though 't is to be supposed at that time he thought not to have arrived at so great height as to be King of Portugal When he was grown to the age of about three and twenty years he was by his brother made a chief Commander of his Armies in which Military imployment he behaved himself with so much courage and magnanimity as was admirable his valor soon gained the love of the soldiers and his courtesie and affability the affection of the people the very Moors his enemies would applaud him as both a perfect soldier and a Courtier His brother being dead and his Nephew Beatrice uncapable of succession by reason of her having married a forreign Prince he claimed the Crown as next of the blood but his claim was at first made void by reason of his being illegitimate when afterwards the Councel of Estates finding that if they should refuse him they might perchance choose one less deserving conferred the Crown upon him yet so as he should receive it not as his indubitable right by birth but as given him by election Yet some Writers there be that affirm that there were several legitimate sons of his father King Pedro then alive who all laid their several claims to the Crown as of right belonging to them before him but that he being at the time of his brothers death General of the Armies in Algarve and having gained so much upon the soldiers and people presuming upon their affection and his desert laid claim to the Crown which they being no way able to resist were forced to rest content and permit him to enjoy what was likewise willingly conferred upon the people so that he came to the Crown partly by force and partly by election But howsoever he came by it enjoy it he did and entred into his government about the two and thirtieth year of his age and in the beginning of the year 1388. received with great applauses by the whole kingdom as a Prince from whom they expected great and good things having already had so large experience of him Soon after his Coronation he married Philippa daughter to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster which match he the rather inclined to because Henry the bastard King of Castile in right of his wife Beatrice pretended a title to the Crown of Portugal which he hoped he might the better oppose by matching into that â—amily which had equal if not more indubitable â—ight to the kingdom of Castile For Iohn Duke of Lancaster having married Constance the eldest daughter to Peter the deposed and murthered King of Castile and Leon claimed a right to and was a great stickler for those kingdoms yet never enjoyed any other but the bare title King Iohn having setled his kingdom applied himself to the prosecuting the War against the Moors who being quite driven out of his conâ—ines he resolves to follow into their own country and be the first King of his Nation that ever past the sea to this purpose he mans out a potent fleet and having fraighted it with a sufficient Army puts to sea and lands in Mauritania where in several battels he discomfits the Barbarians wastes their Countrey burns their Villages and possesses himself of a Sea-port Town called Seplene or Ceâ—ta whereby he gained both a retiring place and an in-let into the Country when he pleased By his Queen Phillippa King Iohn had a noble and numerous Issue first Edward so named from King Edward the third of England his God-father who succeeded in the kingdom secondly Ferdinand a man of so great abstinence and so devoutly religious that the Portuguese added him to the Calender of their Saints he was in the Wars against the Moors taken prisoner and during his captivity behaved himself with such an admirable patience as worthily deserves our wonder never murmuring to be linckt together with one of his meanest servants and with him forced for his living to grinde in a Mill though such was the piety of the servant that if he could he would willingly have performed the task himself and excused his Lord from the toil if it had been possible at length he was ransomed and returning ended his days in a recluse the third son of King Iohn was named after his own name the fourth Pedro but the fifth who most worthily deserves to be recorded was the Infante Henry This Prince whether emulating the great actions of his father or out of a natural inclination in himself was the first that encouraged the Portugueses to affect forreign Voyages he first set out with a great fleet in or about the year 1425. and made discovery of the Islands in the Atlantique sea which at first were called from their being newly found out Insulae Novae or the New Islands afterwards and now vulgarly called the Azores he likewise in many other Voyages made discovery of the Islands of Maderae Holy Port and Capo Verde and sailing farther along the Coast of Africa was the first that found out the way by Sea to Guiana at length wearied with travel and overpressed with age he retired and lived upon Cape St. Vincent which place he choose because of the constant sereness of the Air being a great lover of Astrologie and the Mathematiques he died about the year 1465. and was buried in the Chappel of that Monastery built by Ferdinand the first King Iohn reigned in all forty seven years having from the King of England received the honor of being Knight of the Garter as likewise did his two sons Prince Edward and the Infante Henry He died in the year 1436. leaving the World full of his glory He was a Prince in whom all Vertues seemed naturally to flow endowed with all imaginable Ornaments both of body and minde of a tender and affable Nature yet in the field as Valiant as the fiercest though 't is by some observed that he was never perceived upon any charge given upon the enemy many of which he made in his own person to change countenance or shew any sign of discomposure from his constant temper EDWARD the I. Eleventh KING of PORTVGAL EDward the first of that Name King of Portugal was born at the City of Braga in or about the year of our Lord one thousand three hundred ninety and two he was educated during his youth in all those exercises befitting a a Prince under the tutorage of the Arch-Bishop of Lisbon in which he profited so that in his most tender years his great judgement was deservedly wondered at after he had past his minority in studies he several times accompanied his father in the Wars of Africa where he showed great proofs of his magnanimity and courage He came to the Crown at the age of forty four years or thereabouts some report that being to have the Ceremonies of his Coronation performed the same morning that the Crown was to be put upon his head a Jew one of his Physicians and a great Student inâ— Astrologie came to him and falling down
Maurice-town for three months they surrendring their Arms which should be restored to them when they took shipping and in the mean while they should have power to buy them necessary provisions of the Portugals for the voyage 9. All Negotiations and Alienations should be made during the said three months according to the present Articles 10. That the Governor should quarter his Forces where he pleased and that the Hollanders should be protected during those three months and having liberty to end their private differences before their own Iudges 11. That they should carry away all their Papers whatsoever 12. That if they could not sell their goods in the said three months time they should leave them with whom they pleased under the obedience of the Portugals to be disposed of according to their own order 13. That they should have all the victuals in the store houses of Recif and the other Forts for their voyage 14. That as to their pretensions against the Portugals they might sue them at the King of Portugals Court. 15. That all their Vessels should be restored unto them which they might fit for their voyage 16. That they might have liberty to advise all their Ships upon the Coast to come and laid their goods at Recif And in the last article it was expressed that upon the demand of the Hollanders that this might not prejudice any former treaty between the King of Portugal and the States General D. Francisco Barreto would not assent thereunto There were other articles likewise granted to the military Forces the sum of which were that all offences and hostages might be forgotten that all souldiers should go out of Recif with their Arms Match lighted Bullet in mouth Flying-colours but coming near the Portugal Army should put out the Match and lay their Arms in those Magazines appointed by the governour of Pernambucco to be restored to them at their departure provided they went to Nants Rochel or to some place in in the United Provinces and not to any belonging to the King of Portugal for security whereof they should give three hostages and all Officers and Souldiers should be shipt together with General Sigismond Schop after the delivery of the Forts of Riogrando Paraiba and Tamarica That the General should have twenty pieces of brass ordinance from four Pound-Ballet to eighteen withal their furnitures besides all necessary Iron-guns for the defence of the Ships that should be afforded them for their transportation with convenient supplyes of ammunition and provision according to the thirteenth Article before recited That General Sigismond and all his Officers of War should have liberty to carry away or sell all his or their goods or slaves That sick or wounded persons should have liberty to stay till they recovered but the Governour would not condescend to release those Hollanders which were prisoners before this surrendry A general pardon was granted to all rebells chiefly to Amboyna Mendaz and all other Indians and Negroes but they were not to have the honor to march out with their Arms. In sum the supream Councel at Recif did oblige themselves for the surrendring of these places upon the signing of these Articles and for the delivering up the Island of Farnam Viaca Noroga Riogrand Paraiba and Tamarica upon the same conditions for the inhabitants as had been granted to those of Recif These Articles were signed and delivered on both sides at the Camp at Taborda on the 18 of Ianuary 1653. and Conditions on both sides punctually observed Thus did the Hollanders loose all their Acquists in Brazile which so exasperated those high and mighty States that at the coming into Holland of myn Heer Sigismondo Schop who had there been General of their Militia they caused him to be imprisoned and tried for his life by a Councel of War but notwithstanding endeavors of his enemies he was acquitted Nor were the Portugals at home less fortunate against their neighbor enemy the Spaniards for to omit many petty skirmishes inroades made by them withal success desirable in the summer 1654. D. Antonio D' Albuquerque General of the Portuguese horse taking an advantage upon a party of Castilians which lay upon the Borders neer Aronches under the command of Count D' Amaranthe set upon them slew their General Amaranthe and took six hundred horse and farther animated with this success and the knowledge he had that a vigorous prosecution is the onely mother of a true victory pursued them with a Army of 3000 Foot and 1500 Horse eight leagues into their own Country as far as the old and strong Castle of D' Oluce while encouraging his Souldiers made valorous by their former good fortune he resolved to attacque and with continued batteries and storms so wearied out the enemy that after four days siege they yeilded upon composition and Albuquerque looking upon it as a place considerable both for the countenancing of incursions into the enemies country and keeping in awe the town of Xeres which is hard by having repaired it and placed in it a strong Garison returned About the beginning of the year 1655. D. Franciso De Ferrara Rabella arrived in England with Commission from the king of Portugal as Agent to Oliver Cromwel who then swayed here under the title of Protector to make a moâ—e firm confirmation of the Peace with England and to advise I suppose about carrying on the War with Spain which when Cromwel had given some reasons to make the world believe he would commence against that Catholick Monarch and how much such a War was for the interest of Portugal none will doubt who have read the foregoing story which made King Iohn court that English Usurper with more submisness and complacency by both harbouring his Fleets and sending presents to his Generals then otherwise his Genius would have permitted him to have done any way in prejudice of Englands lawful KING In the mean time the death of Pope Innocentius the Tenth made D. Francisco de Souza Ambassador at Rome for the King of Portugal make new addresses to Alexander the seventh his Successor for confirmation of the Church Officers in that Kingdom for he had never had any full grant from Innocent but now the Spanish Ambassadors opposed themselves more then ever and by meanes of the Queen of Sweden who wholly imployed her inâ—erest for the benefit of that Nations endeavoured to frustrate even the Portugueses hopes nay so desperate was the Spaniards malice that they laid several designs to murther the Portugal Ambassador but all proved ineffectual In sum after D. Francisco de Souza had spent some years in the Court of Rome to very little purpose he was upon the death of King Iohn the fourth called home to be Governor of the yong King Alfonso The proffered interchangeable Match with Savoy not taking effect father Du Rozaire a Domincan and Archbishop of Goa was sent Agent to France to treat about a Marriage between that King and the Infanta Donna Catharina with Proposals of
A COMPENDIOUS CHRONICLE OF THE KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL FROM Alfonso the first King to Alfonso the Sixth now reigning Together with A Cosmographical Description Of the Dominions of PORTVGAL By JOHN DAUNCEY LONDON Printed by Tho. Iohnson for Francis Kirkman Henry Brome and Henry Marsh and are to be sold at their Shops 1661. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Sr EDWARD HIDE Earl of Clarendon c. Lord High Chancellor of ENGLAND Right Honorable THe Glories of your Name make me ambitious to give you a testimony of my duty observance There be some whose vain-glory prompts them to think they by Dedications honor their Patrons but the whole world will judge me free from such vanity when they shall perceive I have made my addresses to a Person who besides his height of Nobility is arrived at such a sublimity of Worth Vertue and Learning that not onely the greatest Wits of the Age are bound to honor him but must confess they receive their splendor and lustre from him Yet thus my Lord I make my self guilty of an almost inexcusable presumption the wisest of men may as well present somewhat worthy a Deity as I any thing which may deserve your LORDSHIPS thoughts It is not fit a Pigmy should call down a IOVE to protect him but where there is so much worth there must needs be an insuperable goodness nor can he be justly blamed who onely aspires at the influence of a benevolent Star I want the confidence to beseech your Lordship to approve this VVork the honor will be sufficient if you accept it as a pledge of that observance which all men are bound to pay you I know your Lordship not only to be vers't in all History but to your glory be it spoken to have always studied the most worthy Authors And History is indeed a Treasure not onely enriching mens mindes with noble thoughts but enanimating them to great and Heroick Actions Your Lordships endeavors to make an Alliance between the two Renowned Crowns of England and Portugal may justly claim all that can be said of that Kingdom as a due Offering This though but a Breviate of the Story of it may perchance contain somewhat though not at all worthy your Lordship yet not wholly unworthy observation which I hope may perswade your Generosity and goodness to grantit protection England my Lord and every member of it are beholding to your Lordships great wisdom but should I undertake to praise all those noble Vertues for which you deserve their loves that Justice which ballances all your actions that Prudence which a whole Nation hath admired that Magnanimity which hath rendred you unalterable in all the frowns and smiles of Fortune that Liberality which hath made you King-like and that Temperance which shown in the height of Heavens and Heavens-Vice-gerents favours hath made you God-like I should be enforced to unite the largest Encomiums and lay them down as a due tribute at the feet of your thrice-renowned Fame But my Lord I dare onely reverence your Vertues they must rather be the subject of my admiration than description Let it suffice then that whilst all strive to offer up their labors to this Shrine it will be sufficient excuse of my ambition to present this Mite and amongst the numbers that thus sacrifice to your Worth to be thought worthy of that honorable Stile of being esteemed the meanest of Your Lordships most humble Servants JOHN DAUNCEY TO THE READER CUstom rather than my own Genius or Fancy inclines me to make this address Good things are but made worse by excuses bad things never a whit the better 't is base and dis-ingenious to court a Reader to a good opinion of ones Work and indeed a kinde of an endeavor to anticipate his judgement which to the wise proves a fruitless labor and to the fools was altogether needless I despair not but wise men may read this Book the truth is I desire all fools would let it alone if it be unworthy the subject 't is writ of the disgrace will be less to be censured by an understanding person and the faults I presume fewer for those of less judgement will be subject to attribute even the litteral errors of the ress to the Authors ignorance Though I dare say thus much in Vindication of this COMPENDIOUS CHRONICLE That it is extracted out of those Authors who have been â—udged by many to have writ best concerâ—ing the Kingdom of Portugal yet I will not presume to clear it of all errors Neâ—o nostrum non peccat homines sumus â—on Dei T is impossible to be mortal and not erre yet all lapses cannot be accounted faults Though I doubt not but to meet with those spirits which will make â—hem Crimes for such is the depravity of the present age that many men led on by atheistical Tenents and blinded with self-conceit dare adventure to censure even the Actions of the Deity But I shall run into that error I promised to eschew and though I beg not the Readers good opinion endeavor to restrain or affright his clearer judgement â—et every man say or think his pleasure of the Work for therefore was it made pubâ—ique and if it be my fortune to fall under any rigid censures where they are made with reason I shall entertain them with â—espect where without cause laugh at â—hem with scorn The present Affairs were sufficient motives for me to publish it both to clear the right King Iohn the fourth had to the Crown and Dominions of Portugal and justify that Title which some mens ignorance or self-will would make deficient terming a noble Redemption of a Nations Liberty black and ignominious Rebellion and methinks the joy at the Restoration of King â—ohn to the Crown of Portugal doth so aptly quadrate with our's aâ— the blessed return of our Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charls the Second that I think it not impertinent to conclude with a wish That as our joy then corresponded with theirs so all the Subjects of England would show the same examples of Loyalty to His Majesty which Ferdinando Paceica did even to the memory of his King and Master Sancho the Second J. D. The general Heads of the ensuing HISTORY I. HEnry Duke of Lorain Earl of Portugal page 3 II. Alfonso the First first King of Portugal ibid. III. Sancho the First second King of Portugal 10 IV. Alfonso the Second third King of Portugal 15 V. Sancho the Second fourth King of Portugal 19 VI. Alfonso the Third fifth King of Portugal and Algarve 25 VII Dionisio the sixth King of Portugal c. 29 VIII Alfonso the Fourth seventh King of Portugal 29 IX Pedro eighth King of Portugal 40 X. Ferdinand ninth King of Portugal 43 XI John the first tenth King of Portugal 45 XII Edward the eleventh King of Portugal 50 XIII Alfonso the Fifth twelfth King of Portugal 52 XIV John the Second thirteenth King of Portugal 54 XV. Emanuel the First fourteenth King of Porgal 56 XVI
women go stark naked and on high festival days hang Jewels in their lips Those festival days are when a company of good neighbors come together to be merry over the roasted body of a fat man which they cut in Collops called Boucon and eat with greediness and delectation They have two vile qualities as being mindful of injuries and forgetful of benefits They cannot pronounce the letters L. F R the reason of which one being demanded made answer because they had amongst them neither Law Faith nor Reason The Country is not divided into Provinces or Counties as in other places but into Prefectures or Captain-ships as the Portugueses call them of which there are 13 in all from the Province Rio della Plata to that of Guiana to wit 1. The Captainship of St. Vincent bordering on Rio della Plata inhabited by the most civil people of all Brazil the chief Towns of which are 1. Sancto at the bottom of an arm of the Sea capable of good ships of burthen but distant from the Main three Leagues a 〈◊〉 of no more then 120. houses yet the best of this prefecture beautified with a Parish Church and two Convents of Fryers taken and held two moneths by Sir Thomas Cavendish Anno 1591. since that environed with a Wall and fortified with two Castles 2. St. Vincents better built but not so well fitted with an haven of about 70. houses and one hundred inhabitants 3. Isange 4. Canavea two open Burroughs but capable of lesser Vessels 5. St. Paul upon a little Mountain at the foot whereof run two pleasant Rivers which fall not far off into the River Iniambis a Town of about a hundred houses one Church two Convents and a Colledge of Jesuites neighbored by Mines of gold found in the Mountains called Pernabiacaba 6. St. Phillips a small Town on the banks of Iniambis which there begins to enlarge it self and passing thence falleth at last into the River Parana one of the greatest tributaries to Rio de la Plata 2. Of Rio de Ianeiro or the River of Ianuary so called because entred into that month by Iohn Diaz de Solis Anno 1515. neglected of the Portugals it was seized on by the French under the conduct of Villagagâ—one employed herein by Admiral Chastillon a great friend of the Hugonâ—tes to whom it was intended as a place of refuge as New England afterwards for the like but within three years after their first coming thither Anno 1558 regained by the Portugals and the French pâ—t to the sword The Places of most consideration in it are 1. Colignia the Foâ—t and Colony of the French so named in honor of Gasper Colligni commonly called Chastillon by whose encouragement it was founded scituate on the Bay of the River Iaâ—iero which the French called Ganabara 2. Sr. Sebastians built at the mouth of the same Bay by the Portugals after they had expelled the French and fortified with four strong Bulwarks 3. Angra des Reyes distant twelve Leagues Westward from the mouth of the Bay not long since made a Portugal Colonie beside these there are two great Burroughs of the natural Brazilians in which are said to be two thousand Inhabitants 3. Of the Holy Ghost del Spiritu Sancto one of the most fertile Provinces of all Brazil well stored with Cotton Wool and watered with the River Parayba large and full of fish the onely Town of note in it is Spiritu Sancto inhabited by about 200 Portugals the chief building of it a Church dedicated to St. Francis a Monastery of Benedictines a Colledge of Jesuites the chief conveniency a safe and commodious Haven capable of the greatest Vessels 4. Of Porto Seguro the secure Haven so called by Capralis who first discovered it when being tost at sea by a terrible tempest he had here refreshed himself the chief Towns hereof 1. Porto Seguro built on the top of a white Cliff which commands the Haven of more Antiquity then fame of more fame then bigness as not containing fully two hundred families 2. Santa Cruz three Leagues from the other a poor Town with as poor an harbor the Patrimony and inheritance of the Dukes of Avero in the Realm of Portugal 3. Santo Amaro or St. Omers once of great note for making Sugars for which use here were five Ingenios or Sugar Engines deserted by the Portugals for fear of the Savages against whom they had not power enough to make good the place and the Sugars destroyed of purpose that they might not come into the hands of the barbarous people 5. Of Des Iieos or the Isles so named from certain Islands lying against the Bay on which the principle Town is seaâ—ed called also Ilheos or the Isle the Town consisting of about 150 or 200 families neighbored by a great lake of 12 leagues in compass out of which that River doth arise full of great but wholesome fish which they call Monatos some of which are affirmed to weigh twenty eight pounds This Colony much endangered by the Guaymuri a race of savages more savage then any of their fellows who being driven out of their own Country fell into this prefecture and had utterly destroyed it if some of St. Georges Reliques as the Jesuites say sent by their General from Rome Anno 1581. had not stayed their fury and given the Portugals the better 6. Of Todos los Sanctos or all Saints so called from a large Bay of that name upon which it hath in bredth two leagues and an half eighteen fathom deep and full of many little Islands but flourishing and pleasant and well stored with Cotton wooll The chief Towns hereof are 1. San Salvador built on a little hill on the North side of the Bay by Thomas de Souza adorned with many Churches and fortified besides the Wall with three strong Castles the one called St. Anthony the other St. Phillip and the third Tapesippe 2. Paripe more within the land four leagues from S. Saviours 3. Seregippe del Rey a small Town and seated on as small a River but amongst many rich Pastures and some veins of silver 7. Of Pernambucco one of the richest Prefectures for Tobacco Sugar and the great quantity of Brazile wood which is brought hence yearly for the dyers in all this Country but destitute of Corn and most other necessaries with which it is supplyed from Portugal chief Towns hereof 1. Olinda the largest and best peopled of all Brazile containing above two thousand persons not reckoning Church-men nor taking the great number of slaves which they keep for their Sugar-works in this account there are in it eight Parochial Churches five Religious houses and some Hospitals scituate near the Sea but on so uneven a piece of ground as makes it not capable of a regular Fortification the Haven being little and not very commodioâ—s but defended at the entrance by a well built Castle and that well planted with brass pieces 2. Amatta di Brazile ten miles from Olinda the Inhabitants