The childe pronounced this oratiō with so tender affectes shewing himselfe to feel that which he spake in such māner that theire Magesties all that were present were exceedinghly mooued and diuers could not forbeare teares After the oration he came downe from the pulpit hauing made his reuerence went to kisse the Kinges hand who with his accustomed clemēce embraced him shewing in his countenance how wel he had lyked his speach After him followed the rest of the students to whome also his Maiesty shewed such fauour and courtesie as wel appeared that God almighty had brought them out of theire fathers houses country in whose hand are the harts of Catholike kings to encline them as he pleaseth to fauour his workes About the middest of the last oration entered the kinges pages with torches lighted which they had brought from the pallace because it was night and when theire Maiesties arose to depart the father of the Colledge went to the cloth of estate to giue them thankes besought the king that he would vouchsafe to continew alwayes his accoustumed fauour protection to this holy worke whereunto he answered that he had care to doe it that he knew it was much to Gods honour and seruice of the Church and therfore could doe no lesse The noble men and courtiers that went forth before theire Maiesties could not dissemble the contentment they had receiued and in particular the Marquesse of Velada the kings great Steward affirmed that in all the progresses and iournies he had accompanied him and his father they had neuer bin in any place more nobly receiued and required copyes of all the orations and of the interpretations that had bin made vpon the Psalme and the Duke of Lerma desirous to see the student which he maintayneth in the Colledge embraced him in the kinges presence with such tender affection as if he had bin his owne father and told there Maiesties that he adopted him for his Sonne and that it was reason the Queene should also take some number to her charge wherevnto she answered that alredy shee had purposed to do it Theire Maiesties when they came into the vtermost court for that it was darke and the multitude of those that accōpanied them shadowed the students who were placed in the way in the same order as when theire Maiesties entered into the Colledge one of the noble men seeing them as the pages lifted vp their torches sayed to the Duke of Lerma look my lord what a goodly cōpany of Ecclesiasticall men and he said to the king will your Maiestie see a quire of angells whereat the kinge and the Queene turning to the schollers with signification of a courteous fare-well they alltogether made reuerence to thire Maiesties and the Duke much moued with the sight wringing one of the fathers of the Colledge that went with him by the hand sayed a lowd it is impossible that Englād should miscary that bringeth forth such childeren All the nobilitie maides of honor and gentlemen of the court that had bin present departed commending greatly that which they had seene and as the king was to go out of the gate the Rector kissed his hand crauing pardon that he had kept him so long whereunto he auswered that the tyme had not seemed long and that all had contented him exceedingly There was gathered a great multitude of gentlemen and others of the citie before the Colledge maruailing much to see theire Maiesties stay so long within and so late in the night without theire guard and much more when they saw the demonstration of contentment in them and all the rest at their comming forth and so the same night diuers principal persons that could not that day come into the Colledge desired that nothing might be taken downe till the next day following when many learned men of the Vniuersitie Religious and others and gentlemen of the citie came to read the verses and see how their Maiesties had bin receiued seemed no lesse satisfied then the others the day before Thankes be giuen to almighty God that can finde meanes to comfort honour those that bee persecuted dishonoured for his holy name An aduertisement to the Catholikes of England of the present state of their children brought vp in this Colledge of Valladolid and of the comfort they may worthely expect of them heer-after BEcause I assure my self that your highines hath inhereted not the least part of your fathers loue and affection to the Catholikes of England and that you desire to keep fresh his glorious memorie with them no lesse gratfull then the memorie of the good king Iosias was to the people of Israell and because the rigorous persecution they suffer causeth in all good Catholikes great compassion and desyre to comfort so valorous and faythfull people and that nothing can bee more gratefull to good parents then to heare newes of their childeren hoping that this relatiō may come to their handes trāslated into Inglish by your highnesse comaundemēt I haue thought good to adde some particular things of this Seminarie for their aduertisment of the state thereof There is built a fayer house capable well-nigh of a 100 persons for habitation of the students and it proueth so commodious pleasant and healthful that none haue dyed since it was finished and verie few falne sick in so much as the last yeare whē there dyed in this citie a boue 6000. persons of the plage only one scholer of this Seminary well sicke of that desease who yet recouered so as it was atributed to Gods speciall prouidence and protectiō who as it seemed had marked the walles of this colledge with the bloud of the holy martyrs of Ingland that the angell of reuenge should not touch the students They liue so merily contentedly as them selues affirme they neuer liued with such harty contentment in there owne fathers houses The grace which God giueth them together with the glorious vocation whereunto he calleth thē to liue reddy to die for the conuersion of there countrie and the dayly vse of prayer and other exercises of piety which they haue kept them continually with feruour deuotion notwithstanding the distraction of theire studyes as wel appeared to omitt other exampls in the extraordenarie preparation they made and the recollection this last sommer in meditation prayer for many dayes together to dispose them selues to receiue worthely the lubely of the holy yeare which was graunted by especiall priuilege to the Inglish Catholikes and in other occasions of late wherein they haue made notable demonstration of theire religion and pietie especially in the procuring and receiuing a deuout image of our blessed Lady de faced by the Inglish heretikes at Cadyz which no doubt but God allmightie hath bestowed vpon them in reward of theire speciall loue and deuotion to his blessed mother which is not a litle stirred vp and increased in this citie by theire example They profit notably in all kynde of studyes
this oration was to the same effect of the other aboue made to the king though different in wordes and senteÌ„ces I haue thought best for breueties sake to omitt it The Queene shewed herself very well contented with the Child and with that he had said and asked many particularities of the schollers there present and of the Colledge and of England hauing had full relation of all answered that she was very glad to see these younge ones and that before she had much desired to see them And the father that conducted them replying that the king had insinuated howe the next day following he would be at the Colledge and intreating likewise her Magestie to vouchsafe to doe them the same fauour she answered that in no case she would fayle to come The preparation made to receiue theire Magisties in the English Colledge THe Church and both the Chappell 's were dressed with faire and riche ornameÌ„tes On the high Altar stood a newe tabernacle of carued worke with three greate Images of the same in the midest stoode S. Albane Patrone of this Colledge and Protomarrir of England on the right hand S. Thomas Archbyshop of Canterbury and on the left the glorious Martyr S. Edmond King of England that was shotte with arrowes to death vnder these stoode two faire and large caskettes full of pretious Reliques of Martyrs vpon the Altar was placed a notable relique of S. Albans flesh sett in golde and christall the foote wherof is a pretious stone of greate value this Relique was giuen by King Philippe the second to father Persons for this Colledge The Church was hanged about with hanginges wherin were drawne the imprisonmentes and ordinary Martyrdomes of the Catholikes in England sett out in their coulors and the pauement of the chauncel couered with turkie carpettes of curious worke whereupon were placed twoe seates for theire Magesties couered with cloth of golde I durst not presume to weary your highnes with the relation of these circumstances if your affectioÌ„ to this holy worke and the comfort that your neighbours the English Catholikes will receiue to vnderstand these particularities did not excuse me The first courte through which his Magestie was to enter into the Colledge was hanged all about with costly hanginges and likewise all the rest of the way which he was to passe till he came to the great hall wher your highnes was once receiued VVithin the foresaid courte at the entrance of a gate and broade passage newly made that leades to the inner roomes was written in faire text hand in spanish El para bicn de la venida a sus Magestades that is Theire Magesties wellcome And both sides of the gate were coueted with verses in sundrye languages to the same effect The Latine verses onely I wil put downe Ianua pande fores vt solis quem colit orbis Augustum angusto limine lumen eat Sit domus ista humilis nec tanto digna Monarcha Nil spernit Pietas ianua pande fores Here the Kinge stayed and turned him self to the Queene and smiling sayed lo they bid thee wellcome and so passed on to the great hall where they were to be receiued which was more richly hung then the rest and in the middest on the right side was placed a cloth of estate sutable to the hanginges with twoe embrodered chaires for theire Magesties Ouer the kings chaire hung his picture drawen all armed from the girdle vpward with his Helmet by him the Tuson about his necke which is a chayne on it hanging the golden fleice on his arme a sheilde and within it a lion vpon his breast was written Signaculum super cor tuum vpon his sheilde Signaculum super brachium tuum and vnder his picture these Latine verses Mansuetum signat pectus mitissimus agnus Inuictum bello cincta leone manus Quondam fulgebant Agamemnonis arma leone Iason aurato vellere diues erat Vne Philippe geris vellus fortcmque leonem Qui mundo Iason quique Agamemnon eris Clemens pace potens armis inuicte rebelli Mitis victo animis agne manuque leo Ouer the Queenes chaire hung likewise her picture in a robe of crimsen which happened very well gaue contentement to many for that she came atyred in the very same colour she was pictured at the window of a Castell made after the manner and forme of the Armes of Castillia with a pomegranate in the one haÌ„d in the other the goulden fleece with these verses vnder written Granatum signat foecundam bellipotentem Turris in aurato vellere forma micat Praeses erat turri Pallas granata gerebat Iuno tulit quondam vellera fulua Venus Iuno granatum Venus aurum arcemque Minerua Deserat inque vnam gloria trina cadat Pallas Iuno Venus fortis foecunda decora Turrim Pomum aurum Margaris vna tenes Betweene these two pictures were drawen the Kings armes with a Metaphoricall applicatioÌ„ of theire properties and excellencies according to euery seuerall coate applied to theire Magesties in the Manner following Quadrupedum indomitos reges Philippe leones Penningerumque duces Aquilas Mauortia castra Arborumque decus Granata Lilia florum Et tanto auratum Vellus sudore petitum Marte domas solus solus pietate reseruas Aeternumque eadem quid ni quoque solus habebis Cùm tibi quae pellant vim vectes quaeque tuetur Parta prius caeci famuletur numinis alea Quae vult Aeoirepetens sua lumina Phoebus Cuncta tuis radijs caelo moderaris ab alto Ergo cum Granata tibi cum Castra Leones Alea prepes auis cum Vellus Lilia Vectes Dant sua colla iugo vestro pacemque reposcant Iure tibi flores tibi fructus bella volucres Quadrupedes fortuna tibi tibi parta per vndas Praeda satis quaeque astra alto figuntur Olympo Qui terris Mars alter alter in aethera Phoebus Nata creas radijs spolia acri Marte reseruas Sic tibi terra Polus Sors Mauors militat aether Et tua Neptunus pelago si cepta secundet Spargetur totum tandem tua fama per orbem On the left side of the cloth of estate was a place for the maydes of honour and at the vper end of the hall hung a very liuely picture of the Martyr father Henrie VValpole somety me Minister of this Colledge who fiue yeares agoe was cruelly put to death in England he was pourtraied his whole stature with his left hand vpon the racke wheron he had bene nine tymes tormented with a rope about his necke his breast opened with the knife wherewith he was emboweled and in his right hand he held his hart which he offered vp to Christ with so liuely and affectuous a countenance that it moued all to deuotion that beheld it Vnder the picture were twoe scochens with these spanish verses Nueue vezes Valpolo atormentado En eculeo sale victorioso Por las publicas calles arrastrado â—n vn palo le
know his error and acknowledged the true God so by the very same meanes God is glorified with the constancie of these Inglish youthes who break through so many dangers and perils because they wil not adore and follow the Idol of heresie erected in their country but rather labour to reduce it to the knowledge and obedience of the true Catholike Church The reasons and motiues which the Earle of Ponion Rostro Don Francisco Arias de Bouadilla of the Kinges Councel general gaue to the counsail of the inquisition to the counsail Real of Castilla to the counsailes of Italy the Indies and the crowne of Aragon and to the Iunta de Cortes de Castilla which in Spaine is as the lower house of the parlament in Ingland in behalfe of the English Seminary of Valladolid in April 1600. IT appeareth sufficiently how relgious and honorable a work the foundatiō of the Inglish seminaries in these kingdomes hath bin how worthy they ar to be fauored as wel by the great priuileges which his holynes hath giuē them as by the special fauours which our soueraine the Catholike king that now is the glorious memory of his father haue done them with more then heroical liberality piety at the very times when by piracy oftē inuasions of other Inglishmen theire kingdomes subiects were most endamaged declaring therewith the excellency of this work and that they had prudently considered the important reasons why it should be fauored The same likewise may be confirmed by the testimony of Cardinal Baronius one of the greatest most learned writers of this age who speaking of these seminaries saith that this age of ours is most fortunat in that it hath deserued to bring forth so many holy preists crowned as he saith with more noble crownes of martirdō thē that of S. Thomas of Canterbury seing they died not only with the same constancy for the defence of the ecclesiastical liberty as that renowmed martir did but also to cōserue and restore the Catholique faith in theire coūtry concludeth with these words let my soule depart saith he in company of these iust and glorious champions Botius also a learned and graue author in his booke of the markes of the trew Church of God recounteth these Inglish Seminaries for a most euidēt testimony proofe that our religion is founded in the truth seing it indueth those that professe it with such courage and inuincible fortitude Boterus an other author no lesse graue and learned commendeth this work as one of the most glorious that hath bin in the church of God since the Apostles time Lastly the Bishop of Tarazona that wrote the history of Ingland other prelats men of authority and great numbers of wise and learned men of these kingdomes qualifie this worke for the most noble marke and blason in matter of faith religiō that our kingdom of Spaine this day enioyeth Although any one of these testimonies were sufficient to declare the qualitie of this holy worke yet for that many principal persons haue so great estimation and desire of the continuance and increase therof as they perswade themselues the wāt of sufficēt notice to be the only cause why it is not generaly fauored and furthered of all I haue thought good to lay downe certain particular reasons motiues wher in is discouered the quality of the worke reducing them to three heades the first of piety and religiou the secōd of Christian nobility and honor and the third of commodity Motiues of piety The first motiue and the most general is that to help these seminaries is to sustaine with temporal almes the faith of Christ the spiritual good of a kingdō which so dependeth of the labours and industry of these Priests brought vp in these Seminaries that if they failed the vtter ruine and decay of Religion in that natiō would follow And therefore if it be an act of piety to repare the ruines of material temples and ransome any one Christian from the captiuitie of infidels it must needes be a far greater to build the Church of Christ and redeeme from the tyranny of heretiks these vertuous young-men of whose safety dependeth the saluatiō of so many soules in theire country as after-ward by theire meanes shal come to know and imbrace the Catholike Religion The second is that this kingdome which we succour was the first that in the whole world publiquely professed the faith of Christ and for this respect is called the first childe of the Church and the dowry of our blessed lady and in it flowrished afterwards the same faith for more then a 1000. yeares togeither in which time it brought forth many holy kinges Queenes Bishops and other glorious saintes and Martirs And lost not the profession of this faith so longe kept by any fault of the people or corruption of manners and euil life as in other countries hath hapned but by the miserable fall and infortune of King Henry the 8. and some of his children as to the world is euident by the continual resistance which the Inglish Catholikes haue made so many yeares to heresie neuer giuing it one houre of peaceable possession though it haue cost them theire bloud which they haue shed with so great constancy and courage as highy edifieth and astonisheth the whole Church of God to see it The third and more particular is that the Catholikes for whose succour and comfort these Priests are brought vp are on the one side the most afflicted with so long and rigorous a persecution and on the other the most approued with patience and longanimity and the people to whome the profession of theire religion costeth more deare them to any other nation in the world The fourth and not the least is the purity and integrity of life of these lawdable youngmen and the many tallents and graces wherewith God almighty enricheth them and the account and estimation which they haue of the holy dignitie of preisthood for which many of them renounce their inheritance which is more to be admired after they be Priests notwithstanding they know that many of theire companions sent from the Seminaries in particular from this of Valladolid are at this present in prison and that others haue bin cruelly tormented and others vnmercifully put to death by the heretiks and that the diligence which they vse in their pursute is incredible Yet for all this they are not a whit dismaid nor seeke occasiōs to spend theire time in other countries more then is necessary to furnish them selues with learning but procure to hasten theire mission to England as much as in them lyeth departing after with so great alacrity courage and comfort that they leaue theire companions and those that send them ful of admiration and holy desirs to beare them company in theire glorious entreprise The first reason is that the end and institution of these Seminaries is like vnto that which our Sauiour Christ Iesus purposed
A RELATION OF THE SOLEMNETIE WHEREWITH THE CATHOLIKE PRINCES K. PHILLIP THE III. AND Quene Margaret were receyued in the Inglish Colledge of Valladolid the 22. of August 1600. VVritten in spanish by Don Ant. Ortiz and translated by Frauncis Riuers and dedicated to the right honorable the Lord Chamberlayne Printed at N. vvith Licence Anno 1601. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORD OF HVNSDEN L. CHAMBERLAYN AND OF HER Mt. PRIVYE COVNCEL RIGHT honorable I was drawen with no little curiosety and desire to read this booke when it came to my hands in the Spanish tongue therly to gather the trewe causes why the Spaniards fauor so much our Inglish Catholique fugetiues and what hartes they cary to their country euen these which for Religion leaue it to lyue in Seminaries abrode And for as much as the relacion of these solemnityes written by a straunger and published in printe to be read by so many gratie persons as had bene present must nedes be written with all truthe and sinceritie It could not choose giuing notice of many particular speches and actions but discouer vnto vs the secret affects of both parts And therfore hauing seene it with attention I was drawen with no lesse desire to put it in Inglish that it might be read by your honor and the rest of my good lords of her M. Councel For yf the good will of the King of Spaine and his people to our countrymen and their correspondence to him and his be founded in these honorable respects of conformity in Religion on the one side and of piety and gratitude on the other as by this relation may be gathered far different from the surmises which by other wayes I haue heard me thinke the assurance of good meaninge and knowen continuance of good will in them that were wont to be our best frends though of late prouoked to be our enemyes should encorage vs much to Peace and to renew the old confederations which our forefathers with so great wisdome procured so many ages with so great benefit of the land especially with those in whom yet vnder the profession of hostility and exercise of war wee fynde far better harts and more true affection to our Country and Countrymen as in this occasion may besene then in others whom with great care and cost we labor I feare in vayne to make of old enemyes new frends And this I beseeke your honor to consider and to be a meane that it may come to her M. Knowlege And so I take my leaue from Paris the 2. of December 1600. Your L. euer at commaunde Frauncis Riuers A RELATION OF THE SOLEMNITIE VVHEREVVITH THE POTENT AND CATHOLIKE PRINCES KINGE PHILIPPE the third and Queene Margaret weare receiued in the English Colledge of Valladolid the 22 of August 1600. The Authors Epistle dedicatorie to the most gracious Lady Elisabeth Clara Eugenia Infanta of Spayne HAVING vndertaken at the request of the English Colledge of this Citty and of diuers theire benefactors and frendes to write this Relation of the Intertaynment good successe of theire Magesties coming to this Colledge wherat I was present the same beeing to the great comfort of these banished Catholikes of the same nation and of many other graue and noble personages of this kingdome who for the great affection and good wil they beare to this Colledge desire to haue particular notice of all that passed I thought my labour herein should be the more approued and the Relation more gratefull to all sortes of people both here and in England if it passed first through your highnes handes aswell for the naturall affection which this Kingdome beareth you as also for the singular loue your highnes in many ocasions hath shewed in tymes past to the Catholikes of Englād which no doubte by this late vicinetie and neighbourhood is much augmented whereof this Relation shal be to them a newe recorde and testimonie and so I truste of your highnes clemencie that you will vouchsafe to make them partakers of this cōforte in confidēce whereof I haue entered into many party cularities and taken ocasiō to speake of diuers circumstāces which wil not be tedious to your highnes nor to the discreete reader with this respecte And al though I could haue desired more tyme comoditie for the writinge of any thinge that should be presented to your highnes yet cōsidering that the grace and ornamēt of this kinde of narration is the noueltie and freshnes it bringes I haue rather chosen to packe it vp in haste as my other businesses and obligations did permitte then to delaye it any longer hoping that amongste the fauours which your highnes hath shewed and doth dayly shewe to these Seminaries one shal be and not the least to accepte the good will and intention of the writer and not looke vpon the errors of the stile or other faultes that may be comitted This whole Cittie is greatly comforted with the good newes that comes dayly of the discreet and Christiā zeale valour which your highnes sheweth in all occasiōs so doth ernestly beseech our Sauiour who giueth you them that he will defende and prosper your highnes for many happie yeares the Arch duke in like manner for the good of Christendome to whome I suppose this relation wil not be vngratefull So wishing your highnesses all fortunate successe I humbly take my leaue from the English Colledge in Valladolid the 15. of Septemb. 1600. A RELATION OF THE COMMING OF THE CATHOLIKE PRINCES KING PHILIPPE THE THIRD AND QVEENE Margaret to the English Colledge of Valladolid and of there receiuing theire the 22. of August 1600. To the Soueraigne Lady Elizabeth Infante of Spayne KING Philippe the third Brother to your highnes and Queene Margaret his wyf entered this famous Citie of Valliadolid vpon S. Margarets euen the 19. of Iulij a day of great ioy and solemnitie and of no lesse conforte to all this Citie as it is like your highnes hath bene informed and for that the weather was then very hotte in the Canicular dayes and his Magesties Palace in the farthest parte of the Citie a greate way from the English Colledge they deferred to desire theire Magesties to fauoure this theire Colledge with theire Royall presence for having receiued the like honour of his Magestie and of your highnes eight yeares agoe with your presence vpon the inuention of the holly Protomartyre S. Stephen which day is yet fresh in memorie in this Colledge it seamed they had the vvay open to expect and receiue this newe fauour of his Magestie At this very tyme there came a good number of schollers frō the Colledge of S. Omers of those your highnes Estates erected by the King his Magestie that now is eight yeares since not without the speciall prouidēce of God wherein the Catholike children of Englad might be brought vp and instructed in vertue from theire tēder yeares and learne the Latine tongue Poetrie and Rhetoricke and from thence be sent to the
and fountaiue of liberalitie and to kisse that inuincible right hand of munificence which we haue tried almost before we could breathe And if the waters caried by theire owne naturall force and inclination finde passage thorow the earth by secret conductes and vaynes to the sea from whence they haue theire begining how gladly and with what ioy desire should we recurre to your Magestie the fountayne and Ocean sea of this great benefite and bountie out of which hath issued the spirituall life we liue and whence we haue receued the bloude which we hope hereafter to shed for Christe Cyrus King of Persia hauing brought Lysander the Lacedemonian into his garden and he marueling much at the multitude varietie and order of the trees there planted Cyrus began to glorie said all these I haue plāted with myne owne hādes to whom Lysander answered O happie king of the Persiās whose wisdō fortune so much fauoreth that in the very planting of trees he hath prosperous successe But with how much more truthe and reason may we say this of your Magestie most happie Monarche of the world who hath ioyned pietie with power and so great zeale of Religion with so large Dominion of so many kingdomes in fine that the comparison may in all be like hath set in this your garden of S. Omers not earthly fading but celestiall and eternal trees which of them selues sufficiētly declare with what wisdome and prouidence they were planted by your Magestie seing they grow vp and florish dayly more and more in learning and vertu and increase with incredible frute and desire of Martyrdome Behould then most mightie and fortunate Cyrus these my companions and in them a hundered and more Noble and vertuous youthes which remaine yet at S. Omers these younge and fresh flowers of faith these greene buddes of vertue come out of your garden these tēder plantes of Religion haue sprung vp in your Seminaries these are the frutes these the trees which your Magestie hath planted with your Royall and bountifull hand which you haue nourished with so great coste and watered with so abundant streames of pietie Alexander the great when he had freely bestowed amongste his frendes all he had being asked what he had kept for himself answered hope So your Magestie dothe not lose nor spend without purpose that which so bountifully you bestowe vpon the catholike children of England for you nourishe in them the hope of England the hope of publike peace and quietnes the hope of Religion to recouer to Christ that countrie almost lost And in what place soeuer we shall come we shal be witnesses and heraldes of your praises and not dumme and dead but liuely and speaking monuments of your liberalitie bountie we shal be as it were the vaines and conductes by which the sweete showers of your benefites being deriued shall stoppe the mouthes of your enemies and vainquish them not with armes but with this most rare and christian charitie which you shewe to vs strangers Camillus a Noble Emperour of the Romans beseiging the Phaliscos a certaine people in Italie and hauing in his handes all the noblemens sonnes deliuered to him by treason he suffered no rigor nor hostilitie to be vsed with them but with notable demonstration of iustice and clemencie sent them back safe and without hurt to their parentes Euen so O most mightie and courteous Prince we being deliuered to your Magesties power and mercie by the rigour of the heresie of England your Magestie doth as another Camillus receius vs with the same courtesie and bring vs vp with far greater benignetie loue and in fine after we are indued with pietie sufficiently adorned with vertue and learning you send vs backe-againe to healp our miserable countrie is it then possible that it can be so hard and stonie harted as not to be moued with this extraordinarie and vnaccustomed clemencie Surely if our countrie could be so ingratefull as we thinke it cannot yet notwithstanding no tyme nor forgetfullnes shal be able to extinguish this your Magesties glorie whose memorie and immortall benefites are so deepe grauen and rooted in the tender hartes of these children If England should still persiste and perseuer in heresie which God forbid yet in that case this bloud of ours which we haue dedicated in testimonie of the catholike faith will obtaine without doubt at the handes of the Allmightie iust recompence and euerlasting rewarde for this your Magesties most christian pietie and munificence The Kinge was very much pleased with this Oratiō willed the father to thanke the studentes in his behalfe and tolde him he had done wel to bring them to him that he was glad he had seene them and that with the next oportunitie he would see the rest at home in theire Colledge willed him to conduct them to the Quene But for that she was not then well at ease the Oration which the second had prouided for her Magestie was deferred Not long after the weather waxing more temperate so as the king without inconuenience might come to the Colledge for as much as it was erected by King Philippe the second father to your highnes and therefore so peculiarly his owne and the kinges Magesties that nowe is as no communitie in this Citie is theirs with more particular obligation it was thought conuenient that the Rector should kisse his Magesties hand acquaint him with some particularities that might giue him occasion of more comfort at his coming so the 17. of August after humble thankes for the speciall fauours which in all occasions he had shewed to this holy worke he gaue him accompt of some thinges of no small edification and glorie of God which had passed in space of fower yeares and more that he had bene resident in the Colledge and offering twice to break of his speach least he might be tedious both tymes the kinge willed him to goe forward giuing signes of contentment with that which he tolde him and in fine signified that shortly he would come to the Colledge and cause warning to be giuen before his coming A fewe dayes following the Duke of Lerma sent woord that theire Magesties would be at the Colledge vpon S. Bernards day the 20. of August and at the self same tyme the Duchesse of Lerma chiefe Chamberlaine to the Queene sent woord likewise that the other scholler whose oration was deferred by reason of her Magesties indisposition might now come and haue audieuce and the next morning a coche was sent from the Pallace where in the younge Orator with seuen others in his company was carried who both in stature and in yeares was lesser then the former that spake to the kinge although in his behauiour and deliuery of his speech he was nothing inferiour nor lesse greatefull to the hearers He acknowledged humble duty to her Magestie in behalf of the Colledge from whence he came desiring her protection and fauour and for that
Citie and in all places were receiued with so great preparation specially in the vniuersitie fower dayes before that after so Royal entertainmentes this Colledge did feare not without reason to appeare in theire Magesties presence but that the litle gift of the widow so much esteemed and commended for the good will and affection wherewith she gaue it did encorage the studentes to doe the best they could and so all thinges were put in order as aboue hath bene said wher vpon S. Bernards day which fell vpon a sunday at two a clock in the afternoone came to the Colledge 24. of the Kings Garde with theire sargeant who presently deuided the soldiars at the gates with expresse order that none should enter because their Magesties would that day enioy the Colledge alone and a litle after came the lieutenant of the Garde who placed likewise other soldiars in all the roomes which were hung with verses with charge to keepe them as they did that none were wanting The Steward of the kings howse and some other officiers and gentlemen of the Pallace vnderstanding that his M. would see the schollers chambers and the manner of theire habitation came before as the custome is and were much delited with the order and commoditie to see that neither there was wāt of any thing necessarie nor any thing superfluous but as the widow had prouided for the Prophet Elizeus a bed a table a chaire a light so they had euery one all that was commodious for his studies and rest without want or excesse About fiue a clocke or a litle after came theire Magesties to the Colledge in signe of more confidence and good will without theire accustomed garde notwithstanding they had diuers companyes both on foote and horse lodged in the Citie which comonly wayte vpon them when they goe abroade The studentes expected them in the Church in two rankes from the doore to the high altar and the Prouinciall of the Societie being at the same tyme by chaunce in the Citie accompanyed with two Priestes of the Colledge and reuested as the manner is in such solemne receiuinges attended theire Magesties at the Church doore who at theire enterance hauing receiued holy water and kneeling downe vpon two cushens of cloth of gold which theire chaplens had there prouided adoted the Crucifix which the father offered them with so great reuerence and deuotion as the English students there present were much moued to see it who as diuers of them afterwardes did confesse reioyced exceedingly to see those two Monarkes of the world prostate themselues and adore with so great pietie the Image of our Sauiour for whose cause and Religion they see them selues in banishment theire parentes robbed and imprisoned and many of their frendes persecuted and afflicted In the meane tyme others of the students aboue in the quire sang Te Deum laudamus in theire accustomed Ecclesiastical Musike which contented so much as the Duke of Lerma and other noble men that came with the king thought the singers had bene procured frō abroad but vnderstanding that it was the ordenarie musike of the Colledge and onely the studentes receiued double contentment to heare it much more when at the entrance it was told them that nothing was borrowed that day to receiue theire Magesties but onely the hanginges The King and the Queene coming to the high altar remained there kneeling while the priest ended the versicles and prayer accustomed to be sung in the like receiuing of Princes and after they rose on foot and viewed the images of the three Inglish martyrs vpon the high altar which I mencioned before and the Queene maruailing at the pictures which were in the hanginges of the church the king told her they were the tormentes where-with the heretikes put to death the martyrs in England Before they departed vnderstanding that the Relique which stood vpō the Altar was flesh of the glorious Martyr S. Alban that had endured without corruption aboue 12. hūdred yeates they both kneeled downe againe with great reuerence and the Queene besides her cushen vpon the ground to adore it as they did both with so particular affect and deuotion as I must needes confesse to your highnes I was moued aboue measure to see it and diuers others there present as after-wardes I vnderstood no lesse then I with the same consideration how king Hentie the 8. of England distroyed the holy Reliques of the glorious Martyr S. Thomas of Canterburie the honor of his kingdome and nation seing the pietie and reuerence wherewithal our Catholike kinges did kysse and adore the Relique and flesh of this holy Martyr of a forrayne countre and kingdome As they passed out of the church the schollers who were all in order placed rounde about the first court made altogether a low reuerence and afterward by two and two went forward into the hall prepared as I haue said aboue for theire Magesties who passing a long veiwed with attention the Hietogliphicks and pictures and seamed to receiue contentment with the varietie and inuention and passing on further when the king saw them continue all the way as he went in such diuersitie number for they were aboue 270. he commaunded they should all be kept and brought him to the Palace for that he would see them at leysure as he did VVhen he entered the hall the Musicians in the other roome adioyning deuided onely with a curtayn began to play vpon theire vials and virginals a very graue and pleasant song of eight partes till theire Magesties and those that came in theire company were set the schollers stood betweene the cloth of estate and the musike in there rankes or companies on the one side stood the Poetes and Rhetoricians on the other the Philosophers and in the middest the Priests diuines And that they might be the better discerned the first ranke was of the least in the second were those of middle stature and in the third the tallest and the modestie and composition of all was such as theire Magesties did particularly note it and were not a litle edified to see together so many young youthes banished for theire fidelitie to God and theire Religion who altedy had offered vp theire labors studies and liues for the conuersion of theire Countrie liuing in collegial discipline with that example which theire very presence did declare and with so great puritie and innocencie of life as strangers of different nations continuall witnesses of all theire actions doe testifie of so rare talents as the verses and ingenious inuentions a bout the walls of the Colledge did shewe and in fiue of so good education and parentage as might be seen in theire persons countenance and behauiour in so much as diuers Noblemen there present moued with this spectacle did wish they could bring vp theire children in the same māner therefore diuers principall persons of this real me haue procured very ernestly and with great offers to haue theire sonnes brought
the liuely spirit of his pious and religious hart incouraged them to martirdome But all this semed nothing to your Royall benignitie most worthy inheritour not so much of your fathers kingdomes as of his vertues and praises you thought it not sufficient to haue honoured this colledge with your presence being then prince of Spaine vnlesse you should this day agayne in your greatest glory straiten your selfe within these narrow walles bringing in your company her M. presenc the honor and ornament of the house of Austria that within this little colledge of banished men might be seene shining the Sunne Moone that giue light to the world The childe Moyses whome the tyrany of Egipt had violently drawē frō his mothers breastes almost the same howre he was borne and cast him into the riuer shut vp in a wicker basket to seeke his aduentures was by Gods especiall prouidence found and taken vp by the daughter of Pharao so came to haue a Queene for his mother and his father a kinge we in like manner are violently drawne driuen from our parentes not by the Egiptian tyrany but by another farre greater more cruell by the heresy of our country which hath cast vs headlong into the Ocean sea to be drowned deuowred by the waues But all in vayne cruell Egipt all in vayne thy labour is lost for this our wicker boat though tossed for a whyle with the waues and billowes of the sea yet at last by the same prouidence is cast on shore and aryued safe on the coast of Spayne where the childe is taken vp and hath found a new father and mother farre more noble and better then those he lost Behold then pious and louing parents giue this leaue most mighty princes to vs Orphanes banished for Christe to call your Magesties by this title Behold I say these your children not geuen you by fortune but adopted by your owne choyce not yours by nature but by your piety and religion behold mighty kinge these your sonnes not borne to your Magesty out of our mothers wombes but caried with the waters and waues of tribulation out of which we haue as if it were swomme into this your fatherly bosome Cast your gracious eyes potent daughter of Pharo vppon these your Moyses whome with motherly affection you bringe vp not as the other Queene did at vnawares but witting and willingly to deliuer their country from the Egiptian seruitude of heresy and sinne and although the benifytes we haue already receiued be so many so great that we durst scarse so metymes haue wished thē yet such is your Magesties piety boūty that now it obligeth vs to hope for farr greater at your handes for dayly there increaseth inuincible Philippe there increaseth dayly by our calametie more more matter for your boūty the haruest groweth euery hower whereby you are to reape immortal glory for what can be more glorious or more agreable to the name and title of a Catholike kinge to the greatnesse of your minde and fortune then to haue prouided country Citty and habitation for those whom heresy hath cast out in banishment Many other kinges and Emperours haue ouercome their enemyes with armes vanquished them in warre but this is your peculiar and most glorious victory of the king your father of holy memory to haue ouercom with curtesy and good deedes This present day place assembly is a triumph of your clemēcy most renowmed Princes in which the glory of Christ crucefied is sene with ioy of heauen and earth in these my bretheren who drawen with cheines of loue Religion are come from farre countries to liue vnder your protection that they may acknowledge and testefy your bounty whose greatnesse others do feare This mekenesse and clemency in so great power and Magestie maketh you amiable to men like to God almighty the same wil bring you greater dominons and far richer more noble sceptors in heauen then these which here you hold vpon earth to be yours for al eternety The student that made this Oration deliuered it with so good grace and action and with such modestie mixt with the affectes and feelinge of that he spake as it was much lyked of all that were present and holden for a good beginning of the rest that was to follow At the end of this oratiō while the orator went to kisse the king his hand the curtaine was drawne that couered the musicke for that the voices in the quire which I spoke of before the musicke of instrumentes at there Maiesties entrance into the hall had caused curiosity in them and the rest and desire to see who they were that had songe and played they were not a litle contented when the curtayne was drawne seeing as before had bene told them that they were only the studētes without any other help from a broad who now in sight with there modesty and good presence gaue double grace to that they did so with instrumentes and voices together begone an other songe of those which they vse in there high masses of excellent musique which begone Domine Deus virtutum and ended Beatus homo qui sperat in te and towardes the end of this musike came forth from amongst the yongest company a litle youth that in semblance seemed a very angell who with great grace and making a low courtesie to there Maiesties went vp to the pulpet which as I sayd before was prepared ouer against the cloth of estate This childes father seeing him ingenious disposed to vertue notwithstanding he was his eldest sonne desired as him selfe told me that rather he should lose his inheritance then his faith and Religion and moreouer seeing him of so tender and delicate complexion as it would be dangerous to send him a long iourney alone or not very well accompanied he determined although it were with daunger of his liuing and life to bringe him out of England him selfe to this Seminary as he did and here in the Church vpon his ariuall like another Abraham that had come to this hill to sacrifice his dearely beloued Isaac offered him vp to our sauiour before the blessed sacrament with so great zeal and deuotion that he edified all the Colledge to see the great force of the grace of God and how it ouercometh and subiecteth nature and all humane difficulties as in this many other heroicall workes of these faithfull Catholikes of Ingland is euident A few dayes after the father departid with great comfort to leaue his sonne in such securitie and the child remained so mery and contented and with so good lyking of the Colledge as if he had bene in his fathers house and without going abroad in one yeare he learned the Spanish tonge And truely if to S. Ierome it seemed a thing worthy of admiratiō that a philosopher of whom he wryteth vndertooke a longe and daungerous iourney to heare Socrates much more would he maruaile if
as in these young yeares you striue to excel him neither can we feare the continuance of your prosperity which we so much desire and pray for seing the constancy of your pietie and religiō Therefore tuurning vs to God we may very well say of your Maiesty that which the Prophet hath said in this verse Vitam petijt à te tribuisti ei longitudinem dierum in seculum saeculi he hath asked life and thow hast giuen it him abounding with wisdome riches and glory in this world we hope your Maiesty shal receiue in heauen euerlasting life and length of daies for euer and euer The Cornish tongue Magna est gloria eius in salutare tuo gloriam magnum decorem impones super eum In this tongue spake a young man borne in that parte of England which is toward Britanny and the language is as far different from the English as here in Spaine the Biscay tongue from that of Castile and hath a certaine grace and reddynes of speach not vnlike to that of the Biscaies his speach was short he deliuered it very well The Interpreter He hath said in his language that many men pretēde glorie and honor but few do find it because the most parte of men seeke it where it is not in vaine ostentatiō and in the deceitfull shew of the world and so at length see them selues deceiued for trew honour is to be found only in vertue and trew religion where your Catholike Maiesties seeke it and therefore it followeth you as the shadow followeth the body of him that goeth towards the Sunne The English One of the students spake in his natural language with great liuelynes eloquence and proprietie of action and vsed so significant wordes diuers of them correspondent to the latine as the most parte of that he spake was vnderstood and for his theame he took the verse following Quoniam dabis ei in benedictionem in seculum seculi laetificabis cum in gaudio cum vultu tuo The Interpreter He hath said in Inglish that this eternal benediction which the Prophet Dauid foretelleth in this verse promiseth to a good king is no other then to defend propagate and encrease the Christian religion which is the greatest dignity and honor that God almighty hath bestowed vpon your Maiesties For the other blessings you haue receiued as the foyson of the earth the treasure of your kingdomes and all other temporal commodities vanish a way as the dew strucken with the Sunne beames but this other benediction is immoueable and permanent like to the Sunne it selfe The welsche tongue In this tongue spake a Preist borne in that Prouince who not long after was to go into England and had for his theame these two verses following Quoniam Rex sperat in Domino in misericordia altissimi non commouebitur Inueniatur manus tua omnibus inimicis tuis dextera tua inueniet omnes qui te oderunt He deliuered his speach so deuoutly and confidently as if he had had commission from heauen to promise the good successe he fore-told to there Maiesties and his presence countenance and action moued all to deuotion more those that knew him The Interpreter He hath said in welsh that this king hauing for his armes and sheild the mercie of God shal infallibly subdue all his enemyes The Flemmish He that spake in flemmish in his pronunciation and manner of speaking seemed a natural flemming and had for his theame this verse that followeth Pones cos vt clibanum ignis in tempore vultus tui dominus in ira sua conturbabit eos deuorabit eos ignis The Interpreter He hath said in flemmish that one great point of excellency and dignity of this king is that he hath the same cause the same enimies and the self same punishment for them which God hath prepared for his enemies in hel The French tongue The French tongue was very wel liked partly for that the youth spake it with the naturall pronunciation of the language and partly because his Maiesty vnderstandeth it wel and him selfe did interpret to the Queene the substance of that which was said and so there was no neede of interpretter heere not for the latin and Italian tōgue The French had for this theame this verse following Fructum eorum de terra perdes semen eorum à filijs hominum This verse of the twenteth Psalme of the prophet Dauid most puisant Monarch of the world which at this time I haue taken to discourse vpon may seeme very fit for this purpose to declare and set forth your inexplicable diligence in withstanding subduing and rooting out heresy and this not only in your owne kingdomes and dominions where no heretike dare appeare or lift vp his head but also in the countries about you Fructum eorum de terra perdes semē eorum à filijs hominū you doe extirpat and root out there fruite that is the vices discordes proceeding from there wicked doctrine reducing there seede to the Catholik faith by your care and solicitude in testimony where-of may be aleaged the peace concluded in france the continuall wars in Flanders and most of all our miserable country of Englād towards the which your loue and affection alwayes hath bin now is so great that no tongue is able to declare it for besides your great vigilance care taken to conclude amity and peace after so long war which only heresy hath caused and continued who can sufficiently admire your Maiesties fauour more then humaine in erecting and maintayning not only two colledges here in Spaine this that of Siuil but also two others in Flanders the one at Doway the other at S. Omers as it were fower spiritual bulwarkes fortresses to represse and subdue the malice of the heretikes and as a holsome hearbe calleth Brittanica to chase a way put to flight those venemous serpentes the infernal spitites that haue infected and poisoned England with heresy wherefore very wel may this verse be applied to your maiestie Fructum eorum de terra perdes semen eorum à filijs hominum The Italian tongue The Italian with the sweetnes of the tongue it self the good grace that the orator gaue it seemed wel chosē for the last verse of the Psalme because it agreeth with the Latin and Spanish it was vnderstood of all and needed no interpreter his theame was this Exalt are domine in virtute tua cantabimus psallemus virtutes tuas Although the rest of the Psalme fitteth so well the time and place as your Maiestie hath heard yet may it seeme that this last verse maketh not so much for our purpose seing the Catholike Church our mother so afflicted our most deare country so ouerrun with heresies that the wicked triumph and the faithful suffer our parents and freindes robbed imprisoned tormented and cruelly mattered VVho considering this wil not iudge that we should rather cry out with the Prophet