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A26840	The history of the administration of Cardinal Ximenes, great minister of state in Spain written originally in French, by the sieur Michael Baudier of Languedoc ... and translated into English By W. Vaughan.; Histoire de l'administration du Cardinal Ximenes, grand ministre d'estat en Espagne. English	Baudier, Michel, 1589?-1645.; Vaughan, Walter.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1164; ESTC R6814	92,466	210

money and would have borrowed it of the Cardinal but he refused to lend it telling him boldly the moneys arising from his Ecclesiastical Revenues were neither his nor his Majesties but belonged to the poor of the Arch-bishoprick of Toledo whose necessities could not give way to the Loan he proposed Nevertheless the Cardinals merit prevailed more with Ferdinand than the memory of this Refusal having mused awhile his mind altered and he tells the Councellors Were it possible to frame a person of purpose fitted with vertues proper for the Government of my Kingdoms he could not be more capable than the Cardinal to discharge it if we could mitigate the excessive severity of his nature and temper it with some sweetness of disposition he hath to this time acknowledged Queen Isabels favours and mine and will certainly retain a grateful memory of them for the future with that he declared him administrator General of Spain and presently after breathed his last This change of the Testament at Burgos alarm'd the Governours of Prince Ferdinand they perswaded him to take on him the Government of the Kingdom and dispatch Patents in his name to the Councellors of State requiring their attendance to advise him in the Government One of them upon receipt of his Letters made Answer We will go to the Prince to pay him our respects but we know no King but Caesar which allusion to that piece of holy Scripture proved Prophetical Charles then King being afterwards Emperour The Cardinal in the mean time enters on the Government of Spain where he was so absolute that having long since the purpose of the Church he wanted only that of a Monarch and the name of a King he held the Government two years which he managed with prudence integrity and magnanimity inseparable from his actions he bore up couragiously against the disturbers of the publick peace and wisely appeased the Troubles of Spain checked and suppressed the boldness of the great Ones and plucked out of their hands the estates of the meaner sort ravished from them by violence and injustice insomuch that Spain did then acknowledge and confesses to this day She never enjoyed so perfect repose so secure a peace as under the conduct of the Cardinal who made it appear that the happiness of the people is so far from being inconsistent with the glory of Administration that the direct way for a Minister of State to acquire glory and honour is by imploying his cares with prudence and generosity to procure and promote the good of the People CAP. X. THE first Action he did after opening King Ferdinand's Testament which declared him Regent of Spain was The taking of Prince Ferdinand into his care And having given him a Retinue befitting his birth he kept him alwayes neer him to prevent the great Ones of Spain from drawing him to their party and making him their head to follow the motion of the members and to be at the discretion of his pretended Vassals After this he took order for performance of the honours due to Queen Germaine and the Maintenance of her family suitable to her dignity The Crosses that rendred his Conduct more illustrious attacqued him early Adrian of Vtrecht Dean of Lorain was sent by Charles into Spain in Ferdinand's sickness with Patents for the Government of Spain in case Ferdinand dyed After his death Adrian declared his Charge published his Patents in full Council and would have taken upon him the Soveraign administration of affairs The Cardinal opposed it and Remonstrates that by the Testament of Queen Isabel King Ferdinand was made Regent of the Kingdom untill Charles should have attained the Age of twenty years that Ferdinand being dead before that time he was by his Testament to succeed in his room And therefore the Regency belonged to him alone Moreover that by the Laws of the Kingdom it was prohibited that a Stranger should Govern the State and that Adrian being a Fleming his birth excluded him from what he pretended to This Contest had Abettors and maintainers on both parts the Cardinal had the good Patriots on his side and Adrian was upheld by the ambitious Grandees who desired nothing more than trouble to gain by Charles who was in Flanders must determine the difference but while his Judgement was expected the Cardinal and Adrian Governed joyntly and both signed all Orders and Commands though Adrian was but the shadow to follow the motions of the Cardinal as the substance acting in the publick Affairs The first that by Armes disturbed the publick peace was Peter Porto Carrero Brother to the Duke of Ascalon whose Successours are at this day Marquesses of Villa-nova This man of great power among the Portuguese beyond the River Guadiana stirred up the people on that side the River to take up Arms and set all in confusion throughout that Province his design was to possess himself by force of the great Mastership of St. James which the great Gonsalve pretended to and attended so long till death put an end to his pretensions his hopes his life and his displeasures Porto Carrero had obtained the Pope's Bulls to succeed Ferdinand in case he survived him On the other side Prince Charles who was in Flanders had the Pope's Bulls for the three great Commanderies of Spain The Cardinal upon the first news of Carrero's Arming without more ado sent towards him some Troops of his men at Armes under the Conduct of Ville Fanno who restored peace to the Province and beat the feeble Mutineer into more wisdom for the future The best remedy for Troubles raised by particular persons is the Publick Force This first Cloud thus dissipated the Cardinal brought the Court and Council to Madrid as a place where the Liberty of the Regency would be more absolute against the Grandees of Spain A Courrier arrives there from Charles with Letters to Queen Germaine the Council and Grandees containing his promise of coming into Spain the next Summer with Order to all that owed him obedience to pay it in the mean time intirely to the Cardinal These Letters came attended with private instructions to Adrian to found their opinions of the new Title of King of Spain which he had assumed on the death of Ferdinand Adrian speaks of it to the Cardinal and Council they wonder at the Novelty and Answer That by Ferdinand's death Charles had acquired nothing in Spain That the Queen his Mother lived there sole Heiress of the Kingdoms In their Letters to Charles they remonstrate that his Assuming the quality of King might cause trouble in the State by furnishing seditious Spirits with a pretence to take up Arms and declare that it was not Just to suffer the usurpation of the Royalty during the life of their natural Queen Charles answered that having taken upon him the quality of King at the request of the Pope and by advice of the Emperour it would not become him to quit it but would be of prejudice to his Authority and derogatory

he daunted it this insolent Proclamation that destroyed his Authority and Annulled his command But some dayes after with the generosity and gravity natural to him he sent for Navarr gave Orders and commanded him to do what was necessary and fit to be done Navarr obeyed him acknowledged his fault begg'd his pardon and was reconciled to him The Cardinal embraced him commended him in publick and told him he deserved worthily the name of Captain but after their arrival in Spain he set forth his humours and extravagancies to the King and advised him not to give him the Government of Oran nor any Authority in the Affairs of Africk that the haughtiness of his Nature rendred him unfit for such imployments and was proper only for the command of Armies wherein he behaved himself as a man of valour and great undertaking The Cardinal had in the mean time commanded the guards of the Port of Africk to send him all the Letters that came from Spain without any respect to their address to others they send him a packet directed to Navarr he opens it where he finds the Kings command to Navarr that if the Cardinals presence were requisite in Africk he should keep him there as long as he could and disswade him from crossing the Sea The Cardinal being of a temper natural to all great spirits Melancholick and Suspicious imagined the King had written this with design to ruine him and that supposing the strength of his Aged body much impaired by the toiles of the Warr he gave this command in hopes he would soon pine away and end his life there This hastened his return so that about the end of May he went on Board and soon after arrived at Carthagene The first Action he did after his Arrival in Spain was to Execute an Article of his Testament whereby he appointed that in case the Warr of Africk brought any Damage to the Villages of the Diocess of Toledo by reason of the great number of Peasants he had imployed in the Warr Reparation should be made out of his Estate which he did himself in all places where he held it necessary A vertuous man ought not to leave that good undone till his Death which he can perform in his life The Cardinal arrived at Court continued his good Counsels for the advancement of the State he proposed to Ferdinand to change the Residence of the Knights of Saint James from the Monastery of Volsan in Spain into the City of Oran in Africk And that to merit the Commanderies they should serve twenty years without parting thence that so many years elapsed they should succeed in the Commanderies by their Seniority and Services This said he will strengthen your Militia in Africk and render it formidably a number of Gentlemen who commonly exceed others in valour This advice if embraced had been attended with great advantages but the King refused it only to reserve in himself the power to preferr whom he pleased to these Commanderies The year following in the beginning of January the Army Led by the Cardinal into Africk continued their progress and advanced farther into the Countrey Peter of Navarr took the Town of Bugia and about the end of July following that of Tripoly but relapsing into his Vice of ingratitude against the Cardinal he joyned with Vianelli who followed his passion in endeavouring to rend in pieces the Cardinals name and destroy the reputation of him who had advanced him to the prime Offices of the Warr. But as great Men prosper by their Generosity so unthankful wretches perish by ingratitude Vianelli having abused an Ensign in Africk was by him betrayed to the Moors who stabbed him in his sleep Peter of Navarr soon after on change of Fortune changed his party and sideing with the French in the Wars of Italy was taken and imprisoned by the Spaniards where the miserable incommodities of a prison brought him to that height of despair that the Spaniards say he attempted his own life and in hope to end his miseries ended his dayes by his own hand so tragical was the Catastrophe of these two men signal for their envy and remarkable for their enmity to the glory of the Cardinal their Benefactour Peter Arias a valiant Captain famous for many gallant actions in the same Warr of Africk hath merited eternal praises for his constant payment of the respect and acknowledgements due to the Cardinal who imployed him This recommended him to the favour of the Court where he obtained the charge of General of the Fleet to the West-Indies against the savage Cannibals feeding on humane flesh There he became famous for his remarkable familiarity with death for being taken with an incurable malady that sensibly threatned to bring him lingeringly by degrees to his Grave and finding himself past hope of remedy he caused a Grave to be digged in a Church where he went every day to hear Mass which being ended he went to his Grave and lay along in it celebrating in his life his own Funeral As he lay in this Posture the Priest with his Laver sprinkled Holy Water over him and Chanted a Libera where it needed not This done he rose again before death went out of his Grave and made to his Lodgings His wife and friends imputing this Action to Melancholy more than Vertue or Devotion endeavoured to divert him from it But he seriously answered I Do this to Accustome my self by little and little to an habitation where I must long abide And though Dead men need no Accustomance to their Long home yet such was the Meditation of this gallant Captain Arias upon death which though a stranger to his mind in the Warrs where he had it daily in his Eye he practised in peace in all its parts and Circumstances Man better thinks of his end in repose and tranquility of Spirit than in the troubles of Affairs and passions that distract him The envy that attaqued the Cardinal in the beginning and progress of the Warr of Africk could not hinder him from obtaining over and above the glory of having planted the Cross there and extended the limits of Spain to the other side of the Sea the reputation of a Captain fit to command Armies generous in Enterprize prudent in Conduct and hardy in Execution Order and Discipline the soul of Warr as well as other Affairs of the World was wisely established and carefully kept during his command insomuch that the old Spanish Soldiers long after his death gave this testimony of his conduct in Warr that Captains and Soldiers were never in greater honour and esteem nor the Musters better paid than in his Time 'T is admirable that a Man bred in a Cloyster having never made profession of Armes imployed to the Age of Seventy years in Ecclesiastical Functions became capable in a Moment to command an Army like him in former Ages of whom it is observed that he went from the Republick less than a Soldier became by the way an