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A02239	A generall historie of the Netherlands VVith the genealogie and memorable acts of the Earls of Holland, Zeeland, and west-Friseland, from Thierry of Aquitaine the first Earle, successiuely vnto Philip the third King of Spaine: continued vnto this present yeare of our Lord 1608, out of the best authors that haue written of that subiect: by Ed. Grimeston.; Grande chronique. English	Le Petit, Jean François, 1546-ca. 1615.; Grimeston, Edward.; Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535-1612. Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis.; Sichem, Christoffel van, ca. 1546-1624, engraver.	1608 (1608)	STC 12374; ESTC S120800	2,253,462	1,456

into diuers places yea into those countries vnder which they fished it And although the ships which trade in marchandise and the number of fishermen which set forth together bee exceeding great yet the countrey remaineth still full of ships and sailers which saile within the land in small meers or seas streames and riuers with smacks caruels hoyes waterships cromsters plats and such like boates the which are many thousands all getting their liuings by the water and yet the towns are continually built and beautified with goodly houses and warre maintained against the mightiest enemie in Christendome and most of their townes kept and defended by their own inhabitants without any great store of forraine garrisons It is well knowne that euery yeare although there be no timber growing in the countrey there are aboue a thousand ships great and small built fit to saile into the ocean the which one with another some more some lesse cost betwixt a hundred and two hundred pounds a peece all which valued with those that are alreadie made would breed wonder and admiration in any man and persuade him that this little countrey may well be able to withstand so potent an enemie and that Spaine may well assure himselfe neuer to bring this countrey vnder his subiection againe beeing able to aid themselues against any power entring by land by letting in the water as they did about Leyden and in the greatest extremitie they haue such multitudes of ships as they may shippe away the greatest part of their people cattle and goods and defend themselues in certaine islands against their enemies forces burning their houses and townes or letting them stand emptie and so vnprofitable to the enemie in that they should not be able to defend the same against the sea You haue now vnderstood the beginning description and situation of the countrey of Holland and of the inhabitants Batauiens Wilthes Cathwyckers Kennemers Frisons and Waterlanders of their valour vertues and manners commodities and traffique which they vsed in old time and of the estate of the prouince at this day let vs now discourse of Zeelan●… which is also a countie apart and yet it hath beene euer vnder the earles of Holland As for the definition or ●…tymologie of this word it is very manifest seeing that this earledome consists of many islands whereof those of Walchren Schouen and Suytbeuelandt are the chiefe among the rest and the richest wherefore they are rightly called Zeelands that is to say countries of the sea to giue it the name of Zeeland who they say was brother to Batton in my opinion is not allowable beeing doubtfull whether there were any such Zeeland if it were not he which gaue name to that quarter of Oueryssel which is called Saland from whence are issued the old Saliens and the towne of Oldenzeel and from the which some but without any ground say that the Salique law of the French was deriued which opinion is ridiculous Besides these three principall islands aboue named there are foure more as Tolen Northbeuelandt Woolfaertsdyke and Philipsland which lie betwixt Holland Flanders and Brabant Speaking in generall of the countie of Zeeland wee say that it lies vpon that part of the ocean which is to the west and south-west and behind it lies open to the north-west This countrie hath certaine gulphes of the sea as if they were channels and namely that of Flackee which diuides Zeeland from Holland to the south is the left arme of the riuer of Escaut called the Hondt which parts this countrie from Flanders and eastward is the right arme of the same riuer of Escaut the which retaines her name still and parts Zeeland from Brabant towards the west is the British ocean which lookes towards England Some writers haue held opinion that these islands are part of those which Caesar saith were made by the Rhine when it fell into the ocean others say that when as this countrie was firme land the riuer of Escau●… which doth diuide it from Flanders and Brabant went besides the said islands and cast it selfe as Caesar doth testifie into the Meuse where at this day that part of the Escaut enters into the Meruve Cornellis Batten saith that hee hath seene manuscripts of great antiquitie which affirme that about the first yeare of our saluation and sometime after Zeeland was nothing but a number of small Islands one separated from another by little chanels in the which there were no dwellers Iohn Reygersberg who hath written a little chronicle of Zeeland other authors shew that some of these Islands at the least those that are nerest together were in old time vnited made a firm body of a prouince as it is likely with Flanders but they were seperated by the furie and violence of the sea which made a new way or passage in the yeere of Christ 938. Some haue sayd that there was but a little bridge of wood yea a planke to passe from Walchren into Flanders That the Zeelanders be those which were called Mattiaques Tacitus doth witnesse by these words in his booke of the maners of the Germanes Est in e●…dem obsequio Mattiacorum gens Batauis similis nisi quod terrae suae solo ●…c coelo acriùs animantur and in truth the ayre is much sharper in Zeeland than in Holland although that Lewis Guichardin in his Belgicke description seemes to maintaine that the Mattiaques are not Zeelanders but that they were a certain people in the countrey of Hessen made noble for that they had hot fountaines which they vsed for bathes Wee haue already confest that the Batauiens and Mattiaques are descended from the Catthes in Hessen but Guichardin deceiues himselfe interpreting these words Mattiacas pilas to agree with hot bathes for as we haue sayd before these Mattiaque pilles or balls were vsed to make the Zeelanders haire red as Spuma Bataua which was a lye made of ashes by the Hollanders It were an absurd thing to say that the Mattiaques neighbours vnto the Batauiens should dwell so farre off as in Hessen vnlesse that Guichardin did suppose that the Mattiaques did remaine still among the Catthes when as Battus and his brother Mattion left the countrey to come and dwell in Holland and Zeeland But we haue spoken sufficiently both of the one and the other at the comming downe of the Batauiens For the better vnderstanding of the continent of the countrey of Zeeland it shall be needfull to describe all these islands particularly one after another for that most of them haue bin transported by the tempest and inundation of the sea from one place vnto another and haue changed their beds sometimes one increasing and another diminishing one was swallowed vp and another layed bare by the water as it happened in the yere 1598 that they haue recouered all the island of Noortbeuelandt in the which there were two townes Cats and Cortgeen and seuen or eight villages the which was drowned in the

their afaiers they caused a booke to be Printed wherein they shewed by many reasons that the motiue of this warre was relligion and that all the Emperors other pretexts to punish some rebells was but to diuide the confederats and so to ruine them one after an other to settle the Popes doctrine They also published an other Booke against Iohn of Brandenbourg who being of their League and confession had taken armes against them And although the Emperor thought to surprise them yet they vsed such dilligence and found so many resolute men to carrie Armes in this warre as the 16. of Iuly in the yeare 1546. the Landtgraue went to field with his army and presently after began open warre betwixt them and the Emperor The 20. of Iuly the Emperor published his leters pattents in the which after that he had made a long complaint against Iohn Frederic Prince Elector of Saxony and Phillip Landtgraue of Hessen hee banisht them as periured reb●…les seditious guilty of high treason both against GOD and man and perturbers of the publike quiet meaning to punish them according to their deserts that hee might after-wards prouide for the affaiers of State and doe that which should belong vnto his duty for bidding all men to succor them or to ioyne with them vpon paine of forfeiture both of body and goods dissoluing all Leagues and compositions and absoluing the Nobility and subiects from the faith and oth which they ought vnto these Princes to whom he gaue the publicke assurance if they did obey adding that such as did refuse should be punished like vnto them But the Protestants did shew that the Emperor had no quarrell to them but for their relligion wherein hauing sought all meanes of accord they were excusable if to mainetaine the liberties of their consciences and the quiet of Germany they defended themselues being there-vnto aduised by the resolution both of Lawyers and Diuines In the meane time the Protestants army aduanced and tooke the strong fort of Ereberce scituated vpon a mountaine which stopt the passage from Trent for Italy to Enepont and withall the towne of Fiesse belonging to the Bishop of Ausbourg and passing on they tooke Dilline and Donavert The Emperor was then at Ratisbone ill prepared to make head against them Soe as if their affaiers had beene gouerned by one only commander the Emperor had beene in great danger The 7. of August in the towne of Macklin which is one of the 17. Prouinces of the Netherlands whereas the Great councel or Parlament of the said countries did remaine lightning fel among the gonpouder which was in great quantity in a tower of the wal at the port which they cal Necbecspoel the which at first ouerthrew both the Tower and the gate then it tooke hold of the buildings both within and without the Towne and aboue 500. paces round about so as it ruined and defeated the whole Towne the trees were pulled vp by the roots burnt the water in the towne ditches was drawne out and the fishes cast farre out into the fields There were about 150. burnt slaine in this accident with the ruine of houses besides those that were grieuously hurt and recouered and such as died of their wounds which were very many Many came two three and foure daies after out of Caues where they saued them-selues others were smothered or dyed for honger A great number of Cattell with the stables was also consumed by this fier The wall where the Tower stood was shaken aboue 200. paces long The domage that was done by the fier could not be repaired in a long time Then grew the warres hotte in Germany betwixt the Protestants and the Emperour To whome the Prince of Saxony the Landtgraue of Hessen and their companions sent letters the XI of August by the which according to the vse and lawes of armes they gaue him to vnderstand their resolutions and after they had informed him of his duty and how hee was bound to them and the Empire by his othe and that it was for relligions cause that hee made this warre against them they concluded with these words Matters standing in this sort and seeing weare allied to the end that it may be lawfull for vs to perseuer in this relligion though some would surmize other causes of discontentment against vs wee haue beene forced to put our selues in defence the which wee may lawfully doe both by the lawes of GOD and nature And although that through thy pernicious desseines we are not in any sort bound vnto thee and therfore was needles to let thee vnderstand our will yet for the better assurance we renownce the faith and duty we owe thee not to diminishe the honour and good of the Empire but rather to preserue and maintaine it Wee doe therefore protest this publickly and according to the sollemne custome being resolued to repell this warre attempted by thee and by thine Allyes This letter was sent by a young Gentleman and a trumpet according to the custome to the Emperours campe neere vnto Land shupt but hee was so farre from receiuing it as hee commanded them vppon paine of their heads to returne them backe againe to their people Hee said moreouer that if hereafter any one came vnto him from them in steed of a chaine of gold hee would present him a halter then hee gaue them the proclamation of their banishment charging them expresly to deliuer it vnto their Lords whereof hee likewise sent a coppy vnto Duke Maurice of Saxony cousin to Iohn Frederick Prince Elector perswading him to seaze vpon his country before that an other layed hold of it To the accusations and criminations contained in the said proclamation of banishment the Protestant Princes published an ample answer in print the contents whereof was that the intention of the Pope and Emperour was to roote out all them of the relligion the which hee had declared vnto the French Kings Ambassadour from whose mouth all was knowne and vanquish Germany as hee had long before disseigned c. But from words and writings they fell to blowes The two armies beeing neere one vnto the other the Landtgraue was of an opinion to charge the Emperors campe before the arriuall of the Earle of Buren with his supplies who brought with him 4000. horse 10000. choyce men out of the Netherlands but the destinies of these Princes would not suffer them to follow this good Councell for the Emperor was nothing so strong as the Protestants who seeing them so neere vnto him and hauing endured a whole day the thundring of their cannon shewed a gallant resolution if they had come to assaile him soone after the Earle of Buren arriued so as the Emperour hauing all his forces together those of the Protestants began by little and little to disband and in the meane time Duke Maurice according to the Emperors aduise molested the Prince Elector of Saxony in his Country Where-vppon

succor his naturall subiects and hauing soone after lost Dam finding his forces to weake to make head against so great Princes hee quite abandoned them of Groning who seeing themselues forsaken and the danger that hung ouer them they fell to consult amongst themselues of making an accord with the Duke of Saxony sending their deputies vnto him with offer to yeeld vp the towne reseruing their preuiledges and certaine other conditions among others that it should be lawfull for them to raise the cittadell which Cont Edsard had built The which Duke George refuzing the deputies returned after they had told him that neuer hee nor any of his should bee Lord thereof Herevpon the Cittizens tooke a new aduise to choose an other Prince that might defend them against the Saxons So with a generall consent they made choise of Charles Duke of Geldres who greatly affected this Estate sending VVilliam van Oyen Generall of his horse thether who beeing entred into the towne the cittadell was razed in his presence This done the Bourgers tooke their oth in his hands to the crowne of France and to the duke of Geldres This did cause a great warre betwixt these two dukes George of Saxony and Charles of Geldres betwixt the which the battailes were often variable but in the end the Saxon discontented with this inconstant gouernment of Friseland yeelded vp all his interest vnto Charles Prince of Spaine afterwards Emperor for two hundred thousand crownes and so leauing Friseland hee returned into his countrie of Misnia Herevpon grew a great and a long warre betwixt the Bourguignon and the Gueldrois the duke hauing made the Earle of Emden his Lieutenant there In the end the Groningers refuzing to pay a certaine tribute of ten thousand florines of gold which they had promised him hee forsooke them and was abandoned by them after that hee had beene acknowledged twentie yeares together for their Prince Protector Herevpon the Groningers hauing assembled their Estatets they sent to demaund succors of the Ladie Marguerite the Emperors Aunt Douager of Sauoy and Gouernesse of the Netherlands promising him the same tribute which they had paied to the Duke of Geldres She who desired nothing more then to inlarge the limmits of her Nephewes Estates sent George Schenck of Tautenburg gouernor of Friseland thether who entred into Groning the eight of Iune and receiued the peoples oth in the Emperors name recouering all which the Geldrois had held in a short time but there was an accord made afterwards betwixt the Emperor and the duke as you may read in the fift booke From the yeare 1536. that towne hath remained vnder the obedience of the Emperor and the King of Spaine his sonne vnto the yeare 1576. that by the mutynie of the garrison against their Collonel and gouernor Gaspar of Robles Lord of Billy it submitted it selfe vnder the generalitie of the vnited Prouinces and afterwards in the yeare of our Lord 1580. it was againe yeelded to the Spaniards by George of Lalain Earle of Rheneberg vnder whome it hath suffered much vnto this yeare of our Lord and Sauiour 1594. that it was reduced vnder the generall vnion of the confederate Prouinces of the Netherlands as you shall here After that Prince Maurice had releeued Coevoerden he came with all his army being a hundred and fiue and twenty companies of foote and six and twenty cornets of horse with artillery and all other things necessary conducted as well by land as by the riuers which are within the countrie and camped the 21. of May before the towne of Groning about the which after that he had with great speed intrenched his whole campe he caused six great forts to bee made vpon all the approches well furnished with men and good artillery Of the which that of the West part had ten companies of foote and twelue peeces of ordynance and the rest accordingly The chiefe campe was on the West side betwixt the Drasport and the tower of Drentelaer betwixt the which were the raueling of Oosterport the Heereport the Pasdam with a case mate otherwise called Breemers buyck and the plat forme at the end of the waters all mounted with good artillery the which might greatly annoy the campe yet did Prince Maurice cause his ordinance to bee planted on that side which was against the tower of Dehtelaer fiue peeces against the Rauelin of Oosterport ten against Heereport twelue against the Asses hoofe six and two or three against the platforme The Prince had his own quarter retrencht apart within the great trench vpon the way of Helpen nere vnto Horen and Cont William Lewis of Nassau his cousin Gouernor of Friseland in the midest of the campe with the Frisons English Germains and Zeelanders They of the towne had made all necessary prouision to defend themselues and to endure a long siege so as they neither wanted victualls nor munition of warre true it is they had no garrison within the towne but it was before their port on the side of Drentelaer as you goe to Dam and Delfziel and to the fort of Schuytendyep which is one of the suburbes of the towne seruing for a small hauen for that which comes from Emden through the country which garrison they might receiue into the towne whensoeuer they pleased And withall they had the fort of Auwerderzyel which did defend that side in the which there were some 100. and thirty men which Cont William before all others went to besiege he battered it and the nine and twenty day of May tooke it by assault The besieged seeing themselues forced laied downe their armes and intreated to haue their liues saued but for the proud answere which they had made vnto the dromme which did sommon them they were all cut in peeces with the Lieutenant of Lankama Gouernor of the towne excepting some fewe which saued themselues at the first by swymming when they see their rampar forced Prince Maurice hauing wonne this fort made his approches neerer and hauing sommoned the towne to submit vnder the vnion of the Estates they answered that the Prince should stay a yeare before hee made that demand and then they might consider of it but not before Vpon this answere the cannon being planted as wee haue saied it beganne to play furiously against the Tower of Drentlaer the which stood not long before it was beaten down and against the portes and Rauelyns aboue named the which were strangely torne besides that the fiery bullets and other fire workes which were shot into the towne did much amaze the besieged The English and Scottish were lodged within the counterscarpe along the towne ditches nere vnto the artillery vpon whom the besieged did sometimes sally with losse of either side One night beeing fallen vpon the English quarter they slue a good number hauing surprised them sodenly but of the besieged there was the sonne of a Bourguemaster slaine and some other Bourgers This they did often vntill their passage out of their portes