a thousand of the other and then failed them both In a difference of suite depending betweene two Comminalties hee tooke foure hundred Crownes apiece and effected nothing for either His treacherous practices against his Countrey cannot sufficiently be related as appeareth by vvhat hath beene said and by his indeuours at all times to make himselfe Lord of the Gouernment as likewise appeareth by the Processe of Zambra and other actions of his owne vvhich tended to fauour and further the treacherous capitulation vvith the house of Millan to depriue vs of our Priuiledges and Iurisdictions and to enthrall vs vnder the power of forraine Princes Among other meanes he hath vsed hee hath also serued his turne of these which follow The yeare 1603. he complotted with Iohn Battista Zambra to further or rather enforce a League aboue and against all other intelligences and Leagues wee had formerly contracted labouring that the Fort Fuentes might be built and withholding our people from hindring the proceeding of the said vvorke And the Three Confederations Generall in the yeere 1606. being truely enformed that all their secrets of State vvere discouered to forraine Princes they established a Priuy Councell of fifteene men to the intent that all their Deliberations might bee entrusted to secret Confidence whereupon Planta and his Complices being so debarred from the knowledge of any thing raised that dangerous tumult in the yeere 1607. Iohn-Peter Mora da Piur hath also confessed Planta's Treason touching the Fort and that he was moued by him and wonne by his subtill sleights corruptions and Donatiues to the calling back of his forces as by Planta's Letter to his Brother Pompeius appeareth and by Letters of other his Adherents dated the 3. of October 1604. In the yeere 1610. to our great losse and griefe the French King Henry the fourth was murthered after whose death Monsieur Pasquale the French Embassadour resident with vs sent a secret dispatch to Millan in the yeere 1611. to treat with Signor Alphonso Casale Embassadour in Switzerland for the King of Spain that he would cause a League or new intelligence to be made between the State of Millan and the Three Confederations Generall and to the intent the said Treatie might not bee hindred the said French Embassadour and Captaine Planta beeing both agreed vpon the businesse though the French Kings were alwaies against it hee gaue Planta sixe thousand Crownes of gold and two thousand and fiue hundred Frankes of yeerely pension to be distributed as he thought good without being bound to make any account that hee and his Adherents would help to breake the League with Venice which was contrarie to the Treatie betweene Millan and vs as appeares by the Letters of Pompeius and his Adherents in the yeere 1612. and by a Memoriall written with Captaine Planta's own hand The renunciation of the League between the State of Venice and vs beeing procured and bought by money Planta presently drawes out some Articles of the League of Zuz Wherein some Comminalties dwelling vpon the Passages are bound not to grant passage to any whatsoeuer through our Countries that all friendship and aide of ours towards the Venetians might be broken And the said Casale hauing in the yeere 1617. required a League with vs and free passage in name of the house of Millan they which were authors of the League of Zuz and of the deniall of passage to the Souldiers of forraine States were the first that granted the King of Spaine free passage for his Forces through all our Countreys and vpon all occasions contrary to what they had formerly concluded So that the falshood of Planta and his Adherents doubly appeared Against these Treaties of Planta and other his Complices diuers good Patriots both of the Clergie and Laitie so earnestly laboured as they were by no meanes accepted herevpon Planta much enraged thought vpon a speedy and liuely reuenge beginning to prosecute those of most honestie and reputation farre more then formerly hee had done and stirring them of the vpper Agnadina to tumult hee made them rise in Armes with Ensignes displayed to thrust violently Signor Padauino out of our Countrey vvho had retyred himselfe before their comming he hath also conuented the people together brought thither by his Adherents and Seruants framing diuers barbarous Articles and constraining all men to obserue them The second of which Articles was this That no Church-man of any Comminaltie should dare to speake or giue his voice in any businesse concerning the Countrey though this be lawfull to euery free man of our State be he neuer so poore and base and this he did because in all his machinations and plots hee neuer found stiffer resistance then from the Clergie Moreouer they haue had diuers and sundry consultations vvith Maximilian Mora to put them to silence and stop their mouthes altogether and lastly they haue found it fit to forbid them by a generall Law not to meddle with matters of State or the good of their common Countrey or to bee informers of the present corruptions So much the Diuell hath blinded their eyes that they neither can nor vvill see or suffer the wholesome admonition of faithfull Subiects They haue also settled a Court of Iustice the decrees whereof by confession of some of the Iudges themselues were wholly managed and dispatched by the aduice and information of the two Brothers onely Iudges also were chosen such as stood partially affected to forraine Princes of whose liberalitie they had bountifully tasted who also were bound by Oath to defend the Bishop of Coira against our Prouinciall lawes to which they were sworne vvhich they did by many indirect waies and by the procurement of the inwardest friends to the Planta's who by their bad proceedings haue deceiued many honest men and diuers honourable Comminalties with their large summes of money More especially they haue persecuted the said Clergie calling them to appeare before them and charging them not to meddle or once speake in the Spanish businesse fining some of them in grosse summes for hauing spoken too much and among the rest they brought one Preacher by force from his house in Coira without any cause but meere malice threatening imprisonment and death or banishment to others On the other side they haue offered to maintaine the Bishop of Coira with strong hand who as is aforesaid had beene banished by Proclamation out of the Three Confederations Generall and hath lately beene charged by forme of Law with many notorious crimes and not regarding his manifold transgressions they haue consented to his escape out of the Countrey and granted free passage for

his goods after him These tumults Planta hath not onely caused as is manifest by many vvitnesses Viua voce but he hath also granted transportation of Commodities without knowledge of the State in a time when the passages were shut and commerce forbidden betweene vs and Millan though at the same time his Brother Pompeius wrote to him that Monsieur Gueffier the French Embassadour had importuned Maximilian Mora to desire the stopping of the passage and entercourse alledging that he desired a commotion and sedition among vs. And now this present yeere 1618. some of our Comminalties rising in Armes to remedy this mischiefe hee presently bound by Oath the men of his Circuit to demand aide of others thereby to mooue a Ciuill warre that the common people butchering one another he might subdue the stronger part remaining and so make himselfe vniuersall and absolute Lord of all the Countrey But foreseeing that this plot vvould faile him and doubting that hee should be cited to answere the Law for his notorious mis-demeanours he presently fled vpon his flight he was according to custome diuers times summoned and neuer appeared Seeing therefore he hath vsurped the chiefe Authoritie of our Countrey as to giue and abolish Lawes to make and renounce Leagues to create and depose Magistrates to dispose of Warre and Peace and hath vsed this his power with all manner of perfidie deceit violence tyrannie and Treason he hath beene by the Law and Iustice of our Countrey condemned to perpetuall banishment from all the Three Confederations Generall and left free to the Birds of the ayre with a reward and Fee of a thousand Crownes to him shall bring him aliue into our Countrey and to him shall bring in his head fiue hundred Crownes besides his freeing from the Proclamation if hee stand banished for any other offence but Treason against the State or wilfull murther which money shall be paid out of the Common Treasury And in case he be apprehended in our Country or yeeld himselfe into the hands of the Three Confederations Generall that then the Magistrate shall call a Court of Iustice of the Three Confederations and without any farther Processe shall order that he be forthwith executed and quartered by the common Hangman and his quarters to be set vp in the common high waies all his goods to be confiscate to the Chamber of the common Treasurie sauing the dowrie of his wife and the paiment of his cleere debts his house to be razed and two pillars set vp in the place to his perpetuall infamy and that Comminaltie which shall refuse to execute this Sentence and shall succour him with meate drinke or lodging shall forfeit their Right in the Confederation and besides for euery such offence shall be fined in a thousand Crownes and if he be a priuate person he shall be depriued of his honours and forfeit a thousand Crownes but he that is not worth so much in goods or lands shall forfeit his life and lastly if any speake of his Pardon write to him or talke with him or shall receiue or reade his Letters shall likewise lose his life In this Interim vpon the 22. of August Nicolo Rusca da Lugano Arch-priest of Sondrio in Valtelina was accused who formerly had beene imprisoned by the People for hauing conspired with Iohn-Paolo Quadrio of Ponte Vincēzo Gatto of Coira to kil Signor Scipione Calandrino late Preacher in Sondrio in case they could finde him vpon the State of Millan or else to carry him out of our State to Millan or to Rome as diuers times heretofore it had happened to others as Michael Ciappino hath publiquely confessed both vpon the Torture and after who being resolued to act this his bloudy purpose Calandrino had notice by some of his friends that the Arch-priest lay in waite for his life and had his Spies vpon him as appeared by a Briefe of his sent to Ciappino by a yong Lad wherin he giues him aduertisement when and in what place he might come with his complices and in what manner hee might performe that felonious act where vpon Ciappino was imprisoned in the yeere 1698. in the moneth of September vnder the charge of Captaine Iohn Corn of Castelmur where vpon proofe of the Euidence hee suffered death as appeares by his Processe and the confessions vnder the hand and seale of the said Signor Capitan●… Ciappino had to this purpose made choise of certaine Ferry-men Andrea Serem da Como Iohn Pifer the Traona and Battista Domini da Menus who in the yeere 1594. Iuly were all executed because being at the Ferry-place of the Riuer Adde where Calandrino was retyred they would violently haue haled him into their Barque but they were apprehended by Signor Capitano Artman de Artmani and the whole businesse being proued against them they were for the said murtherous conspiracie and treasonable plot condemned to die Moreouer this Rusca had shewed himselfe a Rebel and disobedient to the supreme Magistrate of the Three Confederations Generall because hee embezeled and defaced the Decrees and Records of that Office and afterwards holding his Congregation in the Cloisters at Sondrio there were heard many seditious and rebellious words by diuers honest men in the streets which they haue fully testified and proued and as since hath beene confirmed by Nicolo Carbonera both vpon and after Torture affirming moreouer that hee had giuen counsaile to cancell some Decrees of his owne State by the procurement of the French Embassadours in whom Signor Iulio della Torre had great interest to preuaile as a faithfull and trustie friend of theirs That he had also hindred the free course of preaching the Gospell He had so farre made himselfe Master of the peoples will that the Officers of Valtelina fearing some sodaine tumult insurrection durst not lay open his horrible crimes and transgressions In the time while Fort Fuentes was building he retyred to Morbegno where as is prooued by diuers Testimonies his own confession he perswaded the people not to make warre with so Catholique a Prince as the King of Spaine but to keepe their consciences free and to aske him pardon for their fault resisting by that meanes the Proueditor of the Confederations Generall who was forced patiently to dissemble this rebellious affront and albeit he was resolued to charge him herewithall before the Councellors and Comminalties yet he deferred it till the fourth of August 1608. at what time hee was summoned before the Comminalties and in Nouember after before the Iustice Court of the Three Confederations Generall of both the Religions but being conscious of his own guiltinesse he neuer appeared He hath also by assistance of his Complices laboured to corrupt and drawe many men to his partie as appeares by Letters of his written to a friend the 22 23 and 24. of December the same yeere as also by the testimonie of diuers honest men wherevpon euen they that were corrupted by him haue receiued condigne punishment but yet with clemencie He