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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12677	Nevves from Spayne and Holland conteyning. An information of Inglish affayres in Spayne vvith a conferrence made thereuppon in Amsterdame of Holland. VVritten by a gentleman trauelour borne in the lovv countryes, and brought vp from a child in Ingland, vnto a gentleman his friend and oste in London.; Newes from Spayne and Holland.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Walpole, Henry, 1558-1595. aut	1593 (1593)	STC 22994; ESTC S102266	41,764	84

asseuerations touching thes poynts to be euidently false and founded commonly in layne lying and this not only in matters of religion but also in al other publique affayres and negotiations which is a sore blemish to so publique a person for the which I can assure you this man giueth him many wayes such rough hewing and vttereth so many particulers of the present state of Ingland and vseth so often your owne lawes stories and cronicles to proue it as it maketh all sortes of straungers wonderfully desirous to reade it The third author which I haue seene wrotte in flaunders as it semeth and is named Dydimus Veridicus as a man would say Thomas tell truth vvho being a subiect of this kinge as he pretendeth and both witty and eloquent and taking vppon him principally to defend the king his masters procedings towards Ingland and to refute the particuler accusations layed agaynst him in the proclamation he waxeth very sharpe many tymes not only agaynst my lord Treasorer as philopater doth but also agaynst the whole state vvhich greaueth me to reade As for example at the begining in the 9. page of his booke for that my Lord Burley semed to bragg in his proclamation of the most quiet state and gouerment of your common vvealth for 33. yeares togeather while other common wealthes rounde about you haue lyued in broyles this man taketh in hand not only to proue that all thes broyles haue bin procured by Ingland but also that Ingland it selfe is far of from al condition and nature of a true quiet common vvealth and thus he begineth The peace and tranquility of a kingdome or common wealth is not troobled only by armes and open vvar of the publique enemie abroad or at home but principally and most daungerously of al other by the disorder and disagrement at home of her parts and members among themselues and by the violent proceeding of such as manage the same vvhich three examples that ensew shal declare That house cannot in very truth be said to be in peace though yet neyther vvith their ovvne people within nor vvith their neyboures without they be not at buffets vvhere the master liueth in suspition of his seruants the officers doe beat and vex the houshould vvher some runne avvay some hide themselues some cry out some scould other complayne vvher al is ful of contention and disputes noe obedience but only for feare no respect but only perforce vvher honest men doe starue for hunger innocent men are afflicted quiet men vvhipped seditious trooble some heades doe commaunde and exact by terror there most iniust and violent commandements Secondly that Shipp cannot be sayd to hold a good peaceable course though the sea be calme and vvinde in the deck vvhere the master from the mariners and shipmen from the passingers do disagree are reuiled beten and spoyled the one by the other ther marchandize taken away themselues eyther opptesed or stong into the sea the cables sayles ankers and other tackling broken or putt into cōfusion the ship defiled with blood and loden vvith dead carcases and nothing founding within but sighes and sorrowe and desolation of such as miserably liue vvounded in her And last of al that cytie cannot be sayd to be in peace or in any security though it be infested yet vvith no enemye from a broad vvhose gouernours do giue themselues vvholy to terror and crueltie do multiply prisons fetters gardes and spies do make new penal lawes abolish the olde and do inuent new taxes and impositions euery day do seeke all occasions to pole ther people at home inforce them forth to be theeues abroad do kepe fayth with none do cast in prison banish spoyle and consume the better sort pull downe the nobility oppresse the cleargy finally do put al there hope in the feare of the people and none in ther good wil thus sayeth Didimus agaynst that first poynt of your L. Tresorers proclamation And after he hath persued many particularityes of the afflicted and dangerous present state of Ingland by reason of the diuision in religion disuinon and hatred betwene protestants Catholiques and puritans complaints and discontentments on euery side incertainty of succession vnto the crowne pouerty of the people for lack of trafique breaking of marchants for the same cause burden of vnnecessary and vnprofitable warres dayly multiplying of intolerable tributes pestering the realme with innumerable renegat and rebellious straingers liberty of theeues by so long permission of piracy vniust vvarres diffidence distrust in the one towards the other and open domestical dissention in euery towne parish and particuler house ouer all the land for one cause or other After al this I say he passeth on to compare the estate of Ingland with other kingdomes common vvealthes abroade shewing the great hatred obloquie which your country is in for styrring vvarres and rebellions on euery side but for no one thing more thē for so opē dealing with the Turke the publique enemye of al christian professiō inuitinge styrring him to turne his forces vppon Christendome therby to hurt the king of Spayne which this mā anoucheth to be euidēt not only by the oftē embassages letters presēts sent vnto this professed enemye of Christs name from Inglād thes later yeares but also by a playne letter written by the Turk himselfe about three or fowers yeares agone to the Queene about this matter soone after the defeat of the spanish Armada which letter being intercepted in Germany printed ther both in the Latin germane tonges was afterwards published agayne and inserted into an History of our tymes set forth by on Ionson Doccom of friselande and now agayne laid abroad by this Didimus and the letter is vvord for vvord as followeth for that I suppose you vvilbe desirous to see it thus then goeth the title HONORATAE A DOmino legis christianae matronae culmini castitatis inter castissimas faeminas populorum qui seruiunt Iesu c. In Inglish thus TO the honorable matron honored by the lord of Christian lavv to her that is the hight and topp of chastity among the most chast women of al people that serue lesus to her that is adorned with the glory of domination gouernment ladie of many kingdomes reputed of greatest power prayse among the nation of Nazarens to witt Elizabeth Queene of Inglād to whom we wish a most happy and prosperous ende You shal vnderstand by thes our high and emperiall lettres directed vnto you that your embassador residing in this our high and noble court did present vnto the throne of our greatnes a certayne writing of yours which informed vs how that for thes foure yeares past you haue made warr vppon the king of Spaine therby to breake and diminish his forces by which he is become dreadful vnto the rest of Christian Princes hath determyned to make himselfe lord ouer al monarch of the whole world besides more

ouer the said lettre doth shew how that the selfe same king of Spayne hath by violēce taken away the kingdō of Portugall from Don Antonio the lawful king therof lawfully created moreouer that your intention is to lett hereafter the nauigation of this king vnto the Indians wherby he is wont to bring home euery yeare into spayne great store of gold and siluer spices and precious stones worth many millions by which he is become so rich as he hath commodity to molest and indanger al other Princes and if he should be let a lone he would grow to be so powerable that at lenght it would be hard to resist him Vppon which considerations your said Embassador did make humble supplication vnto our greatnes that we should vouch safe in the beginning of this next spring to send our imperial nauy vppon the said King assuring vs that he would not be able to resist the same for the great ouer throw and damage which he hath receaued by your nauy of late and seing he is scarse able to resist your forces alone no doubt but that he would be ouercome if of many sides he be innaded at one tyme which would be greatly as you say to the commodity of al Christiā Princes as also of this our high courte to which it appartayneth to take the protectiō of such as fly vnto the same for succour as Don Antonio doth being driuen out of his kingdome by the said kinge of Spaine and therfore that we should giue him help succour according to the custome of our noble auncetours predecessors of happy memory whose sepulcres God almightie lighten who were wōt alwayes to giue royal assistance to such as were oppressed and came for ayde to their imperial highneses These thinges and many other did your said embassador declare at large before our roiall throne al vvhich vve haue vnderstood and layd vp dilligently in our myndes and for the present our answere is that vvher as we haue had vvarr now many yeares in Persia with intention to gayne that kingdom and to ioyne it to the rest of our auncient Dominions and to reueng our selues vppon that accursed heretical Persian that holdeth the same now by the grace of our great God and by the helpe of our most holy prophet Mahomet we are very nere to obteyne our purpose according to our desire which being once done al necessary prouision shal be made out of hand for performance of thes thinges which you desire demaunde assuring you that if you doe cōtinew this league of frenship puerly and sincerly vvith this our high court you shall finde no refuge more secure nor any hauē of loue good wil more firme sure then this of owrs by which no doubt all your warrs vvith the spaniards shal succede vnto you according vnto your desire vnder the shadow protection of this our happy throne and seing the king of Spayne hath gotten by fraude violēce al that he possesseth no doubt but by the grace of god al such fraudulent deceauers shal quickly be destroyed In the meane space we do exhort you to lese no tyme nor occasion to do him hurt but to be watchful and diligent and according to the couenaunts alredy made betwene vs that you shew your selfe a frend to our frendes and an enimye to our enimyes and that you signifie from tyme to tyme vnto this our high court vvhat new warres soeuer be taken in hāde in those partes and what you can vnderstand concerning the King of Spaine to our and your commodity furthermore I am to aduertise you that this your embassador hauing done his duety and fulfilled the function of his embassie with great care diligēce hauing left here in his place for his cōmissary agent Edward Bardon he departeth now with our licence towards your kingdome who for his faythful seruice here performed deserueth no doubt to be much esteemed honored exalted aboue others and when he hath gotten all those honores preheminenses of you which he deserueth let him returne agayne presently with your letters or some other principal man in his place to be your embassador here and to continew this office of frendship betwene vs in this our high court and thus much we thought good to aduertise you by our owne soueraigne lettres and seale which you shal giue intire credit vnto Giuen this fiftenth of Benedicti Rhamaram Hitherto is the lettre of the greate Turke vnto your Queene that is to say of that greate proude and barbarous enemy of Christes holy name and religion wheruppon this Dydimus doth deduce dyuers considerations of importance consequence as namly first of al about religiō and cōscience saying who would haue thought when Inglād vppō pretence of purer seruing of Christ did first seperate it selfe in religiō frō the rest of Christian kingdomes that it would haue come in so few yeares to that passe as to make recourse to Christes open enemye persecutor that agaynst Christians as also that for the hatred of some one Christian Prince to seke to put into Christes enemyes handes so many millions of his subiects as are in Spayne and to put in hazard al Christendome besides The second consideration is of wisdome and pollicy tēporal for what wisdome or pollicy in the world can ther be in this sayeth he though we set a side al feare of God and religion to call so potent an enemye as the Turk is into Spayne or to thinke that he would be a better frend to the state and subiects of Ingland that are Christians then the king of Spayne that is a Christian or to imagin that when Spayne should be lost Ingland could be safe or when this ambicious tyrant should haue enthralled the spainards he would suffer the Inglish to liue at their liberty was not Constantinople was not Africa and many other realmes lost from Christianity by this most diuelish and miserable enuy of one realme and Prince agaynst a nother A third consideration is of honour and reputation which seemeth excedingly to be touched and distayned by many poyntes in this lettre discouered for what a thing is it sayeth he that Ingland which was wont to be a kingdome of so great honour nobility and valor in kingly proceding should now come to make such a narratiō to the great Turke as here is set doune by the tyrants owne letter to witt that the kinge of Spayne meant to make him selfe lord of al Christedome and monarch of al the world that he hath taken Portugal by violence from Don Autonio the lawful king lawfully created vvheras al the world knoweth that the Kings title to Portugal was decided by the lawes of that kingdom it selfe and by the approbation of the last king Cardinal of the same vvho also pronounced Don Antonio for an open knowne bastard vvhom all the nobility afterwards refused and no man euer created him king but only a few