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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13574	A continuation of the lamentable and admirable adventures of Dom Sebastian king of Portugale With a declaration of all his time employed since the battell in Africke against the infidels 1578. vntill this present yeare 1603.	Teixeira, José, 1543-1604.	1603 (1603)	STC 23866; ESTC S101269	50,758	70

suborned for the purpose came to that Diegoes house sending for him into the field to come home to speake with Dom Sebastian the king to whom he said abruptly Hath he deliuered any secret token betwixt him and me whereby I might credite thee By which question he published that which he secretly had bewrayed before to his allies Whereupon the Cardinall Dom Henry great Vncle to the king tooke occasion to send a trustie seruant of his called Emanuel Antunes to S. Vincents Cape charging him to vse all the industrie he might in finding out what certaintie he could learn of the king his Nephew All which this Emanuel performed with as much indeuour as he might possibly vse and by his diligent inquisition about the said Cape found that the king had bene in the Monasterie and was there certified that he was both hurt in the head and arme and in a manner franticke not onely for the exceeding anguish and vexation of mind which he suffered for the losse of victorie but withall the shame did euer perplexe him when he considered the ouerthrow came by indiscretion and rashnesse and that by his default the flower and prime of all Portugal was defeated and cut off Antunes brought a very large testimoniall hereof to the Cardinall vnder the seale of the father Gardian and all the rest of his brethren of the said Monasterie which the Cardinal receiued with his owne hands commaunding his seruant to impart this secret to none which he for his owne part buried in his own bosome And not being able to find out what course his Nephew and his companie tooke for their escape out of the countrie gaue ouer the expectation of his recouery either of his crown and scepter while he liued though it were his due But when it was knowne in Portugal that the K. liued Antunes begā to acknowledge the paines he had vndergone in these affaires by his masters appointment which was no sooner conueyed to the king of Castiles care but he sent for this Antunes of whom he had a liberall relation of all that he knew concerning that businesse and soone after Antunes his returne into Portugall he died Whereby it appeareth vnto me that God lengthened his life some space to reueale a truth that seemed before to be very intricate and doubtfull Shortly after the Portugals began to murmure among themselues boldly saying that D. Philip the king had made away Dom Sebastian their king his Nephew going to him to craue his aide before his departure into Africke because he had a meaning to gaine the kingdome of Portugall to him and his successours and hold it by vsurpation And this scandall was neuer extinguished because fame diuulged his arriuing at the Cape called S. Vincent and no certainty appeared to the world what way he passed from thence But since it is proued that frō Spaine he got shipping and trauelled into Alexandria and there liued in Prester Iohns Court with his followers some twentie moneths vnknowne of what qualitie he was professing that he had a desire to see the world and trauelled onely to that end and purpose for of want he made no shew he and his company being well furnished with gold and iewels of great price From Aethiopia they passed ouer the red sea and so directly to the mount Sinay from thence to the great Sophi called Xatama king of Persia whom he serued as a Commaunder fiue or sixe yeares against the Turkes where he atchieued many victories and diuerse wounds in his bodie with much honour and reputation In requitall whereof the king of Persia did him many honorable offices and gaue him rich presents of inestimable price with the which he and his companie departed I heard at Venice of his conference with Colonel Cigogna a man of great experience in the warres which assured the Lords of the Senat that he neuer talked with any man more wise learned or better experienced in Militarie discipline then this noble person and he protested he could be no other then the same he professed to be The excellent and most reuerend Lord the Archbishop said he heard the discourse between the King and the Colonel which delighted him exceedingly This Archbishop I could not speake withall at my being in Venice for that he was employed in Dalmatia in the affaires of the State The King leauing Persia went towards Ierusalē frō whence he trauelled by firme land to Constantinople which after certaine dayes he left and came into Italie from thence to Hungarie and from thence fetched a compasse by Muscouie Poland Swedland and Denmarke where he tooke shipping for England and in London it is reported he saw D. Antonio the supposed king of Portugal From England he passed into Holland from Holland by Almaine backe to Antwerpe therehence to Paris anno 1586. It comes to my memorie that in the latter end of the same yeare one Antonio Fernandes Pignero a Priest which had sometime bene Amner to the said Dom Sebastian c. and was with me in seruice from the said Lord D. Antonio told me that the same Dom Antonio had heard it credibly reported that Dom Sebastian the King was liuing c. whereat D. Antonio seemed to be sore amazed and perplexed About which time I craued licence of D. Antonio to go out of England into this countrie which he gaue with some shew of discontentment therewith By reason whereof and to auoid all suspition I moued no question to him concerning the particularitie of this matter and I must tell you by the way that Pignero had all this discourse in writing sub sigillo confessionis which although said he I make the same knowne vnto you yet I pray you conceale it from D. Antonio because it may be very preiudiciall to him of whom I heard it In the yeare following after Easter in the time of Ember when I was come to that towne whither I made the scope of my iourney I heard the like concerning the same businesse which I before had heard in England whereof I seemed to make no great care and comming to Paris after his Christian Maiestie had entred the town D. Nouuclet assured me in the presence of diuers Portugals and French men not once nor twise but many times that it was as certaine and assured that D. Sebastian King of Portugale had bene lately in Paris as he spake to me describing him to me by many circumstances to all which I gaue no credite esteeming all he said to be meere fables Not that I held any opinion or conceit that he was slaine at the battell in Africke but my imagination could not receiue any impression that he could be guiltie of any such rare dissimulation to passe so many cities and regions without discouerie The last yeare writing to the said Doctor to Annissi where he dwelt of these newes which I heard that my Lord and maister should be set a libertie by the consent of the Siegniorie of Venice I intreated him to write