The KING of SPAINS Cabinet Councel Divulged OR A DISCOVERY of the PREVARICATIONS of the SPANIARDS With all the Princes and States of Europe for obtaining the Universal Monarchy LONDON Printed by J. H. for J. S. and are to be sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard 1658. The Contents of the severall Chapters CHap. 1. The hatred of the Spaniards towards the Protestants and their Religion pag. 1 Chap. 2. The prevarications of the Spaniards in order to the Pope and his Elections pag. 9 Chap. 3. The prevarications and excesses of the Spaniards towards the rest of the Catholicks pag. 17 Chap. 4. Of the Spanish Inquisition pag. 24 Chap. 5. The prevarications of the Spaniards against the Empire pag. 30 Chap. 6. The prevarications of the Spaniards against the Kings and Kingdom of France pag. 40 Chap. 7. The prevarications of the Spaniards against the Kings and Kingdom of England pag. 48 Chap. 8. The prevarications of the Spaniards against the King and Kingdom of Portugal pag. 54 Chap. 9. The prevarications of the Spaniards against the Low Countries pag. 59 Chap. 10. The prevarications and excesses of the Spaniards against the Kingdom or Principate of Catalonia pag. 62 Chap. 11. The prevarications of the Spaniards against the Kingdom of Aragon pag. 69 Chap. 12. The prevarications against the Kingdom of Naples pag. 73 Chap. 13. The prevarications of the Spaniards against Italy and the Common-wealths thereof pag. 77 Chap. 14. The prevarications of the Spaniards against other Kingdoms pag. 80 Chap. 15. The Spaniards ardent desire of Monarchy and rule pag. 87 Chap. 16. The Ambition Arrogance boasting and scorn of the Spaniards pag. 94 Chap. 17. The Spaniards perfidious violation of Leagues and Promises pag. 97 Chap. 18. The Spaniards Hypocrisie and Dissimulation pag. 101 Chap. 19. The ingratitude of the Spaniards toward such as oblige them pag. 104 Chap. 20. What the Spanish succours are pag. 110 Chap. 21. The tricks of the Spaniards in contracting Marriages pag. 114 Chap. 22. The hatred of the Spaniards towards the Germans pag. 117 Chap. 23. How the Spaniards treat and keep peace pag. 120 Chap. 24. The Briberies and pecuniary Corruptions of the Spaniards pag. 123 Chap. 25. The Spaniards are Murtherers pag. 126 Chap. 26. The Cruelty and promiscuous Tyranny of the Spaniards pag. 129 Chap. 27. The Cruelties and Barbarities of the Spaniards in America pag. 132 Chap. 28. The rapacity avarice lust adultery and other vices of the Spaniards pag. 137 Chap. 29. Other Arts and Tricks of the Spaniards to work their designes pag. 145 Chap. 30. The various Apothegmes and Observations concerning the Spaniards pag. 151 The Conclusion pag. 157 Courteous Reader These Books following are printed for or sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard In Folio THe Civil Warres of Spain in the Reign of Charls the 5th Emperor of Germany and King of that Nation wherein our late unhappy differences are paralleld in many particulars A general History of Scotland from the year 767 to the death of King James The History of this Iron Age. Dr. Lightfoot his Harmony of the N. Testam In large Quarto John Barckley his Argenis Translated by his late Majesties special command The Prose by Sir Robert le Grise The Posie by Tho. May. In Quarto The Harmonious consent and Confessions of Faith of all the Protestant Reformed Churches professed in all the Kingdoms Nations and Provinces of Europe published with Authority to prevent the spreading of Errors and Heresies Camdens Remains concerning Britain with many choice Additions by W. D. Gent. Christ tempted the devil Conquered being an Exposition on part of the fourth Chap. of St. Mathews Gospel by John Gumbledon Rector of Coyly in Glamorgan Abrahams faith or the good old Religion proving the Doctrine of the Church of England to be the only true faith of Gods Elect By J. Nicholson Minister of the Gosp The Anatomy of Mortality by George Stroad Aynsworth on the Canticles Paul Bayne his Diocesans Trial. The Supream Power of Christian States and Magistracy vindicated from the insolent pretences of Gulielmus Apolonius By E. Gralle A Treatise of Civil Pollicy being a clear decision of 43 queries concerning prerogative right and priviledge in reference to the supreme Prince and the people By Samuel Rutherford Professor of Divinity of St. Andrews in Scotland Politick and Military observations of Civil and Military Government containing the birth increase decay of Monarchies the carriage of Princes and Magistrates Mr. Pinchin his meritorious price of mans Redemption cleared Astrology Theologized shewing what nature and influence the Stars and Planets have over men and how the same may be diverted and avoided Large Octavo The Reconciler of the Bible wherein above 2000 seeming contradictions are fully plainly reconciled A view of the Jewish Religion with their Rites Customes and Ceremonies The History of England Illustrated with the Lively Effigies of all the Kings and Queens since the Conquest Small Octavo Ed. Waterhouse Esq his Discourse of piety and charity A view and defence of the Reformation of the Church of England very usefull in these times Mr. Peter du Moulin his Antidote against Popery published on purpose to prevent the delusions of the Priests and Jesuits who are now very busie amongst us Herberts Devotions or a Companion for a Christian containing Meditations and prayers useful upon all occasions Mr. Knowles his Rudiment of the Hebrew Tongue A Book of scheams or figures of heaven ready set for every four minuits of times and very usefull for all Astrologers Florus Anglicus or an exact History of England from the reign of William the Conqueror to the death of the late King Lingua or the Combat of the Tongue and the five Senses for Superiority a serious Comedy The Spirits Touchstone being a clear discovery how a man may certainly know whether he be truly taught by the Spirit of God or not The Poor mans Physician and Chirurgeon Duodecim Doctor Smith's Practice of Physick The Grammer Warre Poselius Apothegms Faciculus Florum Crashaw's Visions Drexelius School of Patience Helvicus Colloquies The Christian Souldier his combat with the three arch enemies of mankinde the world the flesh and the devil In 24. The New Testament The third part of the Bible FINIS The Causes of the Publick Hatred of the King of Spain and the Spanish Nation CHAP. I. The hatred of the Spaniards towards the Protestants and their Religion TO shun the suspition of fancying to write Iliads after Homer I will not now make a large Martyrologie which of it self were enough to fix a Title to this Chapter nor will I compile Histories of the Belgick or Low-Country War especially of that which was waged by the Duke of Alva for those are both sufficiently known and there is store of them to be had This I shall only say and this for their sakes who think the Spaniards will prove milder to them because they imagine to themselves that they are
howbeit they had made peace and league with Charles the eighth yet by privat dispatches of letters and Agents to all parts and especially to Venice they brake it and instantly made war upon the French as Comines testifies lib. 5. belli Neapolitani p. 926. 23. An. 1614. Francisco Suarez a Spanish Jesuit set forth a scandalous Book against the State of the kingdomes of England France which was publickly burnt at Paris by order of Parliament howbeit the said Book was set forth by the approbation of Joan Alvarez Provincial of that Society CHAP. VII The Praevarications of the Spaniards against the Kings and Kingdom of England VVE have staid long enough in a continent let us now passe the Sea and see whether the King of Spain have shewn himself more faithfull to the English then to the French and others Not a whit Read what follows and you will find with me that a Wolf is every where a Wolf Attempts against Q Elizabeth and would as well take and devour the markt as unmarkt sheep And to begin with Queen Elizabeth it cannot be denied but that the Spaniard used all possible means to deprive her both of her kingdom and of her life Thuan testifies lib. 44. Anno 1569. that Mary Queen of Scots by the instigation of the Spaniards and others endeavoured to innovate things in England and to that end Rudolphus Robertus came into England to solicite the English to disloyalty and promise them great matters from the Pope and the King of Spain and he was employed by the Queen as her chief Minister and Assistant 2. That the Spanish Ministers by their Emissaries the Jesuits induced the Duke of Norfolk Anno 1572. to undertake dangerous designes against Queen Elizabeth was not doubted of by the wiser sort of those times yea and he was brought to lose his head for it Hist Belg. 3. In the year 1601. the King of Spain by the instigation of Garnet Robert a Jesuit endeavoured to trouble affairs in England but that enterprize being detected vanisht into smoak Metteranus lib. 27. 4. That the King of Spain did direct all his enterprises that by the Jesuits he might molest the affairs and innovate Religion in England so many reiterated designes but most of them being frustrated the writing made against the Jesuits in England 1602. in which among other titles they have this name that they are the King of Spains Trumpeters I cannot forbear to speak of that stupendious Fleet which was sent against England and the Queen Anno. 1588. 5. The King of Spain trecherously thinking to destroy Queen Elizabeth and to possesse himself of the English Nation provided a mighty Navy consisting of one hundred and thirty ships where of Galeasses and Galleons seventy two goodly ships like to floating Towers in which were Souldiers 19290. Mariners 8350. Gally slaves 2080. great Ordnance 2630. On the twentieth of May they weighed Anchor from the River Trigas but were by tempest so miserably disperst that it was long ere they met again But they sent before to the Prince of Parma that he with his Forces consisting of fifty thousand old Souldiers should be ready to joyn with them and with his shipping to conduct them into England and to land his Army at the Thames mouth But God so ordered that partly by distresse of weather and partly by the valour of the English they were driven back with infinite loss and disgrace 6 Fontano a Spaniard with a vast sum of money to wit 50000 Pistols corrupted Doctor Lopez to poyson Queen Elizabeth as the said Lopez himself together with Emanuel Ludovicus Tinotius Stephanus Errera freely confest Thuan. lib. 109. 7. Ibarra attempted the same plot upon the said Queen by Edmond of York Cousin german to him who perfidiously betrayed the Fort of Zutphan to the enemy as also by Richard Williams besides another youth and other complices for which he promised them 40000 Pistols 8. Anno 1601. the Spaniards were brought into Ireland by Hugh Earle of Tiron but were but scurvily entertained there Thuan. lib. 125. 9. When in the year 1603. certain Engglish were taken and executed for a conspiracy against the King Carolus Ligneus Count of Aremberg who was then Embassador there from the Archduke Albert was suspected to have conspired with them Thuan. lib. 129. 10. The King of Spain not long after the death of Mary Queen of Scots ordered the Duke of Parma then Governor of the Low Countries to promise in his name the King of Scotland both men and mony against the Queen of England thereby the more easily to revenge his mothers death And to that end the said Duke sent Robert Bruss a Scotch Gentleman into Scotland with a great deal of money Besides that the Scotch King was put in hope to marry the Infanta of Spain provided that he embrac'd the Roman Religion which was proposed by one William Crichâ—on who then belonged to the Popes Nuntio and had formerly been Rector sometime of the Jesuits Colledge at Lyons and he endeavoured to perswade Bruss either by force or fraud to kill John Metelan High Chancelor of Scotland and because Bruss abhorred so wicked a fact Crichton accused him to Fontano who clapt him up in prison for fourteen moneths together See Hospinian 11. How cunningly some of the Spanish Emissaries endeavoured to perswade James then King of Scotland and afterwards of England too that it was necessary for him to have a league and friendship with the King of Spain saying that it would much advantage him to have the favour of the Spaniards Thuan. lib. 83. 12. The dangerous designes of the Spaniards by the Jesuits and their Emissaries to destroy both the Queen and Kingdom of England Anno 1596. is described by Thuan and others in the English Complaint to Pope Clement the eighth 13. Divers outrages and Acts of hostility have been committed by the Spaniards against the subjects of England in their Colonies of the West Indies 14 Anno 1605. Certain English men being on the North side of Hispaniola were enticed a shore by a Priest named Father John on promise of secure trading were inhumanly and barbarously murthered by the Spaniards The Master was tied naked to a tree and most cruelly pinched and stung to death 15. An. 1608. The Richard of Plimouth trading to Virginia was assaulted by the King of Spains ships and notwithstandding the Master produced the Broad Seal of England he with all the men were condemned to the Gallies where some were with much cruelty beaten to death 16. With what tricks and juggles the Match in Spain between the late King Charles and the King of Spains daughter was treated prolonged and at last quite eluded is sufficiently known to such as were employed in that business So that Spaniards are every where Spaniards CHAP. VIII The Praevarications of the Spaniards against the King and Kingdom of Portugall WHen Sebastian King of Portugall Anno 1578. resolved to undertake that Expedition into Africa fatall
Widow vvhose husband was put to death for his Religion a little corn and a third for sending his friend who was banisht in England a little money He rebaptized some children and caused some to be cut out of their mothers vvombs and stabbed with daggers Some vvives were violated in the sight of their husbands and if they resisted they were hanged as was done at Lyle teste Speculo Hisp Tyran p. 36. But it would be too long to relate all and therefore I remit my Reader ad Spec. dictum p. 36 37 38 39 c. where the tyrannies of the Spaniards at Lyle Tornay Roterdam Mecklin Zutphan Narden Harlem Owdwater Mastrickt and Antwerp are described Anno 1576. The Spaniards mutinying for want of pay took Antwerp and killed two thousand Citizens and Souldiers besides such as were drowned or burnt they hanged some Women naked with huge heavy stones at their feet drove stakes through the naturall parts of others and extended some upon the Racks by the Breasts as they also hung some men with as much immodesty as cruelty out at their vvindows by the genitals crying and howling with torment till they either ransom'd themselves with money or confest what they had hidden They rackt children before their parents and killed them c. whereby they got so much money as by the computation of such as knew it amounted to forty tuns of gold that is two millions of Pistols besides Plate Jewels and other things of price Nor was the dammage of the fire much less where they also got so much that a common Souldier would make nothing to play ten pistols a throw at Dice some made Hilts to their Swords others to their Daggers yea and some whole Corslets and Helmets of beaten Gold Thuan lib. 62. Anno 1610. The Inquisition of Spain prevailed with the King to banish all the Mores out of the kingdomes of Granada Andaluzia Valentia and Murcia and transport them into Barbary where many thousands of them perisht with hunger thirst and other cruelties cast upon them partly by the Spaniards and partly by the Barbarians Metteranus CHAP. XXVII The Cruelties and Barbarities of the Spaniards in America BEcause some may perhaps make slight of the barbarous Excesses of the Spaniards upon the Low Countrey people saying That they were the kings enemies as having revolted from him and therefore they ought to be treated like enemies as they had deserved though that vvay of correction exceeds all measure let us now see vvhether they have carried themselves more gently to the Americans the Indians and others beyond our Orb. 1. That the Spaniards had no right at all to those Countries as being so farre distant from Spain and governed by Kings of their own and never so much as in the least sense provoking them to a war the more moderate Spaniards themselves are forced to acknowledge yea and they say moreover That when the Spaniards came first thither they were received entertained and treated like Gods or sons of Gods abating them only the adoration worship and observance of their chief Gods 2. Bartholome de la Casa a Dominican Frier and a Bishop lib. de Tyran Hisp in India occident dedicated to Charles the fifth and his son Philip and printed at Sevil Anno 1552. saith That the people of that Nation were as peacefull as sheep not very covetous nor ambitious content with little solitary and almost Heremetical against whom came the Spaniards like greedy wolves and not onely like wolves but like Lyons and Tygers He further adds That in the space of forty years above twelve millions yea above fifteen millions of men were destroyed by the Spaniards in those Islands A certain Spanish Captain ravisht a Kings wife Others knockt out the brains of small children and crusht them against the Rocks and stones sindged and burnt the bodies of some Lords and Princes of the Countries and threw them to their Doggs beat down their houses and fired them and forced them out hanged queen Anacaon and another condemned some men to vvork in the Mines and their Wives to the Countrey labours affording them little or no food so that in tract of time those kingdomes grew quite dispeopled they used them in stead of Mules and Asses driving them long journeys overladen with insupportable burthens in such sort as that once of four hundred there returned no more then six they took all their victuals and provisions from them and starved above 30000 of them at once They forced the great-bellied vvomen to carry packs c. In Nova Hispania they destroyed above four millions of men in twelve years time and in the Citie of Mexico they treacherously massacred the flower of the Nobility and aftervvards many Citizens c. 3. The same Author also saith That to vvrite down all the tyrannies of the Spaniards exercised in Guatimala would require a Book of a foot and a half thick Nor vvere their proceedings otherwise in Naco and the Honduras where in 12 years compasse they destroyed above two millions of men It was to no purpose at all for the poor Indians to oblige the Spaniards for they became the more cruel by their kindness and simplicity as torturing them a thousand vvayes to make them confess vvhere their gold vvas tumbling them into deep ditches and pits upon stakes pointed vvith iron to lengthen and encrease their torments and dragging their children into slavery c. 4. In the kingdome of Guatimala in the space of sixteen years they killed above five millions by various tortures Nor gave they their prisoners any sustenance but granted them leave to catch and eat other Indians c. 5. In the kingdome of Excalisco they burnt eight hundred Villages and sold the sons of Princes to one another for slaves In Jucatano a Princes son was sold for a Cheese and a hundred Indians for a horse they hunted the Indians like wild beasts and gave them as a see to their Dogs 6. The Indians have been so ill used by the Spaniards that they abhorre the name of a Christian and had rather dye in vvar then live in slavery to the Spaniards In the kingdome of Venecula they destroyed above five millions of persons and used the like cruelty in the kingdome of Florida as overloading the people with burthens and when they fainted cutting off their heads and leaving them in the high-wayes In the Island de la Plata they killed above 1503 men at once yea and amongst the rest they also basely murthered such as came to serve them In the Isle of Cuba 7000 infants were starved in three moneths time the Spaniniards having so exhausted their mothers with continuall labour and hunger that their breasts grew dry and so the poor babes could not be nourished Bartholo de la Casa 8. Spain says de la Casa is in great danger to be invaded and destroyed by other Nations for this tyranny And again towards the end of his book Vnless the King sayes he do better preserve