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 this I le were never wont to fear any thing in matters of warre but if the skie should fall upon them sailed over many a Sea to make their weapons glister in the bowels of other Kingdoms being by the honesty of their actions and nobleness of their courage assured And shall your Majestie by whose blessed arrivall to this part of your Ancestors and having brought home once again in your ship of Vnion our brethren and kinsmen no lesse valiant then our selues being descended 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 wickedness of some particulars Shall you I say who hath renewed again the ancient fame 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 advancement of Christian Religion in all parts as also your particular safety which can never be certain to You nor us your posterity but by the abatement of the Spanish greatness by means wherof many murders massacres and rebellions haue been made in Europe No no my renoumed Soveraign be it farre from your magnanimous minde 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 seek to overcome the violence of the enemies let them be seconded 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 and probability of many more dangers like to ensue both against the people and country And therfore most renoumed Soveraign if the addition you adde in your own Greatness 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 onely safety upon the preservation of the Netherlands and abatement of the Spaniards Greatness as by divers 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 need to say little on that point to so highly wise learned and judicious a Lord as your Highness especially when it is apparant to your Majestie that the Spaniards build their certain Greatness 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 fortunate 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 raysed himselfe to his Greatnes you shall no doubt perceiu 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 break 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 Highness may acquaint your selfe with their unjust actions which are fresh in memory to their unchristianlike wounds given to many Christian Princes still Bleeding wherby you may the better discern and distinguish them For as Ferdinand himselfe which was the root from whence their Princes sprang there 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 he had to doe although they were his Cosen germaines his brother in law his Sisters and Neeces 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 yong 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 Queen 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 Potentates For Phillip the third although hee bee yong yet is hee a Spaniard and whatsoever the wisest of the world haue ever thought of the nature and quality of a Spaniard is apparant For Francis Quicchardine a man so sufficient as the very reckoning of his very worth and perfections would require a story saith of them The Spanish Nation are covetous and deceitfull and where they bee at libertie exceeding outragious tyrannous and very proud and insolent And Andrew .. a famous Senatour of Venice saith of them That they are unfaithfull ravenous and the most unsatiable of all Nations For where is it saith hee of all the places of the world where these infamous Harpies set their feet which is not defiled with the foot-steps of most abominable vices and yet the shot of their Pistols doe so dazell the eyes of many in this land that they are not ashamed to defend them to be the most noble most faithfull most honourable Nation in the world Another writes of them That they are loathsome Swine theevish Owles and bragging Peacocks For saith he whosoever would behold the liuely portrature of them without troubling himselfe with the overturning of Martial or Terence let him but behold the grim speech of a stately Spanyard By whom most mightie Prince I
but think 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 runneth and maketh the stange of Anian and the Netherlands therof whose bounds and limits are never discovered the Spanyard hath not so much as once seated himselfe to make himselfe known whereby there might bee any likelyhood that they had acknowledged him for their Soveraign And for us to beleeu that the Spanyard is Lord of such whom he hath never seen nor known nor they him were a manifest sign 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 claim 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 and Portugals is almost contained in two Tropicks excepting the two small Villages of Saint Augustine and Helena in Florida the Province 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 villa del Lago And therfore if the Spanyards haue nothing to doe any further either to 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 think it not convenient that your Majesty 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 Kingdome 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 one side and South Arabia on the other France being in the midst between 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 Barbarie 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 unknown parts which haue been familiar unto us whose light by the iniquity of the time and troublesome warres in these parts haue to us been hidden although to the Ancient well known where they began their foolerie Betwixt the Castle of Argiue in Libia and the Iland of Macoa in the river of Canton in the Kingdom 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 claim to any Kingdome but onely to such Fortresses Factories and Villages on the Sea side as perforce and favour of the Iland they are permitted to dwell in as most excellently appeareth by answer of Charles the fifth made unto the Embassadours of Portugal anno 1522 when they came to require and beseech him that his subjects the Spanyards might not trade nor commerce as then 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 Kingdom 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 own King against the Portugals upon the same subject But for the Portugals where all their strength is seated I mean upon the coast of Malubor where they haue more Fortes and Castles then in all India besides the Kings doe so pen and lock them up in their Garrisons and Fortes as they can haue nothing the Countrie yeeldeth but by their friendship procured by yearly bribes As for example to the King of Cathaie they pay an yearly tribute of 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 that 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 bear to them that when we and the Hollanders pay no custome for goods bought and sold 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 vain-glorious Woodcoks 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 renowmed Soveraign stand the Kings of the West Indies with the Spanyards both in the South sea upon the Kingdom of Cheley Reta Peru and others as at
A TRVE SOVLDIERS COVNCEL ANNO 1624. THE motiue of this Discourse most renounmed Soveraign which at this time I intend to handle for that it hath relation to two ends or periods to wit peace and warre the one much to be preferred before the other as well by divine 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 undoubtedly he will attain unto by the innumerable masses of his Indian treasures which are the nerves and sinewes of all martiall intendments by which fair opportunities offered unto the greatnesse of his desire for the enlargement of his state glory and renoume and that there may be no object that may impediment 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 mean Ferdinand Charles and Phillip who raised not the fame of the Spanish Monarchie by just noble and laudible warres but by cruell bloudy and treacherous invasions especially against Princes of their own bloud who under pretence of relieving or giving them aide against the oppression of others haue made these passages unmoueable assurance for the obtaining of the lands Crowns and liues of their neerest Allies which giveth me no cause of hope of his good dealing towards your Highness and the States who are neither allied unto him by bloud as these former Princes were nor tyed unto him by offices of Confederacie wherby for former good turns received he might let you liue in peace but contrarily we being onely the stop of the Spanish fury of this part of the world and a Nation who haue not onely given him infinite disgraces as well by open battell as sundry invasions and incursions made upon his frontier Townes and Territories to the irrecoverable dishonor of the Spanish people and unmasking his former forces to all men which indeed are but a meer shew and frighting them onely knowing their Greatnes depends with filling the world with an imagination of their Mightiness For the Spaniard may well becompared to a drumme or empty vessell that being beaten upon makes a great and terrible noise but come neerer them break them and look into them and there is nothing within can hurt you Or rather like the Asse that wrapt him selfe in the Lyons skin and marched a farre off to strike terrour into the hearts of the beasts but when the Fox drew neer hee not onely perceived his long eares but likewise discovered him and made him à jest to all the beasts of the Forrest So that I inferre most gracious Soveraign that unlesse he now prevail with you and by that means gain a peace to make himself 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 weak and resistable as it may well appear unto your Highness that his Monarchy is rather maintained by Opinion then Might as it hath ever stood since the losse of the low Countries if it had been with judgment exquisitely looked into rather by giving out greater rumours of power and by secrecie then by the greatnesse of their own forces So as to make this Shadow a Substance wherby not onely his Indies should be sure but all the world tremble at his greatnesse What oath is it that he would keep What condition that he would not break Or what opportunity that he would let slip for the accomplishment thereof if therby he might assure himselfe of the I le And therfore though I commend peace before warre yet if the Country cannot obtain a good peace without a warre I think it consequently follows that it is necessary for you to make a warre with your enemy whilst you haue the advantage in your hands wherby you may lay a foundation of a sure peace for your Selfe Posterity and State for after ages rather then to dream of a peace which shall no longer hold then he is able by breaking to revenge For doubtlesse in the preservation of Kingdoms it is no injurie to doe that to your enemie which he would doe unto you if he could And therfore those Princes States or people whosoever that shall build so firmly upon the condition of peace to be kept by the enemie the breach wherof may turn to his or their great danger or destruction that Prince State or people in my opinion haue either little judgment of themselues or are ill advised of the Councell Securitie of their own estates or too much fidelity to others haue not onely been the destruction of many families but likewise of great and potent Kingdoms Provinces and Towns And therfore to this day there could never be found so great safety to private men or publique States as mistrust as appeareth by Demosthenes in his second to the Athenians against Phillip of Macedon There are quoth hee devised many strengths and defences for the maintenance of of Cities and Townes as Trenches Walls Ram-parts Dikes Bulwarkes and such like the which are made by mens hands with great cost and charge but nature saith he hath given to all wise men a common defence and safegard the which as it is profitable to all men particularly so it is a most wholesome and sure hold and fortresse to all Countries and Cities against all manner of tyrannie and what fortes to mistrust that which if it be well and truely kept it will preseru and keep you all And therfore to prevent danger in a convenient season and to provide in time against the worst is a thing most wholesome necessary and worthy of greatest commendations For as foresight makes men wary so confident suspicion helpeth judgment and bringeth to light many hidden practises and those that doe not fear the complots of their enemies nor regard of forces preparations against them are doubtlesse neer some dissastrous fortune or extrem ruin of their estates and fortunes How prejudiciall their treatise of peace haue ever been to such Princes or States with whom they haue contended is most evident as well to us as other Nations as appeares by their Armado in 88 who came with fire and sword to cut the throats of the people of this land had not God prevented their treacherous resolutions At the selfe same time they had entertained us with a main shew of a desire of peace and our Commissioners being with them for the same purpose As also when Ferdinand of Aragon the last and Phillip Archduke of Austria were in treaty of marriage of Madam Stawdii of France with Charles the fifth and after was concluded sworn and confirmed at Blois the King of France being Lewis the twelfth his Lieftenants mistrusting nothing in respect of the promises the Spaniards set upon them defeating two French Armies the one at Calabria under the conduct of the Lord D' Aubigney the other at Cernigola led by the Duke of Nemuers by
is necessary for the warres yet say I all this is nothing when the quality and condition is wanting which giveth form and essence to all enterprises which is mony which the Kingdom 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 therfore 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 Diamemeter 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 Shippes 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 and land And wheras it may be objected that the Gallies which doe you no service in that expedition 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 wether in that sea in the Summer or that fair weather were abortiue in shipping there is no doubt but that Gallies may securely passe and hazard themselues in that Sea in the Summe for three moneths And those that will object the contrary by the overthrow of the Sea there let them be contented to obserue well that the same Anchor met not with no inward but outward occasion in the sea of that overthrow For Caesar ignorantly could not discern the time of the Moon which was then in the full and being mistaken by reason of her 100 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 therfore 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 are the pretentions of your Majestie over this Kingdom and such the obligations wherin you stand bound for the recovery of your own the title of 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 Kingdom so illustrious so mightie and so famous By the relation of this Spanish project against this State of England most Illustrious Prince may well appeare unto your Highnesse that the Spaniard himselfe well knows that there is no way for the expectation of his further Greatness 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 therfore if he had any other meanes to attain 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 therfore 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 heerafter against you But to cast out the last anchor hold of my selfe which is boldness and freeness of speech to you my most renouned Soveraign to prevent if I can these extreme and certain 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 Highness or others think 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 Spain in the behalfe of my Countrie as that noble Common-wealths man Demosthenes against Phillip 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 Thessaliars Phocians O intans 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 Commonwealth 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 Phillips Faction being 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 hear of any warres or change to be brought against them which alwaies these Traitors joyn 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 Antèpator 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 otherwise 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 cheerfulness 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
Indies I haue thought good to set down my opinion how many waies 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 an one as may barr 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 seated nor hath no command wherby 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 Crown of England wherby you be more enabled as well to undertake a forraign 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 Highness And therefore to come to his Title If he claim his interest by possession and first Discovery which doubtless 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 Sebastion 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 verie year 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 took 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 Human Arguments for Human 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 year of grace 1492. All things never known 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 Human. For Divine Arguments if he say he gaue them as Christs Vicar wherby he may dispose of Kings or Kingdoms he must proue that authority by the word of God or else we are not bound to beleeu him or think his gift of any value As for example if hee be but Christs servant heer on earth he must challenge to himselfe no more prerogatiue then his Master took on him whilst he was on earth for if he 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 kingdom is not of this world Why then doth the Pope who acknowledgeth himselfe to be no better then his servant take upon him the giving of so many Kingdomes of this world But the Popes 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 Heir But for all that donation had not the Kings of this land by the sharpnesse of the sword more prevailed then by this gift the Popes donation 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 Crown 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 therfore 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 Chaplain in Queen Maries daies who would make it appear by a liuely text out of the Scripture to his Parishioners what a lying knaue the divell was and for his Text he took the place where the divell took Christ and carryed him up to the mountain from whence he shewed him all the Kingdoms of the world told him it he would fall down and worship him he would giue them all unto him My Masters quoth he by this you may well perceiue what a lyar he is for he had no more right to haue given him these Kingdoms if 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 down 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 hee that sit there below to whom they belong would take them from you again And therfore saith he if he had given all these Kingdoms to Christ the Kings of the earth to whom by right they did pertain 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 divels doe dispose to whom they please The copie of which foolish donation of the Popes truely translated out of the originall hath been 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 huge tract whose insinitenesse is such as no mortall tongue can expresse nor eye hath seen doe not so much as think there is another world but that they themselues inhabite except some few of them which dwell upon the edges of the shore that sometimes see both us the French the Dutch and the Spanyard when we come a fishing but are not able to distinguish of us