great Engagement at that present both against the Spaniards at home and the Hollanders on the other side the Line resolved to endure rather than deliver up the faithful Subjects of England into the hands of Murther Tyranny and Treason and therefore in part to cry quittance with the English who had taken Prize several Ships belonging to this Nation he made seizure of all the English Ships and Goods within his whole Dominions but only those he had before Protected But at length Prince Rupert finding a clear Passage from out his Ports where he had for many Months been blocked up the King by Reason of his other large Expences in defence of his Kingdom finding himself unable to maintain a War against the English and Nature dictating us to the Preservation of our Selves Resolved more moved out of Necessity than Inclination to send an Agent into England to conclude a Peace The Person deputed to go on this unpleasant Employment viz. to Court Rebels was D. Suarez de Gimeraines who had for his Assistance and Interpreter Mr. Miles an English Merchant these two Embarqued upon a Hamburgher hired for that purpose by the King of Portugal arrived in England in January 1650. About the beginning of February D. Suarez had Audience before a Committee of the pretended Parliament to whom he made a Speech in Latine to this Effect THE Serenissimo King of Portugal my Master sends me hither to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England that on his behalf and in his Name having first most friendly saluted you as I now do with the greatest Affection of my heart that I am able I may jointly tender and make known to you the Royal Desire which my Master feels within himself to conserve and more and more to knit the knot of that Amity which uninterrupted hath ever been between the Serenissimo Kings of Portugals their Ancestors and this Renowned English Nation It being my part to endeavor what lies in me to remove all obstacles that may hinder the most vigorous effect of this hearty union and conjunction of so to preserve inviolably the ancient peace between us This I come to continue hoping and wishing all happy success therein this I come to intimate and offer unto the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England with that sincere and pristine affection which hitherto the experience of many ages hath made manifest Nor shall you need to scruple the sincerity of my intention and purpose by reason of the divers past attempts not to say fights between your power and ours since they have not been such as have broken or dissolved our amity nor have had their rise or approbation from the King my Master nor as we believe from the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England but more probably carried on either by the impulse of their own private affections or by the defect of that circumspection which in such cases is ever necessary But as I hope particularly and fully to prove and indeed to demonstrate this truth unto the Parliament of the Republique of England so I am assured they will not only rest satisfied therein but shall also have accruing to them a newer force and sence of mutual friendship between us since the jars that happen amongst friends are oftentimes justly accounted as certain redintigrations of love And I do admire our enemies have not made this reflection whilst fed with vain hope they have thought it in their power to sow and foment discords between us upon presumption of this tâ—ivial innovation The King my Master sends me to continue and preserve our common and ancient peace whereof I am to make a tender unto the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England in His Majesties behalf as proceeding from a perfect sincerity in his Royal breast and whereunto he is chiefly drawn by the Motive of his singular esteem and love he bears unto this English Nation And this as the main point I shall recommend unto you both in regard of your greater good and ours and as a thing of highest concernment that we reflect how little it can be pleasing to Almighty God and how derogatory it must needs be to our reputation on both sides to give the least beginning of discord between two Christian Nations so well affected to one another as we are It is manifest unto the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England and to all Europe besides in how wonderful a manner such as was only possible to God the King my Master was restored to his Kingdoms and how the Divine Majesty whose handy-work this was doth by his especial care and grace defend and continue this Restoration Which as it doth dayly more appear by the victories we have over our enemies at home so again it is seen in our remotest and most distantial dominions in the East-Indies where even at a huge distance His Majesty possessing the hearts of his people enjoyes the greatest peace in the world and is secure in Affrica relying therein upon his prosperous and happy powers To conclude the King my Master lest any thing should be wanting to render him compleatly happy hath according to the wish of an ancient Christian Author for securing the prosperity of the Roman Empire a faithful Senate puissant Armies and a most obedient people Fortifications in the judgement of wisest politicians conducing and necessary both to defend and increase Empires and Kingdoms Now in this good condition of not only gaining and conserving friends but also of vanquishing our enemies the King my Master loves and embraces peace as the chiefest good amongst humane things holding it forth to all Kingdoms and Commonwealths but especially to this of England with that exceeding good will which he hath hitherto born and shall ever bear unto the same standing thereunto obliged by such bonds of love and good offices as shall never be forgotten by His Majesty For the people of this Nation are the most worthy successors of those their Heroick Ancestors who by their just power and Arms came freely to vindicate our Crowns from the Mahumetan oppressions And are if not the same persons at least their Children who inflamed with a fervor and zeal of defending the Crown of Portugal justly did disdain to see it in the unjust possession of a forreign Prince They are I say those who with so mature deliberation and resolution endeavoured to snatch away this undue possession from the said Usurper maugre the concurrence of some ill-affected Portugals with our enemies and that they might atchieve this end glorious to themselves and to us emolumental they are those who covered these as with their Squadrons and Fleets of Ships ever formidable to their most potent enemies by a new example of an unheard of valour had our unfortunate Stars then given us leave to be happy come up to the very walls of Lisbon And this having formerly been between us and them most powerful Englishmen and our most loving brethren now that the Crown of Portugal for
good Inclinations to his Service That for his own part he was very 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 Polititians who thought it reasonable That the Spaniard should have permitted the Duke still to have kept retired in the Countrey rather than to 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 ever been represented to have the only Right to the Crown might easily be inflamed with a Desire to have a King of their own And these things was the Princess of Mantour very sensible of and therefore continually sollicited 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 only 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. Johns 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 John 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 Aº One thousand six hundred and forty 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 only 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 Honours Priviledges and Dignities sutable 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 Polititian yet his own Safety taught him to know that all these Trusts and fair Promises were but gilded Allurements 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 suspition of Jealousie or Thoughts that he had any Design against the State he retired again to his Countrey-house Thus did these two great Personages by Craft and Dissimulation endeavour to supplant each other only the one strove the others Destruction the other only studied his own Safety and Preservation During all these passages the Vice-Queen Margarita of Mantoua was very vigilant in her Government and 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 judgment as fitter to Govern a private House than a Kingdom desired her That if her Capacity would not reach to the height and drift of those Mysteries of State yet that her Wisdom 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 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 Don Antonie D'Oquendo That when they had relieved Flanders with Men and money they should with the whole Fleet put into Portugal and then as soon as the Duke should according to the Duty of his new Place and Office come aboard they should immediately set Sail and bring him away to Cales But this Plot was by a strange Divine Providence prevented for that Fleet was totally Routed by the Hollanders upon the Coast of England in the Year One thousand six hundred thirty and nine 17. JOHN IV. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL Algarvia Affrick Arabia Persia India and Brasil c. CHAP. XXI PORTUGAL PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons d'Azure peris en Croix chacun charge de cinq besans aussi d'argent posez en sautoir a la Bordure de gueulles charge de sept Chasteaux d'or Party de MEDINASIDONIA For although the most Illustrious Infanta Margarita of Mantoua was a Princess of great judgment and knowledge in State-affairs yet she permitted her self to be so much over-ruled by Vasconsellos Secretary of State or at least was so much over-ruled by him whether she would or no that he either by some secret consent of his Catholick Majesty or led on by his own ambitious spirit confiding in the great favour he had at Court never permitted the Infanta to enjoy other than the title of Vice-Queen And insufferable was the Government of Vasconcellos to the Portuguesses who as much hated his obscure Birth as they did his evil Customs He was a man wholly composed of Pride Cruelty and Avarice that knew no moderation but in excesses small lapses were by him made capital crimes chastising with all severity those whom he did but suppose dissatisfied with his Government And exercising with all rigor the Spanish Inquisition punished not only the actions but the very thoughts of men The infringing of the greatest Priviledges of the Portugal Nation seemed to him but a trifle which continued oppressions in the end so exasperated the whole People that animated by the knowledge of their own strength by the many diversions of the
Majesty gave himself wholly to consult of preparations for the Warre shewing thereby that Kings in their greatest felicity and delights should not forget affairs of State and taking care for the preservation of their Subjects But amongst debates of the War abroad there happened one of an affair near home concerning the placing or displacing Officers of State and because His Majesty knew that the charge of such Officers must needs be with the resentment of many and that there is nothing more alienates the minds of men than to see themselves undeservedly deprived of their honours he took away only the places of two to wit that of the Providitore of the Custom-house because he was Son-in-Law to Diego Soarez and Brother-in-Law to Vasconsellos the late deservedly-slain Secretary and that of the Count of Castanhie who was President of the Tribunal or Court of Conscience because he was too much interessed with His Catholick Majesty As for the Infanta Margarita di Mantoua late Vice-Queen and the Marquess Della Puebla Kinsman to Olivarez the Castle called Pasos de Angiobregas was assigned them with Fourteen thousand Crowns a year for maintenance An honorable Prison it was nor could they desire any thing but liberty which show'd a great Nobleness of mind in King JOHN but Princes alwayes do like Princes and much it demonstrates the Magnanimity of the mind to honour our Enemies though they be our Prisoners Nor must we here forget the Magnanimous and Couragious Carriage of the Dutchess of Mantoua late Vice-Queen during these confusions and distractions for King JOHN sending to ascertain her That she should want none of those Civilities that were suitable to a Princess of her high Birth Provided she would forbear all Discourse and Practises which might infuse into any an ill opinion of his present Government She returned Thanks to the Duke for she would not stile him King for his Complement but withal fell into a grave Exhortation to those Nobles that carried the Message telling them That they should lay aside all vain hopes and not cozen themselves but return to their old Allegiance according as they were obliged by Oath which if they did she doubted not to find them all pardon The rest of the Castillians of Authority were confined in the Castle and all the Souldiers took the Portuguese Pay either because they believed doing so to be most for their interest or else because being most of them linkt in Parentage with the Portuguesses they believed the Portugal interest to be their own Shortly after Lucia now Queen of Portugal Sister to the Duke of Medina Sidonia with her Son the Prince Theodosio arrived at Lisbonne who were received with all imaginable expressions of joy the Queen was soon after Solemnly Crowned and the Prince installed at whose Installation the Nobles and Grandees of the Realm took to him the following Oath WE acknowledge and receive for our true and natural Prince the high and excellent Prince D. Theodosio as Sonne Heir and Successor of our Soveraign Lord the King and as his true and natural Subjects we do him homage in the hands of the King and after the death of our true and natural King and Soveraign of these Kingdoms of Portugal and Algarve and beyond Sea in Affrica Lord of Guiana of the Conquests Navigation and commerce in Ethiopia Arabia Persia India c. we will obey his Commands and Decrees in all and through all both high and low we will make War and maintain Peace with all those that His Highness shall Command us And all this we swear to God upon the holy Cross and the holy Gospel These Ceremonies performed with all fitting Solemnity the King to show that the good of his Subjects was his only care called an Assembly of the Three Estates of the Kingdom who being Convened and the King seated in His Royal Throne Don Emanuel D'Acugna Bishop of Elvas made a Speech to them to the following purpose THat one of the first Laws of Nature was the uniting of men together from whence Cities and Kingdoms had their Original and by which they after defended themselves in War and maintained themselves in Peace That for that cause His Majesty had called this Assembly to Consult for the better service of God Defence in War and Government in Peace That there could be no Service of God without Union of Religion no Defence without Union amongst men no Regular Government without Union of Councils That His Majesty did expect to be informed by his loyal Subjects what was for the good of the State That they were to render thanks to the Almighty who had given them a King that would govern them by known Laws That His Majesty did not esteem those Tributes lawful that were paid with tears and therefore did from that present take off from His Subjects all Tributes that had been imposed by the Kings of Castille because His Majesty would not Reign over their Goods nor over their Heads nor over their Priviledges but over their Hearts hoping that they would find out a sweet expedient to defend their Countrey against their Potent enemy who threatned to make them all slaves and to destroy and to annihilate their Nation That they would therefore considering His Majesties Goodness and their own Honor manifest at once unto the world That as never Subjects had such a Gracious King so never King had such Loyal Subjects The Bishop having ended his Speech the most antient Officer of the Chamber of Lisbonne stood up and in the name of all the three Estates who stood up likewise returned humble thanks to His Majesty for this gracious bounty heartily professing That they did not only offer up their Goods but their Lives to His Majesties service earnestly intreating His Majesty to dispose both of the one and the other as he pleased And to manifest that their hearts and their mouths concorded in this free offer of themselves to His Majesty they presently Voted That Two Millions should be immediately raised by the Kingdom but His Majesty wisely and politickly declined the imposing of a Tax upon his Subject chusing rather to accept of their Benevolence which made every one strive who should offer most so instead of the Two Millions there was in short time brought into the Treasury Four Millions of Gold Nor was this Money intended by them nor employed to any other use than to maintain the Grandezza and Splendour of the King and Kingdom there being no need of Money for the payment of Souldiers every one offering to serve freely and at their own Charge against their Vow'd Enemies the Castillians But let us for some time leave the Assembly sitting and give an account how this Action was resented into the Spanish Court Most mens minds were struck with consternation but Olivarez came smiling to the King saying Sir I pray give me las Albricias to hansel the good news for now you are more absolute King of Portugal than ever for the People have forfeited
Luciadum Regnum cujus vide stemmata Christi Mittit enim rebus stemmata quisque suis. A Genealogical History OF THE KINGS OF PORTUGAL And of all those Illustrious Houses that in Masculine Line are branched from that Royal Family CONTAINING A DISCOURSE Of their several Lives Marriages and Issues Times of Birth Death and Places of Burial With their Armes and Emblazons according to their several alterations as also their Symboles and Mottoes All Engraven in Copper-Plates Written in French by SCEVOLE and LOVIS DE SAINCTE-MARTHE Brethren and Advocates in the Court of Parliament of PARIS Unto the Year M.DC.XXIII Rendred into English and continued unto this present Year M.DC.LXII By FRANCIS SANDFORD Rouge-Dragon Pursuiuant of Armes LONDON Printed by E. M. for the Author ANNO 1662. TO THE MOST Glorious Monarch CHARLES II. KING of GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE and IRELAND c. Royal SIR THose Presents which in themselves are rich and beautiful cannot lose any thing of their esteem though tendred by the meanest hand the Diamond falls not under its true value when found among the low-prized Pebbles Nor will I hope this History which with all due Reverence I presume to lay at Your Majesties Feet be thought worthless although presented to the greatest of Kings by the least and lowest of his Subjects Yet my presumption bears with it a more extentive Modesty than to possess me with a belief that what I now bring can as far as it is any thing of mine be worthy the least regards of Majesty For it's Worth Consists in it self and being a Genealogical History of a Royal House Indubitably Descended from our English Kings cannot I hope find a less Gracious Acceptance from our Great Monarch than it hath formerly done from His most Christian Majesty in Favour of those who but disputably have maintained it to be a Branch of the Royal Stem of France but it may much more engage Your acceptance when Your Majesty considers that out of this Renowned Stock Your Majesty hath made choice of Your most Excellent Queen For from Philippa the daughter of the great Duke of Lancaster John of Gaunt descended that numerous issue which hath since supplyed PORTUGAL for above Three hundred years with a Succession of Heroick and Valiant Kings and was not discontinued but by the Power of the Castillians under Philip II III IV. Kings of Spain and hath been as miraculously restored in the Person of K. John IV. so that as King John I. much augmented the Glory of that Nation by allying himself with England another King John hath no less renewed it not more by redeeming his Kingdom out of the hands of Ambitious Seisers than in being Father to that Daughter by whom in the Persons of Your Royal Majesty and our Gracious Queen KATHERINE a second and much firmer union is contracted between these two so antiently allied Crowns But here Dread SIR I do conclude lest I should too long disturb Your Royal thoughts with those Prayers which all good Subjects are bound to make That as the Portuguesses have acknowledged that Match with England to be the most happy and fortunate that ever any of their Kings contracted both for the strength and glory of that Kingdom So that Heaven would likewise give Your Majesty as numerous and as glorious an issue by this second Match that Generations to come may have cause to Bless that Day wherein a Monarch of Great Britain did Espouse an Infanta of PORTUGAL Thus prayes YOUR MAJESTIES most Faithful and most Obedient Subject and Servant FRANCIS SANDFORD Rouge-Dragon Pursuiuant at Arms. The TRANSLATOR to the READER I Need not a better Authority for the Reputation of this History then to inform you That the first Part thereof from Henry Count of Portugal to Anthony Prior of Crato with the Second Book containing the Pedigrees of the Royal House of Braganza and other Princes of the Blood of Portugal is Translated out of the Genealogical History of the Royal House of France written by Scevole and Lovis de Saincte-Marthe Persons Eminent for their Knowledge in Antiquity and most exact in the Descents of the Kings of France and no less curious in this of Portugal as being a Branch of that Royal Stem The later Part continued from Anthony to the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Alphonso VI. being this present Year One thousand six hundred threescore and two is taken out of the Letters of Francisco Loredano a Noble Venetian and an Able Statesman employed Ambassador from that Republick to most of the Princes and Potentates of Europe Englished by an Ingenious young Gentleman not long since To these French and Italian Authors I have made several Additions out of Don Antonio de Sousa de Macedo a Portuguesse concerning the several Changes of the Arms of that Kingdom The Ceremonies used at the Coronations and Burials of the Kings of Portugal from Conestaggio an Italian And the Modern Additions to the Descents of the Younger Houses either out of Nicholaus Rittershusus a Germain or from the faithful Report of some of the Nobility of the Portugal Nation Having chosen rather to make use of Authors that were strangers and unbiassed with Interest than Natives of that Kingdom both for the Satisfaction of my Reader and also because the Exploits of that Warlike and Industrious People would seem from their own Relations almost incredible For if we consider the small Beginnings out of which they have gained such vast Territories we cannot but confess That they have out-done most of the greatest Conquerors for those with mighty Armies subjected the Old World but these with small Numbers have not only carried Victory to the East but found out New Worlds to Conquer So that the Dominions of Alphonso the first King of Portugal are not the Tenth part of those Kingdoms possessed by King Alphonso VI. If I have too much made use of the French Idiome in this Translation most Gentlemen will I presume pass by that Errour it being almost impossible to meddle with that Language and not to receive some Impressions thereby The Errours of the Press I have entred on the other side of the Leaf in the Errata which I would intreat you to Correct and then I hope you will find the Satisfaction expected in the perusal of this History Farewel F. S. WE having perused this Book which is for the most part a Translation out of French of a Genealogical History of the Kings of Portugal do not find that the same doth materially vary from the Sense of the Authors nor that there is in it any thing contrary to the Rules of Armory EDWARD WALKER Garter Principal King of Arms. WILLIAM DVGDALE Norroy King of Arms. ERRATA PAge 1. line 32. for Idolatrous read Idolators p. ibid. l. 36. for Histories r. Historians p. 2. l. 12. for Father r. Brother p. 3. l. 43. after to be built add in that Cathedral p. ibid. l. 44. to an Epitaph aâ—d in Latine p. 5. l. 36.
other private Perons The Hollander likewise joined some Ships so that the Fleet consisted of about Eleven thousand Souldiers and Fifteen hundred Mariners With this Fleet ANTHONY with some few Portuguesses set Sail out of England having before assured the English That the Portuguesses would revolt from the Spaniard and appear for him and that Muley Hamet King of Morocco would strengthen him with Twenty thousand men The first place the English Fleet put into was the Groyne in Gallicia the base Town they easily took but endeavouring the higher were repulsed and forced to raise their Siege upon Report that the Count of Andrada was coming with Forces to cut off their passage to their Ships which Norris resolving to prevent marched up to them defeated them and had the slaughter of them for Three Miles after which having pillaged and burnt some Villages they returned to Sea steering their Course for Portugal They had laboured some time with contrary Winds plying to and fro at Sea when Robert the young Earle of Essex fell into them who out of Military Glory Hate of the Spaniard and Commiseration of ANTHONY had left the Court without the knowledge or consent of the Queen in hope by Reason of the influence he had upon the Souldiery to be chosen General of the Foot Two dayes after his Conjunction with them they arrived in Penicha where they landed after the loss of some men and reduced the Castle to ANTHONY'S Obedience Sir John Norris marcheth ditectly to Lisbonne Hence the Land-forces under the Command of Sir John Norris marched directly and with all possible speed towards Lisbon about Sixty Miles distant Drake promising to follow with the Fleet by the way of the River Tagus The Army being arrived at Lisbon though they had before at a Councel of War determined to encamp on the East-side of the Town the better to bar Succours from coming out of Spain now contrary to their own Resolutions sate down before St. Katherines Suburbs on the West-side whereas at first they found no Resistance so they found little help but what the prayers of some few disarmed men gave them who now and then cried out God save the King ANTHONY And indeed other help they could not afford him Albertus Arch-duke of Austria the Vice-Roy having before disarmed the Portugals The next day when the English weary with their long march betook themselves to their Rest the Spanish Garison sallied out upon them who were at first resisted by Brett and his Companies till more coming up to their Assistance forced the Spaniards to give back the Valiant Earle of Essex chasing them to the very Gates but the English had several Commanders of Note and no small quantity of private Souldiers slain In sum when they had now stayed two dayes before the Town and perceived that the Portugals notwithstanding the great brags and fair promises of ANTHONY did not at all incline to a Revolt and that no Advice came of any Assistance from Muley Hamet King of Morocco but that instead of them fresh Forces flocked in great Numbers from the East-parts into the City whil'st their Army was lessned by a violent Sickness their Provision and Ammunition failed and their great Guns for Battery arrived not they raised their Siege and took their way towards Cascais a small Town at the mouth of the River the Spaniards following them at a distance but not ever daring to fall in their Rear The Town of Cascais they took blew up the Castle and so notwithstanding all the intreaties of ANTHONY set Sail for England firing in their way Vigo a Port-town deserted of its Inhabitants Thuanus So that now after a second Repulse ANTHONY was forced to retire into France where he was favourably received by King Henry the Great under whose protection he passed the rest of his life His Death and having lived Threescore and four Years dyed at Paris the Five and twentieth day of Years of CHRIST 1595 August in the Year One thousand five hundred fourscore and fifteen His body was deposited in the Church of the Cordileires in the same City There was found in his Cabinet a Latine Paraphrase upon the penitential Psalms with some Prayers in no Vulgar Stile which gave Testimony of his Piety whose Epitaph in Latine Verse hath been written by Frederick Morel the Kings Greek Professor in the University of Paris Children of ANTHONY Prior of CRATO Bastard of PORTUGAL EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL eldest Son of ANTHONY PORTUGAL resided for some time with his Father in France and England then retired into the Low-countries unto Maurice Count of Nassau PORTUGAL afterwards Prince of Orange His Marriage whose Sister EMILIA of NASSAU Daughter of William Prince of ORANGE Party de NASSAU-ORANGES and of Anne of Saxony his second Wife EMANUEL married in the Year One thousand Years of CHRIST 1597 five hundred fourscore and seventeen Escartele Au. 1. quartier d'Azure au Lyon d'or armé lampassé de gueulles l'Escu semé de billettes d'or Qui est NASSAU Au 2. d'or au Lyon de gueulles armé lampassé d'azur Au 3. de gueulles a la Fasse d'argent Au 4. de gueulles a deux Leopards d'or armēz lampasséz d'argent Sur le tout un Escu aussi escartelé Au 1. 4. de gueulles a la bande d'or Au 2. 3. d'or au Cor d'azur lié virolé de gueulles charge sur le tout de cinq p ints d'or equippollez a quatre points d'azur afterwards he travelled unto the Court of the Infanta Elizabeth the Arch-dutchess where he received a favourable entertainment Children of EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL and of EMILIA OF NASSAU his Wife 16. EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL 16. LEWIS OF PORTUGAL before named William had for God-father at the time of his Confirmation Lewis XIII King of France and Nauarre 16. MARY OF PORTUGAL 16. LOVISE OF PORTUGAL 16. ANNE OF PORTUGAL 16. JULIANE OF PORTUGAL 16. MAURICE OF PORTUGAL 16. SABINE OF PORTUGAL CHRISTOPHER OF PORTUGAL after he had been some time with his Father in France and England undertook the Voyages of Affrica and Italy afterwards returned into France and sheltered himself under the protection of King Henry the great to whom Anthony had presented and recommended him by a Letter writ to his Majesty not long before his decease From which time he continued his residence in the Court of that great King and then in that of King Lewis the Just his Son and Successor the one and the other having honoured him with a particular favour which upon all occasions they gave him testimony of PHILIPPA OF PORTUGAL a Nun. LOVISE OF PORTUGAL ALthough in several places of this History where I have met with the Persons I have given you an account of their Pretentions to this Crown of Portugal yet because they lie scattered in their Stories and cannot be well compared one with another and being it is the Opinion of many That the Right and Title to
make some demonstration of reverence and mirth and by how much the more they thought themselves observed by so much the more they strove to seem other than they were His Majesty being arrived at the Palace instead of reposing himself addicted himself wholly to consult about carrying on the War knowing well that onely labour produces true rest The first consultations were concerning the expugnation of the Tower of St. John which of all the Forts in the Kingdom only held out for the Catholick King To reduce this Cittadel the Marquess of Ferreira was sent in person with a numerous Army though for the most part tumultuary and ill ordered but what they wanted in discipline they supplyed in affection not refusing to engage themselves in the extreamest dangers for two days the Marquess found strong ressistance but on the third day it yielded as it is supposed forced rather by bullets of Gold than of Iron Don Antonio de Mascarendas with a Portuguess Garison was appointed commander of this Fortress which he very diligently repaired not only of the damages now received by Battery but with other necessary fortifications to bring it to greater perfection The Kingdom thus suddenly reduced to the devotion of King JOHN the fourth the several Governors were commanded to their Countries to levy Forces who listed the inhabitants indifferently from the age of Eighteen to Sixty in whom they found so much disposition that many offered their estates and their lives and would follow the colours although they had licence to depart On the 25. of the same Month followed the Coronation of his Majesty accompanied with all those applauses demonstrations of joy which could proceed from a people of infinite Riches who weary of the Command of strangers were consequently ambitious of a King of their own Nation In the publique Place before the Palace upon a most sumptuous Theatre was erected a great Stage and upon that a less upon the top of which but three steps higher stood a Chair of State under a Canopy all covered over with Cloth of Gold About noon His Majesty came forth of his Palace Royal in a Suit of Chesnut coloured Velvet embroidered with Gold and buttons richly set with Diamonds about his neck was a Collar of great value whereunto hung the badge of the chief Order of Knight-hood called El Ordine di Christo He was girded with a gilt Sword his Robe was Cloth of God lined with white wrought with Gold and flowers the Sword was born before him by Don Francisco De Alello Marquess of Ferreira High Constable of the Kingdom and before him was the Kings Banner displayed by Ferdinando Telles de Meneses Earl Marshal before him went D. Manrique De Silva Marquess of Govea Steward of the Kings Houshold and so in order his Nobles and Grandees of the Realm one before another before all went Portugal King at Arms with the Heralds Pursuivants c. His Majesty being ascended the Stage and having placed himself in the Chair of Estate had the Crown set upon His Head and the Scepter delivered to him with the accustomed Ceremonies by the Archbishop of Lisbon which done he spoke to His Majesty to this effect Behold O most Sacred Majesty these your Subjects who do more rejoyce to see this day than of all the days of their lives They rejoyce to see the Crown of Portugal returned into its Antient stock they rejoyce to have found a Father who will govern them like Children not Tyrannize over them like slaves They here Great SIR offer their estates their lives and oblige themselves to run through all the accidents of fortunes to establish that Crown upon your Head which now with so much devotion with so much readiness they have placed upon it They cannot sufficiently express their affections to Your Majesty could they bring their hearts and lay them down at your Majesties feet they would not refuse to do it so sure are they that they have found a King all goodness all love who will not let slip any means for the Establishing of the Crown for the quiet of his Subjects for augmenting his Dominions and for the conservation of those priviledges which have been written with the blood of our progenitors Be your Majesty graciously pleased to accept this common resentment expressed by my mouth there being nothing that more comforts the minds of good Subjects than the pleasing of their Prince The good old Prelate spoke these words with so much feeling that the tears of his eyes testified the affection of his heart To this speech of the Archbishops His Majesty returned answer in expressions equal to his love and greatness That the weight of the Scepter and subjection to the Crown were things always dissonant to his Genius That he had of late years given them sufficient testimony of it whilst they were not more affectionate in offering than he was ready to deny the taking upon him the weight of the Kingdom That his now condescending to their desires was only to provide for the Kingdom which had been acquisted and agrandized with the blood of his Predecessors and to take it from the hands of those who besides their unjustly possessing it had rendred themselves unworthy of it by endeavouring by all means to ruine it in sum he concluded with thanks for their love offering himself ready to adventure his health and life for their preservation the redeeming them from slavery and maintaining of their priviledges This short discourse ended His Majesty went to the great Church in the same order as before where being set in a Chair of Estate raised upon a Stage for that purpose with a Christal Scepter in his right hand at which stood the Lord Constable and behind him the Lord Chamberlain there was placed before him a Table Covered with Cloth of Gold and a Cushion thereon upon the Cushion lay a Gold Crucifix and a Messal Here the Archbishops of Lisbon and Braga administred the ensuing Oath to the King WE swear and promise by the grace of God to rule and govern you well and justly and to administer justice as far as humane frailty will permit to maintain unto you your Customs Priviledges and liberties granted unto you by the Kings our Predecessors So God help us God and this his holy Gospel This Oath being administred the three Estates to wit the Clergy Nobility and Commons took the following Oath of Allegiance to his Majesty one for every one of the Estates pronouncing these words I Swear by this holy Gospel of God touching corporally with my hand That I receive for our King and lawful Soveraign the High and Mighty King DON JOHN the fourth our Soveraign and do homage unto him according to the use and custome of his Kingdoms This and the Ceremonies attendant ended his Majesty accompanied with all his Nobles returned to his Palace whether notwithstanding it was a very great rain all the Grandees went bare-headed where there was a most sumptuous Banquet prepared but his
all their Priviledges by this Rebellion besides the Estate of the Duke of Braganza with all his Complices are yours by right of Confiscation so that you have enough to distribute among your Loyal Subjects by way of reward But however Olivarez seemed thus to dissemble his passion it was believed that this news struck deeper into him than any The King of Spain upon the first news of the Proclamation of King JOHN sent a Letter to him to this purpose COusin and Duke Some odd news are brought me lately which I esteem but folly considering the proof I have had of the fidelity of your House give me advertisement accordingly because I ought to expect it from you and hazard not the esteem I make of your self to the fury of a mutinous Rabble but let your Wisdom comport you so that your Person may escape the danger my Council will advise you farther so God guard you Your Cousin and King To this Letter His Majesty of Portugal returned answer MY Cousin My Kingdom desiring its Natural King and my Subjects being oppressed with Taxes and new Impositions have executed without opposition that which they had often designed by giving me possession of a Kingdom which appertains to me wherefore if any will go about to take it from me I will seek Justice in my Arms God preserve your Majesty DON JOHN IV. King of Portugal Thus was this Kingdom utterly lost to the Spanish Monarchy and not only it but with it all that they enjoyed by that Kingdom in the East-Indies the Tercera Islands and other Islands in the Atlantick Sea the Kingdom of Algarve Brasil together with all they had in Affrica except the Town of Cexta which was the whole remained to the Spanish Nation of all those great Dominions But that all men might know the greatness of their loss and what the Crown of Portugal enjoys abroad take here a brief narration First Those Islands of the Tercera Madera and St. Michael so long time possessed by the Portugal Nation which though inconsiderable to their other Dominions yet deserve to be mentioned next those many strong places of which they have made themselves Masters in Affrica as in Guiana in the Kingdoms of Congo and Angola the great Island of St. Laurence of Soffola and Mozambique on the Continent thence passing the Month of the Red-Sea they have setled a Trade with Socatra and Calaite thence passing the Bay of Persia to the Mouth of the River Indus they subdued Calecut Coetium c. the Island of Goa Ciaul Daman c. thence toward the River Ganges they possessed Ceilam Malacca Sumatra Solon Larantuca c. Thence farther they were entred into the Kingdom of Pegu into Java-major and Minor into the Kingdom of Câ—ina where they fortified Macoa In sum the Kingdoms Provinces Islands and Cities that the Portugal Nation had Conquered and were possessed of abroad may in some measure be compared to the Antient Roman Empire nor was their Valour much inferior to the Romans if we consider the War they made with the King of Cambaia who for Puissance and Military Courage or numbers of Men of War did exceed Xerxes Darius or Pyrrhus the Battels they had with Ismalucco and Idaliam in the Kingdom of Decam both equal to mighty Kings and their Armies consisting of the best Warriors of the East the War they have waged with the Moors of Malacca Sumatra and Molucco as also with the Kings of Bengala Peug and Siam c. with many other formidable powers Many of those places most certain it is were lost while the Catholique King had possession of Portugal but with it he likewise lost and King JOHN IV. had possession of above Fifty Towns and Forts accounted impregnable such were Mozambique Cuama Monomotasca Mombaza Masiala Dui Damam Bazaine Chiaul Onor Barcelor Mangalor Cananor Cranganor Cochim Conlan Negapatan Meliapor the Isle of Ceilam the Kingdom of Jafanapalan the Cities of Manac and Nombrede Jesu then more Northward Azarim Danue Agazim Maim Trapor and many other places in all which were maintained Governours and Souldiers and a Vice-Roy residing at Goa with Courts of Justice c. Hither many Kings of the East used to send Ambassadors to maintain Amity with the King of Portugal and to bring Tribute to him Thus the Portugal Trade in the East extendeth it self no less than Four thousand Leagues by which Trade all the Garisons are maintained and all the Ships whereof they are oftentimes Two or three Fleets and much Wealth sent home every Year besides those aforementioned the Crown of Portugal has several Towns on the Coast of Affrica so strongly fortified That the Moors of the Countrey could never yet recover them such as Tangier c. In America they possess the famous Countrey 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 Catholick King Philip the Fourth was very solicitous to recover and to that end and purpose did not only consult with the greatest States-men 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 6th 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 Philip the Second your Majesties Grandfather towards the Kingdom of Portugal was a fatal presage of the present Calamities and future Destruction not only of Spain but the whole Spanish Monarchy because that Kingdom was only in name but never really Conquered remaining Rich and abundant with the same if not greater Priviledges than before the Grandees and Nobles at Home the People not at all Crushed and which is more than all the Government in the hands of Natives and all his Majesties other Subjects excluded from all places of Power Honour or Profit Sir The Holy Scripture which is the Mirrour and Rule of our Actions teacheth That when Salmanazar conquered the Kingdom of Israel he did carry away not only 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 Jerusalem transplanted all that he found in that Kingdom leaving only a few miserable inconsiderable people to remain there So Athalia Queen of Judah 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 Jehu 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 Yeer One thousand six hundred and thirty nine 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 Judgments but Fate would have it that for fear of new troubles by delayes way should be made for Rebellion than which there could not have been a greater although that Form of Government which was expedient for the Spanish Monarchy and was alwayes 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 enquiry 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 than 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 flie and from thence will they be alwayes 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 whatever 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 only 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 publick Peace animating all Christian Princes to assist in the regaining that Kingdom upon pretence of advancing the Catholick 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 Cancer of the Spanish Monarchy therefore Ense 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 than to have it employed against ones own head Let your Majesty never believe or hope better of that Nation than you have seen these Sixty years past never think to keep that Countrey 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 Truces 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 Yoke will at length easily 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 Emperour Julian used to say was much more advantageous than 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 whil'st is considered the extraordinary love and affection which the whole Nation of the Portuguesses bore to the Family of their present King and the inveterate hatred which they did and always have born to the Castillians which was so exceeding great that it is believed they would rather have suffered themselves to be extirpated and routed out than again submit their Necks to the Spanish Yoke 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 than 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 maintenance 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 JOHN'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 Marquiss De los veles Shortly after that the Father Ignatius Mascarenas was dispatched to the Catalonians D. Francisco de Mello and Don Antonia Caelle Carravallio persons both of excellent and admired abilities the one for his great experience and judgment 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 manner 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 shews 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 imbraced them in his Arms promising them the greatest Assistance his Power was able to give They were from the Kings presence conduced 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 tum Grand Signora si pero coma a Castiliano no that it was true considering her Greatness but not her Country The Queen smiling went on promising them all assistance possible and wishing all prosperity to King JOHN 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 great importance and they endeavored to explain to his Eminence what was before his sentiment that it very much imported the two Crowns of France and Portugal to be united by an indissoluble League considering that it was the Chief and Principal end and aim of the House of Austria whose Branches were spread over almost all Europe not only to be the greatest but to be the sole and only Monarch of Christendom That to effect those ambitious desires he had never made scruple to usurp and seize upon Kingdoms and States upon the least pretences imaginable as had appeared in the Kingdoms of Naples Sicily Navarre the Dutchy of Millan and lately several States in Germany seizing upon the Valtoline whereby they had a passage open to lead an Army of Germans into Italy at pleasure That considering the vast power and interest that this Family had not only in Europe but also in America it could not but be confessed That they had a large foundation of their imaginary Universal Monarchy but that nothing gave them so great hopes as the possession of Portugal For by the addition of that Kingdom to the Crown of Castille they became absolute Masters not only of all Spain but of all the East-Indies of all the Eastern Trade of Ethiopia Persia Arabia China Japan and all that incredible wealth that was raised out of the Portugal Traffick whereby the Austrian Greatness if not their Monarchy was principally sustained that therefore it concerned all States whatsoever not only to put a stop to the raving Tyranny of this devouring Monster but to suppress and lessen his Power by all means possible That to do this none was more concerned or more able than the Kingdom of France united with that of Portugal That this having been called the Right Arm as Catalonia the Left of that great Austrian Colossus now both being separated from it and united to France will be able to do greater service against it than they were ever forced to do for it not only by assaulting the Spaniard within his own doors but by intercepting the Plate-Fleet which in its return from the West-Indies it being necessarily forced to pass by the Tercera Islands must run in danger of the Portuguez Fleet or be forced to be at the Charge of an extraordinary Convoy These were the sum of the Ambassadors Discourses to the Cardinal In answer to which his Eminence made offer not only of all the Assistance of
that the King of Spain's present power at Rome might probably oppose the Reception of their Ambassador that although the Pope never was in his heart a Spaniard yet he would never yield to show himself an enemy to the Catholick King That the Spaniards cunningly fomenting the opinion which all the world had entertainted that his Holiness did in all things favor the French interest would from such a Reception draw as much as ever they could ask or desire That for this cause the Pope that he might not seem their enemy had alwayes granted them whatever they desired That therefore they thought it convenient first to sound his Holiness before they run the hazard of the disgrace and affront which might fall upon his Majesty and the whole Kingdom That in case the Pope should decline the reception of the Ambassador to whom could they repair or appeal to vindicate the injury done to the Crown That many Popes had been so fascinated to the interest of their own family that the world had very great occasion to believe that their designs tended rather to what was best for themselves than to what was best indeed That the Portugal Nation had as much reason to distrust the See of Rome as any whilst they had to their cost had examples how they onely pursued their own ends As particularly Gregory the thirteenth who at first seemed so affectionate to the Kingdom of Portugal that he imployed the utmost of his Power for the Interest of his own Family approved of all that King had done that there was none who had more to give or at least who had more to promise than the Catholick King so that in any business of Competition he must necessarily gain the better But notwithstanding all these Arguments to the contrary upon the promises of the King of France to be a Mediator at the See of Rome for the Reception of their Ambassadors by the suffrage of some few Voices to make the major part it was concluded That Ambassadors should immediately be sent to Rome And in pursuance of this Vote the King immediately made choice of two Reverend and able Persons to wit Michael De Portogallo Son to the Count Vimioso of the Blood Royal Bishop of Lamego and D. Petableone Rodriguiz Bishop of Elvas No sooner was the news arrived at Rome of their being landed in Italy but the Spaniards in Rome mustred themselves together with resolution either to oppose their entrance or at least hinder their reception whil'st on the other side the French Portugal and Catalonians assembled themselves together resolving to hazard their dearest Blood in their Cause His Holiness seeing these preparations on both sides feared lest his Countrey should be made the Seat of a petty War and considering that in any case the dishonour would accrue to him if whil'st under his Command and Protection the Person of an Ambassador should be violated strictly Commanded all his Guards to take special care to prevent the Violencies intended The Spaniards by this Order hindred from what they purposed their Ambassadors openly protested That if his Holiness did receive the Portugal Ambassador they would immediately leave Rome But notwithstanding these protestations and all other opposition they could possibly make in November One thousand six hundred and forty one the two Portugal Ambassadors being met by divers Cardinals Princes and Cavaliers well armed entred into Rome and were conducted to the Palace of the French Ambassador who received them with all Respect possible still giving them the precedence Hereupon several Manifesto's are scattered abroad by the two Spanish Ambassadors the Marquess De los Veles and D. John Chiumarrero labouring to prove that his Holiness ought not to receive the Ambassadors of the Duke of Braganza as they stiled him First because he was a Tyrant and Usurper of that Kingdom which had been in the quiet possession of the Catholick King these Sixty years Secondly Because he was a Rebel and a Perjured Person having sworn Allegiance to the Catholick King Thirdly That the Reception of these Ambassadors would animate other Subjects of the Catholick King to Rebellion But whil'st the Spanish Ambassadors are violently shooting such Paper-Bullets the Portuguesses used all their endeavors both by themselves and the French Ambassadors who had express Order from the most Christian King his Master to that purpose to prevail with the Pope to give them Audience and admit their Embassie but his Holiness was so fearful to displease the Spaniard lest he should afterwards take occasion to revenge himself upon his Nephews that he utterly declined their Reception yet not out of any of the Spaniards Allegations but upon pretence that certain of the Church Rites had been violated in Portugal the Arch-bishop of Braga and other Ecclesiastical Persons being kept in durance though it was for very good reasons as hereafter shall appear Yet the Spaniards were not content with this Resolution of his Holiness but whil'st the Portugals were endeavoring to prove their Cause by both Political and Legal Declarations Allegations and Arguments fearing lest the Pope might chance to alter his mind resolved to make a quick dispatch of the Business and to that purpose Two hundred Banditi were hired to seize upon the Bishop of Lamego and carry him to Naples as the Prince of Sans had been before served by them and there put to Death But this Design themselves at length could not agree upon for the Marquess De Los Velos thought it would be better and less dangerous to give the Portugals a Publick Affront in the City which was concluded to be put in effect and to that purpose it was communicated to the rest of the Nation whereof upon several occasions there are alwayes many in Rome who assembled together well Armed at the Ambassadors Palace and so great is the Power of Revenge that to the end they might the better effect their design and yet not appear as Souldiers though there were many Gentlemen of quality amongst them they condescended to go under the name of Foot-men to the Marquess The Popes Holiness hearing of the great preparations of the Spaniard sent to them to let them know that he could not but be very much distasted to see such disorders attempted in a peaceable City and therefore desiring them for his Honors sake to desist and withal sent a Messenger to the Bishop of Lamego to assure him that he need not fear any thing for upon the Word of his Holiness he should walk the Streets undisturbed But do the Pope what he could either by threats desires or perswasions the Spaniards were resolved to prosecute their design which they put in execution to their own cost on the twenty of August One thousand six hundred forty two On which day the Bishop of Lamego going to visit the French Ambassador one of his retinue observed that he was dog'd by a Spanish Spie whereupon a Counter-Spie was sent to the Marquesses to bring intelligence what they were doing
Portuguess Merchants Ships from their Pyracies the King appointed a Fleet of forty Ships of War and six thousand Men to attend that service as Convoys His Holiness the Popes anger as yet continued towards the Kingdom of Portugal for he had not only hitherto refused to receive Ambassadors from thence but to supply those Archbishopricks Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical Offices of the Kingdom which by the death of the former possessors were vacant this the King found a great inconveniency in and therefore thought fit once more to attempt his Holiness and to present him the names of such of his own Subjects whose piety learning or other sufficiencies he thought might make them capable of such dignities As first for the Archbishoprick of Braga formerly acknowledged to be the primacy of all Spain notwithstanding the pretensions of Toledo he nominated Don Pedro de Lancastro President of the Justice of the Palace of the House of Ameiro and descended from JOHN the second King of Portugal For the Archbishoprick of Evora His Majesty nominated D. Francisco Barrez Bishop of the Algarez Bishoprick he bestowed upon the Father Dennis Des Anges an Augustine Monk and Confessor to His Majesty for the Bishoprick of Guarda was appointed D. Antonio Pobo great Prior of the Military Order of St. James for the Bishoprick of Lamego D. Antonio de Mendosa Commissary of the Bula de la Croisaida for the Bishoprick of Lerida D. Deigo de Souza Inquisitor of the holy Office for that of Conimbra Don Sebastian Casar de Menerez who was before nominated for the Bishoprick of Porto but that was given by his Majesty to D. Pedro de Menerez once named Bishop of Miranda of which last place D. Pedro de Porros Tutor of the Prince D. Theodosio was now named Bishop These choices of his Majesty the Pope after some time Confirmed D. Francisco de Souza who was sent as extraordinary Ambassador notwithstanding the opposition of the Spaniards received not unlikely out of a fear that they would Officiate without his Confirmation and so in a manner Renounce the Power of the See of Rome But in the middest of this setling of Ecclesiastical affairs Arms were not silent for upon the Borders there hapned a Skirmish between the Castillians and Portuguese about the latter end of April One thousand six hundred forty and nine Lord of Themer Court Lieutenant General of the Portuguese Horse and Monsieur Du Quesne the Commissary General gained a Victory over a small Army of the Spaniards defeating Seven hundred of the Spaniards and taking divers Prisoners amongst whom was the Nephew of the Marquess of Melinguen Lieutenant General of the Castillian Army at Badajox who was after exchanged for the Count Fiesque Lauagna who for some years past had been Prisoner in Castille in this Conflict the Portuguese lost but Twenty five men the Chief of which was Sieur de la Touche a French Captain who had behaved himself most Valorously The Commotions of the Perisians against the King of France had given the Spaniard great hopes of better success than they had many years had but the middle of the Year One thousand six hundred and forty nine happily concluding them the news of their Pacification and that of a great Victory gained by the Portuguesses against the Hollanders in Brazile caused a general joy over all Portugal for the King appointed Publick Thanks to be given and Te Deum to be Sung in all Churches Hopes to revenge the late defeat given by the Lord Therimicourt and desire to do some Valiant Act before he departed from his Government made the Marquess of Leganez Governour of the Spanish Forces at Estramadura give an Alarum to the Portuguese Frontiers and enter into the Countrey with Two thousand Horse and Six thousand Foot but the Valiant Count of St. Laurence assaulting him forced him to retire with shame and excuse himself that he marched out only to meet the Marquess of Mortare who was appointed to succeed him in the Government Yet this small and worthless Alarum made the King of Portugal who knew that too much care could not be had of the Safety of his Kingdom to send Orders to the Governors to look more exactly to the Countreys committed to their Charges than formerly and strictly to give Charge to Don Juan de Menezez Governor of Porto The Viscount Ponte de Lima Governor of the Countreys between Douro and Mimbo to the Count of Arogna Governor of Trasmontes and Don Roderigo de Castro Governor of Beira to repair with all expedition to their several Commands Nor was his Majesty less careful of his Dominions abroad than of those near home which made him dispatch the Baron of Alviro to be Governor of Tanger and D. Francisco de Norogna to Mazagan both strong Forts in Affrica the last of which had been neer surprized by the Moors of Barbary but the Commander of that Party which assaulted it being slain by a Valorous French-man they were beaten off with loss for which service the King bestowed upon the French-man a Pension of Six hundred Crowns per annum And whil'st His Majesty was distributing his Bounties he could not forget the Lady Dona Maria Manuel Widow to the some-time before deceased D. Antonio Coello D. Caravallio who had ever since His Majesties coming to the Crown been one of His Privy-Councellors and was one of the Chief Persons that went Ambassadors into France to renew the Alliance and conclude a firm League between the King of Portugal and Lewis the Thirteenth King of France His Majesty therefore in consideration of his services bestowed a valuable Pension on his aforesaid Widow There was almost daily in-roads made upon the Frontiers in some places or other amongst the rest the Baron of Themericourt entred with a strong Party into the Spanish Territories surprised the Suburbs of the City of Albuquerque and brought away a very rich Booty without the loss of so much as one Souldier upon the place and not above Twenty wounded The succour of the distressed Subjects of the more distressed King of England about the Year One thousand six hundred and fifty gave occasion to the King of Portugal to manifest his affection to the English Nation which he did by giving assistance to the Gallant Prince Rupert who being by His Majesty of England made Admiral of those few Ships which in the Year One thousand six hundred and forty eight returned to their Allegiance had ever since been pursued by the more Potent Fleets of the English Rebels and was now by them driven to seek the protection of his Portugal Majesty who notwithstanding that the Fleet of the Rebels with threatning Bravado's demanded the said Kings leave either to assault them in his Port or to force them to come out bravely protected them under his Castles In Revenge of which the Rebels of England who stiled themselves a Parliament Proclaimed an open War with the Portugal Nation which his Majesty notwithstanding his
After the Duke his Father came to the Crown the Ceremony of his Installation was performed when the Nobles and Grandees took an Oath to receive him for their Natural Prince as Son Heir and Successor to their Lord the King but he lived not to give Portugal a King of his Name deceasing in the life-time of his Father in the Month of June His death 1653. Aº One thousand six hundred and fifty three and was interred in the Monastery of Bethleem 18. ALPHONSO second Son of King John was after the Death of his Brother Theodosius also Prince OF PORTUGAL His Birth August 21. 1643. The City of Lisbonne gave him Birth where he now wears the Royal Diademe of his Father 18. PETER Infant OF PORTUGAL third Son born at Lisbonne in the Year of Christ One thousand six hundred forty and eight is now living Anno 1662. 18. JANE Infanta OF PORTUGAL came into this World at Villa-viciosa the Eighteenth day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred thirty and six She dyed young and was inhumed at Belleil 18. KATHERINE Infanta OF PORTUGAL Queen of GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE and IRELAND only Daughter now living of King John IV. took her first breath at Villa-viciosa upon the Five and twentieth day of November being St. Katharines day in the year of our Redemption One thousand six hundred thirty and eight The Treaties and Articles of this Marriage were concluded in England with the Count Don Francisco de Melo Ambassador for the King of Portugal who departed hence with the Ratification of the said Treaty of Marriage Upon his Arrival I need not acquaint you with what Joy this News affected the King Queen Mother and the whole Court nor their most Solemn Demonstration thereof by discharging of their Cannon making of Bonefires and other Entertainments yet were the People unwilling to think of Parting with this their Pious Princess for whose sake they were wont to say God had given them so Signal and Frequent Victories over their Enemies Not long after by an Express from England from the King to Her the Infanta KATHERINE was Complemented with the stile of Queen of GREAT BRITAIN and then with what possible Speed could be made was expected for England all things being prepared in a readiness for so great a Princess and so long a Voyage Then upon the Thirteenth day of April this present year One thousand six hundred threescore and two She passed with the King Her Brother the Queen-Mother Don Pedro and the whole Court unto the side of the River Tagus through several Triumphal Arches and a sumptuous Gallery built upon that Occasion where Her MAJESTY was received by the Earle of Sandwich who conducted Her on Board a stately Brigandine whence amidst many Tire and Vollies of Cannon and many more farewel Acclamations in the same Princely Company and Equipage Her MAJESTY came aboard the ROYAL CHARLES and was welcomed with the Thunder of the whole Navy In the Evening after a Princely Collation and many passionate parting Expressions a Gun from the Admiral gave the Signal of Her MAJESTIES Resolution to depart when all hands were set on work to weigh Anchor and let flie their Sails The King and Queen-Mother and their Train took their Farewel with hearts equally composed of Grief and Joy and Re-imbarqued for Lisbon returning with the discharge of all the Ordnance and so immediately with a fair leading Gale the whole Fleet began their Course being as they passed out of the River saluted by all the Block-houses Forts and Castles That Night and part of the next Day the Wind stood very propitious but afterwards proved averse and stormy so that they were forced to labour to and fro with contrary Winds it being the Six and twentieth of April when they got into the middle of the Bay of Biscay Her MAJESTY by the continual working and tossing of the Sea having been sick the most part of the Voyage About the Fifth of May with unwearied labour and skill the whole Fleet reached the Islands of Scilly Her Arrival had been every day expected a Fortnight before which caused the King to send down the Duke of York Lord High Admiral to attend Her upon the Coast and to Complement Her MAJESTY in His Name whereupon His Highness hasted to Portsmouth and on the Tenth of May attended by the Duke of Ormond the Earls of Suffolk and Chesterfield the Lord Berkley and other Persons of Quality went aboard the stately YAUGH to Coast about to meet Her MAJESTY On Sunday morning about Ten of the Clock they discovered the ROYAL JAMES but there was so great a Calm they could not reach the ROYAL CHARLES till Six at Evening The Earl of Sandwich having discovered His Highness YAUGH went out in his Barge to meet Him the Royal Banner being all the while vailed till He was aboard when His Highness came into the Ship the Souldiers gave Three several Shouts and all the Guns in the ROYAL CHARLES which from the Queens entrance till that time had been silent proclaimed His Welcome after which the several Ships of the Fleet paid Him their Salutes The Thirteenth of May at night the Royal Fleet came to St. Helens Point the most Eastern Promontory of the Isle of Wight and on Wednesday the Fourteenth of May the Queen landed at Portsmouth about Four of the Clock in the Afternoon where She was received by the Nobility Gentry and multitudes of Londoners as also by the Mayor and Aldermen of that Corporation with all the Expressions of Joy His MAJESTY having received the Express of His Queens landing prepared to be gone forthwith to Salute Her upon Her Arrival But His great Affairs of State and Bills by Him to be Ratified into Acts of Parliament which were not fully ready for His Royal Assent delayed him till Monday the Nineteenth of May having sent before Him the Bishop of London who departed the Seventeenth in order to the Solemnizing of the Marriage when He took Coach from the House of Lords at Nine of the Clock in the Evening with His ordinary Guards and lodged that night at Gilford the next day His MAJESTY posted with the same speed to Portsmouth where He arrived about Noon The Queens indisposition which yet held Her in Her Chamber caused the King to satisfie Himself only with a Visit in private that day Yet it pleased God to restore Her Majesty to such a degree of health that she was soon after able to go abroad to consummate the Marriage-Rites which were there performed upon Wednesday the 21. of May by Gilbert Lord Bishop of London which being concluded His Majesty Bedded His most Princely Lady in His Town of Portsmouth The next Week their Majesties removed to Winchester thence to Farnham and then to Hampton Court where They spent most part of this Summer as well for the Healthfulness as Majesty of the Place Then on Saturday the 23. of August being the Eve of St. Bartholomew a Day
Remarkable for its Beauty being the Fairest of Ten that either came before or followed it after Dinner the King and Queen took Barge in order to Their entertainment by the City of London upon the River of Thames and came to Putney about Four of the Clock in the Evening where They changed Their spare Barge and were by the Lord Chamberlain conducted on Board that Barge which was prepared to bring Them to Whitehall in which They were placed under a Canopy of Cloth of Gold adorned with Five Plumes of White and Yellow Ostrich-Feathers the Barge lined also with Cloth of Gold and Cussions of the same the two Gondeloes went on either side before in which were His Majesties Trumpets which sounded continually At Chelsey Their Majesties were met by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen in their Barge afterwards by all the Companies in their Barges with loud Musick all adorned with their several Banners and Pennons of Arms I cannot spend time to particularize the several Pageants and Representations of the Mercers Drapers Merchant-Taylors Goldsmiths c. being neither possible nor proper for this place therefore I shall only say which none but the absent will deny That the oldest person alive never saw the Thames more fully nor more Nobly covered Amid'st a Throng of a Thousand Boats and more than Ten thousand joyful Subjects Their Majesties landed at Whitehall about 7. of the Clock in the Evening where the most Excellent Princess the Queen Mother and the Dutchess of York gave Her Majesty Her Welcome which was seconded by a Tere of Artillary Planted at Stangate-Wharf over against Whitehall for that purpose the same Night afterwards being made an Artificial Day by the Number of Bone-fires and Fire-works I omit to fix a Character upon the Goodness and Beauty of this our Royal Queen as deserving a larger Room and an abler Pen or to speak of that Portion store of Money and Jewels as great as ever any Princess brought a Husband because I will not presume to meddle with those sublime particulars As also of those Advantages that the English Merchant receives by the Trade of both the Indies where the Portuguesses over-rule the Dutch and by the commodious situation of Tangier for the checking and curbing the Insolencies of the Pirates of Algier Tunis and Tripoli if at any time they break their League with England it being a place situate upon the mouth of the Streight of Gibraltar so that no Ship can pass that Streight without Licence first had from the King of Great Britain who upon this Account Commands the whole Trade of the Levant May we long enjoy Their Majesties with the Blessings we have received with Them and from Them a continued Line of Great Britains Kings that we may not want a Soveraign to Reign over us who derives his Goodness as well as Greatness from this our Soveraign Pair 18. ALPHONSO VI. Of the Name KING of PORTUGAL Algarvia Affrick Arabia Persia India and Brasil c. CHAP. XXII PORTUGAL D'argent a cinq Escussons en Croix chacun charge de cinq besans aussi d'argent posez en sautoir a la Bordure de gueulles charge de sept Chasteaux d'or trois en chef deux en fase deux en point The whole Kingdom of Portugal was in a kind of amaze at the so sudden death of Kng John especially considering the youth of their present King fearing lest their common Enemies should now take advantage of them but the prudent management of the most important business of State by the Queen Regent soon banished all those fancied fears The Queen being sensible that upon this occasion of the Kings death she should have most occasion to use the Souldiery by the Advice of her Council Ordered all the Infantry of the Kingdom should have Half a years pay the better to encourage them who were of themselves ready enough to fight against their common and inveterate Enemy the Castillians And because she knew that the King of Spain would lose no opportunity to oppress the Kingdom of Portugal she thought it imprudence to let any slip where an advantage might be gained upon him and therefore all the Spanish Forces being drawn out of Andaluzia to oppose the English in case they should attempt to land at Cadiz for they then blocked up that Port with a Potent Fleet she commanded Four thousand Horse to make an in-road into that Countrey who plundered and laid waste all before them bringing away between Forty and fifty thousand head of Cattel and leaving the whole Soil in a manner desolate This so exasperated the Spaniards That draining most of the Garisons of his Kingdom he raised a Potent Army and with Ten thousand Foot and Five thousand Horse entred Portugal and laid Siege to the strong City of Olivenza which at length they reduced to that necessity that the Defendants were willing to Capitulate and sounded a Parlie but when they came to treat the Spaniards would not admit the King of Portugal any other Title than that of Duke of Braganza which made the Portugals renounce any farther treating But at length the Spaniards condescending to treat the Town was delivered upon Articles but so much did the Queen-Regent and Council of Portugal resent it that they immediately gave Order to Arrest the Person of Don Mandiol de Saldagna the Governour who with several of his chief Officers was by the Count de St. Lorenze General of the Portuguesse Forces in those parts sent Prisoners to Lisbon there to answer their ill-defending of that Town it appearing That at the surrendring of it there marched out Two thousand two hundred well Armed Foot and One hundred Horse nor were they reduced to that necessity that was pretended there remaining in the Stores of Ammunition and Provision sufficient to have defended the Town a great while longer The loss of this Place was a great blow to the Portuguesses it being a strong Frontier Town and giving the Spaniard absolute Command a great way into the Countrey but this the King of Spain resolved should be but a beginning of his Conquest if possible of this Kingdom for he still made all preparations he could to assault it with a greater force and not only endeavoured this with might and main to oppress it himself but by his Ambassadors solicited the States General of the United Provinces to send their Vice-Admiral Opdam with the Fleet he then had before Dantzick into Portugal to demand satisfaction for the damage the Portugals had done to their West-India Company in Brazil and in case the King of Portugal should deny to comply with their desires to force them to a Composition The High and Mighty States easily listned to this counsel and Vice-Admiral Opdam with a Potent Fleet was sent to Lisbon carrying with him some Commissioners from the States to make their demands which the Queen Regent and Council thought so unreasonable that they could not return any satisfactory answer to them whereupon
the other Two since the late Defeats given them have been in no Capacity of doing the least Injury Portugal being now free from the Noise of the Castillians both by Sea and Land Don John was lately at Badayos having for a while laid all thoughts of farther Action aside where he mustered all the Forces and drew them into their Winter-quarters In the mean time the King of Spain sent Orders to several Places to make great preparation against the next Spring so that marching in with more Force they may give a better Account than they have of this years Expedition King ALPHONSO VI. entring now upon the Twentieth year of His Age lately took the Reins of the Government into His own Hand and hath sate for the Administration of Justice in Criminal Causes where a Judge and Secretary of the Court of Orphans were brought before Him and Accused for having dealt unjustly in the managery of their Trust His MAJESTY was pleased with much Patience to attend the whole Tryal where it being fully proved That according to the Charge exhibited against them they had wronged several Orphans and dealt unjustly in the Disposal of their Goods Sentence was pronounced upon them both the Judge to be beheaded and the Secretary to be hanged I mention this only to let the Reader know how much this Action of the Kings hath encreased the Esteem and Affection which His MAJESTIES Subjects had for Him That at His first sitting in the Administration of Justice He should so far encourage the Causes of His weaker People as not to spare Offenders though of the greatest Quality but to see Sentence of Condemnation passed against those that injure them Thus have you an Account of the Lives and Issues of the KINGS of PORTUGAL from the Foundation of that Monarchy to the Sixth year of the Reign of KING ALPHONSO VI. being this present year 1662. leaving that KINGDOM in an assured Confidence That ENGLAND will prove as it hath ever been a better Bulwark to them than any other their Confederates AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE Containing the Principal NAMES in this HISTORY A. ALPHONSO I. King of Portugal Chap. II. ALPHONSO II. King of Portugal Chap. IV. ALPHONSO III. King of Portugal Chap. VI. ALPHONSO IV. King of Portugal Chap. VIII ALPHONSO V. King of Portugal Chap. XIII ANTHONY Prior of Crato proclaimed King of Portugal Chap. XIX ALPHONSO VI. King of Portugal Chap. XXII Alphonso of Portugal Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem Pag. 8 Alphonso of Portugal Lord of Portalegre Pag. 23 Alphonso of Portugal Seigneur of Leiria ibid. Alphonso of Portugal Pag. 30 Alphonso of Portugal dyed young Pag. 30 Aremburga Countess of Vrgel Pag. 13 Adolphe of Cleves Seigneur of Ravenstein Pag. 43 Alphonso Prince of Portugal Pag. 59 Alphonso Cardinal of Portugal Pag. 66 Anthony of Portugal Pag. 69 Alphonso Prince of Portugal Pag. 73 Anthony of Portugal Pag. 74 Alphonso-Dionysio B. of Portugal Pag. 24 Alphonso-Sanceo B. of Portugal Count of Albuquerque Pag. 28 Alphonso B. of Portugal Pag. 33 Alphonso de Cascaes B. of Portugal ibid. Alphonso B. of Portugal Duke of Braganza Pag. 45 Alphonso B. of Portugal Duke of Visco Pag. 49 B. BLanche of Portugal Lady of Guadaliara pag. 14 Berengaria of Portugal ibid. Beatrice of Castillo Queen of Portugal Pag. 21 Beatrix of Castille Queen of Portugal Pag. 30 Beatrix of Portugal Queen of Castille Pag. 31 Beatrice of Portugal Lady of Ravenstein Pag. 43 Beatrice of Portugal Dutchess of Visco Pag. 44 Blanche of Portugal died young Pag. 45 Beatrice of Portugal Dutchess of Visco Pag. 47 Blanche of Portugal Abbess of Loruano Pag. 23 Beatrix of Portugal Dutchess of Savoy Pag. 69 Beatrix of Portugal ibid. Beatrix B. of Portugal Pag. 34 Beatrice B. of Portugal Countess of Arundel Pag. 45 C. COnstance of Portugal Wife of Goncalo-Nunez De Lara pag. 23 Constance of Portugal ibid. Constance of Portugal Queen of Castille pag. 27 Constance Manuel Queen of Portugal pag. 32 Charlote of Cyprus Dutchess of Conimbra pag. 42 Charles of Portugal pag. 70 Christopher of Portugal pag. 89 Constance B. of Portugal pag. 15 Constance B. of Castille pag. 33 D. DIONYSIO King of Portugal Chap VII Doulce of Arragon Queen of Portugal pag. 10 Dionysio of Portugal pag. 30 Dionysio of Portugal pag. 32 Dionysio of Portugal pag. 49 Diego-Alphonso of Portugal pag. 24 Dionysio of Portugal pag. 73 Dionysio B. of Portugal pag. 33 E. EDWARD King of Portugal Chap XII EMANUEL King of Portugal Chap. XV. Eleanor of Arragon Queen of Portugal pag. 47 Edward of Portugal pag. 49 Elizabeth or Isabel of Conimbra Queen of Portugal pag. 52 Edward Prince of Portugal pag. 67 Edward of Portugal Duke of Vimerana ibid. Emanuel of Portugal pag. 73 Emanuel of Portugal pag. 88 Emilia of Nassau ibid. Edward B. of Portugal Archbishop of Bracara pag. 74 F. FERDINAND King of Portugal Chap. X. Ferdinand of Portugal Duke of Visco pag. 47 Ferdinand of Portugal Count of Flanders pag. 11 Ferdinand of Portugal Infant of Sâ—erpe pag. 17 Ferdinand of Portugal pag. 23 Ferdinand of Portugal Seigneur of Ecae pag. 33 Ferdinand of Portugal Duke of Visco pag. 48 Ferdinand of Portugal Grand Master of the Order D'Avis pag. 44 Ferdinand of Portugal pag. 66 Ferdinand-Alphonso B. of Portugal Knight of the Order of the Templars pag. 24 Ferdinand B. of Portugal Lord of Braganza pag. 33 G. GIlles-Sanceo B. of Portugal pag. 15 Gilles-Alphonso B. of Portugal pag. 24 George B. of Portugal Duke of Conimbra pag. 59 H. HENRY of Bourgongne Count of Portugal Chap. I. HENRY the Cardinal King of Portugal Chap. XVIII Henry Prince of Portugal pag. 8 Henry of Portugal pag. 13 Henry of Portugal Duke of Visco pag. 43 I. JOHN I. King of Portugal Chap. XI JOHN II. King of Portugal Chap. XIV JOHN III. King of Portugal Chap. XVI JOHN IV. King of Portugal Chap. XXI Jane Countess of Flanders pag. 11 Isabel of Portugal Lady of Biscay pag. 23 Isabel of Portugal Lady of Albuquerque ibid. Isabel of Arragon Queen of Portugal pag. 26 John of Portugal pag. 30 Isabel of Arragon Dutchess of Conimbra pag. 41 John of Portugal Duke of Conimbra pag. 42 James of Portugal Cardinal and Archbishop of Lisbon ibid. Isabel D'Avalos pag. 33 Isabel of Conimbra Queen of Portugal pag. 42 John of Portugal Grand Master of the Order of St. James pag. 44 Isabel of Braganza ibid. James of Portugal ibid. Isabel of Portugal Queen of Castille ibid. Isabel of Portugal Dutchess of Bourgongne pag. 45 John of Portugal Duke of Visco pag. 48 James of Portugal Duke of Visco ibid. Isabel of Visco Dutchess of Braganza pag. 49 Jane of Portugal Queen of Castille pag. 50 John Prince of Portugal died young pag. 55 Jane of Portugal a Nun at Odivelles ibid. Isabel of Castille Queen of Portugal pag. 64 Isabel of Braganza Princess of Portugal pag. 67 John Prince of Portugal pag. 73 Joane of Austria ibid. Isabel of Portugal pag. 74 Jane Infanta of Portugal