there it turned, and continued contrary for almost three weekes. At
last it pleased God to send us a faire wind wherewith wee went out
many Boats and Falluco's in company together, thinking all had been
friends; but when wee came neere to the Castle of _Montalto_, most of
the boats having got before us, two that went in company with the boat
wherein I was, suddainly set upon us, and shewed themselves to bee
_French_ Pirats, who robbed us all, and tooke from mee all the money
I had, which was not then above five pound, leaving me some Bils of
exchange which I had to take up mony at _Rome_; after we were robbed
wee called in at _Civita Vecha_; for reliefe, where I met with a good
_English_ Merchant, who freely bestowed upon mee provision both of wine
and meat, as much as would well suffice mee and a friend to _Rome_,
whither wee got in a day and night. When I came to _Rome_ I delivered
my Letters to the Cardinals; of whom the two _Spaniards_ I found proud
and stately; but _Don Francisco Barbarini_, (who was intituled the
Protector of _England_) I found more tractable, kinde, and loving. I
perceived by his discourse that hee knew much of _England_, and desired
to know more; and propounded unto mee many questions concerning the
state of this Kingdome, and especially concerning the Archbishop of
_Canterbury_, whom he seemed to affect; and yet sometime againe would
say hee feared, hee would cause some great disturbance in our Kingdome,
and that certainly for his sake and by his means the King had dissolved
lately the Parliament (which was that which before this now sitting
was so suddainly dissolved by his Majesty) which hee feared _Scotland_
and most of the people of _England_, would take very ill. Hee asked
mee further what conceipt the people had of the said Archbishop; and
whether they did not mistrust that hee complyed much with the Court
of _Rome_. And lastly, he told mee that hee thought, the creating of
an _English_ Cardinal at _Rome_ might be of great consequence for
the conversion of the whole Kingdome. I laid up in my heart all this
discourse, and well perceived some great matters were in agitation at
_Rome_, and some secret compliance from _England_ with that Court,
which I purposed to discover more at large among some friends there.
After this discourse with the Cardinall, I was invited to the _English_
Colledge to dinner by one Father _Fitzherbert_, who was then Rector, a
great States-man and Politician, with whom I had also great discourse
concerning my Brother Colonel _Gage_, concerning my travels in
_America_, and lastly concerning _England_; whereof I perceived little
discourse could bee had in _Rome_, except the Archbishop _William Laud_
had his part and share in it. The Jesuite began highly to praise the
Arch-prelate for his moderate carriage towards Papists and Preists,
boasting of the free accesse which one _Simons, alias Flood_, a Jesuite
had unto him at all houres, and in all occasions; and to extoll him
the more, he brought in the Archbishop, _Abbot_ whom he cried down
as much for a cruel enemie and persecutor of the Church of _Rome_,
and of all Papists and Preists. But the now Archbishop, said hee, is
not onely favourable unto us there, but here desireth to make daily
demonstrations of his great affection to this our Court and Church;
which, hee shewed not long since in sending a Common Prayer Booke,
(which hee had composed for the Church of _Scotland_) to bee first
viewed, and approved of by our Pope and Cardinals. Who perusing it,
liked it very well, for Protestants to be trained in a Form of Prayer
and service; yet considering the State of _Scotland_, and the temper
and tenents of that people, the Cardinals, (first giving him thanks
for his respect and dutifull compliance with them) sent him word, that
they thought that form of prayer was not fitting for _Scotland_, but
would breed some stir and unquietnesse there, for that they understood
the _Scots_ were aversed from all set Forms, & would not be tyed and
limited to the invention of mans spirit, having (as they thought)
the true and unerring Spirit of God in them, which could better
teach and direct them to pray. All this (said Father _Fitzherbert_)
I was witnesse of, who was then sent for by the Cardinals (as in all
like occasions, and affaires concerning _England_) to give them my
opinion concerning the said Common Prayer Booke, and the temper of the
_Scots_. But the good Archbishop (quoth hee) hearing the censure of the
Cardinals concerning his intention and Form of Prayer, to ingratiate
himself the more into their favour, corrected some things in it, and
made it more harsh and unreasonable for that Nation; which wee already
heare they have stomacked at, and will not suffer it in many parts
to be read; and wee justly fear that this his Common Prayer Book, &
his great compliance with this Court, will at last bring strife and
division between the two Kingdomes of _Scotland_ and _England_.
And this most true Relation of _William Laud_ late Archbishop of
_Canterbury_, (though I have often spoken of it in private discourse
and publiquely preached it at the Lecture of _Wingham_ in _Kent_,) I
could not in my conscience omit it here; both to vindicate the just
censure of death, which the now sitting Parliament have formerly given
against him for such like practises and compliance with _Rome_; and
secondly to reprove the ungrounded opinion and errour of some ignorant
and Malignant spirits, who to my knowledge have since his death highly
exalted him, and cryed him up for a Martyr. At the same time whilst
I was at _Rome_, I understood of another great businesse concerning
_England_, then in agitation amongst the Cardinals, and much prosecuted
by this _Fitzherbert_, and one father _Courtney_ a Jesuite, son to one
Sir _Thomas Leeds_; which was, to create one of the _English_ Nation
Cardinall; that so the Conversion of _England_, what by the Assistance
of _William Laud_, what by the power of a higher person, and what by
the authority of the said Cardinall, might be more fully and earnestly
plotted and indeavoured. This businesse was much agitated in _England_
by Signior _Con_, at whose house in _Long Aker_ were many meetings of
the chief Gentry of the Papists. In _Rome_ Sir _William Hamilton_ then
Agent for the Queene, vied much for the said Cardinals Cap, and got a
great number of friends to further this his ambitious design. But hee
was too yong, and some scandall of a Gentlewoman, who stuck too close
to him, made the red Cap unfit for his head; and secondly, because a
greater then hee, to wit, Sir _Kenelham Digby_ was appointed by the
Queen to bee her Agent there; who sent before him his Chaplain, a great
Politician and active Priest, named _Fitton_, to take up his lodging
and make way, and friends for his ambitious preferment; who in his
daily discourse cryed up his Master _Digby_ for Cardinall, and told mee
absolutely, that hee doubted not but hee would carry it. But though hee
had great favour from the Queen, and was her Agent; yet hee had strong
Antagonists in _Fitzherbert, Courtney_, and the rest of the crew of the
Jesuites, who looked upon that honour and red Cap as better becomming
one of their profession, and fitter for a head which had formerly worne
a four Cornered black Cap, to wit, Sir _Toby Mathy_. But in case the
said Cap should fall from Sir _Toby_ his head, then they would helpe
and further a third, whose birth and Nobility should advance him before
Sir _Kenelham Digby_, to wit, _Walter Mountague_, the old Earle of
_Manchester_ his sonne at that time.
And thus it was a generall and credible report in _Rome_, that either
a _Digby_, a _Mathy_, or a _Mountague_, should that yeere bee made
Cardinall. Whereby I perceived that _England_ was comming neere to
_Rome_, and that my design of professing and following the truth in
_England_ was blasted, and that in vain I had come from _America_
for satisfaction of my conscience in _England_. I was more troubled
now then ever; and desired to try all wayes, if I could bee better
satisfied concerning the Popish Religion in _Rome, Naples_ or
_Venice_, (whither I went) then I had been in _America_ and among the
_Spaniards_. But I found such exorbitances and scandalls in the lives
of some Cardinals of _Rome_, whilst I was there, especially in _Don
Antonio Barbarini_, and Cardinal _Burgess_, who at midnight was taken
by the _Corchetes_ or Officers of Justice in uncivill wayes, and came
off from them with money, that I perceived the Religion was but as
I had found it in _America_, a wide and open doore to loosnesse and
policy, and the like in _Naples_ and _Venice_, which made mee even hate
what before I had professed for Religion, and resolve, that if I could
not live in _England_, and there injoy my Conscience, that I would
live in _France_, for a while, untill I had well learned that tongue,
and then associate my selfe unto the best reformed Protestant Church;
Whereupon I obtained from the General of the Dominicans this ensuing
order to live in the Cloister of _Orleans_, intending from thence at
my best opportunity to goe to _Paris, Lyons_, or some other place, and
shake off my Magpy habit, and to live and dye in _France_ in the true
Protestant and reformed Religion as professed there.
_In Dei filio sibi Dilecto Reverendo Patri fratri_ Thomæ Gageo
_Provinciæ Anglicanæ Ordinis Prædicatorum, Frater Nicolaus Rodulfius
totius ejusdem Ordinis Magister Generalis ac servus in Domino salutem._
_Conventui nostro Aurelia nensi Provinciæ nostræ Franciæ de probo
& optimo Patre Sacerdote providere cupientes, Tenore præsentium, &
nostri authoritate officii (te) supra nominatum Reverendum Patrem
Fratrem_ Thomam Gageum _revocamus a quovis alio Conventu, & Assignamus
in dicto Conventu nostro Aurelianensi Assignatumque declaramus, in
Nomine Patris, & Filii, & Spiritus Sancti_, Amen. _Mandantes Rdo.
admodum Patri Magistro Priori illius, ut te benigne recipiat, & cum
omni charitate tractet. In quorum fidem his officii nostri sigillo
munitis propria manu subscripsimus. Datum Suriani die none Aprilis_,
1640.
Frater Nicolaus Magister Ordinis.
Frater Ignatius Ciantes Magister; Provincialis Angliæ, & Socius.
The Forme whereof (as also the manner of sending Fryers from one
Cloister to live in another, commonly called by them, an Assignation)
is in _English_ as followeth.
_To our Beloved in the Son of God, the Reverend Father Fryer_ Thomas
Gage, _of the_ English _Province, of the Order of Preachers, Fryer_
Nicholas Rodulfius _of the same whole Order Master Generall, and
Servant in the Lord, health and greeting._
Wee being willing and desirous to provide for our Convent of
_Orleans_, of our Province of _France_, of an honest and very good
Father and Priest; by Tenour of these present, and by the authority of
our Office doe recall you the above named Reverend Fryer _Thomas Gage_
from any other Convent, and doe Assigne you in our said Convent of
_Orleans_, and declare you to bee assigned, in the Name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Commanding the very
Reverend Father Master Prior thereof, that hee receive you curteously,
and entertaine you with all love and charity. In witnesse whereof with
our owne hand wee have subscribed these being sealed with the seale of
our Office. Dated at _Soriano_ the ninth day of _April_, 1640.
_Fryer_ Nicholas _Master of the Order_.
_Fryer_ Ignatius Ciantes _Master Provincial of_ England _and
Companion_.
Yet after I had got this Order, I bethought my selfe further that I
would try one way, which was to see if I could find out a Miracle,
which might give mee better satisfaction of the _Romish_ Religion, then
had the former experience of my life, and the lives of the Priests,
Cardinals, and all such with whom I had lived in _Spain_ and _America_.
I had heard much of a Picture of our Lady of _Loretto_, and read in a
Booke of Miracles or lies concerning the same, that whosoever prayed
before that picture in the state of mortall sinne, the picture would
discover the sinne in the soule, by blushing, and by sweating. Now I
framed this argument to my selfe, that it was a great sin, the sin
of unbeliefe, or to waver and stagger in points of Faith; but in mee
(according to the Tenents of _Rome_) was this sin, for I could not
believe the point of Transubstantiation, and many other; therefore
(if the Miracles which were printed of the foresaid Lady of _Loretto_
were true, and not lies) certainly shee would blush and sweat, when
such an unbeliever as I prayed before her. To make this triall, I went
purposely to _Loretto_, and kneeling downe before God, not with any
faith I had in the picture; I prayed earnestly to the true Searcher of
all hearts, that in his Son Jesus Christ he would mercifully looke upon
me a wretched sinner, and inspire and enlighten mee with his Spirit of
truth, for the good and salvation of my soule; In my prayer I had a
fixed and setled eye upon the Ladies picture, but could not perceive
that shee did either sweat or blush, wherewith I arose up from my
knees much comforted and incouraged in my resolution to renounce and
abandon Popery, and saying within my selfe as I went out of the Church,
surely if my Lady neither sweat nor blush, all is well with mee, and
I am in a good way for salvation, and the miracles written of her are
but lies. With this I resolved to follow the truth in some Protestant
Church in _France_, and to relinquish errour and superstition. Upon
which good purpose of mine, I presently perceived the God of truth
did smile, with what I heard hee was ordering in _England_ by an Army
of _Scotland_ raised for Reformation, and by a new Parliament called
to _Westminster_, at which I saw the Papists and Jesuites there began
to tremble, and to say that it would blast all their designes, and
all their hopes of setling Popery; _William Laud_ his policy was now
condemned and cursed, _Con_ was dead at _Rome_, the Cardinals Cap for
one of the three fore-named named was no more spoken of, _Fitton_ was
daunted, _Fitzherbert_ and _Courtney_ quite disheartned, Sir _Kenelham
Digby_ his Agency and comming to Rome put off and suspended, and with
all this good newes I was much heartned and incouraged to leave off my
journey to _France_, and to return to _England_, where I feared not my
Brother nor any kindred, nor the power of the Papists, but began to
trust in the protection of the Parliament, which I was informed would
reform Religion, and make such laws as should tend to the undermining
of all the Jesuits plots, and to the confusion and subversion of the
_Romish_ errours and Religion. I was too weak of body to make my
journey by land (by reason of my long Ague which had but newly left
mee) and so resolved to goe to _Ligorne_ to find out shipping there;
where I found foure or five ships of _English_ and _Hollanders_ ready
to set out, but were bound to touch at _Lisboe_ in their way. I
bargained with one Captaine _Scot_ for my passage, first to _Lisboe_,
intending there to make a second bargain. We had no sooner sailed on as
farre as to the Coast of _France_, joyning to the _Dutchy_ of Savoy,
but presently from _Canes_ came out part of a Fleet lying there under
the command of the Bishop of _Burdeaux_ to discover us, and take us
for a lawfull prize. I might say much here of the valour of the good
old Captaine _Scot_, who seeing all the other ships had yeelded to the
_French_ men of Warre, would upon no termes yeeld to be their prize,
(which they challenged because wee were bound for _Lisboe_, then their
enemies Country) but would fight with them all, and at last rather
blow up his ship, then to deliver the goods which had been intrusted
to him by the Merchants of _Ligorne_. We were in a posture to fight,
our guns ready, and Mariners willing to dye that day, which was heavy
news to me. After much treaty between the _French_ and our valorous
Captain, who still held out and would not yeeld, there came up to us
two ships to give us the last warning that if wee yeelded not, they
would immediately set our ship on fire. With this all the passengers
and many more in the ship desired the Captaine to yeeld upon some faire
Articles for the securing of what goods he had for _England_, and
should appeare were not any way for the strengthening of any enemies
to the State and Kingdome of _France_. With much adoe our Captaine was
perswaded, and we were carried with the rest into _Canes_ for a lawfull
prize. I seeing that the ships were like to bee stayed there long,
obtained the Bishop of _Bordeaux_ his passe to goe to _Marcells_, and
from thence by land through _France_. Which being granted, I went by
water to _Tolon_, and from thence to _Marcells_, and so in company of
Carriers to _Lions_, and from thence to _Paris, Roane_, and _Deepe_,
where in the first packet boat to _Rye_ I passed over to _England_,
where I landed upon _Michaelmas_ day the same yeere that this present
Parliament began to sit the _November_ following. My Brothers Spirit
I found was not much daunted with the new Parliament, nor some of the
proudest Papists, who hoped for a suddain dissolving of it; But when I
saw their hopes frustrated by His Majesties consent to the continuing
of it, I thought the acceptable time was come for mee, wherein I ought
not to dissemble any further with God, the world and my friends, and so
resolved to bid adieu to flesh and blood; and to prize Christ above all
my kindred, to own and professe him publiquely maugre all opposition
of hell and kindred to the contrary. I made my self first knowne to
Doctor _Brunnick_ Bishop of _Exeter_, and to Mr. _Shute_ of _Lumbard
street_, from whom I had very comfortable and strong incouragements.
The Bishop of _Exeter_ carried me to the Bishop of _London_ then at
_Fullom_, from whom I received order to Preach my Recantation Sermon
at _Pauls_: which done, I thought I must yet doe more to satisfie the
world of my sincerity, knowing that Converts are hardly believed by the
common sort of people, unlesse they see in them such actions which may
further disclaime _Rome_ for ever for the future. Whereupon I resolved
to enter into the state of Marriage (to which God hath already given
his blessing) which the Church of _Rome_ disavowes to all her Preists.
What I have beene able to discover for the good of this State I have
done, and not spared (when called upon) to give in true evidence upon
my Oath against Jesuites, Preists, and Fryers; for the which (after a
faire invitation from my Brother Colonel _Gage_, to come over again
to _Flanders_, offering mee a thousand pound ready money) I have been
once assaulted in _Aldersgate street_; and another time like to be
killed in _Shooe lane_ by a Captain of my Brothers Regiment, named
_Vincent Burton_, who (as I was after informed) came from _Flanders_ on
purpose to make me away or convey mee over, and with such a malicious
designe followed mee to my lodging, lifting up the latch and opening
the doore, (as hee had seene mee done) and attempting to goe up the
staires to my chamber without any inquiry for mee, or knocking at
the doore; from whom God graciously delivered me by the weak meanes
of a woman my Land-lady, who stopped him from going any further; and
being demanded his name, and answering by the name of _Steward_, and
my Land-lady telling him from mee that I knew him not, he went away
chafing and saying that I should know him, before he had done with mee.
But hee that knoweth God well, shall know no enemy to his hurt; neither
have I ever since seene or knowen this man. I might here also write
down the contents of a threatning letter from mine own Brother, when
hee was Colonell for the King of _England_ and Governour of _Oxford_,
which I forbear with some tender consideration of flesh and blood. At
the beginning of the warres I confesse I was at a stand as a Neophyt
and new plant of the Church of _England_ concerning the lawfulnesse of
the warre; and so continued above a yeere in _London_ spending my owne
meanes, till at last I was fully satisfied, and much troubled to see
that the Papists and most of my kindred were entertained at _Oxford_,
and in other places of the Kings Dominions; whereupon I resolved upon
a choice for the Parliament cause, which now in their lowest estate
and condition I am not ashamed to acknowledge. From their hands and by
their order I received a Benefice, in the which I have continued almost
foure yeers preaching constantly for a through and godly Reformation
intended by them, which I am ready to witnesse with the best drops of
blood in my veins, though true it is I have been envied, jealousied and
suspected by many; to whom I desire this my History may be a better
witnesse of my sincerity, and that by it I may perform what our Saviour
Christ spoke to _Peter_, saying, And thou being converted strengthen
thy Brethren. I shall think my time and pen happily imployed if by
what here I have written, I may strengthen the perusers of this small
volume against Popish superstition whether in _England_, other parts
of _Europe, Asia_, or _America_; for the which I shall offer up my
dayly prayers unto him, who (as I may well say) miraculously brought
me from _America_ to _England_, and hath made use of mee as a _Joseph_
to discover the treasures of _Egypt_, or as the spies to search into
the land of _Canaan_, even the God of all Nations, to whom be ascribed
by mee and all true and faithfull Beleevers, Glory, Power, Majesty and
mercy for evermore. _Amen._
_FINIS._
Some brief and short Rules for the better learning of the _Indian_
tongue called _Poconchi_, or _Pocoman_, commonly used about _Guatemala_
and some other parts of _Honduras_.
Although it bee true that by the daily conversation which in most
places the _Indians_ have with the _Spaniards_, they for the most part
understand the _Spanish_ tongue in common and ordinary words, so that
a _Spaniard_ may travell amongst them, and bee understood in what hee
calleth for by some or other of the Officers, who are appointed to
attend upon all such as travell and passe through their townes: Yet
because the perfect knowledge of the _Spanish_ tongue is not so common
to all _Indians_, both men and women, nor so generally spoken by them
as their owne; therefore the Preists and Fryers have taken paines to
learn the native tongues of severall places and countries, and have
studied to bring them to a Form and method of Rules, that so the use
of them may bee continued to such as shall succeed after them. Neither
is there any one language generall to all places, but so many severall
and different one from another, that from _Chiapa_, and _Zoques_, to
_Guatemala_, and _San Salvador_, and all about _Honduras_, there are at
least eighteen severall languages, and in this district some Fryers who
have perfectly learned six or seven of them. Neither in any place are
the _Indians_ taught or preached unto but in their native and mother
tongue, which because the Preist onely can speake, therefore are they
so much loved and respected by the Natives. And although for the time
I lived there, I learned and could speake in two severall tongues, the
one called _Cacchiquel_, the other _Poconchi_, or _Pocoman_, which have
some connexion one with another; yet the _Poconchi_ being the easiest,
and most elegant, and that wherein I did constantly preach and teach,
I thought fit to set down some rules of it, (with the Lords Prayer,
and brief declaration of every word in it) to witnesse and testifie
to posterity the truth of my being in those parts, and the manner how
those barbarous tongues have, are, and may be learned.
There is not in the _Poconchi_ tongue, nor in any other the diversity
of declensions, which is in the _Latin_ tongue; yet there is a double
way of declining all Nownes, and conjugating all Verbes, and that is
with divers particles according to the words beginning with a vowell or
a consonant; neither is there any difference of cases, but onely such
as the said Particles or some Prepositions may distinguish.
The Particles for the words or Nownes beginning with a Consonant are as
followeth,
Sing. _Nu, A, Ru,_ plural. _Ca. Ata. Qui tacque._ As for example,
_Bat_, signifieth a house, and _Tat_, signifieth father, which are thus
declined;
Sing. _Nupat_, my house, _Apat_, thy house, _Rupat_, his house. Plural.
_Capat_, our house, _Apatta_, your house, _Quipat tacque_, their house.
Sing. _Nutat_, my Father, _Atat_, thy Father, _Rutat_ his Father.
Plural. _Catat_, our Father, _Atatta_, your Father, _Quitat tacque_,
their Father. Thus are declined Nownes beginning with a Consonant.
As, _Queh_, a horse, _Nuqueh, Aqueh, Ruqueh, &c. Huh_, booke, or
paper, _Nuhuh, Ahuh, Ruhuh. Moloh_, Egge, _Numoloh, Amoloh, Rumoloh.
Holom_, Head, _Nuholom, Aholom, Ruholom. Chi_, Mouth, _Nuchi, Achi,
Ruchi. Cam_, hand, _Nucam, Acam, Rucam. Chac_, flesh, _Nuchac, Achac,
Ruchac. Car_, fish, _Nucar, Acar, Rucar. Cacar, Acarta, Qui cartacque.
Chacquil_, body or flesh of man; _Nuchacquil, Achacquil, Ruchacquil,
Cachacquil, Achacquilta, Quichacquil tacque_.
Some words there are which are pronounced like _ts_, which are written
not with _ts_, but with this letter _tȝ_, peculiar in that tongue;
as for _tsi_, dogge, _tsiquin_, bird, _Nutsi_, my dog, _Atsi_, thy
dog, _Rutsi_, his dog, _Catsi_, our dog, _Atsita_, your dog, _Quitsi
tacque_, their dog. _Nutsiquin_, my bird, _Atsiquin_, thy bird,
_Rutsiquin_, his bird, _Catsiquin_, our bird, _Atsiquinta_, your bird,
_Quitsi quintacque_, their bird.
There are no severall terminations for cases, as in Latin; but the
cases are distinguished with some particles or prepositions, as for
example. The house of _Peter, Rupat Pedro_, putting the possessours
name, and the particle, _Ru_, which is a possessive. So for the dative,
add the particle _Re_; as for example, give to _Peter_ his dog, _Chaye
re Pedro rutsi_. For the accusative, when it is motion to a place, or
else not, adde _Chi_, as for example, I goe to the house of _Peter,
Quino chi rupat Pedro_. The Vocative admitteth of this particle _ah_,
or _ha_, of wishing or calling, as, O my son, or ho my son, _Ah vacun_,
or _ha vacun_. The Ablative keeping stil the same termination with
the Nominative, is expressed with some preposition or other, as in my
mouth, _pan nuchi_, with my hand, _chi nucam_. In signifying I, is
undeclinable, as also, _At_, signifying you, or thou. The possessive
mine, is also undeclinable, as _vi chin_, mine, or for me; so thine, or
for thee, _Ave_. Where note that in this tongue there is no _w_, but
_v_, or _u_, are pronounced as _w_, as though wee pronounce, _wacun_,
my sonne, _wichin_, mine or for mee, _Awe_, thine or for thee wee write
_vacun, vichin, Ave_.
The Particles or letters, which serve for Nounes beginning with a
Vowell, are as followeth. Singular. _V. Av. R._ Plural. _C._ or _Qu.
Avta. C._ or _qu. tacque_, as for example, _Acun_, signifieth son,
_Ixim_, Corn, _Ochoch_, likewise house, which are thus declined.
Sing. _Vacun_, my son, _Avacun_, thy son, _Racun_, his son. Plural.
_Cacun_, our son, _Avacunta_, your son, _Cacuntaque_, their son.
Sing. _Vixim_, my corn, _Avixim_, thy corn, _Rixim_, his corn. Plural.
_Quixim_, our corn, _Aviximta_, your corn, _Quixim tacque_, their corn.
Sing. _Vochoch_, my house, _Avochoch_, thy house, _Rochoch_, his house.
Plural. _Cochoch_, our house, _Avochochta_, your house, _Cochochtaque_,
their house.
So likewise are varied or declined, _Abix_, signifying a plantation,
or peece of ground sowen. _Acal_, earth or ground. _Vleu_, also earth
or ground. _Acach_, hen. Save onely that the words beginning with _I_,
admit _qu_, in the first and third person plurall; the rest admit for
the same persons plurall, _C_, onely.
And as thus I have observed for the varying or declining of Nounes;
so also doe all the Verbes admit of severall particles for their
conjugating, according as they begin either with a vowell or a
consonant.
Those that begin with a consonant have somewhat like the Nounes these
articles following.
Sing. _Nu, Na, Inru._ Plural. _Inca, Nata, Inquitacque._ As for
example, _locoh_, to love.
Sing. _Nulocoh_, I love, _Nalocoh_, thou lovest, _Inrulocoh_, hee
loveth. Plural. _Incalocoh_, wee love, _Nalocohta_, yee love,
_Inquilocohtaque_, they love.
_Nuroca_, or _Nurapa_, I whip, or beat. _Naroca_ or _Narapa_, thou
whippest, or beatest; _Inruroca_, or _Inrurapa_, hee whippeth or
beateth. Plural. _Incaroca_, or _Incarapa_, wee whip, or beat;
_Narocata_, or _Narapata_, yee whip, or beat, _Inquirocatacque_, or
_Inquirapatacque_, they whip or beat.
_Nutsiba_, I write, _Natsiba_, thou writest, _Inrutsiba_, hee
writeth. Plural. _Incatsiba_, wee write, _Natsibata_, yee write,
_Inquitsibatacque_, they write.
There is no preterimperfect tense, nor preterpluperfect tense; but the
preterperfect tense standeth for them; neither is there any Future, but
the present tense expresseth it, and is understood for it, according
to the sense of the discourse, as _Nulocoh Pedro_, I love or wil love
_Peter. Tinulocoh_, I love thee, or I wil love thee. Yet sometimes for
fuller expression of the Future tense, is added this Verbe, _inva_, I
wil, _nava_, thou wilt, _Inra_, he will, as _Inva nulocoh Pedro_, I
will love _Peter_.
The Particles for the Preterperfect tense, are as follow:
Sing. _Ixnu. Xa. Ixru._ Plural. _Ixca. Xata. Ixqui tacque._ Where note,
that in all these particles, and in all this language, the letter _X_,
is pronounced like _sh._ as _Ixnu_, like _Ishnu. Xa_, like _sha. Ixru_,
like _Ishru. Ixca_ like _Ishca_, and so forth.
Preterperf. Sing. _Ixnulocoh_, I have loved; _Xalocoh_ thou hast
loved, _Ixrulocoh_, he hath loved. Plural. _Ixcalocoh_, we have loved,
_Xalocohta_, yee have loved, _Ixquilocohtacque_, they have loved. And
so of all the Verbes above.
The Particles for the Imperative Mood are these following:
For the singular number, and second person, _Cha_; for the third person
singular _Chiru_; for the first person plural, _Chica_; for the second,
_Cha ta_, for the third _Chiqui tacque_: as for example. _Chalocoh_,
love thou. _Chirulocoh_, let him love. Plural. _Chicalocoh_, let us
love; _Chalocohta_, love yee. _Chiquilocoh tacque_, let them love. And
so of the rest of the Verbes above.
The Optative Mood is the same with the Indicative; adding to it this
Particle _Ta_, which signifieth as much as _utinam_, or, would to God,
as _Nalocoh ta Dios_, would God thou love God, _Ixnulocoh ta Dios_,
would God I had loved God.
The Conjunctive Mood also is the same with the Indicative, adding to it
this Particle, or Preposition _vei_, and _ta_, if. As for example _vei
nalocoh ta Dios_, if thou love God, _vei ixnulocoh ta Dios_, if I had
loved God.
There is no Infinitive Mood, but the Indicative serveth for it. As,
_Quinchol nutsiba_, I can write. _Quinquimi_, signifieth to die,
_Nuraeh_, I desire, _Nuraeh quinquimi_, I desire to dye.
Note further, that in all Verbes Actives, when mee and thee are
expressed as the Accusative case following the Verbe, they are coupled
to the person that doeth or goeth before the Verbe, by these two
Particles for the present tense, _Quin_, mee, _Ti_, thee. And for the
preterperfect tense, _xin_, mee, _ixti_, thee. As for example.
_Quinalocoh_, thou lovest me. _Xinalocoh_, thou hast loved me.
_Quinraalocoh_, thou wilt love me. _Quinalocohta_, love me, or I pray
God thou love me. _Vei quinalocoh_, if thou love me; _vei xinalocoh_,
if thou hast or hadst loved mee; _Quinaraeh nalocoh_, thou desirest to
love me. So for the second person being the Accusative. _Tinulocoh_,
I love thee. _Ixtinulocoh_, I have loved thee. _Tiranulocah_, I will
love thee. _Tinulocohta_, pray God I love thee; _vei tinulocoh_, if I
love thee; _vei ixtinulocoh_, if I have or had loved thee. _Tinuraeh
nulocoh_, I desire to love thee.
Note further, that these two Verbes, _Quinchol_, which signifieth, I
can or am able, and _Inva_, which signifieth I will, when they are
put with other Verbes of whatsoever person, they are elegantly put
impersonally in the third person singular. As for example:
_Inchol nulocoh_, I can love. _Inra nulocoh_, I will love. _Ixra
ixnulocoh_, I have been willing to love. _Ixchol ixnulocoh_, I have
been able to love. _Tichol nulocoh_, I can love thee, _Tira nulocoh_, I
will love thee.
The Letters or Particles for Verbes beginning with a Vowell, are these
that follow.
Sing. _Inv. Nav. Inr._ Plural. _Inqu._ or _Inc. Nauta. Inqu tacque_, or
_Inc tacque_. As for example, _Eça_, signifieth to deliver, which is
thus formed.
Sing. _Inveça_, I deliver. _Naveça_, thou deliverest, _Inreça_, he
delivereth. Plural. _Inqueça_, wee deliver, _Naveçata_, yee deliver;
_Inqueça tacque_, they deliver.
_A_ is a simple signifying to wish or desire, or will a thing, which is
never found without these particles.
Sing. _Inva_, I will, _Nava_, thou wilt, _Inra_, he will; Plural.
_Inca_ we will, _Navata_, yee will, _Incatacque_, they will. _Ivereh_,
to heare. _Invivireh_, I heare. _Navivireh_, thou hearest, _Inrivireh_,
he heareth. Plural. _Inquivireh_, we heare; _Navivirehta_, yee heare;
_Inquivireh tacque_, they heare.
Thus have I briefly set downe the way of declining all sorts of Nounes,
and conjugating all sorts of Verbes of this tongue. It remaineth now
that I speak of Verbes passives; their forming and their conjugating
with like Particles. The Verbes passives being of divers terminations,
are diversly formed. Commonly those that end with an _A_, cut off
the _A_, in the passive, and to the last consonant add _hi_. As
for example, _Nuroca_, I whip or beat, the passive is _Quinrochi_.
So _Nurapa_, I whip or beat, in the passive is _Quinraphi_. Except
_Nutsiba_, I write, which changeth _b_ into _m. Quintsimhi_, I am
written. Those that end in _oh_, change _oh_ into _onhi_. As _nulocoh_,
I love. _Quinloconhi_, I am loved. So those that end in _eh_, doe
change _eh_ into _hi_, as _Invivireh_, I hear, _Quinivirhi_, I am
heard. _Nucuta_, I teach, _Quincuthi_, I am taught, by the first rule.
But those that end in _ça_ (where note this letter _ç_ or _c_, with a
tittle under it, is pronounced like _s_) change the _a_ into _ihi_.
As for example: _inveça_ I deliver, _Quineçihi_, I am delivered.
_Nucamça_, I kill, _Quincamçihi_, I am killed; those that end in _ach_,
adde _hi_ in the passive, as _Nuçach_, I forgive, in the passive maketh
_Quinçachhi_, I am forgiven. The particles that vary, or conjugate the
Verbes passives, are these following:
Sing. _Quin. Ti. In_. Plural. _Coh_, or _Co. Tita. Quitacque._ As for
example:
_Quinloconchi_, I am loved, _Tiloconhi_, thou art loved. _Inloconhi_,
hee is loved. Plural. _Coloconhi_, wee are loved. _Tiloconhita_, yee
are loved. _Quiloconhitacque_, they are loved.
_Quinrochi_, I am beaten or whipped; _Tirochi_, thou art beaten or
whipped; _Inrochi_, he is beaten or whipped. Plural. _Corochi_, we are
beaten or whipped; _Tirochita_, ye are beaten or whipped; _Quirochi
tacque_, they are beaten or whipped.
The Particles for the preterperfect tense are these following.
Sing. _Xin. Ixti. Ix._ Plural. _Xoh_, or _Xo. Ixti ta; xi tacque._ As
for example. Sing. _Xinloconhi_, I have bin loved. _Ixtiloconhi_, thou
hast bin loved. _Ixloconhi_, hee hath been loved. Plural. _Xoloconhi_,
wee have been loved. _Ixtiloconhita_, yee have been loved. _Xiloconhi
tacque_, they have been loved. _Xinrochit_, I have been whipped or
beaten. _Ixtirochi_, thou hast been whipped or beaten. _Ixrochi_, hee
hath been whipped or beaten. Plural. _Xorochi_, or _xohrochi_, we have
been whipped or beaten, _Ixtirochita_, yee have been whipped or beaten.
_Xirochi tacque_, they have been whipped or beaten.
The Imperative Mood is thus:
_Tiloconhi_, Bee thou loved, _Chiloconho_, let him bee loved. Plural.
_Chicaloconho_, let us bee loved, _Tiloconhota_, bee yee loved,
_Chiquiloconho tacque_, let them bee loved. Where you see the particle
_hi_ is changed into _ho_.
The Optative Mood, and the Conjunctive are after the manner of the
Verbs Actives, by put to _ta_ in the Optative, and _vei_ in the
Conjunctive. As for example.
_Quinloconhi ta_, I pray God I bee loved. _Tiloconhi ta_, I pray God
thou bee loved; _Inloconhita_, I pray God hee be loved; _Cohloconhita_,
I pray God we bee loved. _Tiloconhitata_, I pray God yee be loved.
_Quiloconhi ta tacque_, I pray God they bee loved.
So in the preterperfect tense _ta_ onely is added; as for example.
_Xinloconhi ta_, would to God I have or had been loved.
_Ixtiloconhita_, pray God thou hast or hadst bin loved, _Ixloconhita_,
pray God he have or had been loved. Plur. _Xoloconhita_, pray God we
have or had been loved, _Ixtiloconhi ta ta_, I pray God ye have or
had bin loved, _Xiloconhi ta tacque_, I pray God they have or had
been loved. Where note that the particle _Ta_, if any other word or
sentence be put with the Verb, may bee put before the Verb, as _Nim ta
Quinloconhi_, I pray God I be greatly loved. Otherwise if the Verbe be
alone, _ta_ is placed after it.
The Conjunctive Mood is thus, _Vei Quinloconhi_, if I be loved, _Vei
tiloconhi_, if thou bee loved, and so forth.
This is all, which commonly is taught concerning this tongue. In which
grounds hee that is perfect in, and hath a Dictionary of the severall
words of it, may soone learn to speake it. As I shall understand by my
best friends, that there is a desire of further printing a Dictionary,
I shall satisfie their desires, and apply my self unto it. These few
rules for the present I have thought fit to print, for curiosity sake,
and that it may appear, how easie the _Indian_ tongues are to be
learned. I shall conclude this unparalleld work, with the Lords Prayer
in that tongue, and with a brief explication of it.
_Catat taxah vilcat; Nimta incaharçihi avi; Inchalita Avihauripan Cana.
Invanivita Nava yahvir vachacal, he invantaxah. Chaye runa cahuhunta
quih viic; Naçachtacamac, he incaçachve quimac ximacquivi chiquih;
Macoacana chipam catacchihi; Coaveçata china unche stiri, mani quiro,
he inqui. Amen._
Note. _Catat_, according to the rule of declining Nounes, is the first
person plural, which is known by the particle _Ca_, added to _Tat_,
which signifieth father; and _Catat_ is our father.
_Taxah_ signifieth heaven; it is put before the word or verb _vilcat_,
for more elegancy sake, and for better placing of it, contrary to the
_Latin_ and _English_, where _es_, and _art_, is put before _in cælis_,
or in heaven. Likewise it is put without a preposition, contrary to
the Greeke, Latin and English: for in this tongue many times the
prepositions are omitted and understood.
_Vilcat_ signifieth _es_ or _art_: it is the second person of the
Verbe, _Sum, es, fui,_ which is a Verbe Anomal, and not conjugated
after the rule of Verbes above. As for example. _Vilquin_, I am,
_Vilcat_, thou art, _villi_, hee is. Plural. _Vilcoh_, wee are,
_Vilcatta_, yee are, _Vilque tacque_, they are. The Preterperfect
tence, _Xinvi_, I have been, _Ixtivi_, thou hast been, _Ixvi_, hee
hath been. Plural. _Xohvi_, we have been, _Ixtivita_, yee have been,
_Xivi tacque_, they have been. Imperative. _Tivi_ or _Tivo_, bee thou;
_Chivi_ or _Chivo_, let him be. Plural. _Cohvi ta_ or _Cohvo ta_, let
us bee; _Tivita_ or _Tivota_, bee yee; _Quivi ta_ or _Quivo ta tacque_,
let them bee. The Optative and Conjunctive are according to the Rule
above, by adding _ta_ or _vei_, to the present tense, and preterperfect
tense of the Indicative Mood.
_Nim ta Incaharcihi_, which signifieth, I pray God may be greatly
magnified. _Nim_ signifieth great or greatly. _Ta_ is _optantis_,
or of wishing. _Incaharcihi_, is the third person of the Verbe
_Quincaharcihi_, which signifieth to be magnified or extolled; and is
formed according to the rule above, from the active verbe, _Nucaharça_,
to magnifie or extoll, by changing the last _a_ into _ihi_, and adding
_quin_ the particle of the passive.
_Avi_ thy name. _Vi_, signifieth name, and according to the rule above
for Nounes beginning with a Consonant _a_ is the particle of the second
person.
_Inchalita avihauri_, let come thy Kingdome, is the proper expression
of this in _English. Inchali_, is the third person of the Verbe
_Quinchali_, which signifieth to come. _Ta_ is as before _optantis_, or
of wishing. _Ihauri_ or _Ihauric_, signifieth kingdome. _Av_, added,
sheweth the second person.
_Pan cana_, upon our heads. This is a peculiar expression in that
tongue; which (as all other tongues) hath many phrases, strange
expressions, proper elegancies and circumlocutions. Whereof this one,
to say, Let thy Kingdome come upon our heads. _Pam_ or _Pan_, is a
preposition, signifying in or within, or upon. _Na_ signifieth head;
_Nuna_, my head, _Cana_, our head, according to the rule above: from
whence they call a hat, _Pan Nuna_, as being upon the head.
_Invanivi ta Nava_, let be done what thou wilt. They have no proper
Noun to expresse a mans will, but expresse it by a Verbe: _Invanivi_,
is the third person of the Verbe, _Quinvanivi_, which signifieth to
be made or done. The Active is _Nuvan_, I doe or make: from whence
are formed many passives, as _Quinvan_ or _Quinvanhi_, or _Quinvani_,
or _Quinvanivi_, or _Quinbanari_; or _Quinvantihi_, whereof this last
signifieth to bee done speedily. And so to all Verbes Actives and
Passives, this particle _tihi_, is added at the end, to signifie hast
or speed in doing any thing. _Nava_, is the second person of the Verbe,
_Inva_, I will, according to the rule for verbes beginning with a
vowell, _Nava_, thou wilt, _Inra_, he will.
_Yahvir vach a cal_, here upon the face of the earth; _Yahvir_, is an
Adverbe signifying here, _Vach_, signifieth face, _Nuvach_, my face,
_Avach_, thy face, _Ruvach_, his face. _Acal_, signifieth the earth or
ground.
_He invan taxah_, as it is done in heaven. _He_ is an Adverbe,
signifying even as, _Invan_, is the third person of the passive Verbe,
_Quinvan_, to bee done. _Taxah_, as before, signifieth in heaven
without any preposition to it.
_Chaye runa_, give to day. _Nuye_ is the first person of the present
tense, signifying, I give, _Cha_, is the particle (according to the
rule above) of the second person of the Imperative Mood. _Chaye_, give
thou; _Chyrue_, let him give. _Runa_, to day.
_Cahuhun ta quih viic_, our every day bread, where note that _ca_, put
before _huhun_ is very elegantly placed, though it doe belong to the
word _viic_, which signifieth bread. _Nuviic_, my bread, _Caviic_, our
bread. _Huhun_ is an undeclined word, signifying every one, or every
thing. _quih_ signifieth the sun or the day.
_Naçach ta camac_, I pray God thou forgive our sinnes. They use not
here the Imperative Mood, as in _Latin demitte_, and in _English_
forgive, but with the particle _ta_, of wishing, they use the Optative
Mood. _Naçach_ is the second person of the Verbe, _Nuçach_, I forgive.
_Mac_, signifieth sin. _Numac_, my sin or sins, _camac_, our sins.
_Laval_ is another word in that tongue also to signifie sin.
_He incaçachve quimac_, Even as we forgive their sins. _Incaçach_
is the first person plural, according to the rule above, for verbes
beginning with a consonant, _ve_ is put at the end for elegancy sake.
_Quimac_ is the third person plural. Where note that in a whole speech
or sentence, sometimes the particle _tacque_, observed above in the
rule for declining is left out; and sometimes it is added. As here,
_quimac_ their sins; or else it might have been _quimac tacque_.
_Xim acquivi chi quih_, that have sinned against our backs, of _Mac_,
signifying sin, is this Verbe formed, _quinmacquivi_, to sin. So
likewise of _lavil_, sin, is formed another Verb, _quinlavini_, to
sin. This Verbe _quinmacquivi_ is a Deponent; of which sort there are
many in that tongue, as _quincutani_, to preach, which have the same
Particles as the Verbes Passives. _Chiquih_ is a word compounded of the
Preposition _chi_ and _ih_, which signifieth back, and is varied like
the Nounes beginning with a Vowell, and joyned with _chi_, signifieth
against, as _Chivih_, against mee, _chavih_, against thee, _chirih_,
against him. Plural. _Chiquih_, against us, _chavihta_, against yee,
_chiquih tacque_, against them. And if another third person bee named,
_chirih_, standeth for against, as _chirih Pedro_, against _Peter_,
that is, against the back. If many be named in the third person Plural,
then _chiquih_ is used, as _chiquih unche_, or _chiquih cunch elal_,
against all.
_Mecoacana_, leave us not. This Verbe is here compounded of three:
first, _Ma_, is abbreviated from the word _mani_, which signifieth no
or not, as likewise _manchucu. Co_ or _coh_, signifieth wee or us, and
as in the rules before I have observed, is put here before the Verb;
which causeth the _n_ to be cut off from the verb, which otherwise
should have beene _nacana_, of _nucana_, I leave, _nacana_, thou
leavest, _inrucana_, he leaveth, and so forth.
_Chipam catacchihi_, in our being tempted. This is another great
elegancy in that tongue to use a Verbe Passive for a Noune, and to
add to it a Preposition; as here, _chipam_, which signifieth in;
and putting to the Verbe the Particles wherewith the Nounes are
varied and declined. _Nutacchih_, signifieth I tempt. The Passive is
_quintacchihi_, I am tempted; from whence _nutacchihi_, signifieth
my being tempted, or my temptation; _atacchihi_, thy temptation,
_rutacchihi_, his temptation, _catacchihi_, our temptation.
_Coaveçata china unche tsiri._ Deliver us from all evill things.
_Inveça_, as I have noted before, signifyeth to deliver. _Co_ is the
first person Plural put before the Verbe, as I observed in the rule
above, and in that Conjunction or compound _macoacana. China_ is a
Preposition, signifying above or from. _Unche_, signifieth all, which
is undeclinable. _tsiri_, is an Adjective properly undeclinable also
or unvariable, in Gender, Case, and Number; as are all Adjectives in
that tongue. It signifieth evill or bad; as _tsiri vinac_, an evill
man, _tsiri ixoc_, a bad woman, _tsiri chicop_, a bad or evill beast;
so likewise in the Plural number it is the same. Without a Substantive
it is as the Newter Gender, as _malum_ for _malares_, signifying an
evill thing, or evill things. The Substantive that is formed from it,
is _tsiriquil_, which signifieth evill or wickednesse. _Voronquil_,
signifieth the same.
_Mani quiroz_, not good: this is put for a further expression of evils
to be delivered from whatsoever is not good. _Mani_, as I noted before,
signifieth not. _Quiro_, is as _tsiri_, an Adjective, signifying good
or a good thing, and is undeclinable, unvariable in both numbers.
_Quiro vinac_, a good man, _quiro ixoc_, a good woman, _quiro chicop_,
a good beast; so likewise in the plural number, _quiro vinac_,
good men. The Substantive that is derived from this Adjective, is,
_quirohal_, goodness. _Chiohal_, signifieth the same. _quirolah_, is
very good, _tsirilah_, very bad, where _lah_ is added at the end of an
adjective, it puts the same aggravation as _valde_ in _Latin_.
_He inqui_, even as he saith. The meaning is, even as hee saith
that taught this prayer. _Quinqui_, signifieth I say, _tiqui_, thou
saiest, _inqui_, hee saith, _Cohqui_, wee say, _tiquita_, yee say,
_quiquitacque_, they say.
_Amen_. All words which have no true expression in the _Indians_
tongues, are continued in the _Spanish_, or in the proper tongue, as
here _Amen_. So wine which formerly they had not, they call _vino_;
though by an improper word some call it _Castilana ha_, that is, the
water of Castile. So God, they call _Dios_ commonly; though some call
him _Nim Ahval_, that is, the great Lord.
And thus for curiosities sake, and by the intreaty of some speciall
friends, I have furnished the Presse with a language which never yet
was printed, or known in _England_. A Merchant, Mariner, or Captaine at
Sea may chance by fortune to be driven upon some Coast, where he may
meet with some _Pocoman Indian_; and it may bee of great use to him, to
have some light of this _Poconchi_ tongue. Whereunto I shall be willing
hereafter to add something more for the good of my Countrey; and for
the present I leave thee Reader to study what hitherto hath briefely
been delivered by mee.
_FINIS._
A Table of the Chapters of this Booke, with the Contents of the most
Remarkeable things in them.
CHAP. I.
_How_ Rome _doth yeerely visit the_ American _and_ Asian _Kingdomes_.
page 1.
Contents.
_The Popes Policy in maintaining constantly some poore Pensionary
Bishops in_ Rome. page 1.
_Without great Sums of Mony, and new Purple Clothing given to the
Cardinals, Suits are not Canonized at_ Rome. pag. 2.
_Monies sent out of_ England _to_ Rome, _for Indulgencies to bee
granted to private Altars in Papists private chambers._ page 2.
_More power granted to the Kings of_ Spain _over the Clergy in the_
West-India's, _then to other Princes in_ Europe, _upon condition that
they maintain there the Popes Authority, and Preists to preach._ page
2. 3.
_The Jesuites challenge from_ Francis Xavierius _the Preaching of the
Gospel as due onely to them._ page 3.
_Missions of Preists, Fryers, or Jesuites, are yeerely sent at the King
of_ Spaine _his charge to the_ India's. page 3.
CHAP. II.
_Shewing that the_ Indians _wealth, under a pretence of their
Conversion, hath corrupted the hearts of poore begging Fryers, with
strife, hatred and ambition._ page 3.
Contents.
_Hatred grounded upon difference in Religion, is most bitter._ Page 3.
4.
_Jesuites and Fryers, but especially Dominicans, deadly enemies._ Page
4.
_A Jesuiticall trick well acted at_ Venice. page 4.
_Doctor_ Smith _Bishop of_ Chalcedon _sent by the Pope into_ England,
_as private Head over all the_ Romish _Clergy, chiefly by the cunning
subtilty of Jesuites was banished._ page 4.
_A Colledge privately intended to hee built in_ England, _by Jesuites
at_ Winifreds Well; _as also the Sope houses at_ Lambeth, _with the
Sope Patentee belonging to them._ page 5.
_More Jesuiticall prankes discovered._ page 5.
_Why Jesuites and Dominicans are dead enemies._ page. 5. 6.
Valentia _the Jesuite, his death most shamefull, for causing a false
Print upon_ Augustins _workes._ page. 5. 6.
_Jesuites, excellent Musicians, Fencers, Dancers, Vaulters, Painters,
Bribers, and Merchants._ p. 6.
CHAP. III.
_Shewing the manner of the Missions of Fryers, and Jesuites to the_
India's. pag. 7
Contents.
_Distinction of severall Provinces amongst the Fryers, and Jesuites,
under head at Rome, named Generall._ page 7.
West-India _Fryers rich prizes to the_ Hollanders, page 7.
_Popes indulgence granted to such Fryers, as goe to the_ India's, _and
his excommunication to such as oppose them._ page 8.
_Liberty draws most of the Fryers to the_ India's. page 8.
_The death of an unchast wife murthered by her owne husband, caused by
the too much liberty of a wanton Fryer in_ Guatemala, Anno 1635. p. 9.
CHAP. IV.
_Shewing to what Provinces of the_ East _and_ West-India's _belonging
to the Crowne of_ Castilia, _are sent missions of Fryers and Jesuites.
And especially of the Missions sent in the yeer_ 1625. page 9.
Contents.
_Two sorts of_ Spaniards _in the_ India's _deadly enemies to one
another,_ viz. _the Natives borne there, and such as goe from_ Spain
_thither._ page 9. 10.
_What Religious Orders are the chief Preachers in the Province of_
Guatemala. page. 10.
_The_ Spaniards _chief trading from_ Spain _to_ Philippinas, _is
first, by their ships to St_. John de Ulhua, _upon the North Sea; and
secondly, from_ Acapulco, _upon the South Sea to_ Manila. page 11.
_A vaine and worldly discourse of a Fryer of the_ India's, page 11. 12.
_The chief cause of the Authors resolution to goe to_ East _and_
West-India's. page 12. 13.
_Foure poore Mendicant Fryers, as_ Apostles _entertained by_ Don
Frederique de Toledo, _and the Gallies in_ Puerto de Santa Maria. page
14.
CHAP. V.
_Of the_ Indian _Fleet, that departed from_ Cales, Anno Dom. 1625. _And
of some remarkable passages in that voiage._ page 14.
Contents.
_The love of Nuns too powerfull over Fryers._ page 14.
_The Author hid in an empty barrell on shipboard, in the Bay of_ Cales.
page 15.
_The pleasure of the_ Indian _Navigation,_ 1625. _untill the first land
was discovered._ page 16.
CHAP. VI.
_Of our discovery of some Islands, and what trouble befell us in one of
them._ p. 16.
Contents.
_The Islands called_ Desseada, Marigalante, Dominica; Guadalupe, _are
the first discovered in_ America, _in the_ Spanish _Navigation._ page
17.
_A Christian Mulatto having lived twelve yeeres among Heathens, with an
Infidell wife and Children, found in_ Guadalupe. page 18.
_A suddaine uproare and mutiny of the_ Indians _of_ Guadalupe, _who
slew and wounded many of the_ Spanish _Fleet,_ 1625. page 19.
CHAP. VII.
_Of our further sailing to St_. John de Ulhua, aliàs, Vera Crux, _of
our landing there._ page 19.
Contents.
_A Fryer wounded at_ Guadalupe, _died, and was solemnly cast to the
Sea._ pag. 20.
_A_ Spaniard _swimming in the sound of_ Mexico, _cruelly slain, and
partly devoured by a Sea Monster._ page 21.
_The_ Virgin Mary, _called upon more then God, in a suddain
apprehension of a storme._ page 21.
CHAP. VIII.
_Of our landing at_ Vera Crux, _otherwise St._ John de Ulhua, _and of
our entertainment there._ page 22.
Contents.
_The vanity and worldlinesse of a Religious Dominican Superiour in St._
John de Ulhua. page 23.
_The houses and Churches of St._ John de Ulhua, _builded with boards
and timber, and therefore easily and often fired._ page 23. 24.
_A further relation of the towne of St._ John de Ulhua, _with the rich
trading of it from most parts of the_ West-India's, _as also from the_
East-India's. page 24.
CHAP. IX.
_Of our journey from St._ John de Ulhua _to_ Mexico, _and of the most
remarkable Townes and Villages in the way._ page 25.
Contents.
_Our Fryers first entertainment by the_ Indians _of the old_ Vera Crux.
page 25.
_A Franciscan Fryers vow and profession contrary to the vanity,
carding, dicing, and swearing, practised by them of_ Xalappa, _in the_
India's. page 26.
_Abundance of Gnats in the_ Rinconada, _taketh away the comfort of the
great abundance of provision that is there._ page 27.
_From whence the Towne called_ Segura de la Frontera _had its
beginning._ page 27. 28.
CHAP. X.
_Wherein is set downe the Estate and Condition of the great Towne of_
Tlaxcallan, _when the first_ Spaniards _entered into the Empire of_
Mexico. Cortez _his first encounter with the_ Tlaxcalteca's, _their
League with him, with a description of the Towne, and of the state and
condition of it now._ page 29.
Contents.
_A wall of stone without Lime or Morter, of a fadome and a halfe high,
and twenty foot broad, built by the Indian, for a defence in time of
Warres before the comming of the_ Spaniards. page 29.
_Fourescore thousand_ Indians, _soon raised and armed by those of_
Tlaxcallan, _and soone overcome by a thousand onely_ Indians _and_
Spaniards _with_ Cortez. pag. 30. 31.
_Yet further a hundred and fifty thousand overcome by foure hundred_
Spaniards, _and six hundred_ Indians. page 31. 32.
_Three presents sent to_ Cortez, viz _five slaves, Frankincense and
feathers, Fowles, Bread and Cherries, to know whether hee were a God or
a man._ pag. 32.
Montezuma _the Emperour his great present sent to_ Cortez. pag. 34.
_The_ Tlaxcalteca's _pay no Tribute to the King of_ Spain, _as others
doe, save onely one Corn of Maiz._ pag. 35.
_A description of the foure chief streets of_ Tlaxcallan, _with the
standard of the Town._ pag. 35.
_Twenty thousand persons wont to meet in one Market place of_
Tlaxcallan, _to buy and sell._ pag. 35.
_Severe Justice executed upon a thief by the inhabitants of_
Tlaxcallan. pag. 36.
CHAP. XI.
_Concluding the rest of our Journey from_ Tlaxcallan _to_ Mexico,
_through the City of_ Angels, _and_ Guacocingo. pag. 36.
Contents.
_The City of_ Angels _first builded by the Command of_ Antonio de
Mendoza, _in the yeer_ 1530. pag. 37.
_It was first called by the_ Indians Cuetlaxcoapan, _that is to say, a
snake in water._ Ibid.
_Many more particulars of the City of_ Angels _briefly related._ Ibid.
_The Town of_ Guacocingo, _why priviledged by the_ Spaniards. pag. 38.
Tezcuco, _the first Town in the_ West-India's, _that received a
Christian King._ pag. 39.
_How the_ Vergantines, _(wherewith_ Cortez _besieged_ Mexico _by water)
were brought by Land in pieces from_ Tlaxcallan _to_ Tezcuco; _and
foure hundred thousand men, fifty dayes imployed in making a sluce
or Trench for the finishing of them, and launching them forth to the
Lake._ pag. 40.
Cortez _his Army divided into three parts in the plain of_ Tezcuco,
_for the better besieging of_ Mexico. pag. 40. 41.
Cortez _made use of seven thousand beames of Cedar trees for the
building of his house in_ Mexico. pag. 41.
CHAP. XII.
_Shewing some particulars of the great and famous City of_ Mexico _in
former times; with a true description of it now. And of the State and
Condition of it, in the yeare_ 1625. pag. 42.
Contents.
_Little substance or nourishment found in the fruits, and other food
of_ Mexico. pag. 42. 43.
_Severall opinions concerning the difference of fresh and salt water in
the Lake of_ Mexico, p. 43. 44.
Montezuma _his stately Palace in_ Mexico, _called_ Tepac, _with two
more, the one with many ponds of salt and fresh water for severall
sorts of fowles; the other for hawking fowles, and fowles of rapine._
p. 44. 45.
_Three thousand were the Attendants in_ Montezuma _his Court, fed with
what came from his Table._ p. 46.
Mexico _called formerly_ Tenuchtitlan, _and why?_ ibid.
_What_ Mexico _properly signifieth, and from whence so called._ p. 47.
_The Names of the ten Emperours that were of_ Mexico, _and_ Montezuma
_his death._ ibid.
Quahutimoc _Emperour of_ Mexico _taken Prisoner, and that great City
conquered by_ Cortez _the_ 13. _of_ August, 1521. p. 49.
_Two hundred thousand little boats called Canoas, belonged to_ Mexico,
_to bring provision into the City._ p. 50.
_A Description of the chiefe Market of_ Mexico, _wherein a hundred
thousand persons did usually meet to buy and sell._ p. 50, 51.
_A Description of the great Church of_ Mexico, _before the entring of
the_ Spaniards. p. 51, 52.
_The Papists have continued the fashion of their Churches, Altars,
Cloisters, and many other their abuses from the Heathens._ p. 52, 53.
_The Gods of_ Mexico, _two thousand in number._ p. 53.
Mexico _after the Conquest, was built againe with a hundred thousand
houses._ p. 54.
_Fifteen thousand Coaches are judged to be in the City of_ Mexico. p.
56.
_A Popingay presented to the King of_ Spain, _worth halfe a million of
Duckates._ ibid.
_A Lampe in_ Mexico _worth foure hundred thousand Crownes._ ibid.
_The Attire of the female sex of_ Blackmores, Mulatta's, _and_
Mestiza's _in_ Mexico. p. 56, 57.
_The_ Spaniards _with their gifts to the Churches and Cloisters cover
their lascivious lives, as is shewed by an example in_ Mexico. p. 57.
_About two thousand Coaches daily meet in the Alameda of_ Mexico. 59.
_Of a fruit in the_ India's, _called_ Nuchtli. p. 60.
_Of some other fruits, and especially of a tree called_ Metl. p. 60, 61.
_A memorable history of a great mutiny in_ Mexico, _caused by the too
great power of an Archprelate, and the Covetousnesse of the Viceroy.
With some observations gathered for the good of_ England _out of the
said mutiny._ p. 62. & sequent.
CHAP. XIII.
_Shewing the severall parts of this new world of_ America; _and the
places of Note about the famous City of_ Mexico. p. 68.
Contents.
_A Description of the fiery Mountain, called_ Popocatepec. p. 69.
_The riches belonging to the Viceroy his chappell at_ Chapultepec,
_worth above a million of Crownes._ p. 70.
_A Description of a rich Desart, or wildernesse, three leagues from_
Mexico. ibid.
_The cruelty of_ Don Nunio de Guzman _in_ Mechoacan. p. 71. _The
manner of burying the Kings of_ Mechoacan, _before it was conquered by
the_ Spaniards. p. 71, 72.
_The_ Spaniards _themselves wonder that our_ English _Nation is not
more Active in conquering more of the Continent of_ America _beyond_
Virginia. p. 73.
Nova Albion _in_ America, _named so by Sir_ Francis Drake. p. 74.
_How the Countrey of_ Jucatan _was first named._ ibid.
_In the year_ 1632. _the_ Indians _of_ Jucatan _mutinied against the_
Spaniards. ibid.
_The City of_ Valdivia _so named from a_ Spaniard _of that name too
greedy and covetous of gold._ p. 76.
_The famous Attempt of_ John Oxenham _an_ English _man from the Coast
of_ Nombre de Dios, _to the Island of Pearles in the South sea._ p. 77.
_The_ Spanish _Fleet of_ Nova Hispania, _taken by the_ Hollanders, _in
the river of_ Matanzos. p. 80.
CHAP. XIV.
_Shewing my Journey from_ Mexico _to_ Chiapa, _Southward, and the most
remarkable places in the way._ p. 81.
Contents.
_For what reasons I stayed in_ America, _and would not goe on to the_
Philippina _Islands in the_ East-India's. p. 82.
_A Proclamation from the Viceroy in the market place of_ Mexico,
_against such as should conceale, harbour, and hide any Fryer bound for
the_ Philippina _Islands_. p. 83.
_A double Wheat harvest every yeer in a Valley, called_ St. Pablo. p.
85.
_The Dominicans Cloister in_ Guaxaca, _very rich, and strong._ p. 86.
_The great River_ Alvarado, _though it run from_ St. John de Ulhua
_far into the heart of the Countrey towards_ Guaxaca, _yet there is no
Castle, Tower, or Ordnance upon it._ ibid.
_An Old Frier, Master of Divinity, spightfully and maliciously buried
in a garden by the Friers of_ Guaxaca. ibid.
_Friers in the_ India's _may travail, and call for Turkeys, Capons, or
what they please to eat, without any mony, upon the_ Indians _charges._
p. 87.
Tecoantepeque _a Sea Towne, upon_ Mar del Zur, _altogether
unfortified._ ibid.
_The Author lodged in a Wildernesse, and affrighted with a sure
apprehension of death by Wild beasts._ p. 88, 89.
_The Author, and his Companies dangerous passage over the mountaine of_
Maquilapa, _feeding three daies upon green sowre lemmons, and water._
p. 90. & sequ.
_Two mysterious games of Tables played between the Superiour of the
Dominican Friers of_ Chiapa, _and the Author and his Company._ p. 94,
95.
_Our stately entertainment in a Towne called_ St. Philip, _neer_
Chiapa. p. 95, 96.
_Our imprisonment in the Cloister of_ Chiapa, _and three daies penance
with bread and water._ p. 96.
_A Friers penance in_ Chiapa _for a Love letter to a Nun._ p. 97.
_The Author made Schoole-master in_ Chiapa. ibid.
CHAP. XV.
_Describing the Countrey of_ Chiapa, _with the chief Townes and
Commodities belonging to it._ p. 98.
Contents.
_Some foolish questions moved to the Author by a great Don of_ Chiapa,
_and his answer to them accordingly._ p. 99. & sequ.
_One thousand and six hundred Duckates got by a Bishop of_ Chiapa
_in one moneth onely for Confirmation of little children in_ Indian
_Townes._ p. 102.
_A Bishop of_ Chiapa _poisoned by women, with a cup of Chocolatte, for
forbidding Chocolatte to be drunke in the Church._ p. 103.
_The Author his answer to a token sent to him by a gentlewoman of_
Chiapa. p. 104.
_The great Dexterity of the_ Indians _of_ Chiapa _in shewes, and
publike feasts._ ibid.
_The River of_ Tabasco _very commodious for any Nation to enter up
towards_ Chiapa. p. 105.
CHAP. XVI.
_Concerning two daily, and common Drinkes, or Potions much used in the_
India's, _called Chocolatte, and Atolle._ p. 106.
Contents.
_The Nature of the Cacao, and the tree it groweth upon, and the two
sorts of it._ p. 106, 107.
_Cinnamon one of the best ingredients in the Chocolatte; and why?_ p.
108.
_Achiotte how it groweth; and for what it is good._ ibid.
_Severall waies to drinke the Chocolatte._ p. 109.
CHAP. XVII.
_Shewing my Journey from the City of_ Chiapa _unto_ Guatemala, _and the
chief places in the way._ p. 111.
Contents.
_Six thousand Duckates sent by a Fryer to_ Spain _to buy a
Bishopricke._ p. 112.
_A rich treasure and picture of_ Mary _in a poor and small Town
of the_ Indians, _called_ Chiantla, _among the mountaines, named_
Cuchumatlanes. p. 113.
_The water of the river of a Towne, called_ Scapula, _causeth great
swellings in the throat._ p. 114.
_The Authour his dangerous fall from the mountaine of_ Zojabah, _and
his great deliverance attributed to a miracle by the_ Indians, _with
the conceit the_ Indians _had of his sanctity and holinesse._ p. 115.
_The_ Indians _guide the Friers in the night, when they travail, with
lights of Pine wood._ p. 116.
_The great Fair of_ Chimaltenango. p. 117.
_The Author abused, and suspected to be a spie, by an old frier in_
Chimaltenango. ibid.
_Stones of a fruit, or plumme, called_ Xocotte, _fit for fiering, and
also good to fat hogs._ 117, 118.
CHAP. XVIII.
_Describing the Dominions, Government, Riches, and greatnesse of the
City of_ Guatemala, _and Country belonging to it._ p. 118.
Contents.
Guatemala _an open City without any walls, forts, or Bulwarkes about
it._ p. 118.
_The Author welcomed to_ Guatemala; _and first graced with a publick
Act of Divinity; and after made Master of Arts in the same City._ p.
118, 119.
_The forme of the Letters Patents, as are used there, and sent to the
Authour to read Arts in the University of_ Guatemala. ibid.
_The manner of presenting the Author to the Bishop for obtaining his
Licence to preach publikely._ p. 120. 121.
_The forme of the Bishops Licence to preach and heare Confessions
within his Bishopricke, in_ Spanish, _and_ English; _with some glosses
upon it._ p. 121, 122.
Donna Maria de Castilia _swallowed up by a river which suddainly gushed
out of a mountaine neer to_ Guatemala, _for blaspheming and defying
God._ p. 124.
_The horrour of the Vulcan of fire neer_ Guatemala. ibid.
_Thirteen pound and a halfe of Biefe sold about_ Guatemala _for three
pence._ p. 125.
_One man onely enjoying_ 40000 _head of Cattell, and one onely that
bought_ 6000 _neer_ Guatemala. ibid.
_How_ Guatemala _and the Townes about are stored with provision of
Biefe and Mutton; and by whom._ ibid.
_Foure exceeding rich Merchants in_ Guatemala, _besides many other of
great, but inferiour wealth to them._ p. 126.
_The Covetousnesse of a President of_ Guatemala _shewed in Carding and
gaming._ ibid.
_Thirty thousand Duckats yeerly, the rent of one Cloister in_
Guatemala; _besides the treasure in it, worth a hundred thousand
Crownes._ p. 127.
_A thousand persons commonly living within one Cloister of Nuns in_
Guatemala. ibid.
_The Bishop of_ Guatemala _his Nun, very powerfull and rich._ p. 128.
_The strength of the Blackmore slaves about the Countrey of_ Guatemala.
p. 129.
_All the power of_ Guatemala _is not able to reduce a few Blackmore
slaves, who are fled to the mountains about_ Golfo Dulce. p. 130.
_Between the Towne of_ Acasabastlan _and_ Guatemala _are Mines of
Copper, and iron, and probably a treasure of Gold._ p. 131.
_A rich Miser, worth six hundred thousand Duckates, living like a beast
in the valley of_ Mixco. p. 132.
_A kind of wheat in the valley of_ Mixco, _called_ Tremesino, _which
after three moneths sowne is harvested in._ p. 135.
_A Towne called_ St. Lucar, _where wheat threshed is laid up in Barnes,
and keepeth two or three yeers with much increase._ ibid.
_A Towne of twelve thousand_ Indian _inhabitants not yet conquered,
lying between_ Jucatan _and_ Vera Paz. p. 136.
CHAP. XIX.
_Shewing the Condition, quality, fashion, and behaviour of the_ Indians
_of the Countrey of_ Guatemala, _since the Conquest; and especially of
their feasts and solemnities._ p. 138.
Contents.
_The_ Indians _of the Countrey of_ Guatemala, _like the Israelites by_
Pharaoh, _much oppressed by the_ Spaniards, _because they multiply and
increase._ p. 138.
_The_ West-India's _easier to be conquered now, then in the time that_
Cortez _conquered them._ p. 139.
_Some_ Indians _choose rather to die by pining away willingly, then to
be subject to the_ Spaniards _oppression and cruelty._ ibid.
_How the_ Indians _are forced, and distributed out by a_ Spanish
_officer to serve the_ Spaniards _weekly._ p. 140.
_The manner of the_ Indians _beds; as also their manner of cloathing._
p. 141, 142.
_They are divided into Tribes; with a chiefe head over every Tribe._ p.
142.
_How they agree upon contracting Marriage one with another._ ibid.
_The powdred bief of the_ Indians, _commonly called_ Tassajo. p. 143.
_The_ Indian _Venison, or flesh of wild Dear, how dressed and eaten._
ibid.
_A Hedgehog good meat in the_ India's. ibid.
_Of an_ Indian _drinke, called_ Chicha. p. 144.
_The_ Spaniards _use much to make the_ Indians _drunke; and then picke
their pockets._ p. 144, 145.
_The Preists that live in the_ Indian _Townes are above the Justices,
and Officers for peace, and whip, and give sentence and judgement in
the Church against the best._ p. 146.
_The Service, and Attendants allowed to the Preist._ p. 147.
_How, and what tribute the_ Indians _pay yeerly._ p. 148.
_The Saints and Idols of the Romish Religion differ not from the
heathenish Idols in the_ Indians _opinion._ p. 149.
_Saints held unprofitable by the Preists in the_ India's, _and fit to
be cast out of the Churches, which bring not mony and gifts unto them
at least once a yeare._ ibid.
_The Preists trade much in wax candles, and sell sometimes one candle
five or six times._ p. 150.
_An old_ Indian _Womans judgement concerning the Sacrament of the Lords
supper._ p. 150, 151.
_All soules day, Christmas, Candlemas day, and Whitsunday, daies of
great lucre, and profit to the Preists._ p. 151, 152.
_The_ Indians _are forced to marry at thirteen and fourteen yeers of
age; and why?_ p. 153.
_The ground of our Fairs in_ England. p. 154.
_Severall dances of the_ Indians. p. 154, 155.
CHAP. XX.
_Shewing how, and why I departed out of_ Guatemala, _to learne the_
Poconchi _language, and to live among the_ Indians; _and of some
particular passages, and Accidents whilst I lived there._ p. 156.
Contents.
_The Author going with some few_ Spaniards, _and Christian_ Indians
_into a Countrey of unknowne Heathens, fell dangerously sick; and was
further in a skirmish with the Barbarians, and by that meanes also in
danger of his life._ p. 157, 158.
Indians _growne up in age, forcedly driven to Baptisme, without any
principles in Christianity, by the Preists and Friers that first
entred into_ America. ibid.
Comayagua, _a woody, mountainous, and barren Countrey._ p. 159.
_In the_ India's _are Grammers and Dictionaries of the severall_ Indian
_tongues._ p. 160.
_The Authour became perfect in the_ Poconchi _language in one quarter
of a yeere._ ibid.
_The meanes, chiefly from the Church, which the Authour enjoyed yeerly
in the Townes of_ Mixco _and_ Pinola. p. 161, 162.
_A Plague of Locusts in the_ India's _brought no small profit to the
Authour._ p. 163, 164.
_The_ Spaniards _confidence in some blessed breads against the plague
of Locusts._ ibid.
_An infectious disease amongst the_ Indians, _brought to the Author
neer a hundred pounds in halfe a yeer._ ibid.
_The Authour struck downe as dead to the ground with a flash of
lightning; and again in danger of his life by an Earthquake._ p. 165,
166.
_Of a small Vermin, lesse then a flea called_ Nigua, _common in the_
India's, _wherewith the Author was in danger of losing a leg._ ibid.
_The Authour like to be killed by a_ Spaniard, _for defending the
poore_ Indians, p. 167.
_A notorious Witch in the Town of_ Pinola _affrighted the Authour._ p.
167. & sequ.
_The_ Indian _Wizards and Witches changed into shapes of beasts by the
Devil, as appeareth by two examples._ p. 169 & sequ.
_Some Idolaters in the Towne of_ Mixco _discovered their preaching Idol
found out by the Authour, and burnt publikely in the Church; and hee in
great danger to bee killed by them._ p. 171. & sequ.
_The Authors conflict within himselfe about coming home to_ England
_for conscience sake; and his resolution therein._ p. 180, 181.
_Neer upon_ 9000. _peeces of Eight got by the Authour, in twelve yeers
that hee lived in the_ India's. p. 181.
CHAP. XXI.
_Shewing my Journey from the Towne of_ Petapa _into_ England; _and some
chief passages in the way._ p. 182.
Contents.
_Relation of a place called_ Serro Redondo, _five leagues from_ Petapa.
p. 182.
_A strange fire and smoake constantly comming out of the earth neer
unto a Towne, called_ Aguachapa; _which by the_ Spaniards _is supposed
to be a mouth of hell._ p. 183.
_The priviledge of a great river, called_ Lempa, _dividing the Countrey
of_ St. Salvador, _and_ Nicaragua. p. 184.
_A Frier thinking to take up gold from the bottome of the fiery Vulcan
of_ Leon _deceived._ p. 185.
_The City of_ Leon, _and Countrey about, called by the_ Spaniards,
_Mahomets paradise._ ibid.
_About the beginning of_ February, _the City of_ Granada _in_ Nicaragua
_is one of the richest places in the_ India's, _by reason of many rich
commodities, and some of the King of_ Spain _his revenews carried
thither, to be transported by the Frigats to_ Cartagena _or_ Havana. p.
185, 186.
_The dangerous passage from the Lake of_ Granada _by the river,
commonly called_ El Desaguadero. p. 186.
_The Authour and his Company like to be surprized by a monstrous
Cayman, or Crocodile._ p. 187.
_The Authour robbed at sea by a_ Holland _man of Warre, of the value
of_ 7000. _Crownes._ p. 188, 189.
_A Frier for defending the poore_ Indians _of_ Nicoya _lost two
fingers, which were cut off by the Alcalde Maior._ p. 192.
_The Author forced to drinke his owne urine, and lost, and like to
perish in an unknowne Island, and afterwards upon a Rocke._ p. 193, 194.
_Some particulars of the City of_ Panama. p. 195.
_The river of_ Chiagre _very shallow in many places, without some great
raine cause the water to fall into it from the mountaines._ ibid.
_Some particulars of_ Portobello, _during the time that the_ Spanish
_Fleet stayeth there._ p. 196.
_The Papists Bread God, or Sacrament eaten and gnawne by a Mouse in_
Portobello; _with a Fast in bread and water for that contempt done unto
their God._ p. 197, 198.
_The_ Spaniards _feare of the_ English _that then inhabited the Island
called_ Providence. p. 199.
_Some_ English _Prisoners at_ Carthagena, _with one Captain_ Rouse,
_who at_ Havana _challenged some_ Spaniards _into the field, who had
abused him._ p. 199, 200.
_From the whole_ Spanish _Fleet, one gallantly taken away, worth
fourescore thousand Duckats, by two_ Holland _or_ English _ships not
well knowne, upon the Coast of_ Havana. p. 201.
_The manner of the Dominicans habit, with the meaning of it._ p. 203.
CHAP. XXII.
_Shewing how, and for what causes, after I had arrived in_ England, _I
took yet another journey to_ Rome, _and other parts of_ Italy, _and
returned again to settle my selfe in this my Countrey._ p. 205.
Contents.
Price _a Monke very familiar with_ William Laud _late Archbishop of_
Canterbury. p. 205.
_The Authors Brother in great favour at Court, and aspiring to a
Bishopricke; or to be Parish Preist of_ Coven garden. ibid.
_The Authour apprehended by a Pursevant; and protected by Sir_ Francis
Windebanke. p. 207.
_The Authour from the low Countries got letters of recommendation to
some chiefe Cardinals in_ Rome. p. 207.
_The Author robbed by_ French _Pyrates going from_ Ligorne _to_ Rome.
ibid.
_The Cardinal_ Don Francisco Barbarini _intituled the Protectour
of_ England _and much acquainted with the affaires of_ England,
_and especially with the actions and proceedings of_ William Laud
_Archbishop of_ Canterbury. p. 208.
William Laud _his further Complyance with the Cardinals of_ Rome,
_as testified by_ Fitzherbert _the Jesuite in a conference with the
Authour._ ibid.
_A designe of making an_ English _Cardinall at_ Rome; _and who chiefly
eyed for that purpose._ p. 209.
_A true Copy of the manner of sending the Author to live at_ Orleans
_in_ France, p. 209, 210.
_The miracle printed by the Papists of the blushing and sweating of the
Ladies picture of_ Loretto, _tried by the Authour, and found to bee a
meer lie._ p. 210.
_At the calling of the Parliament now sitting, the_ Romish _crew in_
Italy _much perplexed._ p. 210, 211.
_The Authour taken again by a_ French _Fleet of ships, as he was coming
home from_ Ligorne. p. 211.
_The Author twice assaulted in_ London _by Papists, and like to be
killed for his profession of the truth, and service to the State._ p.
211, 212.
FINIS.