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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11787	A Second part of Spanish practises, or, A Relation of more particular wicked plots, and cruell, in humane, perfidious, and vnnaturall practises of the Spaniards with, more excellent reasons of greater consequence, deliuered to the Kings Maiesty to dissolue the two treaties both of the match and the Pallatinate, and enter into warre with the Spaniards : whereunto is adioyned a worthy oration appropriated, vnto the most mighty and illustrious princes of Christendome, wherein the right and lawfulnesse of the Nederlandish warre against Phillip King of Spaine is approued and demonstrated.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Verheiden, W.; Strategia e organizzazione (Firm)	1624 (1624)	STC 22078.5; ESTC S1714	34,814	46

of the Countries more then an hundred thousand housholders 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 fine Earles eight Lords and fifty Gentlemen and they had some fine thousand of Souldiers being in Freesland but were most ouerthrowne by the Duke of Alua his forces so that they were driuen to Embden land and there prepared themselues to the sea Now the Duke of Alua did commaund all the inhabitants to pay the hundreth peny of all their goods and of all that was bought and sold the which some of the States did yeeld vnto And then hee commaunded them to pay the twentith peny and then hee commaunded the tenth peny 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 Alua told them that hee would haue it though it did ruinate all the land but if hee saw them to doe their best to pay it hee would deale fauourably with them All the prisons were filled in so much as they were forced to prepare more and filled them also But hee said 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 whosoeuer was found to haue any hand in way of suit and petition to haue the tenth peny to be remitted they were adiudged to haue committed high treason 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 peny 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 confiscate their goods to the king yea when these insatiable gold-thirsty and bloud-thirsty wretches wanted colour to couer their iniustice and cruelty they had their officious imps false-witnesses suborned by Jesabel to get Naboths vineyard witnesse Marti● 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 neuer other what pretence had hee to cause them to bee murthered all in one night and then presently to command all their goods to be brought to his treasurie of Exchequer whose estate was worth more then 28 hundred thousand pounds sterling Now as this tyrant was a deuourer and destroyer of the liues of men so did hee presume to vsurpe further not only vpon ciuill 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 counsels so that intolerable were the burthens this cruell Pharoh layd so excessiue was his cruelty that he filled all places with blood bloud touching bloud as the Prophet speakes For in small townes hee executed 50 and in great townes 200 and 300 or 400. And in places as men trauelled from one towne to another they might see many that his souldiers had hung up in trees to death and some were worth 80 thousand guldens and some lesse yea this tyrant did confiscate so much lands and goods as by his account sent into Spain did amount yearly to 8 tun of mony sterling besides the many thousands that he his souldiers had All the money that he did exact out of this land in 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. hee 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 shee had before lodged a Preacher one night whose liuing was worth foure thousand guldens yearely And at Mastricht 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 giuing a widow a peck of corn for an almes whose husband this bloudy Court had put to death And many women were put to death because they receiued 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 couered drummes heads with their skies and some they haue tyed to a post and made a small fire round about them and so rosted them to death At Naerden they receiued the Spaniards friendly into the towne The like cruelty they did at Ondwater 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 towne and rauished the women and after killed them and fired the towne The yong children that lay in the cradle they quartered them and tooke them vpon their pikes and so went vp and downe the towne reioycing in their cruelty Such sauage cruelty is scarcely to be found in any History what Christian heart can heare it and not be affected with deepe sorrow yet behold some monsters herein haue been found that haue beene so farre from humanity herein for hee that hath humanity in him will commiserate others calamities that they haue applauded it as if he had in all these outrages done God good seruice Amongst the rest I shall content my selfe at present but to name the holy Father the Pope and one of his chiefe sonnes in this businesse The Pope sends his Legate to commend these so rare exployts and cals this cruell Duke Alua his beloued sonne sends him a costly sword the hilts whereof were of Gold and a hat wrought with gold and be-set with rich and costly stones thanking him for his good