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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58828	A narrative of the wicked plots carried on by Seignior Gondamore for advancing the popish religion and Spanish faction heartily recommended to all Protestants by Rich. Dugdale, Gent.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Lerma, Francisco de Sandoval y Rojas, Duque de, 1552-1625.; Gondomar, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Conde de, 1567-1626.; Dugdale, Richard.	1679 (1679)	Wing S2086; Wing D2472_CANCELLED; ESTC R22577	21,050	21

all the Councel of State and the President met there wanted only the Duke of Lerma and the Popes Nuntio who were the Head and Feet of all the Assembly These two stayed long away for divers respects The Nuntio that he might express the greatness of his Master and loose the See of Rome no respect by his Over-●●ght but that the benches might be full at his Approoch The Duke of Lerma to express the Authority and Dignity of his own Person and to shew how a Servant put in place of his Master exacts more service of his Fellow-Servants than the Master himself These two stayed till all the rest were weary of waiting but at length the Nuntio supposing all the Council sat launced forth and came to Roade in the Council Chamber where after mutual discharge of Duty from the Company and blessing upon it from him he sate down in solemn silence grieving at his oversight when he saw the Duke of Lerma absent with whom he strove as a Competitor for Pomp and Glory The Duke had sent before and understood of the Nuntio's being there and stayed something the longer That his boldness might be observed wherein he had his desire for the Nuntio having a while patiently driven away the time with several Complements to several Persons had now almost run his Patience out of breath but the Duke of Villa Hermosa President of the Council of Arragon fed his humour by the discharge of his own discontentment upon the occasion of the Duke of Lerma his absence and beckoned Seigniour Gondamore to him using this speech in the hearing of the Nuntio after a sporting manner How unhappy are the People where you have been first for their Souls being Hereticks then for their Estates where the name of a Favourite is so familiar How happy is our Estate where the Keys of Life and Death are so easily come by pointing at the NUNTIO hanging at every Religious Girdle and where the door of Justice and Mercy stand equally open to all Men without respest of Persons The Embassadour knew the Ironical stroak to be intended as a by-blow to the Nuntio but fully at the Duke of Lerma whose greatness began now to wax heavy towards Declension and therefore he returned this Answer Your Excellency knoweth the State is happy where wise Favourites govern Kings if the Kings themselves be foolish or if the wiser Sort will not yet be govern'd by them The STATE of ENGLAND howsoever you hear of it in Spain or Rome is so happy in the last kind they need not care much what the Favourite be though for the most part he be such as prevents all Suspition in that kind being rather chose as a Scholar to be taught than a Tutor to teach of this they are sure no Prince exceeds theirs in personal Abilities so that nothing could be added to him in my wish but this one He were our Vassayle and a Catholick With that the noise without gave notice of the Duke of Lerma his entrance at whose first Approach the whole House arose though some latter than others as if some had hung Plummets on them to keep them down the Nuntio only sate unremoved the Duke received the Obeysance of the rest with a familiar kind of carriage to high for Courtesie as one not neglecting such demeanors but expecting it and after a Filial observance to the Popes Nuntio sate down as President under the Cloath of State but somewhat lower then after a Space given for admiration preparation and attention The PRESIDENTS Speech requiring the Embassador to give an Account of his PLOTS and wicked INTREAGUES against ENGLAND and what Success he met with THe King my Master holding it more honourable to do than to discourse to take from you the Expectation of Oratory used rather in Schools and Pulpits than in Councels hath appointed me President in this holy wise learned and noble Assembly a man naturally of a slow Speech and not desirous to quicken it by Art or Industry as holding Action only proper to a Spaniard as I am by Birth to a Souldier as I am by Profession to a King as I am by Representation take this therefore briefly for a Declaration both for the Cause of this Meeting and my Master his further pleasure There hath been at all times from the Worlds foundation one Chief Commander or Monarch upon the Earth this needs no further proof than a back-looking into our own Memories and Histories of the World neither now is there any question except with Infidels and Hereticks of that one Chief Commander in Spirituals in the Unity of whose Person the Members of the visible Church is included but there is some doubt of the Chief Commander in Temporals who as the Moon to the Sun might govern by night as this by day and by the Sword of Justice compell to come in or ●ut of such as infringe the Authority of the Keys This hath been so well understood long since by the in●allible Chair as that thereby upon the Declension of the Roman Emperours and the Increase of Romes Spiritual Splendour who thought it unnatural that their Suns should be sublunary our Nation was by the Bishop of Rome selected before other People to conquer and rule other Nations with a Rod of Iron and our Kings to that end adorned with the Stile of Catholik Kings as a Name above all Names under the Sun which is under Gods Vicar General himself the Catholick Bishop of Souls To instance this point by comparison look first upon the Grand Seignior the Great Turk who hath a large Title but not universal for besides that he is an Infidel his command is confin'd within his own Territories and he is not stil'd Emporor of the World but of the Turks and of their Vassayles only among Christians the Defender of the Faith was a glorious Stile whilst the King to whom it was given by his Holiness continued worthy of it but it stood not in the truth neither yet those that succeeded him and besides it was no great thing to be call'd what every good Christian ought to be Defendor of the Faith no more than to be stiled with France the most Christian King wherein he hath the greatest part of his Title common with most Christians The Emperor of Russia Rome and Germany extend not their Limits further than their Stiles which are local only my Master the most Catholik King is for the Dominion of Bodies as the Universal Bishop for the Dominion of Souls over all that Part of the World which we call America except where the English Intruders usurp and the greatest Part of Europe with some Part of Asia and Africa by actual Possession and over all the rest by real and indubitable Right yet acknowledgeth his Right to be derived from the free and Fatherly Donation of his Holiness who as the Sun to the Moon bestows Lustre by Reflection to this Kingdom to this King of Kings my Master what therefore he