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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51119	The Spanish Otes, or, The unparallel'd imposture of Michael de Molina, executed at Madrid in the year 1641 faithfully translated out of Spanish.; Tratado de falsedades. English	Quiñones de Benavente, Juan de, 1600-1650.; Molina, Miguel de, d. 1641.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2386; ESTC R1132	4,278	7

the Correspondencies of the Cardinal of Savoy with the Subjects of that State for the Effectuating the same the coming of Prince Thomas from Flanders to Savoy for the same purpose and to lay Siege to Casal of an Army to be raised and Maintained in Alsatia of an intention to Kill Duke Bernard de Weimar General of the Swedes the intentions of the King our Sovereign with the States of Venice and Genoa concerning Piemont and Caesal the purpose of supplies which both States of Venice and Gonoa would send to France and Holland and the intentions of the Pope to Assist France against Spain the intent of England to league with Spain the purpose that the French and Hollanders had to joyn their Fleets to hinder all succours of Flanders and to surprise the Plate-fleet and infest the Coasts of Spain the Design that the Hollander had upon Antwerp in the Year 16●8 The Success of Fontarabie whereupon I feigned Letters from the Prince of Conde and from the Duchess de Chevereuse also concerning the Imprisonment of Don Gualterio Peni Secretary and Resident for France in this Court with whom I had intimate friendship which was the ground of all these Disasters of the Secret Compliance between the Cardinall Infante and the Prince of Orenge of the Conspiracy by the Prince of Orenge to kill the Cardinal Richelieu the Design of Holland that the States of Flanders should be independent of Spain and our King should renounce his Right to the Cardinal Infanta to the end the Hollanders should receive him and subject themselves to him of the Capitulations and Agreement betwixt the King our Sovereign and the Duke of Modena whereby I feigned that the said Duke was to assist with Six Thousand men at his own charge against France and that the King was to give him the charge of Vice-Roy of Catalonia and Twenty Thousand Souldiers to enter into France by Catalonia which was the first ground of the War at Salsas and Perpignian the Key of Catalonia of the General Resolutions of the Year 1639. in order to the Affairs of Germany Flanders and Italy of the purpose to take away the Nuntio's Court in these Kingdoms for the disorders and Excesses of the same of the great Resentments of the King our Sovereign against the King of France for his Leagueing with the Swedes his Confederation with the Turks and Protestant Princes of Germany for his Protection and League with Holland for his Commerce with Venice and Genoa to the great discommodity of Spain for the disunion which he endeavoured to make between Spain and England of the Resentment that the King our Sovereign had against the Pope for his Amity and Assisting of France and not his endeavouring rather as a Father of the whole Church to pacify the Warrs by all means possible of the Design of changing the Commanders in Chief of all the Emperours Armies and the Spanish there by to make the People desperate hecause of the failing of faith and credit of the Recruiting and Arming the Gallies of Spain Cicily and Naples for the maintaining commerce secret intelligence in Toulon and Marseilles of the capitulation of the Venetian with the Grand Turk and the means whereby they drew the Turk to Assent to their Demands and the little security the Turk had from them All which I INVENTED FEIGNED and CONTRIVED together with many more LETTERS CYPHERS Papers c. without any intelligence Correspondence or Amity with any Officer or Minister of State of this Kingdom but that I alone without the help or assistance of any other have Feigned and Invented all the for said Designs where of I gave Information to the Nuntio and his Secretary to the said Ambassadours and to Monsieur de Peny with whom I have kept correspondence in France since the breaking forth of the Warr the which as a Truth I Swear before God and declare it for discharging my Conscience I ask of God forgiveness also of the King our ●overeign whom God preserve of the Emperour of the Lord Duke against whom I directed most of those forgeries of the Duke of Me●ina las Torres of the Marques of Leganés of the Duke of Villahernosa of the Count of Oniate of the Marques of Villa Franca of the Marques of Mirabel of the most Illustrious Lord Inquisitor Generall the Father Confessour of the most Eminent Cardinals the Cardinal Borgia and Cardinal Spinola and Cardinal of Sandoval of the Lord Don Geronimo of Villanueva Pronetary of Arragon and Secretary of State of Don Andrew de Rojas Secretary of State of the Ambassadour of Genoa and of all the rest whom I have Falsly Defamed by These FORGERIES and IMPOSTVRES and also I ask Pardon of all the faithfull and Loyal Subjects of these Kingdoms Charging them to take Example by me And to the end that it may be manifested to all times I thus make Declaration that God may Pardon me and for the Satisfaction of this and all other Nations which I have disturbed with the wickedness of my Inventions In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Name Dated in the Placa Mayor and Place of Execution in Madrid the 3 of August 1641. Thus Ended Michael de Molinae in whom the Refran or Spanish Proverb was Verified Quien ●n un ano quiere ser rico al medio le ahorcan He that will be rich in one year shall be hanged at half years End FINIS