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B00458	A defence and true declaration of the thinges lately done in the lowe countrey, whereby may easily be seen to whom all the beginning and cause of the late troubles and calamities is to be imputed. And therewith also the sclaunders wherewith the aduersaries do burden the churches of the lowe countrey are plainly confuted..; Libellus supplex Imperatoriae Majestati caeterisque sacri imperii electoribus, principibus, atque ordinibus nomine Belgarum ex inferiore Germania, Evangelicae religionis causa per Albani Ducis tyrannidem ejectorum in comitiis spirenibus exhibitus. English.	Newcomen, Elias, 1550?-1614.	1571 (1571)	STC 18441; ESTC S94277	61,500	152

shut vp in a most horrible prison because he was agaynst the sending of the Albane and dyd abhorre from the cruelty of the edictes sette out agaynst the religion bearing singuler fauour and grace towards the lower Germanes bruting abroad most vayne and diuers rumors of the cause of hys death What they haue done vnto the Quéene I had rather other men should imagine then that we should report This truely all men do behold how this theyr faythfull champion the duke of Alba doth behaue himselfe He commeth into a quiet prouince all those beyng thrown out or volūtaryly gone into exile whom he looked to haue had as hys aduersaries He is receaued most honourably of all men neyther was there any one found which with hys most redy obedience to the kinges legate dyd not testifie hys faythfull hart towardes the king But he out of hand ordereth them not as the kinges louing subiectes but as enemies and traytors equally raging and extending hys cruelty both vpon the professors of the Gospell and papistes compelling he constrayned the chéef Princes contrary to the aucthoritye of the lawes to the liberty of theyr priuiledges and chiefly contrary to the decrees and appointmentes of the sacred and famous order of the golden fléece of the brotherhoode of Burgundye to plead theyr cause in chaines and when they refused that kinde of iudgement as vnméete and to be suspected profering themselues redy to stand before equall Iudges he chopt of theyr heads the rest which by their godly and holsome counsels had defended the peace of theyr countrey and by theyr wisedome stayd the tumultes of the people and effusion of bloud he pronounceth as enemies and traytors to theyr king and their contrey and so compelleth them will they nill they by taking vpon them armour to try themselues vngiltie of so great treason The which theyr taking of armour done by them for necessities sake as godly men may iudge he hath since that time not only made as a iust occasion of slaundring vs with hys cauils but also as a goodly title of Iustice in executing hys tyranny and therupon forthwith he putteth in practise that which he had before determined Therfore he first put all the magistrates which were thought once to fauour iustice out of theyr auctority and place wyth great ignominy and reproch he substituted in theyr roomes contrary to theyr lawes and orders naughty packes abounding in all sinne and wickednes and he appoynted as be thought good a new senate house of Spaniardes before whome matters of lyfe and death should be pleaded the which for that cause should be called the bloudy senate and by that meanes he did depriued all the lawfull and ordinary magistrates of theyr iurisdiction and hearing of matters graunted to them by the lawes he filled the gallowes and the Iubbits full of the poore people conuicted of no other crime but of geuing credite to the kinges letters patentes to the gouernesse edicte and theyr graunted licences and to the magistrates consenting therunto and thereupon of hearing of sermons he destroyed many with the sworde he burned many aliue wyth a small fire he beheaded many before theyr causes we pleaded many he spoyled of all theyr goodes and possessions poysoned to death with the filthye stincke of the continuall prison But the vngodly persons whose whole lyfe had bene stayned wyth infamy being before as it is manifest bought out with money haue gaue them license to plead wyth theyr witnesses he cut out many of theyr tonges whome he put to death after least they should testifie of so great iniustice he burnt many of theyr tongues with a whot payre of tonges to some he tyed theyr lippes together through with an iron sharp on both sides others hauing theyr mouthes most beastly set awry with terror and anguish the matter and bloud dropping downe together he cruelly drewe to most pytifull slaughter He pretermitted nothing of Phalaris his tyranny neyther did he only wyth tormentes thus vexe the professors of the gospell but those also which most fauoured the popish religion and they which had endeuored with all theyr power that nothing should be moued agaynst the king As for those which could not behold the calamitie of theyr countrey but had for the auoyding of the present daūger conueyed themselues away he appoynted them a day of appearaunce and therwithall scarce staying for the day appoynted he rushed in vpon theyr goodes adiudging them confiscate to the kinges Exchequer not only spoyling poore widowes innocent orphauntes and very papistes of their dowry and patrimony but also deceyuing the creditors of all their iust debtes and lawful titles He conuerted the inheritaunce of innocentes from their kinsmen and alians to whom for the beheding or ciuill death of the right and next heyres they by law and right did appertayne most wickedly to hys owne vse and commoditie He tooke from cities and townes all theyr liberties lawes statutes priuiledges he ouerthrew all order of humanitie he clearely tooke away all duties of Christian charitye chiefly commaunded by the lawes of god For by edict he forbad that no kinde of mā whether he were their father sonne kinsman or whatsoeuer should shew any kinde of charitie to those that professed the Gospell or were banished for default of appearaunce at the day appoynted and thus he alienated and withdrew the mindes of children from theyr parentes of parentes from theyr children and of wiues from theyr husbandes In the towne of Traciet of Mosa he put a father to death because he had for one night lodged in hys house his owne sonne which had bene for a space absent before And likewyse he murthered an other well known citizen because he gaue the sixt part of a bꝪ of corne vnto a poore widow burdened with the kéeping of iiij children whose husband was before put to death for religions sake He bereaued also an other of hys lyfe because he sent hys fréend a little money ouer into England He compelled honest and chast matrones borne of worshipfull stockes by flight and voluntary exile to saue themselues and by begging to prouide meat for themselues and theyr children only because they receaued their husbandes into theyr houses He threw down many mens houses because they had receiued letters from theyr frends of their helth and welfare But what did spare the dead By hys Edict he straightly charged that whosoeuer dyed without shrift and auricular confession his goodes should be confiscate and hys body hanged on a Iubbit then the which what can be thought or inuented more cruell more contrary to all humanitie and Iustice séeing it hapeneth daily that many sodenly that haue no time to bethinke them of theyr former sinnes He placed ouer cities not souldiers but enemies and theues which might violently abuse the riches wiues children and liues of the citizens according to theyr euill lust and he graunted them licence to do what should please them fréely without punishment for was there

A DEFENCE and true declaration of the thinges lately done in the lowe countrey whereby may easily be seen to whom all the beginning and cause of the late troubles and calamities is to be imputed And therewith also the sclaunders wherewith the aduersaries do burden the Churches of the lowe countrey are plainly confuted Psal. XLIII Geue sentence with me O God and defend my cause against the vngodly people O deliuer me from the deceitfull and wicked man For thou art the God of my strength AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Daye dwelling ouer Aldersgate ¶ Cum gratia Priuilegio Regio Maiestatie ❧ To the right honorable and my singular good Lord and patrone the Lord Cheyne MY singular good Lorde The doynges of Papistes standyng wholly as theyr religion doth vpon falshed and crueltie and taking to themselues by vse a licence of vntrue speaking workyng playnly sheweth what fayth is to be geuen to such as thinke them selues bounde to keepe no fayth Such hath euer bene theyr maner not onely in dissimulation practisyng before things be brought to passe but al so in shameles lyeng and misreporting them after they be ended For what els is to be loked for of that vnfaithful faith that is grounded wholly vpon falshead and blasphemie is pursued wholly with malice and treason is auaunced wholly by crueltie and tyranny and hauyng no respect of prosperitie beyond this life hath by confidence in man destroyed the feare of God What maruell is it then if such kynde of men Monkes Friers and other Parasites hauing bene writers of hystories heretofore haue filled the world with fayned miracles and with intolerable absurdities to flatter Popes and deceiue the people haue sclandered Emperours Kynges and Princes and as ordinarely layd vp in their Libraries false treatises and Chronicles to beguile posteritie as in their cofers forged euidences which they dayly made to robbe true owners of their inheritaunce In these falsities they so farre proceded that their impudencie fallyng with want of shame by vse of lyeng into so great imprudence as that manifest contradictions and inconueniences conuinced them they then resorted to iustifie their vntruthes seducyng the world with pretense of a profitable deceiuyng men with godly errour Surely whoe 's conscience can serue them to do murders to tumble vp kyngdomes and rayse all kynd of horrible and tragical examples will not much sticke to tell lyes in excusyng or reportyng the doinges of them selues and their aduersaries For Ex ijsdem sunt nutriuntur mixta a sect patched vp of lyes must be fed and mainteyned with the same Much lyke it is to the doyng of kyng Richard Catesbie to bleare the worldes eyes with the proclamation of treason supposed to haue bene intended by the Lord Hastings and Shores wife and shewyng out his owne withered arme after the example of Antoninus Caracalla concerning his brother Geta and such like So dyd that honest man Boner immediatly vppon the death of the excellent Martyr the Archebyshop of Caunterbury openly cause to be published in Print a report of the Archbyshops death and his woordes before hys death directly contrarie to that which was spoken and all in fauor of Papistrie Thence came it that all foreine hystories are at this day so stuffed with sclanders agaynst our estates people and Princes specially sins that kyng Henrie the viij resumed his lawfull iurisdiction from vsurpyng Popes Our kynges be villanously termed tyrauntes vertuous Queenes and Ladyes defamed Nobilitie disgraced Parlamentes despised the people reprochfully taunted theeues whoremongers sodomites murderers and traytors sainted victories pinched factes and successes falsly vttered and that so playnly euen while lyuyng witnesses present and parties to the maters them selues are hable truely to disproue them And all this they do vpon trust that though it be some shame a while yet theyr bookes shall ouerlyue mens persons and so at length deceiue posteritie and so thinke they it reason now that other papistes hereafter shold enioye the fruite of their falshed at this tyme as they haue the frute of other Papistes false hed heretofore So doth fabulous Iouius So doth pratyng Paradine so doth the whole heape of Popish Pamphleters without reuerence of Princes estates or of other mens eares of their owne outworne honesties This hath made common lyers to shew aduises of newes from beyond seas so freshly arriued that the very inke blotted whē the letters were shewed in Paules men surely worthy of their card cousin to hang on their backes to warne them and F. cudgell better to aduise them This doyng of theirs hath of late yeares continually enforced noble Princes and good men to publish Apologies and set foorth bookes to yeld true accompt of theyr factes agaynste this poysonous kynde of Parasites and rumor spreaders This my Lord hath caused the noble men and other of base Germanie to publish in Supplication by them exhibited to the Emperour the Electors and other Princes assembled at Spires the report of theyr doinges and sufferynges with request of good interpretation and charitable ayde Bicause the same conteineth a great deale of mater of good hystoricall knowlege and bicause the dayly rumors of Papistes do amplifie euils to kyndle vncharitablenesse agaynst poore men I haue thought good to turne the same into English and to set it out to the world to behold without preiudicing the credit of any but leauyng euery man to beleue so far with them or agaynst them as euident truth apparant proues shall leade them Onely this by the way remembred that the publike ministers embassadors messēgers agentes for those against whom these do complayne haue not sticked agaynst common fayth to be certifiers and auouchers of vntruthes and parteners of treasons agaynste our noble Queene as in publike arrainementes and other open places and doynges beside secret knowledges hath lately appeared Hauyng performed this worke of translation for credit of truth and for raysing of good affections in iust and indifferent persons and for a good monument of knowlege to such as lacke helpe of the Latin tong wherin in the Dutche tong it hath ben before printed I thought it my dutie to offer the same to your good Lordshyp Wherunto many reasonable respectes hath moued me First your zeale to true Religion your vertuous gouernaunce of your household therin your noble and sincere administration of iustice without vsyng the Queene seruice to priuate malice and affections and your seuere lookyng to daungerous cariers of vntrue rumors and seditious speeches in your countrey all which vertues become a personage fitte to receiue a worke intended for declaration of truth and confutation of sclanders Beside that I beyng susteined in studie by your Lordshyps liberalitie do owe you that dutie that vnder your name should passe to the worldes commoditie such frutes of learnyng as I haue bene hable to yeld humbly praying your Lordshyp to accept the same and most humbly besechyng God long to blesse your Lordshyp and my good

purpose he sent thether in hys stede with most large Commission to heare the cause and dispose of the state of the common weale the Duke of Alua a man both a most assured minister of their Inquisition and for olde grudges a most bitter enemie to the Princes and state of the lowe contrey He coloring hys owne malitious affections with the glorious pretense of zele to restore the Romishe religion and to chastise Rebells it is incredible to tell how great and how outragious crueltie he hath echewhere executed vpon the poore inhabitantes of the lowe contrey without respecte or difference by how many and how strange deuises he hath robbed all mens goods how he hath spoyled the whole Prouince of all their ornamentes disarmed them of their defences depriued them of their liberties and stripped them out of their lawes and priuileges how euery honest man he hath condemned by priuate warrant without iudiciall order euery the most innocent mans bloud he hath shed euery most vertuous person he hath put to most vile shame all lawes of God and man he hath violated the bandes of mariage he hath broken the Sacrament of Baptisme he hath polluted all order of charitie and frendly societie he hath ouerthrowen finally no part of most extreme crueltie and such as neuer was heard of before hath he omitted And yet in the meane time he ceaseth not to throw vpon vs the blame of his haynous factes and by proclamations published by infamous libels printed openly to all princes and states to accuse vs of most greuous crimes for thys onely cause forsooth that in fléeing we gaue place to his furie and by the helpe of Gods protection haue escaped his sworde most thirsty of our bloudes All which thinges forasmuch as almighty God hath so determined that we shoulde for a time be here afflicted by the tyrannie of the wicked we woulde haue thought it best for vs to passe ouer in silence and in pacience and to waite for the time which the great Iudge hath appointed either for bringing our innocencie to knowledge or for opening the eyes and eares of our King to vnderstand our vniuste miserie and iuste complaint were it not that we doe plainly sée that such our silence specially in thys so sacred and so full assemblie of your maiestie most victorious Emperour and of your highnesses most noble Princes might hereafter bring no small preiudice to vs and our innocencie before such to whom the truth shall not be sufficiently knowen For by such meane the sonne of God Iesus Christ him selfe and his doctrine which we professe according to hys worde shoulde become subiecte to the most haynous sclanders of the aduersaries as if the professors thereof before thys so reuerend iudgement seate of Christendome before so vpright and vncorrupt iudges before thys theatre so furnished with so great assemblie of sondry nations were by silent confession found gilty not onely of heresie and pestilent vngodly error but also of shamefull rebellion of wicked sedition and disturbance of common peace Wherefore we haue vtterly determined that we can not with good peace of conscience longer kepe silence But for asmuch as we know that the order of these vsuall assemblies of the states of the sacred Empyre haue their chiefe respecte to this end that such as be oppressed by force and iniurie may heare present their compleintes as to the chiefe throne of Iustice in Christendome we thought it our duetie to declare our whole estate to your maiestie most mightye Emperour and to your highnesses most noble Princes and to open vnto you the very originall fountaines of thys our most greuous calamitie that if the mercie of God haue decréed to make an end of our so great miseries we may by your goodnesse and liberalitie beginne to take breath agayne after thys most heauy weight of oppression If not yet the cause being more throughly heard we shall before indifferent iudges deliuer our innocencie from the most vniuste sclanders of our aduersaryes Wherby if nothing ells yet thys we shall obtaine that from henceforth our religion and the profession of the Gospell shall not beare the infamie of so greuous crimes with them that heretofore being filled with the accusations of the aduersaryes haue not vnderstoode the truth and that Iesus Christ the sonne of God whose name we professe shall not bee wounded through vs and finally that we shall not as enemies of publike peace and quietnesse be expelled from common societie by forrene Princes and peoples which is the chiefe thinges that our enemies doe séeke but that the whole truth being throughly vnderstoode the whole originall of the mischiefes shall be iustly layed vpon them that inflamed with their owne gredy malices do tumble vp all thinges and such good and innocent men as they haue by wrong and tyrannie spoyled of their goods and can not yet bereue of their liues they labour to oppresse with most vile sclaunderous reportes to your maiestie O Emperor and your highnesses O noble Princes that so they may drawe you into the fellowship of their crueltie and by your helpe they may either satisfie their vnsatiable thirst with our bloud or glutt their most bitter hatred that they haue conceaued against vs with our destruction Which thing that they shall not obtaine your equitie truth and vprightnesse and our innocencie do assure vs In confidence whereof we prostrate vs at your feete we flée to your protection and mercy craue helpe of your religiousnesse iustice vprightnesse and we most humbly besech you that preseruing the iustice of law ye will vouchsafe most mercifully to defend our miserable and afflicted innocencie aganist the outragious power and vnbridled boldnesse of our enemies That ye may vnderstand how iustly ye may do it that ye may clerely perceaue in whom the fault of the whole mischief resteth we besech your maiesty most inuincible Emperor your highnesses most noble Princes that at leasure ye will gently and diligently read this booke annexed to this our supplication wherin with the truth of the whole historie we declare our innocencie to all men and that with the same pacience and equitie of minde that you vse to receaue the complaintes of all miserable and innocent persons it may please you also to vnderstand our cause and to your power deliuer vs out of these calamities So shall ye shew your selues worthy ministers to the soueraigne king of kinges supreme iudge and shall stirre vp our hartes to be continuall suters to his grace and mercy for you IT is now nere a hundred yeres agoe sins the most noble Ferdinand and Isabell Kyng and Quene of Castile hauyng ended theyr great and long warre agaynst the Mahumetanes which had inuaded inhabited and trobled the kingdome of Spayne by the space of almost viij hundred yeres and hauyng chaced the sayd enemies out of all Spayne and recouered the kyngdome of Granada gaue theyr mynde to stablish relligion and to roote out all