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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05412	The estate of English fugitiues vnder the king of Spaine and his ministers Containing, besides, a discourse of the sayd Kings manner of gouernment, and the iniustice of many late dishonorable practises by him contriued.; Discourse of the usage of the English fugitives, by the Spaniard	Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.	1595 (1595)	STC 15564; ESTC S108544	137,577	247

Nothing so odious to the Italian as the gouernement of a Spaniard displeasing and contrary to the nature of an Italian Likewise hee is faine to entertaine continually a great number of gallies vppon the coast of Naples to defend those seas and shoares from the incursions of the Turke the like charge by sea and by land hee is forced to bee at in Sycilia Sardina his Cities on the coast of Affrica Portugall the Terceraes the Indies Brasile Maiorque Minorque yea and euen in his Spanish Prouinces of Biscan Galycia and Arragon as for Nauarre hee knoweth that hee holdeth them no longer than hee treadeth vppon their neckes and therefore hee layeth on loade there with his garrisons both of horsemen and footemen as well in Pampelona as the other Townes and Fortresses of the Countrey and all will be little enough and if it would please almightie GOD to blesse the indeuours of the French King And of all these his garrisons and charges hee cannot for his life diminish any beeing guiltie too himselfe of the violence of his gouernement being not further assured of them than whiles hee holdeth their heads in the bridle I will not dispute the iustice of his Titles not yet alleage the pretences whereby the Frenchmen entitle their King not only to Artoys Henalt Naples and Millaine but also to Spaine it selfe But that hee holdeth Portugall Maiorque and Minorque the Countie of Ronsillen and the kingdome of Nauarre by meere extortion and extremitie of wrong is to all the world a matter most apparant and euident insomuch that some of his owne Writers in their Apologies and defences of some of his Titles are constrained in a manner to fortifie their best reasons with the verses of Eurypides If right and iustice are to be transgrest To breake them for a kingdome then t' is best Besides all this his prouinces and dominions do stand so seuered and disunited that the very transporting of his money from one to an other as it is with danger and inconuenience so is it of it of infinite charge vnto him insomuch that I haue heard some of his Commissaries in the Low Countries sweare there is no crown of his that commeth from Spaine into those partes but standeth him in fiue ryalles of plate so great is the charge of carriage conuoyes and commissaries to deliuer and receiue the same from one place to another He norisheth factions and diuisions in most Countries of christendome His Intelligencers and Spies Withall there are fewe Realmes or Countries of Christendome in which hee entertaineth not factions and diuisions and scarcely any in which he nourisheth not a number of Intelligencers and Spies all depending of his purse with whome hee dealeth more or lesse liberally according vnto the place or meanes they haue to doe him seruice if they be entertained in Court or neare about the person of a Prince able to send him good intelligence or to doe some notable mischiefe for him His detestable p●actise with Lopes for the taking away of her Maiesties life hee will not sticke to come off bountefully as for example you sawe how cunningly hee had practised with Lopes that damnable Physition who like his predecessour Iudas had for money consented to betray innocent blood to whom besides the fiftie thousand crowns for which the bargaine was hee commaunded his Secretarie Ibarra to bidde him demaunde what else hee woulde so that hee would take vppon him to perfourme that which hee had promised which was by taking away her life by whome wee doe all liue to bring our noble Countrey into such a sorrowe desolation and misery as neuer anie Nation had tasted the like But it hath pleased the Lorde our God of his endlesse mercie as hee hath alwayes mightily and miraculously defended her Maiestie so likewise nowe to confound the wicked conspiratours in their owne diuellish deuises and to preuent the tragicall intended issue of theyr most barbarous and bloody practise being such as well in regarde of the secrecie of handling as the imagined facilitie of performaunce that of manie which he the diuell and their adherents haue set abroach since the beginning of her Maiesties glorious reigne neuer any to mans iudgement was halfe so daungerous the manner and memorie whereof is so fresh that the recitall of any particularities would be but superfluous Onely let vs not forget to be thankefull vnto almightie God for his mercy shewed in reuealing it nor vnto that worthie and honourable Lord by whose watchfull industrie and zealous care of her Maiesties safetie it was first suspected and finally by his wisedome and discreete handling fully discouered who although hee did before possesse the faithfull loues and vndissembled affections of as many as euer did any of his ranke yet neuer did hee although hee hath doone many thinges vertuously and nobly any thing that wonne him such reputation and applause throughout the whole Realme All men in generall and euerie man in particular acknowledging to haue heerein receiued of him a most singular and peculiar benefite All his kinsemen of the house of Austria depend chiefly vpon the maintenance of his purse But leauing this and returning vnto my former matter it is a thing notorious to al the world that the house of Austria is spredde into manie braunches of which euery one reteineth the name of Archduke But in conclusion their dignitie lordeshippe and estate is faine to rely wholly vppon his purse for there is not any thing in all this worlde that hee more affecteth than to mainetaine this house of Austria in greatnesse and dignitie and therefore vppon the death of Battor the last King of Polonia hee laboured infinitely to inuest his coosine Maximilian the Emperours brother in the royaltie of the Realme Maximilian of Austria sent by the King of Spaine into Polonia with an army sending him downe besides many secret bribes bestowed vppon the noblemen of Polonia with a mighty army of Reyters to take possession the vnfortunate successe of which enterprise as also the Archedukes imprisonment and dishonourable escape I do voluntarily omitte as beeing a thing vnto the whole worlde well knowen and altogither impertinent vnto the discourse which I haue in hand In the Consistorie of Rome hee is faine to entertaine a great number of those hungrie Cardinalles in pension and fee as well to gaine their voyces when neede requireth as also when the pontificall sea is voide to looke well to their election especially and aboue all thinges that hee whome they elect can daunce the Spanish Measures in which if after his being chosen hee shoulde chaunce not to foote it well according vnto the tune of his pipe then presently to remooue him with a Castilian Calenture A Castilian Calenture the which is a strange disease neuer lightly holding them aboue three dayes and many of them of late haue beene subiect vnto it This Pope doeth feare it mightily and that maketh him so loath to accept the French Kings

pleased God so plentifully to poure downe upon her maiesty and her people together with the flourishing estate of that fortunate realme since this the time of her Maiesties gouernment so plentifull in peace so victorious in warres so industrious in artes so excelling in all sciences that the verie Spanish enemie himselfe will not stick many times to breake out into admiration thereat The Spanish enemie himselfe admireth the blessed estate and happie gouernment of England and somtimes in his scoffing or rather blasphemous humour sweare that he thinkes Iesu Christ is become a protestant withall I will briefly make a short comparison betweene this and the gouernment of the aduersarie I meane the king of Spaine his cruell and inhumane vsage of his miserable subiects his violent abolition taking awaie of their priuiledges and in fine the vnspeakable bondage constrained seruitude and pittiful desolatiō in which they liue or rather despairfully do languish a matter though farre vnfit for mee to handle but worthie of grauer wits men of the highest wisdome and experience yet considering I shall not presume to treate of matters of great estate secrets but such as euerie well affected subiect may finde and picke out of the heroicall actions of the one and the tyrannicall insolencies of the other both done in the apparance of the world I hope and so with all lowlynes most humbly desire her most gracious benigne maiestie to pardon mee if vndertaking such a taske I chance to come far short of that which men fitter for the handling thereof could saie or intreat and so likewise most earnestly beseech that I may therin be censured according to the loyall zeale I beare to her Maiesties seruice and my countrie and not to the basenes and simplicitie of my stile or the handling thereof But to come to my discourse to the end that you the rest of your opinion may cleerely and plainly discerne those things which hetherto your eies blinded with the vaile of partialitie or perchance misled with a contrarietie of affection haue not bin able to view I will begin with the good vsage honor and aduancement that you and other Gentlemen addicted to the Spanish seruice are to expect bringing you for example sundrie braue and worthie Gentlemen Captains souldiers that haue taken the like cause before you whereby you shall perceiue that all is not golde that glistereth faire but that whatsoeuer shew the Spaniard make vnto vs yet in his heart hee mortally abhorreth vs by all meanes possible seeketh our destruction ruine and subuersion as it euidently appeareth by his vsage of such troups and companies of our nations as haue serued him I will not speak of the crueltie of the Commendador vpon certaine English Gentlemen that had done notable seruices both to him and the Duke of Alua Eight Englishmen hanged vp in Antwarp by commandement of Don Luis Requesence the Cōmendador and Captaine generall of the lowe Countries for the king of whom neuerthelesse for a meere trifling occasion he caused eight to be hanged vp after the sacke of Antwarpe on the Mere brigge Neither will I trouble you with the tragicall discourse of M. Aegrimont Ratcliffe M. Grey who were as the world knoweth both gentlemen of noble houses and most faithfully affected both in religion seruice to the Spanish king neuertheles vpon I know not what suspition that they should haue practised the death of Don Ioan they were both apprehended and though there neuer was M. Aegrimon● Ratcliffe and M Grey wrongfully put to death by the Spaniard nor euer coulde bee anie thing proued against them and they at their deathes protested thēselues to be most innocent of that wherwith they were charged yet theyr heads were striken off in the market place of Namures I touch these things the more sparingly because they happened before my time of being there and in matters deliuered by heresaie I might erre which vndertaking to write no thing but that which is true vnrefutable I wold be loth to doo and therefore I will come to things of later time and such as I doo certainly know At the siege of Audenarde where the D. of Parma laie incamped there came rendering themselues vnto his seruice vnder the conduct of Norris Barney Cornish and Gibson Six hundred Englishmen came and rendred themselues to the Duke of Parmas seruice who then laye at the siege of Audenarde whome they had chosen to be theyr Captaines a troupe of sixe hundred the tallest best appointed souldiers that I remember euer to haue seene in all my life theyr comming beeing the onelie cause that the Towne a matter of greate importance and on the land side as it were the verie key of the prouince of Flanders was so soon deliuered vnto him as it was The manner of their comming and their vsage For whereas the Duke of Aniou and the Prince of Orenge laie vnder the walles of Gaunt with sufficient force and most deliberate resolution to succour the sayd towne of Audenarde vpon this mutinie of the English they marched awaie with their whole armie leauing the enemie now battering the towne which seeing it selfe frustrated of the expected succours presently rendered it self vnto the Duke of Parma Thence they were drawen to Wynoch bergen to serue against the French and English that lay there incamped where they behaued themselues with such desperate resolution that day that Monsieur de Balanson brother to the Marquesse of Warambon was taken prisoner that besides the losse of many of their liues they were a wonder to the whole armie which praise of theirs the pride of the Spaniards not induring The enuy of the Spaniard dyd vpbraide them that they had serued rather like giddie headed dronkards than men wisely valiant Sir Roger Williams well remembreth this daies worke for hee was there in seruice of the states and vnles I am deceiued lost a brother in that seruice Shortly after vppon the remoue of the Duke of Alansons armie towardes Gaunt they were likewise brought thether where also they gaue exceeding testimonie of their valor courage namely the verie daie that sir Iohn Norris made that famous memorable retreat before Gaunt The famous ●etreate made before Gaunt by sir Iohn Norris who when the French men fled with a disordered amazement did with a present courage and excellent direction maintaine the place with such regiments of English as were vnder his charge and withstanding the Duke of Parma in the teeth with al his puissance who furiously charged him neuertheles withdrew his men still holding their pikes in the bosomes of the enemy safely vnder the wals of Gaunt not without exceeding domage to the enemie insomuch that the Duke of Parma woulde euer after saie that hee onely had that daie barred him from crying quittance with the Duke of Alanson for the retreate which hee had caused him to make from Cambray which still did sticke in

but onely these outlandish practises their conference with counterfeit Mope Charles Paget who was sent out of France by this seditious troup to the end to ouerthrow both the one and the other What besides hath bin the cause of bringing so many other Gentlemen to the losse of their liues and liuinges that liued before in ease repose and securitie of conscience And which is more were not they the only contriuers of the death of the Q. of Scotland by setting her in continuall practise one vpon another against the sacred person and roiall estate of our most gracious Soueraign The Queen of Scotland the Queenes maiestie so that of violent necessitie her maiestie though tardif vnwilling and with great griefe at the generall and instant petition of all her most louing and faithfull subiectes whose onely weale and comfort dependeth vpon her long life and prosperitie to satisfie them and to preserue the estate of her noble and flourishing realm in quiet was constrained to secure the scepter in her own hands by taking away the life of her that sought to wrest it from her thogh how much the noblenes of her mind was therwith agrieued the whole world that hath knowen anie thing of her proceedings therin either before or after can be a witness I saie not this only of my selfe though I and all the world else do know it to be true that these their dealings haue made thē hatefull and detestable euen to those of their owne religion insomuch that a French Iesuit tearmeth them all in generall in a book which he hath written touching the Q. of Scotlands death a viperous mischieuous and faithles kind of people The censure of a French Iesuite concerning the English Fugitiues trecherous to those they deale withal disdainfull arrogant ambitious and worthie to be extermined out of the vtmost bounds of the world besides many such other goodly epithetes with which he beutifies them in their colours his whole booke being nothing but railing against English fugitiues wishing all princes noble men and gentlemen whatsoeuer to beware and take heed of them and that in such earnest vehement inuectiue manner that it is not possible to be more And yet for all so many tragicall ends of their bloudie and traiterous indeuours are they moued with anie the least sparke of repentance Neither hath the ruine of so many of you their countrimen wrought and contriued by their practise allurement perswasion bred in them anie feeling of remorse or conscience but rather thereby animated incouraged to set new conspiracies treasons abroach with meaning in deed by sowing seditions among you and by opposing you against the state to make you the onely instruments one of the others ruine so to make the way opē to the Spanish tyrant I wil not speak any thing of their infinit former practises as wel in Ireland as within this realme against the person of her maiestie the quietnes of either country wherin stil their instrumēts haue by violēt ends miserably perished which desolatiōs procured by their only practise but that they are vtterly voide of all christian humanitie might haue serued to perswade them that God is not pleased with their action or at least the bloudie quarters of so many Gentlemen as the swoorde of iustice from time to time constrained by their horrible attēpts hath diuided dispersed about the wals turrets of London and other places in this Realme might haue stroken a terrour into their mindes neuer more to hazard the liues of their countrymē in so wicked tragical an enterprise But no whit at all are their vncharitable stonie harts herewith touched but rather stil incensed more more to practise the desolation of this noble realme and the death of our most deare and dreaded Soueraign no whit at all regarding the greatnes of her maiesty the same being of all other nations had in such regard reuerence nor the tendernes of her sex which euen amongest the most barbarous nations hath bin alwais a safegard against violence nor lastly the shining brightnes of her vertue which hath moued the remotest regions of the world to admire her the greatest princes liuing some by themselue● some by their ambassadors to offer herall honor seruice reuerence All this notwithstanding these men according to the confession of their instruments lately executed keepe a solemne councell table Holt the Iesuite chiefe president of this damnable crew wherein nothing is handled but new daily practises for the shortning of her Maiesties most glorious life though they see how miraculously God blesseth and defendeth her and that as the giants which did shoote against heauen The obstinacie of the English traitors they are still wounded with the fall of their owne arrowes What folowed of their late practise with that worthy and honorable gentleman Ferdinando late Earle of Darby but onelie that it brought poore Heskits their instrument for execution thereof Heskits sent by thē to practise with Ferdinādo Earle of Darby to the gallowes who bitterly with teares bewailed their acquaintance and naming sir William Stanley and others cursed the time that hee euer had knowen anie of them But all had bin wel if his death onely or the death of a thousand more such traitors had concluded the tragedie so that the noble Earle had not likewise with his fall giuen all England cause to crie out vpon them for when they had once fully discouered the loyaltie of his affection towards her Maiesty and the hatred that he bare to them and their faction either of which he well testified by the apprehension of Heskits hee came shortly afterwards to the end of his life whether by their practise or no God knoweth time wil discouer But that so it was the circumstance of the matter the accidents of his sicknes considered there is nothing more likely Hauing herein failed presently they set newe instruments aworke as Cullen the Irishman Yorke Williams promising great rewards Cullen Yorke and Williams giuing thē instructions how they shuld behaue themselues vpon the landing for the better accomplishing thereof but the end was that after hauing confessed al the circumstances of this hateful act and the names and meanes of them that laboured them thereunto and cursed the authors and contriuers of the horrible treason by them intēded they ended their liues at Tiborne and their quarrters were dispersed about the gates of London But some may perchance demand of me what their meaning herein may be or what credite commoditie or gaine might haue allured them to enter in these beforesayd so wicked detestable inclinations For answere hereunto first I told you that so they might be accounted and reputed for great state-men high spirited and of deepe action to procure that reputation credit they care not whose estate of life they indanger But besides this also which we haue alreadie spoken of they haue also