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A07032	A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries, otherwise called Flanders Wherein, is sett forthe the originall and full proceedyng of the saied troubles and ciuile warres, with all the stratagemes, sieges, forceble takynges, and manlike defenses, of diuers and sondrie cities, tounes, and fortresses of the same, together, the barbarous crueltie and tyrannie of the Spaniard, and trecherous hispaniolized Wallons, [and] others of the saied lowe Countreis. And there withall, the estate and cause of religion, especially, from the yere 1559. vnto the yere 1581. Besides many letters, commissions, contractes of peace, unions, articles and agrementes, published and proclaimed in the saied prouinces. Translated out of French into Englishe, by T.S. ge[n]t.; Chronyc. historie der Nederlandtscher oorlogen, troublen enn oproeren oorspronck, anvanck enn eynde, item den standt der religien, tot desen jare 1580. English.	Stocker, Thomas, fl. 1569-1592.; Marnix van St. Aldegonde, Philips van, 1538-1598, attributed name.; Rijckewaert, Carolus, called Theophilus, fl. 1577, attributed name.; Henricpetri, Adam, fl. 1576. General historien der aller namhafftigsten unnd fürnembsten Geschichten, Thaten und Handlungen.; Le Petit, Jean François, 1546-ca. 1615, attributed name.	1583 (1583)	STC 17450.3; ESTC S111524	324,446	432

would procure their ayde and deliuerance praying them to remaine constant not lightly and vnaduisedly receiue in any victuals without they saw himselfe or some assurance from him for he feared that the Spaniardes vnder his name might by some stratageme abuse and deceiue them A flying messen ger arriueth at Leyden The first flying messenger arriued at Leyden the 28. of that moneth which the magistrate by sound of the bel gaue the people to vnderstand the 29. day he read the letters opēly Declaring vnto them how that his Excellencie himself had been with the armie to giue order for their deliuerance and that he had him commended vnto them all beseeching them yet for a while to continue constant for the Lord of Hostes woulde send meanes to deliuer thē These letters greatly gladded and incouraged the people prayfing God and incessantly as the other confedered Townes had done made their prayers vnto the Lorde Now this great ioy was not without some mixture of sorrowe because that before and the same very day the winde blew vp at the Northeast which caused the water to fall rather then ryse so that the princes armie thought that they had as it were lost all hope of deliuering them if the inuisible meanes of God to wit the great flowing of the water which began that 29. day lasted vntill the second of October had not holpen them Wherfore the Admirall Boysot wrote vnto his Excellencie that if God of his mercy did not help both with wind also with the rising of the water and by suche meanes as no mā was able as yet to perceiue that he sawe not which way possible to bring to passe the reuictualling of the towne for this time and feared that after it woulde be too late considering that there was not a beaste left and that there were but two dissributions moe to be had and these but to last for right dayes Insomuch that the misery besides the pestilence diseases and discord was in the towne verie great as he vnderstood by the messengers and as was also after found to be most true For many of them had not in seuen weekes space eaten one byt of bread drunke nothing els but water Horse flesh also was then as good meat with the wealthiest of them as mutton is at this present Cats and dogs amongst the aduenturers Strange kinds o● meates whiche the Leydens did cate and others which lay at the gates of the Towne were thought to be delicate meate and so eaten It is impossible to describe vnto you all their maner of cookery although many tolde mee of it Some of them eate vine leaues mingled with Amell floure and salt There was great difference in the leaues of trees therefore they made sundrie kindes of meates of leeke blades rootes and roote stalkes and the roote leaues which fell to the ground was a very ordinary kinde of good meate Rootes and skinnes cut in small gobbins and sodden in butter mylke was an ordinary and common meate for manie Gentlewomen were driuen to eate their little pupprelles in whom before they tooke great pleasure To the place where the flesh was wonced to be cut out and diuided the poore children came and eate blood rawe the peeces of the flesh which fell away in the diuision All the old rottē shoes in the towne which lay in the dirt were takē vp eatē forthwt. The Poore women were seene sitting vpon the dounghils with their clokes cast ouer their heads gathering vp of the best bones they coulde finde and carryed them home to their houses And they no sooner founde the least stalk of a roote but that they immediately eate it vp The young boyes oftentimes sucked the bones which the dogs had gnawne Euery woman that lay in childbed was fain to be pleased with a quarter of a pound of bisket a day Some women againe were so honger bitten as that the childe in theyr wombe was almost pined to death The blood of the cattell was gathered vp out of the filthie stinking gutters of the towne The prices of certaine victuals in Leyden and eaten Neuerthelesse their drinke was somwhat more to be borne withall for beside the water they had Beare made of Dates which cost an Holland pennie the pot Yea some made drinke of the very huskes of the graines mingling therw t hearbe Grace Rue in steed of Hemlock Othersome dranke vineger water mingled together so that whē the town was freed at liberty there was scarcely any vineger to be had A pound of butter was worth xv souls A yellow carot one souls a rootstalk halfe a souls a Peare or Apple a grote There was offered for a sacke of wheate an hundred florins Ouer and besides this great misery the plague was so ryfe all the Towne ouer as that there dyed of it almost sixe thousand persons The young children which were staruen to death said as it is written in the lamentations of Ieremie Where is the bread where is the wine and so fell down stark dead in the streetes or betweene their mothers armes The insupportable calamitie and miserie of the Leydeus and therefore after that many young children were faine to eate horse flesh The men which could scarscely go ouer the bridge were enforced to ward as good as naked and in their returne founde neither wife nor children aliue They that were wont to goe with their dizaines to the warde came backe againe with eight sixe and sometimes three Noble women and their children which were wont to be clad in silkes and fed vppon the most delicate meates dyed of very hunger There was a dead man brought and layde before the gate of the Buroughmasters thereby to shewe hym as it was thought both closely and expresly that hee had beene the cause thereof therfore that it apperteined to him to seeke the mean to preuent it To bee short the extreeme miserie in the Towne was such as is impossible for mee to describe and set downe But they who after the deliuerance thereof had seene their leane faces and small and feeble legges might easily haue witnessed the same And now to returne againe vnto the Princes armie it had not needed to haue tarryed long at Norta if it had beene certainelie knowne that the Leydens coulde haue held out longer time Againe the Prince and chiefe rulers of the armie knewe right well that the neerer Winter drewe on the greater abundaunce of water woulde ensue And the generall of the armie knewe well enough also that hee must passe betweene Soeterwood Suyten house and so did the enemie likewise and therefore had especially placed his whole warde there In the meane while many thought it best to attempt by night Soetermeir Meere way towardes Stompwyke way but it was to no purpose because that all the ditches and chanels lay in and out crokedlie besides the Spaniard also warded there The Papists aforesaid had lying vpon the

draue away the Wallons which lay in Garnison at Doccum Now there were fiue of these Walons whiche had gotten vp into the Church steeple shot at as many as went abroad in the streetes Which when the Gueses saw they set fire on the steeple to cause the said Walons to come downe howbeyt there was but one of them burnt and the rest tarried still in the steeple vntil the 16. of September 72. when as the Walons draue the Gueses out of Doccum and recouered the Towne which was burnt and sacked so that the Citizens were in great misery for they are alwayes the men that are driuen to the wall and paye for all When the Lord of Billi acunning an expert man of warre perceiued that the Gueses souldiers for the most part were coūtrey men and Prenteses who were vnacquainted with discharging of an haguebuze he made voyde theyr seconde enterprise which they tooke in hande at Stauere where the Gueses had besiged the castle For hee came with his Wallons The castle of Stauere ayded and draue them from Stauere and so set fire on the towne But as the Wallons returned from Stauere with great butin the Gueses of Sneecke Boelswerd and Franique gathered themselues together to take away the butin from the Wallons ouerthrowe them but so soone as the captaine of the Gueses was stricken from his horse with an harquebuze shot all the rest fled and the other Gueses were driuen from the fortes that stoode vppon the baucke and other places with shame enough hauing gotten neither wealth nor yet victorie on their enemies The Prince had once againe assembled a very great army about Duyibourgh who passing the Rhine tooke by assault The Prince winneth many townes the fourth of Auguste the Towne of Ruremonde and passing further into Brabante Louayne rendered to him and Malynes with many other Townes were surprised After that hee marched on towardes Montes in Haynault to ayde Count Lodwike his brother A massacre at Paris the 24. of Aug. 1572. Howebeit the massacre committed at Paris and in many other Townes in Fraunce so altered the case as that the Prince retourning by Malines with his armie vnto the Rhine discharged his armie himselfe with a small companie of men of warre went into Holland whether he was sent After the long battery of Mants Monts in Haynault rendred Count Lodwyke seeing no way how to be holpen fell to a part and the 21. of September rendred the Towne to the Duke of Alua vpon certaine conditions to wit that Duke Lodwyke should be sent with a safe conuay vnto the borders of the empire Which thing when the garnisons of Malynes Duremond and others which kept them to his vse vnderstood they forsooke the same townes went theyr wayes The Duke of Alua returning with his army from Mouts Malynes sacked came to Bruxelles and sent his souldiers to sacke Malines which they did the 1. of October notwithstanding that the cleargie and all the Citizens of the towne receiued thē in with banners streamers displayed to appease their fury but all was in vaine For the Duke had giuen the souldiers the Towne who wholy spoyled it killed many citizens and defloured great store of women and young maidens The Prince being come into his gouernement of Holland trauelled in all hee coulde about the affayres for the warres and the Duke of Alua cleane contrary sent Colonel Mondragon with twenty ensignes of Wallons into the I le of South Beueland where they arriued at a lowe water marke through the conduct of certaine traitours to theyr countrie and raysed the siege from before Tregoes which was greatly distressed straitly couped vp The 21. of Nouember the Duke of Alua his armie came before the towne of Zurphen Surphen taken without resistance which was taken without any resistaunce for the citizens had set the gates wide open for them to come in at But so soone as they were entred the Duke exercised very great tyrannie both vpon the citizens and also on the souldiers hanging some and strangling and drowning other some in the riuer of Yssell This tyrannie of the Duke so greatly feared the rest of the Townes that the count Berge forsaking all the Townes which hee had gotten fledde from thence with all his souldiers And so did likewise the count Scauwenbourgh in Friseland in memorie whereof they of Sneecke enprysonned their Patrone the Lord of Netherwormter whom they had sent for and with great solemnitie receiued into the towne Duke Fridericke the Duke of Alua his sonne A massacre at Narden and Lieutenaunt came from zurphen towardes Narden in Hollande where hee so cruelly and vnnaturally handled the Citizens that had yeelded them selues as that it is a fearefull thing to thinke on and that against all the lawes of armes eyther in Christendome or heathenesse For when the Spaniardes were entered and louingly receyued and had been as well entreated as was possible there was immediatly after proclaymation made by the sounde of the Droombe that all the Citizens and enhabytauntes of the Towne shoulde come to the Hospitall Chappell where shoulde bee declared vnto them suche ordinaunces as they must line and direct them selues by But when the miserable Citizens were come thither the Spaniardes murdered euery mothers sonne of them sackte and burnt the towne rauished the women yea and murdered some of them and left the rest liue in great Martyredome Nowe when I call to minde the wonderfull woorkes of God I can not passe ouer but tell you howe that after the murder and massacre of Narden and the whole Towne on a flaming fire a young ladde of the age of seuen yeeres was saued by running out of the gates of the Towne into a little garden full of roots The father of this Boy was murdered and his mother beeyng rauished was hanged vp by the armes of the tyrannous Spaniardes and when the fire came and tooke holde of her house shee being tyed by the armes coulde not get away so that shee was burnt in her owne house This young ladde hauing not eaten any thing for the space of three whole dayes together wept bitterly both for the death of his Parentes as also by reason that hee was hungerbit But God who neuer forsaketh his sent him reliefe for the very same night there came vnto him a well fauoured young man in white apparell who gaue him whereon to fedde and sayde Weepe no more my fatherlesse childe for I will neuer leaue thee Eate and be of good cheere for they that haue murdered thy father and mother shall haue a double plague light vpon them Thy teares shal be turned into toy and gladnes and their laughing into teares and mourning And forthwith the young man vanished out of sight Thus wee see gentle reader the mercifull and bountifull goodnes of God who neuer forsaketh his but keepeth them as the apple of his eye After the massacre and murder at Narden