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A14618	Further obseruations of the English Spanish pilgrime, concerning Spaine being a second part of his former booke, and containing these particulars: the description of a famous monastery, or house of the King of Spaines, called the Escuriall, not the like in the Christian world: a briefe relation of certaine dæmonicall stratagems of the Spanish Inquisition exercised on diuers English men of note of late times, and now liuing in England. A relation of the founding of a military order in Rome, to wit, of the immaculate Conception of our Lady, the blessed Virgin. Composed by Iames Wadsworth, Gentleman, lately conuerted into his true mothers bosome, the Church of England, and heretofore pentioner to the King of Spaine.	Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656? English Spanish pilgrime. aut	1630 (1630)	STC 24928; ESTC S119406	21,866	56

FVRTHER OBSERVATIONS OF THE ENGLISH SPANISH PILGRIME CONCERNING SPAINE Being a second part of his former Booke and containing these particulars The description of a famous Monastery or House of the King of Spaines called the Escuriall not the like in the Christian World A briefe relation of certaine Daemonicall stratagems of the Spanish Inquisition exercised on diuers English men of note of late times and now liuing in England A relation of the founding of a Military Order in Rome to wit of the immaculate Conception of our Lady the blessed Virgin Composed by Iames Wadsworth Gentleman lately conuerted into his true Mothers bosome the Church of England and heretofore Pentioner to the King of Spaine LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Nathaniel Butter and are to be sold at his shop at S. Austens gate at the signe of the pide Bull. 1630. TO THE TRVLY NOBLE AND HIGHLY HONOVRABLE HENRY Earle of Holland Lord Kensington High Constable of the Castle of Windsor Captaine of his Maiesties Guard Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter one of his Maiesties most honorable Priuy Councell and Chancellour of the Vniuersity of Cambridge The Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick The truly Noble the Lord Mountioy Earle of Newport three most happy Brethren Iames Wadsworth wisheth daily increase of Honour and eternall felicity And to the Right Honourable Earle of Barkesheire and the truly Noble Lord Barclay and the Religious and Vertuous Knight Sir Henry Pherres and their religious Ladies WHen your Lordship was in Spaine in personall attendance on his Maiestie where you drew all eyes after you as you did all wishes heere When it could neuer bee more truely said Angli Angelis similes then were many of these things acted many occasions offered me of returning to my true Religion and natiue Countrie I should haue thought my selfe much happie to haue sailed by the same VVinde with your Honours ship but fortune would not breathe her assisting assent vpon me Their cunning suspicions and obseruations of mee crost my designes as my first Booke may happly reueale which I humbly petition to your Honour to accept So I humbly take my leaue kissing your Lordships hands euen those which haue raysed mee vp to the preferment of this Title to bee Your Honours most humble seruant in all bounden respectiue seruice to be commanded Iames Wadsworth To his friend Mr. Iames Wadsworth and his Booke GOe happy off-spring of a pregnant braine Sins Commetary a perspectiue for Spaine Through which her maskt delusions apeare Naked as if they had bin practis'd here If any Iesuite damne the Authors quill That writes 'gainst her from whome hee learnt his skill Or wonder how that Citie odious proues Which bred him and his Fathers memory loues Know this that Asa was not plagu'd cause he Depriu'd his mother for idolatrie Good Parents patterns are if bad forbeare To imitate and make their faults thy feare Should I relate the dangers he endur'd After his soule a libertie procur'd I should but wrong his Booke by making those Which reade such horrid lines afraid of 's prose When th' I le of Ree and Martins lucklesse Fort Our trouble and their triumphs did report Him Callis dungeon kept as if his fate Should pay the rash inuasion of a State Yet not their catchpole Popery nor all Their Macheuils could worke his funerall That hand which first conuerted him hath brought Him safe and their discouered atheisme wrought T. M. of C. C. Of his friend M. Iames Wadsworth and his Booke MAn 's borne to Griefe without their mothers groane None are brought forth none liue without their owne We need no proofs but stand amazd to see In one mans sorrowes short Epitome Well his vnhappy trauailes witnesse may That true Religion hath a thorny way He was on Sea by the windes billowes shaken By theeues was rob'd and by the Pyrate taken He was endungeond by the Iesuite That hopt with him to keepe his faults from light But he was now freed the Papists naked showes Well fitted to receiue the scourges blowes They with their disciplines haue rac'd his skinne And he 's become the Trumpet of their sinne Yet wrongs not charity since 't is his care To shame the bad and bid the good beware Now may he sleepe not fearing Thunders noise And make post miseries sweeten future ioyes I. G. Mr. M. V. to the Author SVppose thee a new Traueller againe Lanching into the dangers of the maine What would thy lot of entertainemen be Once more the French his Wine would offer thee A Rope for Cables somewhat for a Maste With other tacklings and to make more haste Thy ship should with the Aire of cursings goe And this the swelling Spaniard should blow The Iesuite should for a Present bring A Knife with which he lately kill'd a King Or if perhaps it were some meaner sport An Earle the Iesuite would praise him for 't But to apply all this my friend you see What entertaine the world would tender thee Yet thou hast learn't that 't is a noble Fate To gaine thy Countries loue through all their hate M. V. of C. C. C. I. D. to the Author of this Booke THat we thy vertues may the better prize Thy name thy deeds doe anagrammatize To wade euen through the Romane sea to bee Amongst the rockes and shelues of papistrie To lie i' th bosome yet not to adore The image of the Antichristian whore Is of such worth that none would thinke the same Were not thy deeds as worthy as thy name I. D. Col. G. C. To his Friend the Author I That once fear'd the Circe's cup of Rhemes But now doe drinke Thalia's clearest streames Vieuing thy Shipwrack't danger thou hast past To Neptune a votiue Table owe to cast Where an Apelles Art may seeme the more If that it paint the Babalonish whore Whose coate became thy cloake for each deceite That so the whore might haue her Pander straite Her Rags thy Veluets were her triple Crowne Thy Beauer Princes with a pinching frowne T' out baffle or from their Kingdomes depose If by them the Catholike cause did lose Her Siren tones would make thee soone awake If not a clap of Thunder would thee shake The Holy Crosse to beare was no labour And crosse thy selfe to crosse thy Sauiour Such was thy hungry zeale the old Saints bones T' adore thou made no bones of 't carued stones Would turne thy bead-deuotion into gold Which to a made-god wise man like thou tould Thou knew neuer cake could make its baker Yet often the Priests saw cake their maker Which did vnseale thy eyes cleerely to see All their Religion was but trumperie They had told thee of a Purgatory In Spaine thou found'st it thy Book 's the Story Saint Omers was thy limbus Puerorum Callis Dungeon thy limbus Patrum If one should aske where Hell on earth should be Thou think'st in Spaine or Roome he may it see What Iesuites are I know thou know'st full well

building It reaches one hundred in breadth and is distinguished into many pretty knots and beds set with all kind of herbs and flowers and watered with many pleasant Springs and Fountaines This Garden is much higher then the Orchard adioyning and you ascend from hence thither by a walke of many staires set with trees on both sides There are accounted to bee aboue forty Fountaines of pure water within the walles of the Monastery There are so many Closets and Keyes belonging to this Monastery that there is a speciall Officer appointed to be Master of the Keyes which Keyes are kept in a Closet by themselues and are esteemed to exceed some thousands The third part of this famous Monastery of Saint Laurence is possessed by 300. Monkes of the Order of Saint Hierome whose yeerely Reuenues amount to aboue 35000. Spanish Ducats and the rest goes to the King and his family To conclude it is furnished with so many Halles Parlors Dining-roomes Chambers Closets Offices Lodgings and other necessarie Roomes that it may well suffice foure Kings at once to keepe their Courts in There are certaine credible reports of men of credit and vnderstanding that some yeeres after that King Philip the second had begun this great worke he comming thither with the Earle of Lemos and hauing shewed him the plot and disclosed his purpose in the finishing of so great a work which would amount to an incredible charge he demanded the Earle to tell him freely what he thought of the Worke. The Earle stoutly and with a noble spirit answered the King saying Your Maiestie as you are the greatest Monarch of Christendome so are you reputed the wisest among Kings now considering the great charge that your Maiesty is at in your warres in Italy in France and the Low-Countries with the Great Turke and elsewhere together with your ordinary and extraordinary expences and the likelihood of warres with the Queene of England All these things considered it would bee a blemish to your wisedome in the World If your Maiestie should goe forward with this Building and the charges will make you sinke before it bee finished The King replied notwithstanding all his wars and other charges Hee would goe on with this and hoped by the grace of God to see it finished to take pleasure and comfort in it in his life the which hee did and enioyed it seeuen yeeres and that after his death it should bee a Receptacle for his bones and likewise for the Kings that should succeed him to be for a Court in their liues and for their Funerall after their deaths Likewise it is crediblely reported that when the worke was finished and the Officers brought the Booke of accounts the totall of the Charges was twentie seuen Millions of Duckats which amounteth in our money to Nine Millions of Poundes The King hearing the Totall said I haue taken great care many yeeres and troubled my Head much heretofore to haue that finished I will now trouble my head no longer with the Charges wherefore he commanded the Booke of accounts to be cast into the fire A BRIEFE RELATION OF CERTAINE DEMONICALL STRATAGEMS OF THE SPANISH Inquisition exercised on diuers English Gentlemen of late times now liuing in England in the yeere 1620. IN the Court of Madrid was apprehended a worthy and discreet Gentlemen then and as yet fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Master Henry Roe who went ouer with the Lord Ashton as his seruant in his embassage to Spaine Who desirous of the spanish tongue as also to view the vniuersitie of Sallamanca departed with leaue from the Embassadour to reside for some space there But not long after being importuned by Master Charles Maynard brother to my Lord Maynard and Master Edward Filmer sonne to Sir Edward Filmer then at Madrid to suruey other parts of Spaine as Granado Cordonath and Sciuill For the effecting of which teadious iourney some 300. english miles returned some insupportable brasse mony by a Iesuite brother then to the gouernour of Madrid to receiue it of him at his arriuall there Thus departing from Sallamanca came to Madrid to my Lord Embassadours house and some 3. weekes after his comming went at the day appointed to the Gouernours house to receiue his money and because he was not well experienced in the brasse coyne tooke with him a seruant to on Master Prinn an English Merchant Now there stood readie at the Gouernors house a familiar of the Spanish Inquisition who saluted Master Roe very courteously and asked him if he were not the Gentleman that was to receiue such a summe of money of his Master and said that his Master commanded him to attend his comming and that the money was readie some halfe a dozen houses off If he pleased to take paines to goe thither Master Roe little fearing any treacherie went with this fellow who by his apparell seemed Hombre de bien They come quickly to a faire house where the familiar carries M. Roe into an vpper roome where were some sixteene todos vestidos de negro con capas Iespadas There was only one in a gowne who seemed to bee the chiefe amongst them and the Master of the house he very kindly salutes Master Roe asked him if he were not such a Gentleman that should receiue such money and where he lay Master Roe all this while fearing nothing pluckes out his bills of Exchange to r●ceiue his money and tells him that he lay in the English Embassadours house hee asketh him againe and againe of this last point Master Roe still answered him as before Whereupon hee for the present leaues Master Roe consults aside in the same roome with some of his fellowes and comes againe to Master Roe tels him that he must haue patience and that he was taken Prisoner by the spanish Inquisition A second with a great deale of complementall grauitie tooke his sword A third pickt his pockets emptying him of all his money and papers A fourth brings a smith vnto him to fetter his legges with weightie Iuyues A fift was inquisitiue to know if he had any riding clothes to trauell in who told him he had at the Embassadours house which made them shake their heads in token of feare to fetch them thence Heere they deteined him from two of the Clock in the afternoone till eleuen or thereabouts at night which time they set him sidewayes by reason of his fettered legges on a Mule attended by a guard of some forty in number who brought him safe out of the towne on his iourney and then the greater part of them returned to Madrid But the first place I rested in was called Torede Ladronis in English the Towre of Theeues where the Captaine of the Guard comforted him but withall in delusion tould him that hee should be eased of his fetters the next day and from thence they continued their iourney to Vallidolid where on the way they met with a flemmish Gentleman riding to Madrid one acquainted

They were the cause that others did thee sell. Such Locusts our Land to eate vp still striue May our Kings Northwinde to Romes sea them driue For I dare boldly say t is Englands doome That they should liue with vs who sweare for Roome We haue their heads but Serpentine to bite Rome has their hearts and their allegeance quite A Climactericke yeere hang'd one of late Who sware for Pope against our King and State His dissect parts might teach them to espie Those parts that liu'd against should by vs die He many from receiued Truth seduc'd Who to frequent our Church affore time vs'd T' was iust then to hang the body of him Who t' hang mens soules great merit would it deeme Now may his holinesse him canonize As good as Becket for Treasons and lies He with his associates often went To a wench which was to confession bent T' was knowne she was a whore then well she might Make her confession to a Iesuite They kept their Rule and might then shew their skill Liue chaste thou canst not keep a close whore stil. Such hellish firebrands Papists did incense Against one who liued the Truths defence Whose pretious life because they could not waste The dumbe cattell their cruelty must taste And sith they could not take off that one heade These tales must all off where a man might reade Their rubrick cruelty on th't earth and heare Those dumbe beasts bespeake vengeance in Gods eare I sp●ake all this for to congratulate Thy ransom'd glory and most happy fate G●●s ●oote alone scaped out of their snare Thy body also and thy soule most rare Which soaring vp toward God is fixt aboue Nor Pope nor Spainiard can it moue Vlisses valour thou dost farre excell The towring Son of Thetis fame dost quell They had their Homers to relate their fame Thou need'st them not thy workes can write thy name Iliads of euill could them outweare Braue Spirit a world of euills thou didst beare Nor beare alone but breake them through and showes The Trophees of thy glory from thy foes To be a true Conuert thou art spoken English Spanish Pilgrime is thy token T. H. A. B. C. C. C. To his friend M. Iames Wadsworth concerning his booke GOe stately forward in thy Spanish pace And boldly stampe defiance in the face Of Romes proud Harlot let her know she must Lie prostrate now to scorne not to her lust She that can make faire statues speake may looke On her owne image speaking in thy Booke Reproach vnto her selfe that all may see Her vices and her sinnes Anatomy T is happy the beguiled Fathers sonne So wisely should delude delusion And in such mists of error should descry And tract the footesteps of an Heresie Which leauing now at length perchance it shall Be found a Comet and presage a fall To Romes vpholders whose chiefe strength doth lie In iugling and in false Diuinitie But though they stand thy Booke I take no lesse Than writings to intaile thee happinesse I. N. C. C. C. To his experienced good friend Mr. Iames Wadsworth vpon his Booke THy Booke 's a Pilgrime and 't had need be so If 't meanes to owne thee for its Master who From Parents Countrey and Religion too Nere stucke to fly thy Natiue faith to shew But 't may be styl'd a Diamond whose rays Affords vs light to view Romes mask't assays Nor that vnworthyly for't cost a prize Nere purchast by the coine but miseries The Gallies and the Inquisition Of which thou hast of which thou mighst made one Are now become thy storys Maist thou liue Till mercy of the times occasion giue For our oppugnd religion to fight With some Immaculate-new-ordered Knight But though thou dy'st yet these shall euer liue And proue thy fames most true preseruatiue And in despight of enuy shall become So many mottoes grau'd vpon thy Tombe R. G. C. C. C. To his good Friend the Author SPaine prisoner tooke thy soule thy body France This liu'd in Dungeon that in Ignorance But England soule and body would haue free Scorning contention and foule heresie Spaine was thy Hell and France thy Purgatorie England's thy Heauen on earth aboue 's thy Glorie Thou sinnes Anatomist canst by thy fate With skill the scarlet whore euiscerate Her subtile discipline her sorcerie Her baits of honor thou dost here discrie Thus hauing made her whoredome to appeare To boast of honesty she well may feare G. B. To his friend Mr. Wadsworth the Pilgrime FOrward braue Pilgrime let thy trauelling braine Giue birth to more Mineruaes though to Spaine Imposture pawn'd thy Parents yet is that state Checkt by discouery of thy reaching pate The speaking Crosse did steale thy Fathers heart Thou speaking Crosse to his designes dost thwart Delusions credit and impostures guile Beguilts its posture painting in thy stile Did Callis dungeon thee obscurely keepe We know that truth oft times lyes in the deepe Did the darke dungeon thee bestride with night Romes proiects and thy clearenesse came to light Darknesse displai'd and night being thrust away Thou clear'd we must confesse th' hast wonne the day Mans life 's a Pilgrimage cease not to trauell From shore to Sea from Sea to sand to grauell Th' antagonists of truth we know by common-sence Trauels the high way to experience E. R. Mag. Coll. Cant. To the modest and courteous Gentleman the Author of the English Spanish Trauailer COuld my weake iudgement vpon trust be tooke Or could I adde a lustre to thy booke Beyond its natiue glory I would then Striue to exceed my selfe and my owne penne But nothing can be added to your worth Onely my wonderment to set it forth And silence name best showes that least what I write Should like your glorious fame seeme infinite To my worthy friend Mr. Iames Wadsworth ALthough you haue discouered nobly well The Iesuites and sonnes of Machiauell Yet on this Booke which doth their Arts descry They practise yet a greater Policie For Sir I dare not thinke but that you know Who are the Merchants that engrost it so Spies for S. Omers and the Doway Crew And such as feare what good thy booke may doe Intelligencers Mumblers of the Masse Disguis'd and skin'd in Sattin as the Asse Was in the Lyons hide but their long eares Hang out too farre Yet where their craft appeares Or where they are discouer'd openly Such bookes as those by the whole sale they buy And hide them from our view And this was one Of many reasons caus'd th' impression To be renewd That he his booke repaires Comes not from his ambition but theirs A. B. of C. C. C. GEntle Reader I intreate thee before thou reade ouer this Booke to mend with thy Pen these few faults that alter the sense being committed in the Authors absence Pag. 1. lin 1. for Segoria r. Segovia p. 18. l. 5. r. Cheney Roe p. 20. l. 22. r. he p. 23. l. 20. r. Venetia p. 24. l. 9.

Gouernour that his reuenge laid him close in the Inquisition for the effecting of which he subornd his man by bribery to confesse his Masters Religion of which hee being once assured hee made his man a cloake for his knauery ensuing For hereupon hee sent him to Rome prisoner as an hereticke and spie in the meane time kept his horse while the poore Gentleman all his iourney had his legges chained together vnder the horse his belly and euery night had no other lodging but a roome vnder some steaming priuie at which inquisition house they kept him for fiue yeeres vntill they had workt him at last to receiue their own religion and then released him But notwithstanding as yet ielous of him kept two yeeres longer at the English Colledge at Rome to trie if hee were well grounded in his Catholicke Religion at which time they dismissed him and restored his horse vnto him who is now in England a strong Catholike another example of their popish tiranny Father Barnes a Benedictine frier late Chapline to the Prince of Portugall at Paris who writing a booke against the Popes supremacy and the allegeance that Subiects vnto their Soueraignes And making for England to prime it was the night before his intended voiage vpon some notice giuen vnto the Iesuites surprised at the Prince his house by a warrant from the chiefe secretary of state which they procured by corruption and by an Act contrary to the Lawes of France and all Nations hurried to Cambray in the Archdutches her Dominions where hee was put into the Castle against the day of his triall from thence conueyed to Milford Castle and afterwards to Rome to the Inquisition house it being impossible for any man to know whether hee or any that are once there be aliue or dead The Prince of Portugall informed the Court of Parliament of France of this act who wondring at the insolency of the fact demanded him of the Infanta and the Pope but to no effect a plot exercised very lately in the yeere 1627. Spalatta that turne coat of Religion puft more with ambition then corpulency being promised by Gundomar a Cardinals Cap at his arriuall at Rome and in short succession and progresse of time a tripple Crowne who instansed in Pope Marcellinus who offering sacrifices to the Heathen gods was deposed yet on his recantation was againe elected cherished the Bishop not to feare but hee might come to the like dignities vpon the like submission especially in that his fault to reuolt from the Vicar of God was not quite so erronious as to deny God and his Sauiour Vpon these and the like gulling perswasions hauing his pardon sent him into England went to Rome with two Monkes his Chaplaines to fetch his Cap where waiting for it the space of a tweluemoneth to the expence of the incredible masse of money and plate hee conueyed out of England but missing of it turned Protestant againe or at least pretended one whetting his tongue and penne against his Holinesse vpon which reason he was apprehended by the Inquisition and put into their Denne where not long after hee was poysoned which made him swell twise as bigge as he was before A fit death for such a one his body was taken from the house of death and burnt in the fire for an heretike which being consumed the ashes thereof were scattered in the aire as vnworthy that his atomes should defile their Land At which sight his Chaplens being present loth to taste of the like sauce fled to Gundomar to Madrid claiming his promise concerning their protection which for a while he performed allowing them for his credit eight Rialls a day but this lasted not long for soone after the Benedictines were neuer seene The Statesman Gundomar was requited in the like sort notwithstanding the manifold faithfull seruices he had done for the Church of Rome as his sollicitations against Sir Water Raleigh his Catechizing of Spalata his caetera for by way of gratitude he had as it is reported giuen him a Spanish figge or else though euer a merry man yet at last died for very griefe To conclude with an example of tyranny more vnnaturall then cruell one Philip the second vpon suspition that his only sonne and heire by his second wife was an heretike or had too familiar conference with the Protestant Princes cast him into the Inquisition house and being sentenced by the Inquisitors to die the sentence was confirmed by the bloody fathers hand and seale hauing no other libertie allowed him then to chuse either strangling or bleeding to death by the cutting of his veines which last he chose saying not long before his expiring O vnhappy sonne but more vnhappy father this was effected priuately Thus if the Princes themselues haue vndergone the torture of an Inquisition nay death it selfe we may assure our selues that no forraine subiect shall be deliuered from these Deuils and that Hell if once taken vntill the houre of his vtmost breath A RELATION OF THE FOVNDING OF A MILITARY ORDER in Rome to wit of the immaculate conception of our Lady the blessed Virgin by his Holinesse the Pope our Lord VRBAN the eighth A Coppy of two Letters written from Rome to two Prebends of the Cathedrall Church at Seuill Most Holy MARY our Lady conceiued without Originall sinne WHat I writ you by the last Poste of our expectation it hath pleased God hath now taken good effect though it can scarce be beleeued what opposition there hath been to hinder the Foundation of this Military Religion to bee stiled with the glorious title of Immaculate conception of our Lady The Duke of Neuers the second of Ianuary 1614. made his solemne vow and his Holinesse gaue and confirmed vnto him his habillement of his Order which hereupon many of those Nobles and Gentlemen who had formerly worne it for deuotion and respect to him now weare it for Religion This Order may be as well qualified and approued of as any of the three in Spaine Santiago Alcantara and Calatraua The Constitutions and Statutes of the same are now framing by our Lord Vrban the eight and being finished must first be presented vnto the view in congregation of eight Lords Cardinals who are appointed to contriue the affaires of this Religious Military Order and reduce them to those of the Order of Saint Francis There are here present three Generals or Prouincials of theirs and it hath been thought fit that assemblies should be held at our Conuent where the Duke and the said Generals with another also of Capuchins hath been Brother to the Pope and for this respect the Duke desired it and afterward it was thought by a more indifferent part to haue the meeting at our Conuent The Statutes and Constitutions are now vpon framing to bee presented to the Cardinals at their meeting and so accordingly to bee confirmed by the Pope And all this seemes to bee a league which God hath ordained and made against the enemies of the