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with any partaking ; neither, upon the complaint 

 of Doctor Wilson and Sir Edward Horsey, could 

 any redress be had. A general arrest was made by 

 the duke of Alva of Englishmens both goods and 

 persons, upon pretence that certain ships, stayed in 

 this realm laden with goods and money of certain 

 merchants of Genoa, belonged to that king: which 

 money and goods was afterwards, to the uttermost 

 value, restored and paid back ; whereas our men 

 were far from receiving the like justice on their side. 

 Dr. Man, her majesty s ambassador, received, during 

 his legation, sundry indignities ; himself being re 

 moved out of Madrid, and lodged in a village, as 

 they are accustomed to use the ambassadors of 

 Moors : his son and steward forced to assist at a 

 mass with tapers in their hands ; besides sundry 

 other contumelies and reproaches. But the spoiling 

 or damnifying of a merchant, vexation of a common 

 subject, dishonour of an ambassador, were rather 

 but demonstrations of ill disposition, than effects, 

 if they be compared with actions of state, wherein 

 he and his ministers have sought the overthrow of 

 this government. As in the year 1569, when the 

 rebellion in the north part of England brake forth ; 

 who but the duke of Alva, then the king s lieutenant 

 in the Low Countries, and Don Guerres of Espes, 

 then his ambassador lieger here, were discovered to 

 be chief instruments and practisers ; having corn- 

 plotted with the duke of Norfolk at the same time, as 

 was proved at the same duke s condemnation, that 



