one of the deepest clerks of his time What a rare man and of heavenly speculations was Io de sacro bosco the Author of the sphaere which remaines yet engraven upon his tomb in Paris some ages after these the world of learned men did much esteem Reginald Poole Iohn Colet William Lillie Linacre Pace Cardinall Fisher Bishop of Rochester Sir Thomas More Latimer Tindall Baleus Tunstall men inferior to none as well for sanctimony of life as for rare erudition and knowledg Toby Matthew Archbishop of York another Chrysostom Thomas Stapleton Nic. Wotton Iewell Cheek Humphreys Grindall Whitgift Plowden Ascham Cooke Smyth Whitaker Perkins Mountagu those great speculative Lords Baeon and Herbert Andrews Usher that rare Primat Selden who knows as much as both the Scaligers Camden the English Strabo Owen another Martiall with divers excellent Dramatique Poets and it is a great wrong to the Common-wealth of learning that their works are not made intelligible in a larger toung then that Insulary Dialect Add hereunto that for Physicians and Lawyers both Civill and Common there are as profound spirits there as any on earth And as for learning so for prowess and magnanimity the Inhabitants of Great Britain have been and are still very celebrous And though there hath been alwayes an innated kind of enmity twixt the French and the English yet they have extorted prayses out of their enemies mouths witnes Comines Froissard and Bodin who write so much in honor of the English Nor do they herein complement or flatter a whit What a bold Britain was Brennus who liv'd long before the English took footing there what notable feates did he perform in Italy Greece and Asia so that the old Britains or Welsh in honor of that Heroe call a King after his name to this day viz. Brennin and there is a Castle in Wales of his name to this day How manfully did the ancient Britains tugg with the Romans who receav'd fowler defeats there then in any other Region which one of their Poets seemes to confesse when he saith Invictos Romano Marte Britannos The Silures who are a peeple but of a few small shires in Wales viz. Monmouth Brecknock and others being animated by the courage of their King Cataracus and provok'd by the menaces of the Emperour Claudius who threatned to extinguish the very names of them met his army in open field and cutting off an auxiliary Regiment which was going to recreut the Emperour under Marius Valens they utterly routed him In so much that Ostorius the propraetor of Britanny for the Romans resenting this dishonor died out of a sense of grief Charles the Great had to doe with them in three battailes wherein there was such a slaughter of his men that he cryed Si vel semel tantùm cum illis adhuc depugnandum foret ne unum quidem militem sibi superfuturum If he were to encounter the Britains but once more he should not have a soldier left him a saying proceeding from such a man as Charlemain that tends much to the reputation of the Britains But the Gaules are they whom the Britains galld having in so many victories left their arrowes in their thighs in their breasts and some sticking in their hearts which makes Bodin complain Gallos ab Anglis in ipsa Gallia clades accepisse ac pene Imperium amisisse That the French receaved many overthrowes in France herself by the English and had almost lost their Kingdom whereupon the Poet sings wittily Anglorum semper virtutem Gallia sensit Ad Galli cantum non fugit iste Leo. For how often have the French Kings with their Nobles been routed defeated and discomfited by the English Gray-goose-wing how often hath it pierc'd the very center of the Kingdom what notable rich returnes have the English made from France And what pittifull looks must France have when Edward the fourth got such a glorious victory at Cressy where above thirty thousand perish'd among whom the King of Bohemia was found among the dead bodies ten Princes eighty Barons twelve hundred Gentlemen and the flower of the French fell that day and King Philip of Valois did hardly escape himself to a small town which being ask'd at the gate who he was qui va la answer'd la Fortune de France the Fortune of France This made France weare black a long time But in another battail she had as ill luck wherein her King Iohn and David King of Scots where taken prisoners and attended the prince of Wales to England yet such was the modesty of that prince though conquerour that he waited upon King Iohn bareheaded at table this was such a passage as happen'd in King Edgars raign who had foure Kings to row him upon the river Dee hard by Westchester viz. Kennad Kind of the Scots Malcolm King of Cumberland Maconus King of Man and another Welsh King The English reduc'd France to such a poverty at that time that she was forc'd to coin leather money In divers other battailes in the raignes of Charles the fift sixt and seventh and Lewis the elevenths time the English did often foyl the French untill the war pour le bien public begun by the Duke of Burgundy Such a large livery and seifin the English had taken in France that for three hundred and fifty years they were masters of Aquitain and Normandy Nay Henry the sixt of England was crowned King of France in Paris And so formidable were the English in France that the Duke of Britany when he was to encounter the French army in the field thought it a policy to cloth a whole Regiment of his soldiers after the English mode to make them more terrible to the French What shall I say of that notable Virago Queen Elizabeth who did such exploits again Spain by taking the united provinces of the Low Countreys under her protection How did she ply the Spaniard and bayt him by Sea and Land how did she in a manner make him a Bankrupt by making him lose his credit in all the banks of Europe And all that while Spain could do England no harme at all touching the strength of which Kingdom you may please to hear what a judicious Italian speaks of it Il Regno d'Ingliterra non há bisogno d'altri per la propria difesa anzi non solo é difficile mà si può dir impossible se non é divisione nel Regno che per via de force possa esser conquistato The Kingdom of England stands in no need of any other for her own defense so that it is not only difficult but a thing impossible unlesse there be some intestin division to make a conquest of that Countrey Philip offer'd very fairly for her in the year eighty eight when he thought to have swallowed her with his Invincible Fleet which was a preparing three yeers she consisted of above 150. saile 8000. Mariners 20000. foot besides voluntiers she carried 1600. Canons of brasse 1000. of iron
was at his highest pitch of power when it was beleevd that the Pope might dispense with the Writings of the Apostles and Sanctions of Generall Councells And this seasonable Champion made such a progresse that not only whole Townes Citties and Provinces fell from the Roman Church but Common-wealths and whole Kingdoms abandond Her and among other Pasquills this Epigram was compos'd Roma Orbem domuit Romam sibi Papa subegit Viribus Illa suis frauâ—…ibus iste tuis Quanto isto major Lutherus major Illa Illum Illamque uno qui domuit Calamo I nunâ—… Alcidem memorato Graecia mendax Lutheri ad Calamum ferrea clava nihil Rome orecame the World the Pope orecame Rome Shee by strength He by cunning but Luther is greater then either for with his Pen he subdued both Let lying Greece bragg no more of her Hercules the Quill did more atchievments then the Club The one knockd down the Nemaean Lyon and the other ill-favouredly knock'd Leo the tenth In this large field of matter if I should hunt for arguments to set forth the glory of Germany I shold find innumerable let the testimony of Bodin himself who was known to be no freind to Germany serve for one when he saith Nullum illustrius est exemplum There is not on earth so illustrious an example as that of the Germans who but diffring little from the wildnesse of Beasts who wandring as it were in Marshes and Moores and being averse to all kinde of civility and literature are becom now such great proficients in both that in humanity they bee said to surpasse the Asians in Philosophy the Graecians in military Discipline the Romans in geometry the Egyptians in Astronomy the Chaldaeans in Arithmetic the Phenicians in Religion the Hebrews and in variety of Manufactures all other Nations whatsoever Here what Paulus Iovius saith a man not very well affected otherwise to us litterae non latinae modo not onely the Latine but the Greek and Hebrew letters have by a fatal comigration pas'd over to Germany who now being not content with their old way of military Discipline whereby they took away from Rome her Martiall Glory invents new ones every day besides she may be said to have bereft languishing Greece and drowsie wanton Italy not onely of the Ornaments of Peace but also of Arts and literature which makes Machiavill rebuke his Country-men in regard they made use of Germans to survay their Land It is acknowledg'd by all people that Regiomontanus might be compared to Tâ—…ales Eudoxus Calippus or Ptolomâ—…y himselfe Nor could the Pope correct the yeer and bring it from the old Intercalation for reducing of the Paschall Ceremonies to set courses of the Moon without him being sent for to Rome of purpose for that end It is incredible since the Councell of Constance how Schooles and Academies have multiplied in Germany Witnesse Vienna Prague Frankford Heydelberg Erford Basil Triers Witeburg Gripswald Mentz Râ—…stoch Regiomontana Dillingham Lovain Helmstad Leyden Franiker Tubingen with divers other Universities nor is there any German Gentleman be he never of so mean extraction but he hath his Education in one of these otherwise it will be cast in his teeth as an opprobry The Emperour Lotharius a Saxon born when he found the Schooles in a squalid kind of condition cover'd over with Barbarism from the time of Charlemain a German born he causâ—…d the dust to be swept off and restor'd them to their former lustre with restauration of publique Lectures and Chaires for all Sciences which did so augment the nomber of knowing men that in one University alone there were 4435. that had the Magisteriall Laurell given them within the compasse of a few yeers Besides these Academies there be divers Monasteries that have Schooles to train up youth as amongst the rest I will instance in the Abbacy of Fuldo where 600. Gentlemens Sons in Sturmius his time were bred and 30. Doctors reading to them in one yeer What do I speak of Noble men there are soverain Princes which daily becom graduats in one Academy or other Iohn Duke of Megalopolis would not return to the Government of his Country till he had studied 20. yeers in Paris Harman Prince of Hassia took the degrees of Mastership in Prague and was congratulated by the Emperour himselfe and the chiefest Nobles of the Kingdome of Bohâ—…miah Richwinces Duke of Lorain did the like Albert Count of 〈◊〉 took the degree of Doctor of the civill Law with others â—…ut the examples of the Duke of Geldres is admirable Aâ—…nold and William were Brothers whereof the one was learned the other illiterat The one was in favour with the Pope and all other Princes the other was neglected for his ignorance which disgrace least it might be transmitted to his Posterity William his Brother sent his Sons to be educated in Paris whence they return'd not till they were both Masters of Art Albert the 6th Duke of Bavaria the Founder of Ingolstad University did dignifie Learning with so much honor that he himselfe took the degree of Batchillor of Arts and publiquely woare the formalities of the order up and down the Streets But what shall we say Charlemagne our Compatriot whereof Sigebert a French Author writes that Charlemagne was not onely excellently vers'd in his own maternall Toung but in other â—…orreigne Languages He put old barbarous Verses which spoak of the Acts of Kings in a more refined stile he also caus'd the Grammar to be rendred in the vulgar Toung He commanded Teutonique or German names to be impos'd upon the months of the yeer as also all the winds which he divided to twelv being afore but fower He us'd to be present at School-exercises encouragâ—…d the Commons to learning and threatned a degradation to Noble men that were illiterat What shall I say of Otho the second who being overcom in Greece and left alone escaped because he spoak Greek so well Frederique the second was excellently vers'd in sundry Languages and caus'd Aristotles works to be translated out of Greek and Arabique into the common Toung Charles the fourth fed the Imperiall Eagle in the Muses Garden and made a firm League twixt Mercury and Mars Charles the fifth had Thuâ—…idides alwaies with him as his Companion in the field He much favourâ—…d Doctor Seldius who after he had voluntarily resign'd the Empire to his Brother and the rest of his Domimon to his Son was his individuall Companion and attending him to Flushing where he was to embark for Spain and the Emperour discoursing with him very late at night he at last toll'd a little Bell to call up some of his Servants who were all asleep whereupon he lighted down the Doctor himselfe saying now Seldius forget not this that Caesar Charles the first who was used to be guarded with whole Armies hath not now a Servant to wayt on him and he who thou hast attended so many yeers doth now serve thee and light thee down How many most
lomo en siesto 7. Guardarse bien del sereno 8. Obrar lo suyo y lo ageno 9. Hazer del Penitente esclavâ—… 10. Mesclarse en cosas d'estado Estos diez Mandamientes se encierran en dos Todo para Mi y nada para vos The Commandements of the Teatine Are more humane then Divine 1. To rake up much riches 2. To subjugat all the world 3. Good Capons and good Mutton 4. To sell deare and buy cheap 5. To water red Wine with White 6. To lye warme and easie 7. To take heed of the serenes and ill ayrâ—…s 8. To do his own busines and others 9. To make their Penitentiaries slaves 10. To be busie in matters of State All these ten may be made two All for my selfe and nothing for you Thus you see though som hug yet divers hate the Jesuit in Spain it self Alexander Hayes a Jesuit himselfe gives this character of them Iesuita est omnis Homo A Jesuit is every man That is in their subtile and nimble way of negotiation wherein they will represent and personat the humour of any man They are the great Architects of all politic designes which tend to enrich themselfs and enhance the omnipotency of the Pope For the wisest men are of opinion that had it not bin for this pragmaticall order Saint Peters chair might have tumbled down ere this his bark sunk and his keys lost When they first negotiated to take footing in the Academy of Paris they were asked whether they were Seculars or Regulars they answered they were Tales Quales they were such and such herupon the Parisian Students brought up this character of them that the Jesuits were Tales Quales and are nick'd so to this day herupon one applied this Distic unto them Vestra datis cùm verba datis nam 〈◊〉 Vestrum est Et cùm verba datis nil nisi vestra datis In England it was their equivocations that caus'd the clause without Mentall reservation to be inserted in the Oath of Supremacy One compares them to those little Animals that Seneca speaks of qui mordent non sentiuntur that bite and are not felt onely the swelling shews they are bitten so this subtile sort of Ghostly Fathers by insensible encroachments damnifie where they nestle though the party knowes not where he is hurt When they were first to be introduc'd to France the Parlement of Paris desir'd the opinion of Sorbon Colledg compos'd of the acutest Theologues in France which they deliver'd thus as it stands upon Record Novem hanc societatem appellatione insolita Iesus nomen sibi vindicantem praebere occasionem This new society arrogating to themselfs by an unusuall appellation the name of Jesus doth administer occasion of Schisme in the Church they subtract the obedience that is due to Prelates they deprive Ecclesiastic Lords and others of their rights They induce much perturbation both in civill and sacred administrations they usher in quarrells contentions debates emulations and divers scissures into the Church therfore they held them to be dangerous instruments in the busines of Religion as such that wold disturb the peace of the Church overthrow Monasticall Discipline and that their Order tended more to Destruction then Edification yet by the power of the Guysian faction they were admitted but the Parlement wold demur upon it a little before Herupon Stephen Paschasius an eminent Doctor did sharply argue against them sectam eam ambitiosam fucatae Religionis plebem appellans in Hispania natam He call'd them an ambitious sect fellowes of a counterfet Religion born in Spain but foster'd in Paris strengthned in Rome who under the specious shew of a gratuitous institution of children cheat and exhaust many families infusing pernicious principles into the brains of youths Then he went on with high exaggerations and said that their Provinciall was alwayes chosen by the King of Spain to which Provinciall they yeeld an unquestionable blind obedience Therefore he concludes that if these new sectaries were admitted they wold introduce a Trojan horse into the bowels of the Kingdome full of armed Enemies and that France shold repent her of her credulity when it would be too late for these men by their subtilties and superstition by their praestigiatiory kind of artifices would distract the settlement and tranquility of the whole Kingdome Herupon while this busines was in agitation King Henry the IV. was thrust in lieu of his breast into the Mouth by a yong Jesuit with the losse of one tooth the King having escap'd so great danger sayed pleasingly falloit il que les Iesuites fussent convaincus par ma bouche Was it needfull then that the Jesuits shold be convinced by my mouth Herupon by a solemn arrest of the Court of Parlement they were utterly exterminated and commanded to quit the Kingdome by such a day under great penalties Ther was also in the sentence an interdictory clause that none shold send their children abroad to be instructed by the Jesuits under pain of trea son Herupon ther was a new Gallowes of Stone erected before the Pallace gate to execute the transgressors of this decree But the King finding that his life could never be safe while he stood out with the Jesuits rather out of fear then affection connived for the non-execution of the Sentence causing the said Gallowes to be taken down herupon one sung wittily to the King Sire si vous voulez du tout a l'adenir De l'Assassin Chastel oster le souvenir Ostant la Pyramide l'Arrest qui la touche Quon vous remitte donc une dent dans la bouche Sir If you will for the future extinguish the remembrance of Chastel take down the Jesuits Pyramid and Sentence then let them put in a new tooth into your mouth Elizabeth Queen of England had so ill a conceit of this order that by the credit the great Turk gave to her Embassador and by her advise he banished them out of Pera on the Asian shore over against Constantinople where he had permitted them formerly to reside But you will say Iesuits are a great advantage to a State because they propagate learning and instruct youth so dexterously 't is tru they instruct them but they infuse into them besides most dangerous principles of equivocation and cunnning you will say they are the greatest and most masculine propugnators of the Roman Church 't is tru but they are great weakners of the power of temporall Princes They have planted the standard of the Cross in the Indies and are the greatest propagators of Christian Faith among Infidells 'T is tru but they do it as much for extending the Spanish Monarchy for as they are the chiefest Agents of the Pope's where e're they come so are they Factors also for the King of Spain the bent of all their projects being to enlarge the power of the one and establish the omnipotency of the other That Prince or peeple are in a dangerous condition when any censures
from Rome come against them if ther be Jesuits there who are the punctuallest executioners of the Papall excommunication such respects the Spaniards give them that they are called Apostles in America and Disciples in Portugall But finding at first that they were malign'd for assuming the name of Jesuits they did moderat it and cal'd themselfs socios Iesu the companions of Jesus Now in the Holy Scriptures we read but of one that was cal'd the companion of Christ and that was Iudas But most Noble Princes be pleased to excuse me that I have bin so tedious and tart in displaying this new Ignatian Order the reason is that being to speak of Spain it was pertinent to speak also of them who are so great Votaries of that Crown I will give you now a little touch of the Spanish Inquisition which is that if any be found to doubt or dispute any thing of the Roman Church he is answered with a syllogisme of fire or hemp which concludes more strongly then a syllogisme in Barbara But such kind of arguing is fitter for Butchers Hangmen and Devils then for the Doctors of the Christian Church Now as we read that Heliogabalus the scandall of Emperours wold have had the Vestall fyres extinguished with all religious invocations and victimes and the name of Heliogabalus to be only ador'd so the Spaniard endeavours to extinguish all other orders and government to set up the Iesuit his chief chaplain and the Inquisition Now this proceeds from the ignorance of the Spaniard who reads no Authors commonly but his own Countrey-men because he understands no Language but his own which in the Spanish Academies and Schools sways more then Latin though the fourth part of the Language be meer Morisco and patched up of Arabick words But I wonder my noble Cosen Magnus that in the Catalog you give of the learned men of Spain you extoll Raymundus Lullius so much a man foolishly subtile who scarce understanding the Latine tongue which he mingled with his own yet he dared expose som things to the world but involv'd in darknes such obscurities that few of his Readers understand him For my part I hold his Philosophers stone and his Learning to be all one but meer imaginary things in so much that one may say Qui Lulli Lapidem quaerit quem quaerere nulli Profuit haud Lullus sed mihi nullus erit Now for the nature of the Spaniards they are most made up of Imagination and a kind of fantastique gravity under which is cloak'd a great deale of pride They beleeve more what they fancie then what they do Nor doth the Portugais deny it when he confesseth that he acts according to that which he thinks himself to be then what he really is Portugalli dictitant se niti eo potius quod se esse putant quam eo quod reverasunt Now for Portugall it is made up most of Slaves for the nomber of them in som places are allmost equall to the Inhabitants and ther are few Countreys where ther is lesse distinction made twixt men and beasts for they are both sold in the market for money alike Now for the state of the Spaniard you shall have him march gravely with a croud of servants or slaves two before him another holds his hat upon occasion another his cloak if it doth rain another carryes a clout to wipe the dust off his Shoos another a cloth to rub his Ginet while he hears Mass another a Curry-comb to keem his mane and all these when they come home will be content haply with a loaf and a radish a peece for their dinner It is admirable and indeed hatefull to see with what a Tympany of self-conceitednes the Spaniard useth to swell and how a common fellow will stand a tipto pulling out his Mustachos and saying Voto a tal jo soy tan buenâ—… como el Rey don Felipe I vow by Hercules that I am as good as King Philip They mightily puff themselfs up with hopes of preferment ayming more at the honor of the thing then the profit Among many others I will instance in Antonio de Leyva who from a Gregarian common Soldier came to be a Generall to Charles the V. and comming to attend the Emperour he was permitted to sit down because he was troubled with the gout but the Emperour being told that he verily beleev'd he shold be a Knight of the golden fleece or one of the Grandees of Spain and complaining of his gout one day the Emperour said I beleeve you are more indispos'd in your brain then in your feet Barclay in his Euphormio hath a story of a Spanish woman that comming with three of her Sons a begging to a French Shomaker one day he told her good woman I will ease thee of one part of thy charge for if thou leave one of thy children with me I will breed him up in my trade wherby he may by his labour be able to live like a man O Sir God forbid I shold cast away my childe to a stranger and to so Mechanick a trade for who knowes but he may be Viceroy of Naples or Mexico One Matheo Serran a Spaniard was Governor of the Sluce in the time of Marquesse Spinola who asking him what provision defence he had in the place advising to be carefull of furnishing it he rapt out a great Rodomontado saying Marquesse look you to your siege at Ostend I know well what belongs to the conservation of the Sluce without a Monitor for if the enemy shold com with fifty thousand Devills after him to besiege the place he shall not thrust me out yet for all this vanity this Captaine lost the Sluce afterwards And this fancy of pride raignes in the Spaniard more then any other for if one shold go to a Casa de Locos a Bedlam house in Spain and observe the humors of the Prisoners he will find that one will say he is an Emperour another that he is King of such a Countrey another that he is Pope and so he shall observe that ther will be more of this kind of madnes then of any other distemper Now as the Spaniards are bladder'd up generally with this arrogance and altitude of mind so they care not how they com by their wealth though they take it from another by violence to support it nor how little they worke to get a subsistance for they are sloathfull and idle to a proverb unlesse it be in the Warrs This makes them to be cryed up for such theeves Herupon Charles the V. their own King being accompanied with many Spanish Dons as he pass'd in Germany by a great Inne where divers were a drinking and merry he asked his Dons are not the Germans personable proper men well complexion'd and limm'd This cannot be deny'd the Spaniards answer'd but they are excessively given to drinking the Emperour replyed 't is tru but do you know what vices the Spaniards are guilty of for as these are