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A73201	The present state of Spaine. Translated out of French; Estat d'Espagne. English.	Sergier, Richard, attributed name.; Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626, attributed name.	1594 (1594)	STC 22997; ESTC S125625	22,718	65

His Maiesty knoweth too well that hee cannot purchase the grace of God if being aduanced by him into a more eminent than they in all maner of vertuous actions Hee sheweth already by the diligence which he vseth in feats of armes that as he is far gone in the iourny of his age and ther remaining for him so many things to be done in the world the honour and labour whereof it seemeth that God hath reserued for him he wil imitate the birds of the more northen nations where the day hauing but one hower of length they flie more couragiously more swiftly then any other of the aire For he hath in a small time reduced into his obedience the most of the people of his kingdome and sheweth them by the mild dealing he vseth towards them that he hath conquered them not for his owne particular good but to bring them into their greater ease and securitie Alreadie his Maiesty doeth meditate nothing els but to make of his court the cabinet of the most excellent rarest thinges of the earth and that therein shall be found the most vertuous honest and best accomplished men of this world Vertue shall be in esteem if euer it were he pretendeth so soon as he shal haue satisfied those vnto whom his people miserable as it is hath for their follies past constrained to promise recompences quite to abolish or so to moderate the taxes that his poore subiectes shal haue cause for euer to pray vnto the Almightie for him and his memorie therefore may be sacred to all posteritie He is not ignorant how by the too great excesse of the saide taxes his people remaineth in languishing sort the nobilitie who followeth him is made poor because the Pezant cannot nor dare not till the lands of the nobility of others for fear of the said taxes by means wherof the groūd should ly barren without tillage the Nobilitie which hath no other riches but of the glebe soyl can no longer follow and serue him nor the people of the country or husbandman the verie forge of all commodities of the kingdome succour him any longer Yee then of the Nobility if there bee any of this qualitie who wil against the deuoir of his profession weare the skarfe of the League in steed of our white collour of the flowres de Luce of France what honor think you to leaue to your children to say that you haue fostered and nourished this mostrous Hydra the league which hath brought foorth vnto vs our children so many mischiefs and miseries See you that you stop vp the light and brightnes of your races vnder the sinders of your rebellion Take ye take ye the collour of your brethren and permit not that your noble race remaine vilanized stayned and spotted with treason towads your selues and towardes you countrie And you good people whose prosperity is so much different from that in which our deceased kings and fathers left you behould the surface of our poore country aunciently adorned with your goodly buildings I cānot speak this without teares nowe desert rugged and without tillage Where is this liberty promised you by the league Alas As said I thinke Theophrastus ' to the Greekes They haue put in too much vinegre where is this abolition of taxes Alas they are six fold as many as they were before Where is this restablishment of religion Alas they haue beaten downe to the grounde and profaned your churches the priests themselues taking armes haue run into a thousande villainies Consider that there is in Fraunce neither iustice nor publik force but from your king which may sauegard ye from iniury Perceaue ye not how you empouerish your selues daly and that these hunger-starued gouernors whose rebellion ye nourish will stifle you one of these daies to haue your bloud will flea you to haue your skins seeing that amongst them the richest hath nought to liue vpon if it be not vpon your substance nor any commoditie which they forge not alreadie vpon your battered Anuile Liue liue vnder your king and vnder his lawes chace far from you these hireling-preachers of sedition this miserable fierers and destroyers of our countrie it is not religion but rebellion they preach away with them The Duke de Maine acknowledgeth alreadie that he hath bene deceiued and abused by them All the world knoweth it and there is hope seeing that the Crowne as said Titus Vespatians son called for his vertue and goodnesse the delight and darling of the worlde is a gift of God bestowed on him whome hee pleaseth by his onlie hand and pure will that the said Duke of Maine will reknowledge his Maiestie for his King and will repose more confidence in him than in any other prince liuing Well hee knoweth that the Maximees of Spaine are first to make a hande of them who aide them in the Conquest of their prouinces saying iustlie that they cānot credit the faith of them who haue failed in that which they owe to their owne countrie and when all that were not so neuer was there man who followed them but is dead miserably The said Duke of Maine hath done but too much for his part when hee had had place but to reuenge the death of his brethrē wherunto K. Henry the 4. was neuer consenting If he passe further he remaneth for euer most culpable and blameworthy Let him not then let slip this good occasion whilest the time is that he may come in and yeeld himself to his king with honor making shew of the common pretext of religion of no other thing to haue mooued him to take armes and let him call to minde how hee hath to deale with a kinge of France who shal neuer be without successor to reuenge all iniuries that his maiesty may one day come to an accord with the K. of Spaine and so then by that meane this Duke may remaine oppressed and of small esteeme Let him confesse that euery Christian ought to leuell onely at the saluation of his soule the which he can neuer obtain at Gods hands nor any good for his children but in restoring vnto his kinge that which he detained vniustly from his kingdome against the dutie of a subtect a vassall and an officer to the crowne FINIS A COPIE OF SPECIALL RECORD OF THE Homage done by Philip Archduke of Austria Earle of Flanders c. to the most Christian King of France Lewes the twelft of that name in the yeare 1499. Iohn Amys Notary and Secretary to the King our Soueraigne For somuch as it hath pleased the Noble and puissant L. Monsieur Guy of Rochefort Knight Lord of Pleuuot and of Labergemant Chauncellour of Fraunce as well of his fauour to preferre mee as to commaund and inioyne me to take a copy of the receipte of an Homage done to the King our gracious Lorde in his person by the most high most puissant Prince the Lord Philip sonne to the King of Romains Arch-duke of

THE PRESENT state of Spaine Translated out of French ET VSQVE AD NUBES VERITAS TVA Imprinted at London by P. S. for Richard Serger 1594. THE STATE OF SPAINE IT is a thing noted from all antiquitie that God hath appointed in this worlde the certayne continuance of Monarchies estats and families hath lymited the prosperity and thraledome of nations and bounded the very liues of all men liuing neuerthelesse as well in matters of state as priuate those are founde moste durable which retayne and keep the greatest perfection and excellencye from their creator Some being ordained to serue for ministers of his furie othersome for examples of his diuine bounty and grace For we see many men and sundry estates whome God hath from moste base foundations and petty beginninges raised and aduaunced to the most supreame degree of power and dignity inuesting them with mighty Empires and boundlesse kingdomes With whose power as of men little vertuous it hath pleased the almightye to serue himselfe but as with a scourge to punish the Enormous sins of his people others haue beene ratified from God aboue in this most soueraigne degree of all humaine maiesty in recompence of their holinesse of life and vnreprouable dealing among men But so soone as the one or the other beganne to forget the occasion for which they were placed in this world which was to set forth the kingdom honour and glory of God onely whome they together with all men ought to confesse to be their general Lord and father and that they haue gonne a boute by false pretextes and sinister meanes to aduaunce their owne priuat honor and glory and not that of their great Lord and maister Then God who alone raigneth whome onely we oughte to serue casteth them downe headlong destroyeth their monarchies desolateth their kingdomes and rooteth out their posterity from off the face of the earth For example the crowne of Castile aunciently a little country gouerned by Iudges afterwardes by Earles in the end by Kings created through the beneficence of Samson the fourth of that name King of Nauarre sirnamed Samson the Great was by Jsabel vsurped from the daughter of Henrye laste of that name Kinge of Castile the saide Jsabell matched in mariage with Ferdinando sonne to king Iohn of Aragon whose kingdoms encreased almost in our memory into a mighty puissaunce and state But for that the possessors therof not resting content with those blessings which God hath giuen them here on earth haue in hostile maner inuaded the Countries and possessions of other Princes they seeme at this presente to menace their own ruine as I hope to dilate more at large This Prince then ambitious if euer were any in this world amongst other his famous feates of Armes to the ende to inueigle the earle of Roussillon from Charles the eighte king of France made no bones to abandon his owne Cousin Germaine and brother in law Ferdinando kinge of Naples to the furie of those Armies whome Charles the eight marched against him for the recouery of the sayd kingdome Then during the raigne of Lewes the twelfth breaking al conditions of League and amitye forcing the degree of kindred and alliaunce which hee had with Frederick then king of Naples he confederated with king Lewes to dispossesse Frederick of his kingdome of Naples and to share it betweene them two as in effecte they did Afterwarde vnder a collour of supporting Pope Julius the second his quarrell againste the Emperour Maximilian and the kinge of Fraunce but of a troth for very feare he had of the greatnes of our king who then might haue chased him easely out of his vniust possessions which he held in Italie he entertained the Pope in deadly grudge againste him and stirred vp the king of Englande and the Switzers to warre vppon his iacke Inuaded likewise from his owne niece Catherine vnder pretext that hir husband was adherente to the French King the kingdome of Nauarre her owne proper inheritance which when he had conquested hee could find no better deuise to assure it vnto himselfe then by a false pretence protesting howe he was ready to make restitution thereof to his neece conditionally that lest he should be too much ouer seen a truce should be acorded him for a yeere with the king of Fraunce during which in liew of restoring it he fortified al places therof as much as he porsibly could razed al the rest of the citties so tresses and Cittadels making expresse inhibition that there shoulde not be any tillage of the earth at al to the end he might take away all meane of recouering the places by him vsurped and fortified in the sayd kingdome Yet this was not all For with his force hee could finely sow his subtilty and helpe himselfe with the cloake of religion to make his matters the better causing to excommunicate the kinge of Nauarre husbande to his said neece for that he had taken the parte of king Lewes the twelfth a Prince so good and so holy that as yet of vs all hee is called by none other name then a saint and a very father of the people and vpon this excommunication he sente very many preachers into the kingdom to turne the peoples harts from the obedience of their true kinge and Queene their lawful Princes And what with this matter succeeding so well vnto him and what with the death of the sayde kinge and Queene of Nauarre which hee sawe fell out soone after within eight moneths together hee suffered his young nephewe Henry their sonne to bee trayned vppe by certaine ministers in the opinion of Martin Luther and for the same effecte sent vnto him some expresly himselfe who drawing the Pope into hatred for the wronge don vnto their father to excommunicate him at the instance of his vncle Ferdinando who longe before had gaped for that kingdom it was no hard matter for them to transporte the heart of these young Princes especially that of Margaret his wiues sister to the great king Francis from the hatred of the Pope to the hatred of his very religion it selfe This is then the iust and true meane by which the Crowne of Castile hath receaued her ample encrease by annexing to it so goodly a kingdom as is that of Nauar. But what fell out afterwardes Ferdinando enioyed it a small time no more then he did the rest of al his other Kingdomes God permitting them to passe vnto another famely that his childrē both male femile who were many in number shuld die before him except onely Joan who was maried to Philip Arch-duke of Austria a generous Prince but of a very short life after whose decease she fell beside her selfe leauing notwithstanding behinde her the two greate Princes Charles Ferdinando sons begotten by the Arch-duke of her owne body This Prince Charles beeing come to the Crowne by the death of the said Ferdinando for he ruled King notwithstanding his mother Joan was aliue detained as prisoner by