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A15440	A supplication to the Kings Maiestie of Spayne, made by the Prince of Orange, the states of Holland and Zeland, with all other his faithfull subiectes of the low Countreys, presently suppressed by the tyranny of the Duke of Alba and Spaniards. By which is declared the originall beginning of al the commotions [and] troubles happened in the sayd low Countrie: to the relief wherof, they require his Maiesties speedy redresse and remedie. Faithfully translated out of Duytsch into English, by T.W.; Sendbrief. In forme van supplicatie aen die Conincklicke Majesteyt van Spaengien. English	William I, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584.; Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598.; T. W., fl. 1573-1595.	1573 (1573)	STC 25710; ESTC S120037	18,049	46

and that with force hée cannot by God hys prouidence preuayle we cannot therfore accept his said letters as being directed to vs who neuer strayed from your obedience except it were that we would take acknowledge the Duke of Alba for our King for him onely haue we resisted not your Maiestie whom we with life and goods so long as it shall please God to permit vs the same will faithfully serue and obeye And therefore his pardō doth nothing touch vs which tendeth onely to the Townes which haue ben seduced from the Kings obedience But we marke his intent knowing that eyther hee would be king himselfe or else that wée by entisemēt of his subtile pardons shoulde condempne our selues For wée receyuing pardon must acknowledge our selues gilty of commotions and rebellion agaynst oure King of tumult and sedition yea of heresie and declyning from the Christian faith and in fyne to the depriuinge of the honour of God and the Kings maiestie This is hys seeking that by receyuing of his false fayned pardōs we shuld by our subsignations seales confirme the same to the intent that hée hereafter might thereby defende and excuse himselfe of tyranny before your Maiestie and all other christian Princes and Potentates saying that if we had not founde ourselues culpable in these gréeuous offences for which we were punished and tormēted we would neuer haue receyued any remisse or pardon Wherein wée take God the searcher and knower of all hartes and your Maiestie to witnesse that if wée haue committed any such offences as by the sayd pardon are layd to our charge that wée doe altogither refuse all pardon but desire as the moste wickedst and vylest creatures on earth to make satisfaction for our offences with our bloud and doe not refuse O most mercifull King one after an other to suffer most extreeme torments if it may be found that wee haue offended in such order as is presumed And do request the Duke of Alba if any petition will take place with him that all such as come to him for pardon acknowledging the pretended offence that hée without shewing of mercy doe entreat them in such sorte as their offences according to righte haue deserued commending him therein in gyuing or mayntayning any fayth or credit with him as one so vnfaithfull to God his King as hath not ben abashed so greatly too abuse and contempne their Maiesties But what is it it shall not be found that euer we haue thoght any such matter much lesse in effect shewed the same We haue alwayes bene faithfull and seruiseable to our King and sought to serue God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ in spirit and truth according to his word and commaundment so farre as our féeble nature would permit euen to the last droppe of our bloud But considering that the Duke of Alba in stead of executing equitie and Iustice and hearing of their complaintes and gréefes persecutinge of your maiesties promises hath contrary to all right and reason our rightes and priuileges suppressed vs wyth most cruell tyrannie destroyed oure Countries and vsed vs more seuerely then euer Jewes or Turkes haue done against their vanquished enemies And in the meane space hath hée accused vs to your Maiestie and al other christian Potentates with false accusations of rebellion and heresie and we neuer could come to our aunswer or receyue any comfort in the vniuersall world So as by necessitie we haue ben forced to take the armes in hande and by all meanes possible sought to defende our poore natiue Country from such execrable tyrannie and rather w one accord to spende our lyues then to fall into the handes of such a Tyrant wherein wée meane to persiste except that it please your Maiestie with mercyfull cares to attende to our complaintes and minister to vs Iustice against such oppression and tyrāny For God be thanked we are not so il instructed in his word but that we know very well that aswell our lyfe as death consisteth in his handes that this death which no man can escape is but as a ready path too the lyfe euerlasting Therefore séeing our death maye bée a pleasure to other wee chuse rather to dye an honorable death in the behalfe of the liberties and common weale of our Country thē to fall into such seruitude and become footestooles vnto most arrogant aliants who alwayes haue hated vs For at the least wée shall thereby leaue to our successors suche a good fame as it may be sayd that their Predecessours had rather with renowne to dye with honour then lyue in all bondage and shame Wée contende for the libertie of our consciences in defence of our wyues and children our bloude and goods that is to saye whether the Duke of Alba with his complices shall according to his selfe will bée a Lord and Gouernour or that wée to the behoofe of your Maiestie O most Souerayne King shall defende it from him We know that the limites of our liues are set and shal not by the pardon of the Duke of Alba surpasse the same Therefore wée onely desire your Maiestie that it may please the same to weye and consider our cases and not to suffer that wee by accepting such pardones should for euer be reputed as rebels to God and our King which we neuer thought For wée are fully perswaded that although wee had receyued those pardons yet would it nothing haue preuayled for safegarde of our lyues for thereby the Duke of Alba might haue had the better action against vs the proceeded with most seueritye might had better haue answered for himselfe if we and confessed our selues gilty of rebellion both against God the King his Maiestie For then no mā would haue moned vs although we had bene slayne and murthered as disturbers of the peace and common wealth and not worthy to lyue And although it were not so yet it is apparant by all the Duke of Alba his proceedinges that he meaneth to obserue no faith with vs for seeing that he hath openly perpetrated the othe which the Duches of Parma with all the Lordes and gouernours of the countrie in the name of your Maiestie had sworne so solemply to these townes yet hath he in these latter warres sufficiently expressed his peruerse meaning in diuers townes as at Mons in Henauld hath he cōtrary to his othe caused a number of Burgeses to be hanged at Naerdon he hath executed his crueltie in such a sort as in a town of like bignes hath not ben hard of and now at Harlem hath he or at the least in his name Don Frederico assured the souldiours of their liues therunto certaine Lords as pledges they bound themselues and yet hath he euē to the young paiges caused them to be murthered one with another and their naked carcasses to the scandale of all women and virgins left lying vpon the scaffold a day a night And such as had consented to the deliuery of

vniuersall world that being thereunto extremely constrayned wée haue taken armes in hand agaynst the tyranny and abuses of the Duke of Alba and his cōplices to deliuer our lyues and goods wyues and children from the bloudthirstie hands of his ministers and if hée doo preuayle agaynste vs rather chuse to dye an honorable death and leaue a fame to our successours then to yéelde and bowe to such a tyrant and suffer our countrie to liue vnder vnsupportable slauerie So else we should be abashed and ashamed too shewe our faces in any other Countries as hauing neglected the seruice of your Maiestie And therefore haue all the Townes ioinctly and seuerally taken in hande and sworne the one after the other to abyde al sieges if néed bée to the vttermost though to the losse of their lyues and goods yea rather set fyre of our owne howses thē to yéeld to the force of this Tyrant For wée are well assured that at the hāds of such a Tyrant as regardeth no othe and hath so often and cruelly threatned vs there is no more to be looked for but that he wold rather colour the riuers and streames with our blood and to behange the countrie with our bodyes to satiate his bloudthirsty luste and appetite Therfore we prostrate our selues before the féete of your Maiestie desiring the same for GOD his sake who hath set the Crowne vppon your head and gyuen the Scepter into your hande once to bowe your eares to our reasonable complayntes Wée doe not desire to be dissolued from the obediēce of your Maiestie but onely that we may haue our consciences frée to Godwarde to heare his holy worde to follow the same to the intent to giue an accompt at the daye of Iudgement of our soules that we may atcheue such discharge for our miserable natiue Countrie which alwayes hath donne such faythful seruice to your Maiestie from the yoke and bondage of forayne Nations and Spanish Souldioures and to suffer the Countrie to enioye those liberties priuileges and customes as your Maiestie and the most puissant Emperour Charles your Maiesties most noble father of famous memorie haue to youre Subiectes solemply sworne Then will wée at the commaundement of your Maiestie lay downe our weapons armes and will venture body goods and all that wee haue in the world in the seruice of your maiestie by water or by land where whensoeuer your Maiestie shall commaund the same and your Maiestie shall finde that wée are not altered or abastarded from you but rarher that wée doe excell in faythefull seruice all our predecessours which hereby wée do promise and sweare to your maistie beséeching euē as wée doo faithfully meane it so to take mercie of our soules Desiring that this our declaration and othe be openly published and declared to all Kings Potentates Lordes and Nations to the intent they may knowe that we are no Rebelles towards our King for wée neuer learned such of our predecessours But that wée of méere force and necessitie haue bene constrayned to take on armes agaynst the enemies vsurpers of his maiesties name Requesting therfore all christen Princes and Potentates that they wil be moued with a pytyfull compassion of our miseries and much doubting that this our supplication declaration shal be kept back and suppressed as other our former Requestes haue bene not come to our Kings handes that they will thereof informe his Maiestie to the intent our iust cause maye come to light and that his Maiestie may be acquited of the innocent bloud which this Albanish Tyrant doth shedde This wée hartely desire and wée all will pray vnto almighty GOD for their prosperitie to remain for euer FINIS

or daughters frō their filthy lustes or their lyues from their bloudthirstinisse Nobilitie Richesse manhood or good seruice done in tymes past could nothing preuaile if once hée was entred intoo hatred of them And without taking regard to the Iurisdictions or ordinary courses of the countrie hath stopped the Iurisdictions of al Iustices either in ciuill or criminall causes which in any wyse concerne the confiscations pronounced in his bloudy Counsell in such sorte as neyther spirituall or temporal persones widowes or orphanes hospitalls Spittels Lazarus houses or other whiche had good and deuable reuenues amongst the confiscated goods could get any payment or satisfaction But the Duke of Alba hath gotten all into his hands without any mind to discharge any the premisses notwithstāding the diuers and earnest solicitations requestes to him made in that behalfe by the States of the Countries delaying the poore agréeued subiectes with dilatorie and vnfounded apostillations the one alwayes contrarying the other and without sending ouer the matters to the prouinciall Counsels or ordinary Iustices to the intent to make them dispaire of any satisfactiō to be made by the court where by proces they haue ben sōmoned to their excissiue charge and vpon summes of small value haue bene forced to greater charges then the principal hath amounted vnto not suffering any law full transport to be made of any one debte for the other To consider what number of honest woomen and yonge maydens they haue with force and violence rauished that the one after the other yea misused some euen to the death Howe often haue they compelled the husbande to remaine with the wife and the father with the daughter to force thē with their eyes to beholde their most vilanous filthinesse and made them as instruments to the accomplishinge of their luxurious luste vsing such vnnaturall and beastly fashions that wée are in a manner abashed and astonied to declare the same to your Maiestie Howe often hath it happened that the husband séeking to defend hys wyfe or daughter of their rauishement that they haue all togither as furious curres run out of the house togither crying Spania Spania murtheringe a number of the poore commons How many women great with childe haue they ript vp the bellies off and murthered the frute in their wombes Haue they not fleyed and pulled off the skinns of some men being aliue and headdid their drommes with the same skin others haue they not tosted with small fyres nypped thē with red burning tonges euen to the death and consequently murthered a number and made them dye a hundreth deathes Howe many women haue they chased from their husbands and children from their parents yea what is there vnder the heauens so honest or holy which they haue not defiled and troden vnder foote Uerily amongest all other Nations yea amongest the cruelest the buryinge of the dead hath alwayes bene permitted and reuerenced But this Tirant in the despyte of God and nature is so obstinate and peruerse that hée hath caused to be taken out of the graue the carcasses of the dead and conueyed vnder the gallowes vnder pretence because some of them dying without shrifte others without houseling had forfaited his goods which hée tooke as confiscated What is there amongst men more holy and honest then is the state of Matrimonie being the only and true foundation of all mutual loue friendship the originall of loue the bond of peace and the direct way of all dealings amongst men whereof this Tyrant maketh so little accompte that hée seuereth the mē frō their wyues and the wyues frō their husbands being ioyned togither in the congregation before God and his Angels cleane contrary to the commaundement and institution of almighty God and rightes all vnder pretence that they were ioyned togither in the way of heresie but to saye trueth it is onely in spoyling manner to match the beautifull and riche Matrones with his Souldiours ruffians and finally by his crueltie burst in sunder the original bande tending to the intertayning of all mutuall loue murthering and killing the women which in time of extremitie had reléeued their husbands the childrē for succouring the necessitie of their parents yea those which had onely with a letter cōforted any of them And to the ende that nothing shuld by him be left vndefiled hath hée troden in most despitefull manner vnder foote the most holy Sacramēt of Baptisme whereby wée are incorporated in the body of Iesus Christ and cōmunion of God his Church willing and commaunding that those children which were Christened openly and lawfully according to the institution of Iesus Christ in the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghoste should once agayn be baptised vnder pretence that they were Christened as heretiques and repugnant contrarie to all godly and naturall rightes ordonances of the church decrées of Counsells Furthermore it néedeth not to rehearse to your Maiestie the gréeuous exactions inuented by him one after an other and with out measure doth vrge of the poore commōs as the hundrethes twenties yea the tenth penie of all goods mouables and immouables of all goods bought and sold demaunding yea vrging by execution contrarie to the aduise counsell of al estates in these coūtries not of the cleare gaines of the same but the tenth and twentie penie of the capitall some of all sales Whereby not onely all trades and trafficques are abandoned out of the land but likewise the subiectes of the same depriued from the getting of the liuing of them their wiues and children And notwithstanding that the states haue at sundry times done their endeuour largely to infourme the said Duke of the inconueniences which might follow vppon the said demaund and requested that he would in their behalfe aduertise your Maiestie therof would not hearken to them but shaked them of without any comefort although he was by intercession of the counsel states of the land therunto most earnestly instanced and so therby caused the decay of all marchandise compelled the inhabitants through misery to flée away into other countries And yet it is apparant that when any necessitie is towardes for payment of the souldiers no money is to be had in such sorte that the Spanish souldiours are at afterdele in their payment xxviij monethes and the Dutche moste of them constrayned to go a begging from doore to doore of which some haue by famine and misery perished Notwithstanding the great sommes which the states haue leuied and paid to the paying of the said souldiours yet neuerthelesse haue his garnisons consumed and eaten out the most part of the townes suppressed the same with the Seruitio which they haue bene forced to minister to the said Spanish souldiours and those which haue giuen most money as well to him as to Don Frederico or any of theirs haue bene the first that were discharged of the sayde bondage of Seruitio With which garnisons he hath most vexed the