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A62158	The civil wars of Spain in the beginning of the reign of Charls [sic] the 5t, Emperor of Germanie and King of that nation written originally in the Spanish-tongue by Prudencio de Sandoval ... ; never yet translated, now put into English by Captain J.W.; Historia de la vida y hechos del Emperador Carlos V. English. Selections	Sandoval, Prudencio de, ca. 1560-1620.; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1652 (1652)	Wing S664; ESTC R30544	277,685	398

eternal in the sixtie fourth year of his age having reigned and governed as King fourtie two years compleat Som saie it was the Dropsie that brought him to his end others report that his young Queen to quicken his Spirit and thaw the ice that contracted the blood in his aged veins gave him a certein provocative potion which instead of raising a part cast the whole bodie into the grave After his death arose manie differences amongst the Grandees concerning the Government Adriano Dean of Lovain and Tutor to Don Carles produced a Commission which the young Prince had given him to succeed Don Fernando in the Government until his coming into Spain this was opposed by Cardinal Ximenez who alleged that by virtue of his Catholick Majestie 's last Will and Testament hee was to bee Governor of the Kingdom until the Prince should com himself or give som special order to the contrarie that Adriano's Commission was dated long before Don Ferdinando's deceas therefore not valeable besides that hee was a foreigner which was sufficient reason to bar his pretensions But at last they agreed to govern both together until they received further order from Don Carles This joint-Government continued a great while during which time several Grandees of the Kingdom were much discontented and murmured that a Frier and a stranger in a manner of the same stamp should bee raised to such a height above them as to rule and command the whole Kingdom and them they alleged that Don Fernando had no power to substitute or appoint anie one to administer the Government of that kingdom in regard that since the Catholick Queen 's death hee was not King but onely Governor thereof himself and that considering Donnia Iuana would not undergo the trouble of the Crown according to the Laws of that ●and they agreed that the Duke del Infantado the Lord High-Counstable and the Earl of Venavente should examine the Cardinal by what autoritie and power hee took upon him to bee Governor of those kingdoms Whereunto hee boldly made them answer By the Power of his Catholick Majestie And they replying that the Catholick King had no autoritie ●o to do hee led them to a brest-work which hee had made about the hous where hee then lodged and shewed them a great rank of Artillerie commanding his servants to discharge them all which don hee told them this is the power by which I do and will govern Spain until the Prince our Lord com to take charge of it himself they were not very well satisfied with this answer neither did that manner of discours bode anie good to the Kingdom Notwithstanding the oppositions and murmurations of the Grandees and others in Castillia the Cardinal continued at the helm in despight of all until his Majestie 's coming into Spain which was anno 1517. At which time the Cardinal finding himself indisposed was retired into a Monasterie of his own Order at Aquilera whither his Majestie beeing received at Valladolid sent him a letter thanking him for his former services and requiring him to repair with those of the Council to Mojados where hee might consult with him concerning the present settling of his affairs after which hee should bee eased of the weightie burthen of that troublesom emploiment and have libertie to solace and retire himself This Letter was said to bee penned by the Bishop Mota who envious of the Cardinal's power and studying nothing more then which waie to eclips his greatness perswaded his Majestie to write to him in those terms which his Eminence having perused it struck him into a high distemper and the violent passion of his minde joined with the infirmitie of his bodie increased his fever in such manner that hee rendred his soul into the Creator's hands within eight daies after and was buried at Alcala de Henares in the College of St Illefonso whereof hee was Founder After whose death the Arch-Bishoprick of Toledo was given to Guillermo de Croüy Bishop of Cambray and nephew to Monsieur de Xeures his Majesties chief favorite which bred no small discontent amongst the Castillians seeing the principal Jewel of their kingdom bestowed upon a foreigner Yet the general report was that the Marquis of Villena with other Grandees of Castillia desired and earnestly importuned his Majestie so to do and that of himself hee had no such Intention neither did Monsieur de Xeures ever mention it And it is not to bee thought that those Noblemen tooke pleasure in seeing anie stranger advanced above them in their own Countrie But they were induced hereunto out of hopes to ingratiate themselvs thereby to the Flemings and chiefly to Xeures who had the King's ear above anie at that time Such is the force and power of over-swaying Ambition which so bastardiseth and adulterate's the hearts even of Noble-men that they will descend or stoop to anie thing to currie favor with a Prince's Minion Don Carles at that time could not reckon above seventeen years and a half at most from his Nativitie which was a verie tender age to undergo so weightie a charge as was that of ruling so manie and so considerable Countries especially those of Spain where according to their Laws and Customs it never had been seen that a Youth so young and one that had been born and bred in foreign parts should sit in their King's Throne Hee understood no Spanish neither was hee acquainted with the inclinations and dispositions of the people therefore although hee was verie ingenuous and of as excellent and sweet a nature as could bee desired in a truly Christian Prince hee could do no less then suffer himself to bee advised and guided by som of more mature years and experience And having been bred and tutored from his infancie by Guillermo de Croüy Lord of Xeures who was Duke of Sora in the kingdom of Naples and afterwards Duke of Arschot in Brabant a man of ripe age solid Judgment and eminent parts answerable to his birth beeing descended of the illustrious stock of the Kings of Hungarie and recommended to bee his Governor by his Grandfather Maximilian the Emperor hee committed himself with the management of all State-affairs wholly to his wisdom and Xeures in matters concerning Spain beeing a stranger to that Countrie was led by Maestro Mota a Native of Burgos Bishop of Badajos and som other Castillians who were more ambitious then virtuous SECT VI. AFter the reception of the Prince Don Carles in Valladolid which was most splendid and magnificent all the Procuradores del Reyno or the Commissioners of the Kingdom were summoned to assemble in Parlament wherein the Castillians were highly distasted becaus the Lord Chancellor a Fleming assisted as President for his Highness and that other strangers were admitted to sit in Parlament Som of the Commissioners took the oath of Allegeance to his Highness as King others refused to acknowledg him to bee their King as long as

the vanitie of anie earthly Crowns Having received this repuls hee agreed with Lewis King of France that hee should make the match betwixt him and Madam Germana daughter to Gaston de Foix and to the said French King's sister which was concluded upon this condition That King Lewis in stead of her Dowrie should grant and pass over to Don Fernando the right which hee pretended to the kingdom of Naples and that if the Queen should die before him without issue hee should succeed and inherit the same title but if shee should survive Don Fernando that Lewis should repossess the said claim These Articles beeing confirmed they made a Peace betwixt France and Spain for a hundred and one years but it scarce continued so manie weeks and Don Iuan de Silva Earl of Cifuentes with the Vice-Chancellor of Aragon went into France to attend and conduct her Majestie into Castillia SECT IV. THe Castillians in mean time beeing very desirous to have their Natural Sovereign amongst them importuned by frequent messages and invitations Donnia Iuana and her husband to return and bring their Children with them into Spain Whereupon Don Philip having provided a Fleet for the purpose they departed Flanders leaving the Prince Don Carles under the care and tuition of the Emperor Maximiliano and Donnia Margarita widdow to the Duke of Savoye and at last though tossed with much storm and tempests by the waie they landed safe at the Groyne in Galicia Don Fernando hearing of their arrival went to meet them betwixt La Puebla de Sanabria and Asturianos This interview occasioned no small discontent betwixt these Princes for Kings will admit of no competitors or Companions no not of their own ch●ldren in matters of Government and Command Whereupon Don Fernando forsaken by all but onely the Duke of Alva and the Earl of Altamira with som few others took his waie to Villafafila and Tordesillas and King Philip with his Queen to Venauente attended by all the Nobles and flower of Castillia besides strangers to the number of above two thousand hors One caus of their discord was about the title and inscription of Commissions Patents and other dispatches Roial which at last was determined and agreed that all things should pass in the names of Don Fernando Don Philip and Donnia Iuana But this style was soon altered by the unexspected d●ath of Don Philip which hapned at Burges hee had but seven daies of sickness which was thought to bee a surfeit and past from this life to the eternal on fridaie the fifth of September anno●●0● ●●0● beeing aged but twentie eight years and having enjoied the Kingdom of Castillia a year and ten moneths lacking one daie hee commanded that his heart should bee carried to Bruxels his bodie to Granada and his bowels to remain there His death was much lamented by the Emperor his Father for besides that hee was his onely son hee was one of the handsomest men of his time therefore hee was called Philip the Fair and the nobleness of his minde was answerable to the feature of his bodie Donnia Iuana his Queen was so sensible of his loss that with the extremitie of sorrow and her incessant weeping shee became in a manner distracted An old woman in Galicia seeing him at his landing and beeing told who hee was said That hee should bee a longer time and travel more leagues in Castillia beeing dead then living which proved so for the Queen carried his bodie with her from place to place and would not suffer it to bee buried for manie years after Hee left two sons Don Carles and Don Fernando both Emperors and three daughters all mightie Queens Donnia Leonor first reigned in Portugal and afterwards was married to the King of France Donnia Catalina was wife to Don Iohn the Third King of Portugal Aunt and mother-in-Mother-in-law to Philip the Second of Spain And Donnia Maria had for her husband Lewis King of Bohemia and Hungaria SECT V. IN mean time Don Fernando beeing married to the Queen Germana and distasted in Castillia retired himself into Aragon from thence beeing upon his ●ournie to Naples the Castilli●ns gave him notice of Don Philip's death and of the neces●itie that there was of his Roial presence but hee refused to return beeing incensed against som of them for their ingratitude to him By the death of Don Philip and the absence of King Fernando divers tumults and seditions arose in the kingdom the people refusing to obeie the Magistrates and Officers of Justice and the Nobles wanted not factions and partialities amongst them to trouble and disquiet the Countrie and almost everie Citie throughout the Kingdom was infected with the same contagion Som crying up Charls or Don Carles others Fernando no small number stood for Maximiliano but verie few made anie mention of Donnia Iuana who whether out of a sens of her own disabilitie or overcom with melancholie for her husbands deceas had retired her self at Tordesillas refusing to govern or trouble her head with State-affairs Whereupon with the consent of most part of the Peers and Nobles of the Realm the Cardinal Ximenez Don Bernardino de Velasso Lord high Constable and Don Pedro Manrique Duke of Naxara took upon them the administration of Government for the present they made Don Alonso Suarez Bishop of Iaen President of their Council assisted by Doctor Tello el Licenciado Polanco and other learned Lawyers They called a Parlament wherein they ordered to send to Don Fernando desiring him in the name of the Queen and the whole Kingdom to return and undertake the Government for his Daughter and Grandchilde Which hee beeing more readie to accept then they to offer did not refuse but returned answer that having setled the business which had called him to Naples hee would satisfie their desires And after som time leaving Don Iuan de Aragon Earl of Ribagorsa his Vice-Roy hee embarqued himself for Spain with his Queen Germana Don Gonsalo Fernandez de Cordova commonly called the gran Capitan and a great train of Spanish Gentlemen that attended him in his voiage Beeing arrived at Valentia the Queen Donnia Iuana went to meet him whom hee received with signs of much affection and fatherlie tenderness which shee answered with all the honor and due obedience that could bee exspected from an observant Daughter for although the excess of sorrow had weakned her intellectual faculties yet shee never lost her respect to her Father but paied him with all humilitie and filial dutie neither was shee ever heard to utter anie mis becoming words which is common to people tainted with her infirmitie The eighth of October the King and Queens came to Arcos where Donnia Iuana desiring to staie Don Fernando went with his Court to Burges leaving her a good number of Noblemen and Ladies besides guards suitable to the dignitie of her person Som years after Don Fernando left the troubles of this transitorie life to enjoie the quietness and bliss of the

And that the Officers of Justice may take the said Woolls from the Shepherds or buiers and deliver them to such persons as is before-mentioned not suffering any fraud or contention to arise hereupon but the truth beeing known speedily to deliver them to the said Merchants and others to be wrought in these Kingdoms paying in ready mony or giving the said securitie And in case any Officer neglect his dutie herein that hee may lose one whole years Salarie and be obliged to make good the dammage and interest of the Partie Concerning the Council Courts and Iustices THat his Majestie would bee pleased to dismiss those of the Council whom hitherto hee hath kept in regard they have advised him to the great prejudice of his Majestie 's Roial Crown and the excessive dammage of the Kingdoms That they never bee admitted to bee of his Privie Council the Queen's Council or Council of Justice That their Majesties would select som of the Natives of those Kingdoms to bee of their Roial Councils who were known to bee loial and zealous for their service and which would set aside their particular interests for the people's good Item that the President Council Judges Alcaldes and Officers of the Courts and Chanceries may bee visited every four years according to the usual manner That those who are found faultie may bee punished as the Laws of the Kingdom have ordered according to the hainousness of their crime and those who are found otherwise may bee acknowledged to bee good men and rewarded by his Majestie Item that the said Offices aswel of the Council as of his Majestie 's familie Chanceries and other Courts bee not given by favor or procured by the Petitions or importunate sollicitations of any Grandees or other persons near about his Majestie but that they may bee bestowed upon able and deserving men and that the provision may bee to Offices not to the Persons that enjoie them And if any shall have or procure them contrarie to the tenour hereof the kingdom may not acknowledg such as Officers but that they may bee disabled to keep or execute any the aforesaid or other publick Offices Item that the said Offices of the Council Roial Alcaldes de Corte Chanceries or other Courts may not bee provided or possessed by such as com but newly from their Studies but by persons ●ndued with qualities and parts necessarie and fit for his Majesties service having been experienced and practised in the exercise of the Office of Counsellors at Law and Judges for the contrarie having been don hitherto hath been the occasion of great inconve●iences and dammages to these Kingdoms Item that the Judges of the Council Roial Chanceries and other Courts which Voted in the first sentences may not Vote nor sentence anie processes upon review but pass the View and Votes of such Suits by order to the Judges of another Court as is usual in Suits which by reason of disco●d are remitted from one Court to another for of the sentences pronounced by those of the Council and Judges of the said Courts beeing reviewed by them have proceeded and do proceed great inconveniencies For they shew themselvs very passionate and desirous to confirm their sentences defending them as if they were Advocates for the partie in whose favor they formerly had given sentence And that all Suits may bee determined by two Courts without any inconvenience that that those Writs may bee useless which they that are in Suit procure in like cases to make their Suits pass through all Courts Item That his Majestie provide and appoint a Superintendent to bee constant and resident in every one of the Courts and Chanceries as was accustomed in the time of the Catholick Queen Donia Isabel our Ladie and that they bee persons of Autoritie and good intention who may provide that the ordinances bee observed and see that the suites bee conformable thereunto That Clients applying themselvs to them may finde redress and help for their grievances and that his Majestie may bee informed by them of the State of his Courts and of the justice administred in them Item That the said offices of the Council Chancerie and Alcaldias bee not perpetual in regard it is so expedient for his Majestie 's service and the good of the Kingdoms That the Judges and Alcaldes may not hold themselvs Lords of those offices nor think it to bee an injurie to them to bee displaced and others appointed to officiate Concerning the Council and Courts THat the offices of the privie Council in what concerns the Kingdoms of Castilla and Leon and judges his Majestie 's Alcaldes de la casa e Corte Chanceries and all other offices of justice may not bee given to any strangers but to the inhabitants and natives of the said Kingdoms And that for this respect no act or letters pattents of naturalization may bee given and if any should bee given that they may bee respectively received but not fulfilled That the number of the judges of the Council of justice may bee twelve neither more nor less and those to bee of such qualities and parts as the Laws of the Kingdom do require Item That Suits bee determined in the Council and Chancerie in their order and as they stand registred and by the Courts where they are depending without joyning of any others to them That concerning this particular his Majestie may give no writs in derogation of ordinances Also that those which were to bee pleaded and determined in Chancerie bee not kept still nor removed by wr●ts to the Council And that those judges that can take recognisance of Suits and causes may not bee put by from hearing and determining the said Suits by writ or order from his Majestie And in case the judges bee suspected the Parties may have the remedie of appeal Or if his Majestie have given any such writs that hee revoke and annul them That henceforwards it may remain as a perpetual and inviolable Law that the Judges of the Council and Chancerie present or to com may not obey the said writs under pain of beeing deprived of their offices and paying one hundred thousand Maravediz each for his Majestie 's exchequer And that the same may bee observed in the writs which shall bee given by his Secretarie the Suites depending Item That those of the Council Judges of Courts and Chancerie and Alcaldes de Corte may not possess or hold more then one office And in case they should have two or more that they may bee taken from them and that they may receiv Salarie for no more then one office Item that matters of Justice which may bee prejudicial to the parties henceforwards may bee determined and dispatched by those of the Council and not by the privie Chamber for by this means things will bee carried according to Justice and without grievances Item that the Secretaries appointed for the Chamber may not have Vote in the Council of Justice concerning those matters which depend on private Writs