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A11786	An Experimentall discoverie of Spanish practises, or, The Counsell of a well-wishing souldier, for the good of his prince and state wherein is manifested from known experience, both the cruelty, and policy of the Spaniard, to effect his own ends : chiefly swelling with multiplicity of glorious titles, as one of the greatest monarchs of the earth, that being admired of all, his greatnesse might amaze all, and so by degrees seeking covertly to tyrannize over all, when as indeed and truth, the greatest part of his pretended greatnesse is but a windy crack of an ambitious minde.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?	1623 (1623)	STC 22077; ESTC S1713	30,960	58

grown great in the Citie by meanes of the bounty they had daily received for rewards of their treason as also the Athenians were then as we are now not willing to heare of any warres or change to be brought against them which alwayes these Traitors joyne with the multitude in assuring them that Phillip of Macedon meant them no harm was the onely cause that all the other Provinces aforenamed were overcome but also the noble and stately Citie by him and Antepator his successour And therfore since that like examples whilst the world doth last will bring forth like effects I will be of Demosthenes minde if since we cannot shunne the warres with Spain either at this time or hereafter when he hath made himselfe more strong either by the conquest of his neighbours or other wise that you should begin with him whilst you haue the advantage of him and then you shall by proofe finde how profitable it will be unto you when you must needs doe a thing to doe it with a courage and cheerfulnesse and forasmuch as there is no man of another minde but that we shall haue the King of Spaine by so much more our mighty enemy the greater Princes suffer him to be Oh why be we so backward or why linger you oh noble King the great Commander of the braue spirits of the English and Scottish Nation to doe that in reason and necessity you ought Our fathers when they were Masters but of one part of the I le were never wont to feare any thing in matters of war but if the skie should fall upon them sailed over many a Sea to make their weapons glister in the bowels of other Kingdomes being by the honesty of their actions and noblenesse of their courage assured And shall your Majesty by whose blessed arrival to this part of your Ancestors having brought home once again in your ship of Vnion our brethren and kinsmen no lesse valiant then our selues being desended from the bloud of our Ancestours and turned from us by the iniquity of time and dissentions of some mutinous persons of either part which we must not account proceeded by consent of both people neither measure the intents of great nations according to the notable wickednesse of some particulars Shall you I say who hath renewed again the ancient same of this Ile by which for Valour for Men for Munitions for Engines for Warre no Prince under heaven can lightly compare be doubtfull to undertake a warre to which you are so necessarily incited as well for the glory of God the aduancement of Christian Religion in all parts as also your particular safety which can never be certaine to You nor us your posterity but by the abatement of the Spanish greatnesse by meanes whereof many murders massacres and rebellions haue been made in Europe No no my renoumed Soveraigne be it far from your magnanimous mind to harbour a thought so unworthy that vertue that shineth so apparant in all mens eyes but rather since the nature of the Countries the inclination of the Subjects and the valours of the people doe seeke to overcome the violence of the enemies let them be seconed by the Kingly command under which word there is no question of victorie Your Predecessours of famous memory undertook these warres upon discreet and premeditated considerations not onely chewed for many yeares together but likewise digested by the experience of time Conclusions of the Spaniards part of divers things against this State probability of many more dangers like to ensue both against the people and country And therefore most renoumed Soveraign if the addition you adde in your owne Greatnesse and Person to this your right inheritance of England be not sufficient to alter the consideration of your former policies in my minde you ought to be well advised before you stray from the pathes of your Predecessours who built their only safety upon the preservation of the Netherlands and abatement of the Spaniards Greatnesse as by diuers excellent reasons wherupon they undertook openly these warres may appear But perhaps it may be said that the person of the Prince doth alter the pretence of the enemy I hope I shall neede to say little on that point to so highly wise learned and juditious a Lord as your Highnesse especially when it is apparant to your Majestie that the Spaniards build their certain Greatnesse upon no one thing so much as the ruin and destruction of this land as by their foregoing projects appeareth But moreover if they could not loue the Princes of their bloud race and kindred as the King of Naples Cicily and Navarre whom they not onely deposed from their Kingdomes but likewise some of them from their liues under no pretence of reason or justice but onely thirsting after bloud and Seigniories I shall infinitely mistrust his regard of the safety of your noble and fotunate Issue And if your Majesty will goe by precedent which is most fit to most actions that doe minister themselues to men and but examine how the Monarchy of Spaine hath but raised himselfe to his Greatnes you shall no doubt perceiue by comparing time past with that which is like to follow the irrecoverable dangers you are like to fall into by making peace with them that for advantage will hold it Religion to breake with you And for that from Ferdinand of Aragons time they haue begun to render themselues so fearfull to their neighbours which as it were yesterday your Highnes may acquaint your self with their unjustactions which are fresh in memory to their unchristianlike wounds given to many Christian Princes still bleeding whereby you may the better discerne and distinguish them For as Ferdinand himselfe which was the roote from whence their Princes sprang ther was no King in his time more unjust more cruell or more bloudy thirsting after bloud and breach of faith with all Princes with whom hee had to doe although they were his Cousen-germaines his brother in law his Sisters and Neece and indeed laid his foundation of the Spanish Monarchy upon such base and treacherous foundations For Charles the fifth how hee behaved himselfe in his time amongst the Princes of Christendome I cannot more aptly referre your Majestie to a briefe relation thereof then by an Oration made by a worthy Gentleman who had particularly acquainted himselfe with the accidents of that time which hee wrote and dedicated to the two young Earles of Embden long since For Phillip the second what bloud hath hee caused to be shed both in England Portugal France the Netherlands and Ireland is it not knowne to all Christian Princes Besides the often seeking of the innocent bloud of that most noble and thrice renoumed Predecessour of famous memory Elizabeth Queene of this land which if so it were there were no other witnesse of his Goatish and Moorish inclination as there are thousands were it not enough to enroule and memorize him in the ranke of unworthie and tyrannous

you againe and therefore saith he if he had given all these Kingdomes to Christ the Kings of the earth to whom by right they did pertaine would never haue suffered him to haue injoyed them And so for that For the earth is the Lords and all that dwell therin he founded and prepared it as in the Psalmist and so consequently neither the Popes nor the diuils doe dispose to whom they please The copie of which foolish donation of the Popes truely translated out of the originall hath beene delivered to your Majestie long since and I hope perused before this time To proue that he hath no generall consent of all the people and Nations of the Indies appeareth most evidently by this reason for that no Spaniard farther inhabiteth northward then Florida where they haue but two little Forts or Villages the one called S. Austine the other S. Helena All the rest of that hugh tract whose infinitenesse is such as no mortall tongue can expresse nor eye hath seene doe not so much as think there is another world but that they themselues inhabite except some few of them which dwell vpon the edges of the shore that sometimes see both us the French the Dutch and the Spaniard when we come a fishing but are not able to distinguish of us but thinke us all one people then how can we imagine that these people haue freely given themselues to the Spanish obedience and acknowledge him for their Lord and King when they never so much as heard that there was such a man or Nation Againe from Capi culli formia all the land that tunneth-and maketh the strange of Anian and the Netherlands thereof whose bounds and limits are never discovered the Spanyard hath not so much as once seated himselfe to make himselfe knowne whereby there might bee any likelyhood that they had acknowledged him for their Soveraigne And for us to beleeue that the Spaniard is Lord of such whom he hath never seen nor knowen nor they him were a manifest signe of a strong faith in us And there were no way for any man to make me beleeue Miracles sooner then by making me beleeue this for after the beliefe of this I should never doubt of any miracle though he should tell me a thousand in a day So that if this title come not by consent of all in generall he neither ought to write himselfe Lord of the whole Indies nor debar other Christians from conquering or trading in those parts where the Spanyard hath neither residence nor Seigniory nor command If he challenge right by conquest and consent then must he claime no more then he hath by conquest and consent obtained As for example all that part of the West Indies which at this day is scatteringly inhabited by the Spanyards Portugals is almost contained in two Tropicks excepting the two small Villages of Saint Augustine and Helena in Florida the Prouince of new Biscay Northwards and fiue Villages or Townes neere the River of Plate called Sancto Sprinto Saint Anna the Citie of Ascension Saint Fee and Fuvirnan lyeth halfe way betwixt the mouth of the river of Plate and the Mine of Polossie and in the South Sea beyond the Tropick in the Kingdome of Chelix the Townes or Villages of Coquenbo Persco Saint Iago la impe villae del Lago And therefore if the Spaniards haue nothing to do any further either on the Northward or to the Southward what reason hath he to forbid any Nation to conquer or dwell there But if hee should admit you I thinke it not convenient that your Majestie should be so satisfied for so should you doe your selfe and other Christian Princes great wrong for his Townes and Castles are so divided and such masses of land and Kingdom betwixt them which he hath no right nor dare to enter as being duely considered by your Majestie hee ought not to claime no more then he ought to claime the Kingdome of France because his Fort of Graueling is of oneside and South Arabia on the other France being in the midst betweene them or to claime France because his Frontiers in Italy bound it on the one side and Spaine on the other or to claime the Iland of the Venetians and the Turks in Levant for that Cicilia and Sardinia and a few others belong to him that stands in that Sea Or claime all the Ilands or Shoares in Barbaric for that he hath a Castle or two in the Straits and another in Libia These Countries they never lay claime to because they are in the eye of the Christian world which would make us rise up in Armes against them for their foolish arrogancy if they should pretend it But in the unknowne parts which haue been familiar unto us whose light by the iniquity of the time and troublesome warres in these parts haue to us beene hidden although to the Ancient well knowne where they began their foolerie Betwixt the Castle of Argiue in Libia and the Iland of Macoa in the river of Canton in the Kingdome of China the foolish Portugals say all is theirs when many a hundred Kings as absolute and powerfull in regard of people as any King in these parts dwelleth betwixt and admit the Portugals by way of petition or bribes to dwell in some place by the Sea side and trafique with them neither dare they lay claime to any Kingdome but onely to such Fortresses Factories and Villages on the Sea side as perforce and favour of the Iland they are admitted to dwell in as most excellently appeareth by answere of Charles the fifth made unto the Embassadours of Portugal anno 1522 when they came to require and beseech him that his subjects the Spaniards might not trade nor commerce as thon they did in the conquest or navigation of the Portugals who after a most peremptory and noble answer of his part told them he knew no reason neither would he suffer them that his subjects should be prohibited freely to passe into any country where the hope of gain offereth it selfe and that if the Portugals in the cause of their Trade should doe any violence to any of his people either in their persons or goods he would be revenged neerer home meaning upon the Kingdome of Portugal With which answer at that time the Lucitans were forced to depart Which answer if it should please your Majestie to returne upon the Castilians themselues at this time I know no reason how it can any way be bettered having so good a president as their owne King against the Portugals upon the same subiect But for the Portugals where all their strength is seated I meane upon the coast of Malubor where they haue more Forts and Castles then in all India besides the Kings doe so pen and locke them vp in their Garrisons and Forts as they can haue nothing the Countrie yeeldeth but by their friendship procured by yearly bribe As for example to the King of Cathaie they pay an yearly tribute of

AN EXPERIMENTALL DISCOVERIE OF SPANISH PRACTISES OR THE COVNSELL OF A well-wishing Souldier for the good of his Prince and State WHEREIN IS MANIFESTED FROM KNOWN experience both the Cruelty and Policy of the Spaniard to effect his own ends CHIEFLY Swelling with multiplicity of glorious titles as one of the greatest Monarchs of the earth that being admired of all his greatness might amaze all and so by degrees seeking covertly to tyrannize over all When as in deed and truth the greatest part of his pretended Greatnesse is but a windy crack of an ambitious minde Printed Anno. 1623. The Publisher to the Reader GEntle Reader although in respect of the Authours absence the copie now presented be not so compleat throughout as it should yet because as we say in the prouerb Delayes are dangerous specially in matters of moment and hoping it is not materially defectiue in any thing from the perfectest Copie or Authors minde I haue presumed to publish it as it is wishing no lesse good successe then the Author himselfe intended and so desiring my upright meaning may be accepted in good part by the Courteous Reader I bid thee Farewell A DISCOVRSE TENDRED TO HIS MAIESTIE King of Great Brittaine c. touching some Spanish practises to serue their own ends THE motiue of this Discourse most renounned Soueraigne which at this time I intend to handle for that it hath relation to two ends to periods to wit peace and warre the one much to be preferred before the other as well by diuine as human Arguments yet for that the time agreeing with the necessity we are in regard of the feare of the Spanish greatnesse hereafter which vndoubtedly he will attain unto by the innumerable masses of his Indian treasures which are the nerues and sinnewes of all martiall intendments by which faire opportunityes offered vnto the greatnesse of his desire for the enlargment of his state glory and renowne and that there may be no obiect that may impidiment the let thereof but onely a determination in himselfe not to offend his neighbours I shall hardly beleeu that he will so much differ from his Progenitors I meane Eerdinand Charles and Phillip who rased not the fame of the Spanish Monarchie by iust noble and laudible warres but by cruell bloudy and treacherous inuasions especially against Princes of their own blood who under pretence of relieuing or giuing them aide against the oppression of others haue made these passages of vnmoueable assurance for the obtaining of the lands Crownes and liues of their neerest Allies which giueth mee no cause of hope of his good dealing towards your Highness and the State who are neither allied vnto him by blood as these former Princes were nor tyed vnto him by the offices of Confederacie whereby for former good turnes receiued hee might let you liue in peace but contrarily wee being onely the stop of the Spanish fury of this part of the world and a Nation who haue not onely giuen him infinite disgraces as well by open battell as sundry inuasions and incursions made vpon his frontier Townes and Territories to the irrecouerable dishonor of the Spanish people and vnmasking his former forces to all men which indeede are but a meere shew and frighting them onely knowing their Greatnesse depends with filling the world with an imagination of their Mightinesse For the Spaniard may well be compared to a drumme or emptie vessell that being beaten vpon makes a great and terrible noise but come nearer them breake them and looke into them and there is nothing within can hurt you Or rather like the Asse that wrapt himselfe in the Lyons skinne and marched a farre off to strike terrour into the hearts of the beasts but when the Fox drew neere hee not onely perceiued his long eares but likewise discouered him and made him a iest to all the beasts of the Forrest So that I inferre most gracious Soueraigne that vnlesse hee now prevaile with you and by that meanes gaine a peace to make himselfe more strong for a fitter time to hunt you and your neighbours his forces at this time in respect of you and your Confederates are so weake and resistable as it may well appeare vnto your Highnesse that his Monarchie is rather maintained by Opinion then Might as it hath euer stood since the losse of the low Countries if it had beene with iudgement exquisitely looked into rather by giuing out greater rumours of power and by secrecie then by the greatnesse of their owne forces So as to make this shadow a Substance whereby not onely his Indies should be sure but all the world tremble at his greatnesse What oath is it that hee whhld keepe What condition that he would not breake Or what opporunitie that he would let slip for the accomplishment thereof if thereby he might assure himselef of the I le And therefore though I commend peace before warre yet if the Countrey cannot obtaine a good peace without warre I thinke it consequently followes that it is necessary for you to make a warre with your enemie whilst you haue the aduantage in your hands whereby you may lay a sure foundation of a sure peace for your Selfe Posteritie and State for after ages rather then to dreame of a peace which shall no longer hold then he is able by breaking to reuenge For doubtlesse in the preservation of Kingdomes it is no injurie to doe that to your enimie which hee would doe vnto you if hee could And therefore those Princes States or people whosoeuer that shall build so firmely vpon the condition of peace to be kept by the enimie the breach whereof may turn to his or their great danger or destruction that Prince State or people in my opinion haue either little the iudgement of themselues or are ill aduised of the Councell Securitie of their owne estates or too much fidelity to others haue not onely been the destruction of many families but likewise of great and potent Kingdoms Prouinces Townes And therfore to this day there could neuer be found so great lasetie to priuate men or publique States as mistrust as appeareth by Dimosthenes in his second to the Athenians against Phillip of Macedon There are quoth he deuised many strengths and defences for the maintenance of Cities and Townes as Trenches Walls Ramparts Dikes Bulwarkes and such like the which are made by mens hands with great cost and charge but nature faith he hath giuen to all wise men a a common defence and safeguard the which as it is profitable to all men particularly so it is a most wholsome and sure holde and fortresse to all Countries and Citties against all manner of tyrannie and what fortes to mistrust that which if it be well and surely kept it will preserue and keepe you all And therefore to preuent danger in a conuenient season and to prouide in time against the worst is a thing most wholesome necessary and worthy of greatest commendations For as foresight makes men

this people being any way ill-affected which meeting with their manner of disposition may peradventure easily giue occasion if your Majesty had no party in England which you shall never faile off to some vnlooked for action if your Catholik Armies did but shew themselues It being so ordinary a matter with that people whē they are masked with som great passion either of hatred or disdain towards them that governe that they will be ever ready to tak al courses in hand that may be hurtful to him Euen so that Tantanus discontented with government of Cajus Iberius brought in before his face the Carthagenians First the English in respect of their ancient greatnesse haue bin more accustomed to molest others then to be molested themselues and when they shall see themselues overwhelmed as it were with an innumeratiō of braue Souldiers and Captaines they will grow wonderfully astonied even as that change of fortunes countenanc is a terible spectacle to those to whom this sight is unusuall for by that meanes Greece which was sometimes Empresse of the whole East fell suddenly into other mens hands who of an Assaylant became assayled And lastly though nature get thus much in behalfe of them that England be well furnished with Armes men victuals and ships and whatsoever else is necessary for the warres yet say I all this is nothing when the quality and condition is wanting which giueth form and essence to all enterprises which is mony which the Kingdome of England no lesse through the scarcity of Revenues as by the charge of ordinary expences is brought unto which they shall never be able to recover by their trades and Commerce if the use of the sea be taken from them and therefore will never be able to supply expence of a defensiue Army Royall when it hath scarcely enough to supply their own necessaries especially against so great and magnificent a Prince as your most Catholike Majestie who embraceth within the circuits of your Dominions the whole Diameter of the earthly Globe and possesseth more land at this day then all the Monarchs and Republiques of the world haue A most opulent Prince in Armes Men Mony Souldiers Captains Ships Victuals and all other provision of warre and a Prince who like a Moderator or Arbitrator seemeth to hold in his hands the bridle of Empire both of the sea land And whereas it may be objected that the Gallies which doe you no service in that expidition being vessels of great consequence in battels by sea your enterprise of Portugal and of the Iland if it did not quite remoue it yet did it much abate the superstitious credulity of ours that those Vessels are not good at any time to passe the Ocean withall as if there were no faire weather in that sea in the Summer or that faire weather were abortiue in shipping there is no doubt but that Gallies may securely passe hazard themselues in that Sea in the Summer for three moneths And those that will object the contrary by the overthrow of the sea ther let them be contented to observe well that the same Anchor met not with no inward but outward occasion in the sea of that overthrow For Caesar ignorantly could not discerne the time of the Moon which was then in the full and being mistaken by reason of her too much humidity doth use to disturb not onely the Ocean but all the coasts and the dominion shee holdeth of the salt waters And therfore in respect of the great honesty and equity accompanying the cause with it so honourable and godly life as the planting the Christian faith and religion no obstacle can be sufficient to stay the force of divine power serving under the standerd of Christ and therefore most weake and but a shadow shall all humane helpe bee which shall oppose it selfe against the will of the great Arbitrator But such as are the pretentions of your Majestie over this Kingdome and such the obligations wherein you stand bound for the recovery of your own the title of a Grandfather and Predecessours of famous memorie as there is no enterprise so peculiar and proper for you to undertake as this for that you goe not onely to possesse your selfe of the right which you haue to this Kingdome but likewise to make your selfe the most famous King that ever was in the memory of all the Princes of the world adding by this meanes unto the Crowne of Spaine a Kingdome so illustrous so mightie and so famous By the relation of the Spanish project against this State of England most Illustrious Prince may well appeare unto your Highnesse that the Spaniard himselfe well knowes that there is no way for the expectation of his further Greatnesse no great possession of the high Monarchy which he himselfe alledgeth that he already enjoyeth but the conquering of this I le and adding it to the Crown of Spain and therefore if he had any other meanes to attaine to this by him so violently longed for then by a peace why should not your Majestie thinke that the peace hee meanes to make with you at this time is for that purpose and for no other intent and therefore my good Lord I cannot as one standing upon the firme land gaze upon the shipwrack of my Countrie being so doubtfully tossed and floting in the dangerous sea of dissention betwixt peace and warre with one that will make a peace with you for no other end and purpose but that hee may bee the better able to make warre heereafter against you But to cast out the last anchor hold of my selfe which is boldnesse and frcenesse of speech to you my most renoumed Soveraigne to prevent if I can these extreame and certaine dangers wherein both your Selfe your States and glory of the English and Scottish names are likely to be plunged when the Spaniards ability shall be such as there shall bee no let but his good nature to insult over you which howsoever your Highnesse or others thinke contrary will in foure or fiue yeares if he enjoy his Indies be brought to passe Surely my gracious Soveraign I am of opinion against Phillip of Spaine in the behalfe of my Countrie as that noble Common-wealths man Demosthenes against Philip of Macedon in behalfe of the Athenians which no doubt hath much affinity with our case at this time For Phillip seeing whilst he had warre with Athens at which he principally aimed hee could never overcome the other Provinces of Thebeans Lacedemonians Thessalians Ihocians Ointans and the rest and till they were overcome he could never get Athens began to take another course which was to bribe with mony and gifts Councellours or Orators of that State to be of his side and by that means to be secure from the forces of that Republique or Common-wealth till he had by one and one overcome the rest But good Demosthenes perceived him by and by and warned the Thebeans of that Treason but these traitors of Philips faction being

renoumed Soveraigne the world will not faile to taxe you with such carelessnesse and improvidence as I hope shall never haue any affinity with your most Excellent Majestie or any other of your Royall Off-spring that shall sway the Scepter of this noble I le And therefore my gracious Lord in my judgement you ought to doe in this so great a matter of State as concluding a peace with so dangerous enemies as the Spanish Nation as good and wise Carpenters seeme to doe in substantiall buildings which is to make a sure foundation lest by aspiring minde or breach of the enemie you be overthrowne And whereas he saith in the foregoing project that hee hath right and good title to the Crowne of England by vertue of his Grandfather and Predecessours which I know to be otherwise yet contrarily can I proue your Majestie by the vertue of your Grandfather of famous memory Henry the 7 to bee as rightfull Heire to all the firme land of the Indies as the King of Spaine is to the Ilands of Cuba Iannura and Hispaniola with the rest of the Ilands of Lucaites Grante and Antile and for that it is not inconvenient fully to take notice and understand how these Kings intitles themselues their Successors to the right and Signiories of the Indies I haue thought good to set downe my opinion how many wayes they doe or may take their claim And first by discovery secondly by the Popes gift thirdly by consent of the people fourthly by conquest and consent So as if neither of these be able to proue or giue a good and sufficient title or at least such a one as may barre you and other Princes that will to inhabite in those parts I know no reason why your Majestie should not doe as he hath done that is to possesse as much as you can of those Heathen Countries especially where the Spaniard is not feared nor hath no command whereby you might not onely propagate the Christian faith amongst those Pagans and infidels as you are bound to doe as much as you can but a golden world to the Crowne of England wherby you be more enabled as well to undertake a forraigne warre against the enemy of the Christian name as also to make your State the more strong by the Indian treasures against such of your neighbours as shall envie your Highnesse And therefore to come to this Title If he claime his interest by possession and first Discovery which doubtlesse must be the strongest title that he can challenge then your Majestie hath as much title for all the firme land of the Indies as he hath for these Ilands before named As for proofe of this the Captaines of Henry the 7 being Sebastian Cabot and his companions discovered the Iland of the Indies on the north part of the Indies from 60 degrees coasting the north latitude the very yeare before Christian Columbus discovered the high land of Dania on the south part of the Indies which was the first day that ever the Spaniards saw the maine and tooke possession of that new Discovery in the behalfe of Henry the 7 and his successours their Lord and Master So as if first Discovery and Possession be his Title your Majestie preceding him in that said Title must necessarily precede him in the right thereof If he claime it by the gift of Pope Alexander the sixth then it must be argued whether the said Pope had power to giue it yea or no if not then the gift is voide in it selfe if yea he must proue it either by Divine or Humane Argument for Humane he cannot for that no way belonged to him or any other Christian Prince or Potentate at that time nor were so much as ever heard of before that present Discovery of Columbus upon which the gift was made in the yeare of grace 1492. All things never knowne to him or his Ancestors can no way of right belong to him or them so as not belonging to him directly or by circumstance hee had no right to giue or dispose thereof either in present or future and thus for Humane For Divine Arguments if he say he gaue them as Christs Vicar whereby he may dispose of Kings or Kingdoms he must proue that authority by the word of God or else we are not bound to beleeue him or thinke his gift of any value As for example if hee be but Christs seruant here on earth hee must challenge to himselfe no more prerogatiue then his Master tooke on him whilst he was on earth for if hee doe it is a great token of pride and arrogancie And our Saviour being but requested to make a lawfull division of a certaine inheritance betwixt one and his brother refused to doe it saying Who made me a Iudge over you as also he confessed openly to Pilate That his Kingdome is not of this world Why then doth the Pope who acknowledgeth himselfe to be no better then his servant take upon him the giuing of so many Kingdomes of this world But the Pope say they gaue Ireland to Henry the 2 and his successours and indeed they did so in word but when had he it when he had fast footing in it and when Dernitius the King of Lemster had made the King of England his Heire But for all that donation had not the Kings of this land but the sharpnesse of the sword more prevailed then by this gift the Popes donatiō had stood in little stead neither did the rest of the Irish Kings admit or allow of the Popes Donation for if they had they would never haue rebelled so often against this Crowne But to conclude this point though we confesse that the Popes haue done this or that yet it is no good argument in my opinion to say that they did it and therefore it was lawfull unlesse they could shew they did it rightfully But the Popes gift of the West Indies may well be compared to the Sermon of Iudge Molineux his Chaplin in Queen Maries dayes who would make it appeare by a linely text out of the Scripture to his Parishioners what a lying knaue the divell was and for his Text he tooke the place where the divell tooke Christ and carried him up to the mountaine from whenc he shewed him all the Kingdoms of the world told him if he would fal downe and worship him he would giue them all unto him My Masters quoth he by this you may well perceiue what a lyer he is for he had no more right to haue given him these Kingdomes if he would haue fallen down and worshipt him then my selfe that am now in the Pulpit If I should say to you all now Sirs if you will all fall downe and worship me before I goe out of the Church I will giue every man his Copie-hold for ever which if I should doe I should giue you your livings in words But my Masters quoth he that sit there below to whom they belong would take them from

256000 Reis to the King of Pimenta Reis to the mother of the King of Pimenta yearly 36000 Reis to the King of Pargnan yearly 72000 to the King of Manfata yearly 72000 Reis to Carto Babua the proper name of a man of account upon the coast an yearely tribute of 42000 Reis to the Teratates which are brethren and Kings an yearly tribute of 72000 Reis All which summes or tribute are imposed upon the King and Custome of goods brought from these parts As for their credit and reputation amongst these Heathens it is so small either for feare they haue of them or loue they beare to them that when wee and the Hollanders pay no Custome for goods bought and solde there they make the Portugals pay 30 per hundred we going free before their faces and they paying before ours By this your Majestie may well perceiue what base account the Princes in those parts make of them there and yet these vainglorious woodcocks will be very angry with us if we will not beleeue when they say that all the East Indies is theirs and they haue conquered it In selfe manner most renowned Soveraigne stand the Kings of the West Indies with the Spaniards both in the South sea upon the Kingdome of Cheley Reta Peru and others as at this time is apparant by the Kings of Cheley who hath within this few yeares beaten down the Spaniard and wonne from them the Towne of Imperial wherein was wont to be placed and maintained one of the greatest Garrisons of the South Sea and not onely razed it to the ground but likewise kild and driven the Castilians quite from them Even so upon the East and North part of the Indies both upon the Coast of Brazil with all the firm land upon the Indies from Parabia to Cartagene the gulfe of Vraba the gulfe of Mixico and all alongst the Coast of Bahana even to their Forts in Florida they are in continuall warres with the Kings and peoples of those lands And surely under your Highnesse pardon I am confident of this opinion that it hath been a maine policie of the Kings of Spaine for these many yeares to keep us in continual warres one with another in these parts or if not to encourage us himselfe whereby being forced to looke to our home defences wee might not haue meanes to discover these his invasions abroad whereby he puts a maske before all the Princes eyes of Europe And therefore since hee is now layd open and by no Nation so much as by your Majesties subjects of this land I hope for the prevention of future mischiefe against this State as for other honourable respects and prevailent Reasons in challenging of that which is your owne or at least as much yours as his you will not bee unmindfull which doubtlesse will not tend onely to the enlightning of many soules which to this day haue sate in the shadow of death but likewise lay a ground as before said for the safety and preservation of your States Glorie Person and Posterity in despite of the Spanish treacheries in the time to come which otherwise by no meanes by the wit of mortall man can be prevented as upon my life by circumstances I will make apparant But least this field of reasoning whereinto I haue walked be too tedious unto your Highnesse I will briefly end referring my selfe to Argument with any one against this mischievous and poysonous peace with Spaine which I doe see cannot but proue very fatall to your Majestie and Common-wealth And though I be not called yet considering I am your subject I cannot forbeare in respect of my great and loyall affection to your Majestie the Prince with the rest of the noble Issue and my natiue Countrey I cannot but presume to speake of such things which I thinke now fit to be considered especially at this time even as Mercarie Gataner Chancellour of Spaine did against the peace that was concluded betwixt Francis the first and Charles the Emperour his Master for he seeing that the Emperour was disposed to make peace with the said King and to set him at libertie and that the Viceroy of Naples and all other the Lords of the Councell tended to the same and although he knew as I do now that his councell would not be accepted yet failed he not to speake what he thought but likewise refused being great Lord Chancellour of Spaine to signe the Articles which hee defended with most excellent reasons which reasons are well delivered and with much gravity of speech by Quiccardine in the oration of the said Grataner But this event made it knowne that the councell of Gataner was most noble most just and grounded as well upon the high wisedome as great zeale to the loue and good of his Countrey For as soon as the King was at liberty all the Spaniards wonderfull hopes that they expected to this peace and all the French Kings great promises to them vanished into smoake according to the opinion of that worthy Gentleman And I know no reason most noble Soveraigne that I being your subject as hee was the King of Spaines and loving you and my Country as much as ever hee did his and having a subject of the same quality to feare as he did them although I may well say as much more danger to us by the Spaniards if our peace be not built upon a sure foundation then it could any way be unto them by the French But to speake my opinion make what Articles you will and let them be guilded over with the fairest shew either they or those of their Faction if you haue any about you can devise unlesse these foure be granted on their part to you you can never make any sure peace with them or at least such a peace as if he haue the minde to breake hee will haue the advantage of you And Phillip Comines saith That for the many conclusions that hee hath seene in his time in the affaires of State that it were inexcusable folly for a Prince if hee were able for to prevent it to put himselfe under the power of another 1 That your subjects may haue free accesse to the Indies either to traffique or plant where the Spaniards haue neither conquest Seigniorie nor tribute 2. That he doe pull downe all inquisition wheresoever your people shall resort in all his Dominions and that the Customes be reduced to an ancient order 3. That he shall never come with a main Army of Ships into these Seas under colour of chasticing the Hollanders 4. That it shall be as lawfull for your subjects to serue the States in warres against them as it shall be to serue them against the States these things accorded your peace may be safe otherwise not A short view taken of Great Britaine and Spaine HIs Majestie now is of more power then any his Predecessours First because our addition of Dominion Ireland is reduced to a more absolute state of obedience and increase of