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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

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.

with Master Roe who perceiuing him in this plight spake to him but the Guard perhibited Master Roe to haue any conference with him onely thus much hee spake in English to him that hee desired him to informe the Embassadour how and in what manner hee met him so they posted him to Vallidolid where they brought him to the inquisition house where he was more fully examined of the Segnior inquisitors of the occasion of his apprehension for what cause hee was brought thither laying nothing to his charge neither indeed could they enioining him to acknowledge the reason whereof himselfe was ignorant they bid him examine his conscience to guesse or thinke what it was might bring him thither protesting that they were impartiall and vpright Iudges the protectors and rulers as free from corruption as prone to equitie thus with much Grauitie was hee diuers times examined For his lodging it was somewhat homely his diet bare his restraint close to the deniall of the sight of any one but made more miserable by the company of two other prisoners with him who were sometimes examined by the inquisitors what they thought their fellow was in for what his discourse was among them which Master Roe requited when the inquisitors demanded him what they discoursed of and for what reason hee thought them there detained who told them he could not tell Not long after they enquired of him If he would haue an Interpreter of the English Colledges to come vnto him to Interpret his intentions and to conferre with with him in matters of Religion which hee seriously denied auerring hee had rather commit his life into the hands of Strangers euen such as they were then into the hands of English Iesuites or Fugitiues who knew them more maliciously addicted to their owne Countrey then any Forraine person whatsoeuer not vnlike the runagate Turks who cannot brooke their owne Nation by reason they obiect vnto them their owne shame and the reason of this his detestation of their conference was in that he suspected one Father Foster an English Iesuite to haue beene the contriuer of his imprisonment in that hee had discoursed with that Iesuite in the Embassadors house in matters of Religion But fearing his violent detention by the inquisition I will discouer the discouery of it as also what became of the Merchants Seruant The flemish Gentleman who met him on his Iourney informed my Lord Ashton in what manner hee had seene Master Roe vpon the which the Embassador went to the Inquisitor Generall to know the reason of his imprisonment who carried himselfe as one ignorant of the cause or person but being solicited and importuned at last confest he was sent to Inquisition to Vallidolid for some hainous matters concerning points of Religion The Inquisitor Generall vnderstanding that the Embassador knew of Master Roes detention now caused the Merchants Seruant to be set at liberty who all this while was kept close in the same house where Master Roe was apprehended lest that he might disclose the conueiance of this Gentleman Of these vnlawfull deuises the Embassador informed his Soueraigne King Iames of pious memory who forthwith writ Letters to his Maiesty of Spaine the subiect whereof was for his deliuery Trinity Colledge in Cambridge preferred an humble petition to the King in testimony of his modest deportment and vpright conuersation amongst them and partly for this reason in that certaine of the Spanish crue and faction had suggested to his Maiesty that he was a turbulent factious Puritane and therefore rightly punished by God in this imprisonment thus diswading as much as in them lay the King to write any Letters in his behalfe These petitions were deliuered to his Maiestie by the Noble Earle of Holland besides his Mother Brothers Kindred more particularly Sir Thomas Roe and Sir Henry Mildra were dayly petitioners to his Maiestie My Lord Ashton was since suitor to his Maiestie of Spaine to grant King Iames suite Henry Wotton then Embassadour importuned the Embassadour for Venenan at Madrid by letters of the same subiect alledging his detention might example to surprize and withhold any secretarie of any Embassadour whosoeuer The Lord of Bristoll with a passionate zeale aboue all the rest dayly sollicited in the behalfe of his deliuerie the continuall redeemer of his distressed countrey men if at any time they stood in neede of him which feruencie of his proceeded not from any priuate interest but his inbred affection to his nation still profering to be a prop and pillar in the common good of his countrey then to aduance his particular estate but to returne to my inquisition Master Roe could not haue his liberty till Padre Maestro came ouer into Spaine and solicited the businesse and then he was soone released as yet ignorant by any information of theirs of the reason of his detention this Gentleman being demanded of his Ferriman as hee passed the Riuer Eron trauailing out of Spaine into France when he intended to returne answered in the phrase of an English Spirit Nunce sino a lucōquostu doespana Not long after was imprisoned one Master Scott a Yorkshire Gentleman apprehended at Madrid and sent to the inquisition of Toledo as it is coniectured in that he had disputed with an Irish dominican Frier Father Thomas in matters of Religion where his lodging and diet was very hard according to his owne relation to his Maiestie King Iames but through the intercession of the Lord of Bristoll was deliuered Master Pryma an English Merchant succeeded him in imprisonment at Toledo vpon no other true occasion but because he endeuored a Monopoly of English Merchandize to the impouerishment of other Spanish Merchants released also by the Lord of Bristoll but banished the Countrey At Siuill they clapt vp one Master Victorine Cheuerill freed by the importunitie of the same Lord But their happynesse was the match with Spaine was then proceeding and the Lord of Bristoll that Noble Personage Embassador of Spaine for otherwise they might haue shared in the miseries of these that follow as Master Gurganey a true and learned Protestant who died vnder the Spanish inquisition and a Scottish Gentleman A. who was rackt in in the Inquisition house at Malaga to the distortion of each particular ioynt now a cripple in Charter house and Master Mosley of Rome who hath beene detained in that Inquisition house these ten yeeres and like to expire there And others as for example Master H. brother to the Earle of L. who hauing viewed the greater parts of Europe France Spaine Italy Constantinople Greece returning to Italy and so for England was there apprehended after this manner The Gouernor of the first Towne he was to passe through had a great desire to a Grecian horse of his which he brought from thence which hee intended to present to his brother the L. in so much he requested it of him but the Gentleman not so foolishly courteous as to depart from him by his denyall so incensed the