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A86339 The process, and pleadings in the court of Spain upon the death of Anthonie Ascham resident for the Parliament of England, and of John Baptista Riva his interpreter, who were kill'd by John Guillim, William Spark, Valentine Progers, Jo. Halsal, William Arnet, Henrie Progers. Who are all in close prison in Madrid for the said fact, except Henry Progers, who fled to the Venetian ambassador's hous, and so escaped. / Sent from Madrid from a person of qualitie and made English. Hierro, Agustín de, 17th cent.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; R. W. 1651 (1651) Wing H1944; Thomason E636_3; ESTC R202579 11,479 19

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Essos son these are they so Riva delivered the Secretarie two letters from the Parlament saying that the Resident came under the protection of his Majestie The Secretarie answered they had don ill not to have given account at the verie point of their arrival the Resident beeing the person hee was being in the Catholick Court hee was secure enough and hee would advertis his Majestie of his coming accordingly which hee did within a quarter of an hour charging the Camp-Master's Servant that hee should tell his Master to continue in assisting the Resident but an hour and half before this the fore-mentioned Delinquents did proditoriously out of propens malice murther the said Resident and the said John Baptista Riva according to the circumstances which shall follow Now these men well knew that the said Resident came to treat of peace and they spontaneously confess they knew it and that hee entred into this Court by order from his Majestie and with his pass-port so that besides the treacherie and malice of the Act they committed capital treason Crimen laesae majestatis in primo capite now for everie offence there is a corresponding punishment and for this certainly there is undoubted pain of death therefore they have made themselvs unworthy of the immunitie of the Church which they pretend The business briefly doth branch it self into two Articles First The grievousness of the delict is to be considered and the qualitie of the person upon whom it was committed one who had a safe conduct from his Majestie therefore it is crimen laesae majestatis and perpetrated in a most trecherous and malicious manner Secondly The Church cannot give them Sanctuarie therefore the pain of death is to be executed upon them according to the merit of the delict in declaring the circumstances whereof I will leav all curiosities and go to the pitch of the business without extending my self to any extravagant impertinencies The first Article TOuching the necessity and utilite of Embassies Besoldus prosecut's this subject at large together with Pascalio Benavente Marsellaert in their learned dissertations But Pedro Erodo may be said to comprehend all in these elegant words Legatorum munus perquam utile est ac perquam necessarium nam sine iis nec foedera iniri possunt nec belli leges pacisque dici inimicitiae essent immortales insidiae caedes incendiáque ubique essent The function of Ambassadors is most profitable and necessary for without them there can no confederation be made nor any Lawes of peace or warr enacted enmities would prove immortall slaughterings perfidiousness deceipt and combustions would be every where This so necessary and profitable a Ministerie was justlie called Santo officio y ministerio de los Angeles The holy Office and ministerie of Angels and the persons of those who did exercise it were held for sacred in all men's opinions Sancti habebantur Legati eorúmque corpora sancta sunt Ambassadors were held holy and their bodies are holy saith Marcus Varro therefore they should be protected from all humane injurie Cicero also sayeth Sentio jus Legatorum tum hominum praesidio munitum esse tum etiam divino jure vallatum I hold the right of Ambassadors not only to be fortified with humane safe-guard but entrenched with divine safetie I could muster up a whole squadron of autors both modern and ancient upon this Subject specially King Don Alonso who mak's this security of Ambassadors his own and defend's it so and this securitie is due to any Ambassadour though he be suspected and fals as Frier Don Goncalez resolve's the point in his historie of China and Besoldus also and although the said Ambassador com to deceiv and collude or that he bee an Enemie yet having a safe conduct he is to be protected as the Count de la Roca sayeth Fides enim quando promittitur etiam hosti servanda est contra quem hellum geritur quantò magis Amico pro quo pugnatur And if this securitie be due to an Ambassador that com's to intrap yea to an Enemie how much more to an English Friend in whose Countrie the Ambassador of Spain hath and alwaies hath had the pre-eminence of the Ambassadors of all other Princes Now that England should still be our friend in statu quo nunc and that peace should bee continued with her proceed's from right for peace is not only made with the King but with the Kingdom also and although the first exspire's the last remain's For put case that a peace be concluded with a Countrie without including the King either by carelesness or som other accident yet the peace stand's good for so the Polish Magistates answered the Emperor Ferdinand the 2. Faltando el Rey se conservan con el reyno the King failing yet peace is to be conserv'd with the Kingdom So Bodin hold's and urgeth a pregnant example to this purpose lib. de Repub. cap. 4. fol. 63. where he allegeth the answer which the Ambassadors of France made to Edward the fourth King of England desiring aid from France against som rising Subjects of his by virtue of the league between them which answer was that the King of France could not help him for confederations twixt France and England were made twixt the Kings and Kingdoms so that though King Edward was dispossessed thereof yet the league and amity remain'd still with the Kingdom and with the King regnant Just so the peace twixt the Kings and Kingdoms of Spain with England though Charles Stuart the King be wanting yet it may be kept intire with the Kingdom And his Majestie himself insinuat's so much unto us continuing still his Ambassador in England for when a peace is established twixt Kings and Kingdoms people persons and vassals though the King fail and the Kingdom receiv a differing form of government yet the peace hold's good still becaus it aim'd principally at the people and persons of both Nations and upon these terms the peace was renewed twixt Spain and England 1630. as the French Mercurie relate's Therefore these Delinquents fail'd much in the foresaid reverence due to the sacred persons of Ambassadors as also to the safe conduct of his Matie by laying violent hands upon his person much more by murthering him Joab did treacherouslie kill Abner who came with David's safe conduct whereupon David said to all the people that were about him Scindite vestimenta vestra and reinforcing his sorrow levavit David vocem suam flevit super tumulum Abner flevit autem omnis populus David lifted up his voice upon Abner's tomb and wept yea all the people wept Moreover David erected a tomb for Abner beeing so treacherously kill'd notwithstanding that hee had his safe conduct and the privilege of an Ambassador The Romanes rais'd Statues to Ambassadors that were kill'd Interfecto Legato Statua debetur saith Besoldus through all his Chapter of Legations Moreover it is observable that David did not onely weep but