might thereof insue forbad by act of Parliament these sortes of seditious people to enter into her realme or to vse or exercise any such vnquiet doctrine Limiting therewithall to such as were within the realme a time to depart out of the same But this lenitie wrought rather contempt then obedience for these men contemning the grauitie of our lawes and not thinking any to be obeied but such as they make themselues came still into the realme as fast as before Great numbers of them were taken and emprisoned whom though her maiestie deseruedly and with greate Iustice especially the daily mischiefe stirred vp within the realme by their malitious practises considered might haue executed as Traytors and Rebels yet the greatenesse of her princely clemencie and compassion was so vnwilling to come vnto extreames that she caused them al once more to be pardoned and to be put out of the realme but with expresse commaundement neuer to returne in the like sorte in doing otherwise they should not attend any other than the rigor of the lawes All this would not serue their tourne but in despite of her maiestie and contempt of her lawes sundry of them returned of which some of them beeing taken haue receiued the hyre and iust recompence of their disobedience But that her maiestie seeketh not their blood as they most falsely giue out appeereth by her clemencie vsed to sondry of them taken by her souldiors in the Low-countries who though they were of Sir William Stanlyes crew and adhaerentes yet seeing they were not taken within England shee graciously pardoned them all and caused them to bee set at libertie in giuing some little recompence to those that had taken them prisoners Where is then this rigour you speake of I hope the king of Spaine keepeth another manners of reuell in his dominions The cruelty and persecutions of the Spaniard in matters of Conscience ouer all Spaine Portingall Lombardie Naples and Sicilia whosoeuer speaketh a worde or maketh the least signe in the world to mislike his religion there established or anie point or ceremonie therof his cruell bloudie ministers the Inquisitors cause thē without remission to be presently burnt aliue of which the death of poore Doctour Augustine Cacalla can giue good witnesse Who for a small point in difference of religion was at Valladolid in Spain apprehended for a Lutheran and with him thirtie of such as had giuen him audience many of which were Gentlemen and Ladies and among the rest the two sonnes of the Marquesse of Poza the greatest parte of which were presentlye burnt aliue the rest submitting themselues were pardoned their liues but condemned to perpetuall prison wyth the confiscation of all their goods and all theyr life time to weare the Sambenito which is a yeolow garment The Sambenito wyth a red crosse before and another behinde painted all ouer full of deuils faces a thing of the greatest reproch and dishonour there that possiblie can bee But seeing these of which wee haue spoken are his subiectes and are of force tied to the iurisdiction of his lawe howe cruell so euer I will not heere trouble you anie farther with the recitall of the calamities and miseries layde vppon them from time to time howe sundrie of them for the breache of his constitutions in matter of ceremonie haue bin cruelly committed to the flames But what reason hath he I would faine knowe to extend the like rigor and crueltie against strangers who owe him no obedience but come onely into his Countrie in regarde of machandise or other theyr occasions and neuerthelesse haue beene apprehended their goods taken awaie and theyr themselues cruelly executed Among innumerable other examples hereof that I could alleadge I will onely acquaint you with one At execution of which a Gentleman of good credite in the lowe Countries sware vnto mee that hee was present and that it was in manner as followeth There was one Giles Rat a Citizen of Antwarpe The execution of a Dutchman an Englishman in Spaine for religion and by his occupation a shoomaker who some fewe yeeres since going into Spaine about some businesse pertaining to his trade was apprehended brought before the inquisitors onely for that hee had smiled at the image of our Ladie which as they sayde he had done in derision and therefore presently condemned him to the fire amd with him likewise an Englishman for the like cause whose name the Gentleman that sawe them burned knew not but hee tolde mee that at the time of their execution there mounted vp into a scaffolde there by two Iesuites forbidding the peoto vppon paine of excommunication to praie for them saying that they had deliuered them both ouer inbodie and soule to the deuill as those that died obstnate and wilfull heretikes Surely by these examples it appeareth that hee would bee loth to tollerate in Spaine anie that should go about to seduce his people with anie contrarie doctrine especiallye ministers of which if anie such should fall into his handes it is likely he would not so often pardon them as the Queene hath done the other As for his lowe Countries They were takē in the towne of Dermounde three yeres since I neuer knew but of two taken and they were both put in sackes by the Spaniards and throwen into the riuer This is in deede extreame tyrannie and not that which her maiestie vseth who is alwaies readie to receiue into grace and fauour those of whome she hath anie hope that they will become good subiectes The mercifull offer of her maiestie to Catholikes after theyr condemnation and hath as I haue heard offered after that by lawe they were condemned her princely mercie and fauour to some of them if they wold haue promised to become good subiect O howe different is this proceeding from that whose mildnesse and clemencie they so highly commend But it is the nature of men especially of those whose iudgementes are wauering and vnsetled alwaies to mislike and loath those things to which they are accustomed deeming other to them vnknowen much better But perchance you will saie that in their so greate commendation they do onely meane his manner of gouernment in the Lowe Countries True in deede it is that hee hath not yet planted there his inquisitiō though the same be much against his wil. Neuertheles if you did but see the manner of his gouernment in those parts I thinke you wold iudge them worthie of small beliefe that haue so highly commended the same vnto you First in matter of religion and conscience I doo not thinke that it is possible for anie people bee more hardly any vncharitably dealt withal then they are vnder the seruitude of the cleargie but especially of the Iesuits As for the other orders of religion as Monks Friers c. though they are exceedingly exhausted by them in matter of charge as beeing compelled to reedifie their ruined cloisters to furnish them with costly images and
the priuileges of these Nations which both he and his predecessors at euery entry of gouernement into these prouinces haue solemnely vowed and sworne to maintaine all in generall and euery one in particular inuiolate and vppon that couenant and condition they haue reciprocally sworne vnto him due fidelitie and obeysance hee failing in the one they to be exempted from the other Moreouer her Maiestie seeing the lamentable and most pittifull cause of her distressed neighbours and allies finding no other possible meanes by labour suites messages and sundry Ambassadours which shee most honourably sent vnto the King of Spaine for pacifying the saide troubles and reconciling the saide King and those sometimes his saide subiectes hath been inforced to take pittie and commiseration of their most miserable afflicted estate and distresse and for their releefe to her excessiue and almost importable charges to vndertake a most iust godly and charitable defensiue warre against those that daily seeke the bloud liues goods lands and liberties of the inhabitants of the said distressed Nations since which being published I thinke it not onely vnlawfull but a most heinous and capitall crime and offence for any of her Maiesties subiectes to serue on the contrary part It shall be good for you and all other good subiects of her Maiesties to remember that consideration being had by her Maiesty and her most honourable prudent councell of the loosenesse of many of her subiects and small respect they had to her Highnesse and countrey and as little to their owne safetie her Maiestie hath caused to be published and set foorth diuers lawes ordinances proclamations and inhibitions whereby all her subiects except knowen marchants and strangers are straightly forbidden to passe the seas into any forraine partes without especiall licence of her Maiestie Therefore if you or any other of her Maiesties subiects shall nowe attempt to passe the seas without lawfull licence there is no reason why you should expect any other than the rigour of the lawes and iustice and to be holden guiltie of cases capitall especially such as shall serue vnder so open and professed an enemy to the crown and state Further I pray you to haue in consideration that when I came ouer hither the case so stoode as al Gentlemen of any qualitie or merit were gratefully receiued and employed in good and honourable seruices whereas since the Spaniard hath professed himselfe an open enemy to her Maiestie and the state of her realme hee hath had all English men in very base account being iealous and extreamely suspitious of those that be most inward with him and who for his sake haue make shipwracke not onely of their honour and credit but also of their loyalty duty and allegeance to her Maiestie and their natiue countrey examples whereof are infinit and partly touched in my discourse before set downe Besides there is of late crept into that Nation with a commaunding authoritie a prowd insolent and factious company of Iesuites and with them a consorted crew of other practising busie people all of them malicious enemies to her Maiestie and to their owne countrey vile and pernicious instruments of the Spansh King and his adherents who daily as it is manifest to them that haue knowledge and experience of them and their actions seeke nothing more than the vtter ruine pulling downe and destruction of her Maiestie and their countrey He therefore that doeth thinke to liue among these subtile and dangerous people in any credite or account let him as hee woorthily doth deserue be accounted beside his wittes or else as disobedient and traiterous to almightie God her Maiestie and his countrey As for my part howsoeuer in my yoong yeeres affected to learne languages and to see the warres and fashions of forraine places yet when I perceiued that the matter beganne to concerne her Maiestie and withall to looke into the drift and conueyance whereto their practises tended presently abandoning and vtterly reiecting the merit of my long seruice and such hopes and preferrements the which I might as well as any man else of my qualitie of my Nation haue pretended and perchance shoulde as soone haue obtained I made humble intercession to her Maiestie my most honoured princesse and soueraigne Lady for my returne which of her royall and accustomed benignitie she gratiously graunted so that besides the vnfained prayer which I will neuer cease to send to the heauens from the depth of a most faithfull affection for the continuance of her blessed estate and happinesse I take God to recorde that there is not in this world any thing that I more thirst after than an occasion to make the world witnesse of the desire I haue to do her seruice and so concluding I beseech God that as her vertues are infinit so her ioyes may be endlesse Amen FINIS A DISCOVRSE OF THE VSAGE OF the English Fugitiues by the Spaniard SIC CREDE LODON Printed by Thomas Scarlet for Iohn Drawater and are to be solde at his shop in Pater noster row at the signe of the Swan 1595. THE COPIE OF A Letter sent out of the Low countries by a Gentleman entertained by the King of Spaine in pension To a yong Gentleman his Kinsman in ENGLAND MY very good Cosin vnderstanding as well by your Letters as by the message lately done vnto me by the mouth of A. T. of the great longing and desire you haue to draw your self into these parts to imploy your selfe here in seruice of the Spanish king perceiuing also as well by your sayd Letters as by the Gentleman that brought the same and by the reporte of diuerse other young Gentlemen of our Countrie there bee manye that are of your minde in that point Some thereunto as I doo gesse moued of a youthfull and vaine tickling humour to bee wandering abroade in straunge and forreine Countries Others in hope there to growe to greate preferment aduauncement imployment and wealth Other some pretending matter of conscience seeme to haue sure confidence that there they maye liue with more libertie and ease of minde then that within our Countrie they inioye I haue thought good for the particular loue which I beare and alwayes haue borne towardes you vnto whome I wish as to my selfe but chiefely in respecte of the sincere faythfull reuerent and loyall fidelitye and regarde I haue to the person of our sacred renowmed and most gracious Soueraigne the QVEENES most excellent Maiestie and to my natiue Countrie and Countrye-men to sette downe some notes and obseruations vvhich by long and painefull troubles and experience in this place I haue gathered by which I hope I shall make manifest not onelye to you but also to all others my most deare Countrye men if I maye haue the fauour to haue it published in which point I meane to labor by my best friends to such of the greatest persons as may permit the same how greatly you and they that desire to repaire hether by any of the
depart out of the same But this sufficed not these good fellowes thinke no lawes good or to be obeyed but such as they make themselues In they came as fast as before greate numbers of them were taken imprisoned who though her Maiestie deseruedly and with great iustice especially the daylye misciefe stirred vp within the Realme by their seditious practises considered might haue executed as traitours and rebelles yet the greatnesse of her princely clemencie and compassion was so loth to come vnto bloud that shee caused them all once more to be pardoned and to bee put out of the Realme but with expresse commaundement neuer to returne in like sort in dooing otherwise they should bee sure to finde no fauour All this would not serue their turnes but in dispight of her Maiestie and contempt of her lawes sundrie of them returned of which some of them being taken haue receiued the hire of theyr gracelesse disobedience and rebellous attempt But that her Maiestie secketh not bloud as they most falsely gaue out appeareth by her clemencie vsed to sundrie of them taken by her souldiers in the Low Countries who though they were of sir William Standley his crewe and adherents her most professed enemies yet seeing they were not taken within England shee graciously pardoned them and caused to be set at libertie in giuing some litle recompence to those souldiers that had taken them prisoners VVhere is then her rigor you speake of I hope the king of Spaine keepeth another maner of rule in his Countries ouer all Spaine Portugall Lombardie Naples Ciciliae whosoeuer speaketh a word or makes the lest sigh in the world to dislike his religion there established or any one poynt or ceremonie thereof his cruell ministers the Inquisitours cause without remission to be burnt aliue as for example There was this last yeere a Citizen in Antwerpe one Gyles Rat a shoomaker that going into Spaine about some busines was apprehended for smiling at the Image of our Lady brought before the Inquisitours and by them presentlye condemned to fire and with him an English-man for the lyke cause whose name the Gentleman that sawe them burned knewe not but hee tolde mee that at the time of their execution there mounted on a scaffolde thereby two Iesuites forbidding the people vpon paine of Excommunication to praie for them saying that they had deliuered them both ouer in bodie and soule to the deuill as those that died obstinate and wilfull heretikes I would faine knowe how hee would doe with Ministers if hee shoulde catch them in Spaine as the Queene hath done priests in England As for his Lowe Countries I neuer heard but of two taken and that was at the siege of Dermond and they were both put in to sackes by the Spaniards and throwne into the riuer This is indeede Tyrannie and not that which her Maiestie doth who is alwaies readie to receiue into grace and fauour those of whome shee hath any hope that they will become good subiects and hath as I haue heard offered euen at the houre of their death her princely mercy and fauour to some of them if they woulde haue promised to become good subiects Oh how different from this is their proceeding heere which you see so highly commended But it is the nature of men especially of those whose iudgements are not setled as they shoulde bee alwaies to mislike and loath those thinges to which they are accustomed thinking other to them vnknown far better If you did but once see the tyranous vsage explication what is vsed in matter of religiō to the poore people vnder the Spanish gouernment in this Countrie I doubt not but you would be of another opinion especially the woful slauerie considered in which the cleargie or rather the rauening multitude of Iesuites Friers Monks and priests doe keepe their minde subiected It is not sufficient that they hold their mindes in a perpetuall despaire pronouncing vppon euerie friuolous point damnation vnto them but withal they compell them perforce to offerings to buying of pardons and indulgences to giue them money towardes the reparation of their Churches pictures images and waxe candles alwaies hauing one deuice or other in hand to robbe them and to drawe from them their substance for whosoeuer yeeldeth not to euery of these demaunds is presently an heretike The best houses in the Towne they take violently from the true owners and appropriate vnto themselues saying it is meete that God should first be serued before man There is no one daie but the poore citizens are punished and pestered with one or other of their orders of Friers Monkes Mendicants Capuchines Candles and monie towardes the reparation of their Churches and which they must not be denied vnlesse you will bee presently accused for an heretike But the best is to see how busie and diligent they are when they heare of a wealthie man that lyeth sick and is in danger of death This is their chiefest haruest and most optima praeda then they commend vnto him the pouertie of their cloister and the merite that hee should gaine as beeing for euer to bee remembred in their masses as one of theyr benefactors the Iesuits and Cordelleres are at this present in processe of Spaine about this matter of visitation of sicke men in articulo mortis The Iesuites saie that it appertaines vnto them because theyr profession is actiue alwaies stirring among the flocke and to doe good in the worlde abroade whereas that of the Cordelleres is contemplatiue and so by consequence most decent that they shoulde containe themselues within theyr cloysters The Cordelleres on the other side replye that theyr profession is meekenesse innocencie and pouertie and to doe good vnto all men As for the Iesuites that they are proude ambitious aspiring medlers in matters of state men of great riches and couetous of more and therefore by no meanes to bee admitted to such as lye at the article of death The matter hath beene much argued of and greatly debated in Spaine and besides the Iesuites haue openly inueighed against them in the publike schooles of Louaine yet notwithstanding how euer the cry goeth against them they holde theyr owne But this by the way seeing it comes so wel to our purpose I cannot chuse but tell you a prety ieast which happened this last Summer in these partes A Marchant of Antwerpe whose name was Hamiel being sicke of a consumption or feauer ethike the Iesuites knowing him to bee a man of great possessions and without children presentlye repayred vnto him vnder colour of spirituall consolation laying before him the vanitie of this lyfe and the certainty of the worlde to come wyth sundry other perswasions as of all men lyuing they haue their tongues most at will withall commending vnto him their order as of all other the most meritorious perfect and acceptable to God and to which our holye father the Pope and his predecessors haue granted more indulgences than to any other
his stomacke euen to his dying day But now to my newcome English that had done these notable seruices to the Spaniard let vs see howe they were recompensed within one yeere they were suffered all in a manner to famish which miserie some of them seeking to releeue by foraging out vpon the countrie Eoure twentie Englishmen hanged by the Spaniard in Audenarde foure twentie of them were taken by the Spanish prouost carried to Audenarde of the rendering whereof they had bin the chiefest meanes openly hanged in the market place Another troup of them being thirty in number and lying in a village neere Poppering in Flanders a companie of Spaniards hearing of them came into the village where they were and after a friendly and souldierly salutation of each side as they were all making mery together on a sodain the Spaniards toke thē at aduantage vnarmed A most monstrous murther committed by the Spaniard vp on sundry English souldiers that serued among them most trecherously and inhumanely murdred them euerie one rifling them of their clothes such other things as they had pilled abroad in the countrie Sundrie cōplaintes were made to the Duke by the friends of those that were thus murthered and by the Captaines of the regiment Amongst the rest that were thus murthered ther was one Aucrie Crispe brother in lawe to sir Stephen Thornax likewise a younger sonne of Alderman Starkie one Norton c. but Spaniards being the doers thereof there could neither bee remedie nor iustice obtained But to make amends because they woulde bee the cleanlyer rid of the residue of this poore miserable troupe the campe being then before Wynochbergen wherein laie a mightie strong garrison of Frenchmen they made them two little fortes of purpose in which they willingly placed them in the vtmost quarter of the whole campe and neerest confining to the towne to the end they might haue all their throates cut as in deede they had verie fewe nightes after at which time the enemie assaulting them with great furie and they defending themselues most manfully aboue the space of an houre in such sort as the allarum passed through the whole camp yet they were neuer releeued with anie succour at all These English troups ouerthrowen by trechery of the Sqaniard insomuch as the greatest part of them being slaine in the defence the enemie at last entered put the residue to the sword To rehearse vnto you the sundrie and seuerall calamities that these poore men as well captaines as souldiers indured during the time of that their vnfortunate seruice especially at Gausbecke Aske and Gauer would seeme I am sure vnto you for the vnspeakable strangenes thereof scarcely credible for they neuer receiued in all the time of their seruice anie one moneths paie I haue seen Lieutenants Ensignes of them go vp and downe sickly and famished begging their bread couered onely with poore blankets and tikes of featherbeds that they had rifled in the villages abroade and haue my selfe releeued some of them Neither were the ends of their Captaines lesse tragicall which I thought good to set downe to the ende you may perceiue that such and so great calamities as these could neuer haue happened without the apparant hand of God whose reuengful iustice neuer ceased to pursue the infidelitie of these miserable men til he had taken them from the face of the earth First Norris chiefe captaine and ringleader of the rest The strange tragicall ends of the leaders and captaines of this reuolted regiment after hee had leasure to bethinke himselfe of the foulenes of his fault and withall sawe the scorne and contempt wherein hee liued vnder the Sraniard conceiued thereof so deep an impression that he fell dangerouslie sicke and into a kind of lunasie of which before hee was well recouered hee stole secretly out of the campe lying then at Varnaton with intention to conuey himselfe into England but by the way was taken prisoner and carried to Flushing Norris died mirably at Flushing whereby dying in prison or as some saie by laying violent hands on him selfe hee preuented those torments that according to the qualitie of his offence were prepared for him Gibson at such time as the campe laie before Mening lying one night with his wife in his cabine a Spanish horseman comming vpon occasion into his quarter chanced to tie his horse to the stake whereunto Gibsons cabbin was fastned who what with stamping and shaking the cabbin did so disquiet him that he arose thinking to vntie the horse giuing withall some harde wordes to the owner who in requitall thereof ranne him through the bodie with this rapier Gibson slain sodenly by night so that hee fell downe in the place starke dead I sawe his wife many times afterwardes weeping and falling downe vpon her knees before the Duke of Parma for iustice But English bloud was there of so vile price especially being shed by a Spaniard that the matter was not thoght worthie the inquiring after Cornish was in the one of the litle forts before mentioned at such time as they were surprised by the French men within the which both himselfe his lieutenant Ensigne and whole companie were miserablie slaine and mangled Barnies Companie was with the other likewise defeated and put to the swoord but he himselfe was by his good happe sicke and absent at Saint Homars Cornish hys whole company slaine in a forte before Winocbergen Neuerthelesse hee escaped not altogether his part and portion of these afflictions for presently vppon his returne to the campe as hee stood beholding the march of a companie of footmen that passed by hee was shot at by an vnknowen man with an harguebuze which by chaunce though it missed his bodie yet it lighted vppon his right arme in such sorte as it sheuered all the principall bones thereof to peeces so that hee hath vtterly lost the vse thereof Shortly after hee was taken prisoner by the English souldyers of Ostend where hee was euerie daie in daunger of the gallowes but vppon promises of great seruices hee was at length set at libertie by Sir Iohn Conway and suffered to returne from whence hee came whereas yet hee liueth but maymed and verie muserable and in exceeding great distresse needinesse and pouertie Two or three yeeres after this foreremembred storie came one William Pigot A lost betrayed to the Kinge of Spaine by a regiment of Englishmē of which one Pygot had the comanding who beeing of a meane man raysed to the degree of a Captaine by Sir Iohn Norris and in his absence lefte as commander in Alost ouer the rest of the Companies trecherously deceiuing him to whome hee was so infinitely beholding rendered the Towne himselfe and the whole Regiment beeing well neere a thousand as tall and well appoynted men as were in Europe to the seruice and deuotion of the Spanish King which seruice howe meritorious and beneficiall it was vnto
of the Towne of her olde acquaintaunce with whome hearing of her husbands returne shee ranne away selling first whatsoeuer of her husbandes that was not portable and the rest of the things that remained beeing of anie value shee tooke with her And with this Companion of hers shee got her selfe into England knowing that her husbande durst not make pursute thither after her but comming to London shee mette with certayne Flaunders Souldyours that knewe her and her husbande who vnder coulour of yeelding her assistance in a straunge place coosened her of the greatest parte of such thinges as shee had lefte beeing of good woorth as shee had so deceiued her husband of the rest shee spent in dissolutenesse and so by degrees according to the fortune of such courses fell into extreamest miserie and beggerie that might bee in the meane time Pygots heart beeing striken dead with the coldnesse of the entertainment he had in Spayne and now returning homewardes on the one side quite frustrated of all his expectations and hopes and on the other syde pursued wyth the stynges and terrors of a guilty conscience yet cheered vp him self with thinking on the comfort of his wiues youth and affections Aloft solde by Pigot to the king of Spanie for 30 thousand Frēch crownes and withall of the money that he had lefte in her keeping for you must consider that hee had not giuen but solde the towne of Alost for thirtie thousand French crownes for payment of which they had hostages and the same was fully paid before hee deliuered vp the towne Out of this monie sixe moneths paie was deducted for the souldiers the rest hee diuided among the Captaines retaining a great share to himselfe which as you heare hee had left in keeping with his wife as a certaine remedy in store against whatsoeuer hardnesse of fortune should afterwardes happen But beeing vpon his returne to Torney incountered with the newes of his wiues disloialtie and withall which grieued him most finding his lodgings ransackt his coffers emptie and himselfe at once ouerwhelmed with such a heap of scorne miserie I leaue you to imagine the patience and quietnesse wherewith his minde entertained these tidings being as before I told you one that meerely for money as for religion hee knew not what it meant had solde his loialty to his prince and countrie his faith to his Coronell to whome in so many duties he was tied and finally his owne person as likewise he would haue done his soule if hee coulde haue found a chapman Sure I am that if by the bodies iestures a man may iudge of the minds vnquiet perturbations there was neuer anie wretch more violently ouerthrowen with the extremity of an inward affliction despaire yet did he not for all this wholy forsake and abandon himselfe but rather determined to turne as the prouerbe is euerie stone and to attempt fortune once anew thereby either to redresse the miseries of his estate or at the least if the worst shoulde fall to end his lyfe for finding himselfe already about the shooes he made no reckning of being aboue the boots therefore following the saying of the Poet Per scelera sceleribus tutum esse itur he resolued himself by a new trecherie to amend his olde withall his fortune if it were possible and therefore fell presently a tempering with some of his friendes in Holland and Zeland and lastly with my Lord of Leicester himselfe being then newly come ouer to the gouernment of the vnited prouinces to whom he offered so he might haue his pardon and withall be rewarded to betraie the Duke of Parma in some notable sorte besides sundrie other lyttle seruices of which none could be performed without notable periury and infidelitie to performe which he made prodigall offers of his best indeuors which neuerthlesse truly I thinke hee had not bene able to performe though hee had neuer beene hindered in the course of his practises yet from time to time hee sent my Lord ouer such poore intelligences as the smalnes of his credit wherein he liued could attaine vnto The carrier of his letters and the returner of his aunsweres was a brokerly felow an Englishman that then dwelt in the English house at Antwarpe called I. G. one that in intelligence desired to correspond with either side but with whether he dealt faithfully God knoweth I will speake the lesse of him because though his wife remaine still in Antwarpe yet he himselfe is withdrawen to Middleborough where some saie he liueth now honestly and well This fellow whether by carelesse conueiance or by worse practise as some suspected though truly I thinke him thereof innocent as Rowland York afterwards assured me with whome Pigot had at that time intelligence who had vsed him before in such like practises for himselfe and by him receiued his pardon and pasport vppon his first being with the Duke of Parma from my L. of Leycester yet in conclusion hee handled his matters so ill that Mondragon chiefe Captaine and Lieutenant of the Castles of Anwarpe and Gaunt came to haue intelligence thereof who presently thereupon caused Pigot to be apprehended conueied prisoner to the Castle of Gaunt Pigot sent prisoner to the castle of Gaunt where hee had beene presently laide vpon the torture but that Hugh Owen who for some causes especially affected him laboured to the contrarie And in fine so much preuailed that after halfe a yeres imprisonment he got him to be deliuered Thence poore and penilesse he traueled to Burges where the Duke of Parma then remained with intention to sue for somwhat wherewith to relieue himselfe Nemesis in Tergo But whether soeuer he went still Nemesis followed him in tergo Iustice still followed him at his heeles for by the way he was taken by certaine English souldiers that laye in ambush on the way and by them caried prisoner to Ostend where with the smothnesse of his tongue the protestation of many great seruices by him intended hee so enchaunted Sir Iohn Conway then being gouernour of the towne Pigot taken carried prisoner to Ostend that hee forbare to hang him as he was once determined and presently by letters aduertised the Counsel of his taking and withall such seruices of which he to shift the halter from his necke had giuen such confidence assurance so he might be suffred to escape al which notwithstanding by the Counsels commaundement he was sent for into England and committed prisoner to the Marshalsie Pigot died sodainly strāgely in the marshalsie where hauing remained some space of time being one day wel ouernight he fell into straunge and extreame accidents of his body and was found the next morning dead Such after this goodly seruice was his fortune and such his end and such bee the like of all other trecherous ill affected Englishmen But now let vs come to speake of master Dalton beeing next in the rowe and see how hee spedde