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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05412	The estate of English fugitiues vnder the king of Spaine and his ministers Containing, besides, a discourse of the sayd Kings manner of gouernment, and the iniustice of many late dishonorable practises by him contriued.; Discourse of the usage of the English fugitives, by the Spaniard	Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.	1595 (1595)	STC 15564; ESTC S108544	137,577	247

subiects bodies but also the interior fidelitie of their mindes I cannot heere omit to speake a worde or two as well of the worthinesse and loyaltie of those honorable gentlemen of her Maiesties Court The honourable offer of certaine worthy Gentlemen of the Court made vnto hir Maiestie who vpon the approch of the Spanish fleete presented not only their persons and liues for the defence of her Ma. but also a great portion and yeerely reuenue of their landes as also of her Maiesties great benignitie and gratious answere telling them That shee accounted her selfe rich enough And her most princely and gracious answere made vnto them againe in that shee possessed such subiects assuring them that for her part she would spend the last peny of her treasures for their defence rather than shee would be burthenous vnto them O happy people in such a Princesse and happie Princesse in such a people here is a well tuned musicke an agreeing concord and perfect harmonie of gouernement where the frankenesse of voluntarie affection draweth from men the effects of duty and not the basenesse of seruile and constrained feare Let atheists and traitors breathe out their bootelesse blasphemies and inueigh impugne and maligne against the florishing happinesse of our estate and let them turne themselues to all the malicious practises they can the ende of all their wicked endeuours will be like Erisicthon that dared presume to lay his profane axe vppon the holie tree of Ceres to starue languish and pine away with a selfe consuming disease of enuy and dispaire As for these that are vertuous and wise they can not but in the infinitenes of our blessings acknowledge the mightie and apparant hand of God which surely cannot be casuall or attributed to the politike industrie of man but meerely to the mightinesse of Gods mercifull working and to his long and eternall fore-appointed ordinance In fine to come to the conclusion of this point you see that her Maiestie is protected by God confederated and linked in friendship and alliance with mighty Kings and Princes that shee commaundeth a populous and manly Nation that her warres are vertuous iust and lawfull and finally her successes fortunate and prosperous This then being considered I see no reason why you or any man else should be so apprehensiue of that terrour wherewith the Spanish Brokers doe daily indeuour to dismay the courages of our countrimen If it be through doubt that our Nation is not equall vnto the Spaniard in force of armes and valour of courage I can not iudge of him that shall so conceiue as of a true English man borne but as of a degenerate bastardly and adulterine plant guiltie to his owne minde of an inward selfe feeling cowardise and finally worthy of that enthralled slauery vnder which many of our falsehearted countrymen doe groane and languish as one that through the disease infection and vnsoundnesse of his owne corrupted minde is not able for to take the true taste and rellish of his owne natiue Country vertues Sore eyes can not endure the Sunne beames nor false hatefull mindes neuer harbour true or noble mindes and affections The Poet saieth To him that loues each foule thing seemeth faire And so by contrary To him that hates ech faire thing seemeth foule If such would but reade the Chronicles as well of ours as other nations they should finde that a small army of English men vnder the conduct of that woorthy and magnanimous Prince of VVales The memorable famous battell of Nadres obtained by th Englishmen in Spaine vnder the cōduct of the blacke Prince eldest sonne to King Edvvard the third passed in despight of them through Nauarre into Spaine and there euen in the middest and bowels of their own country ouerthrew at Nadres their vsurping king Henry the bastard of whose race this man is descended by his grandmother beeing accompanied with the nobilitie of their countrie and three score thousand of the brauest fighting men in Spaine and so vtterly ouerthrew him that they erected in his place Don Pedro their iust and lawfull Prince of that kingdome compelling and by maine force constraining the nobilite and Cities to receiue him There they may likewise reade the valourous conquests archieued by Iohn Duke of Lancaster brother to the saide Prince in Galicia against Don Iohn Iohn Duke of Lancaster victorious in Galicia sonne of the saide Henry the vsurping bastard besides the Chronicles of Portugall are full of the martiall prowesse of the English men and glorious victories obtained in seruice of their King At the battel of Alaibereth to whose aide they were called against the saide king of Castile But what neede I run backe into the passed ages to seeke examples Looke but into the incounters that haue beene of late dayes betweene them and vs eyther by sea or by land and you shall finde that wee haue alwayes carryed the victorie and they blowes As by land at the incounter of Graue and that of Zutphen where the honour of the worlde and ornament of England sir Phillip Sidney by his aduenturous valour was slaine besides many other bickerings and skirmishes of lesse moment needelesse to recite Of sea matters I doe count it bootelesse for to speake so greatly and aboue measure glorious is the same and bruited throughout the worlde of the woorthy voyages of sir Frauncis Drake sir Iohn Hawkins sir Martine Frobysher Captaine Ryman the Fennors and the rest of the braue and couragious Gentlemen who for the benefite of their country haue not spared to make aduenture of their liues and fortunes But if you desire one example of all let that then serue of his huge late fleete with the which Golyas-like hee threatened heauen and earth and with the which hee thought to haue circumuented and surprized at vnawares her Maiestie whilest falsely wickedly and abusiuely hee entertained her Maiesties Commissioners in Flaunders with a treatie of peace to which her Highnesse like vnto a christian Princesse and for to anoyde the effusion of christian blood was very inclineable but God as hee hath alwayes doone so at this time did hee miraculously protect her Maiestie in such sort that through the great carefull and valorous resolution of the Lorde high Admirall of England and the rest of his noble and couragious followers they were with a small number of English shippes so fiercely and vigorously encountered that their resistance not preuailing them they were scattered chaced and vtterly discomfited in such sort as the whole worlde knoweth so that Lucans verse which in those dayes hee wrote to the glory of our Nation vpbraiding the Romanes cowardise may to none better be applied in my iudgement than vnto them Territa quaesitis ostendunt terga Printannis Besides what better triall can you haue of the valour of eyther Nation than this they being thirtie thousand the creame of all their forces and about the assembling of which hee had beene aboue three yeeres busied yet when

and conspiracies that haue beene betweene them woulde yeelde matter to as delightfull an historie as hath beene penned in our time The pretence of the kings of France to Naples and Milan First no man is ignorant of the pretention and title which the Kings of Fraunce doe pretend to the kingdome of Naples the dukedome of Millaine the County of Ronssillon and the earledomes of Artoys and Henalt for the recouery of which stil as they haue beene within themselues at quiet they haue made one attempt or other alwayes therefore one of the chiefest pollicies of the King of Spaine hath beene to finde them worke at home insomuch that though it be strange yet the Frenchmen doe very confidently write it that such was his desire to keepe ciuill dissention afoote in Fraunce that hee spared not to animate yea and sometimes secretly to help and assist with money The prince of Conde and the Admirall although all the worlde knoweth hee neither liked their cause nor religion the like they say hee offered to this King of Fraunce when hee was King of Nauarre though hee knewe hee coulde not offer it to a man in the worlde which lesse loued him But leauing these secret excusable matters and comming to open and published apparant practises Seeing that the last King of Fraunce beginning to growe strong and mightie the Protestants quiet and his Realme peaceable hee thought it high time to looke about him and therefore casting his eyes vpon the discontented humours of France hee amongest the rest made choice to vse as a principall instrument for shuffling the Cardes the late Duke of Guyse The duke of Guyse picked out by the K. of Spaine to set ciuill warr● afoote in France a braue and valorous Prince haughtie ambitious audacious a souldier a spender prodigall popular and indebted euen vppe to the hard cares Him hee fedde with money which though not answerable to his humour for to that effect his Indiaes had beene to tithe yet it put him in such gallant humours that hee presently reproachfully gaue out amongest the people that the King was a fauourer of heretikes a scismaticke and a sorcerer and withall The audacious insolence of the duke of Guyse hee called hi himselfe Protectour of the Church of France and finally grew to so great an insolencie that beeing forbidden by the King hee durst enter into Paris putte the people in armes assaile the Kings Guardes and finally constraine the king by flight to abandon both the Citie and his Pallace of the Lonure The day of which holy enterprise was ordained by the Sorbonists to be kept holiday and called the day of the Barricades The day of Barricades The king was mightily agreeued heereat but being not able to play the Lion was contented for a while to counterfeit the Foxe vsing the matter so slily that hee drew the duke of Guyse and his brother the Cardinal to the parlement of Bloys where with faire and gentle wordes hee so finely ouerwent them in the middest of al their confidence and greatnesse that whereas they did attribute all his friendly shewes and offers to want of courage The duke of Guyse and the Cardinall his brother slaine by the king of France and feeblenesse of spirit he neuerthelesse still perseuered pretending all loue and meekenesse vntill such time as taking them at aduantage he saw them both he dead and bleeding at his feete The newes of which tragicall accident was not so much displeasing to the king of Spaine in regarde of their deaths vpon whom his factious businesse so much relied as it was pleasing insomuch that the greatnesse of their parentage the multitude of their followers and partiseans and the affections of the people considered bee knewe that there could not but ensue many great tumultuous and in a manner irreconcileable broiles Mendoza the king of Spains Embassadour in Paris to which effect Mendoza his purblinde Embassadour in Paris seruing for nothing but like the Diuelles trumpetter to set men together by the eares vsed the vttermost of his endeuour and dilligence incenfing the people to such ragefull madnesse that though murdering one an other with mutuall wounds which was the onely thing they shotte at they sawe apparantly their owne miserable calamitie and destruction yet like men troubled with a frensie abhorring all remedy and cure they grew from degree to degree into so great a fury and violence that they procured the death of their annointed king by the hands of a detestable Iacobine The king of Fraunce murdred by a Iacobine Frier whom as a late Frenchman writes they haue since in regard of that worthy exploit canonized for a martir by the name of S. Clement These things succeeding so much to the Spanish kings desire whereas before his endeuour was to nourish betweene them onely ciuill dissention and strife he now beganne to entertaine greater hopes and to aspire to the very royall diademe and monarchy of France To which end he caused his Embassadour to hire the Sorbonists Iesuites and mercenarie Friers to steppe vp into the pulpits and to insinuate to the people the necessitie of a K. especially of such a one as were mightie and of power to resist the K. of Naaurre comming then puisant in armes against them Mendoza likewise spared not himselfe to broake his masters cause by bribery and al the other best bad meanes he could persuading them his Master hauing married a daughter of France and his children being halfe French that they could not so safely throw themselues into the bosome or protection of any man as of his but in fine The Cardinal of Burbon elected king of France by the name of Charles the tenth the Parisiens liked better of his gold than his gouernment and elected for their king the old Cardinal of Burbons vncle at that time prisoner to the king that now is calling him Charls the tenth But he being neere 80. yeeres of age was scarcely so soone chosen as dead The duke of Feria sent downe to Paris Then began Mendoza to bestir himselfe again within a while likewise to help him the better the D. of Feria was sent downe but the vtmost that both could doe with infinite and profuse expence of their masters money was to get him the title of Protector of France prouided alwaies that the Spanish pistolets kept their course The king of Spaine chosen Protector of France which only kept him frō being discarded for how closely soeuer he hand led the matter the League had discouered that like a Canker hee meant to eate into their estate And therefore though they could not breake with him their businesse beeing nowe brought to a necessitie of him and of his money yet they liked not his intiteling himselfe to Britaine and sundry other his proceedings all tending to vsurpation insomuch that they helde him in so great a iealousie diffidence and mistrust that they woulde neuer suffer any of his

is to get together six thousand men and those all shepheardes hedgebreakers and such idle trewantly rogues the most part of which hee is forced to put in garrison for a yeere or two to fashion them before hee send them to seruice I saw about two yeeres agone a fresh leuie that came out of Pastrauia who put them presently in the castle of Antwarpe drawing out the olde garrison the most silly naked snakes that euer I sawe in my lyfe such as in my conscience a man in deed would beat ten of them As for Germanie out of the which heeretofore hee hath drawen greate numbers and by theyr help done great matters before Mastrig in Freisland and those places his vsage hath bene so base and miserable vnto them that the old souldiers are all starued and consumed in his seruice whose calamitie hath so terrfied the rest at home that no prince in Europe hath lesse credite to raise men there than hee And although there were no such matter yet they are no waie more bound vnto him than to an other theyr profession beeing to serue onely him best that will pay them best and yet if hee shoulde raise anie of the allyaunces of her Maiestie and the scituation of their Countrie considered it shoulde be a matter of great difficultie to ioyne them wyth his other troups Where are then his innumerable legions with which hee meanes to ouercome the world Alliance hee hath none vnlesse it bee wyth the rebellious league of France of them he can receiue no aide nor comfort themselues being miserable and distressed by reason wherof most burdenous vnto him yet there is no man liuing in the world lesse beholding vnto them than he For notwithstanding all his assistance they woulde neuer yeeld to receiue his forces into their townes or fortresses seruing only their turnes on him for the present time As for the Pope and the Princes of Italy what fayre weather so euer they do beare him he neither trusteth them nor they him and great reason they haue so to do And wythall this malediction hangeth vppon him that as hee is of all forraine Nations distrusted doubted and abhorred so both hee and the very name of a Spaniard is most loathsome and hatefull to the rest of his owne subiects Insomuch that in Millaine the young Gentlemen haue a pastime by night which they call Caccia Marran that is putting on a visard on theyr face by night they goe with theyr long Rapiers or picked Bastinadoes vnder their cloakes out into the Towne to seeke Spaniardes in the stewes or anie other place where they thinke they are lykely to finde anie of them vnto whome they giue as manye stabbes and blowes that they can laie vpon them insomuch that the Spaniards dare not for their eares abide out of the castle after shutting in of the gates As for his dealing in Portugall who knowes not his cruell tyrannie and the hatred they beare him But now come to her MAIESTIE you shall find another manner of state of matters her realme plentifully abounding in men of warlike disposition of whom she is loued adored her warres are iust charitable godly defensiue for maintenance of which besides the trust that she reposeth in God who hath hetherto mightily and miraculously defended her she is alied in straight league friendship confederation with the most victorious christian king of France with the kings of Denmarke Scotland with the Switzers and with sundrie princes and states of the Empire al being her neighbors dominions vnited with hers and thereby readie to assist aid succor one another in all such occasions as shall or may happen All this then considered tell me I praie you what occasion of feare or misdoubt you haue If you thinke the English valor not to be compared with that of the Spaniard reade but the Chronicles and you shall finde how much you are deceiued you shall finde that a small armie of English-men vnder the conduct of that worthie prince of Wales eldest sonne to Edward the third passed in despight of them thorough Cauarre into Spaine and there in the middest and bowels of their owne countrie ouerthrew at Nadres their vsurping king Henry the bastard of whose race this man is descended by his grandmother being accompanied with the nobilitie of the countrie and 60000. of the brauest fighting men in Spaine so vtterly ouerthrew him that they erected king in his place Don Pedro their iust lawfull prince of that kingdome whom by maine force they constrained all their cities and noble men of the countrie to receiue Read besides the valorous conquests atchieued by Iohn Duke of Lancaster brother vnto the sayde prince in Callicia against Don Iohn sonne of the sayd Henrie the vsurping bastard besides the chronicles of Portugal are full of the materiall prowesse of the English glorious victories obtained in seruice of their king to whose aide they were called against the sayde king of Castilo But what neede I run backe into the passed ages to seeke examples Looke but into the incounters that haue bene of late daies betweene them and vs either by sea or lande and you shall finde that they haue alwaies carried the blowes As by land at the encountering of Grane and that of Sutphen where the honor of the world and ornament of England sir P. Sidney by his aduenturous valor was slaine besides many other bickerings and skirmishes of lesse moment needles to recite Of sea matters I account it bootlesse to speake so greatly and aboue measure glorious is the same bruited through the world of the worthie voiages of sir F. Drake sir I. Haukins sir M. Frobisher C. Raiman and the rest of the braue and couragious Gentlemen who for the benefit of their countrie haue not spared to make aduenture of their liues and fortunes But if you desire one example of all let that then serue of his huge late fleet with which Golyas like hee threatned heauen and earth with which he thought to haue circumuented and surprised at vnawares her Maiestie whilest falsely wickedly and abusiuely hee entertained her Graces Commissioners in Flanders with a treatie of peace To which her Highnesse lyke a Christian princesse and for to auoide the effussion of Christian bloud was verie vnclinable But God as he hath alwaies done so at this time did hee miraculously protect her Maiesty in such sort that through the great careful and exceeding valorous resolution of that most worthie and renowmed Gentleman the Lorde Admirall of England of whose couragious behauiour and terrour with which he amazed them the verie enemy himselfe though agaynst his will makes worthie mention They were with a small number of English so fiercely and vigorously encountered that their resistance not preuailing them they were scattered chased and vtterly discomfited in such sorte as the whole world knoweth so that Lucans verse me thinkes may verie fitly bee applyed vnto them Territa quaesitis ostendunt terga