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A33698	An account of the court of Portugal, under the reign of the present king, Dom Pedro II with some discourses on the interests of Portugal, with regard to other sovereigns : containing a relation of the most considerable transactions that have pass'd of late between that court, and those of Rome, Spain, France, Vienna, England, &c.	Colbatch, John, 1664-1748.	1700 (1700)	Wing C4991; ESTC R20800	212,299	370

very little of that Leudness in them which abounds in so scandalous a manner in those of another Country But though Crimes of this sort are not taught in the Play-House there yet it is much suspected that they are practised amongst them the Women that tread the Stage having no better Character there than in other Places And this I presume might be the Reason why their Admittance into Lisbon was so vigorously opposed by the Arch-Bishop who to put a stop to all Importunities in their behalf published an Excommunication against the Players in case they should Act and against all that went to see them It was in vain for the Fidalgo's to desire his Lordship to recall the Sentence but at last they apply'd themselves to Nicolini the Nuncio who had now a fair Opportunity presented him to engage a powerful Party against the Arch-Bishop nor did he let slip his Advantage It is true Religion and Vertue were like to suffer by what he was about but those of Rome think these are things to be minded when they prove subservient to their Designs he therefore without more ado takes off the Excommunication by Virtue of his Legantine Power The Play-House hereupon opens and fills the Fidalgo's flocking to it like so many School-Boys let loose from under the Discipline of their Master and perhaps the more eagerly that they might a little mortifie the rigid Arch-Bishop His Lordship withdraws for a time to his Country-House that he might not be a Witness to so great a Slur put upon him and to suppress his just Indignation against the Nuncio But this was only a short Mortification which considering the Occasion must doubtless have turn'd to his Lordship's Credit even among those that were pleas'd with it at that time The Court of Rome hath since thought convenient to present him with a Cap viz. in the Year 1697 at a Promotion wherein his Lordship and Monsignor Cornaro the then Nuncio at Lisbon were the only Persons advanced to the Purple Dom Anrique de Sousa de Tavares da Silva Conde de Miranda Marquis de Aronches Brother to the Arch-Bishop and acting in concert with him a Minister of great Sufficiency but too much as 't is thought addicted to his Pleasures He hath served in several Embassies as to England Spain Holland and remains well affected to the People among whom he has resided Insomuch that during the late War such as would needs have the Ministers of State to take Parties have always given the Marquess of Aronches together with his Family to the Allies and we may suppose them to be much in the right if we judge how the Noble Families stand affected to other Nations from the Alliances they contract with Foreigners This Lord having given his Daughter to the Prince of Ligne a Fleming Subject of Spain and Prince of the Empire who succeeds him in his Estate and Title the same Person who by Procurement of the Family was sent Ambassador Extraordinary from his Portuguese Majesty to the Emperor and made that splendid Entry into Vienna of which the Publick had so large an Account in the Gazettes c. If I do not mention the rest that are of this Honourable Body it is because I am not so well instructed as to be able to give a particular Account of them But I must not omit to mention the Secretary of State who tho' he hath neither a Deliberative nor a Decisive Voice in any of the Councils is yet as some term him the Primum Mobile of the whole Kingdom His Office is compounded of that of Clerk of the Council and another long since abolished but revived for a small time by the Conde de Castelmelhor he that executed it was called the Escrivam de Puridade Puridade in old Portuguese signifies Secrecy or Privacy but is now out of use in that Sense The Office seems to have been much the same as that of Privado in Spain or Prime Minister in France but nothing remains of it now at least in the Secretary of State but what is purely Ministerial The Office of Secretary at present as 't is a Place of Great Trust so it is in a manner a Place of infinite Business he gives an Account to the King of whatsoever is done in the Council of State he is address'd to by all sorts of People that have any thing to do at Court of what Nature soever their Business is he proposes the Matter to the King and returns his Answer and is apyly'd to by Foreign Ministers on all occasions This Place is at present executed by Mendo Foyos Pereira one rais'd by the House of Aronches and as some say greatly devoted to the Family He is a Person not so considerable for his Birth as for his indefatigable Diligence in his Employment of which he acquits himself so well that it seems to be without Reason that some represent him of a narrow Capacity Foreign Ministers find it to be much for their Convenience to Manage the Secretary and hold a good Understanding with him if they desire to have quick Dispatches or when Matters relating to the Ceremonial are in Question For if he be ill us'd they may chance to meet with more Rubs in their way than they look'd for The Nuncio's that have been on ill Terms with him have not been insensible of his Resentments However it is thought advisable by those that have to deal with this Minister that in the Measures they keep with him they beware lest he perceives they are in any Awe of him since an over-great Complaisance may be of worse Consequence than a Conduct that is quite contrary FINIS Books Printed for Tho. Bennet FOLIO THucydides Greek and Latin Collated with five entire Manuscript Copies and all the Editions extant Also illustrated with Maps large Annotations and Indexes By J. Hudson M. A. and Fellow of Vniversity-College Oxon. To which is added an exact Chronology by the Learned Henry Dodwell never before Publish'd Printed at the Theater Oxon. Athenae Oxoniensis Or an exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford from 1480 to the end of the Year 1690 giving an Account of the Birth Fortune Preferment and Death of all those Authors and Prelates the great Accidents of their Lives with the Fate and Character of their Writings The Work so compleat that no Writer of Note of this Nation for Two hundred Years is omitted In Two Volumes A new Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam By Monsieur de la Loubiere Envoy Extraordinary from the French King to the King of Siam in 1687 and 1688 wherein a full and exact Account is given of their Natural History as also of their Musick Arithmetick and other Mathematick Learning Illustrated with Sculptures Done out of French by Dr. P. Fellow of the Royal Society Father Malbranch's Treatise concerning the Search after Truth The whole Work compleat to which is added his Treatise of

Mistress she was and proves her to have been a most Endearing Wife and a Tender Mother Of the Queen Dowager of England HER Majesty being now to the great Regret of our Nation become a most considerable Part of the Portuguese Court this Account wou'd appear but lame and be more defective than it is should I forbear to mention her I have great Reason to believe that my Country-men wou'd think the Omission unpardonable finding them so very inquisitive as they are concerning her the first Question they put to such as come from Portugal and to which Satisfaction is most earnestly desired being commonly concerning their Queen-Dowager But her Majesty's Character is so well known to the World already that I shall not attempt it here To tell of her most exemplary Piety wou'd be no News in any part of Europe much less in England and it is needless to say that it is now the most distinguishing part of her Character For it was so while she Reign'd in one of the first Courts of Christendom and none will suppose her Majesty to be alter'd in this respect now in the time of her Retirement It did then as it does still give forth so bright a Lustre as to out-shine by far all the rest of her great Perfections which yet as those who are competent Judges and have the Honour to be near her Person affirm are such as would be highly admired in any other Person But tho' her Majesty be her self the same her outward Circumstances are somewhat alter'd since her leaving England her Court is lessen'd almost to a private Family those few Persons that waited on her from hence being for the most part either dismiss'd with their Salaries continued to them or excus'd their Attendance there is now no Noise nor Ostentation of Grandeur about her House but all things are quiet and still except it be on Days of Ceremony when Persons of Quality Will be coming to express the great Veneration they have for her then indeed her Court is as great and full as the Nobility of the Country can make it At all other times she convinces the World that the Formalities of Pomp and State are not inseparable from Majesty and that true Greatness instead of being set off by such Helps appears to the best Advantage without them But the Queen had doubtless a Nobler End still in getting Rid of those Incumbrances there being great cause to believe that it has been all along the chief Desire of her Heart to be at Ease and Liberty that nothing might divert her from enjoying her self as she now does at her Devotions Some speak of it as a considerable Alteration about her Majesty that the Jesuits are become her Directors whereas before she conferr'd that Trust on those of the Franciscan Order But her Majesty is not of a Character to be used by those Fathers as others may have been 'T is said indeed that they have tasted of her Liberality in a most plentiful manner but as great as their Profits are the Credit they have got by being favour'd by so discerning a Princess is certainly much greater since she cannot be suppos'd to have any Worldly Designs to employ them in For my part I take this Honour to be the greatest that ever was conferr'd on the Society and that by this mention of it I have more than made Amends for any thing I have said or may say to their Disadvantage Of the Late INFANTA DOna Isabel Luisa Infanta of Portugal was born the Sixth of January 1669 sworn Princess or Heiress to the Crown in 1680 died the Twenty-first of October 1690. This Princess was accounted one of the most Beautiful and Accomplish'd Persons of her Sex and Rank in Christendom and that not only by the Portugueses who admired her almost to Adoration but by more impartial Strangers such especially as bore a Publick Character who had frequent Opportunities to satisfie themselves that the favourable Esteem the World had for her was not without ground For which Reason and for the Prospect there was of her succeeding to the Crown 'till after the King's Second Marriage she was sought for in Marriage by most of the Princes and among the rest by some of the most considerable Monarchs in Europe as indeed there is none so great but might have accounted it a very advantageous Match The first that pretended to this Princess at least with any success was Victor Amedee the present Duke of Savoy Cousin-German to the Infanta Madame Royale his Mother Marie Jeane Baptist de Savoie Princess of Nemours being Sister to the Queen of Portugal His Pretensions succeeded so well that in the Year 1680 a Marriage was treated and soon agreed upon and nothing seem'd wanting to the final Conclusion but the coming of the Duke to Lisbon according to Agreement It will not be amiss to give what Account I can of this Match as how it came on and was unexpectedly broke off it being no inconsiderable Part of the History of this Age. It may easily be supposed that it was at first contrived between the two Mothers for howsoever it might have proved to others it afforded a very advantageous Prospect to each of them Madame Royale had been left sole Regent of Savoy during her Son's Minority by her Husband Charles Emanuel at his Death in 1675 But the young Duke entring at this time upon his 15th Year had a little before been declared Major and therefore should he have taken upon himself the Government her Authority was like to suffer no small diminution nor was there any so likely an Expedient to continue the Power in her Hands as the Duke's being sent away into Portugal the Desire of Rule together with the Ambition of becoming Mother of a King might make this Princess give a listning Ear to her Sister's Proposals The Queen of Portugal for her part as she had a great hand in the setting up of his present Majesty so she had a great share with him in the Government but her Power was not like to continue so great should a strange Prince be admitted into Court especially in case any thing should befal the King but by this Marriage between her Nephew and her Daughter she secured her Authority and took the best Measures to establish it both for the present and against the time to come These may be supposed to have been sufficient Inducements on both sides for the two Princesses to desire a Match between their Children and considering the great Power that each of them were possess'd of in their respective Dominions one would think there was no need of the Intervention of any others to bring the same about But some will needs bring the French in upon the Stage for in this latter Age there must nothing of moment be done in any Court of Christendom but what they have a hand in The Match indeed was for the Interest of France and that seems to be a great Argument why

small Sum of Money small I mean in respect to the Necessities of that Crown which are such that all the Great Duke Rich as he is could give with his Daughter would go but a little way to supply them Whereas the Infanta of Portugal besides the hopes that a Marriage with her might prove an Engagement upon the King her Father to enter into the Alliance that was then forming against the French was like to bring along with her a further Prospect of Re-uniting Portugal to the Spanish Monarchy For tho' the King her Father was now married again and the Queen big with Child a Second-time yet it was the general Opinion then that none of King Peter's future Issue would be long-liv'd But the great Concern at Madrid being to procure for his Catholick Majesty a Princess that might secure the Succession and so prevent the Dissipation of the whole Monarchy and there being none in Europe so promising in that respect as the House of Nieuburg the Princess Mariana was for that Reason preferred to the Infanta of Portugal 5thly The Electoral Prince Palatine of the Rhine who succeeded so well in his Pretensions that a Marriage was in a manner concluded on insomuch that it was once thought the same Fleet which carried his Sister to Spain would return with his intended Spouse But this Match likewise was broken off on a sudden I know not how but the Blame is laid wholly on the Portuguese Ministers And such as pretend to be well acquainted with the Affairs of this Court reckon the Miscarriage among the greatest Bevues they are charged with 6thly The Dauphin of France This Prince is said to have been the first that was proposed to the Infanta and that France did its utmost in his behalf before either his Marriage with the Princess of Bavaria or the Infanta's with the Duke of Savoy was ever thought on that is to say before the Infanta was yet marriageable So that it seems they resolv'd to secure her if possible to themselves she being at that time look'd upon by all as the undoubted Heiress of the Crown her Mother being then living and in no hopes of any other Issue But for the same reason there was such opposition made to all Overtures in the Dauphin's behalf that it was impossible their Pretensions should take effect but howsoever this was 't is agreed that he was the last Pretender and as his Pretensions were prosecuted with more warmth so they were more readily hearken'd to than the King his Father's For now the Case was altered in Portugal as well as in France the Portugueses began to conceive great hopes of the King's Issue by his Second Marriage as knowing perhaps the sinister Opinion of the World in that respect to be without ground Nor was the Dauphin's having three Sons at this time any Exception against him for he was still an advantageous Match for an Infanta of Portugal that was now losing all hopes of succeeding in the Throne and much to be preferr'd to an Elector of the Empire especially one outed of his Dominions and reduced to so low an Estate as the Palatine was at that time wherefore this Match was said to be in as great a forwardness as any of the former I have been credibly inform'd that the King us'd to console the Infanta during her Illness with the Hopes of its happy Conclusion But it was then too late this Princess having been so often frustrated in her Expectations was not as we may well suppose over forward to entertain hopes of this kind this Match could not be more sincerely design'd than some of the former had been and therefore was as liable to be broken off as the rest were but what the Success of it would have been is uncertain Death preventing the Infanta's being ever disappointed again She departed this Life October the 21st 1690 just a Year after the Birth of Prince John the surviving eldest Son of the late Queen the promising hopes of whose Life together with the Queen's being great of another put an end to her Expectations of ever ascending to the Portuguese Throne and consequently she who had for several Years been the Idol of that Nation must of course have had the Mortification to see their Zeal cool'd on a sudden and their Devotion directed another way and her self no doubt forc'd to go along with the Stream and bear a part in the Publick Rejoicings and Congratulations for the cause of her Exclusion Portugal which from her very Infancy she had been taught to call her own being now become another's was but an uneasie place for her and the rather because she began to think herself confin'd to it and to lose all hopes of Reigning elsewhere there being now scarce one Throne left vacant for her who had been so much contended for by almost all the unmarried Sovereigns in Christendom so that at last she began to think of taking up with a Cell expressing her Apprehensions to those that freely convers'd with her of her being like to end her Days in a Monastery thinking perhaps that after so many Miscarriages the Treaty then on foot was not much to be depended on These things may be supposed to have gone to the Heart of this Princess so as to add to that Grief and Melancholy which as 't is believed contributed to the hastning of her end There were malicious Reports spread throughout Europe soon after her Death which would needs have it that she was hurried out of the World in a more violent manner I shall not relate them being well satisfy'd of their Untruth after the exactest Enquiry I could make concerning them they are supposed to have been first rais'd by the Partisans of France who are not wanting in their turn to lay hold on all Occasions to blacken their Enemies It was for the Austrian Interest say they that the Succession should be secured to the King's Children by his Second Marriage and therefore as they will needs have it some extraordinary Means must have been used to remove the Infanta out of the way as if the Sister could upon any pretence dispute the Succession with her Brother But fearing belike that this was not Ground sufficient to support their Calumny they have themselves endeavour'd to give a mortal Wound to the Honour of the deceased Princess and thereby far exceeded the Cruelty they suppose to have been shewn her by others But it is a sufficient Answer to all their Slanders that such impartial Persons as are well acquainted at the Court of Lisbon do affirm That they never heard any call the Vertue of that Princess in question that his Majesty had ever shewn himself a most tender Father but more especially as she drew towards the latter End that the Extreme Unction was administred to her on the Day of her Death in the presence of Cardinal Dom Verissimo de Alemcastro one had in great Veneration by the Portugueses for his great Probity and Innocency of Life

by that Great and Noble Prelate Dom Lewis de Sousa now Cardinal Arch-Bishop of Lisbon The hardest thing that had any probability in it was reported by the French People that had been in the Service of her Mother who pretended that a Coffin was brought into her Chamber some Days before she expired Which supposing the thing to be true might be done only to put the Princess in mind of her approaching Death and therefore well design'd among People that are Religious in good earnest As for the Conde de Atouguia whose Death perhaps was the cause why these Reports were entertain'd in the World he was advanc'd in Years and was a married Man and so that formal Story of a Marriage of Conscience must necessarily be false It is not deny'd but that he was found dead one Morning in the Court of the Palace but the Government did not think fit to make any strict Enquiry by what Hand or for what Reason this Nobleman fell and therefore it becomes not private Persons to take that Liberty Of the KING's Issue by his Second Marriage DOM JOHN c. I have not seen a List of the rest of his Names if he had any more than one But Father Leopold Fuess the Queen's Confessor in a Letter to Padre Vieira assured this later that her Majesty while she was big of him promis'd to give this Son of hers she not doubting but it would be a Son the Sur-name of Xavier He was born in the Year 1688 on the 30th Day of August whence Vieira proves him to be the Gift of Xavier For counting backwards from the Day of his Birth he finds that he must have been conceiv'd upon the Eve or the Day of St. Francis Xavier which is the First or Second of December so that it seems there was a double Reckoning among the Jesuits For Padre Balthesar Duarte counts from the Twenty-first of November which was the Day when her Majesty first made use of Xavier's Cap. One would think that so short-liv'd a Prince for he liv'd not above Seventeen Days should give no further Trouble to a Writer than barely to tell of his coming into the World and going out again and doubtless we should have heard no more of him had not the great Vieira design'd him for the Universal Empire and resolv'd that he might not lose the many good things he had written on that Subject to continue him in the Government in spite of Death it self But as the Case stands whiles that Father shall have Credit with Posterity as if any regard be to be had to the Judgment of the present Age his Authority will go on increasing while Portugal is a Nation this Prince will have a fair Chance to make a greater Figure in the Chronicles than any of his Predecessors If I should undertake his History according to the Account this Father gives of him I must be forced to go back for 500 Years and to continue his Reign I must look I know not how many Ages forward I should not give my self that trouble were this the Rêvery of one single Writer but he grounds his Doctrine upon a certain Revelation that for this last Age hath been receiv'd almost for Gospel by the whole Nation but more especially among the Learned there having been scarce a Writer whether Historian or Divine that hath appear'd of late Years but hath either spoken of it at large or referr'd to it as an unquestionable Truth and since it contains a Prediction that must if ever be accomplish'd in our time some Account of it is necessary to them that would be acquainted with the present State of Portugal This Revelation is pretended to have been made to Alfonso Henriquez the first King the Evening before he receiv'd that Title upon the Vigil of St. James in the Year 1139 this Prince being then encamped in the Plains of Ourique at the Head of a handful of Portugueses against five Kings commanding an Army of 400000 Mores according to them that speak modestly most Writers make the Number to be much greater as he was musing on the Business of the next Day when the Battle was to be given he chanced to fall into a Slumber and dreamed he saw an Old Man coming to him and bidding him Be of good Courage for that he should obtain an entire Victory over the Infidels And while he was yet in his Dream one awakening him told him That there was an Old Man without the Tent to speak with him Who being introduc'd was known by the Prince for the same he had just before seen in his Sleep and proved to be a Hermit that liv'd in a Cell hard by The Hermit gave him the same Encouragement as before but told him withal That God had fixed the Eyes of his Mercy upon Him and his Seed until the Sixteenth Generation wherein his Off-spring should be diminished in quâ attenuabitur Proles tua but when it was so diminished he would have regard and see to it in quâ attenuatâ ipse respiciet videbit Ordered him when he heard the Hermitage-Bell that Night to come without the Camp and Alone Alfonso doing as he was bid saw a shining Ray towards the East increasing more and more and while he was attentively looking on it he saw within it a Cross more resplendent than the Sun with our Saviour upon it attended by a multitude of young Men in white whom he took to be Angels Alfonso expostulated with our Lord for appearing to him rather than to the Infidels as if he came to increase the Faith of one that believ'd already Christ told him That he did not come to increase his Faith but to encourage him against the Battle commanding him to accept the Title of King which his People should give him next Day And continued For I am He that build up and scatter Empires and Kingdoms and I will establish to my self an Empire in thee and thy Seed after thee that my Name may be made known to Nations that are afar off c. This Account tho' more at large and with other Particulars in it that are not to our present purpose is contain'd in a Paper with Alfonso Henriquez's Name to it and those of several Lords and Prelates for Witnesses It is said to have been sworn to by Alfonso thirteen Years after he had seen the Vision but it lay hid and no mention was made of it for above 400 Years tho' it hath since been pretended that some obscure Intimations of the Story are to be found in old Writers particularly the famous Poet Camoens who indeed hath something like it with almost the very Words of Alfonso's Expostulation and it seems that he either took it from the Paper or the Composer of the Paper took it from him It was found out at last in the Year 1596 in the Cartorium of the famous Monastery of Alcobaça founded by this King and a Copy of it was sent to the Court at Madrid for

Considerations could have done and consequently if the English have not met with a suitable Treatment in his Kingdom the Fault ought to be laid wholly on his Ministers and Inferior Officers If the Priviledges of our Countrymen residing in Portugal granted and confirmed by so many of his Royal Ancestors and ratified by Solemn Treaties have of late Years been either manifestly violated or eluded by all the little Arts of Chicane if during the last War his Maritime Towns that were almost the only Ports in Christendom left free and exempt from our Dominion became Nests for French privateers and Irish Pyrates if by Reason of our Religious observation of the Peace with Portugal these Corsairs found a safer retreat at Lisbon O Porto and Faro than at Merseilles St. Maloes or Dunkirk and our Merchant Fleets were more infested upon the Portuguese Coasts than those of France or in the Straights if our Ships taken under their Castles and in their Rivers were carried up and dispos'd of in sight of the King's Palace whereas by an express Article in our Capitulations all English Ships by whomsoever taken when brought into any of the Portuguese Dominions were to be restored to the right Owners and lastly if on these and all other occasions a greater regard was had to the French Menaces when they could do nothing else but threaten than to our Complaints while we had the Remedy in our own hands if any of these things were so the Blame ought surely to be laid wholly upon the Ministers to whom the King as hath been said defers so much in the management of Affairs a Prince of his Portuguese Majesties Honour Justice and Prudence cannot be supposed to have had any part in such unaccountable Proceedings but whether any of these things were so it belongs to the Persons more nearly concern'd to make out In matters which fall more immediately under the common observation our English Traders residing in that Kingdom have great cause to be satisfy'd with the Portuguese Nation where they are treated with all the Respect and Civility they can look for by a People who cannot be insensible of the great Advantage that our Trade brings to their Conntry for we furnish them with Necessaries of Life in exchange for Supplies to our Luxury We Cloath them with our Woollen Manufactures and Feed them in a great Measure with our Fish from Newfoundland and in Exchange for these Commodities we rid the Country of their Wines and that at excessive Rates which all of the wiser and better sort among them think much better parted with at any rate than kept at home Nature having provided them a more wholsome and agreeable Liquor But it is not only the Benefit of Trade that recommends our Countrymen to the Portugueses their fair and generous Dealing in their Commerce used to gain them such Credit that Palavra de bum Ingrez the Word of an English Man hath been taken for the best Security its true that in the Inland Parts the horrid Ideas the People had of Hereticks as they take us to be made them look upon our Countrymen as a strange sort of Monsters insomuch that when our little Army first march'd into the Country the Peasants instead of blessing them as their Deliverers would watch for opportunities to do a mischief to the Straglers but the first Campagne ended they found them to be quite another sort of Creatures than they had imagined and began not only to take them for Men but for something more finding them to be as Peaceable and Gentle in their Quarters as they had been Fierce in the Field for instead of Domineering over their Landlords and playing the Tyrants as the French men did our Soldiers spent their time in serving the People they were quarter'd upon and doing any Work that was needful in the Family such an obliging Carriage in Men whose Bravery they had so much cause to admire so alter'd their Sentiments concerning these Hereticks that should an English man travel in the most unfrequented Parts of the Country where the English Name hath been scarce heard of either before or since the War he shall be received and caress'd with all the welcome the poor People can make when a French man shall run the Risque of being knock'd o' the Head I have mention'd this matter the rather because the Manners of our Countrymen seem to be so much changed of late Years that perhaps it will be as great News to them as any thing I have related for possibly the People of Ireland and Flanders may differ much from the Portugueses in their Opinion concerning our English Soldiery The common People about the City are not observed to be guilty of any Rudeness towards the English on account of their Religion such as have had cause to think themselves most exposed to affronts on this occasion having never met with any which in my Opinion ought in Justice to be ascribed to the Humanity of the Portuguese Nation after they have been a little conversant with us as well as to the Prudence of the Government It is true that opprobrious Language to Strangers is so severely prohibited that upon complaint made against any that shall call an English man Heretick no punishment short of Death or the Galleys will be thought too great for the Offence We had like to have seen the last Year an example of the King's Justice upon an Offender of this sort a certain Lawyer in his Pleadings was pleased to bestow upon the English the Titles of Hereticks Lutherans Schismaticks Excommunicated Persons c. Complaint hereof being made to His Majesty he gave command that the Lawyer should be Imprisoned in order to his further Chastisement the Man took Sanctuary in the Church but it was resolved in Council that his Crime was of that Nature that the Church could not protect him and an Order was given out to force him thence but the Criminal as I have been told since died soon after and so put a stop to further Proceedings And this makes me almost astonished at the Hardiness of the Inquisitors who in the preceding Year viz. 1697. took an occasion to publish an Edict in all Churches which is to be seen at this day on most of the Church Doors I am sure it was not long ago and is like to remain for many Years as other Orders of the Inquisition that stand by it have done it being Excommunication to take them down wherein the English in general are Stigmatized not only for Hereticks but for Usurpers likewise but this is an Offence of too heinous a Nature for a private Person to animadvert upon and therefore I shall content my self with having only mention'd it FINIS