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A54299	The Portugal history, or, A relation of the troubles that happened in the court of Portugal in the years 1667 and 1668 in which is to be seen that great transaction of the renunciation of the crown by Alphonso the Sixth, the dissolution of his marriage with the Princess Maria Frances Isabella of Savoy : the marriage of the same princess to the Prince Don Pedro, regent of the realm of Portugal, and the reasons alledged at Rome for the dispensation thereof / by S.P., Esq.	Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.	1677 (1677)	Wing P1452; ESTC R18510	135,324	356

Affair with all the Favour the Sacred Canons would permit we have received from you a Letter wherein you very much acknowledg this Pontifical Grace This Testimony which we receive from you gives us a very great Satisfaction nevertheless this Favour for which you thank us with as much piety as affection according as the importance of the thing deserves we do demand of you with Justice that as you do chiefly owe it to the Goodness of the Holy See you would acknowledg that it is from her that you have received it which if you testifie as in truth you ought to do it is by having always more and more care and affection for those things which respect the Holy See and the Catholick Religion imitating in that the ancient Devotion of the Princes of Portugal who made it their Glory to obey the same See For if heretofore it hath been necessary in your State to endeavour the re-establishment of the things which concern the Church and Divine Worship and to reduce them to their Primitive Splendor at this present there is more reason through the want of the Pastors and the length of the War to do the same thing But we hope all these Mischiefs will be soon repaired by your Zeal and by your Prudence in joyning your Cares to ours as well in the choice of the Bishops as for all other things As to that of your Embassador of Obedience which you propose to us when he shall arrive we shall willingly receive him and yield him all the Honours that are justly due to him In the mean time our most beloved Son we do give you with the most sincere Affection that we are capable of our Apostolick Benediction From Rome near Saint Peters under the Seal of the Fisher 2 April 1669. the Second Year of our Popedom R. Florentin As they had search'd for a Retreat for the King Alphonso where he might live in some sort at liberty without troubling the Repose of the Realm they made him many Propositions but it was a long time before he would resolve not knowing what place to choose till at last he pitch'd upon the Isle of Tercera which was very easily granted him for that he might there find all Conveniencies and all sort of Divertisements according to his humour He departed then being accompanied with all the Magnificence that was requisite on such an occasion and of which the present Condition of the Realm was capable The Count de Prado with the Royal Navy carried him into that Island where he remains to this day The Dispensation granted by the Cardinal de Vendosm Legat à Latere for Clement the 9th in France For the Marriage of the Prince Don Pedro of Portugal with the Princess Maria Frances Isabella of Savoy LEwis Cardinal-Deacon of St. Mary in Porticu named of Vendosme Legat à Latere of his Holiness Clement by the Providence of God Pope the Ninth of that Name and of the Holy Sea Apostolique with Lewis the most Serene and most Christian King of France and Navar in all his Realms Provinces Seignories Cities and Lands and in all places dependant on him or that are adjacent thereunto and in all other places whither we shall go To our Well-beloved in Jesus Christ the Official or the Vicars Generals of the Church of Lisbon Deputies of its Chapter during the vacancy of the Archiepiscopal Sea and to every one of you in particular Eternal Health in our Lord. Having received a Request which hath been presented to us on the part of the most Serene Prince Don Pedro Infante of Portugal Regent of the Realm and of the most Serene Princess Mary Frances Isabella of Savoy by which they have shewn us that it being necessary for the Publique Good of the Realm of Portugal and the satisfaction of all the People who passionately desire it also that the said most Serene Prince and Princess should marry together and that doubting they may not be able to do it without an Apostolique Dispensation because the said Princess hath been before Contracted in Marriage with the most Serene and Puissant Prince Alphonso King of Portugal Brother to the said most Serene Prince Don Pedro and that it was Solemnized in the Face of the Church but that it never had at any time been consummated because of the Inability of the said King for which cause it had been declared Nul by course of Law from which Marriage lest there might arise some Impediment to this because of the publick Honesty they have humbly supplicated us to provide for it according to our Benignity And as we are furnish'd sufficiently with Power to do what is desired by the Letters of the Holy See which we are not obliged to insert here and that we are able by vertue of the Apostolick Legation committed to us to provide for the Necessities of all those who shall address themselves to us from what part soever they shall come or where soever they shall dwell or from what place soever they shall send being willing to give them all the Marks of our Favour and Benignity and particularly to those who are of Royal Blood we do absolve them and hold them both and each of them apart absolved from all Excommunications Suspensions Interdicts and other Sentences Ecclesiastick Censures pains of Law either Divine or Humane which they may have incurred for any Occasion or Cause whatsoever if so be they may have incurr'd them and not having a certain knowledge of that which is above-said being willing nevertheless to satisfie their Supplications by vertue of the Apostolique Authority which we have here we commit to your discretion of which we have in our Lord a particular confidence in this Point And we ordain you by these Presents That without hope of any Present or Salary though it should be given you freely from which we do enjoyn you wholly to abstain you do inform your selves exactly of all that is above affirmed and if by that Information you find that these Requests are founded upon the Truth with which we charge your Consciences provided that they be not forced thereto that you dispence with them by the same Authority for the Impediment of Publique Honesty in such sort that they may be publickly married according to the Form of the Council of Trent Solemnly make it in the Face of the Church and that it may stay be and continue thenceforth Free and Legitimate notwithstanding the said Impediment and all Apostolique Constitutions of Councils General Provincial or Synodical or any other thing whatsoever Declaring and pronouncing those Legitimate Children that shall therein be born And we will and intend if that despising this Admonition you shall have the boldness to take any Salary Present or Recompence for or concernining this matter although the same should be offer'd you that you incur the pains of Excommunication from which you shall not be absolved but by the Pope or by us or by some other who have a

he was Incapable of holding the Reins being Married to so fair and virtuous a Princess he was not Capable of giving them Successors to the Crown as he had evidently himself acknowledged by his own Declaration and by that of the Queens And seeing him fit neither for the one or the other and by Consequence it was necessary very suddenly to give a Remedy to these Evils They had permitted it giving way by the means of this Detention to make the Proofs as to the preparation of the Process upon the Nullity of his Marriage which else could not have been done 5. If the Queen at that time and in that condition had been able to have had Recourse to the holy See to have judged of the Nullity of her Marriage she had undoubtedly done it she having at divers times declared the same thing And doth yet declare it that it was her Intention as much for the grand Importance of the Business as for the great Respect and infinite Reverence which she always hath had for the holy See And also because she is fully perswaded of the Equity and Justice of one of the best and most worthy Popes who hath ever sat in the Chair of St. Peter but not then being able to do it to her great Regret not having so easily Recourse thither for those Causes which all the World knows of and which have made all the Realm of Portugal to Groan for the space of Thirty Years continually without having the power to be able to cast themselves at the Feet of the Popes nor to be heard in their greatest Spiritual Necessities the Peace with Spain not being as yet finished from whence all these Obstacles came Her Majesty was obliged to have Recourse to the Ordinary and to the nearest Judge which was the Chapter of Lisbon when the Episcopal See was vacant 6. That in the choice of the Judges which were Eleven in Number the Chapter had had all the Liberty and all the Regard possible to name for that Business the most considerable of that Illustrious Body as well for their Quality and their Learning as their Virtue and their Honesty 7. That in the Judgment which lasted more than Four Months there was observed all the necessary Forms even as if it had been done for Persons of ordinary or the meanest Condition 8. That as to the Proofs in Law upon which they had declared the King Incapable and his Marriage Nul they were so strong and evidently manifest and so very certain that the Judges after they had a long time and most maturely Examined all declared in their Sentence that they were not only sufficient but more than enough and there was no need either of Inspection nor of the Experience of Three Years 9. Then when it was made known to the King the Sentence that the Eleven Judges had pronounced as abovesaid before all the Chapter of Lisbon upon the Nullity of the Marriage and one of the Judges to wit the Grand Vicar signified it to him by the Secretary of the Relation being Interrogaeed whether he would Acquiess therein or whether he would Appeal He Answered of his own good will that he was willing to Acquiess and that he would not Appeal and his Majesty signed the same Declaration This is in truth and in few words what hath passed about the Nullity of the first Marriage of the Queen so that there only remains the Third Consideration to be Examined which is concerning the manner in which she hath made the Second with the most Serene Prince Don Pedro which we shall clearly shew in few words in these following Articles 1. The Queen having received the Sentence of the nullity of her Marriage and seeing her self free she thought of nothing but of returning into France and for that end she would take the Opportunity of the Fleet which the most Christian King had sent into Portugal to carry back his Troops Therefore she quickly let the Three States know her Resolution praying them very earnestly to Approve of it and to Order it so that she might carry back with her the Portion she brought that she returning for France might have wherewithal to maintain her according to her Quality But the States who had so highly Approved of her Retreat and witnessed infinite Joy for the Sentence of the Nullity of the Marriage did strongly oppose themselves to the Resolution which she had taken of going away and came all of them in a Body to the Covent to Supplicate her with Tears in their Eyes not to abandon the Realm And having already found some ease by her Declaration that she would once more yield to their Wishes in consenting to the Marriage which they would propose to her with their Prince and the rather because they were neither able nor willing to return her Portion To which the Queen having Answered what her Modesty and the Quality of her Birth would permit her on that Occasion without engaging her self or denying it They went at the same instant in a Body to the Prince to entreat him to save the Realm by Espousing the Queen protesting to him that they would never suffer him as they said to think on any other Marriage The Prince who ever had a particular Esteem for the Queen because of her rare qualities and ever since they had designed to have espoused her to him formerly when they designed to have married the King Alphonso to Mademoiselle de Nemours at this time the Dutchess Royal of Savoy did receive this Petition of the States with very great satisfaction saying That he most willingly consented to to it provided they could bring it about that the Queen would consent to it likewise Being returned for this end to her Majesty they supplicated her divers times that she would give her consent thereto so that in the end being vanquished by the powerful Reasons which they alledged concerning the necessity of the State and by those Motives which they urged to make this Marriage speedily she gave them the Liberty to do that which they should think most convenient for the Publick Good So that this Marriage was solemnly concluded and all things disposed to consummate it very soon to prevent and dissipate the practices which some of the Enemies of the publick Repose were making with the Ministers of Spain to hinder it and to conclude another with the Princess of Austria and the same Prince by which they would make him hope for great advantages to make him consent 2. The principal Divines and Doctors of the University of Portugal as well Regulars as Seculars having consulted upon the necessity of a Dispensation for the first degree of publick Honesty to effect this Marriage they were all of the same Opinion and of the same Sentiment saying unanimously that there was no need of having it in the Case in Question and they made divers Writings thereupon There was also more than thirty who signed a Treatise which was expresly made by one

Vasconcellos Sousa and Christopher de Almada were at Lisbon The Prince took an occasion thereupon to demand again those Gentlemen which they had refused him and sent to let the Favourite know by his Secretary that he should advertise the King it was for his Honour whilst the Court was full of Strangers he should have a Train answerable to his Birth and Quality The Favourite return'd an answer so drily to the Infante's Secretary that he was obliged to tell him it would be well for him to pacifie him but he despised that advice Before the Infante had known the Kings Answer they met by chance in the great Place called Campo Grandee the King abourding him said Since he had been wilful he would take his turn to be so to The Infante answered him That his Majesty ought to be as good as his Word and if he had any reason wherefore he should not grant him those Gentlemen he had demanded he ought not to hide it from him since they were all worthy of the approbation of his Majesty he had reason to believe that he had a design to deprive him of the stisfaction of being neer him After this seeing things look so scurvily at the Court he demanded permission of the King to retire The King told him That he might do it of his own proper motion if he pleased but he should not order it The Infante took leave of the King and kissing his Hand he added to what he had said That from that moment he should retire himself from the Court but he believed he ought in good Manners to attend the King until he had made his entrance into Lisbon with the Queen He went notwithstanding every Day to the Court where the King Rallying with him ask'd him why he was not yet gone from Court He answered That he stayed only to accompany his Majesty in his Entry and after that he would finally retire Among these Rudenesses which the King shewed to his Brother he mingled some Sweetnesses and Caresses some were perswaded that this Refusal came but from some Counsel that had been given the King The Infante one Day said to Don Rodrigue de Meneses and to Simon de Vasconcellos that he knew well enough some Body did render him ill Offices about the King and had diverted him from the Design he had to have kept his word He added That he suspected the Count of Castlemelhor and if he should find it to be so he should have a Chastisement as rigorous as his Crime was enormous Simon de Vasconcellos answered That if he continued to do such Injustice to his Brother he should retire himself from his Service And he spoke it with so much Passion the Infante was obliged to tell him That he should have a care of what he said for he would not always find him disposed to receive his Excuses as he had often done since he had carried things to that Extremity and put him besides all Patience he would make him think of what he had to do and that he should leave the Palace Simon de Vasconcellos not being to be found about the Infante when he was going forth and that by his Order they had searched for him on all sides without finding him he came just as the Infante went into his Coach who commanded him to take his Place but he denied it and the more he was pressed the more obstinately he refused it so that the Infante was fain to go without him This Obstinacy at one blow broke the Line which ty'd him to the Prince and since that time he could never obtain the Grace he had refused The Count de Castlemelhor having understood that the Infante was angry with him and his Brother had lost his favour endeavoured to get for him those Gentlemen he desired but he could not bring it about But having a mind to justify himself however with the Infante he came to his Palace to make him great Protestations of his Service and represented to him the great Endeavours he had used with the King to render him Service exaggerating the trouble he had had to have a particular Audience of the King and that he could not obtain it but under pretext of letting him see some papers of other Concernment But the Infante answered him That he had no faith in those Words if they were not followed by Effects and he should by that best judge of them adding that the evil Treatment he had received from the King came from the Counsels that were given him that as he knew not certainly who they were that gave it him he had not taken from them their Lives that for his own particular if he would justify himself to him he had nothing to do but to procure him the good favour of the King upon whose Spirit he had an absolute power and that would be the only mark he could give him of his innocency The Favourite returned worse satisfied than before with this Discourse for he was perswaded that this Contempt which the Prince shewed he had for him if he should not revenge himself for it would draw on him that of all the people The Infante dispos'd himself every day to retire and great quantity of the most considerable Gentlemen of the Kingdom kept themselves about his Person which gave great Terror to the Favourite and forced him to stand upon his Guard for he was not ignorant that they imputed the Discontents of the Infante to none but him and that they had said publickly he would not retire but because they two were incompatible This was easily believed by the Interest that Favourites have to estrange from the Court those whose birth might give them Authority or for the Hatred they bear to Favourites which interprets all they do in an evil sence After the King had made his En●● into Lisbon on the 29th of August 1666 the Infante who stay'd 〈◊〉 for the end of that Ceremony to 〈◊〉 himself went out of the City that night without any noise follow'd only by Don Rodrigue de Meneses Simon de Vasconcellos not being in his service and Christopher d' Almada being indisposed and the Nobless who were accustomed to be with him and went to dye at the Quinte de Quelas one of his Houses of Pleasure which is a 〈◊〉 and a half from Lisbon 〈◊〉 did not approve of this 〈◊〉 as if the Infante had done what 〈◊〉 Favourite desired saying he had better to have taken some great and magnanimous Resolution and that to evil Extreams they ought to use the same Remedies Others prais'd it as a thing necessary and prudent that after he had unprofitably employ'd all the moderation one could be capable of he had no other way to take if by his first absence he had shun'd great persecutions he would by this secure himself from those which they prepared for him which according to appearance would become much more violent The trouble which this Retreat of the Infante caused in the

Court gave great hopes to the Spaniards to reconquer the Realm of Portugal Fame always adding to the Truth made simple appearances pass for realities and publish'd in Countries at a distance that the Infante had taken Arms against the King That which gave a jealousie to the Favourites chiefly was their understanding the Infante had order'd to prepare for him a House at Almada to pass away the Winter in The Favourites seeing the Love of the People to encrease for the Infante through the compassion which they had for his disgraces went about to solicite his return At this time the Queen found her self indisposed and the Prince who who came often to enquire after her health gave her visits by night but by the perswasions of the Favourites she was removed to Lisbon during her illness it being a place better accommodated it may be to her contentment for remedy for her grief The Infante let himself be perswaded by the prayers of the Queen and return'd to his Palace yet without bringing his Equipage from Quelus because his design was to return thither again in case he were not satisfied and to pass from thence to Almada The greatest favour they could force from the King was that he would consent he should take some Gentlemen but as for those he had chosen the more they urg'd the more he deny'd it and they could never soften a heart which had so harden'd it self so that all they could obtain of the King was that he should renounce his first election and chuse any whom he would one only excepted As they had fail'd of the first promise they had given to the Infante he would not trouble himself again Nevertheless after he had made reflection thereon that his Complaint would be the more legitimate and more talk'd on if the King should break it a second time as he believ'd he would he accepted of this offer and named Lewis de Silva Tello Count d' Aveiras Dou John Mascarenhas Count de la Torc Lewis Alvares de Tavora Count de St. John and Emanuel Telles de Silva Count de Vilarmayor When the Favourites had heard this news they deliberated at first if they should approve of the choice all these Gentlemen being suspected to be too considerable but yet in the end they feign'd to think well of it After this the Infante came back to Court when Christopher d'Almada demanded leave of the King to retire which was granted him with some demonstration of acknowledgment for his Services The King every moment exercised so much the Patience of his Brother that all the world believ'd his hate was implacable insomuch that it was not in the power of those who seem'd to be Master of his Spirit to sweeten him in the least at least it was so thought by some who were perswaded that it was the interest of the Favourites rather to oblige the Prince than to irritate him But others judg'd to the contrary that all this was but feign'd by the Favourites who despairing ever to be truly reconciled to the Infante fomented the hatred that the King bore him The aversion of the King to the Infante running thus into excess he did nothing but what render'd him Criminal in the mind of the King One day there hapning a difference between the Marchioness of Castlemelhor Lady of Honour to the Queen and Don John Mascorenhas Count de St. Croix Grand Master of his House about the Functions of their Charges the King said he would accommodate the business and govern his House himself the Infante thinking to Court him added that he ought not only to govern his House but also the Realm which would give joy to all the people and make all the Complaints of his Subjects cease But the King imagining the Infante said this in hatred to the Marchioness answered in fury that he should not meddle with giving him Councel and his passion pass'd so far that he had struck him if the Queen had not diverted him Another time the King Queen and the Infante being together in a Caroch seeing the Tilting in the which the Marquess of Marialva and the Count de Castlemelhor were the Chiefs of the Squadrons the Infante prais'd the good Grace of the Marquis and his Brother to Don Rodrigue de Meneses who rod by him the King imagining that these praises which he had given to the Marquiss de Marialva did wrong to the Count de Castlemelhor he told him if that the Queen had not been present he would have thrust his Sword into his Guts The Infante answered they merited those praises and that his Majesty ought to have equal satisfaction for them all since they had no other design but to divert him Besides he was perswaded that his Majesty would not shed that Blood which he was willing to pour forth for his service The Queen try'd to appease the wrath of the one and the resentment of the other but the first she could not effect But that which was most surprising in this was because this Marquiss was one of those who had most contributed to the re-establishment of the State and one of those who did yet maintain it And although he had won Battels and had recovered places of importance and that the Count had not done any services like these yet he be so well perswaded the King that it was he that did all things in the State and that others did but execute his Resolutions that he carried away all the Rewards and the better to cover this ingratitude he rob'd them of a part of their Glory and debased their fair Actions So that whilst the great Captains vanquished their Enemies in the Field and on the Frontiers the Count triumph'd for it in the Court and in the Cabinet The King was also so perswaded his Brother did not love him and he believ'd he saw marks of his aversion in all his Discourses and in all his Actions so much that he took all the Respects he render'd him for Offences So that it was enough to make the King mortally hate any man if the Infante testified to him any amity as it happen'd to Joseph de Fonseca Chaplain to the King and Almoner to the Infante who had order to withdraw himself for which the Infante was sensibly touch'd but dissembled his resentment The Infante having named Don Verissimo de Lancastre to fulfil the charge of drawing the Screen before the King by a permission granted him by the King it being vacant by the Death of Don Rodrigue de Acuntia they made him acquainted with that choice by the Favourite but the answer was return'd that the King had already himself chosen one to serve in that employment The Infante seeing he would not cease from giving of him these disgusts he knew now better remedy to shun them than to withdraw himself from the Court. To effect this he sent the King word by his Secretary that being Constable of the Realm he ought to