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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08435	A relation of sundry particular wicked plots and cruel, inhumaine, perfidious; yea, vnnaturall practises of the Spaniards Chiefly against the seuenteen prouinces of the Netherlands: yea, before they tooke vp armes. Gathered and translated out of seuerall Dutch writers, as that reuerend diuine Gulielmus Baudaitius, in his Morghen Wecker, and Emanuel de Miter, by S.O. a louer of truth and equity, and an vnfeigned hater of oppression and tyrannie, the bane of common-wealths.; Adjoyner of sundry other particular wicked plots and cruel, inhumane, perfidious; yea unnaturall practises of the Spaniards	Ofwod, Stephen.	1624 (1624)	STC 18756; ESTC S121681	13,204	18

vnto them had they not been by faire means disswaded by two Lords in the Citie viz Marc. Antonio Colunus and Iulio Caesar Likewise Venice Naples and Millaine though they be Papists would not suffer it the Marchants of Lisbon who are as superstitious in the Romish Religon as any in the world yet they did offer the King two millions and a halfe that they might not haue it in their parts Yet the crueltie of this Inquisition did here increase and many Souldiers came into the Countrey that some of the Countrey forsooke their houses and resorted towards Freezland and some did stay at home and went to meet Duke Alva and well-commed him into the countrey and shewed him all the kindnesse they could As the Graue of Egmond and the Graue of Horn and many of the Gentry at Brussels 1●6● but he very shortly tooke off most of their heads so that he did so terrifie the Inhabitants that there fled out of the Countries more then an hundred thousand houshoulders besides many that were taken in flying were taken and hanged and all these had their goods confiscated to the King The Prince of Orange and the Earle of Bredrod and fiue Earles eight Lords and 50. Gentlemen and they had some fiue thousand of Souldiers being in Freesland but were most over-throwne by the Duke of Alva his forces so that were driuen to Embden land and there prepared themselues to the Sea Now the Duke of Alva did command all the Inhabitants to pay the hundreth penny of all their goods and of all that was bought and sold the which some of the States did yeeld vnto and then he commanded them to pay the twentith penny and then he commanded the tenth penny of all things that were bought and sold so often as they should be sold Some of the States did make their humble petition to the Duke and to the Princes shewing them that it would driue all Trading out of the Land The Duke of Alva told them that he would haue it though it did ruinate all the Land but if he saw them willing to doe their best to pay it he would deale favourably with them All the prisons were filled insomuch as they were sorced to prepare more and filled them also But he sayd that it was against the Kings honour if they should not pay it seeing it was his pleasure to require it And now did the Inquisition imprison and execute many of the richer sort as well Papists as of the Reformed Church and if they were rich there was no escaping for them And whosoever was found to haue any hand in way of suit and petition to haue the tenth penny to be remitted they were adiudged to haue committed high treasom against God and the King and all these must forfeit life and goods to the King and not any of their children to enioy one penny worth of the same but poore Orphanes they must begge their bread And some that had beene buried certaine months they caused them to be digged vp and hanged on the gallowes and some to be burned because they had not the sacrament and confessed before their death but it was because he would consiscate their goods to the King yea when these insatiable gold-thirsty and blood-thirsty wretches wanted colour to cover their iniustice and cruelty they had their officious imps false witnesses suborned by Iesabel to get Naboths vineyard witnesse Martin Hutton who was one of the Inquisitors Clarkes and being committed to prison did acknowledge that hee had made many false testimonies against sundry rich persons some whereof were of the Reformed Church Here might fitly be brought in the hundred Marchants of Granado who were of the Romane Religion and were never other what pretence had he to cause them to be murthered all in one night and then presently to command all their goods to be brought to his Treasury or Exchequer whose estate was worth more then 28 hundred thousand pound sterling Now as this tyrant was a devourer and destroyer of the liues of men so did he presume to vsurpe further not onely vpon civill ordinances but vpon the things of God so that those that were married in the Reformed Church he forced to be married againe and if they were rich hee tooke them from their husbands and gaue them to his Souldiers to make prize of them Those that were baptized in the Reformed Church he compelled to be baptized againe contrary to Gods word and to the decree of the ancient Councels so that intollerable were the burthens this cruell Pharaoh laid so excessiue was his crueltie that he filled all places with bloud bloud touching bloud as the Prophet speakes For in small townes he executed 50. and in great townes 200. and 300. or 400. And in places as men travelled from one towne to another they might see many that his Souldiers had hung vp in trees to death and some were worth 80. thoussand guldens and some lesse yea this tyrant did confiscate so much lands and goods as by his account sent into Spaine did amount yearly to 8 tun of money sterling besides the many thousands that he and his Souldiers had All the money that he did exact out of this land 〈◊〉 6. yeares did amount to more then 50. millions of Gold And if any were knowne to haue any thing that did belong to any that were put to death and had not brought it to the knowledge of the Inquisition they did loose both life and goods yea the 16 of February 1566. he gaue sentence in his court at Madrill that they were all traytors against God and himselfe At Vtrecht he beheaded a widow that was 84. yeares old because she had before lodged a preacher one night whose living was worth foure thousand guidens yearely And at Mastrich a father for lodging his son that he had not seene in a long time that was fled for religion was put to death And at that place there was one put to death for giving a widow a peck of come for an almes whose husband this bloody court had put to death And many women were put to death because they received their husbands in the night that were fled for religion yea they haue killed women great with child and ripped vp their bellies and taken out the child and killed it and some they haue fleyed aliue and covered drummes heads with their skins and some they haue tyed to a post and made a small fire round about them and so rosted them to death The like cruel they did at Oudwater At Naerden they received the Spaniards friendly into the towne who promised them both their liues and goods and as soone as they came in they commanded them to come to the State-house without their Armes the which they did and the Spaniards gaue fire vpon them and murthered them all and then they ran about in the town and ravished the women and after killed them and fired the towne The young children that