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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

ouerthrowne and hée himselfe by a deadly wound there slaine So the victors pressing through the thickest of the Harquebuziers there the third troupe being a troupe of the Enemies horse séemed as if they would resist them but by and by they turne their backes runne away and so depart the field after two victorious troupes of the English forces had slaine and sore wounded 180. of the enemies themselues hauing of theirs onely but thirtie persons of all their companies slaine and wounded amongst whom was that right nobly renowmed Knight Sir Philip Sidney before remembred of whose action and manner of death at large I haue thought good here according to the report of George Whetston and others actors and eye-witnesses there thus to declare the same I haue before by occasion ministred vnto me made mention of the vertuous life and valorous seruice of that renowmed Knight Sir Philip Sidney the last yéere in the Low Countries spent to the aduancement of Gods glorie honour of his Prince and benefit of Gods Church and of the kingdome of Christ now is occasion giuen me to set downe his honourable enterprise a little before his death and so thereby to make his vertuous life valorous seruice and honourable death more rightly renowmed vnto the posteritie Thus it happened in the latter end of the next yéere following 1586. the English Nobles vz. the Right Honourable Robert Erle of Essex by his valour reuiuing his fathers fame the Lord Willoughby the Lord Generall Norice Sir William Russell and Sir Thomas Parrot Sir Henry Norice with diuers others both Knights and Gentlemen of good accompt seruing then on horsebacke this famous worthy Knight Sir Philip Sidney as forward as the best all these being mounted against the enemie and his power approching on the 22. of September 1586. vnto the towne of Zutphen in Gelderland This noble Knight like Caesar charged the enemie so sore that first an enuious Musquetier from the spitefull Spaniards espying his oportunitie slew his horse vnder him who getting to horse againe was with a poysoned bullet from the enemie shot in the thigh wanting his Cuisses which might haue defended him The wound being déepe and shiuering the bone yet his heart was good and his courage little abated one Vdal a gentleman alighted and led his horse softly to whom he thus spake Let goe let goe till I fall to the ground The foe shall misse the glorie of my wound And so riding out of the field with a rare and constant courage his wound was searched no salue too deare but was sought no skill so curious but was tried to cure ease and recouer this noble Souldier languishing in paine all remediles Who féeling death drawing on desired yet were it Gods will so to be that he might liue to doe his Countrie more good seruice alleaging that he feared not death but lamented that his yéeres as yet being but gréene brought foorth but leaues the bloomes being faire no fruite yet appearing his life could not be lengthened for the enlargement of that good which both in heart he wished and in power he would haue performed towards his Prince and countrie had he liued here longer who being demaunded if he feared not any whit to dye answered No whit because I liue thereby Touching the honour of the field there fought as all our English Lords and Knights by their valours much diminished the enemies force and daunted his courage so amongst them Sir Thomas Parrot stroake downe Gonzaga at a blow Countie Hannibal was left for dead in the field and Captaine George one of the enemies commanders was by the worthie Lord Willoughby taken prisoner onely Captaine Thomas and Captaine Martin amongst our English were slaine in that fight and not any moe of accompt missing So by this honour ensued the vntimely death of this renowmed noble Knight on the 17. day of October 1586. liuing iust 25. daies after his receiued hurt in hope by death to inherit with Christ the Crowne of life and glorie Whose mortall death how greatly it was lamented of all sorts from the highest to the lowest who so please may looke and reade in the Reportarie of this action afterwards penned by George Whetston Gentleman where he declareth how the corps of this noble deceased Knight being brought ouer in the Blacke Pinnis so called was shrined in a Hearse within the Mynories in London and his funerall day being appointed vpon Tuesday the 16. of February next after following in that yéere 1586. The solemne order of the same was thus martialled in honourable manner vz. hauing thrée Erles and other Lords of the States his chiefe mourners with all their traine as they followed the Corps After them went Sir Wolston Dixi Knight then Lord Maior of London and the Aldermen mourning in their purple robes And last of al a warlike band of worthy Citizens his welwillers with weapons trailed in solemne wise brought the Corps from out of the Quier of the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul in London after a learned Sermon there made to the vpper Northeast end of the Isle aboue the Quier by the second piller where with solemne honourable ceremonie vsuall the corps was laid to his rest in Christ Iesus which done the said souldierlike Citizens bestowed for their last farewell of their beloued noble friend and Captaine two volleys of shot and so returned home euery man to his house heauie mournfull and sad for the losse of so vertuous honourable and true renowmed personage vpon whose death the aforesaid George Whetston made this Epitaph HEre vnder lyes Phillip Sydney Knight True to his Prince learned staid and wise Who lost his life in honourable fight Who vanquisht death in that he did despise To liue in pompe by others brought to passe Which oft he tearm'd a Dyamond set in Brasse There is another Epitaph vsuallie pendant at the said piller vnder his Crest Cote Armour and colours there fixed ENgland Netherland the Heauens and the Arts The Souldiers and the World haue made six parts Of the Noble Sydney for none will suppose That a small heape of stones can Sydney inclose His bodie hath England for she it fed Netherland his blood in her defence shed The Heauens haue his soule the Arts haue his Fame All Souldiers the griefe the World his good Name After the death of this noblie renoumed Knight Sir Philip Sydney so greatlie lamented as well in the Netherlands as in England the Erle Generall maketh attempt to take the Fort on the other side of Zutphen placing his Tents in che Velawe there is a little Iland before the Towne of Zutphen whereunto out of the Citie there is an open passage almost on drie foote by a Ford which now and then hath beene kept by a garrison of thirtie souldiers onlie this he battereth with his Ordinance and taketh it The Prince of Parma seeing this Iland taken marcheth to the said Citie of Zutphen on the fourteenth of October following Anno dicto

all things distressed he takes his way towards the Abbey of S. Bernard from thence purposing to passe ouer the riuer Schaldis and Dermonde the Citizens of Antwerpe with all festination sending their shippes of war against him doe stoppe the way at Macklin in Brabant Hereupon also forthwith was the noble Generall Norice addressed with 23 Ensignes of English men and Scots into the countrie of Waste to withstand his passage that way who out of hand drowneth a great part of the countrie néere vnto Dermond with the waters there abouts but the Duke necessitie so constrayning him with great hazard passeth at Duffle ouer the riuer Nete and so with no little shame returned home into Fraunce where he afterwards for very sorrow sore repenting him of these things ended his life in such manner as I shall declare truelie reported in the historie thus procéeding This Duke of Aniow and late Duke of Brabant by the Sates so created as before you haue heard thus being sore abashed at his owne indirect dealing and returning as he came first with his powers by Dunkerke into Fraunce when he was there ariued the Duke of Parma presentlie beséegeth the same towne of Dunkerke and taketh it with certaine other Cities left at all aduentures being therein aided by the Citizens of Gaunt and by the Prince of Chymay the Gouernour And the said Duke of Aniow then being in Fraunce notwithstanding all former inconueniences tolerated by the States they yet once againe séeke for mutuall reconciliation with him and offer their friendships to receiue him againe vpon good assurance of better expectation but he newlie returned with his souldiers dismissed scattered abroad and discouraged as well falling sicke in bodie as wearied in minde with thinking vpon his former great misfortunes saw in himselfe now y t which he loathed being laughed to scorne of his aduersaries and besids that little accounted of with manie others by reason he was at some discord and ods with the King his brother Againe the Quéene mother a woman of most subtill wit and perillous mind who had first fostered the discord betwéene these her two sonnes to the end shée might preuaile in her purpose otherwise then practized to reduce them to vnitie and brought the matter to that passe that the Duke as humble suter for fauour acknowledging his fault should craue pardon of the King his brother Being constrained so to doe that hée might againe insinuate a renued mind into the affections of the States to make the former breach a more firmer knot of amitie concord and league with them who had by experience well learned that the Duke without the king his brothers countenance and supportation could not well accomplish any thing answerable to their expectation for they hoped hereby only the French forces shuld the rather returne vnto them and by his more carefull consideration all should yet againe be amended which before was farre amisse And in this behalfe the States beforehand prudentlie prouiding for their securitie do send the Lord Schonwalley as their Ambassadour vnto the French king and the said Duke his brother but or euer this ambassage could take effect or once be solicited the said Duke of Aniow remouing himselfe to the Castle of Theodor incontinentlie fell most grieuouslie sicke the blood gushing out of all the pores of his bodie as if his veines had béene burst with too much vehement ryding So as at length refusing naturall sustenance after the fortieth day of his sicknes come gone he died on the 10. of Iune in the yéere of our Lord 1584. At his death being in good mind memory it is affirmed he would not haue anie Monke or such other person for his Confessor He acknowledged professed and protested to such as were present at his death That hee reposed all his hope in the bloodshedding of Iesus Christ onelie as his onelie and alone Sauiour which thing for certaine the author of this historie had related vnto him by credible persons then present which his death some say was not without suspition of poysoning His desire before he died was to be buried as Gouernour and Duke of Brabant with his coate armour shields of armes and such other appurtenances to the same dominions vsuall and accustomed but his brother the French kings Counsellors thought it not so conuenient for fauour that they bare to the king of Spaine He was somewhat aboue the meane stature of men well compact of bodie of a swart complexion blacke eyed blacke head curled of a hie forehead a greater nose then anie his ancestors had he was very fierce of nature wittie eloquent affable nobly minded bountifull ambitious nothing blood thirstie or desirous of reuenge but mercifull and curteous not contemning anie man for religion sake yet vnquiet quicke and hastie in his doings but for all this as his disposition sufficientlie well shewed a peaceable person as appeared by his indeuours when hee went vnto the king of Nauarre now king of Fraunce as then being his aduersarie the Ambassadors of the Low-countries then thither accompanying the said Duke Men say that he two dayes before his death sent a copie of his testament vnto the king his brother and therein declared the great sorrow of his heart in that he had offended his Maiestie with his doings and enterprises he requested of him manie things especiallie he humbly beséecheth him to bee gratious Soueraigne Lord vnto many his retained Nobles and Officers at armes lately seruing him in the Low-countries and there impouerishing themselues And further where he in conscience was touched with consideration of a certaine debt to the summe of 300000. Florens which he had not yet satisfied he humblie besought his Maiestie of all brotherly loue betwéene them to take some order for the payment thereof acknowledging touching his presentabilitie that he could not leaue behinde him sufficient restitution or satisfaction neither should he carrie away with him out of this world into his graue anie other riches but the teares and sighes of sorrowfull persons to conclude he desired neither sumptuous nor statelie funerall but wished the monument of his memorie to be founded and fixed in the mindes of his friends and vassals Whose funerall in decent and honourable maner the king his brother accordingly accomplished within the Citie of Paris in the month of August that yéere 1584. Thus much for the manner of the gouernment actions life and death of the said Duke of Aniow after he was Gouernour in the Low-countries being for the space of two yéeres and a halfe as before is declared You haue heard hitherto what interchange of Gouernours haue béene on both sides as well for and vnder the king of Spaine as for the States what wars what slaughters of men and what infinite charges and troubles it hath béene for all parts and yet no placart of peace purchased at the Pope and King of Spaines hands but rather the one more like blood thirstie