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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92749	The wicked plots, and perfidious practises of the Spaniards, against the 17. provinces of the Netherlands, before they tooke up arms. Being gathered out of severall Dutch writers, by a lover of truth, and an unfained hater of oppression and tyrannie, the bane of commonwealths: [text defaced]	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1642 (1642)	Wing S2087; Thomason E123_8; ESTC R212764	11,693	8

adjudged to have 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 enjoy one peny worth of the same but poore Orphanes they must beg their bread And somewhat had been buryed certain months they caused to be digged up and hanged on the gallows 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 cover their injustice and cruelty they had their officious imps false witnesses suborned by Jesabel to get Naboths vineyard vvitnesse Martin Hutton vvho vvas one of the Inquisitors Clarks and being committed to prison did acknovvledge that he had made many false testimonies against sundry rich persons some vvere of the reformed Church Here might fitly be brought in the hundred Merchants of Granado vvho vvere of the Romane Religion and vvere never other vvhat 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 treasurie or Exchequer whose estate was vvorth more then 28. hundred thousand pound sterling Novv as this tyrant vvas a devourer and destroyer of the lives of men so he did presume to usurpe further not onely upon civil ordinances but upon the things of God so that those that vvere married in the reformed Church he forced to be married againe and if they vvere rich he tooke them from th●ir husbands and gave them to his souldiers to make prize of them those that were babtized in the reformed Church be compelled to be baptized again contrary to Gods word and to the decree of the ancient councels so intolerable were the burthens that this cruel Pharaoh laid so excessive was his cruelty that he filled all places with blood bloud touching bloud as the Prophet speaks 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 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 accompt sent into Spain did amount yearely 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 in 6. yeares did amount to more then 50. millions of gold And if any were knowne to have 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. The like cruelties may justly be feared to be among us if the Parl. should be subdued he gave sentence in his court at Madrill that they were all traytors against God and himselfe At Vtrecht he beheaded a widovv that vvas 84. yeares old because she had before lodged a preacher one night vvhose living vvas vvorth foure thousand guldens yearly And at Mastricht a father for lodging his son that he had not seen in a long time that vvas fled for religion vvas put to death And at that place there vvas one put to death for giving a vvidovv a peck of corn for an alms vvhose husband this bloody court had put to death And many vvomen vvere put to death because they received their husbands in the night that vvere fled for religion yea they have killed vvomen great vvith child and ripped up their bellies and taken out the child and killed it and some they have fleyed alive and covered drums heads vvith their skins and some they have tyed to a post and made a small fire round about them and so roasted them to death The like cruelty they did at Oudwater At Naerden they received the Spaniards friendly into the tovvne vvho promised them both their lives and goods and as soone as they came in they commanded them to come to the Statehouse vvithout their Armes the vvhich they did and the Spaniards gave fire upon them and murthered them all and then they ran about in the tovvn and ravished the vvomen Take heed of such treachery here and after Killed them and fired the tovvne The yong children that lay in the Cradle they quartered them and tooke them upon their pikes and so vvent up and dovvn the tovvne rejoycing in their cruelty Such savage cruelty is scarcely to be found in any history vvhat Christian heart can hear it and not be affected vvith deep sorrovv yet behold some monsters herein have been found that have beene so far from humanity herein for he that hath humanity in him vvill commiserate others calamities that they have applauded it as if he had in all these outrages done God good service Amongst the rest I shall content my selfe at this 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 exploits and cals this cruell Duke Alva his beloved sonne sends him a costly sword the hilts whereof were of gold and a hat wrought with gold and beset with rich and costly stones thanking him for his good service in maintaining the Romish Religion and subverting of heretickes Howbeit that his chiefe son I mentioned exceeding this man of sin in the sin of cruelty as if he would verifie himselfe to be ten fold more the child of Satan then his father the Pope thinkes not so well of it his name is Vergas the President of this bloudy Inquisition for going shortly a●ter into Spain he told the King that he Duke d Alva did marre all in the Netherlands by shewing so much mercy to those people Concerning this Duke d Alva of whose outrage and cruelty so many haue felt and perfidious dealing which many haue found by lamentable experience whereby may easily appeare of what stamp his excessi●e mercies are even such as the Wise man speaks of These words he spake at a banquet as he sate at the table rejoycing bee had done the King so good service Pro 12.10 the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel In which he prides himselfe boasting he had slaughtered eighteen thousand and six hundred in form of justice in six yeares time and ten tunes so many he and his Souldiers murthered otherwaies And many more would he doubtlesse have murthered had not the Lord restrayned and limited him for his desire herein was as hell that cannot be satisfied Witnesse the purpose of his proceeding against the Magistrates of Bruxels because they did not collect the tenth peny so as he defired He t ware that he would have it and before he would let it fall or remit it the Sun and Moone should leaue their shining so he vvent to Brussels and commanded the