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son_n	husband_n	sister_n	wife_n	31,415	5	10.2119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19864	A briefe discourse of the Spanish state vvith a dialogue annexed intituled Philobasilis.	Daunce, Edward.	1590 (1590)	STC 6291; ESTC S109300	31,421	60

of their murther and cruelty which belongeth to this part of confusion wherin they alone haue top and top gallant Solon hauing giuen lawes to the Athenians was demanded why he made not one for parricide for that saith he I thinke no man so beastly to commit it The Philosopher thought nature to haue great authority in this matter but seing that loue only descendeth she commandeth little That the child hath murthered the parent moued by a couetous desire either of patrimony or gouernement is more apparant in the line of Othomano then piety would but for the father to kill his innocent sonne or the husband his chast wife besides that family and the act of Herod I knowe no authentike proofe vnlesse Spaine can yeeld some president for both In the yeare 1568. the Duke of Alba descending with the Terrezans of Milan and Naples into the lower countries vpon pretence of pacifying that state and leauing no kind of tyranny vnexercised gaue great mislike of his doings to all men especially to the young Prince of Spaine who often complained of his crueltie in those prouinces the gouernment of which belonged as he saide no lesse to him in the life of his father then it did to Philip who had the same in the time of Charles the fift This complaint though it seemed iust to some yet others chiefely the fathers of the Inquisition reproued it as matter to be suspected and sauoring more of noueltie then appertained to one of his yeares by which slaunder they brought him into common hatred specially of his father who being wholly addicted to his secreat pleasures easily beleeued any thing in respect whereof and that hee had made committies for hearing all matters of State it was thought meete by them to restraine the Prince of libertie as a man without other practise knowing the greatnes of his mind to shorten his time although he died not without suspition of poyson The Queene of Spaine during his restraint presuming much on her place and pitying his innocencie and tender yeares solicited the king to receiue him againe into fauour but the mallice of the Princes aduersaries preuailed both towards him and the Queene whom they found no lesse zealous for the peace of Belgia then for the kings honour for which cause they ordered that both their hearses were within one moneth which I sawe at Antvvarpe lamented with teares and at Naples solemnized with ioy so great a matter it was for the prouinces to loose good Princes and for the Spaniards to be ridde of them by whose pietie and wise prouidence their auarice and crueltie had beene bridled and so small a thing it is in Spaine for a father to murther his son and a husband his wife the one being after the French phrase Le petit fils of two Emperors and the sonne of a king the other the daughter of a king the sister of kings and wife of a king Some may obiect that these reports are scandalous and belong rather to the Councell of Spaine and fathers of the Inquisition then to the king I confesse that besides publicke fame which suffizeth to driue the accusant to his purgation I can oppose but these grounds First that he who propelleth not an iniurie if he may is no lesse faultie then he that offereth the wrong secondly that those subiectes whose Prince regardeth not by what meane his sonne and wife were oppressed are not to hope the defence of his ciuill or martiall sword Now remaineth their confusion of things ciuill which I ascribe not only to the subuersion of positiue lawes priuiledges and customes but to the ouerthrow also of that society which ought to be betwene men of one nation or seueral countreyes for maintaining their particular quiet That they haue subuerted the ciuill state by altering of ancient ordinances I hope they will not denie which if they do their policie in Belgia framed by Escou●do secretarie to Don Iohn of Austria vz. that the king must chastice one Prouince by an other to be made absolute in all being compared with the priuiledges and customes of those Prouinces graunted in the Bull of gold and since confirmed by their Princes will conuince them of great impudencie For if amongst other things contained in that Bull the Princes of Belgia are prohibited to amplifie the Ecclesiasticall state further then hath bene prescribed or to leauie any mony or to make any innouatiō in matter of state without consent of the Nobilitie and people or to place forenners in the ciuill gouernment vnlesse in some small offices with this caution that if they fall into any of these errours their subiects making due protestation are absolued from their obedience what is it to enioyne diuerse townes of Brabant to receiue Bishops the vnited Prouinces the Spanish Inquisition Spanish and Italian gouernours and to impose this burthen that besides the yearely tenth of mens goods nothing is bought and sold to the vse of the bodie out of which the kings officers trie not a part of siluer What other thing I say is this alcumie then the rooting vp of a State planted by the hands of good Princes then which there is no iniustice more capitall To antiquate these things seemeth no other then the cancelling of societie but they are distinct and but in part like some obeying no ordinance and yet hauing mutuall societie which groweth by a secret agreement of nature making them conuersant By which I collect the confusion of societie amongst men liuing vnder one law is their morositie onely This vice is rife amongst them and wherein the Spaniard hath his difference from all men aswell for offending therein their owne persons as priuate persons the Soueraigne and the Soueraigne the subiect as also priuate persons one another in all which they haue predominatiou and if it were possible exceede them selues For sinning against their owne persons behold a rare example Don Piero of Castill the sonne of Alphonso the xi leading the vantgard of a battail against the Mores of Granado and being aduertised that his vnkle Don Iohn who was in the arergard was like to be distressed by a sudden eruption of Mores and finding him selfe vnable to relieue his vnkle his souldiers departing the field was so surprized with beastlines that he fel from his horse dead which when Don Iohn was certified he died also A matter saith the author not before heard that a man should die of displeasure yet presidents no lesse rare in their sort do folow but first of offences against the Soueraigne A Spaniard beholding Ferdinando grandfather to Charles the fift in procession at Barcelona that day they name Corpus Christi feast strake him so furiously with a dagger on the necke that he had slaine him if the greatnesse of his chaine had not put by the thrust and that for no other cause as he confessed being taken but that the king stood not in his good grace and that he liked not his countenance an opinion no

11. lent vpon the Counties of Roussilion and Parpignan by meane of that cousining frier Oliuer Maillard I let passe with these notes that as it behooueth the kings of France to suspect the hypocrisie of friers in regard of the ambition of Spaine and Lorran so it standeth the king of Spaine in hand not to dye in Egypt no man being buried there by an ancient law of that region if his gouernement hath bin tyranous or his debts vnpaide To returne to the second part of their couetousnesse ouerthrowing the foundation of Iustice if this ground be true that nothing is profitable that is not honest these men are too deuout seruitors of the Pope he crying this Prince sweats or fetch to leape like water spaniels at the sacred dignities of kings and to enter violently their Domaines established by his diuine order who said by me kings do raigne I will iustifie it that if the right of Millaine appertaine not to the kings of France who claimed that Dutchie by Valentina grandmother to Levvis the twelfth daughter and heire to Iohn Galeazzo who had it of the gift of the Emperor Sigismund that then it belongeth to the Empire It is also certaine that the Spanish claime to the kingdome of Naples and Sicilia if the treatie at Madrick helpe not is voidable the same growing vpon the adoption of Alphonso king of Aragon by Iohn the daughter of Lancelot the son of Charles de la Paix an vsurper of those realmes which for good cause shee retracted in her life conuaied her title to Levvis the third sonne to Levvis the second sonne to Levvis the first being Duke of Aniou and before adopted by Ioan the daughter of Levvis the sonne of Robert all which were lawfully possessed of those Realmes After which Levvis the third Duke of Aniou hauing in him the right of the two Queenes and dying without issue left thē to his brother Rene who hauing no issue male gaue his interest to his brother Charles who dying likewise without issue left his title by testament to the french king Levvis the 11. in respect wherof Charles the 8. his sonne entred Italie recouered Naples where he was crowned Moreouer the Spaniard neither as king of Spaine or Duke of Burgundie hath any right to Holland Zeland and Henault the same hauing bene the patrimonie of Iaquet daughter heire to Guilliam Duke of Bauiers wife to Iohn Duke of Brabant who died without issue since which time Philip the Duke of Burgundy his cosen his heire hauing their will for law haue violently detained those prouinces Furthermore their title to Maiorica Minorica to the higher Nauar resteth vpon these doubts first that if king Philip were takē in battel or intrapped by other meanes and imprisoned during his life whether Spaine shuld be forfait to him whose captiue he were Secondly if Spaine were prescribed by the holy father who many times is implacable whether that kingdome were his who first laid hand thereon I am perswaded they would reck on these questions absurd but if the case bee altered with names it is cocke on the hoope for them clearer then the midday For the king of Aragons conquest of Maiorica and Minorica was by no other meane then by keeping the king of both in prison till his death of which wrong the king his sonne complained to Edvvard Duke of Aquitan who assured him his wars ended for Don Piero of Castile he would yeeld him all fauor possible Their chiualrie in their thieuish surprising the higher Nauarre which they hold by force of the Popes proscription is of like condition whereby it may appeare that notwithstanding these Caualeros haue their Rapiers hanging point blancke that it is their penurie at home that giues them stomake according to their name that they are Sagaces Hispani to winde or smell their neighbors cupbords abrode The late Prince of Orenge hath declared their iniurie to Don Anthonio for Portingall and God himselfe wherein we haue to boast and be thankfull hath with hautie stile penned our Apologie for England wherefore I omit both to shewe the last branch of their couetousnesse then which there is nothing that more toucheth their indignitie for if it be proper to the Lion and Tiger to pursue with incredible furie those that bereue them of their whelpes what greater beastlines can there be in man who hath reason is not borne for himselfe then contrarie to the naturall instinct of brute beastes to make his issue captiue whom nature made free as the Spaniards by selling the Indian women conceiued with child by them haue done to their great obloquie This kinde of auarice caused the Indians to practise new matter but rather it may be the diuine punishment considering the simplicitie of that people who as they could opportunely take the Spaniards powred melted gold into their mouthes vsing Thomyris words to Cyrus head in bloud now drinke your fill To returne from whence I digressed touching their qualities expressing the significations of Spaine Next to their couetousnesse their enuy is to be regarded a vice proper to men of base account and peculiar aboue all others to this nation as well by testimonie of Gaston the Erle of Foix a Prince of singular magnificence and valure who dehorting the Lords of Biern from seruing the king of Castill against the Portingall tould them the Spaniards were filthie lowsie and enuious of the prosperitie of straungers which at Iuberoth the French desiring to haue the vanward found true the king of Castill not being able in regard of their place to bring his Spaniards though 20000. to make supply by meane whereof the Lords of Biern with their retinue being 12000. were slaine As also by the Duke of Albas reproouing Countie Egmond who with the aide of our artilery from sea ouerthrew the Frenchmen betweene Grauelin and Dunkercke which victorie the Spaniard imputed onely to the Counties temerity and for recompence of his valure could not after aford him his life Hitherto haue I prooued the significations of Spaine as causes by their effects or maximes by their consequences now remaineth to speake of Tubal signifying of the world worldly confusion and ignomy Some may thinke that what hath bene said for Spaine belongeth also to Tubal but I am of another minde for as it followeth not necessarily that whosoeuer is rich is therefore proud high minded and insolent no more is it consequent that the poore are worldly confuse and ignominious many of both sorts being such whom God doth loue in respect whereof it behoueth me to handle this as the other a part to make apparant that they are no lesse confuse and ignominious than naturally poore and miserable As for these words worldly or of the world although their grosse ignorance of diuine things may be prooued thereby yet for that they belong to my Masters the Diuines I let them passe First therefore as touching confusion it is a peruerting