of the Count de Olivarez and of the Dutchy of St. Lucar so soon as it shall please his Majesty in acknowledgement of his services to make him a Grandee of Spain because the Title of Duke in Castile is not given but to those that may stand covered in the Kings presence Olivarez advertized all Ambassadors and Grandees hereof to the great displeasure of all his Family and Kindred then resolves to marry him with one of the principall Ladies of Spain To which end he cast his eye upon the first Lady of the Court Donna Juana de Velasco daughter to the Constable of Castile who for Nobleness of blood is not to be equalled by any the Subjects of that Kingdome For he shews in the Arms of his Predecessors five Royall Quarrers To accomplish this match it was necessary to annull the former marriage by an order from Rome The Pope deputes the Bishop of Avila with full power who notwithstanding the Protests of the woman gave sentence against her because she was not married by her own Parson although some more conscientious Divines gave their opinions in favour of the woman and that the marriage was good and valuable but the authority of the Favourite prevailed over these reasons and the marriage was solemnly broken In pursuance whereof Olivarez treated for a match with the said Lady and in spite of her Father and Kindred obtained her for his Bastard And here one might observe the base spirits of Flatterers for all the Grandees all the Nobility of the Court all Officers of State went to give Don Henry el para bien or joy of his marriage treating him by the Title of Excellency and giving him respect fitter for a King then a subject In the mean time he became so rediculous a personage in his carriag that not being accustomed to such ceremonies he often fell into great absurdities which made some Italians say Don Harrigo era un Facchino vestito da ReSpagnuolo That Don Henry was a plowman dressed like a King A Pallace was provided for Duke Henry so rich and sumpteous that never any Grandee of Spain had the like Presents were sent him from all persons and all Places the Duke of Medina de las Torres sent him a present valued at twenty five thousand Crownes Don Henry received the Habit of Alcantara with a Commanderie of ten thousand Crownes and was declared a gentleman of the Kings bed chamber with promise to have the Charge of President of the Indies and all to make way for to be governour to the Prince for which porpose the Prince was kept under the government of the Duchesse of Olivares and no Court formed longer then the ordinary and accustomed time Now the hatred was so generall and so great against D. Henry who could not forbear his base carriage and behaviour that the people sang publickly Enriquez de dos Nombres y dos Mugeres Hijo de dos Padres y dos Madres Valgate el Diablo el Hombre que mas quisieres Harry a Man of two Names and two Wives a Son of two Fathers and two Mothers The Divell take him that owns thee The declaring of this Bastard heir to Olivarez greatly displeased the Marquess of Carpio who married Olivarez sister because hereby was disâ—inherited the right Heir Don Lewis de Haro son to the said Marquess already declared so an honest Gentleman and of good parts and at present sole Favourite in the Court of Spain Upon the fall of the Conde Duke Don Henry immediatly lost the Title of Excellency his great train and the Kings favour and from a great Idoll became a Man of Clouts scorned by all men The Constable intended to take home his daughter and to declare the former marriage valuable But some Nobles with whom he advised thereof telling him that he should forbear such attempt for the former marriage being declared valuable his daughter will be declared an Adulteress whereto he answered I had rather Donna Juana were taken for my daughter and a Whore then chast and wife of such a Fellow Not long after D. Henry died without issue and his Father the Conde Duke of grief ended his dayes at the House where he was confined the one ending like a Comet after a great blaze for a short time the other like a Candle after a long time in a snuff Next followeth the unparalleld Case of Michael de Molina Exemplum sine Exemplo OR The unparalleld IMPOSTVRE OF Michaell de Molina Executed at Madrid in the Year 1641 Faithfully Translated out of the SPANISH LONDON Printed for Tho. Heath 1653. Exemplum sine Exemplo OR The unparallel'd CASE OF Michael de Molina Executed at Madrid in the Year 1641. Faithfully Translated out of the SPANISH MIchael de Molina born of honest parents at Cuenea a City in the Kingdom of Castile bred there in the Jesuits Colledg and after at the University of Alcala de Henares to try his fortune went thence to Court where to gain a living speedily he undertooke to give secret intelligence to the secretaries of the severall Ambassadours then residing at that Court and to give the more credit to his reports gave out That he was servant to Andrew de Rojas Cavalier of the order of Santiago and secretary of the Councell of State insomuch that he forged letters feigned discourses framed intelligences fitted for the purposes and affayres of the Ambassadors wherewith he dealt counterfeited the Kings hand invented Cyphers made consultations and orders to the number of 345 severall Papers and all with that dexterity that he deceived and abused not only the secretaryes of the Emperour the Venetian and French Ambassadours but also and most of all Don Lorenço Coqui secretary to the late Don Lorenço Campegi Nuntio to the Pope in whose house he was at length apprehended upon whose apprehension and search of his papers he told the officers That if the tenour of those papers should be looked upon as jests and conceits he should not speed so ill but if as a crime it would appear so great that one life would not be enough to pay for the same And his Majesty takeing notice that the busines was of that importance that the like had not been heard or found in any History Commanded that there should be on purpose a Court of Justice composed of two of the chiefe Nobility and two of the Cheife Judges before whom when the said Michael de Molina was sufficiently convinced and had made a large confession which for its matchlesse strangenes shall be verbatim set down he was sentenced as followeth IN the town of Madrid July 31 1641. the Lords of his Majestyes Counsell who by particular order have taken cognizance of the accusation given in by Don Marcellino Faria de Guzman Atturney nominated by his Majesty for this cause against Michael de Molina late of Cuenca prisoner in the Gaole of this Court for offences and high treason committed by him whereof he hath been accused doe condemne the said
race of the Portugals who have made us Kings by their own valour without forreign assistance by their own valour and with the effusion of their own blood This law was put in execution after the death of D. Fernando the 9 King of that race whose daughter Donna Beatrice being married out of Portugal to the King of Castile D. John the first was excluded from succession and a new election made from which new election that we may hasten to our purpose lineally descended D. Emanuel the fourteenth King of Portugal who had six sonns and two daughters in this following order 1 The Prince D. John 2 The Infanta Dona Beatrice married to the Emperour Charles the fift by whom she had Philip the second 3 The Infanta Dona Beatrice married to Emanuel Duke of Savoy by whom she had Philip Duke of Savoy 4 The Infanta D. Lewis who left only Don Antonio illegitimate 5 The Infante Don fernando died without issue 6 The Infante D. Alfonso Cardinal Archbishop of Lisbon and Abbot of Alcobaza never married 7 The Infante D. Henry Cardinal and Arch bishop of Braga 8 The Infante D. Edward who left two daughters the eldest was Mary married out of the Kingdom to Alexander Farnese Duke of Parma the yonger was Catherine married in the Kingdome to John Duke of Braganza After the death of King Emanuel succeeded his eldest sonne Don John called King John the third whose only sonne that had issue called Prince John dieing before his father left D. Sebastian who succeeding his Grandfather was slain before he was married in that Signal battell in Africa famous for the deaths of three Kings anno 1578. where were unfortunatly lost with their King most of the Nobility and Flower of Portugal Upon the death of King Sebastian the crown returned to the eldest survivour of his Granfathers brothers which was D. Henry the Cardinal whose function for he was a priest rendred him as uncapable of marrying as his age for he was 67. years old rendred him unable for generation so that during his raigne which lasted not two years the chief discourses and debates not only of Portugal but of all Christendome was who rightfully and who probably should succeed King Henry There were some pretended right but wanted power others had power but wanted right and there were some pretenders that had neither right nor power First The People claymed jure Regni to have the right to elect their own King Secondly the Pope challenged jure Divino to be the arbitratour if not donour in all controversies for Crownes and that Alfonso the first King to obtain the title of King became Tributary to the sea of Rome Thirdly Don Antonio illegitimate sonn to the Infant D. Lewis pretended that his mother was lawfully wedded as well as bedded with his father Fourthly Catherine de Medicis widow of Henry the 2. King of France as descended from the King of Portugal D. Alfonso the 3. and for that all since that King have raigned unjustly Fiftly Philbert Duke of Savoy sonne to Beatrice younger daughter to Emanuel would not lose a Crown for want of laying claym thereto knowing that of all the pretenders that were not natives he was looked on as the fittest to resist King Philip not only for his personal valour but also for his dominions bordering on the Dutchy of Milan which in case of need he might invade by the assistance of the French his neighbours upon the other side 7 Reinuce the yong Prince of Parma laid claim to this Crown in right of his Mother Mary lately deceased alleadging that jure primogeniturae the male line was to be served before the female so that untill the line of his Grandfather the Infante D. Edward were wholy extinct neither Philip the 2. nor the Duke of Savoy could have any right Seventhly Catherine Dutches of Braganza pleaded that in all successions there are to be considered these four qualityes in the persons pretending viz thâ— line the degree the sexe and the Age that the better line is first to take place although others should have advantage in the other three qualities That in succession of Crowâ—es the last possessour is to be succeeded jure hered latis which allowâ—s the benefit of representation that she representing the Infante D. Edward the better line did by her representation precede Rainuce for the law allows not a Grandchild that benefit and by her better line exclude King Philip who descended from a daughter lastly by the fundamental Lawes of the Kingdom she was to be preferred before all other the pretenders for that she was both born and married within the Kingdome Eighthly Philip the 2. after all resolved that so faire a Crown lyeing so conveniently for him should not escape him yet because force is of harder digestion first to make triall of the most gentle meanes to effect his proposed ends to this purpose he employes the best wits of all the Vniversityes in Christendom to prove his and disprove all other claymes After much bickering it was alledged in favour of King Philip first against the Prince of Parma and the Dutchess of Braganza that successions of Crowns were to be decided by the Law of Nations not of the Empire upon which onely her jus representandi patrem was grounded that the neerest male in degree to the last possessour ought to succeed that the Infante D. Édw. being deceased before his brother Henry was King could have no right in himself therefore could derive none to his posterity for nemo dat quod in se non habet That it was very unreasonable that Catherine should be lesse prejudiced in her self for her sex then King Philip should be in his Mother Next it was alledged against the Queen of France that prescription of above 300 years whereas Lawyers allow 100 years a sufficient Title for any Kingdome lay most evidently against her Against the people it was answered That untill the Royall Line of a Kingdome be quite extinct there can be no right of election in them But the main Argument whereby King Philip confuted these and all other pretenders was his sword wherewith like another Alexander he cut that Gordian knot wherefore not to lose time nor opportunity whilst the University invented the most powerful Arguments he made all preparations possible for a powerful Army to be ready in the mean time wrought so effectually with Father Leon Henriques a Jesuit and Confessor to King Henry and Frier Ferdinando Castillo a Dominican that all intentions prejudicial to King Philips designes were craftily diverted as from declaring the Dutchess of Braganza next heir whereunto King Henry was most inclinable also from marrying in hopes of issue whereto he was once so farre perswaded as to endeavour a dispensation from Rome but his hopes and intentions were soon after cut off by death the newes whereof arriving to King Philip he marched away immediatly with an Army of above twenty thousand old Souldiers towards Lisbon where he found no
if heretofore they had not waited upon him according to their obligations his Majesty knew well â—he reason of the same The King being arrived at the Palace in Madrid asked whether the Duke was â—etired it was answered No. The King 〈◊〉 a chafe turning to Don Lewes de Haro â—ying Que aguarda el hombre la fuerca What doth the man stay for to be thrust out Hereupon the Duke seeing no more hopes left prepared himself to be gone spending the whole night in viewing his papers and burning a great part of them In the mean time the people longed to see the day of his departure and one more impatient then the rest set abroad this Distick Phosphore redde diem quid gaudia nostra moraris Ecce Comes Cecidit Phosphore redde diem Friday about one of the clock afternoon he departed not without much artifice For fearing to be torn in pieces by the people having caused Coaches and Mules to stand ready for three dayes together before he intended to depart But as the Coaches with six Horses waited at the great gate of the Palace he went forth by the back gate behind the kitchin and put himself into an ill-favoured Coach drawn with four Mules where having drawn the Curtains and placed himselfe between two Iesuits as if he had been going to execution he took his way by the street of Atocha at the same time that his Family in his velvet Coaches passed the ordinary way where they were met with a company of Boyes that thinking the Duke was there discharged a showre of stones at the Coaches but being shewn that the Duke was not there they ceased so that the Duke by this subtilty arrived safe at Loeches a place whereof he had the Royalty In the mean time the Dutchess continued at Court governing the Prince and little Infanta but without once entring into the Queens chamber Now the consequences of this disgrace of Olivarez are many and those very remarkable In the first place the King hath thereby recovered the credit and reputation which he had utterly lost in the opinions of all men as well forraigners as sublects who saw him so wholly led away by the will of the Conde Duke that he seemed rather a Subject then a Soveraign But on the Saturday after the departure of Olivarez the King called a Councell of State in his Lodgings where he spake so judiciously that all admired his ability and testified by their tears their great affections and respects towards him The subject of the Kings discourse was to advertise the Councell how he had deprived the Conde Duke of his dignities not for any crime that he had committed but to satisfie himself in giving satisfaction and content to his subjects That his desire was That the memory of the Conde Duke might be kept in esteem among all men for the good services which he had so faithfully rendred to the Crown so many years protesting for the future not to give the Title of Favourite to any of his subjects but to assist himself in all Councels and that all weighty affairs should pass through his own hands commanding to every one of those there to speak their opinions freely without partiality at all times and not to conceale the truth from him Whereto the Cardinall Borgia as head of that Councell answered That they would give obedience to these his Majesties commands as to Laws Divine Next day his Majesty having called together all his Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber whereof most are Grandees of Spain he demanded the assistance of their Tenants Friends and Kindred for the speedy settlement of the kingdom Which together with other testimonies of prudence and care that his Majesty manifested made all men say It was now the time that Philip the fourth deserved the surname of Grand which had been given him by the flattery of Olivarez at that time when he caused his Majesty to lose his Dominions and Reputation Next day the King caused all his plate to be coined into money by whose example also the Nobility and Commons sent theirs to the Mint and all contented themselves to be served in earthen ware The next consequence of Olivarez disgrace was the advancements of divers Noblemen to their dignities and the pulling down of the Favorites of the Conde Duke The third effect and perhaps that which Olivarez resented most of all is the miserable condition of his Bastard son a business of that strange and extraordinary carriage that it is worthy a large Treatise but was briefly thus The Conde Duke being at Madrid twelve years before he was in favour at Court fell in love with Donna Marguerita Spinola whose Father was a Genoway and mother a Spaniard This Lady though noble and rich yet was not free from temptations amongst which riches and honour are the most efficacious Don Francisco de Valeasar Alcalde of the Court and Palace one of the highest places of Judicature in Spain although he had a wife one Donna Marguerita to his lust maintained her and her family at his charges and with profuse presents and Iewels kept her wholly to himself At length Olivarez with much difficulty got a share in her also and she soon after had a son named Julian which none then made doubt to be the son of the Alcalde who neverthelesse understanding that others had had a finger in the pye as well as himself took no affection to nor care of the child so he was brought up idly by the mother untill the age of 18 years at which time his mother dying and he finding himself without father or mother went boldly to the Alcalde and besought him to declare him his son that so he might not be exposed to the world without Father and without Name protesting that he would never lay claim to any thing but onely under the name of Valeasar he would get his living with his Sword The Alcalde wholly uncertain that he was his child would not be induced to declare thus till upon his death-bed and then rather out of charity then belief that he was his son So then by the name of Julian Valeasar he went first into the Indies where for some Roguery he was condemned to be hanged but because the Vice-king there was a great friend to the Alcalde he gave him his pardon Thence he went into Flanders and Italy where he served as a common Souldier but was very debosht and of rude behaviour In the mean time Olivarez having no further hope of children sent to search out this vagabond Valeasar who he remembred was born at the time that he had to do with his mother but before Valeasar could be found he had married D. Isabella de Azueta a common Strumpet nevertheless November 1641. to the astonishment of all men Olivarez owned him for his son and declared him so by a publick act by the good will and pleasure of his Majesty wherein he names him Don Henry Philipe de Guzman heir apparent
Michael Molina to be hanged on a gallowes and his goods to be confiscated to the Kings use the execution whereof they leave to the Lord Judge D. John de Quinnoues and this is their will and pleasure This sentence was made known to the prisoner upon the first of August and execution done accordingly in the Plaça Major of Madrid the third day following at which time and place the Proclamation usually made at the execution was thus THis is the Justice which the King our Soveraigne Lord commandeth to be done upon this man for having committed high treason and published falsities forgeries and horrible cheats on the affaires and grave ministers of state for which he commands that he be hanged by the neck till he die to the end that it may be to him for a punishment and to others an example then concludes Quien tal haze tal pague He that thus doeth let him thus pay for the same As he stood upon the ladder ready to be turned off he delivered in writing to father Andrew Emanuel of the Society of Jesus a declaration the contents whereof ensueth word for word LOyall subjects of our soveraigne Lord the King I am Michael de Molina born at Cuenca the grievousnes of my crimes is so great that a punishment can hardly be invented to equalize mine offences against God against our soveraigne Lord the King whom God preserve against the Emperour against my native country against the Lord Duke de Olivarez and Sant Lucar against the most grave faithfull and loyall Ministers of state whom I have discredited with my forgeries and lies The clemency of the King our soveraigne whom God preserve hath been very eminent in sentencing me so mercifully God grant to whom I now goe to render a strict account that there be found mercy for me in the life to come and that I then pay not for the clemency shewed me here I do here declare and confesse upon mine own free will that not having the feare of God nor man before mine eyes I have been the cause of the gretest part of the mischiefes that this Monarchy suffereth and of those calamities and miseryes which you faithfull people yet suffer for which I humbly beg pardon of all those that are absent as well as of you here present For I am the man that feigned that the King our soveraigne Lord whom God preserve and the Emperour instigated thereunto by the Lord Duke of Saint Lucar and fomented by him did plot the death of our most holy father Urban the 8 th Pope head of the Church and vicar of Christ for which purpose I invented and contrived orders of the King our soveraign and of the Emperour letters from the Duke Orders instructions and judgments of the Counsellours of State with letters from Vice Royes and Embassadours with purpose to abuse and deceive the Nuntio and the Embassadours of severall Princes and thereby to get money from them not caring for the dammage might arise and accrue from thence to the world and to this Monarchy and not contented here with I invented that in case the said death could not be effected that then endeavour should be to call a Councell and to depose the Pope or make a schisme in the Church I invented and forged that the Lord Duke did by order from the King the Emperour and the Counsell of state endevour to kill the Cardinal Richelieu Favorit to the most Christian King of France for which purpose and for the death of the Pope I feigned persons that were to have been instruments of the same I gave notice to the Ambassadours hereof shewing them letters and Orders which I feigned as I judged meet I made them believe that I was an Officer of the Counsell of state and that by that means I came to the knowledg of these plots and conspiracies whereby I have disturbed the world caused jealousyes and suspitions amongst all the Princes of Europe and the mischiefs that this Monarchy now suffereth I also advertised the Embassadours and the enemies of this state of letters consults orders and decrees made by the King and Counsell for driving the French out of Piemont the Correspondencies of the Cardinal of Savoy with the subjects of that state for effectuating the same the coming of Prince Thomas from Flanders to Savoy for the same purpose and to lay siege to Casal of an Army to be raysed and maintayned in Alsatia of an intention to kill Duke Bernard de Weimar General of the Swedes the intentions of the King our Soveraign with the states of Venice and Genoa concerning Piemont and Casal the purpose of supplies which both states of Venice and Genoa would send to France and Holland and the intentions of the Pope to assist France against Spain the intent of England to â—â—gue with Spain the purpose that the French and Hollanders had to joyn their fleets to hinder all succours of Flanders and to surprise the plate fleet and infect the coasts of Spain the design that the Hollander had upon Antwerp in the year 1638. the successe of Fontarabie whereupon I feigned letters from the Prince of Conde and from the Duchesse de Cheverâ—use also concerning the imprisonment of Don Gualterio Peni Secretary and Resident for France in this Court with whom I had intimate friendship which was the ground of all these disasters of the secret compliance between the Cardinall Infante and the Prince of Orenge of the conspirarcy by the Prince of Orenge to kill the Cardinal Richelieu the design of Holland that the States of Flanders should be independent of Spain and our King should renounce his right to the Cardinall Infanta to the end the Hollanders should receive him and subject themselves to him of the capitulations and agreement twixt the King our Sov and the Duke of Modena whereby I feigned that the said Duke was to assist with six thousand men at his own charge against France and that the King was to give him the charge of Viceroy of Catalonia and twenty thousand souldiers to enter into France by Catalonia which was the first ground of the warr at Salsas and Perpignian the key of Catalonia of the general resolutions of the year 1639. in order to the affayres of Germany Flanders and Italy of the purpose to take away the Nuntio's Court in these kingdomes for the disorders and excesses of the same of the great resentments of the King our soveraign against the King of France for his leagueing with the Swedes his confederation with the Turks and Protestant Princes of Germany for his protection and league with Holland for his commerce with Venice and Genoa to the great discommodity of Spain for the disunion which he endeavoured to make between Spain and England of the resentment that the King our Soverain had against the Pope for his amity and assisting of France and not his endeavouring rather as a father of the whole Church to pacify the warres by all meanes possible of the
design of changeing the commanders in cheife of all the Emperours armies and the Spanish thereby to make the people desperate because of the failing of faith and credit of the recruiting and arming the Gallies of Spain Sicily and Naples for the maintaining commerce secret intelligence in Toulon and Marseilles of the capitulation of the Venetian with the grand Turke and the meanes whereby they drew the Turke to assent to their demands and the little security the Turke had from them all which I invented feigned and contrived together with many more letters Cyphers Papers c. without any intelligence correspondence or amity with any officer or Minister of state of this kingdome but that I alone without the helpe or assistance of any other have feigned and invented all the foresaid designs whereof I gave information to the Nuntio and his secretary to the said Ambassadours and to Monsiuer de Peny with whom I have kept correspondence in France since the breaking forth of the warre the which as a truth I sweare before God and declare it for discharging my conscience I aske of God forgivenes also of the King our soveraign whom God preserve of the Emperour of the Lord Duke against whom I directed most of those forgeries of the Duke of Medina las Torres of the Marques of Leganés of the Duke of Villahernosa of the Count of Oniate of the Marques of Villa Franca of the Marques of Mirabel of the most illustrious Lord Inquisitour Generall the father Confessour of the most Eminent Cardinals the Cardinal Borgia and Cardinal Spinola and Cardinal of Sandoval of the Lord Don Geronimo of Villanueva Pronotary of Arragon and secretary of state of Don Andrew de Rojas secretary of state of the Ambassadour of Genoa and of all the rest whom I have falsely defamed by these forgeries and Impostures and also I aske pardon of all the faithfull and loyall subjects of these kingdomes charging them to take example by me And to the end that it may be manifested to all times I thus make declaration that God may pardon me and for the satisfaction of this and all other Nations which I have disturbed with the wickednes of my inventions In witnes whereof I have hereunto set my name Dated in the Plaça Mayor and place of Execution in Madrid the 3 of August 1641. Thus ended Michael de Molina in whom the Refran or Spanish proverbe was verified Quien en un ano quiere ser rico al medio le ahorcan He that will be rich in one year shall be hanged at halfe yeares end FINIS THE RIGHT TITLE OF The present KING OF PORTUGAL Don John the Fourth With the most Memorable Passages of his Reigne LONDON Printed for Tho. Heath 1653. THE RIGHT TITLE OF The present King OF PORTUGALL Don John the fourth With the most memorable Passages of his raigne FOr the more cleare discovery of the Title whereby the present King of Portugal holds that Crown it will be necessary to know the fundamental constitutions of that Kingdom as well as the peâ—igree of that King In the year of our Redemption 1139. an Army of four hundred thousand Moors under the conduct of five Kings threatning as a vast deluge to overflow at once all the Country of Portugal were totally discomsited by a small handfull of Christians in the plains of Ourique where immediatly before the battel the people chose their Generall Don Alfonso for their King for before they were under the protection of the King of Castile Leon who after the fight called an Assembly of the three Estates in the City of Lamego where was solemnely enacted as followeth In the name of the most holy Trinity Father Son and holy Ghost Amen I Alphonso sonn of Count Henry c. by the grace of God lately advanced to the Royall Throne have called together the Bishops Nobles and Deputies of Cities in the Church of Saint Mary Almacave in Lamego where sitting upon my Royal Throne without any ensignes of Royalty my Deputy Lorenzo Venegas stood up anâ— spake thus You are assembled by the Authority of King Alfonso to see the Popes letters and resolve to confirm him for your King whereat all with one voice cried We will that he be our King The Deputy demanded shall he only be King and not his sonns after him They answered he so long as he lives and his sonns after his death then said the Deputy give him the Royall ensignes we give them answered they in the name of God So the Archbishop of Braga placed the Crown upon the Kings head who drawing his sword said Blessed be God that hath been my helper with this sword have I delivered you and overcome our enemies and now that you have made me your King let us make lawes for the government of the Kingdome they answered so will wee dread soveraigne we wil make such lawes as shall seem good to you and wee and all our children and posterity are wholy at your command we will first make lawes for the succession of the Crown as followeth 1 God save King Alfonso let him be master of the Kingdome and after him that there may be no trouble of choosing a King let his sonn raigne after him his grand child and so from father to sonn in secula seculorum 2 If during the fathers life the eldest sonn die the next brother shall be King and so forward 3 If the King die without sonns having a brother he shall succeed but not his sonn after him unlesse the Parliament will have it so Then Lorenzo Venegas the Kings Deputy desired the States to aske the King if the daughters should enter into the Succession of the Kingdome after some debate thereon it was resolved Because the daughters are of the Royall stock as well as the Sonns they should succeed on this manner 4 If the King have only Daughters the eldest shall be Queen after her father upon condition that she be married to a native of the Kingdome and that he be a Nobleman who shall not take upon him the name of King untill he hath a sonn born nor wear a crown on his head nor take the right 〈◊〉 of his wife 5 Lastly which most concernes the ensuing discourse it was thus enacted Sit i st a Lex in sempiternum quod prima filia Regis accipiat maritum de Portugale ut non veniat Regnum ad extraneos si casaverit cum principe extraneo non sit Regina quia nunquam volumus nostrum Regnum ire for de Portugalensibus qui nos sua fortitudine Reges fecerunt sine adjutorio alieno per suam fortitudinem cum sangine suo That is Let it be a law for ever that the Kings eldest daughter marry a native of Portugal that so the Crown may never descend to strangers and in case she should marry to a Prince that is a stranger let her not be Queen for wee will never have our Kingdom goe out of the