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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01403	The secretaries studie containing new familiar epistles: or directions, for the formall, orderly, and iudicious inditing of letters. ... By Thomas Gainsford, Esq.	Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?	1616 (1616)	STC 11523; ESTC S102834	84,541	142

things The order of Deruices is sutable to the Capuchine friers and are called Turners They allow God the Father but denye the Trinitie They reuerence the three professors of the three religions Moyses for the Iewes Christ for the Christians Mahomet for themselues They hate in others prophanation or blasphemy and obserue naturalls mad-men and fooles They bury their dead with a singing noyse and watch ouer the graues with mourning howling Infinit other particulars may be obserued but these shall suffice till a larger discourse can bring mee within the reach of your acceptation and shewe how I haue not employed my time amisse and am willing to giue you notice of the same whome of all other men I would content in this kinde Yours with a true heart To his honorable Friend Captaine S. MY noble Companion without further complemēt when we parted from Messina you for Venice and I for Constantinople Newes came to our English Consull that the Vineyard a ship of London was surprised by the Malteses the goods confiscate and one Harris the Maister terribly threatned for transporting Munition or other prohibited merchandise to the Turks wherein the Gran-Prior is so resolute that he hath presumed to write into England to iustifie the action and added withall that the next offender shall loose ship and all For you must consider that there is a kinde of Confederacie betweene the Pope the Duke of Florence and these Malteses gainst the Turke and whereas all other Princes are now as it were vnder a protection of a peace these onely dare to proclaime a warre And what they cannot perform with the brauery of open hostilitie at land they will execute with the cunning of priuate surprises at Sea and by reason the Knights of the Rhodes abated their florishes in the losse of that Iland they are retyred to Malta to recouer their credit euer since that happy repulsing the Turkes by that miraculous defending their citie and Castle haue stood at defiance both with this enemie of Christians all such as shall support him to make him a stronger enemy then they suppose he can be of him selfe And heerein the Pope is so charitable that he blesseth their enterprises and encourageth many Gentlemen of diuers Nations to enrowle themselues vnder the Holy Banner account it a glorie to be a true Souldier for religion So that a Knight of Malta holdeth vp a countenāce of such reputation that hee supposeth his Honour to precede any temporall dignity vnder a Baron and the Gran-Prior himselfe will not abate a iote of a Princes estimation Yours for euer though we neuer meete againe To his approued Friend G. A. Esq. GOod Syr There is no one thing in the world in which I desire to haue an honorable contention with you as in curtesie and good conditions So that whether it be emulation or a naturall motion to doe well I care not but am assured you haue exposed such a pattern of true friendship that I must answer the proportion and frame my selfe to an orderly satisfaction you haue loued mee therefore I must affect you you haue visited me therfore I must not seeme strange you haue bene bountifull therefore I must be thankfull you haue written and therfore I must answer yea and that from Venice the wonder of Europe and the glorie of Italie where I haue encountered with Newes which I am proud to make you partaker of because within the memorie of man neuer was so remarkable an accident Know then that after the Pope had swelled with the repining against the Venetian contumacy Frier Paul of the order of Serui was cōdemned for an heretike burnt in his image at Rome and attēpted many times to be murthered his offence raised from certaine books against the Popes secular iurisdiction ouer Princes and free states his discourses grounded on the loue of his Countey at such time as the Venetians determined a stopping of certaine Mortmaines with pretences of money satisfaction least time and seduction should weaken their glorie by diminishing their lands giuing away their territories to monasteries his reward an annuall pention of 500. ducates and glorious Title by sound of Trumpet of Theologo designato At which the Clergie so stormed that they made it a matter of treason against God and his Angells thus to extenuate the authoritie of the Mother-Church by such presumptuous restraints against the will pleasure of the Pope and his Cardinalls Wherevpon without further disputing a seuere fulmination passed forth against them which also so vilipended them that fier sword was proclaimed and nothing but submissiō and absolution could deliuer them from the sauage stroakes of reuenge This so startled the Venetians and rowsed vp the drowsie eyes of other Princes that they al looked vp to see with what face these controuersies and accidentall displeasures would terrifie the world and not contented with verball protestations they mustred their Armies and at my comming into Italie I heard nothing else but the clamours of warre and warre against the Pope himselfe In which hurliburly a noble man of Venice of the house of Donatus now Duke hauing bene long since Bandited by the State for murthering a Gentl to whose wife loue had formerly enthralled him determined to worke out his reconciliation by prostrating his seruice to the State and attending the same if need and occasion required with 50. Horsm at his owne charge and because they should not lay imputation vpon him of formalitie and ceremonious brauerie from winde and smoake he brought them by Sea into the Citie it selfe and had licence to make a Martiall shew before the Ladies and better sort of the people And thus in a sequestred place at their fundamento nuouo he mustred 50. Horsm with reasonable equippage and proportionable discipline which was neuer seene in Venice before For there is neither horse nor cart neither fresh-water nor wholsome-ayre neither sword nor cloake for the Gentl of Venice himselfe nor any pleasant walke to passe the time with recreation more then the delicate entertainment in their Gondolas and some comicall showes on their Grand-Canal Amongst which the rarest that euer I sawe was a costly and ostentous triumphe called a Regatto presented on the Grand-Canal to entertaine the Princes of Piedmont and Mantua who came hither of purpose to see the Citie and the pleasures of the same which I must needs say for liberty of life and conscience Curtesans Mountebanks Musike and Monasticall presumption surpasseth any Citie in the world The shew it selfe was briefly thus diuers young Gentlem according to their abilitie and willingnes were selected by the order of their Balls as Capt of seuerall Barges which were decked vp in orderly representations of whales vnicornes dolphins elephants woods fountaines and such like wherein all the Marriners and attendants with seuerall warlike instruments and musicke of lower sound were placed both for ornament glorie magnificence and adapted congruity to the thing they