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B11202	Newes from Antvverp, the .10. day of August. 1580 Contayning, a speciall view of the present affayres of the lowe countreyes: revuealed and brought to lyght, by sundrie late intercepted letters, of certaine vizarded and counterfeyt countrey men of the same countreyes. Translated into English, partly out of French, and partly out of Lattin: according to the originall copie, printed at Antwerp, by William Riuiere, a sworne printer, and bookseller.; Afgheworpene brieven van sommighe ... valsche patriotten. English	Fredericke, abbot of Marolles.; Schetz, Gaspar, d. 1580.; Georg, von Schönenberg, Bishop of Worms, 1530-1595.	1580 (1580)	STC 692; ESTC S112793	31,219	36

are better for the Spaniards they leaue them not in prison greater sence and experience that I might be more able and fytte to exercise the same charge with greater woorthinesse Neuerthelesse I wyll spare neyther paynes nor trauayle to attayne to the premisses And would not for all that wyllingly giue place to any other whatsoeuer he were that he could truly vaunt that he would more 12 Thy actions past giue good witnesse of thy fidelity the belly of thy playnes and the f●ocke of thy frankenes franckly faithfully and plainly employe him selfe in the same then I Although I vnderstand that certayne persons 13 To wit the Abbot of Hannon with his train according to the nature of the Monks which do alwayes grunt one against an other as a droue of Hogs Ielous of my good lucke and enemies of my prosperitie would haue impugned the sayde denomination and my Lord the Prelate of Saint Gertrudes synisterly quarrelling and interpreting our actions passed Wherin they shew them selues 14 Then it is a signe that what thou hast don heretofore hath bene but fayning and treason vnaduised and too full of passions for as much as all that we dyd was by theyr expresse charge It béeing verie vnséemely for them that they would 15 See how these hogs can one no more then an other clense them selues of their filthynesse cléere them selues to cast the fault vpon others Considering that by the rule of equitie no man is to be receyued to accuse an other him selfe béeing guilty of the same matter And for that by the 16 He confesseth himself with the rest to haue ben faulty and to haue stood in neede of grace Mounsier the Monke sayth wel that he repenteth of his offences But he will receyue no disciplin● and mainteyneth that there is great reward due vnto him for the good seruices that he hath done So shameles and impudent he is clemency of your Maiestie all matters paste are forgotten it is impertinent to enter into contencion vpbrayding or any sifting with vs which were but theyr associates Otherwise if there should question be had for the narrow examination of theyr behauiours and all be interpreted to the worst they would not be found cléere For if we haue done amysse they haue commaunded vs otherwise then they ought to haue done It were best to set all these reproches asyde and to study in good sadnesse howe to sette vp that which is fallen downe and procure by good vnanimytie and mutuall assistaunce the redressing of matters in acknowledging our God our King and our Lawe Which for mine owne parte I am determyned to doo maynteyning my selfe in that 17 My Lord Abbot wil forget neyther his ambitiō nor couetousnesse degrée of honour wherein it hath pleased your Maiestie to place me For that I will neyther yéeld nor giue place vnto them for they haue no occasion to be at debate with me Sauing for that I would not agrée to their perticular appoyntment hauing iudged it too burdensome and 18 He betrayeth his companions accusing them to the Spaniards disaduantagious to your Maiestie And that the fruite by them promised would not come thereof But that it were better to take payne to come to a generall Peace And I thinke that I haue not therby deserued to be 19 This Monke wyll become a souldiour or peraduenture he feareth to be turned out of his frocke as he hath bene put beside the myter of S. Bartin for these be the Armes he speaketh of and his honor is to be first set at the table and counsell and to haue the Kitchen well furnished and the Kettell full disgraded of Armes and Honour For your Maiestie may nowe easily sée and the euentes wyll more plainly declare what is to be hoped thereby and what foundation may be layde with personnages which 20 See here how these good seruaunts of the King agree together what the Townes of Haynault Artoys ought to expect at the handes of so good proctors of their owne cause seeing that without any lymitation or restraynt they meane to put them in subiection to the yoke of the Spaniards with the prize that these Gentlemen Abbots may saue their goods and credite with the king Note also how the peace of Artoys will be interpreted by the Spanyardes seeing their owne Abbots make so goodly gloses vpon the some lymitte the aucthoritie of the same after their owne discretion and wyll be séeking rather to aduaunce theyr perticular affayres then to mayntayne eyther the Catholique 21 Vniuersall perticular Romishe Religion or the aucthoritie of your Maiestie And that if matter fall not out according to their pleasures they might drawe men to wickednesse at euerie howre the examples are already at the gate in doing more disseruise in a day then all this appoyntment would bring profite to the same in a whole yéere And because some of them knowe that I wyll 22 He will be styll vnfaithfull to his owne to get the good will of the Spanyardes hyde nothing and knowe theyr desartes and valours well inough they loue not to haue me admytted into the sayd Counsell Meaning them selues to gouerne euery thing after theyr owne fashion Your Maiestie wyll ordayne in that behalfe as by his prouident discretion the same shall Iudge most conuenient for his better seruice Expecting the commaundement of the same I wyll goe into Haynault to my Lorde the Prince of Parma so soone as my Lord the Duke of Arschotte may depart from Aixe after my Lady his Wife shall recouer her health to dispose my selfe according to his commaundement And to set my selfe in actuall seruice as well to preserue the aucthoritie of your Maiestie which otherwise bothe nowe and hereafter might receaue great diminution and hurt As to saue mine honour For otherwise I might be declared 23 Thou art infamous enough without other declaration infamous and vnworthy to receyue any benefite of your Maiestie 24 To wyt In case we haue nothing to asswage his ambition and couetousnesse He had rather become a Chaplen and bondman Note the great humylitie of this good Monk Were it not for that I would desire nothing more then that I might retyre into my 25 Thou shouldest haue bene there to haue bene lead to Boncham with the Lord of Selles lyttle Monastery of Marolles to my Cobrethren to serue God in rest of body and minde béeing sequestred and delyuered from all publyque affayres Herevppon I wyll praye the Creatour to graunt your Maiestie in prosperitie and health a long and happy lyfe Kyssing the handes of the same in saluting the good graces thereof with my most humble recommendations From Cullen the .xxv. of Iune 1580. Vnder vvas vvritten in this manner Your Maiesties most humble and most obedient seruaunt and Oratour Sygned Fredericke Abbot of Marolles The superscription was thus To the King ¶ The translation of the Letters of Iasper Schets Lord

but also for counsell and to haue in the Campe a personage that with aucthority good ground can speake touching the iustification of the cause béeing a thing of great importaunce in the warres which Princes are constrained to make against their subiects Referring the whole to your moste honorable Lordshippes wisdome onely beséeching you moste humble to vouchsafe to pardon me if I haue gone too farre in a matter that is without the compasse of my profession and that you would at your leasure send me some aunswer therunto that according to the same I may order my selfe and frame my speache to the sayd Earle Without saying any more hereby to your honorable Lordship for that this Letter séemeth vnto me to be already too longe I beséeche our Lord to graunt you my Lorde long and prosperous life in health From Cullen this xxvi of Iune 1580. Thus vnder signed Your moste honorable and reuerend Lordships most humble seruaunt Iasper Schetz My Lorde Fonck will giue your Lordship part of the good newes of the succors sent from this Citie to them of Groeninghen by meanes whereof it séemeth that 15 We hope it shall not so prooue all Friezland alreadie loste may be recouered ¶ A Copie of a Letter of the Lorde Wormes to the Lord De Gommicourt Gouernour of Mastreighte The ninthe Letter MY Lord Gouernor I humbly recommend me to your good grace This shal be to aduertise you that I haue béene with my Lord the Earle of Mansfeld He is in hand to fynde all meanes to content all the Allemains which are in the Countrey of Luxemburghe For he hath charge from the Princesse of Parma by all meanes in the world to agrée with them My selfe haue béene with the Princesse She tolde me that it is aboue a moneth since she sent aswell to the Kinge her Maister as to all Princes in the world that are his fréendes to fynde Money 1 Then shee hath not yet all those Millions that the Malcontents so much bragged of the which mée thinkes she cannot accomplish as she desireth Not withstanding the woords of the sayde Princesse and the promises of the Earle of Mansfeeld Our Regiment and Foncres menne will not be content without they haue eight Monethes paie altogether there are but thrée offered vnto them I thinke that the sayd Princesse being at accord with vs will send vs to the ayde of the Friselanders in default that nothing can be executed touchinge 2 Note that there be yet some of the Spanished sorte in the Countrey that are the cause of our erre solutions a waiting occasion to playe their parte the intelling that my Lord Gouernour wotteth of I haue shewed your letter to my Lady the Princesse who thinketh it very straunge that the noble party of Gelderland hath writtē nothing to vs since Howbeit touching the other Personage My Lady taketh him for an honest man in assuraunce that for money all will goe well though it be with leapes When I departed from my Lady shée gaue me one thing in commaundement and not to me alone but also to you and Captaine De Carpe commaunding mée also to speake therof to 3 This is one of the Arbitrators of peace Grand Criado to the Pope the Elector of Cullen He hath promised me to stand my fréend to my Lady the Princesse in this matter and in all that he can besides in the worlde The thing that my Lady demaūdeth is that by our meanes we should fynde the meanes to practise by force of Armes to take browne or burne the Vesselles of our enemies which are néere to Bonne The sayd Lady hath promised that if we can bring it to passe shée will giue vs thrée thousand Crownes of golde For that my men are but euill Armed I pray my Lord Gouernour to ward the accomplishment thereof to send me sixe and thirtie Souldiers with Musquets and seauē or eight Pikemen Then I will sée with 4 The Councellors of the Spaniardes the Elector Mounsier Lopez whether we can finde the meane to performe it My Lady hath moste expressely commaunded me that I should tell you by woord of mouthe and spare for no Money to kéepe touche with those 5 Of the Countrey of Gelderland Noble men abouesayd And that his Grace of 6 It is a good Neighbour but he is a Cardinall and beaten in a corner of Rome Liege for the effecting thereof will furnish you with the summe of a thousand Florens of fyue and twentie Patars a peece For that I am not well at ease you shall holde me excused in that I am constrayned to 7 Surely there is ● great hurt in that write vnto you being very sory that I could not come to you my selfe Yet notwithstanding if you haue any matter of secretnes ye may tell it to this present bearer my good fréende Beléeue mée there is great pouertie that my men are so euill Armed It is a horrible matter that there can no Armor be gotten at Cullen nor Franckefort scate for any Money If the affaires of England There be enow sh● let him and the French Kings brother goe forward as the reporte goeth it will goe euill for the King of Spaine our Maister No more at this time but that here I wyll end praying God my Lord Gouernor to graunt you a moste perfect longe and happie life Dated at Andrenac this second of Iuly the yeare fourescore Your humble and obedient seruaunt VVormes I know not what to thinke of that Priest of Gelderland which kéepeth himselfe with my Lorde Conwer at Cullen He is an euill man for I can by no meane get the Armor of him The superscription was To my Lord my Lorde of Gommicourte Gouernour of Mastreight for his Maiestie at Mastreight FINIS

warre not regarding any other thing sauing to gayne credite or recompence of the Spaniardes and theyr ministers with the whole ruyne of the people myserie and pouertie And it should be a godly déede to take héed aforehād to other infinit euils that threaten vs. As touching the last Letters that it pleased your honorable Lordship to wryte vnto me I made my aunswer the x. of May And amongst other thinges shewed vnto the same my complaynt and gréefe that the Letter therin mencioned which it had pleased his Maiestie to write vnto me was not delyuered to my hands And am constrayned to doo the lyke againe for that I cannot yet recouer the same Wherfore I am in extreme sorrow for that I knowe not the contentes of it nor can not order my selfe according to the same Notwithstanding I haue receiued a Letter of the .xx. of the moneth past from my Lord the Prince of Parma Whereby he aduertised me that his Maiestie had named me of his counsell of Estate And that I should returne into Haynault to be assystant in the sayde Counsell in proper person I haue aunswered his excellencie that I will not fayle to obey his commaundement to employ my selfe with heart and affection to the seruing of so principall a charge But that by reason of the sicknesse of my Lady the Duchesse of Arschot my Lord the Duke her husband could not so soone depart Who hath often required me not to forsake him but to staye for his going to reenter into the Countrey together Whervnto his sayd excellencie for 12 To haue two at once certayne good respects hath condiscended And I wyll not fayle to worke all manner of forwardnesse at our sayde returne to procure in good earnest with all sincerity and fidelitie the restablishing of the affayres And although I haue vnderstoode that touching the denomination of my Lord the Prelate of Saint Gertrude and me there hath priuily bene moued some diffycultie Specially by certayne 13 One Traytor knoweth another very wel Ecclesiasticall persons suspecting or wrōgfully quarrelling at our former actions yet will not we therefore leaue of to mayntaine our selues in the order and degrée wherein it hath pleased his Maiestie to sette vs for the feruent desire we haue to do seruice to the same as good and better then they that we will not yéeld or giue place to such persons ielous of our prosperitie Hoping that our behauiours shal be such as God his Maiestie the Countrey Cobrethren others shall receyue acceptable seruice therby In this behalfe my Lord I will recommend my selfe to your most honourable reuerend Lordships good grace praying that it may please the same to make me partaker of his maiesties good grace Whervnto to my great gréefe I cannot write for that hytherto I could not recouer his Letters Wherfore I desire to be excused From Cullen this .xvij. of Iune 1580. Vnder was written Your most honorable and reuerende Lordships most humble Oratour And signed Fredericke Abbot of Marolles ❧ A Copie of the Letters of the Abbot of Marolles to the King The thirde Letter Soueraygne Lorde WHereas I haue by diuers Letters giuen aduertisement to your Maiestie that I desyred nothing more then to haue the meane to yéelde all manner of obedience and doo most humble seruice to the same in whatsoeuer it should vouchsafe to commaund me As being of a most prompt and ready will to render my dutyfull endeuour of fidelity and naturallitie Besides that I haue also giuen a more perticular accoumpt of my good 1 That is to say of my treasōs For being Ambassador to the States I would with others lyke vnto me haue enducet them vnder coulour of ● peace to haue letten thēselues to haue bene deceyued intencions to my Lorde the Duke of Terra Noua being in this Cittie of Cullen who at his departure had assured me that your Maiestie should be aduertised thereof to giue me vnderstanding of the noble pleasure of the same Yet notwithstanding I haue not hytherto to my vnspeakeable gréefe bene honoured with any 2 The Spaniards looue treason but no traytors commaundementes by Letter nor otherwyse By meanes whereof I am and haue bene in great perplexitie hauing stayed in this Cittie 3 You mu●● say your Mattins sing Masse euery day ydle since the departing of the sayde Lord 4 Why go you not then to rule your Monkes who will finde you enough to doo But my Lord Abbot rather medleth with matters of Estate and of the Court then to feede his Hogs Secundum illud ne Clerici se immisceant negotijs secularibus For that I knewe not whereabout to employ my selfe for want of charge or commission Howbeit the twenty of the moneth past I receyued Letters from my Lord the Prince of Parma whereby he aduertised me that it had pleased your Maiestie to name me of his Counsell of 5 It must needes be that the Estate is well gouerned for that frocked Monkes gouerne the same according to the olde prouerbe Since decrees had wings and Sergeantes carryed Mayles and Monkes went a horseback The world had nothing but all euyll Estate And that I should transport my selfe immediatly into Haynault to assyste there in my proper person Wherat I reioyced greatly vnderstanding that 6 His Maiestie is ignoraunt of it But the Prince of Parma vpon his blankes assigned wryteth what he listeth your Maiestie had not forgotten his so humble a 7 Chaplen Oratour for the care he hath of his Chappel and to say continuall prayers Chaplen and Orator wholy dedicated to his seruice honouring him with so principall an Estate For which I most humbly thanke the same assuring your Maiestie that I wyll not fayle according to my dutifull power with all 8 Such as thou hast yeelded to Don Iohn and since to my Lord the Duke of Aniou lastly to my Lord the Archduke Whose Almonens thou hast bene and forsaken them all three fidelytie and integritie to doo my dutie in the same charge And wyll procure the 9 My Lord Abbot we wyll take heede of you and such as you are reducing of the Prouinces Citties Commonalties and particuler personnes with all my possibillytie that all thinges maye in short tyme be 10 It should be better for my Lord Abbot to reduce him selfe and his Monkes to some good order and discipline sette agayne in good order for the better ordering of the affayres in the seruice of God your Maiestie and the Countrey Béeing most sorie that God hath not endued me with 11 Certainly you haue great cause to be sory therfore For you haue great neede of the same least you be beguyled by the Spaniardes who will mocke you as they haue done others as is to be séene by the example of the prisoners euen to the most simple Gentlemen of these Coūtreyes of the which they redeeme not one But as for the Italiās and Albanoys which

are reuolted to the enemies who care not for the prisoners according to the Spanish fashion The which is experimented not onely by Elimes but also by Egmont the which onely cause sufficiently purgeth the sayd be Iussi from cryme in that he hath followed better counsayle Elimes his Lieuetenaunt receyue the salarie of theyr Actes I thinke also your Lordshyp hath styll in remembraunce that de Aussi first brought the Prince of Orenges souldiours into Flaunders all the whole Counsell béeing against it and how he cléered his dooing with 4 But de Aussi sayes thou lyest false Letters Such rewardes are méete for such déedes Amongst the which 5 Let the Malcontents iudge hereby what they are to looke for Fresin also for his vehemencie wherwith he was at the first so hote against the king is peraduēture taxed to haue wrought some thing And I thinke no lesse wyll one day befall to his brother Mounsier de Loyns● who depriueth the King of Cambray I am sory onely for this that the nobillytie of our nation wyll be noted and accused of vnfaythfulnesse in Spayne and all other Countreyes by reason of these Metamorphosies 6 He will beware of your treasonn But it is expedient for your Lordshyp to doo this duty to your Countrey that the dispositions of those that haue bene the workers of these thinges may be noted and discerned for feare least the offence of such manner of men which are but a fewe and most lyght Countreymen you see all hope of peace taken from you except the Friers be kindled again and the Spanish Inquisition established defyle not all others with infamy Further séeing we must haue warre for that there remayneth no hope to conclude Peace by suffering the exercise of a straunge Religion God graunt it may be ordered with lesse cost and more profit then it hath bene hitherto Which in my iudgemēt wyll be brought to passe if there be as many souldiours enrolled as the money will suffise to pay least for want of payment troubles aryse Secondly that Colonels Captayns be taken and chosen Ye see Countreymen what manner of moderators of peace ye haue had is not this as much as to commit the sheepe to the woolfe with singular discretion who are neyther raunsackers nor cowardes We haue héere the Earle of Swartzenberg whome your Lordshyp knoweth He séemeth vnto me worthy to be recommended and preferred for his lyberallytie magnanymitie and honorable representation of body and household gouernment whereby he kéepeth all his retynew in theyr dutyes Wherevnto is to be added his great kyndred that he hath in Germany the acquaintaunce and fréendshippe in a manner of all the Princes without forgetting the experience that he hath gotten by the affayres wherein he hath bene a dealer Whome lately in famylliar talke I found very ready and inclyned to serue the King Wherfore thinking that he is able to doo more then Focre now deceased or Fraunsberghe at this present altogether weakened without force Fraunsberghe and Pouluyller haue gottē great glory at the hands of the Spanished sort For that they haue quitted them selues so well in spoyling the lowe Countreyes or Pouluiller regarding all thinges lesse then money I haue by his owne consent declared his minde to the most honorable Cardinall And I can not refrayne my selfe from recommending the same matter vnto you not so much in respect that the sayde Earle is my fréende as for that in my iudgement it would greatly redound to the profite of his Maiestie I beséeche your Lordshippe to obtayne me aunswere in this behalfe to the ende I may not kéepe the honourable mans minde long in suspence God graunt you the aduauncement of your enterprises to your contentment A diew The feast of S. Iohn Baptist at Cullen 1580. ¶ The sayde Earle will kéepe a certayne matter that he hath to treate with the Emperor in suspence Vntyll he receyue aunswer from the King Therfore I beséeche your Lordship to vrge the same Affectionate and ready to doo seruice to your Lordship Iasper Schetz To the reuerend and honourable Lord. Iohn Foncke c. ¶ Certayne other Copyes of Letters of the Abbot of Marolles To the President Foncke The sixt Letter MY Lord supposing that ye are already arryued in Spayne I would not be behinde with my duty to congratulate your prosperous arryuall to say the Proficiat of the Estate that his Maiesty hath vouchsaued to honour you withall Beséeching God it may be to his honour Et ad multos annos 1 The Abbot was already a Traytor For performance of that I made vnto you when ye departed hence to aduertise you from tyme to tyme of the state of our affayres Maye it please you to vnderstand first of all that since that tyme there hath not happened any great alteratiō either good or bad sauing that according to the vttermost of all worldly affayres 2 But lost a great deale more then they haue won by wytnesse of the good Townes we haue taken sometimes his Maiesties men haue triumphed and otherwhyles haue lost 3 Such as are good to maintayne the Spanish tyranny The good perseuere to procure the restablishing of the affayres But the necessity that they suffer through want of money suffreth not that they can execute their good intencions 5 Where is the treasure of Peru that they promised The wicked waxe obstinate more and more preparing themselues with all furie to offensiue and de fensiue warre And though they haue bene well gauled in Flaūders and their principall Captaines as the 6 Maister Monke ye haue no cause to be so ioyfull For in steede of one prisoner of ours we haue three of yours Lord de La noue and other taken prisoners Nihil tamen sunt mutati ab illis sed potius facti deteriores et 7 Better resolued then that they will sell theyr lybertie and Countrey for the Spanyardes rewardes obstinatiores tantum abest vt cum piscatore icti sapiant imò nunc seriò videntur egisse de abnegando rege et transferendo imperium in 8 Note that the Abbot counselled this an infinit many of tymes when the time serued not But what else may be looked for at a Monks hands that haue no other God but his belly Alansonium Sed ni fallor quidquid dicant aut pretexant credo sterni Auriaco viam Quod si fit mutatio parua erit aut paene nulla quia propter ipsorum dicere aut nominare nihill mutabitur in re I haue written mine opiniō in that matter to my Lord the Cardinall And sée to my great gréefe that their obstinacie wyll cause the whole ruine and destruction of our Countrey And that this warre wyll be of long contynuaunce with great charges and small profite For the feates 9 The Monk speaketh lyke a braue warrior to mayntayne his fleshpot of Armes must be better ordered to get the

Lord although I haue not presently any Letter of your most honorable Lordships to make aunswer vnto But my selfe expect aunswer to those letters which I haue written Yet for all that séeing a matter of importaunce offred for the seruice of his Maiestie I could not stay my selfe from wryting And therfore wheras since my last Letter I thought more narrowly vpon the contents of your Lordships last Letter 1 We beleeue now that no Prince can procure vs peace vnlesse it bee with the rooting out of the Religion For the Cardinall beeing cheefe of the Coūsell knoweth the Kinges meaning well inough wherby the same discourseth vnto me the exercise of two sundry Religions cannot be tollerated where men pretend to haue vnitie and tranquilytie referring your selfe to the 2 The aunswer should be seene proouing the contrarie declarations made in that respect by the States of the Duchie of Burgundy I was moued to saye vnto your Lordshyp hereby that I perceyue verie well by such speache that his Maiesties meaning is not to graunt any more in the cause of Religion then hath bene already agréed vpon And 3 It is very rightly concluded consequently séeing Peace can not be cōcluded without a further graunt that his Maiestie must 4 Therefore we also must resolue the lyke seeke all meanes to defend our selues without spending any more time about treaties full of deceypt resolue to make warre to 5 Note how these good Ministers presuppose perswade the King that his Coūtrey is lost from him except he can roote out all those of the Religion and gouerne the Countrey with a club and without any contradiction or intercession of the States And therevppon the King is fully resolued to the warre without leauing vs any hope of Peace recouer his Countrey which vnder pretence of the sayde Religion they would take from him Now my Lord calling to remembraunce how the sayd warre hath bene ordered hytherto with his Maiesties great charge and small profite I am sorie for it And although it be a matter beside my profession yet notwithstanding for as much as the same is of so great importaunce to the common good or euill of all in generall I could not discharge my selfe of the care therof Therfore I thought it my dutie to aduertise your most honorable Lordship that mine opiniō is that heretofore they haue erred in two respects to the ende that your Lordshyp may remedy the same hereafter 6 Then speakest better then the Duke of Alua who had three score and ten thousand men and could not ouercome Holland and Zeland To wyt they haue leuied so many men that they could not pay them And that they haue taken Captains without good examination of their quallities sufficiency Wherof procéeded the disorder destruction of all Milletary discipline without the which no good effect can be hoped for Praying the same therfore to vouchsafe to ground him selfe rather vpō a small Campe well payde then vpon a great one not payde so much the rather 7 To burne vs in a small fyre Quod bellum istud trahendū potius quàm subito conficiendum fore timeatur And as touching the Captaines Vt bonus habeatur delectus And in this respect I may not hyde from your most honourable Lordshyp that béeing the other day in company with the 8 He is one of them th●● would iudge our controuersie as the Fere dooth the Chickens Earle of Swartzenberghe Ambassadour to his Maiestie we fell in talke of this matter so farre that he complained vpon and lamented the small seruice that his Maiestie had receyued of the men of his Nation with so great charges 9 They shall see whether he will doo any better then the rest Taxing with all the slacknesse and couetousnesse of the heades and Colonelles shewing him selfe verie sorrowfull that the Germaine Nation was in a manner defamed thereby Wherevnto I made him aunswere that he was to remedy the same as much as laye in him And if his Maiestie fell into the necessitie of this warre then to set forwarde him selfe to the féelde and to offer his seruice so much the more because the iustification of the cause was knowen to him 10 As with the cōtrary partie and enemie and not as an equall Arbytrator to wyt such a one as his honour and promises commaunded him to be As hauing dealt in it with the other Princes And that for such he ought to helpe to defend it and employ him selfe to restore vnto his Nation the auncient reputation which séemed vnto me the duty of a personage of his calling And after this talke was a whyle continued at last he grewe to this resolution that he would be content to enter into his Maiesties seruice so that he knewe whether the same would be acceptable and that he might haue a charge graunted him méete for his calling Further declaring vnto me that since the death of the Emperour Maximilian he was not so farre bound to the Emperour that now is but that it was lawfull for him to accept this seruice And that albeit he was sollicited by the Emperor and also by the Duke of Bauiere as hauing before this serued the deceased Duke his Father he thought to pacifie them both by meanes of the seruice of the King And so to treate with the Emperour that seruing the King he should neuerthelesse remaine in his seruice 11 As good and faithfull as he placing an other in his rowme in his absence And thereof he earnestly desired to haue your most honourable Lordshyp aduertised But vpon confidence and promise to haue the matter kept secrete in case his 12 For lyke an honest man he wyll haue two stringes to his bowe according to the Prouerbe If God will not haue mee the Diuell prayeth mee Maiestie haue no néede of his seruice Wherefore my Lord for that it séemeth vnto me that the sayde Earle procéedeth with good zeale I thought it meete to aduertise your Lordshyppe very particularly of the same in consideration that his sayd Maiestie maye reape good seruice at his handes in case the same be constrayned to make warre For as much as he hath many good quallyties requisite in a chéefe Captayne of men of warre As that he is well Allied and estéemed in Germany and knowen of all the Princes hauing already dealt in the affayres Béeing of good representation 13 And grosse Eloquent in many languages 14 He meaneth prodigall and very lyberall wherby he shall haue meane not onely to leuie men but also to prouide better Officers Captaynes and a good Lieuetenaunt which is no small matter in the warres Your most honourable Lordship may thinke on it propound the same where and in such sort as you thinke good In my simple iudgement it would be very good to employe such a one rather then any other for that his quallities serue not only for the exploytes of the warre