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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51119	The Spanish Otes, or, The unparallel'd imposture of Michael de Molina, executed at Madrid in the year 1641 faithfully translated out of Spanish.; Tratado de falsedades. English	Quiñones de Benavente, Juan de, 1600-1650.; Molina, Miguel de, d. 1641.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2386; ESTC R1132	4,278	7

THE Spanish OTES OR The Unparallel'd IMPOSTURE OF Michael de Molina Executed at Madrid in the Year 1641. Faithfully Translated out of the Spanish LONDON Printed by J. Bennet and are to be Sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner 1685. Michael de Molina Of Cuenca in the Kingdom of Castile To Titus Ambrosio of Salamanca in the County of Rutland Greeting FEw Words are best among Friends Here 's a Plot for your Plot and a Hanging-Speech into the Bargain The One may serve for your Instruction and the Other for your Example Michael de Molina The Spanish OTES c. MIchael de Molina Born of Honest Parents at Cuenca a City in the Kingdom of Castils bred there in the Jesuits Colledge and after at the University of Alcala de Henares to try his fortune went thence to Court where to gain a living speedily he Undertook to give Secret Intelligence to the Secretaries of the several Ambassadours then residing at that Court and to give the more Credit to his Reports gave out That he was Servant to Andrew de Rojas Cavalier of the Order of Sant Iago and Secretary of the Councell of State Insomuch that he Forged Letters Feigned Discourses Framed Intelligences fitted for the Purposes and Affairs of the Ambassadours wherewith he dealt Counterfeited the Kings Hand Invented Cyphers made Consultations and Orders to the Number of 345 several Papers and all with that dexterity that he Deceived and Abused not only the Secretaries of the Emperour the Venetian and French Embassadours but also and most of all Don Lorenzo Coqui Secretary to the late Don Lorenzo Campegi Nuntio to the Pope in whose House he was at length Apprehended upon whose Apprehension and Search of Papers he told the Officers That if the Tenor of those Papers should be looked upon as Jests and Conceits he should not speed so Ill but if as a Crime it would appear so great that one life would not be enough to pay for the same And his Majesty taking notice that the business was of that Importance that the like had not been heard or found in any History Cammanded that there should be on purpose a Court of Justice composed of Two of the Chief Nobility and Two of the Chief Judges before whom when the said Michael de Molina was sufficiently convinced and had made a large Confession which for its matchless strangeness shall be Verbatim set down he was sentenced as followeth IN the Town of Madrid July 31. 1641. the Lords of his Majesties Counsell who by Particular Order have taken cognizance of the Accusation given in by Don Marcellino Faria de Guzman Attorney Nominated by his Majesty for this Cause against Michael de Molina late of Cuenca Prisoner in the Gaol of this Court for Offences and High-Treason Committed by him whereof he hath been Accused do Condemn the said Michael Molina to be Hanged on a Gallows and his Goods to be Confiscated to the Kings use the Execution whereof they leave to the Lord Judge D. John de Quinnones and this is their Will and Pleasure This Sentence was made known to the Prisoner upon the First of August and Execution done accordingly in the Placa Major of Mad●id the Third day following at which time and place the Proclamation usually made at the Execution was thus THis is the Justice which the King our Sovereign Lord Commandeth to be done upon this man for having Committed HIGH-TREASON and Published FALSITIES FORGERIES and HORRIBLE CHEATS on the Affairs and Grave Ministers of State for which he Commands that he be Hanged by the Neck till he Die to the end that it may be to him for a Punishment and to others an Example then Concludes Quien tal haze tal pague He that thus doeth let him thus pay for the same As he stood upon the Ladder ready to be turned off he delivered in Writing to father Andrew Emanuel of the Society of Jesus a Declaration the Contents whereof ensueth Word for Word LOyal Subjects of our Sovereign Lord the King I am Michael de Molina Born at Cuenca the Grievousness of my Crimes is so great that a Punishment can hardly be invented to Equalize mine Offences against God against our Sovereign Lord the King whom God Preserve against the Emperour against my Native Country against the Lord Duke de Oliverez and Sant Lucar against the most Grave Faithfull and Loyal Ministers of State whom I have Discredited with my Forgeries and Lies The Clemency of the King our Sovereign whom God preserve hath been very Eminent in Sentencing me so Mercifully God grant to whom I now go to render a Strict Account that there be found Mercy for me in Life to come and that I then pay not for the clemency shewed me here I do here declare and confess upon mine own free will that not having the fear of God nor Man before mine eyes I have been the cause of the greatest part of the mischiefs that this Monarchy suffereth and of those calamities and miseries which you faithfull people yet suffer for which I humbly beg pardon of all those that are Absent as well as of you here Present For I am the man that Feigned that the King our Sovereign Lord whom God preserve and the Emperour Instigated thereunto by the Lord Duke of Saint Lucar and Fomented by him did Plot the Death of our Most Holy Father Vrban the 8th Pope Head of the Church and Vicar of Christ for which purpose I Invented and Contrived Orders of the King our Sovereign and of the Emperour LETTERS from the Duke ORDERS INSTRVCTIONS and IVDGMENTS of the Counsellors of State with Letters from Vice-Roys and Embassadours with purpose to abuse and deceive the Nuntio and the Embassadours of several Princes and thereby to get Money from them not caring for the dammage might arise and accrue from thence to the World and to this Monarchy and not contented herewith I Invented that in case the said Death could not be Effected that then Endeavour should be to call a Councell and to Depose the Pope or make a Schism in the Church I Invented and Forged that the Lord Duke did by Order from the King the Emperour and the Counsell of State Endeavour to Kid the Cardinal Rich●lieu Favorit to the most Christian King of France for which purpose and for the Death of the Pope I Feigned Persons that were to have been Instruments of the same I gave notice to the Ambassadours hereof shewing them Letters and Orders which I feigned as I judged meet I made them believe that I was an Officer of the Counsell of State that by that means I came to the knowledge of these Plots Conspicaties whereby I have disturbed the World Caused Ielousies and Suspicions amongst all the Princes of Europe and the Mischiefs that this Monarchy now Suffereth I also advertised the Embassadours the Enemies of this State of LETTERS CONSVLTS Orders and Decrees made by the King and Counsel for driving the French out of Piemont