or was any way preiudiciall vnto vs or the match which we seemingly intended but I had my Leame-hounds ready in euery corner to draw after them dry foote and fetch the Authors coram nobis to their cost as one Dr. Euerard of St. Martins was for his bold and malapert inueighing and continually preaching against vs and the match silenced by my onely meanes for I sayd and often told my best freinds till the mouthes of such Rabshecahs were stopped no vnitie or sincere reconsiliation of either Nation for the effecting of which now was the time could possibly be expected One whiting besides a Dr. of deuinitie Mr. Clayton for his Spanish Ewe in a Sermon at St. Paules crosse was layed vp for his lauish tongue and had like before to haue smarted for a Sermon he made before his Majestie at Wansted in Essex in August some two yeares since taking for his Text remember Lots Wife Luk. 17.32 And I thinke Ward of Ipswich escaped not safely for his lewd and profane picture of 88. and their powder Treason one whereof my L. Arch-bishop I sent you in a letter that you might see the malice of these detestable Heretiques against his Holinesse and the Catholique Church Neither was there any publique speech made openly in any Court of Iustice were it in either house of Parliament Starre-Chamber Countrey Assize yea nany times vttered priuatly in the Court but I got an inkling and made good vse thereof yea I was partaker of Gossips newes in the Citty brought to mine owne bed chamber by my well knowne and priuate freind c. Mrs. M. of Fleet-street Indeede Signior Gondomar quoth one herein consisteth the pythe and marrow of your seruice but if you please proceed I againe entertained to my no small charge Intelligencers in euery Countrey indeed Catholique Priests whose liberty out of prison I obtained for that very purpose for being abroad they did vs a threefold seruice First they gained soules to God freinds to the King my maister and money good store in our purses for I got out of English Catholiques to mine owne vse threescore thousand pounds at the least For the first it hath bene certified me for a certaine by report from many of their own mouthes that the numbers of soules which they haue gained into the bosome of the Church since the remission of the penall Lawes against them and their freedome by my meanes obtained amounteth to the number of eight and thirty thousand and odde Secondly they haue confirmed the Catholiques and made them so fast for the King our Maister that they haue auowed vnto me diuerse times that rather then misse of the Match they would make vp the best part of the Infanta's portion out of their owne purses yea though it were with the selling or pawning of all their plate and Iewels Within the Cittie for a small matter I feede certaine discontented and necessitous Catholikes of the English to walke the common and most frequented places of the Citty of London as St. Paules Church the exchange now and then among the Ordinaries to learne the Common newes out of which many times I picked good matter Neither could the States of Holland or the Embassadours of any other Forraine Prince carry their businesse so close but with my Maisters golden Key I could finde a meanes to diue into their Cabbinets reseale and seale againe their packets without the helpe eyther of Arthor Gregory or his old acquaintance Phillips It was not one of my worst peeces to hold the English in suspence with an apparant ouerture of the Match and dilatory promise of Golden Mountaines with the age of old Saturne againe when euery oake on Greenewich parke Sudaret roscida mella till the pallatinate was lost beyond recouery a matter of maine consequence for hereby Bohemia with the rest of the Emperours Territories being secured aboue our maister may at pleasure call to his ayde the Emperours forces who it seemeth for this purpose hath made a League with the Turke for these twentie yeares together with the strength of Tilley Die caese â—â—â—mer and the D. of Bauaria ioyned with his owne forces suddainly for now is the time giue Holland such a Camisado as the best wits of the * So the Spaniard scornfully cals the Hage where the States vsually reside Cheife Chamber will be to seeke of their old-ward and wonted pollicie Yea quoth Don Pedro but imagin this plot were resolued vpon shall we thinke the Princes of Germany King of France and England and other their old freinds and allyes will stand still as idle Spectators and not runne in with their swords drawne to their rescue Or that the Hollender who hath beene so long weather beaten at sea is not able to discerne this storme a farre off and take in his Sayles ere it shall hazard his shippe yes without doubt and howsoeuer wee may flatter our selues with the easinesse of the Conquest wee shall assuredly finde it as hard a taske as euer Spaine vndertooke It is true you say quoth the Admirant of Castille what haue we gained of them for these fiftie yeares space and vpward euer since Don Iohn of Austria the Duke of Alua Lewes Requesens were Gouernors and vndertooke the Low-Countrey Warres but sound knocks with the fruitlesse expence of many a million Quoth Lewes de Velasco a shorter cut for the Conquest of those Rebells had beene long since taken The error of the Duke of Alva had the Duke of Alva beene so wise as to haue secured himselfe of Brill Flushing and the rest of the Frontier and Sea-Townes he then might haue beene Maister of all the rest within at his pleasure for so long as they were open and free they were to the others as the mouth to the stomake or body which could not possibly famish so long as it was supplyed continually from England and other places but this by the way All what quoth Gondomar I haue already said is but a praeludium or small Preface to those proiects I had in my braine if as vnluckily it hapned the Treaty had not suddainly broken off but beene spunne out a yeare or two longer which indeede was the maine plot and had beene effected The Prince in Spaine before he was looked for had not the comming ouer of prince CHARLES in Person into Sraine with the Duke of Buckinghaus spoyled all for howsoiner we made a seeming shew of reioycing at his comming and did him all honnor beseeming so great and worthy a Prince yet to speake the truth my Lords you all know we wished him a thousand miles off and I beleeue some of the English themselues were here sorry that he had engaged himselfe in so long and teadious a Iourney But quoth the Duke of Hijaz standing vp and turning himselfe to the Duke of Medina Coeli and the Archbishop of Toledo How may it be conceiued that the Prince of England his arriuall in Spaine should eithet praeiudice vs
THE SECOND PART OF VOX POPVLI or Gondomar appearing in the likenes of Matchiauell in a Spanish Parliament wherein are discouered his treacherous subtile Practises To the ruine as well of England as the Netherlandes Faithfully Transtated out of the Spanish Coppie by a well-willer to England and Holland The second Edition Simul Complectar omni◠Gentis Hispanae decus Printed at Goricom by Ashuerus Janss 1624. Stilo nouo TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCES FREDERICK and ELIZABETH by the Grace of God King and Queene of Bohemia Princes Palatines of the Rhine c. AS ALSO To the most Illustrious and victorious Maurice Prince of Orenge Count of Nassau c. Most High Most Illustrious Princes THAT I haue adventured in these vnfaithfull times so full of suspition and danger to passe without leaue your guardes and to presse into your Presence I most humbly craue pardon having I confesse no other excuse then that common one of the Countrie it was out of my loue out of my loyalty for such most gracious Q Elizabeth hath heeretofore your respect beene towards mee farre vnworthy God knowes of any of the least favours from so Magnificent a Princesse that ever since I haue contended with my selfe to adventure and Act something that might haue power still to preserue me in your Royall Memorie but albeit I had the will I find my selfe wanting in my Abilitie And most Illustrious Prince Maurice since I haue had sometime dependance on your Excellence I hold it my Dutie gratefully to repay some part of what I cannot say iniustly I haue gained vnder you that is Observation especially of the double dealing and cunning Iuggling of the Spaniard with all Nations And since a little Treatise of a Spanish Consultation whether really acted or poetically faigned I know not came to my hands first written in Spanish now by my selfe translated into English onely for the behoofe and loue I beare aswell to England my natiue Countrie as to the Netherlands I haue sent it abroad good it may doe hurt it cannot Abundans cautela non nocet heerein you shall perceiue the Curtaine though not fully drawne from before the Spaniard that the world may for certaine see that hee is not so beautifull as many of our English who so long haue doated on him would make him to be nor on the other side so terrible that your Dutch neede to feare him how grimme terrible soeuer he lookes vpō them But your Excellence knoweth him as we say Intus in cute can limne to the life better then any penne in the world can decipher him wherefore I vrge him no farther I onely leaue it to the world to thinke of since hee aymeth at the Monarchy of the West euery thing els being to little for his Ambitiō whose great Grand-sire the Earle of Halspurge was within these ninescore yeares of as mean estate and revenue as an ordinary knight of England how much I say concernes it England and your vnited Provinces to hold fast each by either which now by all meanes he laboureth to part and divide not vnmindfull of a Matchivillian and old Maxime Divide et Impera But I trust Almighty God as hee hath already begun will open the eyes of all Christian Kinges and Princes in time not onely to prie into but effectually to oppose these his immense and ambitious designes which else in time may fall heauie vpon our children and posteritie I end humbly beseeching the King of Kings and Kingdomes the Almighty Lord of Hoastes Most High Most Illustrious Princes to protect the persons of your selues and children with his grace to multiplie your Honors and Dignities foure-fold to restore your estates and after many yeares to crowne you in Heaven with the Diademes of Glorie and endles happines Who is most devoted vnto your Highnesses in all Loyall affection T. S. of V. THE SPANISHE PARLAMENT Ingentibus exidit ausis AFter the shouts and acclamations of all true hearted English for the safe and single returne of the Prince of Great Brittaine had made the roofe of Heauen to resound and with the noyse hād shooke such a terror into the ill affected body of Spaine that a cold and benumming feare ran through her ioynts her friends began to bethinke themselues of a timely recomfort to finde the meanes a fresh to rouse vp her spirits by this time halfe repenting her selfe of parting with so pretious a pawne the possession whereof she imagined might haue tied vs to haue precisely kept day though it were likely to haue had prooued more fatall vnto her then euer was the gold of Thousouse to Cepio's Souldiers and as it falleth out among sicke persons some of sounder iudgement then the rest about her inparticular and euery one in generall giuing their best opinions vndertooke so she would be ruled to rid her off that sit and distempered perplexity And for this purpose appointing for a further consultation to be at Seuill in Audaluzia whether already the King with most of the Nobility had retired themselues in regard they sayd the English who were in number about seauen-score had not long before eaten vp all the prouision in Madrid and within thirty miles about there came as truest and old-friends to her estate the Arch-bishop of Toledo the Dukes of Medina Coeli of Braganza of Ville Hermosa of Hijaz D. of Infantado D. of Cea D. of Sesa D. of Veragua Marques of Malagon Count de Penna-fiore Count de Monterry Count de Sanstephano c. Escalona the Marques of Castello Rodrigo the Admirant and Constable of Castile Count Olivares Count Gondomar Pedro de Toledo Gonzales de Cordua Lewes de Velasco with sundry others of remarke and note of the chiefest Nobility whither being come and hauing made choyse of a goodly and faire Pallace anciently belonging vnto to the D. of Beiar principall of the family of the Zanigas in a faire great Chamber hung with rich Arras ouer the leather guilded Guara Mazilla's after many an enterchange of complement each as his precedence required tooke his place like a colledge of wise Phisitians to consult of the state of that body and Kingdome how with medicines as Physitians call them to preuent her future danger withall for the present to repayre the ruine of her reputation and credit with the world since now her plots and practises are smoaked their gordian knots vntwisted euen by children Lastly how to gaine by strong hand what all this while shee could not compasse by artes and policie Being all set and silent the Duke of Medina Coeli stoode vp and spake as followeth My Lords it hath pleased his Catholique Maiesty the King our Mr. to giue way to this our meeting and Parlamentary assembly to consult and aduise among our selues what course is most fittest to be holden of vs in in these tempestuous times for the weather being changed and the bright beames of our hopes ouer-cast we are from euery side to expect rage and
or the Treaty of the Match a whit since he found here the greatest content he could deuise he had a sight of the Lady Maria la Infanta his Mistris whose selfe knowne and seene exceeded her fame he was entertained and attended vpon by the most compleate and generous Nobles of Europe and had that entertainment no Nation could afford the like Lastly Maiorem habemus fidem ijs quae occulis vsurpamus quam quae auribus haurimus Quoth the Duke of Escalonia the effect hath fallen out quite contrary for the English report since their comming home they neuer came into a baser Countrey in their liues where they could get meat neither for themselues nor their horses Great want of victuall prouision in Spaine nor saw so much as one handfull of grasse in two hundred miles riding and if they dined at one place they were faine to goe 30. or 40. miles ere they could get any thing to their supper He that surfers are a Spaniards Table trust me I will pay for his physicke and then perhaps a peece of leane Kid or Cabrito a Tripe Tone's or such like indeede I remember when the Prince lay at Madrid wee were faine to send seauenteene miles off for a Calfe for his Highnesse dyet as for Mutton we may kill none without especiall Licence from the King for fish our Riuers affoord none and wee being most temporate our selues how should our dyet agree with their stomackes who are accounted the greatest feeders of the World I verily beleeue indeede quoth Gondomar that those places they call in England East-cheape and Smith-field Barres kills and vtters more Beefe and Mutton in a month then all Spaine cats in seauen yeares which plenty our men meeting withall at our first comming ouer into England and since some who attended Don Iniosa as I lately heard did ouer eat themselues and died shortly after The poore and miserable surface of our Country The Princes going ouer in person was happy for England quoth Escalona the scarcitie of victuall and hardnesse of lodging was not all the Prince of Wales by comming in Person discouered our plot and found how faire soeuer wee pretended wee meant nothing lesse when he thinking as also did the King of Great Brittaine his Father nothing had beene wanting to the absolute consummation of the marriage but the Rites of the Church he found all as Raw and as backward as he had beene all this while in a dreame and no such matter euer thought of so that he found the Honnor of our glorious entertainment to be but as a delicate sawce to help digestion The Marques of Castello Rodrigo then stepping vp said I will adde one thing more and whereof if he liues he vowes not to be vnmindfull of and that is as I am inform'd Adde moreouer the digging vp of tho bodies of our buried dead casting them into the Sea some affronts done him by the Clergie as that rude and barbarous putting him out of a Church which his Highnesse came in to view the arresting and taking away of a young youth a Page who attended I think on Maister Mounteague in a manner from his heeles which young Gentleman they say cannot be heard of to this day with that insolent and affrican pride of restraining him from that liberal accesse and conuerse not denied elsewhere to a meane person with the Lady Maria Infanta his Mistris which Princes by their his owne right may Challenge he being equivalent in birth and the rarest endowments of body and minde to any Prince whatsoeuer in the world with whom in all his time of his being here he had not aboue twice talked and then before either the Queene or your selfe Signior Olivares or some other if he had any thing to say afterward it was by vs to be penned to his hand and to be spoken before witnesse we must assuredly think and expect that so great and eminent a Prince and the darling of that Nation howsoeuer he could wisely smoother his discontent among vs in Spaine we may one day perhaps finde the fruites of our double dealing and the effects of his haught and incensed courage well knowing how like a young Lion though yet in his Denne and scarce acquainted with ranging his teeth and nayles are growne to that length that he is past iesting or playing withall Indeede my L. Olivares you are much blamed for that discouery and light you gaue to Buckingham of our designe The Infanta by her Faherts will bequeathed to the Emperors Sonne and the secret and tenor of the last Kings will wherein he charged vs not to match with England But rather to hold a faire Treaty with them hauing as you all know bequeathed Maria the Infanta to the Emperours Sonne so that now the English suppose themselues manifestly deluded Quoth the Duke of Sesa they know it well enough and I beleeue wee shall finde them so sensible of it that wee had beene better to haue playd faire then to hazard the loosing of our rest by such an encounter Now I pray you let vs take into our considerations the mischeifes which are like to follow First it is thought herevpon they haue called a Parliament which consisteth of the King Prince all the Lords Spirituall and Temporall or the Gentry and Commons of the ablest iudgments and vnderstanding in the Land vnto this Parliament the King they say hath wholy referred himselfe not onely for the examination and redresse of all abuses and misdemeanors at home but for the discussing and searching into all plots and practices of others abroad The Vnity sweet consent of the King his people in this present Parliameent obserued that may seeme any way to preiudice the quiet and well gouerned estate of his Kingdomes without interposition or mediation so that the King and people goe all on and together with that alacrity and constancy in prouiding for the good estate of the Kingdome as the like hath no beene seene these nany yeeares Prince CHARLES himselfe being there early and late assiduus accubuus amongst them whom I am informed with the Duke of Buckingham wee haue our prime and principall opposers A diffiernce betweene the Duke of Buckingham and Count Olivars which the Papist giue out though falsly to be the first occasion of the breach of the match I must confesse quoth Count Olivares there fell a difference betweene the Duke of Buckingham and my selfe which some haue rashly and inconsiderately giuen out to be the onely cause of this breach for they say before that time all things went forward in as faire a way as might be Indeede quoth Toledo the Catholikes of England haue so giuen it out laying all the fault vpon the Duke of Buckingham who is not guiltie of any such thing I will excuse him that peece was hammered vpon our owne Anuile Buckingham is a Noble Wise and Generous Prince vpon whom the King his Maister hath deseruedly conferred his grace
stormes You are not ignorant how there is now a Parliament holden in England that bode vs no good in Holland a dayly consultation with present preparation In France a Councell together with an vnaminity of Kings and Peeres for some great vndertaking How nerely then concernes it vs of Spaine to be vigilant and to looke about vs first for the maintenance and aduancement of the Catholique Religion and holy Church Secondly for the defence of his Maiesties Kingdomes and Territories Thirdly to heare the grieuances of the people groaning vnder the heauy burthen of exaction and oppression though the couetuousnesse of publique offices Fourthly for the supply of the Treasury which a late hath beene much exhausted partly by preparation by Sea against our Common enemies Turkes and Hollanders and partly by the extraordinary entertainment of Charles Prince of Wales the charge wherof amounted to 49. thousand Ducates Fift and lastly for giuing the world satisfaction and the taking away of those vile scandales and imputations which euen within these few dayes haue beene and are hourely cast vpon vs especially as they giue it out in dealing doubly and dishonorably with England concerning the Treaty of the Match He hauing ended the D. of Braganza the next began thus I am sorry that I liue to see the day that the Honor of Spaine which was wont to dazle the eye of Europe with the vnsufferable splendor of its brightnesse should now be ouer cast with the blacke cloud of disgrace and the name of a Spaniarde so redoubted ouer the world become branded with the infamous attributes and epithites of false ambitious proud and cruell and those Nations who were wont to adore vs for our faith contemne and scorne vs now for treachery and falshood Certes loyalty and the Religious obseruance of our promises and faith was anciently held our prime vertue insomuch that Fey de Spagna grew into a Prouerbe like the gold of Ophir out valewing any other that I speake no new thing or vntruth you may plainely perceiue it by the multitude of discourses pamphlets and pasquills that are dayly vented against vs from all parts of the World wherein wee art iested at derided disgraced by verses and vnseemely Pictures especially of late dayes from Holland France and England yea as I vnderstand in songs and Ballades sung vp and downe the Streetes in many places whence this imputation vpon so iust and braue a Nation so potent a Monarch at the brandishing of whose sword Europe trembles should proceede I cannot ghesse yet desire to be satisfied herein in the King my Mr. and kinsmans behalfe my kinsman for you all know my neere alliance vnto his Maiesty and my Poesie may intimate no lesse vnto the world which is Pues vos nos after you we being next in blood if the issue Royall should faile But I am a fraide the ill carriage of some priuate men at home perhaps our Embassadors in For. raine parts haue throwne this aspersion vpon vs hauing eyther giuen abroad to many ouertures of our designes or attempted their ends with ouermuch hast and violence which in time and by gentle hand might haue beene easier won as a bough whose fruite we meane to gather is brought downe by degrees which else might breake and we loose our longing Surely in the first me thinke our Nation should not easily offend we being esteemed the most close and reserued to our selues in the world as the euent of our greatest and most important actions haue sufficiently shewne Did we not in 88. carry our businesse for England so cunningly and secretly as well in that well dissembled treaty with the English neere Ostend whereto for vs were deputed Aremberge Champigny Richardot and other as in bringing our Nauy to their shores while their Commanders and Captaines were at bowles vpon the hoe of Plimouth and had my Lord Alonso Guzman the Duke of Medina Sidonia had but the resolution but in truth his Commission was otherwise he might haue suprized them as they lay at Anker and the like In Ireland when Don Ivan d' Aquila had gotten footing in the Irish ground ere any of the mist How were our plots and correspondence with Biron carryed with infinite the like examples Touching the latter the Spanish Nation hath of all other in the world beene held for the most sober stayd and wise and were wont neuer to attempt any thing but vpon great and long aduice accounting it with Quintus Fabius more honorable to bee accounted droanes or cowards then to hazard our affaires or Armies French like onely in a vaine-glorious hastinesse to gaine the Honor of charging the first So that it seemeth strange to me that we haue I know not vpon what grounds incurred the hate and scorne of other Nations and that we especially of the Nobility should be thought ill of since of Nobility ours of Spaine hath beene euer held the most illustrious and eminent of the world The Duke hauing made an end Gondomar easily raysing himselfe from his chayre wherein he sat vpon two downe pillowes and resting himselfe vpon a little Brasill staffe spake as followeth My Lords I can deriue this slaunder of our Country and hate of our selues from no other fountaine then the Fanaticall humors and distracted spirits of some of the English who find themselues not a little gall'd and vexed with our politique delayes heretofore and now our finall reiection and I hope shaking hands with that Hereticall Nation for euer for if your Alteses and Honors will but consider what aduenture and boote we haue made by them I thinke you will say we might well endure these British Northen and cold blasts meane time in so suffering for our Catholique King and in the Catholique cause we ought to take such approbry rather as an Honor vnto vs then otherwise Moreouer if we shall consider who are the Authors of these lying Plamphlets wee shall finde to proceede from the pennes of light and vnstayed wits with intent eyther to winne the opinion of good intelligencers and statistes together with the aiery applause of the Vulgar or to rayse to their desperate Fortunes when the tempest is ouer as it oft hath happened and now likely we being fallen off from England and the Treaty at an end Yea but quoth the Duke of Medina Caeli what should be the reason of that inbred and Naturall hate the common people of England should beare to vs and our Country aboue any Nation in the world the Hollanders Turkes and Indians excepted Arch. B. Toledo Quoth the Arch-bishop of Toledo herein we are much deceiued for his Catholique Maiesty and our selues all haue very many faithfull and fast friends in England who would not sticke to hazard their liues and fortunes in the Seruice of his Maiesty might time and occasion be offered yea and some none of the meanest The Marquesse of Castello Rodrig then arising vp with a graue countenance and a deliberate vtterance said is it possible that any place