till he had a Son Born nor should wear a Crown on his Head nor take the Right-hand of his Wife 5. That it should be a binding Law for ever among the Portugals That the Crown might not descend to Forreigners if the Kings Eldest Daughter should Marry a Forreign Prince she should be be excluded from her right of Succession for that they would not have the Kingdom which they had obtained by their own Valour go out of the Race of the Portugals First Thus Alphonso the First obtained the Crown of the Kingdom of Porugal and within a while he added to his rown by Conquest after a five months iege the Rich and Populous City of Lisbon which ever since became the Capital City of his Kingdom and Place of Residence for him and his Successors He made divers other Acquists to the enlargment of his Dominions and being 90 years of Age in the year 1185 he Died leaving behind him Sancho his Son who succeeded in his Kingdom and two Daughters Uracca married to Ferdinand King of Leon and Therasia by some called Matiida Married to Philip the first Earl of Flanders These he had with Henry who dyed young by a second Wife for he had no Issue by Uracca the Daughter of Count Trastamarense Mafalda Sister to Amadeo Earl of Morenna Secondly Sancho the First and Second King of Portugal Son of Alphonso his only Legitimate Son that he had living born at Conimbra the 12th of November 1154 Succeeded his Father being Crowned the 12th of December 1185 three dayes after his Fathers Death He applyed himself much to the Setling of his Kingdom and to Tillage and Planting his Country therefore called the King of Husbandmen He by help of some Christian Souldiers put into Lisbon in their Voyage to the Holy Land Invaded Algarve and took the Chief City Sylva although he did not very long enjoy his Conquest but was driven thence by the Moors and had like to have lost his Kingdom of Portugal being furiously assaulted by the Moores He took to Wife the Daughter of Raymond Berengurio Count of Brachinona called Aldonsa by her he had 8 Children 3 Sons and 5 Daughters The Sons were Alphonso who succeeded in his Kingdom Ferdinand a Man of great Virtue and Parts Married to Joanna Countess of Flanders and Pietro Count of Irgelense The Daughters were Therasia Married to Alphonso King of Leon Mafalda to Henry the first King of Castile both after their Marriages turning Nuns Sancha became a Nun of the Order of Saint Francis who lived about this time Biancha and Beringilla who dyed young This King at 57 years of Age and in the 26th of his Reign dyed being accounted for his Virtue and Goodness among the best of the Portugal Kings Thirdly His Son Alphonso the second succeeded Born at Conimbra 1185 was about 27 years Old when Crowned King between whom and his Brothers and Sisters there were great Jarrs He was a Man of an high and very willful Spirit and in his latter dayes grew so unweldy and fat that he could not prosecute the Wars He Married Uracca the Daughter of Alphonso the Eighth King of Castile and Elenor Daughter of Henry King of England by her he had divers Children First Sancho who succeâ—ed him in his Kingdom Alphonso by Right of his Wife Duke of Bologna afterward also King of Portugal Ferdin and Count of Serpia Vincenzo dyed young Leonora a Daughter Married to the King of Dacia Alphonso in the 48 year of his Age and 21th of his Reign dyed Anno 1233. Fourthly Sancho the Second succeeded his Father and was Born in Conimbra the first of September 1207 being very sickly and unlikely to live but came to the Crown at twenty six years of Age spending most of his time in Baths and Hot-houses for the recovery of his Health He Married with Messa Lopez the Widdow of Alvaro de Castro She was accounted but an inferiour Match tho of Blood Royal being made by his Favourites who with the Assistance of the Queen by reason of the Kings weakness and indisposition made a Prey of the People and mightily oppressed them so that they were enforced to call to their Assistance Alphonsus the Kings Brother who coming from Bologna possest himself of the Kingdom Sancho being forced to retire to Toledo where addicting himself wholly to Devotion he dyed in the Year 1245 at 39 Years of his Age having reigned 13 Years Fifthly Alphonso the Third who succeeded his Brother was Born in Conimbra May 5. 1210 Educated with great Care and Diligence by his Father because of his Brothers Sickness He married Matilda Countess of Bologne Widow of Philipo Crispo and Daughter of Philipo Augustino He was a Man of great Parts but they were over shadowed by his Lusts For after he was setled in the Kingdom he repudiated his Wife and contracted a wicked Marriage with Beatrice the illegitimate Daughter of Alphonso the King of Castile and his Concubine Maria Villenia And notwithstanding the Threats of the Pope Alexander the 4th at the Tears and Complaints of the Dutchess of Bologne he caused her to be Crowned Queen and confirmed his Succession by the Birth of three Children Dionysio his eldest Son succeeded in the Kingdom Alphonso who married the Daughter of Prince Emanuel Son of Ferdinand King of Castile and Ferdinand who dyed young He very much infested the Moors increasing his Kingdom with the full Conquest of Algarve with much Glory and Reputation He died at Lisbon Anno 1279 at 69 Years of Age and 32 of his Reign accompting from his Brothers Death Sixthly Dionysius or Dennys his Son succeeded his Father He was born on the day of the Great Areopagite for whose sake they imposed that Name Anno 1260. He was a great and famous Poet. He was about 20 Years of Age when he came to the Crown and would by no means admit his Mother to the Administration of the Government He never oppressed his Subjects neither with Tribute or Taxes yet left to his Heir a full Exchequer He made many good Laws which are to this day observed The Order of the Templers was extinct in his Time and he first instituted the University at Conimbra He took to Wife Elizabeth Daughter to Peter King of Arragon who was most remarkable for her Sanctity by her he had Alphonso who succeeded him and Constance who was married to Ferdinand King of Castile After he had reigned 46 Years he dyed at the Age of 84 Years Anno 1235. Seventhly Alphonso the Fourth and the Seventh King of Portugal succeeded his Father and was born in Conimbria Anno 1290. He married with Beatrice Daughter to Sancho the Fourth King of Castile A Man given to hunting and disports to the neglect of his People but being at last made sensible of it he took the Reins into his hands and proved a good King About the Year 1340 Alboacen the potent Miramamolin of Morocco and Granada set himself against all Spain with an Army of 470000 Men but
out three great Fleets for Discoveries in the year 1500 one steered its Course to the East and was the first Christian Fleet that ever passed the Cape of Good Hope he found out the Passage by Sea to the East-Indies After which he sent another and possessed himself of the Island Ormus in the Persian Gulph The second Fleet went Southwards adding to their former Conquests of Congo and Angelo The third Fleet steered Westward and made Discovery and took possession of Brazile in America which they yet possess He was a brave Prince endued with many Virtues and Excellencys as well of body as of mind ruling in great Prosperity and Peace He dyed at Lisbon in the 73 year of his Life and 41 of his Reign in the year 1535 and left behind him a numerous Issue six Sons and two Daughters The Sons were John who succeeded him D. Lewis D. Alphonso who was Cardinal and Arch-Bishop of Lisbon D. Henry Cardinal and Arch-Bishop of Braga who came afterwards to be King Don Ferdinand Don Edward whose Daughter Katherine marrying into the House of Braganza brought the Right of the Crown to that House The Daughters were Isabella married to the Emperor Charles the Fifth and King of Spain and Beatrice married to Emanuel Duke of Savoy Fifteenthly John the Third the Fifteenth King of Portugal succeeded his father in the Kingdom He was born in the year 1504 and arrived at the Crown at the age of one and thirty years He prosecuted those Discoveries made by the Fleets of his Father in the East and West Indies where he took many Islands and Towns he overthrew the Potent Kingdom of Bengala Pegu and Siam and also obtained many signal Victories over the Moors of Malacca Sumatra and Molucco He married Catherine Sister to the Emperor Charles the fifth and King of Spain by whom he had Issue Prince John who dyed during the Reign of his Father but left behind him a Son named Sebastian who succeeded his Grand-father in the Throne King John having reigned with great Glory the space of 38. years and having made many excellent Laws for the Increasing and Incouragement of Traffick and Navigation he dyed in the 69th year of his Age Anno Dom. 1573 and was buried in the Cathedral Church at Lisbon Sixteenthly Sebastian the first and the sixteenth King of Portugal succeeded his Grand-father King John the Third in the Throne which he entered upon about the 23 year of his Age. Upon the Entreaty of Muly Mahomet and great Promises of setling on him the Kingdom of Morocco he went over in Person with an Army against Abdemelech to restore Muly Mahomet to the Throne where with the Assistance of one â—tewkly an English Man whom he had perswaded to help him in this Voyage with some Souldiers he was going with into Ireland from the Pope to assist the Rebels there against Queen Elizabeth he arrived at Tangier with their forces and joyning with Muly Mahomet in the Plains of Alcazar they fought with Abdemelech in August 1578 where they were discomfited and utterly overthrown both Sebastian Muly Mahomet and Stewkly were all slain and also Abdemelech So that he thus ended his Life and Reign after he had sat in the Thrâ—â— scarce a year and a half he left behind his no Issue There went a Report that he escâ—ped from the Batâ—el and was found aâ— known in Venice â—nd thence was carried 〈◊〉 Naples and so into Spain where he misrably dyed in Prison but it is an uncertainty though believed among the Portugals Seventeenthly Henry the Cardinal Third Son of Emanuel the first succeeded Sebastian in the Kingdom but being ageâ— 67 years and a Church-man they had nâ— hopes of Issue and his Reign not likely to be long there were many Pretenders to thâ— Crown and it was all the Discourse whâ— ought of Right to succeed It will not therefore be amiss that I give you here a Soheme which will shew clearly the several Titles to your View Emanuel the First had 8 Children 1. John King of Portugal who had Issue John Prince of Portugal who had Issue Sebastian King of Portugal 2. Lewes Infant who had Issue Don Alphonso Bastard who had Issue Christopher and others 3. D. Alphonso who died without Issue 4. Henry Cardinal King of Portugal died without Issue 5. Ferdinand who died without Issue 6. The Infant Edward who had Issue 1. Mary wedded to Alexan. Farnest Prince of Parma a forreigner had Issue Reinuce Prince of Parma 2. Katherine married to John Duke of Bragance 7. Mary married to Charles the 5 King of Castile and Emperor had Issue Philip the 2d King of Spain 8. Beatrix married to Charles Duke of Savoy who had Issue Philibert Duke of Savoy There were 8 several Pretenders to the Crown The first were the people who jure Regni pretended a Priviledge to elect their own Kings but that was soon answered for that they could claim no Right of Election till the Royal Line were wholly extinct The next was the Pope who challenged jure divino to be Arbitrator if not Donor in all Controversies of Crowns but that was slighted The Third was of Antonio Bastard Son to Don Lewis the Infant but he could not clear his Illegitimation though he made some strugling for the Crown he would not be admitted The fourth Pretender was Katherine de Medices Widow of Henry the second King of France as being descended legitimately from Alphonso the third King of Portugal but that would not be admitted about 300 years prescription being against her The fifth that pretended was Philibert Duke of Savoy as Son to Beatrice the younger Daughter of Emanuel but he had little hopes though he laid claim with the rest The sixth was Reinuce the young Prince of Parma who demanded it in right of his Mother the eldest Daughter to the Infant Don Edward alledging jure primo-geniturae the Male Line is to be served before the Female but forreign marriage lay against him as also against the seventh Pretender and the most potent Philip the second King of Spain who employed the best wits in Christendom to make his pretences good saying That the Infant Don Edward being deceased before his Brother Henry was King he could have no Right in himself and therefore could derive none to his posterity for Nemo dat quod in se non habet With these and many other niceties the Lawyers troubled themselves to give a colour able Right to Philip who was resolv'd to carry it against them all and against the last and indubitable pretender Katherine Dutchess of Braganza the youngest Daughter to the Infant Don Edward who besides jure haereditatis being of the better Line had the fundamental Law on her side which excluded the other Daughters and was formerly put in execution against Beatrice Daughter of Ferdinand the ninth and indeed no Arguments could confute or annull her indubitable Right which was clear to the whole world both by her descent and the fundamental Laws of
signifying a Gosh hawk in the Spanish Tongue They are Nine in Number the chief of them is the Tercera the place of Residence of Alphonso the sixth since his Resignation of the Crown The rest are St. Maries St. Michaels Fayal Gratiosa St. Georges Duo Flores Corvo from the abundance of Crows therein In Asia the Kings of Portugal have very large Possessions with many Forts and Places of Strength The chief and richest is the City of Goa in the Kingdom of Decan one of the Keys of the East-Indies Here the Portugals have their Arsenals with an Harbour for their Fleet. Then they have Diu a Peninsula in the Province of Guzarate in the Kingdom of Cambaia Here they have an impregnable Cittadel Over against this Place upon the Sea-side they are possessed of Daman a beautiful and a pleasant Town Also Chial a Sea-Town Solsette with a Peninsula of twenty miles in Compass containing about thirty Villages and 80000 Inhabitants with many other considerable places In Africa they have many large Possessions in the Kingdoms of Gongo and Angola till dispossessed thereof by the Hollandar But they are still in the Possession of the Islands of Cape Verd so called because scituated opposite to that Promontory of which there are nine of them the chief of which is St. Jago In the West Indies they are possessed of Brazile from whence we have plenty of Wood and Sugars at least every year 150000 Arrobes every Arrobe containing 25 Bushels of our measure They have here thirteen Captainships or Governments the Chief of which is St. Vincents The rest are Rio de Janeiro del Spiritu Sancto or of the Holy Ghost Porto Sepurio des Ileos or the Isles Todos les Sanctos or All Saints Penambuccio Tamaraca Paraiba Riogrande Siarra Maragnon and Para. Having thus given you an account of the Dominion of the Kings of Portugal I shall succinctly give you a Relation of their Kings even to Alphonso the sixth the Subject of the following Discourse but little more than naming them it being not my Intention to write their History but only as a preparative to what I shall more fully relate that you may not be altogether in the Dark as to the Succession of that Kingdom Lusitan a being under the Empire of the Romans followed the Fortune of the rest of Spain and was subject to the various turns and changes which often hapned in those days till the declining of the Roman Greatness when the Alans were the first that preyed upon it and endeavoured to Plant it but they were soon driven out by the Swemans and sent to seek for other places of Habitation These made Braga their Imperial City and enjoyed it for so he time till the great inundation of the Goths and Vandals who overrunning the whole Continent of Spain made all become Vassals to them and put this under their Power and Dominion These continued here for a lorg time and at last embrac't the Christian Religion till the Moors again like an irresistable Flood coming out of Africa fell in upon them and possessed themselves both of it and the greatest part of Spain But at last after much Strugling many Battels and much Bloodshed this Kingdom was in part Recovered from them by the Kings of Castile and by them enjoyed till they got a King of their own Henry the Second Duke of Lorraine whom some affirm to be Nephew to Godfry Duke of Bolloigne flying from the fuâ—â—y of the Emperor Henry the Fifth came into Spain where moved by the generous Emulation of his Uncle Godfry who was gon to the Conquest of Jerusalem be offered his service against the Moores and by his many valourous Atchievements against the Enemies of the Christian Religion he in a short time arrived at so great and consider able Repute with Alphonso the Sixth King of Castile that he gave him his Base Daughter Teresa to Wife with all those Lands he had Conquered from the Moores in Lusitania for her Dower the chief of which being the Country about Portus Gallorum mentioned in the Description before called then Porto he gave him the the Title of Count or Earl of Portugal And so he called the Lands he had Conquered from the Moores in Lusitania by that Name as did also his Successors and from thence proceeded the Name Portugal This Henry Earl of Portugal having been a Terror to the Moores and having enlarged his Territories being 77 years old lied leaving behind him by his Wife Teresa a Son who was born in the Year â—094 being 18 years Old at the Death of â—is Father and succeeded him in his Earlâ—om and came to be The Frst King of Portugal called Alphonso the First after his Grandfathers Name For being bred up in Military Discipline by his Father he prosecuted his 〈◊〉 against the Moors and all the Kings his Neighbours The Count of Trastamarense despising his Youth Married his Mother Teresia upon which there fell Wars between them but Alphonso behaved himself so well that he forced the Count to give him his Sister Uracca to Wife with an addition of Lands for her Dower He then made War with his Grandfather Alphonso the Sixth King of Castile and took him Prisoner but upon his Release he had conferred on him the Title of Duke of Portugal After that he turned his Forces against the Saracens and took from them Leirida and Torre da Ova and several other places Whereupon Ismaurus King of the Moores with four other Kings â—â—s Neighbours invaded Duke Alphonso with 400000 Men but were by him utterly Overthrown and Discomfited up on which memorable Battel he placed the five Escutchions which are now born in the Arms of Portugal in remembrance of the Overthorow of those five Moorish Kings His Souldiers grown proud with this Success thinking the Title of Duke too low for his great Merit saluted him by the Name of King which he accepting of the Estates of the People and all the Nobility and Gentry being Convocated in the City of Lamego and in the Church of Saint Almacave they conferred on him the Grown and Scepter and other Ensigns of Royalty by the hands of the Archbishop of Braga and confirmed by the Popes Letters they with joynt consent made him then King And at the same time they made several Fundamental Laws as a mutual Obligation between the King and his People Among the rest were 1. That Alphonso should be their King and his Children and Childrens Children after him for ever 2. That the Eldest Son should succeed but if he dye before his Father the next Brother should succeed 3. That if the King should dye without Issue having a Brother he should succeed but not his Sons without the consent of the Estates 4. That if the King should have only Daughters the Eldest should succeed after her Father upon condition she be Married to a Native of the Kingdom and that he be a Nobleman who should not have the Power to take the Name of King
was overthrown at the River Saledo by the Kings of Castile and Portugal where they obtained a great Victory with much Treasure and many Ensigns of Glory He had by his Queen Beatrice six Children Three Sons dyed in their Infancy the Fourth Don Pedro succeeded his Father in the Throne the other two were Daughters Mary who was Married to Alphonso King of Castile and Elenora espoused to Piedro the fourth King of Arragon King Alphonso being overloaded with the Burthen of 77 Years departed this Life Anno 1356 and was buried at Lisbon Eighthly Pedro the First of that Name the Eighth King of Portugal succeeded his Father Alphonso He was born at Lisbon Anno 1325 and was a-about 33 Years of Age when he came to the Government He was married to Constance Daughter to D. Juan Emanuel Son to Prince Emanuel Nephew to Ferdinand surnamed the Holy by whom he had one onely Son named Ferdinand who succeeded him in his Kingdom After the death of his Wife he fell in Love with Agnesa de Castro a most beautiful Woman descended of the Blood Royal by whom he had many Children among whom â—â— is John who was afterwards King of Portugal This Lady was put to death by his Father very unjustly but he brought those to condigne Punishment who had wrongfully accused her assoon as he came to the Crown It having caused long Wars between him and his Father But in the tenth Year of his Reign and about the 43d of his Age Anno 1367 he paid his Debt to Nature and was buried between the Bodies of his Wife and his Beloved Agnesia Ninthly Ferdinand the First of that Name and the ninth King of Portugal succeeded his Father in the Kingdom of Portugal and Algarve He was born at Lisbon Anno 1347 the onely Son of Constance the Daughter of D. Emanuel he came to the Crown at the Age of 22 Years in the Year 1369. He wholly drove the Moors from the Confines of Algarve and addicted himself much to the planting the Wast Lands he erected a Monastery for Franciscan Friars in Sylva the chief City of that Territory About his time it was that Pedro King of Castile being thrust out of his Kingdom by his Bastard Brother Henry for his many tyrannical Outrages done upon his Subjects sued in vain to Ferdinand not being willing to assist him but was re-established in his Throne by the Valiant Prince Edward commonly called the Black Prince Ferdinand had but one Daughter onely that survived him who was married to Henry King of Castile and thereby excluded from the Right of Succession according to that Law made at Samego by the General Assembly of the Estates so that in this King ended the Legitimate Line of Henry Duke of Lorrain This King having now reigned 18 Years and lived 40 being seised by a violent Sickness gave up the Ghost Anno 1387 and was buried in the Cathedral Church of Lisbon Tenthly John the First Bastard Son to Pedro the First after the death of Ferdinand his Brother and Neece Beatrice uncapable of Succession by reason of her Marriage with a forreign Prince claimed the Crown as next of Blood but was for a while debarred by reason of his Illegitimation when afterwards considering that they might choose one less deserving they conferred the Crown upon him yet so as he should receive it not as his indubitable Right by Birth but as given him by Election Thus he obtained the Crown by the Name of John the First and was the Tenth King of Portugal He was born in Lisbon in the Year 1356 and entered into the Government in the 32 Year of his Age in the Year 1388 with very great Applause of the whole Kingdom Soon after his Coronation he married Philippa Daughter to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster which he did to oppose Henry of Castile who claimed Portugal in Right of his Wife Beatrice by matching into that Family which had an equal if not greater Right to the Kingdom of Castile for that John Duke of Lancaster married the Eldest Daughter of Peter the murthered King of Castile and Leon. By Philippa he had a numerous Issue First Edward so named of his God-father Edward th Third of England who succeeded his Father in the Kingdom Ferdinand a Man of great Abstinency and Devotion John Pedro and the most Renowned Henry who was the First of the Portugal Nation that made any forreign Voyages he discovered the Azores Anno 1425 also the Islands of the Madera and sailing along the Coasts of Africa found the Way to Guiana King John reigned 47 Years being made Knight of the Garter as also his Sons the Infants Edward and Henry and dyed in the Year 1436 leaving the World full of his Glory Eleventhly Edward the First of that Name the Eleventh King of Portugal succeeded his Father he was Born at Braga Anno 1392 and came to the Crown about the Age of 44 Years or thereabouts He was married long before he came to the Crown and had four Children Ferdinand who dyed young Alphonso who succeeded him in the Kingdom Joane married to the King of Castile and Leon and Leonora married to the Emperor Ferdinand and was the Mother of the Emperor Maximilian He had but a short Reign of 5 Years and those with bad Success Twelfthly Alphonso the Fifth and the Twelfth King of Portugal succeeded his Father He was born at Lisbon about the Year 1420 and came to the Crown at the One and Twentieth Year of his Age in the Year 1441. He made Wars against the Moors in Barbary and took from them Tangier Alcazar and Arzilla which he fortified and kept He made Traffick famous encouraging Navigation which began to flourish with them exceedingly He left behind him several Children two of which succeeded him in the Kingdom John his eldest Son and Emanuel who reigned after his Brother He was a very affable and courteous Prince of a mild and gentle Disposition He dyed at Lisbon in the 43 Year of his Reign and 64 of his Life in the Year 1484. Thirteenthly John tho Second and Thirteenth King of Portugal succeeded his Father He was born about the Year 1456 and entred into the Government of the Kingdom at the Age of about 28 Years He made an Expedition into Barbary against the Moors with Success He sent out two Fleets for Discoveries one of which steered its Course along the Coast of Africa as far as Guinny where they made a Conquest of the Kingdom of Congo After he had reigned 14 Years with happy Success in all his Enterprises he dyed by a Fall from his Horse in Hunting leaving no Legitimate Issue Fourteenthly Emanuel the First and Fourteenth King of Portugal Brother to King John and Son to Alphonso succeeded He was born about the Year 1462 and took possession of the Crown about the Age of 32 Years He was bred up in all Sorts â—f Learning and was very Pious and Religious He was also a Lover of Navigation and set
should have the power to break it off Since there was not any Realm in the World but could shew Examples of the same thing That in Portugal the King Emanuel had Espoused Madam Leonora whom his Son John had thought to have Married that the Infanta Donna Beatrice Daughter to the King Don Fernand after she had agreed with Frederick Duke de Benevent as also with Duarte son of D' Aimond Count de Cambridg and promised to the Infanta John her Unkle after that to Ferdinand Son of John the First King of Castile was notwithstanding all this Espoused to the last That all the World knew that Mary Dutchess of Bourgoyn who had been promised to John and to Nicholas Father and Son Dukes of Anjou to Charles Duke of Guinne to the Duke of Savoy to Frederick Prince of Tarente Espoused Maximilian Arch-Duke of Austria and Emperor That they could not after all maintain with any Reason that to Consummate the Marriage of the King he must necessarily be Espoused to Madomoiselle de Bouillen But the Favourites seeing they were not able to change the mind of the Prince they made him be spoken to about it by the King determining with him the time and place for him to do it They two being together in their Seat on Good Friday though it was no place convenient nor which they had pitched on the King after he had entertained the Infante of many Indifferent things spake to him of this Marriage and reproached him that he had been willing the King should make the Match and that the Queen also had used her endeavours for it but the Infante lookt upon this Accusation but as a Calumny and justified both himself and the Queen As to that of his Marriage since it was not pleasing to God he should Marry contrary to his Affection his Majesty could not constrain him to it without offending him but the King not being able to suffer this resistance of the Prince told him that he would put him in the Tower To which he told him As he was King he might do it but yet although he had an absolute power over him ought not to make use of it to force his will or to do him out-rage On the next morning the Infante being returned to the Seat the King made new Efforts to perswade him But seeing he endeavoured it in vain he made the Secretary of State to tell Rodrigue de Meneses Simon de Vasconsellos and Rodrigue de Acunha that their Services should be no longer acceptable to him if they did not make his Brother change his Mind Rodrigue de Meneses would have made a Tryal on the Infante and rendred him an Accompt of what had passed but instead of hearing him he told him That the King might cut off his Head as well as of the meanest of his Subjects but he had not power enough to change his Heart That they should never make him to resolve upon that Marriage that not being the way to do it for in matters of Love the whole Soul becomes firm against Violence and the most sweet Spirits are provoked when they go about to force their Inclinations The Marquess de Sande before he went back into France to conclude the Marriage of the King spake to the Count de Castlemelhor about the report of his Inability but the Count told him it was an Imposture whether he was so perswaded indeed or whether he spake for his Interest against his Conscience is uncertain Whilst every one expected the good success of this Marriage that was negotiated and began before hand to tast the Joy of it there chanced a Subject of Affliction which troubled that Joy by the death of the Queen Every one was preparing their Habits to celebrate the Reception of the new Queen but were forced to turn them into mourning to honour the Funerals of the old She fell sick the 25th of February 1666 of a Disease that at first put her into extream Danger taking from her the liberty of Breathing She no sooner knew the estate she was in but she disposed like a most Christian and most Pious Princess of all things that concerned her after which she wrote to her two Children who were at Salvater in these Terms For the King My Son I am in such a Condition the Physicians doubt of my Life and I my self am very sensible that I have not long to live I have therefore resolved to give advice to your Majesty not knowing that time will permit me to do any thing else in a moment in which I ought to think on nothing but the health of my Soul and because I find it almost impossible to discharge it of that which presses it it is from you alone I expect this Comfort I believe I shall say all in saying I am your Mother and I hope all things of you if you would but remember your self of the duties of your Birth I attend Death amidst the Tears of those who have always followed me and as the loss which they will have by it is one of my greatest Greifs I demand of you that after you have acquitted your self of that which you owe to my Soul you will for my sake recompence the good Services which they rendred me and that you finish those Foundations which I have begun for God would have it so If I dy without seeing you I leave you my Blessing which is the only thing I have left me to give you assuring you that God will not require an Accompt of me for not at all times treating your Majesty as my Son From Xabregas the 26 of Feb. 1666 For the Infante My Son the Time I have to live is so short that every moment I am ready to expire I am your Mother and seeing I am upon the point of appearing before God I would not leave you without my Blessing I recommend to you always the Fear of God and the Obedience which you owe to your Brother in whom are all your hopes and in the end after my death be mindful of my Soul since you ow all things to my Love From Xabregas c. When the Infante heard these sad tidings he could not but by tears express his Greif but the King was very far from being touched with it and rallied his Brother for his tenderness and opposed his design of going away post Both of them answered the Letters of the Queen and sent her Word that they would come speedily to kiss her hand The Grand Master of the Kings House and the Super-Intendant of the Infante's carried their Answers The King made this Voyage with a great deal of delay going in his Brigantine he made many turns and returns upon the Water to speak words of Railery to the Boats and Barques he met with so that he arrived at the Quinte not till Saturday the 28th of February 1666 about eight a clock and it was not to be doubted but that this delay was a thing designed The King and
the Prince made once more an attempt upon him but he was no more to be shaken now than he was at other times he only let the Three States know that on the 9th of June 1668 He would take his Oath to maintain the Laws of the Realm and he would then receive from them theirs of Fidelity This day being come they all Assembled in the Great Hall of the Guards where that Ceremony was done with all the Pomp requisite thereunto and the Prince took his Oath in these Terms I do swear and promise the Grace of God assisting to rule and govern well and Equitably and to administer to you Justice in all Cases as far as the frailty of Humane Nature will permit and to keep and preserve your good Customes Priviledges Graces Recompenses Liberties and Franchises which hath been given granted and Confirmed by the Kings my Predecessors And the Three States of the Realm took theirs in these Terms We swear upon the holy Evangelists which we touch with our hands that we do acknowledge and receive for our Governour and Regent of these Realms because of the perpetual Impuissance of his Majesty as we have adjudg'd the most High and most Excellent Prince Don Pedro Legitimate Son of the King Don John the Fourth and of the Queen Dona Lewysa his Wife Brother and Curator of the most high and most excellent King Don Alphonso the sixth and his True and Natural Successor to these Realms And as the True and Natural Subjects as we are of the Prince Don Pedro we make to him Faith and Homage in the same manner as we have made to the King Don John the Fourth his Father and to the King Don Alphonso the Sixth his Brother whom we do at this present deprive of his Government because of his Incapacity with the same Jurisdiction Power and Authority that any of the Kings and Lords of this Crown have ever had and wee will obey fully and wholly all his Orders and Judgments be they high or be they low Jurisdictions and we will make War with his Enemies for him and entertain Peace with his Allies as it shall please him without obeying any other King but him All this abovesaid we swear to before God by this Cross and by the Holy Evangelists which we touch with our Hands to observe on our parts fully and wholly And as a Mark of our Submission and Obedience and of our acknowledging his Royal Soveraign Jurisdiction we kiss the Hand of his Highness here present These Oaths being made all the Dispatches began to be expedited in the Name of the Prince as Governour Regent of the Realm in the same form as had been formerly done when the Infante Don Alphonso Count de Bologn was made Governour of this same Realm because of the Incapacity of his Brother having been acknowledg'd for such by the Kings of France Spain and England at whose Courts his Embassadors and Envoys had been received with all the prerogatives which they had given to Kings After this Act the Three States continued to deliberate about the Affairs of the Realm until the First day of August 1668. when they separated This change was approved of by all the People excepting some persons who had no reason to approve of it because of their Interest In truth the deposing the King Don Alphonso was maintained not only by those Reasons which have been rehearsed but for many others which they were willing to have Concealed besides the same thing hath happened heretofore in Portugal in the Person of Don Sanche the Second In France in that of Childerick Philip and Theoderick In England in that of King Edward In Germany in that of Charles le Gross In Denmark in that of Christian In the Realm of Naples in that of Charles and in many other Kingdoms As soon as the Prince and the Princess had Consummated their Marriage in good earnest which they had made by Virtue of the Dispensation which they had obtained of Monsieur the Cardinal of Vendosme Legat a Latere in France to the end that there might remain no scruple they sent Father Francis de Ville Jesuit to Clement the 9th to supplicate on their part that he would Confirm this Dispensation His Holiness having received this Request as a Testimony of respect render'd to the Holy Sea he ordained with his Paternal Love That they should expedite this Brief with this Superscription To Our Well-Beloved Sons Deigo de Sousa Chief Inquisitor in the Inquisition against the Hereticks in the Realms of Portugal and Algarves Antony de Mendosa Commissary-General of the Bull of the Croisaide and Deputy of the Inquisition Martin Alphonso de Mello Dean of the Metropolitan Church of Evora also Deputy of the Inquisition Lewis de Sousa Dean of the Church of Porto and Emanuel de Meneses Arch-deacon of the Metropolitan of Evora Clement the 9th Pope Sends Health and Apostolick Benediction to Our Well-beloved Sons The Charge of Pastor which God hath given to us Commands us that according to the understanding which he hath granted us we should provide according to the Laws of Justice and Prudence repose to all the faithful Servants of Jesus Christ and chiefly to the Great Ones And because we have understood by the tenour of a Request which hath been presented to us a little while since on the part of our Son in Jesus Christ the most Beloved and most Noble Don Pedro Prince of Portugal and of our Daughter in Jesus Christ the most Beloved and most Noble Maria Isabella de Savoy Dutchess of Nemours That the said Princess after she had contracted a Marriage with our most Dear Son in Jesus Christ Alphonso the Illustrious King of Portugal and Algarves and lived with him about the space of six months as his Wife during which time she perceived his perpetual inability to consummâ—â— the said Marriage being pressed in her Conscience she hath been obliged to cause the said Marriage to be adjudged Null beginning her Process the Sea of the Archbishoprick being vacant before our Well beloved Sons the Vicar of the Chapter of the Metropolitan Church of Lisbon lawfully deputed and the Chapter and the Cannons of the same Church who hold by reason of the said vacancy an ordinary Jurisdiction and before several other Judges named by the same Chapter joyntly with the said Grand Vicar of the Chapter to the end that they might be the better instructed in that Affair and that they might deliberate thereon more maturely by whom there was given a Sentence that declared the said Marriage Nul because of the aforesaid Impotence which Sentence having been read and shewed to the King Alphonso was approved by him by word of Mouth and by Writing Moreover the aforesaid Princes Mary Isabel and the aforesaid Don Pedro Brother of the aforesaid King Alphonso being willing to Contract a Marriage together at the Requests of the States of the Realm who were at that time assembled at Lisbon to the end that