The general history of Spain from the first peopling of it by Tubal, till the death of King Ferdinand, who united the crowns of Castile and Aragon : with a continuation to the death of King Philip III / written in Spanish by the R.F.F. John de Mariana ; to which are added, two supplements, the first by F. Ferdinand Camargo y Salcedo, the other by F. Basil Varen de Soto, bringing it down to the present reign ; the whole translated from the Spanish by Capt. John Stevens.

Anno 1566.

Cardinal Michael Gislerius, born at Boschio in the Territory of Alexandria, a City of Lombardy, and of the Order of S. Dominick, was on the 7th. of January chosen Pope: He * 1.1 took the Name of Pius V. and Govern'd the Church 6 Years, 3 Months, and 23 Days. His Life and Conversation were so Holy, few have been to compare to him.

The Catholick King was in the Forest of Balsain, by reason of the heat of the Summer, when on the 12th. of August the Queen was deliver'd of a Daughter, called Elizabeth Clare Eugenia.

Solyman the Great Turk had laid Siege to Sigeth, a strong but small Town in Hungary, before it could be reduced he died, but yet his Army afterwards took the place. He left * 1.2 his Son Selymus the Second his Heir.

Margaret Dutchess of Parma, the Catholick King's Sister, Govern'd the Low Coun∣tries for him, the Hereticks contemned her because she was a Woman, and consequent∣ly * 1.3 those Provinces began to Mutiny. Many extraordinary Insolencies were commit∣ted in several Places, but most they raged against the Images of Saints that were in the Churches.

The Queen of Scotland flying the Rebellion of her Subjects at Home, was forc'd into * 1.4 England, where, upon false Informations contrary to all Human and Divine Laws, she was cast into Prison.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Pius V. chosen Pope.
• * 1.2

  Solyman dies before Sigeth.
• * 1.3

  Rebellion of the Low Countries.
• * 1.4

  Queen of Scots Im∣prison'd.