corps were healed Mafalda was espoused to Henry the first King of Castile although allied to him in a forbidden degree wherefore this marriage was likewise declared void and she emulating her sister built a Monastery of the Cistercian Order and is reported likewise to have done many Miracles particularly in the year 1627. when her Tomb was opened Sancha the third daughter became a Nun of the Order of St. Francis who lived about this time Bianca and Beringella died young and were buried in Conimbria right against their fathers Tombe though some write otherwise After the death of the Queen Aldonsa which happened in the year 1138. King Sancho gave himself over to the love of diverse Ladies amongst whom he had many children who proved most of them his greatest vexation and disquiet for the pleasures of the senses do not terminate but in the sence of grief At last arrived at the age of 57. years in the 26. year of his reign oppressed in Conimbria by an incurable disease he took leave of this world He was buried in the Church of the Holy Cross on the left side of the Altar in the great Chappel where King Emanuel built him a Sepulchre like to that of his father he left infinite riches which by his Will he divided amongst all his children making no difference between the legitimate and the illegitimate he by his Will supplicated Pope Innocentius the fourth to be his Executor for which he left in Legacy a hundred weight of Gold a gift without doubt worth his pains King Sancho was for vertue and for goodness singular in his age a worthy son of so renowned a father he proved fortunate in the utmost events of War and then did his triumphs flow in upon him when he dispaired of Victory he left it yet in doubt whether he were more wise or more valiant he always snowed himself so great an enemy to sloth and idleness that to avoid it he would not disdain sometimes to throw down the Scepter and hold the plow Fortune who was his friend in War was his foe in Peace for then besides the vexation that he could not vex his enemies he was likewise enforced to bear the injuries of the Land Sea and Skies in sum he was a King worthy the greatest Incomiums if he had not too much drowned all his other vertues in illicite Loves ALFONSO the II. Third King of Portugal ALfonsâ— the second succeeded to Sancho the first he was born in Conimbria on St. Georges day anno 1185. At 27. years old he was Crowned King with the envy of his brothers who little younger then he could hardly confine themselves within the bounds of Allegiance and to their discontents did the Legacies left by Sancho give new motives for Alphonso either out of avaritious desire of riches or out of obstinacy detained from them a great part of what was left them by their father These sinister thoughts of the then Prince Alphonso were discerned by his father before his death which made him leave to the brothers beside some Cities and Castles five hundred thousand Crowns in gold But scarce was his father dead but he began to contend with his brothers and sisters about their inheritance and because his brothers were retired into Elginera and Alenquar Fortresses given them by their father he under pretence that they could not be allienated from the Crown gathered together an Army to possess himself of them which he easily performed his brothers wanting money to hire soldiers and so not being able to make the least resistance His brothers thus driven out of the kingdom fled to the Pope for redress then in great veneration because he then pursued no other interest but justice who commanded Alfonso to remit the difference to indifferent Judges who necessitated to obey chose rather to accommodate the business with indifferent Judges then to run the hazard of a sentence He employed himself afterwards by the advice of Matthew Bishop of Lisbone to fight against the Moors and though these came assisted with ninety five thousand men yet were they forced to yield the Victory to him with the loss of thirty thousand soldiers and four Kings who were slain in the battel Alfonso for some years prosecuted this War but in time he grew so extream fat that he was unable to perform not only those great exercises incumbent on a soldier but every simple motion of the body yet for all that he ceased not to apply himself with extream diligence to prosecute the greatest affairs of State and where he could not in person he present to send such commands as shewed him to be both of great experience and wisdom He married with Uracca daughter to Alfonso the eighth or as others say the ninth King of Castile and Leonora or Elinor daughter to Henry the second King of England by her he had divers children the first was Sancho who succeeded his father in the kingdom Alfonso the second son whom by right of his wife was chosen Duke of Bologna and afterwards came to be King of Portugal The third son was called Ferdinand who obtained the principality of Serpa and married Sancia Fernandez daughter of Ferdinand Count of Castile The fourth died a childe called Vincenzo The last was a daughter called Leonora and was married to the King of Dacia Alfonso arrived to the eight and fortieth year of his age and one and twentieth of his kingdom when in the year 1233. he was constrained to pay the last debt to nature He was buried in Alobaccia in a little Church built by himself more for devotion then magnificence But after many years the Abbot Giorgio di Melo causing that little Church to be demolished carried his bones to that of St. Vincenzo where they now repose in a most sumptuous sepulcher Under this King as many affirm lived for certain time St. Antonio Protector of the City of Padona a Saint held in great veneration among the Roman Catholiques he was a native of Lisbon not so much esteemed for the Nobility of his birth as for his holy life Alfonso taking away his extream fatness was a man of a very comely presence and of singular eloquence his nature did make him pleasant with all but onely those of his own blood which fault in him did much diminish his subjects love and that general respect was due to him though he was a man noted for covetousness yet he oftentimes gave great gifts to his friends and always consumed the greatest part of the revenue of the kingdom The Portugueses while his father was alive did extreamly desire him for their King but did not at all now lament his death either because new things always please the people or else because he after his fathers death shewed himself indifferent from himself or from what they thought him whereupon not being wholly like his Progenitors he renewed in his subjects their grief for their loss SANCHO the II. Fourth KING of PORTVGAL SAncho the second who
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A Short and Compendious HISTORY Of the KINGDOM Of PORTUGAL THe Spaniards have a Proverb very vulgar amongst them terming the Portugueses Pocos y Locos few and fools spoken I suppose rather out of derision and disdain of that Nation then that its people and inhabitants really are so for whosoever shall read their actions will judge them to be managed with as much prudence as the Spaniards can boast of nor will any one believe that they could bring to perfection so great Atchievements as they have done with onely a simple valor 'T is true I believe them to be less numerous then the Castilians and yet I am not of the opinion that they are so few or their Kingdom so inconsiderable as the Spanish Proverb seems to make them which one may easily imagine when one considers that the Romans accounted Lusitania that is Portugal by it self when its bounds did not extend so far as now they do and without the addition of Algarve or Regnum Algarbiorum to be one third part of Spain much less can we think it so now when not onely its proper bounds are enlarged but likewise the Kingdom of Algarve added besides the Island in the Atlantick sea and their great conquests in Asia Africa and America But to return to the Kingdom it self and its original various fortunes after the decay and declension of the Roman Empire was it subject unto before it was setled under a Prince of its own The Alani were the first that preyed upon it and endeavored to plant in it but had scarce begun to do so but themselves were driven out by the Swemans and constrained to go seek another habitation these for some time enjoyed it peaceably making Braga their Imperial City till in the general Inundation of the overflowing Gothes and Vandals they with the rest of that part of the continent which is circumscribed by the sea and the Pyrenean Mountains became vassals to these irresistable Conquerors who living a long time in quiet enjoyed their conquest and were the first that in these parts entertained the Christian Religion till the Moors like a more violent flood fell in upon them and with the greatest part of Spain possessed themselves likewise of that Kingdom But some parts of Spain after many years slavery strugling for their liberty this Kingdom was in part recovered by the King of Castile and by them enjoyed till at length it gained a King of its own the maner thus Henry the second Duke of Lorrain whom some affirm to be Nephew to Godfrey of Bolloigne though others differ both in the person and his alliance to him flying from the fury of Henry the fifth Emperor came into Spain where moved with a generous emulation of his Uncle who was gone to the conquest of Ierusalem offered his service the subjection of the Moors and in short time arrived by his valorous atchievements against those enemies of the Christian Religion grew into so much repute with Alfonso the 6. King of Castile that he gave him his base daughter Teresia in marriage with his whole acquists in Portugal for her dower though with no other title then that of Counte or Earl some further addition he made to his Dominions and in the year 1094. had a son who after his grandfather was named Alphonso at last overborn with the burden of seventy seven years he died in the year 1112. ALFONSO the I. First King of Portugal ALfonso his son who from his very childhood had been bred up under his father in Military excercise after his death valorously prosecuted his victories against the Moors and against the
wilde beasts that he was destined to hear govern and judge his people and â—hat whilest he did so they would not fear to suffer for him any danger nay they would encounter death it self for his sake that it would redound little to his glory to have killed thousands of Wild-Boars or to have taken ten thousand Stags but much to have administred Justice sustained his Scepter with reputation These advertisements more free then secure stirred up the fierce nature of Alphonso and ready he was to have ' chastised their freedom who would be governed by a King and not by a Huntsman but at length considering with himself the truths they had spoken he pardoned the liberty of their Speech and took them into the number of his dearest friends And that he did esteem them so appeared by his taking their counsel wholly leaving off his hunting and addressing all his endeavors to the government of the kingdom the first of his impresses were against those who had furiously armed themselves against his father Dionisio and because those affections good or bad which have once had growth in the minde are very hardly rooted out the hatred that he bore to his brother Sancho whilest he was Prince now renewed whilest he was King For whilest his brother was absent he caused several wicked men who flattered the fortune of the King to testifie against his brother and charged him with all the imagined thoughts of soul as crimes committed during his fathers life upon which Sancho was by the Judges in complyance to the Royal will deprived of all his honors in Portugal banished the Country and all his goods confiscate Sancho was at Castile when hearing of this sentence he by Letters intreats his brother to restore him to his grace promising that he would serve him not onely as his brother but as his King But his prayers not at all softning his obstinate brother he getting assistance from the King of Castile takes Arms resolving to force that reason and justice with his sword which his supplications could not obtain In fine after a long continuance of War in which the subjects were made subject to infinite oppression he made with his brother a peace more necessary then secure About this time D. Iuan Emanuel son to the Prince Emanuel the Nephew of Ferdinando surnamed the Holy was famous among the Spanjards both for his great Nobility of birth and riches this Iuan Emanuel had a daughter called Constance who not yet marriagable was promised to King Alphonso the eleventh of Castile but this King offended by certain secret occasions broke his vow to her and espoused Mary daughter to Alphonso King of Portugal after a little time passed the King of Portugal thinking Constance to be a fit match for his son the Prince Pedro first writ to his son in Law Alphonso and soon after began to treat with Iuan Emanuel both the one and the other returned answer to his messages the King of Castile with dissimulation and Emanuel with sincerity offering his daughter The King of Castile either out of vexation that she whom he had repudiated should still be a Queen or envying to the Prince Pedro the possession of so worthy a woman after many artifices to hinder the marriage put himself in Arms to hinder the passage of Constance into Portugal From this War happened infinite destructions and murders which after the effusion of a sea of blood were ended by the Authority of Pope Benedict the XII and Constance was married to Prince Pedro. About the year 1340. Albâ—acen that potent Miramamolin of Morocco and Granata with a mighty Army of four hundred and seventy thousand men came against Alphonso King of Castile threatning indeed the ruine of all Spain when Alphonso by the advice of his Councel sent to desire assistance of his father in Law the King of Portugal and that he might the better speed he made his wife the daughter of Alphonso the messenger who willingly heard and listned to the Ambassie and not onely promised assistance of men to further this expedition but to go himself in person Being arrived according to his promise it was determined that they should on both sides assault the Moors which accordingly they did and that with so prosperous success to the Christians that after an innumerable slaughter of the Saracens they gained one of the most rich and most glorious Victories that has been in the memories of man so great quantities of silver and gold found they in the Moorish Tents that one would have imagined all the riches of Africa had been transported into Spain The reason of the Barbarians transporting over so great Treasure was supposed to be out of the assurance of Victory which they flattered themselves withall they had designed Spain for their Country and thereupon all those who had thoughts of planting there brought over all that could either better or conserve their fortune This Victory was gained nigh to the River of Saledo the two Kings gave part of their spoils to Pope Benedict who then resided in Avignion giving him likewise four and twenty Colours taken from the enemy among which was the proper Standard of Alboacen King of Marocco with many horses and many Moorish Princes taken prisoners in the battel For his own portion of the prey Alphonso King of Portugal brought home the son of King Iulinenza made prisoner with his proper hand he likewise with his own hand placed five Colours taken from the enemy in the Church of St. Vincenso that posterity might behold them as a memorial of his valor and glory Scarce was he returned into Portugal but he permitted himself to be overcome by certain evil Councellors and be perswaded unjustly to take away the life of Agnesa di Castro by whom his son Pedro had had divers children After the death of Coâ—stance the Prince kept her like his wife and it was publiquely believed that he would one day make her his Queen This accident was the occasion of cruel Tragedies in the kingdom for it stirred up a civil War betwixt the father and son but all ascribed it to a just judgement of God upon Alphonso who suffered the same injuries from his son which he had done to his father The Queen Beatrice bore Alphonso the fourth six children three sons died in their infancy and Pedro who was the fourth succeeded the other two were daughters to wit Maria who married Alphonso King of Castile and Eleanora who was espoused to Piedro the fourth King of Arragon King Alphonso the fourth of Portugal over-loaden with the burthen of seventy seven years in the month of May in the year 1356. departed this life after he had exercised the Kingly Office thirty years and a half he was buried at the going into the Cathedral at Lisbon together with his wife Beatrice having left to the Priests of that Church rich Revenues not onely for the expences of his sepulchre but for the celebrating continual Anniversary Masses for
and that as he had in a moment gained that kingdom so he should as soon loose it if he should but give them the least opportunity For that the people were highly discontented might easily appear by their attentive listning after old prophesies among which was one of an old Hermit who told Alphonso the first King of Portugal of the great victory that he should obtain over the five Kings of the Moors that he and his posterity should reign happily King of Portugal but that in the sixteenth generation his line should fail but that God at length should have mercy again upon them and restore them Others had respect to a Letter written by St. Bernard to the same King Alphonso the original of which is reported to have been given to the Portugal Embassadors by Lewis the Thirteenth King of France Anno 1641. the substance of which was to this effect That he rendred thanks to him for the Lands bestowed upon him that in recompence thereof God had declared unto him that there should not fail a Native of Portugal to sit upon that Throne unless for the greatness of their sins God would chastise them for a time but that this time of Chastisement should not last above sixty years Other Prophesies there were of this nature and to this effect which put the people in hopes of a Deliverance and many of them flattered themselves that Don Sebastian was yet alive and would come and deliver them nay so foolish were some of them that though they believed him slain at the battel of Alcazar in Barbary yet they thought he should live again and miraculously come to redeem them But that which most of all expressed the peoples Discontents was what was publickly spoken by the mouthes of their Orators the Priests in their Pulpits who would ordinarily in their Sermons utter speeches much in prejudice of the Spaniards Title and in favor of the Dutchess of Braganza nor were they sparing to do so in the presence of the King himself who would therefore often say That the Portuguez Clergy had made the sharpest war with him Father Lewis Alvarez a Jesuite preaching one day before the Vice-Roy took his Text Surge tolle Grabatum tuum ambula and turning himself to the Duke said Sir the meaning of that is Arise take up your pack and be gone home But above all this might the Discontents be perceived in the Noblemens Chappels especially in the Duke of Braganza's where they were wont to sing the Lamentations of Ieremy applying all the scorn and reproach of the Israelites to themselves as Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus because of the Excize put by the Spaniards upon Wine and other necessaries And that Servi Dominati sunt in nos and that Cecidit Corona Capitis nostri most commonly ending with this Invocation Recordare Domine Quid acciderit nobis Intuere respice opprobrium nostrum Haereditas nostra versa est ad alienos Yet did king Phillip bear all these Affronts with an incomparable patience dissembling with an admirable prudence his passion if he had any for these Discontents for he knew the onely way to win this Nation to an obedience and complyance must be lenity at first what ever he intended to practice afterwards and that he had by his exact keeping of his Word and Oath won much upon this people appears in that during his whole Reign and the Reign of his Successor Philip the Third who followed his fathers foot-steps though not with that craft and dissimulation they made no attempts nor were inclinable to a Revolt which the ensuing Story will evidence Don Antonio Prior of Crato the base born son of Lewis the Infante who had by the tumultuary Rabble on the Death of King Henry been elected King being expulsed Lisbon by the Forces of the Duke D' Alva fled from thence into France to the protection of that Queen who in regard that her Claim was exploded both by the Spaniard and the Portugal as an outworn Title and injurious to all the kings of Portugal ever since as unjust Possessors had long endeavored to excite Queen Elizabeth of England against the Spaniard and to forewarn her and other Princes to beware of his increasing power who now enriched with the addition of Portugal East-India and many Isles in the Atlantique sea might in time overshadow all his neighboring Princes and therefore advising that it behooved them to think of some way to curb his Ambition betimes and restrain his too far extending Power into some reasonable limits Which advice of hers Queen Elizabeth easily listned too being always providently careful of her own and her Subjects safety fore-seeing how dangerous the over-swelling Power of that Prince would be both to Her and her Dominions and therefore though she then entred not into a present War with him yet when Don Antonio came over to her with Recommendations from the French Queen she bountifully relieved him which she then thought she might do without offence considering that she acknowledged him her Kinsman descended of the Blood Royal of England and of the House of Lancaster nor was there ever any promise made in any League between the English and Spaniard that the Portugals should not be received into England Here then Don Antonio resided till the Wars breaking forth between Spain and England after the Spaniard had received that notable Overthrow of his Invincible Armado to whose power and puissance the whole World thought England would have been but a morsel Queen Elizabeth judging it more honorable to assail her Enemy then again to be assailed by him suffered a Fleet to be set forth against Spain which Sir Iohn Norris and Sir Francis Drake with some other private persons to their eternal honor rigged and set out at their own charge requiring nothing of the Queen but some few Ships of War and she granted to them that the Ships and spoils taken should be divided amongst them The Hollanders likewise to this Fleet joyned some Ships so that the number of the whole Fleet was about eleven thousand Soldiers and fifteen hundred Mariners With this Fleet Don Antonio with some few Portugals set Sayl out of England having before loaden the English with great promises of the recovery of this kingdom assuring them that the Portugueses would be ready upon his appearance to revolt from the Spainiard and that Muley Hamet King of Morocco would assist him with twenty thousand men The first place that the English Fleet put into was the Groyne in Gallicia the base town of which they easily took but attempting the higher town were twice repulsed and forced to raise their siege upon advice that the Condy di Andrada had gathered Forces at Burges Bridge and that the Condy di Altamira was coming with more purposing to besiege them in the base town and so cut off their way to their ships which Norris resolved to prevent and therefore with a sufficient force marched against them overthrew them and had
and honor but he modestly refused it as not in a condition at that present to undertake so great a Command and indeed expressing an unwil ingness to go out of Portugal But his unwillingness to go from thence made the king of Spain and Count Olivarez the more willing to draw him from thence it was therefore given out That the king himself was resolved to go in person to reduce the revolted Catalonians and that therefore all the Nobility should be in a readiness in four moneths time to attend his Majesty in that Expedition But the Duke of Braganza being suspicious of the Spaniards because he knew himself suspected by them and likely to be whilest the Portugueses so much affected him to assure himself of the ones love and to avoid if possible the others suspect retires himself to his Countrey-house at Villa Vitiosa and there follows his sports of Hunting c. not at all regarding matters of State withal sening an Excuse to Count Olivarez that his affairs at present were in so low and mean a condition that he could not appear to attend his Majesty in that pomp and splendor that became a Person of his quality and that therefore he should do his Majesty more service in staying at home when the other Nobles were abroad then he could possibly do by attending him This Plot thus failing made the Court of Spain more suspicious of the Duke then ever before Count Olivarez therefore resolves to imploy his utmost art of dissimulation to entrap him which he sets upon by a fetch so far about that to the eye of reason it might put the Duke into ambitious thoughts of endeavoring to assume his Throne and in a way to accomplish those thoughts rather than any way prejudice him but it appeared afterwards that Olivarez design in so far trusting the Duke was onely because the Duke should trust him In answer to Braganza's Letter of Excuse the Conde assures him that his Majesty was very well satisfied with his reasons of not attending him in the intended Expedition against Catalonia and that he was very sensible of his good inclinations to his service That for his own part he was verry sorry that his affairs were in so low a condition for he could not but commiserate his interest as his own That his Majesty to let him know how great confidence he reposed in his fidelity had appointed him General of the Militia of that kingdom and had for his present supply sent him Sixty thousand Crowns leaving it to his choice to reside in what place near Lisbon he pleased This strange confidence put in the Duke by the king of Spain much amazed the greatest Politicians who thought it reasonable that the Spaniard should have permitted the Duke still to have kept retired in the Countrey rather then have given him such a Command and called him to Lisbon into the continual view of the people who looking upon him as the Heir of that House which had been ever represented to have the onely right to the Crown might easily be enflamed with a desire to have a king of their own And these things was the Princess of Mantoua very sensible of and therefore continually solicited the King to know his reason or to desire him to remove those apparent opportunities which he had given the Duke of Braganza to effect a Revolt But she not onely received intricate and enigmatical Answers from the King and Duke D'Olivarez but likewise had the former actions seconded with one which made her of opinion that his Catholick Majesty had a mind to toss the kingdom into Braganza's hands whether he would or no for on a sudden without any notice given to her all the Spanish Garison in St. Iohns Castle which commanded the City of Lisbon and indeed upon the strength of which the whole safety and security of the kingdom depended were suddenly drawn forth and the Castle left to the disposure of Don Iohn of Braganza But this was the last act of Count Olivarez confidence in the Duke for by trusting him so much he now thought that he could not but reciprocally repose confidence in him and therefore next Summer Anno 1640. he again by Letters sollicites him to leave Portugal and come to Madrid first telling him that his Catholick Majesty gave him many thanks and greatly applauded his Loyalty in the Exercise of the Office of General and was very sensible of the good effects which his Authority had wrought over the Portugals Next he represented unto him the present declining condition of the Spanish Monarchy not onely by reason of the disorders in Flanders and Italy and the preparations of the Turk but more especially for that their most potent Enemies the French were now in assistance of the revolted Catalonians entred into Spain That it highly concerned his Catholick Majesty to drive these out of his Territories which could not be effected but by a very powerful Force that he being one of the prime Grandees of the Kingdom might by his presence in the Head of a good number of his Tenants encourage others to a sutable assistance That to that purpose his Catholick Majesty expected him every moment having designed for him great Honors Priviledges and Dignities suitable to his merit But as cunning an Angler as Olivarez was yet he failed of his mark the bait would not yet hook in the Fish for though the Duke of Braganza was accounted no very great Politician yet his own safety taught him to know that all these Trusts and fair promises were but gilded Allurments to draw him to his destruction Having therefore supplied the King with a considerable number of his Tenants and friends he found excuses for his own not going in person and to take off all suspicion of jealousy or thoughts that he had any design against the State he retired again to his country house Thus did these two great personages by craft and dissumulation endeavour to supplant each other onely the one strove the others destruction the other onely studied his own safety and preservation During all these passages the Vice-Queen Margarita of Mantoua was very vigilant in her Government foreseeing what in reason might be the issue of these proceedings wrote very importunately to the king assuring him that if it were not suddenly prevented the kingdom would infallibly be lost To which his Majesty returned her no answer and Olivarez in his slighting her judgement as fitter to govern a private house then a kingdom desired her that if her Capacity would not reach to the height and drift of those mysteries of State yet that her wisedom would prompt her not to discover them Yet without doubt Olivarez was inwardly perplexed to see all his plots thus fail and foul means he durst not openly attempt such was both the Dukes potency and the great love the people bore him he therefore at last has recourse to treachery and to that intent gives secret advice to Don Lopez d'Ossis and
every year besides those aforementioned the Crown of Portugal has several Towns on the Coast of Africa so strongly fortified that the Moors of the Country could never yet recover them such as Tangeer c. In America they possess the famous Country of Brazile which stretcheth it self one thousand four hundred leagues upon the Sea coast containing fourteen Governments and many principal Cities St. Salvador Pernambuco c. Thus great a loss did the Spanish Monarchy suffer by the revolt of Portugal which the Catholique King Phillip the fourth was very solicitous to recover and to that end and purpose did not onely consult with the greatest Statesmen at home but likewise with those abroad from one of whom he to that effect received the ensuing Letter BY the Letter which your Majesty was pleased to write to me on the 6. of March past I am commanded to deliver my advice touching the best expedient for the recovery of Portugal Sir the clemency used by King Phillip the second your Majesties Grand-father towards the kingdom of Portugal was a fatal presage of the present calamities and future destruction not onely of Spain but the whole Spanish Monarchy because that kingdom was onely in name but never really conquered remaining rich and abundant with the same if not greater priviledges then before the Grandees and Nobles at home the people not at all crushed and which is more then all the Government in the hands of Natives and all his Majesties other Subjects excluded from all places of Power Honor or Profit Sir the Holy Scripture which is the mirror and rule of our actions teacheth that when Salmanazar conquered the kingdom of Israel he did carry away not onely the Royal Family but transported all the Nobility and people into divers Provinces of his kingdoms and into the new Conquests sent new Inhabitants yet the Israelites were never such inveterate enemies to the Assyrians as the Portugals with devilish madness have shewed themselves against the Interest and conveniencies of this Monarchy Moreover in the same Scripture it is read that Nebuchadonosor having conquered Ierusalem transplanted all that he found in that kingdom leaving onely a few miserable inconsideraâ—le people to remain there So Athalia Queen of Iudah saw no other way to preserve a kingdom newly conquered but by extinguishing all the Generation upon whom the Jews could cast their eyes in hopes of revolt And Iehu King elected by God extinguished all the Family of Ahab together with all his dependants friends and acquaintance not sparing so much as the Priests These Sir are the Rules that the Holy Scripture teacheth to be practised upon the families and people that abhor the Dominion of their own Soveraigns It was Sir very fatal to stand expecting and hoping for better times and opportunities for the securing of Portugal In the year 1639. observing the ill affection of that Nation my advice was that without any delay that kingdom was to be secured by force of Arms others were of the same judgements but fate would have it that for fear of new troubles by delays way should be made for Rebellion then which there could not have been a greater although that form of Government which was expedient for the Spanish Monarchy and was always held necessary for the preserving that Crown had been put in execution with the greatest violence imaginable But when a Jewel is gone the main inquery should be by what means it may be found again not how it came to be lost The first means of recovering that Crown may be what your Majesties Grand-father made use of to buy your rights of your own subjects by gifts and promises wherein your Majesty is to be as Prodigal as the Portugals are insolent in expecting or demanding and indeed experience teacheth that that Nation is so addicted to their own Interest that more may be effected this way then by a powerful Army to him will they be subject who will give most or from whom most can be expected herein prodigality will be good husbandry for when Portugal shall be returned to the obedience of your Majesty all that wealth which hath been bestowed amongst them will return likewise The second means is by course of Arms but this will be difficult at present by reason of the several engagements of this Monarchy elsewhere I suppose Sir that in case Portugal should be conquered by force all their Conquests in the East Indies c. will remain in their hands for thither will they all flye and from thence will they be always ready to assist our enemies wherefore it would be very expedient for your Majesties service that a Truce were first made with the Hollanders upon condition that they make War upon the Portugal in the Indies and have what ever they can conquer whence will arise this commodity that they will want the wealth of their Conquests your Majesty being disengaged with the Hollander will sooner conquer them at home and the Hollander will onely come to receive to day at the hand of your Majesty what to morrow the Portugal must deliver up to them At the same time the Hollanders and Flemings may scour the Coast of Portugal and the English may be invited to a more frequent Navigation in the East Indies and China whereby the Portugal Trade may easily be ruined The third way is that the Pope be perswaded to thunder his Excommunications against the house of Braganza and against the whole kingdom as perjured and perturbators of the publique Peace animating all Christian Princes to assist in the regaining that kingdom upon pretence of advancing the Catholique Faith Moreover diffidencies and jealousies between the Duke of Braganza and other people may easily be fomented by means of Merchants Strangers and by Flemings and Burgundians under the name of French And to effect these diffidencies the better a Treaty may really be begun with the Duke which being discovered by the people though it be before the Duke could know thereof they will destroy him and all his Family and in such case the civil dissentions will open a way for your Majesty to recover your rights desperate evils must have desperate remedies the kingdom of Portugal is the Canter of the Spanish Monarchy therefore Eâ—se recidendum ne pars symera trahatur Let not your Majesty defer the right remedy the greatest rigor is here the greatest Charity and to have no Charity is to have much prudence to bury this Hydra in its own ashes will be triumph enough to live without this arm will be better then to have it employed against ones own head Let your Majesty never believe or hope better of that Nation then you have seen these 60. years past never think to keep that Country if not planted with other people the detestation against your Majesties Government is hereditary The Interest of the King Sir is very ample and hath no bounds against Rebels every action is just and honourable that tends to the recovery of
the Kings right Moreover a Truce is to be made with the Catalonians whereby they being freed from the tumultuous courses of War will have time to take notice of the French insolencies and growing weary of that yoake will at length eaâ—ily embrace the next opportunity to return to their obedience which once effected will make the people of Portugal waver betwixt hopes and fears and beget variety of opinions amongst them which for the Conquering of kingdoms the Emperor Iulian used to say was much more advantageous then the force of an Army as the Grand-father of your Majesty found in the Succession of Portugal To this may be added that it will be very expedient that your Majesty name Bishops to dispose of all Governments and Offices of the Crown to the most confiding persons in that kingdom for this will beget distrust amongst them all and the ignorant people not knowing whom to trust will put all into confusion whereby your Majesties service will be more easily advanced This in obedience to your Majesties commands I have imparted my weak advice wherein if I have erred your Majesties goodness will attribute it to my want of abilities not of affection God preserve the Catholick and Royal Person of your Majesty as the Christian World and we your Majesties Subjects have need But notwithstanding all these endeavors and these proposed Artifices nothing prevailed towards the King of Spain's recovery of this kingdom nor was it probable that any of these deceits ever should whilest is considered the extraordinary love and affection which the whole Nation of the Portugueses bore to the Family of their present King and the inveterate hatred which did and always have born to the Castilians which was so exceeding great that it is believed they would rather have suffered themselves to be extirpated and routed out then again submit their necks to the Spanish yoake And that ever the Spaniard should again recover it per force is incredible if we either consider the Union and unanimity of the Portugal Nation and their resolutions to undergo the greatest miseries of War can inflict or the Interest of all the other Princes of Christendom who may justly suspect the encroaching greatness of the Spaniard and therefore endeavor rather to lop off more limbs from that great body then suffer this to be rejoyned But it is now high time to return to a review of the actions of the Grand Assembly of the Estates of Portugal who next resolved to dispatch Ambassadors to all States of Christendom to enter into confederacies for the better defence and establishment of the kingdom and for the glory and reputation of the King In the first place the Father Ignatius Mascarenas a Jesuite with another Father of the same Order was sent into Catalonia to offer them all assistance and supplies for their maintainance and defence against the Catholique King for very well did the King of Portugal know that it highly did import his Interest to correspond with them that so they might joyntly not onely defend but also offend the King of Spain whose Country lying betwixt them both they might at pleasure invade or molest it either by Sea or Land This Embassie of King Iohn's so rejoyced and encouraged the Catalonians that the very next day after the Ambassadors had audience they obtained a most signal Victory in their own defence against the Spaniards who had assaulted them with an Army of twenty five thousand men under the Command of the Marquis De los Veles Shortly after that the Father Ignatius Mascarenas was dispatched to the Catalonians D. Francisco de Mello and Don Antonio Caelle Carravallio persons both of excellent and admired abilities the one for his great experience and judgement in State-affairs and the other for his noble Spirit and eminent knowledge in the Civil Law to go on a solemn Embassie to the most Christian King Lewis the thirteenth of France These attended with a Stately and most Magnificent Train landed soon after at Rochel and on the fifteenth of March 1641. made a solemn Entrance into Paris being met and conducted in by a great number of Coaches filled with the Grandees of the Kingdom besides numbers of the French Nobility who came to attend them on horse-back Thus accompanied they were conducted to the Palace appointed for the Entertainment of the Extraordinary Ambassadors where they were in a sumptuous and magnificent maner feasted at the Kings charges From thence they were by the Duke of Chevereux and the Count de Brulon conducted in the Kings Coaches unto his Majesty then at St. Germains to receive the first Audience which was performed with extraordinary shows of love and respect for upon the entrance of the Ambassadors into the place appointed for their Audience the King rose out of his Chair of Estate and went forward three steps to receive them nor would he permit them to deliver their Embassie with their Hats off or to descend so low as to kiss his hands at their departure but in stead of that Ceremony he affectionately embraced them in his Arms promising them the greatest Assistance his Power was able to give They were from the Kings presence conducted to a sumptuous Dinner provided for them and after that brought to the Queens Lodging who was set to expect their coming at their entrance she likewise rose and advanced three steps to meet them receiving them with a cheerful and courteous countenance and not permitting them to be uncovered Amongst other Discourses which they had with her D. Francisco de Mello told her That he feared his Embassie might not be acceptable because the King his Master had deprived her Brother of one of his kingdoms Whereunto she readily replyed That though she was sister to the King of Spain yet she was wife to the King of France After some Discourse in French her Majesty began to speak to them in Spanish which they observing desired to know wherefore her Majesty had not vouchsafed them that favor sooner it being a Language by them better understood To which the Queen jestingly answered For fear they should be frighted to hear her speak Spanish and the Embassador to improve the jest replyed Como a tam Grand Signora si pero como a Castiliano no that it was true considering her Greatness but not her Countrey The Queen smilingly went on promising them all assistance possible and wishing all prosperity to King Iohn and his Queen and so they having delivered her Majesty a Letter from the Queen of Portugal took their leave From her Majesty they went to visit his Eminence the Cardinal Richlieu who being advertised of their coming came forward to the third Chamber to meet them where he received them with expressions of great affection and promises and proffers of services and from thence conducted them to his own Chamber Being all three sate the Cardinal who was the most experienced and greatest Statesman of his time discoursed with them of divers affairs of
de Franca were drawn at a horse tayl to an extraordinary high gallows and there hanged whilest Diego de Brito Nabo and Antonio Valente were executed upon a lower the quarters of these four were set up at the gates of the City and their heads placed upon several Frontier Towns In the month of September following for the same offence Antonia Cogamigne and Antonio Correa were likewise executed the first of which during the whole time of his imprisonment was an example of penitence feeding onely upon bread and water and whipping himself very often with continual prayers to God for Pardon of that and all his other sins As for the Arch-Bishop of Braga and the Bishops of Martiria and Malacca and Fryer Emanuel de Macedo though they were the persons that had the greatest hand in the conspiracy yet in regard they were Ecclesiastical persons they suffered noâ— death according to their deserts but were kept in prison till the Popes pleasure were known concerning them Here must not be forgot a great example of humility and repentance in the Arch-Bishop of Braga not onely in his life time when he often writ to the King that he might suffer and others be spared who were rather drawn in in complyance and obedience to him then out of any ill will to the King and kingdom but also at his death which happened about three years after his imprisonment when he gave order that as soon as he was dead his last Will and Testament should be carried to the King wherein he humbly intreated his Majesty to Pardon the Treason committed against him and his Native Country and that he would permit his body to be buried without the Church of any Parish of Lisbon and that without any Inscription or Tomb-stone that there might remain no memory of a man who had been a Traytor to his King and Country This exemplary punishment and rigorous execution of Justice upon the forementioned trayterous Delinquents established the King in his kingdom struck a terror into his enemies and increased his Subjects love and care of him more diligently to watch his Royal Families and the kingdoms safety But in the mean time daily incursions were made upon the Frontiers between the Castilians and Portugueses with the same violence cruelty and animosity as formerly But now come we to relate the most shameful piece of treachery ever yet heard of acted upon that most Noble and Gallant Prince the Infante Don Duarte or Edward brother to the King of Portugal who had served the Emperor in his Wars with much gallantry and no less success long before his brother Don Iohn had any thoughts of a Crown nor did he shew any endeavors to desert the Emperors service after the news arrived of the Revolt of Portugal but seemed resolved to continue there till he was betrayed by Francisco de Mello a Portugal at that time Ambassador to the Catholique King in the Emperial Court This Mello notwithstanding he was bound by many strong Obligations to the House of Braganza yet like an ungrateful villain having opportunity offered now resolves to build his fortunes upon their ruine or at least displeasure he therefore earnestly sollicites the Emperor to seize upon the person of Don Duarte and deliver him up to the King of Spain alledging of what great concernment the securing of his person would be to the Catholique King that it much behoved his Imperial Majesty to shew his affection to his brother the Catholique King in this particular which would not onely prove of Interest to Spain but the whole house of Austria That this Prince was the onely Prop of the House of Braganza that this was the onely means which God had left in the hands of the House of Austria to recover the kingdom of Portugal that it would be a great error both in prudence and policy to let ship so fair an occasion for that if he should scape out of their hands and get to the assistance of his brother both his personal valor and experience in Warlike affairs would very much infest the Catholick King The Emperor was not onely not perswaded by this Discourse of Mello's but extreamly offended at it returning him in answer that he did abhor and detest so great a breach of publique faith and violation of all Laws of hospitality that it would be both against the liberty of the Empire and against his own honor to imprison a Prince who had committed no fault to the Empire but rather had laid innumerable Obligations both upon it and himself Nor was the detestation of the Arch Duke Leopold to an act so foul and shameful less then that of his brothers the Emperor notwithstanding all which Mello was not at all discouraged but still prosecutes his villanous design by corrupting with great sums of money the Count of Tratsmandorf and several other Pensioners of the Crown of Spain but they were soon weary of so base and shameful and employment which made Mello think of a more cunning Artifice which was to perswade the Emperor to hearken to the allurements of one Diego di Quiroga who of a soldier was turned Monk and was now Confessor to the Empress This Father who had often been called to give his judgement in Affairs of State endeavored by all means possible to perswade the Emperor that he might not onely with a good conscience secure the Infante but that according to the best rules of Interest of State he ought to do it His Imperial Maâ—esty notwithstanding all these perswasions was very much unsatisfied in the action and once fully resolved not to do it but at length overcome by Mello's importunities and the Ghostly perswasions of Quiroga he was as it were constrained to alter his resolution and to give order to Don Lewis Gonzaga to go to the Princes quarters at Leipen and summon him to Ratisbone In the mean time to endeavorto prevent all â—ll impressions which an action so hainously wicked might strike into all bosoms that had either honor or honesty it was given out abroad that the Infante Don Duarte was secretly fled for some misdemeanor from Leipen when he confident of his own innocency was in his journey to Ratisbone according to the summons and thereupon proposal made of sixteen thousand Crowns as a reward to any man could bring him either dead or alive so that the Prince being ignorant of any such thing very hardly escaped their hands who out of hopes of the money had gone in search of him but missing them he came to Ratisbone where he was no sooner arrived but without any reason given he was cast into a common goal and all his servants imprisoned Don Francisco de Mello having thus far brought his desires to effect stops not here but afresh sollicites the Emperor that the Prince might be delivered into the Spaniards hands and sent prisoner to Millain but instead of assenting to this he sends a messenger to the Infante assuring him upon his word that
whereof live by selling Brazile wood 3. San Lorenzo a well frequented Village but as yet unwalled 4. Pomair upon a River so named 5. Antonio de Cabo near the Cape of St. Anthony both of good note for the great quantity of Sugars which are made in each 6. Garasu about 5 miles from Olinda inhabited for the most part by poor and mechanical people 8. Of Tamaraca â—o called from an Iâ—lâ—nd of that name distance about 5 miles from Olinda of no great note but for the Haven and an impregnable Castle on the top of the hill for defence thereof This is the least pâ—efecture in Brazile but with all the ancientest extendeth three leagues onely in length and but two in bredth 9. Of Paraiba so called from a River of that name on whose bancks stands Paraiba the chief Town inhabited by about 500. Portugals beside slaves and Negroes not walled but secured by a strong Castle on the promontory called Capo Delo which the Hollanders often in vain attempted 10. Of Riogrande so called likewise of a River but lately made a Prefecture to exclude first the French and after the Savages from possessing it it now enjoys an impregnable Castle 11. Of Siarra so called from the Haven of Siarra adjoining of no great note being also but lately made a Prefecture the Portugueses enjoying no more here but a Castle and about a dozen houses 12. Of Maragnon an Island lying in the mouth of the River so called a prefecture not yielding to any in Brazil if it were well manured the soâ—l being very fruitful and well inhabited both by Natives and Portugueses 13. 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