ouer the said lettre doth shew how that the selfe same king of Spayne hath by violēce taken away the kingdō of Portugall from Don Antonio the lawful king therof lawfully created moreouer that your intention is to lett hereafter the nauigation of this king vnto the Indians wherby he is wont to bring home euery yeare into spayne great store of gold and siluer spices and precious stones worth many millions by which he is become so rich as he hath commodity to molest and indanger al other Princes and if he should be let a lone he would grow to be so powerable that at lenght it would be hard to resist him Vppon which considerations your said Embassador did make humble supplication vnto our greatnes that we should vouch safe in the beginning of this next spring to send our imperial nauy vppon the said King assuring vs that he would not be able to resist the same for the great ouer throw and damage which he hath receaued by your nauy of late and seing he is scarse able to resist your forces alone no doubt but that he would be ouercome if of many sides he be innaded at one tyme which would be greatly as you say to the commodity of al Christiā Princes as also of this our high courte to which it appartayneth to take the protectiō of such as fly vnto the same for succour as Don Antonio doth being driuen out of his kingdome by the said kinge of Spaine and therfore that we should giue him help succour according to the custome of our noble auncetours predecessors of happy memory whose sepulcres God almightie lighten who were wōt alwayes to giue royal assistance to such as were oppressed and came for ayde to their imperial highneses These thinges and many other did your said embassador declare at large before our roiall throne al vvhich vve haue vnderstood and layd vp dilligently in our myndes and for the present our answere is that vvher as we haue had vvarr now many yeares in Persia with intention to gayne that kingdom and to ioyne it to the rest of our auncient Dominions and to reueng our selues vppon that accursed heretical Persian that holdeth the same now by the grace of our great God and by the helpe of our most holy prophet Mahomet we are very nere to obteyne our purpose according to our desire which being once done al necessary prouision shal be made out of hand for performance of thes thinges which you desire demaunde assuring you that if you doe cōtinew this league of frenship puerly and sincerly vvith this our high court you shall finde no refuge more secure nor any hauē of loue good wil more firme sure then this of owrs by which no doubt all your warrs vvith the spaniards shal succede vnto you according vnto your desire vnder the shadow protection of this our happy throne and seing the king of Spayne hath gotten by fraude violēce al that he possesseth no doubt but by the grace of god al such fraudulent deceauers shal quickly be destroyed In the meane space we do exhort you to lese no tyme nor occasion to do him hurt but to be watchful and diligent and according to the couenaunts alredy made betwene vs that you shew your selfe a frend to our frendes and an enimye to our enimyes and that you signifie from tyme to tyme vnto this our high court vvhat new warres soeuer be taken in hāde in those partes and what you can vnderstand concerning the King of Spaine to our and your commodity furthermore I am to aduertise you that this your embassador hauing done his duety and fulfilled the function of his embassie with great care diligēce hauing left here in his place for his cōmissary agent Edward Bardon he departeth now with our licence towards your kingdome who for his faythful seruice here performed deserueth no doubt to be much esteemed honored exalted aboue others and when he hath gotten all those honores preheminenses of you which he deserueth let him returne agayne presently with your letters or some other principal man in his place to be your embassador here and to continew this office of frendship betwene vs in this our high court and thus much we thought good to aduertise you by our owne soueraigne lettres and seale which you shal giue intire credit vnto Giuen this fiftenth of Benedicti Rhamaram Hitherto is the lettre of the greate Turke vnto your Queene that is to say of that greate proude and barbarous enemy of Christes holy name and religion wheruppon this Dydimus doth deduce dyuers considerations of importance consequence as namly first of al about religiō and cōscience saying who would haue thought when Inglād vppō pretence of purer seruing of Christ did first seperate it selfe in religiō frō the rest of Christian kingdomes that it would haue come in so few yeares to that passe as to make recourse to Christes open enemye persecutor that agaynst Christians as also that for the hatred of some one Christian Prince to seke to put into Christes enemyes handes so many millions of his subiects as are in Spayne and to put in hazard al Christendome besides The second consideration is of wisdome and pollicy tēporal for what wisdome or pollicy in the world can ther be in this sayeth he though we set a side al feare of God and religion to call so potent an enemye as the Turk is into Spayne or to thinke that he would be a better frend to the state and subiects of Ingland that are Christians then the king of Spayne that is a Christian or to imagin that when Spayne should be lost Ingland could be safe or when this ambicious tyrant should haue enthralled the spainards he would suffer the Inglish to liue at their liberty was not Constantinople was not Africa and many other realmes lost from Christianity by this most diuelish and miserable enuy of one realme and Prince agaynst a nother A third consideration is of honour and reputation which seemeth excedingly to be touched and distayned by many poyntes in this lettre discouered for what a thing is it sayeth he that Ingland which was wont to be a kingdome of so great honour nobility and valor in kingly proceding should now come to make such a narratiō to the great Turke as here is set doune by the tyrants owne letter to witt that the kinge of Spayne meant to make him selfe lord of al Christedome and monarch of al the world that he hath taken Portugal by violence from Don Autonio the lawful king lawfully created vvheras al the world knoweth that the Kings title to Portugal was decided by the lawes of that kingdom it selfe and by the approbation of the last king Cardinal of the same vvho also pronounced Don Antonio for an open knowne bastard vvhom all the nobility afterwards refused and no man euer created him king but only a few
religion by which occasion also I tould them vvhat I had seene and hard in Spayne and read vnto them the former letter narrarion vvhich I had made redy to seale vp send avvay presently vnto you by the post but aftervvardes hearing diuers politique and important discourses as to me they semed vvhich some of these men made vppon this narration of myne and some considerations also of state as they termed them vvorthy the noting thought good to stay the letter by me for some dayes to the end I might send you also thervvith the principal pointes vvhich I hard debated and so now I doe The chiefe subiect or argnment of al their speech for diuers dayes meeting at an ordinary table vvas vvhether the present gouerment of Inglish affayres setting a side al regard of partiality to religion vvere in it selfe and according to reason experience and law of pollicy to be accounted vvise and prudent and consequently vvhether such as chiefly managed the same and namely the lord Burley were in truth a vvise má or no in vvhich particuler though some of the company for affection to his religion did for a tyme stand much in his defence yet so many were the argumēts of the other side as in the end they semed greatly to yeild to vvish nothing so much as that the said lord had bin present but for one houre if it had bin possible or some other that vvere priuy to his councelles to yeild reason of diuers points there called in question vvhich semed scarse defensable not only for lack of iustice or cōscience for that therof they said they vvould take no regard but that euen in nature of humane vvisdome and pollycy set downe by Machauel him selfe or by any other of lesse conscience then he they seemed erronions and of thes are such as hereafter do ensue First some of them said though not al that supposing that nether the Queene nor Sir William Cecil at the death of Queene Mary had any great repugnance of conscience to follovv and continew on the religion then setled in the realme as both of them but especially Sir Williā Cecil had oftentymes protested euer shewed by deedes during that reigne it semed a great ouersight in reason of state to make so vniuersal a change of religion vvhich hath bin the cause of al difficulties and daungers since seing that vvithout this change the Queene and he might haue brought about vvith much more security vvhatsoeuer they pretended by this other meanes and hereuppon vvere brought agayne into consideratiō al those reasons and arguments of state vvhich at that tyme Sir William Cecil M. Bacon did or could lay before the Queene to moue her to this change against both her owne inclination and the opinious of the rest of her principal councellors vvhich reasons concerning especially as is supposed and knowne her Maiesties affayres vvith the pope about her fathers mariage and her legitimation vvere founde by euery mans censure here present to be but playne illusions for that much easier should her Maiesty haue bin able to compound those affayres vvith the pope if she had continewed in his religion then by breaking from him and for all other temporal matters both for her owne person the realme they had proceded no doubt most prosperously and neuer come into thes brakes breaches vvherin now the vvhole world seeth them to be And as for M. Cecil and Bacons owne particuler aduancements vvhich is persupposed vvere principally respected in this persuasion there vvould not haue wanted occasions enough to furder the same also in a catholique estate as vve see by so many aduaunced set vp by catholique Kinges of our country in former ages and the two late minions Ioyous and Pernon exalted in our dayes to so great dignityes by the last King of fiance And Rigouez of a page made a Prince and two of his sonnes Dukes vvith diuers others to like preferments aduanced by the king of Spayne that novvis that vvith much lesse enuy hatred and abhomination and vvith much more security of Continuance to their families then the greatnes of Cecil and Bacō is like to finde say these men that vvas procured by so great a conunlsion of the vvhole common vvealth and therfore in this first poynte and entrance to al the rest they are thought to haue byn neyther vvise nor lucky as one day their posterity vvil testify to the world this is the first point that was discoursed of The second ensewing on this first vvas that supposing that change of religion had byn the best and surest vvay for those intents that vvere designed to vvitt of her Maiesties state and thes mens preferments yet sayd most of this our conference it had bin a matter of farr more wisdome and pollicy seing pollicy vvas their foundation to haue made this change to some other religiō receaued in the vvorld abroad and therby to haue ioyned vvith some other party or to the communion of some other people or prince when they brake from that of the Catholique so strong and general ouer al Christendome rather then to set vp a party alone agreeing vvith no other vvhat soeuer As for example if they had councelled her Maiesty to admitt Luthers doctrine and religion as it lyeth and is practised by the followers therof they had consequently ioyned vvith some Princes of Germany as nam ly vvith the Duke of Saxony King of Denmarck and others that make profession of that religion Or if they had persuaded her grace to haue imbraced the religion of Caluin plainly and intirely as he taught and exercised thesame then had they entred therby into communion and frenship vvith Geneua and diuers others states of Swizerland as also vvith the Princes of the religion called the reformed in France Flanders and Scotland and by thes meanes at least had they gayned some new party to be assured to our realme by this band and vnion of religiō which is the strongest and most durable of al other But novv for them to put downe the old state of religion that was so vniuersal and so vvel backed and in place therof to put vp a nevv of their owne only deuise that hath no stay or trusty frend at al out of your owne realme for that it agreeth vvith no state people natiō or common vvealth christian besides your selues vvas such a peece of work say thes men as a man may rather wonder at the boldnes of the deuisers then any way commend their iudgments considering the incōueniences that dayly do ensew therof and must doe euery day more and more and is impossible in mans reason that it can continew And albeit in Ingland simple people are often told and many do beleue that al new religions sprong vp in thes dayes both in Germany france Scotland flaunders at home if they be against the Catholiques and namely those of Lutherās Caluinistes and protestants are but one religion
vppon him by violēce But yet in no one thinge so much is this seene as in matters of religion which of al other affayres is the poynt that most requireth liberty both of iudgment and will least beareth the force of strayning and so we see by experience that her Maiesty at the beginning entering and raigning for some yeares with mildnes found no difficulty to speak of on any part though at her entrāce the whole realme was settled in an other religiō but now after twenty yeares pressing men with restraints imprisonments losse of goodes and liues the number is founde euery day more greater of them that openly make resistance and do lesse respect and reuerence both prince law and gouuermēt and so euery day wil be more and more both of Catholiques and puritans for the reasons afore said Which thing certayne pollitick councellors of Iulian the Emperor surnamed the Apostata obseruing by experiēce of al the rigorous courses of former Emperors before hym they persuaded him to change that course of forcing into alluring and so he did and wrought more effect in few yeares by that meanes then the other had done by the contrary in many and would no doubt haue done much more if his life and reigne had not bin so short To this discourse said one of the company if this be so how then do catholiques vse rigor in punishing them that are not of there religion and do preuaile therin as we see by experience of Spayne and other countryes wheroftē tymes thes new religions beginning to budd vp haue bin kept downe and vtterly extinguished by punishment To this answered an other saying they wil saye that the cause of this is the truth of their religion and the falshood of the other that it is peculiar to their religion by promise of Christ to endure for euer and triumph ouer al sects but for that this is not graunted by al but remayneth in dispute I wil quoth he yeald an euident difference heerof in pollicy and reason which is that Catholique Princes which by force and punishment haue extinguished other religions and sects that began to spting vp in there realmes did take thos new blossomes at the begining whiles they were yet grene and not wel setled and their followers not many so I do confesse that all religions may be rooted out sauing only the trew which Christ himselfe defendeth and so many do thinke that if Charles the Emperor had apprehended Luther at his first seing him in Augusta as many of his counsel perswaded him he had crushed perhapps his doctrine in the very kyrnel and the like may be said of Caluin and Beza as also perchaunce of the puritans in Ingland if rigor had bin vsed towards them at their first rising though this last of the Puritans be very doubt ful for that their foundation being as after shal be shewed the very doctrine it self that by publique authority is set forth taught and maynteyned now in Ingland it must needes continually rise out of the same as the heate frō the fyer so as it is impossible to nourish the one extinguish the other As for the Catholiques in Ingland the reason is far different for they being no new beginers but old possessors of the realme they vvere so many at her Maiestyes first entraunce to the crowne as they could not wel be al extinguished together except the land should haue bin left wast nor can be easely at this day extinguished by force in any reason of state or probability that I can see for I do not comprehende those only by this name which are recusants and discouer thēselues vnto the world for those might easely perhapps be made away as many do suspect is meant by the late statute of restrayning them to certayne places but much more do I vnderstād by this people those also who goe not so far forwardes as to discouer their religion at least wise to put themselues within danger of lawes and yet in mynde wil and iudgement are they nothing behinde the rest yea so much the more feruent inwardly agaynst the state by how much more they are forced by feare to dissemble outwardly their iudgements and keep in their affections and thes are also of two sortes the one knowne or suspected though nothing cā be layed agaynst thē by law but the other not knowne nor suspected at al but of good authority in the realme and so much the more dangerous when occasion shal be offred Agaynst al thes then what doth the course of seuerity preuayle those few that are knowne recusants may be vexed and tossed as they haue bin thes later yeares and some particuler courtyer may be aduanced by begging their goodes and landes but vvhat is this to the common wealth none or few of them are conuerted ther number groweth euery day rather then deminisheth and if any do or shal yeald to goe to the church what is gayned therby they change not in iudgment nor come vvith their hartes but vvith their bodyes or tong only their inward auersion is so much the more increased towards the state by how much more violent this outward compulsion is and in the meane space their frendes and kynred are more exasperated their fellow catholiques not yet recusants alienated the people seing their afflictions more moued to compassion towards them forrayne princes more egged to take their partes what then in the end is like to come of this And if you put thē to death or driue thē out of the realme as many haue bin thes latter yeares vvhat profitt also is ther like to come of this let vs gesse of the tyme to come by that which is past those hūdreths that haue bine put to death haue they done the state good or hurte abroad we see thē published for martyres in al bookes tables pictures and storyes that are vvritten and no one thinge euer moued strangers so much to admire Inglād as the sight knowledge of this At home their estimation and parties do increase hereby seing ther is none that eyther is banished or put to death for this cause but is eyther estemed as a martyr or cōfessor by them so eyther in respect of his holynes or in hope he may returne agayne to do them good one day or for desire of reuenge for his hard vsage ther is no father brother sonne nephew kinsman frende or acquaintance of his left in Ingland which by this is not made a mortal enimye to his persecutors and how far this may reatch and extend it selfe in such an Iland as Ingland is or what effects it may worke in tyme to come I leaue it sayeth this man to your wiser considerations Moreouer sayeth he I would haue you to consider that before order vvas giuen in Inglish vniuersities at home to examine schollers and presse them to othes the Inglish scholler vvas scarse hard of in forrayne scholes and vniuersytyes neyther vvas there
other the like actes that they were neuer obserued or respected afterwards when a stronger pretendor came to plead his cause so as those actes serued for nothing els but to exasperate more the competitor agaynst vvhom they vvere made To the partye also for whom they should be made they do sealdom any good at al but rather do put him in far greater dainger then before and namely they would do so now in Ingland things standing ther as they do to witt the Prince in possession being so far of in kyndred as she must needes liue in Ielosy of that party and the other competitors being so many strong and apparent in ther pretences as they may be egged heerby to work the distruction both of the one the other for al which respects and many other that may be alleaged I thinke this order taken in Ingland not only needful but reasonable also and commodious said this Gentleman No doubt said the Ciuilian but it is commodious yf you respect the present only for that it doth eschu both garboyles to the realme and cares and periles to both partyes as you haue said I meane both to the Queene and her heyre apparent that should be declared who must needes be a mortal enimye vnto her Maiesty the very first hower that he is declared for that his next desire after such declaration once obteyned must needs be that her Maiesty were quickly dead and he or she in her place and for that her Maiesty must needs know and feare this the other must needs imagine that she knowing and fearing it would seeke to preuent the same betwene thes feares I say and hopes thes hatreds and suspitions thes ambitioris and Ielosyes no peace frenship or long endurance could be expected And for that the hopes and hartes of men are set commonly much more vppon the Prince that is to come oâ— rising then vppoÌ„ him that is in fading the greater dainger were like to fall vppon the present possessor wherof I could gyue you said he if neede weere diuers examples out of storye of our profession I meane pertayning to thâ— study of our emperial lawes by which is madâ— most euident that more Caesars vvho vverâ— heyres apparent to the empire as you know haue put downe Emperors then Emperors haue byn able to restrayne Caesars albeit them selues were able to make them so as to the Prince in present possession it is no doubt very secure and commodious to haue this prohibition and that the right of succession do hange obscure and doubtfull and no lesse profitable is it also in my opinion to al the competitors for that by this meanes they haue tyme euery man to prepare his frendes worke his cause vnderhand wheras if any should be declared the rest should be iniured therby also exasperated him selfe putt in place of enuy and dainger without power of defence as hath byn said but after her Maiestyes death if he put vp him selfe it is like he wil haue a party to stick by him to enable his demaund And this is for the present during her Maieâ—ties life but as for the future tyme it must needes be a terrible threatening of extreme calamiâ—ye to the common wealth to haue so many lye â—n wait to assayle her as you haue signified do â—retend the crowne which truly I confesse sayeth he with the residew here though â—omevvhat perhaps I haue studyed and read more then euery one of this company that I euer estemed to be so many in number and much lesse of such consideration for their titles â—s you seeme to hold them and therfore I pray â—ou defer no longer to begynne the discourse which you haue promised and we al desyre The Gentleman answered that he was content and so began presently and for more perspecuitye sake he reduced al the present pretenders to the crowne after the Queene that now is to three principal heades or branches to witâ— to the house of lancaster a part to the house oâ— Yorck a part and to the last coniunction of both houses in Kyng Henry the seuenth assigning three compeditors of the first branch and three of the second and fower of the last of a whose titles he discoursed largely at diueres metings for three or fower dayes one after an other and the Ciuilian also said his parte somâ— others put in their verdicts as occasion vvaâ— offred but the two former spake most and shewed great reading and had not the Gentleman shewed himselfe somewhat to partial somâ— tymes agaynst the Catholique in matters of religion as one that had byn brought vp only iâ— Ingland he had fitted greatly my humor buâ— yours he vvould haue fitted the more for thiâ— but in truth his speach in this matter of thâ— succession was very pithy and founded in greaâ— reason and authority without partiality to anâ— party and I assure my selfe that you would haue liked it extremly well if you had hard it and presuppose that some of the company hath taken it in paper though I know not vvell yet nor haue I now any tyme to enquire thâ— truth for that the post is vppon his departure and I will not keepe this letter by me any loâ—ger and now it groweth to some bigger buick also then at the' beginyng I had intended it wherfore I shall here make an ende and if I can gett the other discourse hereaster concerning the succession you may perhapps haue a sight therof also for I know it wil yeld you very great contentment God keepe you at Amsterdam in Holland this first of September 1593. FIN Nynty Inglis men reconciled in Spayne A dinnet made to the Inglish coÌ„uetted A consideration vppon the former coÌ„ uersion The Inglish hou se and Church of S. George in S. Lucars Residèces of Inglish Priests in Libon in the por te of S. Maries The Inglish hou se and Seminary in Siuill Excercises of lerning by the Inglish in Siuil S. Thomas of CaÌ„terbury his feast in Siuil 1. Citizens 2. CouÌ„celours 3. Iudges 4. Presidentes of concelles 5. Iquisitores 6. Pastors preachers 7. monkes fryers 8. Archbishopes Cardinales 9. Inglish schollers dedicated to martyrdom A good life is needfull before martyrdoÌ„ The man ner of S. Thomas martyrdom The effect of the second sermon in Spanish Poemes ane deuises of learning The first ranke The secoÌ„d ranek The third ranck The 4. tanck Diuers bookes vvritten against the last Inglish proclams tion Ioannes Preuius Andreas Philopatrus Dydimus veridicus The vvordes of Dy dimus Dealing of EnglaÌ„d vvith the Turck The title of the Turkes lettre Informations geuen to the Turck agaynst the kof Spayne The petition of the Inglish Am bassador VVilliam Harborn The Turkes ansvvere The Turkes exhortation to the Q. To be his spie Commendation of the Inglish embabassadour by the Turke Edvv. Bardon Considerations vppon the Turkes letter Great indignitye to InglaÌ„d Father Ribadeneyra agaynst the procli amation and nevv statuts The tvvo last Statutes The chiefe subiect of the coÌ„ference The first considera tioÌ„ about chang of religion The 1. coÌ„sideratioÌ„ of chang of religioÌ„ to a different from all others No religion this day agreeth vvith Ingland The lutrans and Caluinistes pu ritaÌ„s great enimyes The lyke 〈…〉 〈…〉 Penry S. Christo phor HattoÌ„s saying A third consideratioÌ„ of the manner of proceeding by coÌ„pâ—â—â—lo in matters of religioÌ„ An obiection The ansvvere Catholiques not easely extinguished Inconueniences by putting so many meÌ„ to death for religion The increase of seminaries VVhether the Puritans may be rooted on t or not in Ingland Sargeant Ovvins speech of late The probilities that puritanes vvill preuaile Reasons for the puritan religion As landes also of colleges in tyme. An other opinion that puritans shal not so easily preuaile Of the Prince that shal follovv The Catholiques not so easie to be extinguished The conclusion Other poynts touching the Lord Burly Other coÌ„sider ations The Queene 's not marrying The L. Burlyes gaine by the Queenes not marrying A bont the succession The multitude of compititors to the crovvne VVhy it is for bidden in Ingland to treate of the succession Note this poynt A diuisioÌ„ of the preteÌ„ders to the crovvne A discourse of the succession promised
asseuerations touching thes poynts to be euidently false and founded commonly in layne lying and this not only in matters of religion but also in al other publique affayres and negotiations which is a sore blemish to so publique a person for the which I can assure you this man giueth him many wayes such rough hewing and vttereth so many particulers of the present state of Ingland and vseth so often your owne lawes stories and cronicles to proue it as it maketh all sortes of straungers wonderfully desirous to reade it The third author which I haue seene wrotte in flaunders as it semeth and is named Dydimus Veridicus as a man would say Thomas tell truth vvho being a subiect of this kinge as he pretendeth and both witty and eloquent and taking vppon him principally to defend the king his masters procedings towards Ingland and to refute the particuler accusations layed agaynst him in the proclamation he waxeth very sharpe many tymes not only agaynst my lord Treasorer as philopater doth but also agaynst the whole state vvhich greaueth me to reade As for example at the begining in the 9. page of his booke for that my Lord Burley semed to bragg in his proclamation of the most quiet state and gouerment of your common vvealth for 33. yeares togeather while other common wealthes rounde about you haue lyued in broyles this man taketh in hand not only to proue that all thes broyles haue bin procured by Ingland but also that Ingland it selfe is far of from al condition and nature of a true quiet common vvealth and thus he begineth The peace and tranquility of a kingdome or common wealth is not troobled only by armes and open vvar of the publique enemie abroad or at home but principally and most daungerously of al other by the disorder and disagrement at home of her parts and members among themselues and by the violent proceeding of such as manage the same vvhich three examples that ensew shal declare That house cannot in very truth be said to be in peace though yet neyther vvith their ovvne people within nor vvith their neyboures without they be not at buffets vvhere the master liueth in suspition of his seruants the officers doe beat and vex the houshould vvher some runne avvay some hide themselues some cry out some scould other complayne vvher al is ful of contention and disputes noe obedience but only for feare no respect but only perforce vvher honest men doe starue for hunger innocent men are afflicted quiet men vvhipped seditious trooble some heades doe commaunde and exact by terror there most iniust and violent commandements Secondly that Shipp cannot be sayd to hold a good peaceable course though the sea be calme and vvinde in the deck vvhere the master from the mariners and shipmen from the passingers do disagree are reuiled beten and spoyled the one by the other ther marchandize taken away themselues eyther opptesed or stong into the sea the cables sayles ankers and other tackling broken or putt into cōfusion the ship defiled with blood and loden vvith dead carcases and nothing founding within but sighes and sorrowe and desolation of such as miserably liue vvounded in her And last of al that cytie cannot be sayd to be in peace or in any security though it be infested yet vvith no enemye from a broad vvhose gouernours do giue themselues vvholy to terror and crueltie do multiply prisons fetters gardes and spies do make new penal lawes abolish the olde and do inuent new taxes and impositions euery day do seeke all occasions to pole ther people at home inforce them forth to be theeues abroad do kepe fayth with none do cast in prison banish spoyle and consume the better sort pull downe the nobility oppresse the cleargy finally do put al there hope in the feare of the people and none in ther good wil thus sayeth Didimus agaynst that first poynt of your L. Tresorers proclamation And after he hath persued many particularityes of the afflicted and dangerous present state of Ingland by reason of the diuision in religion disuinon and hatred betwene protestants Catholiques and puritans complaints and discontentments on euery side incertainty of succession vnto the crowne pouerty of the people for lack of trafique breaking of marchants for the same cause burden of vnnecessary and vnprofitable warres dayly multiplying of intolerable tributes pestering the realme with innumerable renegat and rebellious straingers liberty of theeues by so long permission of piracy vniust vvarres diffidence distrust in the one towards the other and open domestical dissention in euery towne parish and particuler house ouer all the land for one cause or other After al this I say he passeth on to compare the estate of Ingland with other kingdomes common vvealthes abroade shewing the great hatred obloquie which your country is in for styrring vvarres and rebellions on euery side but for no one thing more thē for so opē dealing with the Turke the publique enemye of al christian professiō inuitinge styrring him to turne his forces vppon Christendome therby to hurt the king of Spayne which this mā anoucheth to be euidēt not only by the oftē embassages letters presēts sent vnto this professed enemye of Christs name from Inglād thes later yeares but also by a playne letter written by the Turk himselfe about three or fowers yeares agone to the Queene about this matter soone after the defeat of the spanish Armada which letter being intercepted in Germany printed ther both in the Latin germane tonges was afterwards published agayne and inserted into an History of our tymes set forth by on Ionson Doccom of friselande and now agayne laid abroad by this Didimus and the letter is vvord for vvord as followeth for that I suppose you vvilbe desirous to see it thus then goeth the title HONORATAE A DOmino legis christianae matronae culmini castitatis inter castissimas faeminas populorum qui seruiunt Iesu c. In Inglish thus TO the honorable matron honored by the lord of Christian lavv to her that is the hight and topp of chastity among the most chast women of al people that serue lesus to her that is adorned with the glory of domination gouernment ladie of many kingdomes reputed of greatest power prayse among the nation of Nazarens to witt Elizabeth Queene of Inglād to whom we wish a most happy and prosperous ende You shal vnderstand by thes our high and emperiall lettres directed vnto you that your embassador residing in this our high and noble court did present vnto the throne of our greatnes a certayne writing of yours which informed vs how that for thes foure yeares past you haue made warr vppon the king of Spaine therby to breake and diminish his forces by which he is become dreadful vnto the rest of Christian Princes hath determyned to make himselfe lord ouer al monarch of the whole world besides more