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A13572	The strangest aduenture that euer happened: either in the ages passed or present Containing a discourse concerning the successe of the King of Portugall Dom Sebastian, from the time of his voyage into Affricke, when he was lost in the battell against the infidels, in the yeare 1578. vnto the sixt of Ianuary this present 1601. In which discourse, is diuerse curious histories, some auncient prophesies, and other matters, whereby most euidently appeareth: that he whom the Seigneurie of Venice hath held as prisoner for the space of two yeres and twentie two dayes, is the right and true king of Portugall Dom Sebastian. More, a letter that declareth, in what maner he was set at libertie the xv. of December last. And beside, how he parted from Venice and came to Florence. All first done in Spanish, then in French, and novv lastly translated into English.; Adventure admirable, par dessus toutes autres des siecles passez & present. English	Teixeira, José, 1543-1604.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1601 (1601)	STC 23864; ESTC S118296	67,947	90

an vnity together rent forth of his hands whatsoeuer he had insulted on and chased him out of the kingdome after they had ouerthrowne him in the battell of Aljibarota albeit he had in his army foure and thirty thousand men and they were but 7. thousand onely afterward they gaue him defiance againe at Valverde at Trancoso and elsewhere as is to be seene in our histories if your reuerend selfe but please to reade you shall there find it agreeing with my words and in pursuite they gaue him law at their owne pleasure as anon we shall tell you more in this answere Thus we may easily perceiue that it consists not in the strengh of the king Catholicke Dom Philip both to guard Portugall and keepe all the kingdome thereof vnder bridle though he assembled all Spaine and all his other commaund Wherefore I am of the mind most worthy Lord that so soone as his Maiesty Catholicke is giuen to vnderstand how that the King Dom Sebastian is come into Fraunce he will immediatly send his Embassadours to him and offer him the reintegration of his realme in quiet swept cleane already of corne and chaffe as much as to say as without pretending any thing to him but loue and kindnesse And I thinke his Councel wil therto aduise him if they haue any feare of God if they be wise discreet or friends to the seruice welfare of their king For if king Sebastian come with strong hand to the restauration of Portugall no way can hinder him the entrance of Portugall then into Castile and from thence through all Sapine whereby he will bring Dom Philip into such distresse as doubtlesse he will go neare to make ruine of all And when he shall come to vrge his agreement Dom Sebastian not onely will bind him to pay all his dispence domages and wrongs endured by occasion of the warre but likewise to restore him those reuenues and profits which the king his father and himselfe haue hald out of Portugall for the space of more then twenty yeares which will amount to more then forty millions Nay that which is more to destroy him and be gratefull to his friends and them that aided him in the recouerie of his kingdome he will constraine him to render the realme of Nauarre to the king most Christian that of Aragon to the Duke of Lorraine those of Naples and Sicilie to his holinesse and likewise to the other Princes of Europe all that he hath held from them perforce for the flower they are in comming to peace and concord the swifter ensues the great losse and mishap of Spaine This which I say reuerend Sir is not in bare and simple words onely nor shall this be the first time that Portugall hath taught law to Castile such as are pleased in reading histories shall find this very true and of many that we might report and set downe in account we will alleadge but onely one Dom Peter King of Castile sirnamed the cruell who was slaine by his bastard brother that came to raigne afterward and named himselfe Henry the II. left two daughters the first called Constance the second Isabel wife to Edmond of Langley brother to Iohn of Gaunt the husband to the elder daughter Constance of whom was borne a daughter named Catharine The sayd Iohn of Gaunt in the regard of his wife Constance qualified the king of Castile and Leon and made his direct passage from Gascoigne which then was in the rule of the English into Spaine with eighteene thousand foote and two thousand horse and tooke the Groigne with the ayde of Iohn the bastard elected King of Portugall receiued sworne confirmed and obeyed by the Portuguezes who were to him very good friends Thence he went on to Portugall whence he entred into Castile and so on to the City of Burgos distant from the place where he parted more then twentie sixe leagues tooke it at his arriuall and made himselfe maister of all the cities townes and castles he came to moreouer they that were further off came and for feare submitted themselues And easily had he attained to a larger aduantage but that his men died who through their neglect in ordering thēselues and small prouidence in good husbandry were ouertaken by famine whereon a pestilence ensued among thē and they were brought to such scarsity of victuals as they were forced to run to the enemies campe which was vnder the guide of Lewes Duke of Bourbon who in fauor of king Iohn of Castile came thither well accōpanied with the Frēch to request wherewithal to saue their liues Which the sayd Iohn of Portugall beholding complained to the Duke saying that it was not good for his souldiers to treate with the enemy affirming that they would cause more preiudice then all the other therefore he should repeale them presently forbid all community of speech with the contrary part Otherwise when they should enter fight all would by the edge of the sword be destroyed the one in regard of loue to the other Thomas Walsingham an English historian deliuers it in the selfe same termes and sayth that the king of Portugall had with him foure thousand Portuguezes and all of them very well armed Within few dayes after certaine Embassadors sent by the king of Castile came to the Duke desiring peace of him in all humility to whom the Duke wold giue no audience Notwithstanding the hunger pestilēce did enforce him to withdraw thēce into Portugall to the towne of Trancoso whither they came againe seeking to him being sent the second time from the said Iohn king of Castile to vrge once more the same request shewing the Duke by many reasons the great profit might be drawne out of a kind peace betweene them The Duke then gaue them the hearing condiscended to their demand although it was greatly against his will chiefly because he heard that the king hf Portugall was willing thereto and then being touched therein by a more effectuall cause namely the intelligēce of the troubles beginning in France among the French and English and some seditions at home in England all which shewed him that he could draw no fresh supplies thence because that there seemed to be greater need and the mortality in his army did most of all require it The accord betweene the King and the Duke was made in this manner That Henrie eldest sonne to King Iohn named Prince of Castile should espouse Catherine the onely daughter of the sayd Duke Iohn of Gaunt and Constance his wife and should succeed in the kingdomes of Castile Leon and other Seigneuries that the king should endowe the mother and daughter and so he did giuing to the mother the citie of Guadalajata Medina del Campo and Olmiedo afterward being with her in the sayd Medina he gaue her likewise Hueta To the daughter he gaue the Esturies creating and naming her Princesse and his sonne Prince thereof So from thence forward the eldest sonne euer bare the

sirname of this principalitie as of Daulphinies in Fraunce of Wales in England of Girona in Aragon of Vienna in Nauarre c. Moreouer he should giue the Duke sixe hundreth thousand Franckes of gold for his returne into England and fortie thousand Franckes in name of rent beside the sayd cities and townes during the liues of him an her Iohn of Castile accepted of all these conditions with right good will yet he had Fraunce and the French on his side and the King of Aragon with whose sister he was maried of whom was borne the sayd Prince Dom Henrie and Fernand that after was king of Aragon against the right of the true heires indeed and Charles the III. king of Nauarre his brother but he knew notwithstanding all these that hauing ciuill wars in Castile and Portugall for an enemy fortune wold forsake him in all his realmes Seigneuries Thus could and can the kingdome of Portugall beare head against the rest of Spaine It is most certaine that at all times and as often as Portugall hath the fauour of Fraunce of England or some other straunge Prince whosoeuer it be it compels the king of Castile to whom that is a bridle to make him yeeld to reason and come at commaund nay to accept of conditions very ignominious and preiudiciall And those of the Duke might haue bene much more aduantageable to this agreement if the king of Portugall had bene willing because hauing the sword in his hand he might haue cut out his partage at his owne pleasure He was the Iudge and it was done with his will Qui habet gladium potest diuidere campos And hence it came that the Duke departed not very well contented with him although he gaue him in mariage his eldest daughter Philippe By this already rehearsed worthy Lord may be vnderstood that they who haue not the pearles of spotted affection in their eyes may discerne and others whose harts are not fatted with hate to this good king may know that my wordes are neither bourdings nor songs For if this King Dom Iohn the bastard hauing all Spaine all Fraunce and some of Castile his allies banding against him for himselfe only foure thousand Portuguezes and some English in weake estate and yet then suspected to being withdrawne from Castile into Portugall could make lawes to his enemies what shall Sebastian do accompanied with a great number of Princes of Europe with his Portuguezes and his owne person which degenerates not a iot from that of his graundfather Dom Iohn the bastard who for his faire deedes was sirnamed Of worthy memory against a young king slenderly experimented and but badly armed It is not to be doubted but he shall restore Portugall seeing God and the prophesies haue so made him promise and that he shall cleanse and purge the Spaniards of their vices and abuses according as S. Isidore hath prophesied who since he florished it is more then a thousand yeres What contentment what ioy shall the world receiue by sight hereof and namely they that are the children of God What felicitie for the Romane Church What good for the weale publike of Christendome Let the enemie iudge this cause and as one said in Portugall let them cracke this nut and know that yet at this daye Portugall is farre stronger then Spaine yea all Spaine in the time of the said Bastard Then all that were souldiers were skilful in handling the sword the launce the halbard and the crosse or long bow now at this day they can not be drawne from the harquebuse or musket for this reason the Portugals haue yet more souldiers then Spaine Because the Castilians yea or the Spaniards that come from the garrisons of the king of Castile do neuer part thence but lame and maimed except it be some of the principal Gentlemen Of the Portugueses sent from Portugall to the East Indies there comes backe commonly the third part of them and of them that are scattered in diuerse places of Affricke the second part This is most certaine for in the beginning of the raigne of our Lord D. Antonio I found a rolle of the souldiers that were to be had in Portugall wherein it was assured me that within the prouince d'Entre Douro and Migno which is called in Latine Interamnis which containes no more then eighteene leagues in length twelue in breadth at the most three thousand old souldiers were to be found To this aunswere it remaines for me yet to satisfie another obiection which your reuered sanctitie may make vnto me to wit Some that haue a mightie opinion of the King of Castilles strength would make the world beleeue that he is infinitely powerfull and can inuade Portugall with huge numbers of souldiers To the first point I aunswere briefely and succinctly That the King of Castille is in no place more weake then in Spaine To the second Whence shall hee gather such supplies of souldiours Shall hee furnish him selfe out of those garrisons and forces which hee hath from Spaine Not so If in case he will cull out of the said garrisons some souldiers to forrage Portugall hee must at the least haue foure moneths time to do it In lesse then foure dayes may men passe frō Brittanie to Lisbone Could he bring fiftie thousand men into Portugall wherewithall wil he feed them I would onely twentie thousand Moreouer what would auaile fiftie thousand soldiers in Portugal All those being there could not impeach the King Don Sebastian from landing for Portugall hath an hundred and fortie leagues on the coast and throughout is landing easily to be had In some parts they that are on land in one place cannot in a day giue succour to the other albeit they are distant but two leagues If king Sebastian did but set foote on land all Portugall would presently run to him by which reason strange souldiers would be forced to yeeld themselues or throw themselues headlong into the sea or die with famine or else by the hands of their enemies Now giue I conclusion to this present discourse humbly beseeching your worthie Lordship to hold excused such slips as are therein because in the writing thereof I haue bene driuen to some nightly houres which could not be verie manie since I receiued your last letter for so long a certification by pen and but that I was enioyned thereto by your expresse commaund I could gladly haue excused my selfe from so tedious a trauel But the honors and graces receiued from so worthie a person haue bene so great and continued in such sort as they bound me to obey without all excuse If my pen haue erred in anie point whereof I doubt not this hope is left me that one day I may giue your Lordship more ample certaine assured satisfaction in all whatsoeuer shall please you to require I write in the Castilian language because your worthie selfe did so commaund me and in regard you take some delight therein as it hath bene often told me

The sentence pronounced he was immediatly set at libertie betweene eleuen and twelue of the clocke in the night Some letters from certaine of Italie speaking in this manner say This was but a boxe of coriander comfites to please the Spaniard withall because he is their neigbour the gazetes affirme the same A French Archbishop resident in those quarters a man of ●es great authoritie and vertue writing in his own language ●ne of his friends dwelling in this citie The Portuguezes saith ●hat were here to demand their King in the end had him knew 〈◊〉 saluted him and caried him hence The first signe of acknow●ement giuen by them was that he had one hand longer then the ●r The Lords of this Seigneury thinke they dealt wisely in wash● their hands of him ●he king went from the Senate without anie suffered to keep ● companie and came all alone to the house of one maister ●unces his ancent host a Greeke by birth with whom he found ●ged two gentlemen Portuguezes Rodrigo Marques and Se●an Figuera These men hauing well beheld and noted him ●t they found him mightily changed and differing from him ●m they saw in Affrick on the battaile day yet they knew him ●ques ran speedily to the lodgings of the Lord Dom Cristo●o and of Dom Iohn de Castro to aduertise them of what had ●ed the king remained in conferēce of Portugal affaires with ●era It was thoght good to remoue the king out of that house ●o lodge him where D. Iohn lay as being more capable and 〈◊〉 publique Then came the Lord Dom Christophero and the ●e Portuguezes that came with him from Rome to see him all the three knew the king Manuel de Brito hauing seen him ●ortugall Pantaleon Pessoa and Frances Antoine hauing like● seene him in Portugal and since then in the day of Affricke ●e Portugueses being thus come to the lodging of D. Iohn with ●m Diego Manuel abode the king in presence of some stran● tooke occasion of speech with them in this manner Portuguezes you haue done a verie great good to your coun●●nd a seruice verie signall to me that am your Lord and king ●re my vastalles and subiects and seeing you haue performed ● you ought both in your respect to God and your owne ob● dutie you shal not find me ingrateful for it I am your father 〈◊〉 you shal be my children Now that I am in your hands I pray 〈◊〉 order your proceedings with discretion because you stand ●d to satisfie such as shalll question you how you know me 〈◊〉 our Lord and king And if you find that I am not he but an ●er chastice me accordingly throw me into the sea There are some amōg you possessed with writings of the marks which I haue on my bodie as well those secret as the other apparant them the father doctor de Sampayo and the Channon brought from Portugall proued authenticall by publique instruments of credite from the Notaries Apostolique I know those instruments to be made iudicially and witnessed by persons of qualitie that nursed me and manie times saw me naked when I was a child Behold I pray you for your owne satisfying whether it be so that I haue al those markes or no. And as he would haue vnclothed himself to be more perfectly knowne to them the Portug●●zes would not suffer him but desired that he would discourse to them some matter of his aduentures Whereto he replied that he would therein resolue them an other time in meane while he requested them to pleasure him so much as to tell him some newes of his friends and countrie Herevpon he began to enquire of Dom Iohn de Castro concerning his brethren his vncles and other kinred of Dom Christophero for his brother Dom Emanuel And after he had conferred a long while with him well considering and noting his face and countenance You resemble very much Dom Antonio your father quoth he to him but I pray God giue you grace to resemble in deedes your Grandfather the infant Dom Lewes Duke of Beja Here we haue manie things worthie Sir to speake of and let me tell you that this king neuer loued some actions of the Lord Dom Antonio who was cousin germaine to his father the Prince D. Iohn because he was a man addicted to women loftie somewhat vnquiet and he had demaunded of the Queene D. Catharine and of the Cardinal D. Henriques brother to his grandfather the king D. Iohn and to the infant D. Lewes father to Antonio somewhat that they would not giue him as finding they were not so much beholding to him Some few daies before he departed on his Affrick voyage in verie much choler he had some sharp and rough speech with Dom Antonio and thereupon the said Lord was not shipped in the same Gallion with the king but in that of Dom Alphonso de Portugall Earle of Vimieuse father to D. Frances de Portugall who came into France with the title of Constable to whom he was a verie great friend So much for the Lord Dom Antonio and so much likewise for the infant whom D. Sebastian neuer knew for when he died in the end of the ● 1555. Sebastian was but two yeeres olde he was a Prince great in vertue and wisedome of whom Duarte Nunes de ● albeit in the booke he writ against me he speakes euill of al ●of him he saies well enough This infant was a Prince verie ●tie valiant practised in the art militarie addicted to armes ●xcellent horseman loued hunting and the Mathematiques ●y religious And being endued with so manie rare and heroi●●ertues the Princes and councell of the Realme of England ●ested and made choise of him to ioyne in mariage with ●ry their Queene to reigne with her ouer them In summe infant was so wise discreete and skilfull as anie prince ●d not bee accomplished with better partes For this ● Sebastian although he knew him not but by fame only yet ●spected his name greatly loued and made reckening of his ●ns ●ow your Lordship may consider how proper these wordes ●o the King Dom Sebastian After two and twentie yeeres and ●e he discouered in publique what he had kept hidden in his ●e breast and which could not be manifested by anie other 〈◊〉 by himselfe onely because God alone knowes the inward ●ghts of men He hath made knowne to diuers the markes of ●nds receiued on his head in the battaile of Affricke causing 〈◊〉 to put their fingers therein and to them shewed beside the 〈◊〉 signes naturally caractered on his bodie Thus spēt he about ●e houres space wirh the said Portuguezes demanding diuers ●ers of them shewing himselfe so familiar and friendly as he ●cted each of them verie choicely and louingly But yet he ●ot off the cariage of royall maiestie which seemed in him ●esse then if he were sitting in his seate of iustice with the ●ne on his head and scepter in his hand in the citie of Lis● Afterward when euerie one was