FURTHER OBSERVATIONS OF THE ENGLISH SPANISH PILGRIM, CONCERNING SPAIN, Being a second part of his former Book, and containing these particulars:  
The description of a famous Monastery, or House of the King of Spain's, called the Escurial, not the like in the Christian World:  
A brief relation of certain Daemonicall stratagems of the Spanish Inquisition exercised on diverse English men of note of late times, and now living in England.  
A relation of the founding of a Military Order in Rome, to wit, of the immaculate Conception of our Lady, the blessed Virgin.  
Composed by james Wadsworth, Gentleman, lately converted into his true Mother's bosom, the Church of England, and heretofore Pensioner to the King of Spain.  
LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop at S. Austin's gate at the sign of the pied Bull. 1630.   

TO THE TRULY NOBLE AND HIGHLY HONOURABLE, HENRY, Earl of Holland, Lord Kensington, High Constable of the Castle of Windsor, Captain of his Majesty's Guard, Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter, one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge:  
The Right Honourable, Robert Earl of Warwick: The truly Noble, the Lord Mountioy, Earl of Newport, three most happy Brethren, james Wadsworth wisheth daily increase of Honour and eternal felicity:  
And to the Right Honourable, Earl of Barkesheire; and the truly Noble, Lord Barclay, and the Religious and Virtuous Knight, Sir Henry Pherres, and their religious Ladies.  
WHen your Lordship was in Spain in personal attendance on his Majesty, where you drew all eyes after you, as you did all wishes here. When it could never be more truly said, Angli Angelis similes: then were many of these things acted, many occasions offered me of returning to my true Religion, and native Country. I should have thought myself much happy to have sailed by the same Wind with your Honour's ship: but fortune would not breathe her assisting assent upon me. Their cunning suspicions and observations of me, crossed my designs, as my first Book may haply reveal, which I humbly petition to your Honour to accept. So I humbly take my leave, kissing your Lordship's hands, even those which have raised me up to the preferment of this Title, to be  
Your Honour's most humble servant in all bounden respective service to be commanded, james Wadsworth.   

To his friend Mr. james Wadsworth and his Book.  
Go happy offspring of a pregnant brain,  
Sins Commetary, a perspective for Spain,  
Through which her masked delusions appear  
Naked, as if they had been practised here▪  
If any jesuit damn the Author's quill,  
That writes against her from whom he learned his skill,  
Or wonder how that City odious proves,  
Which bred him, and his Father's memory loves:  
Know this that Asa was not plagued, cause he  
Deprived his mother for idolatry.  
Good Parents patterns are, if bade forbear  
To imitate, and make their faults thy fear.  
Should I relate the dangers he endured  
After his soul a liberty procured;  
I should but wrong his Book by making those  
Which read such horrid lines afraid of's prose.  
When th' I'll of Ree, and Martin's luckless Fort,  
Our trouble and their triumphs did report▪  
Him Calais dungeon kept, as if his fate  
Should pay the rash invasion of a State.  
Yet not their catchpole Popery, nor all  
Their Machevils could work his funeral:  
That hand which first converted him hath brought,  
Him safe, and their discovered atheism wrought.  
T. M. of C. C.   

Of his friend M. james Wadsworth and his Book.  
MAn's borne to Grief; without their mother's groan  
None are brought forth; none live without their own:  
We need no proofs; but stand amazed to see  
In one man's sorrows short Epitome▪  
Will his unhappy travails witness may,  
That true Religion hath a thorny way,  
He was on Sea by the winds billows shaken,  
By thieves was robbed, and by the Pirate taken;  
He was endungeond by the jesuit,  
That hoped with him to keep his faults from light:  
But he was now freed, the Papists naked shows,  
Well fitted to receive the scourges blows,  
They with their disciplines have razed his skin,  
And he's become the Trumpet of their sin;  
Yet wrongs not charity, since 'tis his care  
To shame the bad, and bid the good beware.  
Now may he sleep not fearing Thunder's noise,  
And make post miseries sweeten future joys.  
I. G.   

Mr. M. V. to the Author.  
SVppose thee a new Traveller, again  
Launching into the dangers of the main,  
What would thy lot of entertainemen be?  
Once more the French his Wine would offer thee.  
A Rope for Cables, somewhat for a Mast  
With other tackle, and to make more haste  
Thy ship should with the Air of cursings go,  
And this the swelling Spaniard should blow  
The jesuit should for a Present bring  
A Knife with which he lately killed a King,  
Or if perhaps it were some meaner sport,  
(An Earl) the jesuit would praise him for't,  
But to apply all this: my friend you see  
What entertain the world would tender thee,  
Yet thou hast learned that 'tis a noble Fate  
To gain thy Country's love through all their hate.  
M. V. of C. C. C.   

I. D. to the Author of this Book.  
THat we thy virtues may the better prize,  
Thy name thy deeds do anagrammatize.  
To wade even through the Roman sea, to be  
Amongst the rocks and shelves of papistry,  
To lie i'th' bosom, yet not to adore  
The image of the Antichristian whore;  
Is of such worth, that none would think the same,  
Were not thy deeds, as worthy as thy name.  
I. D. Col. G. & C.   

To his Friend the Author.  
I That once feared the Circe's cup of Rheims,  
But now do drink Thalia's clearest streams:  
Vieving thy Shipwrecked danger thou hast passed,  
To Neptune, a votive Table, owe to cast.  
Where an Apelles Art may seem the more,  
If that it paint the Babalonish whore.  
Whose coat became thy cloak for each deceit,  
That so the whore might have her Pander straight:  
Her Rags, thy Velvets were; her triple Crown,  
Thy Beaver; Princes with a pinching frown  
T' out baffle, or from their Kingdoms depose:  
If, by them, the Catholic cause did lose.  
Her Siren tones would make thee soon awake:  
If not: a clap of Thunder would thee shake.  
The Holy Cross to bear, was no labour,  
And cross thyself, to cross thy Saviour.  
Such was thy hungry zeal the old Saints bones  
T' adore, thou made no bones of't carved stones  
Would turn thy bead-devotion into gold;  
Which to a made-god (wise man like) thou told.  
Thou knew never cake could make its baker  
Yet often the Priests saw cake their maker,  
Which did unseal thy eyes clearly to see  
All their Religion was but trumpery.  
They had told thee of a Purgatory:  
In Spain thou found'st it thy Book's the Story.  
Saint Omers, was thy limbus Puerorum,  
Calais Dungeon, thy limbus Patrum.  
If one should ask where Hell on earth should be  
Thou think'st in Spain, or Room, he may it see,  
What Jesuits are I know thou knowst full well;  
They were the cause that others did thee sell.  
Such Locusts, our Land to eat up still strive,  
May our King's Northwind to Rome's sea them drive.  
For, I dare boldly say, 'tis England's doom,  
That they should live with us, who swear for Room.  
We have their heads, but Serpentine, to bite  
Rome, has their hearts, and their allegiance quite  
A Climactericke year hanged 
* Barlow hanged, drawed, and quartered at Lancaster Anno 1623.  one of late,  
Who swore for Pope against our King and State,  
His dissect parts might teach them to espy  
Those parts that lived against should by us die.  
He many from received Truth seduced,  
Who to frequent our Church affore time used.  
'Twas just then, to hang the body of him,  
Who t' hang men's souls great merit would it deem.  
Now may his holiness him canonize  
As good as Becket for Treasons, and lies.  
He with his associates often went  
To a wench, which was to confession bend:  
'Twas known she was a whore, than well she might  
Make her confession to a jesuit.  
They kept their 
* Si non caste, tamen cautè.  Rule and might then show their skill,  
Live chaste, thou canst not keep a close whore stil.  
Such hellish firebrands Papists did incense  
Against 
* See the life & death of Mistress Brettergh 〈◊〉 by Mr. Harrison, Preacher of Hyton in Lancashire.  one, who lived the Truth's defence,  
Whose precious life because they could not waste,  
The dumb cattle their cruelty must taste.  
And sith they could not take off that one head,  
These tales must all off: where a man might read  
Their rubric cruelty on thed earth, and hear  
Those dumb beasts bespeak vengeance in God's ear.  
I sp●ake all this for to congratulate  
Thy ransomed glory, and most happy fate.  
G●●s 
* 〈…〉  ●oote alone scaped out of their snare,  
Thy body also, and thy soul most rare.  
Which soaring up toward God is fixed above  
Nor Pope nor Spainiard can it move.  
Ulysses valour thou dost far excel,  
The towering Son of Thetis fame dost quell,  
They had their Homers to relate their fame:  
Thou needest them not: thy works, can write thy name.  
Iliads of evil could them outwear  
Brave Spirit! a world of evils thou didst bear:  
Nor, bear alone, but break them through, and shows  
The Trophies of thy glory from thy foes  
To be a true Convert thou art spoken  
English, Spanish, Pilgrim, is thy token.  
T. H. A. B. C. C. C.   

To his friend M. james Wadsworth, concerning his book.  
Go stately forward in thy Spanish pace,  
And boldly stamp defiance in the face  
Of Rome's proud Harlot, let her know she must  
Lie prostrate now to scorn, not to her lust.  
She that can make fair statues speak, may look  
On her own image, speaking in thy Book  
Reproach unto herself, that all may see  
Her vices and her sin's Anatomy.  
'tis happy, the beguiled Father's son  
So wisely should delude delusion.  
And in such mists of error should descry  
And tract the footsteps of an Heresy:  
Which leaving now at length, perchance it shall  
Be found a Comet, and presage a fall  
To Rome's upholders, whose chief strength doth lie  
In juggling and in false Divinity.  
But though they stand, thy Book I take no less  
Than writings to entail thee, happiness.  
I. N. C. C. C.   

To his experienced good friend Mr. james Wadsworth upon his Book.  
THy book's a Pilgrim, and 't had need be so  
If 't means to own thee for its Master; who  
From Parents, Country, and Religion too;  
Near stuck to fly, thy Native faith to show:  
But 't may be styled a Diamond, whose rays  
Affords us light to view Rome's masked assays;  
Nor that unworthily, fort cost a prize  
Near purchased by the coin, but miseries:  
The Galleys, and the Inquisition  
Of which thou hast, of which thou might'st made one,  
Are now become thy stories: Mayst thou live  
Till mercy of the times occasion give,  
For our oppugnd religion to fight  
With some Immaculate-new-ordered Knight:  
But though thou diest, yet 
* Stories.  these shall ever live,  
And prove thy fame's most true preservative;  
And in despite of envy shall become,  
So many mottoes graved upon thy Tomb.  
R. G. C. C. C.   

To his good Friend the Author.  

Spain prisoner took thy soul, thy body France;  
This lived in Dungeon, that in Ignorance:  
But England soul and body would have free,  
Scorning contention, and foul heresy.  
Spain was thy Hell, and France thy Purgatory,  
England's thy Heaven on earth: above's thy Glory.   

Thou sins Anatomist canst by thy fate  
With skill the scarlet whore eviscerate?  
Her subtle discipline, her sorcery,  
Her baits of honour thou dost here descry.  
Thus having made her whoredom to appear,  
To boast of honesty she well may fear.   
G. B.   

To his friend Mr. Wadsworth the Pilgrim.  

FOrward, brave Pilgrim, let thy travelling brain  
Give birth to more Minerva's; though to Spain  
Imposture pawned thy Parents yet is that state  
Checked by discovery of thy reaching pate.  
The speaking Cross did steal thy Father's heart,  
Thou speaking Cross to his designs dost thwart  
Delusions credit, and impostures guile  
Beguilts its posture painting in thy style.  
Did Calais dungeon thee obscurely keep?  
We know that truth oft times lies in the deep;  
Did the dark dungeon thee bestride with night?  
Rome's projects and thy clearness came to light;  
Darkness displayed, and night being thrust away  
Thou cleared, we must confess th' hast won the day.   

Man's life's a Pilgrimage, cease not to travel  
From shore to Sea, from Sea to sand, to gravel  
Th' antagonists of truth: we know by commonsence,  
Travels the high way to experience.   
E. R. Mag. Coll. Cant.   

To the modest and courteous Gentleman the Author of the English Spanish Traveller.  
COuld my weak judgement upon trust be taken  
Or could I add a lustre to thy book,  
Beyond its native glory, I would then  
Strive to exceed myself and my own pen.  
But nothing can be added to your worth,  
Only my wonderment to set it forth.  
And silence name best shows that: lest what I write  
Should like your glorious fame seem infinite.   

To my worthy friend Mr. james Wadsworth.  
ALthough you have discovered nobly well  
The Jesuits and sons of Machiavelli:  
Yet on this Book which doth their Arts descry,  
They practise yet a greater Policy.  
For Sir I dare not think but that you know  
Who are the Merchants that engrossed it so  
Spies for S. Omers, and the Douai Crew,  
And such as fear what good thy book may do,  
Intelligencers, Mumblers of the Mass  
Disguised and skinned in Satin (as the Ass  
Was in the Lion's hide) but their long ears  
Hang out too far. Yet where their craft appears  
Or where they are discovered openly  
Such books as those by the whole sale they buy,  
And hide them from our view: And this was one  
Of many reasons caused th' impression:  
To be renewed: That he his book repairs  
Comes not from his ambition but theirs.  
A. B. of C. C. C.   

GEntle Reader, I entreat thee before thou read over this Book, to mend with thy Pen these few faults that alter the sense, being committed in the Author's absence.  
Pag. 1. lin. 1. for Segoria, r. Segovia. p. 18. l. 5. r. Cheney Roe. p. 20. l. 22. r. he. p. 23. l. 20. r. Venetia. p. 24. l. 9 r. Nunca sino ala conquista de Spana. l. 19 r. Print. p. 26. l. 20. r. Wildford Castle.   

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS OF THE ENGLISH SPANISH PILGRIM, CONCERNING SPAIN: BEING A SECOND PART OF HIS FORMER Book, etc.  
IN the Country of Segoria, upon the Carpetan borders, stands a village heretofore of small note, but now famous, for the stately monastery called Scorialis, or commonly the Escurial, from the dross (as some guess) which in old time came of the iron about those parts: The former buildings of that village were (till of late) very mean and homely, more for the profit then pleasure of the poor husbandman: The soil about it is barren and stony, affording very hard passage for carts and carriages; whereupon there is but little provision of corn and wine, but good store of cattle, by reason of the good feeding and sweet temper of the air, whereas the more inland parts of the Country are somewhat scorched with overmuch heat, this bloweth many cool blasts from the snowy neighbouring mountains; whence flows good store of water enriching the ground with grass, and beautifying the fields with a continual greenness. Beyond this village westward about a mile, at the foot of an high hill in an enclosed valley, seven leagues from Madrid, stands that stately pile dedicated to the honour of St. Laurence, being the labour of four and twenty years, a building of incredible cost and magnificence, and such, as no former age could parallel; So that it may justly be accounted one of the greatest wonders of this latter world. Besides the charges of rich vestments, massy vessels of gold and silver, and other precious furniture, it stood the King of Spain (according to his book of accounts) in one thousand two hundred Sesterces, which makes about three millions of money, or (according to others) nine millions of pounds. The whole fabrik is built in a square, except on that side toward the King's Palace and on the backside of the Church, looking towards Madrid, which seems to resemble a cradle or gridiron upon which St. Laurence was broiled: Every side but this extending two hundred and twenty paces: Some account the whole length of it (from North to South) no less than seven hundred and twenty feet, and from East to West (according to the common measure) five hundred and seventy. Each corner of the building is guarded with a fair tower made more for neatness then strength, and beautified (from the bottom to the top) with many fair windows. The whole fabric may be divided in three parts: On the South side stands the monastery of Monks of St. Hierome, which takes up almost one half of it. Toward the Northside stands the College for younger novices of the same order, 
〈…〉  and foreign children, chosen and maintained by the King at a common table among themselves. Somewhat Eastward stands the Kings own Palace, being his Mansion house in the summer time.  
Before you come to this stately edifice, you may first observe on the outside lying before it, an open walk, beginning from the westside of the Monastery, and thence compassing all the Northside, being two hundred foot broad on the West part between the Monastery, and the partition, and one hundred and forty foot broad on the North, all beautified with a fair pavement of small square stones. In the midst according to the length of the building, on that side where the adjoining mountain overlookes it: A fair great gate opens itself between eight huge pillars on both sides of it, one above another, upon which are four other lesser pillars, and in the midst of the front stands a curious statue of S. Laurence. This great gate opens to the Church, the Monastery, and the College. On both sides of it are other lesser gates. That on the right hand affords a passage to the chaps of mechanical arts for the use of the College. That on the left opens a way to the lodgings of the younger Students or Novices.  
On the same side also is a lesser gate, through which you may pass into the King's Palace. In a fair front, over the entrance to the Church, stand upon their pillars and bases, the statues of six Kings of Israel, each of them eighteen foot high, whose heads and hands are of white Marble, the rest of a courser stone. Let us enter now into the interior parts of this goodly Fabric; and first when you are up the stairs which lead to the chief entrance of the Church, a large open walk offers itself unto your view, separating the Monastery from the College. In this walk are broad steps all along, which lead to the entrance of the Church, and thence to another open Plain, and so to a narrow Alley, thorough which those of the Monastery on the one side, and those of the College on the other, may pass to the Church, and from thence into the lower station of the Quire. Now the place where this Choir stands, is fouresquare, having three great Alleys, or Isles, or Cloisters in the square, which are accounted for the Navis, or body of the Church. Adjoining to this place of the lowermost Choir, is an open Court on both sides, from which the lower Choir itself, and two Chapels situated towards those two Courts, receive their light. Above this lower Choir stands the Church itself, with its proper Choir also; which Church (besides the upper and lower stations of the Choir, and the great Chapel) is foursquare of itself, and is sustained by four pillars, and other necessary props, and it hath three collateral Alleys or Cloisters, after the manner of the former. In this Church are two pair of fair Organs, having each of them two and thirty registers or keys. This Church also hath no less than six and thirty Altars, and a stately door, by which they go into a large vault at the time of Supplications and divine Orisons; This Church is higher than the inferior Choir by thirty foot, and the Choir of that is so much higher than the Church. The pavement of the Church, as likewise of the upper and lower Choir, is chequered with white and black Marble. In the roof of the Choir are expressed by the Painter the Sun, Moon and Stars, with all the host of Heaven in most glorious manner, and on the walls the portraitures of diverse and sundry virtues, and some histories of S. Laurence and S. Hierome. The seats are all made of precious wood of diverse kinds and colours in Corinthian work. On the Southside of the Church is a fair Porch, arched and beautified with diverse pictures. In this Porch is a clear Fountain, built about with jasper and Marble, having seven cocks and cisterns, where the Monks use to wash their hands, when they go to celebrate their divine Service. The pavement also of this Porch is chequered with white and black Marble.  
The Vestry is next, a stately place, all arched and paved as the former. The chests, and presses, and other places where they keep their holy Vests, and ornaments of the Altars, are all made of precious wood, the walls covered with historical pictures. From this Vestry they ascend by many steps unto the high Altar. The place where this Altar stands is foursquare, and paved with jaspar of diverse colours. In the same place are certain Oratories, built for great Princes to hear Mass, which Oratories are distinguished into four little Chapels, and adorned both on the walls and pavement with chequered jaspar. This place where the Altar stands, is ten foot higher than the Church, and they go down from hence to the Church by certain steps before the great Chapel all of jaspar. Through this holy place (as they call it) they go into the Reliquary, where are kept diverse precious relics of the Saints (forsooth) and shut up in their coffers or boxes. The like Reliquary is on the Southside also, full of many rare monuments.  
On the one side of the high Altar is a little house, wherein is distributed the holy Eucharist, a place of great holiness and devotion surely, On the walls of this house are curiously painted four histories out of the old Testament, shadowing out this holy Sacrament; In the roof is portrayed the Rainbow in the clouds with many Cherubins and Seraphins about it.  
Between this house and the high Altar stands the Sacristia, within which is the Custodia of the holy Eucharist (as they call it) This place is built upon eight pillars of jaspar of a yellowish colour, with some veins or streaks of white; This jaspar is so hard and excellent that it cannot be polished but with Adamant. The bars and chapiters wrought with flowers, are all made of gilded mettle; On the bases which hang over the wreathes stand eight statues of the Apostles, the other four stand in other hollow places thereabout. Those twelve statues are cut and engraven with admirable Art, and are guilded by fire. The pavement of this Sacristia is laid with diverse kinds of jaspar, and wrought in gilded mettle with Mesaique work. The two leave doors of this holy place, are made of the best rock crystal included in guilded mettle, and are so transparent, that the inner Sacristia or Custodia wherein the holy Eucharist is kept, may easily be discerned. This piece by those that have seen it, and all other rare pieces in the world, is thought to be the most exquisite and admirable. The main contriver of this curious fabric was that famous Arcitect jacobus de Frizzo, who spent seven whole years in cutting and polishing those jaspers'.  
Now are we come to the high Altar itself, a work no less noble and artificial, built all of fine jasper and marble, whereon are placed many crosses, candlesticks and other precious ornaments. This Altar is beautified with many curious pictures and four high places for the said pictures, whereof some are higher than other. In the lowest, between two painted tables, is the place where the Custodia stands. On each side of it are two statues, representing the four Doctors of the Church, Hierome, Augustine, Gregory, and Ambrose. This Custodia is of pure jasper, and adorned with flowers engraven in jasper of diverse colours, upon which as upon their Bases stand all the other statues and columns of green and yeallowish jasper, with their feet and chapiters of guilded mettle. The square tablets upon the chapiters, as also the wreathes, and borders, and globes, are made of a more refined and party coloured jasper. What shall I say more? The whole piece is composed of the richest jasper of several colours, with metals cast and guilded.  
Next to the pictures of the second high place or hollow, are two other statues on each side, representing the four Evangelists. After the same order on the third high place are placed on each side, two other statues, one of S. james the Apostle of Spain, the other of S. Andrew the tutelary Saint of the house of Burgundy. On the uppermost high place are the images of S. Peter and S. Paul. The innermost Sacristia or Custodia (as they call it) wherein the holy Sacrament or body of Christ (as they say) is preserved, is made wih the greatest artifice that could be divised. It hath four pillars of the purest jasper, whose bases and chapiters are of pure wrought gold, and so are the tablets, and borders, and wreathes, and flowers, all about the Custodia. here and there also are placed many shining Emeralds. The feet of those pillars are of the same stone, engraved, and inlaid with gold in diverse places. Three little square pilasters which sustain the feet of the other pillars, are of silver and gilt, the groundwork or foundation of the whole is composed of the same stone, interlaced with gilded mettle. The tablets and squares of the pillars or pyramids, are of the same materials with the pillars, the champhering whereof is all of wrought gold. The priamids are made of the richest jasper of a dusky colour. The little spears or balls on the top, are of fine wrought gold. The hinges and borders of the two leave doors, are silver, and gilt. The doors themselves are of rock Crystal. That side of it toward the Church hath a large square window of the same. The two other sides are adorned with varicoloured jasper, and inlaid with pure gold. With the very same materials and artifice is the inside beautified. In the midst of the roof hangs a precious Topaz, wherein is laid up the consecrated body of Christ (as they believe) enclosed in a box of precious Arhate.  
We have seen the Church, now follows a description of the Monastery if self. In the great walk before the common entrance into the Church, there is a gate opening a passage into the common Porch of this Monastery; passing through this porch, you come to a tower where the bells hang, together with a curious clock showing both the natural and planetary hours; This tower is erected from the very groundwork of the Church toward the Monastery, and is answered by another right opposite, there is a way also from this porch of the Monastery to a fair parlour, for the resort of those that would have conference with the Monks. Next to this, is a most stately and magnificent stair-case with a roof and covering answerable. Next these stairs adjoins a Chapel, where their mass was celebrated while the Church was building, here is also a closet where the Records and writings of the Monastery are carefully preserved. Through the same great porch you pass into the Court of the Monastery, thence to the vault, and so to another Court where under ground, is kept all the rainwater, which gathers together in that place. Betwixt these two, a fair arch is erected, together with a closet of excellent workmanship, where many necessary implements are laid up.  
From this porch also, there is a passage to the porch of the refectory, whereto is adjoined a closet, or wardrobe, where their vestments are kept, which closet and porch also, be vaulted and arched with a great deal of art and couriositie. This porch is eight square, having eight windows, by which all the galleries adjoining receive their light. In the midst of that porch is a pleasant fountain, whose conduits and aqueducts are of jasper. The refectory or dining room of the Monks, is a most magnificent piece. Next to the chamber of the Keeper of the robes, is a way to another chamber, for the entertainment of strangers: next this the Kitchen, with the porch of it, wherein beside many other commodities, are diverse fountains of hot and cold water. To the refectory is joined the Cloister of the Hospital wherein are two great cisterns. The Hospital itself is joined to this Cloister, whose dining room reaches to the Kitchen Porch. Beside these foresaid places, there are three other houses, wherein are made and conserved all those things, which pertain to the distillation of waters. That Walk which leads from the Covent to the Hospital, is for them that are recovered from their diseases, to exercise themselves therein.  
From that great Porch aforesaid, is another passage to the vault, where daily orisons are said. Here are portrayed the Histories of the new Testament, from the Annunacition of the blessed Virgin to the second coming of Christ. In the midst of this foursquare Vault, or Cloister, is a pleasant Garden, distinguished into diverse beds and knots most curiously. In the midst of it, is a pretty fabric of eight corners, representing the form of a Church, built of a black stone, and adorned on the inside with diverse coloured-Iasper. In four of the corners stand four great Giants, vomiting water into four marble cisterns. In the midst of this Arbour lies the principal path of the Garden. Now from the said Vault you pass to the Chapterhouse, and an other house like it. These two rooms, together with their Porch, have their roofs set forth with most exquisite pictures, and their pavement chequered with white and black Marble; round about them are seats for the Monks, and each hath his sumptuous Altar. The way to the Monk's Cells, is from the great Porch also, wherein by winding stairs you ascend to the Prior's upper Cells, and other chambers and cocklofts beside, all covered with Lead. The Prior's lower habitation is an excellent building, all vaulted and arched, exhibiting diverse Histories of holy Scripture, which are included in artificial Crowns and studds wrought with flowers, the pavement also is chequered with white and black Marble. The Prior's upper Cell is built toward the North West, on both sides of which are the Cells of the other Monks. The Chamber, or Dormitory where the Novices lodge, joins to the Monks Cells. The Monks beds are all in a row over the Wardrobe and Refectory.  
We come now to the Library, which is seated above the chief entrance to the Monastery. It is one hundred fourscore and five foot long, and two and thirty foot broad, in whose arched roof are the representations of diverse Arts and Histories; to which place is adjoined another room for the use of the Library. The Library itself is distinguished into three partitions. In the first and principal are painted and delineated all the Arts and faculties; and at the foot of every one's picture, all the books of that faculty, marshaled in seemly order, all gilt, and of the same binding. Here is to be seen a great parchment book, wherein are exactly expressed in their proper colours, all kind of living creatures which are known to be in the world.  
The other partition contains nothing but ancient Manuscripts of Divinity, in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, with the pictures of their several Authors set before them. Likewise the third room is furnished only with Manuscripts of diverse faculties and languages, the Authors whereof are in like manner expressed to the life.  
Let us come in the next place to describe the College, and the King's Palace. These two take up the North part of the building. Their Porch or entrance, is an open Gallery which lies before the Church, right over against the great Porch of the Monastery. To this Porch is joined another, by which the Youth which apply themselves to learning, pass daily into a little room to hear Matins and Vespers. This place is shut up with three brazen grates. In the great Court separating the College from the Monastery, is a common passage to the Schools, where are taught all Arts, but especially Law, Physic, and Divinity.  
This place hath its peculiar Courts, and Cloisters, and Galleries, to one of which adjoins the Refectory of the College with its Porch. near the Porch stands the Kitchen, between its proper Court, & the Court of the common School, to which is joined the children's School, and their Refectory. On the Northside thorough a narrow gate and entry, is a passage to the King's Palace. In the Porch or entrance, are three Mansions, or Offices with their Courts, built partly for those which oversee the purveyance of corn and victuals, and partly for the use of the Kitchin. These houses are joined together for the service of diverse tables.  
By the same Porch is a way to a fair room, where the Nobles of the King's bedchamber, the Captain of the Guard, with others of Noble rank and quality dine and sup daily. This way also you may pass to the Galleries, and other offices belonging to diet and workmanship. Those Galleries round about contain other chambers both above, and below. On the same side is another Portall, by which they pass from the Palace to the lower Choir, Church, College, and Monastery. near this gate is a walk where the King's Watch, and other officers use to meet. Toward the Eastside are lodgings for Ambassadors, which reach to the great Porch, and run out as far as the Palace. In the same Court are other houses for the Kings own use, and from hence by a Gallery thorough a stately Portall you enter into the Kings own lodgings, built behind the Chapel, where you meet with an open Court, with Porches and Cloisters. On the West side next the high Altar is another Gate, whereby the King passes to the Monastery, the College, and other offices of the Court. The King's Porch looks towards the Northside of the Church. Hereupon the Church wall is curiously painted the famous battle of Higuervela, wherein King john the second overthrew the Moors and Saracens of Granado. Which picture represents the story most exactly, and to the life, and shows both the order and manner of their fight, with the several habits and weapons both of Horse and Foot which were then in use. This picture was drawn from the first copy, which was made at the time of the battle in a fair linen cloth above one hundred and thirty foot long, and found since by chance in the Tower of Segovia, which History the King's Majesty caused to be painted again upon that wall for a perpetual remembrance of so noble a victory. This piece is well worth the sight.  
In the last place we come unto the Garden, lying toward the East and Southpart of the building. It reaches one hundred in breadth, and is distinguished into many pretty knots and beds, set with all kind of herbs and flowers, and watered with many pleasant Springs and Fountains. This Garden is much higher than the Orchard adjoining, and you ascend from hence thither by a walk of many stairs, set with trees on both sides.  
There are accounted to be above forty Fountains of pure water within the walls of the Monastery.  
There are so many Closets and Keys belonging to this Monastery, that there is a special Officer appointed to be Master of the Keys, which Keys are kept in a Closet by themselves, and are esteemed to exceed some thousands.  
The third part of this famous Monastery of Saint Laurence, is possessed by 300. Monks of the Order of Saint Hierome, whose yearly Revenues amount to above 35000. Spanish Ducats, and the rest goes to the King and his family.  
To conclude, it is furnished with so many Halles, Parlours, Dining-roomes, Chambers, Closets, Offices, Lodgings, and other necessary Rooms, that it may well suffice four Kings at once to keep their Courts in. There are certain credible reports of men of credit and understanding, that some years after that King Philip the second had begun this great work, he coming thither with the Earl of Lemos, and having showed him the plot, and disclosed his purpose in the finishing of so great a work, which would amount to an incredible charge: he demanded the Earl to tell him freely what he thought of the Worke. The Earl stoutly, and with a noble spirit, answered the King, saying; Your Majesty, as you are the greatest Monarch of Christendom, so are you reputed the wisest among Kings: now considering the great charge that your Majesty is at in your wars in Italy, in France, and the Low-Countries, with the Great Turk, and elsewhere: together with your ordinary and extraordinary expenses, and the likelihood of wars with the Queen of England. All these things considered; it would be a blemish to your wisdom in the World, If your Majesty should go forward with this Building: and the charges will make you sink before it be finished.  
The King replied notwithstanding all his wars and other charges, He would go on with this; and hoped by the grace of God to see it finished, to take pleasure and comfort in it in his life, the which he did, and enjoyed it seeven years', and that after his death it should be a Receptacle for his bones, and likewise for the Kings that should succeed him; to be for a Court in their lives, and for their Funeral after their deaths.  
Likewise it is crediblely reported, that when the work was finished, and the Officers brought the Book of accounts, the total of the Charges was twenty seven Millions of ducats; which amounteth in our money to Nine Millions of Pounds. The King (hearing the Totall) said, I have taken great care many years and troubled my Head much heretofore to have that finished. I will now trouble my head no longer with the Charges wherefore he commanded the Book of accounts to be cast into the fire.   

A BRIEF RELATION OF CERTAIN DEMONICALL STRATAGEMS OF THE SPANISH Inquisition, exercised on diverse English Gentlemen of late times, now living in England in the year, 1620.  
IN the Court of Madrid was apprehended a worthy and discreet Gentlemen, then, and as yet fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge, Master Henry Roe, who went over with the Lord Ashton, as his servant in his embassage to Spain. Who (desirous of the spanish tongue as also to view the university of Sallamanca) departed with leave from the Ambassador, to reside for some space there. But not long after, being importuned by Master Charles Maynard brother to my Lord Maynard, and Master Edward Filmer son to Sir Edward Filmer then, at Madrid to survey other parts of Spain as Granado, Cordonath and Scivill. For the effecting of which tedious journey (some 300. english miles) returned some insupportable brass money by a jesuit brother then to the governor of Madrid, to receive it of him at his arrival there. Thus departing from Sallamanca, came to Madrid to my Lord Ambassadors house, and some 3. weeks after his coming went at the day appointed to the Governors' house to receive his money, and because he was not well experienced in the brass coin; took with him a servant to on Master Prinn, an English Merchant. Now there stood ready at the Governor's house a familiar of the Spanish Inquisition, who saluted Master Roe very courteously, and asked him if he were not the Gentleman that was to receive such a sum of money of his Master; and said that his Master commanded him to attend his coming, and that the money was ready some half a dozen houses off, If he pleased to take pains to go thither. Master Roe little fearing any treachery went with this fellow, who by his apparel seemed Hombre de bien. They come quickly to a fair house; where the familiar carries M. Roe into an upper room, where were some sixteen todos vestidos de negro con capas jespadas. There was only one in a gown, who seemed to be the chief amongst them; and the Master of the house, he very kindly salutes Master Roe, asked him if he were not such a Gentleman that should receive such money, and where he lay. Master Roe all this while fearing nothing, plucks out his bills of Exchange to receive his money, and tells him that he lay in the English Ambassadors house: he asketh him again and again of this last point; Master Roe still answered him as before. Whereupon he for the present leaves Master Roe, & consults (aside in the same room) with some of his fellows, and comes again to Master Roe, & tells him that he must have patience, and that he was taken Prisoner by the spanish Inquisition. A second (with a great deal of complemental gravity) took his sword. A third picked his pockets, emptying him of all his money and papers. A fourth brings a smith unto him, to fetter his legs with weighty juyves. A fifth was inquisitive to know if he had any riding clothes to travel in: who told him he had at the Ambassador's house, which made them shake their heads in token of fear to fetch them thence. here they detained him from two of the Clock in the afternoon, till eleven (or thereabouts) at night: which time they set him sidewayes (by reason of his fettered legs) on a Mule: attended by a guard of some forty in number, who brought him safe out of the town on his journey; and then the greater part of them returned to Madrid. But the first place I rested in was called, Torede Ladronis, in English, the Tower of thieves (where the Captain of the Guard comforted him, but withal in delusion, told him that he should be eased of his fetters the next day) and from thence they continued their journey to Vallidolid, where on the way they met with a flemish Gentleman riding to Madrid, one acquainted with Master Roe; who perceiving him in this plight, spoke to him; but the Guard perhibited Master Roe to have any conference with him only thus much he spoke in English to him, that he desired him to inform the Ambassador how and in what manner he met him, so they posted him to Vallidolid, where they brought him to the inquisition house, where he was more fully examined of the Signior inquisitors of the occasion of his apprehension, for what cause he was brought thither; laying nothing to his charge, neither indeed could they, enjoining him to acknowledge the reason whereof himself was ignorant; they bid him examine his conscience, to guess or think what it was might bring him thither, protesting that they were impartial and upright judges, the protectors and rulers as free from corruption, as prone to equity; thus with much Gravity was he diverse times examined: For his lodging it was somewhat homely, his diet bare, his restraint close to the denial of the sight of any one, but made more miserable by the company of two other prisoners with him, who were sometimes examined by the inquisitors, what they thought their fellow was in for, what his discourse was among them: which Master Roe requited, when the inquisitors demanded him what they discoursed of, and for what reason he thought them there detained: who told them he could not tell. Not long after they enquired of him, If he would have an Interpreter of the English Colleges to come unto him to Interpret his intentions, and to confer with with him in matters of Religion, which he seriously denied, averring he had rather commit his life into the hands of Strangers, even such as they were, then into the hands of English Jesuits, or Fugitives, who knew them more maliciously addicted to their own Country, than any Foreign person whatsoever; not unlike the runagate Turks, who cannot brook their own Nation, by reason they object unto them their own shame: and the reason of this his detestation of their conference was in that he suspected one Father Foster an English jesuit, to have been the contriver of his imprisonment, in that he had discoursed with that jesuit in the Ambassadors house, in matters of Religion. But fearing his violent detention by the inquisition, I will discover the discovery of it; as also what became of the Merchant's Servant. The flemish Gentleman who met him on his journey, informed my Lord Ashton in what manner he had seen Master Roe; upon the which the Ambassador went to the Inquisitor General to know the reason of his imprisonment; who carried himself as one ignorant of the cause or person, but being solicited and importuned, at last confessed he was sent to Inquisition to Vallidolid for some heinous matters concerning points of Religion: The Inquisitor General understanding that the Ambassador knew of Master Roes detention; now caused the Merchant's Servant to be set at liberty, who all this while was kept close in the same house where Master Roe was apprehended, lest that he might disclose the conveyance of this Gentleman. Of these unlawful devices, the Ambassador informed his Sovereign King james of pious memory; who forthwith writ Letters to his Majesty of Spain, the subject whereof was for his delivery; Trinity College in Cambridge preferred an humble petition to the King, in testimony of his modest deportment, and upright conversation amongst them; and partly for this reason, in that certain of the Spanish crew and faction had suggested to his Majesty, that he was a turbulent factious Puritan, and therefore rightly punished by God in this imprisonment: thus dissuading (as much as in them lay) the King to write any Letters in his behalf. These petitions were delivered to his Majesty, by the Noble Earl of Holland, besides his Mother, Brothers, Kindred, more particularly Sir Thomas Roe, and Sir Henry Mildra were daily petitioners to his Majesty. My Lord Ashton, was since suitor to his Majesty of Spain, to grant King james suit, Henry Wotton then Ambassador importuned the Ambassador for Venenan at Madrid by letters of the same subject alleging his detention might example to surprise and withhold any secretary of any Ambassador whosoever. The Lord of Bristol with a passionate zeal above all the rest daily solicited in the behalf of his delivery, the continual redeemer of his distressed country men, if at any time they stood in need of him; which fervency of his proceeded not from any private interest, but his inbred affection to his nation, still proffering to be a prop and pillar in the common good of his country, then to advance his particular estate: but to return to my inquisition; Master Roe could not have his liberty, till Padre Maestro, came over into Spain, and solicited the business, and then he was soon released, as yet ignorant by any information of theirs of the reason of his detention; this Gentleman being demanded of his Ferryman as he passed the River Eron, travailing out of Spain into France; when he intended to return, answered in the phrase of an English Spirit, Nunce sino a luconquostu doespana. Not long after was imprisoned one Master Scott, a Yorkshire Gentleman apprehended at Madrid and sent to the inquisition of Toledo (as it is conjectured) in that he had disputed with an Irish dominican Friar, Father Thomas in matters of Religion; where his lodging and diet was very hard according to his own relation to his Majesty King james, but through the intercession of the Lord of Bristol was delivered. Master Pryma an English Merchant succeeded him in imprisonment at Toledo, upon no other true occasion but because he endeavoured a Monopoly of English Merchandise to the impoverishment of other Spanish Merchants, released also by the Lord of Bristol, but banished the Country. At Seville they clapped up one Master Victorine Cheverill freed by the importunity of the same Lord: But their happiness was the match with Spain was then proceeding and the Lord of Bristol that Noble Personage Ambassador of Spain, for otherwise they might have shared in the miseries of these that follow, as Master Gurganey a true and learned Protestant who died under the Spanish inquisition and a Scottish Gentleman, A. who was racked in in the Inquisition house at Malaga, to the distortion of each particular joint now a cripple in Charter house, and Master Mosley of Rome who hath been detained in that Inquisition house these ten years and like to expire there. And others, as for example, Master H. brother to the Earl of L. who having viewed the greater parts of Europe, France, Spain, Italy, Constantinople, Greece, returning to Italy, and so for England, was there apprehended after this manner. The Governor of the first Town he was to pass through, had a great desire to a Grecian horse of his which he brought from thence; which he intended to present to his brother the L. in so much he requested it of him, but the Gentleman not so foolishly courteous as to depart from him; by his denial so incensed the Governor, that his revenge laid him close in the Inquisition; for the effecting of which, he suborned his man by bribery to confess his Master's Religion, of which he being once assured, he made his man a cloak for his knavery ensuing. For hereupon he sent him to Rome prisoner as an heretic and spy; in the mean time kept his horse, while the poor Gentleman all his journey had his legs chained together under the horse his belly, and every night had no other lodging, but a room under some steaming privy; at which inquisition house they kept him for five years until they had worked him at last to receive their own religion and then released him. But notwithstanding as yet jealous of him kept two years longer at the English College at Rome, to try if he were well grounded in his Catholic Religion; at which time they dismissed him, and restored his horse unto him who is now in England a strong Catholic; another example of their popish tyranny Father Barnes a Benedictine friar late Chapline to the Prince of Portugal at Paris, who writing a book against the Pope's supremacy, and the allegiance that Subjects unto their Sovereigns. And making for England to prime it was the night before his intended voyage upon some notice given unto the Jesuits surprised at the Prince his house by a warrant from the chief secretary of state, which they procured by corruption and by an Act contrary to the Laws of France and all Nations; hurried to Cambray in the Archdutches her Dominions, where he was put into the Castle, against the day of his trial: from thence conveyed to Milford Castle, and afterwards to Rome to the Inquisition house, it being impossible for any man to know, whether he, or any that are once there, be alive or dead. The Prince of Portugal informed the Court of Parliament of France of this act, who wondering at the insolency of the fact, demanded him of the Infanta and the Pope, but to no effect; a plot exercised very lately in the year 1627. Spalatta, that turn coat of Religion, puffed more with ambition than corpulency, being promised by Gundomar a Cardinal's Cap at his arrival at Rome, and in short succession and progress of time a triple Crown; who instansed in Pope Marcellinus, who offering sacrifices to the Heathen gods, was deposed; yet on his recantation was again elected, cherished the Bishop not to fear, but he might come to the like dignities upon the like submission, especially in that his fault to revolt from the Vicar of God was not quite so erroneous, as to deny God and his Saviour. Upon these and the like gulling persuasions, having his pardon sent him into England, went to Rome with two Monks his Chaplains to fetch his Cap, where waiting for it the space of a twelvemonth, to the expense of the incredible mass of money and plate he conveyed out of England, but missing of it, turned Protestant again, or at least pretended one, whetting his tongue and pen against his Holiness, upon which reason he was apprehended by the Inquisition, and put into their Den, where not long after he was poisoned, which made him swell twice as big as he was before. A fit death for such a one; his body was taken from the house of death, and burnt in the fire for an heretic, which being consumed, the ashes thereof were scattered in the air, as unworthy that his atoms should defile their Land. At which sight his Chaplains being present, loath to taste of the like sauce, fled to Gundomar to Madrid, claiming his promise concerning their protection, which for a while he performed, allowing them for his credit eight Rials a day: but this lasted not long, for soon after the Benedictines were never seen. The Statesman, Gundomar, was requited in the like sort, notwithstanding the manifold▪ faithful services he had done for the Church of Rome, as his solicitations against Sir Water Raleigh, his Catechising of Spalata, his caetera, for by way of gratitude, he had, as it is reported, given him a Spanish fig; or else, though ever a merry man, yet at last died for very grief. To conclude with an example of tyranny more unnatural than cruel, one Philip the second, upon suspicion that his only son and heir (by his second wife) was an heretic, or had too familiar conference with the Protestant Princes, cast him into the Inquisition house, and being sentenced by the Inquisitors to die, the sentence was confirmed by the bloody father's hand and seal, having no other liberty allowed him, then to choose either strangling, or bleeding to death by the cutting of his veins; which last he chose, saying not long before his expiring, O unhappy son, but more unhappy father: this was effected privately. Thus if the Princes themselves have undergone the torture of an Inquisition, nay, death itself, we may assure ourselves, that no foreign subject shall be delivered from these Devils and that Hell, if once taken, until the hour of his utmost breath.   

A RELATION OF THE FOUNDING OF A MILITARY ORDER in Rome, to wit, of the immaculate conception of our Lady, the blessed Virgin, by his Holiness the Pope our Lord VRBAN the eighth.  

A Copy of two Letters written from Rome to two Prebends of the Cathedral Church at Seville.  
Most Holy MARY our Lady conceived without Original sin.  
WHat I writ you by the last Post of our expectation, it hath pleased God hath now taken good effect, though it can scarce be believed, what opposition there hath been to hinder the Foundation of this Military Religion, to be styled with the glorious title of Immaculate conception of our Lady. The Duke of Nevers the second of 
* 〈…〉.  january, 1614 made his solemn vow, and his Holiness gave and confirmed unto him his habillement of his Order, which hereupon many of those Nobles and Gentlemen, who had formerly worn it for devotion and respect to him, now wear it for Religion. This Order may be as well qualified and approved of, as any of the three in Spain, Santiago, Alcantara, and Calatrava. The Constitutions and Statutes of the same are now framing by our Lord Vrban the eight, and being finished, must first be presented unto the view in congregation of eight Lords Cardinals, who are appointed to contrive the affairs of this Religious Military Order, and reduce them to those of the Order of Saint Francis. There are here present three Generals, or Provincials of theirs, and it hath been thought fit that assemblies should be held at our Convent, where the Duke and the said Generals, with another also of Capuchins hath been Brother to the Pope, and for this respect the Duke desired it: and afterward it was thought by a more indifferent part to have the meeting at our Convent. The Statutes and Constitutions are now upon framing, to be presented to the Cardinals at their meeting, and so accordingly to be confirmed by the Pope. And all this seems to be a league which God hath ordained, and made against the enemies of the holy Catholic faith. It will prove the most universal Military order of Religion, that hath ever been known in the World: It sweareth Feallty and obedience to the holy Apostolical Sea of Rome, the exaltation and advancement of the holy Cause, the extirpation of Heresies, and all of them take oaths of obedience to their several Princes in all that befits royal Subjects to do: And that they will always endeavour to keep peace and unity amongst Christian Princes. After this, the Pope upon the eight and twentieth day of the said Saint Agnes, seconded, and new confirmed the Robes, and Habiliments of the order of the Duke, the Oath, and form● thereof was ministered by the Friar Father Toro in this manner: Obedience to the Pope and Master, that shall be of the Christian warfare of the immaculate conception of our Lady. The Title is this, Militia Christiana immaculatae conceptionis Sanctissimae Virginis Mariae. That is, the Christian warfare of the immaculate conception of our most blessed or holy Lady. Their purpose also is, that the Nobles wear this Habit of the Order, according as those Countries which have the other Military Orders. But that the Staple of the Religion itself beplanted in some Island or place of strength, which they think to gain by landing in some Enemy's Country: For they are well provided with Ammunition and Arms, and good tall shipping for the purpose. The Institutors or Founders of this Religion are three Catholic Princes: First the Count Altar, a great man in Germany, and very rich in Estate; The Duke of Mantua, a great Potentate in Italy. In France the Duke of Nevers, as they say, Lord of two hundred thousand ducats yearly Rend, who hath seen the first mover of this Divine Machine, and in eight years that he hath employed to compass it, hath spent above four hundred thousand ducats. Of late years he hath spent exceedingly in furnishing out Ambassadors to most Christian Princes, upon whose good liking and approbation he hath his foundation. And he showed Father Toro and me a letter from our deceased King Philip the third. A notable matter of toil and trouble, as being God's Instrument for effecting so great a work; his Divine Majesty work all for the best, the same preserve you also. I do assure you for these fifteen days space, we have scarce had leisure for food or sleep, for visiting of Great men and Cardinals, drawing of Petitions, and opposing all Contradictions. God save all, and preserve you also.  
Rome the eight of February, 1624. Don Mateo Vazques de Lecca.   

The Copy of the second Letter.  
THe Knights of this Military Order have for Badge a blue satin Cross, shaped much like the Cross of Alcantara, though somewhat brother, the midst of it is embroidered with golden rays, and for the Cross on the top of it is placed our Lady, set out like the Woman in the apocalypse, Amicta sole, clad with the Sun, and crowned with twelve Stars, and trampling on the Moon in a blue Mantle, and about it a Saint Francis his girdle, holding an Infant in her arms, with a Sceptre in the right hand, and this is entitled, The Christian Warfare, Protectress of the immaculate Conception of the Virgin our Lady. All Nations come into this Order, and all the World will in time. The Duke of Nevers shall be Master of it, who hath bestowed on the Religion (besides what it was formerly endowed with) thirty thousand ducats of yearly revenue, besides eight Galeons', or tall ships of his, which as at this time have served the most Christian King of France before Rochel. And the Catholic King of Spain our Lord Philip the 4. whom God long prosper, by the joint consent and good liking of his Holiness, and all Christian Princes, is Protector of the Order. The Title of it is, Milita Christiana immaculat●s conceptionis Virginis Mariae▪ and it is also dedicated for the chase of Rovers and Pirates by Sea, as also for defence of Frontiers against Turks and Moors, and is subordinate in all things to the Holy Apostolical See, and our Blessed Father Pope Vrbane the eighth hath confirmed it, and will assist with his Galleys to the celestial enterprise, and conquest of jerusalem, which he hath long aimed at, and all Rome is much cheered and delighted with it. The Order was first set on foot in Germany, in the year 1614 at what time we newly began to defend, and preach this immaculate and sovereign mystery, without knowing of either of us, thanks be to God Almighty for the same. Let me only tell you, that if we had gone from Seville to Rome, and spent the eight years which we have done there, for no more than the effecting of this business, it were a journey and time well employed. For you are to know, that although this holy Image, with the sacred ornaments, were all of the Conception, and of no other mystery, yet they there demanded no more, then that this Military Religion should be established by the title of Christian Warfare, in protection of our Lady, without further addition. And about the time of confirmation the Archdeacon Don-Matheo, and I knew this, for all others were confident that it was of the Conception, with the aforesaid Arms and Ornaments, and we turmoiled up and down, and spoke with the Duke of Nevers, who acknowledged what we put to him (as being a most courteous Gentleman, and used us with all Nobleness, telling us indeed, that he had not observed so much, but that now at last he remembered, that at the first meeting, which was at Vienna in Germany, upon the erecting of this Order, it fell out to be upon the eighth day of December, which was also the day of the Conceptition, and that now he called it perfectly to mind. This business hath once more begun to be in Treaty, and we have all gone thorow-stitch so well, that the Military Order of the holy Conception is confirmed under that Title, and by all the Votes, and Suffrages of great Lords and Cardinals, and also of our Lord the Pope his Holiness. I hope in God we shall send a Bull by the next Post, that may afford much comfort to that populous and pious City of Seville, and all Christendom beside. Let men oppose it, and do all they can or please, yet God Almighty will do as he best pleaseth; he hath made all things both in Heaven and Earth according to his good pleasure. His Divine Majesty, as he is able, and to my desire, have you in his protection. Salute from me all our Friends in the Lord.  
The Slave of the most blessed Virgin, Doctor Bernardo de Toro. Rome Febr. as in the former Letter. 1624.  
FINIS.