blowes with his Musket rest and would haue broken her bones if another whore of his acquaintance had not come in hearing the old woman cry who pacified him and lay with Señor Laurencio for so was his name that night O the Religion and conscience of these Catholike Spaniards that tyrannize farre worse than the Turke wheresoeuer they get the vpper hand But now to returne againe to the Iesuites who are the only commanders of this City whose words are Lawes yea Oracles among the Spaniards They preach and catechise young children twise or thrise a weeke yea the Souldiers doe take protestants children by force and bring them to the Iesuites to be instructed in popery Alas if I should tell you all the wrongs and misdemeanours that the Iesuites haue committed in this City and elsewhere this Pamphlet would grow to be a great volume The next Summer after the death of the Emperour Matthias the Iesuites of Liege kept a great solemne funerall for him which was as neere as I can remember in this manner First a noble mans sonne that was one of their Schollers being very richly attired riding vpon a great horse with an imperiall Crown on his head hauing a Canopy carried ouer him borne by six men attended on with a great traine representing the person of the King of Spaine another in the same manner representing the King of France others the King of Bohemia that is now Emperour and all other Catholike Princes Euery one of them hauing a guard of Souldiers both horse and foot all being the Iesuites Schollers They were all drawne out in their diuisions Souldier-like hauing their Captaines and other Officers who were Iesuites to lead them on in a great market place which is by Saint Pauls Church from whence the counterfeit hearse was brought forth carried and accompanied with many Mourners with that state and Ceremonies as great Princes are wont to be brought to their last home After that followed these Kings and Princes seuerally accompanied with their traine and guard hauing their banners carried before each of them placed by Heralds Then came the Breaden god their Sacrament carried by a Iesuit vnder a Canopie borne by foure schollers in white Surplices singing after that followed the Image of the blessed Virgin Mary very curiously wrought wherein wanted neitheir cost nor art carried vpon mens shoulders accompanied with many Iesuites and singing men and last of all came Wickliffe Iohn Hus Ierome of Pragus Martin Luther Caluin Beza M. Bucer P. Martyr Oecolampadius Zuinglius Bullinger Melancton Fox and Master Perkins all bound with iron chaines and led and guarded with a squadron of Deuils who made the Monks Friers and other Clergy men to skip for ioy to see those men that had writ en against them to be led captiue by Lucifer and his Angels The Hearse being thus attended by so many Kings and Princes the Sacrament the blessed Virgin and the blacke guard marcht forward to the Iesuites College where they all entered and fell to their prayers here might you haue seene Hus Luther Beza Perkins and the rest yea the Deuils with their Beads in their hands say Paters and Aues for the Emperours soule Truly I maruelled much to see the Iesuites permit those whom they call and condemne for Heretikes to enter into their Church and to accompany the blessed Sacrament and the blessed Virgins Image yea in my opinion they abus'd those Catholike Kings and Princes who were then and there represented to intrude those men into their company whom they neuer affected or loued and that which is worse to place Deuils to bring vp the reare of their armie All these Souldiers were the Iesuites Schollers and taught and instructed in military Discipline by the Iesuites themselues who are euery where martiall men and giuen tam Martiquà m Mercurio for in euery Army Leaguer Garrison or Nauie that any Catholike King or Prince hath there the Iesuites will be as busie as an Atturney in Westminster Hall in the middest of a tearme Hij Palladi oratores noui Philosophi in Castris non in Claustris versantur They had rather to be stirring abroad and follow the Campe than bee confined within the circuit of a Cloister And therein they doe imitate their Father Ignatius of infamous memory for he was a Souldier and so are they yea in euery one of their Colleges they haue Armour and munition to furnish many thousand Souldiers and besides there is not any one of them but knowes how to vse his Armes as if he had beene a Souldier all the daies of his life To conclude this funerall or Obsequies did cost the Parents and friends of these young Iesuiticall Kings and Princes by report aboue two thousand pounds sterling What shall I say The Iesuites haue beene the vtter ruine and ouerthrow of Don Sebastian the last King of Portugall and Algarbes for through their policie and wicked counsell he lost his Crownes and Kingdomes and in the end his life They haue beene the chiefest cause of all the ciuill Warres Massacres and troubles in France since the death of Henry the third of France to this present time These seditious infernall Locusts haue beene the only occasion of those bloudy warres betweene the King of Poland and the great Duke of Moscouia or Russia and againe betweene Poland and Swethland Haue not the Iesuites beene the cause of the losse of Voltalin the vpper and lower Palatinate And haue they not beene the cause of all these Wars Bloudshed Commotions Dearth Famine Persecutions Rapine Miseries Calamities and Destructions that haue hapned in Italy France Germany Bohemia Netherlands the seuenteene Prouinces and other neighbouring Countries Cities Townes and Common wealths these forty or fifty yeeres and vpwards I omit to speake of their seuerall trecherous designes against Queene Elizabeth of famous memory or of the Gunpowder treason or how that they haue beene these twenty yeeres banished out of all the territories of the Signory of Venice for their impostures and lewd practises and for being common disturbers of the peace and tranquillity of the common wealth Neither how they haue incroached vpon the priuileges and liberties of most of the famous Schooles and Vniuersities of Italy Spaine Portugall France Netherland Germany Poland and other Catholike Countries But I will speake a word or two more of their Colleges Churches Schooles and manner or method of teaching and so conclude First of all I would haue you to vnderstand that they receiue none into their Society but such as are either descended of great parentage and good friends whose greatnesse may countenance their designes and procure others to bee beneficiall vnto them or such as are wealthy to inrich their Colleges or learned and witty Schollers who by their workes writings are like to aduance the credit and reputation of their society or some Trades-men to be their Lay-brethren and Officers of their Colleges or else some cunning fly knaue or crafty companion to bee their Porter vpon whose
are reformed forsooth and are turned either Obseruant Franciscans or Recollects In their Habit they doe differ little or nothing from the Obseruants Their Churches and Cloisters are like the Conuentuals and the Obseruant Franciscans very faire and spacious built like Christ-Church in London Recollect Friers The Recollect Franciscans are a kinde of reformed Obseruants and doe differ little or nothing at all in Habit from the Penitentiarians but in their Rule Discipline and Ceremonies they are quite contrary the one to the other This Sect began of late yeeres and yet they haue at this instant Couents in all the chiefest Townes and Cities of Italy Spaine France and Netherland There is a Couent of English Friers of this Order at Doway in the Low Countries who are maintained by the beneuolence of our English Catholikes in England It is not aboue fiue or six yeeres since it was built and yet they begin to increase apace for they haue their Prouinciall and Collectors here in England as well as the other Friers Priests and Iesuites These Recollects must handle no money but they may possesse it and receiue and dispurse it by their Collectors Receiuers and Dispencers yet our English Friers may handle and possesse money when they are in England for they haue a dispensation from the Popes holinesse to handle and possesse both gold and siluer Capuchin Friers The most holy and renowned Sect of all the Franciscan Friers are the Capuchins who weare the like Habit as the Recollect and Penitentiarians doe sauing that in stead of Shooes they patch three or foure leather soles vnder their feet tyed ouer with leather straps and on their backs vpon their Habit they weare a peece of another old Habit sewed to their Frock in token of humility because forsooth they will not weare a new Habit without that patch forfeare that the world should imagine them to be proud And yet who is prouder than these Hypocrites in heart though not in habit Moreouer in their holy greasie stinking Cowle they differ from all the other Franciscan Babes for these men weare a long Cowle or Hood sewed to the necke or collar of their Frocke very small at the end or top I neuer beheld a Capuchins Cowle but I must needs thinke of a crying Bird which some call a Lapwing that breeds and liues vpon Heaths and Moores for this Fowle hath a tuft of Feathers vpon the head standing vpright and so is the Capuchins Cowle And truly I may wel compare these Capuchins to Lapwings not only for their heads but also because the one is very subtil and crafty for to protect defend their young ones and the others for the propagation of their Order or Sect. This Sect beganne neere about the same time that the Iesuits did start vp which was about the yeere of our Lord 1540. Their Author or Institutor was one Godefridus Veraglius of Buscano in the Prouince of Piemont in Italy vnder the Dominion of the Duke of Sauoy who was the first Generall of their Order This Godefridus albeit that in his youth he had liued in the thickest darknesse of superstition yet afterwards being inspired with diuine grace forsooke Popery and embraced the truth of the Gospell for comming vpon a time in company of Cardinall Carrafa who was sent as a Legat from the Pope to the French King he forsooke him and his Religion at Lions in France and went from thence to Geneua where being instructed and confirmed in the Christian Religion he remained for a certaine time and afterwards comming backe to Buscano his owne Country as he was trauelling thence towards Angeronia where he was chosen to be their Minister in his iourney at a place called Borgesio he was apprehended and thence brought to Turino where the Duke of Sauoy keepes his Court where after such time that he had constantly professed and defended the truth of the Gospell he was burned aliue to death before the Court gate in the yeere of our Lord 1557. Martyr lib. Hiâ—…oria Eccl. refoâ—m in Gal. Reg. lib. â— â—…l 158 Gal. Edit These Capuchins nor the Recollects or Penitentiarians neuer sing high Masse but all priuate Masses neither doe they sing but onely recite their Canonicall houres or vse any Organs or Hymnes or any Copes or Surplices as the Obseruant and non Obseruant Franciscans and other Monks and Friers doe but they reade their Office or canonicall houres leisurely and distinctly yea they reade so leisurely as one may write euery word they speake and to say the truth they cry or whine when they reade much like poore French Beggers when they begge almes at mens doores Moreouer the Quire or the place where they sit to recite their Office or Canonicall houres is behind the high Altar in the vpper end of the Church with a partition wall betweene in which wall right ouer the midst of the Altar there is a great hole or a window of Crystall Glasse thorow the which they may see the eleuation of their breaden god I meane their Sacrament when it is eleuated at time of Masse Their Churches are not very spacious but very neat and most commonly they haue therein but one Chapell or two at the most wherein is but one Altar set vp to say Masse Here I would haue you to vnderstand that all these Sects of Friers formerly mentioned or to be mentioned in this Treatise haue seuerall Ceremonies or to say more plainly apish tricks in singing or saying of the Masse and other diuine Seruice as for example the Capuchin Frier that serues at the Masse that is to say he that plaies the Clarke who most commonly is a Lay-brother and no Masse-Priest doth alwaies from the time of the Sacrament vntill the Offertorium that is to say vntill the Priest doth offer it as a Sacrificium placabile pro vniuis defunctis an acceptable Sacrifice for the liuing and for the dead to wit in Purgatory yea if they be well payed for Cow and Calfe the Frier I say that serues at Masse vpon his knees must stretch out both his armes right forth crosse wise so that his body may be like a Crucifix and for his paines he shall obtaine a great reward in Heauen and doth questionlesse merit say they either the deliuery of a soule out of Purgatory or else at leastwise some relexation of the paines of the same Carolus Boromeus Arch-bishop and Cardinall of Milan was once a Capuchin Frier and afterwards by dispensation from the Pope was promoted vnto all these honours And whithin a while after his death sanctified by Pope Paul the fift He was the first man that this Pope caused to be inrolled in the Catalogue of Saints This Canonization brought into the Popes Exchequer more than twenty thousand pounds as I haue heard the Milanesses themselues credibly report I saw vpon the ground where his body had beene buried For it was taken out of the graue againe vpon the Popes command to make Reliques of
signifieth a Sauiour and it is his propertie to Saue and no man else as the holy Scriptures doe witnesse Locor Theol. lib. 4. cap. 2. And Melchior Canus Bishop of Canary saith That that Societie being the Church of Christ they that attribute that title vnto themselues are no better than the Heretickes that doe vainly boast that the Church is no where abiding but with them The Iesuites on the other part affirme that the Society of Iesus was founded at the very point of his admirable conception vniting in his diuine person his humanity with his eternall nature Serm. de Vaderama pag 10. And that that was the first societie that God had with men And the first College thereof was the Wombe of the Virgin Mary And that it was but renued of late for diuers reasons and among the rest Bellarm. de Monach lib. 2. cap. 6. because that that feruour which is found in the beginning of a new Order exciteth men to piety which by little and little waxing cold it is needfull that new should be raised whereby that new may be entertained But as for the originall of this Society say they it is very ancient But if this be true I wonder why the Euangelists or the Apostles or any of the Fathers of the Primitiue Church or any other Writer vntill within these fourescore yeares neuer made mention of this famous Societie and noble College But indeed to lye and blaspheme is the ordinary trade of the Iesuites Let vs returne once againe to our Martiall Saint Ignatius indeed the first Institutor of this Iudaicall Societie of whom they report wonderfull things and among the rest they obserue that his name hath its signification from fire wherein they finde many yea infinite mysteries First of all as the Psalmist saith According to thy name O Lord so is thy praise throughout all the Earth thy right hand is full of Iustice As much thinke I may I say of Father Ignatius which signifieth a Saint composed of fire Serm. de Vald. pag. 10. and that in one of the names proper to God Our God is a consuming fire And on the other side saith he I perceiued that in his right hand hee carrieth the name of Iesus who was our Sauiour and Satisfaction And another saith Serm. de Deza pag. 112. That in these last times God hath spoken vnto vs by his sonne Ignatius whom he hath constituted heire of all things and in whom nothing is wanting but only the word whereby he made all ages Oh horrible blasphemie Valderama preached Pag. 74. That when Saint Ignatius plunged himselfe in the water vp to the very chin in the cold winter for to diuert a young man from certaine filthy desires one might say that Spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas the Spirit of the Lord was carried vpon the waters The same Preacher in another place saith Pag. 10â— That when this Saint resolued to quit the Souldiers life the very house wherein he then was moued the walls shaked the posts and beames trembled and all that were in it betooke themselues to flight and ran out of doores as fast as their legs could carry them euen as when some strange eruption of fire doth suddenly break out with furious flames in some high mountain So when this interior fire began to be discouered in him who before was cold and frozen in the things of God it lightned forth in such sort that it caused a thousand feares a thousand amazements a thousand firings of houses c. There was neuer any Aetna or flaming mountaine that did the like Hitherto are the words of Valderama Truly I am of opinion that this fire was transferred after his death vnto his Societie it may be vpon his prayers and intercession seeing they doe participate so much of it for out of the feruour of their mercenary Religion they haue euer since exercised the trade of incendiaries in all places and not contented with a thousand fierings of houses made by their Institutor they haue set all Christendome on fire neither is there any Kingdome Common-wealth Citie or Prouince which they haue not enflamed with warres seditions and persecutions and therefore Ignatius may be properly compared to Mount Aetna the very mouth of Hell and the Iesuites vnto himselfe in that respect Virg. Eglog Sic canibus catulo similes sic matribus haedos Noram Sic paruis componere magna solebam This Saint hath wrought more miracles than euer any man did for Valderama saith Serm. Vald. p. 1â— That it was no maruell if Moses wrought such great miracles for he did them by vertue of the ineffable name of God engraued in his Rod it was no maruell if the Apostles wrought such miracles seeing they also did them in the name of God But that Ignatius with his name written in paper should doe more miracles than Moses and as many as the Apostles c. is that which sheweth so wonderfull vnto vs Idem pag. 55. The Iesuites by the merit of Ignatius can cast out deuils ding dong For it happened one night that the Deuill had almost strangled him and twice or thrice he beat him cruelly but since the good Saint had a full reuenge of him for it hath beene often seene by experience that after many prayers haue beene made many Saints inuoked many and sundrie Relickes applied the last and best remedy hath beene the Image of blessed Ignatius laying it on the patient or one of his Signets shewing it vnto him and saying Per merita Beati Ignatij abi hinc Spiritus maligne By the merits of blessed Ignatius I command thee euill Spirit to be gone And presently he departed And is not this a powerfull yea a victorious Spanish Saint that now dominiers ouer the Deuill that was wont to beat and abuse him before Vine el brauo Spaniol que haze la barba al Diablo Oh braue Spanyard that dare shake the Deuill by the beard In his Sepulcher was heard most melodious singing Idem pag. 89. yea his Sepulcher seemed a new heauen and the Angels descended downe in whole Squadrons to play the fidlers albeit no Angell euer appeared vnto him in his life-time yet the blessed Virgin Saint Peter the eternall Father and his Son carrying his crosse appeared vnto him And the reason was saith the Author because it arriued vnto him at his death as it arriueth vnto great potentates of the earth As long as a King is in his Palaces and houses of pleasure the Guard suffer none to enter but men of note vnlesse it be some necessarie attendants but when the King is dead and that he is laid on an Hearse in the great Hall of the Court then euery one is admitted to come in As long as Ignatius liued there was none but Popes as S. Peter Emperesses as the Mother of God or some Souereigne Monarch as God and his Sonne which had the fauour to behold him but as soone as
and neare to this vp-start Lady and the Bathes Besides all the Copper that is brought from the vpper parts of Germany to Netherland or these parts is first brought thither to be refined In fine when the mistie fogges of superstition began to disperse and the glorious sun-shine of the Gospell to appeare it pleased God in this Citie among others the neighbouring Townes and Prouinces to call some to the true knowledge of his word in so much that the most part of the inhabitants thereof the Monks Friers Nuns and the other Clergy men excepted in a short time became Protestants and had Ministers and a Church in the middest of the Citie The Priests and Friers perceiuing how the number of the Protestants began to increase daily more and more that this counterfeit Lady was fallen sicke and could worke no more miracles because the Protestant Ministers had discouered their deceits and trumperies and spoiled their market and withal that the people came not with their offertories vnto them as in former times which was to their no small losse and hinderance They I say plotted how to preuent this danger and first they intended to bring the Iesuites into the City but this could not be for the Protestants were more in number than they and withall there was an equall number of Magistrates of either Religion for there were two Protestant Burghemasters and two Papists Then they practised how to betray the Citie to the King of Spaine but their treacherie was discouered and the Protestants betaking themselues to their armes preuented it and the Duke of Cleue who was then Protector of the Citie at their request put in a garrison of souldiers to defend them from the King of Spaines forces who neuer after attempted any thing against the Citie vntill after the Duke of Cleues death at which time by the treacherous plots of the Iesuites who were priuately lurking there sent an armie secretly vnder the conduct of Spinola and tooke the Citie by treachery and not by force of armes or valour and sets a garrison of foure thousand men therein all billeted or lodged in Protestants houses and they themselues constrained to abandon the City or else to liue no better than those that liue vnder the cruell tyrannie of the Turks And as for the Ministers some they put to death others escaped away to Holland and other parts Those of the Protestants that euer had beene Burghemasters that they found they put likewise to death and many other of the Townsmen that at any time withstood them vpon any former tumults or commotion fared no better I came to this Citie in the moneth of December 1616. where the next day I beheld to my no small sorrow a most lamentable tragedie which was as followeth As I would haue departed away I could not because the Ports or Gates were locked and all the souldiers in the Towne but onely those that had the watch drawne in their full compleat armes to the Market-place which is very spatious as big as Smithfield in London In which Market-place there was a scaffold set vp hard by the State-house vnto the which they brought a proper young man about six and twentie yeares of age bound hauing a Iesuite on either side who mounting the scaffold with a very sweet and chearefull countenance kneeled downe and said a short mentall prayer then rising and looking about him espied a friend of his hard by the scaffold vnto whom he cast his cloake intreating him to deliuer it vnto his wife who was in a corner of the Market-place a farre off together with many other women and children vpon their knees making the most lamentable noise that euer I heard and desiring God to iudge their cause This man lifting vp his hands pulled off his hat and making a low reuerence towards those women and many other Protestants that stood by them with a loud voice desired them all to pray for him and desired God to forgiue him all his sinnes for Christ his sake signifying further vnto them that the Iesuits had promised to saue his life if so be that he would confesse his sinnes and receiue the Sacrament the which said he I did being drawne thereunto by their faire promises and perswasions and the entire loue I bare to my wife children and kinsfolkes But now I am heartily sory for it and then kneeling downe again asked God the Reformed Church with teares forgiuenesse for said he I doe from my heart renounce all Popery and will die a member of the Reformed Church wherein I was brought vp Whereupon the Iesuits perswaded him to recant those words and to call to the blessed Virgin Mary for helpe but he would not saying that he was sory for that which he had already done And within a while he kneeled downe againe and the Executioner after that he had tyed a hand-kerchiefe ouer his eyes with a sword strucke off his head whereupon the Protestant women and children made such a lamentable crie that it made some of the Papists themselues weepe and pull their hats ouer their eyes This being done they presented to the view of all the beholders another pitifull spectacle more lamentable than the former A poore old man of about threescore and ten yeares of age whose name was Iohn Balkbernâ—r who being not able to go by reason of his long imprisonment which was aboue two yeares in a Dungeon as I was told where none of his friends was permitted to visit him or to administer any comfort vnto him hauing beene racked and tortured three seuerall times This man had beene one of the Burghemasters of the Towne and euer opposed himselfe against the Iesuites and the Spanish faction in the defence of the Liberties of the Citie Him they brought supported by the Hangman and his man to the scaffold accompanied likewise with two Iesuites and when he was got vp the scaffold all the drums in the Citie were beaten and the Trumpetters did found their Trumpets being set all round about the scaffold because that no man should heare what this poore dying-man said who lifting vp his hands and eyes often towards heauen in the end kneeled downe and receiued very patiently that fatall stroke the Executioner smiting off his head as he had done the former Whereupon the Protestant women and children made such a great cry as they had formerly done which made many of the Papists yea the Gouernour himselfe who was a Germane to weepe and shake his head The Magistrates of the City and the Emperours Delegats sate in a gallery on the side of the State-house to see the execution which being ended they withdrew themselues backe into the State-house where was a great feast prouided for them Good God how merry were the Iesuits Priests and Friers all that afternoone I protest to you I did see with mine eyes aboue twentie of them crossing the streets so drunke that they could scarce go or stand and when they met the Hangman they shooke
the King of Spaine who leaue nothing vndone that they make themselues plausible vnto you and your fauourers Now these traiterous Iesuites Monks Friers and Seminary Priests who aime at nothing else than to corrupt the fidelity of England and to withdraw the hearts of his Maiesties subiects from their obedience to their Soueraigne yea finally to plucke England Scotland and Ireland from due subiection to his Maiesty and to present them to this ambitious Philip of Spaine gained first of all secretly those whom they knew to be best affected to the Spaniards as some of the Priuy Councell Nobility Gentry and of his Maiesties Officers at Court and elsewhere and withall not few of our collapsed Ladies in whose laps these holy Fathers doe often lay downe their heads to take a nap nay which is worse they suborned and peruerted many of the Clergy and Students of either Vniuersitie to ioyne with them who O horrible shame make no conscience to sell for ready money their Eloquence and Knowledge which they ought to haue imploied in preaching the Gospell and instructing the simple people in the feare of God and obedience to their King to corrupt the constancy and fidelity of England but Quid non mortalia pectora cogit aurisacra fames What is it that gold will not doe These cunning Iebusites or if you will Iudaists are the King of Spaines trading Factors and Dispensers to distribute and pay his gold to his Pentioners that lurke about the Court of England so that by this meanes he hath still notice and intelligence of the estate of the Realme and withall they seduce the subiects as Cambyses heretofore espied and deceiued the Ethiopians These I say by meanes of their mercenary tongues omit no art that may serue their purpose to suborne England but vse all meanes possible to make his Maiesty odious vnto her and him vnto his subiects in altering as much as in them lieth by their flattering discourses the sincere amity and faithfull loyalty which English men haue alwaies intirely borne towards his Maiesty and his Ancestors either aggrauating euery seeming petty imperfection aboue his great perfection blaming and accusing his gouernment or else in attributing vnto the King of Spaine the glory onely due vnto our Royall Soueraigne and withall in all their Discourses magnifying the greatnesse and vertues of this ambitious Spaniard whom they paint out accomplished with all the perfections that may be imagined and briefly they forget nothing whereby they may withdraw England if they could from her King and withall gull you of your money to enrich themselues and their Colleges Cloisters and Seminaries in those forraigne parts But some Iesuite or one of that faction perchance may obiect that nothing moueth the King of Spaine to be at such great charges to maintaine so many English Seminaries Colleges and Cloisters in those forraigne parts and to transport from thence so many Monks Friers and other religious men into the King of Englands Dominions but onely to conserue among you the Catholike Religion Ah poore senselesse soules for Gods sake giue eare to what I shall briefly recount touching him and his Predecessors actions in this point and then you shall plainly perceiue whether the zeale that he beareth towards your Religion solliciteth him to be so charitable you vnto as you imagine Hath this great King or his Father or Grandfather spent their treasures or hazzarded the liues of their subiects onely for the aduancement of the Christian Faith against vnchristian Princes nothing lesse To verifie this to be true I will produce you these two examples Pope Gregory the 13. proposing himselfe to the aid of certaine Christian Princes to make an enterprise vpon the Persian for the augmentation of the Church of Rome requested that ambitious Philip King of Spaine this Kings Grand-father to giue him some succour which he not only flatly denied but which is more would not lend any of his Gallies albeit the holy Sea of Rome offered to charge them at her owne charges Moreouer how dealt he with the late King of Portugall Don Sebastian whose death all Christendome had sufficient cause to bewaile who desiring to assist Mulei Mahumet King of Fez and Morocco against Mulei Maluco his brother who had expulsed him his Realme a worke surely worthy of so noble a Prince and aduantagious besides to the Church of Rome for the good conditions he had compounded with the stranger required Philip his Vnkle to succour him in that expedition who accorded that hee should haue fifty Gallies equipped and foure thousand fighting men which Mulei Maluco the other brother perceiuing incontinently offered Philip certaine Townes on the Sea side to desist from his promise which he speedily accepted not shaming to breake his oath sworne to his Nephew to contract alliance with a barbarous Infidell so much did auarice raigne ouer him as to cause him to violate the Lawes of God and men but he was paid with the same mony that he lent for sending his Ambassadour Vanegas to take possession of the Towne of Rarach and others promised vnto him the Barbarians mocking at his treachery and perfidiousnesse constrained the Ambassadour by force of the Cannon to retire sooner than he was willing But it may be you will say he bare himselfe politikely in these two actions to conserue and maintaine his owne estate as if humane policy were to be preferred before the Law and honour of God I but for all this he hath shewed himselfe a very zealous Catholike and hath carried a particular respect towards thoâ—e that make a strict profession of his owne Religion well but let vs see if that be true After that he had inuaded the Kingdome of Portugall and that among infinite other Ladies he had banished into Castile the wife of the Agent of Don Antonio the lawfull King thereof his children and Mother in Law he drew three of his sisters chaste and religious Nunnes out of the Monastery of Saint Clare at Lisbone and confined them likewise into Castile But he hath dealt maruellous mercifully with them in sauing their liues albeit seruile and miserable Yea but sith the women are thus dealt with the men must be handled a little more rigorously and surely herein he hath thorowly acquitted himselfe witnesse a religious Frier named Iohn of the Order of Saint Dominick who for embracing the liberty of his Country was hanged in the I le of Madera Another Frier Hector Pintus of the Order of Saint Hierome was committed to the hands of certaine souldiers in Castile where he was afterwards impoisoned Frier Iames de Noronba another Dominican Frier and brother to the Earle of Mira was so cruelly beaten by the souldiers that were of his guard that he died A Doctor named Frier Augustine of the Order of Saint Augustine and one Frier Emanuel Margues a Franciscan Frier were both chained together with Rouers and Theeues in a Galley which was afterwards taken by the Turks vnder whose crueltie I leaue it to