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A44888 Newes from Dvnkirke being a speciall relation of certaine passages there : wherein is discovered the intentions and agitations of divers of this kingdome endeavouring to engage Don Francisco de Mela, commander generall of the King of Spaines forces in those countries, to set forth sundry Dunkirke Frigots into our seas : as also of divers priests and Iesuites, that lying there for transportation hither, were taken at sea by some of the states-men of war : with 3 barques sent by the said Jesuites for their transportation and the carriage of much ammunition and money intended for New Castle to relieve the malignants against the Parliament which priests are now imprisoned by the states at Roterdam / by G. H. G. H. 1642 (1642) Wing H33; ESTC R21649 3,791 8

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NEWES FROM DVNKIRKE BEING A SPECIALL Relation of certaine Passages there Wherein is discovered the Intentions and Agitations of divers of this kingdome endeavouring to engage Don Francisco de Mela Commander Generall of the King of Spaines Forces in those Countries to set forth sundry Dunkirke Frigots into our Seas AS ALSO Of divers Priests and Iesuites that lying there for transportation hither were taken at Sea by some of the States-men of War with 3 Barques sent by the said Jesuites for their transportation and the Carriage of much Ammunition and Money intended for New-Castle to relieve the Malignants against the Parliament which Priests are now imprisoned by the States at ROTERDAM By G. H. LONDON Printed for Iohn Iohnson Newes from Dunkirke DUnkirke is a Towne of Flanders of great strength and circuit some five leagues or houres going from Calice in France being indeed the only considerable Port of Flaunders Graveling Newport Ostend and Sluce though all bearing the name of Havens being indeed rather meer Fisher-Townes then worthy of that title ships of above sixty Tun being debarr'd entertainment into them When over the sandy bar of Dunkirke at a high tyde safely may passe Vessels of foure and five hundred Tun into the very Towne wals nay within their out-works or safely ride if not in very great tempests under the protection of the Forts of Mardike and the woodden Fort which being a miraculous Fabricke of timber extended far into the maine Sea secures all there with its commanding Ordnance at least a large league and a halfe before you come to Dunkirke This then is the rendevouz for all the King of Spaines ships this is that Towne which makes a benefit of that which is destruction to others they are g●owne abundantly wealthy by their spoyles taken both from the Hollander and French this is that Towne which in our lusts and former contentions with Spaine has infested so obnoxiously our Seas with the excursions of their nimble Frigats To conclude this is a Towne which for plenty of mariners of all Nations multitudes of souldiers and light nimble and serviceable Ships and Frigots gives place to never a Towne of Christendome of its dimensions Here constantly have those disturbers of our publike peace and seducers of our people from the true Religion those fugitive English Iesuites Constantly in the Dutch Colledge of the same Society there their Agents resident who lye as it were intelligencers there to receive newes from their pernicious brethren in England of their succeeding there For though the care of this present sacred Parliament have taken what possible order can be thought on for extirpation of that brood of Vipers yet in all this Session has there not one o● the Iesuites bin apprehended or brought to condigne punishment the sword of justice lighting only on the lesse hurtfull branches of that poysonous Romish Tree that would shadow all the corners of the earth the Fryars and secular Priests the Popes Assasine Champions the Iesuites though certainly many of them are obscured in this Kingdome nay in this very City under strange names and habits being as full of craft as their generality in the Devill keeping themselves not only from detection but surprision But to our purpose these base bastards to their Countrey and m●screants to Heaven and truth having these Agents in Dunkirke doe constantly give notice to their superiours at their fore-neighbouring Colledges Watton and Saint Omers the former being the Noviship or Domus probationis of their order three leagues and a half from Dunkirke the other their Seminary where they teach children onely the rudiments of Gramaticke learning a league and a halfe further off All accidents that have hapned in this Kingdome in these lamentable and distracted times they againe transferring that notice by their Emissaries to their Agent at the Court at Bruxels who is now their Vice-Provinciall their Provinciall being here in England Father Sibesden right●y Bedinfield a man of much precious sanctity but inward and reall craft who makes what use he can of those advertisements to the advancement of the Catholique cause as they call it hearing therefore as quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris of the still emergent distractions between His Majesty and the Parliament which certainly tooke their Originall from some Iesuiticall counsellors This Sibisdin or Bedinfield call him whether you please has lately been very urgent with Don Francisco De Mela the Spanish Prefect now in Flaunders and with his Councell in which the Iesuites have no small party to command of the Dunkirke Frigats to be made ready and fraught with such souldiers as are there of our Nation under the Regiment of Colonell Guy with such Ammunition as the Iesuites his fellowes could provide at their owne charge to be sent into the North of England to be landed there for the assistance of the malignants against the Parliament intimating to him how acceptable that service would be to his Holinesse and the Conclave at Rome how advantagious to the advancement of the Catholicke cause and re-establishment of their Religion here in England nay that he was even in part of his honour engaged to returne these souldiers back His Majesty the King of England now he had need of them himself when he had bin so courteously permitted to condiscend to the Spaniards assistance and lastly that this action would not only be unpre judiciall to the league now in force with England but rather an additament to cement it faster It being made with the King of England to whom the Parliament was refractory and with open armes sought to diminish His Royalty and bring in instead of the Protestant Religion which was lesse opposite to theirs Puritanisme Brownisme or Anabaptisme So malicious are these miscreants and apt to traduce the Parliaments honourable just and religious proceedings Don Francisco de Mela a Portuguise by Nation a person of a sound and solid judgement not easily to be misled by such Ignes faetui or false fires mildly answered his reverence that though he wished as well to the Catholique cause as any and ought His Majesty of England as much service as any forraine Prince whatsoever yet that he durst not without expresse command of the King his Master send any of his Frigats to their places or imploy them to other uses then to the guard of the Flemish Coast against their inveterate adversary the Hollanders who for the alliance they have to the State of Engl. to which they were engaged would be sure to interrupt them in their passage that for the English Regiments though they were King Charles his Subjects they were King Philips souldiers there ere hee came to the government and that he was resolv'd to leave all things in those Provinces as hee found them that hee could not with the safety of his wisdome or allegiance to his Masters service dimisse so many able and experienc'd souldiers dangers both from neighbouring France and not farre distant Holland