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A13574	A continuation of the lamentable and admirable adventures of Dom Sebastian king of Portugale With a declaration of all his time employed since the battell in Africke against the infidels 1578. vntill this present yeare 1603.	Teixeira, José, 1543-1604.	1603 (1603)	STC 23866; ESTC S101269	50,758	70

suborned for the purpose came to that Diegoes house sending for him into the field to come home to speake with Dom Sebastian the king to whom he said abruptly Hath he deliuered any secret token betwixt him and me whereby I might credite thee By which question he published that which he secretly had bewrayed before to his allies Whereupon the Cardinall Dom Henry great Vncle to the king tooke occasion to send a trustie seruant of his called Emanuel Antunes to S. Vincents Cape charging him to vse all the industrie he might in finding out what certaintie he could learn of the king his Nephew All which this Emanuel performed with as much indeuour as he might possibly vse and by his diligent inquisition about the said Cape found that the king had bene in the Monasterie and was there certified that he was both hurt in the head and arme and in a manner franticke not onely for the exceeding anguish and vexation of mind which he suffered for the losse of victorie but withall the shame did euer perplexe him when he considered the ouerthrow came by indiscretion and rashnesse and that by his default the flower and prime of all Portugal was defeated and cut off Antunes brought a very large testimoniall hereof to the Cardinall vnder the seale of the father Gardian and all the rest of his brethren of the said Monasterie which the Cardinal receiued with his owne hands commaunding his seruant to impart this secret to none which he for his owne part buried in his own bosome And not being able to find out what course his Nephew and his companie tooke for their escape out of the countrie gaue ouer the expectation of his recouery either of his crown and scepter while he liued though it were his due But when it was knowne in Portugal that the K. liued Antunes begā to acknowledge the paines he had vndergone in these affaires by his masters appointment which was no sooner conueyed to the king of Castiles care but he sent for this Antunes of whom he had a liberall relation of all that he knew concerning that businesse and soone after Antunes his returne into Portugall he died Whereby it appeareth vnto me that God lengthened his life some space to reueale a truth that seemed before to be very intricate and doubtfull Shortly after the Portugals began to murmure among themselues boldly saying that D. Philip the king had made away Dom Sebastian their king his Nephew going to him to craue his aide before his departure into Africke because he had a meaning to gaine the kingdome of Portugall to him and his successours and hold it by vsurpation And this scandall was neuer extinguished because fame diuulged his arriuing at the Cape called S. Vincent and no certainty appeared to the world what way he passed from thence But since it is proued that frō Spaine he got shipping and trauelled into Alexandria and there liued in Prester Iohns Court with his followers some twentie moneths vnknowne of what qualitie he was professing that he had a desire to see the world and trauelled onely to that end and purpose for of want he made no shew he and his company being well furnished with gold and iewels of great price From Aethiopia they passed ouer the red sea and so directly to the mount Sinay from thence to the great Sophi called Xatama king of Persia whom he serued as a Commaunder fiue or sixe yeares against the Turkes where he atchieued many victories and diuerse wounds in his bodie with much honour and reputation In requitall whereof the king of Persia did him many honorable offices and gaue him rich presents of inestimable price with the which he and his companie departed I heard at Venice of his conference with Colonel Cigogna a man of great experience in the warres which assured the Lords of the Senat that he neuer talked with any man more wise learned or better experienced in Militarie discipline then this noble person and he protested he could be no other then the same he professed to be The excellent and most reuerend Lord the Archbishop said he heard the discourse between the King and the Colonel which delighted him exceedingly This Archbishop I could not speake withall at my being in Venice for that he was employed in Dalmatia in the affaires of the State The King leauing Persia went towards Ierusalē frō whence he trauelled by firme land to Constantinople which after certaine dayes he left and came into Italie from thence to Hungarie and from thence fetched a compasse by Muscouie Poland Swedland and Denmarke where he tooke shipping for England and in London it is reported he saw D. Antonio the supposed king of Portugal From England he passed into Holland from Holland by Almaine backe to Antwerpe therehence to Paris anno 1586. It comes to my memorie that in the latter end of the same yeare one Antonio Fernandes Pignero a Priest which had sometime bene Amner to the said Dom Sebastian c. and was with me in seruice from the said Lord D. Antonio told me that the same Dom Antonio had heard it credibly reported that Dom Sebastian the King was liuing c. whereat D. Antonio seemed to be sore amazed and perplexed About which time I craued licence of D. Antonio to go out of England into this countrie which he gaue with some shew of discontentment therewith By reason whereof and to auoid all suspition I moued no question to him concerning the particularitie of this matter and I must tell you by the way that Pignero had all this discourse in writing sub sigillo confessionis which although said he I make the same knowne vnto you yet I pray you conceale it from D. Antonio because it may be very preiudiciall to him of whom I heard it In the yeare following after Easter in the time of Ember when I was come to that towne whither I made the scope of my iourney I heard the like concerning the same businesse which I before had heard in England whereof I seemed to make no great care and comming to Paris after his Christian Maiestie had entred the town D. Nouuclet assured me in the presence of diuers Portugals and French men not once nor twise but many times that it was as certaine and assured that D. Sebastian King of Portugale had bene lately in Paris as he spake to me describing him to me by many circumstances to all which I gaue no credite esteeming all he said to be meere fables Not that I held any opinion or conceit that he was slaine at the battell in Africke but my imagination could not receiue any impression that he could be guiltie of any such rare dissimulation to passe so many cities and regions without discouerie The last yeare writing to the said Doctor to Annissi where he dwelt of these newes which I heard that my Lord and maister should be set a libertie by the consent of the Siegniorie of Venice I intreated him to write

an armie embark him for Portugale where he ended his life as I haue already more at large declared vnto you elsewhere That which I haue said gentle Reader I thinke to be sufficient to acquaint you with the naturall disposition of Portugales And to induce you to beleeue what likewise hath bin verified concerning D. Sebastian my Lord and Maister it is conuenient for you to know that he resolued neuer to discouer himselfe or to make it apparant to any man what he was but was fully perswaded to passe the rest of his time vncothly and so to finish his life in silence because he wilfully tooke vpon him contrary to the aduice of Xarisa and all the Princes Lords and Commaunders that accompanied him to giue battell to Muley Maluco in the houre the day and place that in their iudgement was not thought fit for his aduantage and the King acknowledging his error and ouersight he committed that day so afflicted his soule that the memorie thereof bred him more inward torment and vexation then any misfortune that euer befell him in all his wofull dayes For the confirmation whereof I will giue you to vnderstand courteous Reader what I heard an old man say being a man of great authority an ordinary assistant and a common releeuer of afflicted persons be they neuer so abiect and a Religious man of mine owne Order and Archbishop of Spalato a Venetian borne a maintainer and supporter of truth who during this Realmes last troubles wrote in the behalf of his Christian Maiestie This reuerend Prelat while I lay ficke in his house distant some halfe league from Venice sitting by my bed side said vnto me In this very selfe same bed lay D. Sebastian your King tormented with a feauer before his imprisonment in Venice at which time in my hearing a father of the Orderof S. Bernard a Doctor in Diuinitie very famous for his profession intreated him to tell him how it came to passe that he lost the battell in Africa and because the King condescended not to his demaund he reiterated the same againe Then suddenly I beheld teares gushing from his eyes as big as pease and in such abundance as they did wet not onely his handkercher but his shirt the sheete and a silke quilt that laye vpon him This passion was without weeping or sobbing for that he neuer could do but euer shewed himselfe all one no changeling come prosperity or aduersity At length he requested vs instantly to vse some other communication saying The remembrance of that intollerable mishap was to him such a torment as it depriued him of reason and iudgement and made him desire to abandon both the sight and conuersation of all men All this griefe could not supplant his sicknesse which persecuted him so sore as he was out of hope or care of his recouery oft tēpting him to end his misery with his owne hands I considered it was great inhumanity to adde a torment to his affliction in seeking to extract that from his knowledge which his extreme sorow would not giue his tong leaue to vtter so I desired the noble man to depart with me and giue him time to rest a while for that the night before he had slept very little or not at all To conclude the shame and griefe he sustained inwardly by his rash attempt as is before rehearsed committing so great an error and so preiudiciall to Christianitie enforced him to obscure and hide himselfe from all his acquaintance and familiars imitating Alphonso his predecessor both in temeritie and repentance or to equall Boleslaus king of Poland who to kill Stanislaus the Bishop of Cracouia left both his Crowne and Scepter and retired himselfe into Hungary where some say within few yeares after the execution of his bloudie purpose he slue himselfe Others say that he was deuoured with dogs in a forest but the most certaine report saith that he serued a Cooke in a Monasterie at Carinthia called Osia a litle distant from the towne named Felikirchen and after the sufferance of many troubles and trauels he died and was knowne by a writing which was found in his bosome the content whereof was I am Bolislaus sometime King of Poland that slue Stanislaus Bishop of Cracouia In the same maner I beleeue had Dom Sebastian the King of Portugale died had he not bene a religious man bound in conscience to shew and reueale himself and take paines to seeke to be restored to his former rights and dignities so prouoked to do by secret illumination from God himselfe who otherwise had resolued to end his life in an hermitage which intent he manifested in certaine Italian verses composed by him while he was in prison in Venice which I haue about me vttering all his successe sithence he lost the battell in Afrike c. There were foure examiners appointed by the Senate to attend that businesse all the time of his imprisonment there which examinations and verses he sent inclosed in a letter to his Holinesse which also are in custodie The Aduocate Iudge Counsellor and Inquisitor testifie that he gaue them a princely sententious and a pithie answer rehearsing all things that had past concerning himselfe and others since that battell in Africke with the names of the Generals Colonies Captaines Lords and Gentlemen that accompanied him in that action the number and the diuersities of nations the day the houre the situation of the place where it was fought how and in what manner he escaped I am againe to intreat you friendly Reader to giue credite to that I shall report vnto you and not to measure the nature of Portugals by the light and leud dispositions of other nations When I was in England with D. Antonie the putatife King of Portugal as I told you before I was solicited by Fr. Diego of Chaues a professor of mine owne order with great importunacie to relinquish and giue ouer this S' D. Antonio and incline towards his Catholike Maiestie whose confessor this Diego was and his sole Gouernor assuring me that if I would yeeld to his request I should be very bountifully rewarded wrote vnto me most confidently that my entertainment should not want one mite of 25 or 30000 duckets yearely in reuenue to be duely paid which allowāce would not only serue cōpetently to maintaine me in honorabl estate but I might also deduct a surplusage therehence to inrich my kindred and friends withall whō also the king promised to prefer aduance for my sake this Cofessor was my mothers cosin-germaine assuring me that all my actions intents and purposes whatsoeuer preiudiciall to his Catholike Maiestie should be quite buried in obliuion and no blame for any inuectiues or writings in derogation of his Maiestie should be once obiected against me And to the end I might the rather yeeld vnto him he recapitulated all the particular offices and fauours he had performed in my behalfe at the time of my imprisonment that he purchased my deliuerance saued