Second Part of Vox Populi or Gondomar appearing in the likeness of Machiavelli in a Spanish Parliament, The., 1624,
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Short Title:		Second Part of Vox Populi or Gondomar appearing in the likeness of Machiavelli in a Spanish Parliament, The.
Place of Publication:		Goricom
Date of Publication:		1624
Language:		English
Style:		Prose
Textual Type:		Contemporary History , Politics
Bibliographical Notes:		Internal detail indicates that this Treatise was written after the return of the Prince of Wales from Spain, which it alludes to. Note that the translator signs himself on the last page, T.S. The matter touches upon printing and publishing: Gondomar provides the meeting with information on clandestine meetings of Catholics and of clandestine printing shops. The pamphlet purports to be a report of a meeting in Sevilla of eminent politicians, including a written intervention from Gondomar. Gondomar reports on the state of Spanish-English affairs, and particularly on the need to support English Catholics. He publishes the names and portraits of leading Catholics in England and also a picture of their "consultation, as they are wont to sit at the house of one L., a goldsmith in Fetter-lane by Holborne, in London; this L. hath for many yeares closely kept a Printing house, to the great furtherance and increase of the Catholique Religion in that Land, which albeit they are sold at an excessive fare, and he hath been a greater gainer by them, yet are they printed and reprinted againe, and much money gotten by them though uttered at a third hand." Communication and Printing. Gondomar quotes from a letter of advice he sent to English Catholics, advising them among other things "learne or devise new and the most difficult Characters for writing letters, with all the flights and devises of privy convenience", p. 56. "Be sure to have going in the North or West of England, two Printers Presses at worke, which let be well stocked; also a small rolling presse for little Pictures of Saints, Veronica' heads, crucifixes, and the like, much money may be gained thereby", p.57. Like the first part, the meeting is concluded by a missive from the King urgently requiring attendance at Court." There is potential for confusion created by the versions of Vox Populi; the first part is particularly tricky to pin down bibliographically. The second part is complicated by being included in a collection of pamphlets from the pen of Thomas Scott, though not all copies are bound into such a collection. The copy which forms this collation, from the BL, is bound into a volume that contains Scott's portrait as well as the first part of News from Spayne. However, the binding is rather deceptive, since some material does not belong to Scott's pamphlets at all. In the case of the Second Part, there are two variant engraved titlepages, one of which Lacks the mule-drawn coach in the background. There is a second edition of the Second Part, cf. Text ID no. 394.

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