stato Gabbato con voy I am with you to dye with you if I have offended let my head pay for it but I have been cheated as well as you From that time forward the people would not permit Turaldo to go out of their arms either into the Castle or aboard the Galeons The Spaniards in the mean time stirr'd themselves notably and took into their possession the Post of Porta Reale with that of Porta Medina the three Castles still played upon Santa Lucia and Chaia whereupon they gave up their Arms into the hands of the Spaniards and scarce any of the people peep'd out thereabouts That Night not only the three Castles but the great Galeons which were in Port played upon the City and one would think by the horrid noise they made that a house could not stand yet the damage was not very great thereupon his Highness published a strict and high Order That every one should lay down his Arms upon pain of death which many did accordingly considering with themselves how they had three Castles a Fleet of Galeons and another of Gallies against them the Spaniards also having rendred themselves masters of so many Posts and going on still in their Fortifications but specially there being in the Port another Don John of Austria Yet they did not lay down their Arms or Spirits but with a flying squadron of two thousand foot they recover'd the Port of Constantinople and the White port they attempted to regain Reale and Porta Melina but they fail'd in that enterprize as God would have it Therefore Prince Turaldo was of opinion it was better to fall to entrenching again for fear the Spaniards might gain more places and posts This councel was embrac'd yet while they were busie to entrench the flying squadron of two thousand foot did recover le fosse del Grano and divers Spaniards fell there for a great number of them coming to Saint Sebastian upon the upper ground they let fly upon them shot as thick as hail as also at Saint Andrea insomuch that the Spaniards knew not which way to turn themselves to avoid those fiery Tempests A Lieutenant General of his Majesties was on horse-back with about fourty horse and stood before the house of Bernardo Turboli upon a special piece of service but he was so wounded that his bowels gushed out and so was carried to Spirito Santo The Spaniards afterwards hurl'd themselves in Catalana street but the women out of the Balcones and Windows pelted them with stones whereupon the Spaniards put fire to three Shops and sack'd divers Houses besides the Women flying away at the backsides The Brigade of Reformado's advanc'd afterwards with many Napolitan Cavaliers in the Vanguard and in the Rear a Company of Spaniards with six Officers of War Don Gaspar de Salta Hieronymo Arnadeo with others united themselves in the street of Porta as far as Saint Stephano and the Spaniards as far as Jesu Maria but they were repell'd by the people by a flying squadron remaining Masters of Porta Medina and Porta Reale The Day following the people rush'd into the Prison of the Vicaria and burnt all the criminal Writings setting at liberty fifteen hundred Felons whom they enroll'd for Souldiers and fetch'd as many Arms as would serve their turn Among those prisoners there was one Frenchman who had been in the Candian wars for the service of the Signory of Venice This Frenchman had been a Commander a long time being a man of knowledge and courage therefore they put him in the head of a Troop So there was hot skirmishing both night and day in the City on both sides and the great Cannons played without intermission wherein there was much slaughter Most of the Officers did confess and took the Communion carrying the Badge of the Carmine hoping thereby the holy Virgi n would protect them in the publick Service of their Countrey and for disburdening themselves from the insupportable weight of Gabels The Artillery which stood upon the Tower of Carmine did notable service and one Bullet was shot thence into the Royal Galeon where Don John of Austria himself was He therefore landed and got into the Palace of the Viceroy in safety he is a comely youth about twenty years of age and full of Vigor and Resolution His Sea-Commanders incited him most of all to begin the War telling him that half a dozen shots from the Galleons would so terrifie the people that they would lay down their Arms then the Sword-justice should restrain them afterwards Both parties had now as it were beleaguer'd one another all Toledo-street as far as the Palace the Hospitaletto Chaia together with Santa Lueia were full of armed men insomuch that none could pass to and fro nor did any bread appear in the Shops or flesh in the Shambles or fruit in the Market There went such a number from the City to Pozzuolo that they have half famished that place thereupon the Viceroy proposed a Truce but the people refused The Spaniards the next day rais'd up a great Trench about Porta Reale together with a little Bulwark which was done with that suddenness in the night time that it could not be prevented Coaches as well as Carts were employed to carry Materials up and down to fortifie The Walloons who guarded Porta Mâ—dina rais'd also in an instant as it were a marvellous strong Trench which the people offering to resist they could not do it The people then occupied San Sebastian they rush'd the Zezza or Exchequer and seis'd upon all the silver violently into that was therein with other treasure as also all the banks of Moneys for the service of the Publick The Viceroy publish'd a Declaration That whosoever would bring Corn or Meal into the Castle he should be allow'd to sell it at such a rate for ready money At that time there came a Galley laden with Corn from Aversa but the Galley-slaves killing the Captain made her run upon the sands and so the people took her with five Cannons There began to be a mighty scarcity in the City yet the fury of the war grew hotâ—er and hotter and the Spaniards began to set up double and treble Trenches which the other did imitate The great Bell of S. Lorenzo rung out to encourage them to Arms all night every house almost had a kind of Trench about it and some two some three There were great Cannons planted also in the street of Cavaglioli which played upon the people incessantly near the Garden of San Felice The Viceroy put forth a Proclamation That whosoever would come into any of the three Castles to serve their King his Catholick Majesty should have an advance of pay and be presently entertain'd And that day 3 Brothers were detected to have a Design that way but they were all put to death by the people who were heated more and more There were divers Carts laden with dead bodies pass'd up and down the streets to the number of fourty this Morning In
for Bread which was come down to 11. Ounces There came into the post eleven Gallies from Genoa with the Duke of Tursi who all saluted the Castles and the Castles them besides the Torrion of Carmine gave them also divers Salutes in behalf of the people but the said Duke coming ashore was afterwards clap'd up in prison There came six hundred fresh Souldiers from Sanseverino and the precincts thereabouts for succour of the Neapolitans who upon their Ensigns brought the picture of Death They were quartered about the Monastery of S. Andrea the Nuns being removed thence to another place Certain Letters which were sent from the Ambassadour of the most Christian King to the most faithful people of Naples were publickly read being consigned to Don Luigi Ferro who had been Ambassador for the people in dispersing the foresaid Manifesto up down The proffers which the Christian King made therein to the Republick of Naples were accepted which was two Millions of Gold twenty Galeons eighteen Gallies and fourty Tartanas Thereupon a Feluca was dispatched with an Express from the people to embrace the said propositions and whatsoever was contained in them This Express was to go to Don Luigi Ferro who was then in Rome negotiating with the French Ambassadour Sunday the 26. of September the people sent out a Ban to call in all the Barons up and down all the Countrey for their assistance under pain of burning their Houses and other penalties The Viceroy understanding what had happened betwixt Franee and Naples and that Johu Baptista Ferro was sent expresly to Rome about it he sent present advice thereof to his Catholick Majesties Ambassadour there resident at that time to do what diligences he thought fitting in so pressing occasions In the mean time all that day there was fighting in divers posts about the City and much bloud spilt The Viceroy caused the great Cistern of Oyl which was near Porta Reale to be emptied and to be sold for the use of the Souldiery wherein there was computed to be above one hundred thousand Sesters or Quarts The Viceroy Cardinal Filomarino and the Duke of Tursis they say had a private Conference over the Walls thereabouts that afternoon The next day the voice in many places of the City Viva Francia Let France live in other places Viva il Parlamento d'Inghilterra Let the Parliament of England live which caused Don John of Austria and the Viceroy to have Fleas in their Ears The rumour went that Monsieur de Fountain Ambassadour at Rome for his most Christian Majesty had sent four Veteran Captains for the service of the City who had order to let them know that he had a Million every year to be expended for the preservation of their liberties terming them a most noble and a most generous people They of the long Robe went melancholy up and down the Streets complaining that they were undone for want of practice w ich was no wonder for Inter armasilent leges there was news brought that the Duke of Mataluni was towards Aversa There came another express from Rome by Baptista Ferro that the King of France was resolv'd and would make good his purpose and promise to preserve Naples in quality of a Common-wealth thereupon the cry up and down went Viva Francia Let France live which they strain'd their throats to cry so loud that the sound thereof might reach to Castelnovo which was but a harsh note in the ears of the Viceroy and his Highness That day there was fire put to the house of Nicolo Tinano in the Piazza ofS Elmo The General Gennaro Arnese put out'a Declaration that none under pain of death should say that the Letter of the King of France was false wherefore another Express was sent to the French Army to sollicit their haste The 30. of September the fight was somewhat cold as if the spirits on both sides had languish'd The Viceroy caus'd a Letter to be Printed in form of a Manifesto to be sent to all the Barons throughout the Kingdoms wherein he required them in his Catholick Majesties Name to contribute and send speedily what Auxiliaries and assistants they could to bridle the tumultuous humours of these Mechanicks On the other side they caus'd the Capitulations which were made with the Crown of France to be stampt and fairly printed They also put out a protest against the Barons If they contributed any aid or advantage whatsoever to the Viceroy against them 'Twixt the Conciaria and Lavinaro there was a great contest whether they should receive the King of France or continue still under the Catholick King but at last it was concluded that they would have neither but they would reduce themselves to the form of a Republick according to the example of old Rome their next neighbour who never flourish'd more then under the form of a Republick Another answered that to establish any thing it must have first a foundation we must not be transported with Chimeras and build Castles in the Air. The report ran that divers of the Nobles had taken Port at Capo di Chino which fill'd the City full of odd thoughts because it was a post of infinite advantage Therefore all that night there was nothing but shooting of small and great Guns ringing of bells to fight and much hurt was done on both sides both to men and houses which ceased about the morning Newes came to the City that yesterday morning there was a great contention betwixt the Brigades that the Nobles had levied whereof some would cry Viva Francia others Viva Spagna and the Dispute went so high that from words they fell to Arms and 200. were slain upon the place of those that cried for France The Army of the Barons were advanced as far as Aversa where they made a hal◠〈◊〉 they passed to Nola thence to Scafati and thence â—o the Tower of the Anuntiata and the Greek Tower with a notable slaughter of the people The next day the Bell of Santa Barbara within Castelnovo rung out as a Signal to battel which was not done before Thereupon the Spaniards came down with a great deal of violence and the people endeavouring to get Porta Medina and Porto Reale specially Vomero which was next under the Castle the dispute was very eager and bloody but those places by the advantage of the great Cannon were notably defended and a great slaughter made of the Citizens which made the women go up and down the streets like frantick folks one crying out for her husband another for her brothers another for her Children so that it would have softned a heart of stone and they began then to revile not only the Viceroy and Don John of Austria calling him unlucky Bastard but they fell with foul terms upon the King of Spain himself crying out Viva Francia Viva il Parlamento d' Inghilterra The Barons bestir'd themselves notably in the Country and made themselves Masters of Scafati and the Greek Tower where the people
the people Tuttavillia had with him six hundred Horse the Duke of Andria with others six hundred more the Duke Martina sixty the Marquess of Turiviso two hundred Horse and fifteen hundred Foot the Prince of Yorella three hundred Foot and three hundred Horse the Prince of Supino fifty Horse the Count of Santa Maria in Grisone thirty Horse the Duke of Cassa Massima fifty Horse and Tonno Gentili having left Aversa to the Government of the Duke of Mataluni who had two hundred Banditi together with the Duke of Sora fifteen hundred Horse the Prince of Sernia fifty Horse and the Camp-Master Marco Laudulpho of the said City was inordered to keep his Station at some distance from the City The Viceroy having seasonable notice of the motion of the Army under the Barons gave Order to batter the Trenches about Porto but they were so well fortified and barricadoed that the Artillery could do no good The next morning Massaniello's Command was renew'd in the City That none must go abroad in a Cloak or upper Garments but all en cuerpo The Duke of Mataluni maintaining his Brigade upon his own expence without one Carlin charge to His Majesty and demanding some Quarter to guard he was assigned that of Santa Lucia on the Hill a place of the greatest consequence because the Enemy had means thence to batter Castelnovo About midnight an Alarm was given by the Enemy and the said Duke would have exposed his own person in the Van which he did and did notable execution upon the Citizens The next day being returned to the castle his Highness Don John fell embracing of him expressing much Thankfulness and Joy The people the day following took eight of Puzzuolo men Prisoners with a Corporal of the Duke of Matà luni's who had been freed formerly by the said people when the Vicaria was taken he was hanged in the Market-plaee The City made great provisions for the Frenchmen whom they expected to come for Auxiliaries whereupon the Viceroy sent some choice Galleys to Pusilipo and other places with two hundred men upon a design The same morning the General of the Barons Army march'd to Cerra where he found the Prince of Montesarchio the Prince of Fraia who was Governour of that place with three hundred Horse and two hundred Foot with these three was Don Francisco Caracciola the Son of the Duke of Cosenza Don Fabricio Spinello Don Jusepe Mastrillo and Carlo Gartano a Captain of a Troop of Horse together with Don Antonio Tuttavilla Don Francisco de Vargas 'twixt Tonnâ— and Somma Being come at night to Nola where Don Fernando Caracciola was Governour they found also there the Prior his Brother Don Giovanni Sanchez with the Prince of Ottoiano and others who had four hundred good Horse and three hundred Foot conducted by the said Barons Upon Munday the fourth of November the Citizens of Naples sent in the Name of the most faithful People two thousand Foot well armed towards the Greek-Tower The Duke of Tursis with much difficulty did land his Goods with some of His Highnesses Don John of Austria The rumour ran That his Catholick Majesty sent a peremptory Command that an Accommodation should be made with the people by all means possible and that the War should cease Thereupon his Highhess sent a person of quality to tell the people how he received a great deal of consolation that he had found so much experience of the most faithful people in the Alleglance to his Catholick Majesty in that they had caused some of theirs to be taken off whose tongues had cried out Viva Francia therefore there should be reasonable Justice done to all their just demands Thereupon they proposed That the Duke of Arcos should be removed Secondly That His Highness might govern them Thirdly that the Spaniards in Vallom should retire to Castlenovo Fourthly that the chief Incendiaries should depart the Kingdom Fifthly that the Castle of S. Elmo should be in the hands of the people with the posts about it as it was in the time of Charles the Emperour Sixthly and lastly they desired a performance of the Capitulations agreed upon at first The next day the Forces of the Duke of Montelione imbarqued themselves who came to preserve that City in her obedience and security The people thereupon removed and planted some of their Artillery in the Palace of Cardinal Filomarino and S. George the Great that they might the more conveniently shoot at the Castles which many wondred at considering there was an Overture of Treaty made the Barons Army met all in one gross Body the General being the Prior Caraeciola before-mentioned and Don John Same 's with two hundred Horse went towards Scafati where he arrived about fix a clock and found the place beleaguer'd by two thousand of the peoples Forces There were within fifty Spaniards who had but an Alferez for their chief Commander they were in want of Match and Bullet having been besieged four days and they were forced to make use of their Shirts for Match and melt Copper-money for Bullet The Italian Tercia under the command of Prospero Tuttavilla came very luckily at that time together with Captain Siglia and Osman two Companies of Musketiers one of Don Diego de Cordova the other were Burgundians there was another Brigade of â—oluntiers theMarquess of Turicuto theD of Bovino the P. of Mondervino the P. of Supino Don John Sanchez Don Francisco Caracciala Don Lucio san Felice Don Gulliermo Tuttavilla Don Joseph Orilla Don Thomaso Guinazzo Tonno Dentici AndreaSanfelice Duarde Andria the Marquess of San Juliano Michael Ruffia Don Jeronomo Suardo Don Carlo Aquaviva all these of the Barons Army were missing in regard that every one attended his own Post. The Enemy had eight Troops of Horse who were commanded by Poleto Pastina of Salerno The people lost 1500 persons and 25 were taken prisoners the rest were pursued as far as Stradono novo near the Territories of Aversa On the Barons side onely one Burgundian was slain and 2 more wounded they made a Halt there and the Barons Army sack'd and burnt many houses among the rest the house of Pietro Cassale There was also much pillage and treasure seiz'd upon most part whereof was distributed among the fifty Spaniards who kept Scafati so gallantly Afterwards they march'd to the Tower of Aversa where they hung out white Flags in sign of obedience and the General being entred he gave them an universal pardon and while he march'd towards the Greek Tower of Castelmare the Duke of Montelione appear'd to receive further Orders together with the Duke of Girifallo the Marquess of S. George with 400 Foot together with the Prince diValle came also unto them the whole Army being come to the said Tower whither they of Scafati had fled before they gave any Assault the Enemy did abandon the Post. While thus in the Countrey there was a course taken to straiten the people to the obedience of his Majesty there was no time lost
in Naples for the Duke of Montelione did bestir himself notably who advanc'd boldly towards the Dogana he attempted also to force the passage to Sancta Lucia to confront the Enemy having done so oftentimes before At last having advice that in Calabria there were new Tumults he made it appear to his Highness how necessary it was for him to return thither hereupon parting from Don John with many expressions of endearments he had the Title conferr'd upon him of Vicar-General with a very ample Commission to that effect yet with this restrictive clause That the Kingdom being quieted he would be willing to resign the Chaâ—â—â— So leaving the best part of his Brigade behinde for the service of Naples he imbarqued himself the night following for Carantaro In the morning betimes they of the Greek Tower came to tender their obedience the sixth of November So for the guarding of that place the Camp-master-General quarter'd there 150 Calabreses and 200 Neapolitans to be commanded by the Duke of Nartina and Luigi Minutulo with their Troops of Horse and Seignior Caesare Caraffa But being setled there there came the day following 1200 of the peoples Army under the command and conduct of Capitan Rosso who suriously assaulted them and having gain'd the first Trenches with the death of 15 Calabreses whom the Duke Monteleone had brought and 4 Spaniards they burnt the Monastery of Santa Maria together with the Hospital of the Incurables cutting off the heads of 15 sick men but they within making a virtue of necessity sallied out with that magnanimous resolution that they put them to flight and took about 300 of them prisoners and did execution upon above 100 in the pursuit Cavallero Medici got the Colours of the Horse the Count of Santa Maria Don Michael Almaide the Prince of Castillaneta with the Marquess of Trevico did signal service that day In Naples in the interim Judge Palma who had retired himself into the Castle did frame a Writing exhorting the people to conform themselves and submit to the mercy of his Highness who did offr to stay there for Hostage until the Capitulations came from his Majesty In that Writing of the Judge there were many Proposals worthy of the consideration with Cautions how the French in former Ages did carry and miscarry themselves in that Kingdom How that in the compass of less than 4 moneths they were forced to send them away packing and desire the Spaniard to enter now it is not observed that the French are any thing alter'd in their Natures to this day but are still the same insolent and unstable men as they were from the beginning Yet for all these Overtures of Reconcilement the great Cannons played still and all sorts of small shot and acts of hostility committed night and day 'twixt both parties and this day the Musketiers came as far as the Nuncio's house which was much wondered at It was expected about this time that a general Indulgence or Amnestia should be publish'd through all the Kingdom and that for 10 years there should be a Freedom given of all the Lands moreover that the power of the Barons o're their Tenants should be restrain'd There came news to Naples that the Marquess of Velez was dead in his Viceroyship of Sicily and that Cardinal Trivultio was appointed to succeed him in the Government of that Kingdom Tidings were brought also that 4. Feluca's were come from Rome with certain Commanders of War for the service of the people there came news afterwards that 7. more were arriv'd and thought to be French and that a great Personage was aboard of them which was thought to be the Duke of Guise therefore the Town made preparations to receive and entertain him according to his quality in point of diet and housing There sallied out of the Town that day 5000. souldiers upon some Design on the Greek Tower but they came back Re infectà The 8. of November all night long the great Bell of San Lorenzo rung out and the great Cannons played more furiously then ever Drums and Trumpets sounded every where the Castles did a great deal of hurt to the City At Donna Alluina the Spaniards made two Mines to force their passage that way further into the heart of the City but the Mines played not which made them return to their own Posts with some Mortality Yet two of the fairest Houses in Naples were blown up that night And about the Dogana there was skirmishing for six hours together 'twixt the Spaniards and the people which caus'd such mortality on both sides The next day the people understanding that the Prince of Montesarchio was coming with 3000. fresh Combatants for the Royalists the great Bell gave an Alarm so there sallied out of the City 500. men to repel him which took effect for they made the Prince to sind his way back again Now because the business of the people might go on more regularly they might go on more regularly they elected 4. Doctors of the Law and 4. Swordmen as a Committee to consult what was to be done Some houses were burnt without the Gate of the holy Spirit and upon the Palace of Tonno d' Angelis there was a black Flag set up so that the Cannons played most part of the day Yesternight there was a great Brigade of Cavalry and Infantry discover'd in form of a Squadron beyond the Bridgeâ— of Santa Madalena there came also two Gallies which were laden with dead bodies from divers places of the Country to receive honourable burial in the City whereof there were divers Commanders St. Elmo had got a supply of Gunpowder from Sicily by a Gally of purpose so the next day the Castle thundred for 7. hours together This incens'd the City so much that the next day there was a Bando publish'd that none should speak of peace but that every soul should prepare to defend himself by Arms and annoy the Enemy as much as he could The Cavaliers and General of the Barons who kept up and down the Country made a halt at Marigliano and Sequestred the goods of Ciccio Ferlingero General of the Calvary to the people where they found 500. Butts of Lacrime Christi a choice sort of Wine the Prior Caracciola was left Governour of the said place with 200. Souldiers and Ottaiana the Prince himself guarded the place Wednesday following they march'd towards Aversa in the way they made a halt at Marigliano and Sergeant Major Nega was left Governour of the place with 4. Troops of Horse In many places of the Countrey circumjacent to Naples the tenants rose up in great numbers hoping that the City would be able to free them from the yoke of slavery they groan'd under and the excessive Rents they paid to their Landlords They of Naples had so fortified the Dogana that it look'd like an impregnable Bulwark it commanded one side of the Sea so that the Spaniards could not pass to the little Mole to and fro which was a
great confluence of people who cried out Viva Spagna viva ill Duca de Tursis So all the Bells rang out à Gloria and every one was as it were wild with gladness That afternoon there were four hundred Spaniards put into the Torrion of Carmine for a Garrison where there were eighteen pieces of great Ordnance among them there were fourty Italians So all the rest of the posts of the City were secured together with Chaia All other places in the Country rendred themselves upon discretion when they understood this not able news and particularly Aversa notwithstanding that Palumbo a great stickler for the people and in singular esteem was there with considerable Forces The next day the noise was that the Duke of Guise hearing this dreadful news did cast about how he might return to Rome with all his Camerades which being come to the knowledge of Don Pompeo Tuttavilla he went in quest of him and being come to the Countrey of Mosone a little distâ—nt from the City of Capua he met him and although the Duke made notable resistance yet at last he was forced to yield himself and so he was clap'd up in the Castle of Capua and removed thence to Garta The Collateral Council sate upon him and condemn'd him to dy but Don John prevented that saying It was more fitting to send him Prisoner to Spain Pastina who would not conform nor accept those gracious conditions from Don John got two Feluca's and with all his own and the plundred Goods he had from divers sail'd for Ligorno All those monstrous tumults of Naples being now quash'd the Conde d'Ognate sent for the Camp-master Scipio Latro Brother to the Lord Regent Latro who by the Marchioness of Vasto was appointed Governour of the Isle of Istria the Viceroy gave him a Patent to that purpose besides made him Camp-master General in the said Isle he told him besides that he had receiv'd advice how a great French Armada made her approach therefore it was fitting he should prepare strength accordingly to resist The Camp-master answer'd him that at that very instant he would go and finde out the said French so the Viceroy commending his promptitude presented him with a Purse-full of Pistols He had no sooner set foot upon the Isle of Istria but the French Fleet appear'd which drawing towards the City of Naples did stay a while before the House of the said Camp-master General at Ciattamone in form of a Half-Moon The Castle Dellovo discharg'd some Pieces at them but the Bullets could not reach Towards night the French went to Pusilipo the next day they attempted to dis-imbarque at Istria but they were hindred so understanding how matters had pass'd at Naples when they had rov'd up and down those Seas some days and taken some few Tartana's they set sail for Porto Longone A little after this when things were pretty well etled the Viceroy commanded Gennaro Arnesel to be shut up in prison who had been Captain General of the people a long time during the greatest brunt of the Commotion The pretence was that he was thought to have intelligence with that French Fleet notwitstanding that his Highness had comprehended him before in the general pardon and conferr'd an Office upon him of five thousand Ducates per annum promising him besides the Cross of Santiago the proofs were such against him that he was condemn'd to die so there was a Scaffold erected before the Castle where he receiv'd an honourable Death by having his Head severed from his body There were also three Mariners who had brought the Duke of Guise to Naples executed that day There were divers other condemn'd to suffer death but his Highness Don John of Austria going one day to the great Market-place where there were Gibbets set up to execute a great many more the women did importune him with their Petitions whereupon he referring them to the Castle the Gibbets were all taken down and the condemned persons sent to serve in the Gallies The next day Don John of Austria imbarquing himself in a huge Fleet of Galleons and Gallies hois'd sail for Sicily having been so fortunate as to repress those prodigious uproars and leave Naples setled in a perfect peace Sic furor evanuit tenues popularis in auras The Flema Spagnuola the staidness longanimity and constancy of the Spaniard for which he is so much cried up was not discerned more in any of their proceedings elsewhere then by their carriage in suffering a good while and afterwards by suppressing these Commotions Moreover the Conde d'Ognate the new Viceroy like a new Broom swept all clean and carried himself with that dexterity and diligence that by degrees he found out the chiefest Fomentors whereof he hath dispatch'd away divers to the other world and the Inquisition is not yet ended but some suffer daily directly or collaterally And touching the Taxes or Gabels he hath found out other ways to raise Summs equivalent unto them for the service of the King his Master FINIS
Treasury upon solemn days but the Franciscans alledged t was their right in regard their Order was more ancient and theirs but a branch of it and that in the time of St Anthony there was no such thing as a Capuchin besides he is buried in Padoua and painted to the life in a Chappel that belongs to the conventual Franciscans who are of the same Order as they of St. Lorenzoin Naples Upon a sudden they went in Procession and carried the said silver Statue of St. Antonio up and down the Streets of Naples and the great Street of Toledo accompanied by a mass of people with divers bands of Souldiers and Drums beating before as if some assault were to be given The common people were for the Franciscans but the Noble-men and Gentry were for the Capuchins but the Franciscans got the better being the more ancient This Contracto had been brought formerly before the Viceroy but he reserred it to Rome where it depended The said Statue being replaced that night in the Treasury the next morning the people entred and took away the keys by force and put out the Chaplains who were appointed there by the Nobility and appointed others of their election The next day the Viceroy sent a Galley to Calabria which carried John Baptista Montforte Duke of Laureto who was expresly employed by the said Viceroy to appease the tumults in Cosenza which were little inferiour to those of Naples The Lord Don Carlo di Capon was clapped up in Prison by the Souldiers of Pusilipo together with his servants many hainous things were to be laid to his charge A Brigade of the people passing along the Castle ditch the Spanish Souldiers put themselves upon their Guaed one of them discharging his Musket hit Doctor Benedetto Guadagno that stood in a window who fell down dead in an instant whereupon the Viceroy caused the said Souldier to be presently hanged after confession under the same Window although he alledged that he knew not the Musket had been charged with a bullet The Students of Naples would have a share also in these Revolutions therefore they went all in a body and presented a Petition to the Viceroy the effect whereof was That they should pay no more Fees for their Degrees then was used to be paid in the time of Charles the Emperour The Viceroy gave them no positive answer for the time which they imputed to some iâ—l offices that the Prince of Avâ—llino had done thereupon they attempted at their return to burn his house but it was prevented by some means the Viceroy wrought and the next day he caused divers of the Students to be imprisoned who were the chief ring-leaders The City still resolved to stand upon her Guard till the confirmation of the Articles concerning their Priviledges came from the Catholick Court and they arm'd day and night accordingly one of which Articles was That such arming should not be tearmed a Rebellion in the interim The Viceroy was not idle but he caused Bulleâ—s to be cast and other warlike things to be provided within the Castles He sent Councellour Oraca to Leve to appease the Commotions which happened in the Country of Otranto with Commissioners to divers other places in Calabria as he had done the Duke of Lauretto to Cosenza were the sparkles of their Commotions flew from Naples in greater quantity and did as much mischief as any where else therefore it is worth the labour to insert here a particular relation thereof A Compendium of the Sublevations and Turmoils which happen'd in the City and among the People of Cosenza UPon Sunday-morning about the break of day a Dispatch was expresly sent to the President of this Province from the Viceroy wherein he ordered that a Pragmatica should be publish'd and proclaim'd through all the Territories and places thereof the substance whereof was That his Excellency was ready to grant and pass unto that people all those Graces which they expected as was done to the City and People of Naples for prevention of that horrid effusion of blood firings and other confusions which might ensue Yet for all this a multitude of common People gather'd together in Bands that very Sunday-morning all armed with a full and furious purpose to repose the Insolence and Pride of the Nobility who had reduced the common people to such a pass that they could hardly live by them The Cape or chief Leader of which Popular Brigades was Captain Joseph Gervatio who with his Ginet in hand caused himself to be called Captain-General and was so accepted it was concluded amongst them That they should procure to live separately from the Nobles and to be subordinate to no other but to the King himself to his Viceroy or some principal Officers of Justice This Assembly of the common people was so numerous and active all that Sunday that a Gentleman dared scarce stir out of his house or hardly peep out at the Windows The Bells rung out to give general Alarms at last they formed a Petition to the Lord President for a present Concession of those Indulgences and Graces which were granted the people of Naples and with much ado for that night the President did appease them But upon Munday-morning the Nobles rouz'd up their spirits desiring to know the cause of this hurly-burly and what the people did desire and there should be a course taken to satisfie them Hereupon a choice number of the said people being met at the Monastery of Saint Francisco di Paola the Lord President accompanied with the foresaid Antonio Gervasio the Cape of the people told them That their pretention and intention was to live separate from their Nobles as also from the Sindiques and Regiments as likewise from the payment of certain Gabels And that every one of them should pay for his own particular fire it being not consentaneous to reason that the people who were alwais disposed to make ready paiment not only to the royal Court but of all other inferior Gabels and that the Nobles by their authority should be exempt in such sort that the burden fell still upon the people which receiv'd more weight daily at least they payed doubly as much as the Nobles as the Jurat can testifie who was one year for the Nobles another year for the people To these Pretentions and Demands Doctor Baracca offer'd to give a satisfaction to the Nobles and to make it appear that they were very just So it was agreed on both sides that he should have time to do it In the interim it was order'd that all should lay down their arms which was done as it were in an instant by the command of Captain Antonio Gervatio untill a minute or scedule should be made declaring the manner how they desired to live among the Nobles so every one return'd to his own fire While this was a doing and all this was hush'd for the preseut certain Albaneses being arm'd passed through the Market-place of Cosenza who
the Audienza was very weak Giovanni Angelo the Elect of the people with divers others went to the Camp-Master Boccapianolo to consult with him Who advised that it were expedient to send back to his Excellency to know what kind of Gabels he understood should be abolished which was done accordingly But the President being return'd in the interim together with the Tribunal without conference with the Camp-master they sent out order to take off all kind of Gahels but this was done with such a little Decorum that it caused rather a kind of alteration then quietness in the baser sort of people and gave occasion to ill meaning men to put their malice in execution which was done in an instant for a crue of the common sort went to three or four houses of particular men and did them much dammage they sack'd and burnt the house of the Duke of Santo Donato which stood in the said Town of Leve but matters were handled so that they proceeded no further only the houses of two Doctours suffered who they pretended did some ill Office towards an immunity from Gabels The Camp-master was inform'd that there were some people coming from abroad to assist the Citizens of Leve with intent to burn three houses more therefore for prevention hereof he arm'd some Troops of horse The houses they aimed at were known afterwards to be the house of Tauritano of Francisco Cimino the Fiscal and of Auditor Stephano Pagliva By the operations of the said Camp-master these houses were saved yet some entered into the Dogana and burnt whatsoever they found therein They also elected a Capo popalo who might govern all the Commonality The City of Nardo with the Inhabitants did rise up and bandy against their Patron raising up Fortresses within the Wals and renouncing all obedience unto him He having timely notice hereof came flying with a great number of Horse and Foot with all his kindred and allies who were numerous in those parts and having begirt the City round she did most stoutly maintain her self with Cannon and Musket whereupon some were killed on the other side and divers wounded the number whereof could not be known But at the same time Duke Francifco Burtato was wounded with one of the Family of Sersale whose name could not be known But the Lord Titta Cicinello more fearless then the rest went on to batter the said City in the best manner he could The Siege lasted three dayes at last arrived the Bishop of Leve with him of Gallipoli and the Camp-master who interposed so effectually that they commanded and reconciled all matters betwixt the City of Narda and her Lord in so much that they returned all to their former Obedience The first who entered the City was the Lord Titta But if I should recount what succeeded in other places I should never end as those murthers and firings which happened in Misagine in Ostuni in the Territories of Tolva and in Taranto more then any where else In Guttagia they murthered twelve persons in one morning In Otranto there happened new garboils no lesse New then Lamentable For the Tumults of Nardo being quieted the Count parted thence with his train every one to his own home You must consider that those poor people are in a worse Condition then others for their syndique and the chiefest of the Common people were beheaded which struck such an astonishment into most of them that they all fled and those few who stayed behinde made account they remained but as silly sheep for the slaughter but the Duke returning had more compassion then was expected In Leve Councellour Urracea was arrived there from Naples the people had shrew'd Umbrages of fear that he came to no good purpose but to Complement with them and impose some new Gabel therefore he understanding that they had a Design upon him he absconded himself in the Camp-masters House But they laid violent hands upon Bocca-pianolla and cut off his Head Hurling his Carkasse out of the Windows and carried it about the Town in piece-meales They went about to seize upon Cinino the Fiscal Advocate who cunningly escaped into the Castle but he could not preserve his House which was burnt to the Ground with whatsoever was in it and no House could be better furnished Nor did the Lord President himself escape some affronts from the Common people but they beleaguered him in the Castle of Leve which was succoured afterwards by the Valour of the Camp-master Boccapianola In the City of Ostuni also there were perpetrated horrid murders yea within Sanctuaries where Jeronymo de Fina Serjeant Major was knocked down in the Land of Grottaglia they slew the Baron Basta and in the Countrey of Martina there were many firings and slaughters committed with other horrid things that unless there were fresh ocular Witnesses thereof the Recital of them would sound as Fables I must adde hereunto that the people of Leve did put into the Hands of Boccapianela all the Powder and Ammunition of the City which person was much esteemed and held to be so affectionate to the People as no man more But yesterday they write that he was so hacked and ill handled that all wounded they brought him to the place where the said Gunpowder was with the rest of the Ammunition and took all things from him but his Life clapping him in close Prison meerly upon surmises and fears In fine the worst things that humane imagination can conceive were acted in those parts And now 't is high time for us to return to Naples the source whence all these mischiefs did flow The second Tumults happened in the City of Naples held to be hotter and higher then the former which succeeded the 7. of July THe 20. of August the Lord President Fabricio Cenano intervening in a Cause before the Collateral Chamber which concern'd the interest of the people he was told by some of their Ministers That he was not a fit person to be seen in that Cause in regard his House had been burnt by them and according to the Pragmatica lately stamp'd he could not intermeddle with a cause of that Nature Cenano answered That it was too true his House had been burnt yet not by the people but by some malevolent and emulous spirits as Seignior Julio Genovino could make affidavit It happen'd that Genovino was there present who rose up and said 't was true whereof he was ready to make attestation Cenano likewise produced divers Captains who serv'd the people for Witnesses that his House was not set on fire by order of the people but by the malice of some particular enemies therefore he humbly desired his Catholick Majesty and his Excellence that they should receive due punishmēt who were found to be the burners of his house While this writing went about for subscription the people began to be sensible of the wrong and prejudice that might redound unto them thereby and of the consequences that might grow further from hence
in the Sellaria they took off his Head burning his clothes afterwards They chop'd off the Head also of a Corporal of Sergeants called Marchetollo The next day there was a Truce accorded yet notwithstanding both parties went on in entrenching and fortifying night and day The Camp-Master-General being well informed of the innocency of some Royalists which were in prison joyned with some street-Captains he freed them which business was deliberated in S. Augustine who upon their enlargement took Oath to be faithful unto the City They took off the head also of the Corporal of the Sergeants of Porto who said that in those places where they made their fortifications there should be so many Gallowses and Gibbets set up to hang those who wrought in the said fortifications all which was proved by pregnant proof and authentick witnesses and in three hours he was dispatched The scale of the Minister of Justice was found but he did it upon a stone by reason of the fury of the people There was order given that the Holy Sacrament should be exposed and set open in divers Churches that it would please God to enlighten the hearts of the people to see the right Besides the Nuns with poor maidens amongst them made solemn processions repeating the most holy Rosario There was scarce a post or place without and within the City butw as intrench'd which made the world wonder where they could get so much Cannon A company of Priests appeared who went with their Sotunes raised up at the head of them there marched a very Reverend Church-man upon a Ginet with a gold Cross in his hand but this gave rather an occasion of scandal and murmuring nor was it well taken by the people They pillag'd all Genovino's goods who for many days before had withdrawn himself to the Castle and if they could have laid hold on him they would have sent him after President Cenano to the other world The next day a Peace was publish'd which made every one to dance for joy yet the Viceroy thought it not safe to come out of Castelnovo After dinner the Lord Cardinal Filomarino went on horse-back with the Prince of Massa and Camp-Master-General and rid up and down the streets all crying out Peace Peace Towards the evening there came out an Edict in divers Precincts of the City wherein the Viceroy did thank the most faithful people of Naples for their good wills and inclination to peace He ordered likewise That none should speak of the Castle of S. Elino which was fortified and furnished with all things necessary Now amongst other places he understood that the people intended to make a new motion that that Fortress should be in their hands The next day they took the Goods of President Cenano which they had conserv'd in a Convent of Terresian Nuns and brought them to the Sellaria they brought thither also the Goods of Giovamis S. Felice which all passed the flames They gave out an Order also to take the Son of Sanfelice Don Lucio because he had given out in a menacing manner That he would make the people of Naples eat the very earth in lieu of bread Now the said Don Lucio was a great Cornmaster in Aversa They of the people went to the Convent of the Olivetuni on Mount Olivct where there was Abbot the brother of Tonno de Angelis together with the Visitor-General they were both put in a Coach and commanded to depart from Naples One among the people cried up and down the street ' Guerra Guerra War War but he was put to prison by Order of the Prince of Massa then he was shot to death and his head carried up and down the City for a disturber of the peace of the most faithful people of Naples The Monks of the Trinity made themselves prisoners to the Popes Nuntio and upon that Church door they fastned an Edict that had passed wherein she was stil'd La Santissima Trinita de Spagnuoli The most Holy Trinity of the Spaniards they caused that Edict to be cancell'd and torn in pieces They a little after made prisoner Caesar Sanfelice for some words which drop'd from him which gave scandal The next day those Capitulations of peace which were accorded 'twixt the Viceroy and the most faithful people came out and were published in divers precincts of the City whereupon they raz'd some of their Trenches His Excellency form'd a new Company of three hundred Officers all Italians making a Captain over them Captain Biasi di Fosco a person of high resolution and merit The Viceroy sent prisoner to Spain Julio Genovino upon a Galley who was accused to be the first inciter of Massaniello and the chiefest fomenter of all the tumults Doctor Luisâ—i Capaccio at the instance of the most faithful people was appointed to be the Minister for confirming and swearing the foresaid Articles of peace 'twixt his Excellency and the most faithful people but the Viceroy was advised by the Collateral Councel not to go forth in person out of the Castle to swear unto those Articles but that the Oath should be administred to both parties within the Walls of Castelnovo The next day being Sunday the City sent to the Viceroy in behalf of the most faithful people that the Articles should be effectually ratified within the Arch-Bishops House His Excellency returned an exeuse that he was not well disposed in his health and alledged examples besides that in such cases all treaties were used to be confirmed within the Castle Thereupon the Camp-Master General Don Francisco Turaldo went thither being accompanied with all the Officers of War beginning with the Alferez of Lieutenants to higher Degrees together with the General of the Ordinance Ottavio Marchise all on horseback and it was a very goodly sight the horses were extraordinary but the horsemen were not so good being oppidane and Turaldo himself being sick of the Gout went in a Sedan They all entred into the Castle in a solemn manner where the Articles were all sworn unto and so they return'd into the City very well satisfied specially in outward appearance The next day they entred the House of Francisco de Lieto a principal Merchant and of very high credit an honest man and much honoured where there was a pillar which the people took exceptions at and would carry it away He said that he had lost upon the Gabels fifty thousand Crowns and he would spend fifty thousand more provided that the Gabels were regulated and setled But they went to call in more people to plunder him which he perceiving he stole away surreptitiously Thereupon they imprisoned his Children and took away a great quantity of Cloth and other Merchandizes of value Thus when some thought the insurrection had been ended it began afresh they began to double their Guard again but they freed the rich Merchant di Lieto for a ransom In regard of the absence of the Nobility who were retired to their Countrey-Houses and abandoned the City trade began to
was but just they should continue to stand upon their Guard and repel any force by that power which God and Nature had given them for the defence of themselves and their Franchises together with their Wives and Children yet persisting with firm resolution to continue in an exact obedience to his Catholick Majesty and not to listen to the Enchantments of any other Prince which began to tamper with them already for a Revolt That night being a clear moon-shine the people cull'd out three hundred Horse and four thousand Musketiers and Pikemen to keep in one body upon some design and it was to meet with the Auxiliaries that the Duke of Mataluni had sent but they did not bring their intent home to their aim that night The next morning a Ban was published That none in any part of City or Suburb should plunder under pain of death which was obeyed accordingly Upon Saturday the 19. of September the great Bell rung out for every one to be in a posture ready to fight There was fire put to the house of the Prince of Montesarchio hard by the Dogana of Corn and a general skirmishing continued all night long till the Sunday morning at which time there came out a Procession of Friers in a doleful grave posture with their faces bending towards the earth which struck such a sense of mortality among them that there was a White Flag raised up for a Truce which the Castle condescended unto but notable execution had been done on both sides the night before so that the greatest business of the next Sabbath was to bury their dead The night following there poured down such fearful cataracts of rain that hindered all kind of action on both sides but upon Munday there was a tough Fight happened betwixt the Brigade of the Duke of Mataluni and the people at Marano three of his Commanders had their Heads chop'd off in the great Market-place besides there was one hanged who had been surprized and searched and a Letter found about him from the Duke of Mataluni to the Viceroy The next day the voice went up and down That if there were not terms propounded for a sudden Peace they intended to introduce Forreign force and fix up a Protest against his Excellency The sound of this voice went up to the Castle There was brought that day the Head of Captain John Rosso di Nola into the Market-place who was one of the chief Commanders in the Brigade of the Duke of Mataluni A publick Ban was fixed upon the Church-doors and in the publick Market place as also upon the gates of the City that all Cavaliers who had withdrawn themselves from the City might return with safety which was done at the importunity of the Artisans who cried out that all Trade was failed which they imputed principally to their absence The 20. of September there was a general assault made and the most pertinacious was at Santa Lucia upon the hill and at S. Martins They of the people would have forced their passage that way but the Spaniards being strongly intrenched they could do no good notwithstanding that the Dispnte was extreme eager and hot eleven Spaniards were taken prisoners besides those that were hurt and killed The next day there was a furious Dispute at Porta Medina where the people had made a Mine which wrought a contrary effect and flew in their own faces insomuch that divers were blown into the air some killed on the ground and divers pitifully disfigured The next day the people caus'd their own Head to be beheaded which was the Prince of Massa Turaldo their General because he had caus'd sand to be put into some Barrels in lieu of Gun-powder specially in those which were to do execution near Jesus Church His Body and his Head were brought to the open Market-place to be a spectacle to all people And about that time the Spaniards sallied in divers places out of their Trenches and did notable execution upon the Citizens while they were gazing on the Head of their General Tuesday the 22 of September having been engag'd in fight all night long the people put forth a publick Manifesto in print with their reasons why they had taken Arms therefore they desired his Holiness together with the Emperour and all the Princes of Italy as also all other Christian Princes to be sensible of their sad condition and assist them not onely with their prayers but with their Arms in so just a quarrel concluding that besides the recompence which they might expect from the goodness of God in an act of so much lawfulness and piety that most faithful people would be ever bound to do the like or greater courtesies unto them upon all contingencies The Prince of Turaldo who had a good while serv'd the people in quality of a General having receiv'd the Pass-port to go to the other World without his Head Gennaro Arnese succeeded him in that publick charge The first piece of Justice he did was to condemn a Captain to have his Head struck off for violating a Woman in the Doury of Virgins where he had his Command Turaldo being gone 't was imagin'd by some that it would facilitate the way to peace and that which rais'd the hopes of some the more was because his Holiness's Nuntio had gone to the Castle where he receiv'd that solemn audience but nothing came of it so that all the next day there was nothing but skirmishing up and down in every corner The 23. of September six hundred of the people 'twixt Horse and Foot went to Marano in succour of that important Post where they found three thousand Horse of the Barons in particular the Marquess of Vasto the Duke of Cagnano the Duke of Mataluni the Prince of Monte Sarchio the Duke of Caivano the Marquess of Marianella the Duke of Siana and a number of other Cavaliers all which were repelled by them of the place and the succour which came from the City among other their Captain General was killed and thirteen more whose Heads were brought to the great Market-place in triumph with divers prisoners besides The next day the great Cannons from the three Castles plaid more furiously than ever and made both Towers and Steeples Houses Monasteries and Churches to tremble every where The Spaniards attempted to open a passage at Vemero which was a Post of mighty consequence the Dispute was very stubborn and wonderful hot lasting above three hours but the Spaniards were made to retire at last being surprized by night That day the people did strictly command that under great penalties the Cavaliers should keep within their houses nor were they suffered to go hear Mass inany Church for fear of Conventicles They sent their Orders abroad likewise in the Countrey circumjacent that they should bring provision to the City and other Assistances under pain of Rebellion The day following it was pitiful how the Women went howling up and down with their Children at their breasts crying out
were strongly entrench'd but forc'd to yield and run away And the same hour that I was writing this there was a bloody combat at Porta Reale and Porta Medina and New Jesu which was so batter'd that it can never be repair'd again The slaughter was such that dead bodies were carried away by Cart-loads and great pits made to hurl in the carkases so that one Priest serv'd for many to sing their requiems Then they discharg'd some Cannons in the Castle with powder onely for joy and triumph I will now relate here what persons they were that were the first raisers of these horrid tumults It must be presupposed that about the lower places of the great Market-place as also in Lovinaro Conciaria Sellaria at Saint Anthony and Santa Maria Loreto and the hourg of the Virgins there were about thirty thousand men that used to goe barefoot with Canvass slops and onely their shirts upward these men living most of them upon the Retailing of Fish Hearbs Sallets Flowers and such petty Commodities and some of them carrying Cruses of Oyl Fruits Bread Honey with other things of the like Nature about the Streets Most of them have their Wives who attend their Labours at home as beating of Flax spinning and washing These people are very prolifical and fruitful that they have abundance of Children they fare hard and lie upon Mattresses for few of them have any sheets yet they earn about twelve pence a Day They have no stable possessions at all but what they have is from hand to mouth They are called in Naples Scalzi that is unshod people because they go most an end bare-footed Their ordinary Food besides Roots and Fruit is a little Bacon put betwixt two pieces of Bread having boiled or rosted it before to make it melt upon the Bread to make it savory They have nothing but Water to drink after it and this is commonly their Dinner for Supper they have commonly but Hearbs and Grass whereof they will eat as much as a Horse a little Oyl and Vinegar and divers of them without Bread They live best in Fruit time whereof there is greater store about the City of Naples then any where else and Fruit time doth last there near upon six Moneths They feed much upon Figs which are there very great and most delicate yet these people are plump and well to pass vigorous and hearty notwithstanding that their greatest sustenance is fruit The Viceroy Duke of Arcos had imposed a â—ornese which is less then a farthing upon every two pounds of Fruit by way of Gabel and this year afforded more quantity of Fruit then ordinary These poor people grew half mad thereupon considering what Taxes were imposed upon all other Commodities as far as bread which is the staff of Life Massaniello as was related before assisted by a number of these poor people burnt the Gabell-House in the Market place and committed other high Acts of Audacity The Viceroy commanded the House to be set up again and continued still to exact the said Gabell upon Fruit Thereupon they grew more incensed and resolute then they were before and the Artisans with other of the best sort of Citizens joyning with them for the Common interest and Freedome the Tumult by Degrees ascended to this monstruous height that whereas before they spoke Reverently of the King of Spain they now villifie him together with Don John his Bastard and crye up the King of France knowing him to be a mortall Enemy to the Spaniards and to be now in Actuall Warre against him besides by the information of some Merchants here they had notice how matters pass'd in England Therefore oftentimes they cry out Viva el Parlamento d' Inghilterra and in this manner ended the Moneth of October within the City of Naples We are now on the first day of November the Feast of All Saints and to begin the Moneth the Spaniards shot very furiously from the Castle of Saint Elmo and gave them hot Alarums but this was onely in the Morning they were quiet all the Day after WHile these prodigious tumults succeded in the City of Naples I must not omit to declare that in Calabria at most Towns by a kind of strange influence the same spirit of insurrection did possess the people They of Monteleone did tumultuously rise up and burnt 3 houses which made Don Fabricio Pignatello Duke of the said City to hasten thither for suppression of the broyls in his own person and for that time his presence did so prevail being attended by the Nobility and others of best rank that he quench'd those popular flames and brought divers of the chief Mutineers to punishment whereby he setled a perfect quietness not only in the City of Monteleone but in all the places adjacent But when the said people had understood how stoutly the people of Naples held out still notwithstanding the Arrival of Don John of Austria whom they called the By-blow of his Majesty The said Duke of Monteleone finding the inclinations of the people generally for an insurrection and their spirits elevated to a high pitch by the example and constancy of Naples he wisely gathered what choice men he could to a considerable number and having got a good Vessel together with a Brigantine he arrived safely to the Port of Naples the first of November whence he went presently to Castlenovo to do his Observance to Don John of Austria who with extraordinary demonstrations of favour and affection received him Whereupon the said Duke offer'd with many hot Protestations to make litter of his life for the service of his Catholick Majesty the King his Master upon all occasions though never so full of imminent and unavoidable danger which Protestations he made good afterwards by his Actions so he dis-imbarqued the fifteen hundred men he brought with a good quantity of Arms Corn and other Provisions which he brought along with him from Calabria That night the Spaniards being much animated by these new Auxiliaries and the person of so gallant a man made sallies out of the Castles down towards the City where they sought in three several posts all night long and the people of Naples were ready to receive them so that they got little at that time The next day the Viceroy had a design upon Pusilipo and to that purpose sent thither a considerable force but the passages being narrow and the people resolute to live and dye with the Napolitans the Spaniards were repelled with some considerable loss so that they re-imbarked themselves and so retir'd The next Morning three hundred Calabreses more were sent from the Prince of Satriano as a new supply for the Viceroy in behalf of the Catholick King his Master There were tidings also brought from the Army of the Barons That Don Vicenzo de Tuttavilla had parted from Aversa towards the Greek Tower and Scafati where runs the source of the waters that drive all the Mills thereabouts it was beleagured by three thousand of
great incommodity unto them for divers were killed as they went along from time to time and it hindred the conveyance of necessaries to the Castle For two days together there was nothing but shooting of great and small Guns and the Bullets flew up and down every where which made no distinction of persons whereby you may conjecture what a mortality there was The civiller sort of people as Lawyers Clerks Notaries and other of the long Robe were commanded to put themselves in Arms for the common defence and were assigned several Posts for them to Guatd There came gladsome news to the City that the Prince of Montesarchio was routed who came to stop the watets of Poggio Reale insomuch that he himself was put to fly nor was the service without considerable loss to the people also There was one of the house of Capello that was surprized and taken for a spie to the Duke of Mataluni with divers other prisoners of quality brought to the Market-place Thereupon there were bonfires of joy made in divers places of the City and the Bells rung out and the Cannons played to congratulate their good successes The Cavalry of the people thought to assault some posts about Vomero but by the valour of the Germans and Burgundians who served the Viceroy they were repuls'd with no little loss They took an eminent man called Andrea Carola who belong'd to the Prince of Massa prisoner and a Councel of War went upon him so he was condemn'd to have his head cut off The Camp-master General Scipione Latro was appointed by the Viceroy to have the chief charge in guarding Puzzuolo The people that night march'd with 500. resolute men and advanc'd just under the Castle of S. Elmo they entred into an outward House that belong'd to the Governour of the Castle where they found some provision and great store of Wine which they let out upon the ground and burnt the House The chief Leader of this venturous Brigade did play his game so well that he came off with the loss of ten men only The Duke of Arcos did publish a Bando that whoever could bring him the Head of Gennaro Arnese who was Elect of the people should have 10000. Crowns Thereupon the people caused another Bando to be publish'd that whosoever could bring into the Market-place the Head of the Duke of Arcos who was Viceroy should have 12000. Crowns or whosoever did kill him any way should have 6000. upon certainty of the act Insomuch that the eagerness and enmity on both sides grew hottet and hotter They of the long Robes and divers Priests went up and down the streets en cuerpo all in black with Muskets on their shoulders and Pistols on both sides hanging at their Girdles There came unwelcome news to the City the day following That the Count of Conversano was come to Puzzuolo with four thousand fresh Combatants to joyn with the Cavaliers by the way of Ansignano there was brought in the afternoon a Cart-load of Heads into the Market-place which had been cut off in the Countrey The fight grew very furious towards the people especially at Porta Reale where a Spanish Camp-master Don Jeronymo Guzman kinsman to the Viceroy fell gloriously yet his body was rescued and received honourable burial in the Church of Spirito Santo Eleven Spaniards more perished in that place but of the common people 't was thought there were about a hundred slain The next day the Castles saluted the City betimes with their Cannon from St. Elmo an unhappy bullet came and killed one of the principal of the Black-coats that was in Arms. There came news from the Country That Don Julio Aquaviva was slain about Marigliono with others who had sold their lives very dear with slaughter of divers of the people The Popes Nuntio there having come unto him a Courtier expresly from Rome to that purpose desir'd to have Audience of the people in the Name of his Holiness to whom he had some things to communicate that tended to the publick Incolumity and Welfare of the City Thereupon there was a Consultation had in Gennaro Arnese's House the General of the people where it was deliberated that he should be heard but that he should pass through some private Houses not through the open streets to the place of Audience because he might not discover their works Thereupon the General of the Napolitan Republick put himself in State all in Cloth of Silver to attend the Nuntio who came at last with an Auditor whom the Pope had sent purposely with a Brief exhorting the City to conform themselves to a serious treaty of Peace otherwise the holy Church must do her duty and exercise her Spiritual Arms for the preserving of Christian blood and preventing the effusion of it 'T was said he stil'd Gennmaro by the Name of Excellency who answered the Nuntio That he could not expect a sudden Answer to so grave an Embassie Therefore the most faithful People desired some time to consult and consider of it So the Nuntio parted and some did laugh in their sleeves at him when he was gone so little they feared the Arms of the Church But this message from the Pope did so little prevail that the next day the people buckled themselves for fight more earnestly then ever being now so long flesh'd in blood that it made them little sensible of danger therefore all that day there was Skirmishing in all places Towards the evening there was a Feluca discovered which had been chased by two Gallies but narrowly scaped them this Feluca came safely to Port and she brought in her the Duke of Guise who had lived a good while retir'd in Rome having left France upon some disgust Hereupon there went off from the Torrion of Carmine twenty six shot of Ordnance and then the Bells did ring out à Gloria The Duke had with him but four Servants Gennaro Arnese went to meet him in splendid Equipage and he was received by the people with extremity of gladness the Cannons upon the Bastion of the great Church went off again and he was conducted to the Carmine where there were Church-Offices performed to God and the most blessed Virgin for his safe arrivall to Naples His Quarter was provided for him behind the Bastion of Carmine The next morning he appeared in the Windows of His Lodging and hurl'd money among the people telling them that they should be of good cheer for the French Army was near That evening he did the like but as they were discoursing of this business news came that the said Army was sailed towards Toscany About night there were brought eight Heads into the Market-place and it was reported that one of the Sons of Count Conversano was dead The next day there were sixteen Feâ—ucas that brought French Officers and others from Rome for the Duke of Guise who threw monies again among the people up and down the streets That evening there was skirmishing at every Post about the
City But there came cold news from the Countrey That there about three hundred of the people kill'd by the Barons Army who was recruited much by the Cavaliers of Castlemare The Duke of Guise went to view all the Trenches that were rais'd up and down for the defence of the City as also at Vomero and Puslipo at which time a fire happened in the Vicaria which was extinguish'd before it had done much hurt About this time Polito Pastina the Cape of the Banditi for to be revenged of some enemies of his in Salerno made himself Master of the place by force notwithstanding that he had received some refreshments there a little before He secur'd the Town for the people but the Camp-master Boccapianola of Leve came with three thousand well appointed men presently after and besieged Pastina in the Town of Salerno where he apprehended so much fear that he proposed suddenly some Articles That if the Viceroy would pardon him he would for the future constantly serve his Majesty with all his Brigade which was accordingly accepted These are the successes out of Naples but within her Walls there were hot disputes all this day without any intermission which lasted till night and darkness parted them The Duke of Guise the next dav went to the Archbishops Palace to take on Oath of Fidelity to the people and hear Mass and so he took the Communion by the hands of Cardinal Filomarino News came that the City of Nocera was in great commotion and that much slaughter was done there some adhering to the people but the greatest number to the King who hated the very name of the French That evening there was a hot encounter at San Carlo alle Mortelle where a Knight of St. Jago was slain with divers others but the people lost more for they were in a better condition to spare them having ten times more store of men then the Enemy The Duke of Guise got a choice Brigade to give a general assault to Donna Alluina whereupon the Bells rung out to Arm in this Service very many fell but re infectà thence they went to Santa Maria la Nova but the success was not great The Viceroy caused nine to be executed that he had taken prisoners into the Castle and published a Ban That whosoever took up Arms against His Majesty should suffer death without mercy The next day there were very hot encounters in divers places and many were slain hurt or taken prisoners the great rain caused them to be quiet in the afternoon which foul weather came accompanied with a tempest that endangcred some of Don J. of Austria's Fleet which was in the Port expecting what would be the issue of these broyls The Duke of Guise desir'd to have 6000 Foot and 1000 Horse and he would go to finde out the Barons Army which did so much spoil in the Countrey he had his desire and so march'd to Auversa The Barons having timely intelligence hereof joyn'd all in a Battaglion and came with a great deal of resolution towards the Duke and understanding there were many French in the Army it heightned their spirits the more The people hearing the noise of so many Trumpets and sound of Drums were seared and so astonished that they thought of flying away but the Duke with other Commanders did encourage them so that a furious Fight lasted for 2 hours but at last the Dukes people gave ground and so ran away with the the loss of 300 upon the place and about half so many wounded and 40 prisoners The Lieutenant-General of the people was slain who was a French-man with a Camarade of the Duke of Guise whose body he bought for burial On the Barons side there fell the Marquess of San Juliano Don Emmanuel Vaaz with 30 more the victorious Barons retired the night being come to Aversa and the people for another place that stood for Naples They had been somewhat quiet in Naples all this while attending the success of the Countrey Army abroad which when they heard it somewhat dejected them The Duke being returned to Naples went to visit all the posts up and down the next morning the City had a hot Good-morrow given her by the Castles that put her in a palsie for a great while There came more French from Rome to finde out the Duke of Guise but they were very few Some of the people remembring the words of the Duke that the French Army was near made a motion that if the said Army came not by such a day the Dukes head should pay for it Many thought this French Army was a meer Chymera and a pure Cheat nor did there want some Instruments os the Viceroy to infuse this into the peoples heads About the Dogana the next day there was a tough Dispute where 20 were killed and 30 of the people wounded many fell likewise on the other side The Admiral of Don John's Galeous died about this time having been sick divers days of a continual Feaver There was a new Patent to be given to the Duke of Guise wherein he should be stiled the Doge of the Royal Republick of Naples but some under hand gave advice it was not fitting to be done until there were some certitude of the French Army he spoke of Besides some reports were flown from the Castle that the confirmation of the Articles was come from the Catholick Court and was a printing with addition of further Graces for the City of Naples In the interim there came reports daily how divers places in Calabria as Pizzo and others were mightily troubled with factions which were grown so high that much bloud was spilt many houses burnt and other mischiefs done In some places the Kings party prevail'd in others the people Yet the Marquess of Santa Catherina did a great deal of good who went up and down with 2000 Foot and 1000 Horse and did quiet sundry places that were in uproars with such moderation and prudence that it is admirable He suppress'd besides some Rogues that taking the advantage of the times robb'd up and down the Countrey hanging them up on the High-ways on Boughs of Trees that they might be a terror to the passengers And in one little Grove which lay upon the common passage they say he did such an execution of those Free-booters who were worse than Banditi or common Robbers that every Tree was laden with their dead bodies some having 4 some 5 some 6 or more dangling upon their branches Upon Mundâ—y the second of December leaving the affairs of Calabria and returning to Naples from 3 hours of night to 7 in the morning there was a kinde of general battle given specially about the Kings Dâ—gana there fell of Spaniards and Germans above 60 and twice as many of the people This afternoon tâ—hre were imbarqued about 300 Souldiers to go for Aversa for a further supply to the Barons those Gallies which carried them had Ammunition and Arms also for the service of the said
were assaulted by some of the Duke of Mataluni's men whereof the Duke of Guise having notice he got presently a Horse-back and with a choice number went to their succour so there was a tough Dispute wherein many of the people perish'd and twenty of the Lazzari In Naples there were some suspected of foul play and to have intelligence with the Castle among whom the Captain of the Post hard by Saint Domingo Suriano and others of the House of Colentano who were all imprisoned by the people some of them freed themselves but others were condemn'd to die and executed A Mariner come from Genoa reported that he had seen at Piombino thirty four French Vessels under sail design'd for these Seas and that others who were their consorts were scatter'd by a violent tempest It was given out that the Duke of Guise had sent a Herald to assign a day of battel to Tuttavilla who was in Aversa and that he answered That he much wondred that the most Christian King and he himself being a Prince of the House of Lorrain who had so many Obligations to his Catholick Majesty should offer to assist the vilest people of Naples The Duke replied That the King of France being the Protector of the oppressed as it appear'd to him the Napolitans now were had commanded him to defend them in their just priviledges therefore he sent him notice that he should make himself ready for combat for he was resolv'd to have a battel There were the day following a Fleet discovered at Sea and some thought it was the French Armada and so rejoyced exceedingly But they of Castel Ovo thought it to be a Fleet of Spaniards consisting of twenty three Vessels thereupon up went the Flags within the Castles crying out Armada de Cielo Armada Catholica the Armada of Heaven the Catholick Army Others said it was the Indian Plate-Fleet which was come to succour them here This bruit ran through all Toledo street afterwards from the Castle they spied six more they were all about two miles distant from the shore so night came on that they could see no more for that time The next morning that Fleet proved to be French indeed which came to assist the people of Naples as they made their approach towards the shore they reduced themselves to the form of a half Moon as if they came to besiege the Spanish Fleet which was in post The Spanish Admiral seeing that French Fleet sailing towards the shore he wondred at the rashness of those who had the guidance of it that they would offer to enter into that Gulf having no post of security therefore he gave out a Rodomontado that he would not leave a Vessel unsunk of them 'T was thought that Fleet would sail towards Posilipo to disimbark some men and ammunition and so depart The Napolitan people finding it was a French Fleet displayed their Colours up and down the City and rais'd up the great Standard with the Image of the Lady of Carmine of San Gennaro and other Protectors of Naples with the Arms of the Royal Republick and those of France and all being brought to the Church of Carmine solemn Mass was sung in presence of the Duke of Guise who was now returned to Naples for the timee and Gennaro Arnese the Captain General with an incredible multitude of people about them and after Mass the Standard was set up in the bastion of Carmine by divers of the principal Officers and the great Guns went off every where in token of joy The next day there came on shore many Commanders and others from the said French Fleet they landed also six hundred Cows and Buffalo's which the people took for provision for City and Souldiery The French Fleet kept still in form of a half Moon and it was a goodly sight to behold it it consisted as formerly was said of twenty eight great Vessels and one small one they kept their distance so far that they were out of the reach of the Spanish Fleet or Castles There came about this time a Declaration set forth by the Napolitans that they never had done nor intended to do any thing against the Nobility and Gentry whereat divers did very much wonder considering the state of things then The next day Ginnaro Arnese resign'd his Generalship with great applause of the people who cried out aloud Let the Duke of Guise let the Duke of Guise live There was a purpose thereupon to make him Doge of the Royal Republick of Naples six years and the said Arnese Governour of the Bastion of the Carmine till some of the Castles should be taken allowing him twelve thousand Duckets provision per annum The Duke also assured him of the greatest Offices of trust that could be in the said Republick That Evening the six thousand Sacks of Corn which the Duke of Guise had found in Juliano was brought to Naples for supply of the City and the Duke of Guise parted again for Juliano There was great expectation what would become of the two great Fleets at Sea but in the interim by distresse of Weather two Vessels were sunk one on this side Posilipo the second t'other side towards Chaia The sirst saved her men but they were all cast away in the other and it was a ruthfull sight to behold Men swimming being closed arm in arm They say that there was another sunk and two more were boarded so that with those of Castleamane they accountd fourteen Vessels in all and one more lost in full Sea five Tartana's The Spanish Fleet had the Winde on their side at first but then it turned contrary in so much That the French Fleet followed the Spanish almost under Castle Ovo and the Tower of Saint Vincent by perpetual shooting so that this night there were great expressions of joy in Naples and the Bells rung à Gloria The Duke of Tursis had Order from the Castle to propose a Truce for three hours which lasted above six between the Castle and the Town The rumour ran that the French Fleet was gone very ill handled and also disgufted by the people who would not consigne the Bastion of Carmine into the French hands and there wanted not those who painted out the Frenchman to the life and exaggerated his ill qualities It was given out that the French Fleet had disimbarked both men and victuals at Bagnoli It was Christmas-day and in honour of that holy Tide there was a cessation of Arms on both sides and no hurt done On the peoples side there was a Letter intercepted from Tuttavilla to the Viceroy wherein he complained that he could not furnish him with either men or money therefore he advis'd him to manage the business as well as he could he express'd likewise that they had scarce a shirt left amongst them for all went to make clouts for the wounded men The Galley Santa Agata went voluntarily to find the French Fleet which came on almost under the command of Castelnovo
putting it self in the posture of an half-moon there were among them three vessels so huge that they seemed as so many Mountains in the Sea They came upon the point of Pusilipo and got ' off again clear by the favour of the wind The dearth of bread increased in the City of Naples which made their spirits to faint somewhat yet the next day they advanced towards the Castle of Saint Elmo and the Spaniards sallying out towards them they lost five and twenty of their men There was a plot discovered for the murthering of the Duke of Tursis who had been lately taken prisoner and the Complices received their condigu punishment Don John of Austria's Steward came in a Feluca of purpose with white silk Flags to treat with the people for the freedom of the Duke of Tursis and a Ransome was put upon him of fourty thousand Duckets There came a recruit of three thousand men from Farino for the service of the people their Leader was Antonio Donato who had the title of Camp-Master from the Duke of Guise The Spaniards took a Feluca that was coming from Pozzuolo full of people of good quality but it cost them dear for among others a Knight of S. Jago was slain in the action three hurt whereof one was a Captain of note the weight and price of bread was regulated There came tidings that the City of Aversa was yielded up which had been so well fortified The people took likewise Caviano where there were divers Cavaliers mingled with Spaniards so that the Camp-master Tuttavilla fled into Capoa with hundreds more Cerra also made a rendition of it self The Duke of Guise appointed Governours in those places according and there were fourty thousand measures of Corn brought to Naples from those places for the common sustenance of the people Don John of Austria sent to the Duke of Guise an offer of three thousand Duckets for the Duke of Tursis by a Spanish Camp-Master The Duke answered That the City of Naples wanted no money and when he would yield the Castles and the Fleet of Gallies the Duke of Tursis should be given up The Tower of Anuntiata a Post of great consequence was taken by the people and likewise all the Advenues about Castelamana the Post of San Leonardo was also reduced to the peoples obedience There was a hot dispute between the Spaniards and the people at Chaia where the peoples Souldiers advanced as far as Pedro de Toledo's house A Letter of Don John of Austria's intercepted going to Sicily wherein he inordered Cardinal Trivultio to send the Sicilian Armada hither for preserving of Naples which with the whole Kingdom was in danger to be lost The first day of the year 1648. there came letters from divers places in Apulia from the Capipopolo there That they had twenty thousand good Combatants ready to assist the Royal Republick of Naples if need were An Alfarez going that day to the Elect of the people for Corn to make bread for his Souldiers and the Elect refusing the Alfarez took out his Poniard and would have stab'd the Elect whereupon the Alfarez was taken and hanged that very day in the Market-place The Duke of Guise removed his dwelling to the Palace of the Prince of Santo Buono in S. John of Carbonaro The Collateral Council gave the Duke of Arcos to understand that he should sit no more among them in quality of Viceroy but that his Highness should Govern but this was done as 't was thought in policy to induce the people to a conformity but 't is certain that Don John speaking of him said Vayase en hora mala che ha hecho perder este Reyno a mi Padre Let him go in an ill hour for he hath lost my Father this Kingdom There were two attempts made upon Pozzuolo by the people but they were repulsed both times Letters came to the Duke of Guise from Abruzzo That they were ready to serve the Republick upon all occasions and to obey their Summons Don John of Austria sent an Express to the Barons that they should make themselves ready and appear in the Field in a Body The Judge Onufrio was sent to Santa Clara to perswade them to render themselves to his Catholick Majesty alledging how that that great King had long Arms but the people fell a laughing at the Judge There was News brought that the passage of Scafati was re-gain'd whereupon there was great rejoycing in the City a special Guard of Halberdiers was appointed to attend the Duke of Guise the Governour of Salerno came to do him reverence bringing him a present of four choice Ginets with rich Saddles and the Arms of the Duke upon them There came also 2 Capopoli from the Territories of Otranto to do reverence to the Duke of Guise with Presents and assurances that they were at the disposing of the Royal Republick Most of the Judges were removed through all the Tribunals of Naples and well-affected men put in On the other side Don John inordered some part of his Fleet to go to Sardinia to fetch men and munition There came news also from Rome that the Conde d' Ognate who had been Embassadour in England Anno 1635. had a Commission to be the Viceroy of Naples There came also a Courier from Milan that there were three Regiments appointed and ready to serve His Catholick Majesty for the quieting of Naples Thereupon the next day there was a most terrible fight made betwixt the Castle and the City for 4 hours together wherein some hundreds perished on both sides the morning after the Duke of Arcos with his Family departed and the Castles gave him a Farewell that afternoon Don John of Austria made a Câ—vulcata to Jesu novo where he lighted and went to Church to be sworn Viceroy for the time whereupon Te Deum was so emnly sung then he return'd to the Castle by the street of Incoronata where the great Guns went off for joy A general Pardon was publish'd that day by Don John of Austria whereupon the grave Judge Onufrio di Palma made a moving eloquent Speech to the people that since the Duke of Arcos with the chiefest Incendiaries were gone and that they now had a Kings Son so gallant a young Prince to govern them it was high time for them to return to their former obedience to their Monarch and lawful King who had maintain'd them in peace and plenty so many years and now did make a gracious offer to take off all kinde of Gabels and grant a general Indulto or Pardon The people answered That if the Spaniards would go home to their own Countrey the Peace was made So this alteration of Governour wrought little effect for the present but both parties jear'd one another so that the Phlegm and longanimity of the Spaniard did wonderfully appear in these Traverses of affairs The Report was very rife that the Condc d'Ognate was preparing to come from Rome with a Recruit of 1500 choice men for
sixteenth of February a Brigade of the people went by night under the Conduct of a Genovese called Colonel Grillo and brought with them scaling Ladders with other Instruments to surprize the Town of Surrento but they within having timely notice thereof prepared accordingly and sallied upon them with much Animosity and Courage which caused a great slaughter of the people and divers were taken prisoners the said Grillo had both his arms bruised so that the rest were put to flight leaving behind them Bag and Baggage with all their scaling Ladders and Instruments His Excellency understanding from Genoa that there were fourteen Vessels laden with Corn to come for the service of the City from Provence in France he went in person with some of his Cape-officers to Nisâ—ta whither he carried a train of Artillery with munition for â—outh and War and plac'd there a hundred Spaniards in Garrison Tidings came that the Prince of Mâ—ntesarchia had reduc'd the City and Castle of Arianâ— to the Devotion of his Catholick Majesty at which time he had taken a Convoy of four hundred Mules laden with Corn he cut off the noses and ears of the chiefest Conductors who would obstinately resist and be of the Freneh party The Prince of Rocâ—a Maria had also brought divers places of consideration to their wonted A legeance and among others Sporlongo a Pass of very great Consequence to go and come from Rome where there was a hot Dispute before a Rendition would be made by the Governour and inhabiâ—ants of that place whereof divers were slain and the Town plunder'd There arrived the first of April 1648. in the Port of Naples a Vessel from Malaga with five hundred Spaniards a great proportion of Victuals and Arms This Ship gave notice that there were eight more under sail and divers other from several Ports in Spain to come for the service of his Majesty in Naples There came also two Gallies from Genoa with two hundred thousand of Ducates put up in Chests a hundred Barrels of Powder Salt-Peter with an infinite number of Bullets great store of Match with many sorts of edible Commodities There came also an Embassadour from Malta with a splendid train of Cavaliers who were received by his Highness Don John of Austria with extraordinary expressions of benignity The Conde d' Ognate provided them Coaches to go up and down the City from the Palace The Duke of Guise considering the great hazard and hurt which might befall those Corn ships that came from Province for the service of the Napolitan Republick specially now that the Spaniards had impatroniz'd themselves of the Post of Nisita and so strongly fortified it He went with a considerable Army of Horse and Foot with a train of Artillery and divers French Commanders and three thousand of the City Souldiers upon a design to reduce that place to the â—isposition of the Republick The sixth of the same Moneth his Highness and the Viceroy with great numbers of Barons Cavaliers and a numerous â—ldadesca with all the choicest and most magnanimous Commanders sallied out of the Castle with all the privacy that could possibly be about twelve a Clock at night having formerly implor'd the Divine help and so march'd down towards the City He had a train of choice Artillery along with him and divers other Military Instruments with good store of fire-works He came first to the Cisterna del ' Oglio with all his Army and caus'd the Church of Jesus which was contiguous to the place to be gently opened where having made fervent Orisons to the blessed Redeemer of man he desir'd Father Gerunda to confess him which he did and afterwards he took the holy Communion the Viceroy with the chiesest Commanders did the like Then he inordered a Wall to be batter'd down which join'd to San Sebastian and so pass'd to Porta Alba Being happily advanc'd so far he mounted his Ginet and rid towards the street of Constantinople through a throng of Musketeers whereof some shot others being astonish'd at so sudden a surprize stood amaz'd Thence he went on to Saint Aniello's street and the Virgins quarter where the most civil sort of people did inhabit who were most of them alwayes well inclin'd to the King The Archbishop Filomarino was appointed to meet him which he did together with the Bishop of Aversâ— the Lord Caratta Then he march'd towards the Palace of the Duke of Guise who togethrr with Pulumbo were absent which was a mighty advantage to the business and after some musket-shot the Palace yielded nor would the great Cannon which was planted there go off though fire was put to it so that all things seemed to conspire to make this Enterprize happy He marched thence to the great Market-place and approaching the great Bastion of Carmine where Gennaro Arnese was with three hundred select Souldiers of the people he sent him word that it was expedient that the said Torrion or Bastion should be put into his hands for his Majesties Service and if he would not conform to so just a demand he left him to consider what an act of disloyalty it would be Arnese calling his best thoughts to consultation held it a desperate temerity to refuse considering that at the end he might be constrained to do it so he came forth and presented the Keys to his Highness prostrating his person before him Thereupon Don John imployed Fru Paolo Venati a Knight of Malta a Commander of renowned valour and of high esteem among the people to let them know That it was his pleasure to grant them an Indulto or general Pardon with an aboli ion of the Gabels and of all faults provided they did presently range themselves to their wonted allegiance Hereupon the people remained satisfied but they desired to have that grace declared unto them by Don John of Austria himself being so great a Prince of the Imperial House of Austria So when he came out of the Church the people desired His Highness that he would be pleased to pronounce with his own mouth what he promised by the Cavalier of Malta whereupon he uttered aloud what the said Cavalier had said before assuring them besides of further demonstrations of Grace srom his Father So that huge croud of people gave such an applause that might have rent the Air as far as the middle Region This heroick Enterprise took effect almost without any effusion of blood at all only two Spanish Captains perished and one of the peoples with some few wounded all which may be imputed to a special providence of God in the first place and then to the prowess of a young General and prudence of a grave Viceroy And lastly to the absence of the Duke of Guise who was much taxed of inadvisedness to leave the City as matters then stood The next morning betimes the Duke of Tursis was seen walking among the people in the Market-place with his Nephew the Prince of Avella with their naked swords in hand among a
entire sacrifice should be made thereof to Vulcan Then they ran to Felix Basil's house and us'd him with the same punctuality Thence they steer'd their course to Antonio d' Angelis and did the like Thence they went to Andrea Anaclerio's Palace who was the Peoples Elect and though 't was late yet they us'd his house as they did the rest The next day the Viceroy commanded to be proclaim'd by sound of Trumpet that all Gabels should be abolish'd that were impos'd ever since the time of Charles the fifth which Trumpeters went up and down the places as well within the City as towards the Sea side where the Gabel houses stood Yet for all this they ran to the house whete the Magazine of Powder was and took away what proportions they pleas'd nor would this serve the turn but they set fire to what remain'd with the death of forty men which made such a hideous noise as if not only one City but the whole world did tremble Hereupon every one did put himself in Arms and the women were as busie as any In the Sellaria they planted five pieces of Ordnance six hundred Foot pass'd by Magdanela bridge to be imbarked in some Gallies for the Kings service but the rabble fell upon them and took away their Arms for another use The Nobility fail'd not ever and anon to court the Viceroy in behalf of the people who now began to prohibit things to pass to his Palace One would think now that he had been in Cocagna or Lubberland for every thing entred into Naples without paying the least toll nor could a Sergeant be scarce seen in the streets nor any Officer that had any thing to do with the Farmers of the Gabel The next morning the rabble went to the Lord Antonio Mirabello's house whom they took in bed and he hardly scap'd away in his shirt they presently burnt all his movables which made a rich bonefire thence they went to Duke Caviano's house and used him alike with many other sair Palaces Then they came to Caesar Librano's house where scarce a pin scap'd the fury of the fire In the same manner they came to the Duke of Ostuin's house and to Dr. Tavaglo's where they did the like They sent to Andrea Mazzola for fifteen hundred Muskets but denying he had any they put fire to his house and took out the said Muskets Every House-keeper in Naples was commanded to put himself in Arms immediately under pain of having his house burnt There were some sixty Spaniards in garrison about the Tower of St. Laurence but the rabble ran thither with two Cannons where they disarmed and thrust out the Spaniards and possess'd themselves of all the ancient Records that were in those Archives so they plac'd presidial Forces of their own there Then they put fire to Biasio de Balsamo's house whence they pass'd to Bartholomeo d' Auqino of Chaia and treated him as they did all the rest but they spared the house he had in Pizzifalione which they turn'd to a fortress Jeronymo Nacarella had his share in this Tragedy who had a sumptuous new Palace made level with the ground Then they flew to Baron Valentiano's house who was Farmer of the Corn from him they passed to Pietro Florio who was Cash-keeper to the Royal Dogana or Custom-house and because it was fitting that at such a holy day a Minister of the Chamber should have some share they went to President Cenano to whom they did the like curtesie as they had done to others It was admirable what a regular method they observed in their fiery executions for they used first to take all the goods out into the Market place to be burnt crying out it was the blood of the people of Naples and 't was death to embeazle the least thing insomuch that one who had stoln but a peep of Sausage was like to be hang'd by Massanicllo nor did they spare either gold silver or jewels but all was thrown into the flames as also coaches and horses were burnt alive most rich Tapistries and Pictures but they saved all books and pieces of Piety which they sent to several Churches and in Fclix Basils house they burnt a huge proportion of bisket which was ready to be sent to the Gallies for the Kings service The Viceroy ordered that some Companies of High-Dutch who were in Garrison at Pozzuolo should come to Naples the rabble having notice hereof ran out of Gratta and meeting them they disarm'd them all and brought them prisoners to the Market-place When they entred into Saint Lorenzo they found there the picture of Charles the Fifth which they carried round about Naples with twenty thousand souls who accompanied it crying all along Viva il Ré di Spagna May the King of Spain live After this they went to Cornelio Spinola's House where it was expected they would have used the same Complement as they did to others but he told them that he never had any thing to do with the Gabels but he was there for the service of Genoa only thereupon they chose him for Grassiero or superintendent of the Flesh-Market and lest in his house the picture of Charles the Fifth One may easily conjecture in what pickle the poor Genoway stood all the white They placed up and down the City five and twenty great Cannons in the most necessary Advenues and the busiest man who was employed herein was Joseph Perrone a notorious Bandito whom they appointed to be Captain of the Guard in the great Market-place who dispensed his commands with that reservedness and punctuality that 't was wonderful but some under-dealings of his being detected he and his brother were hackt to pieces by the fury of the people and their bodies for publick satisfaction and example were dragg'd up and down the Streets and hurl'd afterwards into the Common Ditch The Duke of Mataluni for the safeguard of his house assembled his outlaws and other desperate persons but the people haivng notice thereof kill'd five of them and took one alive the rest sav'd themselves by flight Thereupon the great Bell of Lorenzo rung out to give notice that every one should be ready in Arms which had not been done a hundred years before Massaniello now grew higher in Command yet he would not alter his habit but went still barefoot and in Mariners habit so that the common cry was Viva Dio Ré de Spagna Massaniello Let God live live the King of Spain and Massaniello and there was such an opinion conceiv'd of him that they thought him to be divinely inspir'd so that every nod of his went for an absolute Command This opinion was confirm'd by a strange Passage which was That certain Banditos and Outlaws intending to murder the said Massaniello they discharg'd divers Muskets at him but they did no execution which was held a notable miracle eight of the said Banditoes were slain the rest sav'd themselves in the Church of Carmine The whole City was cut out into
decay extreamly and the Artisans went up and down the streets like vagabonds having nothing to do Thete came news from Sicily that his Catholick Majesty had confirm'd the capitulations of peace with the Palermitans which caused much joy in the City in regard they hoped that his Majesty would ratifie their Articies also in as ample manner There came fresh information that Don John of Austria Generalissimo of the Seas and natural Son to his Catholick Majesty was with a royal Fleet at Sardinia he sent to the Viceroy to provide some provisions for the Gallies but he returned answer That there was little convenience to accommodate them there but the Island which his Royal Highness was at was more proper for to furnish Bisket and other necessaries It was wonderful to see how dexterous the Citizens of Naples were in handling their Arms in their discipline of war in their marches and watches as if they had been bred souldiers all their lives There were solemn processions made by all the religious houses within and without the City for a benediction to come from Heaven upon the last agreement and that God almighty would please to inspire the heart of the Catholick King to confirm the capitulations for avoyding of more blocdshed but it seems their solemnities took little effect as shall appear hereafter The great statue of silver was carried up and down with that of Saint Germano Protector of Naples but aster the end of the processions the said silver statue of Saint James was replac'd in the Arch-bishops Palace There happened some stir the next day after touching Joseph Palumbo Lieutenant of the people who had the chief charge of the Magazines of Gun-powder Notice was taken and complaints made that he suffered too great a proportion to go for the Castles but that it should be reserved for the service of the most faithful people therefore the said Palumbo was restrain'd to Saint Lorenzo but being a popular man and one known to be a good Patriot and of a publick soul and a prrson of integrity there were four thousand of the best armed men joyn'd together to vindicate and free the said Falumbo and there was like to be a hot fray and bloody business had not the Prince of Massa General to the City with much ado and no less discretion appeased the tumult The third Tumult happened in the City of Naples after the arrival of the Armada of his Catholick Majesty under the command of the Serenissimo Don John of Austria THe first day of October 1647. The Castle of Saint Elmo hung up the great Standard upon sight of his Catholick Majesties Royal Army there entred afterward into the Port five and fourty great Vessels and as it was thought the Galleys of his Royal Highness Don John of Austria A Rumour ran that they carried six thousand fresh Foot others said they came but to three thousand All the Royal Castles saluted them the Quay was throng'd with many thousands of people to fee the Fleet It was then certainly known that his Royal Highness was aboard the Galeones thereupon it was ordered that Prince Thraldo with Arqata the Elect of the people should go to tender a Tribute of due Obsequies and Reverence to his Highness and he with many evidences of affection receiv'd them and gave audience saying that he was ready to do whatsoever they desired or could imagine to have having authority from his Majesty to grant a Remission of all things provided that the Arms should be consign'd to his Excellency and put in the Castles They carried him a plentiful present two hundred Turky-Cocks two hundred Capons two hundred pair of pigeons twelve Calves of Surrento and abundance of choice Fruit upon twelve Felucas he received all very joyfully causing some pieces of Gold to be hurl'd into the Felucas among those who carried the presents The same Evening the Viceroy sent him a hundred Weathers a hundred gammons of Bacon with other commodities The next day his Highness signified his pleasure That he was desirous to disimbarque and put foot on shore but he desir'd that first the City should disarm Hereupon all the Captains of War and all the Street-Captains assembled at S. Augustin to conclude upon that which his Highness demanded but the common people of the Market and of Lavinaro forc'd into the said Church threatning death to all the Captains who were there met who dismiss'd the Parliament for the time and referr'd all to his Highness The next day Arpaia the Elect of the people was inorder'd to go to his Highness and desire him that he would come ashore but with a limited number whereunto Don John gave no pleasing ear The next day a choice number of Captains went to attend his Highness and to advertise him that the people were willing to lay down their Arms and put them up in their own houses not otherwise this likewise gave little contentmentto his Highness The next day certain Spanish Souldiers came down from Castlenovo with a company of Reformadoes and made themselves masters of Caesar Lubrano's house in the Hospitaletto where they disarm'd all those that stood for the people who were but few because they depended upon the contract of Peace all the Trenches being destroy'd to that purpose round about the City The Captain of that Post was a Glover the Spanish Souldiers burnt the door of his house by an artificial fire plunder'd him as they did many other houses All the three Castles began to play and discharge their great Guns which struck a terrible affrightment into the women but they did but little execution in regard of their distance unless it was at Porto which suffer'd much The Captains of the people who were assembled in Saint Augustin and in Toledo-street went all into the Castles as also some of the great Market another Captain of Porto of Santa Maria with divers other Then the gross squadron of Spaniards came down and with much cautiousness got possession of many of the importunest Ports in and about the City without the loss of one soul. The people of Toledo-quarter remain'd much astonish'd being without Captain Alfarez or any other Officer as much as a Serjeant or Corporal The Spaniards seiz'd also upon Porto but the people recover'd that again for the people of the great Market came in great numbers and revil'd them calling them Poltrons with other opprobrious language which incited them to take Arms again The people thought they had all the justice of the world on their side in regard that according to the Capitulations with the Viceroy they were to continue in Arms till the confirmation had come from Spain which time was limited to three moneths therefore the Prince Turaldo going to the great Market the people cryed out We are betrayed we are all betrayed The Prince answer'd them with gentle language and in substance Son con voy per morir con voy sio hó fatto Errore la testa lo paghi má io Son
the service of his Catholick Majesty and to be Viceroy of Naples In the mean time the War did not languish a whit for the people were now beleaguering Surrento and Pozzuolo with much resolution so that the noise of the Cannons was heard from Naples News was brought that in Santa Maria de Capra many of the people were slain which did much exasperate matters as they then stood There was a new Election of Deputies made Prior Caracciola Don Diomede Caraffa and Marco Antonió Gennaro were appointed for the Nobles and City who expos'd to his Highness the grievous calamities and confusion that so flourishing a Kingdom was reduc'd unto by reason of the present Tumults that the people took up Arms for no other end but to recover their Liberty and Livelihood that they might be the better able to serve his Catholick Majesty and continue in their fidelity to their natural King and for the future they offer'd to keep Arms no more in their houses but live quietly and in brotherly concord one with another The next morning there came thirty thousand Ducates from Spain for the support of the War that Afternoon the Duke of Mataluni came to Naples to do reverence to his Highness and a Rumour ran that two Cardinals were to come from Rome with the Conde d'Ognate to accommodate matters The people receiv'd a foul Repulse before Surrevto insomuch that they were forc'd to raise the Siege with much loss The like ill success they had before Puzzuolo The Duke of Guise did a notable piece of Justice upon a French Baron who had held intelligence with the Puzzolani and under-hand had been a means to convey them corn and other provisions The people put to death a Franciscan Frier a man of an ill life and a dishonour to his Frock Notwithstanding the fair hopes of Accommodation yet for two days and nights there was nothing but fighting and skirmishing at every Post insomuch that there was a computation made of near upon five hundred slain on both sides in the space of fourty hours There was order given out that the Lazzari which are the scum of the Neapolitan people being most of them Porterst Scavengers and Tankerd-bearers having now grown very innsolent should be suppress'd There was new Money stamp'd with the Arms of the Royal Republick The same night Antonio Manella Elect of the people was slain by Jacomo Rosso Camp-master of the people by order of the Duke of Guise chopping off his head afterwards and carrying it up and down the City upon a Halberd and his body was dragg'd to the Market-place and so hang'd by the one foot because he had secretly conveyed Corn to the Spaniards The next day divers kinsmen and acquaintance os the Duke of Guise came to the City Gennaro Arnese Governour of the Bastion of Carmine having had private intelligence that the Duke of Guise had a Design to introduce the French and make himself King the said Gennaro together with Vincenzo Andrea and a great multitude of Citizens most whereof were on hors-back rid up and down the City and cried Viva la Republica Viva il Popolo At which Rumour every one did shut up his Shop and his Doors and the City was generally in Arms which being understood by the Duke of Guise he commanded his Regiment of Horse to be presently put in equipage calling together all his Confidents making all of them a good Squadron before his Palace and Arnese passing by at that time with his Brigade he was so saluted with some Muskets that six of his men drop'd down dead which made the rest betake themselves to flight the Duke afterwards rid up and down the Streets and the people cried out Viva la Republica Viva il Duca di Guisa Vivasualtezza And so going to the Carmine he had some conference with Gennaro Arnese whereupon all was quieted in a marvellous suddenness considering the quality of the Commotion The first of February 1648. The Castle of S. Elmo put up the royal Standard upon discovering three Gallies one whereof was the Capitana of Naples wherein was imbarqu'd the Conde d'Ognate upon his arrival to the Post he was saluted by all the Castles first by Castelovo then by Castelnovo and lastly by the Castle St. Elmo The Bastion of Carmine did also salute him but it was with Bullets as he passed by whereby three of the Gally-slaves and two more were slain which caus'd him to remove into a Feluca and so went first to salute his royal Highness and then into the Palace where he was attended by the C llateral Council and all the Nobility with all the Punctilio's of Ceremony There happen'd a great Commotion at this time among the people and Citizens of Naples some crying up Spain others France some The Parliament of England and others the Republick so that every one began to arm and it was like to produce very ill consequences unless the Duke of Guise by a French boldness and resolution had appeas'd the uproar The D. of Guise reform'd the Officers of the Militia which tended afterwards to the advantage of his Catholick Majesties service He sent also Manifesto's to the Nobles throughout the Kingdom that they should inform the people That for the future no Gabels or Impositions should be laid upon them but new Graces and Concession should be done them provided they would continue in their loyalty and devotion to the Royal Republique The Marquess of Turiano took the command of the reform'd Souldiery Biasio di Fosso being now dead All the Sâ—ldadesca with their Officers interven'd to see the solemnity and among others the Marquess of Rattivelle Upon the thirteenth of February 1648. The Royal Republick of Naples did establish certain Senators with the consent of the Duke of Guise and the People together with the approbation of the Councel of State and War and they were six in number three Noble men and 3. Citizens Don Diomede Carratta Cesare de Bologna The Prince della Roeca For the Nobles Augustin Mollo Gennaro Arnese Vincent d'Andrea Were chosen for the people It was also determin'd that there should be Elected two Senators for every Province throughout the whole Kingdome which were Twelve in all so that the whole Number would come to twenty four Twelve for the Nobles and Twelve for the People to avoid Confusion that might arise from a greater Number Moreover it was Ordered that certain Officers should be elected for the government of the Cities and Towns with Subaltern Instruments under them specially for the Government of Saponara and the two Provinces of Calabria The same day those new Officers which had been chosen formerly were put in possession of their authority derived from the Republick both in the Vicaria and other Tribunals who were to regulate themselves according to the new model The new Viceroy did stir himself notably and left no stone unremoved to settle Peace and quietness thereupon he did insinuate into many of the Captains and Citizens The