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<P>A RELATION OF THE KING OF SPAINES RECEIVING IN Valliodolid, and in the Ingli&s;h Col|lege of the &s;ame towne, in Augu&s;t la&s;t pa&s;t of this yere. 1592.</P>
<P><HI>VVryten by an Ingli&s;h Prie&s;t of the &s;ame College, to a Gentleman and his vvyf in Flaunders, latelie fled out of Ingland, for profe&s;sion of the Catholique Religion.</HI></P>
<P>Anno, M.D.XCII.</P>
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<HEAD>A RELATION OF THE KING OF SPAINES <HI>receiuing in Valliodolid, &amp; in the English College of the &s;ame Tovvne.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WORSHIPFVLL good Sir, be|fore I receiued any lettres from your &s;elf of your being in flan|ders, I was aduerti&s;ed thereof from diuers others in tho&s;e par|tes, how both you, &amp; the good gentlewoman your wyf were come ouer vppon the &s;uddaine, &amp; inforced to flye or natiue Countrie, for &s;uch a fact as being in it &s;elf both iu&s;t and pious, &amp; before God meritorious, was wont al&s;o in England to be accompted of Chri&s;tian men, religious &amp; honorable: I meane, to receiue and harbour in your hou&s;e a Catholique Prie&s;te; which thing though in our daies for par|ticular re&s;pects, and by peculiar nationall lawes, it be made for the tyme both heinous and trea&s;ona|ble; yet remaineth it &s;till in it &s;elf &amp; before God, as it was before, &amp; according to that reckening &s;hall you receiue at his handes your reward, and prai&s;e al&s;o and honour, in the &s;ight and iudgement of all them that truelie loue and &s;erue him.</P>
<P>And yf I did thinke that you had neede of Com|fort in this ca&s;e, and that Almightie God the fa|ther
<PB N="4" REF="3">of all mercies and Con&s;olations, did not ac|cording to his Cu&s;tome, deale with you mo&s;t &s;weetely, and furni&s;he you aboundantlie with heauenlie foode, &amp; ioy in this iorney of yours. I could alleage vnto you manie things that comme into my mynde at this tyme, &amp; doe greatlie reioyce my hart and &s;pirits on your behalfes. And among other poyntes, fir&s;t, &amp; e&s;pecially, that which S. Paule in lyke occa&s;ion &s;aid vnto his deere&s;t children the Philippians.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 1.</NOTE> <HI>To you it is geuen for Chri&s;t his &s;ake, not onelie to beleeue in him, but al&s;o to &s;uffer for him.</HI> I re|member al&s;o the flight out of Rome and Italie which <HI>Aquila, &amp; Pri&s;cilla</HI> his wyf were faine to make vnder Claudius the Emperour as S.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts. 18.</NOTE> Luke recoump|teth in the Actes of the Apo&s;tles, which flight of theirs, proued afterwardes &s;o much to their good, as maie be gathered by the often and honorable me|morie, which the glorious Apo&s;tle S. Paule maketh of them in diuers of his epi&s;tles,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 16.</NOTE> &amp; in one e&s;pecial|lie,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.</NOTE> where he not onelie calleth them <HI>his coadiutors in Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 16.</NOTE> But al&s;o affirmeth <HI>that they were to be honored and thanked by the vniuer&s;all bodie of the conuer|ted Gentiles.</HI> I remember in lyke manner (and that the rather being in this hou&s;e dedicated to his name) the mo&s;t renowmed example of glorious S. Alban our fir&s;t Martyr of England, vnder Dio|cletian the Emperour, who &s;uffered martyrdom, as S.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d. l. 1. c. 6. &amp; 7. de <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;t. Angl.</NOTE> Beede &amp; others do write, for receiuing a Catho|like prie&s;t in his hou&s;e, as you do now bani&s;hme~t for the lyke fact, and had don death al&s;o yf you had bin taken.</P>
<P>The&s;e I &s;aie and other thinges do come to my
<PB N="5" REF="3">memorie concerning your ca&s;e, though I do a&s;&s;ure my &s;elf that you haue no neede of the&s;e examples and incouragements at mens hands, but rather do receaue them immediatlie of the geuer him &s;elf, who incited you to do the fact for his loue, &amp; will not defraude you of your paye, neither in this lyf, nor in the next; With whome be&s;ides all other helpes, you haue the potent interce&s;&s;ion of that holie prie&s;t and martyr di&s;couered in your hou&s;e,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. Gage.</NOTE> as al&s;o the prayers of that worthie gentleman and his wyf that for the &s;ame crime haue ben adiudged of late to death, and of all others that &s;ince the late bloudie Proclamatio~ of Nouember or before haue &s;uffred murder, torments, impri&s;onments, <MILESTONE N="1591"> or lo&s;|&s;es for the &s;ame cau&s;e, who cannot be few, accor|ding to the late accompt that is comme hither of onelie the Earle of Huntingtons proceedings in york&s;hire who is written to haue apprehended for his parte,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Crueltie of the earle of Hunting|ton.</NOTE> well nere fowre &s;core gentlewomen of accompt, be&s;ides all other per&s;ons of different &s;exe &amp; qualitie, vexed &amp; afflicted by him for their con&s;cience. And the lyke (or litle le&s;&s;e) is aduerti|&s;ed of Lanca&s;hire, &s;o as yf the like proportion be held in other &s;hyres al&s;o of England, you haue manie parteners in your troubles, &amp; you are parta|ker with them of manie benedictions, and the more, the better for them that &s;uffer, and for &s;uch others as haue participation with them, though mo&s;t lamentable &amp; grieuous for the publique face of our de&s;olate realme, which hereby runneth to extreme perill of de&s;truction.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The cau&s;e of this nar|ration.</NOTE></P>
<P>But of this I will &s;ay no more, but will come to
<PB N="6" REF="4">au&s;weare the effect of your letter, wherein you de&s;yre to know the e&s;tate of this new Engli&s;h &s;e|minarie, heere in Valliodolid, how, and when it be|gan, and in what termes it remaineth at this pre|&s;ent, of which you &s;aie that you haue heard of late, much and different &s;peeche in England, e&s;peciallie &s;ince the la&s;t proclamation, before named, wherein particuler mention is made of this College, yea the whole proclamation thought principallie to haue proceded of the fre&s;h adui&s;es of this new erection in Spaine.</P>
<P>To all which I &s;hall au&s;weare mo&s;t willingly, and as particularlie as I haue bin able to lerne the e&s;tate of this hou&s;e in the few monethes I haue ben here, and glad I am that you call for this rela|tion at this tyme, when by the late being here of this mo&s;t pious King, and of his noble Children the Princes, to vi&s;it &amp; honor this hou&s;e and com|panie, I haue much more worthie and delectable matter to write of, then otherwi&s;e I &s;hould haue had.</P>
<P>To the fir&s;t then,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The oc|ca&s;ion of this College in Spaine.</NOTE> touching the beginning of this Seminarie in Valliodolid, though in your &s;aid late Ingli&s;h proclamation, among many other fal&s;|hoodes thea&s;e al&s;o be auouched mo&s;t malitiou&s;lie by the &s;cribe thereof <HI>that the king of Spaine for furthe|ring of other his inten&s;ions again&s;t Ingland, had dealt with Cardinal Allen and &s;ather Per&s;ons</HI> (whome, he calleth two &s;editious heades of our Ingli&s;h natio~) <HI>to gather together with greate labours vppon his charges a multitude of di&s;&s;olute youth to begin this Seminarie of Valliodolid and others in Spaine.</HI> Yet all men here do know it to be
<PB N="7" REF="4">contrarie, and can conuince the impudencie of this a&s;&s;ertio~, for that neither his Maie&s;tie of Spaine, nor the Cardinal or Father before mentioned, nor any man els began this Seminarie vppon any precedent deliberation, nor thought of any &s;uch matter at the beginning thereof, but onelie God him&s;elf, in &s;uch &s;peciall and particular manner be|gan the &s;ame, and increa&s;ed it, as he is wont to &s;ett on foote &s;uch great and important works of his &s;eruice and glorie, which are contemptible often|times in mans eyes, &amp; litle e&s;teemed or thought on vntill after by the effectes the author thereof, &amp; his intentions are di&s;couered.</P>
<P>You remember I am &s;ure,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">VVonder|ful vvaies of Gods vvorkes.</NOTE> how God began the greate worke he had de&s;igned by Io&s;eph in Egypt, by &s;ending him thether captiue in poore, mi&s;era|ble and contemptible &s;orte to mans eies; you can not forget al&s;o how the &s;ame Lord of ho&s;tes, ha|uing determined, a far greater enterpri&s;e by S. Paule the Apo&s;tle,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 9. &amp; 27.</NOTE> &s;ent him fir&s;t blind and afflicted into Dama&s;co, and afterward bound and pri&s;oner vnto Rome. And yf we con&s;ider the greate&s;t workes that euer God did for conuerting the whole worlde, from darknes vnto the light and obedience of his truth and Go&s;pel, we &s;hall fynde that he did it not onelie by &s;imple &amp; &s;eelie men, in re&s;pect of worldlie pompe, but al&s;o by &s;traunge and extraordinarie meanes,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ion. 1. &amp; 2.</NOTE> as when he &s;ent Ionas by a tempe&s;t again&s;t his will to conuerte and &s;aue the whole &s;tate of the Niniuites,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">4. Reg. 14 Mat. 2.</NOTE> When him&s;elf fled to Egypt for feare of Herod, to leaue there the fir&s;t beginnings of his benedictions, where mo&s;t of all they weare geuen
<PB N="8" REF="5">to Idolatrie, when he di&s;per&s;ed his di&s;ciples from Hieru&s;alem, vppon the per&s;ecution and death of his fir&s;t martyr S.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 8.</NOTE> Stephen, and by that meanes wrought infinite benefites to dyuers countries, kingdoms, and nations, and namely among other the conuer&s;ion of that potent Ethiopian Eunuche by meanes of S. Philippe, who retourning to his countrie conuerted his Queene Candaces, and her whole kingdome of Ethiopia.</P>
<P>The like might be pondered of the coming of Marie Magdalen, Martha, and Lazarus in a broken &s;hippe, without &s;aile or ma&s;te, to Mar&s;ilia in Fra~ce, as all antiquitie doth te&s;tifie, whereunto they weare inforced by the per&s;ecution of there enemies in Iurie, but the intention of him that gouerneth all, was to conuert that parte of France, by that iorney of theyrs. The lyke iorney again&s;t his will made into Britaine &s;oone after the a&s;&s;en&s;ion of Chri&s;t, that noble man Io&s;eph of Aramathia, which bu|ried our Sauiour, inforced there vnto by furie of per&s;ecution at home, as al&s;o by tempe&s;t of &s;eas abroade, when he lea&s;t intended that matter, as all or Ingli&s;h recordes doe te&s;tefie, who&s;e coming yet was ordained by God for the fir&s;t &s;parke of light, that was to be imparted vnto our Realme.</P>
<P>The verie lyke and no otherwi&s;e was the begin|ning of this worke here in Spaine, which the Queenes proclamation feigneth or feareth to haue bin in&s;tituted vppon greate treatie, coun&s;ail &amp; de|liberation, which indeede was neuer thought of by anie heere, vntil God him&s;elf had put it in executio~, for thus in real veritie pa&s;&s;ed the whole matter.</P>
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<P>In the moneth of Iulie about three yeares pa&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inglishe Catholi|ques impri|&s;oned, in &V;alleodolid and Bur|gos.</NOTE> to wit the yeare 1589. when the Ingli&s;h armie to theyr co&s;t, came to a&s;&s;ault the frontiers of Galitia, and Portugal, fower or fiue Ingli&s;h pree&s;tes and &s;chollers meeting by chau~ce in this towne of Val|liodolid, from diuers places, where for their con|&s;ciences they had liued in bani&s;hment, &s;ome of them with intentio~ to go in their mi&s;&s;ions towards Ingland, and &s;ome to &s;tudie, for that they weare not yet &s;ufficientlie learned to take that enterpri&s;e in hand, were by rea&s;on of the &s;u&s;pitious tymes, and iu&s;t hatred conceaued by this people again&s;t the Ingli&s;h name (as wel for their here&s;ies, as other out rages latelie committed, and as then in doing) ap|prehended, and layed in Irons, as weare al&s;o three other &s;chollars of the &s;ame nation at the verie &s;ame tyme apprehended and impri&s;oned in the Citie of Burgos, as they came out of France, by rea&s;on of the warrs newlie there begunne, which was a peculiar prouidence of Allmightie God, to make theis men and their cau&s;e knowne in this Contrie, no le&s;&s;e then when he had appeared to S. Paul and Silas in in Troas and willed them to go and preach in Ma|cedonia, he prouided for their welcome thither, &amp; for the better publi&s;hing of their being there, &amp; of the worke they had in hand, that in the fir&s;t towne of Macedonia whereunto they came, named Philippi, they &s;hould be apprehended,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 6.</NOTE> impri&s;oned and publiquelie whipped. Euen &s;o in the cau&s;e of theis men it fell out, which by theyr impri&s;on|ment became much more knowne and fauoured by the principall of this natio~, then euer otherwi&s;e
<PB N="10" REF="6">it wold haue bene, and aboue all, notice was geuen thereof vnto the king him &s;elf by father Per&s;ons be|fore mentioned, who at that tyme by good chance, or rather by Gods particular prouide~ce, was in the courte, being latelie before &s;ent by his &s;uperiours this waie to-wardes Flaunders in bu&s;ines of his or|der: And hauing geuen information of the whole ca&s;e &amp; circum&s;tances thereof vnto his Maie&s;tie, he according to his exceeding greate pietie, and pecu|liar loue to all Catholiques of the Ingli&s;h nation, taking greate compa&s;&s;io~ that men of &s;uch qualitie, &amp; vocation &s;hould &s;uffer in his mo&s;t Catholique contrie, ordeined pre&s;entlie by his royal letters, that the &s;aide pree&s;tes, and &s;cholers &s;hould not onely be &s;et at libertie, &amp; protected, but al&s;o mo&s;t ten|derlie cheri&s;hed &amp; fauored, as their vocation and holie purpo&s;e, in offring them&s;elues to &s;o manie trauailes and dangers for Gods cau&s;e did de&s;erue.</P>
<P>And to the end, that this might be effectuated with more efficacie and con&s;olation of the per&s;ons the~&s;elues, he appointed that the &s;aid father, &s;hould pre&s;entlie go downe to Valliodolid, &amp; gather to ge|ther &s;uch Engli&s;h as weare theare, &amp; prouide for them vntill the weather, &amp; tyme, &amp; other opportu|nities did &s;erue for them to follow their intended iorny, into Ingland, which being don, &amp; the father arriued at Valliodolid, I haue heard him &s;aie, that he found manie euident &amp; palpable arguments of Gods &s;peciall care &amp; prouidence in this affaire: for as on the one &s;yde there aro&s;e dailie many difficul|tes about the &s;ame, &s;o weare they remoued, and re|medied againe by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance verie extraordi|narilie.
<PB N="11" REF="6">And when the Seminarie was once begun (which was neuer thought of but vppo~ this occa|&s;ion) albeit as in all &s;uch workes of Gods &s;peciall &s;eruice it is wont to fall out, there wanted not &s;om contradictions, yet as I haue &s;aid, by the particular helpe of allmightie God, &amp; greate pietie of his Ma|ie&s;tie, &amp; of &s;uch as are nere about his per&s;on, who are people of great vertue &amp; &s;ingularlie inclined to fauour &amp; further all charitable workes, but e&s;pe|ciallie this, &amp; by the reale &amp; peculiar Chri&s;tian di&s;|po&s;ition of this nation in generall, who at marueil|lous forward in aduauncing any thing that apper|teineth to the furtherance &amp; increa&s;e of the Catho|lique religion, when once they ar well informed of the matter. By theis meanes and motiues I &s;aie, this worke hath growen &s;o fa&s;t here in Spaine, as with in theis three yeres it hath increa&s;ed from &s;ix or &s;eauen per&s;ons that began the &s;ame, vnto aboue &s;e|uentie, which now are in this hou&s;e, be&s;ydes &s;ome twelue or thirteene that the yere pa&s;t weare &s;ent in mi&s;&s;ions into Ingland, &amp; eight or nyne that dyed heere, of the commo~ di&s;ea&s;es, which the &s;omer pa&s;t verie extraordinarilie brought with it, &amp; verie like|lie they are to grow dailie heere, as far as I &s;ee, for that euery weeke almo&s;t, I &s;ee them come hither, neither can we make them vp chambers &s;o fa&s;t (wherein prae&s;entlie I haue &s;ome charge &amp; exerci&s;e in this place to ouer looke the builders) but that they come fa&s;ter out of Ingland then their roomes ca~ be made readie, thoughe greare dilige~ce be v&s;ed al&s;o in this by the &s;uperiours of this hou&s;e, and quicklie wee &s;hall haue God willing habitation
<PB N="12" REF="7">for more then a hundred per&s;ons, and after that as God &s;hall further di&s;po&s;e. For being called from thence with that &s;peciall vocation of allmightie God, as it appeareth, there is no doubt but he will prouide them maintenaance, &s;eing that he which geueth, the greater, will geue al&s;o the le&s;&s;e, and the &s;uperiours here being animated with this highe prouidence of God wil not refu&s;e to recea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e them that are &s;o &s;ent, and &s;o fit in all re&s;pectes, and of &s;o good abilitie and towardlines in learning, as com|monlie they are that God &s;endeth for this worke.</P>
<P>And trulie Sir,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The num|ber of &s;chol+lers that come ouer.</NOTE> there be &s;o many thinges to be con&s;idered in the coming ouer of theis youthes in to this place, in &s;uch number, of &s;uch qualitie and condition, and with &s;uch wonderfull re&s;olutions among &s;o manie and manifold labours, and dan|gers that are annexed thereu~to, as to me they &s;eeme to make it euident, that this worke is mo&s;t careful|lie directed by God him &s;elf. For as touching the number, I haue tould you before that they are verie manie in &s;o &s;mall a tyme, and amid&s;t &s;o manie dif|ficulties, of e&s;caping and coming out of the realme. And to here them tel vs heere at their arriuall, the &s;traunge euents that haue happened vnto them in theire iornies, the daungers which they haue pa&s;|&s;ed in diuers countries, and the meanes that God hath euer &s;ent them in their needes, beyond all hope and humane probabilities to get a waie, is wonderfull. And when at &s;ome tymes I haue a&s;ked them, how they knew of this &s;eminarie here in Spaine, and whereby principallie they weare moued to come hither, rather then to other places,
<PB N="13" REF="7">diuers of them haue an&s;weared me, that the late proclamation &s;et out by the Queene in Nouember la&s;t, again&s;t this Seminarie, <MILESTONE N="1591"> did fir&s;t of all geue them notice thereof, as al&s;o appetite to &s;ee the place, &s;o as that which my Lord Trea&s;orers wilynes in In|gland did inuent, to terrifie and diuerte men from coming hither, that doth Gods goodnes, &amp; power|full hand in heauen (far ouerreaching my Lords &s;imple pollicies) turne to an incitation for men to repaire this waie.</P>
<P>And touching there qualitie and condition that do come ouer,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ther qua|litie and condition.</NOTE> the mo&s;t of them in truthe are of &s;uch hou&s;es and families at home, as they might haue liued with great commoditie of temporal e&s;tate in Ingland, &amp; diuers al&s;o come, that be their fathers heires, or onelie children, and tho&s;e of the principall gentrie within our land, others brought vp and in the waie of good praeferment in the two vniuer&s;ities of Oxford and Cambrige, leaue all, and come hither for zeale of religion, being otherwi&s;e of verie good abilitie &amp; towardlines in learning; So as my Lord Trea&s;orer had no rea&s;on at all, and les &s;hamfa&s;tenes in affirming &s;o ba&s;elie, and fal&s;lie of them as he dyd in the fore&s;aid late proclamation. But aboue all, their re&s;olution is to be admired, that being but youthes, and diuers of them of verie ten|der yeares, yet come they ouer with that determi|nacion, to &s;tand and dy in the Catholique cau&s;e, &amp; this in &s;uch &s;orte as they &s;eeme to haue nothing in their myndes from the fir&s;t hower of their voca|tion and re&s;olution, vnto the tyme they retourne home againe for execution of the &s;ame, but the
<PB N="14" REF="8">Impri&s;onments, tortures, and martyrdomes of In|gland, again&s;t vvhich they prouide and arme them &s;elues, all the tyme they remaine here, and that with &s;uch feruour, as by the co~tinuall thinking thereof, they &s;o incen&s;e theyr de&s;yres tovvards the &s;ame, as they begin quicklie to thinke the tyme long, which for their &s;tudies they haue to &s;taic here be|fore they maie retourne to the &s;ame co~flict againe: And the more adui&s;es and letters that do come from Ingland, of rigor and crueltie v&s;ed there again&s;t their fellovves, the more, it &s;eemeth, that theis men are animated thereby, &amp; more de&s;yrous to &s;ee them&s;elues quicklie in the battell: vvhich &s;pirit of theirs being &s;o contrarie to the inclinacion of fle&s;h and bloud, cannot come (in myne opi|nion) but of God onelie: And therefore, I a&s;&s;ure you, it &s;o moueth me oftentymes, as yf I vveare but a &s;evv yeares younger, that I could beare the labours of that mi&s;&s;ion, I thinke verilie I &s;hould aduenture to go backe once againe, vvith them into Ingland. For trulie it moueth me greatelie, to &s;ee the&s;e young youthes, vvhereof many vveare &s;kar&s;e borne vvhen I came out of Ingland fir&s;t, to haue this courage, fortitude, and reale as to put their hands and blouds to &s;o heroicall a vvorke, vvhen we that are old men do begin to repo&s;e: Though I knovv al&s;o, that in all good armies &s;ome mu&s;t remaine in the campe for garde of the bag|gage lef behinde, vvhiles other go to the field, and the one is no le&s;&s;e nece&s;&s;arie for con&s;eruation of the vvhole, then the other, and therefore I vvill co~tent my &s;elf vvith my degree and &s;tation vvhich
<PB N="15" REF="8">God hath giuen me for the pre&s;ent, and will helpe them in theirs wherein I maie.</P>
<P>And thus hauing declared vnto you briefelie the occa&s;ion and begining of this College,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kin|ges coming to Vallio|dolid.</NOTE> with the pre&s;ent &s;tate wherein at this tyme it &s;tandeth, (though &s;ome other particularities I maie chau~ce to touch afterwardes by occa&s;ion offered in this narration) I will now comme to recite vnto you the greate and extraordinarie fauour which this King with the Princes his childre~, &s;hewed vnto our na|tion and to this companie in particular, by theyr per&s;onal coming hither this la&s;t weeke pa&s;t, which fell out in manner and forme following.</P>
<P>The Maie&s;tie of this King for diuers weightie &amp; graue con&s;iderations, re&s;olued in the moneth of Maie la&s;t pa&s;t, to make a progre&s;&s;e this &s;omer vnto his kingdome of Aragon, partlie (as is &s;uppo&s;ed) the better to appea&s;e &amp; remoue &s;ome litle difficulties rai&s;ed there by the euill humors and practi&s;es of &s;ome few vnquiet per&s;ons (which now God be|thanked are wholie remedied) &amp; partelie or rather principallie to receiue the othes of fidelitie of that kingdome vnto the Prince Philippe of Spaine, now his highenes is of age for the purpo&s;e, according to the lawes and cu&s;tomes of that realme, to wit four|teene yeres full complet and ended, And this deter|mination of his Maie&s;tie being once denounced &amp; publi&s;hed throughout Spaine, euerie kingdome, prouince, &s;hyre, and towne, by which his Maie&s;tie was to pa&s;&s;e, made particular praeparation to recea|ue him, with all po&s;&s;ible demon&s;tration of ioy, ac|cording to the exceeding greate loue and mo&s;t
<PB N="16" REF="9">hartie deuotion, which his &s;ubiects do worthelie beare vnto him, and vnto his mo&s;t noble children: who are Princes certeinelie of mo&s;t amiable a&s;pect, courteous deportment, and rare expectation.</P>
<P>This court then departed from S.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Begining of the Pro|gre&s;&s;e.</NOTE> Lawrence of the E&s;curiall about the end of Maie la&s;t pa&s;t, and making their iornie by <HI>Segouia, Areuole, Medina del Campo,</HI> and other greate townes, weare receiued euerie where with great preparatio~s, and exceeding greate ioye and applau&s;e of the people, who weare neuer &s;atisfied to behold their good old King and yong Princes whome &s;o lo~g &amp; earne&s;tlie before they had defyred to &s;ee. But among all the places of this kingdome of Ca&s;tilla la <HI>Vieia,</HI> this towne of <HI>Valliodo|lid,</HI> as the principall both for the royall chauncerie, Tribunal of Inqui&s;ition, honor of Vniuer&s;itie, re&s;i|dence of nobilitie, &amp; other preheminences vvhich it holdeth (thoughe yet it be no Citie) did &s;hevv it &s;elf mo&s;t eminent and noble, both in receauing his Maie&s;tie and interteining him and the Princes, for the &s;pace of the is tvvo moneths vvhich they haue remayned here.</P>
<P>And for the entraunce and receauing,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings entrance in Valliodolid.</NOTE> I do a&s;&s;ure you, that albeit I haue &s;eene diuers courtes and magnificent &s;hevves in my lyf, yet neuer did I &s;ee thing that more contented me, either for the &s;ub|&s;tance or order of the matter. For be&s;ides al the rankes of nobilitie, of Dukes, Marque&s;es, Earles, Lords, and diuers orders of Kinghts vvith theyr va|rietie of Gro&s;&s;es, habits and militarie &s;ignes: There vvent out al&s;o to meete his Maie&s;tie and their highene&s;&s;es all the clergie, as namelic the Lord
<PB N="17" REF="9">Abbat which is chief Prelat of this towne, vvith all the Chanons and other Pree&s;ts. There vvere al&s;o heere pre&s;ent that tyme about other bui&s;ines, the Archeby&s;hop of S. Iames, &amp; By&s;hop of Salaman|ca, that vvent vvith their traines. There vvent forth in lyke &s;orte, the Lord prae&s;ide~t of this Chauncerie royall, vvith all his Iudges, Lavvriers, and other of|ficers, vvhich at in greate numbers. There vvent forth the Inqui&s;ition, vvith their &s;tandard of the faith borne before them: There vvent forth the Vniuer&s;itie, vvith all &s;ortes of Doctors and Licen|tiats vvith their en&s;ignes: There vvent forth the gouernour of the tovvne, vvith al his Councellors, and brethren: And finallie all partes and members of Iu&s;tice and gouernment (vvhich heere are verie &s;ollenme and honorable) be&s;ides infinit other par|ticular per&s;ons vvent forthe of the tovvne to re|ceaue his Maie&s;tie, vvho entered about fiue or &s;ix of the clocke at after noone, vppon the 25. daie of Iune, his Maie&s;tie vvith the Infanta in a Coache all open and di&s;couered, &amp; the Prince on hor&s;ebacke, vvhich vvas a particular fauour to the people ex|treme de&s;yrous to &s;ee him, for that otherwi&s;e com|monlie his highenes is accu&s;tomed to go vvith his father in Coache, albeit truly he becometh &s;o wel a hor&s;e, euen in theis young years of his, as it reioy|ced my very harre to &s;ee him one the &s;ame, con&s;y|dering vvhat he is, and vvhat he &s;hall be, &amp; vvhat hope and expectation all Chri&s;tendome hath of him, vvhich I per&s;wade my &s;elf mo&s;t a&s;&s;uredlie that he will rather exceede, then not fulfill, accor|ding to the &s;ignes and tokens that novv he geueth
<PB N="18" REF="10">of the &s;ame, beeing all redy bothe in per&s;on and be|hauiour much more ma~lyke the~ I could haue &s;up|po&s;ed.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Prin|ce of Spai|ne.</NOTE> For to &s;peake nothing of his pietie, which is the principall, &amp; e&s;peciallie re&s;pected by the king his father in his education (wherein I could re|compt you &s;trange thinges, by the reporte of his owne Ma&s;ter and others of his highenes chamber, as heere among vs they are told and beleued) his towardlines al&s;o in other thinges is rare, I meane as well for his wonderfull comlines of bodie and actiuitie ioyned with the &s;ame, as al&s;o gyfts of mynde, which both amaze, &amp; infinitelie comforte all &s;uch as con&s;ider them: and do hope that he is prepared for a pillar to all Chri&s;tianitie after his father, that now &s;u&s;teineth the &s;ame: And thus much of their receiuing into Valliodolid.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Entertat|nements of the King in &V;allio|lid.</NOTE> After their enterance they vveare enterteined diuers daies by the nobilitie and towne, with great diuer&s;i|tie of &s;hewes, ma&s;kes, running of Bulles, exerci&s;es of armes, &amp; other &s;portes both by land and water, hauing made vppon the riuer diuers gallies and barges for this purpo&s;e, albeit his Maie&s;tie gaue order to moderate the multitude of &s;uch prepara|tions, vvhich re&s;treyned much the de&s;yre &amp; feruor of this people, and cut of manie of theyr de&s;igne|ments vvhich they had made to recreate their king and Princes, vvith theis kynde of exerci&s;es. But the Kinge though he vvent &s;omtymes for recreation &s;ake to theis &s;ights, yet his fir&s;t and principall care vvas, according to his religious cu&s;tome, to vi&s;ite churches and mona&s;teries, and other pious places, vvhereof he had all the draughts and de&s;ignements
<PB N="19" REF="10">&s;oone brought vnto him by &s;uch Architects as for this purpo&s;e do follow the courte, and &s;erue his Maie&s;tie. And it was a wonderfull edification to &s;ee and con&s;ider, the religious and chri&s;tian humilitie of &s;o greate a monarch in this behalf: which &s;ure|lie I am not able to recoumpt vnto you &s;o much as it was, but certeine I am that it made my harte to bleede, to thinke vppon the differe~t education, and deportment of our Ingli&s;h Princes in theis later daies, touching theis religious actions, wherein our old auncient famous kinges and Queenes by re|cord of all antiquitie, did yeld to no realme Chri|&s;tian in this kinde of pietie.</P>
<P>But to tell you one example among diuers that I &s;aw with myne owne eies,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Execeding great pie|tie and de|uotion of the King and Prin|ces.</NOTE> vppon the fir&s;t daie of Augu&s;t la&s;t pa&s;t, which was &s;ondaie, his Maie&s;tie went to here ma&s;&s;e at the new churche of the Ie|&s;uits in this towne, which is very fayre and of verie excellent good architecture: and being receiued at the churche dore by all the religious of that hou&s;e with greate deuotion and &s;olemnitie, the pree&s;t that in name of all the re&s;t, did the deuine office that daie, came to the dore apparailed in his robes, and accompained with his deacon, &amp; &s;ubdeacon, &amp; with the &s;igne of our redemption in his hands, to wit the holie cro&s;&s;e, with a litle piece of the woode of the true cro&s;&s;e whereon Chri&s;t him &s;elf died, placed in golde and chri&s;tal with in the &s;ame, which this religious kinge tooke and ky&s;&s;ed with all reuerence &amp; deuocion, and put it vppon his face and eies, &amp; the prince following the example of &s;o chri&s;tian a father, did the verie &s;ame vppon
<PB N="20" REF="11">his knee, and the infanta no more nor le&s;&s;e, which was a &s;ight of &s;ingular edification to all the &s;tanders by, and e&s;peciallie to &s;ome of vs, that had known and &s;eene the prowde and contemptible manner of of proceedings of &s;ome haeretical princes, in this behalf: and no doubt, but that euerie one &s;uch act of true chri&s;tian humilitie in &s;o mightie Princes, and that in the &s;ight of &s;o many lookers on, doth merite exceeding greate grace at almightie Gods hands, who onelie is honoured &amp; exalted thereby, and mans vnworthines and ba&s;enes acknowledged euen in the highe&s;t. And truly to &s;ee theis three greate princes, to honour with &s;uch hartie affectio~, the cro&s;&s;e &amp; me morie of the death of their Sauiour, made me to imagen that I &s;aw pre&s;ent our noble Briti&s; he Emperour <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the greate, with his renowmed two Catholique children, <HI>Con&s;tans,</HI> and <HI>Con&s;tantia,</HI> naie the Infanta &s;emed to re&s;emble not onelie the pietie of <HI>Con&s;tantia,</HI> but euen the verie zeale, wi&s;dome, fortitude, &amp; other vertues of our countrie woman <HI>S. Helena</HI> her &s;elf, and &s;o by the vniuer&s;all con&s;ent of all men heere &s;hee doth, and is &s;o generallie loued and honored for the &s;ame, as it cannot be expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>One daie al&s;o his Maie&s;tie and the Princes went to &s;ee the Vniuer&s;itie, where they weare receiued with exceeding great honor, and rare varietie of learned exerci&s;es in all kinde of &s;cie~ces, which his Maie&s;tie &amp; their highene&s;&s;es heard read, in euerie &s;chole: with manie pithie orations, &amp; other delec|table inuentions.</P>
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<PB N="21" REF="11">
<HEAD>OF THE KINGES coming to the Ingli&s;h College.</HEAD>
<P>AFTER his Maie&s;tie and their highne&s;&s;es had re&s;ted &s;ome few daies, it &s;eemed conue|nient to father Rodrigo de Cauredo Rector of this College, and to father Per&s;ons, to pre&s;ent vnto his Maie&s;tie the greate de&s;yre theis &s;tudents had to be admitted to the &s;ight and &s;peech of his Maie&s;tie,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings benignitie.</NOTE> and to ky&s;&s;e his hands in the Palla|ce, or where his Maie&s;tie &s;hold appointe, and to geue him thanks for the manifold greate benefites which he had be&s;towed vppon them, and all other Catholiques of theyr nation: which petition being propounded to his Maie&s;tie by diuers of the chamber, and others of the Nobilitie that highlie do fauor this College, in this courte, his mo&s;t gra|tious au&s;weare was, whither it &s;hold not be better to go in per&s;on, and &s;ee them in theyr owne hou&s;e: whereunto when it was replied, that their hou&s;e was thought to be incomodious for &s;uch a matter, for that theyr habitacion was not yet greate, nor theyr building fini&s;hed; his Maie&s;tie an&s;wered the &s;econd tyme, that notwith&s;tanding all this it &s;hold be good to thinke better of the matter, whereby he &s;hewed his exceeding goodwill to the College, and gaue theis fathers here, hope of his coming hither, which before they neuer dur&s;t to haue expected, &amp; much le&s;&s;e to haue reque&s;ted.</P>
<P>Some daies after this there came to the College
<PB N="22" REF="12">certeine principall men about his Maie&s;tie who alwaies had ben fauourers of this worke, and by knowledge &amp; co~&s;ent of the King him &s;elf, did not onelie vi&s;it &amp; comfort the &s;tudents thereof by their pre&s;ence, but al&s;o were co~te~t to &s;taie &amp; dyne among them, &amp; to heare diuers exerci&s;es of learning, both in diuinitie and Philo&s;ophie and varietie of langua|ges, being all of them learned me~ them&s;elues, to wit <HI>Gar&s;ia de Loya&s;a</HI> &s;cholema&s;ter of the Prince, &amp; highe Almner of his Maie&s;tie, and <HI>Don Iuan de Ideaquez</HI> of the priuie Councell, and councell of e&s;tate, and <HI>Don Martin de Ideaquez</HI> &s;ecretarie of the priuie councell, and Doctor Vale&s;ius chief phi&s;itian of his Maie&s;tie, who hauing heard the fore&s;aid exerci&s;es, were much contented and &s;atisfied with the &s;ame, and gaue greate comendatio~, to the parties and frendlie relation thereof afterwards vnto his Maie&s;tie and the vvhole courte, as occa&s;ion vvas offred: vvhereby much de&s;yre in them and others vvas increa&s;ed, to haue his Maie&s;tie come and &s;ee the hou&s;e and com|panie in per&s;on, as aftervvard he dyd.</P>
<P>Among other things that theis men vveare In|qui&s;itiue of that daie to knovv (e&s;peciallie <HI>Don Iuan de Ideaquez</HI> vvho for his calling is verie well lear|ned,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Orders of the In|glish Col|lege.</NOTE> and from the beginning had ben a &s;peciall fur|therer of this vvorke, vvith his Maie&s;tie) vvas about the manner of the &s;chollers lyf, &amp; &s;tudie, and hovv they &s;pent the tyme for preparing and furni&s;hing them&s;elues to that noble action of Martyrdome, vvhich they pretende, vvhere vppon vvas declared vnto his Lord&s;hippe, not onelie their end, and or|dinarie meanes for the &s;ame, but al&s;o vvhat pecu|liar
<PB N="23" REF="12">order of &s;tudie they v&s;ed, for &s;upplying of diuers poyntes of learning nece&s;&s;arie for this enterpri&s;e, thoughe not &s;o much v&s;ed nor yet &s;o preci&s;elie needefull for the people of other contries, vvhere here&s;ies haue not entered, as for theis that go to Ingland, thoughe many particular men al&s;o of this natio~ are to be found that are verie &s;kilful in in the &s;ame, I meane in matters of controuer&s;ie, &amp; dilligent reading of the text of &s;criptures, with &s;kyll of the Hebrue and Greeke languages and other the lyke poyntes, be&s;ides the ordinarie cour&s;es of diuinitie and Philo&s;ophie, which mo&s;t learnedlie arread in this Vniuer&s;itie. And for better declaring of this matter, there was &s;hewed vnto his Lord&s;hip a table that hangeth in the College of the orders of the hou&s;e, co~teining the di&s;tributio~ of all the tyme fro~hovver, to hower, throughout the whole daie, and weeke, &amp; yeare, vvhich here vvith I maie prochaunce &s;end al&s;o to you in a paper aparte yf I can haue tyme to copie it out, to the end you maie vnder&s;tand, that the lyf and exerci&s;e of theis men is conformable to the enterpri&s;e they haue propo&s;ed to them&s;elues, for gaining of &s;oules to their maker, and that my Lord Trea&s;urer vvas much caried awaie with pa&s;&s;ion, vvhen in his late proclamation he auouched, that theyr vvhole lyf vvas nothing els but &s;tudie of trea&s;on. This table being reade by <HI>Don Iuan de Ideaquez,</HI> which contei|ned (as I haue &s;aid) the vvhole order of the &s;tudents lyf, and conuer&s;ation, both for prayer, lectures, di&s;|putations, corporall refection, recreation, and other exerci&s;es from the verie tyme of theyr ry&s;ing vntill
<PB N="24" REF="13">the in&s;tant vvherein they go to bed againe, all mea&s;ured and limited vvith greate wy&s;dome and circum&s;pection: the thing plea&s;ed him &s;o vvell, as he would needes haue a copie vvritten out thereof, &amp; &s;ent him, vvhich vvas don the next daie after, and it is &s;uppo&s;ed that he imparted the &s;ame al&s;o to the king: But hovv&s;oener this vvas, certeine I am that the &s;uperiors of this hou&s;e, had &s;hortly after a&s;&s;u|rance that his Maie&s;tie, and theyr highene&s;&s;es vvold come and vi&s;it the College, for which purpo&s;e they began pre&s;entlie to make preparation, as vvel as the tyme would &s;erue, vvhich by Gods particular pro|uidence and a&s;&s;i&s;tance, fell out far better in the end, then at the begining vvas Imagined, for of a cer|taine quarter of a hou&s;e, which they had begun to builde vp for a refectorie, and other offices belon|ging thereunto, being a hundred and ten foote in length, and about two or three and tvventie in breadth, thoughe the vvalles vvere but half vvaie vp, yet they made &s;hyft to couer it vvith tymber and canua&s;e, and hanged it verie decentlie vvith grene and redd taffatie, and &s;o adorned it vvith a|abundance of ver&s;es of manie languages, Em|blemes, Hieroglyphicks, and other learned in|uentions, as vvas mo&s;t beutifull and delectable to behold; and in the mids thereof vvas made a place of e&s;tate, mounted &s;omvvhat higher then the re&s;t, vvith three chaires, for the king and the tvvo Prin|ces to &s;it, and right ouer again&s;t them a pulpit for the exerci&s;es of learning to he donne therein. On the right hand of the king &s;at the Prince, and on his &s;yde &s;toode al the &s;chollers in ranckes, according to
<PB N="25" REF="13">their degrees in &s;tudies. On the le&s;t hand &s;at the infanta, and neere to her were placed all hir Ladies and vvomen of honour: and nexte to them the no|bilitie and courtiers that came vvith the king, and all had verie good and commodious &s;tanding, by rea&s;on of the largenes of the place as hath bin &s;aide.</P>
<P>The exerci&s;es that vveare appointed for this re|ceiuing of his Maie&s;tie,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exercices appoynted for the King in the Ing. Colle|ge.</NOTE> were the fore&s;aid ver&s;es and compo&s;itions in diuer&s;e languages, &amp; be&s;ydes this, certeine orations and pithie &s;peeches in the &s;ame tongues, vppon diuer&s;e ver&s;es of the 71. P&s;alme which beginneth <HI>Deus iudicium tuum Regida, &amp; iu&s;ti|tiam tuam filio Regis.</HI> Which P&s;alme thoughe it were written properlie and peculiarly of Chri&s;t him&s;elf, yet by &s;econdarie application, &amp; by &s;ome &s;imilitu|de, it maie al&s;o verie aptelie be accommodated to this mo&s;t chri&s;tian King, &amp; his &s;on, that are &s;o prin|cipall mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, and do imitate &s;o mani|fe&s;tlie his kinglie vertues, vvhich in this P&s;alme are expre&s;&s;ed. And for that the &s;uperiours of this hou&s;e con&s;ydering the good abilitie of theis &s;tudents, in the varietie of languages, which in this bani&s;he|ment of theirs they haue learned, being able to &s;peake and write verie perfectlie in nyne or ten different tongues (a rare thing, as it &s;eemeth in a College of one onlie Nation) they thought it be&s;t that in euerie language &s;ome &s;chollers &s;hold take a ver&s;e of the fore&s;aid P&s;alme, and briefelie there|vppon &s;aie &s;omwhat, to the pre&s;ent purpo&s;e of the King and his childrens being heere, and of the &s;tate of our afflicted countrie.</P>
<PB N="26" REF="14">
<P>This being thus appointed his Maie&s;tie vppon the third of Augu&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings comming.</NOTE> being the day of the inuention of the &s;acred bodie of S. Stephen the proto martyr of Chri&s;ts vniuer&s;all Church (a fit daie for the rela|tion it had to S. Alban fir&s;t martyr of Ingland to whome this how&s;e is dedicated) cau&s;ed to be ad|uerti&s;ed pre&s;entlie after dinner, that he wold be with vs that verie euening, which he fulfilled, and for more &s;hew of loue and confidence, came with out anie gard at all, though he had three royall guards in the towne, to wit, one of Almans, the &s;e|cond of Burgondians, and the third of Spaniards: onelie the Rector of the College &s;ente to the Cap|taine of the &s;pani&s;h guarde, to reque&s;t half a do&s;en of his &s;oldiors, to be &s;ent him for keeping the Col|lege gates, to the end that &s;o greate a pre&s;&s;e of peo|ple as repaired thither, vppon the fame of the Kings comming, &s;hould not enter and di&s;turbe tho&s;e that were within, or came with his maie&s;tie.</P>
<P>The King and Princes being comme to the Col|lege, fir&s;t of all they made theyr prayer in the Chap|pel of S. Alban, where briefelie by one of the fa|thers of the &s;ocietie, the rea&s;ons weare geuen to his Maie&s;tie why this College had taken the aduo|cation of that &s;ainct: fir&s;t becau&s;e he was the fir&s;t martyt of Chri&s;t in that Iland, and &s;econdlie for that his cau&s;e of Martyrdome was the &s;ame for which men at this daie do &s;uffer death in Ingland, to wit for receauing of a pree&s;t into his hou&s;e as before hath bin touched, from this place they went to the greate hall or theater before mentioned, where his Maie&s;tie and their highene&s;&s;es being &s;et
<PB N="27" REF="14">they fir&s;t of all vewed more di&s;tinctlie all the &s;chol|lers in their rankes, which before they had onlie &s;eene together at the fir&s;t entrance at the gate of the College. And here it was told his Maie&s;tie fir&s;t of all, which of the &s;tudents were deuines, which Philo&s;ophes, which newlie come, and other lyke circum&s;tances.</P>
<P>After this prae&s;ented him &s;elf before his maie&s;tie a youth of verie gratefull a&s;pect, &amp; co~melie actio~, which in the name of al the re&s;t made a pithie ora|tio~ of gratulatio~ &amp; thanks geuing to his Maie&s;tie &amp; theyr highene&s;&s;es, for their coming thither, and manie other benefites be&s;toued vppon our nation, the &s;omme of the oratio~ was,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The ora|tion to the King.</NOTE> that as in one re&s;pect he toke it for a &s;ingular benefit, and priuilege to him&s;elf, to haue occa&s;ion and leaue, to vtter that daie by word of mouth, the exceeding ioy and iubi|ley of his hart, which the re&s;t of his fellowes, bre|thren, and fathers there pre&s;ent weare permitted to to te&s;tifie, by their lookes onelie and alacritie of countenance: &s;o on the other &s;yde, it did breede vnto him no &s;mall difficultie to be comaunded by his &s;uperiors to be brief, and to haue his tyme limi|ted of &s;peeche in &s;uth an argume~t &amp; &s;ubiect, as had no end or limit in it &s;elf, which weare the prai&s;es and actes prai&s;e worthie of his Catholique Maie|&s;tie, of which albeit he weare letted to &s;peake, both by the fore&s;aid breuitie of tyme &amp; greate mode&s;tie his Maie&s;tie, yet hoped he at lea&s;te that he might haue &s;poken &s;ome what in that place of our coun|trie of Ingland, &s;om thing al&s;o of him&s;elf and his followes, his Maie&s;ties children, pupils and gue&s;tes:
<PB N="28" REF="15">manie thinges of Spaine, that had bin to them &s;o louing a nur&s;e, and mo&s;t of all of the manifold be|nefits receiued of his maie&s;tie; of all which &s;eing that by the cau&s;es recited he was inforced to hold his peace, he &s;aid his next comfort was to con&s;yder that his Maie&s;ties wy&s;dome, knowlege and expe|rience of all affaires, &amp; e&s;peciallie ours of England, was &s;o great, that by one onelie view of tho&s;e &s;chol|lers pre&s;ent without hearing them &s;peake, he wold conceaue more of their e&s;tate and de&s;yres, and of all the&s;e points before mentioned, then he by anie length of &s;peech could vtter vnto him.</P>
<P>To this &s;en&s;e and &s;ub&s;tance he began his oratio~; and for that I remember now, that you vnder&s;tand al&s;o the Latin tongue, I will not &s;pare to &s;et doune heere &s;o much of the beginning of the &s;aid oratio~, as alreadie I haue expre&s;&s;ed in Ingli&s;h, for thus it we~t.</P>
<P><HI>Singulari beneficio contigi&s;&s;e mihi arbitror hodierno die (Potenti&s;sime Pij&s;sime&abque; Rex) quod cum caeteri mei &s;ocij Pa|tres fratre&s;&abque; corona hac circumfu&s;i, conceptam animis laeti|tiam cordium&abque; gaudium, ex hac maie&s;tatis tuae, &amp; &s;ereni&s;|&s;imorum Principum grati&s;sima prae&s;entia pleni&s;sim&egrave; cumu|latum oculis tantum &amp; vultu te&s;lentur, mihi &s;oli inter cae|teros &s;ors haec grati&s;sima obtigerit, vt ge&s;tientis animi exul|tationem verbis quo&abque; eloquar. Quod &s;ummam &s;an&egrave; mihi iucunditatem parit; non quod ego me lius quam caeteri prae|&s;tare hoc po&s;sim, &s;ed quod exuberanti cordis affectui commo|dius hac ratione &s;atisfaciam, quam reliqui, qui eru~pentem mentis ardorem vocis &s;ilentio premere coguntur.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Quanquam ex altera quo&abque; parte &s;ummam profecto elo|quendi mihi difficultatem facit, cum temporis buius, tum &s;ermonis etiam circum&s;criptio, qua iubeor e&s;&s;e breui&s;simus.
<PB N="29" REF="15">Quid enim quae&s;o, immen&s;am illam ingentem&abque; factoru~ tuo|rum nobili&s;simorum &s;yluam ingredienti (glorio&s;i&s;sime mo|narcha) quid innumerabilia laudum tuarum encomia a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">|mo percurrenti magis aduer&s;um aut incommodum cogitari pote&s;t, quam temporis angu&s;tiae &amp; orationis prae&s;cripta bre|uitas? Id&abque; multo magis mihi hoc primo aditu ad maie&s;tatis tuae con&s;pectum, quo vt caetera omnia taceam &amp; &s;ilentio in|uoluam, aliquid cert&egrave; de Anglia no&s;tra dicendum mihi fue|rat, nonnulla de nobis ip&s;is, &s;ilijs, alumnis, &amp; ho&s;pitibus tuis, multa de Hi&s;pania dulci&s;sima nutrice no&s;tra, plurima ver&ograve; de te tui&s;&abque; maximis &amp; in&s;initis in nos beneficijs, quae omnia cum vel omittere pror&s;us. vel in huius tantilli tempo|ris angu&s;tias indecor&egrave; plan&egrave; compingere cogar, permole&s;tum &s;ane videbatur. Qanquam vt verum fatear, eo vno interim me &s;olabar plurimum, quod tantam e&s;&s;e &s;ciremmaie&s;tatis tuae prudentiam, &amp; in omni rerum genere (no&s;trarum maxi|m&egrave;) cognitionem, v&s;um, ac &s;ingularem foelici&s;simam&abque; me|moriam, vt quicquid ego dicturus &s;im, aut dicere his de rebu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> po&s;sim, id tu ex vnico no&s;trum intuitu, animo praeconciperes, &amp; benignitatis tuae a&s;&s;en&s;u, &s;iue dicentem me, &s;iue gratulan|tem, &s;iue gratias agentem, vel etiam &s;upplicantem anteuer|teres. Nota e&s;t enim ia~diu maie&s;tati tuae co~ditio no&s;tra, nota cau&s;a, per&s;pectae difficultates, cognitum propo&s;itum, audita de&s;yderia, intellectae &s;pes, non ignota &s;tudia: quibus omnibus cum tu pro &s;ingulari tua pietate ac regia clementia &amp; mu|nificentia tantopere faueas &amp; patrocineris, non i&s;ta nobis tam commemorare nece&s;&s;e e&s;t, quam gratis animis pro&s;equi, quam memoria &s;empiterna complecti, quam exten&s;is mani|bus, oculis, cordibu&s;&abque; (quod cert&egrave; facimus) ad caelum v&s;&abque; quotidie tran&s;mittere, vbi tantae beneficentiae praemium cer|ti&s;simum, &amp; remuneratio tibi futura e&s;t &s;empiterna.</HI></P>
<P>This then was the fir&s;t parte of his &s;peeche to
<PB N="30" REF="16">the King, and in the continuaunce and pro&s;ecution of the &s;ame he touched diuers points that &s;eemed greatelie to moue the &s;tanders by, as among others he alleadged that example of rich Abdias in the bookes of the kings, who &s;aid to Elias the prophet. <HI>Haue you heard perchaunce</HI> (quoth he) <HI>what I did in ty|mes pa&s;t,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">. Reg. 19.</NOTE> <HI>when Iezabel the wicked Queene did per&s;ecute and &s;lea the Prophets of God almighty how I did &s;aue a hundred of their liues together, by hyding fy&s;tie in one caue, &amp; &s;y&s;tie in an other, &amp; feeding them with bread &amp; water?</HI> Which this youth applied to the King of Spaines &s;uccouring of Ingli&s;h Catholiques in theis daies, vnder the per&s;ecution of Queene Elizabeth of In|gland, and that he had &s;aued the lyues not of one hundred, but of manie hundreds, nor had hidden them in caues as Abdias did, but had receaued them openlie and honorablie, in his townes, cities, and kingdomes, nor had onelie mainteined them with bread and water, but geuen them liberallie and a|bundantlie to liue on. All which he vttered with &s;uch good grace and hartie affection, and with &s;o effectual words and &s;peech in the Latin tongue, as greatlie plea&s;ed all men, and made deepe impre&s;&s;io~ in the hearers, e&s;peciallie to &s;uch as knew the &s;pea|ker (whereof al&s;o his Maie&s;tie was partelie aduerti|&s;ed by a father that &s;tood neere him) to be the &s;on of a wor&s;hipfull gentleman of our contrie, that dyed in pri&s;on for his religion, and that the youth him&s;elf being then but 14. yeares of age had bin twi&s;e or thri&s;e impri&s;oned in Ingland for confe&s;|&s;ion of the catholique faith, with two of his bre|thren, before they came into theis parts, which
<PB N="31" REF="16">circum&s;tances gaue verie greate force and energie to that he &s;pake, and &s;o when he had don his Ma|ie&s;tie &s;aid once or twi&s;e verie hartelie that he had don verie wel. And when he came to ky&s;&s;e his Ma|ie&s;ties hands on his knee, he would not &s;uffer him, but imbraced him tenderlie about the head and &s;o di&s;mi&s;&s;ed him.</P>
<P>After him mounted vp into the pulpit (that &s;toode before the King and Princes) an other youth of XVI. yeares of age, of no le&s;&s;e grace &amp; habilitie in &s;peeche the~ the former, who&s;e name for iu&s;t re&s;|pects of the wor&s;hipfull and honorable to whome he is of kynred in Ingland, I do omit, his &s;peeche was thus word for word in the &s;pani&s;h tongue, by waie of preface and preamble to that which was to in&s;ue.</P>
<P>After we weare aduerti&s;ed (mo&s;t victorious King and noble Princes) of the exceeding greate fauour which your maie&s;tie and highene&s;&s;es had determi|ned to &s;hew vnto vs, &amp; to our natio~,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The en|trance to the ton|gues.</NOTE> by coming to vi&s;it in your royal per&s;ons this their new College of poore bani&s;hed Ingli&s;hemen; we began to thinke with our &s;elues, what we might do on our partes, with the litle tallent which God hath geuen vs, that might not be vngratefull to your maie&s;ties eares, nor vnworthie of your pre&s;ence: And &s;o hauing receiued your Maie&s;tie and highe|ne&s;&s;es, with tho&s;e few vvordes of gratulation and thankes geuing, which in the name of the vvhole companie haue bin vttred, no one thing &s;eemed &s;hold be more apt, or acceptable, then as yf people di&s;per&s;ed in diuers contries and nations for co~fe&s;|&s;ion
<PB N="32" REF="17">of him that is Lord of all, we &s;hould vtter in diuers languages, as vvel by &s;peeche from this pul|pit, as in the varietie of ver&s;es and compo&s;itions which hang on the&s;e vvalles, the great and vn|&s;peakable mercies and fauours which almighty God by meanes of your Maie&s;tie hath &s;hewed vn|to vs, and will do euerie daie more, as wee haue iu&s;t cau&s;e to expect. And for our th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">mes or argume~ts of theis &s;peeches, we haue thought be&s;t to take in order the principall ver&s;es of the &s;euentie and one p&s;alme, as verie commodius for this purpo&s;e; and our begining &s;halbe from the Hebrue tongue, as mother and roote of all the re&s;t.</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>I. The Hebrue.</HEAD>
<P>HE that &s;pake in the Hebrue tongue was a per&s;on verie markable, for being &s;o neere of kyn as he is to one of the worthie&s;t men that euer perhaps the &s;oile of Ingland bred of his coate, I meane of that noble and worthie kinght and Martyr S. Thomas More, whereof the King being aduerti&s;ed at the fir&s;t appearing of this man in the pulpit, he told pre&s;entlie the infanta thereof. He tooke for his theame the fir&s;t ver&s;e of the fore &s;aid P&s;alme which in Latin &s;aith thus. <HI>Deus iudicium tuum Regi da, &amp; iu&s;titiam tuam filio Regis.</HI> &amp; in Ingli&s;h, <HI>O Lord geue iudgement vnto the King, and iu&s;tice vnto the Kings &s;on.</HI> Wherevppon this man &s;pake in Hebrue, and repeated the &s;ame briefelie againe in Latin when he had don, and &s;o did all the re&s;t that follo|wed and &s;peake in tongues not vnder&s;tood by his Maie&s;tie, &amp; the Princes, the effect of his &s;peeche
<PB N="33" REF="17">was, that as iudgement and iu&s;tice were two prin|cipall perles, and precious &s;tones which among others did adorne and greatelie beautifie an Impe|rial crovvne, and for that cau&s;e were &s;o &s;peciallie attributed in this ver&s;e of the P&s;alme vnto the roy|all gouerme~t of Chri&s;t our Sauior. So by the &s;ingu|lar goodnes &amp; fauor of the &s;ame our Sauiour it was brought to pa&s;&s;e; that in theis mo&s;t trouble&s;ome daies of ours, wherein &s;o manie other kingdomes weare driuen into di&s;order, di&s;&s;olution,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iu&s;tice and iudgement, in Spaine.</NOTE> and licen|tiou&s;nes, by warrs, tumults and here&s;ies, <HI>Iudgment and Iu&s;tice</HI> &s;hould &s;o much flouri&s;h in the crowne of Spaine, as neuer by anie mans memorie was re|corded the lyke. Which vvas the cau&s;e al&s;o that &s;o manie of far contries did repaire hither, to &s;hrewde them&s;elues vnder theis two noble &s;hieldes of all peace, tranquilitie, and &s;ecuritie, and &s;o much the more for that they did not, onelie &s;ee <HI>iudgement</HI> and <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI> e&s;tabli&s;hed in Spaine for his Maie&s;ties daies, but the Princes education and inclination al&s;o to be &s;uch for maintenau~ce of the &s;ame, as they might be hoped to be perpetuall, &s;o as the prophets de&s;y|re vvas heere al&s;o fulfilled (&s;aith he) that wy&s;hed both <HI>Iudgement and Iu&s;tice to the King, and to the Kings &s;onne.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>II. The Greeke.</HEAD>
<P>HE that &s;pake in the Greeke tongue, vvas a man no le&s;&s;e quallifyed then the re&s;t, but ra|ther more in all kynds and varietie of learning, and borne of a vvor&s;hipfull hou&s;e in Ingland, as for the mo&s;t part they weare all which &s;pake to the
<PB N="34" REF="18">King this daie, and he &s;pake the Greeke tongue &s;o naturallie, as it made them wonder that vnder&s;tood it, in &s;o much as it plea&s;ed his Maie&s;tie to a&s;ke the prince whither he vnder&s;tood anie parte thereof, for that his highenes be&s;ydes all other royall quali|ties &amp; virtues, is &s;aid al&s;o to be &s;o diligentlie in&s;truc|ted in both theis tongues of Latine and Greeke, as that in the fir&s;t he both &s;peaketh and vvriteth well. This man then tooke for his theame the &s;econd ver&s;e of the fore &s;aid P&s;alme, which hauing relatio~ to the vvordes going in the ver&s;e before, &s;aith thus, <HI>Iudicare populum tuum in iu&s;titia, &amp; pauperes tuos in iu|dicio.</HI> That is, <HI>To iudge thy people in iu&s;tice, and thy poore ones in iudgement.</HI> Which vvordes he applied to the &s;ame effect almo&s;t vvhich the other had done the former ver&s;e, thoughe vvith different conceipts &amp; &s;entences, for he tould of the tvvo potent hands vvhereby God did hold vp &amp; gouerne the vvhole vveight of the vvorld, as al&s;o of the tvvo feete vvhereby he vvas &s;aid to vvalke the in&s;crutable vvaies of his diuine prouidence, and that as this King pre&s;ent aboue all other earthelie and tempo|rall chri&s;tian kings, did mo&s;t repre&s;ent the povver of Almightie God by the greatnes of his Monar|chie, &s;o did he in no one thing more imitate the patetne of his goodnes then by protecting Gods people vvith Iu&s;tice and iudgement, and relieuing his poore ones, vvhereof the Ingli&s;h pre&s;ent and manie others of theyr nation could geue mo&s;t true and glorious te&s;timony.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="section">
<PB N="35" REF="18">
<HEAD>III. The Latin.</HEAD>
<P>HE that &s;pake in the Latin tongue vvas &s;om|vvhat longer then the re&s;t, for that both his Maie&s;tie and the Prince and diuers other of the courte and noble men there pre&s;ent vnder&s;toode him, and &s;o taking for his theame the third ver&s;e which follovveth in order, in the for&s;aid P&s;alme, he expounded theis vvords. <HI>Su&s;cipiant montes pacem po|pulo &amp; colles iu&s;titiam.</HI> That is, <HI>Let montaines bring peace to the people and litle hilles Iustice.</HI> Which he applyed according to the expo&s;ition of S. Augu&s;tine to the preachers of Gods vvord, who ar called mou~taines and hils, vvhereon the citie of God, that is his Churche is &s;et to be &s;een, and from vvhome iu&s;tice and peace ar principallie to be learned, he &s;aid that among other infinit benefits which the Ingli&s;h na|tion had receaued of almightie God, this vvas to be accoumpted for one of the mo&s;t rare, that in a tyme of &s;o greate flouds and tempe&s;ts that ouervvhel|med and drovvned all face of pietie and religion in theyr co~trie, God had prouided yet &s;ome <HI>mountaines</HI> and <HI>hils</HI> that vveare more eminent then anie of the floudes, and that dur&s;t vvade and vvalke amids the mo&s;t raging vvaues thereof, &s;hevving Iu&s;tice and peace vnto the people vvhome God had cho&s;en to be vvorthie of the &s;ame, and that theis hils and mountaines vveare the Pree&s;ts and preachers of Catholique religion, &s;ent in by the Colleges and &s;e|minaries vvhom God had re&s;erued in his mercifull prouidence for this fatall floud, to preache in In|gland peace of con&s;cyence to all &s;uch as again&s;t the
<PB N="36" REF="19" MS="y">&s;ame haue follovved here&s;ie for te~porall re&s;pects: and iu&s;tice of lyf to &s;uch as vppon prae&s;umption of onelie faith, haue le&s;t the ob&s;eruation of Gods ho|lie comandements: In which action and heauenlie enterpri&s;e &s;eing his Maie&s;tie had &s;o greate parte by his liberalitie tovvards the &s;eminaries, wherein theis mounteines and hils did grovve, as all the world knoweth: he &s;aid that he did not doubt but that be&s;ides the reward eternall which at Gods hands he was to expect, he &s;hold receaue al&s;o com|fort in this world, one daie, by the <HI>peace</HI> and <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI> both temporall and &s;pirituall, that he &s;hould &s;ee re&s;tored in Ingland againe, when it &s;hould plea&s;e his diuine Maie&s;tie to take mercie of the &s;ame, about which poynt he &s;pake diuer&s;e thinges of muche tendernes and compa&s;&s;ion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>IIII. The Ingli&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>AFTER theis three learned tongues, there en&s;ewed other three vulgar languages, to vvitt, the Ingli&s;h, the vvel&s;h or Britti&s;h, and the Scoti&s;h, vvherein tho&s;e that &s;pake as they pre|&s;umed that fevv of the courte vvould vnder&s;tand them (though of no nation comonlie there vvant in the &s;ame) &s;o vveare they the briefer, notvvith|&s;tanding that by the forme of theyr action and manner of &s;peeche they &s;eemed to moue diuer&s;e that vnder&s;toode them not, nor vveare they to his Maie&s;tie and Princes (as appeared) either vveri&s;ome or tedious. And he that &s;pake in Ingli&s;h vvas a youth of greate pietie and zeale in religion though mode&s;t and comely in his behauiour, &amp; yf I &s;hould
<PB N="37" REF="19">tel you his name, you vvould meruaile that anie of that name and lignage &s;hould be of that qualitie, for he is a flovver of a verie principall though hae|reticall familie in our countrie, and dyuer&s;e of his frendes and kinred at not onelie of credit in the courte, but in &s;peciall charge al&s;o abroade in the countrie, &s;o that here you &s;ee that vvonder &s;ome|vvhat fulfilled that our Sauiour &s;peaketh of in the gho&s;pell (yf yet the compari&s;on be lyke) that figges at gathered &s;omerymes of thornes which vve &s;ee happen very often tymes in this &s;en&s;e heere vvith vs, to vvit, that of deceaued parentes in Ingland, do come hither children very zealous in Gods &s;eruice and the Catholique religion, &s;o as God geueth his grace to vvhome he plea&s;eth onelye.</P>
<P>This man tooke for his theame the fourth ver&s;e in order of the P&s;alme, vvhich is: <HI>Iudicabit pauperes populi, &amp; &s;aluos faciet filios pauperum, &amp; humiliabit ca|lumniatorem. He &s;hall geue iudgement to the poore of the people, and &s;hall &s;aue and deliuer the poor mens children, and &s;hall humiliate, or bring downe the &s;calaunderer or ca|lumniator.</HI> And for that the other that had &s;poken before, &s;eemed to haue treated &s;ufficientlie of the former tvvo clau&s;es of this ver&s;e, he touched prin|cipallie the third, con&s;ydering the humiliating and bringing dovvne of this &s;claunderer or fal&s;e ca|lumniator: vvhich he expounded of all others in the world to be principallie and mo&s;t truelie vnder|&s;toode of the heretique, vvho calumniateth and &s;claundereth both God and all Godlie per&s;ons and actions, for fir&s;t of all he calumniateth Gods vvord, by fal&s;e in terpretations, &amp; expo&s;itions of his owne
<PB N="38" REF="20">head, making that to appeare &s;cripture vvhich is none at all, but his ovvne inuention: &s;eco~dlie he ca|lumniateth Gods ordinaunces and gouerment, in that he rebelleth again&s;t the &s;ubordination and Hierarchie that he in his churche hath appointed. Thirdlie he calumniateth his moother the Catho|lique Churche, in imputing infinite fal&s;e errors &amp; lyes vnto hir, which either his malice hath inuen|ted, or his ignorance not vnder&s;toode, or his vvil|fulnes mi&s;con&s;tiued: Fourthelie he calumniateth the holie fathers and Doctours of the &s;ame Chur|che, vvith lyke fal&s;e imputations and calumnia|tions of his owne pride, as al&s;o he &s;calaundereth and condemneth la&s;telie all his owne progenitors what &s;oeuer, for iu&s;tifying onclie his ovvne fan&s;ie and vanitie.</P>
<P>This then &s;aid he, is that hatefull &s;claunderer &amp; wicked calumniator, which the Iu&s;tice and iudge|ment of God (&s;o much repeated in this P&s;alme) will humble and bring downe in tyme, and that princi|pallie as we tru&s;t by the handes of your Maie|&s;tie, &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>V. The VVel&s;he, or Briti&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>VVELL you do remember (as I &s;uppo&s;e) that the wel&s;he or briti&s;h language that vvas v&s;ed in Ingland before the entraunce of the Saxons, is accompted &s;o auncient among vs as manie in Ingland do thynke it canne neither be vvritten nor printed, vvhich not onelie rea&s;on but experie~ce al&s;o of our daies doth manife&s;tlie refute, for that a Catholique Pree&s;t and Doctor in diuini|tie
<PB N="39" REF="20">of that nation hath both vvriten and printed not long ago a gramer and Cathechi&s;me in the &s;ame language, on this &s;yde the &s;eas, and here be diuers in this College: that do both &s;peake and vvrite the &s;ame verie vvell, and do hope to preache therein al&s;o one daie, to their countrie men vvhen their lotte &s;hall comme to returne home, as di|uers others of that nation haue don before them, vvith much zeale &amp; aedification, and he that &s;pake in that language here, being a vvor&s;hipfull mans &s;on al&s;o of that countrie, did it &s;o vvell &amp; &s;en&s;iblie, that he delighted manie, and among others as it &s;eemeth the King him&s;elf vvho a&s;ked of a father that &s;toode by him, what difference there vvas bet|vveene the Ingli&s;h and vvel&s;he languages.</P>
<P>He tooke for his theame the &s;euenth ver&s;e of the fore&s;aid P&s;alme, to vvit. <HI>Orietur in diebus eius Iu&s;titia &amp; abundantia pacis donec auferatur Luna. There &s;hall in his daies &s;pring vp Iu&s;tice and abundance of peace as long as the moone or element &s;hal indure.</HI> Which as it vvas properly &s;poken of chri&s;t and of his euerla&s;ting and gho&s;telie invvard peace, and Iu&s;tice, as before hath bin nored, yet did this man applie it al&s;o verie apte|lie to the extraordinarie peace and Iu&s;tice vvithin this Kings daies, after &s;o manie wars of Charles the Emperour his glorious father, not onelie in his owne dominio~s, (vvhich are mo&s;t ample throught|out the world) but other Kings al&s;o and Princes adioyning, by his meanes haue enioyed, &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="section">
<PB N="40" REF="21">
<HEAD>VI. The Scoti&s;he.</HEAD>
<P>THE language which is comonlie v&s;ed in the courte and better parte of Stotland is not much different from the Ingli&s; he as you know, thoughe in the mountaine parts and Ilands of Or|chades and Hebrides adioyning thereunto, the na|turall language is Iri&s;h, hereby it cometh to pa&s;&s;e that diuers of our natio~ that are borne towards the north partes of Ingland, or haue had recour&s;e in to Scotla~d, can &s;peake al&s;o that language, wherein the theme fell out to be this daie, the twelfth ver|&s;e of the for&s;aid P&s;alme, which hath theis words. <HI>Liberabit pauperem &agrave; potente &amp; pauperem cui non erat adiutor. He &s;hall deliuer the poore man from the potent, yea the poore man that hath no helper at all.</HI> Which he applying to this King, did touch with breuitie di|uers poynts of the cruel and Intollerable oppre&s;|&s;ions of the Catholiques in Ingland, both in goods, lands, lyf, and fame, who&s;e cau&s;e being religion, is made notwith&s;tanding &s;o odious by wicked dra|wing the &s;ame to matter of e&s;tate, as no man dare &s;peake for them, no not &s;o far forth as they would &s;peake for a thief or murtherer, vvhereby properlie they maie be called <HI>that kind of poore that haue no hel|per,</HI> for whome Almightie God peculiarlie promi|&s;eth affi&s;tance in this ver&s;e, and as we hope (&s;aid he) by the help of your Maie&s;tie, whome he hath in dued with &s;o greate vvi&s;dome and all &s;ufficiencie for this purpo&s;e, etc. He made al&s;o compari&s;on that yf the people of I&s;rael thought it heauie and grieuous to be aflicted by forreine Princes and al|liens
<PB N="41" REF="21">for their &s;ins when they for&s;ooke God, what maie the Ingli&s;h do too &s;ee them &s;elues owtra|ged, afflicted, &amp; vexed by theyr ovvne na|turall contrie men, and that for the de&s;yre to liue virtuou&s;ly and &s;erue God? And yf God plagued tho&s;e old per&s;ecutors al&s;o, vvhome he him&s;elf yet had &s;ett a vvorke, to cha&s;ten the Iewes, after they had &s;erued his tourne, vvhat vvill he doe to theis vvhome the diuel onelie &s;etteth a vvorke, vvhen the tyme &s;hall come of re&s;toring to euerie bodie according to his merits? &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VII. The Frenche.</HEAD>
<P>NEXT vnto theis three tongues that might &s;eeme barbarous and peregrine to &s;pani&s;h eates, there follovved other three that vvere pre|&s;uppo&s;ed to be vnder&s;tood by all or the mo&s;t parte of them that vvere pre&s;ent, to vvit, the French, Ita|lian, and Spani&s;h: and for this con&s;yderacion both the &s;peakers in them vvere permitted to be &s;ome|vvhat the larger, and did not repeate aftervvard in Latin that vvhich before they had vttered in the vulgar language. The ver&s;e that fell to the lott of him that &s;pake in the French tongue vvas the thir|teenth of the forenamed P&s;alme, to vvit. <HI>Parcet pau|peri &amp; inopi, &amp; animas pauperum &s;aluas faciet. He &s;hall &s;pare the poore and needie, and &s;hall &s;aue the liues or &s;oules of tho&s;e that ar in nece&s;sitie.</HI> Which vvordes as he con|fe&s;&s;ed to be &s;poken properlie of Chri&s;t, &s;o al&s;o he affirmed they might verie aptlie and iu&s;tly be ap|plyed as the former vveare) to the e&s;tate pre&s;ent of poore Ingli&s;h afflicted Catholiks, and to his Ma|ie&s;ties
<PB N="42" REF="22">proceedings tovvardes them, and for that I per&s;uade my &s;elf that you are not altogether vnac|quainted with theis three tongues, and to the end you maie in parte perceiue the good talent of theis our youthes in theis languages (for that it was wholie their owne doing, as the re&s;t was al&s;o of the others &amp; that vppon the &s;uddaine) I will here put downe &s;ome of theyr words in euerie of theis three tongues, thoughe the good grace &amp; abilitie where with they pronounced the &s;ame can not &s;o well by words be expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t then being a youth of verie wor&s;hip|full Ingli&s;h parents hauing recited his theme be|fore mentioned began thus. <HI>Ce P&s;aulme, que nous auons prins pour dire quelque cho&s;e auiourd' huy deuant vo|&s;tre Maie&s;t&eacute; Royale (Roy tre&s;pui&s;&s;ant, &amp; le plus gra~d Monar|che du monde) chantoit au temps pa&s;&s;e le Roy Dauid a &s;on fils Salomon, comme figure de no&s;tre Sauueur, qui e&s;toit le vray Salomon, &amp; lequel en &s;es vertus que icy raconte le Prophete il vmbrageoit, &amp; en &s;oy me&s;me nous repre&s;entoit, il nous a &s;embl&eacute; n'e&s;tre hors de propos, dire auiourdhuy, a vo|&s;tre per&s;onne Royale, no~ pas co~me figure de no&s;tre Seigneur a venir, ains comme a &s;on parfaict imitateur, Royal mini|&s;tre, &amp; di&s;ciple tresfidele, en qui, comme en vn vif pour|traict &amp; modelle nous nous voions repre&s;enter la per&s;onne de no&s;tre Seigneur, &amp; ce no~ &s;eulement en ces vertus &amp; faiiz heroiques, les quels ont racontc ceux que vous auez iu&s;ques icy ouyes, mais beaucoup plus en ce qu'a ce&s;te heure m'e&s;t e&s;cheu pour dire, qui e&s;t. Parcet pauperi &amp; inopi, &amp; animas pauperum &s;aluas faciet.</HI> Which in Ingli&s;h may thus be expre&s;&s;ed. This P&s;alme which we haue taken to &s;aie &s;omwhat of this daie before your Ma|ie&s;tie,
<PB N="43" REF="22">(mo&s;t pui&s;ant King, and of the world the monarch mo&s;t potent) was &s;ung in tymes pa&s;t by the royal Prophet Dauid to his &s;on Salomon, as to him that bare the figure of Chri&s;t or Saueour, who was indeed, the true Salomon, and who&s;e &s;oueraigne vertues the Prophet in this place re|counteth. And it hath not &s;eemed to vs from the purpo&s;e this daie to applie the &s;ame to your royall per&s;on, not as a figure of our Saueour to come as Salomon was, but rather as to a perfect flower, royal mini&s;ter, &amp; mo&s;t faithfull di&s;ciple of our &s;aid &s;auiour now in heauen, who&s;e &s;ouereigne per&s;on we &s;ee mo&s;t liuelie repre&s;ented in your Maie&s;tie, as in a mo&s;t excellent pourtraict and modelle, and this not onelie in this noble vertues and heroicall factes which they haue recited that haue gon before me, but more in this particular poynte which novv by order is happened to me to treate of, to wit theis vvords. <HI>He &s;hall &s;pare the poore and needie, and &s;hall deliuer the &s;oules or lyues of &s;uch as are in nece&s;sitie, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Thus vvas the begining and entrance to his &s;peeche, vvhich after he applying to the pre&s;ent e&s;tate of them&s;elues that vvere bani&s; hed and his Maie&s;ties royal proceedings tovvards them he vt|tred theis vvords among diuers others that he &s;pake, vvith greate affection vvhich moued much the heares to compa&s;&s;ion. <HI>Nous autres ne pouuons pas viure en no&s;tre pais, &amp; terre natiue, mais cha&s;&s;ez d'icelle e&s;tions di&s;per&s;ez viuans comme bannis en terres e&s;trangeres &amp; ce no~ &s;ans beaucoup d'afflictions, &amp; calamitez, que cha&s;|qu'vn iour, &amp; cha&s;que heur nous &s;ouruenoient: &amp; vous comme l'Aigle a &s;es petits &amp; le poulle a &s;es poullets nous
<PB N="44" REF="23">auez, qui e&s;tions deuant e&s;perdus, a&s;teur recueilli &s;ous voz aylles, ie veux dire en vo&s;tre royaume tresflouri&s;&s;ant, &amp; &s;ous vo&s;tre &s;ceptre embelli de tout genre de vertu &amp; piet&eacute;, &amp; de vo&s;tre liberalit&eacute;, non indigne de vo&s;tre per&s;onne nous &s;ou|&s;tient, &amp; pouruoit de toute cho&s;e nece&s;&s;aire, de laquelle nous priue no&s;tre pais propre: Et n'e&s;tant point de cecy content auez auiourd' huy voulu auec vo&s;tre royal pre&s;ence, ta~t gra~|dement nous conforter, &amp; faire que ce&s;tuy no&s;tre exil ne nous e&s;t grief, ains plus to&s;t fort agreable, &amp;c.</HI> Which in Ingli&s;h is thus. We that could not be &s;uffred to liue in our ovvne contrie and natiue &s;oile, but were driuen from thence di&s;per&s;ed and bani&s;hed into forreine lands, not without manie afflictions and calamities incident thereunto, which euerie daie and hower is wont to bring with it: your Maie&s;tie like the Egle that protecteth hir litle ones, and as the hen that gathereth together hir yong chickens, hath gathered vs di&s;per&s;ed men together vnder your mo&s;t noble wings, I meane in this your mo&s;t flori&s;hing kingdome, vnder the protection of your potent &s;cepter, adorned with all kind of heroicall vertues, and with your princelie liberalitie corre&s;|pondente to your per&s;on, haue &s;u&s;teined and fur|ni&s;hed vs with all nece&s;&s;aries for our lyf &amp; &s;tudies, whereof the crueltie of our owne co~trimen hath depriued vs. And not being content vvith this one|lie, your Maie &s;tie hath this day all&s;o vouch&s;afed to come and honour vs with your mo&s;t royall pre|&s;ence, by which we remaine &s;o extremlie comfor|ted as our bani&s; hement cannot &s;eeme greeuous vnto vs hereafter, but rather mo&s;t plea&s;ant &amp; hono rable. This &amp; diuers other things he vttred which
<PB N="45" REF="23">for breuitie I omit to the end I maie be able to &s;aie &s;ome what al&s;o of the re&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VIII. The Italian.</HEAD>
<P>HE that &s;pake in Italian had for his theame the fourteenth ver&s;e, which &s;aith thus. <HI>Ex v&s;uris &amp; iniquitate redimet animas eorum, &amp; honorabile nomen eorum coram illo. He &s;hall redeeme theyr &s;oules or liues from v&s;urie and iniquitie, and their name in his pre&s;ence &s;halbe honorable.</HI> The is are effects that Chri&s;t him &s;elf wrought mo&s;t gloriou&s;lie in this world by redeeming our &s;oules from iniquitie, &amp; from the opre&s;&s;ion of infernall tyrants, and made their name honorable in his pre&s;ence, which was contempti|ble before, as al&s;o they are benefits, which in a &s;e|condarie &s;en&s;e maie be attributed to the munifi|ce~ce of the king of Spaine, by who&s;e protection &s;o manie of our natio~ ar deliuered from the tyrannie of cruel v&s;urers at home, who lend not &s;o much as a litle peace or re&s;t to anie Catholique, but with in|tere&s;t of theyr &s;oules, by yelding to theyr here&s;ies and other abhominations theron depending. His begining was thus.</P>
<P><HI>Il Real Propheta (potenti&s;simo Re &amp; Principi &s;ereni&s;si|mi) per&s;euerando di cantare le mi&s;ericordie del no&s;tro pie|to&s;o padre &amp; creatore Iddio, ci da &s;peranza con que&s;te pa|rolle gia recitate, che ri&s;guardara anche vn giorno la no&s;tra pouera gente &amp; che ri&s;catar&agrave; da tante mi&s;erie, quelle anime afflicti&s;sime dela no&s;tra, non mai &s;ufficientemente detta mi&s;errima patria, parolle certamente per noi altri piene di grandi&s;sima con&s;olatione &amp; contento, &amp;c.</HI> which in In|gli&s;h is thus in effect. The Royal Prophet King
<PB N="46" REF="24">Dauid (mo&s;t potent K. and gratious Princes) con|tinuing to &s;et downe in this P&s;alme the Infinit mer|cies of our heauenlie father &amp; creator, geueth vs hope by theis wordes heere recited in this ver&s;e, that he will one daie al&s;o looke vppon our poore nation, and deliuer the afflicted &s;oules of our mo&s;t de&s;olate and mi&s;erable contrie, from the intollera|ble oppre&s;&s;ions which they &s;uffer which hope can|not be but of exceeding greate comforte and con|tentment to vs all.</P>
<P>Thus was his beginning, and after this he pro|&s;ecuted the matter more particularlie, and &s;hewed how honorable his Maie&s;tie had made the name of poore Ingli&s;h bani&s;hed Catholiques before him &amp; all the world that daie, by coming in &s;uch forte to vi&s;ite them, whome theyr owne Prince &amp; peo|ple had ca&s;t out as vnworthie to liue amo~g the~, &s;o that it was truclie verified which heere the Prophet &s;aith: <HI>Et honorabile nomen eorum coram illo, &amp;c.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>IX. The Spani&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>TO the &s;pani&s;h language fell the eighteenth ver&s;e, which conteineth the conclu&s;ion as it were of all that goeth before in theis words. <HI>Bene|dictus Dominus Deus I&s;rael qui facit mirabilia &s;olus. Ble&s;|&s;ed be our Lord God of I&s;rael that onelie doth wonderfull workes.</HI> Vppon which words he that &s;pake began thus. <HI>En los ver&s;os pa&s;&s;ados ha visto vuestra Mage&s;tad la gra~de bondady marauillo&s;a mi&s;ericordia de Chri&s;to nue&s;tro Sen~or para con los pobres y affligidos, a cuyo con&s;uelo y li|beracion, parece queria que &s;iruie&s;&s;e toda &s;u grandez ay po|tencia. Se ha visto tan bie~ como todo e&s;to &s;e verifica parime~te
<PB N="47" REF="24">en las obras de vuestra Magestad que con no&s;otros per&s;e|guidos y de&s;terrados ha v&s;ado; De &s;uerte que a mi aora, no me ha quedado otro, &s;i no, las alaban&ccedil;as del Seu~or por e&s;tas grandes mi&s;ericordias &s;uyas, y esto es lo que dizen las palabras ya al legadas del ver&s;o: Benedictus Dominus Deus I&s;rael qui facit mirabilia &s;olus. Sea Sen~r Dios, y eterna Ma|ge&s;tad tu no~bre benedicto y glorificado para &s;iempre iamas, por auer nos dado ta~tos bienes del cielo por mano vue&s;tra y tan &s;in merecimiento nue&s;tro, y por auer nos dado tantos a|liuios &s;obre la tierra por mano de tan podero&s;o y Catolico Rey, para que fue&s;&s;e &s;uaue con&s;uelo, y &s;eguro puerto y ampa|ro de los abatidos con las ondas y olas tempe&s;tuo&s;as de la mar, y rigoro&s;os vientos de afflicion y angu&s;tia, y affligidos con tyranias y crueldades, con de&s;terramientos y carceles, y todo genero de tormentos y martyrios. Alabente pues Sennor tus Angeles, y bendigante todas tus criaturas por tales marauillas, porq~ cierto lo &s;on, y muy grandes, y &s;ola obra del alti&s;simo Dios, &amp;c.</HI> In Ingli&s;h thus: Your Maie&s;tie hath &s;eene in the ver&s;es before recited, the excee|ding greate goodnes and wonderfull mercies of our Sauiout Chri&s;t towardes poore, needie, and afflicted men, for who&s;e onelie comforte and deli|uerance it &s;eemeth that all his power and greate|nes was to &s;erue, according as the Prophet de&s;cri|beth the &s;ame. It hath be~ &s;een in lyke manner, how all this prophe&s;ied of Chri&s;t our Sauiour, maie al|&s;o in good &s;en&s;e and rea&s;on be verified in the acts of your royall Maie&s;tie, towards vs per&s;ecuted and ba|ni&s; hed Ingli&s;h Catholiques, &s;o as now vnto me there re&s;teth nothing but onelie the prai&s;es of Al|mightie God, for theis his greate benefits and mer|cies which the ver&s;e fallen to my lotte expre&s;&s;eth in
<PB N="48" REF="25">theis words. Ble&s;&s;ed be our Lord God of I&s;rael which onlie doth wonders. Ble&s;&s;ed be thy eternall Maie&s;tie o Lord God, and ble&s;&s;ed be thy name and glorified for euer, for that thou ha&s;t geuen vs &s;o manie heauenlie gyfts for our &s;oules with thy owne hands, and without all de&s;erte on our be half, and &s;o manie comforts and other benefits vppon earth by the hands of &s;o potent &amp; Catholique a King, and ha&s;t prepared him to be &s;o &s;weete a com|forte and &s;ure defence to men wearied and beaten with the tempe&s;tuous waues and &s;urges of the &s;ea of per&s;ecution, and with the fierce winds of afflic|tion and tribulacion, oppre&s;&s;ed with tyranie and crueltie, with bani&s;hment and pri&s;ons, with tor|ments and martyrdomes. Let all thy angels prai&s;e thee o Lord for this, and let all thie creatures ble&s;&s;e thee for theis maruaillous workes, &s;eing in truth they are greate vvonders in them &s;elnes, and onelie the vvorkes of thy powerfull hand.</P>
<P>This and diuers things els he vttred to this ef|fecte, &amp; for that the &s;peaker &s;eemed nuch mooued him &s;elf, and &s;pake it verie di&s;tincttly and affectu|ou&s;lie, and in a tongue that all the heares vnder|&s;toode, if &s;eemed to woorke greate motion in the hartes of all that were pre&s;ent at the &s;peeche.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>X. The Flemi&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>THe la&s;t of all was the Flemi&s;h to~gue, wherein the &s;peaker vvas the &s;elf &s;ame youth that had made the Preface &amp; entrau~ce in &s;pani&s;h to the to~|gues at the begining. His theame was the nynetee~th ver&s;e conteining the verie la&s;t wordes of the &s;aid
<PB N="49" REF="25">P&s;alme, &amp; a parte of the co~clu&s;io~ &amp; praier me~tioned in the ver&s;e immediatlie before, in the is vvords. <HI>Et benedictum nomen maie&s;tatis eius in aeternu~, &amp; replebitur maie&s;tate eius omnis terra fiat, fiat.</HI> And ble&s;&s;ed be the name of his Maie&s;tie for euer, and all the whole earthe &s;hall be repleni&s; hed with his Maie&s;tie, &s;o be it, &s;o be it; Vppon vvhich vvords after the &s;peaker had &s;hevved hovv much he &amp; his fellovves aboue all other people in the vvorlde (perhaps) vveare bound to repeate often and earne&s;tlie theis vvords of ble&s;&s;ing the name of Gods aeternall Maie&s;tie, for his infinit benefits receaued, and to vvi&s;h the dila|tation of his holie name, and &s;eruice throughout all nations, and e&s;peciallie in their natiue countrie of Ingland, he applied the &s;ame al&s;o to the Maie&s;tie of the king pre&s;ent, vvho&s;e name and memorie he &s;aide they vvere al&s;o bound to ble&s;&s;e next after God, for euer, for his &s;peciall goodnes tovvards them, and for the vniuer&s;all good of Chri&s;ts Ca|tholique Churche, and generall comforte of all vertuous people in theis trouble&s;ome &amp; mo&s;t daungerous tymes of haere&s;ies and rebellions: and therefore albeit haeretiques and &s;editious per&s;ons did repine at the &s;ame, yet theyr voice vvith the prophet &s;halbe &s;till <HI>fiat, fiat;</HI> vvhich vvords he re|peated often vvith &s;o good grace, as &s;eemed to geue greate contentment to the hearers.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The thank&s;geuing.</HEAD>
<P>AFter he had ended his di&s;cour&s;e and &s;peeche he made a litle pau&s;e, and after that vttred in Spani&s;h for thanks geuing theis words following.
<PB N="50" REF="26">The fauour is &s;o great and royal, vvhich your Ca|tholique Maie&s;tie hath &s;hevved this daie vnto vs poore Ingli&s;h bani&s;hed men, that yf theis vvalles vveare of vnder&s;tanding or able to &s;peake, they would all be come tongues to aide &amp; helpe vs for to acknowledge &amp; geue thankes for &s;o rare a cour|te&s;ie and benefite as vve haue receaued at this pre|&s;ent, by your Maie&s;ties pre&s;ence, e&s;peciallie for that you haue vouche &s;affed to bring al&s;o vvith you for our more complet ioye and comforte, theis tvvo mo&s;t noble Princes vvhich vvee heere behold, as mo&s;t vvorthie children of your mo&s;t excellent Ma|e&s;tie. But &s;eing that neither theis vvalles haue tou|gues, nor vve vvith tho&s;e vve haue, or with any thing vve can &s;aie, can reache to equall the lea&s;te parte of &s;o rare an obligation, vve &s;hall hould our peace, and our harts remaining vvith burning de|&s;yre to vtter their affection of gratitude, &s;hal turne them &s;elues vnto almightie God, vvho vvithout vvords can vnder&s;tand their meaning, and &s;hal be|&s;eche perpetuallie his diuine Maie&s;tie, to revvard vvith euerla&s;ting payment &s;o extraordinarie cleme~|cie and benignitie, as your Maie&s;tie and highene&s;&s;es vnto vs haue v&s;ed. And yf it &s;hall bee hereafter his diuine Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure to make worthie anie one of vs here pre&s;ent, or all of vs, to &s;head our bloud one daie in Ingland, for defence of his Ca|tholique faithe, and religion (as &s;o manie of our companie by his e&s;peciall fauour haue don before vs) with that bloud it &s;halbe vvritten in the mar|ket places and &s;treets vvhere it &s;hall be &s;hed, the &s;ingular obligation that Gods Catholique cau&s;e,
<PB N="51" REF="26">and our contrie, and the parties them &s;elues &s;hall haue vnto your Maie&s;tie, &s;eing it is bloud inge~dred in the vaines of them that yeld it vppe to God, by the royall maintenance which your Maie&s;tie hath geuen them: For which re&s;pect al&s;o, it maie iu&s;tlie crie to heauen for due revvard vnto &s;o &s;ingular a benefactour, and leaue obligatio~ to all the Ingli&s;h Catholique nation for euer (vvhat &s;o euer &s;hall become of that vnfortunate realme) to recogni&s;e euerla&s;tinglie &s;o important benefits, in &s;uch a tyme as this is, at your mo&s;t Catholique Maie&s;ties hands receaued.</P>
<P>With theis words it is maruelous how exceeding greate motion vvas made in the hartes of all the &s;tanders by, whereof it vvas thought there vvere fevve vvho did not &s;hed teares more or le&s;&s;e, and that diuers per&s;ons of importance did &s;hed the &s;ame abundantlie, it vvas ea&s;elie &s;eene &amp; by them|&s;elues after confe&s;&s;ed, it &s;eemed al&s;o that his Maie|&s;tie, &amp; the Princes vvere much contented with that vvhich they had heard and &s;eene, &amp; &s;o the King him&s;elf by vvords te&s;tified, affirming diuers tymes that they had donne verie vvell, and ri&s;ing vp from his chaire on foote, he &s;toode &s;till, &amp; &s;uffred all the &s;chollers to comme to ky&s;&s;e his hands, vvhich yet he would not geue them, but imbraced them eache one about the necke, &amp; vvhen the number to &s;ome &s;eemed greate for his Maie&s;tie to receiue on foote (e&s;peciallie &s;o &s;oone after his govvte, which he had had the daie before, &amp; novv vvent vvith a &s;taffe for the &s;ame cau&s;e) he an&s;vveared that it vvas no matter, and that he vvould haue them comme all,
<PB N="52" REF="27">vvhich they did, and his Maie&s;tie departed &s;o late as torches vvere nece&s;&s;arie for to light him out, &amp; all the vvaie out he neuer left a&s;king particular que|&s;tions of the hou&s;e and &s;cholers, vvhich extraordi|narie tokens of loue, in &s;o greate &amp; vvi&s;e a Prince, all men did both marke &amp; not a litle vvonder at.</P>
<P>At the Kings departure the Marques of Velada Gouernour of the Princes per&s;on gaue order in the Princes name, that all the ver&s;es, emblemes, and other co~po&s;itio~s that were on the walles &s;hould be re&s;erued &amp; &s;ent to <HI>Garcia de Loya&s;a</HI> the Princes &s;cho|le ma&s;ter for his highenes to view the daie follo|wing, which vvas don, but yet with &s;omme choi&s;e for that the vvhole multitude vvas &s;o greate,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The multi|tud of ver|&s;es and co~po&s;itions.</NOTE> as it vvas thought vvold haue ben tedious, for the num|ber of the &s;heetes of paper vvere e&s;teemed aboue tvvo hundred in all, vvherein be&s;ydes all kynd of ver&s;es, in all the fore&s;aid ten &s;orts of la~guages, there were manie other ingenious deui&s;es (as I haue &s;aid, namelie of Emblemes, &amp; Hieroglyphicks, among vvhich I &s;hall &s;ett dovvne three or fower here, onelie for example &s;ake, by which you maie make coniecture of the re&s;t.</P>
<P>In one faire table there vvere painted three fierce &amp; cruell lions tearing men in pieces,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t hierogly|phike.</NOTE> &amp; a fourth lio~ more goodlie then the re&s;t, fighting again&s;t the other three, and taking men from theyr iavves, and bearing them tovvardes a faire and &s;trong Ca&s;tel puttred in the &s;ame table for their defence, &amp; ouer this one lyons head vvas vvritten theis vvords in Latine. <HI>Eripio non rapio,</HI> that is, I take avvaie to de|liuer and not to deuoure, and for that the one lion
<PB N="53" REF="27">and the Ca&s;tell are armes of Spaine, and three lions of Ingland, it was ea&s;elie to be vnder&s;toode what was meant thereby, yet for more explication theis Latin ver&s;es were writen in fayre letters vnder.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Clare Philippe tuum fert vnum in&s;igne leonem</HI></L>
<L><HI>Anglorum triplici &s;temma leone nitet.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hi patriam natis crudelibus vnguibus orbant,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Defendit natos vnguibus ille pijs.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Eripit ille tribus laceranda&abque; corpora &s;eruat</HI></L>
<L><HI>Vnicus ergo manet fortior ille tribus.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>&leaf; VVhich one turned into Ingli&s;h thus.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>King Phillip dothe in &s;heild a lion beare,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Ingli&s;h armes of Lions three depend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVho&s;e countries children they with pawes do teare,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The other dothe them with his pawes defend.</HI></L>
<L><HI>One lion dothe them from the other free,</HI></L>
<L><HI>One lion then more &s;tronger is then three.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>In an other table there was painted a goodlie,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The 2. Hie|roglyphike.</NOTE> faire and &s;trong Ca&s;tell, (which is al&s;o a piece of this Kings armes, and peculiar to Ca&s;tilla, wherein this towne of Valliodolid is &s;ituated) and out of the Ca&s;tell did hang at the windowes all kynd of varietie of weapo~s, armour, and other furniture of war, &amp; round about it were painted manie ladders, &amp; manie youthes going vppe on the &s;ame, with greate ha&s;te &amp; alacritie to arme them &s;elues there|with, &amp; others coming downe throughlie fur|ni&s;hed for the fielde, and vnder were writen theis ver&s;es in Spani&s;he.</P>
<PB N="54" REF="28">
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Ca&s;tilla de la Yberia celebrado</HI></L>
<L><HI>Por tus armas en todo el ancho &s;uelo,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Que a mil barbaras gentes han domado,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Leuantando tu nombre al alto cielo;</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Otras mas fuertes armas has labrado</HI></L>
<L><HI>De litras, de piedad, de &s;anto zelo,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Que &s;ube a armar&s;e dellas con tal gana</HI></L>
<L><HI>La Iuuentud catholica Anglicana.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>&leaf; In Ingli&s;h thus.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Ca&s;tillia which renowmed is of Spaine,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And feates of armes extoleth far by fame,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That &s;auage people thow&s;andes did&s;t re&s;traine,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And to the heauens aduanced ha&s;t thy name,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Far &s;tronger forces now thow ha&s;t prefard,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of learning, vertue, and of &s;acred zeale:</HI></L>
<L><HI>And Ingli&s;h youthes that therewith are prepard,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Seeke to aduance thereby our Chri&s;tian weale.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>In an other table were painted the armes of Valliodolid,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The 3. Hie|roglyphike.</NOTE> which are certaine flames of fyar, and nighe to this, were painted two &s;hips, one coming, and the other going to an Iland in the &s;ea, that re|pre&s;ented Ingland, and both &s;hips full of &s;chollers, the one coming with torches out, to light them at the &s;aide flames, and the other &s;orte retourning home, with their torches lighted and burning, and vnder the picture vvere vvryten theis &s;pani&s;h ver&s;es.</P>
<PB N="55" REF="28">
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>De lexas tierras a encender venimot</HI></L>
<L><HI>Las hachas en las llamas cele&s;tiales,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Para boluer de&s;pues donde &s;alimos,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Y con&s;umir los fuegos infernales.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>E&s;ta firme e&s;peran&ccedil;a concebimos</HI></L>
<L><HI>En llegando de E&s;pau~a a los vmbrales</HI></L>
<L><HI>Pues in&s;ignias de llamas las primeras</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hallamos (Pintia illu&s;tre) en tus vanderas.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>&leaf; In Ingli&s;h thus.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>From countries far to kindle we are come,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Our darckned light, in cleere celestiall flame,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And then againe with courage to returne,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The fyre of hell to vanqui&s;h with the &s;ame.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>This constant hope conceyued, we retyre,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To ob&s;cure places, when we parte from Spaine,</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVhereas we fir&s;t beheild the flames of fyre,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Valliodolid in en&s;igne to retaine.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>Not far from this was there painted a goodlie royall Egle,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The</HI> 4. <HI>Hie|roglyphike.</HI></NOTE> vvhich belongeth al&s;o to the armes of Spaine (by the hou&s;e of Au&s;tria) &s;itting and defen|ding a greate heape of faire vvheate, that was pain|ted vnder the Egle, and diuers white pigeons came, &amp; tooke of the &s;aid vvheate by licence of the Egle, &amp; caryed the &s;ame into an other cou~trie, &amp; &s;owed it vvhere it &s;prung vp &amp; pro&s;pered vvonderfullie, notvvith&s;tanding that manie crovves and kytes, dravven al&s;o in the &s;ame table, did beate and kill diuers of theis pigeons for the &s;ame, and follovved
<PB N="56" REF="29">them tovvards the &s;aide heape of corne &s;o far as they dur&s;t for feare of the Eagle that defended and protected them, and vnder the picture vvere &s;et theis eight ver&s;es in the Ca&s;tillian tongue.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>El Aquila Real os da licencia</HI></L>
<L><HI>Palumbas blancas que en &s;u Iberio e&s;tado,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cojais el trigo de virtud y ciencia,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Que tiene como en hera limpio <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> echado.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Lleuad lo a Vuestra patria y con paciencia</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sembrad lo donde quede bien &s;embrado.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Que aun&abque; muchos no admiten la &s;emilla,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ha de hallar tierra el trigo de Ca&s;tilla.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>&leaf; In Ingli&s;h thus.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>The Royall Egle freely doth admitt,</HI></L>
<L><HI>You Pigeons whyte, in his Iberiaen boundes,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The &s;eede of learning and of &s;kill to gett,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The which is &s;owed in the pure&s;t goundes.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Beare this with patience to your natyue land,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And &s;ow the &s;ame where well you may it &s;owe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And althoughe many &s;hall the &s;ame with&s;tand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>This wheat of Spaine in Ingland yet will growe.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>In an other place (and vvith this vvil I end) vvas there painted a greate &amp; goodlie heard of &s;heepe vvith a huge multitude of rauening vvolues amo~g them,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The 5. Hie|rogryphike.</NOTE> vvhich did teare and rent them, and &s;ucked their bloud, and Chri&s;t our &s;auiour in forme of a carefull &s;hephard, vvas painted al&s;o on one &s;yde &s;itting and beholding their afflictions, and one &s;peaking to him in theis ver&s;es follovving.</P>
<PB N="57" REF="29">
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Soberano Pa&s;tor, miras el ganado</HI></L>
<L><HI>En mano y dientes de animales fieros?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Si miro; y rato ha ya que e&s;toy parado</HI></L>
<L><HI>E&s;cuchando balar a mis corderos.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Pues como a&s;si los dexas en el prado</HI></L>
<L><HI>Que los maten los lobos carniceros?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Si; porque a&s;si muriendo cobran vida</HI></L>
<L><HI>Y la dan a &s;u Patria de&s;truyda.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>&leaf; In Ingli&s;h thus.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>O &s;oueraigne pa&s;tor do thy flock regard,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In teeth and clawes of cruell beastes de&s;tre&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yea &s;o I do, and eft&s;ones haue I hard,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My &s;heepe lament, that are els where opre&s;t.</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVhy let you them thus in the feild remaine</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVhere greedy wolues do &s;uck their giltle&s;&s;e blood?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Becau&s;e in dying they get lyf againe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That giue their lyues for their poore countries good.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>Other compo&s;itions to diuers effects and purpo|&s;es both in Hebrue, Greeke, Latin, French, Italian, and other languages before mentioned I do omitt, for auoiding of prolixitie, albeit by &s;uch as red the &s;ame, &amp; vnder &s;toode the languages, they were much comended, both for their inuention &amp; arte, and diuers things the Prince lyked of exceedingly well when he vewed the~ more at lea&s;ure the daie following, as his ma&s;ter, and other learned young gentlemen of his chamber reported. And manie copies of the &s;ame were demanded which will in|force (as I &s;uppo&s;ed) the &s;uperiours of this College to put the whole in printe or at lea&s;t wi&s;e the
<PB N="58" REF="30">chief points thereof, with a larger and more parti|cular narration of all in the Spani&s;h tongue then this is, which no doubt will be verie grateful vnto this nation, for that thereby they &s;hall not onelie &s;ee, what pa&s;&s;ed in this acte of the Kings coming hither, but al&s;o further vnder&s;tand manie things of the pre&s;ent &s;tate of Ingland, which they de&s;yre to do, as hath appeared by their greedie acceptaunce of diuers bookes publi&s;hed in this language of late yeares, touching the affaires and pre&s;ent per&s;ecutio~ of Ingland, e&s;peciallie the tran&s;lation of Doctor Sanders booke, <HI>de Schi&s;mate Anglicano,</HI> and of the late booke of <HI>Andreas Philopater</HI> in an&s;weare to the pro|clamation of Nouember la&s;t again&s;t this King by name, <MILESTONE N="1591"> and Catholique Ingli&s;h Pree&s;tes, &amp; a third booke writen in Spani&s;h of the particular martyr|domes of the Prie&s;tes and other Catholiques put to death theis later yeares and monethes, haue greatelie informed this nation, and put them in ex|treme wonder of our affaires, and made our Ca|tholique cau&s;e more famous throughout the world then euer it was &s;ince the primatiue Chur|che, yf then it weare equal to that it is nowe.</P>
<P>After the King him&s;elf with his children had ben heere,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The vi&s;ita|tion of the courte.</NOTE> you will ea&s;elie Imagin how manie of the courte and nobilitie would come afterward, to vi&s;it this place, and yet I thinke you could hardlie imagine them to be &s;o manie as they were, fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> I &s;uppo&s;e there was &s;kar&s;e anie one officier, noble|man, knight, Captaine, or other man of accompt that came not hither to &s;ee the youthes, and order of the hou&s;e, &amp; departed greatelie edifyed &amp; moued
<PB N="59" REF="30">with the &s;ight, and diuers of them tooke &s;uch af|fectio~ to the worke, as they would needes haue &s;o|me one &s;choller a&s;&s;igned to praie for them in parti|cular, and they to paie his whole maintenaunce euerie yere during his aboade heere, &amp; &s;o they did. As for the chiefe per&s;onages about the king, they were not content to haue vi&s;ited this hou&s;e once or twi&s;e before, but would al&s;o at the Kings depar|ture needes come againe, and take their leaue in perticular of this college, and of euerie &s;choller in the &s;ame, &amp; to v&s;e their ovvne phra&s;e, would ky&s;&s;e the gowne &amp; habite of euerie one of theis &s;erua~ts of God, that &s;uffer &s;o gloriou&s;lie for his name and cau&s;e: And &s;urelie to &s;ee with what loue, hartie af|fection and reuerence they did the &s;ame, was a co~|fu&s;ion vnto vs all, con&s;ydering how greate &amp; hovv graue per&s;ons they be, but by this you may &s;ee how diuer&s;lie wi&s;edome and pietie is e&s;teemed of in our contrie &amp; in other places, &s;eeing theis youthes that are &s;o hated &amp; co~temned in Ingla~d, are &s;o honoured and reuere~ced here, and in other contries: God &s;end all to be of one &s;en&s;e and iudgement againe in theis matters, as in tymes pa&s;t we were; But in the meane &s;pace, I &s;ee the wonderfull prouidence of almightie God for co~tinuance of the Catholique faith in our contrie, &s;eing this nevve &s;upplie of Spaine vvas &s;ent vvhen noman thought thereof, as at the begining I haue touched, and as oftentymes I haie heard F. Per&s;ons &s;aie that in all the cogitations, &s;peeches or conferences betvvene the Cardinall and him, or others with them both, for the beginning helping or furthering of this cau&s;e, it neuer came in talke
<PB N="60" REF="31">or deliberation or in any mans mynde to begin Se|minarie or college in Spaine, though now by expe|rience it hath fallen out of all other kingdomes in the world to be the fitte&s;t for this purpo&s;e, both for the co~moditie of pa&s;&s;age to and fro, as al&s;o for the greate abilitie &amp; inclination of this Prince, clear|gie, nobilitie, and people to helpe &s;uch godlie and &s;pirituall vvorkes, &s;o that vve maie applie to this holie prouidence of God that which the marriage ma&s;ter &s;aid at the mariage in Cana of Galiley,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ioan.</HI> 7.</NOTE> that the be&s;t wine was kept for the la&s;t, for &s;urelie yf we maie &s;peake of the tyme to comme vppon probabilitie of that which vve haue &s;eene in tymes pa&s;t, theis &s;eminaries begun in Spaine are lyke to grovv more in one yere, then they did befo|re in manie, in other places, not onelie this of Val|liodolid but the other al&s;o in Siuil, which diuers men, in re&s;pect of the pietye, wealth, &amp; worthines of the place, do thinke will quicklie be greater then this, be&s;ids the Ingli&s;h hou&s;e and Church of S. George in S. Lucar, vvhich latelie hath ben pa&s;|&s;ed ouer al&s;o to the pree&s;tes of the Seminaries to dwell therein, as it maie be you haue heard, and is lyke to be repayred &amp; brought in verie good e&s;tate againe &s;hortlie, &s;o that you &s;ee my Lord Trea&s;orer is lyke to haue vvorke enoughe for his daies &amp; for his &s;on and nephues al&s;o after him, yf they vvere lyke as well to &s;ucceede him in the &s;ame authoritie and pro&s;peritie,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">My L. Tre|&s;urers ge|neration.</NOTE> as perhaps they maie in will and hatred of Gods people, but you know vvhat Iobe hath prophe&s;ied of them.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iob.</HI> 27.</NOTE> <HI>Haec est pars hominis impij apud Deum &amp; haereditas violentorum, &s;i multiplicati fue|rint
<PB N="61" REF="31">filij eius, in gladio erunt, &amp; nepotes eius non Satura|buntur pane, &amp; qui reliqui fuerint ex es &s;epelientur in inte|ritu.</HI> Which is as much to &s;aie as. The vvicked and violent per&s;ecutors inheritance &s;halbe to haue his childre~ &s;laine, &amp; his nephnes beg theyr bread, as al&s;o the re&s;t of his generation for his &s;ake brought to de&s;truction. God turne his harte, and therevvith all his hand yf it plea&s;e him, and make him &s;ee his owne, his Princes, and his comon vvealthes daun|ger, whereunto by errour and ambition, he hath ca&s;t all three: and geue yon patience in theis aduer|&s;ities that you &s;uffer for his cau&s;e, and &s;end vs once to meete againe ioyfully either in heauen or in this world, or in both, euen as he &s;hall &s;ee to bee mo&s;t for his euerla&s;ting glorie vvhereunto all our actions and de&s;yres I hope are re|ferred from Valliodolid this 20. of Augu&s;t 1592.</P>
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