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A68465	A true discourse historicall, of the succeeding gouernours in the Netherlands, and the ciuill warres there begun in the yeere 1565 with the memorable seruices of our honourable English generals, captaines and souldiers, especially vnder Sir Iohn Norice knight, there performed from the yeere 1577. vntill the yeere 1589. and afterwards in Portugale, France, Britaine and Ireland, vntill the yeere 1598. Translated and collected by T.C. Esquire, and Ric. Ro. out of the reuerend E.M. of Antwerp. his fifteene bookes Historicæ Belgicæ; and other collections added: altogether manifesting all martiall actions meete for euery good subiect to reade, for defence of prince and countrey.; Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis. English	Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535-1612.; Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1602 (1602)	STC 17846; ESTC S105716	105,507	166

other enemies should lay downe their weapons and passe quietly euery man to his lodging requiring that the Protestants would make no further stirre but as quietly as were possible to march by euery mans owne doore and there to leaue the townes men in their dwelling places as they marched which request of the Prince was to Gods glorie and his honour in perfit order performed alwaies the Protestants kept them strong till the enemie were all lodged and then each man went home in peace All these things being done and brought to a good end without shedding of blood or spoyle of any Christian creature yet the Prince was after forced to flée to Breda as the storie now shall shew you following The noble Prince of Orange in Breda his owne towne seeing his sonne and heire taken from Louaine at schoole by the crueltie of the Duke of Alua and throughly considering the calamitie of Flaunders by the dealing of a tyrannous gouernour this warlike wise Prince with a fatherly regard and true affection to Gods word and the Netherlands began to stomacke the wrongs receiued whē he gouerned Antwerpe and the imminent danger that Flanders stood in and calling to minde al promises were broken that were solemnly made by the late Regent he consulted and communed of this matter with the States of Germanie and his friends there who counselled him to take armes in hand and raise a power at his owne house in Dillenbrough a parcell of Germanie ten great leagues from Colen and these great Captaines and worthie Germanes promised not only in person but also in purse and munition to assist him which they performed with great expedition at the time when he ariued at Dillenbrough where Churchyard being sent from the Lord high Chamberlaine of England saw the méeting of all this mightie assemblie and serued vnder Monsieur de Lume Counte de la March as Cornet-bearer to two hundred and fittie light horsemen all that warres which was against the Duke of Alua in his first comming to Flanders The Prince passed his musters beyond the Rhine betweene an Abbey and Andernake a walled towne in Germanie and had in his Armie two and twentie thousand foote and thirtéene thousand horse all Swartrutters so paying his souldiers with Dollars two moneths pay afore hand he passed this great armie in boates very néere Andernake marching from thence towards Aken a strong towne but by the way was a great mutinie betweene the Almaines and Burgonians who said the Almaines had lost the battell of Groning where Counte Lodwick and all his power was ouerthrowne those words made many a man be slaine but the broyle was pacified by the Prince who marched straightwaies to Aix a great Citie and the Armie encountred anon after the Duke of Aluaes souldiers horsemen some valiant of minde and some by sorcerie with words and characters in their doublets more mad than manly yet hoping in sorcerie ventured too farre and could not be killed with shot a desperate royster beholding the boldnes of these enchaunted persons against shot drew his sword and stroke one of these men on the face who quickly yéelded himselfe as after his fellowes did to the mercie of the sword The matter marshally a long while pleaded and orderly by Marshall law disputed the enchaunted men were all condemned to be hanged because against the law of Armes they had vsed vnchristian and vnlawfull meanes to murther men and shed Christian blood These men executed the Princes armie after a good summe of money paied for the raunsome of Aix the great towne departed towards Senttro another walled towne which redéemed it selfe in like manner All this while the Duke of Alua with thirtie thousand shot and foure thousand horse waited on the Princes power still skirmishing with braue souldiers against the Princes forces But almost forgotten at the entring of the Princes armie he bruted that he would passe thorow Liege a marueilous mightie towne where the Duke aduertised by espiall attended the Prince his comming suddenly without sound of Drumme the Prince parted a contrarie way towards a foord on the Maze néere Mastricke marching all the whole darke night very fast which lost some men and at breake of day came to a bare Village where the foord was to enter into Flanders so in all haste possible the horsemen passed bearing a croope behinde them each one a souldier but the horses so many and their legges holding vp the water the riuer rose so hie that many footmen were drowned and much victuall wet and lost yet before night all the armie left aliue were landed in as great safetie as could be wished But resting thrée daies there the Duke was in Mastrick not very farre off to giue the Prince battell so God sent a most faire day for that cause in his gracious pleasure The Prince ranged and set in battell marched on a goodly plaine towards Mastrick and the order of the field by excellent souldiers set and ranged in the most princeliest manner that might be Churchyard at all this The vangard battell and reregard so shining in armour and other awfull troupes of horsemen which seemed a great wood and terror to behold that in very deede the show and fight thereof would haue delighted any man liuing to behold for the march and order of the field was miraculous to consider on and most fearfull to match withall and encounter Yet the Duke of Alua a great noble souldier determined as it was thought valiantly to fight with all this braue armie so in short time the very same day the Prince came within shot of Cannon and at the length of Musket so néere the Duke that he sent a number of horsemen to make a brauado and plied it so fast with small shot out of the trenches for he was intrenched that it was thought a great slaughter would ensue Thus continuing all the latter end of the day in skirmish and great seruice at night the Prince was faine to lodge his power néere the very face of the Dukes army farre from water or wood but in the night season the Duke remoued his Campe and a farre off waited on the Prince daily who neuer did march backward but came as afore is said to Aix Senttro Tongre and other townes of good moment making his profit as he might euery where because some had broken promise with him in a most odious manner For some had falsified their faith besides odde trumperies they deuised and othersome poysoned the standing waters and pooles yea and in some places milke and drinke was infected Milles were all broken downe and no corne to be grinded by which Heathenlike foule hellish practises the Princes armie was like to perish yet a shift was found to bring the armie by little little from these miseries but forced to skirmish with Alua oftē The Prince came cunningly to a towne called Tongre finding there much of the Dukes prouision and a number of waggons full of corne and other necessaries

receiue them and kept the Towne gates as open as they could for that purpose but the Protestants fearing mischiefe and miserie ran to the gates in all haste and shut them fast carying away the keyes into the hart of the towne The Prince of Orange the Counte de Horne and Counte Hostraet with Monsieur Decardes and many more Seigneurs and Noblemen beholding the daunger they were in knew not what to doe nor durst make any resistance for offending the Regent and losse of liues goods and lands and so refusing all charge against the Regent they left the common people in a great vprore and hazard to auoide which extremitie the Commoners began to clap on armour and made a most resolute mutinie crying Viue les gueulx that is to say liue poore men and beholding ouer the walles Monsieur Beauvois and his people proudly marching after so much bloodshed within a mile of Antwerpe the Protestants resolutely determined to encounter Beauvois in the fields but wanting a generall Captaine and horsemen to match against horsemen they fell in a great murmuring and knew not what was best to take in hand yet seeing all their gouernours refuse them called courage to themselues and so resolued to make a stranger their Captaine they being enterlarded with many valiant souldiers that came from the siege of Valenciana came suddenly to Captaine Churchyards lodging and burst open his doore commaunding him in all haste to come out and take the charge of those that would fight for the Gospell which attended his comming well armed in the stréetes Churchyard told them he would serue among them but was vnable to gouerne a multitude Whereon they bent their pikes on him and threatned to kill him if he did refuse their louing offer He thereupon gaue his promise to obey and so without any armour came into the stréet where was raised such a shout and noise of people and so many caps flung vp that it was a wonder to heare and see it he presently gessed their number was great and their quarell good so in a few words he desired that such as would not fight to depart to their wiues and children whereat all the people shouted and cried Goe forward and we will follow Then vnto the gates goes the assemblie of 25. thousand sauing the souldiers were left by direction to make head and beard the fortie Ensignes in the Market place so the Protestants breaking with barres of yron a posterne gate because the keyes were hidden their Leader still aduancing his Ensigne full in the enemies view their horsemen somewhat slacke for the rifling Tolozes Campe cast in the Reregard and not readie to charge the forefront of the Protestants made the Protestants vse the more aduantage both of shot and seruice whereby they gat so much blood and victorie that their Leader of some great consideration made his people retire into the towne againe the number that sallied were eight thousand They were no sooner entred but the Prince of Orange and Noblemen welcomed with embracings the Leader and all his followers promising great matter for their boldnes But the Captaine and his people hoping to rid the whole towne of Spaniards marched with the aduantage of the time the gates fast shut towards the Market place order being giuen that fiue thousand shot should enter at the backes of the enemies when one shot of Canon should be discharged against the Protestants from the Market place where 24. great pieces were rammed full of stones and chaines and resolutely the Protestants holding this course marching thorow Cooper strote in as great brauerie and terror as may be imagined they approched néere the enemies with such a thundring noise and crie as seemed marueilous The Prince and great Earles before named pitying the great slaughter that might follow this bold attempt on horsebacke as all the Nobilitie were the Prince presented peace to the Protestants who disdaining his offer cried kill him and so bent their pikes on him What what quoth the Captaine will you kill your gouernours fie for shame hold still your weapons but the Prince and the rest with him drew backe their bridles so hard and so disorderly that downe came the Prince and his companie all flat backward in the place The enemie then amazed at that sight besides regarding the priuie stratagem or practises at their backes neere the riuers side began after their musing and amaze to discourage themselues in so much that the Cannons they would haue shot off and the seruice they intended was vtterly forgotten so that suddenly they let fall their pikes and at the Protestants approch then at hand the enemies cried to saue their owne liues Viue le gueulx aloude and in such sort that they suffered all their Captaines and Leaders to the number of sixe score to be taken prisoners losing all their Cannons and Munition putting euery thing they had into the Leaders hands of the Protestants he vsing victorie in the great aduauntage of that season caused all their Cānons to be drawne with ropes from the Market place to the Méere brugge a great stréete néere the Burse and filling euery window full of shot to flanke each part and corner of the stréetes and Burse he chained carts together with shot in them and thereon pitched straight waies a Campe full vpon the Méere-brugge hauing then at commaund thirtie thousand resolute souldiers for the space of thrée daies and nights all which time the Generall appointed Captaines and officers for euery companie and all warlike orders set in stay he thought all had been well and in suretie but a vile cunning and vnchristian brute was raised that the Caluinists would cut the Martinists throtes on which false brute in one night the Protestants lost much more than ten thousand men who ioyned as they might with the Papists yet God mouing the mindes of good men made the Protestants and their Generall couragiously to plucke vp their hearts and the Generall with fiue hundred shot match fired in cocke marched to the Prince of Orange his presence and told him that this drift of the Martinists going from the Protestants smelled of two much suttle smoke the smoother thereof might set all Antwerpe on a flaming fire desiring him to see a quicke redresse herein or else presently the Protestants would giue all the enemies a battell to the whole spoyle and ouerthrow of the towne and therewithall he departed from the Prince and vsed his fiue hundred shot to house and driue in all the Martinists into their lodgings for as yet they had not ioyned with the enemies force they were so wearie with watching before and so glad of rest libertie and companie of their wiues and friends at that present The Prince then with great prudence and policie sent word to the Protestants that they should haue free accesse to Sermons and preachings which they sought for the which was a goodly preaching place built and further the Prince promised that the Martinises and all