his brother Mathieu vanderburcht VVilliam Osthorne Adam van Schotlandt Didier of Assendelf Nicholas Oom and Floris of Adrichom all knights Frederic of Seuenter VVilliam of Assendelf Gerard Schoten Ieams of Bakenesse and Floris of Bockhorst all squires and many other gentlemen Among the chiefe families of Friseland were these of Laminga Helbada Roopta Ockinga Eysinga Decama Tyebinga Martena Beyma Offinga-huysen Aylewa Hiddama Hittinga Botnia Roorda Hottinga Mamiga Herema Hannia Wiarda Hanniama Oustema Ripperda Ioppama Simada Gerbranda Grattinga Reynalda Wybalda Gronstins Douwa Harweysma Calama Hiddama Ieppama Their Podestat or Gouernour at that time which made head against the Normanes and Danes was Regnerus Hayo à Camminga WILLIAM THE FOVRTH OF THAT name the three and twentieth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland and Earle of Henault â—…3 Guilielmus Hanonia I am the selfesame man that with a courage bold Within Numidia ventured my ensignes to vnfold And did besiege and take the strong and mightie towne Of Vtrecht by the which I wan great honour and renowne For which good fortune I ordained once in euery yeare Procession to be made the same in memorie to beare In Friseland I was slaine in face of th' enemie And by Bolsweert in Fleurchamp my corps intomb'd doth lie WILLIAM Earle of Ostreuant and of Henault after the death of the good Cont William his father was the three and twentieth Earle of Holland and Zeeland and Lord of Friseland Hee had to wife in his fathers life the lady Ioane eldest daughter to the duke of Lothier Brabant and Lembourg by whom he had not any children He was a hardie and warlike man much giuen to armes making his high chiualrie famous at his first comming to these Earledomes and Seigniories This Earle hearing that the Spaniards had great wanes against the Saracens and Moores in the Realme of Grenado caused a great number of shippes to bee rigged in the yeare 1338. and went into Spaine where hauing made an alliance with the king they went with their vnited forces to assayle the Moores and to besiege the towne of Grenado the which they battered and in the end tooke by assault putting all to the sword that would not be baptised and embrace the faith of Iesus Christ then passing farther into the countrey they spoiled and burnt all they encountred From thence Cont William hauing taken leaue of the king of Spaine of whom he receiued by way of courtesie many rich presents bent his course towards Ierusalem where hauing visited the holy Sepulchre of our Lord hee returned into his countrey Afterwards he went with the Emperour Lewis of Bauiere his brother in law beeing accompanied with the Earles of Gueldres of Zutphen of Cleues of Iuilliers of Blois his brother of Monts of Marcke and of many other Princes and Barons with a goodly Armie to succour Edward the third king of England his other brother in law and to make warre against the king of Fraunce the which the said Edward pretended to belong vnto him but both Armies being readie and prepared to fight an agreement was made betwixt the two kings by the mediation of some and euery one retired to his owne home In the yeare 1342 Cont William held open Court at la Haye in Holland whither he inuited all Princes Noblemen Barons Knights Ladies and Gentlewomen that would come The feast being spent in many goodly exercises of Chiualrie in Iousts Tourneys and other sports which done and ended the Earle went with a goodly trayne of his Nobilitie to a Tourney that was proclaymed in the towne of Beauuois in Beauuoisin whereas hee purchased great honour aboue all other knights Returning from thence into his countries he prepared to go into Prussia to make warre with the Teuton knights against the Infidels Russians where he behaued himselfe so valiantly as there was no speech but of his prowesse and valour And after that he had runne ouer all Lithuania Liuonia and the frontiers of the Russians hee returned into Holland his men beeing laden with the wealth and spoyles of these Barbarians Passing by Cologne being followed by foure hundred horse hee kept open Court there for all the princes of Germanie by whome hee was also very honourably entertained yea they would haue chosen him Emperour notwithstanding that Lewis duke of Bauiere his brother in law was possessed thereof but it was by reason of the thundering excommunications of Pope Clement the which hee flatly refused saying That hee was not capable of such a charge neyther would hee doe that wrong vnto Lewis In the yeare 1345 Cont William prepared a mightie Armie to subdue the East-Frisons Whilest that they made this preparation for warre there past some bitter speeches betwixt them of Holland and Vtrecht for the which the Earle defied them They seeing themselues thus defied aâ—…ed and went to field daring to attend the Earle in battaile where he defeated them twice the last was at Marendyck betwixt Vtrecht and Montfort where there died many of the Traiectins the rest fled confusedly into their towne of Vtrecht The Earle being victor and master of the field went presently with a hundred and fiftie thousand men to besiege the towne of Vtrecht with an intent to ruine and destroy it There were in his armie the duke of Lembourg thirteene Earles two and fiftie Barons two thousand eight hundred knights and much Nobilitie of the countrey of Vtrecht it selfe who beeing discontented with the bishop and temporall prince had taken armes against him among others Asuerus of Aibconde and Ghisbrecht his sonne Arnold Seignior of Iselstein Iohn Vicont of Montfort Henry Seignior of Vianen Ghisbrecht Seignior of Starkenburch Arnold Seignior of Woluen and Frederic of Hamme The Earle began to inuest the towne on S. Odolphes day and did batter it continually with great furie six weekes together but seeing that such a towne with such strong and high wals was not easily woon by assault meaning one night to sound the depth of the towne ditch hee was shot with an arrow in the muscle of the thombe and was carried backe into his Tent whereof notwithstanding hee was soone cured Robert of Arckel Gouernour of the Towne Countrey and Diocesse of Vtrecht in the absence of the bishop his brother beeing out of the countrey for the causes before mentioned writ vnto the said bishop in what sort hee was besieged by the Earle of Holland in the towne of Vtrecht and the necessitie hee was in praying him to make hast to succour him Hereupon the bishop posteth thither and by the assistance and persuasion of Iohn of Beaumont earle of Blois vncle to Cont William he obtained a peace by the which it was said That fiue hundred of the chiefe bourgesses of Vtrecht should come bare headed and bare footed before the Earle of Hollands Tent and crie him mercie for the iniuries and infamous speeches which they had vsed against him and against his honour and when it should please him to call
speech and yet subiect to choller high minded and not willing to be braued of any how great soeuer as hee did often shew to King Charles the 7. and Lewis the 11. of France he was very curious to entertaine peace with his subiects whom hee loued and sought their quiet so in his time all his countries flourished in wealth and aboundance Hee was a wiseman discreet charitable and a great Almes-giuer by reason whereof hee was called the good but full of reuenge and very ambitious desiring to make himself great by what means so-euer as appeared by so many fals bounds which he played to the contesse of Holland his cosin He exceeded all his Predecessors Dukes of Bourgongne in riches Seigneories greatnes of state and pompe so as in his time there was no Christian Prince that for his qualitie might be compared vnto him He tooke pleasure to breed vp and nourish sundry strange and wilde beasts He had a Gyant and many Turks among his houshold seruants which he had caused to be baptized The Duke being dead the Earle of Charolois his onely sonne and sole heire called for the Seales the which he presently brake This done after that he had giuen order for the dead body vntill his returne he tooke poste and went to Lille where he sealed vp the chamber and the cofers of his fathers treasure appointing gardes that none might touch them then he returned presently to Bruges where hee perfourmed the funeralles of his father with great pompe and state his heart was buried in the Church of Arras and his body was layed in a coffin of leade and left in the Church vntill that it should be transported from thence to Ierusalem and interred neere to the holy Sepulchre hauing giuen great giftes to the Couent of Fryars of the said Sepulcher The Lady Isabel his wife dyed the 17. of December in the yeare 1471. in the towne of Aire and was interred in the cloyster of Nunnes at Gouvay by Bethune afterwards her bodie and the duke her husbands were carried to the Chartreux by Digeon in Bourgongne where as they lie vnder a stately tombe of brasse guilt richly curiously wrought About that time the art of Printing was inuented wherof those of Harlem in Holland challenge the first honor yet afterwards it was brought to perfection at Mentz by one that had been seruant to Laurence Ianson of Harlem the first inuentor and ranne from him to Mentz with his tooles they write his name was Iohn Faustus as they of Harlem do constantly affirme Carolus Dux Burgund CHARLES THE WARLIKE THE 1. OF that Name the 31. Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Frizeland Duke of Bourgongne Brabant Lembourg Luxemburg Earle of Flanders Arthois Henault and Namur Lord of Salins and Macklyn Of so many goodly Countries successor to my father Of three wiues I had but one only heire At Montlehery I defeyted the French brauely At Macklyn I erected my heigh Parliament Being incensed I made the Liegeois feele my splene If against the Cantons I had not taken Armes I had beene more happie and cruell death Had not shewed his force against me at Nancy The Argument of the fourth Booke CHARLES Duke of Bourgongne in the life of his father the good Duke Philip was called Earle of Charolois the 31. Earle of Holland c. At his first entrie into Gant the Inhabitants maintayned against him but he brought them vnder The Liegeois breake the peace and entred into warre against the Duke he defeats them in Battaile wherevpon the Towne of Liege yeelded The Duke of Bourgongne makes a peace with the French king who comes to the Duke to Peronne hee was in feare there least the Duke should haue detained him The Liegeois arme a newe against the Duke of Bourgongne he forceth King Lewis to go with him to the fiege of their Towne the which he ruines practises to ruine the house of Brederode The Duke makes war against the Frisons He entertaines many Princes with the hope of marrying with his daughter The french king the Duke of Bourgongne seek to deceiue one another The Constable of S. Poll growes odious to thē both they resolut to ruine him He seeks to reconcile the duke of Gelders his son besiegeth Neuse The motiue of the war against the Swisses A truce for nine years betwixt the Duke and the French king they sweare the Constables death who in the end is beheaded at Paris The duke makes war against the Swisses he is defeated by them first at Granson then at Morat wherewith the Swisses were inriched the Duke besiegeth Nancy where he was slaine in battaile by the treason of the Earle of Campobachio an Italian Marie of Bourgongne his only daughter succeeds him and was the 32. commanding in Holland c The French Long seazeth vpon the townes of Piccardie and Arthois with an intent to ruine her this Princesse being in the Ganthois power suffers much putting her cheefest seruants and Councellors to death the Flemings defeated and the yong Duke of Gellers slaine A marriage betwixt Maximilian of Austria the Emperor Fredericks sonne and the Lady Marie of Bourgongne CHARLES of Bourgongne called the Warlike for that hee had been so great a Warrior succeeded vnto Duke Philip of Bourgongne his father in all his Estates Siegneories was Duke of Bourgongne Brabant Lembourg and Luxembourg Earle of Flanders Arthois Henault Bourgongne Holland Zeeland and Namur Marquis of the holy Empire and Lord of Friseland Salins and Macklyn His father hauing left him great treasures of Gold and Siluer hee bought or as some write had in morgage of Sigismond Arch-duke of Austria the Earledome of Ferret in the Countrie of Elsatia neere vnto Basill in Swisserland vpon the Rhin somewhat neere to the Dutchie of Bourgongne and too farre from Sigismond to defend it from the incursions of neighbour Princes Hee was 33. yeare olde when hee succeeded all these goodly Estates Katherine the daughter of King Charles the 7. of France was first promised him to wife but she dyed yong before she was married Afterwards hee married Elizabeth daughter to the Duke of Burbon his cousin by whome hee had one daughter and onely heire called Marie This Dutches Elizabeth being dead he marryed Marguerite daughter to Richard Duke of Yorke and sister to Edward the fourth King of England by whom hee had not any children His father gaue him in his youth to maintaine his estate the Earldome of Charolois which is in the Contie of Bourgongne otherwise called Franch Contie with the Siegniors of Bethune Arckel and Bellain In his fathers life time he wanne from the Sea a great circuit of countrie opposite to Rotterdam causing a Village to be built there the which hee called with the whole countrie by his name Charolois and so it continues vnto this day Hee had begunne a great fort in the towne of Gorrichom vppon the Riuer of Wahal but it remained during his life
as much as this seemeth strange to some to giue heretickes leaue to sowe their heresies let vs see if it be possible to preuent their assemblies and doubtlesse if we looke vnto experience the perfect mistresse of all things we shall find it is as possible to hinder it as it is impossible to keepe them from beleeuing of that which they think fit and agreeing with the word of God Haue we not I pray you seene the great power of the most victorious Emperour Charles the fifth of famous memory who made all the world to tremble Haue we not seene his incredible diligence to suppresse this Religion Haue we not seene the rigorous Edicts which he made And wherto tended it but to hinder the preaching of this new Religion and that they which made profession thereof should forbeare their assemblies for he knew well their hearts could not be forced and yet he preuayled nothing notwithstanding all his prohibitions It may be they assembled in some strange countrey where they had greater libertie no no but contrariwise all the princes in Christendome together with the Pope were resolued to root them out and to giue them no place of retreat but all was in vaine How doe we then thinke that the kings power the which out of doubt is not greater than the Emperors can hinder it seeing that now France England Germany Scotland and all the countries about are open vnto them to retire themselues and to vse the libertie that is here denied them whereas they haue so many princes and kings on their side whereas the number is multiplied by infinite thousands Without doubt they that gaue his Maiesty this counsell shew plainely that either they want iudgement or els they seeke to settle their owne greatnesse to the preiudice of the king and the ruine of the countrey Let them examine all the hystories of the world and they shall find That when any new Religion hath beene grounded vpon the inward persuasion of the word of God that all the striuing in the world could neuer hinder but the exterior discipline thereof would haue it course The Romane Emperors could neuer force the Iewes to receiue their statutes into their Temples nor hinder the Christians from their assemblies who desired rather to liue like sauage beasts in caues and rockes than to abandon the exercise of their Religion I will not examine if their quarrell be like vnto this so it is that they are as well persuaded in their hearts that they follow the word of God and that they are commaunded to assemble and preach as they were which persuasion can neuer bee wrested from them by any violence For they say among themselues That if they should be allowed to beleeue what they would so as they would forbeare to teach and assemble were as much as if they should suffer a man to liue so as he would take no refection and nourishment for they maintaine that Faith is entertained by the preaching of the word euen as the life of the body is by the nourishment of meat But admit it were possible to forbid their assemblies they must proceed either by rigour and force or by gentlenesse and persuasions that is they must either corrupt them or els force them to doe against the testimonie of their consciences and falsifie their faith which they owe vnto God It is most certaine that the constant and vertuous will rather chuse a thousand deaths than to doe any thing against their consciences so as with them there were nothing to bee gotten As for the rest who for feare or hope would denie their faith first they should grieuously offend the diuine Maiestie and damne their owne soules by this false-hood and dissimulation for that they should sinne doubly first to haue embraced the error and afterwards more to haue falsified the faith and testimonie of their conscience and to haue dealt doubly whereas God requireth synceritie and plainenesse so as they that should force them thereunto should be the cause of their more grieuous damnation They then which counsell the king to force or corrupt his subiects to the end they should dissemble and make shew of any other Religion than that which they beleeue in their hearts are the cause of the disloyaltie which they commit against God and the king For without doubt he that shall carrie himselfe disloyally vnto God eyther for feare or hope it is to be presumed that by the same passions he will carry himselfe as disloyally vnto the king when as time and occasion shall be offered Constantius father to Constantine the great although he were a Pagan yet hee called Christians into his Court and admitted them to fauour whom hee did see ready to abandon goods and honours yea their owne liues rather than to be disloyall vnto the God whome they did worship yea hee held them worthie of his friendship and did impart vnto them his most important affaires And in truth the king hath no subiects more faithfull than those which obey him for conscience that is to say because God hath so commaunded it They which falsifie their conscience to please the king or for any other priuate respect shew that they doe not obey the king for conscience onely but for some other particular affection And if they make no difficultie to falsifie their consciences in the seruice of God without doubt it is to bee feared that when any passion or affection should moue them eyther the feare of death or the losse of goods and credite or some such like things they would make no greater difficultie to falsifie their faith which they owe vnto the king So as they which giue this counsell vnto the king shew their ignorance for that they seeke to root out them which in simplicitie and synceritie of heart yeeld obedience vnto God and the king And as for those which proceed disloyally and against their consciences they are not onely content to suffer them but also to aduaunce them vnto honours as wee haue seene by some examples of those who hauing before made profession of this Religion haue afterwards without being condemned of errour onely to aspire to honour and credit turned their coats To conclude although it were a thing possible to force or corrupt the Protestants to abandon their Religion and to doe against their consciences yet were it not expedient for the good of the Commonweale But as I haue said it is not possible to hinder them vnlesse they will ruine them and put them to death The which were hard to compasse for in the place of one they should put to death tenne others would rise and those which die so constantly rather than renounce their faith are held for good men by the common people who haue more regard to the constancie than to the cause which they maintaine whereupon they haue a desire to examine the cause and come to fall into the same opinions so as this must needs cause them to multiplie
married before his departure in Spaine but one daughter that died very young After his death his wife maried the lord of Floyon of the house of Barlamont and after earle of Barlamont who after her death maried with the onely daughter and heire of the earle of Lalaine These lords manner of life and Religion could not escape the Spanish furie although they were most earnest and good catholickes the marquesse of Berghen being so earnest therein that he commaunded all catholicke offices to be performed within his gouernment and caused the children of those of the reformed Religion to be baptised againe neither yet could the intercession of the emperour the princes of Germany and others preuaile any thing therein Touching the liues actions and seruices of these lords done for the king and the benefite of the Netherlands many men in other countries round about were of opinion that they only were the principallest instruments both by counsell and action of the kings good and prosperous proceedings victories and greatnesse and that his affaires through his father the emperours crosses in Germanie and his weakenesse of bodie being at an ebbe were by theirs and other Netherlanders means so much furthered and aduanced that thereby they brought Fraunce to graunt to so good and an honourable peace in his behalfe But it was their euill fortunes that they were too well beloued and fauoured of the common people and by their vpright and good seruices together with other Netherlanders had gotten ouer-great credite and report in euery place whereby they had not onely mooued and enticed the people to yeeld great tributes taxes tallages and honours vnto the king but also procured great seruices to be done for him in other countries as in Germany c. And when the king with his counsell in Spaine had fully resolued to bring the Netherlands vnder full obedience and subiection by the Inquisition and other strange deuices brought into it and other countries whether it were of zeale vnto the Romish catholicke Religion or that he ouer-much desired his owne profite and greatnesse hee sought and expected from those lords that they should and would vse and put in practise their authoritie and power aforesaid among the common people as they had done before wherein they did not acquite themselues so well as the vnexperienced counsellors in Spaine concerning the affaires of the Netherlands desired and expected they should haue done which the said lords esteemed to bee cleane contrarie vnto the kings seruice and the profit of the Netherlands as also thinking it to bee a thing vnreasonable for them to withstand and contrary their owne friends kindred countrey lawes and priuiledges knowing better than they of Spaine wherein the profit and commoditie of the Netherlands and consequently the aduancement of the kings honour and seruice chiefely consisted esteeming it vnpossible to hold and maintaine a people that had alwaies liued in freedome in peace and quietnesse by such odious kind of rigour as the proclamations and the Inquisition brought in and inflicted vpon them For which cause they seeing the proceedings of their neighbour countries sought to procure and induce the king to a necessarie kind of altering or moderating of his pretended course by diuers and seuerall meanes for the maintenance and preseruation of the catholicke Romish Religion which otherwise stood in great danger to be ouerthrowne which disliked and much displeased the king and his counsell and was the matter of Treason as the Spaniards supposed for the which they must die others measuring their actions by another way esteemed and iudged them both by God and mans law to haue iustly deserued to die for that in so good 〈◊〉 cause wherein so much consisted the honour of God Religion the countries welfare and the kings profit they were not more vigilant carefull prouident and earnest than they had beene but through feare and suspition of the kings carelesnesse beeing badly informed by the enemies of the countrey suffered themselues to be easily carried away and to let such cases of importance as the abolishing of the proclamations for the assembling of the States and such like priuiledges graunted in times past to be taken away from the Netherlands by prouiso whereby they made the other lords and gentlemen become faint hearted and partly holpe and assisted to persecute them contrarie to their owne promises wils and consciences seeing and knowing wherein the honour of God the Religion the countries welfare and the profite of the king most consisted better than any other counsellors about him did as time it selfe hath sufficiently made manifest and declared Some others argued to the contrarie excusing them That they thereby hoped to pacifie the kings wrath when he should see and perceiue the obedience of his subiects and the weightinesse of the cause together with the daungers therein consisting and so might be mooued to a softer and more conuenient remedie Wherein also they were much deceiued which the prince of Orange and others had sufficiently foretold them as that they would bee the bridge and onely instrument vpon the which and wherewith the Spaniards would enter into the Netherlands counselling and aduising them rather to kepe all strangers out of the land vntill the king by aduice of the generall States should be better counselled Generally euery man esteemed that the king could reape no good nor profit by the rigor and crueltie that he had vsed against those earles and other noblemen and gentlemen but be a meanes to breed much hatred euill will and desperation among the people towards him which since hath cost many mens liues and consumed a great masse of treasure These were the common and generall opinions of all well experienced persons in matters concerning estate in other princes countries and courts touching their deaths Cont Lodowic of Nassau hauing gotten the victorie against Cont Arembergh and the Spaniards diuided his armie into two with the which he went to besiege Groningen a great and mightie towne in the countrey of Friseland not without great admiration of all men how hee durst with so few men and so little munition attempt such a towne whereas the earle of Meghen was with eighteene ensignes of Germanes and a thousand Spaniards and Curio Martinengue with three hundred horsemen The besieged made many braue sallies and among others one on the two and twentieth of Iune in the which the earle of Nassau lost aboue two hundred men seeking to hinder them from building of a fort betwixt two riuers In the meane time Chiapin Vitelli marshal of the campe to the duke of Alua gathered together what men he could with the which he aduanced whilest that the duke prepared to rayse the siege Chiapin camped on the one side of the towne not farre from Cont Lodowics Protestants who sent to offer him battaile but he excused himselfe The duke of Alua sent to entreat the emperour in the king his masters name that he would commaund the earle of Nassau to leaue the siege
Winckell a furious battaile was fought wherein the Hollanders hauing the worst cont Arnold with a great number of the chiefe of his nobilitie were slaine in the yeare 993 the day after S. Lambert which was the eighteenth of October hauing gouerned Holland and Zeeland fiue yeares after the decease of his father he is interred in the abbie of Egmont by his father and grandfather leauing his eldest sonne Thierry the third for his successor in the said earledomes Hee had also another sonne called Ziffrid the Frisons call him Sicco who being fallen in disgrace with his father to auoid his displeasure went voluntarily into exile into the countrie of Friseland where he was courteously receiued by Gosso Ludingama then Potestat or gouernour of the Frisons with whose daughter he fell in loue and married hir without the priuitie of the earle his brother of whome hee had two sonnes the eldest he called Thierry by his grandfathers name and Simon Afterward Ziffrid being reconciled to his father was made his lieutenant in the quarter of Kennemerland and had for his part a portion of land measured with the great yard the word of Breede-roede signifieng a Great Yard so as euer since the siegneorie of the said Ziffrid hath retained the name of Brederode vnto this day His father did also giue him the castell of Theylingen the which Ziffrid did giue and bequeath vnto Simon his yoongest sonne from whome discended the familie of Theylingen at this present quite extinct by the death of two brethren which remained the which were both slaine in battaile by the Frisons with Cont William of Hainalt the fourth of that name their prince as wee shall hereafter see and how that also by the like accident of war we haue seene die without leauing any issue foure braue knights of the house of Brederode being yet in the flower of their youth not any one remaining of that house at this day but three bretheren the eldst Walrauen lord of BREDERODE baron of Vianen and of Ameyden Florent the second brother lately deceased left one sonne lord of Cloetinghen heire apparent of the whole house and Maximilian the youngest who liues in Brabant There are many of the same house bearing the same surname and armes but broken gentlemen come of bastards The Epitaph of this earle Arnold preserued with many others in the ruines of the said abbie of Egmont whereas most of the earles of Holland haue bene interred hauing bene recouered by me although it be but grossely composed as also the rest that follow yet could I not omit them for that they shewed their antiquitie the which is not wholy to be reiected Such was the Epitaph of the said earle and the ladie Lutgard his wife Gloria carnalis pernicibus euolat alis Et quasi non fuerit cum moriente perit Hic Comes Arnulphus patrioe tutela sepultus Expectat requiem Iudicijque diem Iste venustauit hac sancta locumque beauit Terris mancipijs oedibus Ecclesijs Qui bis septenas Octobre rotante Calendas Hostili gladio transijté medio Laudibus meritò similis Lutgarda marito Complexu fedei consepelitur ei Per tauri sydus ternas Maius regit Idus Dum Comitissa pijs fungitur exequijs This Countesse Lutgarda wife to Cont Arnold and daughter to Theophanes Emperour of Constantinople and of Greece died in the month of May but I find not in what yeare She lies by hir husband in the abbie that was of Egmont THIERRY THE THIRD OF THAT name sonne to Cont ARNOLD was fourth Earle of Holland Zeeland and Lord of Friseland 4 Theodoricus Tertius This THIERRY to reuenge his fathers death in hast With forces great to Freeseland marcht and laid the countrie wast Saâ—…ked the townes and slue the towns-men cruelly And made the bishop of Vtrecht his prisoner valiantly On pilgrimage he went vnto the Holy land And there the Turkes in Palestine did mightily withstand And being home return'd vnto his spouse most true At six and fortie yeares of age did yeeld to death his due THIERRY the third of that name after the death of Cont Arnold his father was in number the fourth Earle of Holland and Zeeland and lord of Friseland Being come vnto the Principalitie he demaunded homage of the Frisons the which being denied him dissembling the discontent and the desire of reuenge he had for his fathers death he then surceased to make any further question attending some fitter opportunitie He tooke to wife in his fathers life time Withild daughter to the emperour Otho the second duke of Saxe whome he had of his second wife daughter to the Marquis of Austria Of which Withild Cont Thierry had two sonnes the eldest was called as his father and the fourth of that name earle of Holland the second was Floris earle of East-Friseland who after the death of his brother without children succeeded in the said counties of Holland Zeeland and siegneorie of Friseland After the death of Anfrid the 18 bishop of Vtrecht issued from the race of Charlemagne Adelbold descended from Manson a nobleman of the countrie of Friseland was chosen Bishop for his great knowledge as well in Diuinitie as in other liberall arts hee had bene Councellor to the emperour Henry the second he was the first bishop that began to aduance himselfe and to make war against the Hollanders For when as Thierry the third earle of Holland had liued some time in rest and peace and that Walbold deane of the Cathedrall church of Vtrecht was made bishop of Liege who before had bene chiefe chancellor to Adelbold dissuading him stil from all attempts of warre this Walbold being thus retired to his bishoprike Adelbold desirous of alterations would needs without any colour make warre against the Earle and the Hollanders The causes and motiues of this war were That Adelbold had animated the Frisons and fortified them to rise rebell against Cont Thierry their naturall lord moreouer this bishop had aduaunced a gentleman called Didier Bruno to bee earle of Bodegrauen and of Suvamerdam who did greatly wrong and oppresse the Hollanders his neighbours wherupon Cont Thierry went with his troups to assaile him and hauing defeated him in battaile hee expelled him by force out of his siegneorie The bishop bearing it impatiently to see his vassall thus expelled leuied an armie with an intent to restore him by force so the 9 of Iune in the yeare 1018 the bishop hauing brought his men to field betwixt Bodegraue Suvamerdam the earle Thierry went to charge them being accompanied by his brother Ziffrid lieutenant of Kennemerland by Iohn lord of Arkel the siegneor Iohn of Persin the vicount of Leyden and many other braue knights and gentlemen But this incounter proued vnfortunat for the bishop wherin he was defeated and put to rout There died on his side among the most remarkable Wyger Aduoe that is to say Aduocat generall of the diocesse of Vtrecht
began to fish for herrings at the mouth of the riuer of Meuse and in the Brittish sea along the coast of Holland Zeeland and Friseland the first fishing was about the island of Bryele where as they did fish with small barkes called Sabards Those of Zirixee were the first that did fish and packt them vp in barrels Those of Bierulyet a small island vpon the coast of Flanders the better to preserue them being salted inuented the meanes to gill them and to pull out the garbage or els they would soone corrupt In the yere 1190 the emperor Frederic being in Nicea a citie of Bythynia hauing extreame heat he went into a riuer to bath him but the violence of the streame carried him away he was drowned in the presence of all his people who could not helpe him About which time Floris the third Earle of Holland fell sicke in the armie died in this voyage and was interred by the emperor Frederic hauing gouerned his prouinces seuen and twentie yeares Ada his his wife did suruiue him eighteene yeares and died in the yere 1208 being interred in the abbey of Middlebourg in Zeeland William their sonne hauing accompanied his father as wee haue said at his returne passing through Germanie he maried the daughter of Frederic duke of Suabe whom he enioyed not long THIERRY THE SEVENTH OF THAT name foureteenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland 14 Theodoricus Septimus In peace I was most mild in warre both stout and bold And did my brother ouerthrow and Frisons pride controld In Flanders Gelder and Brabant victoriously I ouercame my enemies and Boisleduke valiantly Did enter but by chance there prisoner I was made My wife that was a lady faire to name ALIDE had Irul'd full thirteene yeares and did much fear'd of many For that for courage in my time like me there was not any THIERRY the seuenth of that name and fourteenth Earle of Holland after the decease of Cont Floris his father in Palestina succeeded in all his earledomes He had to wife Aleydâ—… Alix or Adella daughter to Didier earle of Cleue by whom he had notany sonnes but two daughters excreding faire whereof the first called Adella was maried to Henry of Gueldre and died without children ther Ada whom the mother after the decease of her father against the liking and consent of all tâ—…e noblemen of Holland maried to Cont Lewis of Loos who was but of meane calling shee being Contesse of Holland This Cont Thierry hauing after the decease of his father gouerned his countries quietly for the space of fiue yeares the lord William of Holland being returned from Palestina where hee had buried Cont Floris their father vpon some false reports entred into contention with him By reason whereof William retired himselfe into Friseland to the Dreuthers with whom being entred into league he made many roads into Holland On the other side Baldwin earle of Flanders entred with an armie into the isle of Walchren which lay neere vnto him Cont Thierry seeing himselfe assaulted on two sides leuied all the men he could and diuided them into two armies the one he took with himself and the other he left to the Contesse Adella his wife to lead against William his brother and to suppresse the Frisons Cont Thierry imbarked with his armie and landed in Zeeland from whence after a great battaile he chased the Flemings His wife with her troups went from Egmont towards Alcmar to fight with the Frisons The lord William of Holland came to incounter her with his men and presented himself in battaile but as they of Winckel and Nieudorp hauing retired themselues on the one side refusing to fight against their princesse being corrupted with mony the Kennemers did chase the Frisons vnto a certain strait which was a marish ground ful of reeds William seeing his Frisons wauer and readie to Breake incouraged them so wiâ—…words and behaued himselfe so valiantly in his owne person as hauing long defended themselues in the end hee carried them backe into their owne countrey with small losse The Frisons seeing his indeuors and how faithfully William of Holland had assisted them they trusted him more than before making him their head their podestate and their captaine generall Cont Thierry hauing succesfully ended the wars in Zeeland returned with his armie into Holland into the quarter of Kennemerlandt to make more violent war against the Frisons and his brother William But to the end these two brethren should not pollute themselues any more with the bloud of their subiects by their ciuile wars Baldwin bishop of Vtrecht Didier cathedrall prouost of the said bishopricke and Otto earle of Benthem vncles to these two brethren laboured all they could to reconcile them by whom it was concluded That Thierry as the elder brother should remain Earle of Holland and Zeeland and that William should hold of his brother in fee the countrey of East and West Friseland on either side the riuer of Flie vnto that of Lanuvers and moreover should receiue for an annuall pension out of the custome of Ghoervlyet the summe of eighteen hundred liures The Frisons vnderstand not how nor by what title this diuision of Friseland was made wherof there is not any mention made in their Annals yet some writers confesse that they yeelded hereunto in fauour of William of Holland but they deny that it was vpon condition to hold it in fee of Cont Thierry and to do him homage or to any other prince seeing there was neuer any thing more odious vnto them than to bee subiect to any other superioritie than the empire according to their antient liberties freedoms by priuiledges giuen them by antient emperors whereof they haue alwayes been very iealous and strict obseruers euen vnto the death This peace made betwixt the two brethren William returned into Friseland where he was honourably receiued and from that time during his life acknowledged for their prince where he built a castle called Osterzee in the which hee made his ordinarie aboad and residence After the death of Baldwin of Holland bishop of Vtrecht vncle to Cont Thierry being readie to proceed to the election of a new bishop Thierry Earle of Holland Otto earle of Gueldre came both armed into the citie of Vtrecht which was the cause of great iealousie and discord betwixt the chanoims and chapter for that some did chuse Didier cathedrall prouost of Vtrecht brother vnto Baldwin the last bishop and vncle to the Earle of Holland others had chosen Arnould of Isenbourgh prouost collegiall of Deuenter who was supported by the earle of Gueldre and by all those of the countrey of Ouerissel The emperor placed Didier of Holland there by prouision vntill it were iudicially determined by the Roman sea â—…o administer the goods of the said bishoprick as he did but that the earle of Gueldre hâ—…ndred him from the receiâ—… of any thing in the prouince of Ouerissell By â—…eason whereof Cont
Friseland 16 Guilielmus Primus This WILLIAM by great policie did breake the chaine Which crosse the Hauen of Damiet the Sarasins had layne Whereby the Harlemers great honour did obtaine Record whereof within their Towne as yet doth still remaine Two wiues he had whereof one out of Geldre came The second MARY called was a princely English dame Full nineteene yeares he rul'd and peaceably possest His countries and in Rhynsburgh died whereas his bones do rest WILLIAM the sixteenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland hauing as we haue said in the time of the Contesse Ada expelled the earle of Loos remained in quiet possession of the said prouinces He had by his wife Alix daughter to the earle of Gueldre Floris who succeeded him in the said Earledomes Otto bishop of Vtrecht and William who was lieutenant of Holland the which was father to the lady Alix married to Didier lord of Brederode and two daughters whereof the one was Abbesse at Rhynsbourg and the other at Delft This Cont William did homage to the Emperor Frederic the second for his Counties of Holland Zeeland and Friseland Afterwards vpon a priuate quarell he went and besieged the castle of Aspren hauing taken it he rased it to the ground Cont Gerard vander Are brother to Didier bishop of Vtrecht in reuenge therof went and besieged the town of Dordrecht into the which he cast wild fire which burnt almost halfe of it Soone after Cont William and the bishop were reconciled together and they made an accord by the which Cont William should pay vnto the bishop a thousand pounds and restore vnto Henry of Craen all that he had taken from him for that as wee haue said before he had once put him in prison by the cōmandement of Cont Thierry his master brother to the said Cont William Item that all the Earles subiects being in the bishoprick of Vtrecht should from that time forth be vassales to the bishop as well as all his vassales remaining in Holland Item that Cont William with a hundred knights attired onely in linnen cloth and bare-footed should present themselues before the Cathedrall church of Vtrecht and being there the Earle should aske him forgiuenesse for that he had before laid hands vpon him and taken him prisoner although he were rescued in the Abbey of Staueren All which articles the Earle did accomplish fearing his excommunication and from that time the Earle and the bishop continued good friends Behold the simplicitie of Princes and the pride of prelats in those daies brauing all the world with their thundering threats At that time died Henry king of Scotland vncle by the mothers side to cont William of Holland leauing no children There was a great nobleman in Scotland who with the helpe of the king of England got possession of the realm The Earle of Holland pretending a title to the Crowne as the neerest kinsman son to the deceased kings sister imployed all his friends for the obtaining thereof and to bring it to effect being imbarked with a goodly armie he landed in Scotland where at the first he tooke many townes and castles In the meane time Lewis earle of Loos knowing Cont William to be absent and that he could not easily come out of Scotland although he had wholly conquered it leuied men secretly to make a new conquest of the Earldome of Holland but Cont VVilliam being aduertised thereof desiring rather safely to enioy his owne inheritance which he had gotten with much paine than to striue to make a doubtfull conquest in a strange countrey and farre off he returned speedily into Holland The earle of Loos hearing of his returne proceeded no further for he feared him much hauing made so good triall of him who afterwards gouerned his countries peaceably during the remainder of his dayes In the yeare 1218 the lady Alix wife to Cont VVilliam died hauing left the children aboue named and was buried in the church of the Abbey of Rhynsbourg Afterwards the said earle maried with Mary daughter to Edmond of Lancaster son to Henry the third king of England by whom he had no children About that time the inhabitants of Ziricxee in the Island of Shouven in Zeeland began to build great shippes for marchandise to traffique throughout al seas as well North as South and to make their towne famous as it was for a time by reason of their nauigation hauing fit and conuenient hauens and rodes the which haue since beene much stopped with barres of sand so as of late the inhabitants of that towne haue made a new hauen going directly to the sea before Noortbeuelandt The Earles of Zeeland who were also Earles of Holland had a palace in the towne of Ziricxee the ruines whereof are to be seene at this day It is the second towne of Zeeland We haue in the life of Cont Thier◅ the seuenth and of his daughter Ada rela◅ed briefely the deeds of this Cont VVilliam the first of that name FLORIS THE FOVRTH OF THAT name the seuenteenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland Florentius Quartus My daughter in one day as many children bare As daies within a yeare complete by vs accounted are Twelue yeares I liued Earle Mars durst me not defie But iealous loue was cause that I was murthered cruelly My wife grieu'd at my death and her so hard fortune At her owne charge for women built the cloyster of Losdune VVithout the towne of Delft my sister edified Another which le champ royal she nam'd wherein she died FLORIS the fourth of that name by the death of Cont William was the seuenteenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland his brother Otto was made Earle of Friseland in his fathers life and William the youngest was hereditarie gouernour of Kennemerlandt this William had one daughter called Alix the which was married to Didier lord of Brederode who had by her Alfart father to William of Brederode who was General of the Horse to the king of the Romans the eighteenth Earle of Holland Cont Floris had to wife Mathilda daughter to Henry duke of Lothier and Brabant by whom he had the said king William his successor and Floris who was gouernour of Holland then Alix which was Contesse of Henault and Marguerite wife to Herman earle of Henneberg who had that great number of children whereof we shall speake by and by In the time of this Earle Floris there was neere vnto the towne of Arckel a little castle vpon the place of Wolfard belonging to Iohn lord of Arckel about the which there liued some poore fishermen at which place the riuer of Meruve began to ebbe and flow for that the riuers of Meuse and Wahal the which before the towne of Tyel in Gelderland was very narrow and could not enter into that of Linge fell into it These poore fishermen called themselues Gorreckens whereof the towne of Gorrekom now Gorrichom tooke the name This lord of Arckel caused all the houses of
sexaginta q◅inque qui past quam per venerabilem Dom. Guidonem Suffragan Episcopi Traiectensis praesentibus nonnull◅s proceribus magnatibus in peluibus duabus ex aere baptismum percepissent masculis Iohannes foemellis vero Elizabeth nomina imposita fuissent simul omnes cum matre vno eodemque die fatis concesserunt in hoc Lodunensi temploiacent Quod quidem accidit ob pauperculam quandam foeminam quae ex vno partu gemellos in vlnis gestabat pueros quam rem admirans ipsa Comitissa dicebat id per vni◅m virum fieri non posse ipsamque contumeliose reiecit vnde haec paupercula animo turhata perculsa prolium tantum numerum ac multitudinem ex vno part◅ ei imprecabatur quod veltotius anni dies numerentur Quod quidem praeter naturae cursum obstupenda quadam rationeita factum est si◅ in hac tabula in perpetuam rei memoriam ex vetustis tum manuscriptis quam typis excusis Chronicis breuiter positū narratum est Deus ille ter maximus hac de re suspiciendus honorandus laudibus extollendus in sempiterna saecula Amen And vnderneath it were these two verses En tibt monstrosum memorabile factum Quale nec a mundi conditione datum At that time there were in Holland and Zeeland fiue hundred knights whereof those that follow were the chiefe Otto brother to Cont Floris William Lieutenant of Holland their brother Didier Lord of Brederode Baylife of Holland Albert his sonne who was afterwards Lord of Brederode William Lord of Theylingen and of Leck These two houses are descended from the auncient Earles of Holland then Iohn Lord of Heusden Iohn de Veen his son Iohn Lord of Arckel Herbert Lord of Botersloot Hugh his son the Lord of Altena the Lord of Lederdam the Lord of Aspren the Lord of Putten and of Streymen Henry Lord of Vorn Ieams Vicont of Leyden Didier Lord of Wassenare Ghysbrecht Lord of Amstel Henry Lord of Woerden William Didier of Theylingen brethren Symon of Harlem Isbrand of Harlem Nicholas Persin Gualter of Egmond Gerard of Egmond his sonne Wouter of Egmond Gualter of Egmond Arnould of Egmond and Nicholas of Egmond all brethren VVilliam of Heeckhuysen Korstant of Raphorst Ieams van ◅uoud Hugh of Craelingen Didier of Gode Roger Bockel Hugh of Ackersloot all renowned knights Goeselin of Ryswicke Albert Vuitten Haghe Didier van Velson Paule of Brigdam Bouven or Bauldwin van Ziburch Floris van VVoert and many other Squires WILLIAM THE SECOND OF THAT name eighteenth Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland and afterwards king of Romans 18. Guilielmus Secundus Leyden first brought thee forth thy race did make thee great VVithin the Countrey Holland thou didst hold thy soueraigne seat Thy wife ELIZA was Rome did thee king elect The Hage thou mad'st chiefe place for lawes thy people to protect In Harlem at thy charge a Cloyster thou did'st make In Friseland fighting in thine armes death life from thee did take Twice ten yeares thou wast Earle and seuen yeares a King Death neither spareth Potentate nor any liuing thing WILLIAM the second of that name after the decease of Cont Floris his father was the 18 Earle of Holland Zeeland c. being only six yeres old when his father died he was therefore vnder the guard and keeping of his vncle Otto bishop of Vtrecht He was borne in the Chamber of Holland for at that time the towne of Leyden was so called Being come to mans age hee maried Eliza or Elizabeth daughter to the duke of Brunswike by whom he had one sonne named Floris the 5 who was the 19 Earle of Holland c. He loued armes and vertue more than to gather riches The popes who had beene alwayes in gratefull to emperours and kings their benefactors hauing degraded Frederic the 2 and Conrard his son from the empire and made Henry Landtgraue of Turinge to be chosen who died soone after the princes electors seeing the popes hatred against Frederic the emperor increased daily and that there would neuer bee an end they gaue the gouernment of the empire in the yeare 1247 to William Earle of Holland c. who at the instance of Henry 2 duke of Brabant by the recommendation of his father in law Otto duke of Brunswike and by the promotion of pope Innocent was chosen king of Romans for that there was no prince in Germanie that for feare of the emperor Frederic and Conrard his son durst accept of the empire Being chosen he was solemnly receiued and crowned at Aix-la-chapelle the 1. day of Nouēber hauing first forced the said town the which vntil that day had alwayes held Frederics part to yeeld vnto him and to administer vnto him the first imperiall crowne and after the death of the emperour Frederic he was by the same pope Innocent proclaimed emperour in the citie of Lion foure yeres after his election The said Cont William king of Romans after that hee had beene crowned at Aix by Conrard bishop of Cologne being then but 20 yeares old he went to Liege whereas he graunted vnto Otto earle of Gueldres brother to the said bishop of Liege the imperiall towne and castle of Nymeghen with all the rights reuenues and iurisdictions belonging and depending thereon to hold it in fee for euer of the empire paying therefore one and twentie thousand markes of pure siluer vpon condition That it should be alwayes lawfull for the emperor or king of Romans to redeeme it again paying the said sum of 21000 marks of siluer and that if afterwards they would ingage it againe the earles of Gueldres should bee alwaies preferred and haue the choice to take or leaue it The which was afterwards confirmed by the successours of the said king William From Liege king William would go to visit all his chasteleines or castles along the riuer of Rhin the which were all open vnto him with offer of seruice except Keyser Weert where the captaine denied him the entrie the king besieged it and held his campe before it aboue a yeare in the end victuals and other prouision failing he sued for mercie The king hauing receiued the captaine into grace seeing his generositie and valour after hee had taken ◅n othe of fealtie he gaue him in mariage Catherine his cosin daughter to Alsard of Brederode and for her dowrie the chasteleine of Keyser Weert with the towne and castle for him and castle for euer to hold of the empire This done he marched towards Holland passing by the towne of Vtrecht where at the request of the bishop Otto his vncle he ratified the priuiledges giuen by former emperors to the said town and bishopricke of Vtrecht yea he augmented them much and gaue them letters patents Being returned into his countrey of Holland and making some stay there he built the palace of the Earles of Holland in the village of la Haye commonly called the Hague whereas
Prouence who was condemned to be hanged being priuy to the earle Campobachios treacherous practises and not caused him to be sodainly executed at the instance of this traitor hee might haue preuented his owne death and the ruine of his estate which the said Campobachio had plotted with the duke of Lorraine to the great content of Lewis the 11. And it is friuolous to say that in such cases prisoners condemned make such suits to prolong their liues for no aduertisements in matter of war how small soeuer from whence they may draw great coniectures and from coniectures come vnto the proofe are to be reiected And therefore wee may not wonder if things succeed not well with that prince that relies too much on the passions of his counsellors whom he should alwayes suspect to be enemies or to malice and hate him to whom they dissuade him to giue audience and the prince ought herein being well assured of his person vse his owne wisedome But let vs returne to our hystorie To pacifie these great quarrels betwixt Philip the Faire king of France Iohn of Henault earl of Holland Guy bishop of Vtrecht and Guy of Dompierre earle of Flanders and his three sonnes the duke of Bourgoigne and some other princes were intercessors and mediators on either side so as in the end an accord was made betwixt them by the which it was concluded That Guy bishop of Vtrecht shold be set at libertie shold be restored to the possession of his bishoprick the which was done That the earle of Flanders with his threesons some princes and noblemen with fortie Flemish gentlemen should be set at libertie by the king the which returned ioyfully into Flanders euerie one to his owne home But the earle after his inlargement grew so sicke as he died the 20 of March 1305 and was buried at Scluce neere vnto the contesse Marguerite his mother Some chronicles of Flanders say that he died at Campeigne in France being yet a prisoner Iohn of Henault Earlé of Holland and Zeeland Lord of West-Friseland hauing aduertisement of the victorie which God had giuen vnto VVilliam earle of Ostreuant his sonne was verie ioyfull and soone after the second day of the ides of September 1305 departed this world in peace and rest after that he had gouerned Henault 30 yeares and Holland and Zeeland c. 5 yeares and was interred at Valenciennes The lady Philip of Luxembourg his wife died soone after and was buried by her husband At the time of the death of the said Cont Iohn there were many noblemen barons knights and squiers that were renowned in the countries of Holland and Zeeland amongst the which the most famous were Guy of Henault lord of Amstel and of Woerden afterwards bishop of Vtrecht brother to the said Cont Iohn Iohn without mercie earle of Ostreuant who was slaine before the death of his father at the battaile of Courtray William who succeeded him in the said earldome of Ostreuant his second son afterwards Earle of Henault Holland Zeeland c. Iohn of Beaumont earle of Blois and of Soissons all three brethren sonnes to the said Cont Iohn of Henault Didier the Gentle lord of Brederode William and Thierry his brethren Didier lord of Theylinghen Iohn of Heusden Iohn lord of Arckel Hugh Butterman lord of Buttersloot Albert lord of Voorne Nicholas lord of Putten and of Stryen Iohn lord of Leck and Polanen Iohn lord of Hencklom Otto lord of of Aspren and Abkoy Ghysbrecht of Yselsteyn Henry vicont of Leyden Didier lord of Wassenare Henry lord of Vianen Nicholas of Persin Didier of Harlem Witten bastard of Holland lord of Hamstede in Zeeland Nicholas of Cats Peregrin lord of Lederdam and of Haestrecht William of Egmond Iohn lord of Elshaut Iohn seignior of Drongelon Didier seignior of Lyenburch Ieams vander Wuoude Gerard of Heemskerke Gerard of Polgeest seignior of Almade Simon of Benthem Wolwin of Sasse Adamâ—… Escosse Baldwin of Naeldwick Floris van Duynen Floris van Tol all knights Among the squiers William of Harlem William of Assendelf Iohn van Zil Nicholas of Adrichom Wouter of Wyck were the most markable with an infinit number of gentlemen of name and armes The yeare before the death of Cont Iohn of Henault there were so great tempests and such tides on a S. Katherines day as many banks and dikes were broken and carried away in Zeeland and the isle of Walchren was so ouerflowne as the countrey men were out of all hope to recouer their banks and if William Earle of Ostreuant who made his vsuall residence in Zeeland and the lord of Borssele had not preuented it at their owne charge this island had beene lost WILLIAM THE THIRD OF THAT name the two and twentieth Earle of Holland Zeeland and Henault Lord of Friseland 22 Guil ielmus 3 Hanoniae Cogn Bonus IOANE daughter to king CHARLES de Valois was thy spouse That brought thee children worthy thy degree and noble house Whereof one did his valour great and vertue show By mounting thee againe when as thy foes did ouerthrow Thee from thy horse whereby at last God did thee send The victorie to honour of the French as then thy friend Thou punishedst a bailife that a poore mans Cow did take And ruling thirtie yeares and one this life thou didst forsake WILLIAM the third of that name before Earle of Ostreuant after the decease of Cont Iohn of Henault his father succeeded and was the 22 Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland vnited to his county of Henault for his mildnesse gentlenesse equitie and good life hee was called The good Earle William Hee was generally beloued of all knights princes noblemen and greatly honoured of all men for his valour he was surnamed The Master of Knights Lord of Princes He had to wife Ioane the daughter of Charls of Valois brother to Philip the Faire king of France by whom he had Iohn his eldest son who died yong VVilliam earle of Ostreuant who was his successor and Lewis who died also yong Marguerite wife to Lewis duke of Bauiere emperour who after the decease of her brother VVilliam was contesse of Henault Holland Zeeland and ladie of Friseland Ioane who was maried to the earle of Iuilliers another Ioane who was queene of England and the fourth Elizabeth At his comming to these earldoms and seigniories he kept open court whither came 20 earles 100 barons 1000 knights and an infinit number of gentlemen ladies and gentlewomen comming from all parts This feast continued eight daies in all kind of sports and pastimes afterwards the princes of Germany did chuse him vicar of the empire He was much renowned throughout al Germanie in respect of two strong castles which he did win neer vnto Cologne that is Bruile Wolmestein He was founder of the chanory of Middlebourg in Zeeland walled in the town fortified it This Cont VVilliam had one brother as we haue said called Iohn of
quiet If all things go well and are in quiet said the Earl how comes it that thou bailife and judge of thy quarter hast vsed force and violence against a poore countrey man that is my subiect taking away his cow out of his pasture in despight of him then calling for the poore man he asked him if he knew him and what he could say for his cow The bailife answered That he had giuen him another Yea said the Earle but if it were not so good as his doest thou thinke to haue satisfied him therewith no no not so I will take the cause in hand and be the judge The bailife and the countrey man referred themselues willingly to what it should please the Earle to decree Wherupon the Earl appointed the escoutette of Dordrecht that as soone as he should returne to his house hee should presently without delay pay vnto the countrey man a hundred crownes of good gold to be leuied vpon the bailifes goods and that he should neuer after molest the countrey man neither in word nor deed This sentence thus pronounced both parties were satisfied which done the Earl said vnto the bailife Thou hast now agreed with the poore man but not yet with me then he commanded the escoutette to retire himselfe and to fulfill what he had inioyned him but the bailife should remain by him to make reparation of his fault and hauing sent for a ghostly father and the executioner he condemned the bailife to loose his head to serue for an example to others then being confest the Earle caused him to come before his bed and he himselfe drawing out the sword gaue it to the executioner who cut off the bailifes head in the Earles presence beeing thus sicke in bed who hauing called the escoutette said vnto him Take your cosin with you and beware of such facts least the like happen vnto you The escoutette returning to Dordrecht carried backe the bailife in two parts and paid the countrey man his hundred crownes Soone after this good Earle William worne with yeres and with sicknesse called for the earl of Ostreuant his eldest sonne to whom he gaue many godly and fatherly admonitions first of the loue and feare of God then of the administring iustice equally to all men to entertaine his subiects in peace and rest not to surcharge his people with extraordinarie impositions and taxes to reuerence church men and not to be offenciue vnto them with many other goodly exhortations to liue well Hauing ended his speech he gaue vp the ghost the 9 of Iune 1337 after that he had gouerned the prouinces of Henault Holland Zeeland and Friseland 32 yeares He was a very vertuous prince victorious in war a good man at armes well spoken iudicious a great louer of peace gratious to all men and well beloued in all courts of princes He was interred with great pompe in his towne of Valenciennes After his death the contesse his widow went and liued among the religious women at Fontenelles where she died fiue yeares after her husband We haue before made mention how that the Frisons slew the gouernor whom the king of Denmarke had giuen them whose wife was deliuered six monethes after of a sonne the which was bred vp in the court of the king his vncle This sonne being growne great and desirous to be reuenged of the Frisons hauing no meanes nor power of himselfe he intreated the king to giue him only one ship well appointed to see if by policie he could exploit any thing against the Frisons with this ship he entred into the riuer of Ems where he vnderstood that the judges and officers of the countrey of Friseland were assembled about Groningue he resolued therefore to cast anker there thinking that if hee stayed any time they would come and demaund what hee was and what hee did the which fell out accordingly for the officers seeing this goodly ship in the road went to see it and to heare somenewes comming neere they demanded according to their custom of whence the ship was what commodities he carried whither he was bound This yong man shewing himselfe vpon the hatches saluted them honourably and answered them modestly That hee had no great marchandise in his ship that hee was a rich marchants sonne and that hee was desirous to see hauens and port townes and especially the countrey of Friseland requesting them to come aboord and tast his wine and he would do the like on land with them They doubting nothing went aboord the yong man receiued them courteously presenting them a banquet whereas they dranke so well as most of them were drunke and fell asleepe He finding so fit an oportunitie weighed anker sayled directly towards Denmarke with these drunkards who hauing disgested their wine found that they were cousened This young gentleman comming into Denmarke presented them vnto the king who blamed their disloyaltie much hauing murthered his lieutenant they excusing themselues that it was not done by them nor in their time besought the king to saue their liues The king answered although I haue good reason to put you all to death yet I will giue you all your liues if you can settle me in Friseland as I was before The which they promised In the end the Frisons by the persuasion of one of these Iudges that was sent vnto them were content to acknowledge the king of Denmarke for their lord and to receiue a lieutenant in his name with whom the Iudges and Officers were sent home The gouernor hauing receiued the homages of fealtie of the Frisons caried himselfe modestly ynough for a good time but in the end seeking to bring in the Danish lawes and to entreat them extraordinarily beyond their priuiledges they reuolted againe as the Dutch Chronicle sayth Vel odio seruitutis vel amore libertatis and expelled their gouernor out of their countrey In the life of good Cont William the chief noblemen in Holland and Zeeland were William earle of Ostreuant eldest sonne to good Cont William Iohn of Beaumont earle of Blois his brother Henry and Didier of Brederode brethren Symon and Didier of They lingen brethren also Iohn lord of Heusden Iohn lord of Drongelen his vncle Iohn lord of Arckel Didier Seignior of Valkenburch Monioye brother to the wife of the lord of Brederode lady of Voorne Nicholas lord of Putten and Streyen Philip vicont of Leyden lord of Wassenare Iohn Seignior of Leck and Polanen Iohn Seignior of Henckelom Otto Seignior of Aspren Iohn Seignior of Egmont Walter his son Ghisbrecht Seignior of Iselstein Henry Seignior of Vianen Iohn of Persin Seignior of Waterlandt Guy of Holland Seignior of Hamstede Arnold Seignior of Cruyningen William Seignior of Naeldwick Floris of Spyck Ieams vanden Voude Floris Merwen Didier and Herman Zwieten brethren Gerard of Hemskerke Gerard of Raphorst Gerard of Polgeest Floris vanden Tol Ogier van Spanghen VVilliam Kuser baylife of Rhinlandt Didier of Sassenhem Daniel of Matenesse and Didier
them of Vtrecht to his seruice they should bee bound to send him fiue hundred souldiers at their owne charge That there should bee a breach made in the wall of twentie foot by the which he should enter into the towne as a Conquerour and that he should haue one street in the said towne at his commaundement the which is at this day called the Hollanders street first a truce was concluded vntill Saint Martins during which time the aboue recited conditions of peace were set downe but they were not effected for that Cont William during the said truce went to make warre in East-Friseland where being entred without order and not knowing the passages of the countrey Iohn of Henault sonne to the Earle of Blois came to the Cloyster of Saint Odolphe where hee planted his campe in a faire plaine called Zuytbeuer on the sea side a part of his Hollanders not staying vntill the rest of the armie were landed went to skirmish with the Frisons chasing part of them into Staueren and the rest into Saint Odolphes where going to set vpon them in their trenches the Frisons defended themselues so couragiously that many of the Hollanders lost their liues there Cont William knowing nothing of this skirmish landed on the North side of the Cloyster and aduauncing with fiue hundred men burnt the first village he found and at the first charge he gaue against the Frisons with his owne hand hee slew a gentleman that was a captaine who had valiantly defended himselfe vnto the death and would neuer yeeld to bee a prisoner The other bands of Frisons seeing this captaine dead and the villages burne fell like mad men with great furie vpon this small troupe of Hollanders whom they defeated and there Cont VVilliam was slame vnknowne before the rest of the armie could aduaunce who marching in disorder were likewise charged The Frisons encouraged the more by the defeat of the first fiue hundred Hollanders and of the Earle their Generall did fight with such great furie and courage as they did put the Armie to rout with such confusion that many were slaine before they could recouer their shippes and there were as many drowned through hast as that saued themselues This vnfortunate encounter happened in the yeare 1346 vpon the foure and twentieth of September in the same place whereas the Earles of Holland were vsually accustomed to hold their seat of Iustice when they came into East-Friseland It was the eight yeare of the raigne of the said Earle Renauld the blacke earle of Gueldres had foretold his death as hee held him at the Font to bee christened by vttering these words This child shall bee one day slaine by the Frisons There were slaine in this defeat of the Hollanders about eighteene thousand men and almost as many drowned with some fiue hundred knights the most apparent whereof were these The Lords of Horne Lygny Walcourt Manin Antoin the Seignior of la Vere Floris of Borssele the Seigniors of Cruningen Romerswael Hamstede Merwede all Barons Gerard with the great beard VVilliam of Naeldwyck Symon and Didier of Meylingen Guido of Aspren Iohn Regnier William of Montfort Didier of Sandtfort Herman of Zwieten Floris of Merwe Oger of Spangen Gerard Euer Alfert of Bergerhorst Nicholas Oom William of Drongen Didier of Valewort and Gerard Florinuille all choice knights with a great number of other Nobles Knights and Gentlemen Tenne daies after this defeat Martin Commaunder of the knights of Saint Iohn in Harlem went into Friseland and sought for the Earles bodie the which beeing knowne by some markes hee caused it with eight other dead bodies of Noblemen to be brought to the cloyster of Fleurchamp neere vnto Boswaert The Contesse Ioan of Brabant his widow went to her father and was maried to Wenselin duke of Luxembourg second sonne to Iohn king of Bohemia of whom we haue formerly spoken Cont William the fourth left one bastard called Daniel vanden Poel the which hee had of a Gentlewoman called Alix vander Merwe of Ghertruydenbergh leauing no other lawfull child that might succeed him the Empresse his sister remaining his sole heire MARGVERITE EMPRESSE THE 24. commaunding in Holland Zeeland and Friseland Contesse of Henault 24 Margarita Imperatrix Earle WILLIAMS sister MARGVERITâ—… the Emperors wife In Holland caus'd contencion and much debate and strife For though vnto her sonne her right she had assign'd With him she still contended for 't nothing could please her mind Her state was great her honour much nâ—… need her draue With him in Holland such continuall strife to haue Which in fiue yeares she was constrained for to leaue To him for that death end of all did her of life bereaue MARGVERITE EMPRESSE THE 24. commanding in Holland Zeeland and Friseland Countesse of Henault LEVVIS of Bauaria Emperor of Romains hearing of the death of Cont William of Holland slaine in warre by the Frisons whose eldest sister he had marryed and had left no children caused the Princes of the Empire to assemble to whom he declared that the Earledomes of Holland and Zeeland and the siegneorie of Friseland for want of heires lawfully begotten of the said William were falne vnto the Empire Wherevpon the Emperor interposing his authoritie for that the Empresse his wife pretended an interest as sole heire to her Brother saying that those fees were as well Feminine as Masculine as it did appeare by the succession which Iohn Earle of Henault had after the death 〈◊〉 Iohn Earle of Holland sonne to Cont Floris the 5. adiudged the said Earledomes anâ—… siegneories to the Lady Marguerite his wife This being done the same yeare 1346. the said Empresse being well accompanied with Princes Earles Barons Knights Ladies and Gentlewomen went downe by the Rhine into Holland where she was honourably receiued in all places with great pompe and acknowledged Lady and Princesse of the said Countries of Holland Zeeland and Friseland Hauing receiued their homages and fealties she did greatlie increase their liberties and freedomes and made a truce for two yeares with the Bishop of Vtrecht She did make forfeit all the goods which the Frisons might haue in her Countries of Holland Zeeland and West-Friseland whereof the Earles had beene long in quiet possession aswell Ecclesiasticall as Temporall the which she sould to diuers persons without any future hope of recouerie or restitution by reason of the death of Cont William her Brother Among other Cleargie goods there was solde the Village and siegneorie of Marcke belonging to the Abbay of Marien-garde of the order of Premonstrez scituated in Friseland which the Abbot and Couent had bought of Nicholas of Persâ—… Lord of Waterlandt This Empresse Marguerite had by the Emperor Lewis of Bauraia her husband one sonne called William which was the eldest Albert the second and Lewis the yongest called the Romaine for that he was borne at Rome during the time of her husbands coronation which three sonnes were all intituled Dukes of Bauaria not that
increasing the Cabillautins sent their deputies to duke William of Bauaria Earle of Osteruant the Empresse eldest sonne being then resident in Henault intreating him to come into Holland to vnder-take the gouernment of the country hauing decreed among them no longer to indure the Mothers rule At the first he refused it but they did so importune him as in the end he came secretly to the towne of Gorrichom Those of Delf hearing of his comming went vnto him and carried him by force into their towne making him their head and Captaine generall with whom or by his commandement they issued often forth spoiling the Villages and country houses belonging to the Hoeketins In the end the Townes of North-Holland the Kennemers and the West-Frisons receiued him for their Lord and Prince doing the homage and taking the othe due vnto the Earles of Holland in despight of the Empresse their naturall Princesse his Mother The Hoeketins seeing themselues thus ill intreated by the Cabillautins had their recourse refuge vnto the Empresse whose party they held and began to furnish their townes Castels and Forts with men victualls munition of warre On the other side the Cabillautins went to befiege their places and to batter and beat downe their Castles whereof they did ruine seuenteene in lesse then a yeare The Empresse writte vnto her Sonne that she wondred at his presumption that he would intermedle with her authoritie and command seeming to bee very much incensed against the townes of Holland The Earle answered that the country did belong vnto him by right of donation which she had made vnto him And refusing to giue ouer his course begun the Empresse with the succours which the Queene of England her sister had sent her made a goodly armie with the which she imbarked and went and landed at La Vere in Zeeland Earle William landed with his troupes in the same Iland whereas both armies of the Mother and the Sonne being entred into fight one against an other the combate was furious and bloudie great numbers being slaine and drowned on either side In the end God gaue the victory to the Mother so as the Sonne escaped with great difficulty and fled into Holland This battaile was in the yeare 1351. William of Bauaria being safely returned into Holland made hast to leuie new forces and to raise a greater armie then the first the which consisted of Hollanders Kennemers and Frisons with the succours of many Lords and Knights of Iohn Lord of Arckel Iohn Lord of Calenbourg Iohn Lord of Egmont the Lady Mathilda van Voorne widow to the Lord of Walckenbourg Gerard of Heemskerke Gerard of Harler and many other Knights Gentlemen and good soldiers which came vnto him out of the countries of Cleues Geldres and Germanie with the which armie hee gaue a day and appointed a place vnto his mother to haue his reuenge in open battaile betwixt Bryele and Grauesand The Empresse had her armie composed of good soldiers English Henniuers Zelanders Walcharins accompanied with a great number of Barons Knights and Gentlemen She like a couragious and noble minded Princesse making no doubt of a second victory marched against her sonne and caused her men to begin the charge The two armies at the first incounter charged one another with such animositie and furie as there was nothing to be seene but glaiues broken lances a thicke shower of Arrowes in the ayre breaking of harnesse cutting in sunder of targets and bucklers and heads armes and legges falling to the ground there was nothing to bee heard but the cryes with the lamentable and fearefull groanes of men wounded and dying the bloud ranne ouer the field like a violent streame to conclude there was such murther and spoile on either part with such obstinacie and continuall furie as they could hardly iudge of the issue of the battaile vntill that the Empresse troopes opprest and tired with the great numbers of the Hollanders armie to saue themselues ranne into ditches and riuers where they were drowned so as all the Empresse armie was put to route and shee fled in a small Barke into England The Generall of the English troupes was slaine and lyes buried in the Church of Losdanen where as his tombels yet to be seene in blacke Marble Costin of Renesse Floris of Hamstede and many other Noblemen Knights and Gentlemen were also slaine there with an infinite number of good soldiers There was in this battaile which was in the same yeare 1351 so much bloud spilt as for three dayes after the old riuer of Meuse at a full sea was all redde in that place Finally after that so many valiant men had lost their liues there and whereas the Lord Didier of Brederode and many Knights on the Empresse part were taken prisoners there was an accord made betwixt the mother and the sonne By the which it was agreed that the Empresse should hold the Countie of Henault during her life and Duke William should haue the quiet possession of Holland Zeeland and Friseland After this battaile the Empresse liued yet fiue yeares and dyed at Valenciennes in her countrie of Henault where she was interred Notwithstanding this accord made betwixt the Mother and the Sonne yea after her death when as Duke William was sole and absolute Lord of the Counties of Henault Holland Zeeland and Friseland the factions of the Cabillaux and the Hoecks were not mortified but did continue their hatred aboue a hundred and fiftie yeares after vntill that time of Maximillian the first as we shall shew in its place WILLIAM OF BAVARIA THE 5. OF that name the 25 Earle of Holland and Zeeland Lord of Friseland and Earle of Henault called the madde 25. Guilielmus Quintus This William did obtaine in nuptiall state Mathilda of the house of Lancaster A husband Childlesse and vnfortunate Attempted Vtrecht and did factions stirre Vnder the names of Hamocons and Merlus Distracted in his flowre of youth he grew Since in his age he was vndutious To his graue Mother whom â—…e did pursue With many troubles though she had defects Yet children to their parents still must owe Remission of their faults and 〈◊〉 respects But death doth on his life his rest bestow AFter this cruell and bloudie battaile fought vpon the bankes of the old riuer of Meuse as we haue said William Duke of Bauaria Palatin of Rhine Earle of Holland and Zeeland and Lord of Friseland according to the accord whereof we haue made mention was absolute Prince of the said Prouinces Then after the decease of the Empresse his Mother did also inherite the county of Henault Hee had to wife the Lady Mathilda daughter to Henry Duke of Lancaster in England by whom hee had not any children In the yeare 1355. this Earle by the bad aduise of some of his councell thrust on by their priuate passions sent about S. Martins time in winter to defie the Bishop of Vtrecht
the furious battery of the ennemy There were siue companies in the place the Emperor made the fiue Captaines Kinghts giuing vnto the soldiars as hee had promised them three monethes pay extraordinary and all they that were banished or charged with murthers or other crymes had their pardons The Emperor hauing the yeare before razed the Towne and Castell of Hesdin hauing obserued a place fitte to bee fortified a League from thence more towards France hee resolued to build a new fort and a Towne there and for that he would not be hindred in the xecution of this enterprise he entertained his armie the the which in Nouember burnt all the country about Amiens so as all the burthen of the warre fell vppon the poore Country-men After that hee retayned but two regiments dismissing the rest of his Armie and so he parted from Arras to come to Brusselles And in the end of October hee caused King Philip his Sonne to bee put in possession of the duchie of Milan by deputies the accustomed ceremonies therein obserued This yeare in August was a furious fight at sea betwixt two and twenty Merchants ships of Holland Zeeland and Westfriseland which came out of Spaine laden with sundry sorts of Merchandise and nineteene French ships of warre and sixe carauells appointed with Artillery souldiars and marriners for the purpose which attended for them and seeing them come vpon the coast of England neere Douer they began to assaile them and the others to defend themselues The French who were better manned made hast to boord them to auoide the furie of the Hollanders Ordinance and in the ende they grapeled fifteene French shippes to fifteene others thinking to vanquish them by force and the numbers of their men but those Hollanders shippes that were free shot continually at the French There was a fearefull fight for though the Dutch had fewer men yet their shippes were greater and higher and they knewe better howe to handle their Ordinance The fight continued so long that the French growing weary demaunded a truce but the noyse cryes and thunder of the Oâ—…dinance and small shot was so great as they could not bee heard and therefore they aduised for their surest remedie thinking that the Hollanders would let them goe to set fire of their owne sayles but the euent was not so as they looked for or expected But as these shippes could not so easilie vngraple themselues and the winde dryuing the fire from the sayles to the ships they fell all on fire so as they were forced to leaue the fight to quench the fire But some were fiered in such sort as there was no meanes to saue them the men casting them selues into the sea to auoyde the flames without respect to what shippes they went were they friendes or enemies seeking onelie to saue themselues in the first shippe they could get into which proued a strange victory vnto the French for there were so manie Frenchmen got into the Hollanders shippes before they perceiued it as after some small fight they mastred them and tooke both men and shippes The end of this furious battaile which had lasted sixe houres was there were sixe French shippes burnt and one sunke and of the Hollanders and others sixe were burnt and fiue were taken by the French with manie prisoners The number of the dead was different for the French lost aboue a thousand men and the others about three thousand men The seauenth of May Anthony Perronet Bishop of Arras was sent by the the Emperor to Graueling to conferre about a treatie of peace with the French King They met on both sides in a great plaine betwixt Ardres Calais and Graueling vnder pauilions where there was a great circuit compassed in with cloath in the which they assembled The deputies had about it euery one his quarter apart and the English Cardinall assisted as mediator or vmpier betwixt them The demandes of either side were so excessiue as they could not agree and so the assemblie proued fruitelesse The ninth of the same month newes came to the Emperor of the death of the Lady Iane Queene of Castille his mother at whose funeralls which should bee made at Brusselles King Philip would bee present and therefore they were deferred vntill his comming On Whitsonday died that great captaine Martin van Rossen Seignior of Puydroyen who in his life time had serued many maisters the duke Charles of Geldres William duke of Cleues the French King and the Emperor The fifteene of Iuly the French passing the fronters came to victuall Mariembourg without any cartes but with horses laden onelie and at their returne thinking to surprize all the souldiars that were in the new fort whereof William of Nassau Prince of Orange was Generall beeing discouered there was a very hot skirmish the which continued from noone vntill night wherein there died many on eyther side A while after the Seignior of Aussimont Gouernor of Bapaulmes the terror of the French hearing that some garrisons of Picardie ioyned with fifteene hundred horse of the Arrierban of France which they call the companies of the Nobles and foure hundred foote did roade vp and downe the countrie of Arthois hauing spoyled the suburbes of Lilliers and the burrow of Saint Venant he went and charged them in their returne being Laden with spoyles and hauing defeated them in an instant made them abandon their pray la Iaille their leader was hurt and a boue fiue hundred taken prisoners with him some escaped and the rest were slaine vpon the place where of the Arthesiens made a Iest saying That the Bourguognons tooke the Nobles of France without waying them where-vpon it was called the Incounter of the Nobles The eight of September King Phillip came after his marriage with Queene Mary out of England to Brusselles accompanied with Emanuell Philibert Duke of Sauoy and fower or fiue English Noblemen Knights of the garter and the sixteen of the said moneth the funeralles of the Emperors Mother were celebrated with great pompe and state In October there was order giuen by the Emperor and Gouernesse vpon the complaint of the Bourgéses of Brusselles to the Alcaide Captain of the Court to the steuard of the houshould to the Amptman and to the Magistrate of Brusselles to deuise some meanes to discharge the great and excessiue debts which the Spaniards as well Courtiars as soldiars did owe throughout all the towne of Brusselles as well to Inkeepers as to Marchants to the end their might bee no tumult at their retreat seeing that the Bourgeses stood in some feare that they would goe away without paying them whereby some should bee much impourished and others vtterly ruined and therefore they must preuent an imminent danger before it falles About the end of October the Emperor sent his letters to the States and townes of the Netherlands to assemble in the towne of Brusselles and there to heare matters that should bee propounded vnto them in his behalfe to which
king Philip his sonne and giuing him his last blessing hee imbraced him and bad him farewell as hee did all the princes and noblemen then he imbarked with the two queenes his sisters and sayled towards Spain where they arriued in a short time hauing a prosperous wind Hauing rested some dayes in the citie of Valladolit he made choice for his retreat of a Monasterie of S. Ierosme the Hermit situated in Estremadura not farre from Placence an vnfrequented place and fit to meditate on heauenly things being retired from all wordly cogitations whither he caused himselfe to be conducted to passe the rest of his daies there which were not aboue two yeares spending his time in holy and godly workes and giuing himselfe wholly to a contemplatiue life And for that he would bee the better able to spend his time in prayers and the seruice of God hee would haue his sisters liue from him at Valladolit that they might not trouble him he reserued but 100000 crownes a yeare to himselfe whereof he imployed only 4000 for his diet and entertainment the rest he appointed to marry yong maids to relieue widowes and orphanes and for other workes of charitie as befits a good and Christian prince D. GShilippus Rex Catholicus PHILIP OF AVSTRIA THE SIX AND thirtieth Earle of Holland Zeeland c. the second of that name duke of Brabant c. Earle of Flanders c. By true and right discent of Holland I am Lord And of the wealthie Netherlands vnited by accord But cruell counsell of th' Inquisition Was cause that did procure their woe and great destruction Loue burning in my brest did me his subiect make And moued me foure seuerall wiues one after other take My cousin last of them a sonne onely did leaue Of tender yeares when cruell death did her of life bereaue THE EIGHT BOOKE The Argument THe birth of Philip the second of that name king of Spaine Pope Paul the fourth seeks occasions to make war against him who sends the duke of Alua for his generall King Philip giues the order of the Golden Fleece at Brussels A great famine in the Netherlands in the yere 1536 1537. S. Quintines besieged by the Bourguignons the French thinking to releeue it are defeated The â—…onstable of France and many noble men are prisoners and in the end the towne is taken by assault Ham and â—…hastelet yeelded Calais besieged by the French and yeelded by the English to the duke of Guise with Guines â—…hich was taken by assault and the castle of Hames abandoned Theonuille yeelded to the French Aaclon taken and burnt by them with the townes of Winox-Berghe and Dunkerke The same French men vnder the marshall 〈◊〉 Termes are defeated in battaile neere vnto Grauelingue The death of the emperour Charles the fifth to when his brother Ferdinand king of Romanes and Hungarie succeeded About the same time died the queens Dowaers of France and of Hungarie the emperours sisters with Marie queene of England to whom her sister Elizaâ—…eth succeeded A peace betwixt France and Spaine by mariages The king of Spaines mariage turned into teres by the death of Henry the second the French king ¶ Marguerite of Austria bestâ—…d to the emperour Charles the fifth duchesse of Parma succeeds the duke of Sauoy in the gouernment of the Netherlands The kig of Spaines last departure out of the said countries The death of George of Egmont bishop of Vtrecht to whoâ—… succeeded Frederic Schenck of Taulenburch who was the last bishop A subtill bringing in of the Spanish Inâ—…isition into the Netherlands by the creation of new bishops An abstract of the life of cardinall Granuellet A diuision betwixt the chiefe noblemen of the countrey The earle of Egmont sent into Spaine touching the trobles that were like to grow and what answer he brought Letters from the Gouernesse to the counsellors of the pouinces touching the edicts and the Inquisition The prince of Oranges answere to the Gouernesse The first beâ—…inning proceeding and effects of the Inquisition An enterview of the noblemen of the countrey A discourse â—…ewing the meanes to redresse the troubles An assembly of the nobilitie at the mariage of the prince of Parmain Brussels and afterwards at Saint Truden to preuent the troubles their compromise and confederation A petition made by them of Brabant to the king of Spaine to preuent the troubles A petition made by the nobilitâ—… against the bloudie edicts and the Inquisition The Duchesse answere thereunto and all her practises to circumâ—…nt them and disioine them as she did The first defeat of the Protestants in the Netherlands Tournay made sâ—…biect by practise Valenciennes besieged battered and yeelded The defeat of Austruel The negotiation of the lord of Brederode in Amsterdam who retires into Germanie and so dothe the prince of Orange The death of the Marques of Berghen in Spaine An apologie made by the Protestants of the Netherlands touching the cause and beginning of the troubles PHILIP of Austria the thirtie sixth Earle of Holland and Zeeland the second of that name Lord of Vtrecht Friseland Ouerissell and Groningen the onely sonne of Charles the fifth Emperor of Romanes and of the lady Isabella daughter to king Dom Emanuel of Portugall He was borne the 21 day of May in the yere 1527 at Valiodolit in Spain where he was nourished and bred vp for the space of twentie two yeares vntil that in the yeare 1549 the emperour his father sent for him to come into the Netherlands to haue made him aswel his successor in the empire if it had been possible as of all his other kingdoms and Belgicke prouinces whereof the emperour as we haue said in the former booke disrobed himselfe and put him in full possession thereof in his life-time The emperour beeing retired into Spaine to a solitarie and a contemplatiue life king Philip his sonne began to order and settle the gouernment of the Netherlands making Eâ—…nuel Philibert duke of Sauoy lieutenant-generall of his armie And hauing sent thomaâ—… ques of Pesquaire before to take possession of the realme of Naples in his naine hee 〈◊〉 â—…oice of Dom Fernando Aluares of Toledo duke of Alua to be his viccroy there And foâ—…ch aâ—… at that time the war against the French began to grow more violent he commanded the dukâ—…â—…o depart presently out of the Netherlands and to go into Italie giuing him charge to stay soâ—…e time at Milan and to dispose of matters concerning the warre In the which the duâ—… of Alâ—… as generall for the Spanyard and Francis of Lorraine duke of Guise for the French king wâ—… small honor and reputation This war of Italie was attempted by king Philip against the popâ—… in whose succour Henry the 2 the French king sent the duke of Guise with an armie whiâ—… war for that it doth not concerne our hystorie of the Netherlands we will omit and refer tâ—… curious reader to them that treat of that subiect This Summer
Spanish yoke made the pacification of Gaunt in a maner conformable to the articles and propositions afore-said with the Prince of Orange and the states of Holland and Zeeland and there assotiates in the yeare 1575. This treaty of peace succeeding not as the Commander did well hope he returns againe to his course of war wherein he resolues to be obstinate He commanded the Seignior of Hierges to go to field with the Spaniards and Wallons and to attempt some good exploite in Holland or else where vnder the vnion of the States wherevpon Hierges marched directly before the towne and castell of Buren which is not far from Bomel belonging at this present to Phillip of Nassau Prince of Orange the which the Gouernor yeelded vp with out any shot of great ordynance or any force offred him The States would haue puthim to death for his base couardise but the Prince desiring to saue his life sent him prisoner to the Castle of Goude After the taking of Buren Hierges did also ceaze vpon some Castells in that quarter but of smale importance At that time there was an vniuersity erected in the towne of Leyden for Holland and Zeland by the States of the said two Prouinces indowing it with goodly preuiledges where-vnto were called from diuers parts Professors in all faculties allowing them good stipends This towne is faire neate and spatious diuided with diuers chanells in the best ayer of al Holland seemes most fit for the muses The 11. of Iune the Prince of Orange did marrie in the the towne of Bryele one of the Ilands of Holland the Lady Charlot of Bourbon daughter to the Duke of Montpensier for his third wife a Princesse indowed with singular piety by whome hee had six daughters as we shall hereafter shew The 18. of Iuly by the breake of day the Seignior of Hierges came with his army before the towne of Oudewater in Holland with an intent to beseege it he had marched with great speed all night to the end his comming might be vnknowne which bred a great amazement in them when they first discouered him At the same instant the ◅ort which was at the Scluse of the dike chanel which goes to Montfort and to Vtrecht within harguebuse shot of Oudewater was abandoned by the Scottishmen that were in it the which they neither fiered nor retired the munition as they ought to haue done This fort had beene good ◅o haue busied the Spaniards for some time and haue hindred their passage and therefore euere man thought yea the Spaniards themselues that it should not be so soone abandoned seeing that they might haue retired their soldiars at need And then the alarume was giuen in the towne and they began to giue order to fortefie and defend themselues Some countriemen thereabouts retired them-selues thether with their cattell and others went forth to draw them out of the neer pastures and to bring them into the towne Some Bourguers ill affected to that party found meanes to go and yeeld vnto the Spaniards to giue them intelligence of the whole estate of the towne yea they were seene to shew them some places Captaine Morcant a Wallon sallied forth with some of his troupes to fier certen houses standing vpō the dike on the other side of the riuer of Yssel towards Goude neere vnto the port and bridge the which he executed wherevpon there grew a skirmish in the which both he and his soldiars discharged themselues wel where there were some hurt and slaine of either side After which time they resolued not to issue forth any more for that they had to few men to hazard them lightly The same day and soone after there was an other fort abandoned halfe a league from the towne at a Scluse vpon the causey which goes to Goude on the same side where there was in garrison a captaine Geldrois called Willeken van Angren the which was an imputation vnto him for they held the place tenable and might haue succored the towne for that they might haue raised the said Scluse and cut the dike or causey of either side of the fort as they did at Goude and Oudewater to let the water of the Riuer of Yssel runne into the country and by that meames succor the beseeged with small gallies as they had of late done at Leyden but the Spaniard making hast to cast vp a dike against it hindred the water that it could not come soone enough from Goude to Oudewater On the other side he stopt the riuer of Issell in such sort towards Goude the tides being Low as the water at a spring tide could no more come vnto the towne as it was wont to disperse it selfe ouer the country by the said Scluses and now it began to couer it towards Goude In the towne ditches the water was not aboue a foote deepe so as the towne was enuironed and beseeged round from the first day in such sort as they could put no more soldiars into it as they desired and as necessity required They sent messengers to the Prince and States who might well passe but had no meanes to returne They sent others with Pigeons but neither they nor their Pigeons returned any more wherefore all this seege they had not any letters nor message from the Prince In the meane time all the Captaines Maiestrats soldiars and common people resolued with one generall consent to hold good euen vnto the death if need were and to imploy all their meanes and force for the defence of the towne And although it were in poore estate weake of all sides and of great garde hauing but foure small companies two of Wallons of Morcant and St. Mary one Flemish of Captaine Munter and one Scottish whose Captaine was absent and could not enter in all which companies were not aboue three hundred fighting men the nomber of Bourgers also was smale for that many were retired feeling the storme approch the hope of succors was smale or none at all yet not-with-standing all these difficulties they fainted not nor lost any courage This towne was of great importance and might easely and with smale charge haue bene made very strong and almost impregnable yet they had made but two rauelins towards the east The companies of Saint Mary Morcant and the Scottish were entred but fewe daies before for that the Spanish campe approched after much deniall especally that of Moroant who remayned fiue howers vpon the dike before he was assured whether hee should enter or not All townes doe commonly so refusing to receiue so great a garrison as is needfull of two mischeefs to auoyd the greater and so many haue beene and are often lost like vnto this as afterwards the towne of Countray and others but when they can no more haue it then they desire it but it is to late Some Captaines had also thought it good in the beginning too take vp the Scluses to couer the country
about 140. were all taken prisoners one of their captaines was Caroudolet Lieutenant to the Earle of Egmont the other Croisset but neither of them both was found amongst the rest They within the castle expecting no better vsage in the same euening set it on fire and fled to Comendé The sixeteenth day of Nouember Mounsire de La Nove being about three hundred horse and foure hundred French foote-men past ouer the riuer of Leye to seeke some aduenture and marching towards Halewin met with foure cornets of horse the one beeing the duke of Arschots the other the Earle of Lalains and the rest newe cornets which hee presently charged with such fury as at the first incounter they were wholy broken and disperced and presently beganne to flie where they were followed till they came to Marquette and if it had not beene so late fewe or none of them had escaped and yet the greatest part of them were slaine as it apeared by the horses and the prisoners which the Scottish captaines Seton and Mornou brought into Menin Which they of Halewin vnderstanding without longer staying set fire on the houses and presently fled away the houses burning downe to the ground The garrison of Becelare and Wastene left them places likewise which forts La Noue presently manned with garrisons and diuers other places thereaboutes In which exploit his French souldiars were so furious as hearing that their paie was come to Menin they refused to receaue it saying that it was then no time to receaue monie but to fight thereby to shewe their valors and to doe their dueties In the meane time the Prince of Orange seeing how negligent and carelesse the Estates were of their affaires whilest that the Prince of Parma did domineere and â—…ortefie himself from all parts and that in the end al would go ill being loth to lay the blame vpon any particular person not knowing where their griefe lay desirous to prouide for it in time he would first adresse himselfe by admonitions and exhortations vnto the Estates of Holland and Zeland being assembled in the towne of Delf whom he thought his reasons should be of more waight and haue more credit and respect to whome hee discoursed in this manner My maisters although I am not ignorant of your good affection to preserue that souerraigne good which it hath pleased our Lord God to giue vs in this countrie yet seeing you are now assembled in this towne I thinke that this good occasion doth admonish and bind vs to confer together to vnder-stand more particularly and more certenly what meanes wee may find to repulse the attempts and inuasions of our enemies as well by sea as land and what orders may bee set downe to attaine vnto so great a good for it is more then necessary to prouide for it And there is no doubt but the enemies imploy all their forces and meanes to this end to see if they may dant your resolutions and finding no preparation answerable to oppresse and ruine you and so attaine to that which they pretend I make no doubt but the King of Kings that great God conductor of armies will finish the worke which hee hath begun pouring out his blessings vpon vs yet it is necessarie that wee should acknowâ—…edg the meanes which he doth giue vs and by his grace will giue vs hereafter and that we should vse them to his glory other-wise our neglect and carelessenes our ingratitude rashnes together with a contempt of his graces cannot but prouoke his iust iudgement against vs and our posterity As if a man desirous to keepe the water in his cesterne would suffer his house to burne and not vse it or referring him-selfe to the prouidence of God for the mayntenance of his life would not eate the bread which God sends him to sustaine him-selfe And the better to vnderstand and prouide for all dangers it is necessary first of all to knowe what the enemies forces bee and the end where-vnto they tend and direct all their desseigns For my part I cannot conceale from you what I vnder-stand that we may fore-see and not fall into the confusion of those foolish builders and warriors whereof IESVS CHRIST makes mention who wanted meanes to finish their worke In the meane time my intent is not any waies to terefie you or make you faint and abandon the worke begun but that the consideration of their desseins and meanes should open our eyes and incline our hearts to apply the remedy and meanes to preuent it and to maintaine our selues happely And in truth this preuoyance and disposition may cause two very notable effects and of great consequence first it is most certaine that our enemies hearing our firme resolution to defend our selues and to imploy all the means which GOD hath giuen vs to mainetaine and preserue our liberties together with a fit and conuenient order which shall bee concluded by a wise deliberation they will bee greatly amazed and discorraged so as such a resolution will serue for a sharpe counterpoyson to ouerthrowe at the least to weaken much the force of their fraud conspiraces and attempts and discorage them from attempting any thing vpon vs and our country Secondly such a resolution and coniunction of courrages with a due order will giue vs great satisfaction assurance and resolution in this worke great increase of desire to imploy our selues and great facility in the execution of all things requisit and necessary And which is more it shall be a meanes to free vs from all remorse of conscience sorrow before GOD and reproches before the world feeling in our selues and hauing made it knowne that we haue executed those charges where-vnto GOD hath called vs for the perseruation of so great a people relying vpon our wisdoms vigilance dilligence and fidelity The which shall bee also a reputation and honor vnto vs with all men yea with our posterity by the relation of Histories which shall yeeld a testimony of our holy affection constancy and magnanimitie to haue consecrated our selues wholy and imployed our meanes faithfully in a cause so holy so iust and of such importance for the glory of GOD and the helth of men whereas contrariwise our negligence and faintnes would draw a horrible callamity vppon our posteritie with blame and reproch gnawing our consciences all our liues and blemishing our honors after death being put in histories in the ranke of those which haue shewed themselues to be more worthy to be slaues and sheepe then gouernors and pastors To come then to our enemies forces without flattering of our selues you know that they vnderstanding of our preparations as well in Germanie and Fraunce as England and Scotland haue also for their parts vsed all diligence to gather forces together as well in these Netherlands as in Germany and Spaine So as they haue together ninetie Ensignes of Wallons sixtie of Spaniards about fortie of Germans and some fifteene or twentie of low Dutch
lady who hearing the noise cōming vp to his chamber rose in his shirt and as the seignior of la Noue entred hee only asked if his men had made no resistance to whom they answered yes but it was the fortune of the warre then recommending the honor of his wiues women who were also in bed he intreated they would do them no wrong which Monsieur de la Noue promised yet the Frenchmen filled their pockets with their chaines and iewels which done they tooke him the rest prisoners The earle remained long prisoner in Gant afterwards in the castle of Ramekins in Zeeland The ladies and his brother Charles were soone released againe Many troubles and vprores rising in Friseland and thereabouts the prince of Orange went to Dort in Holland the archduke Mathias going with him to Breda he entertained him there very honourably from whence the archduke went backe againe to Berghen vp Zoome and so to Antuerpe the prince going to Campen to set all things in good order for that the country pesants in Drenth and thereabouts were risen vp in armes against the Estates commanders of their forces and the rest of Casimires horsemen where being very strong they denied their contribution seeming to leane and to be affected vnto the articles of peace made at Cologne The earle of Rennenbergh reuenged himselfe likewise vpon the pesants vnder his commaund and threatened them of Linghen and Oldenzeel because they would not accept of the religious peace Bartel Entens plagued them of Berghe and those of the bishopricke of Munster Diericke Sonoy gouernour of North-Holland also compelled them of Zutphen to receiue in garrison The earle of Rennenbergh a little before began to encline and to haue some intelligence with the prince of Parma and for that cause had encouraged the pesants of Drenth and Oueryssell against the souldiers whereunto he was persuaded by his seruants and his kinred in Henault with whom he secretly dealt and was a great seeker vnto the Estates to procure that the articles offered at the peace of Cologne vnto the said Estates might be accepted And after that a certaine vprore being made in Groning by the Catholickes that would force the towne to allow of the said articles which by those of the Religion was soone pacified he perceiued thereby that he might there haue a factious partie which to procure he secretly set the hostages of Groning at libertie being all affected to the Spaniard About the same time also there was an vprore in Campen wherupon likewise he took occasion to procure some of that towne to be of his faction Things proceeding in this sort vpon the one and twentieth of Ianuarie Cornelia de Lalain his sister with the baron de Monceau her husband came to visit him bringing with her his pardon and reconciliation from the prince of Parma with certaine money and many faire promises as to be created a Marquesse and that he should haue the Countesse of Meghen for his wife of whom he was enamoured But the said earle being doubtfull what to doe his sister neuer ceased to admonish him and to persuade him not to damme his soule by suppressing the Christian faith and by beeing a principall leader and captaine of heretickes and rebels and to suffer himselfe to be ruled by a multitude of weauers and other occupations whereby he should lose all his lands in Henault the loue of the Countesse whom he sought to marry the fauour of his mother the good will of the earle his vncle by whom he had the earledome of Rennenbergh as also of the king and such like things Whereby at the last by reason of his youth want of experience and by means of the Religion wherein he was brought vp he was moued to turne his coat and yet not without great trouble and contrarietie in mind dissembling the same as long as he could But the prince of Orange the Estates of Friseland hauing had many causes to suspect him thought it better to begin with him than he with them and for that cause in the moneth of February determined to assure themselues of the castle of Leewerden and secretly caused Bowinga and Ferno with their companies to inclose it behind and with the bourgers to fall on it before placing the priests monkes and all the souldiers wiues that lay therin before them and so began to insconce themselues and to fill vp the ditches but captaine Schaghe who after the death of Matenesse was made gouernour of the castle seeing the slackenesse of the souldiers to make resistance being terrified yeelded it vp with assurance of life and goods and promise of a yearely pention But the townesmen entring into the castle sooner than they expected were not satisfied vntill they had throwne downe the wals that were next vnto the towne ioined the rest of the wals thereof vnto those of the towne This castle was built in Anno 1499 at the charges of the towne being thereunto forced and compelled the towne being besieged by Willeboort van Schouwenbergh generall for the duke of Saxonie so that it had stood about 80 yeares Whilest that the bourgers were busied about the rasing of the castle the companies of souldiers that were without came into the towne and fetched all the friers out of their cloysters and so led them orderly in their ranks euery souldier hauing a frier or a monke to follow him with pipes and drums out of the towne The next day Beninck Camminga and others with foure companies went to Harlingen and incamped themselues in the towne as then not walled and summoned the castle to yeeld vnto them but they within denied it and shot against the towne and held it vntill the earle of Rennenbergh hearing thereof much abashed sent Baly his secretarie to Leewerden with secret instructions and authoritie to deale in that matter as he should thinke good and as time occasion should serue thinking all had been well there Balie being come thither was presently taken prisoner and being searched they found certaine blankes about him that were signed by the earle of Rennenbergh they of Leewerden compelling him to write in one of those blankes vnto the lieutenant of the Drossart Ozenbrighe who as then was at Groning in the earles name to will him to deliuer the castle of Harlingen into their hands who suspecting nothing and knowing not that he ought to haue bin thrice commanded so to do vpon the 5 of February yeelded vp the castle which was likewise demanteled on that side that lay next to the towne This castle was first built in anno 1496 by the townesmen of Groning when they were masters of Friseland and by the Friselanders the same yere beaten downe againe vntill that Albert duke of Saxony built it vp againe in anno 1500 so that it had stood seuentie nine yeares After that Sonoy gouernor of North Holland with certaine deputies and four companies of souldiers went to Staueren where they summoned
of Spaine should take any exception a cepted He complained of the reuolting of the male-content Wallons who had taken vpon them to make warre against their vnited friends contrarie to their oths at such a time when the forreine souldiers and the enemie should haue beene driuen out of the countrey and the towne of Mastricht releeued He likewise complained of the reuolted noblemen and gentlemen who being descended of noble houses and antient families should discouer their lightnesse and inconstancie First seruing the duke of Alua and the great Commander like mercenarie slaues and making warre against him after that they reconciled themselues vnto him and became enemies to the Spaniards When Dom Iohn came into the countrey they followed him serued him and practised the princes ruine Dom Iohn hauing failed of his enterprise at Antuerpe they forsake him and call in the prince whom presently they abandon againe and without any counsell or aduice send in all hast for the arch duke Mathias whom they presently left and without his priuitie called in the duke of Aniou promising him wonders But seeing they could not persuade him to be their head against the Estates and them of the religion they forsake him and ioyne with the prince of Parma and their enemies whose counsellors they had so long held prisoners which shewed their lightnesse and inconstancie Whereas they obiected That he had made himselfe to be chosen by force and tumult gouernor of Brabant he shewed that he had refused it and that in regard of the lieutenant generals place he would not accept thereof without the consent of the commanders that were in the armie which they sent him signed vnder their hands The gouernment of Flanders he also refused notwithstanding the instance that was made vnto him by the foure members of the countrey And whereas this proscription found the vnion of Vtrecht of very hard disgestion he said There was no better remedie against the disunion of the male-contents than this vnion and no surer antidote against the poyson of discord than concord Confessing that he had procured aduanced and sought to entertaine it As touching the receit of money hee said he neuer medled therewith And the rest of the accusations as the chasing away of the nobilitie hypocrisie distrust and the offers that were made him being of lesse importance he refuted At the last he came to the sentence of banishment saying That al those stormes of thunder and lightning did not amaze him and that if any Spaniard or other affected to them of what qualitie or condition soeuer had said or should say as this infamous proscription had published that he is a traitor and a villaine had spoken falsely and against the truth And although the vse of water and fire was forbidden him yet he would vse the same so long as God should giue him leaue And touching the twentie fiue thousand crownes with recompence of gentry and pardon for all offences promised to him that should attempt to murder or poyson him hee said That he doubted not but God had and would preserue him so long as he pleased wherin his enemies had shewed their basenesse that not able to vanquish him by the due course of arms they seeke dishonourably to murder or poison him And although hee feared it not yet if it should so happen which he hoped God would not permit he said there was not so meane a gentleman to be found in any nation where they knew what belonged to gentrie that would eat and conuerse with such a wicked and infamous villaine as had murdered any man for money And that if the Spaniards esteemed such for gentlemen and that men by such meanes were aduanced to honour in Castile he said That it was no maruel if all the world beleeued that the most part of the Spaniards especially those that held themselues nobles and gentlemen descended from the Moores and Iews and obserue that good qualitie as ingrafted in them from their forefathers that betrayed our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and gaue Iudas money to deliuer him vnto them that they might crucifie him For which cause he said he would beare that misfortune the more patiently if it so fell out Wherefore hee gaue the States to vnderstand that their peace and quiet depended vpon his death for that so long as hee was among them their warres should neuer haue end and therefore he wished that his death might free them from the miseries which his life procured the which should be a sweet and acceptable death vnto him That for their cause hee had suffered his lands and goods to be taken from him lost his brethren yea and his sonne and yet hee desired to purchase their freedome and libertie with his bloud and that if they thought it fit and conuenient they should presently command the same saying That his head was readie ouer which no prince nor potentat had any command but onely they whereof they might dispose as it pleased them for their welfare But if they thought good still to vse him and his experience woon by continuall toile and trauell together with his life and goods hee was desirous to imploy himselfe in theirs and the Netherlands seruice wherein he desired their resolution Whereunto the generall Estates vpon the seuenteenth of December made answer as followeth The generall Estates hauing not long since seene a certaine proscript made and published by the enemie against your Excellencies person whereby they seeke to charge you with some slanderous and vnworthy crimes thereby to bring you into hatred as if by vnlawfull meanes and practises your Excellencie should haue sought the dignities and gouernments which you now enioy and withal abandoning your person as a prey to them that would bereaue you of your life and thereby depriue you of your honour Hauing in like sort seene the answer made thereunto by your Excellencie wee find That for as much as concerneth the Netherlands it is plaine and manifest that the aforesaid crimes and false imputations are vniustly laid vpon you And touching the place of Lieutenant generall the particular gouernments which your Excellencie now enioyeth that a lawful choice and election being made of you you would not haue accepted thereof but at our earnest intreaties and desires and haue still continued therein at our requests with the full consent and liking of the countrey seeking the same at your Excellencies hands with intreatie still to continue and hold the same promising all helpe aid and assistance not sparing any of their meanes together with all obedience vnto your Excellencie And for that the said Estates are well sufficiently assured of your Excellencies good and true seruice done vnto the Netherlands and which from henceforth they expect and attend of you they offer and present vnto your Excellencie a cornet of horsemen for the better safetie and guard of your person desiring you to accept thereof from them who acknowledge themselues bound to
charges for taking vp and transporting of new souldiors in place of them that are gone away 30 That the gouernour generall chiefe commaunders colonels captaines officers and other her Maiesties souldiers shall take the accustomed oath as aforesaid to the Estates of the same Prouinces alwaies excepting the homage and fealtie by them due vnto her Maiestie This contract was in this forme made and concluded at Nonesuch vpon the tenth of August 1585. In memorie of this contract the Zeelanders caused certaine counters to bee made hauing stamped on the one side thereof the armes of Zeeland being a Lyon rising out of the waues of the sea with this inscription Lâ—…ctor emergo 158â—… On the other side was the armes of the townes with this inscription Authore Deo fauente Regina that is The Zeelands Lyon clymeth out of the water by Gods power and her Maiesties aid And according to the said contract there were certaine souldiers sent ouer vnder the commaund of Sir Iohn Norris and others At this time the Queene of England caused a booke to bee printed both in English and in French therein shewing the reasons that had mooued her to aid assist and protect the miserable and oppressed Netherlands wherein there was at large declared what auncient contracts intercourses and alliances had from time to time beene made and passed not onely betweene the princes of those countries but with the Estates and inhabitants of the same as namely the Gentlemen Spiritualtie and Commons for their particular defence In the same likewise was shewed the barbarous and cruell gouernment and oppressions of the Spaniards vsed in those countries and what meanes the said Prouinces and shee had sought to make a peaceable end but all in vaine and therefore she was now enforced to aid and assist them for three causes especially The first that the Netherlands might be restored to their auncient freedomes priuiledges and gouernment and so brought to a peace The second that she might for her part be assured against the inuasion of her malicious and enuious neighbours and thirdly That the traffique betweene her subiects and the Netherlands together with the aforesaid intercourse and trade might be assured and kept To the same declaration was added the Queenes answere vnto two seuerall slaunders imposed vpon her and published by a certaine famous libell written in Italian The first for vnthankfulnesse shewed by her to the king of Spaine who as the author reporteth in her sister Queene Maries time had saued her life The second that shee had sought to procure certaine persons to kill the prince of Parma and that two men were executed for the same To the first the Queene said That her faith and fidelitie was neuer in any such question in her sisters time and much lesse that euer any sentence of death was pronounced against her and that therefore hee had no cause why to seeke to saue her life confessing and acknowledging neuerthelesse that she was as then somewhat beholden vnto him and that in all princely and honourable manner she had beene thankfull vnto him for the same Touching the prince of Parma she sayd That shee had no reason to bee more enemie to him than to any other of the gouernours before him and that shee had alwayes held a good conceit of him and neuer sought any other course against him and that euery man of iudgement might well conceiue that if shee should practise his death by any sinister meanes yet the troubles in those countries could not thereby be ended with many other reasons to that purpose According to the contract aforesaid vpon the nine and twentieth of October 1585 the Estates caused the earle of Hohenlo in their behalfes and in the name of prince Maurice the lord thereof to deliuer the towne of Flessingue and the castle of Ramekins to Sir Philip Sidney knight to the vse and behoofe of the Queene of England who presently put an English garrison into the same and was himselfe made gouernour thereof The like was done at the Bryel which was by the earle of Hohenlo and some of the deputies of the Estates of Zeeland deliuered into the hands and authoritie of Sir Thomas Cecile knight gouernour thereof for her Maiestie where hee tooke his oath in the towne-house in the presence of the sayd earle of Hohenlo and the magistrates of the same towne Prince Maurice himselfe likewise as marquesse of the townes of Campuere and Flessingue by aduice of Loise de Coligni princesse Dowager of Orange the lords of his bloud and others his friends and seruants wrot vnto the embassadour of England as then M. Dauyson touching the deliuering ouer of Flessingue vnto her Maiestie saying That hee thanked God for the fore-passed contract made betweene the Queene of England and the Estates of the vnited Prouinces beseeching God to blesse the proceedings thereof and that he was very willing and well pleased that the towne of Flessingue being his patrimonie should bee deliuered into her Maiesties hands and that although the towne was of so great importance that they in reason for it and for many other good seruices done by his father might well aske some recompence notwithstanding respecting the good and furtherance of the Netherlands he was content to yeeld thereunto and the rather for her said Maiesties commoditie hoping by her good fauour to doe her such seruice as that in time to come both he and the house of Nassau should deserue thankes for the same and that as the house of Nassau had alwayes beene her Maiesties humble seruants and well-willers so now they thought themselues much more bound vnto her in respect of the said contract made with the Netherlands which both he and Graue William of Nassau by that their protestation auouched and so he with the princesse the children and the whole house of Nassau desiring nothing more in this world than the fauour good will and assistance of her Maiestie recommended themselues most humbly vnto her protection praying the embassadour to recommend them likewise to the earle of Leicester desiring him to vse all the meanes hee could if it pleased almightie God to graunt it that some one of great qualitie should fall prisoner into his hands that his brother the prince of Orange and earle of Buren c. might be exchanged and set at libertie and that he would be pleased to be a meanes therein As also that if any new souldiers were to be raysed for her Maiesties or the countries seruice that those of the house of Nassau might be aduaunced and preferred to some places of commaund And whereas since the death of the late prince of Orange certaine gentlemen of Prouence and Dolphine sought to persuade the French king to graunt them the title of the principalitie of Orange which for that cause was brought in question before his priuie Counsell without any knowledge or consent of the house of Nassau hee besought her honourable Maiestie to bee an intercessour for them
of his owne free-will without hope of reward or recompence as wee know so many Noblemen and Gentlemen haue done yea of the best houses of England which haue accompanied his Excelencie Ingratitude is a vice hatefull to GOD and Men the which GOD doth some-times seuerely punnish for that it violates the bonds of humaine societie It is sayd in an ancient Latin Prouerbe Ingratam qui dixit omnia dixit As if all wickednesse were comprehended vnder this name and vice of ingratitude How much her Maiestie his Excelencie and the whole nation haue bound this people vnto them euery one sees and all Christian Princes know it and admire it and posteritie will iudge better of it Wee cannot expresse the miseries and want which so many poore English souldiars haue suffred which haue come into these partes It wil be prooued by some Commissaries of musters honest men and of credit that the souldiars of the fort before Zutphen were in December last during the great frost sixe daies togither without any other beuerage then yce water to drinke and yet the fort was not besieged nor in daunger to be lost but onelie through their default who had charge to supplie this place and others befides the other discomodities of hunger and cold which the sayd soldiars haue suffred there and do yet suffer els-where which breed either death or diseases Besides is there any one so ingrate or malicious that will say the English are not good souldiars for that they cannot endure all these discommodities as if in all ages and of late yeares in many exploites in these partes they had not giuen good proofes of their valour courage and aptnesse to armes euen amazing many of this countrie when they haue seene them goe to assaultes and combates with such a corrage and resolution as if they had had no feare nor apprehension of death But admit they had not aduentured their liues and persons as they haue done yet their great expences and the discommodities which they haue suffred here besides the absence from their Wiues Children Kinsmen and Friends and losse which many of them haue sustained thereby and all without any hope of recompence or reward desires that they should bee spared in their honours and reputations yea although they had descouered some errors and imperfections the which haue hetherto beene so small as few men haue cause to reproch the English for the rauishing of their wiues and children or any outrage done vnto their persones or the taking away of their goods or that they haue beene quarelors riotors or drunkards Wherefore I hope that no good man in these partes will giue eare to these wicked spirites which disperse these scandalous brutes some to reduce the people to the necessitie of an accord with the King of Spaine and others for that they would not loose the credit commandement and authoritie which they haue in these Prouinces nor see any other Nation heere that doth exceed them in valour and prowesse and finally for the feare which they haue that his Excelencies comming will obscure their starres and disperse the cloudes and darkenesse vnder the which so manie confusions factions and secret practises are couered and hatcht tending to the ouerthrowe of all order authoritie and lawfull gouernment And I hope also that the wise and best aduised will consider that there is at this daie but one onelie meanes to preserue this Noble Estate the which is England and that it is to great an absurditie to seeke their fauour whome wee speake ill of and detract and a great discretion to commit the gard of that to an other which they cannot keepe them-selues especially to a Princesse who is free from all suspition to haue euer affected it to a Princesse which hath so manie waies shewed how much shee loues the good and libertie of these Prouinces to a Princesse whose crowne hath beene alwaies allied by many contracts to this countrie and to the house of Bourgongne to a Princesse who is at this daie the onelie mother and nurce of all the churches of Christendome and protection of all the afflicted to a Princesse who for that shee hath fauored the defence of this countrie against the oppression of Spaine hath incurred and doth daily a thousand hazards of her life and States by the practises of the enemies of Religion and of this Estate To conclude the resolution of this people to defend their liberty is much to be commended and admired who haue so vertuously for many yeares sustained the indignation of a King of Spaine and resisted the oppression which should fall vpon their heads if they bee subdued by the Spanish Nation hauing to that end not onely exposed their liues but contributed yearely aboue a moitie or two third partes of their goods and reuenues But if this money hath not beene well imploied his Excelencie is not to bee blamed but such as haue had the managing thereof Herevpon Sir I haue heard some discourse that they which haue the managing of the money and of all authoritie in this Estate are for the most part Marchants Orators of townes mechanike men ignorant louing gaine naturally without respect of honour and who conuert the peoples money to their owne priuate and for that they are men of that condition borne to obey rather then to commande who hauing once tasted the sweetnesse of authoritie for that they haue not had for some yeares any soueraigne Prince they haue by little and little perswaded themselues that they were soueraignes and vnder this name of the Estates they haue in a manner made themselues maisters of the Estate insulting ouer the people and controuling him to whome they had by oth referred the absolute and generall gouernment I thinke this happens for that such men are continued to many yeares in their charges being once entred and anchored there they will command like Princes and doe all things at their pleasures I knowe well the assemblie of the Estates hath beene in all Estates an inuention to bridle Kings and Princes but they were neuer called but vpon great and extraordinarie necessitie neither were the same persons alwaies imploied and sent but as it were requisite in this Estate they deputed some from time to time who representing the people respectiuely in the three Estates came to such assemblies and their commission powre and authoritie ended with the assemblie as it is obserued in other places If this custome which is good and commendable cannot bee reduced to the first institution yet in my opinion they should change such men euery yeare or euerie sixe monethes least they should settle an opinion that they are maisters and soueraignes seeing that the Soueraignty belongs really vnto the people to whome they are but seruants and deputies I say in this Estate where there is no Prince acknowledged nor lawfully advowed If then there bee lesse daunger to bee commanded and if it so fall out to bee tyrannized by one then by manie and
remayned vpon the place And then began the cannon of the Campe to play through the thickest of their squadrons so as they were sorced to make a retreat alwaies skyrmishing yet marching away like soldiars as if they had resolued to come a second time The beseeged seeing their succors retired being without all hope finding their rampars to be so sapt as there remayned nothing but to set fire on them their defences and parapets quite beaten downe so as there was not any man that durst shew him-selfe if hee were not weary of his life they were content to yeeld the place by composition Verdugo being thus retyred with his troupes and Couoerden fallen vnder the obedience of the Estates Prince Maurice who during the seege would not goe out of his campe to fight with the Spaniards fearing to loose so good an occasion as was offred to make him-selfe Maister of that place after that hee had put a garrison into it and given order for the reparation of the rampars and ruines thereof and for the making plaine of his trenches hee parted withall his armie and pursued the Spaniards marching towardes the Rhyne thinking to passe it at Bercke But the Prince following them at the heeles as they had no meanes to make their passage there Verdugo finding his men so much discouraged as they slipt away in small numoers passing along the towne of VVezel the Prince pursuing him still meaning to doe him an affront hee went and campt vnder the fauor of a little towne in VVestphalia called Bucholt whereas the Prince would willingly haue charged him if the Spaniard had not so well obserued his retreate whereas there was but one narrow passage to come vnto him and a great bogge or moorish plaine betwixt both For which consideration the Prince not able to approach neere vnto him being loath to pursue him any further for that Autumne was well aduanced and the moist wether and the bad time of winter approached hee left him there and went backe with his armie sending euery man to his garrison vntill the Spring following After the Duke of Parmas retreat out of France from the releefe of Rouen the leagguers held an assembly of Estates at Paris and the partizans of Spaine were in hope that the Duke of Parma would returne the third time with a mighty army to performe some great worke and assure the Crowne of France to the King of Spaine or to the Infanta his daughter but death cut of his life and all his enterprizes for marching towards Picardy with an army of seauen or eight thousand men horse and foote his foreward being neere vnto the tree of Guise hee staid in Arras to call an assembly of the Netherlands that were vnder the King of Spaines obedience He had beene alwaies sickly and ill since his last retreat Being in the towne his sicknes increased in the beginng of September and he died the second day in the Abbots lodging of Saint Vast. His body was conducted through Lorraine into Italy with eight scorehorse all in mourning They say that he ordayned in his testament to be buried in a Capuchins weed He was much lamented by them of Arthois and by many others who are of a mylder disposition then the Spaniards or the Iesuits by whome he was not much moned He was held the honestest man and although an Italien a lesse dessembler then any of the former gouernors which the King of Spaine had sent into the Netherlands Iealous of his honor and holding his word aboue all things He died being about forty eight yeares old Being dead and opened they found his vitall parts much perished so as he could not haueliued long He lies interred in his towne of Parma At his funeral in the towne of Brussells there had like to haue fallen out a great tumult for that the Earle of Mandsseldt marching after the herse as his Lieutenant and then the officers of his household the Spanish gentlemen would haue marcht before the Italiens who kept them backe by force as in truth it was not then the Spaniards rancke The like funeralls were made vnto him in many townes of Italy and the tenth of Aprill 1593. in Rome as the great champion and defender of the Romish Church of the which hee was standard-bearer by inheritance and there was a statue of marble set vp for him in the Capitoll after the manner of the ancient Romains VVith this inscription QVOD ALEXANDER FARNESIVS PARMAE PLACENTIAE DVX TERTIVS MAGNO IN. IMPERIO PRO. REPVB CHRISTIANA GESSERIT MORTEMQVE OBIERIT ROMANIQVE NOMINIS GLORAM AVXERIT S. P. Q. R. HONORIS ERGO MAIORVM MVLTIS SECVLIS INTER FVSIS REVOCANDVM CENSVIT STATVITQVE CIVI OPTIMO EIVS VIRTVTIS SVAEQVE IN. ILLVM VOLVNTATIS TESTIMONIVM EX S. C. P. CLEMENTIS 8. P. M. ANNO. 11. GABRIELE CETARINO I. V. C. IACOBO ROBERO PAPIRIO ALBERO CELSO CELSO CAPO REG. PRIORE Besides the Dukes Image there stood a faire table wherein was written as followeth ALEXANDER FARNESIVS OCTAVII F. PARMAE ET PLACENTIAE DVX 3. PROVINCIAM NACTVS BELGICAM PHILIPPI HISPANIARVM REGIS IMPERIA DETRECTANTEM MAstrichum vrbem munitissimum expugnauit Birronium Gallum diuersarum partium Ducem collatis signis praelio vicit Dunchercham Gandauvm Brugas Hypras Denremundam Bruxellas Exclusam aliaque plurima Belgiae Oppid◅ aut vi cepit aut ad deditionem compulit Antwerpiam humanis viribus inexpugnabilem ingenti ad scaldin fluuium operum magnitudine circummunitam in deditionem accepit Nusium acceptum Coloniensi archiepiscopo reddidit Belgas omnes qui continentē incolunt in Philippi regis potestatem ad Romane ecclesiae obedientiam reduxit Hasce ob res alisque fortiter gestas S. P. Q. R. summus imperator elogio prope maiorum triumphus quorum gloriam aut vicit aut certe aequauit ornatus est ALexander Farnesius sonne to Octauius the 3. Duke of Parma and Plaisentia being Gouernor of the Netherlands which disobeied the King of Spaine wanne the strong towne of Mastricht defeated the Marshall of Biron generall of the French army he tooke Dunkerke Gand Bruges Ypre Denremonde Brusselles Sluys and many other townes in the Netherlands Antwerp inuincible to be wonne by mans force lying vpon the riuer of Sheld hee forced to yeeld He tooke Nuys and restored it to the Archbishop of Cologne All the Belgick Prouinces vpon the maine land hee subdued to the King brought vnder the obedience of the Romish Church for which and other his worthy deeds he hath beene honored with the title of Emperor by the citty of Rome deseruing a tryumph such as were made to the ancient Romains whose glory if he did not surpasse yet did he equall it This standeth in Rome for his honor and perpetuall memory The Argument of the fourteenth Booke COnt Phillip of Nassau runs ouer the country of Luxembourg with some of the Estates troupes Prince Maurice beseegeth Gheertrudenberg and takes it in vew of a royal
will extend The third demand was That his Imperiall Maiestie would appoint a Gouernor and councell in the countries of Cleues and Iuilliers c. Thereby the King of Spaine or the Cardinal Albertus his future sonne in law did plainly descouer how they did gape after these dutchies of Cleues and Iuilliers the other Estates Signeuries of Duke Iohn of Cleues rainging at this present in good and perfect health Grounding vpon this hope that the sayd duke beeing without children and therfore his Dutches Earldomes and Signeuries should by right fall vnto the Emperor who should giue them vnto his brother Albertus Or els the which hath appeered by the effects that hee would not attend duke Iohns death but seize vpon them by force and practises in his life time as the sayd Admirall sought to doe soone after and in deede did too much yea he was expresly commaunded from the court at Brusselles as wee will shew hereafter not to desist for any thing in the world from the conquests of the Dutchies of Cleues Iuilliers and Berghe seeing there was speech of marrying this Duke Iohn with the Duke of Lorrains daughter as after happened Wherein the Emperor seeming to bee of the same hope and expectation with the King of Spaine answered As for the countries of Cleues Iuilliers his Imperiall Maiesty had resolued to send one or two good catholiks thether to auoide some greater inconuenience In the meane time the king of Spaine should looke to keepe good gard on his side and make account of al needfull succors the which notwithstanding must be done with discretion to the end that such as pretend any interest should haue no cause to enter into suspition which the Emperor himselfe is forced to entertaine by reason of the concurrence of time This answere did the more confirme the King of Spaines designes and the sylent pretention of the Emperor vnto the said countries of Cleues Iuilliers c. So as it seemed this was the very fable of the Beares skinne for his replie Hee required that it would please his Imperial Maiesty to declare as soone as might be his intention touching Cleues and Iuilliers that therevpon the Catholike King might haue his forces readie Hee required also that his Imperiall Maiesty would send for the Princes pretending right to the sayd countries that hereafter they should not medle nor seeke to make any Innouations tending to the blemish of the Emperors authoritie or the preiudice of his Catholike Maicstie yea that his Imperiall Maiesty should call away the commissioners that were at Duysseldorp as Authors of bad practises to the end that his Catholike Maiestie bee not forced to vse other meanes And although it were a decent thing to respect the Princes yet they must not bee so negligent and carelesse as in taking away the mischiefe which might happen without they neglect to prouide for that which might miscarrie within This replie did plainelie laie open the King of Spaines designes vpon the countries of Cleues and Iuilliers requiring that the Emperor would send for the Princes pretending right the which are Princes of the Empire that is the duke of Prusse and the two Brethren dukes of Dieux Ponts by their wiues Sisters to duke Iohn and to charge them not to attempt any thing to the diminution of his Imperiall authoritie for that the Emperor maintained that for want of a lawful heire male the said dutchies should by right of the see fall vnto the Emperor their soueraigne as beeing masculine sees of the Empire And the sayd Princes pretending in case the duke should die without heires maintained to the contrary that they might as in France and in other realmes and countries as well fall vnto the femals as males the which the alliances of the said countries which haue not alwaies beene vnder the same Prince by marriages of one with an other had well declared in times past And as for that which hee sayeth to the preiudice of his Catholike Maiestie there could bee no other by reason of the multitude of other heires but to the preiudice of the designes of his pretended vsurpation For the preuenting whereof there was an assemblie of Estates held at the same time at Duysseldorp the chiefe towne of the dutchie of Berghe where the Dutchesse of Prusse and one of the duke of Deux Ponts where present with the Emperors commissioners who for that they would proceed roundly and sincerely not discouering the King of Spaines designes are called Authors of bad practises and the deputies of the King of Spaine who in this Dyet made shewe not to feare any thing more with a certaine Nuncio of the Popes who was of the same mettall then that these countries should fall into the hands of some Protestant Prince whom they called heretike such as the Princes pretending interest are which would be as the King sayd of the towne of Aix to pernitious a thing for his neighbour countries which might be infected with the poison of their heresies the which is alway the foote of their song To whom the Emperor being willing to shew himselfe conformable sayd As for Cleues and Iuilliers hee would send for the Princes pretending right that they should not meddle seeing it belonged onelie to his Imperiall Maiestie to dispose among them hoping they would obey him Wherein the Emperor might haue beene deceiued for these Princes would not so soone haue yeelded vnto him and this had beene an occasion to put all Germany in warre and combustion The forth demand was That the sentence giuen against them of the towne of Aix might bee presently put in execution without any delay It did greatly import the King of Spaine and Cardinal Alâ—…ertus for the attayning vnto their designes to haue the towne of Aix situated in the countrie of Iuilliers neere vnto Lembourg at their deuotion the which they could not easily obtaine so long as the Protestants were Maisters thereof and the stronger who failed not to bee vigilant and to keepe a good gard for their owne preseruation wherefore hee required the execution of the sentence giuen against them in the Imperiall Chamber which was in effect the re-establishment of a Catholike Romish Magistrate in the sayd towne the extirpation of the Protestants religion and the exclusion of the Protestants themselues the which beeing executed hee held himselfe then assured As Cardinal Albertus with the assistance of the Bishop of Liege the executioner of the sayd sentence by vertue of the Emperors commission hath done since to the disolation of the sayd towne and especially of those that did pursue it who for the most part died soone after their re-establishment and those which remaine languishing in misery And although the Emperor touching the sayd towne of Aix had the like desire with the King of Spaine yet the Admiral full of choller replied That in regard of them of Aix they could not exceede the bounds of ordinary Iustice as beeing vnworthie that they
about the general to whom he was too open who gaue aduice vnto the Spaniards of all that past among the Germans holding Freniz marshall of the campe in greater iealousie than any other by reason of which distrusts there was no respect among the commanders contending one against another by aduancing nothing for the generall yea the Spaniards sought to corrupt some in the campe as it was discouered by letters of captaine Palants and others who thought to draw away two or 300 horse at a time besides the free accesse of them of Rees vnto the camp did debauch many Whereupon the generall was constrained to make a proclamation That no man should presume vpon paine of death to confer eat nor drinke with the Spaniards nor with them of the said towne Finally they held this bodie of the German armie as a Poliphemus who hauing lost that one eie which he had goes without any conduct loosing by little little his vigor bloud and life finding no hope of recouerie if prince Maurice did not approch with his forces and by his good conduct and direction restore it both sight bloud and life But their matter must bee far sought and if there had bin any good disposition yet the Germans durst not notwithstanding money comming afterwards vnto the campe from the princes it reuiued the Germans and began to daunt the Spaniards What the issue of this armie was we will presently shew and now we will returne into the island of Bomel and see what the admirall of Arragon and prince Maurice did fronting one another The Estates hauing for a long time held a fort in a little island called Voorn which is in a maner of an ouall forme vpon the banks whereof are good trenches which they must win before they could enter into the island the which lies in the middest at the meeting of the two riuers of Meuse and Wahal the which hauing with their mingled course enuironed the sayd island either of them notwithstanding run in seueral streames vntill they come to win in one bodie of a riuer neere vnto Gorchom whereas the island of Bomel failes at Louestein This strong fort was a great gall vnto the Spaniard to which if he could he would haue done some affront So as the admirall and colonell Borlotte who was the chiefe conductor of this enterprise in the island of Bomel sawe there was no good to bee done against the towne for that they had come on so slowly for we must confesse the truth that if at their first entrance into the island they had marcht directly vnto the towne which lay then open by reason of their works and before that prince Maurice had leisure to assure it with great new trenches without doubtlesse he had put it in great danger the which hauing neglected they thought they had done sufficiently in the beginning to haue freed a passage into the said island So all the towne being well assured by the princes comming the supply of men and the finishing of their fortifications retiring on the 5 of Iune with all their losses behind the said towne and further into the island they went and lodged at a village called Rossum being but a good canon shot from the fort of Voorn where he remained almost a moneth without any attempt but the making of some trenches Prince Maurice knowing well that the Spaniards designe was vpon the fort of Voorn after that he had long attended to see if he would passe the riuer and to annoy him in his passage in the end he past himselfe in the night with 3000 men the third of Iuly came to his enemies quarter at Herwerden hauing at his backe the ioyning of the riuer of Meuse and Wahal together where with an incredible celeritie he intrencht himselfe against his enemies in the form of a halfe moon of the height of 2 men with ditches 12 foot broad 6 deep of so great a circuit as they easily might haue lodged six or 7000 men The Spaniard discouering this work the next day being the 4 of Iuly made sodenly thinking to hinder it he came in the afternoone with some troups of foot and horse and presented himselfe before this halfe moone thinking to draw the princes men out of their trenches but they being aduertised that the enemie was in ambush hidden behind the dikes kept themselues quiet the which the Spaniard seeing he returned soon after to charge with great troups falling vpon these trenches of the halfe moone like a sodaine lightning with such violence and furie as some hauing past the pallisadoes fought hand to hand The princes men vnder the valiant cōmand of sir Francis Veer monsieur de la Noue and colonel Edmonds defending themselues couragiously repulst them The captaine who had forced the pallisado lay slaine vpon the place to retire whose bodie they made a second charge at the which they carried it away but not without great losse of their men That which made the greatest spoile among the Spaniards were eleuen peeces of ordnance planted in three batteries vpon the fort of Voorn and three peeces from the trenches of Varyck and Hessel the which shot directly through the Spanish squadrons with the musketiers which galled them in flanke aboue the riuer al which forced them to retire hauing lost seuen captaines many officers and aboue 700 souldiers besides those that were hurt At these charges there marched in the first ranks among the Spaniards two monks carrying crosses and banners wherof the one was slain and the other taken prisoner being hurt in the head Prince Maurice lost the sergeant maior of sir Fr. Veers regiment being generall of the English with some ten or twelue souldiers and some twentie hurt The 5 of that month a troup of Spanish horse with 400 musketiers thinking to surprise the princes guard were so entertained as hauing lost a captaine left a Spanish earle behind them prisoner they retired with losse and shame We wil leaue them for a while in the island of Bomel in face one of another and will speake of the successe of the Estates armie vpon the coast and islands of Spaine hauing left them in the road of the great Canaries The 20 of Iune Peter vander Does generall of the Estates armie beeing arriued with all his fleet before the towne of Alegoena he cast anchor vnder the great castle which is on the Northwest part of the town from whence the Spaniards began to shoot at him and his whole fleet so as causing those ships to approach neerest which had the greatest ordnance hee began in like maner to batter the castle which was called Gratiosa spending some time in this sort during the which the general had his maine mast pierst thorough and his fore mast somewhat perished the viceadmirall which was the great ship of Amsterdam had six or seuen shot thorough her which slew some souldiers before they could get into their boats to goe to land Those of
in Holland taken by the Protestants 589 Creuecaeur yeelded to Prince Maurice 1230 Cruelty of the Spaniards against the French at Mons 490 Cruelties of the Spaniards in Neutrall countries of Germanie vnder the Admirall of Arragon 1174 Cruelties of the Liegeois 164 Confirmation of the Baron of Montignies accord with the Spaniard 689 Cloet Gouernor of Nuys cruelly executed 920. Conuoy of three thousand going to Cologne defeated by their owne party 952 Conditions whereby the Estates did yeeld vnto the tenth penny 467 Conuoy of the Spaniards defeated by the Lord Willobies troopes 952 Conuoy from Bruges to Ypre defeated 830 Castle of Gand besieged by the generall Estates 612 Castle of Huede treacherously deliuered to the Prince of Parma 660 Collenborch taken by the Estates 1047. Crapoll Castle surprised by the Estates 1261 Cracowe taken for the Estates 1262. Catris Generall of the Spaniards slaine before Ostend 1270 Cornets eight of the Archdukes horse defeated 1290 Crueltie of the Earle of Embden 1293 Crueltie of the Spaniards 1301 Cadsandt taken by Prince Maurice 1306 Coxie taken by Prince Maurice ibid. Conuoy going to victuall Sluys put to route 1311. Considerations concerning a peace in the Netherlands 1322 D. DAniel vanden Meulen sent for to Brussels and why 1171 Death of the Emperor Charles the fift his qualities 528 Death of the Princesse of Orange 803 Death of the Duke of Parma 1061 Defeate of the succors of Harlem and of the Prince of Oranges Armie 510. of the Princes shippes before Harlem 513. of the Protestants at Austerwele 422. of the Protestants of Amerongen 422. of the Estates at Gemblours 654. of the Estates men at Costeyns-dyke 879. of the Spaniards at Tournhout 1126. of the Marquis of Warembom by the Estates 1024 Deliuery monstrous of 365. children at one birthe 52 Deputies from the Queene of England to the Estates and from them to her 984. from Brusselles to the Estates of Aâ—…thois 695. from Antwerpe to the Gouernesse 423. from the Nobilitie to an Imperiall Dyet 372. from the Estates to the French King 868. from Groning to the Emperor 1055. from the Queene of England to treate with the King of Spaines deputies at Bourbrough in Flanders 995. from the Duke of Cleues to Prince Maurice 1185 Denremonde Nihouen and Audenarde surprized for the Archduke Philip 200 Denremonde redeemes it selfe from spoile 860. Dearth extraordinarie of corne in the Netherlands 931 Deâ—…cription of Groning 1087 Delf rebels besieged and yeelded to Cont Albert 106 Delfois doe great seruice in Friseland to Cont Albert. 112 Disunion among the Prouinces of the Netherlands 708 Description of the Duke of Aluas Image 461. Deuenter in Ouerissel besieged by the Estates 687. sold to the Spaniard by Stanley 942. beseeged and yeelded to Prince Maurice 1048. Deutecom taken by the Admirall 1186 Diuision in Holland during their Earles absence 72 Disgrace done to the Earle of Osteruant at the French Kings table 110 Discourse of Maister Francis Baldwins shewing the true meanes how to pacifie the troubles 356. Dissimulation of the Duchesse of Parma with the Nobles 421 Discourse of aduice to the Earle of Leicester 932. Diuision among the Nobilitie of the Netherlands 349 Dislike betwixt the Duke of Parma and Champigny 1019 Dinant beseeged by the Earle of Charalois taken and razed 157 Dinandois brake the peace with the Earle of Charolois ibid. Double practise at Bryele 730 Dousbourg yeelded to the Spaniard 874. besieged and yeelded to the Earle of Leicester 924. Dourlans in Picardie taken by assault by the Spaniard 1106. Dordrecht surprised by the yong Earle of Egmont 195. Dix Muyden taken from the Ganthois 210 Duke of Lorraine inuades Holland for the Bishop of Vtrecht and defeates Robert the Frison 24 Duke of Saxonie ruines the faction in Holland and Zeland 211 Duchesse of Parma writes to the King and delayes the Estates of Brabant vnder a proiect of moderation of the bloudie Edict 373. she entertaines them with pollicie 385. she playes her part 421 Duke of Alua sent Gouernor into the Netherlands 431. seekes a quarrell against the Queene of England 460. thinking to assure Flushing he looseth it 473. he spoiles Macklin 495 hee labours to bee called home 532. Duke of Medina Celi sent to gouerne the Netherlands 479 Duke Iohn Cassimire succors the Estates 673. hee comes to Gand. 676. he retires with his armie 686 Duke of Parma Gouernour of the Netherlands 681. hee passeth the Meuse 682. comes before Antwerpe 863. and takes it 884. hee goes to the Spawe 1019. his death 1061. Duke of Bouillon marries the Prince of Oranges daughter 1102 Dunkerke taken and burnt by the French 326. recouered by the Bourguignons basely yeelded vp by the French 827 Dyest yeelded to Don Iuan 654. is surprised by the Estates 746. beseeged and yeelded to the Spaniard 825 Deane of Emmerics speech vnto the Admirall of Arragon 1186 Duchesse of Parma departs out of the Netherlands 444 Disposition of Prince Maurice Campe before Sluys 1310 Death of Peter Ernest Earle of Mansfeldt his life 1319 Demands of the Councell of Estate of the vnited Prouinces touching the warre 1321. E. EDward Duke of Gelders takes his brother prisoner and defies the Earle of Holland 107. Earle of Benthen slaine 34 Earle of Loos defeates the Earle of Holland in Zeland 46 Earles of Holland and Geldres make warre against the Bishop of Vtrecht 42 Earle of Saint Pol made Reuward of Brabant 135. Earle of Enghien beheaded in Henault 106 Earle of Embden made Protector of Groning 230. buildes a Cittadell there ibid. Earle of Meghen at Vtrecht 421 Earle of Arembergh defeated and slaine in Friseland by Cont Lodowicke of Nassau 449. Earle Adolph of Nassau slaine in Friseland with Arembergh 449 Earle of Meurs leuies Reysters for the Estates which mutine 931. his death 1025 Earle of Hochstrate adiorned by the Duke of Alua iustifies himselfe by writing 445. hee hurts himselfe by chance whereof hee dyes 458 Earle of Bossu chased away from Bryel 472. Earle Lodowicke of Nassau brother to the Prince of Orange enters Friseland with an armie 449. beseegeth Groning 455. defeated through the mutinie of his Germaines 456. surprizeth Mons 477. comes to succour the Protestants of the Netherlands is defeated and slaine with his brother and Duke Christopher 545 Earle of Lodron taken prisoner by his soldiars 460. intreates them cruelly in Antwerpe 462. Earle of Ouerstein drowned at Antwerpe 597. Earle of Bossu intreates them of Rotterdam in Holland ill 473. hee is taken prisoner by the Hollanders and carryed to Horne 528. hee is Generall of the Estates Armie his death 687 Earle of Marke Lieutenant to the Prince of Orange surprizeth Bryele 472. he becomes maister of a great part of Holland for the Prince 488. accused to the Estates for his crueltie 515 Earle Uanden Berghe takes Zutphen and other townes in Gelderland for the Prince of Orange 488 Earle of Solms makes warre for the Estates in Flanders 1073. hee marries the daughter of the Earle of Egmont 1103 Earle
Maximilian made King of the Romains New knghits made by the King of the Romains 1485. The 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 deale 〈◊〉 factions The Ganthois and Brugeois mutine againe The Siegnio Lanchals beheaded The Emperor gâ—…es with an army â—…gainst 〈◊〉 Flemings The Flemings accorded with the King of the Romains The â—…mings are 〈◊〉 The Emperor â—…kes the aâ—…ord made with the â—…mings The Flemings alâ—…e thâ—…m selus with the Brabansones against the Duke of Saxony The King of the Romaines comes into Hollands Rotterdam yeelded to the King of Romaines A peace concluded betwixt the King of Romaines and the Flemings The Brugeois 〈◊〉 againe Montfort beâ—… by the Duke of Saxony 1490. An accord betwixt the duke oâ—… Saxony and 〈◊〉 Vicont of Montfort 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…umult 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The French King makes warre in Arthois The battile of Hinges The Ganthois reuolt Hulst surprized by the Ganthois Dixmuyden taken from the Ganthois Charles duke of Gelders deliuered out of prison 1492. The furie of the Pesants at Harlem The Duke of Saxony comes into Holland He punished Harlem and Alcmar The duke beseeged Scluse Gand submits to the duke The duke ruins the factions in Holland and zeeland The Duke of Saxonie seeks an occasion to oppresse the Fâ—…sons 1493. The Dukes troupes spoile Gelders The Emperor Frederic dies The Emperor sends to pacifie the troubles of Friseland The Groningeois sent to the Emperor The same Commissioner sent into Friseland by the Emperor Maximilian 1494. An Assembly of the States of Friseland A new Potestate chosen in Friseland An Assembly at Bolswaert They refuse to allow of the new Potestate 1494. Philip of Austrias titles Maximâ—…lians second marriage The Archduke Philip put in possession of the Netherlandâ—… A sentence giuen by 4. Electors against Charâ—…es duke of Geldâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Archduke 〈◊〉 The fâ—…ctions oâ—… Fâ—…seland deâ—…d sucâ—… of the Duâ—…e of Saxony A crueâ—…l murther of a kiâ—…sman 1497. Baten-burch surpriâ—…d by Duke Albert. The Duke of Saxony made here ditarie gouernot of Fâ—…iseland Many 〈◊〉 ingaged to the Duke of Saxony for his entâ—…taynment The Frisons refuse Duke Albert for their gouernor The Duke will make vse of the â—…ctions 〈◊〉 â—…iseland The Vetcoopers dravve strange 〈◊〉 â—…to Friseland They câ—…l 〈◊〉 duke of Saxony into Fâ—…sland The duke makes an excessiue demand â—…nell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Duke tyâ—…s ouer the Frisons The fruites of their 〈◊〉 He dies at Emden Duke Henry leaues Friseland to his yonger brother The Frisons complaine to the Archduke Philip. An answere to the Frisons The â—…chduke 〈◊〉 anâ—… his wâ—…e goâ—… into Spâ—…ne They are hoâ—… 〈◊〉 enter 〈◊〉 by the French King The Archduke 〈◊〉 into Germany 1503. Dâ—…h â—…o the Dâ—…e Douâ—…ger of Bourgongne Marguerite of Austria marred to the Duke of Sauoy 1504. The warre reuiued betwixt the Archduke Philip and the duke of Gelders The exploiâ—… of both armies Duke George of Saxony coâ—…s into Friseland He makes a composition with the Frisons 〈◊〉 Dâ—… of 〈…〉 1505. 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 bâ—…sieged by the Archduke 〈◊〉 takâ—…n in 〈◊〉 Diuision in the Duke of 〈◊〉 campe before 〈◊〉 The Grâ—…geois treate with the 〈◊〉 of â—…mden The Eâ—… of 〈◊〉 â—…de Prâ—… of 〈◊〉 The Earle of Emden Builds acittadel at Groninghen The Earle of Emden receiues entertainment from the duke of Saxony The Earle of Stâ—…lburche made the Dukes Lieutenant in Fâ—…eland The Duke of Gâ—…ldres reconcilâ—…d to the King of Castille The King and Queene of Castâ—… gâ—…e into Spaine An 〈◊〉 froÌ„ the â—…nch kinâ—… to the King of Caâ—…ille 1506. The King Queene of Castill in 〈◊〉 at Sea goâ—… into â—…aine They put to land in England The duke of Gelders begins waâ—…re A Comete A childe in Holland crying in the mothers beâ—…y Philip King oâ—… Câ—…stille dies sodenly The Earle of Nâ—…u brings some â—…vvels out of Spains 1507. The Duke of Gelders 〈◊〉 into Brabant Charles his Inheritance 1508. The duchesse of Sauoy gouerneâ—…e of the Netherlands The death of Aâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bourgongâ—… Puydroien tatakâ—… and razâ—…d 1509. The gouernor of Freâ—…eland dies The Duke of Gelders makes warre against them of Oueryâ—…sel War betwixt the Duke of Gelders and the Bishop of Vtrecht 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…f 〈…〉 1512. 1513. A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 thâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…or 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Dâ—… of 〈…〉 The duke of Saxony makâ—…s an vnreasonable dâ—…mand of thâ—… Fâ—…ons Henry duke of Bâ—… slâ—…ne at an assault Dam taken by assault The Groningâ—…ois 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to thâ—… Duke of Gâ—…ldres The duke of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 plexed for 〈◊〉 of money The Geldâ—…ois enter 〈◊〉 with an army 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 oâ—… 〈◊〉 1515. Prince Charles of Austria takes possession of the Netherlands The Death of the King of Arragon Duke George of Saxony resignes Freeseland to Prince Charles The Lord of Iselsteyn takes possession of Freeseland for prince Charles Tâ—…e gouernâ—…nt of 〈◊〉 committed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Châ—…les The bishop of Vtrecht 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 1527. The Duke of Geldeâ—…s besieged in 〈◊〉 A trucâ—… concluded Outrages done by the Geldrois to breake the truce The Duke writes vnto the Frisons Deputies of the â—…risons of the Bourgongne partie â—…ent â—…o Vtrecht Demands of the Duke of Gelders to the Frisons A notable 〈◊〉 Hoâ—…ne surprised by a Pitat and spoiled Prince Charles sent for to receiue the Crowne of Castile Arâ—…agon c. Prince Charles goes into Spaine Prince Charles arriues in Spaine 1518 The Coronation of the King of Spaâ—…ne The blacke troope defeated The Emperoâ—…s will for the bâ—…rying of his body The death of the Emperor Maximilian 1519. His course life An assembly at Frâ—…cfort for 〈◊〉 choosing of a newe Emperor A commendable thing in the Electors Ambassadors from Prince Charles to the Electors Ambassadors from the French King The electors answer to the Ambassadors The Elector of Mentz his speech The Elector of Treues speech The Elector of Saxonies speech Charles King of Spaine chosen Emperor Charles King of Spaine comes into England 1520. The Emperors entry into Aix Ships of Holland taken by the Danes The Earle of Maeurs sent gouernor into Frisland Nicuport by Schoonhouen taken The Frisons send to the Imperiall diet 1521. The first Edict against them of the religion The miserable estate of Friseland The first cause of the warre The Duke of Bouillon desies the Emperor The Emperors 〈◊〉 inuades the duke of Bouâ—…lons country The French kingâ—… 〈◊〉 Tournay besieged by the Emperors men Sloten besieged by the Bouâ—…gnons Lemmer yeelded â—…wicke taken without any resistance 1523. The emperors second voyage into Spaine The peasants warre in Germanie 1524. The Geldrois begin warre against the Emperor 1526. The duke of Gelders seeks to be reuenged of the Groningeois The suburbes of Groningen burnt The Groningeois giue themselues vnto the Emâ—…or Collonel Schenck reâ—… Groninghen for the Emperor The Duke of Holsteynes troupes defeated Dam yeelded by the Geldrois Wedden yeelded Coeuoerden yeelded A peace betwixt the house of Bourgongue and the Duke of Gelders The
A decree made by the states to entertaine the pacification of Gant Friars burnt â—…or Sodomie at Gant and Bruges What Cornellis a Franciâ—…an Friar of Bruges was 1578 Saint Aldegonds oration made at the assembly oâ—… the Princes of tâ—…e Empire holden at Worms in the yeare 1578. 1578. A small defeat of the Spaniards by the French The Spaniards beseege Lâ—…mbourg 1578 The Castle of Heude trea cherâ—…usly deliuered to the Prince of Parma Octauio Gonzague preuailes 〈◊〉 â—…le in Henault The death of the Countesse of Egmont The duke of Aniou comes to succor the states 1578. An vnworthy and cruel â—…act of captaine Pont and well reuenged Mary 〈◊〉 more worthy of commendation then Lucrece Don Iohn resolues to charge the states at Remenant 1578. The great skirmish by Rymenant 1578. A tumult at Valencienes The duke of Anicus capitulation with the States The duke of Anious 〈◊〉 1578 The states ar mie vnprâ—…table for want of pay The beginning of the male-contents A great skirmish neere vnto Louvain Three castles taken by the states at one instant Some companâ—… of mâ—…contents surprized at Gaure Menin surprized by the Male-contents 1578. Temples granted in diuers place to the Protestants Peace propounded to Don Iohn by forren Princes 1578 Don Iohn refuseth to make peace but desireth to haue a truce The causes that moued the Stats to tolerate them of the religion The Protestants request for a religious peace 1578. 1578. The states resolution touching a religious peace The preface of the religious peace 1578. The articles of the religious peace 1578 1578. 1578. The Gentlemen in Brussels present a request against 〈◊〉 religious â—…ce Champigni committed to â—…on 1578. Duke Cassimires armie The Prelates and Nobles prisoners in Friseland escape Secret practises in Arras Diuers committed to prison in Arraâ—… 1578. The names of fifteene Deputies in Arras 1578 The States of Arthois â—…eld extraordinarily The Magistrats of Arras seazâ—…d on The Magistratâ—… of Arraâ—… iâ—…larged reueng themselues 1578. The Seignior of Gosson beâ—…dded in Arras Duke Casimire comes to Gant 1578 The death of Don Iohn of Austria 1578. 1578. 1578. 1578 Bins taken by the Duke of Anicu The Ganthoiâ—… defeated 1578. Iames Hassel and visâ—…h hanged at Gaâ—…t The Duke of Parmâ—… pâ—…eth the Meuse The taking of Carpen. The States actiâ—…s 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1579. Articles propounded to the Ganthois Deputies sent to tâ—…e Ganthois Offers made by the duke of Aniou to the Ganthois The Queene of Englands declaration to the Ganthois 1578. Deputies from Brusselles to Gant The Ganthois answer to the articles propounder vnto them Articles propounded to the Ganthois by the generall estâ—…ts 1578 The Princes reasons to perswade the Ganthois to Concord The Romish Religion established in Gant vpon certaine conditions All things reconcilâ—…d in Gant 1578 The Malecontents treated witâ—… but in vâ—…e The vicont of Gant and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in â—…ue the States The retreâ—…t of Duke Casiâ—… 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 army 1578. Deuenter yeelded to the States Cont Swartzenbergh purâ—…ues his legation The death of Cont Bossu The Duke of Anious retreat into France 1579. 1579. The English men take the Abbot of S. Michaell The coullord reasons of the Malecontents Diuers Knights and Gentlemen câ—…upted wâ—…th money by the Spaniaâ—…ds 1579. An accord made by the Baron of Montigni A confirmation of the Baron of Montignieâ—… accord 1579. Letters from them of Lille Douay and Orchies to the generall Estates 1579. The States answere to them of Lille 1579. 1579. Mastricht beseeged by the Prince of Parma The Prince of Espinoy tempted Instructions giuen to the signior of Charpesteau Hee meâ—…nes the Duke of Aniou whom the Earle of Lalain had called or the Prince of Orange or Duke Casimire iudge â—…ich 1579. 1579. They of Tournay and Tournesis refuse to Enter the reconciliauon Deputies sent from Brusselâ—…s to the States of Arthois La Noue makes vvarre in Flanders 1579 1579. 1579. 1579. 1579 Many enter into the vnion of Vâ—…echt The signior of Boxtel gouernor of Boisleduc 1579. Fears seizeth vpon the Protestants of Boisledue 1579 Groningen refusing the vnion is forced A tumult at Bruges for the vnion A Collonel made in hast and by force 1579. The States more quicke to succor Bruges Maestricht beseeged by the Prince of Parma 1579. An assault appointed A braue assault well defended A deere Assault without any fuite They of Antwerp â—…bot to releeue Maestricht 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this 〈◊〉 1579. A tumult in Antwerp at a generall procession 1579 The Priests Monks chased out of Antwerp by the people A shamefull enterprise made by the Earle of Egmont 1579. The Liegeois helpe the Spaniards at the campe before Maestricht The states negligent to succor Mastrient An other assault whereas the signior of Hierges was slaine 1579. An assault giuen to Mastricht during a part and the towne taken with fury Captaine Bastien taken prisoner A priuat reconciliation of Arthois Henault c. 1579. 1579 1579. 1579. 1579. Many tovvnes enter into this priuat reconciliation The treaty of Cologne vnprofitable 1579. The behauiour of Iohn d'Imbise in Gant The Prince accept the gouernment of Flanders The first 〈◊〉 of Couerden 1579. A conuoy of the Malecon tents defeated Macklyn summoned by the Estates will remaine Neuters La Noue makes the Germaines leaue Villebrouck The taking of Mortagne and S. Amand by the Parmois Niuelle surprised by the Estates 1579 An enterprise by the Malcontents against Cortrike but tooke no effect 1579. The Malcontents horse-men ouerthrowne by La Noue whereby they forsooke many places in Flanders 1579. The Prince of Oranges oration to the states of Holland Zeeland 1579 What sorces the prince of Paâ—…ma then had 1579 1579 The princes aduice for the establishâ—… of a counsell of State 1579 1579 1580 Another declaratioÌ„ made vnto the states by the prince of Orange 1580 1580 Consultation made by the deputies of the states assembled in Antuerpe touching the chaÌ„ge of their soueraigne lord 1580 1580 1580 1580 Courtray surprised by the Seignior of Alennes The earle of â—…ont taken in Nyenouen 1580 The castle of Leewerden taken by the states of Friseland and broken downe 1580 Harlingen castle taken by the states of Friseland and broken down The castle of Staueren takeÌ„ by the Estates and broken downe 1580 1580 Groning besieged by the states Images brokeÌ„ and throwne down in Frise land and Oueryssell 1580 The death of Bartel Entens with a briefe description of his life 1580 1580 Martin Schencks forces sent to releeue Groning Vprore in Swool 1580 A battaile between the earl of Hohenlo Mar Schenck The siege before Groning abandoned 1580 Delfziel yeelded vp to the prince of Parma 1580 Coeoorden taken by the earle of Hohenlo Oxlagh taken by the earle of Renenbergh and broken downe The earle of Hohenloes forces ouerthrowne by Weeden 1580 Coeuoorden taken againe by the earle 〈◊〉 Reuenbergh after that Oldenzeel 1580 The earle of â—…mont diâ—…ed Pouchain yeelded by composition Macklin taken by the Stâ—…tes
1601 Oostend 1601 Dom Catris general of the Spanish armie slaine 1601 The estate of the besiged 1601 Aduertisemâ—… out of the Spanish camp Boisleduc besieged by the prince 1601 The estates raise their siege â—…rom Boisleduc 1601 T' was not your archdukes sword but the keene frost That saued Boisleduc it had else bin lost Our archdukes sword as well as the keene frost Defended Boisleduc t' was your paines were lost Oostend The Spaniards charge the English trenches 1601 The towne in danger to be taken Supply of victuals comes to Oostend 1601 Sir Francis Veer makes an oâ—…er to parlâ—… Succours of men come to Oostend 1602 The archduke giues a general assault to Oostâ—…nd The archdukeâ—… losâ—…e at thiâ—… assault A wonderfâ—…ll sâ—…oyle of the Spaniardâ—… 1602 The archdukes souldiers â—…utine 1602 Graue besieged by prince Maurice The descrscptâ—…on of Graue 1602 Sir Francis Veer shot before Graue Graue yeelded by composition 1602 Prince Maurice dissolues his armie Mutinie in the admirals army The mutiners seize vpon Hoochstrateâ—… 1602 The admirall discharged of his generals place 1602 1602 1602 160â—… 1602. 1602 1602 The mutiners protected by the vnited prouinces 1602 A fight betweene â—…xe gallies and certaine English and Holland ships 1602 One of the gallies sunke o Another gallie sunke The losse of the gallies 1602 Frederick Spinola saues himselfe with his treasure Oostend 1602 The crueltie of the earle of Embden 1602 They oâ—… Embden demand aâ—…d of the vnited prouinces 1603. Oostend The Poldeâ—… square taken 1603 A fight at sea with Spiâ—…ola's gallies Spinola slaine â—…e nuâ—…ber â—…e dead 1603 The vnited prouinces letter to the king of England The vnited Estates sent embassadors into England 1603 The kings answer to the vnited Estates 1603 Lopers of Oostend 1603 Prince Maurice comes before Boisledue 1603 A fort of the Spaniards taken with great slaughter of their men Oostend Crueltie of the Spaniards 1603 The seignior of Ghiâ—…lles gouernor of Oostend 1603 An assembly of the Estates of the empire The emperour writes to the vnited prouinces 1604 Prince Maurice retires from Boisleduc Oostend 1604 The seignior of Ghistelles gouernor of Oostend sâ—…ine 1604 The armie lands The prince master of a the isle of Cadsant Oostend 1604 Isendike besieged Isendike yeelded vpon composition 1604 An enterpise in Brabant made by prince Maurice and the squadron 1604 The prince camps before Sluce 1604 The mutiners reconciled to the archduâ—…e The disposition of the princeâ—… campe before Sluce 1604 The conuey ouertaken by the prince and defeated Another conuoy in rout 1604 Many souldiers come to the prince The besieged in Sluce in great extremitie 1604 The mutiners serue the Archduke at the reliefe of Sluse Spinola comes to relieue â—…luse 1604 Spinolas men run away The great want in the towne 1604 They of Sluce demand a parle The princes offers to them of Sluce The articles of the composition 1604 What the prince found in the towne 1604 They of Oostend resolue to compound An honorable composition at Oostend 1604 The marquesse Spinola goes into Spaine The death of Lodowike earle of Nassau 1604 The vnited prouinces giue their Agent in England the title of their embassador The Spanish embassadour complaines of it The kings answere Death of Ernest earle of Mansfeld His life 1604 His children The archduke will no suffâ—…r the generall Estates of Brabant to assemble 1604 The archduke prepares to warre The vnited prouiaces prepare for warre 1604 Certaine considerations of peace being very weighty containing three points The first 1604 The second reason to mooue men vnto a peace made by a catholike vnder the archduke 1604 1604 The third discourse touching peace in the 〈◊〉 made by an indifferenâ—… partie 1604 Note 1604 1604 The admonition vnto the vnited prouinces against peace 1604 1604 1604. 1605. 1605. 1605. 1605. 1605. 1605. 1605. 1605. 1605. 1605. An enteâ—…pise made by Prince Maurice vpon the riuer of Scheld and Antwerp 1605. The States men defeated The Gouernor of Ordam sconce slaine Wouwe Castle beseeged Prince Maurice tooke the Castle of Wouwe 1605. 〈◊〉 The Emperor sends for a pasport to the Hage for his Ambassadors to treat oâ—… a peace which they refuse The Estates answer to the Emperor who refuse his request 1605. 1605. A vaine enterprise vpon Bercke The Earle of Hertforâ—… sent to the â—…chduke out of England Ladyes attending on the Infanta 1605. Attendance vpon the Arch duke 1605. Shtâ—…s men come out of Spainâ—… defeated by the Estates shippes Meurs set on fiâ—…e by traitors The Marquis Sp nola marcheth tovvards Friseland The Estates bring their armie neere vnto Rhynebercke 1605. Oldenzeel yeelded to Spinola by composition Spinola besiegeâ—… and tooke Linghen The indiscretion of the Gouernor Commanders in Linghen Linghen yeelded by composition An enterprize made vpon Berghen vp-Zoome by Mounsier Hericouâ—…t 1605. Berghen in danger The Spaniard repulst from Berghen An enterprize vpon Graue made by the Gouernor of Boisleduc 1605. Bergen vp zoom once againe assailed by the enemy vpon the 20. of Septemb. 1605. The endeuors of them within the towne The Spaniard retires from Berghen Wachtendonk taken by the Spaniards 1605. 1605. Earle Theodoro Trivultio slaine 1606. Marquis Spinola goes into Spaine 1605. A sentence pronounced against the gouernor and captaines of Linghen for yeelding vp the towne The Archdukes in iealousie of the Duke of Bouillon 1606. And abandoned againe Philip Earle of Hohenlo died An enterprise made against Sluce by the Archduke 1606. 1606. Certaine captaines and soldiars punished by the Archduke for failing of the enterprize before Sluce 1061 The castle of Wouvve and Hoghestrate razed An vprore in Antvverp Two women murthered by a Spaniard in Gant 1606. Spinolaes enterprise to get into Suider sea Grol besieged by Spinola 1606. Groll yeelded 〈◊〉 Spinola 1606. Reinbergh besieged by Spinola 〈◊〉 6. 〈◊〉 â—…d 〈◊〉 ne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 why 〈◊〉 Mauâ—…uld â—…e 〈◊〉 â—…es 〈◊〉 bâ—…o â—…rcke 1606. The Estates send to perswade Prince Maurice to releeue Rhynbercke An enterprize vpon Venlo 1606. Reinbergh yeeldâ—…d to Spinola The Spaniards losâ—…e at the â—…ge of Rhine-â—…erck 〈…〉 1607. The mutines of Dyest Peace made betweene the Earle of East-Freezeland the towne of Embden 1607. 1607. The castle of Groning broken downe The Earle of Brooke murthered by the Spaniards Erckelens taken and spoiled by Henrick Earle of Nassaw The King of Spaine the Estates prepare to warre at sea 1607. The Estates shippes sally towards Spaine They resolue to enter into the riuer of Lisbon The Estates shippes go to seeke the Spanish fleet 1607 The number of the Spanish fleete The Admiral Hemskerke slaine 1607. The Spanish Vize-admirall burnt A Galleon burnt The Spanish Admirall offers to yeeld The Estates win the battaile 1607. Their losse of shippes Their losse of men The resolutiof the Estates ships after the battaile The Admiral Hemskerke buried at Amsterdam Mounsier Hurst and maister Iohn Geuarts make an offer of peace or truce 〈◊〉 Holland 1607. The States answer to