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cause_n	great_a	lord_n	people_n	4,203	5	4.5705	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07033	A pithie, and most earnest exhortation, concerning the estate of Christiandome together with the meanes to preserue and defend the same; dedicated to al christian kings princes and potentates, with all other the estates of Christiandome: by a Germaine gentleman, a louer of his countrey.; Ad potentissimos ac serenissimos reges commonefactio. English	Marnix van St. Aldegonde, Philips van, 1538-1598.	1583 (1583)	STC 17450.7; ESTC S107814	25,937	82

ouercome with the necessity of his own affaires seemed to find it somwhat reasonable so suffered the reuoking of the said bandes out of the countries to the end with them to keepe and defende the passages of Italy Spaine togither with his houlds in Affrica against the ordinary incursions of the ●urkes and Moores being neuerthelesse fully resolued as himselfe could not but cōfesse which also the Spaniaras in their writings haue testified vpon the first commodity to returne the saide garrisons who with armes open force should blot out the iniury supposed to be wrought againste the Spanith name and with a more stricte bonde should bridle and restraine the ouer great liberty and authority of al these prouinces For the compassing thereof there fel out nothing more fitte and apparant then the Kinges constant and perpetual desire care and zeale earnestly strictly to establish the Romish religion in the lowe Countries which caused him in all his letters written out of Spaine ordinarily to accuse the Duchesse of Parma and the chiefe Lords and Magistrates of the country that they were not earnest enough in these causes saying that he well perceaued that vnlesse they vsed more violent remedies then afore tyme the Romish religion woulde soone be extinguished throughout Flounders which for his part he woulde neuer permit but rather to hazarde whatsoeuer lands and kingdoms he yet possessed Wherefore that he willed and ordeyned that the rigour of the edicts and placards of religiō shuld be executed without dissimulation and that they should not vpon any whatsoeuer occasion be moderated qualified or in anye wise mitigated but rather that their strictnes shoulde be augmented and increased to that end that they shuld create new Bishops whom they should make inquisitours for matters of Faith that Granuel Archbishop of Mali●es a little before become a cardinal who by reason of his intollerable ambition and inordinate desire of gouernment had incurred the malice of al estates should be made head and president of that colledge that to the end the sayd bishops might more diligently attend to the said inquisitiō some of the spoiles of diuers Abots other Prelates of the countrey whom they accused to be to negligēt in persecuting punishing of the heretiks shuld be distributed among them with al that the hearing of all causes if neuer so smallye they pertained to matter of religion should be reserued to them whervpon euen at one time by one means al sorts of people of the said cuntries were greuously offended The princes great Lords could not patiently suffer the administratiō of the affaires to be taken from them cōmitted to one Granuel a new mā a stranger The nobility coulde not like that authority ouer their liues goods shuld to the preiudice of their country customes be cōmitted to vnknown beggerly base persons who coueting their goods tresurs might easely find means to accuse betraye them The magistrates rulers of cities and towns did murmure that the iudgments priuiledges of the cuntry cōtrary to the kings oth so solēnly sworn shold be taken frō them put into the hands of rascals such as besids were by oth bound to a forraine prince the pope of Rome and had already giuen out sufficient testimony proofe of their cruelty couetousnes To be briefe the whole cominalty generally complained that in stead of sheepheards they were committed to the custody of rauening wolues cōtinually gaping after their goods so that sundry merchants determined to seek new habitations in forrain countries which diuers of thē did indeed al these things being rehearsed to the king in sundri suplications peticions messages ambassages the states instātly requiring that by such innouatiōs so faithfula people to their princes might not be forced any whit to deminish their accustomed obediēce so far was he frō giuing audiēce or harkning to their peticions that contrariwise obstinatly refusing all their demands he would that euē the decrees of the counsel of Trident whereby in maner al the lawes customes of the cuntry were infringed should be published throughout the said prouinces And in deede by that meanes hee foūd the cōmodity of the time so lōg looked for For in case his preceptes tooke place the aucthority of the inquisitours once established and the lawes and customes of the countrey infringed it would be no hard matter to put to death all such as had either aucthority or countenaunce among the people and so also the Spanishe garrisons together with a new forme of regiment might easely be brought in but contrarywise if herein they refused to obeye his decrees as there was no other likelihood considering how al sortes of people were by these demaundes oppressed then necessarily must insue both tumultes and disorder for the pacifiyng whereof the Spanish garrizons must needes be returned and so how so euer the world went the obstinate reiecting of the Kinges commaundement should as a matter of Treason minister cause sufficient to chastize the people with fire and swoorde Neither was he deceiued in the euent of this counsaile For some of the chiefe Nobility hauing exhibited a certaine request into the Court wherein was prooued that the kinges commaundement concerning Placards was not onely pernicious to the common wealth but also daungerous to them selues requiring therefore that the publication of the sayd Placards might cease vntill the king were informed of their demāds by suche notable persons as to that end should expresly trauail to his maiestie the people thereby conceiuing hope of greater liberty tooke vppon them and peraduenture somewhat more then was requisite openlye to professe the reformed religion which the king and Spaniards did so greatly detest and abhor This so honest and aparant occasion ministred vnto the king means first to condemne such of the nobility of treazon as had exhibited the sayde request and so to execute the ambassadours which by the gouernesse cōmandement went vnto him then vnder the conduct of the Duke of Alua to send the old spanish bandes into the low countries to the end vnder pretence of religion to put to death al such of the chiefe lords nobles of the country as coulde not brook their demeanures to establishe paines of death against al good men to entangle the people with charges impostes grieuous bondage to erect fortresse castles in their towns and finally to depriue the estates and magistrats of al aucthority the nobility of al dignity preeminence the people of their substāce welth the towns of their lawes customes priuiledges freedoms and finally all the prouinces generally of their auncient honor dignity power so to open a way to the counsell so long before taken for the establishing of the seate of their premeditated wars in the low countries Al which things the world knoweth so wel as also how the Duke of Alua hath endeuored to bring thē to effect that I shal not here neede