A treatise paraenetical, that is to say, an exhortation
Subtitle: Wherein is shewed by good and euident reasons, infallible arguments, most true and certaine histories, and notable examples; the right way & true meanes to resist the violence of the Castilian king: to breake the course of his desseignes: to beat downe his pride, and to ruinate his puissance. Dedicated to the kings, princes, potentates and commonweales of Christendome: and particularly to the most Christian king
By: by a Pilgrim Spaniard, beaten by time, and persecuted by fortune. Translated out of the Castilian tongue into the French, by I.D. Dralymont Lord of Yarleme. And now Englished
Contributors: Pérez, Antonio, -1611; Montlyard, Jean de, active 1590
Publisher: Printed [by Richard Field] for William Ponsonby
Published: 1598
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Lisbon Expedition, 1589; Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604; History
Other titles: Treatise paraenetical.; Exhortation.; Treatise paraeneticall.
Work titles: Tratado paraenetico. English
Notes: Name of printer supplied by Pollard.

English translation of the French version of Jean de Montlyard printed in Paris, 1597 under title: "Traicté paraenetique". The Spanish original, "Tratado paraenetico", attributed in error to José Teixeira and to Antonio Pérez, was probably never published.

Another edition in English published in London, 1598 under title: The Spanish pilgrime.

I.D. Dralymont is an anagram of Jean de Montlyard, who did the French translation.

This work is, in part, a reply to: Dell'unione del regno di Portugallo / by Geronimo Conestaggio, first printed in Genoa, 1585.

"An explication of the pilgrim vpon the proverb: if the cockerel had not come, the cocke has bene taken. And of the loyaltie of Avila & Simanchas in Castile: and of Celorico, and the castell of Coimbre in Portugall", p. 143-160, has separate caption title.

Signatures: *⁴ (*1 verso blank) A-V⁴

Errors in paging: p. 29 and 87 misnumbered 37 and 85.

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 328878.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 19838.

European Americana, 598/111.

English short title catalogue, S114641.

Purchase; 1968; 63-494.

Text primarily in English with some passages in Latin and Spanish.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: p. 159-160 is damaged at the foredge and repaired with stiff paper.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 2nd item of 2 with: A survey of the great dukes state of Tuscany. In the yeare of our Lord 1596 / by Robert Dallington, printed in London, 1605.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in 19th century full calf.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Henry Cranmer M. Phillipps: armorial bookplate on front pastedown.