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england_n	council_n	lord_n	privy_a	4,231	5	10.1951	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05410	A discourse of the vsage of the English fugitiues, by the Spaniard	Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.; Wadsworth, James, 1572?-1623, attributed name.; Scarlett, Thomas, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 15562; ESTC S106916	37,206	82

one pennie Wherevpon hee mooued the Duke but nothing woulde come so that without finding anie man that tooke compassion of his distresse his owne Countriemen beeing vnable to helpe him he ended his lyfe though with patience vertuously and well yet the state of so honourable a Gentleman considered most pittifully and in great miserie To recite vnto you the names of those that doo yet liue so poorely and vncomfortably in his pension woulde bee too long and therefore take them all in generall Charles Paget onely excepted and examine them one from another from my Lord of Westmerland downward euen to the verie lowest and if there bee in the whole worlde a more miserable and discontented troupe of Gentlemen than they are let mee neuer bee credited in anie thing else that I shall tell you And because you shall your selfe the better iudge I wyll tell you what paiment they haue of such pensions as the king hath giuen them They had granted them at Bruges the first daie of August in the yeere one thousand fiue hundred eightie and eight a generall Liberanca to receyue three moneths paie a peece of their pensions since that time they haue followed the Duke from Towne to Towne making vnto him sundrye requestes for the payment thereof But if they haue vntill this present daie obtayned the same then let mee not be credited in anie parte of the rest which I shall heere intreate of In deede some small time past Cosimo beeing wearyed with their importunities and lamentations addressed them to Baptista Spinola a baker dwelling it Antwarpe giuing them his Letter and sending the same by one H. Haselwood requesting him to relieue those distressed English Gentlemen and to buy their Liberanca which he doubted not but they would sell good cheap greatly to his profit the whole summe was ten thousand crownes which Cosimo promised him should be allowed and paid in the reckoning he had with the king Haselwood in the name of the rest offered him the sayd summe for sixe hundred But Spinola vtterly refused the same saying he wold not take it for two hundred and withall hee desired that hee might not medldle anie more with the king wishing that hee had not medled with him so much So that they were fain to returne pennilesse and doo at this instant liue in so poore and pittyfull sort that truly my heart grieueth to see it insomuch that I knew a Gentleman that solde his parte there being foure and twentie pounds for three pounds But perchance you will saie he giueth great pensisions and entertaineth manye of our Nation it is true in deede in shew hee doth so and therewyth doth bleare the worldes eyes with a shew of greate liberalitie But his paiment and vsage considered God is my iudge and witnesse I speake vnfainedly I account it a farre happier estate to bee a doore-keeper in that your blessed soile than to be heere a pensioner to the king of Spaine I leaue the iudgement of the truth thereof to those that haue tryed it you haue many amongst you confer with them and examine them vppon their consciences as for my part in good faith I cannot imagine cause why he entertaineth vs vnlesse it be to vse vs as stales to allure others considering the hatred that he and his beare vs and so vnder the dissembled colour of a false affection to ouerthrow vs all at last Thus much I dare boldly saie because through the conference I haue had with them I doo know assuredly that euen those of our nation which doo most serue his turne howsoeuer in outward apparance they seem for some particular causes to magnifie and extoll his liberalitie yet in their owne secret conceits they do imagine know nothing in the world to be more reprochfull base and contemptible than to be an Entertain do in the king of Spaines seruice As for example you shall easilie see what account is made of them At such time as preparation was made at Brussels for the voyage of Englande when they all expected to bee made knights coronels captaines and conducters of the armie and to be filled with crownes they were so farre from those matters with which they flattered themselues that in stead of being honored and aduaunced they were the onelye reiected and contemned people that followed the Courte all men beeing releeued with some moneths paie they onely excepted and which is more whereas they mooued the Duke sundry times to knowe his pleasure how hee woulde dispose of them in this iourney telling him besides that vpon the well vsage of them depended much matter of importaunce as the alluring drawing vnto them other gentlemen of theyr kinsmen and friendes who vppon hope of the lyke good vsage honour and aduauncement woulde bee able to doo greate seruice vppon their landing where contrariwise in seeing them come ouer so poore in shew without credite monie or armes lyke lackies for so were the wordes of theyr request it woulde bee a cause to terrifie them from vndertaking anie such course They were by the Duke scornefully and with derision reiected neither did he vouchsafe to giue them anie other aunswere than onely that hee woulde thinke vppon it But on the night that they thought to embarke he departed leauing them all behind not thinking them anie waie worthie to bee called vppon or to bee taken with him Wherevpon the Lord Westmerland and Paget and sundrie others layd their heads together and made their complaint to the Duke of Pastraua by whome they were as basely and scornfully handled as by the other insomuch that a great Spaniarde standing by asked them whether they thought the king of Spaine not puisant inough to winne England without them and theyr friendes Vppon which answere the Lord Paget that verily thought hee shoulde haue beene made one of the priuie Councell and now finding himselfe to bee had in so small account conceiued such an inward griefe that from that time forward hee neuer ioyed tyll his dying daie Sir William Standley also tooke it in such heauie and disdainefull sorte that he was not called to the counsell of warres whereas hee presumed and so gaue out that no man in the army knew more or was better able in this voiage than himselfe that he sequestred himselfe from the Country and came malecontent and hired an house in Antwarpe where hee liued a most melancholy lyfe foure or fiue moneths and oftentimes would burst out into such impassionate speeches that the world verily imagined he wold haue professed himselfe into a cloister Besides the loue the Spaniarde beareth vs appeareth by the speeches hee dayly vseth in publyke assemblies concerning vs. Once seeing certayne Englysh-men passe by as they stood a great manie of them in a ring as they vse together vppon the bridge in Antwarpe they sayde They wondered what the king made with such vermine in his countrie one of them swearing a greate oath that looke how many English-men there were in the Lowe countries there