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A13572	The strangest aduenture that euer happened: either in the ages passed or present Containing a discourse concerning the successe of the King of Portugall Dom Sebastian, from the time of his voyage into Affricke, when he was lost in the battell against the infidels, in the yeare 1578. vnto the sixt of Ianuary this present 1601. In which discourse, is diuerse curious histories, some auncient prophesies, and other matters, whereby most euidently appeareth: that he whom the Seigneurie of Venice hath held as prisoner for the space of two yeres and twentie two dayes, is the right and true king of Portugall Dom Sebastian. More, a letter that declareth, in what maner he was set at libertie the xv. of December last. And beside, how he parted from Venice and came to Florence. All first done in Spanish, then in French, and novv lastly translated into English.; Adventure admirable, par dessus toutes autres des siecles passez & present. English	Teixeira, José, 1543-1604.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1601 (1601)	STC 23864; ESTC S118296	67,947	90

straungers In this citie of Lyons among the Spanish Comedians there is a Portugueze aged about some thirtie yeares a man well born learned and speakes the Latin tongue very well the place of his birth not farre from mine from him I could neuer get one Portugueze word yet speakes he as perfect Castilian as if he had bene borne and brought vp in the Court of Madrill and it is but fiue yeares since he hath bene absent from his owne countrey where be forsooke his kindred some of them being well knowne to me We haue an hundred thousand like examples through all ●s and it is a thing so common as there can neuer want due ●e thereof But I will not spare to speake this as truth if the Dom Sebastian or any other Portugueze whatsoeuer ha●●ost the vse of his Portugall language by being conuersant ●g his countreymen come not againe to the recouerie there● shall pardon me then to be suspitious of him By meanes ●gh a man may easily grow into heate my Lord reprouing ●pinions and restrayning the audacious courses of people ●orted with passions therefore whosoeuer will speake truth 〈◊〉 say that my Lord Dom Sebastian king of Portugall is no ●rois But the very selfe same king who in the yeare 1578. 〈◊〉 his voyage into Affrick in fauour of Muley Mahamet Xa● mooued by the offers which were made vnto him for the ●tage and weale publique of all Christendome This doth ●re plaine to the eye by those things whereon he hath trea●th the Portuguezes and other strangers before he was im●ed in the prison and afterward abroad and verifies it selfe ●l by the markes secret as apparant which he beares on his 〈◊〉 and which I will translate to you at the end of this let● 〈◊〉 the rest to close vp this last answer I cannot chuse but 〈◊〉 my complaint to your reuerend worthinesse of these med●●ssieurs that tearme my Lord and king to be a Calabrois ●w two yeares and more since they haue liued in this error ●e as strong headed in this opinion now as they were the ●ay Turely Sir when I but thinke hereon I can hardly 〈◊〉 my coole bloud from warming for I neuer saw any one of 〈◊〉 Gallants that would say to me He is of such a territorie such 〈◊〉 sonne or kin to such a one he hath liued among such c. ●ering Calabria is in subiection to his Maiestie Catho● who for this reason onely might send through all that ●ey and enquire of his qualitie and originall as being his 〈◊〉 that they will not do so much at one time or other this 〈◊〉 afflicteth me ●w Sir remaines an answer to an obiection of the enemie ●o slubber baffull and annihilate a matter so certaine 〈◊〉 of the true King Dom Sebastian say that this fellowe ●he first deceiuer but in Flaunders there was a Baldwin in Fraunce a Martin Guerre c. I can very well as one that hath read some histories helpe such kind of people to proue their intentions remembring them of the names and deedes of some impostors setting apart the Neroes and others as Smerdis the Mago king of the Persians the false Alexander of Syria sonne to Protarcus a man of base condition Lambert Symnell who named himselfe Edward the fift king of England and sonne to Edward the fourth Peter Warbecke whom the English call Periquin or Perkin who needs would be Richard younger brother to the sayd Edward and others But the fact and proceeding of these differed greatly from the examen and true square of King Dom Sebastian also the meanes and respects whereby they presumed for kings titles caried another habite then this of king Sebastians Concerning Baldwin and Martin Guerre their iuglings were discouered in very few daies so fel it out with Smerdis for Phaedimia the daughter of Otanes disproued him quickly by his short eares and so was he knowne to be Mago brother to Cantizites not for Smerdes the son of Cyrus The false Alexander an Aegyptian by nation was brought in by Ptolomie Euergetes against Demetrius the younger Lambert Symnell was prouoked on by great men of England to terme himselfe a king against Henry the seuenth of whom they could not endure the gouernement Peter Warbecke a natiue of Tournay by the meanes and fauour of Margaret Duchesse of Burgundie second wife to Charles the warriour named himselfe Richard youngest sonne to King Edward the fourth and by her bare himselfe against the sayd king Henrie But King Sebastian is risen in another kind of degree without ayde without fauour not assisted by any Prince poore and miserable armed onely with his truth and the conduct of God and yet we hope he shall not want helpe for the recouerie of his kingdome This is then sufficient to answere those questionarie contriuers As for their demaund to me where he hath had abiding for so many yeares and why he spared to make himselfe manifest himselfe one day when it pleaseth God will therein resolue vs. It is no new thing to heare of a man that haue not bene heard of for many yeares I thinke there is at this day a dozen of men in Fraunce that haue come home againe amongst 〈◊〉 ends after their being abroad for the space of twentie 〈◊〉 nay 30. yeares without any newes once heard of them all their absence If I would number them Sir who haue ●mpeld to verifie themselues for such as they maintained ●lues to be I should make a discourse more ample then ●ich I gaue to my Lord your nephew ●e the decrees of the Parliaments in Fraunce looked ouer ● would be found therein of whom I find it no way in●ient to nominate some As the Lord of Boisgarnier a Gentleman of Maisse and next him his sonne the Lord of ●erre neare ●o Gyan the Lord of Morinuille called Courte● ●ed of the royall house of Dreux and other who haue had ●nd labour enough in making themselues to be knowne ●ng thus answered these obiections I will conclude assu●ur worthinesse that being obliged by so many testimonies ●rkes of truth I thinke that not onely my selfe but euen a ●n should commit a mighty trespasse against the holy ● in not beleeuing this for a verity Our Lord giue accom●ent to my desires and so soone as he shall be arriued I will speedy imparting to your worthy selfe of all the pleasures ●ntentments I receiue This shall be the end of my trauerses ●serable fortunes this shall be the beginning of my glory city where our Lord giue you ample perfection in aeter● ●om Lions the 12. of Ianuary MDCI. Kissing the hands of your reuerend Lordship your deuoted seruant Frier Ioseph Texere Portugueze 〈◊〉 markes and signes which the King of ●ortugall Dom Sebastian beares naturally on his body HE hath the right hand greater then the left The right arme longer then the left 3. The body from the shoulders to the girdle-sted is so short as his doublet can serue none other but himselfe onely 4. From the

marke which he had naturally imprinted as it were on his person He is wounded on the brow of the right eye and on the head as many witnessed when they saw him in the Affricke battell he hath abundance of great wounds on his armes and legges he speakes Portugall as mingled or corrupted wherein he is not much to be blamed considering he hath not spoken it in the space of two and twentie yeares according to the resolution he tooke with his friends and companions because they might passe the better vnknowne His hand writing is the selfe same obseruing still the same maner and method all which are verie well remembred by diuerse that haue both scene and knowne them in times past In the secret notes of his bodie there is none likewise wanting albeit he haue many very notable as is iustified by good testimonie approued by the publike Notaries of Portugall It is impossible to find another man in the world that should haue all the selfe same markes and it seemes that God had thus signed him from the wombe of his mother with so manie rare and signall markes to make him knowne by meanes of them in so vnhappie and miserable a time euen as he hath likewise preserued him for the fulfilling of so great and auncient Prophesies which haue so copiously spoken of him May it please God but to permit that the prosperities in the accomplishment yet remaining to him may aunswer in like certaintie to the foretold aduersities which he hath passed alreadie Things standing in this estate we haue demaunded audience of the Seigneurie which twice hath bene graunted vs by the Senate with verie good will And there we deliuering the rumor that ran abroad of the imprisonment of our King Dom Sebastian by meanes wherereof all Portugall was moued and all Christendom held it for meruellous and strange we requested that he might be seene and knowne and if he were found to be the true King Dom Sebastian that he might be so held and esteemed of euerie one If vpon their suffering him to be thus questioned and seen by vs we returned and auouched him to be the same we would submit our selues to such imprisonment as they thought meet and suffer what punishment they would please to appoint if herein we dissembled or dealt false with them Before these audiences could be obtained we offered them a Charter in parchment whereby we gaue them to vnderstand that we desired no other grace or fauour but what hath beene graunted in the like case by Philip. 2. King of Castille he hauing more interest in this matter then they about two Portuguezes who in Portugall did feigne themselues seuerally to be the true King D. Sebastian he caused them to be kept in a publique prison where all the world might haue seene and spoken with them to the end that they might not be abused by them and they were soone found to be villaines and deceiuers whereby the Portuguezes were quickly resolued We required moreouer that good order might be taken for his diet and that his person should be safely regarded while this affaire were further proceeded in least his enemies might compasse his death by poison for if anie such thing should so come to passe the Portuguezes would report continually that the Seigneurie of Venice had murdered their proper naturall lawful and true King when it should plainly appeare that he was no Calabrois whence would arise such ill will betweene the Portuguezes and the Venetians as the Seigneuries name should for euer be scandalized through the world See here the substance of all that we could doe yet we continued still in our right with all the diligence we could possibly vse calling neuer for anie other thing then iustice And as we grew great in the poore opinion of our hopes Diego Manuel chanced to arriue there by whose comming we were somewhat more comforted perswading our selues now to obtaine thorowly what we desired because he had brought letters of great importance which mainly might set forward our earnest sute And to strengthen vs yet more Sebastian Figuera came hither likewise the 4. of this moneth with letters from the States in general of Holland from the Prince Maurice vnto the Seigneurie in fauour of the King Dom Sebastian which were deliuered on the morrow for the Lords had appointed vs to be heard againe as that daie Now aduise your selfe very well whether I haue reason or no to thinke strangely of you and to expect your presence here for obtaining of this glorie wherein you haue so seriously trauailed vntil this day If you haue any remēbrance of heauen or anie high and generous spirit here haue you a subiect meet to employ it in I beleeue you reserue to your self the sur-name of a Portugueze for nothing but to ioyne it only with that of Texere This should be the hidden treasure whereof in the end of the yeare 1598. you called to the finding your good friend the knight Buodo when you made your passage into Holland If you be desirous of glorie and happinesse we shall soone haue you here deuide your selfe in peeces for the Prince and you shall find the effects thereof in the mercies of God In sooth I know not how you haue abstained from comming barefoote hither considering how zealous you haue beene for the good and profite of our countrie and such a professed enemie beside to the Spaniard and in times past of high courage for vndertaking of anie worthie attempt seeing vnder heauen is not the like case as here offers vnto you besides being free for whosoeuer to embrace Awake your spirites either now or neuer and seeing you haue so much credite in those parts pray importune your friends in any place wheresoeuer and if you may obtaine letters from his most Christian Maiestie the famous Queene of England the generall States of Holland and from all the Princes and Lords of France that this Seigneurie may suffer the prisoner to be known what he is true or false or at least to enlarge him because to this houre they will neither let him be knowne nor seene but faile not to come with what fauours you can compasse And say that deniall herein maybe made vnto you yet you must not slack your comming in a busines so expedient for you shall do no mean seruice to your Prince as you haue done heretofore and that verie notably and had we but your presence here we should hold it sufficient Doe not let fall to ground so great an aduenture seeing you haue done so much alreadie for a shadow and giue the like counsell vnto your friends for neuer can hap like occasion to this On one side the enterprise is put into your hand on the other the recompence doe like a defender of your countrie and your merite shall be more then following times can acknowledge Notwithstanding let me thus condition with you that you shall not be so couetous a louer of your selfe as to