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A26840	The history of the administration of Cardinal Ximenes, great minister of state in Spain written originally in French, by the sieur Michael Baudier of Languedoc ... and translated into English By W. Vaughan.; Histoire de l'administration du Cardinal Ximenes, grand ministre d'estat en Espagne. English	Baudier, Michel, 1589?-1645.; Vaughan, Walter.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1164; ESTC R6814	92,466	210

the Monastery being the Center A year was scarce elapsed but he was drawn out thence to take on him the charge of Warden of the Covent of Salceda where he kept the Fryars within the Rules of their Order more by the example of his good life than the commands of a Superiour But 't is the Priviledge of Courts to enter into Cloisters and take thence such men whom Fortune hath designed to partake of their Grandieurs Isabel Queen of Spain calles him to Court in the year 1492. and by the advice of Cardinal Mendoza Archbishop of Toledo makes him her Confessor In this eminent place he gave proofs of great vertues without any exception but that of intermedling with Matters of State wherein he exceeded his Call and strained beyond his Charge and his Frock This perhaps gave those of his Order occasion to draw him back from Court to a Religious imployment by choosing him their Provincial for three years And here he gave a most pregnant proof of the indifferency of his spirit for the affairs of Court and of the great love he bore his Order by going from Court more willingly than he had come into it and imploying his time in visiting the Religious Houses under his charge Coming to Gibraltar moved with a charitable zeal for the salvation of the Infidels he designed a Voyage into Africk at the peril of his life to instruct the Moors there in the Christian faith but a Fryar of his Order and in great esteem for Piety disswaded him assuring him God had prepared him a great imployment in Spain He travelled on foot and begged but was such a bungler at the Trade and begged so untowardly that he seldom carried any but an empty bagg which made Franeis Rouys his companion tell him he must give over begging for that no man was more certainly born to give to all and begg of none than he And had not the care of Rouys stood him in more stead than his begging Alms he had made more Fast-dayes than the Rules of his Order required So unfit to begg are Great Spirits being naturally disposed to Give not to Ask. CAP. III. FOrtune which had designed him for the prime Prelate of Spain took care soon after to furnish his strong inclinations for the Good of mankind with means competent to express his Good nature in acts of benificence answerable to the Greatness of his Soul Cardinal Mendoza Archbishop of Toledo laboured under two maladies the one incurable the other dangerous Age and a Feavour which induced him to go to Guadalfayre to take the benefit of that Ayre he drew at his birth Ferdinand and Isabel King and Queen of Spain went thither to visit him This honour had saved the Cardinals life if death had regarded the presence of Kings who are themselves his Homagers Mendoza now drawing near to his end gave his Master these three sage Counsels 1. To make peace with the King of France and keep it inviolable when made 2. To marry the Infant John Designed Successor of their Crowns to Joan since the wise of Alphonso King of Portugal pretendant to the Kingdom of Castile 3. To conferr the Archbishoprick of Toledo on a person of mean Condition but of great integrity and extraordinary Capacity That these qualities were apparently eminent in the person of Ximenes That the Grandees of Spain proud enough of the Titles they are born to become intolerably insolent by the addition of those of great Dignities These Princes slighted the first Advice to the prejudice and notorious damage of Christendom which smarted for their contempt of it as the Spanish histories ingenuously Confess The third they embraced which Coming to the Knowledge of Ximenes he remonstrates to them that the Dignity of the Archbishoprick of Toledo being the prime of the State as well spiritual as temporal which gave the person invested in it the priviledge of speaking next the King in the Council-Royal ought to be given to the most illustrious and Ancient Gentry of the Kingdom Cardinal Mendoza quitted his life and the Archbishoprick together in the year 1496. Ferdinand would have preferred his natural son Don Alphonso Archbishop of Saragosa to this great Benefice But Isabel who had right of Presentation to it as Queen of Castile preferred the vertue of Ximenes before the birth of Don Alphonso and the intreaties of the King her husband The year ensuing they presented Ximenes to succeed in this Grand Prelature no less in dignity than Revenue which amounts to two hundred thousand Ducats a year Ximenes forced by express Mandat from the Pope accepts it At his first nomination he left the Court and fled on foot to a Covent of his Order a great way from Madrid to avoid investiture in the Archbishoprick But returning in obedience to the Pope he declared to Ferdinand and Isabel that he would never consent that this Rich Benefice should be charged with one farthing pension as prejudicial to the dignity and liberty of the prime pastor of Spain Now hath he just cause to meddle in Affairs of the State as being one of the most considerable members thereof This sudden change of fortune shook not his Constancy nor altered his setled Resolutions of adhering to vertue Yet was he as free from mean and base Actions as from the Corruptions that usually attend great fortunes he made it appear that no dignity could be so great as to exceed his capacity no Grandure in the gift of fortune to which his soul was not commensurate though in his plenty of Fortune and Eminence of place he continued the plainness of a Religious life Piety hath brought plenty and abundance of Riches into the Church And by the disorders of the world the Daughter hath devoured the Mother so that there are more Ecclesiasticks Rich than Pious Ximenes was not of their number for amidst the Treasure of that Great Revenue he kept inviolable that poverty that exalts Great Personages above the height of fortune and consists in the contempt and sober use of these perishing enjoyments And as if he had been afraid to lose the least part of it he continued the practises of that Poverty which the Rules of Religion exact from its strictest votaries The Pomp of a Cardinal and Attendance of the Prime Prelate of Spain could not keep him from retyring into a private place from the eyes of his domestiques to mend with his own hands the frock he had wore among those of his Order so that after his death in a Box whereof in his Life-time he constantly kept the Key there were found needles thred and pieces of Gray Cloth of the Colour of his Frock which he laid up for that use He slept on a Friers pallet which he had hid in his Chamber where stood his Bed of state And that his family might not perceive it he made it his custom to go to bed and rise alone without attendants and his door shut When he was first made Archbishop he rid

Telodo as Primate of the Prelates so first of the Grandees of Spain and having precedence of all The Cardinal's answer was He would protect honest men and punish the wicked contemners of Justice and disturbers of the publick peace When they saw the Cardinal inflexible they sent to Charles in Flanders mis-represented the matter and obtained a prohibition to stay execution of the Judgement till he came into Spain Upon receipt of the prohibition the Cardinal and Council sent to Charles informed him of the truth of the Crime sent him the Process and remonstrated to him that having been appointed by God the Guardian and preserver of the Laws he ought to give Justice liberty in her functions and freedom and to do her duty intreated him to consider the Consequence of this Affair that if such Enormities were tolerated there should not be one King only in Spain but as many Kings as there are puissant great Ones Charles in Answer to the Cardinal and Council writ He had been mis-informed and that it was his intention Justice should be done The Judgement against the Offenders was Executed The Cardinal sending Regiments of Horse and Foot against Villas Hermanos where Giron's Son and several Young Lords of his quality Sons of the Grandees of Spain were assembled with some Forces and had added new insolences to the former Rebellion having caused the Effigies of the Cardinal to be drawn through the Streets in his pontifical habit with a Trumpet before it to publish the Ignominy But when they saw the Assailants they left their sport and betook them to their heels The Walls of the Town were beaten down to the foundations and they plowed up the houses fired and the places they stood on sowed with salt in token of malediction Seven men of the place who had said they knew no Lord but Giron were whipped by the hangman and with them some of Giron's Domesticks on a holy day that so important an execution might not be retarded To make Quixada amends and repair his damage in the loss of the Town they adjudged him Giron's Estate and proceeded further against his family and person To take from the Rebels all hopes of mercy this execution was confirmed by Letters Patents from Charles in Flanders This brought Giron to reason he humbles himself to the Cardinal and desires mercy and to make his prayers more effectual all the Grandees of Spain joyned with him The Cardinal by Letter interceded to Charles for a pardon that in bringing him to an exemplary humiliation and forcing him to begg pardon in person he had sufficiently punished him that the Grandees acknowledging their faults and truly humbled were not to be treated with the severities usual in other mens Cases The third puissant Enemy of the Cardinal among the Grandees of Spain was the Duke of Alva of great Authority of a great Family Illustrious in blood abounding in Riches powerful in Friendship and Allyance the Cardinal had his opportunity to bring him to reason as well as the others The Duke of Alva in King Ferdinand's life time in whose favours he had a great share obtained for Diegolus third son the Priory of St. John in Spain of the Order of Knights then at Rhodes now at Malta a Dignity of great revenue and equal Authority in the Kingdom Antony Alstuniga of an illustrious family was at that time in Legal possession but the Duke of Alva upheld by the Authority of the King and the great master of Rhodes took it from him by force contrary to Right and the Laws of Spain and setled his Son there who enjoyed it peaceably for six years till Ferdinand's death Astuniga seeing the Duke's credit buried with that Prince had recourse to Justice and summons the Usurper to a Legal Tryal The Process was decided at Rome and Diego enjoyned to make restitution of the Benefice Astuniga returns into Spain with the Decree implores the Cardinal's protection whom he knew to be the Defender of Justice and obtains it Charles in the mean time informed of this difference looked upon it as of importance to the State writes to the Cardinal and Council to put the Benefice in a third hand till farther order The Duke of Alva refuses to obey his Command believing it an invention to outt him from the Priory calls the other Grandees of Spain his Friends to his Assistance and fortifies Consabrona the principal place of the Priory The Cardinal seeing him act the King in Spain resolved not to endure it he commands forth a thousand Horse and 500 Foot of his Guards in the Suburbs of Madrid but at the instant falls sick to the danger of his life Madrid and all the Realm of Castile made publick Prayers for his Recovery on which as then depended the peace of Spain He Recovers and finding the Duke of Alva unwilling to obey resolves to force him but by the way proposed him a fair accommodation And it is remarkable this great Minister never took the way of Rigour till he had first tryed that of Sweetness and found it ineffectual to perform the duties of Justice in his Administration He proposed to the Duke That he should give the King a Gentleman of his Family to be answerable to his Majesty for the places of the Priory that should be put into his hands and to surrender them to the King if there should be cause when he had declared his Judgement by which means the Duke might have remained Master of the Priory and the Revenue The Duke stormed at this proposal and thinking that to accept it would have been to part with his own rejected it The Cardinal sends a leight Army to besiege Casabrona the Duke also sent thither a thousand Foot and some Horse with Victuals and Money The Cardinal's Troops met them by the way engaged and defeated them took their money and Victuals and marched to the place they were to invest The Duke of Alva's Son was within with a great number of young men of his Age most of them Sons of the Grandees of Spain All the Nobles of Toledo that had attained the age of 21 years assisting in the Defence The Herald summoned them to open their Gates and obey the King their Answer was high though not a word spoken for they set on the Walls of the place Biers covered with black to signifie tacitly their resolution rather to dye than yield The Duke of Alva this while was anxiously distracted in his thoughts On the one side he saw the shame that would attend his suffering a Piece of such convenience and profit to his Family to be wrested out of his hands and that his labours and great preparations would end in Affronts and greater Disgraces On the other side he beheld the thunderbolt hanging over his head ready to fall upon him to the ruine of his person and his house His Estate was already Confiscated by Decree of the Council which gave him fearful apprehensions of the Cardinal's severity as