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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11795	Sir VValter Ravvleighs ghost, or Englands forewarner Discouering a secret consultation, newly holden in the Court of Spaine. Together, with his tormenting of Count de Gondemar; and his strange affrightment, confession and publique recantation: laying open many treacheries intended for the subuersion of England.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 22085; ESTC S116986	20,870	44

rancke to his owne honour was he I say was this good King free from the bloody practises of Spaine no to the eternall infamie of ingratefull and bloody Spaine I may euer proclaime it that he was more deepely plunged and his like more bitterly besieged and assaulted then any whatsoeuer before rehearsed and to this I call vp the plot of all plots that Deuill of many legions of Deuils the Gun-pouder conspiracie that which should haue destroyed all not a single Prince or a single man but many Princes many mens whole generations here was cruell Spaine and here indeed had not God preuented was a strong foundation for an vniuersall Monarchie and that Spaine may not in this pleade not guilty let her discouer to the world what occurrents they were which drew Thomas ●inter into her confines what negotiation was ●hat which hee held with de Laxis whence came his instructions and letters commendatorie into ●he Archduchesse Countrie where did Guy Faucks ●eceiue his breeding who gaue information of ●is knowledge in myning and who preferred ●nd aduancst him to this peece of most damnable seruice questionlesse let truth answere to any of these positions and the speech it must vtter will be Spanish language who in all this Nation was so intimate with you as the Archpriest Garnet or who like him found at your hands equall protection he confest and absolued the Traytors and thou didst absolue and confesse him and thereby didst get vnto thy selfe from thine owne Tribe the nicke-name of Archbishop Ambassadour Thus I haue brought Spaines attemps for an vniuersall Monarchie from Portugall to the Netherlands thence through Italy so into France England was lookt vpon by the way in the yeare 1588. but shee was not so drowfie as others there is now but Germanie betwixt him and the end of his Ambition but is that free and vntouched woe to speake it that of all is the worst and most horred O the lamentable estate of those once most happie Princes how hath the house of Austria drownd them in blood and by the worke of ciuill dissention made them in their furies to deuoure one another Is there any thing in this age more lamentable or remarquable then the losse of the Palatinate or is there any thing in which thy villany can so much triumph as in that politique defeature why the lyes which thou didst vtter to abuse the Maiestie of England and to breed delayes till thy Masters designes were effected were so curious and so cunning so apte to catch and so strong in the holding that the Deuill who was formerly the author of lyes hath now from thee taken new presidents for lying I would here speake of thy Archduchesses dissimulation but shee is a great Lady and their errours at the worst are weake vertues Therefore to thee that hast lent both fuell and flame to all the mischiefes of Europe and that art now bigge in labour with new troubles and vexations arise and collect thy spirits become once hon●st and religious let thy seruices depend vpon good and necessarie affaires and not vpon malicious and bloody practises for behold I thy Tormentor will neuer be absent from thine elbow and whatsoeuer thou shalt contriue or plot for the hurt of Great Britaine I with the helpe of the holy Angels will returne vpon thine owne bosome and the bosome of thy Countrie for the good of heauen and earth who is the Protector of the Innocent hath made Royall King CHARLES and his Throne precious in his sight therefore if thou desirest to liue and see good dayes touch not his annointed and doe his Prophets no hurt At these words the glorious aparition wauing his sword about vanished out of his sight and the poore Don as if awakened from a deadly or mortall sleepe rose vp looking about with such gastly amazednesse as affrighted all that beheld him In the end espying his owne seruants with teares in his eyes terrour in his heart and a generall trembling ouer all his body he went into his Litter and returned home where how he refresht himselfe how hee appeared before the designed Commissioners and how he answered the expectation both of them and the King his Master shall be declared vpon the next returne of the woman Poste which passeth betwixt the English and the Spanish Iesutis FINIS Gondemars false Title or Stile Gondemars true Title or Stile