THE SECOND PART OF VOX POPULI▪ or Gondomar appearing in the likeness of Matchiavell in a Spanish Parliament, wherein are discovered his treacherous & subtle Practices To the ruin as well of England, as the Netherlandes Faithfully Transtated out of the Spanish Copy by a well-willer to England and Holland.  
The second Edition.  
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TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCES, FREDERICK and ELIZABETH, by the Grace of God, King and Queen of Bohemia, Prince's Palatines of the Rhine, etc.  
AS ALSO To the most Illustrious and victorious, Maurice, Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau, etc.  
Most High Most Illustrious Princes,  
THAT I have adventured in these unfaithful times, so full of suspicion and danger, to pass (without leave) your guards, and to press into your Presence, I most humbly crave pardon, having I confess no other excuse then that common one of the Country, it was out of my love, out of my loyalty, for such (most gracious Q: Elizabeth) hath heretofore your respect been towards me (fare unworthy God knows of any of the least favours from so Magnificent a Princess) that ever since, I have contended with myself, to adventure and Act something, that might have power still to preserve me in your Royal Memory, but albeit I had the will, I find myself wanting in my Ability. And most Illustrious, Prince Maurice, since I have had sometime dependence on your Excellence, I hold it my Duty gratefully to repay, some part of what (I cannot say injustly) I have gained under you that is Observation, especially of the double dealing, and cunning juggling of the Spaniard with all Nations. And since a little Treatise of a Spanish Consultation (whether really acted, or poetically feigned I know not) came to my hands, first written in Spanish, now by myself translated into English, only for the behoof and love I bear aswell to England my native Country, as to the Netherlands. I have sent it abroad, good it may do, hurt it cannot. Abundans. cautela non nocet: herein you shall perceive the Curtain (though not fully) drawn, from before the Spaniard, that the world may for certain see, that he is not so beautiful, as many of our English (who so long have doted on him) would make him to be, nor on the other side so terrible, that your Dutch need to fear him, how grim & terrible soever he looks upon them. But your Excellence knoweth him (as we say) Intus & in cute; & can limne to the life better, than any pen in the world can decipher him, wherefore I urge him no farther. I only leave it to the world to think of (since he aimeth at the Monarchy of the West, every thing else being to little for his Ambition (whose great Grandsire the Earl of Halspurge was within these ninescore years, of as mean estate and revenue, as an ordinary knight of England,) how much I say, concerns it England, and your united Provinces, to hold fast each by either, which now by all means he laboureth to part and divide, not unmindful of a Matchivillian and old Maxim; 
Divide, et Impera.  But I trust Almighty God (as he hath already begun) will open the eyes of all Christian Kings and Princes, in time not only to pry into, but effectually to oppose, these his immense and ambitious designs, which else in time may fall heavy upon our children and posterity, I end; humbly beseeching the King of Kings and Kingdoms, the Almighty Lord of Hosts: Most High, Most Illustrious Princes, to protect the persons of yourselves and children, with his grace to multiply your Honours and Dignities, fourfold to restore your estates, and after many years to crown you in Heaven, with the Diadems of Glory and endless happiness.  
Who is most devoted unto your Highnesses, in all Loyal affection T. S. of V.   


THE SPANISH PARLIAMENT.  
Ingentibus exidit ausis.   
AFter the shouts and acclamations of all true hearted English, for the safe and single return of the Prince of Great Britain, had made the roof of Heaven to resound, and with the noise hand shaken such a terror into the ill affected body of Spain, that a cold, and benumbing fear, ran through her joints, her friends began to bethink themselves, of a timely recomfort, to find the means a fresh to rouse up her spirits, (by this time half repenting herself of parting with so precious a pawn, (the possession whereof she imagined, might have tied us to have precisely kept day, (though it were likely to have had proved more fatal unto her, than ever was the gold of Thousouse to Cepio's Soldiers) and as it falleth out among sick persons, some of sounder judgement than the rest, about her inparticular and every one in general giving their best opinions, undertook (so she would be ruled) to rid her off that sit and distempered perplexity.  
And for this purpose appointing for a further consultation to be at Seville in Audaluzia, whether already the King with most of the Nobility had retired themselves in regard (they said) the English who were in number about seavenscore, had not long before eaten up all the provision in Madrid, and within thirty miles about, there came as truest and old-friends to her estate, the Archbishop of Toledo, the Dukes of Medina Coeli, of Braganza, of Ville Hermosa, of Hijaz, D. of Infantado, D. of Cea, D. of Sesa, D. of Veragua, Marquis of Malagon; Count de Penna-fiore, Count de Monterry, Count de Sanstephano, etc. Escalona, the Marquis of Castello, Rodrigo the Admirant and Constable of Castille, Count Olivares, Count Gondomar, Pedro de Toledo, Gonzales de Cordua, Lewes de Velasco, with sundry others of remark and note, of the chiefest Nobility, whither being come, and having made choice of a goodly and fair Palace, anciently belonging unto to the D. of Beiar principal of the family of the Zanigas, in a fair great Chamber hung with rich Arras, over the leather guilded. Guara Mazilla's, after many an interchange of compliment, each as his precedence required taken his place, like a college of wise Physicians to consult of the state of that body and Kingdom, how with medicines (as Physicians call them) to prevent her future danger, withal for the present to repair the ruin of her reputation and credit with the world, (since now her plots and practices are smoked, their gordian knots untwisted even by children: Lastly, how to gain by strong hand, what all this while she could not compass by arts and policy.  
Being all set and silent, the Duke of Medina Coeli, stood up and spoke as followeth.  
My Lords, it hath pleased his Catholic Majesty the King our Mr. to give way to this our meeting and Parliamentary assembly, to consult and advice among ourselves, what course is most fittest to be holden of us, in in these tempestuous times, for the weather being changed, and the bright beams of our hopes overcast, we are from every side to expect rage▪ and storms. You are not ignorant how there is now a Parliament holden in England, that bided us no good, in Holland a daily consultation with present preparation, In France a Council together with an unaminity of Kings and Peers, for some great undertaking: How nearly then concerns it us of Spain, to be vigilant, and to look about us: first, for the maintenance and advancement of the Catholic Religion, and holy Church: Secondly, for the defence of his Majesty's Kingdoms and Territories: Thirdly, to hear the grievances of the people groaning under the heavy burden of exaction and oppression, though the covetousness of public offices. Fourthly, for the supply of the Treasury which a late hath been much exhausted, partly by preparation by Sea against our Common enemies, Turks, and Hollanders, and partly by the extraordinary entertainment of Charles Prince of Wales, the charge whereof amounted to 49. thousand Ducats. Fift, and lastly, for giving the world satisfaction, and the taking away of those vile scandales and imputations, which even within these few days have been, and are hourly cast upon us, especially, (as they give it out) in dealing doubly and dishonourably with England, concerning the Treaty of the Match.  
He having ended, the D. of Braganza the next began thus.  
I am sorry that I live to see the day, that the Honour of Spain which was wont to dazzle the eye of Europe with the unsufferable splendour of its brightness, should now be over cast with the black cloud of disgrace, and the name of a Spaniarde so redoubted over the world, become branded with the infamous attributes and epithets of false, ambitious, proud, and cruel, and those Nations who were wont to adore us for our faith, contemn, and scorn us now for treachery and falsehood. Certes loyalty and the Religious observance of our promises and faith, was anciently held our prime virtue, insomuch that Faith de Spagna grew into a Proverb, like the gold of Ophir out valuing any other, that I speak no new thing, or untruth, you may plainly perceive it by the multitude of discourses, pamphlets and pasquils that are daily vented against us from all parts of the World, wherein we art jested at, derided, disgraced, by verses and unseemly Pictures, especially of late days, from Holland, France, and England: yea as I understand in songs and Ballads, sung up and down the Streets in many places: whence this imputation, upon so just and brave a Nation, so potent a Monarch (at the brandishing of whose sword Europe trembles) should proceed, I cannot guess, yet desire to be satisfied herein, in the King my Mr. and kinsman's behalf, my kinsman, for you all know my near alliance unto his Majesty, and my Poesy may intimate no less unto the world which is Pues vos, nos, after you, we, being next in blood if the issue Royal should fail.  
But I am a frayed the ill carriage of some private men at home, (perhaps our Ambassadors in For. rain parts,) have thrown this aspersion upon us, having either given abroad to many overtures of our designs, or attempted their ends with overmuch haste and violence, which in time and by gentle hand might have been easier won, as a bough whose fruit we mean to gather, is brought down by degrees, which else might break and we lose our longing.  
Surely, in the first, me think our Nation should not easily offend, we being esteemed the most close and reserved to ourselves in the world, as the event of our greatest and most important actions have sufficiently shown. Did we not in 88 carry our business for England so cunningly and secretly as well, in that well dissembled treaty with the English near Ostend, whereto for us were deputed, Aremberge, Champigny, Richardot and other, as in bringing our Navy to their shores, while their Commanders and Captains were at bowls upon the ho of Plymouth, and had my Lord Alonso Guzman, the Duke of Medina Sidonia had but the resolution (but in truth his Commission was otherwise) he might have suprized them as they lay at Anchor, and the like. In Ireland when Don Ivan d' Aquila had gotten footing in the Irish ground ere any of the mist. How were our plots and correspondence with Byron carried, with infinite the like examples.  
Touching the latter, the Spanish Nation hath of all other in the world been held for the most sober, stayed, and wise, and were wont never to attempt any thing but upon great and long advice, accounting it with Quintus Fabius more honourable to be accounted drones or cowards, then to hazard our affairs, or Armies, French like, only in a vainglorious hastiness to gain the Honour of charging the first. So that it seemeth strange to me that we have I know not upon what grounds incurred the hate and scorn of other Nations, and that we especially of the Nobility should be thought ill of since of Nobility ours of Spain, hath been ever held the most illustrious and eminent of the world.  
The Duke having made an end, Gondomar easily raising himself from his chair wherein he sat upon two down pillows, and resting himself upon a little Brasill staff, spoke as followeth.  
My Lords, I can derive this slander of our Country, and hate of ourselves from no other fountain than the Fanatical humours and distracted spirits of some of the English, who find themselves not a little galled and vexed with our politic delays heretofore, and now our final rejection, and (I hope) shaking hands with that Heretical Nation for ever, for if your Alteses and Honours will but consider what adventure and boot we have made by them, I think you will say we might well endure these British Northern and cold blasts: mean time in so suffering for our Catholic King, and in the Catholic cause we ought to take such approbry rather as an Honour unto us then otherwise.  
Moreover, if we shall consider who are the Authors of these lying Plamphlets, we shall find to proceed from the pens of light and vnstayed wits, with intent either to win the opinion of good intelligencers and statistes together with the airy applause of the Vulgar, or to raise to their desperate Fortunes, when the tempest is over, (as it oft hath happened) and now likely we being fallen off from England, and the Treaty at an end.  
Yea, but quoth the Duke of Medina Caeli, what should be the reason of that inbred and Natural hate the common people of England should bear to us, and our Country above any Nation in the world, the Hollanders, Turks, and Indians excepted.  

Arch. B. Toledo.  Quoth the Archbishop of Toledo, herein we are much deceived, for his Catholic Majesty and ourselves all have very many faithful and fast friends in England, who would not stick to hazard their lives and fortunes in the Service of his Majesty, might time and occasion be offered, yea, and some none of the meanest.  
The marquis of Castello Rodrig, then arising up with a grave countenance, and a deliberate utterance said, is it possible that any place in the world should bring forth such a monster, as a traitor to his Country, or allow bread to any own so unnaturally base, as to draw his sword, and side with an enemy against her, I will say that for our Spain, I do not remember or ever had read, that she afforded a Traitor, or so much as one that served a sworn enemy against her Prince.  
By your favour, quoth Lewes de Velasco, what Countryman was he of Count john of Nassau's regiment, that took the Admirant of Arragon prisoner at the battle of Neuport.  
It is true quoth Gonzales de Cordua, he was a Spaniard, but examples hereof are very rare.  
Quoth Gondomar, so they are, and though England be the colder Country, yet it hath bred more venomous Creatures of this Nature, than ever Spain, yea even under the Sunshine of their mildest and most moderate goverments.  
Whence quoth the Duke of Escalona should this proceed.  
I will tell you (quoth Gondomar) my opinion, the English naturally are desirous of novelties, and innovations, and as it were sick in the soft beds of their long liberty, peace, and plenty, (which they enjoy under as wise and as good a King as ever lived) they suppose nothing wanteth to their full happiness but change and variety: I must liken them to Giotto of Florence his Ass, who when he went along with a rich saddle of beaten gold on his back with a Crown and Sceptre lying thereon, yet he could not choose but smell upon a Carrier's packesaddle as it lay at an Inn door.  
Hence are strangers the most admired and entertained amongst them, and if of quality preferred many times to place and preferment before the English, though perhaps their are many who deserve better. I have seen their a torn and tattered French Lackey, but as this day arrived out of France, and the next, he hath jetted in the Court in his Tissue or Scarlet at the least: what preferment came that arch-hypocrite Spalleto unto. Ascanio the Friar, who left his wife in St. Martin's lane, and ran again to his Order. And a poor and ignorant Italian Mountebank, sought after for his skill as if Aesculapius or Machaon were again raised from the dead, yea, when but a Spanish gown (happily of the Ambassadors Lady, or of her gentlewoman) how was it sought after by Ladies, and Tailors for the fashion, happy was she that could first get her into the Spanish fashion, to their no small charge, the Spanish garments exceeding all other in fullness, compass, and length, which by this time it may be they have converted into Cushions. My Lords, you would hardly have forborn laughter, to have heard how I have been enquired after for Masters for the Spanish tongue, (that I may say nothing of so many bills set up in every corner of the City by Professors) nay I could have no service almost done me of my Mullettors and Grooms, for being employed in teaching the Spanish among Ladies and their maids, though I knew, I tell you, English must be that they were to trust too when all was done.  
Touching myself being Ambassador there from his Catholic Majesty, and the sole instrument in the Treaty for the match, which the Catholics there so long thirsted after, if I should relate unto you the particulars of mine own entertainment, you would (I suppose) imagine I told you wonders beyond belief, for beside the great and gracious respect I found, and favours I received from his Majesty of Great Britain, and sundry of the Nobility, who seemed wholly to be compounded of courtesy and Nobleness, there passed not a day wherein I was not visited, by some of the best rank, or received some present or other, from Catholic Gentlemen, or their Ladies, (so welcome was the very thought of the Spanish match unto them) I returning them again, with thankes, large promises, and apparent hopes of preferment, when the time should come.  
And be it spoken among ourselves, since we are falling off from England, I made better use of their kindness then so, for there were few Catholics in England of note, from whom in this regard, I wrested not out a good round sum of money: Sir Robert Cotton a great Antiquary, I hear, much complaineth of me, that from his friends and acquaintance only I got into my purse the sum at the least of ten thousand pounds, I deny it not; and true it is, I borrowed of the good old Lady W. of the Parish in St. Martin's in the Fields 300 pounds, or thereabouts, promising her repayment (whereof I will not fail) so soon as Donna Maria, the Infanta should arrive in England, and for the use hereof, I promised to make her mother of her maids, persuading her, it was not fit that so grave and good a Lady as herself should lie obscured in private, but rather attend upon my young Mistress, the bravest and most hopeful Princess of the World, upon these hopes she turned Catholic, and since I never saw her. I sold moreover, the place of Groomesse, of her highness' Stool, to six several English Ladies, who were eager of it, only cause be they might take place before their fellows: I lost nothing neither by a Noble Gentleman, whom I caused to be known for a kinsman of the King my Mr. for that he was descended from the noble and ancient family of Aiala in Spain, these are but mites and crumbs in regard of those great presents, and many pentions I had sent me underhand, from the Catholics from all parts of England during my abode there, had my finger but ached, or been ill disposed (as I often was in body) I had sent me jewels, sweetmeats, perfumes, linen, Rosewater, and a thousand of such trifles, only I returned them thenkes, and promised them or their friend's preferment, when time served.  
If you were my Lord, so nobly entertained in England, quoth Braganza, whence is it, or upon what occasion have we gotten to ourselves the ill will and distaste of that Nation.  
I must confess, quoth Gondamer, the common people of England bear generally an inbred spleen toward us, as it seemeth by many rude affronts, we were offered there by the base sort, contrary to the will and pleasure of his Majesty of great Britain, who published many Edicts and Proclamations in our behalves, punishing many times the offenders severely as they could be taken, but why the name of a Spaniard should be so become odious unto them, is a question I cannot easily resolve.  
Some think that there is a natural antipathy or contrariety of affection between our disposition and theirs, they living in the North, and we in the South; which being (as Charron a French Author observeth) nearer to the Sun, the inhabitants are more crafty, politic, and religious, (though he his in that) even to superstition and Idolatry, where as on the contrary, those of the North (howsoever goodlier in person, better faced, and more beautiful than ourselves by reason of the coldness of the climate, preserving inwardly the natural heat, and radical moisture,) are plain simple, nothing so religious contemners withal, of the glorious ceremonies of our Church, wherewith we have drawn more Heathen in either India to Christianity, in one year, than they can with their Lutheran and Caluinisticall Sermons in all their lives.  
This very self same thing (quoth Gonzales) I once urged by way of argument to an Earl of Germany who was a professed Lutheran Heretic, and his reply herein was, so are fools and children taken with bells, gilt pouches, and colours, and our Ladies and fair Gentlewomen, (we see) oftentimes wooed and won, only with a brave outside on the back of a base knave, when an honest man, and of deserving parts is rejected, in a plain and ordinary suit of clothes, and not held worthy the looking after.  
They talk as they are (quoth Gondomar) I am sure these drew more to my little private Chapel in Holborn, than their best Preachers of Sermons could do to any Church they had.  
But quoth the Duke of Hijaz, it may be they hate us for the same cause, that France, Germany, Italy, and the rest of the Countries of Europe, for that many of us are descended of the Moorish race: wherefore we are termed of them in Italy, Marani, and of other Moros Blancos, and Nue Vos Christianos: For indeed it was but in the year 1492. when Granado was recovered from the Moors, Mahomet surnamed the Little, and son of Muley Albohaceu being King thereof, though Toledo and Cordona long before, and it may be they hold us still infected with Moorish minds, and a spice of their manners, though they are assured we are Christians, yea and the most Catholic too.  
I hear (quoth Signior Gondomar) it is objected in their now present Parliament, that in all treatises for the space of these two hundred years, Spain hath dealt with the English, fide punica, never kept touch with them in any serious capitulation, but ever aiming at her own ends, used their alliance and freindshippe but as a stolen or stalking-horse over their backs to shoot at others, or serve her own necessities for the present, and hereof their Antiquaries (they say) have found many precedents. Among others they affirm and prove, to the prejudice of our Treaty, that Charles the fift was first himself betrothed to Queen Mary and I know upon what trick and policy he untied himself again, and used the means to confer her upon Prince Philip his Son.  
But the very truth is, they carry a vindictive resolution against us ever since our intended conquest of them in 88 and peradventure the powder-plot in 1605. which yet seemeth Manere alta ment repostum. Indeed Henry the 4. of France, surnamed the GREAT, laboured at one time a reconsiliation between us, but he found the roots of either's discontent so deep, and the sore so unsaluable, that he gave it over in the end. Touching mine own person, I was generally hated, I confess, of the common people: for no other cause, I imagine, then for the great grace and favour I was in with his Majesty, unto whom I had free access at all times, and his gracious ear to any reasonable suit or request I could demand, the particulars of the Service I did to the King my Master (whom God long preserve) I think are not known unto you, I omitting no one hour or minute of time wherein I did not benefit either him by my service, myself by experience, or a friend by a good turn.  
For during the time of my abode in England, and whilst I lay in London, I got partly by the means of well affected friends, and partly by mine own experience (for in sommertime, under the colour of taking the air, I would take view of the country) I had perfect knowledge of the estate of the whole Land: for there was no Fortification, Haven, Creek, or Landing place about the Coast of England, but I got a platform and draught thereof, I learned the depth of all their Channels, I was acquainted with all Sands, Shelves, Rocks, Rivers that might impeach or make for invasion, I had perpetually in a Role the names of all the Ships of King james his Navy Royal, I known to a hair of what burden every ship was, what Ordinance she carried, what numbers of Saylors, who were the Captains, for what places they were bound, which were in repair and fit for service, and which not, I known the strength of the Tower of London, what Armour, Ordinance, small shot and powder it might afford. You know moreover my Lords, I acquainted the King my master with Sir Walter Raleighs' intended voyge to Guiana, and every particular thereof, when it was but in embroyne, and when he himself vowed only three were acquainted with his purpose and resolution, but the fourth should never know what he intended until he had set footing in America: yet I say, I knew what he aimed at, what courses he meant to hold, where to land, what places he meant to surprise, what forces he carried, and by what way he resolved to return: with all which particulars, as I have already said) I acquainted you long ere he went, and he was no sooner gone but I was assured I had his head at my devotion, to take it when I listed (having sufficient matter to allege against him) and at last, though his treason for which he stood condemned many years before) was the hatchet, yet the hand was mine that gave him the blow: for it concerned us above all the rest in case we should fall off from England, and burst out into our old enmity, to make away with him, who would have proved the only Boutifeu and Cendiarie of the world, in stirring up the hatred of the English and other Nations against us, he being a darling of our late deadliest enemy Queen Elizabeth, and one of the last men to be borne of those great spirits, and experienced Captains the time of her reign produced. His Majesty (I humbly thank him) took especial notice of this service of mine (and as it was told me) gave me great thankes for it above the rest.  
I was no less diligent for the discovery of the Inland, then for the Shores and Seacoasts: For there was never a Shire in England, but I better know the estate, power and quality thereof then the Inhabitants, even the best of them themselves did. I could in particular relate the nature of the soil, what power of men and horse they were able to raise, who were the chief and of most ability and credit in the country, who the most ancient Gentlemen, what they were worth in their revenues and estates, how they stood affected in Religion, who were Puritans, and who Catholics, and among Catholics who stood for us, and who (for such there were) were indifferent or against us. And which moreover is of equal consequence, there was not a Sermon preached at Paul's Cross, or indeed in any other Church of the City or place in the Kingdom, that did but touch the hem of my master's garment, or was any way prejudicial unto us or the match (which we seemingly intended) but I had my Leame-hounds ready in every corner to draw after them dry foot, and fetch the Authors coram nobis, to their cost, as one Dr. Euerard of St. Martin's, was for his bold and malapert inveighing and continually preaching against us and the match, silenced by my only means, for (I said) and often told my best friends, till the mouths of such Rabshecahs' were stopped, no unity or sincere reconsiliation of either Nation: (for the effecting of which now was the time could possibly be expected)▪ One whiting, besides a Dr. of divinity, Mr. Clayton for his Spanish Ewe, in a Sermon at St. Paul's cross was laid up for his lavish tongue, and had like before to have smarted for a Sermon he made before his Majesty at Wansted in Essex in August some two years since, taking for his Text, remember Lot's Wife, Luk. 17.32. And I think Ward of Ipswich escaped not safely for his lewd and profane picture of 88 and their powder Treason, one whereof, my L. Archbishop I sent you in a letter, that you might see the malice of these detestable Heretics, against his Holiness and the Catholic Church.  
Neither was there any public speech made openly in any Court of justice, were it in either house of Parliament; Star-chamber, Country Assize yea, nany times uttered privately in the Court, but I got an inkling, and made good use thereof: yea, I was partaker of Gossip's news in the City▪ brought to mine own bed chamber by my well known and private friend, etc. Mrs. M. of Fleetstreet.  
Indeed Signior Gondomar, quoth one, herein consisteth the pythe and marrow of your service, but if you please proceed.  
I again entertained, to my no small charge, Intelligencers in every Country (indeed Catholic Priests) whose liberty out of prison I obtained for that very purpose: for being abroad they did us a threefold service: First, they gained souls to God, friends to the King my master, and money good store in our purses: for I got out of English Catholics to mine own use threescore thousand pounds at the least.  
For the first, it hath been certified me for a certain, & by report from many of their own mouths, that the numbers of souls which they have gained into the bosom of the Church since the remission of the penal Laws against them, and their freedom by my means obtained, amounteth to the number of eight and thirty thousand and odd.  
Secondly, they have confirmed the Catholics, and made them so fast for the King our Master, that they have avowed unto me divers times, that rather than miss of the Match, they would make up the best part of the Infanta's portion out of their own purses, yea, though it were with the selling or pawning of all their plate and jewels.  
Within the City for a small matter, I feed certain discontented and necessitous Catholics of the English▪ to walk the common and most frequented places of the City of London as St. Paul's Church, the exchange, now and then among the Ordinaries, to learn the Common news, out of which many times I picked good matter.  
Neither could the States of Holland, or the Ambassadors of any other Foreign Prince carry their business so close, but with my Master's golden Key, I could find a means to dive into their Cabinets, reseale and seal again their packets, without the help either of Arthor Gregory, or his old acquaintance Phillips.  
It was not one of my worst pieces, to hold the English in suspense, with an apparent overture of the Match, and dilatory promise of Golden Mountains, with the age of old Saturn again, when every oak on Greenwich park, Sudaret roscida mella, till the pallatinate was lost beyond recovery, a matter of main consequence: for hereby Bohemia with the rest of the Emperor's Territories being secured above, our master may at pleasure call to his aid the Emperor's forces (who it seemeth for this purpose hath made a League with the Turk for these twenty years) together with the strength of Tilley, 
Die caese ●●●mer.  and the D. of Bavaria joined, & with his own forces suddenly (for now is the time) give Holland such a Camisado, as the best wits of the 
* So the Spaniard scornfully calls the Hage where the States usually reside  Chief Chamber, will be to seek of their old-ward, and wont policy.  
Yea (quoth Don Pedro) but imagine this plot were resolved upon, shall we think the Princes of Germany, King of France, and England, and other their old friends and allies, will stand still as idle Spectators, and not run in with their swords drawn to their rescue? Or that the Hollender who hath been so long weather beaten at sea, is not able to discern this storm a fare off, and take in his Sails ere it shall hazard his ship, yes without doubt; and howsoever we may flatter ourselves with the easiness of the Conquest, we shall assuredly find it as hard a task as ever Spain undertook.  
It is true, you say (quoth the Admirant of Castille) what have we gained of them for these fifty year's space and upward, ever since Don john of Austria, the Duke of Alva, Lewes Requesens, were Governors, and undertook the Low-country Wars, but sound knocks, with the fruitless expense of many a million.  
Quoth (Lewes de Velasco) a shorter cut for the Conquest of those Rebels, had been long since taken, 
The error of the Duke of Alva.  had the Duke of Alva been so wise as to have secured himself of Brill, Flushing, and the rest of the Frontier, and Sea-Townes, he then might have been Master of all the rest within at his pleasure, for so long as they were open and free, they were to the others, as the mouth to the stomach or body, which could not possibly famish, so long as it was supplied continually from England, and other places, but this by the way.  
All what (quoth Gondomar) I have already said is but a praeludium or small Preface, to those projects I had in my brain, if (as unluckily it happened) the Treaty had not suddenly broken off, but been spun out a year or two longer, which indeed was the main plot, and had been effected, 
The Prince in Spain before he was looked for.  had not the coming over of prince CHARLES in Person into Sraine, with the Duke of Buckinghaus spoiled all, for howsoiner we made a seeming show of rejoicing at his coming, and did him all honour beseeming so great and worthy a Prince, yet to speak the truth my Lords, you all know we wished him a thousand miles off; and I believe some of the English themselves were here sorry that he had engaged himself in so long and tedious a journey.  
But quoth the Duke of Hijaz standing up and turning himself to the Duke of Medina Coeli, and the Archbishop of Toledo.  
How may it be conceived that the Prince of England his arrival in Spain, should eithet prejudice us, or the Treaty of the Match a whit, since he found here the greatest content he could device, he had a sight of the Lady Maria la Infanta his Mistress, whose self known and seen exceeded her fame, he was entertained and attended upon by the most complete and generous Nobles of Europe, and had that entertainment, no Nation could afford the like. Lastly Maiorem habemus fidem ijs quae occulis usurpamus, quam quae auribus haurimus.  
Quoth the Duke of Escalonia, the effect hath fallen out quite contrary, for the English report since their coming home, they never came into a base Country in their lives, where they could get meat neither for themselves nor their horses, 
Great want of victual & provision in Spain.  nor saw so much as one handful of grass in two hundred miles riding, and if they dined at one place, they were fain to go 30. or 40. miles ere they could get any thing to their supper, 
He that surfers are a Spaniards Table, trust me I will pay for his physic.  and then perhaps a piece of lean Kid, or Cabrito, a Tripe, Tone's or such like, indeed I remember when the Prince lay at Madrid, we were fain to send seventeen miles off for a Calf, for his Highness' diet, as for Mutton we may kill none without especial Licence from the King, for fish our Rivers afford none, and we being most temperate ourselves, how should our diet agree with their stomaches, who are accounted the greatest feeders of the World.  
I verily believe indeed (quoth Gondomar) that those places they call in England, Eastcheap, and Smithfield Bars, kills, and utters more Beef and Mutton in a month, than all Spain cats in seven years, which plenty our men meeting withal, at our first coming over into England, and since some who attended Don Iniosa (as I lately heard) did over eat themselves, and died shortly after.  
The poor and miserable surface of our Country, 
The Princes going over in person, was happy for England.  (quoth Escalona) the scarcity of victual and hardness of lodging was not all, the Prince of Wales by coming in Person discovered our plot, and found how fair soever we pretended, we meant nothing less, when he thinking (as also did the King of Great Britain his Father) nothing had been wanting to the absolute consummation of the marriage, but the Rites of the Church, he found all as Raw and as backward, as he had been all this while in a dream, and no such matter ever thought of: so that he found the Honour of our glorious entertainment to be but as a delicate sauce to help digestion.  
The Marquis of Castello Rodrigo then stepping up, said, I will add one thing more, and whereof if he life's, he vows not to be unmindful of; and that is as I am informed, 
Add moreover the digging up of the bodies of our buried dead, casting them into the Sea.  some affronts done him by the Clergy, as that rude and barbarous putting him out of a Church which his Highness came in to view: the arresting and taking, away of a young youth a Page, who attended (I think) on Master Mounteague in a manner from his heels, which young Gentleman (they say) cannot be heard of to this day; with that (insolent and african pride) of restraining him from that liberal access and converse, (not denied elsewhere to a mean person) with the Lady Maria Infanta his Mistress (which Princes by their his own right may Challenge, he being equivalent in birth, and the rarest endowments of body and mind, to any Prince whatsoever in the world) with whom in all his time of his being here, he had not above twice talked, and then before either the Queen, or yourself Signior Olivares, or some other, if he had any thing to say afterward, it was by us to be penned to his hand, and to be spoken before witness, we must assuredly think and expect that so great and eminent a Prince, and the darling of that Nation, howsoever he could wisely smother his discontent among us in Spain, we may one day perhaps find the fruits of our double dealing, and the effects of his haught and incensed courage, well knowing how, like a young Lion, though yet in his Den, and scarce acquainted with ranging, his teeth and nails are grown to that length, that he is past jesting or playing withal.  
Indeed my L. Olivares, you are much blamed for that discovery and light you gave to Buckingham of our design, 
The Infanta by her Faherts will, bequeathed to the Emperor's Son.  and the secret and tenor of the last King's will, wherein he charged us not to match with England, But rather to hold a fair Treaty with them, having as you all know bequeathed Maria the Infanta to the Emperor's Son, so that now the English suppose themselves manifestly deluded.  
Quoth the Duke of Sesa, they know it well enough, and I believe we shall find them so sensible of it, that we had been better to have played fair, then to hazard the losing of our rest by such an encounter.  
Now I pray you let us take into our considerations, the mischiefs which are like to follow.  
First, it is thought hereupon they have called a Parliament which consisteth of the King, Prince, all the Lords Spiritual, and Temporal, or the Gentry, and Commons of the ablest judgements, and understanding in the Land, unto this Parliament: the King (they say) hath wholly referred himself, not only for the examination and redress of all abuses and misdemeanours at home, but for the discussing and searching into all plots and practices of others abroad, 
The Unity & sweet consent of the King & his people in this present Parliameent observed  that may seem any way to prejudice the quiet and well governed estate of his Kingdoms, without interposition or mediation, so that the King and people go all on and together, with that alacrity and constancy, in providing for the good estate of the Kingdom, as the like hath no been seen these nany yeeares, Prince CHARLES himself being there early and late, assiduus & accubuus, amongst them, whom (I am informed) with the Duke of Buckingham, we have our prime and principal opposers. 
A diffiernce between the Duke of Buckingham, and Count Olivars which the Papist give out (though falsely) to be the first occasion of the breach of the match.   
I must confess (quoth Count Olivares) there fell a difference between the Duke of Buckingham, and myself, which some have rashly and inconsiderately given out, to be the only cause of this breach, for they say before that time all things went forward in as fair a way as might be.  
Indeed quoth Toledo, the Catholics of England have so given it out, laying all the fault upon the Duke of Buckingham, who is not guilty of any such thing, I will excuse him, that piece was hammered upon our own Anuile: Buckingham is a Noble, Wise, and Generous Prince, upon whom the King his Master hath deservedly conferred his grace, and those transcendent Honnors, yea though for no other former merit else then the resolute and wise carriage of himself, in the business of this Treaty amongst us, whereby he hath not only assured himself of the affection and heart of the King and Prince, but infinitely for his faithful service (another Fidus Achates) unto him gained the general love of the Common people, as it not long since appeared, when he was ill after his tedious Voyage by Sea, (the Prince himself all the time healthy and sound) for whose return the people had been excessive, and beyond measure, had it not been somewhat allayed, and tempored with the report of Buckingham's sickness, 
The Duke of Buckingham for his true service to the King and Prince, and State, hearty beloved of the people.  they praying as hearty for his recovery, as if he had been some good landlord, or great Housekeeper amongst them, whose loss had been half their undoing.  
It were to be wished, quoth Don Mendosa, that the Prince of Wales, and himself with the rest of the Parliament, were not upon just cause I confess, so bend against us. I remember, quoth the Archbishop, when I was a young Student, a saying of Seneca, Ingenuitas non recipit contemptum, Ingenuity or a generous spirit, can in no wise brook contempt, shall we imagine then a Prince, yea such a Prince as CHARLES of Wales, and only Son to the King of Great Britain, upon whom and whose action's as a bright blazing Comet Europe gins to fix her eye, afraid and doubtful, where the fatal effect of his discontent will light, will carry coals, and not cry quittance with his enemies, yet doubtless, his mettle is of another temper, and not so flexible as some take it; for mine own part I would not have him our enemy, if his friendship could be had, though with the expense of many millions of Ducats.  

Cuius contrari●●● 〈◊〉 est.  As if Spain, quoth Rodrigo, needed to fear that angle of the world England, have not we evermore given them their hands full? have they not more feared our Fleets and Armies, than we theirs? do we not equal them in men, and expert Commanders, aswell by land as by sea? do we not exceed them in Treasure, and money from our Indian mines? that like ever-running Fountains, are never drawn dry, that I may say nothing of the courage of our people, our wisdom and policy whereby we have made ourselves masters of so many goodly Territories, and gained so many brave victories both at Sea and Land.  
Had we an enemy, quoth the D. of Cea, of fare less ability and power then England is, we ought not so slightly to contemn him, 
A quarrel about a load of Calues-skins cost the D. of Burgundy the loss of his life & whole estate.  the woeful experience whereof our Nation naturally haughty and opinionate of their valour, as well as others, have proved, the Duke of Burgundy out of an insolent pride so comtemned the Swisseses, the quarrel arising betwixt them, but for the toll of a load of Calf's skins; that at the last by them, he was deprived both of his estate and life, at that unfortunate encounter at Nancy.  
Who could withhold the Archduke Albertus, 
The Spaniards pride & contempt of us, how dear it cost them at Neuport.  and our grand Captains from bidding Prince Maurice battle at Neuport: But scorning the enemy in regard of his small number, in respect of theirs, together being puffed up with that petty victory against the Scots the same morning, they had the reward of pride and contempt of a weak adversary, for the Archduke was forced to fly, saving himself very hardly, leaving dead behind him, the oldest and best Soldiers Spain had. Let us believe the weakest may do us a mischief, as is wittily shown by Aesop, in that fable or apoligy of his, between the Eagle and the Coneys. But by your favour my Lord, you are much mistaken in the estate and strength of England; and quality of the people, and so you will tell me, if we shall have to do with them, as we have found, and had in former times, let us think two of the accession of Scotland unto that Kingdom, 
The strength of Ireland, at this present,  and how Ireland standeth in good terms, and is at this time so well peopled with English and Scottish, that there is not so much as a starting hole left for Rebellion, or so much ground to spare in that Country, that might afford any friends horse of ours a bottle of Hay, much less suffice for an Army to march over, and to be maintained upon.  
I might hereto add the valour and sufficient fidelity of that Noble Gentleman, Sir Henry Carie Lord Viscount Falkland, the now present Lord Deputy thereof, with many other brave Spirits, that are employed in his Majesty's service in that good Country.  
But to return to the Parliament of England, what effects hear you is it likely to produce, or wherein is it thought to prove praeiudicious to the King our Master, or to the Catholic Religion.  
First replied Gondomar, it is likely to go worse with the Catholics then ever, as who must expect no favour, but must prepare themselves to undergo the sharpest censure, and animadversion of the Law against them, yea whosoever shall be found abettors, maintainors, concealors of their plots, or harberours' of their persons, shall suffer for the same in like manner; and I hear say, that there is a Proclamation either coming forth, or published already to that effect, and now they are to departed the Realm by a prefixed day.  
But what (quoth Count de Monterey) will then become of them, or by whom shall they be entertained? will they return to their Coledges again at Douai, Rheims, Room, Villadolid, 
The Seminary Colleges beyond the Seas, almost empty at this time.  and other places, some whereof I have lately seen, and observe to stand emty.  
Nothing less (quoth Gondomar) for I am persuaded though many will colourably departed though return again shortly by new ports and new names more will remain behind, (and since never likely again to have such an opportunity of professing themselves openly, and execising their functions, which they could do in a friends Chamber, and many times in the common Inns) for the better avoiding suspicion, and concealing themselves; some will turn Schoolmaisters in private men's houses, as there are many in England, some Gentlemen Ushers unto Collapsed Ladies are, some such there are in Drury lane: the L. T. in Yorkshire hath one follows her in that Nature, the L. S. not fare from my old house in Holborn in London, the L. M. near unto Stratford-bow: Some Falconers whereof I know two, the one in Sussex, the other in high Suffolk, only one I was acquainted withal, who was the keeper of a Park, and a good Huntsman, and of whom I have had many a good piece of Venison, if he be living, I know another Priest who having lived with an ancient Lady of great estate, and of good credit, by reason he was environed with a pestilent crew of puritans on every side, and the better to colour his absence from the Church, learned the art of Cookery, and is grown so expert therein, within a short space, that he is able to dress a Dinner with such art, and good meat after the English fashion, that never a Cook in all Spain, is able to set the like by it, and his manner is, when he hath laid his meat to the fire, to go and say Mass, which finished by that time, or soon after his meat is boiled and roasted, which with a clean Apron, and white sleeves with some small help of a kitchen boy, he serveth up to his old mistress.  

Erasmus.  Quoth the Archbishop, this was the condition of the old Christians, 
The number Priests & josuits in London only is ●55 in a manner for every parish two if Mass were up again.  under the persecuting Emperors, of which times it is said; Ingeniosares fuit illis temporibus esse Christianum.  
Without doubt quoth Gondomar, they will be severely proceeded against in this present Parliament, and that for many respects.  
First, by reason of their number, and daily increase, whereby they became formidable to the State.  

God be thanked the house is well rid of them.  Secondly, because of the correspondence they held with us, for by their means we understood the secrets of their State, knew what they did, or spoke in their Parliaments; in a word they were our only instruments for any employment, were it never so desperate.  
Thirdly, (wherein I must needs say, they were to blame) they abused the King's grace, and Lenity towards them, 
The King's lenity abused.  with their insolency and affronts oft times braving their Adversaries in the streets to their faces, Preachers in their Pulpits, judges and justices on the Bench, that had they so done with us in Spain, they should have sound smarted for it, of what Religion soever they had been.  
For example, upon Easter monday last, in the after noon, 
Ask Master Primrose of the truth hereof▪  came a jesuit formally attired in black to the Court, then at White Hall (the day following, being the day of the Kings healing of that disease, they call there, the King's evil, what time a great throng of people of all sorts being gathered together, at the door of Sergeant Primrose, who was to take the names, and to search such as had need of help) thrust into the Chamber, and being demanded what business he had there, feigning himself to be in drink, made answer, he had none, neither knew he how he came there; they seeing him in such a case, would have carried him into another room, and have laid him upon a bed, but he refused it, and hearing by chance Mr. Primrose, and one Mr. White confer in Latin together, he suddenly broke out, and said, know you not such a one who attendeth upon such a Lord, he is my brother and a Catholic, whereat Mr. White replied I pray get you gone, I care for no such company, where upon he would have drawn his Dagger, and had not company been nigh, he had doubtless slain him; and no sooner was he out of the Chamber, but he returned with three or four more of his friends and acquaintance, daring him to come forth, and deeply vowing to be revenged upon him and the rest within, etc.  
Fourthly, 
No treason commonly without a Priest or jesuit at one end of it.  because (say the English) they are the only engines and complots of all Treasons, authors of Tumults, and seditions within the land, they instance long since the reb●ellion in the North, of late the Gunpowder Treason, watson's plot with that of St. Walter Raleighes, and many more the like.  
Fift and lastly, because their carriage not answering the reverend and high dignity of their profession, they are grown odious (say they) to those even of their own side, for indeed they are the only boon Companions about the Town, losing hereby much of their value, which I like not of. St. Francis was reputed so holy a man, 
After the naming of St. Francis, you are to lick your lips.  that the Pope's Holiness ordained, that whosoever did but name St. Francis, he should lick his lips after, so sweet and Saintlike was his life and conversation: Yet now I remember at my departure out of England, I gave it some of them in charge, to get what they could, of whom, or by what means soever, because I foresaw their harvest would be short, and the money would stand us all in stead, for indeed the greatest part was at my devotion, and to be employed as I saw cause.  
And this stirred up one Gee an Apostate Calvinist to publish a pestilent and malicious against the Priests and jesuites, residing in and about London, wherein after he hath discovered their practices, he setteth down in a Catalogue at the end all their names, with the places of their lodging, what books they have at any time published, with the names of Catholic Doctors of Physic, and Apothecaries, to their no small disgrace, and prejudice.  
The things my L. quoth Sesa, at your being in England, were by your means wont to be severely looked into, and punished.  
It is true, quoth Gondomar, either hanging or loss of the Author's cares had ensued, or else I had miss of my aim; but the case is now altered, I was then powerful, and in grace, and by my policy effected those things, which were they now to be wrought again, would require the labour and all the strength of Hercules.  
But my L. quoth the D. of Braganza, what news lately from England, in what state stands things there, and how doth D. Iniosa carry himself among the English, at this turbulent season, and amidst the deepest of their discontent, & displeasure against us?  
Well enough (quoth Gondomar) and the better if he be careful to observe some directions I gave him, at my last departure, but for novelty sake, I will produce a Letter I received from him, written with his own hand, within these few days.  
My L. all health and happiness ever attend our Sovereign, his Catholic Majesty, 
The Proclamation against Priests and jesuites.  next yourself and yours: You are much desirous to know to hear what the English Parliament hath already effected, or what they intend touching ourselves, and the Catholics, and the rather by your wisdom, that you might prevent further dangers, which if foreseen, are ever the better encountered withal, and withstood: Either house of Parliament with great vehemency against the Catholics, having published a Proclamation for their final banishment▪ and ourselves every day grow more odious & in contempt with that Nation than other, which I cannot remedy, I did what lay in my power, and according to my direction, to break off this Parliament, 
So all the World supposeth.  by laying an aspersion upon the Prince, and D. of Buckingham, to breed a jealousy in the King's Majesty, which is heinously taken of all the land, whereupon I hoped that the Parliament would have soon been dissolved but my art failed me; and I have gained nothing but disgrace, the enmity of the Prince and Duke, together with the hate of the whole Land, insomuch that yourself S. Gondomar were wont to pass free and unmolested, 
The better sort never gave you ill use.  (except at once, or the second time, when the Offenders were imprisoned and punished, we cannot pass (though no violence I confess is offered) but we have the bans and revile of the multitude, I mean the base sort, wishing we had never come here.  
The Devil drive us home again, withal I had three or four of the Proclamations for the banishing of the Priests and jesuits, pasted on my wall, hard by my door: a Coachful of my Gentlemen were by chance, hard by the Savoy overthrown, but Lord what a shout was there among the multitude for joy; some interpreting the same to be mal●m●men to our Nation, but Deo gratias there was no harm done.  
But are not these affronts and unseemly dealing of the Common people with Ambassadors, sound punished.  
Yes indeed (quoth Gondomar) it is much against his Majesty, and the will of the State, who by public proclamation, have upon a severe penalty forbidden any whatsoever, either by word or deed, to do them any affront or injury, but it seems our dealing hath deserved it, how happeneth it then that these are not restrained, replied the M. of Mandesario.  
Is it impossible (quoth Gondomar) to charm the tongues of a multitude, beside they are people of the worse condition, 
No Nation more benign and courteous to strangers, than English.  for of the better sort we are respected with all observance: but let us proceed with the contents of my Lord's Letter.  
Hear came forth about February likewise, a Proclamation for the banishment of all Priests▪ etc. out of the Kingdom of Ireland, but it is to be hoped, that there be so many of the chief Magistrates and Gentlemen in Ireland, so well affected to the Catholic cause, that it will do us no great hurt in those parts, though the crack be terrible.  
Count Man's field arrived not long since in England, and had great entertainment, but what his errand or bussnesse was, I could never learn, 
A notorious practice of the Spaniards to discover the business of a Turkish Ambassador with the estates, at the Hage in Holland.  though I tried all the means I could to know, I am wanting in nothing insomuch as in some ingenious and good intelligencer. That (quoth Gondomar) is a fault which must be remedied, I remember of late years, there came a great personage, a messenger (call him Ambassador I may not) from a Vis●er in Constantinople to the Estates of Holland, to the Hage, and there was sent from Antwerp to insinuat into his acquaintance, afterward into his service, a natural borne Spaniard, who had been formerly a slave in CONSTANTINOPLE; and spoke the Turkish tongue, as naturally as if he had been borne there, withal he knew the friends and kindred of the said Turkish Gentleman, and could call them by their names, and told him he was such a man's son of the City, who being taken Prisoner when he was young by the Spaniards, 
Of the truth hereof inquire of Cap. I. B.  he was detained as a Galleyslave amongst them many years, and having now made an escape, fled to him for succour, and desired to serve him as an Interpreter, he believing all true that he said, entertained him to attend on him in his Chamber, it fortuned that on a time when the Estates of North-Holland were invited by the Prince of Orange to a Supper or Banquet at his Court in the Hage, and with them this Turkish Ambassador, one of the Company a Dutch man, of North-Holland, observing his carriage and countenance▪ and remembering that his garb and condition was Spanish, and moreover avowing he had seen him in Spain, caused him in despite of his new master to be searched, and at the instant found about him directions how to carry himself, and which was the main plot, to discover what was the Turks errand to the Estates, hereupon it being the time of Peace, he was banished, and at Delft put into a Boat and sent away, upon pain of his head never to return into Holland again: but these diuises are like Stratagems in war, once eluded never to be put in practice again.  
Well to proceed, 
Provision for making ●kady the Navy.  he writes unto us moreover how and with what alacrity the Parliamment with one consent have granted Subsidies for furnishing and rigging up the Navy, and preparation for war.  
But writes he nothing, quoth Velasco, where it is thought they will appoint Sedem Belli, the home of that war.  
That quoth Gondomar is a secret among them, but I think his Majesty will reserve that to himself.  
Why quoth Lewes de Velasco, there should be nothing so secretly carried amongst them, but we should know it.  
The times (replied Gondomar) are not now as heretofore, and when I was in England, our best intelligencers, and the Catholics are not in that grace as they have been: we have had in times past many friends, even in the Parliament House, but they have now so sifted and culled them out, yea if but suspected, that we have little hope of diving into their Actions.  
The Prince of Orange with the Estates of the Low-Countries, have taken the same course, for whereas their intendments and resolutions, where and when to make a war, was known in common to them all of the Council, (so that what they determined or concluded of, we knew it the same night, or the next morning, witness the surprise of Breda with a turf Boat, and their enterprise upon Antwerp) the Prince of Orange reserves that within his own breast, whereby things are now carried with fare more secrecy, 
The enterprise upon Bred● in Brabant.  and good success then before. But how happened it quoth C. Monterey that Breda (as I have heard) was surprised notwithstanding.  
By mere accidents (quoth Gonzales de Cordua) for Antonio Lancavechia the Governor, which happened not in seven years before, lay that night from home (I mean the Castle) at Geertrudenberge six miles off, when the same night came letters unto him from a friend, on the other side, 
The friend was suspected to be monsieur Barnevelt.  which revealed the plot, but leaving his son Deputy Governor he durst not open them (for upon the opening once of a love letter that came to his Father from a Lady, his Father charged him never to meddle with looking into any letter that was directed to him again) but laying them up till his father came home, the Castle and Town wherein were 5000. men horse and foot, with threescore and ten hidden close under curses miraculously taken, the grief whereof as some think, cost the Prince of Parma his life.  
But quoth Castello Rodrigo, Signior Gondomar, if there remain any more news from England, impart it freely, we are I hope of one mind.  
Quoth the Archbishop of Toledo, I have heard that since this little time of respite and freedom, wherein the Catholic Religion hath taken breath a little, there have been many miracles done in England.  
Yes assuredly very many (quoth Gondomar) I heard it credibly reported for a truth, that St. Patrick visibly appeared to many Religious Priests and Friars at his Purgatory, 
This is as true as St. Francis eate a Spider, and scratched her again out of his thigh.  confirming and preaching unto them daily, prophesing moreover, a great time of percution ere long to befall upon them. Moreover our Blessed Lady appeared to an English maid, arrayed as bright as the Sun, with the Moon under her feet, whereupon she became wholly to be converted Catholic.  
No doubt quoth the Duke of Medina Coeli, many of this Nature are mere impostures, what think you my L. Archbishop.  
No question, quoth Gonzales de Cordua, I cannot be persuaded that, that which they call the holy Blood of Boxall, which the Bradanders and all the Netherlands visit in Pilgrimage, and every year looks as red and fresh, as if it had been taken from the body but yesterday, can be the very blood of Christ.  
Nor that a young married wife shall have a child the same year if she can stride over at once Saint Rombauts breeches at Mechlin.  
Nor that as many of the Hollanders hold that Mary was buried at Hueclom, for which cause it hath been in times past a place by Pilgrims much frequented since we hold her Assumption into heaven, for quoth the Archbishop, Signior Gonzales these are Contraria in eodem obiecto, you are a Soldier, and you know for the most part they are none of the devoutest men, I wish you rather modestly and piously with the Church, that all these things are true. Abuses may creep in by accident, but never to be publicly allowed by the Sacred Authority of the Church.  
No, how chanced it (replied Gonzales) that a Painter of Shertogenbosch (my Lord of Gorbhendonck governor of the Town, 
I myself have often seen the picture, though never worshipped it.  told me the tale) being deadly in love with a fair and beautiful Lady near to Pirroy Huesden, and being to draw our Lady's Image for a Chapel, either in St. john's, or some other Church in the Bosch, 
The Church of Rome like one of her Images take off the golden coat of ceremony, underneath it is rubbish, or a rotten block.  to insinuate himself the farther into this Lady's favour, drew her picture with her young son in her arms, which he hung up for our blessed Lady's picture, and is at this day worshipped with great devotion, as if herself were descended from heaven, and were there in person.  
I cannot believe (quoth the Archbishop) there was any such thing, if there were) so long as it brings in good store of money to the poor Priests of the Church, it may easily be endured: beside, if these things should be over narrowly looked into, it would hazard the credit of the Catholic Church, betraying to the vulgar and ignorant her greatest mysteries, and as it were, pulling off her fairest plumes, expose her naked to vulgar scorn and contempt.  
But the D. of Escalono, who had sitten silent this good while, now stepping up said, the end of our present assembly, is not to trouble ourselves about these by▪ discourses and trivial matters, now it stands us in hand to look to ourselves, to provide money, men, and all necessaries for the war with all speed, holding it fit to call home our Ambassador, who I believe hereafter is like to get no better answer concerning our affairs with England, than Mendoza did of Henry Cary, Baron of Hunsdon, and Lord Chamberlain, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, who being commanded by the Q. to give him his answer, she denying him access, by reason (say the English) his demands were insolent and unreasonable, told him the Queen hath commanded me to answer you, my answer is, Setting your Oranges and Limmons' aside, a fig for your Embassage, his meaning was, saving for sauce for their Hens and Capons, they could live, neither caring for us, nor our Country.  

A Banquet sent out of Spain to Prince Charles, not long since.  It seemeth (quoth Villa Hermosa) they care not much for that neither, for when as a various and a delicate Banquet, such as Spain afforded, was sent over, whether by yourself my L. Olivares, your Lady, or some other, to the Prince of Wales, I heard that the Prince touched not any whit of it, but the figs and other iunketting were given some to one, some to another, and at last refused, even of Boys and Pages, for fear there should be dropped in a fig, or two worse relished than their fellows.  
Then Castello Rodrigo stood up and said, Spice the English are so busy at home to provide for themselves, and happily to offend some body else (whom yet we know not) let us also timely provide lest we be to seek, paries cum proximus ardet, and like true hearted Patriots and loyal Subjects to our Catholic King and Country, every one sincerely and freely deliver his opinion, and reasons how our Religion, ourselves, friends, and allies might be best secured, in case the storm should fall on our heads, for this was the main end of our meeting.  
Then quoth the Duke of Medina: Signior Gondomar, since you are best acquainted with the state and affairs of England, give your advice what is best to be done, whither to have open war with them, to wind them up still with new pretences and overtures of the Match, or to entertain a (seeming) league of amity and unity, and the Infanta to take her Fortune else where.  
For the first, (quoth Gondomar) I utterly disallow it, that we upon no apparent ground, 
Spain unwilling to be at odds with England.  and probable reason should provoke so potent and irreconcilable a Nation, who are content to let us alone, so that they may enjoy their peace and quiet, you know the danger of awaking a sleepy Lion, but hereof by the way, I will tell you a pretty and a pleasant accident of a sleepy dog, that happened at my being in England, one D. W. well known about Paul's and Feete-streete in London, (a place whereto I many times resorted) for some private occasion) finding his Dog a great huge Mastiff lying fast a sleep by his Kitchen fire, 
A tale of D. W. Dog.  said to a friend that stood by, my Dog is fast a sleep, I will (to wake him) go hollow in his ear, he no sooner began to hollow, but the Dog (used to no such alarms) leapt up, and laying his forefeet on his Master's shoulders, tore him down on either cheek from the eyes, almost to the mouth: Let us by no means hollow in the ears of the English, For first, we are not so well furnished with men, munition, or money, as the World imagineth, or arsenals Magazines and Storehouses in Sevill, Cadiz, Lisbon, being almost disfurnished of all manner of munition and necessaries, though they seem otherwise.  
How have our Fleets miscarried of late years, 
Spain greatly endamaged of late years.  some by distress and foulness of weather, others by depredation and piracy of the Hollanders taken or sunk, Moreover, consider how our either Indies (even at this present) do Laborare in extremis, We never (since the first Conquest of the West by Columbus) in more apparent danger of losing them, then at this time, by the great and unexpected success of the Hollanders in those parts, yea within these few months.  
For the Fleet of Holland arriving at Lima in Perru, either taken or sunk the very best Ships of our Navy, or beaten the rest, so that they are unfit for any service whatsoever, hereby they have now gotten footing (never known before) within that goodly and golden Kingdom, and by the assistance and courage of the Navy Indians, (to whom the name of a Spaniard is more hateful and odious than Hell) have taken many strong holds and places of retract and defence, 
The Hollanders go●● in footing in Peru this last year.  from whence they are not easily to be undermined, or removed, their number and strength daily increasing, and they finding the commodity so great. For of all his Majesty's Kingdoms in Europe, Asia, or America, Peru is the prime and Sovereign, being above any other in the World, most abounding in gold, silver, and pearl, where gold, and silver is not as in other places, only with great labour, digged and sought for, in deep and rockey mines, but here Nature hath dispersed and thrown it about in such plenty, that it is ordinarily found in sands by the sea side, and upon the common ways, in wells, lakes, marshes, among stones in the earth, cleaving to the ground under the roots of plants, and trees, plucked or digged up, neither in scruples, or little and small grains, but in lumps, and solid mashes, weighing two or three pound weight a piece.  
The like success (we are certainly informed) they had but this other day (replied the D. of Cea,) in going to the East-Indies under their Admiral eremites, by surprising the strong Castle of Delreio, which they yet hold and maintain (having sent back again unto Holland for a second Fleet to their supply, which consisteth of 4000 mariners, whereof one ship (unknown to her fellows) is fraught with handsome young wenches and boys for plantation) these with the former making the number of fifty good ships, and for certain it is reported that they are preparing for a third Navy to follow the other two out of hand.  
I think (quoth L. De Velasco) the Devil intends to gives them all the kingdoms of the earth.  

Great preparation of the Spaniards against the Hollander, but all in vain.  But replied the D. of Braganza, If I am not deceived, they were met withal by the way, and fell fare short of their reckoning, to what end else should his Majesty this last year prepare so mighty a Fleet, both in Spain and Portugal, sending for the shipping of Dunkirk, Winoxbergen and Oostend: besides many merchant Ships arrested and stayed of England, France, Lubeck, Hamborow and other places, to be joined with his Navy. Or what effect wrought the consultation at Madrid, and the daily posting with letters from thence to Brussels.  
All came to just nothing, quoth the D. of Sesa: for even in the heat and threat of this great prepation, the Hollanders were so bold as to set upon a goodly Ship of ours, whose lading was silver, which they took and brought safely home to Horn: So that weighing all occurrences rightly, we shall find it no time to think of an offensive war with England, for which we are not in case, yet it is not amiss for us to pretend like Lions, and seem terrible to the world, but necessity doth admonish, notwithstanding we must eke and lengthen out our hides with Fox's tail.  
Therefore in my opinion, it is best to make fair weather with England, in any case so long at the jest, till we have tried the uttermost of our strength against Holland which I hope his Catholic Majesty our Master will do this Summer, and as I am informed, all those musters and taking up of Men which we hear are in Naples, Sicily, the Duchy of Milan, Spain, Artois, Henalt, Luxenburge, and other places, are to that end. For the door being but half shut we had yet room to enter, if we prolong the time we shall be so bard and bolted, that there will be no hope of entrance at all, except (quoth Don Lewes of Velasco) as my Lord Duke of Sesa saith in this interstitium or twilight of Treaty, or suspense between War and Peace, we take to ourselves some notable advantage, and follow opportunity close at the heels, we are like howsoever we flatter ourselves with getting the game, to go away the greatest loser's: For we see whatsoever we intend, the Hollanders are still in action, daily getting ground of us. Did they not in August last recover Mogodor in Aethiopio from us? did not shortly after Grave Earnest take Embden (which Tilly supposed to be at his devotion) bringing in to the defence of the same ●8. pieces of Count mansfield's great Ordinance? hath not the Prince of Orange with his great industry and care as Spinola on our parts (presently after the death of Obham the chief Admiral of Holland, who died this last year at the Hage) taken view of all the Forts and Towers standing along the Maze Waell and the Rhine, put in stronger Garrisons into Ravenstein and Gennop, and after this, made up full the Army of Brunswick. Moreover hath he not strengthened and enabled to endure the longest siege Zutphen, Deventer, Swoll, with the rest of the Frontier Towns towards Frizeland, the passage we held ever to be our easiest and readiest for the subduing of the Netherlands? did not those of the Garrisons of Emmericke surprise and take Holden, a well fortified Town hard by Dinxlaken, took all our Spaniards that lay there in Garrison, and brought away the keys of the Town gate with them. On the other side, if we attempt any thing, it is either discovered (so vigilant are the States) ere it be acted, or faileth in the manner and means of the action. As the enterprise of ours upon Isendeke (notwithstanding we kept the gates of Antwerp shut for two days together, and no man suffered to go out) which we intended upon the sudden to surprise with our scaling-ladders, yet do what we could, they had notice of our intent, that when we came before it we might (as they say) throw our caps at it, for ever winning or coming within it.  
And the like attempts (to no purpose) we made this last winter upon Bortagna by Groening, and upon St. Andrew's Scorn, had not the Prince of Orange, think we, knowledge of Count Henry Vanden Berges journey this last winter into Frizland? yes doubtless, as the event shown. For he upon (my knowledge) was secretly informed that the Spanish Horsemen had caused in Antwerp and other places all their horse-shoes to be altered, and as many new to be made as would suffice for six or eight thousand horse, all calked sharp and frost-nayled of purpose for travail over the Ice, whereby he known (as he is most circumspect and provident) that some enterprise was to be attempted upon either Holland or Frizland: in that time of the great frost, 
The expedition of Count Henry Vanden-Berge, into Freezeland.  all Fens, Rivers, and Marshes, being passable by reason of the thickness of the Ice (for it froze continually) therefore he doubled the Garrisons within the Frontier Town, sent certain Troops of horse, to observe and watch the most suspected places for passage, and had ships abroad to bring him tidings upon the least motion or occasion. Lastly, he sent in wagons six thousand Skippers, and Water men, to break Ice in the most common and likely places of passage, in the River of Rhine, Isell, the Wael, and about the ditches of Towns, Marshes, and other places, neither did his prognostication sail him. For Count Henry Vandenberg presently after our Consultation at Madrill, had his Commission at brussels for eighteen thousand horse and foot: with which, and eleven pieces of Ordinance, and a great multitude of Wagons, he passed by Emmerick, in exceeding bitter and could weather towards Frizland, but turning another way between Duisburgh and Bronkhorst (a Castle belonging unto the Grave of Stirumen which he took and spoilt) he came to the Isell with 4. pieces of Ordinance, whereof one (the Ice breaking) sunk, the rest he lest at Bronkhorst, having passed the River, he fortified his foot at Diterbusch, with trees he filled up the River. The Estates believing he went directly for Arnhem, they sent Marquet with troops of horse and certain foot Companies, but Vandenberge saluting the Town with a volley of small shot, and beside, making a shot or two into the Town with his great Ordinance departed, I heard great (quoth Pennatiore) outrages were by him committed in that journey, wherein he spared neither Age nor Sex.  
Cruelty (replied Gonzales) is natural and inhaerent to our Nation, for except our victories be drowned in blood we cannot taste them. It is most true that he gave way to his Soldiers in the depth and greatest bitterness of the frost and snow this last winter, to turn men and women stark naked out of their houses, to shift for themselves in the open fields, to ravish young Girls not above eight or ten years of age, wilfully to beat out the heads of their Wine and Bear Vessels, that they might drink only water in that extremity of could weather, that many Infants (their parents flying away for fear) at their return, were found either starved for food, or frozen to death with the could, having neither fire, nor clothing.  
What (quoth Don Pedro) slept the Prince of Orange all this while? or was no manner of revenge taken by the Dutch?  
Yes, it seemed so (quoth Velasco,) for the most part of our Spanish Soldiers were cut off, in their marching away and retreat, by the Garrisons of Duisburgh, Arnhem, Daventrie, Campen, and Zutphen, beside great numbers who perished with extremity of cold, some having their noses, some their hands frozen and rotten off, beside those that were starved for want of bread, so that we cannot boast of this voyage, we staying in the Velue but seven days, which a Spaniard had not seen in above thirty years before.  
All this discourse (quoth Count Gondomar) had on all sides, I see tenderh to no other end, then to intimate our disabillity and disproportion of strength, if we should undertake a present War against the Netherlands, without either making ourselves masters of great Britain a thing which his Majesty's Predecessors for this hundred years have aimed at (and we may truly say and believe is a matter impossible) or by fair means entreat them, from the Cliffs of Dover, to be but only Spectators, while we wrestle for the remnant of our right in the Low Countries, wherefore at the last, to end and shut up this our Consultation, I have (with Advice) drawn together certain Heads and Conclusions, as Maxims of State, for the present and future securing of our Countries and selves, which I humbly submit to all your gracious and honourable censures.  
Herewith Gondomar kissing the paper, delivered the same to the D. of Braganca, which the D. again delivered to a Secretary of Estate, commanding him to read them openly and distinctly before the whole house: the contents whereof were as followeth.  
1 First above all things to maintain and uphold the Catholic Religion, against Pagans, and Heretics, and to do our best to plant and propagate the same in all places of the world.  
2 To hold fast, with both hands (if we can) the friendship of his Majesty of great Britraine, which setting and declining from us, let us labour to reassure and gain by all means possible, upon what pretence or condition soever, for hereupon depends the fortunate or ill success of all our affairs, either now for the present or hereafter, imitating herein good Engineers or Workmen, when they would build a Bridge, to keep off, or turn the main Channel another way.  
3 That being effected, otherwise let us think never to take Weapons in hand. Let (St. Gonzales) Spinola, with yourself, break at an instant into Bra●ant, and try your strength upon Breda, or Bergen op Zoome, giving them an alarm in those parts, while Count Henry Vanden-Berge joined with Tilly's Forces shall by weasel or Rees, passing the Rhine, come like an inundation upon them in Freezeland.  
4 That our Garrisons be doubled in Dunkirk, Ostend, and other Towns of Flanders, and the havens well guarded and defended.  
5 That the Emperor take a truce for six years with his deadly enemy Bethlem Gabor, and that we hold good correspondence with the D. of Savoy, and the Venetians.  
6 That all shipping be slayed, whether English, French, Scottish, Hamburgers, or of what Nation soever till our pleasure be further known.  
7 That all our Magazines and storehouses be examined and furnished, with all manner of provision, lead, powder, match, bullets, and cordage.  
8 That a certain number of Ships be newly built and sent into the West Indies, as well to secure and guard our Navy home, as to supplant those Hollanders who have gotten sooting in our Kingdom of Peru.  
9 That all strangers, of what Nation or Country soever, be banished the Land.  
10 That we take an order for the relief of such Priests and jesuites as shall be banished England and Ireland, and to increase the number of our Intelligencers.  
11 That we bar the English, French, Dutch, Scottish, and other Nations whatsoever, from all access to the Indies, either to traffic or plant.  
12 That we set up and maintain the Inquisition in all our Dominions, and to enhaunse our Customs.  
13 That we make ourselves able to encounter whosoever shall oppose, or stop our passage on the narrow Seas, and that we give it out, (what ever our intent is) that our Fleets pass that way only but for the chastising of the Hollander.  
14 That hereafter we entertain no English nor Scots, into our pay, but the Irish only, to the intent after they have gotten experience, and are able to command, they may stand us in stead, in case we should hereafter make any attempt upon Ireland.  
15 That we call in as much of our gold and silver as is possible.  
16 That you speedily writ to our Ambassador in England, to give notice to all our trusty well beloved the jesuites, and secular Priests, with some of the best minded Catholics towards us, that they labour as much as in them lieth to take away all aspersion, & whatsoever may tend to our dishonuor, & for this cause to give us notice of all scandalous Books, Pictures, Inuectives, Pasquil's, &c. that shall be printed against us in Holland, England, and other places.  
That they curiously search into the proceed of the Parliament, and send us an abbreviate of all the passages thereof, with what forces, and how soon they resolve to secure the Low-Countries.  
Lastly, that in the Name of their obedience to his Holiness, and observation to his Catholic Majesty, they labour where ever they live, to educate and instruct their friends Children in the Catholic Religion, and timely to enable either their sons for our Seminaries, or their Daughters for our Nunneries, so the houses shall be supplied still with novices, our Treasuries with money, and we with friends and instruments at all occations.  
Concerning these two last propositions, for a conclusion I will produce a Letter unto me subscribed with the hands of many of the chief among them, (whose portraitures with their names ye have here inserted) of the manner of their proceed, and that you may know they spend not their time in vain in England, For I must my LL. tell you I hold intelligence with the wisest and best learned among them, and where ever they are transeo per medium illorum. Therefore I thought it not amiss by a draught to let you see them in their Consultation, as they were wont to sit at the house of one L. a Goldsmith in Fetter lane by Holborn in London this L. 
L. a Goldsmith; and one that furthereth the-Printing of Popish Book●,  hath for many years closely kept a Printing house, to the great furtherance and increase of the Catholic Religion in that Land, for by his means thousands & thousands of good Books hath been dispersed over the Land, which, albeit they are sold at an excessive rate, and he hath been a great gainer by them, yet are they printed and reprinted again, and much money gotten by them though uttered at a third hand; but I will read the Letter, it is not long: your Honours therefore deign it the hearing.  
Illustrious and excellent Lords, it is now (we all think) a long time since we heard from your Honour, or received any instruction from you concerning the business you wots of, we in England here are like shortly to groan under the heavy and unsupportable burden of persecution, but we shall (I hope) the better endure it, so long as our cause is warranted, and our constancy assisted and increased by the prayers and supplications of the Church, we labour daily in the Catholic Harvest, and recover, (with wonderful success) thousands of souls from the Abyss of Perdition into the bosom of the Church, the only difficulty is in con, cealing ourselves and intendments, from that many headed Monster Heresy. We walk openly and have our time allotted us till the 14 day of june next, which is the utmost period of our stay, in the mean time we desire to be advised by your Lordship, what afterward were fittest to be done of us, for your Honour's depth of judgement and all admired policy, is the compass by which we all Steer to escape present danger. Our Lord protect your Honour to all our Comforts; and our blessing be upon you. From London this 3. of May.  
〈◊〉 have here se●● the true portraiture of the jesuits and priests as they use to sit at Counsel in England to further the Catholic Cause.  

D. Wright.  
D. Bristol.  
F. Barlow.  
D. Bishop.  
F. Fisher.  
F. Pattison.  
F. Porter.  
D. Smith.  
F. Sweet.  
F. Ployden.  
F. Lovett.  
F. Wothington.  
F. Heyham.  
F. Palmer.  
F. Townsend, etc.   
To this Letter I gave them this answer as followeth.  
Holy Fathers, I received your Letters to my great comfort, but I confess I am nearly touched with the so sudden approach of your common calamity, but as the greatest sore findeth his salve, so the greatest affliction some consolation or other in the midst of extremity; For mine own part know, that I will not be wanting to your comforts in any thing that lieth in me, or that I can procure in your behalves, either from his Holiness at Rome, or my Master his Catholic Majesty here. The times are dangerous, carry yourselves therefore wisely with that perverse Nation, which scorns you, and hourly consulteth, how to sweep you from the face of the earth, and even now have they the broom in their hands, I mean the present Parliament, who will leave no dust, or Sluts corners behind them, favour you are to expect none, therefore with the Fox (when hunted out of breath) you must rely upon your Arts, and subtle sleights. Of which nature may be these following. If your credits be so good with any great or eminent personage, make him your Instrument to sow dissension betwixt the Prince & people, imitating herein Soldiers, when they would get an advantage of flying or running away, they use to set fire on villages and their baggage, that they might escape unseen by the benefit of the smoke. Learn or devise new and the most difficult Characters for writing Letters, with all the sleights and devises of privy conveyance; you may practise Physic as Doctors of Milan, or set up bills as Mountebanks, venting collored Oils, Balsams, counterfeit Bezoar, perfumed Lozenges, Receipts for the toothache, with a thousand the like: get the perfect and true receipt for any one disease or ache, it is enough to gain credit to your practice, and make you pass for currant. If you send any youths over to our Seminaries let them be the Sons of the richest and ablest men, so shall you not want a place for retreat, and means to relieve you at an extremity. Young Gentlewomen, you may convey over to Brussels, or whether you please, by putting them in boy's apparel, their hair being handsomely tied up with a Fillet, and a wrought cap worn over it with a great broad-brimmd Hat. If you would at any time convey over any Silver or Gold, the Searcher commonly may be cozened, if you send it over in Pasties baked, provided that you have some of flesh only to eat or give away, as a colour for the rest. For the venting of hallowed Oil, Beads, Agnus-Deies, Maddalles, Pardons, Crucifixes, etc. You may do it by some one poor yet trusty Catholic or two, to go up and down the Country in the habit and nature of Pedlars: this also is a good way to hold intelligence with friends in many places. I have known some under the colour of selling Tobacco, have carried Letters handsomely preuily in the balls or rolls.  
Also we advise you, if persecutions come upon you to fly into Scotland for a season, and when you see your best time return again; for it seemeth by this Proclamation you sent, that you are not banished Scotland, therefore that may be a good shelter unto you.  
Be sure to have going in the North or west part of England, two Printers presses at work, which let be well stocked; also a small rolling press for little pictures of Saints, Veronica's heads, Crucifixes; and the like, much money may be gained hereby.  
Have a care whensoever any Book or Picture comes out to our prejudice, set some friends to buy them all up, though you burn them forthwith, except some few, which fail not still but to send us of every sort three at the least, for they will be unto us of great use.  
Many more directions (Holy Fathers) there are which are alike necessary to be thought upon, but I refer them to your own grave and pious considerations. So committing you to the tuition of our blessed Lady, and myself to your holy and devout prayers, I rest. From Seville this 6. of May.  
Count Gondomar having made an end, they all with one voice applauded and highly commended his directions and Counsel, not only for his particular Letter, but for the wise carriage of himself heretofore in many and weighty affairs that concerned the Catholic Religion, the honour of his Majesty, and the general good of the Estate, Esteeming him worthily honoured with the Title of a Grandee at home in Spain, and of his Master's Ambassador abroad, having effected more by his wit and policy, then could have been wrought by the strength of many Armies.  
And now when they were almost come to a period, and full conclusion of their Consultation for that time, there came a Messenger in post, who brought Letters from the King, to Count Olivares his favourite, to call him to the Court upon some special employment, what it was, could not be certainly known, but as I heard, some complaint was lately come out of England, against the Ambassador's resident there, & moreover that a great fight had been lately between nine great Spanish ships, & 5. men (or ships) of war of Horn and Enchuisen in Holland, wherein, the report went, the Hollanders had taken two, and sunk one, whereupon, they all arose up together in a great confusion, every one hasting to his horse which stood ready in a fair base Court without, they took their way, some with Olivares to the Court, others to their own houses, where I leave them, till we hear further of their proceed.   

TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS. MAGNIFIQVE AND GRAVE Assembly of the High Court of Parliament in England.  
HEre as in a little glass, may you (Most Honourable, Great, and Grave Senate) view the epitome, or rather the effect of a seven year's Treaty with Spain, ye may plainly see the hold and assurance we were ever like to have had of that Nation, yea, even when we thought ourselves surest of them. Here we may (to our warning of taking heed whom we trust) behold to the life the Haughty-Pride, Thirsty-covetousnes, and kind dissimulation of the same Fox populi, Count Gondomar the 
* For they say he is a Grandee in Spain.  GREAT. Here may the Netherlands perceive, the imminent danger that hung-over their heads, shortly without doubt to have fallen upon them, had not the Spanish ambushes been timously discovered. Hear may that Illustrious King, and the most renowned and second Queen Elizabeth (for her constancy and spirit) of Bohemia, and princes Pallatines' of the Rhine, consider how assuredly faithfully the surrendering of their Pallatinate should have been performed. In a word, here may we all see the great Mercies of God towards us, whose providence it hath been, that we should clear ourselves from these Spanish Rocks, that all this while lay under water, and unseen, doubtless to our ruin, had we not I say by immediate help from heaven been relieved. Let us then, as we are one people of the same Language, Religion, Laws, Governed by the same Gracious and good King, embrace with that wise Lord, and grave Councillor (as in his Poesy) Vuam cor, unam viam, then need not our Britain so famous of old, for her triumphs and many victories over other Nations, nor care a straw for the vain and windy threats of proud Spain, nor the menaces of the most daring Adversary whosoever.  
Your Humblest servant, who is, and ever shall be T. S.  
FINIS.