Dear Colleagues,
I am trying to catalogue the folowing book:
Vox Populi, or Newes from Spayne, translated according to
the Spanish Coppie. Which may serve to forewarn both England
and the United Provinces how farre to trust Spanish pretences.
Imprinted in the yeare 1620. 4to, 14 leaves.
No author or place is given, but both STC 22098 and Palau
303696 (the latter copying from the former, I suspect) attribute
the work to Thomas Scott and say that it may have been printed
at Gorcum (in the Netherlands). This intrigues me. Why was
an Englishman publishing anti-Spanish tracts in the Netherlands
in 1620? And why did he do it in such a sneaky way, pretending
to be translating someone else's work? Surely this was the
same Thomas Scott who wrote "Robert Earl of Essex His Ghost"
(Printed in Paradise, 1624) which, according to Bartlett's
catalogue of the W.A. White Collection of Early English Literature
(p. 42) is "an invective against the marriage of Charles with
the Spanish Infanta."
Can anyone tell me anything about Scott or about the "Newes
from Spayne"? Was he associated with the Pilgrims?
Thanks
Bill Cole