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A42214	De rebus belgicis, or, The annals and history of the Low-Countrey-warrs wherein is manifested, that the United Netherlands are indebted for the glory of their conquests, to the valour of the English, under whose protection the poor distressed states, have exalted themselves to the title of the high and mighty ...; Annales et historiae de rebus Belgicis. English	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1665 (1665)	Wing G2098; ESTC R3740	690,015	1,031

steps of Connanus and Duarenus composed the Discipline of the Laws into an order and method of Art taking away those things which the too secure ignorance of the former age had disordered yet not so as that it should give place to modern want of knowledg which in empty dress of words hath infringed the very sinues of that kind of Learning But this man by the infection of the Earl of Leicesters party was carryed so far that he forgot not onely his Studies but even the duties of a private person and a stranger and from thence went away to Altorf For interpreting the Manners and Customs of the Romans and discoveries and dilucidations of Antiquity was Justus Lipsius who added both to his own fame and the Honour of the place by his Learning a person who by the pleasing gravity of his behaviour was honoured beyond his Profession alluring most men to delight in him by the sweetness of his Discourse for since Nature had denyed him neither Rhetorick nor Oratory he rather chose that concise manner of speaking which is intermingled with mirth which was in truth a new mode of Speech but yet in some sort resembling Antiquity which when such did strive to imitate as were not equall to him in wit and Judgement they deviated into the most corrupt conceptions But when publick fear and private injury had forced Lipsius to change his party there was sent for out of France Joseph the Son of Julius who had conferred to the Family of Scaliger from which he was descended not onely Nobility but the vertue of paternal Wisdom by the laying open all things that were to be known either concerning Nations or Ages he was not wearied with continual study even to his old Age and might solace himself with this that from his very Child-hood his Fame and Renown continually encreased The Oriental Tongues were taught by Francis Raphelenge and the Greek by Vulcanius with no little Reputation For disputation in Divinity there was Franciscus Junius a Man of a very sharp Wit and one that would with great inginuity use the subtilty of the Adversaries Arguments against themselves Here also was famous Hadrianus Julius a Hollander for his Learning in natural Philosophy and Medicine nor was he contemptible for other parts of Wisdom Hither also came that great light Aldegonde there seeking leisure to translate the divine Law into the Language of his Country And that most famous Herbalist Charles Clusius of Artois Among the rest we may reckon Janus Dowsa who was appointed by the States to oversee and govern the Students We may call him Chancellour of the University to whom Posterity will attribute great Honour for his description of quality the Honours born and enduring of the Siege of Leyden in everlasting Poetry yet in that kind his Son which bore the same name excelled him the same also being joyned with his Father for composing the Annals of Holland and 't is probable he would have been fit for greater Employments if immature death had not taken him away being a young man of highest expectation for Learning With such Masters and such examples as these were Youth trained up whose number in a short time so encreased that Arts necessary both for publick and private Commodity which before by the unfrequentedness of the place were neglected now were not sufficient for instructing Ingenuity And although others of their own accord do earnestly labour by literature and Poetry to advance their name above the vulgar Holland having never been barren in that kind of Eloquence wherein formerly excelled Peter Mannius and Janus Secundi● and his Brothers so now also the like is found in the Writings of many young men But yet the raw Studies of this Nation which rather minds the getting of Wealth were not come to their heighth for yet had it not been the Country either of Erasmus or Longolius But the Reverence I bear to the Names of these great Men and the Reputation of that more peaceable sort of Wisdom hath made run far astray both from the Common-wealth and the War But now I return There were Embassadors sent to Christian the Fourth who now being come to his full and lawful Age was of himself without a Governour King of Denmark and had taken into his own hands the full power of Government and these were to congratulate him in the name of the States with their Joy and well-wishes but they were not to present themselves before the greatest of the Solemnities were past least among so great an Assembly of Embassadors there should arise any Contest for preheminence out of envy or least they should voluntarily give place to all to the diminution of their dignity There wanted nothing but that they for the common fear of the Spanish domineering should have requested ayd The Priviledges of Amsterdam onely were confirmed Those old ones claimed by the Cities of Schidam and Enchuysen from former Kings were disannu●led yet the Emb●ssadors were dismissed with Honour and Gifts and so not long after John Baptista Taxis coming to him from the Spaniard although he brought far richer Gifts yet was not received with the like kindness The Reason hereof was believed to be this because the Spaniard who not long before had promised three hundred thousand Duckets yearly to the Dane instead of a Tribute that he would not suffer the Hollanders to come into these Streights having not performed this was afterwards convicted that he would by treachery have invaded his Castles upon the Sound whereof notice had been sent him by the Vnited States After the taking of Hulst all things about the Hollanders were quiet excepting onely some light and memorable Skirmishes between the Horse For as well theirs as the Enemies Militia was so exhausted that they could hardly defend the Borders of the Netherlands against the French And at the beginning of Autumn fulfilling his promises with an easie hope and the great favour of his Allyes sent against the Artoysians the Marshall Biron Commander of a considerable Body of Horse seeming as if he went to defend Picardy Verembonius earnestly desiring to free the Government committed to him from rapine marched with twelve Troops of Horse against the French being then not so many in number yet nevertheless he was overcome and taken Prisoner together with Count Montecuculi an Italian and several others upon whom was imposed a great Sum of money for their Ransom And presently the Conquerours falling not onely into Artois but Flanders so pillaged the whole Country that they made a greater wast and havock there than had ever been remembred to be made in France in the Wars either of Charles formerly or Philip lately The Country people and Boors flying into the Cities carryed thither not onely Poverty but Infectious Diseases Whereupon the Lord of Cimace was presently sent with a new strength to defend the Borders but he also was put to flight Ambrosio Landriano the General of the Horse undervaluing his Command who being

Multitude of the common People while others after the old manner of Mourning in a vowed Habit promise and swear Never to cut their Hair untill they had revenged the Blood of those Noble-men The Prince of Aurange with many others are cited by a Proclamation to appear and because being absent and out of their reach he laughed at their Threats of Punishment all his Goods are confiscated and his Son which was bred up at Levain in the Study of the Arts is seized upon and carried Prisoner into Spain It was a very sad thing to take notice of the Desolation and Wast that was here made partly by Slaughters and partly by Flight Some few whose exceeding Poverty would not bear out their Banishment retired into the Woods and there hiding themselves where they lived like Salvages upon the daily Spoils committed upon Priests not taking Notice of the Magistrates who came to suppress them by Force but robbing and killing them as they could find advantage until at last they were destroyed and driven away by the greater and more powerful strength of Alva So also at the Rivers Maze and Rhene a few unadvised persons being scatteredly met together and having sworn the Dukes death at the very first Rencounter were all overcome and slain And to cut off all thoughts of hope the Messengers and Curriers from Spain brought word that then was nothing of moderation more to be expected from the King than from Alva for that a publike punishment was there inflicted upon Montaigne who was sent thither in vain bearing with him the Name of an Embassador as to Enemies which among all Nations is sacred and not to be violated for it was not thought fit for Subjects to treat or deal with their Prince after such a manner and so positively denied The Marquess of Berghen by a seasonable Death prevented to himself the like Fate though not without Suspition of Poyson But the very Thoughts of such a thing was condemned as a Crime because Alva had a hand therein There was about the same time a louder though more mystical Rumour of the Death of Charles the Kings Son It was evident that he though the Heir of so many Great Kingdoms was put into Ward whether his too much forwardness in his Youth had raised a Suspition of him that he was ambitious of Rule as if his Care for the Netherlanders had been too great for his Interest there or whether the same Crime were laid to his Charge which had taken off his Step-Mother is uncertain But this is sure that shortly after he died though still very dubious what Causes could so provoke the Fathers Wrath to that heighth as to work his Sonne death The Exiles who now though at distance were every where against their Wills and in Poverty being much grieved at the Oppression of their Country did earnestly sollicies the Prince of Aurange to take up Arms which of his own accord he was not at all propense to do willing rather the the Spaniard should over-un all until all his Counsels were laid open and there might be hoped a more safe Opportunity for the Distressed to gather and unite a Force while the King should for the most part be taken up with other Wars Nevertheless some of the Exiles at present being drawn together under the Leading of Lewis of Nass● brake into Frizeland There by the Death of Arembery there slain whom the heat and reviling of his Souldiers comp●lled to fight though he thought it more Prudence● weary them out by Delays by the Rout and Overthrow his Forces became Conquerours but staying with a fruitle● Expectation of some Towns falling off to them their Mo●e●fell short for the Souldiers Pay so that all Discipline was neglected when suddaintly by the Surprize of Alva they were almost all slain Adolph the Prince of Aurange his Brother and Lewis his also being killed in the former Skirmish they had tincted the War alternately both with their own and their Enemies Bloud The Prince of Aurange being throughly moved with this Carriage of Affairs that he might be the better able to relieve his Parties both by strength and the Justice of their Government he sets forth in Books a Narrative the Reasons Causes and Justice of their taking up Arms refuting at once both the Judge and the Crimes objected against him not dissembling That now being taught better things he had l●ft the Church of Rome yet calling God to Witness That he took Arms for the Publike Weal and freeing his Countrey from Slavery That this was the Duty of every good Citizen much more of a Noble-man Of Philip he spoke honourably whose Goodness he said was perverted by the Spanish Counsels and that he did not yet despair but that he would at length resume better thoughts of his faithful Subjects and uphold their sworn and setled Laws In the mean while according to the Law of Brabant in regard of his many Errours in Government Obedience was due unto him as to their Soveraign Lastly that which seems to make most for the Justice of their Cause was this The Brabanders as they had a more special and wary care than the rest for the maintaining their Liberty so likewise to prevent the Incroachm●nt of their Princes who under pretence of the Publike did not stick som●times to break up and dissolve their State-Conventions they used to Covenant of their own proper Right that when any Prince infringed the Laws they should be free from the Bonds of their Fidelity and Obedience to him untill the Wrongs so done should be removed and satisfied And this confirmed by many Examples of their Ancestors who when formerly some of their Princes either through their own weakness or the Delusions of Flatterers had been drawn away they drew to more moderation among whom the most remarkable was John the Second of that Name either by Force or strong Decrees by them drawn up which before they would conclude any Peace they made the Princes freely promise That they would without any violation confirm and establish the same Now the Prince of Aurange though born in Germany yet had obtained many most Noble Heriditary Jurisdictions in Brabant to the Lords or Possessors whereof antient Custom had given the Dignity of being a Peer or chief Governour by which Right he urged That is did belong to him not onely to see the Laws well executed but also to defend and maintain them But here it is not to be omitted that the same Right was claimed by the like Customs by divers other of the Netherlandish Provinces and also that the Decrees of Maximilia of Austria and Mary of Burgundy were to be taken notice of which had made them by the same Sanction of the Laws individually equally with the Brabanders themselves And this appears by what the People of Frizeland Utrech● and Gelderland did in the time of the Emperour Charles their Prince when among many other peculiar Agreements and Covenants there was this one common and

propriety challenged to himself as his own by Conquest for the Garrison consisting of old and well-disciplin'd Souldiers a whole Moneth endured the Thunder of their Cannon and other Guns valiantly returning them the like had made a more than equal Slaughter untill a greater loss hapning upon some few and by the Death of their Captains being at variance after they had turned out the rest and their Ammunition beginning to fail they let the En●my have the place One Remarkable Thing was observed in this Victory to wit a Woman found among the dead Bodies that had in Man's Habit and with a Masculine Courage followed the Warre The like to this was frequently observed at the beginning of the Troubles nor did any Age formerly produce so many such Examples For as the Minds of People were stirred up to the War by the frequent naming of God the Country and the Prince so even the distinction of the Sexes was laid aside that the practice of Hatred and Revenge might with more freedom be made use of But Schenck's Nature always inclined to Cruelty w●th the Conjunction of his Loss and Shame together was now more inraged This pl●ace taking away his Goods he set on fire but chafed without measure because he had not Souldiers enough to relieve the Besieged in Berck however drawing together all both Horse and Foot that he could make he fortified a place upon the Bank of the Rhine not far from the Town call'd Reux in spight of all Varembonius his Endeavours to the contrary from whence he conveyed into the Town of Berck all the Forces he had received Afterwards receiving Intelligence that Verdugo was coming with more Forces by speedy Matches be came upon them at unawares at the River Lup in the Fields of Westfalia with a furious slaughter so that they fled and left to him the Money that they were carrying into Frizeland to pay the Souldiers Not content herewith but grows more confident by his Success he threatned to storm and sack Nieumegen by Night for he bore a spleen to the Town and to that purpose in a Dark chosen for that end sending his Cavallery before and some few Ferry-Boats which the Souldiers carryed and passing the Wael he came to that part of the City which was onely strong by the Rivers Curr●● that way commanding his nimblest men to break down the Fences of one of the Houses that stood backward upon the Bank that entring there they might disperse themselves through the City in Troops and so set upon and win the Gates But by chance in the House where this Stratag●● was executed for it was not the same House which Schenck had before marked the mistake being easily made by the darkness of the Night there was a Wedding so that immediatly a great Outery being made there the Townsmen were Allarm'd and beset the House driving back such as came out thence with Arms and shooting at them with Guns The Multitude got new Courage with the approach of Day but Schenck's Men being few in the narrow passages were shut and not knowing which way to go for fear cruelly slain Their Collonel himself standing upon the Bank was not able to withstand their flight sometimes encouraging all another time some particular persons by Name That they would go through with their Noble Undertakings and by a valiant Assault open the way for others to follow them But all would not make them stop their flight And to perfect their Ruine there hapned another fatal Mischance to them for the Boats which they had brought with them from their Garrison were by the force of the stream of the Water carryed before it was Day below the City so that such as fled Could not come at them This over-born with the strength and Weapons of their Enemies and the few Boats that were left not able to contain all with the Weight and Tumult of those that crowded into them sunk and many of them were drowned in the River among whom their Collonel heavily laden with Arms was one This was the end of Collonel Schencke a man exceeding most of his time in noble and generous Courage his Family and Descent was not mean but yet the Glory of it was much inlarged under the Prince of Parma Afterwards the Earl of Leicester made him a Knight and bestow'd on him many other Military Honours for Wisdom and Valour he merited high esteem but yet would subject himself neither to Laws nor Customs for which the Souldiers of Fortune honoured him but the Magistrates and Common People hated his Name his Disposition though it had been fierce and untract●ble in his Youth yet now in his latter time it began to grow more mild and flexible His Body when found by the Victors because he had left them and gone over to the States was exposed to publike shame and laughter But the Revenge of the Souldiery forced them to alter the Scene for they severely punished all Captives that came to their hands belonging to Nieumegen Yet for all that two years it lay unburied untill by the taking of the Town by Prince Maurice it had a decent Interment Nienarius also about the same time was kill'd by chance while he was carelesly viewing some Instruments or Engines of War A Man certainly of an unblameable Conversation though at last coming into the War Truxius thus deprived of both his Chief Commanders by whose Valour and Conduct the good Fortune of his Party had hitherto been upheld at length left off the War but especially because the Enemy had won Berck where a long Siege spun out until the following year with the loss of much Bloud at last got the Victory for the Spaniards But Schemk's Souldiers though they had received heir Arrears and were entertained into Pay anew among the rest yet mad with grief for the loss of their Collonel in earned a Sedition because that Island being in their hands would easily procure them a Chapman within the Bounds of the Rhine Nothwithstanding this the Hollanders took great Care afterwards to relieve Berck though with no other hope than to make the Enemy lose time since they could not hinder his taking the City Count Falcosteine being sent with Two Thousand Men besides some choice Horse according to this Advice was follow'd by Varen●nius as soon as in his Journey having taken the Castle before-mention'd he had passed the River yet with no intent to fight though he were much the stronger but onely designing to fall upon their Rear as they marched and finding 〈◊〉 Opportunity for the same was at the first received by 〈◊〉 Francis Vere commanding then two English Companies newly raised with which he sustained the Brunt and Heat of the Charge until the Horse came in and shortly after all the Foot Colours Here was a great slaughter considering the Number of Combatants and the choicest the best men of the Enemies being slain there were taken a great number of Horse with one Cornet and Ten Foot Colours Some

the Besiegers 〈◊〉 if they should stay it was nearer to attaque Calais a Town of greater value and the ill repaired Fortifications of that City perswaded the Avarice of the Praefects hereto The Duke of Parma formerly destin'd the same thing so did Fontayne afterwards by the advice and perswasions of La●●● But the honour of beginning thereof was reserved for a new Governour This most eminent Reward and remain of their Transmarine Expeditions the English kept for two hundred years as the main Port of their Sea which being regained by the Valour of Francis Duke of Guise one Gordon had the Government thereof which he soon after transmitted to a near Kinsman of his own But neither of them had to much care as to amend what was decay'd and become ruinous either by Age or War And the Works were far short of an Age in standing a Stone Wall encompassing the City It hath a little Castle slightly running out with four Platforms there was not a Souldier in it that thought of an Enemy but made it their business to strengthen their Authority while they onely study to inrich themselves by Sea and Land and which is frequent where there is a distraction in Affairs out of a Captainship erect a Kingdom Wherefore neither the King of France though he was fore-warned of the danger by some intercepted Letters could help it he ruling yet as it were but at pleasure and by his Subjects good-will Moreover the Governour hearing it strongly reported that Calais was aim'd at conscious to himself of the defects of the Town admitted two Companies of Holland Souldiers into the Town but no more he himself having six more whereof when Albertus was told the more to spread abroad the Terrour of his Design he commanded several Bands to go out of the Town of Valenciennes under their Captains and in the nearest parts of France to make a great Uprore The Camp-Master-General Christian Roneè the famousest Man among all the French Exiles sent with part of the Army to begirt the Town cut off all the Passages by which onely Relief might come For taking the Bridge whereby the Land-Entrance is straitned he raised against the Wall a Tower which is called a Rice-Bank just at the sides of the Port this same way the Duke of Guise before found into the Town where the Fortifications were long since half fallen down which the danger being not yet fully known every one helped to fasten again being shaken with Cannon plac'd upon the Shore and not defended so long as it ought to have been the Conquerour ascended and won After this the Hollanders Ships which lay upon the Coast of Flanders were driven off that they might not so commodiously assist the Besieged Notwithstanding which among all the Shot the Haven being very large a Ship was convey'd into the Town which deliver'd to the Governour such Workmen as he requested for the mending his Works together with a quantity of Gun-powder and then returned Shortly after the Count St. Paul who had brought 1500 French-men to the Sea-Shore for Relief of the Town was promised by a Sea-man to be put into it but he durst not undergo the danger At last all the Arch-Duke's Forces being met together and fought with upon the Sand-Hills from whence the Besieged being forced forthwith the Suburbs were gain'd Within a while after the Town it self after a three days Siege when the Gate began to be batter'd between the People's Fear and the Hatred of their old Lord because the Governour himself was wanting both in Authority and Counsel was surrendred to the Spaniard The Souldiery retired into the Castle which was held six days during a Truce in hope of Relief And now Prince Maurice with 50 Sail of Ships and a great number of Souldiers was come thither to see what was the Resolution as well of the English as the French But the Count St. Paul marched away and the Earl of Essex was ready with a Fleet to fight the Spaniards if by chance they should offer an Invasion But the Emulation of the People never well agreeing hindred it For the Earl of Essex tryed Mounsieur de Vique the Governour of the next French Garrisons if he would suffer the English to have the Custody of Calais if it were recover'd But the French believed that the English now under a shew of Friendship did clandestinely seek to regain what they had long since gain'd by War However King Henry not minding to leave his Siege but leaving his Army at Payer and doing so either because he despair'd of passage to Calais the Way being cut off by Dutches that let to the Sea he came with 4000 men by the River Sama● to Boloyn the next Harbour And there he advised but too late about relieving the Castle of Calais Prince Maurice being desired by the King to come on Land he excused It affirming He was to advise concerning their own Borders 〈◊〉 Home which were left unprovided But while they were arguing almost 300 Souldiers under the Conduct of Campsa●● making use of the Night and the Ebbe of the Sea with great silence marching by Land broke through the Trenches into the Castle giving rather an Example of Courage than any other help to the Besieged for many of them the Forts lying open to the Assailants were killed together with the Dutch Souldiers at their very entrance while the rest of the French being altogether unaccustom'd and unfit so War by an inconsiderate Sally caused the Ruine both of themselves and thers at which time the Governour himself was slain About 60 Hollanders valiantly defending themselves from the Topt of Houses obtained a Grant to be sent away safe The presence of the Arch-Duke caused the Victory to be moderately used who having gained Calais without the loss of many of 〈◊〉 men and being a Town in the uttermost Borders of France augmenting and strengthning with good Works he subjected it to the Government of Flanders the Speech of which Province was agreeable to the same By the Fame of this Victory Arde a Town lying not far off within the Land and formerly a stop to the English invading that Country soon yielded it self to the power of Albertus by which mean● there was a passage this way open'd into France with the same Felicity to him as it was much to the blame of the Enemies that they had oppressed them e're they were aware Two Thousand Souldiers marched out of this Town which was indifferently well Fortified having honourable Terms though dishonourably obtained for they did not hold out so long as to endure one Assault being frighted with the dennutiation of Death if they forthwith did not surrender While these Things were doing at last Fayer being subdued by Famine King Henry distributed his Army into all places about and near to Calais lest any of the weaker Cities ' who were surprized with great fear should make a defection to the Conquerour whom the Flandrians intreated being now compelled

sent to assist Embden which entred the City at the same time when Enno drawing near with his Forces hoped to have been admitted by those of his Faction but now being kept out thence he entreth the Villages round about and erects several Forts for the shutting up of the City and the River The States being informed thereof and now after the taking of Grave having some leisure to consult about their neighbours affairs at the request of the City sent Warner Dubois a Colonel of Horse thither with some Troups of Horse and almost nineteen Companies of Foot He within a few daies assaults and wins all the Forts and sets free the City from those rude and ignorant maintainers of Warre En●o that he might remove this disgrace out of his sight with as much envy and bitterness of language as he could invent disputed the Hollanders incroachments upon the rights of anothers dominion of which the States being conscious they published in Print the cause of that action of theirs and the danger that was like to have fallen not onely upon themselves but all Germany by the Count's deeds The Twelfth BOOK of the History of the Dutch AFFAIRES THE Hollanders being oppressed with the French Peace were attended with a greater evil which was the death of Queen Elizabeth about this time whereby they were more deeply plunged in a Warre yet had lost that assistence which as it was the first so had it continued unto the last She died the third day of April being by the length of daies arrived to the toils of life from whence she supposed her old age which she had spun out even to the seventieth year now grew contemptible and that the hopes and counsels of those in whom she had put her greatest confidence were turned towards her successor It was a long reign for a Woman and famous not onely at home but abroad which produced many various censures some conjecturing at the future according as they were led by fear or hope others from the memory of former actions reckoning what prosperity and adversity she had seen during her long life Here was remembred the beheading of her Mother and that for no small fault but onely the supposed crime of Adultery whence arose those many bitter taunts of her Enemies as if she had been the Issue of an unknown Father Soon after when her Sister fate in the Throne she was cast into Prison Which was no small affliction of so great a spirit until by the means and intercessions of Philip King of Spain to whom she owed her Liberty if not her Life she was freed from thence though afterwards she requited his kindness with a long and sharp Warre Besides her Reign was accounted cruel by the execution of so many Noblemen for no other pretence but that they professed the Romane Catholick Religion and also in that no less novel then odious example to all Princes though indeed excusable enough from the necessity that by the command of a Woman not onely a Woman but a Kinswoman and she a Suppliant not as a common person but a distressed Queen was put to death Also there were some that stuck not to exprobrate the divulsions of Ireland and seditions of the English Souldiers in the Low-Countries as if they had been commanded Certainly it was the greatest of her misery that she lived so long without a Husband from whence came the incertainty of her Heir and very various were the several opinions concerning her many objecting her love to the Earl of Leicester and after him her endearments of Essex whose hot and over-hasty youth together with his contempt of her decaying and aged beauty was punished with the loss of his head though soon after her minde was more changed from hatred to repentance then before it had been from love to hatred so that it was by many judged to be the main cause of her sickness and death On the other side it was said that the long continuance of her Government and life manifested the same to be well-pleasing to God and that instead of the customary evils of youth she had shewed great prudence in her carriage and behaviour in the enjoyment of both good and bad fortune Nor was it so great a wonder that her security was established by the death of some Rebels and by Warres as that a Woman's Government after four and fourty years had not onely made England safe but flourishing nor had she at any time taken Arms but for most just causes Religion was by her reformed to the example of King Edward not by force or according to her own fancy but upon debate of the matter in the great Council of the Kingdome and in a lawful manner Nor did she rage with cruelty against those that were of another judgement unless it were when it was too late when by the doctrine and instruction of the Jesuites they had thrown off all reverence love to their Country and Government at once By her help Scotland was vindicated from the French the Prince of Conde's Party from their adverse faction and much of the Netherlands from the Spaniards And although she had so many great allurements to increase her Dominion yet she remained content with her own not desiring from all her victorious atchievements any other thing then the liberty of that Religion by her promoted and to set limits to power that was or might be defervedly suspected Thus did she restore the Towns which she possessed in France preserved Scotland for a Child and rejected the desires of the Hollanders intreating her to take the Dominion over them And now lately the old Garrisons in Ireland being taken and new ones fortified some of the Nobles being taken here some there their faction was so infeebled and the very strength and pretence thereof so weakned and Tyrone himself so broken that falling upon his knees before the Lord Lieutenant he humbly requested pardon of all his offences For that excess of Honour happened to him a little before his fall She had been courted to Marriage not by the English onely but by Charles of Austria brother of the Emperour and by Henry and Francis brothers to the King of France as also by some Kings themselves to wit Philip of Spain and Ericus of Sweden That she was thus sought was her happiness but that she refused all was her prudence because as it was unfit for her Greatness to marry a Subject so the Subjects of England were afraid she should marry a Foreiner The reproches that were spred concerning her took their beginning from her sex and the elegancy of her beauty together with the customary liberty of Princes and could onely be refuted by manlike care and diligence Nor was she onely well skilled in the arts of Government but was learned in the ancient and modern languages an excellency rarely found in Women of a private fortune which made her Name and renown great and famous and not onely terrible to and