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A14615	The English Spanish pilgrime. Or, A nevv discouerie of Spanish popery, and Iesuiticall stratagems VVith the estate of the English pentioners and fugitiues vnder the King of Spaines dominions, and else where at this present. Also laying open the new order of the Iesuitrices and preaching nunnes. Composed by Iames Wadsworth Gentleman, newly conuerted into his true mothers bosome, the Church of England, with the motiues why he left the Sea of Rome; a late pentioner to his Maiesty of Spaine, and nominated his captaine in Flanders: sonne to Mr. Iames Wadsworth, Bachelor of Diuinity, sometime of Emanuell Colledge in the Vniuersity of Cambridge, who was peruerted in the yeere 1604. and late tutor to Donia Maria Infanta of Spaine. Published by speciall license.	Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1629 (1629)	STC 24926; ESTC S119348	49,993	104

THE ENGLISH SPANISH PILGRIME OR A NEVV DISCOVERIE OF SPANISH POPERY AND IESVITICALL STRATAGEMS VVith the estate of the English Pentioners and Fugitiues vnder the King of Spaines Dominions and else where at this present Also laying open the new Order of the Iesuitrices and preaching Nunnes Composed by Iames Wadsworth Gentleman newly conuerted into his true mothers bosome the Church of England with the motiues why he left the Sea of Rome a late Pentioner to his Maiesty of Spaine and nominated his Captaine in Flanders Sonne to Mr. Iames Wadsworth Bachelor of Diuinity sometime of Emanuell Colledge in the Vniuersity of Cambridge who was peruerted in the yeere 1604. and late Tutor to Donia Maria Infanta of Spaine Published by speciall License Printed at London by T. C. for Michael Sparke dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene-Arbor 1629. To his friend Mr. Iames Wadsworth and his Booke GOe happy ofspringe of a pregnant braine Sinnes Commentary a perspectiue for Spaine Through which her maskt delusions appeare Naked as if they had bin practis'd here If any Iesuite damne the Authors quill That writes 'gainst her from whom he learnt his skill Or wonder how that Citie odious proues Which bred him and his Fathers memory loues Know this that Asa was not plagu'd 'cause he Depriu'd his mother for idolatrie Good Parents patterns are if bad forbeare To imitate and make their faults thy feare Should I relate the dangers he endur'd After his soule a liberty procur'd I should but wrong his Booke by making those Which reade such horrid lines afraid of 's prose When th' I le of Ree and Martins lucklesse Fort Our trouble and their triumphs did report Him Callis dungeon kept as if his fate Should pay the rash inuasion of a State Yet not their catchpole Popery nor all Their Macheuils could worke his funerall That hand which first conuerted him hath brought Him safe and their discouerd at heisme wrought Thomas Mottershed of C. C. To the most Noble and thrice Honorable William Earle of Pembroke Lord Steward of his Maiesties houshold and Chancellour of the Vniuersity of OXFORD MY Lord though vnknowne vnto your Lordshippe but by a relation made vnto your Honour of my trauels and obseruations beyond the seas your Lordshippe vouchsafed to grant mee your Letters of fauour to the Vniuersity of Oxford for the furthering of mee in the printing a booke entituled The English Spanish Pilgrime and now hauing accomplisht the same I should thinke my selfe most happy if it would please your Lordship to protect and fauour these rude lines not looking vpon the meane vnderstanding of the Authour but the good will and affection wherewith I haue written them to wit for the honour of God and good of my Countrey wherein I doe especially discouer diuerse subtilties and policies of the English Iesuites Fryers Monkes and other Seminary Priests beyond the seas as likewise our English fugitiues vnder the King of Spaines Dominions and the wrong I receiued in turning to mine owne true Religion I doe therefore most humbly beseech your Honor that you would be pleased to take this booke vnder your protection for the furthering of my 'cause and repressing of my aduersaries and I shall euer pray for the much increase of your Lordships health and Honour The booke I dare not say deserues your fauour it being a greater token of Nobility in you to Patronize with your greatnesse that which is meane in it selfe then onely to bee fauorable where merit may challenge liberality yet in it selfe the worke is religiously disposed to the discouering of truth and that all which are any whit inclined to the Sea of Rome may see the vaile vnmaskt wherwith they were hoodwinkt I detaine your Honour no longer but with a little digression from you to that God whom I humbly implore to preserue your Lordship the yeeres of my desire which is as vnlimited as your Nobility Your Honours most humble and deuoted seruant Iames Wadsworth THE ENGLISH SPANISH PILGRIME CHAP. I. The life of the English Espanoliz'd trauailer persecuted by disastrous time and fortune his voyares passages and encounters with that most Antichristian f●y the Iesuites by whom his Father was seduced the yeere 1604. and afterwards in 1609. his Mother was entrapped by no other snares and was transported into Flanders with her Sonne the Pilgrime who scarcely had seene fiue yeares to an end from thence into Spaine 1610. where hee passed eight yeares in the Royall Towne Madrid and in Siuill IN the yeere 1604. in the County of Suffolke I was borne in the Reigne of our late Royall Soueraigne whose eminency of vertues procured the wonder of all other Nations and the glory of ours My Father was a Student in Emanuell Colledge in Cambridge where the Vniuersitie and his owne merits inuested him with a degree of Bachelor of Diuinity and his Maiesty preferr'd him to be a double benefic't man in Cotton and great Thorne in the County aforesaid and Chaplaine and Ordinary to the Bishop of Norwich and after that his Maiesty sent him with his first Ambassador Legier Sr. Charles Cornewallis into Spaine as his Chaplaine and ioynt Commissioner where at his first arriuall the Iesuites held with him a subtle dispute about the Antiquity and the Vniuersality of the Church of Rome which they make their preface to all seducements his grand opposers being Ioseph Creswell H. Walpole two the most expert polititians of our Nation that then maintained the state of the triple crowne whose vnderstanding neuerthelesse would not proue captiue either to their subtilest Arguments or most alluring promises The Embassador seeing how wisely he quitted himselfe sent Letters to his Maiesty informing him how learnedly hee was accompanied The King as he was a liberall Mecanas to the learned especially to those that were of the Clergy sent him his Royall grant of the next falling place of Eminency in his Kingdomes as an encouragement to his further seruices Meane while the Iesuites perceiuing how little they preuailed vsed other illusions stronger then their Arguments euen strange apparitions of miracles amongst others the miracle which they pretend to bee true to haue hapned to the eldest sonne of the Lord Wotton at his death in the City Vallodalid where a Crucifix framed him this articulate sound Now forsake your heresie or else you are damn'd wherevpon the young Lord and my Father became Proselites to their iugling Religion the report whereof not long after became a loadstone also to the old Lord Wotton his Father with many others to draw them to popish Idolatry And so my Father leauing the Embassadors house priuatly and discarding wife and children and fortunes in England was conducted forthwith by the means of Father Creswell to the vniuersity of Salamanca whereat the next day after his arriuall hee was carried to the Bishops then inquisitors house where hee was admitted with no little ioy to their Church where he prostrating himselfe on the ground and the inquisitor putting as their

in his complaint railed extreamely against them not deeming them worthy to be couered with the robs of their disorderly Orders and thinking them to be a disgrace to all others of that society From thence continuing our iourney till wee came to Paris calling him there to an account of the money which wee deliuered vnto him being our purse-bearer found his reckoning short by 7. pound which he pretending to haue lost gaue vs reason to discard him wee trauailing by our selues from Paris to Doway at which place leauing Mr. Inglefield with his brother and Doctor Kellison President of the English Colledge I resolued from thence to Brussels and so to Bredah but being inuited by M. Francis Fowler the night before I departed to the Caterers house I found at supper the L. S. sonne M. P. S. and M. T. A. and M. W P. where supper ended M. P. floting in his cups began a* discourse concerning the casualties we are subiect vnto in this world preferring the Order of a Franciscan before others To whō I answered that on condition hee would turne Fryer I would turne Monke I being seconded by M. S. and M. Fowler which their jest at last turned to earnest whereupon M. P. disrobing himselfe of all his rich apparrell gaue them to his Hoste Edmunds who being potshotten and perceiuing the Moone to shine bright through the windowes said with a loud voyce that the holy Ghost was descended and opening his armes to receiue it fell downe backward and broke his pate from thence being carryed to his bed wee continued drinking to our new vocations till the day peept out at which time reeling to the Franciscan Monastery entered himselfe into their Order they neuer examining the cause of this suddaine vocation being glad of such a prize shaued his crowne and inuested him in their ornaments M. S. and M. Fowler going to the Monkes were admitted with the like ioy at the same instant But I taking my leaue of them at the monastery doore said that I for my part was onely in jest with them But this being noysed about the Vniuersity it came to Doctor Kellisons eare vnder whose charge these new Fryers were who sent for me and said he much admired that such a thing should happen in my company and if that they had intended religion they might haue beene secular Priests in his Colledge it being for them more profitable and honorable I answered that I thought it impossible to gouerne the wils of other men and supposed my selfe happy in keeping my selfe from the like shauing Vpon this answer the Doctor demanded of me in what case they were when they entered themselues to whom I said they might thanke their god Bacchus more then any thing else for their new orders which he hearing tooke his leaue of me and went to the Franciscans accompanied with M. Bredley a Priest M. Parkers cozen So I leauing the Vniuersity went to Bruxels and from thence to Bradah but Bradley being denyed enterance by the Fryer who said it was against their Orders for any one to speake with any of their Nouices * leapt ouer the Garden wall got vnder his Cozens window calling saying vnto him Cozen Cozen consider I pray that you haue taken a religious Order without knowledge of mother brother or kindred and that your vocation is not good being vndertaken in a hot braine His Cozen hearing this being counselled by the Fryers he opened his window and said discedito à me Satan Six dayes after being in a better temper perceiuing his owne folly desired to depart from thence which hee did with great difficulty for hee was perswaded by the Fryer that if euer hee departed from them being entered he lost the saluation of his soule To whom he answered that hee intended this journey for England to receiue his portion and taking leaue of his friends to returne againe Vpon which promise they suffered him to depart Thence comming into England was receiued of his friends and not suffered to returne onely sent a summe of money to maintaine their Couent The Fryers perceiuing that he should neuer returne preached against his Cozen B. and other Priests for diswading him from his returne But concerning M. S. and M. Fowler who were entered into the Benedictine monastery whose example encouraged M. Alex. Wy and M. Edward More to follow them But the Monks being more subtile then the Fryers vsed these men with all the courtesy they could that they might induce their Order After these kindnesses they bare a more rough hand ouer them and amongst the rest Doctor Radisend their President vpon slight occasion enioyned these Gentlemen to pennance which was that they should prostrate themselues at the inward Chappell doore whilst the rest of the Monks came in and sang Vespers Whereupon some of the brauer sort to shew their authority would tread somewhat hard vpon them and their long lying on the ground with their hard pressing caused them to let flye backward insomuch that the sent compelled the Fryers to depart the Chappell A while after these Gentlemen perceiuing their hard vsage departed their monastery resoluing for England although they had promised desiring to bee freed from their bondage to make aspeedy returne which they neuer performed to this houre CHAP. VII This Chapter containeth the state and demeanour of the English Fugitiues vnder the King of Spaine his Dominions and else where with a Catalogue of the Colledges and Monasteries belonging to our English Iesuites Monkes and Seminary Priests beyond the Seas BVt gentle Reader giue me leaue a little to digresse and reckon vp vnto you the state of our English Fugitiues in the Court of Spaine and first and formost S. Anthony Shurley who stiles himselfe Earle of the sacred Romane Empire and hath from his Catholike Maiesty a pension of 2000. duckets per annum all which in respect of his prodigality is as much as nothing This S. Anthony Shurley is a great plotter and proiector in matters of State and vndertakes by sea-stratagems to inuade and ruinate his natiue Countrey a just treatise of whose passages would take vp a whole volume Next vnto him there is one Sir Edward Bainham who was a grand complotter of the Gunpowder treason and an agent for all the rest to Flanders Rome and Spaine at which place hee liued for foure or fiue yeeres in great reputation and esteeme In Spaine he grew familiar with Creswell but the Gunpowder treason taking no effect they forthwith fell to difference and hauing spent 12000 pounds sterling which he carryed out of England with him he fell into great misery wherein he liues to this day and because his plot failed he is neither countenanced by his Catholike Maiesty nor by the Iesuites who seduced him I being in his company at Madrid and telling him of Creswels death he made answer that hee hoped he was in the deepest pit of hell hauing beene the occasion of his ruine with many others Likewise there

is one M. Iohn Persall who is a meere formalist and hath for his pension of his Catholike Maiesty 20 crownes a month but were it not for Don Duarte brother to the Duke of Braganza who relieues him now and then he might starue with hunger notwithstanding his pension There is also one M. William Sadler who hath 40 crownes monthly pension from his Catholike Maiesty who neuerthelesse were it not for his wiues sake he might keepe lent all the yeere long for she with her daughter brings him gold and siluer without going to the Indies Moreouer there is one M. Henry Butler which teacheth his Catholike Maiesty to play on the Violl a man very fantasticall but one who hath his pension truely payd him for his fingers sake Also there is one M. Burton who liues by his wits Also there is one mistresse Mary Monpersons who liues by trading Againe there is one M. Anthony Pinto sometimes a seruant to Creswell who seeing how ill the English Fugitiues were treated discarded the name of an English man and now passeth for a Spaniard and thereby liueth farre better then the rest being one no lesse subtile then his master thus much for the English secular Fugitiues of note at Madrid But now let vs come to the Clearkes and religious men First to the English Iesuites whose Agent and Procurator generall is Father North one for policy very subtile and dangerous This North was created D. D. in Paris and was sometimes Vice-President of the Colledge of Doway and afterwards turned Iesuite Agent and Procurator generall for the English Monks is one Father Boniface a very crafty fox and a Smiths sonne in Redding hee is so ambitious and haughty that he will not acknowledge his parentage but giues out he is some great Gentlemans Son As for the secular Priests they haue one Missenden for their Procurator generall a simple fellow but wonderfully malitious Now touching those of the Scottish Nation which reside in the Court of Spaine there is none of account but Colonell Simple who betrayed a towne in Holland to the Spaniards some 30 yeeres since and receiued 25000 crownes for requitall of his treachery and now liuing in Spaine hath lately begun a foundation of a Scottish Seminary the Prefect or Rector whereof he intendeth to make his base sonne Hugh Simple whom he hath trained vp in the Spanish Iesuites Seminaries one who may proue as treacherous a companion as euer was his father For his Maiesty now of England being in the Court of Spaine hee gaue vp diuerse petitions aduertisements to the King and Counsell of Spaine that they should not conclude any match with England vnlesse there should be erected in each Vniuersity vnder our King his Dominions a Colledge of Iesuites for the trayning vp of youth in the Romane faith and doctrine and to shew himselfe the more zealous printed these said aduertisements with his name subscribed and deliuered them to his friends of the Court. As for the Irish Fugitiues there are more of them then of any other the streete wherein they lodge is by the Spaniards termed the lowsie streete and as for their quality saue these that follow First he that pretends to be Bishop of Aramath and Dublin then the Earle of Beere-hauen with two or three more of the King his Pages all the rest are meere cheaters and vagabonds The said Bishop and Earle are Agents for Tyron and Terconwell who liue in Flanders in the Archdutchesses Court and from them to other Papists in Ireland they daily importune his Catholike Maiesty his Counsell to inuade the said Kingdome with an army not doubting but it shall bee deliuered vp into his hands from which their sollicitation they could not forbeare euen when our King was in Spaine And thus much for the English Scottish and Irish Fugitiues which are at this present resident in the Court of Spaine Now for the Colledges Seminaries of the Iesuites Monks and Fryers and other Seminary Priests I remit the Reader to Lewis Owen his running Register in the publike Library at Oxford of which he may at large see which I will here but name as the Colledge at Vallidolid and that at Siuill and the Residence at Madrid and another at St. Lucas another at Lisbon of which a secular Priest one Numan by name is the head who is now in suite with the Iesuites about the propriety thereof but especially because there is one Don Pedro Cotinio a Portugall Gentleman who was once gouernor of Baia in Brasill who by reason of his great corruption and vnlawfull gifts he receiued there at his returne from Spaine fearing least he should bee examined by his Maiesty how hee came by these great riches he had to bring the world into a good conceite of him professed that he would build a Colledge for the education of 100 English youths which after they had beene trained vp there might returne to their Countrey and conuert many to the Romane obedience of which Colledge hee promised the said Numan to be head and likewise hee made the same promise to the English Iesuites that one of them should bee head if his Holinesse would approue thereof and hereupon engaged them so deepe in the Law that 20 yeares tryall will scarce end their controuersie hee in the meane time derideth both parties hauing no intention at all to performe what hee hath promised But neuerthelesse one Haruy a secular Priest Numans Agent here in England for the getting ouer of youth perswadeth the Catholikes and their Bishop of Chalcedon that without doubt Father Numan will ouerthrow the Iesuites As for any Scottish Colledge or Seminary there is none sauing that which Colonell Simple is beginning in Madrid As for the Irish they haue three one in Salamanca another in Siuill and a third in Lisbon As for English Nunneries there is only one which is at Lisbone whereof you may read more at large in Robinson and thus much for Spaine As for English Fugitiues in Italy there are very few At Millaine there resideth Sir Thomas Stukeley who hath 100 crownes a month pension from the King of Spaine This Stukeley is a grand traytor and enemy to his Countrey and were it not for the Duke of Feria who entertaineth him at his owne table he might long since haue rode backe to Madrid on an Asse as hee came Likewise there is one Webb a retainer to the King of Spaine who liueth wonderfull poorely As for the City of Florence there liueth Sir Robert Dudley who styleth himselfe Duke of Northumberland who left England because hee could not be suffered to enioy a second wife his first wife then suruiuing This Dudley now enioyeth his second wife by a dispensation from his Holinesse and is in great esteeme with the Duke of Florence in regard of his Art in contriuing and fabricating of ships and Gallyes and hath obtained of the Emperour to bee declared Duke of Northumberland who hath giuen him the title already and the