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A16597	[The copye of a letter, sent by Iohn Bradforth to ... the Erles of Arundel, Darbie, Shrewsburye, and Penbroke, declaring the nature of the Spaniardes, and discovering the most detestable treasons, which thei haue pretended ... agaynste ... Englande. Wherunto is added a tragical blast of the papisticall tro[m]pet. by T.E.]	Bradford, John, serving-man.; Bradford, John, 1510?-1555, attributed name.; T. E., fl. 1556. A tragicall blast of the papisticall trompette for maintenaunceof the popes kingdome in Englande.	1556 (1556)	STC 3504.5; ESTC S112650	41,263	110

onely require her bloude with condemnyng such malefactors for euer more therfore but also would plage the whole realme most greuouslie for such wickednes But if I wer worthy to geue your lordesh●ppes counsel ye sholde banishe from the courte except whē the king is present which wil be very seldom what wai soeuer ye work mistres Clarentius Elizabeth Dyas the Ladie of phisike I know not her name and all other that speake Spanishe I wil not say that like foolyshe girles doe loue Spaniardes whyche might seme like to geue the Quene counsell in these matters For they vndoubtedly haue and dooe beate into her heade more then all you cā deuise to pull oute The Spaniardes knowe not whether the crowne do belonge to the Quenes maiestie or the realme whether it be in her power to geue it wher please her or in the power of the whole realme to bestow it lawfulli wher it of right shold be neuertheles they can wel be contented to flatter youre lordeshippes till that be perfectly proued And if they receiue any comforte therin to bribe you freli til the same be deliuered but then they must begin to gouerne and beare rule For which gouernmēt would to god I knew their counsels or els that your lordships woulde beeleue that whiche I haue heard and sene I haue founde other letters which I woulde not that any man should credit touching mi lord Paget That he should be the kinges aduersarie and the French kings sede debite to declare vnto him all youre counsels But in these letters be conteined diuerse other as the lord Treasorer is counted the kinges ytter enemye the lorde Talbot is not their frende the lord Grey they trust not the lord Clinton thei loue not therfore they think if these and diuerse other lords in the North were made awaye thei should be in lesse daūger and the rather obtaine their purpose And yet thei say thei must of necessite flatter my lord Treasorer and my lord Paget craftili til thei mai obtaine their purpose Because thei two bee apte vessels to worke treason by Ye may well perceiue therfore that they will flatter al you seeīg they flatter these whom they take for their enemies and so fayne these lies againste my lord Paget inuented treaterously to make him out of the way with the rest For if euer the kinge beare rule these which I haue named shalbe examined as straitlye as the Spanishe lawes wil extende to hādle the kīgs enemis There be many other noble men whose stowtnes must be pulled down their power abated I write not this to bring any of these noble men in suspection but that ye maye perceue what wayes thei inuente to bring variaunce amongest you that thei might be called to mak agremēt ▪ for thei hope if one part of the nobilite would once withstande the other that then shoulde they be receiued thoughe they preuaile not beefore time But reade further and you shal know the trueth They thinke your lordeshippes my Lorde Admiral the erle of Oxforde and diuers other to be their frendes therefore they purpose if euer they beare rule to ioyne with you in councell for a time the state of the realme once knowen let you die pleasauntlie with racking hanging drawyng quartering and whirling vpō whils ius●ly according to youre desertes ye wil say the king doth not vse his coūsellers so in any countrei in dede the king hath in euery countrey certene churles of the same lande picked out whiche be craftie knaues and canne finde at their hartes for their owne lucre and priuat gaynes to inuent all the waies possible to pole their own country according as his counsel can deuise to commaunde them and to liue as ye shal reade hereafter according to the nature of Spaniardes and so the true men to their country are traiterouslye ouer come perforce but thei make another reasō for your destructiō and sai thei may not trust those men long in the counsel nor about their king nor kepe thē in auctorite that willingly will bee false traitors to their own country I foūd two peces of a letter but the third I could neuer finde or els I shold haue knowen perfectlye what bribes had been appointed for euery noble mā wherin the Erl. of Penbroke was appointed to be gouernour of the kingdōe of Granatha and to haue fourtie thousande crownes of yerely rēt but thei purpose he shall enioye it but a short time Do ye thinke my lord of Penbroke that ye shall haue fourtie thousande crownes from Granatha and liue safely in England ye muste goe thether with the king or some other to take such sure possession that ye shal neuer returne For I assure you thei dare not geue you so much power more thē ye haue and let you liue in your own countri ▪ bee ye assured ye shall offende their lawes a thousande times before ye know them and your head shall perhaps pay for the first My lord of Darby shal perceiue that nother he nor his sonne shal liue long after the kīg is crownd The Erle of Shreusbery may well perceiue they flatter hym shamefully when they goe about to destroy the noble lord Talbot I am sorie that my lord of arundell hath escaped so many treasons as haue beē inuented beefore agaynst him and shall now be disceaued and destroied amongst vile treaterous and moste false flattering Spaniardes And yet I am sory that the realme should be robbed of so wise so noble and so manlike a gentell man as the Lorde matreues his only sonne do ye thīke these thinges wil not come to passe or doe ye beleue I haue not told you trueth or truste you to liue styll in your countre ye vndoubtedlye my lords they dare not suffer you The reason is this thei say that nacion those men that will woorke treason and be false traitours to and against their own naturall kynge and countrey the same men so sone as they be agreued and beginne to smart will woorke treasons againste them and their king but these thinges may be wrought in their time Ye thinke I speake my pleasure but I assure you most truely I wryte nothinge of suspeccion nor blinde iudgemente but those things which I haue seene and proued perfectlye and that be moste surely pretended and will vndoubtedly be wrought if ye take no better counsell to withstand them Marke my lordes if these bee well gotten goodes that shalbe the destruccion of you your countrey for euer doe ye not encrese your rentes properly when ye seke the losse of your liues and children without remedy be not those bribes dere bought that bring with thē the ruine and the subuersion of youre countrey the bondage of the lande the suppression of the cōmen wealth the beggerie of al the quens subiects the losse of our liberte the death of our nobilite the perdicion of al oure rentes

arrante whores but I wil fauoure you at thys present kepe the counsels which nother Spaniardes nor youre owne messengers wil hide nor keepe close because I trust ye wil amende and be honest wemē hereafter now ye haue warning of their vilnes Or els do ye not knowe right honorable Ladies for now I leaue all whores that the maner of spayne is if one man kisse a nother mans wife or daughter it shal bee lawfull for her husbande or father to kil him or doe ye not knowe that there bee no wemen in Spaine but commen whores that will kisse any man excepte their husbandes this hath caused Spain to reporte in euery place that they may for a smal porcion of golde or a precious stone haue the best mās wife in our realme whiche reporte hath sprede so farre that the yonkers of Spain do write as god is witnes that I haue seē their letters to peuish boies that the princockes be so familierli receiued with Ladies of Englande that they haue no minde on Spanishe wenches for the Spaniards say and it is so in dede in their countrey Oscula qui sumpsit si non et cetera sūpsit hec quoque que data sūt per dere dignus erat he whiche hath obtained kisses say they if he winne nothinge els is worthy to loose that which was geuē him For in Spain he that canne gette a kisse shall haue all other thinges ye wotte what I meane and they think the same trew in England also Peraduenture some will be offended because I speake so plaine GOD is my witnesse I cannot for very shāe name such as I cold haue heard Spaniards name with shame enough nor showe you halfe the vile reportes whiche they accordīg to their nature haue made of you I write not this because I think they haue obteined so much of the noble Ladies of Englande with kisses as they maye doe of Spanishe whores nor beecause I thinke their reportes trewe for vndoubtedly I know their woordes to bee a thousande partes worsse then their dedes but because the good and honorable Ladyes of Englande knowinge their vile reportes may vse thēselues more straūgely towardes Spaniardes at theyr next returne So that they maye knowe perfectlye that all noble mens wiues and daughters with other Ladyes gentill wemen that by the curtesi of Englande wil receiue their frende with a kisse be not commen whores for euery pockye Spaniarde And surelye I would wishe you to leaue that curtesye specially among Spaniardes I geue you this counsell because I desire your honors and your husbands also ye maye take my woordes as it please you The noble Citie of London hath wonne more honor for punishing whores thē for any other seuerall acte and yet Spaniardes saye that all their diligent watches not withstanding ther be more mōgrels borne within this ii yeres in London then Englishmens children I speake not this because I think it so in dede for I tolde you their woordes were worsse then their doinges but beecause that moste noble Citie maye continew in their most verteouse punishing of vice remembringe what vilenes they woulde haue reported if they myghte haue had liberte I woulde wryte many other thinges that appertayne to theyr nature how swinishe they vse thēselues at their table tearing their meate lyke dogges drinking like horses hangīg their heades ouer their disshes that one parte beeinge ●lauored in their mouthes may fall into the cōmē dish afterwardes smacking like hogges howe vilie they vse themselues in their chambers c. but beecause the time is shorte and many Englyshmē knowe these things I will here make an ende moste humblye besechinge your honorable lordeshippes to pardon my doinges if I haue withoute knowledge written any thyng contrary to your expectacion because I may doe it of ignoraunce but be you assured my whole desier is to seeke the maintenaunce of youre honore and in declaring suche thinges as be pretended againste oure countrey to seeke the preseruacion of the whole realme I shall therfore desier al noble men worshipful men yomen of the Quenes garde and all other officers of her highnes most honorable court that they and euery one of them wyl exhort the people in euery coast and part of the realme to liue in tranquillite peace and concorde by this familiar example of Esopes husbande mā VVho hauinge many sonnes that despicing their fathers admonicions liued continually in debate and strif studied to plante amongeste them loue vnite concorde peace Hys sonnes vpon a tyme beeing at home in his own house he commaunded his seruaunt to bring before hym a burthen of roddes such as husbandes vse for their plowes and other busynes commaunded his sonnes the bundell being fast bounde together to breake the same roddes wholly togethers But when their strength fayled the good man bade hys seruaunt vntie the said burthen and the roddes beeing losed he commaunded euerie one of his sonnes to break one wād which thing when they had dō with ease the good olde father sayed after this sorte shall it be amōgst you my children if ye perseuer together in one louing minde perfectly your enemies shal neuer ouercome you But if ye will disseuer youre selues one from another this your deuilishe discorde and variaunce shal make you an apte praye for your enemies euen so I say vnto you most deare beloued brethren that like as a castel builded in the middes of a stronge rocke can neuer bee wonne til discorde fall among the captaynes and souldyers so that one parte treaterouslye suffer their enmies to enter in at the gats so likewise Englande is strongly cōpassed with strong rockes which no artilery can pearse and so long as englyshe men lyke good faithfull souldiers wil louingly and faythfully agre together and euery man from the highest degree to the lowest seke to maintaine the weale publike of hys natiue country and the state of the realme al the worlde can neuer ouer cum vs but if the noble men or one part of the commens wil aide like false traitors receaue in our enemies or if sediciō treason rebellion insurrections and such like mischiefes fall amongst vs and be wrought within our selues our enemyes shall come in reioycing at our most deuilishe dyscorde and destroye the realme and bring all Englyshe men to such perpetuall bondage and slauerye as I haue here before declared Yea those that be their greatest frendes first bringers into the lande are appointed to dye the moste shamefull death so farre as I perceiue there is pryuye treason working against you at this present whiche will be brought to passe spedely take wise counsel man all your hauens strongly least youre enemyes come vpon you sodenlye I am sory that I gaue the lorde Page●e warning what treason is pretended against him for I think ambicion so much blindeth his eies that he hath no better grace but to goe about as many

showe your lordeships other matters briefly I could write of the nature of Spaniardes A volume importable But If I should write all that I knowe ye woulde not credite me ye ought to beleue al that whiche I haue writtē because ye knowe perfectlye I haue written nothing but that whiche euerie man knoweth to be their commen customes and immutable maners And ye see by these exāples that I write not halfe the morishe maners whych they vse continually Manye of my frendes haue geuen me coūsel to write my letter but not my name for feare your lordeshippes wold punishe me with imprisōment rackīg hanging drawing and quarteryng for speakyng agaynste the kinges coronacion which I thynke ye cannot doe lawfully for so long as he is not crowned that manne is no traitour that speaketh agaynst his coronaciō but after his maiestie hath the crown the best of you all that speaketh agaynst the Spaniardes proceadings shalbe proued and ponished lyke a rācke traitor But I haue written my name plainly that I may thereby eyther geue youre lordeshippes warninge to kepe youre honours the whole realme oute of their bondage Or els that I maye goe honestlye to the galowes and ende this pore life with an honorable death for me my countrye VVhen your most honorable liues if ye disenherit the realme of the crowne shalbe ended with great dishonor wretchednesse miserie and shame for you and your successours for euer yet I wolde hope to escape when you are sure to die For doubteles after that Spaniardes haue safely planted thēselues in the ●ande thei wold trust me to be their faithful frēd because they knowe I ●oue trueth and am trewe to my coū●rey when thei wil neuer trust your ●ordeshippes if ye wilbe so rancke ●als traitors as to geue thē the crown of our realme willingly I woulde not your lordshippes should thinke me so foolyshe as to speake agaynst his coronacion if your lordeshippes graunt to it Some men saie ye haue gone so faire ye cānot turne backe I know not what ye haue dōe but I am sure what ye may do if ye haue graūted hī the crown it shalbe muche better for you to stād to that which ye may do thē performe that which ye haue prōised For I am sure so lōg as the king of Ierusalē is not crowned in Englande ye may chose whether ye wil crowne him or not And surely if I were worthie to be one of the counsell in Englande my counsel shoulde be that the king should fir● be crowned in the Citie of Ierusal● lawfully because it is the more auncient and more noble kingdome and bring all the Iewes into subiection and make them good Christians before he shoulde haue the crowne o● England wrongfullie either for fa● wordes great bribes false flatterin● promises cruell manacinges terribl● threatninges or ani other false craf● polices I thought your lordeshippes ha● knowledge partly of their counsel as they reporte that the frenche kin● knoweth yours But now I percei● their secrete priuie and conclude counsels lie hidden from your lordshippes when ye know not the 〈◊〉 principles where vpon many gre● matters be grounded if ye do knowe them and wil not credit them pardō me for writing in vaine if ye know them not howe can ye bee offended with me for declaring to your lordeshippes such thinges as be pretēded to your destruction the losse of your ●iues landes wiues and children and finally the losse of your honors the ●uine of the realme the suppressiō of ●he commenwealth the bondage of your countrie for euer Ye ought ●he rather to credite me beecause I speake nothing god I call for wyt●es for malice of Spaniardes nor to ●atter Englishe men I thinke neuer ●o come seke bribes at youre handes ●or my labour and therfore it appea●th plainly that I write for none o●er purpose but only to ge●e youre ●rdeshippes knowledge and war●ng of their most morishe maners and cursed condicions that ye maye ●e more prudently prouide to with ●and their terrible threatninges pretensed treasons and pestiferous polices and so preserue youre honorable persons and the whole realme oute of their tiranny and bondage Do ye think I durst be so bolde as to offēde god in speakinge contrarye to the trueth and lying slaunderousli and shamefullie against my Christē brother I know we are all brethren if we haue the loue and feare of God continually before our eyes in our sauiour Iesus Christ and we oughte to loue one another mutuallye like brethren but as god deuided the langguages of men so hath he caused euery nacion to loue more naturally all those that be borne in the same self country then foreners and hath geuen according to his ineffable goodnes certeine places of the earth for euery nacion seuerally to inhabite cōmaunding vs straightly that one of vs shal not wrongfullye couete anothers goodes and specially our Christen brothers which cōmaundemēt the Spaniardes saye they will kepe For whatsoeuer saye they is done in England touching the crown or the gouernaunce of the realme shall cō● through procuremēt but of the coūsell themselues For we knowe well enoug h say they that there be suche deuillishe people in Englād to work treason and make insurrections that it is in vaine for oure kinge to haue the crown except the counsell wyll also deliuer him certeine of the strongest holdes and porte townes mark my wordes well for his refuge at all times till his maiestie maye be able to bring in power to withstande his enemies and then we shall make all our hauen townes more strōge to the ●andes warde then they be towardes ●he see But know ye for what purpose they pretende this policie that ● small nomber of Souldiours maye ●ee able to keepe the Realme quietly and burne the countreye .iii. or iiii times eueri yere til we can be contented to obey all their constitutions ordinaunces and lawes they bragge that if thei may be vitled by the see at their backes thei shal trouble and toile Englishe men so long til we be able to suffer no longer for what great trouble wil it be for vs to burne betwene Southhāpton Douer Thei trust the quenes hignes for the kinges maintenaunce wyll poole the realme with subsidies and beneuolēcies so much as in her grace lieth and geue al our treasure out of the lande now at the kinges cōming to her grace so that the kinges maiestie with our treasure and his owne reuenewes in this time of peace shal enriche himselfe that when we haue small force of money because our● treasure shalbe caried out of the lād the king and all our enemies mai cō● into the realme and worke mischefe against vs for thei shall haue mone● from all places and aide of many nacions And they beleue assuredlie to be aided by the greatest part of oure own countre men For the Quene good men wil take their part against

courte by iiii penny pintes and that with the dearest accordinge to the olde auncyente and moste honorable customes of the Emperours maiesties courte the kinges maiesties palaies here in flaunders her maiestie shall wel perceiue that I kepe many thinges secret whiche I am ashamed to declare Ye will thinke I speake the worste but when the Quenes grace shalbe glad to fetche her wine out of the tauern by eight pense and a halfe peny the quarte as the king and bothe the Quenes doe here in this courte her highnes shall well know that I cold show much worse orders and manye thinges more vile more shamefull and more dishonorable then these and by that time all these thinges be wrought ordinarely in the court of Englande ye shall smell them more vnsauerly Al mē that be here cōtīuallye doe see muche more and many worse thinges then I write But if these things wil not make your lordships worke wiseli and be circūspect in deliuering the crowne looke further vpon youre proceadinges and when your lordships shal be glad if ye might escape so well to be at the Spanishe counsels commaundemēt and wander with Spaniardes from one countrey to another and where ye liue at this present with all plentiful prouision in your own houses be compelled to lie in good tiplinge houses rost halfe a capōe to your supper and kepe the rest for your diner with a pinte of white wine and water a pigge● petitooes a younge shepe trotters halfe a loine of leane mutton and iiii or .v grene sallettes as the best of the kings counsell doe liue daily ye wil say woulde to god we had kept the crown in our owne handes for the right and lawful heires of the realme to whom it belongeth by iust and lawfull discent and bene trewe to our countrye so that we might haue reigned still and lyued more honorable in reste wealth and quietnes then any nacion in the world The Spaniards say your lordships most specially and al the rest of our nobilite with the moste parte of our counsel be without knowledge learning language or perfect experience and therfore thei hope though not spedely yet in proces of tyme to disceaue and ouer cōe you with their learning wisdome craft and policy Let your children therfore if ye loue them be brought vp in learninge wisedome that they maye be able to gouerne the realme prudently after your dayes And folowe youre lordships for the preseruacion of youre lyues honor and children this worthy and notable example of the most worthy king Codrus who seing his countrey assauted by the most cruell tiranny of his enemies sought by all meanes possible to deliuer his people from bondage with least destruccion of his subiectes bloud and being answered that there was no way to preserue his realme except he himselfe should be slaine appareled hys most princelike person in a poore palmers wede and after great lamentacion of his subiectes whiche woulde rather haue lost life lāds goods then suffer so noble a king to die for their deliueraunce became a tourne spitte in his enemies kitchen and when hys aduersarie had prepared a great armi for the inuasion of his coūtre he prouoked with cruell woordes remembring the commen and publike weal of his subiectes which he desired so earnestly his enemies so much that a skuruye kitchen slaue without mercye thruste him to the harte wyth a whote spitte of yrone ▪ who beyng stripped naked to be buried was knowen perfectly to be the king himself by a crosse vnderneth his brest whos death so muche discoraged his enemies that thei flyeng before his subiectes when the battell shoulde bee fought were slayne and taken in the chase his countrey preserued hys maiestie obteined immortal fame I wold wish your lordships for your honors the preseruacion of youre lyues and countreye as I truste assuredly ye wil though not so daungerously as this noble Prince did yet with suertie obserue thys counsell I meane ye are in suche estate at thys present that ye maye withoute the daunger or losse of ani mās life kepe the crown the realme quietli but if ye will deliuer the crown oute of your handes willingly then wher ye ought to venter ye to lose in dede life landes goods and rentes with honor for the preseruacion of your coūtrey ye shal not only lose life lādes goods wife and children but also al honour fame and renowne with the moste noble and the moste mightie kingdome as Spaniardes say on the w●ole earth with the losse of innumerable thousandes of Christen mēs liues For what nacion in the world is able to suffer the verye nature of Spaniardes haue I not showed you many things which ye cannot suffer ye may expell nature for a tyme as Spaniardes did in Englande lately but al the world can not expell her so much but she returnth in short space what deuelishe nature is this that no man can suffer the time is shorte or els I wold tel you much more their pride is of such nature that she can suffer no man to be felow with her Pride would euer be the highest and then who hath more pride then Spaniardes who canne beare rule aboue thē The Spaniardes denie not them selues to be the proudest and moste lecherous men liuing and can they then be without all other vices seeing pride is the roote of al sinne and the mother of all mischiefe Their hartes wil boile and borst to see any nacion nere about them prosper in welth and tranquilite I heare saye there be certeine bokes amongst you whiche in dede I neuer sawe as the lamentacion of Naples the mourninge of Millane and suche other which haue showed you the tiranny that Spaniardes haue vsed in other countries and in those points I wold coūsel you to beleue the same bokes and take hede ye come not in like bōdage For if ye do be assured that the same tiranny which thei haue vsed in other countries thei will vndoubtedly vse amongst you for if thei fauored not those noble men whiche thei say be Christned how much les wil they fauour you whom thei accoumpt worse then Iewes but like as thei haue destroied the nobilitie in other countryes euen so will they according to their pretensed purposes destroie and murther you priuely one after another so soone as they may beare rule amongest you Some Spaniardes say we must not take example by those countres which th●y be compelled to keepe perforce but be you assured thei must bee compelled within one yere to keepe England perforce also For doubtelesse English men will neuer pay such excises willingly as other nacions be compelled to pay against● their wil nor let their rentes be raised so much aboue the rate whiche thei bee at in these daies as Spaniardes woulde amount thē Ye wil say the Spaniards kepe their olde rentaking how can that be when euery poore man must