bee no lodging allowed for those of the Council Judges nor anie such like Officers That the King should not give general or particular billets for the lodging of anie That the taxes and impositions should bee reduced to a certain number and the Pole-monie set at a just and moderate rate whereby the People might perceiv the grace and favor his Majestie did them That the subsidies granted by the Commissioners at the Groyn should not bee received nor demanded neither should there bee anie â—ew taxes or extraordinary tribute imposed upon the Kingdome without som evident necessitie and that it were thought requisite for the good of the Kingdom and his Majestie 's service That the King should not â—end any instructions to the Cities or form of granting Powers nor nominate any particular men for Officers but that the Cities and towns should have the freedom and libertie to bestow and confer their Powers upon such men as they should finde zealous for the good of their Republicks That the Commissioners in Parlament should have the libertie to meet when and where they pleased and to discours and confer freely with one another That such Commissioners during their emploiment should not receiv of the King anie Office favor or gift whatsoever for themselvs their Wives Children or kindred under pain of death and confiscation of goods and that those goods should bee employed for the publick reparations of the Citie or Town whereof they were Commissioners to the end that they should bee the more careful to do onely that which was most expedient for the glory of God the service of his Majestie and good of the Kingdom That everie Commissioner or Burgess should have a competent allowance from the place whose persons they represented That the Parlament beeing ended the several Commissioners should return within forty dayes to give account of what they had done under pain of losing their wages and emploiment That no gold or Silver coyned or to bee coyned should bee transported out of the Kingdom under pain of death In regard the contrary having been done the Kingdomes were impoverished and destroied That there should bee monie coyned differing as well in value as stamp from that of the neighboring Countries and that it should bee of a base alloy two Carats under the rate of the finest gold That in Weight and value it should bee answerable to the Crowns of Gold which are coyned in France Becaus that would bee a means that it should not bee transported Manie other artickles were given in touching gold and silver the particular favors and rewards of the King and other matters of justice But that which they insisted most upon was that the Councils should bee strictly looked to That the Chancery and other Courts in the Kingdom should bee visited or reviewed from six to six years and that all suits should bee dispatched in order and determined whithin a certain time without any delay That there should bee no appealing from Court to Court but that each case should bee decided at it's own Tribunal That no Counsellor or other whosoever should enjoie two offices but should apply himself to one onely These and manie other things the Nobles and Commissioners of the Kingdom desired but they fell into the hands of Strangers the King beeing young and full of thoughts of his Voiage and possession of his Empire So they remained And in regard these and other such like propositions were slighted and layd aside though presented with much zeal and affection the whole Kingdom burst out and slipping in one they fell into the Precipice of manie inconveniences as it is commonly seen They desired one thing verie Holie in the Chapter concerning Ecclesiastical dignities and pensions That they should not bee conferred upon strangers and that the acts of Naturalization which had been made should bee revoked That in the Ecclesiastical Courts there should bee no more duties payed then in the secular and that they should observ the same Statute Which I would it were well seen unto in these times There were likewise som complaints and Petitions given in against Pedrarias de Avila a gentleman of good note and quality brother to the Earl of Punio en Rostro and who had done great services yet hee was accused by som of his enemies and charged for having put manie to death unjustly at the discoverie of the Indies and committed divers Robberies and Tyrannies There were seaven consultations hereupon and Pedrarias was quitted by them all and the Emperor himself taking particular notice of the services which hee had done at Oran in Africa and the taking of Buxia besides other places in the Indies freed him notwithstanding these fals and passionate accusations and confirmed him in the government and charge which formerly had been conferred upon him and gave him som rewards besides But all this was not sufficient to stop the mouths of his enemies who gave occasion to strangers not onely of speaking ill but also of writing against this gentleman who was valiant in his own person and of antient extraction in this Kingdom And others not knowing to the contrary have followed them in the prejudicial censure of this nation and the Nobilitie thereof SECT XXXII TO the grief of those gentlemen who took ill Cardinal Adriano's beeing Governor by a general consent of the Council and Don Antonio de Rojas Arch-Bishop of Granada then President Hee was confirmed Governor of Castilla and Navarra jointly with those of his Council who were Don Alonso Tellez Lord of la-Puebla de Montalvan Hernando de Vega Chancellor of the order in Castilla Don Iohn de Fonseca Bishop of Burgos Don Antonio de Rojas Arch-Bishop of Granada and President of his Majestie 's Council of Justice and Francisco de Vargas Treasurer general these were to reside at Valladolid Antonio de Fonseca Lord of Coca was appointed Captain General of the kingdom and Don Iohn Brother to the Bishop of Burgos his Treasurer Don Iohn de la Nuza was Governor of Aragon Don Diego de Mendoza brother to the Marquis of Zenete Vice-Roy of Valencia All being thus ordered for the Government of the kingdom and the winde coming faire upon Saturday the 19.th of May at Sun-set The Emperor commanded to bee Proclaimed That all the mariners and his retinue should goe on board that night for the next day in the morning hee would set saile Sunday the 20.th of May before day hee did his devotion and received the Sacrament after which hee tooke ship Don Alonso de Fonseca Arch-Bishop of Santjago Don Iuan de Fonseca Bishop of Burgos Don Inigo de Velasco Constable of Castilla and Leon Don Diego Lopez Pacheco Marquis of Villena Don Alonso Pimentel Earl of Benavente Don Iohn Osorio Marquis of Astorga and divers other persons of quality waited on him to the Sea-side Those that imbarked with him were Don Fadrique de Toledo Duke of Alva the Marquis of Villa Franca and his son Don Hernando de
the over-flowing of the River besides the unseasonableness of the weather enforced them to repair into their Winter-quarters But the Spring following they took the field again and marched near fortie thousand strong toward Paris spoiling and burning without mercie as they went which put the Parisians to a terrible fright At the same time the Lord High Admiral of France entred into Lombardie with an Armie of above fiftie thousand Combatants But the Venetians beeing joined with the Imperialists recovered all the places which they had gotten and drove them quite out of Italie Not long after the King of France came himself into Lombardie at the head of another mighty Armie thinking to carrie all before him but before the Citie of Pavia where hee had pitched his Camp his forces were all routed by the Marquis of Pescara General of the Imperialists and hee taken prisoner his Hors beeing kill'd under him The Prince of Navarra was likewise taken and committed prisoner to the Castle of Pavia whence hee made his escape the Prince of Scotland was kill'd barbarously by a Countrie-fellow to whom hee had discovered himself and promised a great reward to conduct him safe to Vigeven where his Train and Baggage was which fellow coming to relate to the Marquis his exploit exspecting som recompence hee commanded to give him a halter for his news and hee was hanged presently Divers other Noblemen and persons of qualitie were taken and many killed in that expedition The King after som time was carried into Spain by Don Carlos de Lanoy Vice-Roy of Naples upon his earnest request hoping to make his conditions the better with the Emperor if hee could speak with him himself Hee continued a Prisoner a year and upwards after which time hee was released upon Articles betwixt him and the Emperor whereof one principal was That hee should marrie the Emperor's sister DonÌ„a Leonor widow to Don Manuel King of Portugal and restore the Dukedom of Burgundie to the Hous of Austria for performance of their agreement his two eldest sons viz Francis the Dolfin and Henrie Duke of Orleans were at the same time as hee was set into France delivered as Pledges to the Spaniards But beeing in his own Countrie whether by persuasion of ill Counsellors or thiâ—king the conditions too unreasonable and hee not obliged to make good his promise having been forced thereunto in his imprisonment hee sent the Arch-Bishop of Bourdeaux to the Emperors Court requiring him in regard it was not in his power to give away any part of his Countrie that hee would give his children their enlargement upon any reasonable ransom Which Embassage the Emperor with great indignation answered thus briefly That if the King of France could not perform the conditions as hee pretended yet desired to have his Sons at libertie hee should com back and take their places which was in his power to do and hee had promised by oath otherwise hee must not exspect to have his children so soon released Hereupon the French King giving waie to his vindicative passion left no means unattempted to incite the other Christian Princes to wage War in his favor against the Emperor And after som time having drawn Henrie the 8th of England to his Partie who had som other pretences to quarrel with the Emperor they both sent their Kings aâ— Arms with Letters of defiance to him into Spain and gave order to their Embassadors to return and leav his Court. Whereupon their private animosities broke out into a publick War which for a time continued more fierce and bloodie then the former but at last their differences were composed and an happie peace concluded between those two potent Princes by the no less ingenious then industrious endeavors of the most excellent Princesses DonÌ„a Margarita Arch-Dutchess of Austria Aunt to his Imperial Majestie and Madama Luysa Dutchess of Angulema and Anjou widow to the Duke of Savâ—y and Mother to the King of France Upon which agreement the young Princes were released after almost four years close imprisonment their Father sending for their ransom two millions of Crowns of Gold which summe of monie was put into one boat and they into another at Fuente Ravia with the like diffidence and ceremonie as was used when the King their father was exchanged for them At the same time DonÌ„a Leonor the Emperor's sister passed into France according to the Articles who was married by the Cardinal of Tournon to the French King with great solemnitie and expressions of joie Anno 1530. This Peace continued not long for Francis King of France who in all other Princely qualities and ornaments was rather surpassing then at all inferior to any of his Cotemporaries beeing transported with an insatiable ambition and envying the Emperor's greatness gave several meetings at Boloigne and Calis to Henrie King of England who having shook hands with Conscience and Religion and repudiated Queen Katharine Charls the Fifth's Aunt thinking the Emperor would som waie express his discontent and shew himself sensible of so greatâ—an affront resolved to give him further occasion of distaste And there they conspired to suscitate the Lutherans in Germanie and rais new factions in Italie against him and under hand they encouraged the Danes to rise up in Arms against their King Christian whom pretending a Truce and a desire to make an Accommodation with him they surprised hee not suspecting their treacherie and imprisoned him in the Castle of Sundiburgi in Holsatia where hee miserably ended his daies The said Princes had no other ground for this pâ—ece of malice but onely in relation to the Emperor becaus Christian was his friend and Allie having married his sister Ysabella and not content herewith at length finding fit opportunities they again declared open War against him the transactions and events whereof shal bee exactly represented in the Succeeding Book FINIS The birth of the Emperor Charls the Fift His title beeing a Child Anno 1501. Philip the 〈◊〉 â—wâ—rn Pâ—iâ—ce of Spâ—in The bâ—rth of â—he Iâ—fante Fâ—rdinand Anno 1505. The death of Isabel Queen of Spain Ferdinand's design to get the Kingdom of Castilia to himself The death â—f Philâ—p the Fair Duke of Burguâ—die anâ— Aâ—â—â—-Duke of Austâ—iâ— An old woman's Prophecie of him What Children Hee left The manner of King Ferdinand's death Dispute about the Government of the Kingdom Resolute carâ—iage and answer of Cardinal Ximeneâ— to the Nobles oâ— Spain Charls the Fiâ—â—'s coming into Spain Câ—rdinal Ximâ—â—es buried at Alcala anno 1517. Som were of opinion that hee was poisoned Charls the Fift's age when hee was received into Spain His Disposition Who Xeures was Differeâ—ces about the acknowledging of Chaâ—ls King of Spain The form of swearing Allegeance to him The Oath 〈◊〉 took 34 Mâ—â—auediz make 6d. A Duâ—ket make's 5â— 6d. The Infante's disâ—onâ—eâ—tment Charls the Fift received at Saragosa 1518. The Castillians and Aragoneses distasted Gatinara made Lord Chancellor of Spain Demands of the
the vanitie of anie earthly Crowns Having received this repuls hee agreed with Lewis King of France that hee should make the match betwixt him and Madam Germana daughter to Gaston de Foix and to the said French King's sister which was concluded upon this condition That King Lewis in stead of her Dowrie should grant and pass over to Don Fernando the right which hee pretended to the kingdom of Naples and that if the Queen should die before him without issue hee should succeed and inherit the same title but if shee should survive Don Fernando that Lewis should repossess the said claim These Articles beeing confirmed they made a Peace betwixt France and Spain for a hundred and one years but it scarce continued so manie weeks and Don Iuan de Silva Earl of Cifuentes with the Vice-Chancellor of Aragon went into France to attend and conduct her Majestie into Castillia SECT IV. THe Castillians in mean time beeing very desirous to have their Natural Sovereign amongst them importuned by frequent messages and invitations Donnia Iuana and her husband to return and bring their Children with them into Spain Whereupon Don Philip having provided a Fleet for the purpose they departed Flanders leaving the Prince Don Carles under the care and tuition of the Emperor Maximiliano and Donnia Margarita widdow to the Duke of Savoye and at last though tossed with much storm and tempests by the waie they landed safe at the Groyne in Galicia Don Fernando hearing of their arrival went to meet them betwixt La Puebla de Sanabria and Asturianos This interview occasioned no small discontent betwixt these Princes for Kings will admit of no competitors or Companions no not of their own châ—ldren in matters of Government and Command Whereupon Don Fernando forsaken by all but onely the Duke of Alva and the Earl of Altamira with som few others took his waie to Villafafila and Tordesillas and King Philip with his Queen to Venauente attended by all the Nobles and flower of Castillia besides strangers to the number of above two thousand hors One caus of their discord was about the title and inscription of Commissions Patents and other dispatches Roial which at last was determined and agreed that all things should pass in the names of Don Fernando Don Philip and Donnia Iuana But this style was soon altered by the unexspected dâ—ath of Don Philip which hapned at Burges hee had but seven daies of sickness which was thought to bee a surfeit and past from this life to the eternal on fridaie the fifth of September annoâ—â—0â— â—â—0â— beeing aged but twentie eight years and having enjoied the Kingdom of Castillia a year and ten moneths lacking one daie hee commanded that his heart should bee carried to Bruxels his bodie to Granada and his bowels to remain there His death was much lamented by the Emperor his Father for besides that hee was his onely son hee was one of the handsomest men of his time therefore hee was called Philip the Fair and the nobleness of his minde was answerable to the feature of his bodie Donnia Iuana his Queen was so sensible of his loss that with the extremitie of sorrow and her incessant weeping shee became in a manner distracted An old woman in Galicia seeing him at his landing and beeing told who hee was said That hee should bee a longer time and travel more leagues in Castillia beeing dead then living which proved so for the Queen carried his bodie with her from place to place and would not suffer it to bee buried for manie years after Hee left two sons Don Carles and Don Fernando both Emperors and three daughters all mightie Queens Donnia Leonor first reigned in Portugal and afterwards was married to the King of France Donnia Catalina was wife to Don Iohn the Third King of Portugal Aunt and Mother-in-law to Philip the Second of Spain And Donnia Maria had for her husband Lewis King of Bohemia and Hungaria SECT V. IN mean time Don Fernando beeing married to the Queen Germana and distasted in Castillia retired himself into Aragon from thence beeing upon his â—ournie to Naples the Castilliâ—ns gave him notice of Don Philip's death and of the necesâ—itie that there was of his Roial presence but hee refused to return beeing incensed against som of them for their ingratitude to him By the death of Don Philip and the absence of King Fernando divers tumults and seditions arose in the kingdom the people refusing to obeie the Magistrates and Officers of Justice and the Nobles wanted not factions and partialities amongst them to trouble and disquiet the Countrie and almost everie Citie throughout the Kingdom was infected with the same contagion Som crying up Charls or Don Carles others Fernando no small number stood for Maximiliano but verie few made anie mention of Donnia Iuana who whether out of a sens of her own disabilitie or overcom with melancholie for her husbands deceas had retired her self at Tordesillas refusing to govern or trouble her head with State-affairs Whereupon with the consent of most part of the Peers and Nobles of the Realm the Cardinal Ximenez Don Bernardino de Velasso Lord high Constable and Don Pedro Manrique Duke of Naxara took upon them the administration of Government for the present they made Don Alonso Suarez Bishop of Iaen President of their Council assisted by Doctor Tello el Licenciado Polanco and other learned Lawyers They called a Parlament wherein they ordered to send to Don Fernando desiring him in the name of the Queen and the whole Kingdom to return and undertake the Government for his Daughter and Grandchilde Which hee beeing more readie to accept then they to offer did not refuse but returned answer that having setled the business which had called him to Naples hee would satisfie their desires And after som time leaving Don Iuan de Aragon Earl of Ribagorsa his Vice-Roy hee embarqued himself for Spain with his Queen Germana Don Gonsalo Fernandez de Cordova commonly called the gran Capitan and a great train of Spanish Gentlemen that attended him in his voiage Beeing arrived at Valentia the Queen Donnia Iuana went to meet him whom hee received with signs of much affection and fatherlie tenderness which shee answered with all the honor and due obedience that could bee exspected from an observant Daughter for although the excess of sorrow had weakned her intellectual faculties yet shee never lost her respect to her Father but paied him with all humilitie and filial dutie neither was shee ever heard to utter anie mis becoming words which is common to people tainted with her infirmitie The eighth of October the King and Queens came to Arcos where Donnia Iuana desiring to staie Don Fernando went with his Court to Burges leaving her a good number of Noblemen and Ladies besides guards suitable to the dignitie of her person Som years after Don Fernando left the troubles of this transitorie life to enjoie the quietness and bliss of the
The Cardinal made them a thousand congies and excused himself saying that hee never commanded Medina to bee burned nor had any hand in the other mischiefs quite contrarie it grieved him to the very soul to hear what Fonseca had done And beeing desired by the Citie and thinking it to bee convenient himself hee commanded to bee proclaimed publickly that all those that were with Antonio de Fonseca should leav him and return to their houses and hee sent his express order to the same effect to Antonio de Fonseca commanding him to disband his men reserving onely what was necessarie for the guard of his own person in regard it was not possible to maintein an Army in those parts having no means nor place where to raise monie for their subsistance Fonseca was inforced to obey conforming himself to the time so taking a partie of hors with him hee went out of the Kingdom for all in that Countrie were his deadlie enemies and hee had no mind to bee surprised by them in Arevalo or either of his Towns of Coca or Alaejos but leaving them well fortified and his son Don Fernando in Coca hee passed into Portugal and thence by Sea into Flanders with the Judge Ronquillo SECT IV. ABout this time Caceres in Estremadura and the Citie of Iaen in Andaluzia where as yet the diseas had not broke out began to cry up the Commonaltie So that Don Rodrigo Mexia Lord of Santa Eufemia who had a great partie beeing born in that Citie labored and used all means possible to hinder the people from the outrages and mischiefs which were done in other Cities and not beeing able to bridle and restrain their furie otherwise hee took upon himself the charge of the Justice and Commonaltie Manie other Gentlemen made use of the like prudent dissimulation not beeing able to do otherwise Badajoz also beeing in the like distemper was quieted by his good industrie they of Badajoz took a fort from him that kept it for the Earl of Feria There is no reason why the Andaluzians should bee held any better then the Castillians for in all places the dissentions were much alike and their demeanors as if the common people had agreed and contracted together som yeares before SECT V. UBeda and Baeza were divided into two parties between the Venavides and the Caravajales both noble and ancient families in Castilla Don Luis de la Cueva cozen german to the Duke of Alburquerque was Captain of the Venavides Caravajal Lord of Todar which is a Village two leagues from Ubeda commanded the other partie In these factions there was so much animositie that one daie Don Luis de Ubeda coming in a litter for hee was an old man was set upon by Caravajal Lord of Todar attended by an hundred hors who gave him so manie thrusts with his lance that hee killed him in his litter This done hee was carried back to Ubeda where the manner of his death beeing related to his son Don Alonso and their kindred to revenge his father's death they went to the Village of Todar where they killed and cut the throats of all they could lay hands upon and afterwards set fire to the Village in manie places that some that hid themselvs in their houses were fain to leap out at the windows to avoid the fire The destruction and crueltie was so great that they reckoned of killed and burned about two thousand persons men women or children and onely the ruines of some houses in the village remained But indeed though these Gentlemen were Loyall like Noble persons yet it was so that in this there was more of passion and particular grudge and hatred then anie matter of Commonaltie For neither the Venavides nor those of la Cueva ever were Commoners or pretended to disserv the King But in these places with the occasion of the Kingdom 's beeing in a hurly-burly they made use of the Common Interest to revenge their private passions And it is apparent that if these Gentlemen did follow the Commonaltie as wishing it well yet they were none of their Captains SECT VI. CUenca in imitation of other Cities rose also and committed the like disorders In this Citie was Captain of the Commonaltie one Calaborra and with him a Bridle-maker whom the whole Citie obeied as their Lords And there beeing a person of principal note and power in the Kingdom Luis Carrillo de Albhornoz Lord of Torralva and Berreta they so much slâ—ghted him that hee was inforced to dissemble and sumâ—on all his reason and prudence to persuade his heart to brook it Their audaciousness grew to that pass that hee riding upon his mule through the street a Rascal of the Common sort struck him over the buttock saying in a scoffing manner Go thy waie Luis Carrillo hee was glad to let this pass the times not permitting him to do otherwise Luis Carrillo was married to Donia Inez Varrientos de Manrique a Ladie of a Masculine courage who desiring to revenge the injuries and affronts done to her husband and to stop and take off the opprobrious taunts of the people she invited the Captains of the Commonaltie to Supper and having well loaden their heads with wine shee caused them to bee carried to sleep in several chambers and beeing dead with sleep and the vapors of the wine shee commanded her servants to cut their throats and hang their bodies out at the windows next the street SECT VII AVila was the seat where all the Cities made their Assemblie Here they did such disorders as the loyal Citie of Avila ought not to have permitted The Common people were the onely Actors thereof for the Gentrie still persevered in the fidelitie of their Ancestors And becaus Antonio Ponce like a loial Gentleman would not swear to follow the Commonaltie they began to pluck down his hous but did not beeing hindred by som other Gentlemen The rest as in other Cities did swear and took the Engagement of the Commonaltie som willingly som becaus they did not rightly understand themselvs and others out of fear They would have pluckt down the hous of Diego Hernando de Quiniones becaus hee had granted the Subsidie beeing their Commissioner in the last Parlament but som good men intervening hindered the executing of their Purpose They had possessed themselvs of the Fort if Don Gonzalo Chachon Lord of Cassarruvios seeing the Commotions in most parts of the Kingdom and that Toledo had taken the Fort from Don Iohn de Silva and Segovia would have done the like to the Earl of Chinchon had not prudently and with dissimulation provided it hee beeing Governor thereof with Munition Arms and men taking them in by night and hiding them by daie The Fort beeing thus Ammunitioned when the Common-people ple flocked thither to take it they found greater resistance then they exspected And the Citie perceiving they might bee much damnified by the Fort and those of the Fort likewise by the Citie they treated of an
Leases of Abbie-lands may remain taxed for ever and no higher for they may not bee raised nor abated at anie time since such was the pleasure of the most Illustrious Queen Donia Isabel our Ladie and Sovereign as appear's by her last Will and Testament And it is better for the augment of the Roial Revenue as well as the good of the kingdom for there was more gold and silver brought to his Majestie 's Exchequer by the simple Penie-rents then by these racking enhancements considering the breaches and failings which have been and are amongst those that farm the Subsidies neither is that burthensom to the kingdom Item That the people may take in the said perpetual Tax the said Customs and Thirds and be obliged to rent the Situados that there was upon the said Customs and Thirds restoring to their Majesties the over-plus having paid the Situados and rights at the accustomed places and summons By this means their Majestie 's servants and retainers would bee duly paied and all those bribes and selling of Librancas would bee saved neither would there be any need of so many Officers their Majesties might spare great sums of monie much wages and a multitude of discharges or bills of receipt which were given to Officers more then needed Item That the Queen and King our Sovereigns and their Successors in these kingdoms bee contented for ever to have and rais their Customs by and according to the fore-mentioned imposition and no otherwise in regard so they are certain and not variable neither will there bee anie thing diminished of the Revenue there still accruing to the Crown other profitable rights as Fines Confiscations of goods the Salt-pit-rents the Mountain-Tributes Subsidies Customerships and Puertos secos besides currant monie taxes and ordinarie paiments of the kingdom with the rents of Maestrazgos And that which com's from the Indies Isles and Firm-land amount's to so great a sum that thereby his Majestie may sufficiently maintein his state without pressing the Kingdom in Parlament and out of Parlament to grant any other extraordinarie Subsidies whereby the people is much aggrieved and tâ—eir Roial Consciences can bee no less burthened with the oppression and great dammages of these kingdoms Item That all the Inhabitants of the Cities Towns Villages Burroughs and Lordships may enjoie the said perpetual taxes in general that none amongst them may rent or farm any particular part thereof at a higher rate then the said taxes nor â—hat anie more sesments bee made amongst the Inhabitants of the said places then what shall bee necessarie for the recovering and gathering of the said taxes Item that everie Citie or Town that is chief of the Countie do caus a Chest to bee set in som secure place wherein they may put or gather the Roial Revenue and that they see to and provide that which shall bee necessarie for the estate of the Kingdom And chiefly to have a care that the Queen our Soveâ—eign â—adie's familie bee maintained and furnished with all things suitable to the Dignitie of her Royal Person and the honor of the Kingdoms next to paie the Searchers Counsels and Chanceries with other ordinarie offices of the Kingdom and beeing payed that it remain stated in the offices of the Puertos Secos mountain-Tributes and Customerships and in case any bee wanting in the hous of the Contratacion of Sevilla And the remainder of the Revenue and Royal Patrimonie to bee kept in the treasure and delivered to his Majestie when it shall pleas God that hee return into this Kingdom or to supplie his necessities and those of the Kingdom if any real and urgent occasion doth require it Item That the residue or any thing that is unpaied of the Revenue after ten years may not bee farmed or recovered For by recovering debts of so long standing may arise great extorsions and grievances on the Natives of the Kingdom or their sureties children and heirs who after so many years can not perchance produce the discharges and acquittances that had been given Concerning Commissioners or Burgesses of Parlament Subsidies THat the Subsidie granted to his Majestie by some Commissioners at the Parlament in the Citie of the Groyn bee neither demanded nor received nor any other imposed hereafter Nor that any other impositions or tributes extraordinarie bee layed upon the Kingdom by their Majesties or any of their Successors Item That when any Burgesses or Commissioners are to bee sent to Parlament the Custom of each Citie is to bee observed in the state of the Regimiento moreover one is to bee sent from the Chapter or Clergie another from the state of the Gentrie a third from the State of the Commonaltie and every State to elect and nominate their Commissioner severally in a distinct assembly Which Commissioners are to bee payed by their own Citie or Town except the Commissioner of the Clergie who is to bee maintained by the Chapter Item When any Parlament is called and the Cities and Towns which have Vote bee summoned to send their Commissioners That their Majesties or any their Successors in these Kingdoms send not to the said Commissioners any Power Instruction or Command in what manner and form their Powers are to bee granted nor appoint or nominate any particular persons to bee Commissioners But that such Citie or Towns may have free libertie to grant Powers according to their own sence and to such persons as they shall think most convenient for the good of their Republick Item Wheresoëver the Parlament bee assembled That the Commissioners may have the freedom to meet confer and discours with one another as often as they shall think good and that no President bee ordered to com amongst them for that would hinder them from attending to those things which particularly concern the Cities and the good of the Republick which they represent Item that during the time of the Commissioners beeing at Parlament nor before or after their return to their houâ—es as having been or beeing Commissioners in the said Parlament they may not receiv directly or indirectly under what colour or pretence soêver any present or gratuitie from their Majesties or their Successors in these kingdoms of what value or qualitie soëver neither for themselvs their wives children or kindred under pain of death and confiscation of goods which goods may bee emploied for the publick reparations of the Citie or Town whereof any such Delinquent was Commissioner For they beeing free from Covetousness and without hopes of receiving anie bribes in that nature will bee more attentive and zealous for the service of God the King and the publick and more careful to perform what was encharged them by their Towns and Cities Item that the Commissioners may onely have the bare stipend which shall bee allowed them by their Cities or Towns and that the said stipend or Salarie bee competent according to the condition and qualitie of the person and the place from whence hee is emploied as Commissioner And that
or Mandamus from their Majesties to the end they may not defend in the Council any Writs which they had so signed whereby the parties might bee aggrieved Item that the said Secretaries appointed for the Chamber may not receiv any thing besides the Salarie which his Majestie is pleased to allow them it beeing competent For by experience it hath been seen they have demanded and adjudged divers unjust things concerning the taxes and impositions of the Kingdom And they keep intelligencers through the whole Kingdom to give them notice of what is vacant and how they may charge new taxes and impositions And this Office beeing in their own hands they may ask what they list and it is granted them But in case the said Secretaries or any of them should demand any thing for themselvs their children or friends that for so doing they may lose their Offices and not onely bee disabled to execute the said Offices but all others whatsoëver Item that the diffinitive sentences pronounced by the Alcaldes de casa e Corte and Chanceries in case of death or mutilation of members may have the libertie of appeal to those of the Council and Judges of the Courts Roial And that tâ—e said Alcaldes may bee obliged to grant the said appeals and supplications according to Law Item that the said Alcaldes de casa e Corte and Chancerie or their Notaries may not exact or receiv either more or less duties or fees then the ordinarie Alcaldes of the Corregidores of Cities and Towns in this Kingdom where there is Counsel and Chancerie Item that the Alcaldes and other Officers of the Court called the Hermandad which is properly for High-way-men may have a constant place of Residence when they leav their Office which those that succeed them may enjoie and that these may have power to question and execute their sentence against the said Judges and Officers their Predecessors Item that the Corregidores Alcaldes Officers of Cities Towns Villages Burroughs and other places of Justice in these Kingdoms may not bee continued in the said Offices above the space of one year after their donomination although the Cities Towns and Commonalties should desire it for the said Offices having been continued for longer time hath occasioned many inconveniencies and defects of Justice to such Cities and Towns Item that henceforwards no Corregidores may bee provided or appointed for any Cities or Towns of these Kingdoms but when the said Cities or Towns shall require it in regard it is so ordained by the Laws of the Land And that the said Cities and Towns may place and provide their ordinarie Alcaldes beeing men of abilities that so the Salaries of Corregidores their Lievtenants and other Officers may bee saved That the Cities and Towns may appoint and allow moderate and reasonable Salaries to the said ordinarie Alcaldes out of the publick stock And that the said stipendarie Judges may bee tied to serv onely that Town or Citie which giveth them the Salarie Item that in cases wherein a Judg Inquisitor is required those that are appointed for Judges Inquisitors may go with the limited Salarie at the charge of the King's Exchequer and not at the charge of the Delinquents for to recover their Salaries they make Innocent men Delinquents and after that the said Salaries and charges bee recovered of those who were condemned and declared guiltie by those of the Council or other Judges the said Examinations may bee reviewed by waie of Appeal Commission or otherwise Item that henceforwards no Corregidor or other Judg of what qualitie soëver may bee allowed to receiv his Salarie or any part thereof or by waie of Ayuda de costa which is to help bear his charge out of anie fines or forfeitures adjudged by them but may return them to the Exchequer to the end hee may not bee thought to have pronounced an unjust sentence out of covetousness thereof And that whosoëver shall receiv anie monie in that kinde may bee condemned to paie four times as much into his Majestie 's Exchequer and bee made incapable of any Office ever after Concerning Encomiendas or promotions to Dignities and Council of the Orders THat those of the Council of the Orders as Presidents Judges and other Officers bee visited in the same manner as is ordered for the Council Roial Item that the Treasurers and Officers of the Orders and Maestrazgos or Masterships make their Visitations from three to three years that it may appear how they behave themselvs in their Offices and those that shall bee found guiltie may suffer punishment Item that the Encomiendas of the Militarie Orders of Santjago Calatrava Alcantara may not bee given or conferred upon any Strangers although they bee naturalized But that herein may bee observed the same rule as in Ecclesiastical Offices Dignities and Benefices whereby they may bee provided according as is constituted and ordeined in the Statutes of the Order Concerning Bulls Cruzadas and Compositiones THat no Bulls Cruzadas or Compositions of what qualitie soëver bee suffered to bee preached in these Kingdoms unless upon som real and urgent occasion debated and approved in Parlament That the monie which shall bee raiâ—ed tâ—ereby may bee deposited in the Collegial or Cathedral Church of the Bishoprick and not to bee taken out thence spent or emploied otherwise then in the same urgent occasion for which the Bull was granted Item That in case there bee such necessitie of preaching the Bulls Cruzadas and Compositiones as above said this manner and order may bee observed That there bee care had to choos honest men of good consciences and learned that they may know and understand what they preach That they exceed not in their preaching the cases and things contained in the Bulls That they preach in none but the Collegial or Cathedral Churches That in places where there are no Collegial or Cathedral Churches the Bulls may bee sent to the Curates or their Vicars to the end they may divulge and publish them to their Parishioners That they advise and â—dmonish the people but impose no Penaltie if they take them not and that they might receiv them if they would That there may bee no such exorbitance as was usual heretofore injoyning the people to com and detaining them perforce in their Sermons not suffering them to follow their callings and occupations unless they took their Bulls and other such ill demeanors Item That whatsoëver was to bee recovered and gathered by virtue of the Bulls thus received may not bee recovered by waie of excommunication or interdict but by demanding it before the secular Justice of the Citie Town or Village where the Bull had been received That the Alcaldes of the Villages may have power herein for the contrarie having been done hath much indangered the Souls of laboring-men Priests and other persons and the people suffer very many and great oppressions in this manner of recovering it Item That henceforwards for ever the Commissaries of the Cruzadas and Compositiones may not
in the night until hee came into the high-waie of Medina del Campo to the end that if hee should meet any of the Commoners they might think hee came from Medina and was going to Valladolid where by break of daie hee arrived and the Guards knowing him at the Gates let him in without difficultie He would not go to his own lodging but alighted at a friend's hous whence hee went directly to Don Pedro Lasso and gave him an exact account of what hee had done with the Cardinal and the Lord Admiral at Tordesillas But in regard hee had not full satisfaction of all his demands which were that they should procure his Majestie 's approbation and allowance of the principal Articles sent him by the Iunta for the good of the Kingdoms It was determined that the Bishop of Laodicea should send a Friar to Tordesillas who should correspond with him in their ordinarie cypher and that Ortiz should likewise return thither which hee did cunningly without giving any susspition and beeing dispatched hee returned to Valladolid in like manner as before SECT XXVI IN this same year the Kingdom of Toledo broke out into the like disorders and exorbitancies as were committed in other parts of Castilla They report in Toledo of Donia Maria Pacheco wife to Iohn de Padilla and daughter to the Earl of Tendilla that shee was a woman of such a daring and resolute spirit that shee was the greatest Instrument to support the Commonaltie of that Citie And if wee may believ Fray Antonio de Guevara hee relate's that shee beeing com into the Vestrie of the great Church in Toledo to take away the Plate for paiment of her husband's souldiers shee fell upon her knees beat her brests with her hands cried sighed and sobbed two torches standing lighted before her and fell into a kinde of extasie believing the deceit and conjuring of a Morisca Witch who told her that her husband should com to bee a King or somwhat near it Hee saith manie other things of her but let them pass since afterwards she paied dear enough for her follie And indeed what otherwise could bee exspected of a woman that doth so far deviate from the rode of her natural emploiment as to throw aside the Distaff and the Needle and busie her self with matters of State and War The Towns of Orgaz and OcanÌ„a with the favor and support of those of Toledo declared likewise for the Commonaltie and did a thousand mischiefs and affronts to the inhabitants of Almaguer and other places for the remedying of which disorders the Governors of the Kingdoms constituted and ordeined Don Antonio de ZunÌ„iga to bee Captain General of the Kingdom of Toledo who having raiâ—ed meâ— at Consuegra marched into the field to put their commands in execution what success hee had shall bee said hereafter For the Iunta and the Cavaliers call mee away SECT XXVII THe Citie of Valladolid was grown so passionate in the prosecution and supporting of the Commonaltie's Interests slighting the Emperor's graces to them and beeing so malitiously bent against his Council the Lord Admiral and the Earl of Venavente who out of particular relations did desire and used all means possible to procure their good that all their affection was turned into hatred and their favors into discourtesies In this occurrence arrived at Valladolid a certain Priest with Orders from the Emperor and the Queen to the President and Judges of the Chancerie there residing wherein they were commanded with the College and Universitie forthwith to depart that Citie This coming to the people's knowledg they were exceedingly incensed therewith seeing they should bee deprived of three main benefits they had which to prevent they gave out that those Orders were fals and forged or counterfeited by the pretended Governors who studied to do them all the mischief they could And they determined to apprehend the Priest that brought them but hee sheltered himself by the President 's advice in the Chancerie Whereupon the people all in arms came thither in a tumultuous manner to demand the Priest The President not seeing any other remedie to satisfie the multitude delivered him to them they presently clap't him into the Common Gaol where leaving him they returned to the President and in a furious peremptorie manner demanded that hee would deliver them those Orders which the Priest brought him hee answered That after hee had conferred with the Judges thereupon they should have them but they growing more insolent told him That if hee delivered them not without any further delaie they would set fire on his hous The President seeing their mad resolution thought it his best way to let them have their wills Those Orders beeing brought they forcibly entred into the Chancerie and took away the great Seal also which they delivered to persons of their own choosing In the Orders they found how the Emperor commanded the President with the fore-named within three daies to leav Valladolid and repair to the Governors under pain of beeing deprived of their Offices and that for the present they should go to the Town of Arevalo where they should attend his further pleasure in regard Valladolid had declined his service and adhered to those that were Traitors to his Roial Crown SECT XXVIII THe Cavaliers sent to Valladolid desiring a cessation for ten daies The Major part Voted that they should not consent thereunto alledging that the Cavaliers would break it and besides that they would never have demanded it but to recrute themselvs with men and arms which they wanted At last they returned this answer that each partie should deposite five thousand Marcos de Plata or marks of silver in some faithful and sure person's hands and whosoever should break the peace in that time should forfeit the monie upon those tearms they would hearken to them but not otherwise The Cavaliers refused this proposition and the next daie following they sent a Trumpeter with a Letter of defiance to those who called themselvs the Commissioners of the Kingdom declaring open War with fire and sword against the Commonalties and Valladolid and required them to laie down their Arms disband their souldiers to conform themselvs to those whom his Majestie had appointed Governors of the Kingdoms and obey their Commands as they ought Otherwise they protested to hold them as Traitors and would do them all the spoil and mischief that in them laie Those of Valladolid answered That they feared them not bade them do their worst and they would serv them with the like sauce And without any long delay they sent to those in Simancas charging them both men women and children presently to depart the Town or they should all suffer death without reserv Thus those of Valladolid and of the Iunta shewed their insulting pride and crueltie which spake them rather men given over to despair then capable of reason and judgment Notwithstanding all this the Lord Admiral much grieved at the obstinacie of Valladolid and
eldest son to the Marquis of Denia who amongst other Gentlemen men was standing with him praying him to wear them whil'st the war lasted which beeing ended hee desired him to send them to his wife Don̄a Maria Pacheco After which as hee went to place himself conveniently for the executioner's hand hee saw Iohn Bravo's bodie lying by to which hee said onely thus Are you there good Gentleman and presently his head was cut off like Iohn Bravo's Soon after Francisco Maldonado beeing brought forth was executed in the same manner which done their heads were set upon several nails over the place of execution so the Justice ceased for that time and those Gentlemen's cares were ended A Gentleman of the Loyal Partie the daie before the battle wrote a letter to one of the contrarie opinion telling him that now the business was brought to such a push that there was nothing to bee thought on els but everie one to stand upon his guard for whosoever fell should bee sure to bear the ignominious brand of Traitor As questionless it had been for wee see all the actions and exploits of this life are more esteemed and censured by their successes and events then any other waies If Cortes had not been fortunate in Mexico when hee took Motezuma wee should have said hee had been a rash fool-hardie fellow but Fortune having crowned his valiant enterprise with success all men now applaud his gallantrie giving him the attributes of Couragious and Prudent SECT XX. TO saie the truth in all that I have read of Iohn de Padilla I finde him a gallant valerous Gentleman though hee was engaged in that unfortunate business It is reported that one daie going to his hous very melancholie and dejected hee said to his wife sitting on hors-back and shee at the window Sen̄ora what do you think now of the condition whereunto you have brough◠mee at which words shee made answer Bee of good courage for of a poor Esquire I have made you half-King of Castilla But the Common People are apt to saie manie things in such like occurrences wherein there 's not one word of truth In my judgment if there had been any such passage betwixt him and his wife hee would have expressed some discontent or anger in the letter which hee wrote to her the same daie hee was beheaded But there was no such thing mentioned in it quite contrarie hee expressed therein very much affection and tenderness to her seeming to bee more sensible of her grief and sorrow for his sad fortune then of his own suffering Besides his letter to his wife hee wrote another to the Citie of Toledo The contents vvere as follovveth Iohn de Padilla's letter to his wife SEn̄ora If your pain did not more trouble mee then the losing of my life I should esteem my self entirely happie For death beeing a thing so certain to all Mortals the Almightie sheweth him a singular favor whom hee honor 's with such an one as mine which though lamented by manie is doubtless acceptable in his sight It would require more time then what I have to write you some things for your Consolation but that cannot bee allowed mee neither do I desire to deferre the reception of that Crown which I hope to enjoy You maie like a discreet woman bewail your own misfortune but not my death for beeing so just it ought not to bee lamented by any My soul since nothing els is left me I bequeath to you desiring you to entertain it as the thing which most affected you I do not write to Pedro Lopez my father becaus I dare not for though I was his Son in daring to lose my life I was not heir to his good fortune I will not extend my self any further becaus I will not trouble the Executioner to waite nor give waie for any one to suspect that to prolong my life I enlarge my letter My servant Sossa beeing an eie-witness of my end and to whom I have communicated the secret of my intentions shall tell you what cannot bee expressed herein and so I rest exspecting the instrument of your sorrow and my comfort Iohn de Padilla's letter to the Citie of Toledo TO Thee the Crown of Spain and glorie of the whole World free since the time of the mightie Goths to Thee who by the effusion of the blood of strangers aswell as of thine own hast recovered libertie for thy self and thy neighbouring Cities I John de Padilla thy legitimate Son now give thee an account how by the blood of my bodie thy former Victories are refreshed If fortune hath not suffered my actions to bee Chronicled amongst thy memorable exploits the fault was in my destinie not in my good will Which as a mother I desire Thee to accept since God hath given mee nothing els to lose for Thee but what I have adventured I am more aggrieved for Thy resentment then my own life But Thou must consider these are but the turns of fortune's Wheel which never standeth still This is my contentment and consolation that I the meanest of Thy children do suffer death for Thee and that Thou hast nourished at thy brests such as may take satisfaction for my wrongs Many tongues doubtless will busie themselvs in the relation of my death which as yet I know not my self though it bee very neere My end will give Thee a testimonie of my desire My soul I recommend to Thee as the Patroness of Christianitie of my bodie I make no account since it is no more mine neither can I write any more for at this very instant I feel the knife at my throat with a greater sens of Thy displeasure then apprehension of my pain SECT XXI THe Victorie beeing obteined at Villalar and the Commoners Armie quite routed presently dispatches vvere sent post to the Emperor giving him account of this good fortune And the Earl of Haro as Captain General wrote a particular relation to the Emperor of all the passages vvhich hee receiving at Bruxels the eighth of Julie hee ansvvered saying That although by other Letters of the 24 April hee had intelligence of the vanquishing and punishing of those Traitors for so hee called them yet hee vvas better satisfied to receiv it from his hand thanking him very much for all that hee had done in order to his service and for the affection and zeal vvhich hee expressed tovvards him in that emploiment promising at his return into that Kingdom to gratifie him according to the merit of his extraordinarie services hoping that by his endeavors hee should finde means to settle the whole Kingdom which hee particularly encharged him to use all his vigilance and industrie to procure And chiefly hee recommended to his care the War of Navarra which was of so great importance and that hee would assure the Grandees and Gentlemen which had engaged in his service that at his return hee would gratifie their Loialties according to their qualities and deserts The Commoners