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RALEGH’S REPORT OF AN ENGAGEMENT. 83%
of Defmond taken’by mafter John Zouch, and his body hanged over the gates of his
hative city to be devoured by ravens :/ the third brother Sir James hanged, drawn, and
quartered in thefame place. Tf he had withal vaunted of his fuccefs of his own houfe,
no doubt the argument would have moved much, and wrought great effect; which
becaufe’he for that prefent forgot, | thought it good to remember in his behalf. For
matter of religion it would require a particular volume, if I fhould fet down how irre-
ligioufly they cover their greedy and ‘ambitious pretences, with that veil of piety. But
fureT am, that there is no kingdom*or commonweath in all Europe, but if they be re-
formed, they then invade’it for religion fake : if it be, as’they term’ Catholic, they pre-
tend title; as if the kines of Caftile were the/natural heirs ofall the world: and fo be-
tween both, no kingdom is unfought. Wheré they dare not with their own forces to
invade, they bafely entertain the traitors and vagabonds of all nations, feeking by
thofe, and by their runnagate jefuits to win parts, and have by that means ruined man
noble houfes and others in this land, and have extinguifhed both their lives and families.
What good, honour, or fortune ever man yet by them atchieved, is yet unheard of,
or unwritten. <Andif our Englifh Papiits do but look into Portugal, againft which
they have no pretence of religion, how the nobility are put to death, imprifoned, their
rich men madea prey, and all fort of people captived; they fhall find that the obedience
even of the Turk is eafy and a liberty, in refpeét of the flavery and tyranny of Spain.
What have they done in Sicill, in Naples, Millaine, and in the Low countries ; who hath
there been fpared for religion at all? and it cometh to my remembrance of a certain
burgher of Antwerp, whole houfe being entered by a company of Spanifh foldiers, when
they firft facked the city, he befought them to fpare him and his goods, being a good
catholic, and one of their own party and faction. The Spaniards anfwered, that they
knew him to be of a good confcience for himfelf, but his money, plate, jewels, and
goods, were all heretical, and therefore good prize. So they abufed and tormented the
foolifh Fleming, who hoped that an Agnus Dei had been a fufficient target againft all
force of that holy and charitable nation. Neither have they at any time, as they pro-
teft, invaded the kingdoms of the Indies and Peru, and elfewhere, but only led there-
unto, rather to reduce the people to chriftianity, than for either gold or empire. When
as in one only ifland, called Hifpaniola, they have wafted thirty hundred thoufand of
the natural people, befides many millions elfe in other places of the Indies; a poor and
harmlefs people, created of God, and might have been won to his knowledge, as many
of them were, and almoft as many as ever were perfuaded thereunto. The ftory whereof
is at large written by a bifhop of their own nation, called Bartholomew de las Cafas,
and tranflated into Englifh and many other languages, intitled, ‘* the Spanifh Cruelties.”’
Who would, therefore, repofe truft in fuch a nation of ravenous ftrangers, and efpe-
cially in thofe Spaniards which more greedily thirft after Englifh blood, than after the
lives of any other people of Europe, for the many overthrows and difhonours they have
received at our hands, whofe weaknefs we have difcovered to the world, and whofe forces
at home, abroad, in Europe, in India, by fea and land, we have even with handfulls of
men and fhips overthrown and difhonoured. Let not therefore, any Englifhman, of
what religion foever, have other opinion of the Spaniards, but that thofe whom he
feeketh to win of our nation, he efteemeth bafe and traitorous, unworthy perfons, or
unconftant fools ; and that he ufeth his pretence of religion, for no other purpofe
but to bewitch us from the obedience of our natural prince; thereby hoping, in time,
to bring us to flavery and fubjection, and then none {hall be unto them fo odious and
difdained as the traitors them{elyes, who have fold their country to a ftranger, and for-
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