The
Copy
of
the
first
Letter
.
COnsidering
the
great
Obligation
that
lies
vpon
me
,
in
that
God
hath
put
vpon
my
shoulders
the
administration
and
gouernment
of
so
many
Kingdomes
and
Dominions
,
with
the
name
and
stile
of
Catholike
King
;
whereunto
appertaineth
an
ardent
zeale
and
desire
of
the
publike
good
:
And
that
the
things
which
augment
these
Obligations
,
are
the
examples
of
Christian
piety
,
which
did
shine
so
gloriously
in
the
King
,
my
Lord
and
Father
(
who
is
now
in
glory
:
)
as
likewise
that
notable
care
and
diligence
in
gouernment
,
together
with
the
seuere
discipline
of
the
King
my
Father
,
and
my
Grandfather
:
I
am
resolued
to
settle
a
kind
of
censure
for
the
rooting
out
of
vices
,
abuses
,
and
all
sorts
of
bribery
and
corruption
in
these
my
Kingdomes
.
And
to
this
end
,
I
ordaine
and
command
you
,
our
President
,
that
you
firme
and
order
a
Junta
,
or
Committee
,
of
these
persons
following
:
of
whose
vertue
and
zeale
I
haue
a
particular
trust
and
confidence
.
-
1.
Maestro
Fray
Antonio
de
Soto
Mayor
,
my
Confessor
.
-
2.
Don
Francisco
de
Contreras
,
of
my
Councell
.
-
3.
Don
Pedro
Porto
Carrero
,
Conde
of
Medelin
,
of
all
other
the
ancientest
,
Mayor-domo
,
or
Chamberlaine
of
my
Lord
the
King
.
-
4.
Don
Francisco
de
Riuera
,
Marquesse
of
Malpica
,
a
Gentleman
of
the
Chamber
of
my
Father
and
Grandfather
.
-
5.
Don
Diego
de
Corral
,
of
my
Councell
.
-
6.
Don
Francisco
de
Seiada
,
of
my
Councell
.
-
7.
Father
Hieronymo
de
Florentia
,
my
Preacher
,
or
Chaplaine
,
and
Confessor
of
the
most
Illustrious
Infanta's
my
brethren
.
-
8.
Frier
Juan
de
Peralta
,
Prior
of
Saint
Lorenzo
,
and
Lord
Elect
of
Tuy
.
-
9.
Doctor
Aluaro
de
Villegas
,
Gouernour
of
the
Arch-bishopricke
of
Toledo
.
-
10.
And
for
Secretary
,
Pedro
de
Contreras
.
And
this
Iunta
or
meeting
,
is
to
be
made
in
your
presence
,
when
your
great
imployments
shall
not
hinder
you
;
and
your
Sessions
shall
be
euery
Sunday
,
for
so
holy
a
day
ought
not
to
bee
a
hinderance
to
so
holy
a
worke
and
Christian
action
.
And
if
you
shall
thinke
it
fit
,
you
may
appoint
some
other
day
in
the
weeke
:
And
the
first
Session
shall
be
the
first
Thursday
after
Easter
:
And
you
shall
giue
entrance
to
this
worke
with
a
Benediction
or
thankesgiuing
to
God
,
desiring
him
(
by
the
intercession
of
his
blessed
Mother
)
to
indue
me
with
his
grace
,
and
to
giue
supply
to
my
tender
yeeres
,
that
I
may
hit
the
marke
aright
,
and
gouerne
my selfe
according
to
his
holy
Law
,
and
to
the
generall
benefit
,
and
publike
good
of
all
my
Kingdoms
and
Dominions
.
And
that
this
beginning
,
being
giuen
to
so
diuine
a
Seruice
,
may
the
better
proceed
in
ordering
the
businesse
of
State
,
of
Warre
,
of
my
Treasurie
,
which
requires
such
a
deale
of
care
and
vigilancy
.
As
for
any
instructions
to
be
giuen
to
this
Junta
,
or
Session
of
yours
,
it
seemeth
to
me
that
it
cannot
be
committed
to
any
better
then
the
Committee
it selfe
:
And
therefore
your
first
Session
shall
be
to
this
effect
:
To
frame
your
Instructions
in
the
best
manner
you
can
deuise
,
and
to
send
the
same
vnto
me
,
that
I
may
peruse
them
,
and
that
I
may
send
you
them
backe
againe
.
Signed
with
my
hand
for
your
second
Session
.
Yo
el
Rey.
The
Copy
of
the
second
Letter
.
SInce
I
wrote
by
the
last
Post
,
another
Historie
may
bee
made
of
the
changes
and
alterations
of
this
Court
:
From
the
late
Kings
Confessor
they
haue
taken
all
his
Offices
,
and
quitted
him
of
his
rent
,
which
was
a
good
reuenue
,
amounting
to
more
then
30000.
Ducats
:
Being
,
besides
,
commanded
to
leaue
the
Court
,
and
to
retire
himselfe
to
a
Monastery
of
his
owne
Order
,
some
20.
leagues
distant
from
the
Court.
As
soone
as
he
was
gone
out
of
Madrid
,
they
seized
vpon
all
that
he
had
;
And
iourneying
vpon
the
way
,
there
were
certain
Officers
set
of
purpose
to
register
what
hee
carried
with
him
,
and
to
strip
him
of
all
saue
his
apparell
and
what
was
needfull
for
his
iourney
.
The
selfe-same
day
they
banished
the
Duke
of
Vzeda
,
and
laid
hands
on
his
Secretarie
,
and
likewise
quitted
all
his
seruants
and
officers
from
the
Palace
,
which
had
been
placed
there
by
the
Duke
of
Lerma
.
Moreouer
,
his
Maiestie
published
a
Decree
or
Schedule
,
giuing
commission
to
Don
Fernando
Carillo
,
and
other
Iudges
,
for
examining
of
all
those
Mercedes
or
Fauours
,
which
the
deceased
King
had
conferred
on
the
Duke
of
Lerma
,
his
sonnes
and
seruants
,
to
see
if
there
were
iust
cause
,
and
reason
sufficient
for
the
bestowing
the
said
fauours
,
and
in
case
that
they
should
not
find
it
to
bee
so
,
then
to
proceed
according
to
Iustice
.
Touching
the
businesse
of
the
Duke
of
Ossuna
,
there
is
no
good
blood
in
it
,
it
is
all
very
foule
;
for
they
haue
laid
to
his
charge
the
vildest
and
most
enormous
things
that
euer
were
heard
of
,
and
they
haue
clapt
him
vp
in
prison
,
with
a
very
strong
gard
vpon
him
,
and
his
businesse
(
as
all
the
rest
of
the
like
nature
)
is
to
bee
weighed
in
the
ballance
of
Iustice
:
for
the
King
hath
a
purpose
to
repaire
the
reputation
of
this
Monarchy
,
which
was
ready
to
run
to
ruine
,
for
want
of
executing
Iustice
(
which
is
the
prop
of
estates
.
)
Calderon
had
beene
once
more
put
to
the
torment
,
if
hee
had
not
freely
confessed
all
,
which
they
were
willing
to
worke
out
of
him
;
Hee
himselfe
wrote
his
owne
confession
,
containing
seuen
sheetes
of
paper
.
It
is
thought
,
ere
it
be
long
,
that
they
will
make
a
riddance
of
all
those
that
were
the
Dukes
followers
,
and
more
particularly
,
of
those
that
were
his
houshold
seruants
(
eodem
pane
&
aqua
viuentes
)
that
had
eaten
of
his
bread
,
and
dranke
of
his
drinke
:
to
so
bad
a
passe
is
the
promotion
of
the
Duke
of
Lerma
now
come
,
that
it
is
great
pitie
to
see
how
deiectedly
they
walke
vp
and
downe
,
like
men
that
are
troden
vnder
foot
,
neuer
to
rise
againe
.
His
Maiestie
hath
nominated
a
Committee
,
for
the
reforming
of
all
the
disorders
and
euill
customes
of
the
Court
,
and
once
a
weeke
they
meete
for
the
ordering
of
what
is
requisite
in
this
kind
:
and
that
businesse
is
so
farre
aduanced
,
that
they
are
come
to
a
repartition
,
or
diuiding
of
all
the
streets
in
Madrid
,
betweene
the
Alcaldes
,
who
goe
from
house
to
house
,
to
know
what
people
lodge
therein
,
and
what
their
businesse
is
.
Father
Florentia
is
of
this
Junta
or
Committee
,
and
carries
a
great
hand
,
not
onely
in
this
,
but
in
all
things
else
,
and
the
King
is
well
pleased
with
his
counsell
and
aduice
:
It
is
now
well
knowne
that
he
is
Confessor
to
the
two
Infanta's
,
Charles
and
Ferdinand
.
The
people
are
generally
well
contented
with
the
new
King
,
and
the
spirit
and
mettle
which
he
shewes
,
and
hee
leaneth
very
much
to
holy
and
exemplary
persons
,
in
the
conferring
of
Offices
,
remoouing
those
from
them
which
are
otherwise
inclined
:
He
hath
quitted
the
abuse
of
the
Palace
,
and
of
the
whole
Court
,
of
rising
at
twelue
at
noone
,
and
dining
at
three
;
rising
himselfe
at
sixe
,
and
giuing
audience
very
early
;
dining
at
twelue
,
and
supping
at
eight
.
It
is
a
thing
to
be
wondered
at
,
to
see
how
conuersant
hee
is
in
businesse
,
as
likewise
to
consider
the
wise
and
discreet
answeres
that
come
from
him
.
On
Tuesday
last
the
Kings
Funerals
were
solemnized
in
the
Monasterie
of
S.
Jeronymo
,
whither
he
had
withdrawne
himselfe
since
the
decease
of
his
Father
.
Padre
Florentia
(
as
his
manner
is
)
made
a
most
excellent
Sermon
:
The
Tombe
was
wonderfull
sumptuous
,
and
cost
many
Ducats
,
and
there
were
3000.
lights
and
torches
:
At
the
Masse
,
there
assisted
aboue
twentie
Bishops
,
and
many
other
Grandes
were
in
that
solemnitie
,
very
worthy
and
seeming
,
and
too
long
the
recounting
.
THere
came
now
newes
hither
to
Madrid
,
of
a
very
disasterous
accident
which
happened
at
Granado
,
vpon
Saint
James
his
day
last
;
for
they
,
hauing
deferred
the
proclaiming
of
the
new
King
vntill
then
,
the
more
to
solemnize
it
vpon
their
Patrons
Feast
day
,
there
was
such
a
number
of
people
gathered
together
,
that
in
their
Market-place
,
a
new
house
,
being
ouercharged
with
people
(
that
came
to
see
the
sight
)
fell
downe
,
and
killed
to
the
number
of
300.
persons
,
being
all
,
or
for
the
most
part
,
women
;
and
maimed
and
lamed
neere
as
many
more
.
This
we
receiued
from
an
English
Gentleman
that
liues
there
,
that
was
a
spectator
of
this
lamentable
chance
.
FINIS
.