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A09559	The Spanish pilgrime: or, An admirable discouery of a Romish Catholicke Shewing how necessary and important it is, for the Protestant kings, princes, and potentates of Europe, to make warre vpon the King of Spaines owne countrey: also where, and by what meanes, his dominions may be inuaded and easily ruinated; as the English heretofore going into Spaine, did constraine the kings of Castile to demand peace in all humility, and what great losse it hath beene, and still is to all Christendome, for default of putting the same in execution. Wherein hee makes apparant by good and euident reasons, infallible arguments, most true and certaine histories, and notable examples, the right way, and true meanes to resist the violence of the Spanish King, to breake the course of his designes, to beate downe his pride, and to ruinate his puissance.; Traicte paraenetique. English.		1625 (1625)	STC 19838.5; ESTC S118337	107,979	148

the County of Essex a Prince of the bloud Royall of England and one that was adorned with many morall vertues This Lord comming to speake with the Captaine of the Castle which was vpon the Wall one of his companie sayd My Lord the Earle of Essex is come hither by the commandement of the Queene of England in whose name hee commandeth to haue the Castle rendred vnto him The Captaine answered him Philip King of Castile hath committed the keeping of this Castle vnto me and for the same I haue done him homage in regard whereof I will defend it against all those that shall seeke to dispossesse me of it and I will not yeeld it vp to any person saue to the King Don Anthonio because his it is and I acknowledge him onely for my King and Lord and if he be not in this armie as hath been told me that he is I would aduise that euery man doe retyre himselfe otherwise I shall cause you all to loose your liues Vpon this word the Countie of Essex retyred himselfe to the Sea side and there went to meete him the Lords Scipio de Figueyredo Vascoucelles late Gouernour of the Terceras and Anthony de Brito Pimentell and other Gentlemen Portugals of the Kings trayne who vnderstanding by the Count the speech of the Captaine went on directly to the Castle and assured the Captaine that the King Don Anthonio their Lord was come thither Within a while after the King arriuing there and calling the Captaine who knew him by his speech hee made him this answere Sir I come to open the gates vnto your Maiestie The port being opened he kneeled downe before the King and kissing his hands The yeelding of the Castle of Penicha deliuered him the Keyes of the Castle This is most true that if he would haue held good the English armie had not bin able to haue taken that Castle it was so well furnished and prouided of artillerie and all things necessarie for besides great store of Iron peeces there were 85. of Brasse All these examples doe shew euidently how faithfull the Portugals are to them to whom they haue once promised and plighted their faith and fidelitie And for as much as I know that your Maiesties haue conceiued an opinion of me as of a person giuen to be somewhat curious and who is acquainted with the accidents which passed in this Voyage and that your Maiesties haue a desire to vnderstand what was the cause why Don Anthonio did not continue in Portugall and what made him to render vp this Castle and other places which were impregnable and to returne into England with his armie without doing any other act of any worth and with the losse of the greatest part of his companie with which he was embarked I will briefely recount the successe of this Iourney crauing many particularities because to count them all it would require much more time then is requisite for the finishing of this Treatise I say then that as God when he chasteneth humbleth great Estates and Monarchies doth suffer and permit for the sinnes of the people such as are like Pharao's Nabuchodonozors Caligula's Nero's and Dioclesians vsing them as his executioners and hangmen as Attila called himselfe the Scourge of God and Tamerlan the Wrath of God so it seemeth he hath permitted that K. Philip should be his minister the executioner of his wrath anger and that in his secret iudgement beyond all apparance of humane reason his will is not yet that Portugall should be deliuered and set at libertie for it is not possible that men should be so blinded to their owne losse and destruction as they were in this Voyage if the Diuine puissance had not blinded them by taking away the vse of their sence and vnderstanding The greatest part of the Armie was embarked at Douer The declaration of the Portugall Voyage in the yeere 1589. the 24. of March and from thence went to Plimmouth From thence they departed all together the 29. of Aprill at which time perceiuing their numbers to be greatly diminished by the contagion that was amongst them in stead of taking the direct way to Portugall they set their course for the Groine where the most part of the souldiers died and all the best Canoniers insomuch that their forces were much abated and they gaue thereby good leysure vnto the enemie both to send fresh men into Lisbon and to draw out of Portugal those who were any way suspected as they did indeed take from thence more then an hundred Lords and Gentlemen of marke Noble men taken out of Portugall by the Castillian who were all of them very contrarie to him and by their absence were greatly missed both of their King and countrey They came to the Groine the sixt of May where they were till the twentieth on which day they did againe take shipping and set sayle towards Portugall where they tooke land at Penicha the sixe and twentieth From thence hauing left in the Castle certaine souldiers with Anthonie de Brito Pimentell aboue named who is the chiefe of the House of the Pimentels of Spaine and about 800. sick men they tooke their way the Generall Drake by Sea and the Lord Generall Norris by Land with 35. or 40. horse and some 6000. foot so ill armed that a good part of them wanted their Swords and there was not of them aboue 50. Corslets the cause whereof was want of Waggons and Carriages for to carry them ouer the land and the souldiers themselues were constrained to carry their powder on their shoulders Besides many of them at their departure out of their lodgings had left their Pikes and some their Harquebuses loading themselues with pots bottels of Wine which they found there in great abundance Wine marreth all the which in very truth did the more hinder and endomage them for by meanes hereof they fell into diuerse diseases and died in great numbers the English Nation not being accustomed to drinke Wine alwayes their Beere is not so strong a kind of drinke The day following 3. leagues before their arriuall to a Towne called Loires Vedras the keyes of the Castle were brought to the king Don Anthonio which Castle is so strong that 20. men with necessarie munitions may keepe defend it against 100000. All the way along to Lisbon which is 60. good miles there was not one Castillian that durst appeare and 7. horsemen English did put to flight 60. Castillians From thenceforth many Portugals came to kisse the hands of their King in great abundance notwithstanding for that they came without armes hauing beene before disarmed and for that there was no body of whom they might get or haue any neither for loue nor money howbeit that they brought with them good store of siluer purposely to that effect they did the most part of them returne againe to their owne houses and there could not be armed of them aboue one thousand foot and

in all Europe Frier Ioseph Texere a Portugal his commendation and knowne of all the Princes of Christendome both Ecclesiasticall and secular and especially in France where the chiefest and greatest persons of the realme and all men of honour doe loue and gladly entertaine him for his honest conuersation faire conditions and singular doctrine be being a man the most accomplished in the knowledge of histories and in the genealogies of great personages of any liuing at this day as his workes and ordinarie communication doe sufficiently testifie J doe much wonder at the patience of this religious man who being so exquisitely seene and practised in histories so expert in matters of State and so iealous of his honour as we know him to be that he doth not set hand to his pen and write not onely against the errours and vntruthes of this Jew but euen against the Catholike Maiestie also seeing it was his Maiestie that caused this false and infamous booke of Censures whereof we speake to be made against him and he did auow the same by his priuiledge giuen thereunto in the yeare 1590. permitting the sayd Jew to imprint the sayd booke intreating of the Genealogie of the Kings of Portugall after he had translated it into the Castilian tongue out of another which he had formerly made in Latine by the commandement of the said King Catholike in the which booke the Jew did of set purpose forget to name and set downe amongst them that died Don Emanuel de Meneses otherwise de Almada Bishop of Coimbre and another Bishop Don Aires de Silua Bishop of the Citie of Port and cousen german to the Regedour of Portugall which is a dignitie representing throughout all that Kingdome the person of the King in all causes of Iustice both ciuill and criminall both which Bishops were issued of the royall House of Portugall so were also the Baron of Portugall and the County de Prado with his eldest sonne besides some other Lords and Princes neere kinsmen vnto the Kings of Spaine The residue of them which remained vnslaine in Barbarie the Castilian with gifts and faire promises had so corrupted that they desired nothing more then to deliuer vp the Realme vnto him The chiefe force of Portugall wherein it consisteth The Knights of the Launce which are those whom we in France call Esquiers and in whom consisteth the greatest force of Portugall did in a manner stand still looking on not hauing any other commandement The negligence of the king Don Anthonio and his counsell which was long of the negligence of the King Anthonio and his Councell who did alwayes shew themselues very vnresolute and inconstant in the administration of their affaires by meanes whereof the Realme of Portugall is fallen into this so piteous and miserable estate not knowing how to recouer her former liberty there was none that had any faithfull affection or desire to oppose themselues against the enemy saue onely the Ecclesiasticall and Regular persons and some few of the nobility And though the people who were both without experience and without armes were likewise of the same affection yet had the Castilian by his policy and fraudulent deuices drawne them into his power by giuing out a false bruit and report that the Souldiers which did then leuy and assemble in Castile were onely to passe into Affricke against the Infidels for to reuenge the death of his Nephew Don Sebastian which notwithstanding were in very deed for Portugall as the successe did make manifest for hee began to make those his preparations for that attempt as soone as the King Don Sebastian did beginne to make prouision for his voyage to whom he hauing promised fiue thousand Souldiers and fifty Gallies when it came to the issue that hee should haue had them Conestagio l. 1. fol. 18. pa. 1. he vtterly refused to giue him any to the intent he might the sooner attaine to that hee desired And besides falling to an accord and agreement with Muley Maluco hee promised in the treaty made with him that he would abandon the poore King of Portugall The Castilian king accordeth with an infidel and to that effect did the Moo●e promise him certaine Townes in Barbary which he had before offered to the said Sebastian vpon condition hee should not giue any aide or succours to Mahumet Xeriffe But that Prince would not accept them saying that hee had passed his word to the said Xeriffe to helpe him Surely Sebastian was more true of his promise then his Vncle Philip who to compasse his affaires the beteer and to get that into his hands which he had of a long time most ardently desired did assure his owne doings by the breach of his conscience The Infidelity of the Castillian King his faith and his promise in refusing to giue those succours which hee had promised vnto Sebastian and more then that in commanding by a publike Edict or Proclamation that none of his Subiects should follow him nor serue vnder him in that voyage And this doth Conestagio giue vs euidently to vnderstand in his second Booke Conestagio lib. 2. fol. 34. pag. 1. where hee saith At that time there arriued in the Campe the Captaine Francisco de Aldana who had promised the King Sebastian to serue him in that iourney who to that effect had gotten leaue and licence of the King Catholike which no other could obtaine of him The Translator Conestagio writeth that Philip meeting with Sebastian at our Lady de Guadelupe Idem lib. 1. fol. 14. pag. 2. did not disswade him from the enterprise of Barbary but onely that hee should not goe thither in person for Philip knowing the generosity of this young Prince saw very well that if he did once vndertake this voyage there would nothing hinder him but that himselfe would goe in proper person and therefore to the intent he might conceale his ill intent and so excuse himselfe to the World hee did in shew discounsell him from going but not from vndertaking of the enterprise It seemeth that his Sorcerers by the meanes of the Diuell who is very skilfull in coniectures had prognosticated vnto him the losse and ouerthrow of the Christians Thus you may see how euen before the departure of this poore Prince he did then prepare himselfe to swallow vp and deuoure that morsell which hee so much esteemeth and loueth and for preseruation whereof he is at great costs and expences The Castilian to keepe Portugall to himselfe doth worke many mischiefes to all Christendome and feareth not to worke exceeding great mischiefes vnto all Christendome and to make peace with the Infidels to the intent hee may the more commodiously make warre vpon the Christian in so much that hee doth euen now triumph in the good successe which the Turke hath against them His reason is because seeing how the Popes holinesse hath embraced and receiued to fauour the most Christian King whose ruine he desired more

fiue thousand Marauedis which was at that time no small reuenue in comparison of that it is at this pay being about 12 duckats and a halfe allowing 400 Marauedis to each duckat and gratified him with sundry other gifts and great honours Fernand wrote vnto Jsabel the successe of this battell giuing her to vnderstand that if the Prince had not come the King his Father had beene taken Whereupon he returned him this answer that if the Cockerell had not come the Cocke had beene taken and hereof came that prouerbe which wee told you Guaribay s●tteth downe these last words and confesseth the very truth Neuerthelesse touching the residue of the History he reporteth a thousand vntruths which may be verified by the History which Damian de Goyes hath written of this Prince Don Juan in the which he saith Damianus de Goyes in the life of the Prince Don Iuan. that the Prince would haue kept and remained in the field where the battell was foughten by the space of three dayes if the Archbishop of Toledo had not disswaded him who with great instance and earnest entreaty caused him to retire into the City because the weather was extreame cold and his men were sore trauelled and wearied and had beene ouer-watched for want of sleepe And he said vnto him Sir your Highnesse hath kept the Field long enough these three houres you haue staied here are as good as three dayes and one houre is as much as three Some write that in memory of this victory King Edward the fourth of England sent vnto this Prince the order of the Garter And the Castillians had such ill successe continually against the Portugals that to grace themselues because the King Alphonso was defeated and forsooke the field though his sonne held the field and remained vanquisher yet they shame not to attribute vnto themselues the honour and victory of this battell Alphonsus Raymond the onely sonne of Vrraca the daughter of Alphonsus the sixt surnamed the Emperor was borne in Auila Auila a City of Castile and was nourished and kept by them of the City during the raigne of Alphonsus King of Aragon called the warriour together with his wife Vrraca Queene of Castile Mother of the said Raymond Now there were great reuolts and troubles in Castile in the which they of Auila following the party of Raymond against the said Alphonsus his Father in Law did so much that the Father in Law was dispossessed of the gouernment and the Sonne in Law was installed in the siege royall And for this cause this word hath passed for a common prouerbe The fidelity of Auila and Auila is for the King Simancas Touching Simancas you are to vnderstand that in the yeere 1463 Henry the 4 raigning in Castile at the perswasion of some of the Princes many other Cities and Townes did reuolt from him and grew into a rebellion which they called The league of the Princes and they entituled themselues Princes of the League And in imitation hereof did Philip King of Castile in the yeere 1582 baptize the League which hath beene the occasion of so many mischiefes and afflictions of which Fraunce hath especially tasted and had experience for these nine yeeres last past This is that League which hath wrought so great damage to the Church of Rome and hath so ruinated and pulled it downe as it shall neede many hundreds of yeeres to restore it againe But to our matter in processe of time the Souldiers of the Kings Army being greatly augmented and their puissance much increased they came to the City of Toro and the King hauing aduertisement that they of the League were issued out of Valladolid and that hauing broken downe and razed the walles of Begnafleur they were gone to Simancas he sent presently Iohn Hernandes Galiude his Captaine Generall with 3000 Horses for the succours of the Towne which being entred into Simancas were besieged by them of the League who notwithstanding were more afraid then those whom they had besieged The Lackies within the Towne who shewed themselues to be of a wonderfull good courage hauing assembled themselues one day in a great number and mocking those that had besieged them did make a picture which represented the Archbishop of Toledo whom because he was a Rebell against his King and Lord they called Don Opas the brother of the Count Iulian who caused the Moores to enter into Spaine against the King Rodericke After which one of the Lackies being appointed for a Iudge Iudgement giuen by the Lackies against the Archbishop of Toledo sate himselfe downe on the iudgement seat commanding the prisoner to be brought before him which was the picture of the Archbishop and he gaue iudgement vpon him in this manner For as much as Don Alphonso Carillo Archbishop of Toledo Guar. lib. 17. cap. 14. following the steppes of the Bishop Don Opas the destroyer of Spaine hath beene a Traytor to his King and naturall Lord rebelling against him with his places and Fortresses and with the money which he put into his hands to doe him seruice For these causes hauing seene and considered of his deserts by his triall wherein hath appeared his wicked practises and felonious offences we doe therefore condemne him to be burned and that he be first trayled and drawne through the streetes and publike places of Simancas and that in the execution thereof the common cryer shall cry and proclaime with a loud voice This is the iustice commanded to be done namely that this cruell Don Opas shall be burnt for his offence and trespasse because hauing receiued diuers places fortresses and monies of his King hee hath notwithstanding reuolted and rebelled against him Quien tal haze que tal pague That is to say So doe so haue The iudgement being pronounced another Lackey taking the picture between his armes with an open cry threw it forth of the Towne hauing in his company more then three hundred Lackies and immediately two of their company made a great fire to burne it not farre from the campe of the enemy who looked on whilest they were doing of it and whilest the picture was in burning all the Lackies together with open throat cryed and sang Esta es Simancas Don Opas Trahidor Y no Penaflor Which is to say This is Simancas Don Opas O thou Traitour And not Pegnastor With many other speeches to that purpose Which song of theirs was for a long time after vsed in Castile and was commonly sung both in the Court and throughout all that Realme Celorico After that the Portugals had deposed Don Sancho surnamed Capelo from his Realme and Kingdome Don Alphonso his brother who was then County of Bologne vpon the Sea was chosen Gouernour of Portugall by the same Portugals This election which they made together with the deposition of the said Sancho was approued and confirmed by Pope Innocent the 4 in a Councell held at Lyons which was the cause that the said Alphonso went

in greatnesse for Lyme is shut in within the Prouince that lieth betweene Duero and Migno which Prouinces following the true description are enclosed in the Prouince of Taragon and Migno is much lesse then Duero Tago and Guadiana which are in Lusitania There are in Portugall three Archbishoprickes and ten Bishoprickes all which Archbishops and Bishops of Portugall and their reuenues euen at this day doe bring to their Prelates about 400. thousand Ducats of yeerely rent The countrey for the greatnesse thereof is well peopled the Duke of Bragantia alone in one Cittie and in the Townes castles and villages of which hee is Lord hath 200000. The dominion of the Duke of Bragantia vassals Portugall sendeth into the East Indies Barbary Cape de Verd the Isles of Buan Mina S. Thomas Congo Angola Brasill and other places some 6000. men yearely of whom the third part neuer returneth home againe into their countrey If Philip durst at this day put any confidence and trust in the Portugals he might draw out from Portugall to send vnto his war●es more then 100000. men from the age of 25. yeares to 40. who hauing nothing to hinder them from going nor haue any excuse not to obey him if he should command them It is not vnknowne to the whole world that in the time of Sebastian king of Portugall there were throughout all that realme 1200. companies of footmen in the which there were none enrolled nor mustered but onely the people of that countrey Artizans handicrafts-men and such like mechanicall persons and laborers and yet not all of them the Noblemen Gentlemen officers of iustice the the gouernours of cities and townes the students and such as professed learning in sum all the Nobilitie the Ecclesiasticall and regular persons with their seruants and many other sorts of men priuiledged were excused and exempted and were not bound to enroll themselues in the sayd Companies of which the most part consisted of 200 men some of 300. The number of men fit for warre in Portugall and of 400. Let vs allow to each of them 200 men onely and they will amount to the number of 240000 men Consider then how great the number may be of them which were not bound to be enroled in those Companies I doe not here make any mention of the number of companies of Horsemen of which this Realme hath a great quantity because it is not possible to know the certainty and truth thereof The greatnes of the king of Portugall Moreouer the Kings of Portugall are so great in one respect that therein they exceede all the Kings and Princes of Europe and that is that they are able in lesse then a quarter of an houre to giue vnto their vassals and subiects 10 15 or 20 Millions in tickets consisting in dispatches for Gouernorships Captainships receits and other charges and Offices and for licenses to make voyages by Sea to Banda Malucco China and other parts of the East Indies by meanes of which dispatches they which doe obtaine them doe recouer the said summes of money immediatly Hereby may a man easily iudge the greatnesse the riches and the puissance of this Realme whereunto adding the seigniories which it hath and possesseth in Affrike Asia and America and in the Ilands which it holdeth in the Ocean Sea it maketh a most notable great and puissant Monarchy and therefore I maruell not though the King of Castile doth commit such excesse and is at so great costs and expences for the keeping and preseruing of the same he knoweth full well how much it importeth him and of what value and worth it is vnto him he is not ignorant as one that knoweth not the estate of things but on the contrary rather he is wise aduised very politike and well experienced in affaires and matters of state The Translator This thing Anthony de Perez Secretary of estate to the King Catholike Don Philip the 2. Anthony Perez 2. the man here spoken of doth shew vs in the second part of his aduertisement vpon the point of the processe made against him where hee entreateth of the dissimulations deceits and subtilties ●sed by the said Philip toward Don Iohn de Austria his brother vpon pretence of the Realme of Tunes Don Iohn de Austria dyed of poyson and the intelligences of England at such time as he sent him into Flanders where as the report is in the end he caused him to be poysoned Besides the said Philip is notably addicted to Cosmography for hee hath in his Palace of Madril Philip much giuen to Cosmography a very great and goodly House wherein are the descriptions of all the Prouinces and Realmes of the World not onely in generall Maps but euen in particular there doth hee spend the most part of the day and contemplating and beholding those descriptions he doth whet on and augment his ambition and extendeth the bounds of his tyranny there he seeth what is most fit and conuenient for him and most easie for him to conquer there he seeth by what meanes he may take Cambray and how afterward he may obtaine Calis and what reason he hath from thence to leape ouer to Amiens and thus doth hee consider and deuise with himselfe what will be most for his profit and aduantage in such sort that nothing can escape his hands and that hee may not be at charge Philip well seene in Histories nor hazard his meanes in vaine and to no purpose He is also well seene and much conuersant in Histories and by them hath he seene and discerned how much it doth import him for the attaining to his desire to haue the Monarchy of Portugall The Castilians for these 300 yeeres past haue done nothing without the Portugals The warre of Salado and the Portugals at his deuotion to the intent hee may haue the aydes and succours from thence which both hee and his predecessors haue heretofore had from them for during these 300 yeeres past the Castilians haue done nothing worthy of memory without them The chiefe cause of that famous victory which they call del Salado where were partly taken and partly slaine 400 thousand Moores and onely 20 Christians as was reported from the mouth of Alboacem himselfe King of Marocquo was the King of Portugall Alfonsus the 4. called the Braue and his Portugals the which Alfonsus at such time as the Moores besieged Tariffa gaue succours to Alfonsus King of Castile called the Iusticier his sonne in law not because he deserued to be ayded but because the warre was against the Infidels The warre of Granado in the yeer 1501. At such time as Alfonsus de Aquilar was slaine in Granado and that the Moores remained victors and pursued the victory the Portugals did hinder them from passing forward and keeping the field where the battell was foughten did saue and preserue the rest of the Castilians When the peoples of Castile did rise in armes vnder pretence of the

of Pisa and many learned personages haue adiudged it to Katherine Dutchesse of Bragancia in Portugall The sonnes of Katherin Dutchesse of Bragancia 1. The Duke Theodosius 2. Edward 3. Alexander 4. Philip. the lawfull daughter of the Infant Don Edward brother to the mother of his Catholike Maiesty which Katherine is at this day yet liuing and hath foure sonnes good and sound Catholikes learned wise goodly and couragious Gentlemen and two o● three daughters And the Vniuersity of Pauy hath adiudged it to Raynuncio now at this present Duke of Parma the sonne of Mary the eldest sister of the said Katherine the said Mary being deceased a long time before her Vncle Henry I suppose that I haue most cleerely and sufficiently shewed the tyranny which all Spaine hath endured and suffered vnder the predecessors of King Philip the Catholike and as for that which the West Indies hath suffered vnder himselfe as also all the rest whereof hee doth write himselfe Lord by what title and pretence they haue beene gotten it is well knowne euen to the little children who doe openly cry and speake of it in the streetes and both Naples Sicily Millan Vtreich Guelders Zutphen and other the Prouinces of the Low Countries and the Countries of high Almaine all which haue beene tyrannized by him and his Auncestors doe manifestly proue and verifie it so that it seemeth vnto me that I haue made good and sufficient proofe by these Histories and examples that tyranny is the first and principall heritage of his Catholike Maiesty euen of Don Philip of Austria and that it is as proper and naturall vnto him as laughter is vnto a man and that it belongeth vnto him properly and inseparably Wherefore now that wee haue made knowne his tyranny me thinketh it would not be amisse nor impertinent to our purpose most Christian Kings to entreat somewhat touching his cruelty for asmuch as Spaine did neuer yet find his like or equall as the flesh and bloud thereof hath too too well tried and had the experience All Bookes all men and euen his owne mischieuous and wicked actions Of the cruelty of King Philip. doe euery where yeeld open and abundant testimonies of his cruelty If Iulius Caesar as it is reported of him were cause of the death of more then a million of men they which haue beene acquainted with the cariage behauiour of this tyrant will confesse that he hath been the death and destruction of a farre greater number Caesar was extreamely grieued to see Pompey his enemy dead And as Antigonus when his sonne Alcinous presented him with the head of Pyrrhus slaine at the entry of the City of Argos did sharpely reproue him Plutarch Filiumque nefarium barbarum vocauit calling him a wicked and barbarous sonne so Caesar in imitation of his example seeing the signet and the ring of Pompey did of pure compassion fall a weeping in so much as he was resolued to make warre vpon Ptolomey because he had slaine Pompey traiterously and hee did so much that hee caused him in the end to be the instrument of his owne death See hereafter Philip on the contrary doth not onely not grieue at the death of his seruants friends cousens nephewes brother sonne and wife but hee doth reioyce and triumph at the same yea he doth procure and aduance it giuing great summes of money excessiue rewards and great honours vnto the executioners and ministers of his cruelty and for the satisfying of his pernicious ambition when there is any thing whatsoeuer be it neuer so little that toucheth him he maketh no exception of persons be it Pope Nuncio Bishop Monke or other Ecclesiasticall person hee poysoneth them all without feare of God or shame of man The Translator Of his seruants and friends he hath caused to be made away the Counties of Egmont and of Horne the Lord Mountigny and the Marquesse of Bergues with many other Noblemen and Gentlemen whose bloud is yet fresh in remembrance the Prince of Orange Marke Anthony Colonna Don Iohn de la Nuca great Justicier of Arragon the Duke de Villa Hermosa the Marquesse de Fuentes Don Iohn de Luna c. his Cousin the Emperour Maximilian his Nephewes by his Sisters Don Sebastian King of Portugall and Don Alexander Farnese Duke of Parma Don Iohn Duke of Bragantia his brother Don Iohn de Austria his sonne the Prince Charles his eldest sonne his wife Isabel Sister to the three last Kings of France deceased Pope Sixtus the fift Alexander Formenti Nuntio in Portugall sent thither by Pope Gregory the 13. as he was on his returne towards Rome in his passage through Castile The Archbishop of Toledo Of Bishops Monkes and Ecclesiasticall persons Don Bartholmew Carrance Archb. of Toledo of whom we haue lately spoken being his owne master a man of so great authority and excellency that by the space of many yeeres Spain hath not brought forth his like This good Catholike was the cause of his imprisonment so strict and so long as all the world knoweth this good Christian in imitatiō of Nero did persecute this personage with most notable hatred and rigour till such time as for verie griefe and sorrow he died at Rome the Doctor Frier Hector Pinto Prouinciall of the order of S. Ierome in Portugall and ordinary professour of the holy Scriptures in the Vniuersitie of Coimbre whose great learning is sufficiently witnessed by the most godly and graue writings which he hath sent into the world being imprisoned in Portugall by the commandement of his Catholike Maiestie some of his friends who were well affectioned to the Castilian partie did earnestly intreat and perswade him to retract and recant that which he had publikely read and preached and to declare that his said Maiestie was lawfull heire of the said Realme of Portugall the which he would not doe notwithstanding all the prayers and perswasions of his said friends to whom he made this answer That which I haue sayd I haue sayd true it is Hector Pinto his speech touching King Philip his vsurpation of Portugall that Philip hath not any right in the succession of this Crowne but inuading and intruding vpon the same in such sort as he hath done without staying till the cause were lawfully and orderly heard and decided he hath committed violence and tyrannie and therefore J for my part doe not acknowledge him for my king but rather for a tyrant and vsurper Whereupon his friends gaue him to vnderstand that this would be a verie dangerous thing for him to maintaine for said they they will leade you away into Castile bound hand and foote and fettered in iron and there wil they make you languish away in misery and in the end th re to die without all hope euer to see Portugall againe Whereunto he answered Little doth that trouble me howbeit that it be an extreme griefe vnto mee to end my daies out of my deare countrey and that