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A16597	[The copye of a letter, sent by Iohn Bradforth to ... the Erles of Arundel, Darbie, Shrewsburye, and Penbroke, declaring the nature of the Spaniardes, and discovering the most detestable treasons, which thei haue pretended ... agaynste ... Englande. Wherunto is added a tragical blast of the papisticall tro[m]pet. by T.E.]	Bradford, John, serving-man.; Bradford, John, 1510?-1555, attributed name.; T. E., fl. 1556. A tragicall blast of the papisticall trompette for maintenaunceof the popes kingdome in Englande.	1556 (1556)	STC 3504.5; ESTC S112650	41,263	110

the crovvn to the right heires I haue sent you the copy of the sāe will b●cause ye may know perfectly that she shall neuer bee able to restore the crown again to the right heires Then seing the Quene and all your lordships doe knowe assuredly before hand that she shal neuer be able to make recompence in restoringe the crowne againe to the right heires and yet will presume to doe suche wrong as vnlawfullye to take it from thē ye must nedes graūt and beleue it truely that not onelye the Quene but also your lordeships if ye resist not this wickednes and al other that help her or geue her such cursed counsell may be sure for such deuilishe presumpcion to goe to the deuil and be damned withoute mercye For Christ hath iudged youre doinges before hande saying whosoeuer sinneth againste the spirite shall neuer be forgeuen in this world nor in the world to cōe Do ye not know my lordes that ther was neuer traitor against king or Quene that colde lōg prosper wil your lordships sek the destructiō of the quēe the hole realme think to lyue prosperously afterwards wil ye be false traitors to the Quene al your own coūtrey think to be put in trust made mē of great power in straunge contries There is no man at this present that thinketh any treason to remaine in ani of the quēs most honorable coūsel but surely if ye crown king Philippe though ye could doe it by a iust law or if ye receue him in with disceitfulnes guile aide fraude or subtiltie to destroie the lande vndoubtedlye all the world will accoumpt you rancke traitors and the very Spaniardes thēselues durst neuer reste in quietnesse till it were rewarded accordingli ●il ye crowne the king to make him liue chast with his wife contrary to his nature peraduenture his maiestie after he ●ere crowned would be content with one woman but in this meane time his grace wil euery night haue v. or vi to see whiche of them pleaseth him best If thei wer ladies or gētle wemen it were more tolerable but bakers daughters and such other poore whores is to abominable In Antwerp before shroftide ther wer● as there be many at thys present certeine merchauntes which had verye faire wiues whom the king cold not haue priuely But hearyng by chaunce of spyes that some of the same wiues wer vpon a night with their neyghbours wife to helpe her in her trauel or laboure of childe the kinge with certaine other wente masking the therin womans apparell and the kinges maiestie as all Spaniardes reported for a greate honore helde the wiues backe till she had brought forth her childe But what was wrought amongest the middwiues afterwardes lette other men iudge for I had not knowē this but that all Spaniards bragged of it themselues that we mighte reioyce to haue for our king in Englād suche a stowte bolde and myghtye prince as durst maske amōg wemen and plaie the midwife at midnight I could not for shame write this but that I thinke the Quenes highnesse hath heard tel how sharpeli the go●d bishoppe of Castila was checked because he desired the king to kepe him selfe for his wife and told him it was not lawful for him to liue in such lothsōe lechery The notable sermō that this good bishoppe made though he lost his rochet for speaking agaynste lechery and such other vices is talked of so much throughout al these parties that I am sure this tale cānot be hidden I write his name because the Quenes highnes is bounde to geue him thankes and rewarde him wyth another bishoprick that would put himselfe in such daunger of trouble to cause the king her graces husband to loue her But know ye their reportes they saye the good bakers daughter is more worth in her goun then Quene Mary without her croū God witnesseth with me that it greueth my hart sore to heare such vile reportes and so vnlike similitud●s They say olde wiues muste be cherished for their yong riche giftes For old wiues say they for faire wordes and a litle craftie cuckering wil geue al that they haue but how they be vsed afterwardes let the Quenes Ladies and gentill wemen discusse If the king do so much esteme his wife in these dayes when he seketh to obtaine by her honor and great commodite after what sorte will he vse her highnesse when he hath obtained his purpose doth the Quenes grace thīk to cause the kynges maiestie still to remaine in Englande with geuynge him the crown No I assure you plaīly and perfectlye the counsell of Spaines purpose is to establyshe other matters they haue determyned and agreed amonge themselues to a poynte a viceroye with a greate armye of dronken douche men with diuers other souldiers And that the lord Paget knoweth by the false flatteryng words whych I heard the Emperour speake before him to the kīg the xv day of Aprill biddinge the king make much of that man for he was worthy to be cherished promising to make him the greatest man in England● to kepe vs in subiecciō as I haue tolde you before and lette the Quens highnes liue at her bedes like a good auncient Ladie Ye se the further I goe and the more I write the greater euils I find ▪ but I promes you assuredlye ●f I shoulde write so muche of their viciousnes as I know most perfectly the ladies and gentell wemen woulde be muche ashamed VVoulde to god the honorable ladies of Englande knewe the vile reportes which Spaniardes haue reported by them for then I assure you the good Ladies would not loue to kisse so pleasauntlye and so many times with straungers nor to receue and sende into Flaunders so many milke mouthed messengers and moste vntrewe taletellers nor receue send so many tokens with so louing and humble cōmendacions to their most louing or rather most dissemblynge Spaniardes in whom lyeth all their loue all their hope all their trust and confidence Oh moste abominable whores for I speake of no good Ladies were ye borne in Englande do ye liue in Englande haue Englishmē kept you all this long tyme doe Englishe men put all their trust in youre honesty because ye shoulde be Spaniards whores ▪ and leauing your own naturall husbandes and frendes putte all your trust all your loue whiche is very littell to those whom ye ought to loue al your hope al your comfort in vile pockie Spaniards If I beyng an englishe man shoulde haue so lytle honesty and tell so many of your names openlye as I haue heard Spaniardes name to bee their whores many of you would lose your frēds many be banished the courte many be deuorced from their husbands sent to their most trusty and moste louing Spaniardes I would name diuerse of you which within these few days haue sent your messengers whō I could also showe and tokens to spaniardes in Flaunders like

wer trewe we know moste perfectly they loue her treasure faithfully and her crowne hartely But if her grace worke prudently she shall perceiue spedely they loue her person fainedly ▪ I haue not spoken the worst nor the most lyke a rayler but showed a small nomber of rype rotes from the which spring a thousād moe mischeffes for out of eueri rote spring .vii. braunches and out of euery braunche doe spring .vii. worse wormes or stinkinge serpentes of more mortall poison then either the rotes or spitful braunches As for example take their pompynge pryde and ye shall proue their purpose once obteined thei wil treade your heads in the dust and compel you to liue at home porely without bearing rule in the commen wealth Thinke you to liue at home in your country no they knowe perfectly you woulde then haue all people vpon your part and make insurrections to driue thē out of the lande they wil prouide for this matter and put you to death louingly before you make such controuersye that they may gather vp againe their great giftes vpō youre treasures and maintaine their gorgious garmentes with their false brybrie their fine Spanishe brauerye with oppression of the pore people and bye their lustye liueres with exceading great excises There be many other braunches but I shewe these for a brefe example that ye may by your wisedomes picke oute the rest And yet if ye pull of euery braunch vii serpentes ye shal finde a deuelish companie As for example VVhen ye bee trodden vnder foote marke my woordes well euery skur●eie knaue shal come to your house and take the best part leauing you the worste Ye muste obeie him like a Senioure ye must geue them the best beddes and take the worste pacientlie for youre selfes for you haue lord Dannes cōe againe of them and thei shall putte you in rememberaunce of the miseres that your parentes suffered vnder them whiche ye haue forgot thei ar so long past The worste of them shall bee better estemed with the kinge and his counsel then the best of your realme ye must be gladd to geue them place not of curtesie but of perforce they must be set in the higheste place and you in the loweste If one of them be appointed in your house by the kinge or his counsel or els receyued for his moneie the house must be his and not yours And yet will he departe withoute taking leaue or paying for lodegīg Some man will saie that is not true for they haue paide eueri man iustly the vttermost pennie I speake not of that whiche thei haue done in Englande but of that which the most parte of them dooe in these countries and thei wil dooe when they maie beare rule euen amongest you in Englande And yet I thinke there be some that paid not verie iustly for al thīgs when thei were amongest you laste For I my selfe knowe manye worshippeful menne which if thei durst woulde take their othe and seke for recompence that lodged ye that lodged Spaniardes in their house a yeare and more and lette them haue halfe a dossen beddes and chaumbers with all thinges perteininge to them a greate parte of their fyre woode and such other stuffe for buttery and chereles kitchen ct c. And yet the Spaniardes at their departing would nother paye for many thinges that were stollen nor for many thinges that were lost as thei said nor for many thinges that wer broken and rente nor to speake plaīly for many thinges whiche were so bawdye with their pockie plaisters that no man could lye in them afterwardes I know diuerse of them that paide their accoumptes so iustlye toke their leaue so hōestly that their hostes knew not of their departing but left the bakers bruers bouchers woodmōgers and coliers one of thē to paie anothers skore Yf thei departed stoutly in these dayes when they dissembled al goodnes when thei trusted to winne the gouernaūce of the realme and the crowne with gentlenes and good condicions what wyll thei doe I praye you whē they haue the crowne indede But to returne ye muste geue them leaue to speake when you must holde your peace ye must cap to them in all places where ye see them although it be not your custome or rather thers in dede yet he is a very rusticall beast that doeth it not to thē for ye know the worste of them is a Senior ye must preferre them in all thinges and geue all the names of honor excepte maiestie to the vilest slaue amongest them VVoulde not any man be agreued to reade my worke if I should shewe al their peuishe pride is ther any mā so folishe that thinketh I coulde not easely sucke out of their pride a thousande pestiferous poisons and yet not racke it halfe so sore as a wise mā both would and could doe Take another example loke vpon their flatterie which is the least faulte of fiftye and the smallest rote of all the reste Remēber their pleasaunt promises repaide with preposterous performacions ye shall proue that the vileste wretche of them all shalbee in more credite then the best of your frends And yet their promises shalbe so fair that an● man liuing woulde credite their wordes Their countenaunce shalbe so pleasaunte towardes you that ye would thinke thē to be your verie frendes whē in verie dede thei shal seke your vtter destruction and to cast you out of fauoure Ye shall be gladde to make long laboure for smal matters and at the last not sped ▪ And yet would they be in god your faithfull frendes Some of their false flattering fauorers will saie that all men maie perceiue perfectly that I slaunder Spaniardes wrongefullye for they haue holpen many synce their comming into England But remember I tolde you they counterfeited condicions because they mighte seme like vnto vs and the more e●sely disceaue vs. For that whiche thei haue done in Englande was no part of their nature but the greatest part of dissimulacion and a plaine preparaciō to disceaue oure nobilite For wherefore should thei seke to maintaine oure nobilite and the honor of the realm in his own estate doe ye thinke if thei obteine the crown thei wil maīteine the nobilite and the realme vpon their own charges were it not better for them to destroie the nobilite and bring the kingdome whiche thei loue so well to their own commodites Mark more of their naturs One of them shal laugh to your face when his acquaintaunce shal kil you behinde youre backe Howe manye Englishe men did the Spaniardes kil in their arses or not much aboue the arse whē thei wer in Englād last of fauour receiued most cōmōlie one of thē wil talke with you pleasaūtly kil you sodēlie whē he sēeth most your frend How many bitter biting serpentes thinke you do spring oute of euerie braunche Take their pleasaunte promyses where one of them

pay yerely for euery chimney in his house and euery other place that is to make fire in as ouen fornes and smithes forge a frenche crowne wil englishmen or can thei suffer to be poled and pilled moste miserably in payēg continually suche poling pence and intollerable tollages for all maner graine and breade be●e beare and mutton goose pigge and capone henne mallard and chicken milk butter and chese egges apples peares wine white and reade with all other wines beside salt white and graye al thinges must pay small nuttes and wall nuttes cheries and chest nuttes plumbes damassens philbeardes and al both gret smal whatsoeuer thei maye se to fede the pore cōmenalte Salmon and hearing this is a shamefull thing tench ele or conger this shall kepe vs vnder and make vs die for hunger flounders floucke plaice or carpe here is a miserable warke that Englande must abide to maintaine Spanishe pride ye paye youre tenthes for all these thinges but I speake not of churche rentes nor balifes fees for that is but the tenthe part but this shall greue your harte to pay the thirde part more that burthen waieth sorer then fines or rēts tak hede therfore Ye wil think their cōmēs be not so opprest there is not a ye man farmer nor husbande man in these partes that dare eate a capōe in his own house if his frende come to viset him but the capōe must cost him a noble if it wer worth xx pēce and euen so of hennes pigges geese chickins ▪ and all other thyngs Dooe ye thinke to make prouises for all these mischefes which I haue rehearsed the best prouiso ye can deuise to make is that for the auoiding of all these and innumerable moe mischefs ye kepe the crowne in youre owne handes and geue it to no forreyne prince For when the king is crowned who dare withstand his doings doe not the lawes of Englande bind al men to obeie him but seing thei vnderstande not our lawe maye not the kinge chaunge it as shall seeme good for him by the aduise of his coūsel I nede not to feare the daunger of my boke for I heare say I shalbe outlawed with a pension writte for .iii yeres pension in cliffords inne Do it spedely least it take none effecte for if Spaniardes beare rule fare wel all Englishe lawes the kīg will reach you Spanish lawes and looke what lawes Spaniardes make is not he a traitor that speaketh to the contrary but til his grace be crouned it is mete for all trewe men to holde with the right and speake against his coronaciō Ye say the quenes highnes hath al power in her hande we must obey her surely in actes that bee paste by parliament and cōfirmed by the hole realme we ought to obey her highnes during her life but I think there is no law confirmed and past where by the Quene may lawfully disinherite the realme of the crown And for that which is to come eueri man mai lawfully speake against it for she can make no such law without your aide Yf ye read the enchiridiō of Erasmus in the leafe lxxv ye shall finde that the Quenes highnes or any other Prince that wil folowe goddes commaundement and seke the kingdom of heauen ought not to make any lawes or statutes agaynste the commen wealth of her countr and that she ought not to doe that which she may by her power but that which she maye doe iustlye by the lawes of the realme For lyke as Christe was not borne for himselfe nor died not for himselfe but was borne to fulfil the law liued to teache vs the perfecte trueth of the law and died to redeme al those that woulde folow his steps and kepe his commaundementes euē so the Quene ought not to do that thing which is for her own profet her own pleasure or her own pryuat commodite but that which is for the commodite of the whole countrey the profite of her poore people and the strength aide preseruacion and the comfort of the whole realme Her grace ought not to gouerne vs if she wil folowe Christe but to se vs gouerned vprightly in all spirituall maters after gods worde and in all temporall maters accordinge to the lawes of the realme iustlye for oure preseruacion In the .iiii. nexte leaues folowynge ye shall finde the offyce of a kynge a magistrate an officer and bishoppe I shewe you the place because ye shoulde remember it and folowe it in this case But if the Quenes grace wil not seke to winne heauen with folowing Christe and keping his order for the commodite and profet of all her people then she must without grace in breakeynge Christs order and leauing his steps without any seconde way folow the steps of the deuill and so seking her owne priuat commodite her owne wil her own pleasure rūne straight headlong to hell Mary if the Quene be the last heire so that the crown remaine wholly perfectly and lawfully in her without any other discente she may by gods lawe geue it for the commen wealth of her subiects and the realme where or to whom soeuer pleaseth her and then if it be for the commen wealth of the realme as ye se plainly it is not she mai geue it to her graces husbande the kinge but if it belong to the heires of the realme after her death and if ther be any heires in Englande liuing after her to whom the crown oughte to come by iuste and lawefull descente she and all that geue her such cursed counsell doe committe deadlye and damnable sinne in taking and geuīg it from them wrongfully Yf ye could restore it againe afterwardes and so make them recompence she myghte haue pardon of god but I am sure the Quenes grace and all her honorable counsell haue seene the kinges style where he writeth himselfe kinge of xxviii kingdomes with Englande Fraunce and Yrelande and there ye perceue that he leaueth out the quen in all his writinges and deades whatsoeuer he maketh or confirmth And in the first leafe and first side of the patten or rather the Emperours will which he hath made to establishe the king iointly with him in the Empir they write that the kinge wōne englande by the Quenes mariage and vpon the seconde side of the sāe first leafe they write that the king at this presēt hath autorite to make chaūge ordeine and constitute what decres statutes ordinaūces or lawes soeuer please him in the same kingdom of England Seeing the king hauynge but the name geuen him doeth take vpon him suche power and bee●ore he hath the crowne dooeth expulse the Queene from all title of the realme or the crown ye may be sure that when he hath the crown he wil take from her all power and honor sauing only she may haue the name to be his wife vvith his more beloued harlots so that she shall neuer be able to restore

fleminges reporte to conduct a great nōber of high Almaines priuely into Englande amongest you to destroie your corne and destroye the realme or els to take the Lord graie the lord Depute of callis the hold with all whiche we haue here seene Sodenlye suffer not youre enemyes to enter into the lande as ye did the Danes in times past in hope to driue them out after suche like sort For I assure you the Spaniardes can wil prouide more politike wayes to suppresse the countrey and kepe vs in subiection then euer the Danes dyd in times past I shal therefore exhort you and in the name of our sauioure Christe require you to flie all maner thinges that may be like to make discord debate stryfe sedicion commocions treasons rebellions or such like mischiefes amongeste you And speciallye leaue those moste deuilishe names of Papystes heretikes Lutherans protestauntes and suche like accordyng to the Quenes moste gracyous proclamacion Ioyne youre selues to gether wyth loue amite reioysinge to take vpon you the moste blessed name of oure sauioure Iesus CHRISTE the GOD of equitee peace loue and tranquillite and to bee called Christians knit your selues together in perfect charite loue together lyke Christen brethren remembryng we haue al one father whyche is in heauen that we bee all redemed wyth one raūsome euen the shedynge of the moste precyous bloud of oure sauyoure Iesus CHRISTE whose commaundementes if we wyll endeuore oure selues to keepe for the vttermoste of oure power and if we will take vpon vs hys moste myghtye name he wyll vndoubtedlye defende vs wyth hys moste myghtye arme so that we shalbe able to withstād our enemies liue in our countrei quietly in peace loue and tranquillite like as the children of god and louing brethren in our sauiour Iesus christ to whom with the father and the holye goste iii. persons and one liuing god which was without beginning beall honore and glorye worlde withoute ende Amen Your lordships obedient trew and faithfull seruaunte Iohānes bradfordus Once agayne beware of had I wifte ¶ A tragicall blast of the Papisticall trompette for maintenaunce of the Popes kingdome in Englande NOw fil the cup make good chere This goldē chaines must neds obei Englād is ours both farre nere No king shall reigne if we say nay Now all shauen crownes to the stāderd Make rome pul down for the Spaniard Spare nother man woman or childe Hange and hed thē burne thē with fier VVhat if Christ wer both meke mild Satan our lord wil geue vs hier Now al shauen crounes to the standerd Make rome pul down for the Spaniard Pope innocent our father old VVhen Peters ke is cold doe no good He cursed them a thousande folde And drowned them in Tibers floud Now al shauen crownes to the standerd Make rome pul down for the Spaniard He said we must pauls swerde now take Splay the banner strike vp the droome Fall to aray pike and halfe hake Play now the men the time is come Now al shauen crownes to the standerd Make rome pul down for the Spaniarde Our golden hatte we must defende Though Christ say nay we wil it haue And it maintaine vnto the ende Al kinges to vs be bonde and slaue Now al shauen crownes to the standerd Make rome pul down for the Spaniard The Pope our father hath al rule The deuil to him wil neuer say nay But maketh him richly to ride on mule In worldly pompe which may not decai Now al shauen crownes to the standerd Make rome pul down for the Spaniard The Spaniards hath sworne vs to defēd So that we betraye Englande to them Make hauock now the people to spend As Herode did once in Bethleem Now al shauen crownes to the standerd Make rome pul down for the Spaniard Doe you not see this Englishe in feare Their hart is driuen into their hose xiii we burned of late to gether Thei durst not snuffe ōce with their nose Now al shauen crownes to the stāderd Make rome pul down for the Spaniard Hey courage courage my felowes al The gettīg ship must bere a proud saile If we draw backe our kingdom wil fal If we be stoute nothing shal vs faile Now al shauen crownes to the stādard Make rome pul down for the Spaniard Lay shame aside let honesty go Beare out al matters be they vntrew Say trew men be traitors the Qu. foe Banish al trueth and falshode renewe Now al shauen crownes to the standerd Make rome pul down for the Spaniard Our iust must we haue who can sai nay This god once said to our father Caine The world is our reigne worldli staie VVe shal not decaye but alwais remaīe Now al shauen crownes to the standerd Make rome pul down for the Spaniard The authour to Englande his naturall countreye England repent whiles thou hast space If thou couldest repent as Niniuie did Then sholdest thou be sure of gods grace And so might thy enemies quite be rid But if thou be blinde and wilt not see Thē hasteth destructiō for to destroi the. FINIS If nature be of such strength neuer thinke that Spaniardes can chāg their vile nature In Antwerpe ther was at one tīe aboue xvii M. pounde of Englishe re●ones grotes of good siluer melted newe stamped to mayntaīe your enemies Folowe this coūsell For the defence of our na●iue coūtrye Beware of them The doctors of the churche Not the halfe The kīg except in all euill Obiections The duke of medenazelie Marke the nature of the nobibilite their polices These be the rotes of Spa. nature the worst of all is when the kīg doth maintaīe mischief continually and bestoweth his power in wickednes Noble mens knaues No●e Marke how the spanishe fruite springth The first rote and first braunch The serpentes of the firste braunche A Senior Obieccions The Spaniardes kepe chereles kitchens Pockie plaisters The maner of taking leue among Spani The seconde example of flatterie The brāches Another obiecciō made by slatterers These were coūterfeite cōdiciōs to disceue vs. Dissimulacion This thei goe about dyligently The serpentes of the firste braunch Therfore they woulde not that you shold know their treasons Take this point of wisdom This is painfull Note take hede mi lordes thei be false traitors towardes you priuely And shal doe if I seke all my life time the third example of supersticious hipocrisi The braūches Great abuse whoso speaketh the truth is halfe an heretike Note the differēce The sacrifice of the masse the passion of Christe Heretiks Another sore heresie Marke howe Christ is in the sacrament The vertue of Christ in the supper consecrate in the masse Those mē which wil dispute in diuinite ought to be perfectly learned The serpentes of the firste braunche The first and most deuelishe serpēt hath bitten the Priestes Presumtyon Marke this lye A trewe example The vertue of the sacramēts is not by the prists power but by

showe your lordeships other matters briefly I could write of the nature of Spaniardes A volume importable But If I should write all that I knowe ye woulde not credite me ye ought to beleue al that whiche I haue writtē because ye knowe perfectlye I haue written nothing but that whiche euerie man knoweth to be their commen customes and immutable maners And ye see by these exāples that I write not halfe the morishe maners whych they vse continually Manye of my frendes haue geuen me coūsel to write my letter but not my name for feare your lordeshippes wold punishe me with imprisōment rackīg hanging drawing and quarteryng for speakyng agaynste the kinges coronacion which I thynke ye cannot doe lawfully for so long as he is not crowned that manne is no traitour that speaketh agaynst his coronaciō but after his maiestie hath the crown the best of you all that speaketh agaynst the Spaniardes proceadings shalbe proued and ponished lyke a rācke traitor But I haue written my name plainly that I may thereby eyther geue youre lordeshippes warninge to kepe youre honours the whole realme oute of their bondage Or els that I maye goe honestlye to the galowes and ende this pore life with an honorable death for me my countrye VVhen your most honorable liues if ye disenherit the realme of the crowne shalbe ended with great dishonor wretchednesse miserie and shame for you and your successours for euer yet I wolde hope to escape when you are sure to die For doubteles after that Spaniardes haue safely planted thēselues in the ●ande thei wold trust me to be their faithful frēd because they knowe I ●oue trueth and am trewe to my coū●rey when thei wil neuer trust your ●ordeshippes if ye wilbe so rancke ●als traitors as to geue thē the crown of our realme willingly I woulde not your lordshippes should thinke me so foolyshe as to speake agaynst his coronacion if your lordeshippes graunt to it Some men saie ye haue gone so faire ye cānot turne backe I know not what ye haue dōe but I am sure what ye may do if ye haue graūted hī the crown it shalbe muche better for you to stād to that which ye may do thē performe that which ye haue prōised For I am sure so lōg as the king of Ierusalē is not crowned in Englande ye may chose whether ye wil crowne him or not And surely if I were worthie to be one of the counsell in Englande my counsel shoulde be that the king should fir● be crowned in the Citie of Ierusal● lawfully because it is the more auncient and more noble kingdome and bring all the Iewes into subiection and make them good Christians before he shoulde haue the crowne o● England wrongfullie either for fa● wordes great bribes false flatterin● promises cruell manacinges terribl● threatninges or ani other false craf● polices I thought your lordeshippes ha● knowledge partly of their counsel as they reporte that the frenche kin● knoweth yours But now I percei● their secrete priuie and conclude counsels lie hidden from your lordshippes when ye know not the 〈◊〉 principles where vpon many gre● matters be grounded if ye do knowe them and wil not credit them pardō me for writing in vaine if ye know them not howe can ye bee offended with me for declaring to your lordeshippes such thinges as be pretēded to your destruction the losse of your ●iues landes wiues and children and finally the losse of your honors the ●uine of the realme the suppressiō of ●he commenwealth the bondage of your countrie for euer Ye ought ●he rather to credite me beecause I speake nothing god I call for wyt●es for malice of Spaniardes nor to ●atter Englishe men I thinke neuer ●o come seke bribes at youre handes ●or my labour and therfore it appea●th plainly that I write for none o●er purpose but only to ge●e youre ●rdeshippes knowledge and war●ng of their most morishe maners and cursed condicions that ye maye ●e more prudently prouide to with ●and their terrible threatninges pretensed treasons and pestiferous polices and so preserue youre honorable persons and the whole realme oute of their tiranny and bondage Do ye think I durst be so bolde as to offēde god in speakinge contrarye to the trueth and lying slaunderousli and shamefullie against my Christē brother I know we are all brethren if we haue the loue and feare of God continually before our eyes in our sauiour Iesus Christ and we oughte to loue one another mutuallye like brethren but as god deuided the langguages of men so hath he caused euery nacion to loue more naturally all those that be borne in the same self country then foreners and hath geuen according to his ineffable goodnes certeine places of the earth for euery nacion seuerally to inhabite cōmaunding vs straightly that one of vs shal not wrongfullye couete anothers goodes and specially our Christen brothers which cōmaundemēt the Spaniardes saye they will kepe For whatsoeuer saye they is done in England touching the crown or the gouernaunce of the realme shall cō● through procuremēt but of the coūsell themselues For we knowe well enoug h say they that there be suche deuillishe people in Englād to work treason and make insurrections that it is in vaine for oure kinge to haue the crown except the counsell wyll also deliuer him certeine of the strongest holdes and porte townes mark my wordes well for his refuge at all times till his maiestie maye be able to bring in power to withstande his enemies and then we shall make all our hauen townes more strōge to the ●andes warde then they be towardes ●he see But know ye for what purpose they pretende this policie that ● small nomber of Souldiours maye ●ee able to keepe the Realme quietly and burne the countreye .iii. or iiii times eueri yere til we can be contented to obey all their constitutions ordinaunces and lawes they bragge that if thei may be vitled by the see at their backes thei shal trouble and toile Englishe men so long til we be able to suffer no longer for what great trouble wil it be for vs to burne betwene Southhāpton Douer Thei trust the quenes hignes for the kinges maintenaunce wyll poole the realme with subsidies and beneuolēcies so much as in her grace lieth and geue al our treasure out of the lande now at the kinges cōming to her grace so that the kinges maiestie with our treasure and his owne reuenewes in this time of peace shal enriche himselfe that when we haue small force of money because our● treasure shalbe caried out of the lād the king and all our enemies mai cō● into the realme and worke mischefe against vs for thei shall haue mone● from all places and aide of many nacions And they beleue assuredlie to be aided by the greatest part of oure own countre men For the Quene good men wil take their part against

heretikes thei thinke there bee but fewe noble mē in Englande but they wil be contented ether by gift of the Quenes highnes or els for greate bribes riche rentes and good giftes to graunt that the king may haue a iust●e title to the crown or els receue him in vpon one partye that he may ouercome the other perforce And thei thinke there wilbe but few men against them for at their firste comming thei wil geue suche great gifts and pay mony to poore souldiers so largely liberally and surely that whē we haue scante of money poore men wilbe content to serue for their money gentell men and noble men for couetousnes to ēcrease their liuings and landes but wott ye to what end ●ll this cōmeth Thoughe ye receiue them into the lād serue vpō their part yet dare thei not trust you but ar mīded to pay you well for a time that you may fight māfully againste your own coūtrey whiles they come skirmishing at a backe winge or els stād loking vpō you for thei say thei be not so madd as to fight with english men be killed like beasts but whē ye haue brought thē in wōne thē the victori stablished thē surely quietly thē as I haue told you wil thei destroy all you gather vp agayne their great giftes vpon your treasures Is not this a lamentable case that we englishe men for feare of mutabilite or chaunge of religion which cōmeth by gods ordinaunce shall seke to plant willingly such a nacyon in our own country as seke the vtter destruccion of the same But thys is most miserable most shamefull mos● detestable moste abominable that so noble and prudent gouernours a● your lord shippes shoulde either for faire words loue feare gifts bribes threatnings manacings or any kind of couetousnes seke the subuersyon of their coūtry the destrucciō of the commē wealth the vtter decaye of your most noble bloud for euer this last point doe I lamēt more thē al the rest for if any of your moste noble linage might liue in autorite as the Spaniards sai in dede we might haue some comforte to restore the realme and the weale publike to his olde perfecte estate but if ye deliuer the crown out of your hāds I meane not the crown of gold onely but also the power that goeth with it ye shal in short time haue so great a fal that their shal not liue one of youre ●inage that shalbe able to defend his own right nor to rule as his predec●s●ours haue done nor yet to reuenge ●is fathers death This ye must nedes graunte that it is necessarye for the ●inges maiestie to worke the sureste ●aye for hys owne commodite and preseruacion that can bee deuysed or founde out by the aduice of his counsell And then I am sure there is none of you so foolyshe that thinketh to beare rule in the common wealthe or about the kinges maiestie for all the worlde knoweth the moste detestable and most abominable treasons whiche our nobilite doe worke against their own natural kinges continually And therfore Spaniardes myghte be called men of small wisedome if thei cold not forecast such daūgers but thei haue prouided for it well enough would to god your lordships knewe perfectly so muche as I haue sene with mine eies and heard with mine eares or els woulde for youre own profit your owne honor youre own wealth the preseruaciō of your country the loue of your children the safegarde of your own liues credit my wordes For then youre most prudent wisdomes coulde the better prouide to withstande their pretensed treasons Ye will saye howe coulde this felow see heare or kno● matters of their counsell I was as all men knowe chamberleine to one of the kinges priuie counsell And gaue my selfe with all diligence to write and reade Spanish which thing once obteined I kept secrete from my master and his seruauntes that I myghte the rather with diligēt seruice be trusted in my masters closet or studye and so reade suche letters as I sawe broughte to the counsell chamber VVhich thinge I did as opertunite serued yet I cannot vnderstande any part of their priuie and concluded counsels but the effecte of suche letters as were written from one counseller to another I knowe not how nor what they haue determined vpon the said letters but I founde this written in certeine letters that were sent from the Emperours maiestie also a yeare beefore the kinges comming oute of Englande that the kinges maiestye should make his excuse to the quens highnes that he woulde goe see hys father in Flaūders returne immediatly But seing the good simple Quene pardon me though I folowe the frase of the letters is so Ielous ouer my sonne as the letter termed it we shal make her agree to al our requestes before his return or els kepe him here exercised in other effaires til we can agree with the counsell who vndoubtedli wil be easeli wōn with faire wordes great bribes and good giftes politickly placed in tīe with many other things how these matters must be handled how they must be brought to passe how al parties muste bee folowed whom they might truste what men woulde disceue them whom they muste winne with bribes and whom thei myghte winne with faire promises whō thei thought like trewe mē would vvith stand them and hovve the false traitours vvoulde receue them that the Emperoure vvould appointe the king such counselers for the same purposes as he in many yeares had proued to be trevve and vvise in their doinges so that the kinges maiestye myght be bolde at the first presente to putte his truste in them vvhom his father in lōg processe of time vvith greate experiēce had proued and circumspectly picked out amōge many false dissemblinge flatterers vvith innumerable such prudent coūsels touchinge Fraunce Flaunders Naples Millane Boemia Hungery Turky and diuerse other countryes as betvvene Spayne and the Mores VVherof I knowe perfectlye they haue brought many thīgs to passe mani thei be like to obtein al which maters because they pertein litle to our coūtrey I wil passe ouer wyth silence In other letters I haue founde the case disputed that the quens highnes was bounde by the lawes of god to endowe the kinges grace her husbande in all her worldly possessions and goods so farre as in her maiestie lyeth and they thinke she will doe it in dede to the vttermoste of her power ▪ No man can thinke any euill in the Quenes highnesse thoughe her grace be something moued whē such bondes as touche her conscience bee beaten into her memorie priuely Let all men therfore take h●de beware diligentlye that no man be so bolde or rather so deuelishe as once to pretende any euill towardes the quenes maiestie in pain of perpetual punisment For vndoubtedlye ●f any euyll should be wrought against her hyghnes person god would not