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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

Prisoner who was recouered by two bandes of Horsemen and two Ensignes of Footemen but yet thei caried awaie the Harquebouze with them This night before Midnight were seene two signes of fire and an other after midnight accordingly as the Messengers were enioyned to doe the meaning whereof our Captaines right well knewe The 14. daie the Enemie she wed hymself with foure Squadrons of Horsemen The Count of Rennenberg goeth to see the Horsemen who at last put them selues in order of battaile At whiche tyme the Counte of Rennenbergue came thether who wheeling about went from him the Enemies dischargyng all their Pistolles to honour hym withall Then the Tounes men discharged a greate peece of Ordenaunce against the Troupe and against Westerwyke Campe also and likewise against Haustroyffe quarter where he lighted from his Horse There was also another token of fire that night seene towardes Scluse The 15. The Souldiers of the toune breake the Ise daie because the water in the Ditches was hard frosen ouer the Souldiers went out to breake the Ise and in the meane while there went ouer fower of the enemies driuyng an Oxe before them towardes Eastwyke Whiche thyng when our men whiche were breakyng of the Ise saw went and tooke away the Oxe from the enemie and although many of the Souldiers of the Enemie came thether to recouer it yet did thei nothyng in it because our Souldiers had in haste driuen it to the Toune This night about 11. of the Clocke the Enemie sounded a great Alarme bothe with Drommes and Trumpettes And at that tyme also was fire cried at Giethorne and soone after many houses were seene on a light fire in so muche that the Enemie discharged three Cannons for the watch word that the Horsemen might get together There was also a greate noyse of aboue an hundred Cartes and Horses heard whiche came out of the Countrey of Drenthe but when the daie appeared bothe the cartes and also the carters were cleane gone for thei whiche had set Giethorne on fire came not nere it A forte of of Carted The next Morrowe in the euenyng Stuper his companie had broken the Ise betweene Onniger Gate and Giest Gate and so euen vnto the Wood Gate This night likewise was a greate noyse bothe of Cartes and Horses in the Enemies Campe. The 17. daie issued out seuen Souldiers to entrappe some of the Enemies nere vnto the Easterne bridge three of whiche were vpon Fredericke Lutgene his lande and the other fower in the Banke ditche But so soone as two of the Enemies of Easterwyke Campe sawe that the aforesaied three would needes charge them thei purposed forth with to saue thē selues through the lightnesse of their heeles Whiche thyng when the other fower sawe thei left their ambusshyng and tooke the one and the other eskaped with leapyng ouer the Riuer of Ae. When thei had brought the prisoner to the Towne he was examined who saied that our people had been at Giethorne and taken Ortho of Sauton Drossat of Harderwike prisoner slaine his sonne gréeuously wounded his guarde corpes and put his Souldiers to flight And besides that our mē were come to Meppell with 23. Ensignes of Footemen whom the Enemie thought to remoue going thether but with 10. Ensignes of Footemen a certaine nomber of Horsemen but it was all in vaine And further he said that the knight of Nieuorte was in the Countrey of Groenyng with a great nomber of Souldiers There was also a Dromme sent to the Enemie to knowe whether he would redeeme his Souldier with a raunsome or no. And he saied that he would howbeit he threatned for all that to hang him so soone as he had hym if so be that thei of the Toune would not doe it before but thei of the Toune accordyng to their custome and former promise would not doe it and the reason whiche moued the enemie to cause him to be hāged was this that he went from the Campe without their leaue and licence The same daie the twoo Souldiers whiche brake the Ise of the Ditches set vpon a Souldier of the enemie who had giuen them some occasion hauyng none other weapons about them but the tooles wherewith thei brake the Ise one of whiche named Ihon Montiew as he was coupled to the enemie was slaine with an Harquebouze shott and after he was dead the enemie gaue hym many a stappe with his dagger The crueltie of the enemy criyng with a loude voyce wee are the Souldiers of Suater and thus will we handle all the rest of you ye Horse eaters This their crueltie restranged the hartes of many from them and encouraged many to withstande them to the vttermost This night about twelue of the Clocke came into the Toune our three Messengers of the Citie bringing newes that thei had left at the Blacke Scluse 36. companies of Souldiers and at Bergmer Bridge 300. horse comming to ayd vs. There was also a token of fire made vpon the Tower which when the Enemie sawe he discharged a greate peece of Ordenaunce but thankes be to God did no hurt at all and the bullet was founde in the Churchyarde The 18. daie being rainie and mistie there was a sallie made to know whether the Enemie that laie so still was strong or no and after thei had skirmished a while thei retiered on either side by reason of the mist But about eight of the Clocke at night the Enemie gaue a false Alarme and shot of twise The 19. daie the Enemie shott of thrise whiche was as it was thought a certaine watch worde for three Horsemen came from the Wood and the Enemie sounded the Alarme and there might be seene many Souldiers marche without weapon from Westerwike towardes the Wood. This night about midnight came into the Toune certaine Messengers with charge and letters of Colonell Norris an Englishe man aduertising them that the Enemie had been the 18. daie with 11. Ensignes of Foote men and sixe Cornettes of Horsemen at the Blacke Scluse After that the Army of the Estates was retired from Meppell the Enemie thought to haue discomfited and ouerthrowen the three Companies whiche were left at the saied place howbeit thei met there with suche an encounter as that twoo of their Captaines were slaine in the place two Ensignes taken about 500. Souldiers slaine the Armour and weapon of 500. men left behinde A discomfiture of the Enemie at the Blacke Scluse and an Ensigne bearer taken prisoner and because that after the entre of these Messengers a token of fire was giuen vppon the Tower the Enemie shott of a greate peece of Ordenaunce The twentie daie there was so greate an hurly burly in the Campe of the Enemie as that thei might be heard criyng euen to the Rampars of the Toune money money but because certaine of our Captaines went out with some of their Souldiers into their emptie trenches to vnderstand something more of this hurly burly some of the enemies perceiuyng them

Enemie And againe the night followyng came in two Citezens saiyng that the ayd was commyng on whiche should helpe the Citie The 11. daie the Horsemen of the Enemie trouped on from Onnen by Westwyke towardes the Wood who were brauely hausled with greate Ordenaunce from the Toune to the greate losse of their people The 12. of the saied Moneth there was a sallie and a Skirmishe made to the hurte of the Enemie in whiche one Willyam Dorth Captaine Olthoffe his Sergeaunt was hurt to death and dyed the next morrow On which daie in the Sermon while there came to the Gate a man at Armes on Horseback very wel armed who was receiued into the Toune But when the Souldiers sawe that he was none of the wisest or rather a counterfeit thei thrust him out of the Gates after the Sermons were ended and slue him with Harquebouze shot keeping behinde with them his Horse and Armour The 16. and 17. daie the Enimie battered the Toune and thesame Euenyng in token thei had obtained a victorie of Hegemans people the Enemie trailed an Ensigne at his horse taile and made Bonefiers rounde about the Citie as though thei would haue assaulted it with fiers The 18. The fire taketh holde in Steenwyke daie the Enemie shotte fier into many places of the Citie in so muche that at one tyme the Citie was all on a light fier by reason whereof there were 70. houses burnt By this fier was muche victuall and other Munitions burnte to the greate losse of the enhabitauntes Diuerse houses in Onnigerstreate through the greate diligence of the Citezens were saued and so had there been also in many other places if the souldiers had not garded the Rampares because the Enemie costed all alongest one side of the Citie with Ensigne displaied as though he would haue giuen the assault whiche he might easily hatte doen by reason that in many places the Diches were hard frosen vp The Enemy sommoneth the Citie Thesame daie about the Euenyng the Enemie sent twoo Trompetts to sommon the Citie in his Maiesties name and to yeeld it self vnto the Prince of Parma as Captaine Generall and to the Count of Rennenberg as Lieutenaunt and gouernour of Friselande and so thei should depart with bagge and baggage Whom Captaine Frauncis Platte in the name of all the reste of the Captaines answered That thei kepte the Citie in the behalfe of his Maiestie of Archduke Matthias of Austriche as Captaine Generall of the Prince of Orenge his Lieutenaunt and of the Estates And that thei had none other thyng for the Count of Rennenberg to commaunde but Bullettes and pouder and therefore wished theim quietly departe without thei liked to be saluted with Cannon shotte Thesame night a messenger was dispatched towardes Campen to declare vnto them what losse thei had receiued by fier The 19. daie the Enemie moste diligently went aboute to shoote fire again into the Citie but it was to no purpose This night there came a messenger into the Citie who saied that he had cast awaie his letters whiche he had of the Estates because he feared as he saied thei carried no good newes with theim and within one houre after there came in the taile of hym three other Citezens agreyng all with one voice that there was no aide in the whole worlde ready for thei saied that the people of the Hegemans was discomfited and the Scluse and Bloczeell forsaken wherevpon the nexte daie followyng ensued greate trouble and dissention For A diuision in Steenwyke many of the Papisticall Citezens and others cried out and saied that it was reason a Oromme should bee sent to the Enemie and the Citie to bee rendred vp Howbeit there were certaine Souldiers and all the reformed citezens whiche would none of that who bothe with faire speeches also with threatnyng wordes said that thei would rather kill one an other then thei would so yeld vnto the Enemie consideryng that thei had no want of victualles In so muche that many honest and constant Citezens did weare that daie bothe Armour and weapon vnder their cloakes Some others greeuously accused the Prince and the Estates because thei had not holpen certaine Cities whiche had been besieged as Dopslach Delffziell Couerdē Maestright Harlem and Ziericzea could largely witnesse neuerthelesse the reste stoode stoutly to their trckle so that in the ende the trouble and sedition was suppressed And sone after there came a Dromme to the gate bringing letters from captaine Gedeon Pameren praiyng that he might haue his souldiers deliuered for other prisoners or els for a monethes wages whiche was graunted hym In the euenyng the Enemie very diligently sought to shoote more Fire into the Toune but it was to no purpose This night came in the faithfull and vertuous seruaunt of the Countrie Matthias Kies bringyng with hym good newes saiyng that the Estates were makyng of the moste diligent preparation that was possible to aide the Citie Some hope of ayde as also it appeared by the letters of the Estates whiche refreshed again the hartes of al the white liuered knightes of the Toune and this night Herman Henricx and George Waterwike with one of Hans Vrancquebourg Souldiers were sent out of the Citie The 21. of Nouember there issued aboute the daie breake out of the Easte gate 70. shotte who laie hidd in a secret place vntill some of Westwike Campe came that waie And then with the aide of the horsemen of the Citie thei sette vpon theim and caried awaie with theim 11. horses with a Charrette and Chariot and a victualler slayng suche as would not goe with them This victualler had about him in gold to the worth of 20. Florins and when he was examined he saied that he thought in his opion that the Enemie meant to plant the greate Ordenaunce in Eastwike and batter the Citie on that side or els cast fier into it for the doyng of it the more mischiefe but it proued nothyng The 22. the Enemie sent a Dromme for certaine prisoners whiche thyng the Captaine of the Toune denied hym for that daie because he vnderstoode not of the sedition that had been in the Citie by reason of the ill newes and former fier The drōme saied that the Counte by reason of this refusall would hang all those prisoners whiche were ours and that thei should heare of other newes shortly but he was answered againe that if thei so did thei would in like maner deale with the prisoners whiche thei had of theirs The 23. daie the Enemie beganne to caste vp a mightie and strong Trenche from Eastwike aboute the winde Milne hill and towardes euenyng he brought thether three companies of Souldiers But as the horsemen trouped on the side of the Citie some of them were slaine with Musket shotte and thesame daie thei beganne to fill vp the East gate with yearth and ramforce the Rampares and Vauntmures betwixte the saied gate and Onniger gate In the Euenyng the Enemie made a false Alarme and

shotte at the Citie as though he would haue giuen the assaulte but nothyng came of it It is thought that thei did thus because thei would not haue the Pioners troubled and also for that he might the better pitche his Campe in Eastwike and the 24. daie he also ramforced that Trenche and the watch beyng set brought his people out of the Wood and made them giue a false Alarme about eleuen of the clocke But because the Tounesmen so tickled them with their ordenaunce there came nothyng of it The 29. daie money was cried vp to the double valure to paie the souldiers withall The nexte morrowe certaine issued out at the Wood gate towardes the Eastbridge to catche a souldier that was laden with Gambons of Bacon and Butter who beyng talked with saied that the Coūte of Rennenbergue was gone to Groenyng to take vp money for the appaisyng of the mutinous souldiers And further told that our aide was gathered together at Winsome about Zwolle and that their horsmen and sixe Ensignes of footemen were marched towardes Hauelt to staie the aide The first of December the weather whiche had of long fauoured the Enemie beganne to alter and fell to rainyng blowyng and blusteryng And this Euenyng there issued out of the Giest gate about fourtie souldiers to surprise the Pioners but whē thei found no Pioners there there issued out of the Wood gate about thirtie souldiers mo to sound the depth of the Riuer of Ae and with their shot slue certaine of the enemies behinde as thei satte aboute the fier side and gaue many their deathes wounde Some of ours also retourned not scotfree and lost besides twoo of Hans Platte his souldiers bringyng awaie with them notwithstandyng some spoile The third daie about eight of the Clocke in the Mornyng thei salied out vpon the Enemie The Enemy driuen out of his Trenche with fire whom thei chased out of Westerwike trenches to the greate losse of their people came back with the spoile of the Armour and weapon of fourtie souldiers besides cloakes and other apparell This night was the enemy driuen out of his Trenche with a balle of wilde fier whiche the Tounsmen had caste into the saied Trenche The fourth daie the Enemie forsooke his little Trenche whiche laie wholy aboute the Citie and thesame euenyng thei beganne to sette open the Onniger gate whiche had been rampard vp with yearth The night ensuyng there issued out again about thirtie shotte who hausled the body of the Watche with a liuely volee of shotte and in the meane while other thirtie sette vpon the Trenche whiche was but sclenderly manned some of whiche thei fiue This night also came into the Citie twoo of our messengers who brought good newes of our aide The sixte daie Onniger gate was sett so wide open as that a 150. Souldiers and Horses went out of it where thei made an hott skirmishe with the Enemie who so forsooke his Trenches as that he was driuen from al the Trenches that were betweene Onniger gate and the Wood gate whiche was driuen open with the force of a Mallet for the sauyng of our men from the greate Ordenaunce of the Enemie This night our menne gaue the Enemie three Alarmes at the first of whiche he shotte of twise against Onneger Gate howbeit there was no hurte doen. The seuenth daie thei beganne to builde vp a counter scarfe before Onniger gate wherevpon there came out of the Wood twoo Cornettes of horsemen and a bande of Almain horsemen but so soone as thei were come into the Southe parte of the Campe the Enemie began to sette hymself in order as though he would haue giuen the Alarme and then thei sent many shott to the counter scarfes of the Citie and settyng vpon the Trenches draue out the Enemie This night the Enemie had sixe Alarmes so lustely giuen hym as that he tooke no reste at all And our men had a signe of fire giuen them vppon Coldervene Tower as it was promised theim But after that our aide was once passed the Blacke water the Enemie beganne to make a Bridge of boates ouer the Riuer of Ae and so filled lowe plaine grounde with faggottes and other thinges that he might come from one quarter of his Campe to the other The nineth daie in the mornyng certaine Souldiers issued out and tooke awaie twoo fatte Oxen from the Enemie Then was there Alarme sounded in the Campe wherevpon the Enemie beganne to shewe his hedde and had placed a band of Eastwike Wood and therefore for that daie were no more sallies made The souldiers of the Toune likewise The tounes men set vp a bande of horsemen had sett vp a bande of horsemen for the daiely makyng of their sallies ouer whom thei appointed Captaine Girard Holten of Geldrelande a man of great valure and Lieutenaunt to Conrad Edenrats of Steenwike The tenth daie a sallie was made as before in whiche thei tooke three prisoners and because one of theim would not goe on he was slaine and one of the other was deliuered the same daie vpon his raunsome And as our Captaines had deliuered the prisoner vnto the Drōme there was a Cānon shot came out of the Campe whiche so sprinkled the dirte aboute their eares as that bothe the Dromme and the prisoner were in greate danger of their liues The eleuenth daie the horsemen of the Toune assembled theim selues in the Market place and had gotten vp vppon the Rampares with their Guidon as if a band of horsemen had entred the Toune Wherevppon the Enemie beganne to breake doune the bridge towardes Niestiecke but thei were soone driuen thence by certaine souldiers whiche issued out of the toune who brought with them suche instrumentes as thei were wonted to vse after some small skirmishe Thesame daie the Enemie put twoo Kine into the Medowes liyng on the toune side thinkyng thereby to entrappe some of our menne because thei laied in ambushe many horsemen and others whiche thyng out people suspectyng saied vnto the Enemie that the Kine were ouer leane and therefore willed them to sende fatter thether The 12. of the saied Moneth the Enemie discharged three Cannon shot vpon the Toune for a watche worde wherevpon bothe the Launces and shot she wed them selues abroade in the plaine fieldes whether also were come from Westerwyke two Companies of Footemen And then thei beganne to entrench about Onnen that thei might keepe backe our ayde but it was to no purpose The same Euenyng were sent two Messengers to aske councell about the affaires of the warres to get ayde and to shew the estate of our Citie and the estate of the Enemy The Souldiers who had the conuaiyng of the Messengers fell immediatly vpon the Enemie and slewe three of the Watche makyng a greate and long Alarum vpon them The 13. daie thei sallied out twise to see if thei could catche any but at last Gerarde Holt tooke an Harquebouzer and after he had taken his Harquebouze from hym he caried hym awaie

there was anon plentifull dealyng of Harquebouze shott on either side and besides the Enemie let flie a Cannon shott amongst the thickest Then beganne some of the Captaines of the Toune to make a counterscarfe before the Wood Gate which was an hazardous thyng to doe And soone after the Enemie fell on criyng out and saiyng ha poore soules get you out and looke for Walter Hedgemans Then aunswered the Tounesmen them againe saiyng It were very small honour to vs to serue suche traitours but ꝙ thei wee will goe to the Blacke Scluse and Meppell and wee doubt not but to finde there both Ensignes Armour Weapon and Paye of yours After midnight the Enemie once againe discharged three Cannon shott and the Horsemen of the Wood shocked on and eftsoones was a noyse in the Campe criyng Arme Arme. The 21. daie thei made a sallie and tooke a Page who being examined could saie nothing wherevpon thei shore his head like a Frier and then draue hym out of the Toune And about three of the Clocke in the afternoone the Enemie shott of seuen Caunon shott besides sixe balles of wilde fire one of whiche lighted in the plain before the Toune and an other vpon Marshall Tongeren his Barne whiche through the greate diligence of the Citezens was quenched The same daie also the Citezens and the Souldiers had deuised an enterprise against Eastwike how be it the Captaines frustrated their purpose This night also went fower Messengers out of the Toune whose conuaie caused a great Alarme in bothe the Campes The 22. daie thei went on with their said counterscarfe and the Enemy payd a prisoners raunsome who had been a Moneth prisoner it was thought that thei did it to the ende that by hym thei might the better vnderstande the state of the Toune This night ensuyng there came into the Toune twoo Messengers who brought with them 40. Souldiers cariyng on their backes 700. poundes of Gunpouder in leather bagges and an Ensigne whiche the Enemie had lost at the Blacke Scluse The 23. daie in the afternoone some of Meppell made a road to Steenwike and fiered certaine houses at Ounen When the Enemie sawe this he marched with a great companie towardes the place and the Tounes men sallied out and brauely skirmisshed with hym where many bothe on the one side and the other were slaine and yet but one Tounes man whose name was Francis Platt Then the Enemie caried a waie his dead bothe on horsbacke and also by wagon and lost besides a good sorte of Horses The Ensigne that was brought from the Blacke Scluse was caried in despite rounde about the Toune vpon the Rampars This night also certaine Messengers whiche were gone out of the Toune came in again by reason that the Moone shoone so bright fearyng thereby to bee discouered This night likewise the Enemie beganne to entrenche in Isseene waie but the next morrowe the Tounes men had cast it quite and cleane doune The 24. daie at night Captaiue Conrade of Steenwike Maister ziger-ter steigh and others went out of the Toune whiche those Souldiers had brought in the pouder aforesaied meaning to goe to Meppell to deuise and conclude with the Generall of the Armie and the councell for the warres about some enterprise and meanes that might best serue for their deliueraunce and ayde but as thei were about the little trench whiche was cast vp vppon the waie aforesaied and should passe ●uer a narrowe planke whiche remained vppon the passage of the East bridge The Enemy the tounes men encounter at a fourd the Enemie was come thether to cast vp againe the saied trenche and so soone as thei were mett either side was amazed but by and by let flye their shot one against an other Then sounded the Enemie the Alarme and therevpon our men retiered because thei knewe not the nomber whiche came against them And as thei went ouer the foresaied planke three Englishmen fell into the Riuer of Ae and so were drouned And foorthwith the Enemie had the Alarme giuen hym on either side to the end he should not vnderstande our peoples meanyng and deuise The 25. of the saied Moneth Captaine Francis Platt was buried in our Lady Churche and the 26. certaine Messengers were sent out to declare the state of the Toune The 27. daie at night the Enemie beganne to cast a trenche before Ouniger Gate to keepe them backe from fallyng This night also were certaine houses burnt at Onnen This daie likewise the Enemie made a passage from Easterwike Campe ouer the Riuer of Ae towardes the little trenche of Isueniger Bancke The 28. daie in the mornyng Onnen houses were againe seene on fire and it was thought that the Enemie did it to the ende that we should haue no shelter for our sauftie The Enemie also caused certaine long peeces of Timber to bee caried awaie and in the afternoone sent a Trompet to the Wood Gate sommonyng the Toune to render it self into the handes of George de Lalayng who was aunswered that thei could not doe it The Enemy sommoneth the Toune with out thei should lose their honor and breake their othe whiche thei meant not to doe so long as thei had one droppe of bloud in their bodies When the Captaines were retourned from the saied Trompet thei fearyng that some trouble herevpon might arise amongest the Citezens tolde theim that the Enemie had lost two Gentlemen and thinkyng them to bee taken prisoners by some of the Toune was sent to craue their deliueraunce in paiyng their raunsome The 29. daie in the mornyng thei sallied out at Onniger Gate but it was to no purpose because there was neuer a man come from the Campe. At night the Musketers were placed before the wood Gate who shreudly galled the Horsemen which shocked to and fro the Watche The 30. daie about the daie breake there came certaine messengers into the Toune who brought from the Estates 1600. The Estates sende moner to paie the Souldiers Florins to paie the Souldiers The same daie also came one of the Souldiers of the Enemie vnto Onniger Gate mouyng with vile and sclaunderous speaches and deedes the tounes men to anger who was slaine there for his great paines This mornyng Letters were brought from the Generall of the Campe and from Colonell Stayper by whiche one Ihon van Beerenbrooke Ihon Staypers Lieutenaunt was appointed Captaine in Captaine Francis Platt his place lately slaine and the saied Lieutenauntship was giuen to Michael Haghen of Embricke The 31. of the saied Moneth as our ayde had giuen the Alarme to Nieuene there sallied brauely out of the Toune Captaine Courade of Steenwike Ihon Verberg Captaine Cornput his Lieutenaunt and Lazarus of Austriche Captaine Olthoff his Lieutenaunt who so liuely coupled them selues in skirmishe together as that many on either side lost their liues therein A liuely skir mishe made with the Enemie For on the Enemies parte were slaine an Ensigne certaine Horsemen and a greate many Souldiers and on

our side were slaine Hans de Drees and some Souldiers In this skirmishe the Tounes men fought as couragiously as Lyons for thei draue the Enemie cleane out of all his Trenches of Westwike broke one peece of Ordnaunce and pegged or poysoned an other Thei tooke besides two Batches of hot bread and caried them to the Toune This night also the Tounes men beganne to cast a Trenche nere to Onniger Gate whiche ranne as farre as the enemies trenche whiche very fitly serued the Toune Souldiers for their salliyng and that greatly greeued the Enemie The firste of Ianuary 1581. ●581 The Enemie sounded a false Alarme in the mornyng placing his whole force vpō the plaine fallowes liyng vnder Onnen where an house was sette on fire he shott of also twoo peeces of Ordenaunce at the Toune thinkyng thereby and the helpe of the Mist to toule our men out of the Toune to be aduenged of their former daies losse as it was told vs by a Dromme who was sent that daie thether for twoo prisoners Howbeit the Lorde GOD who euer defendeth his shewed therein a wonderfull peece of woorke For our menne were no soner gone out of the Toune but that the Mistes brake vp and that the aire became so cleare as that our menne might easely perceiue and see all the ambushes whiche were lated for them in so muche that the Enemie loste moe of his menne then we had loste the daie before and so for that tyme wee retourned to the Tonne without any losse at all The 2. daie the Enemy discharged two peeces of Ordnance vpon the Pioners as thei were labouryng about the counterscarfe casting of the trenches And this night the Magistrate and certaine Eaptaines made a signe with fire whche deede no whit liked the reste of the Eaptaines by reason that thereby somthing was reuealed which thei would not haue had knowē The 3. daie an other Trenche was cast vp betwene Westwike and Ae because thei had loste suche a nōber of their people the laste daie of the former moneth This night about 8. or 9. of the clocke was a very greate thondring of the Cannon heard about Blockzill besides a great nōber of Harquebouzes Muskets and after that a signe of fire was made at Blockzill Mill. The fourth daie in the mornyng messengers came to the Toune who brought newes that the same cannonyng and harquebouzyng was dooen in a iollite and triumphe by Thierry Snoy of North Hollande who was gotten into his Trenches by reason of the victorie of Hattemerbridge Where Drossat that traitor his father and his schoole maister with many other moe were taken prisoners And that Walter Heghemans also and twoo of his Captaines were deliuered and that the Roiters of the Estates were at Gelumuide comming to aide them There was also this daie a sallie made with the losse of twoo or three horses and a souldier of the Enemie And besides the little Trenche of the Enemie ouer against Onniger gate was ouerthrowne without any resistaunce on the behalfe of the Enemie There were this daie likewise seen aboue an hundred emptie Wagons commyng out of Drenthe whiche were all laden with a parte of the campe The fifte of this monethe there beganne a very greate trouble and as it were a sedition to arise aswell emongest the Citezens as the souldiers that through a mischeuous mistakyng of a matter by reason of a ladder of coardes whiche the Magistrate and Eaptaines had caused to be wrought and made none els priuie to it so that it bredde a vengeable suspition in the heddes of many This night at tenne of the clocke Captaine Conrad of Steenwike Olthoff his Lieutenaunt and Lazarus of Austriche with thirtie souldiers moe went out of the Toune to goe to Meppell for the bringyng foreward of our aide Who the night followyng made a signe with fire declaryng thereby that thei were come thether saufe and sound The sixt daie our men woorkyng about the counterscarffe kept watche abroad that thei might the boldlier trauell and against this Ward certaine Launces and others set themselues howbeit thei loste by it about three or fower horses This night the Enemie about midnight shot of twoo peeces of ordenaunce and one after midnight whiche doyng was thought to bee as a watch word for the Tounesmen and thei also whiche lay in the Vaine or linkes tooke it bothe that night and the night ensuyng in steade of many and soondrie Alarmes The seuenth daie the Enemie had many Alarmes giuen hym before daie wherefore bothe thei of Westwike and also thei of Eastwike putt theim selues in battaile ara●e towardes Onnen wherevpon our men shreudly tossed them but did them no greate hurte Theight daie at night two messengers came and told that our aide would be come within tenne daies and couple with the Enemie but that was nothyng This night after the messengers were come in a signe of fire was giuen wherefore the Enemie shot of thrise for a watche woorde and then all his horse men and footemen got to armes The nineth daie of Ianuary the Enemie caused the Toune to bee sommoned once againe offeryng by his letters the laste grace that thei might saufly departe with bodies and gooddes These letters were written to the Captaines Burroughmaisters Souldiers and Citezens conteinyng at the first very louyng wordes but threatnyng in the ende to kill the children in their cradles Wherevnto the Trompette was aunswered by worde of mouthe That if so be there were no aide from the Estates neare at hande yet that thei could not with their honour render vp the Toune vpon these brauyng and threatnyng Letters and that it would coste a dearer price then a peece of written papar with which answere the said Trōpet returned This night about eight of the clocke there was a great fire in Weasterwike Campe. There went certaine messengers also out of the Toune who likewise carred the saied letters of George Lalayng to the Counsell for the warres who beeyng saufly come thether made a signe of fire vppon Colderuaine The Enemie that night had planted his Artillerie in other places of his cāp as though he intended to haue enterprised some other newe matter The tenth of this monethe the Enemie caused a prisoner to bee sent for that by hym he might vnderstande the state of the Toune but because there was ouer great a ransome asked he was not deliuered And our aide at Giethorne gaue the enemie the Alarme wherfore thei shot thrise of for a watchword About the euenyng the tounsmen sallied out but it was to no purpose The eleuenth of the saied monethe our people of Giethorne gaue the Enemie diuerse Alarmes daie and night and the Enemie shot of sixe tymes and then shewed hym self with sixe cōpanies of Souldiers and certaine horsemen in order of Battle about the hie water Milles. The twelft daie as the Souldiers of the Toune were breakyng the Ise there were certaine Roiters whiche troubled thē Wherevpon certaine Harquebouziers went

Artillarie and all had not the force of the Launces staied them for thei were not halfe well prouided to goe awaie vpon the spurre and againe the night commyng suddenly vppon ●hem euery man retiered hym self to his strength But because the Enemie had fought but ill that daie the next night he forsooke his seuen Trenches vppon Northe Common and Steendicque and drewe awaie his Artillarie The 23. The siege raised from before Steenwike of February whiche was the daie of the deliuerance of the Toune aboute the breake of the daie three Engishe men came out of the Wood and passed betweene the Trenches but when thei perceiued that there was neither watche nor warde within them thei came to the Toune and tolde them of it then issued out of the Toune many men and lookyng into the Trenches founde neuer a man but the seuenteene dead men whiche laie there and three dead Roiters before the Trenche Within a while after the Enemie set fire on his Campe and hauing before daie sent his Artillarie with his footemen before his horsemen stoode in order of battle vntill the afternoone in the plaine fallow fieldes of Onnen vntill suche tyme as the Englishe Colonell generall of the Campe came with his Colonelles Captaines and Officers and a fewe horsemen to passe by Steenwike in the tayle of the Enemie who as yet brauely mustered and shewed hym self And then was the Toune throughly victualled with all thinges necessarie and deliuered from the straight siege The slege of Steenwike lasted fower whole monethes whiche it endured fower whole Monethes together and therefore we can not sufficiently enough praise our good GOD who hath so louingly and mercifully dealt with vs moste miserable wretches The 24. of February the Armie of the Estates departed from the Wood and marched towardes Oldemerct to expulse the Garnisons whiche the Enemie had thrust in into Ruynder Lemmer Sloten and many other places moe whiche afterward was performed In so muche that all these places were againe restored into the handes of the Estates and vnited Prouinces Vnto whom I beseech the Lord of his mercie and grace graunt wisedome prouidence and strength daiely more and more to continue their blessed enterprises to the ende thei maie with force resist their enemies prouidently guyde all their affaires and maintaine this debonaire people with all wisedome and equitie And thus gentle Reader I conclude and ende this present Historie reseruyng the reste of the affaires whiche shall succeede for the beginning of an other Booke and if it shall please the Lord our God to graunt me that his fauour I will surely make thee partaker thereof FINIS A Table conteinyng the principall matters conteined within this Historie of the troubles and Liuill warres in the lowe Countreis A. AMbassadours sent to the Kyng from the Councell of Trent 7. An aduertisement or warnyng of those of the reformed Religion 21. Articles digested into forme and order 22. An abolishyng of the Inquisition and Commissions 25. Arragon will not receiue the Inquisition 44. Alkmere besieged 101. Arke of Delfte 126. A lustie Captaines linelinesse reuiued men halfe dead 127. Admirall determineth to batter Lammen forte 134. B. Braband Priuiledges most excellent 3. Bryngyng in of the newe Bishoppes 5. Brute and rumour of warres in the low Countrels 4. Boisleduke besieged by the Count of Megne 37. Briel taken by the Lorde of Lumay 75. Bishoppe of Harlem halloweth the greate Churche 102. Battaile by Sea 102. Battaile at Moquerhed 103. Boysot the Admirall sent to take vp mē for the aiding of Leyden 118. Baldez and his companie take a faire paire of heeles 132. Boysot the Admirall entreth Leyden 155. Baldez writeth a fewe Latin wordes vpon his departure frō the siege before Leyden 136. Baldez his Souldiers mutine 138. Baldez Souldiers marche to Vtright Ibidem Buren besieged and rendred Ibidem C. Count Menssield garnisonneth Antwerpe 39. Counsell of troubles erected 49. Castle of Antwerpe built 50. Citation against the Count of Hooghstrate 52. Count Arenbergue slaine 65. Count Adolf of Nassou slaine Ibidem Count Lodwike his aunswere to the Emperour 70. Count Lodwike raiseth his Campe. 71. Count Egmond his aunswere to his Sentence of condemnation 67. Count Egmond his letters vnto the Kyng Ibidem Count Bergue inuadeth the Countrey of Surphen 77. Castle of Stauere ayded 78. Count de la Roche his letters to the Leydens 121. Citezens most noble and couragious aunswere of Leyden to Baldes Campe. 128. Calamitie and miserie of the Leydens insupportable 130. D. Doctors of diuinitie appointed in euery Cathedrall Churche 5. Duke of Alua appointed Generall of the Army for Flanders 29. Disputation at Antwerpe 31. Duke of Alua commeth out of Spaine 49. Duke of Alua his order in the goyng of his voyage Ibidem Duches of Parma goeth out of the lowe Countrey Ibidem Duke of Alua taketh awaie the keyes from the Gauntois 50. Duke of Alua sheweth his authoritie to the Estates Ibidem Duke of Alua aideth the Frenche 51. Duke of Alua tyrannizeth 65. Duke of Alua writeth to the Bishoppe of Munster 71. Duke of Alua demaundeth the tenth peney 74. Duke of Alua besiegeth Monts 77. Don Lewis de Requesens commeth into the lowe Countreis 102. Duke of Alua plareth the bankerupt 103. Delft attempted 117. Diuers speeches vsed about the cuttyng and pearsing of the Dykes or Bankes 119. Discorde in Leyden by reason of the famine 127. Death of the Commandator 139. E. Encrease of those of the Religion 2. Examination or tryall most cruell 46. Egmond and Horne prisoners 50. Englishe men driuen out of their forte 106. Enterprise of the Commandator vpon the Countrey of Sconwene 139. F. Forme and maner of the Inquisition 44. Flusihyng reuolteth 75. Frenche ouerthrowne at Chieuerane 77. Fugitiue Hollanders letters to the Ley dens 109. Fliyng meslenger arriueth at Leyden 129. G. Gueses demaund reiected by the Regent 37. Gueses discomfited and put to flight Ibidem Greate patience in those of the Religion 1. Gueses inuade Friselande 77. Gertrudenbergue besieged 102. H. Harlem besieged 79. Harlemians for the redemption of their Citie paie to Dom Fredericke 240. thousand Florins 99. Harlem yeelded vp to the Duke of Alua. Ibidem J. Inquisition the very well spryng of the ciuill warres 2. Iewes put to death a childe of two yeres of age 43. Ihon Biancu the mutinous Spanyardes Eletto slaine 138. K. Kynges Armes broken doune 16. Kyng of Spayne ought to pawne his kyngdomes to make warre for the lowe Countreis 114. L. Luther the Author of the light of the Gospell 1. Lorde of Brederode exhibiteth a supplication 35. Ladie Regent her aunswere to the same supplication 36. League of the Knightes of the order 37. Ladie Regent tollerateth the Sermons 28. Letters of the Kynges vnto the Ladie Regent 29. Lorde Brederode taken for a Rebell 38. Lorde of Brederode fleeth from Amsterdame 39. Leyden the first tyme besieged 102. Leyden besieged the seconde tyme. 104. Leydens aunswere to the Prince 107. Leirdame besieged and

confederates might easily consider gather to what ende this preparation of warre and yrefull threates of his maiestie tended but the Catholikes especially who with theyr craftie clayning and subtill dawbing might the easilier deceiue the Regent feigned that they wold rather become newters or els if they did any thing that they would after a sort take part with her excellencie as they saide for the common wealth and yet it was well enough perceiued that they shewed them selues secrete enemies both to the Inquisition and also to the Spaniardes howbeit because they hoped to obteine the good will and moderation whiche the Regent on the behalfe of her brother had giuen thē to vnderstand they to the end they would not haue their enterprises to bee discouered nor hindered fell to plaine dissembling But when both the confederates and catholikes vnderstoode of the rumor of the setting forwarde of the Spanishe warres eyther partie beganne to bestyrre hym and make shift for himselfe yea and some of the Protestants who before had refused and forsaken the gentle offer and ayde of strange captaines and souldiers because they woulde streng then themselues the better confirmed with them their confederacie and thereupon caused men to bee leuied who had taken and possessed certaine townes makyng thereby the Romanistes practises of none effect c. Now because the spoyle of the Churches greatly displeased the Catholikes they also leuied a great number of men of war that they might bee auenged of the downe pullers and breakers of theyr Images punishyng many in diuers places without being any thing at all gainsaid by any of the rest of the protestants For the third part of the confederates haunted no whit any of the assemblies but interdicting also the preachings imprisoned as many as continued constant in the exercise of religion rechristening the infants and remarrying those persons which by the ministers had been before baptised and marryed and besides when they had caused the preachings to cease they hunted and chased the ministers and gaue them vp vnto the Inquisition and to all the rest of the old ordenances Whereupon many were forced to get them away into other countries and cities where the exercise of the religion had free course amongest which Valencia was the most famous For this cause the Lady Regent had required and commanded the Valencians to take in a garrison to wit fiue ensignes of footemen and foure troupes or companies of horsemen whiche Monsieur de Noircarmes the Marques of Bergues lieuetenant Gouernour of Henault had brought But the Valencians flatly refused them the 22. of September the very selfe same yeere trusting to the strength of their citie and the ayde of certaine french which were with them Valencia is the second chiefe citie of Henault The scituation of Valencia scituate in a fruitfull soyle full of moysture by reason of two riuers which streame downe thither and there meete the greater of which is called the Escante whose spring head commeth frō the countrie of Vermand out of the East mou●taines and running downe by Cambray and the territories thereof taketh his couse by Valencia so vnto Conde where the Riuer called the Hayne whereof all the countrie is named falleth into Escant The whiche separating and diuiding Artoys from Henault runneth down by Tournay in Flaunders euen vnto Gand where it toyneth with Lys Which discendeth from Artoys and so parting it selfe into diuers armes runneth by Deuremond and Antwerp and lastly disgorgeth it selfe into the Ocean Sea Moreouer Valencia is a fayre citie well fenced with rampiers and ditches But the chiefest commoditie it hath is that they may drown all the whole Champion Countrie thereabout through the opening of certayne sluces or flood gates made for the same purpose for the stopping of al such as intended to come neere the Towne Ouer and besides this it is a citie well furnished with all kindes of merchandise seruyng for the trade and traffique of the Frenche and lowe countrie men When the ladie Regent had vnderstood of this refusall shee againe commanded to haue the gates to be set open Valencia refu●eth a garrison to take in a garrison which she had sent thyther by letters and withall the Duke of Arescote and the Counte Egmont to perswade them But when they coulde by no meanes bring to passe their purpose the Valencians were taken for his maiesties enemies and so declared and proclaimed in many places which terrified and feared the other cities Neuerthelesse at the last the said lords had so persuaded them as that they agreed to receiue a garrison although against theyr priuileges but because they would gladly bee discharged of them they were contented to giue them a summe of money vpon condition that they would agree to certaine articles Howbeit the catholikes woulde in no wise accept thereof saying that it was against all reason that any subiect shoulde prescribe lawes or articles vnto his Lord wherfore they straitly besieged the citie and made their trenches and enuironed them both on foote and horse backe In this mean while Monsieur de Noircarmes had gotten a litle village somewhat neere thereto called Spr Amand and had schooled and appointed them what they should doe and afterwarde in December 1566. hee came before Valencia with his whole campe The besiegeants likewise had prepared to defend themselues against the assaultes and attempts of the catholikes and had written to the cittes confedered beseeching their aide but especially to the gentlemen confedered because they would gladly haue been assisted by them seeing that by their incitation and encouragement they had taken in hand that warre The nobilitie woulde at no hand haue to doe with that cause but som of the common people gathered themselues together in low Flanders to rayse a campe but forsomuch as they were not prouided of an expert captain for the wars they in steebe of marching against the enemie made warre with the Priests and Churches and by that meane procured the losse of Valencia and were the cause of theyr owne destruction For when the gouernour of Doway and Orchies was aduertised of this assembly he sent against them both footemen horsemen to charge them in the reare ward Which thing whē they of Tournay vnderstood they put thēselues in armes for the ayding of the Valencians remouing of the siege The gouernour of Doway had all that night gotten his people together sent them into the champion countrey so that about 6. of the clocke in the morning there were in Armes 3. hundred Harquebuziers an hundred horses forbidding them not to fight vntill such teime as Monsieur de Noircarmes were come with his tenne Ensignes of footemen an hundred horse who assoone as they were come violently suddainely charged the men of warre of the Protestantes They of T●urnay discomfited and put them to the foyle so that the third parte of them lay dead in the place and the rest were saued by their fast

againe met together at the Garden aforesaide whither also came Monsieur Saint Aldegond a very eloquent man declaring vnto the sworne men the good and naturall affection which the Prince of Orange bare vnto the lowe Countries but especially to the countie of Holland as by diuers examples had been shewed Declaryng likewise the estate of the towne by the stinking away of Thierry the Friselander as before hath beene sayde shewing eftsoones the authoritie of the commission whiche his excellencie had graunted him which charged and commaunded hym to depose the olde magistrate of Harlem and appoynt an other to wit to choose Burroughmasters Shieriffes and a Councell whiche hee saide was not meant to disworship and discredite the olde Magistrate seeing that many of them had alwayes shewed their fidelitie and friendeshippe to the commonaltie but onely to keepe the saide Towne presently in greater safetie And hee further sayde that his excellencie did it not for that he meant any way to diminish the Priuiledges thereof but for the preuenting of a mischiefe And therefore he very louingly required and prayed the sworn men that euery diziner would bryng in the voyces of his companions for the chusing of eight Boroughmaisters fourteene Sheriffes and twentie Counsellours to rule the next yeere The which election the Diziners gaue him the same euening in wryting at the house of Peter Keys where the sayde substitute might appoint a newe magistrate whiche was accomplyshed The tenth of the sayd moneth it was such an extreame colde night that the riuers of Spare and Tye were so hard frosen at Sparendam that the enemy assayled it on euery side But after that the Sparendams had valiantly defended them selues and discharged many times their great ordinance the enemy so liuely assayled them on euery side as that the garnyson that was in it was enforced to flye hauing before done greate hurte to the Spanyardes howebeyt it was not without the losse of their valiaunt Captayne Martyn Pruys and some of their chiefe souldiers The eleuenth of the saide moneth the Spaniardes both on foote and horse backe compassed about the Towne of Harlem against whome the townes men salied and aboute the Spittle gaue them the skirmishe but because some of the Spaniardes had got into the Steeple the Townes men coulde no way come to fight with the enemie The same day were some of the olde magistrates being suspected because they had yeelded vnto Thierry the Friselanders commission kept in theyr houses And they which Monsieur Saint Aldegond had appointed to the gouernement are these which follow Burroughmasters Nicholas Laen Iohn Vliet Gerrard Stunyer Peter Keys Shiriefs William Adriensnes Iames Huesden Cornelius Rickē Peter Bael Nicholas Mathew Adrian Berkel Mathew Augustine The 12. of the saide moueth vnto the 17. the enemy approched and trenched by reason of the fauoure of the Bulwarkes which were dayly made and on the other side the Townesmen verie carefully fortified their Towne where they sawe it moste needefull The 18. of December at 8. of the clocke in the mornyng the Spanyardes began to batter the inward gate of S. Crosse and both the flankers thereof with bullets of 40. 46. pound waight discharging 14. Canons at once The townesmen againe sate not ydle but cherely fortified their Rampares with wood earth stones wooll sacks and other things About midnight the sworne men and Souldiers of the towne forsooke the body of the watch which was by the Bulwarke of the saide gate seeing the moste part of the outward gate to be beaten downe so that there was no going nor comming from the Bulwarke to the towne howbeit in the euenyng the Souldiers and sworne men entered againe into the Bulwarke makyng away in the night vnder the gate that the enemy had that day beaten downe with 6. hundreth and fourescore Canon shotte The 19. of the said moneth the enemy continued the battery against S. Iohns gate shot against the saide Bulwarke sixe hundreth threescore and fifteene Canon shot Neuertheles the townesmen repaired the breach by reason of the Bulwarkes and besides made a new rampart from S. Iohns gate to S. Katherines bridge The 20. of the said moneth the enemy continued the batterie against the Bulwarke vntil about noone shot an hundreth and fiftie sixe times and then made readie to the assault wherevpon the Alarme Bell sounded out The enemy on euery side had set a guard before the gates both of footemen and horsemen and about one of the clocke in the after noone came with ensignes displaied from the Spittle to the towne carrying on their shoulders bridges ready made to cast ouer the ditches and so passe to the Bulwarke Ouer and besides this they had furnished their trenches with Hayquebuziers continually shooting at the wals and Rampares to the end they might take away the Curtines from the townesmen Now as they assaulted the Bulwarke the townesmen so liuely beat them backe with chayne shot from the Courtines so liberally hayled them with small shot as that they made them giue ouer the assault which thing the enemy seing renued the assault with f●●sh men howbeit they were lyuely repulsed so that they were faine to retier to their trenches with great dishonour leauing in the ditches for pawne good flore of Spanyardes and other dead and hurte men and amongest the rest two Spanishe ensigne bearers who valiantly had gotten vp but more lustely beaten backe besides many Morions Harquebus pikes and Rapiers that were left behinde in the ditches which did the townesmen very good seruice In the euening when the assaulte was ended they tooke a souldier on foote and brought him to the towne to the Boroughmasters and Captaynes who being racked confessed that Don Fridericke himselfe was there and lodged at a house called the Clyffe the count Bossu at Nicholas Lanes farme house and Noircarmes with Peter Nicholas Lonsgen and many greate Lordes Gentlemen and Captames at the Spittle And further he saide that the whole Campe was threescore and tenne ensignes and eyght hundreth horse to witte 36. companies of Spaniardes 22. ensignes of Wallons and 16. ensignes of Almaynes whose Colonel was the Count of Euerstein who with the said Almaines had his quarter appointed out vnto him in the woods and at Hemsted The 21. of the saide moneth the said souldier was hanged and the enemie did nothing a long time together but vndermine ●o ouerthrowe the Bulwarke aforesaid The same day the ●ownesmen coyned peeces of money of fine siluer of 32. and 16. souls The 24 of the saide moneth M. Adrian of Assendelfe aforesayde was hanged at Delft for his treasons and his head set vpon a pole or stake for the space of two houres The 27. of the said moueth the townesmen tooke a Wallon without Scaelwike gate and forth with hanged him The same day they of Harlem receitted letters from the Prince of Orange which certified them that he would sende them certayne Walon Herquebuziers in their ayde The 28. was Peter Iohnsons the

same night a Walon came out of the wood to the towne who was immediatly sent to the prince of Orange The eighteenth of the said moneth the enemie had made readie to assault the towne about noone and the townes men sounded the alarme but there was nothing done Howbeit the next day the enemie had fired a myne but with no hurt or losse to the towne And the 20 day the townes men plaid the like part and the very same effect followed They likewise thought to set fire on the platforme but it had no good successe The 22. of Marche which was Easter day the enemie stood in order of battaile both about the Spittle as also in the higher linkes and in the wood Wherfore the Burroughmasters and Captaines commaunded the alarme to be sounded but nothing was done The same day salyed out of the wood gate fiue or sixe horsemen and 120. shot to make play with them which lay in the wood howbeit they were repulsed with the losse of two souldiers and a few hurt men The same day also came into Harlem in three ships 70. last of corne which are 1625. razieres The 24. of this moneth Maryne Brande Admirall of the Mere brought with him two prisoners who after they had been racked were hanged about Fuyke The 25. of the said moneth at niene of the clocke in the morning salied out of the wood gate about 200. Walons to skirmishe with the enemie which lay at the entry of the wood and got the outwarde trenche of the enemie but because they were not strong enough they retyred to the towne without doyng of any great exploite saue that they hung two souldiers But when the Burroughmasters vnderstood the state of that quarter The Colonels and Captaines determined to surprise the same quarter in the after noone with niene or ten ensignes which was executed at foure of the clocke in the afternoone by sixe companies of souldiers and many citizens who salied out of the water gate about 200. French and Walon souldiers that salied out of the wood gate where after they had shakē off their shot they coupled the skirmishers together In the meane while issued out the aforesaid Chase of Harlem certaine small men of warre with her and thereby surprysed the enemie in three or foure places who hauing once discharged their great ordenance tooke their heeles howbeit the townes men followed thē for life frō thence to Faert killing slaying so that they flue a thousand of their soul diers a great number of which were mē of estimation wealth as appeared by the rich iewels apparrel that were brought to the towne And besides the townes men burnt aboue 300. tents and carried their great ordenance out of the field to wit 5. Falconnets 2. brasse peeces with great store of munition pouder and niene ensignes which the souldiers in the euening to the shame and despite of the enemie as it were in great triumph carryed with drummes fifes alongst the new Rampares in the end placed thē vpō the _____ Ouer besides all this they brought to the towne about 30 horse a great number of Cowes calues garments clokes great store of plate rings gilt Morions an in numerable nūber of corselets harquebuzers swordes To bee short ther was neuer a souldier of the town but had a good large butin For there was a drūmer that had 200. duckets for his share Which victorie was wonne with the losse of a fewe men for the townes mē lost not aboue 8. amongst which was one Captaine Derdeind a Walon a very valiant wise man who had doone great good seruice about the fortification of the Towne had in this victorie with his souldiers brauely charged the enemie The 26. of March the townes men had placed in the morning vpon the bulwark 11. ensignes which they had aswel the day before as also at other times got from the enemie But the 27. was slaine from the platforme with a musket shot Thierry Braesseman Launcelot Brederode his Lieuetenant The 28. of this moneth the ships of warre were gotten to the other side halfe way to Easterpe The 29. of the saide moneth were gotten into Harlem Mere thirtie and three shippesand seuen gallies of the enemie whiche woulde haue bereft vs the Mere hauing cut downe the dyke about the Terbert house And the Harlemians had with great speed by reason of a prosperous winde got to the Mere the thirde Gally vnder the charge of captaine Binchorst and also captaine Iohn Mantegnault who with certaine citizens sayled towards Caghe where the rest of their ships lay The 30. day of Marche the enemie had beganne a fort neere Fuyke for the safetie of their ships the last of the said moneth the enemie fyred a myne howbeit no hurte came to the Citie thereby saue onely that the Alarme was sounded by reason of the batterie The first of Aprill there came into the towne a Barque laden with powder which came ouer the fields that were ouerflowē The same day the souldiers destroyed S. Iohns Abbey which stood whole and sound till then The second of this moneth came thirtie and eight s●ippe● Gallies of Amsterdam before Fuyke where from morning vntill the euening they did nothing els but shoote off theyr great ordenance The fourth of the said moneth the townes men hunge vppe without Scaelwyke gate eleuen souldiers whiche were prysoners and drowned a woman And the sixt of the said moneth a Poste came in at the wood gate whiche immediately returned The same day the enemie blewe vp a mine howbeit the towne was no whit hurt thereby The seuenth of the said moneth the townes men salied out at Scaelwyke gate thinking to haue cowpled together in skirmishe but it was to sinall purpose And the eight of the same moneth the townes men fired a myne but it auayled little The nienth of this moneth came as it were about an hundred of the Princes ships from Caghe towardes Fuyke And the harlemians hauing a dosen well appointed shippes first sayled with a great large vessell vnto a bridge neere vnto the wood where shee stayed without being able to passe or yet stirre And the second which was a Caruel flayed against the low dyke But as two hundred souldiers or there about salying out of the water gate to set vpon the enemie were liuely repulsed the souldiers which were in the great vessell and in the Caruell came out of them and some of them came on shoare in a boate leauing both the ships in the power of the enemie The others seeing that the bridge woulde not styrre forsooke also both their vessels and in skirmishing retyred to the towne with the losse of sixe or seuen of their companie in the meane while our vessels kept them of Amsterdam whiche lay before Fuyke play by reason of the Northeast winde the fort of Fuyke where the Spaniardes were prouided of great ordenance they coulde not come to grapple

duke thē to depart without armour weapon besides the Scots Easterlings were let to vnderstande that they were receiued into fauour wherefore the rest of the souldiers commending thēselues to the mercy of God waited to see what wold become of thē Whē the L. Bordethard thē speake of grace he forthwith cōmanded one of his souldiers to kill hun with anharquebuze saying I beseech thee friend A souldier killeth his captains being ●o commanded by him that thou which hast done me many good seruices wouldest now at this present do me the last euē to disbend thine harquebuze vpon me which thing the souldier after long refusall accōplished The cause why this Romane act was done was by reason that the enemie had said vpon the cōposition that as many as had bin at Monts in Haynault should haue no grace shewed thē At 9. of the clock in the morning they went out at the wood gate to confirme this composition and the sworne men were sent to the Towne house to know of them The Hariemians for the redemptiō of thei● Citie pay to Don Frederick 240 thousand Florins if the said composition liked them seeing they were the men which were to make vp the full summe of two hundred fortie thousād Florings which the Burroughmasters had promised for the redeeming of the Town to be paid at two paiments to wit an hundred thousād florins wtin 12. daies the rest within three mōths next ensuing with which cōposition the sworn mē must be cōtēted The Citie of Harlem yeelded vp to the Duke Alua. Nowe when the Cittie was yeelded vp into the duke of Alua his handes a proclamatiō was forthwith made by the ringing of the great Bell That all Citizens and soldiers should bring in all their armour and weapon into the towne house and that all the men should immediatly goe to the wood Abbay the women to the cathedrall Churche and all the souldiers to Bakenesse Church Howbeit the Scottes Almaynes were appointed to garde the Rampares When this was done one Philippe Matines sometimes a Borroughmaister came to the wood Abbay praying the Borroughmaisters that they would forthwith make ready all such money as euery man was taxed to giue to the end the towne might not be sacked and that he was a substitute sent from the Duke for that end and purpose At that very present also was a loafe of bread of two pound weight deuided amongest sixe men The 14. of Iuly there came agayne to the Abbey aforesaide the said substitute with Iulian Romero who put them in good hart saying That all their liues were saued by the making vp of that summe of money The same day that the Spania●ds entred The Scots and Almaines were commanded to carry their armour and weapon to the towne house from whence they were conducted to the Monasteries of Saint Ratherine and Sainte Vrsula where the Spaniardes kept them Then entred don Fredericke and the Count Bossu and with them a great manye of Gentlemen And the same day the Captaines and Ensigne bearers who the day before had presented their ensignes were led prisoners to Clyffe house But whiles the citizens and souldiers were kept in the Church the Spaniards sackt and spoylde some of the Citizens houses The 15. Soldiours hanged and their heads cut off at Harlem of the said month three hundred Walon souldiours were hanged and beheaded without any more hurt The same day the duke of Alua came to Amsterdam to take a view of the outward part of the Citie of Harlem wherfore he road round about the Town and when he had wel viewed the platforme and the rest of the fortes and trenches he returned to Amsterdam The 16 of the said month captain Ripperda and his liuetenant were beheaded the minister or preacher of Steinbach was hāged 247. soldiours drowned in Harlē Mere. The next morow the mony for the first payment was gathered one part of the soldiours were beheaded without Scaelwyke gate The 18. daye were moe then 300. soldiours put to the sword without the saide gate amongst whom were many citizens who thought to passe with the soldiours and afterward saue them selues The same day was Symon Symons a minister beheaded The 20. of Iuly Lancelot Brederode Rosoni and the receiuer of the Briele were taken who were beheaded at Scooten And the 24. day al the men who had lately fled for religion were taken so were likwise the Boroughmaster Peter Reis Iames Gerard treasorer Arnold Thierry Florēce Williās a shoemaker Arnold Thierry the Coeman of the Brooke haguemā Margliseur Adriā platermaker Scagē Michiel the sons of a walon The 25 of Iuly commaundement was giuen by the sounde of foure drums that euerye man should make a discouery of as many as they knew to be fled vpon paine of hanging at his own porch And the 27. were taken Adryan Iohnson Marshall Iohn Fluet and Gerard Stouer Burroughmaisters Iohn Albert secretarie Iohn de Fore Colonell Iames Bartilmewe a Captaine Peter Bal Sherife and Iames Barnerd capcaine who soone after died in prison and was buryed in the Towne There were also taken Iohn Adrianson the younger liuetenā● Colonell Iohn Thierry and Peter Thierry Ensigne bearers and Iohn zael vnder marshal which may be a lamentable example for almagistrates Captaines citizens and others how euer they trust or buyld to or vpon the promises of peruerse malicious and subtill Tyrants The 26. of Iuly the Spaniards sommoned the Towne of Alkmere But so soone as they had gotten in captain Ruchauer they then withstoode the whole Spanish Campe and therupon al the Spaniards retyred towards Harlem where they began to mutine which fel very wel out for the Alkmerians because they had thē some leasure in the mean while to fortifie their town wherby they might the better abide the force of these barbarous tyrants The 19 of this month at night much to do there was amōgst the Spaniardes in the Campe A muteny amongst the spanish souldiours because they woulde faine haue beene in the Towne that they might haue had part of the spoyle with the rest Nowe it was an hard matter for the Gouernours to suppresse these mutenyes beecause they had then newly chosen other captaines liuetenauntes seriantes and Ensigns who were also vpon the sodaine at that present entred into the town Surelye Gentle Reader it cannot be otherwise thought but that this dissention and disorder was euen the verye mightie worke of GOD considering the great commoditie benefit and gaine that redounded to these countries hereby it continued well neere seuen whole weekes or thereabout For during all this time they could attempt nothing against the other Townes and places and againe the Townes hard by were in the meane time at good leysure to buyld them Bulwarks fortresses for their strength alwaies looking and attending for the force of the enemie The 30. of this month great troubles controuersies arose amongst the Spaniards so that

it grew to the Alarme wherevpon a cornet of horsemen entred the Towne howbeit they taryed there but a while and the last of this moneth the Spaniardes brought in 13. or 14 peeces of great ordinaunce The 6. of Auguste Seigniour Chiapin Vitelli entred into Harlem to content and satisfie or at least wise to agree with the soldiours on his maiesties behalfe for their payes wherwith the Spaniards were no whit sory The 7. of this month the soldiours of Lazarus Muller with their Captaines were conducted out of the Towne by certeine footemen and horsemen And when they had brought them neere vnto Niewer church they were discharged by captaine Broeckhuyse soldiours and others The next morrow at night the Spaniards gaue the Alarm and Simon Scorl who therby thought to escape was taken prisoner The same day the Citizens and al the Walon Captaines were brought to Scooten which was no small griefe to their friendes The 11 of this month about three hundred what of Englishmen French Scottes and walons who till then lay in prison were beheaded And the day ensuing was Don Fredericke captaine generall of the Spanish camp most triumphantly brought into the Citie For it was agreed vpon that euery man shoulde haue 30. crownes a peece for his wages The 15. The Bishop of Harlem hassoweth the great Church of August being one of our Lady dayes Godfray de Amerlede Byshop of Harlem verye solemnly hallowed saint Bauons Church And besides hee soonge masse whereat Don Frederick was present Immediatly after that the Ghospel was soung the bishops secretary propounded vnto the said Don Frede. 9. articles which he in euery conditiō promised to obserue by an oth confirmed the same in the presence of the sayd bishop The 16. of this moneth the Spaniards came into the cathedral Church of Harlem to passe the musters but because they would haue abated them their prest money they departed thence without any more to doe Howbeit the next day following they came againe to the Church to receiue their money so departed the towne for the siege of Leyden Neuerthelesse after they had long consulted of the matter they encamped before Alkmer frō whēce in the end they went with smal honour The same day so soone as the Spaniardes were gotten out the Almaynes entred And the next morrow 18. Walon Captaynes and ensignes were beheaded at Scooten The 19. day were beheaded on the Spittle key certaine souldiers which lay sicke in the saide Spittle and the Citizens which were carried to Scooten were brought backe againe to the citie The 21. day a general pardon was proclaymed for al the Citizens 57. excepted which pardon together with the name of the Citizens shall hereafter be set downe The 20. of August the chiefe of the sworne Brotherhood assembled all the sworne men out of euery Brotherhood were 12. Pioners chosen to serue in the campe of Alkmer about to be besieged by the enimie The 21. of August The siege of Alkmer the Spaniardes pitched their campe before Alkmer to besiege it and so straitely beset it as that no manne was able to passe either in or out Ouer and besides they fortified them selues sundry dayes with many Fortes or trenches giuing sundry Alarms both by day and night wherupō the Souldiers and Citizens had many times occasion giuen thē to skirmish The 15. of September at night the townes men had surprised the Spaniards trenches without Groenenbergh and brought with them a rich butin to the towne a Spaniarde also named Iohn Ieronimo who discouered vnto them many secret enterprises which the townes men afterward found to be very true and amōgst other things he said be of good courage my maisters for our men intend to batter the towne giue the assault the 20. of this moneth and if they then winne it not they will remoue and a way The night ensuing the enemy sūmoned the towne at the prison gate twise The 18. of this moneth the enemy began the battery against the towne with 20. canons euery bullet weighing 40. pounds continued it from morning to night hauing spent in that while to the number of 2036. bullets And at 3. of the clocke in the afcernoone they began the attempt at the Fishmarket gate the red tower for 3. houres together howbeit they were agayne lustely answeared both with great shot Harquebuzes Holberdes wild fire and stones at the handes of men women and children so that a great number of the enemies were there well cooled and besides the townes men had drawne vp into the towne the two bridges which were made for the Assault The same day the Spaniards gaue another Assault about the salt pannes howbeit they were driuen to retyre with the losse of a great manye of their people The 20. of September the enemy againe saluted the towne with 800. canon shot was arranged of purpose to giue the assault howbeit the Citizens so lustely aunsweared thē with theyr great ordināce as that they beat their assault bridge al to fitters And besides the citizens womē childrē had prepared an hotter messe of pottage for them then was at the first Assault The night ensuing the enemy gaue them two Alarmes and the next night after that three but thanked be God no hurt was done The 22. of this moneth was braue skirmishing to the enemies cost For a Walon souldier of the enimtes campe came to the Towne and sayde that at the former Assault were aboue 600. souldiers slayne and very neere 300. hurt by reason wherof as also because of the great raine that fel they were agreed to remoue their campe The 25. of the said moneth and foure dayes after the Spaniards embarqued all their great ordinaunce spoyle sauing sixe peeces The same day the towne coyned 10500. Tinne dollers to pay the souldiers The thirde of October three of the principall Tentes of the campe were taken away and the enemie burnt Buckler house And the next morrowe the rest of the great ordenance was enbarqued The fift of the said moneth the Alkemerans issuyng out of the towne tooke from the enemie a great barke laden with spoyle and the enemie burnt Coedike The sixth of this moneth the enemie forsooke certaine Forts or trenches which the townes men sacked and brought the butin to Alkemer And the eight day the enemie set fyre on an house standing neere a myll called the Rint myll and so tooke Outdorpway and from thence to Bergue Whereupon the Citizens pursued the enemie and in the flight did them muche mischiefe The tenth of October in the afternoone the enemie forsooke theyr principall quarter and trenches whiche was neere to the newe gate whome the Citizens pursued euen to Heylos and Costell greatly annoying them and besides brought backe with them to the towne good store of butin Thus was the good Citie of Alkmer by Gods helpe and their lustie defence deliuered from the enemie for the which bee all bonour glory and prayse vnto the Lorde

Lewys de Requesens and the seconde battell that was fought at Sea And to make an ende I leaue to the Historiographers the surprysing of the Towne of Gertrudenberge and manye other skyrmishes and thinges because I woulde returne to the said siege of Leyden The Towne of Leyden then was for the first time besieged from the last of October 1573. vnto the 21. of Marche 74. For at that tyme the siege was raysed by reason of the cōming downe of Count Lodwyke of Nassou into the low countries so that as then Holland was as it were quite ridde of al souldiers For the famous P. of Orange came with his army to Gouicque by Bommel whenas the great commendator laye not farre off with his The principall cause why the Prince of Orange pitched his campe there was for that his brother Counte Lodwyke had written vnto him from about Mastright that he purposed the next morrowe to depart from thence with his armie and woulde bee at Herwerd betwene the Rhine and the Maze by reason hee meant there to set ouer his horse men and ioyne with his brother and therefore requyred the Prince his brother to come and meete him with his men Shippes Barques and Bridges And although this aduercisement nothing pleased his brother seeing that by reason of the shortnes of the time it was impossible to send into the riuer these warlike preparations and furniture yet came he with his armie to the place aforesaide vsing these or such like speeches although the comming of my brother is a thing whiche I like well of yet I woulde he were an hundred myles off with his armie For his Excellencie knewe right well that his comming coulde not bee without great danger as the issue thereof in the end cleerely shewed Howbeit as afore hath been saide this holpe the Leydens well The Commendator aforesaide who after the victorie at Moker head against Duke Christopher of Bauier the Count Palarine his sonne Count Lodwike and Count Henrie his brother seemed to bee very quiet and still was not for all that ydle with his councell at Bruxels but had conceiued in his head three encerprises The first was to subdue North Hollande The seconde to make himselfe master of the Maze and the thirde once againe to besiege Leyden for hee was throughly informed by the Popish fugitiues and others their fautors which were in the towne that they had neither garnison nor yet corne that the villages were bare by reason of the continuall forestalling of certaine ill willers Nowe all the worlde knoweth what good successe the firsie enterprise which hee tooke in hande against the North Hollanders had for he lost at it aboue two thousand souldiers And besides the successe of his Antwerp armie which should haue made him master of the Maze before Lillo is at large set foorth by the dead and drowned souldiers and the Ships which were brought ●●to Zealande and the taking of the vice Admirall Adolf of Hamsteed There resteth now no more but the third enterprise which is the siege of Leyden The twentie and sixe of May at two of the clock in the morning there came before this Towne Frauncis Baldez with an armie betweene seuen and eight thousand men both of Spaniardes Walons and Almaines His first arryuall was from Amsterdam by Harlem Mere with ships Caruelles Barkes laden with men and victuals harde to Leyerdory bridge where they stroke sayle And about midnight there issued out of the Towne a certaine Captaine named master Andrew with thirtie souldiers who falling into the Spaniardes handes was carried away with a shot dead before the Towne Howbeit the Citizens got him vp and carryed him to the Towne and there honorably buried him neuerthelesse they leaft in his place a dead Spaniard whome they had taken prisoner As the enemie was arriued at Leyden they began againe to make their first trenches bulwarks the citizens which were vpō the Rampares began about the day breake to march with two or three Ensignes of souldiers towards Zoeterwood part of which tarryed still at the said place and the rest went to the Trenche or Fort of Leyderdam which Fort through the negligence of the Townes men was whole and sounde The Leydens sent messengers to Hay Delft Roterodam and Dortright where at that present was arryued the Prince of Orange hauing raysed his campe about Bommell to the ende hee might preuent and stoppe the enemie But the valiant Captaine Ruychauer which was at Hay receiued the newes somewhat too late and yet neuerthelesse through his industrie and diligence he did so muche as that what by reason of the Trenches and Skyrmishes at the Spirite bridge they of the religion whiche were in Haye saued the greater part of their moueables although the Papists came that day in the euening not only to Hay but also to Leyderdā But when the rest of Baldez armie a fewe dayes after arryued in two companies the one from Vtright towardes Goude sluse and Alsen and the other from Harlem by Northwyke to Falkebrough at which places the Princes people had two fortes and at euery fort fiue hundred English men vnder the conduct of Edward Chester the saide Englishe men abode the first Shocque or charge For Goude sluse was hoatly assayled by the Papistes that came from Vtright howbeit the Englishmen lustily repulsed them to their great shame and losse and that by the valiancie of Captaine Genforde an English man But because the horsemen had none other way to come into Holland but by these forces they were inforced by very lustie hand strokes so to continue the assault The Englishe men driuen out of their fort as that the Englishmen were driuen of necessitie to forsake the saide fort which had not beene so lightly done if their companions at Alsen which is but halfe a myle thence had done their dueties aswell as they which were in the said for t for as they were comming to aide them the fort was alreadie wonne wherefore they all fled at once To be short the Spaniard payed dearely for this victorie for it caused many wagons laden with dead bodies to bee brought thither In this maner then the 27. of May ioyned in part the first troupe that came from Vtright to the campe of Baldez at Leyerthorpe the rest passing the linkes went to Hay The thirde troupe also passing the twentie seuen of May by Northwyke arryued before the great fort which was not fully finished But the fiue cōpanies of the Englishmen had forsaken it before they sawe the enemie although they had the night before requyred the Leydens of certaine horsemen to discouer the enemie whome as they saide they had not as yet perceiued and seene albeit they had drawne themselues neere to Waddyng where the Spaniarde pressing harde vppon them gaue them the skirmishe whiche skirmishe the Citizens saw as they stood vpon the Rampares and besides they neuer saw either on the side or yet on the other any man fall

downe dead although they had beaten one another with shot along time together which dealing the Citizens greatly suspected When this false skirmish was finished the Englishe men approched neerer the towne to wit betweene the Citizens Trenche that ranne betweene Boshouse bridge and the towne so that the Captaine and certaine with him came into the Towne making this contract with the Citizens That when the saide Captaine shoulde see himselfe and his put to the worse by the Spaniardes that they should then retyre vnder Hay gate where the greatest parte of the great ordenance was planted But so soone as they shoulde see the Ensigne taken from the gate that both he and his shoulde drawe towardes the side for then they meant to discharge all the great ordenance vppon the enemie But time shewed that this conclusion no whit liked the English men For they were no sooner out of the Towne but that they marched towards the enemie with ensigne displaide where they were vpon a certaine condition reuerently receiued Howebeit an harder matter befell them immediatly after for they had not beene there very long but that they were commanded to put out theyr matches and the horsemen that came from Forscote drane them before in chase vpon the Spaniardes whiche thing certaine of them to the number of thyrtie two or thirtie and three seeing amongest whome were certaine officers both Englishe Flemish retyred themselues againe vnder the towne who not long after got into it The rest were had to Falkebrough where theyr armour and weapon were taken from them before Torenfleete house and the next morowe being vncased of their gallant apparrell were carried to Harlem where som of them were put to be Pyoners and some of them passing through Flanders returned into England But heere I am not to forget one thing that some of these souldiers which coulde not tell by what meanes to get into the Towne chose rather to leape from the scluse into the water and so drowne themselues then so vilanously fall into the handes of the enemie By this meane then was the towne of Leyden in foure or fiue quarters besieged and the enemie had built round about it sixtie and two fortes When Leyden was nowe in this estate the Citizens had foorth with aducrtised his Excellencie lying at Dordright of the matter Howbeit the Prince hauing aduertisement heereof before theyr letters came to his handes sate in councell with the deputies of the Estates of Hollande which were there present and so the 27. of May wrote to the Leydens as followeth His Excellencie hauing delibered with the Estates aforesaid thought it most expedient That Colonnell Chester who was at Falk brough with 600. souldiers or there about shoulde if it were possible enter into Leyden which by that meane mighte take away all hope occasion either of the besieging or assayling of it any longer Ouer and besides that the Magistrate shoulde cause all the beggers and impotent persons to depart the Towne which might rather trouble then ayde them in theyr distresse His excellencies aduise to the Leydens And besides to take such order for the sparing deliuerie of their victualles as that they might serue them for 3. mone●hes exhorting them of himselfe that they would valiantly behaue themselues as hee fully and wholy trusted they woulde and in the meane whyle that his Excellencie and the Estates woulde not forget to seeke by all meanes possible theyr ayde and deliuerance from the enemie And although that this could not so soone be brought to passe as they wished yet not to be thereby discouraged but rather constantly persist in a short trouble and distresse then yeeld themselues to an euerlasting thraldome and misery And to that ende hee would haue them consult and take aduise together discreetely and wisely weighing if they could in so needfull a case to withstand the time of the saide three monethes for feare of falling into the mischiefe and miserie of the Harlemians and if so be they were able to withstand the said three monethes that then they should giue two nights ensuing at midnight a signe with fire to the ende the answere might not come to the enemies hands The day before that they receiued this answere The Leydens had alreadie made proclamation that all the women chyldren and strangers passengers should get them out of the town And Butter Mylke Flesh Bread such like necessary thinges were set at a reasonable price The Brewers also were forbidden to brewe any beere aboue twenty and fiue souls the barrel which thing alas was euill obserued The 30. of May they answered the said letters much like as followeth That as for Colonell Chester and his souldiers The answer of the Leydens to his excellency that the matter stood in another state as they had written to his Excellencie in their former letters which were intercepted And as for their victuals there shoulde bee no fault in them but that they would stretch them out to the vttermost neither would they suffer any vnprofitable person consume them if it were possible for them to doe it Howbeit that they were not able to abide to tarrie so long notwithstanding that they would write to him hereof more at large in the meane while repose all their trust and confidence for their deliuerance in the assistance of God his Excellencie and their fellow brethren confederates In that they would not giue any tokens with fire was because the enemie should not thereby any way suspect their extreeme necessity and so the rather more strictly inclose them thereby stop those wayes which are now free and at libertie for their messengers to passe And besides they sent for pouder and wrote that they were reasonably well determined to keepe the Towne and therefore would put their Citizens in pay They sent also vnto his Excellencie the copie of certaine letters which the enemie had written vnto them by which they vnderstood that the enemie had small hope of going forward in forcible maner Last of all they most humbly besought his Excellencie to haue a fatherly care of them as their trust was in him and hasten their deliuerance but yet not so as that the ouer hast therein might breake the necke thereof The Prince of Orange being greatly troubled for the town of Leyden because it was vnfurnished of souldiers and by reason also that it was not according to his commandement sufficiently purueyed for of corn other warlike munitions fearing likewise that his letters of the 27. were by the enemie intercepted wrote vnto them the 29. another to the same effect with this addition An other lettre sent by the prince of Orange to Leyden That if they well considered of the strength of their Towne although that the Euglishmen were not with them yet that they might very well keepe out the enemie for 3. monethes for if they were of one mind consent it was impossible for the enemie to take them

fielde besieged Campen and because he would lose no tyme he sommoned the Toune and hauyng refused his offer made a fearfull batterie vntill suche tyme as he had made a Breache howbeeit when the Almaines sawe them readie to giue the assaulte thei fell to a par●e and in the ende departed the Toune the 20. of Iuly in the yere aforesaied The Castle of Hawreche taken The Castle of Haurech beyng besieged and battered by the Frenche on the behalf of the Duke of Aniowe was yeelded vp the 26. of Iuly Howbeeit the Spanyardes who were come the ther before for the raisyng of the siege were repulsed with greate losse of their people And the same tyme had the Duke thruste in a Frenche Garrison into the Tounes of Soignie Mawbuge and Reusse whiche the enemie had forsaken When the Archeduke Mathias and the Estates had arered a greate and mightie Armie The Campe of the Estates pitched nere Rimenant vnder the conducte and gouernement of the Count of Bossu a valiaunt and stoute manne and verie warlike he pitched his Campe abount Rimenant in Brabande whether Don Ihon meanyng to plaie double or quite came purposyng to set vpon the Campe. Howbeit this seconde enterprise had not so good successe as the first because it coste agreate number of his Spanyardes liues so that he was enforced through the notable endeuour and diligence of all these whō the Count had sent to fight to retier where Maister Norris Colonell of the Englishmen and Maister Stiward Colon● of the Scottes hauyng resisted and pursued the greatest fo●ce of the enemie shewed theimselues so valiaunt in Armes and warlike feates and so couragious and stoute as that thei carried awaie the whole praise and commendation of this victorie whiche was wone the first of August 1578. Mensire de la Noue one of the valiauntest Captaines that euer was in our daies accompted and in France moste famous for his notable deedes of Armes was sent by the Estates to be Marshall of the fielde who acceptyng of this charge came to Antwerpe to the greate contentation of all the men of warre In August the yere aforesaied Signiour Archies beyng by his highnesse and the Counsell of Estate A Tumult pacified at Matenc●a sent to Valencia to make inquisition about certain particuler matters concerning the common benefite of the saied Citie there arose a greate vprore and controuersie emongest the common people the one side takyng parte with the saied Archies and the other with the Magistrate for remedyng and appaisyng whereof his highnesse sent thether Seigniour Richardot one of the priuie Counsell a verie learned man accompanied with an other Commissioner where through his mediation after many conferences had there was a commen and generall assemblie of the people held so that the 17. of August those troubles were appaised and the Citezens therevpon went forthwith euery man vnder his Ensigne puttyng of their Armour and weapon after thei had kept watche and ward eight daies and nightes together one against an other not without the greate daunger and hazard of a miserable and lamentatable effusion of blood The Generall Estates meanyng to dooe all thynges for the best thei An accorde with the Duke of Aniowe to the ende thei might repulse the enemie with the greatest force treated with the Duke of Aniowe about that matter The Duke bounde hym self to leauie tenne thousande footemen and twoo thousande horse at his owne coste and charge for the space of three monethes and that tyme beeyng expired and the warres not ended that he would continue to aide them with thre thousande Souldiers and fiue hundred Horse and manifest hym self an enemie to Don Ihon and his adherentes wherevpon the Estates named hym the defendour of the Countrey promisyng further to preferre hym to all the reste if so bee thei were enforced to chaunge their Lorde and Prince giuyng him besides the Duchie of Luxembrough and the Countie of Bourgundie and for the sauftie of his people and hymself the Tounes of Landersey Quesnoy and Bauais besides many other Articles conteined in the accord for that behalfe made and published at Antwerpe in the presence of the Prince the Estates and A●●assadors of the saied Duke the 29. of August 1578. As the Campe of the Estates laie aboute twoo Myles from Louuaine Count Bossu departed thence A Skirmu hard by Louaine with twoo thousande Harquebouziers and two thousande Horse and commyng nere to Louuaine where the Enemie was either parte shooke of their shotte and coupled them selues together in a braue Skirmishe The Vicount of Gaunt and Lanowa charged the Enemie with the men at Armes and chased them harde vnto the Rampars sides of the Towne so that some of their Tippettes were there turned vp and so were diuers of the Frenche likewise The saied Count had a greate desire to besiege this Towne but because he wanted three or fower thousande Pyoners and thirtie or fortie Can●ns for the winnyng of so greate and large a Towne well funished with fiue thousande Souldiers he left of his enterprise as a thyng deuoide of all reason The saied Army drawyng towardes Champaine tooke the Castles of Mote and Sart the first by assault after it had beene once sommoned by the Canon and the other by Composition For Genap and Niuelies yeelded them selues without the sommons of the Canon The● of the reformed Religion A supplication exhibited for the hauyng of the exercise of the Religion exhibited a supplication for the hauyng of publique exercise but especially the Antwerpians first desired of Archduke Mathias his excellencie and Counsaile of Estate certaine Churches whiche request greatly amazed the Lordes Howbeit the Suppliauntes were so many in nomber and so importunately vrged the matter as that when his highnesse had asked counsell of the generall Estates it was thought to be necessarie for the common quiet and preuentyng of all inconuenience to graunt them the Castle Chappell named the Moabites because the Spanyards built it the Iesuites Church half of the Friers Franciscanes Churche of the Iacobines and Sainct Andrewes so that by licence the publique Sermons began the last of August 1578. And afterwarde through the continuall exhibityng of Supplications of all the lowe Countreis the peace of Religion or free libertie of the Religion was permitted and proclaimed the Copie whereof ensueth It is knowne to all menne The peace of Religion that the tyrannous Commissiones long sithence Proclaimed aboute the cause of Religion by the perswasion counsell and aduise of Straungers especially of the Spanishe nation without hearyng of the Estates of the Coūtrey in that behalfe and besides beeyng with moste intollerable crueltie entertained and obserued haue been and presently are the verie originall of all the controuersies emongest vs consideryng that by those occasions the Priuileges Lawes and laudable Customes are sondrie waies broken and troad vnder foote and lastly by the enemies of our Countreis haue caused moste lamentable warre to bee beganne to our vtter

Citezeins of Leeward who had woonne the Castle with ensigne displaied And that whiche is worthie the laughing thei had put and enterlaced al the Friers of the Citie emongest the Souldiers all behinde the Ensigne so that the poore Friers whiche were not wonted to marche in order of battaill were greatly amazed and so had out of the Citie In this sort was ouerthrowen and razed the Castle of Leeward hauyng continued 79. yeres For it was built in the yere 1501. and was destroied and razed as before hath been said the first of February 1580. The 2. Harling Castle rendred of February in the yere aforesaied the Captaines Ihon Bouma Ihon Veruew and Owen Grouestins besieged the Castle of Harlyng howbeit thei of the Castle resisted for certaine daies and sometymes so shotte of their Artillerie into the Toune as that three men were slame there withall But after thei had seen certaine letters whiche were written vnto thē and vnderstoode the content of them thei rendred the Castle the 5. of February in the yere aforesaied Whiche the Citezeins pulled doune to the ground and filled vp the Diches Thesame yere Harlyng newe gate and the Scluses beganne to be built and was then also finished and afterward the Toune was fortefied with Bulwarkes whiche before tyme had neuer a one The same yere and moneth Stauere Castle razed was the Castle of Stauere thro wen doune and razed All these thynges were executed by the good counsell and appoinctment of the honourable Lordes the Deputies of Friselande To witte by Seignior Rienich Caminga Seigmor Sipppe Meckema Doctor Baert Ytzerda Ihon Oedzinga and many others of the Nobilitie to the ende that the whole Countrie of Friselande might bee the better conserued in peace against all treason and that all meanes might be cutte of from the Enemie to serue his turne for commyng in into the saied Countrey Seyng thei had considered that their own Lieutenaunt had conceiued in his mynd to render the Countrie vnto the Enemie by treason as hereafter shall more at large be declared The 19. I puilyng doune of Images at Leeward of February there began newe warres against Images and Churches in the Citie of Leeward and al the Monasteries thereof There were also certaine Priestes driuen out of the Toune Neuerthelesse this warre against Images was not made onely in Leeward but in all the Cities and tounes of Friseland besides followyng therein the steps and examples of the Hollanders The goods moueables of the Monasteries wer sold bestowed vpō the warres for the ibertie of the Countrie The 3. of Marche 1580. The Count of Rennenberg sheweth hymself a partaker with the Malcontentes beganne a greate and miserable sedition in the Citie of Groenyng aboute fower of the Clocke in the mornyng For George de Lalaing Countie of Rennenberg hauyng taken parte with the Malcontentes and renouncyng the vnion of Vtright wherevnto he hymself had putte his owne hande as manifestly appeareth by thesaied copie shewed then in very deede that whiche long tyme before he had conceiued in his mynde For as vpon that daie all the Citezeins of Groenyng whiche tooke parte with the Malcontes weare on their left armes white Scarfes and at the tyme prefixed came to the Market place so sone as the Drommes had soūded the Alarme where an harquebouze was shotte of and the Gouernour there on horebacke with a naked sworde in his hande saiyng Now my good fellowe Citezens ꝙ he let me at this tyme haue your aide and let vs accomplishe that whiche tendeth to the seruice of his Maiestie and our owne defence to th' ende we might vāquishe and ouercome our enemies And he had no soner spoken these wordes but that al the Malcontentes ranne forthwith to the houses of the Citezens that were of the reformed Religion breakyng doune their doores and takyng the Citezens prisoners In this meane while the Gouernours horsemen roade throughout all the streates and there could no manne soner put out his heade at a windowe but that he was by and by hausled with a Pistoll and emongest all the reste there was one manne of estimation who had sometymes been a Counsellour named Iames Hillebrandes who saied to the Gouernour is this the parte of a faithfull gentleman so inciuily to deale with his subiectes And the woordes were no sooner out of his mouthe but that he was shotte into the head with a pistoll and so died of the blowe There were also in this sedition an other man and a womanne slaine The Gouernour still persisted in his wicked purpose and went on in takyng those of the reformed Religiō prisoners In so muche that there was greate miserie and calamitie All those of the Religion in Groenyng are made prisoners and wonderfull weepyng and wailyng of women and children For as it is thought there were at that tyme of the reformed Religion about three hundred Citezens taken of whom some were kept in Churches and other some in straight prison And in this maner reuolted the Citie of Groenyng against all the whole Countrie and tooke parte with the Malcontentes whiche caused the Citie to bee encompassed and besieged on euery side Whē the Leewarders heard of the certaintie of this newes the Magistrate and all the Citezeins did wonderfully stomacke the Catholikes in so muche that thei were once bent to haue dealte with theim euen as the Groemgistes had dealte with those of the reformed Religion howbeit after some deliberation had the desisted from that purpose not meaning to vse any such or the like Tyrannie but onely shapped vp some of the Catholikes within their owne house and afterwarde banished theim the 7. and 8. of Marche 1580. When thesaied Count of Renneberg had gotten the greater parte of Friselande he came and encamped hym self before the Citie of Steenewike in the Territorie of Transisselaine howbeit gentle reader I meane not to frustrate thee about the successe of this siege in shewyng vnto thee the goyng foreward of the same as by the historie ensuyng thou maiest see After that the Armie of the vnited Prouinces 1580. vnder the conduct of the Count of Hohenloo was the 17. of Iune 1580. ouerthrowen and discomfited by the Malcontents vnder the conduct of Marten Scheuck in the lande of Hardenbergue The Citie of Groening was aided and rid of their Gouernour the Count of Rennenbergue And although the saied Count of Hohenloo had at an other tyme leuyed a reasonable greate company of Souldiers both on foote and on Horsebacke and so repaired his Army yet was it once more discomfited the 4. of September about Linigen by the said Malcontentes whiche was the cause that many of the Cities fearing the force and power of the Enemie were driuen to receiue Garnisons into theim for their defence And when the Count of Rennenbergue sawe that he had not men of warre enowe to assaile certaine renowmed Cities and of some importaunce he was againe strengthened with 11. Ensignes of Footemen and certaine

shott of fower tymes towardes Sainct Ihons Gate and many Harquebouzes also wherevpon our men issued out of the Toune but to no purpose And about the euenyng thei made an other sallie in whiche thei tooke a Victuallers wife of Groenyng who tolde them all the historie and successe whiche the Enemie had against the Lorde of Nieuorte and that he was returned to his Campe with greate losse and merueilous shame whiche thyng fell out happely The English mē driuen of necessitte to cate their horses bothe for vs and the Englishe men whom the Enemy had so distressed as that thei were driuen to eate their horses In so muche that our case stoode in poore estate had not the Lorde God prouide for vs the assistaunce of the Lorde of Nieuorte and his Friselanders The 25. of Ianuarie in the mornyng a sallie was made and two Countrey men taken who confirmed all that whiche the woman had saied All this daie was as greate shootyng of of Harquebouzes heard about Giethorne as was on the daie and night immediatly before And the Enemie also had set two houses on fire about the hye water Milles. He was also seene retieryng from the Wood with his baggage and this night was heard a greate noyse of Waggons and in the mornyng were a greate nomber of the Royters Waggons seen about the great Ordenaunce The 26. daie was a sallie made but all in vaine because that the Royters of the Enemie were ouer hastie in the chargyng of them And about the euenyng were seen a companie of Souldiers marchyng towardes Giethorne and at night were seene signes of fire There were likewise at sondrie tymes heard both of Cannon and Harquebouze shott aswell at Blockzill as also at Sainct Ihons Campe. The 27. daie were sallies made both euening and morning wherein a Page was taken who at large declared how the Enemie had been euill dealt withall at Sainet Ihons Campe and that his Souldiers mutined for their wages yea some of them would not sticke to saie that thei would teare in sunder their Ensignes And at night was a greate fire seen at Giethorne The 28. daie the Tounesmen sent a Dromme for the delinerie of certaine prisoners but it was to no purpose for the Enemie had other matters to doe This daie were fower sallies made whereof three were in vaine but in the fourth a Musquetier was taken who saied that the Souldiers helde a councell for their wages whiche was promised them within fower daies or els be brought into a better corner There were a great many of Souldiers seene marchyng to and fro laden with their baggage This night two Messengers came in and three went out from whom the signes of fire were seen The newes were good whiche thei brought from Sainct Ihons Campe and besides that the good Knight of Nieuort came with three hundred Wagons laden with Victualles The 29. daie certaine prisoners were deliuered vpon a Monethes wages and some without raunsome but spoyled of all their apparell The night ensuyng came out two Messengers and the last daie of this Moneth the Enemie beganne to cast his Trenche on the North Common and then was there two sallies made the one at the Wood gate and the other at Ouniger gate where one of the enemies was slaine and an other taken prisoner This night retourned the twoo last Messengers with the Lorde of Merodes Lieutenaunt Gouernour of Friselande named Adrian Mennickes The first of February the Enemy shewed hym self with ten companies of Souldiers in Westwike and with one Ensigne in Eastwike where he caused the place to be changed and caused also certaine peeces of Artillary to bee brought on the other side he brake likewise the Cannon Stockes and placed them in the plaine fallowe fieldes about Westwike keeping the depth of Ae altogether on hye This night also went out two Messengers but the Enemie chased them in again with heaue and hoe The seconde of this Moneth to witt the night followyng the saied Lorde of Merodes Lieutenaunt retourned towardes Oldmerct assuryng vs that we should eftsoone see our ayde The third daie the Enemie beganne an other Trenche adioynyng to the other in North Common This daie thei visited euery house and tooke an Inuentorie of all the Victualles and thei whiche saied thei had no Victualles the Victualles whiche thei had were taken from them and giuen to the Souldiers This daie came fliyng into the Market place three Partriges whiche the Souldiers tooke and eate whiche was a notable token sent from God betokenyng the tyme of the deliueraunce of the Citie for within three weekes after we were deliuered euen as Captaine Cornput had interpreted it The fourth daie the ayde came accordyng to the said Adrian Mennickes promise from Oldmerct to the Wood and the Enemie was driuen awaie by our Horsemen And after that the whole force of our Armie came together Then the Enemie shot of twise at the Toune And when he had so doen he planted his Ordenaunce vpon the Trenche in North Common He shot of also ten tymes at our ayde and yet did no hurte but our Ordenaunce paied them a little otherwise to the no small losse of his people This daie was begunne a Rampart at Northe newe gate by whiche our ayde meant to victuall vs for thei encamped at the foote of Hiddyngberg on Steenwike Toune side The fift daie beyng Sondaie a sallie was made and in the skirmishe yong Conrade the sonne of Captaine Conrade was slaine with an Harquebouze shott And on the other side thei in the Wood had a braue skirmishe with the Enemie then the Enemie couragioufly got vp against our men vnto the toppe of Hiddyngberg but he was lustely receiued and beaten backe to his losse Whiles the Enemie laye in the Wood Captaine Conrade and Ihon Berenbrooke sallied out and se●te Easterwicke Campe on fire and after retourned with a ●ollie spoile And the Enemie had discharged three score Cannon shot at our Armie The sixte daie the Enemie was driuen with all his forces to keepe a continuall Warde because our people oftentymes skirmished with them The seuenth daie our Souldiers tooke a prisoner who tolde vs that Captaine Snater was slaine the Sondaie before as he was leadyng his menne against our Succours But at this sallie it was twentie to one that the Enemie had not gotte Onniger gate but he was lustely and courageously resisted and repulsed This daie the Magistrate and Captaines Thei of Steenwike make a newe viewe for victualles made a newe vewe for Victualles as aforesaied and the same date was greater stoare of Victualles confisked in poore mennes houses then in riche and all because thei were hidden This night retourned into the Citie fower Citezens who brought good newes of certaine ●●de and deliueraunce The nineth daie our menne and the Enemie coupled together in a braue skirmishe who loste many horses The eleuenth daie of this monethe was an other skirmishe made so that our menne receiued three companies of

rendred 115. Leydens surprise the Spanyardes forte 116. Leydens ouer forwarde in skirmisshyng Ibidem Leydens write a letter to his Excollencie 118. Leydens make an lnuētory of all the Castle victualles thei haue 119. Letters of the Hispaniolized fugitiues to the Leydens 128. Lords confedered determine vpō the reuictuallyng of the toune 129. M. Marchauntes get them awaie into other Countreis 4. Ministers and Consistorie purge them selues before the Magistrate 16. Marques of Bergues dyeth in Spayne 39. Massacre in Rotterdame 75. Mons in Haynault surprised 76. Massacre at Paris the 24. of August 1572. 78. Mons in Haynault rendred Ibidem Malines sacked Ibidem Massacre at Narden 79. Myracle happened at Narden Ibidem Muteny amongest the Spanishe Souldiers 100. Muteny of the Spanyardes at Antwerpe 103. Mariners flesht vpon a Spanyarde 123. Mo. S. Aldegond del●●ered out of prison 137. Mutinous Spanyardes enter the Towne of Aloft 123. Noircarmes his tyrannie 31. Newe Bishoppes not allowed by the Estates 5. No want of faire promises in the Hispaniolized 114. Necessitie the lnuentrix of a cunnyng pollicie 129. O. Oration of the Lorde of Brederode 10. Order of the Iacopins first begun 3. Originall of the Marans Ibidem Order of the preparation and furniture of the vesselles of warre 120. Order of the Princes Army at Sea 131. Orangians skirmishe brauely against the Spanyardes 132. Oldwater surprised by an assault 139. P. Protestauntes abashed at the Kynges commaundement 10. Prince of Orenge goeth to Bruxelles 15. Priestes degraded 48. Proclamation or Citation against the Prince of Orenge 52. Prince of Orenge his aunswere to his Inditemen 53. Principall cause of the death of the Countes Fgmond and Home 67. Prince of Oranges prophesie vpon Count Egmond Ibidem Prince of Orenge publisheth his defence 72. Prince of Orenge his Army 72. Prince of Orenge taketh certaine places Ibidem Prince of Orenge winneth many Townes 78. Prince of Orenge his aduise to the Leydens 107. Prince of Orenge his letters to the Leydens 108. Prince of Orenge and the Estates agree to ouerflowe and droune the whole Countrey with water 127. Prince of Orenge commeth to viewe the fleete 129. Prices set vpon certaine victualles in Leyden 131. Prince of Orenges Souldiers and Mariners not aboue 1500. men 135. Prince of Orenge goeth to Leyden 137. Prince of Orenge his mariage 138. R. Roterdame medowes made nauigable 120. S. So●ips sent to Rome 5. Sect of the Anabaptistes ariseth in diuers places 1. Sci●ation of Valencia 3. Solemne Procession of our Ladie of Antwerpe 14. Supplication exhibited by those of Flanders 3. Secrete and most subtill perswasion of the Spanishe Inquisition Ibid. Skirmishe betweene Noircarmes and the Valencians 31. Supplication sent to the Ladie Regent 35. Sedition and tumult in Antwerpe 37. Spayne in olde tyme gouerned by petie kynges 41. Sentence of Heretiques 47. Souldier killeth his Captaine beyng so commaunded by hym 99. Souldiers hanged and headed at Harlem Ibidem Spanyolized Hollanders letters to Leyden 109. Spanyolized ●hon le Hutter writeth to the Leydens 110. Straunge kindes of meates whiche the Leydens vsed 130. Scituation of Lammen forte 134. Spanyardes forsake Lammen Ibidem Schoonhoue rendred 139. Spanyardes proclaimed Rebelles Ibidem T. The Ministers and Consistorie purge them selues before the Magistrate 16. Tournyans discomfited 31. Tumult suppressed in Antwerpe 38. Treatie of the peace at Breda broken of 138. V. Valencia refufeth a Garnison 30. Valencia yeelded vp 31. Valencia surprised 76. Victorie wonne by the Flushyngers 103. Victorie wonne by the Flushyngers 104. VV. Worcome taken by the Spanyardes 112. Waters by reason of the winde arise vp meru●ilously 131. Y. Yong youth named Lyon by reason of his valiancie 112. Yong stirplyng discouereth to the Magistrate that Lammen forte was forsaken 135. Z. Zurphen taken without resistaunce 78. Ziericksea rendred 139. The fourth booke A. Articles of the pacification at Gaunt 3. Aunswere of the generall Estates to the Prince of Orenges protestation 22. Antwerpe Castle razed 24. Archduke Mathias commeth into the lowe Countreis 25. A declaration of the the Estates against Dom Ihon. 27. Amsterdame agreeth with the Estates 29. An accorde with the Duke of Aniowe 32. A subscribyng to the vnion of Vtright by the Lordes and Deputies of the Cities 44. An assembly at Colaigne 50. B. Bergues vpon Soome rendred 24. Boisleduke rendred 25. Blazyng Starre seene Ibidem Baron Selles sent from the Kyng 29. Bins taken by the Duke of Aniowe 38. C. Counsell of Estate made prisoners 1. Commission of the generall Estates 7. Commission of the Deputies of the Prince of Orenge 8. Commission of the Secretary 9. Counte Rennenberg commeth into Friselande 14. Campen besieged and rendred 31. Campe of the Estates pitched nere Rymenant Ibidem Cassimere ioyneth hymself with the Campe of the Estates 37. Certaine prisoners eskape from Groenyng 38. Count Rennenbergue shewerh hymself a partaker with the Malcontentes 52. Citezens ready to resist the assault in Steenwike 53. Counte Rennenberge goeth to viewe the horsemen 57. Crueltie of the Enemie before Steenwike 58. D. Deputie of the Estates deliu●red out of prison 13. Dom Ihon commeth into the lowe Countre●s 14. Dom Ihon his entre into Bruxelles 23. Dom Ihon goeth from Bruxelles to Mal●nes Ibidem Don Ihon goeth from Malines to Namure Ibidem Dom Ihon soliciteth Terlon and the Almaines 24. Duke of Arscot taken prisoner by the Gantois 25. Dom Ihon and his adherentes proclaimed open enemies Ibidem Dom Ihon his victorie about Giblowe 29. Duke of Aniowe sendeth to the Estates Ibidem Duke of Aniowe his souldiers enter into the Countrey 31. Death of Dom Ihon. 38. Deuenter besieged and rendred Ibidem Death of the Count Bossu Ibidem Duke of Aniowe returneth into Fraunce 39. Deputies of Breda assembled at Vtright 48. Deuision in Steenwike 55. Discomfiture of the Enemie at the Blacke Scluse 58. E. Edict perpetuall made by Dom Ihon. 14. Enterprise of the Orengers vpon Amsterdame 29. Entre of the Archduke into Bruxelles Ibidem Emperour French Kyng and the Queene of England sende their Ambassadoures to the Estates 37. Estates sende thankes to the Duke of Aniowe 39. Enterprise against the Briele 50. Enemie sommoneth the Citie of Steenwike 54. Enemie driuen out of his trench with fire liyng before Steenwike 56. Enemie and the tounesmen of Steenwike encounter at a fourd 59. Enemie sommoneth the Towne of Steenwike 60. Estates sende money to paie the Steenwikeans Ibidem Englishmen readie to set vpon the Towne 62. Englishmen driuen of necessitie to eate their horses 63. F. Fascus the Colonell found in the habit of a Frier 23. Fascus by reason of his newe habit is made a laughyng stocke to the whole worlde Ibidem Ferdinando Lopes called the hangman of Groenyng 14. Franciscanes call againe for Fascus his Friers weede Ibidem Fire taketh holde in Steenwike 54. G. Gaunt Castle besieged and rendred 10. Greate Counsell of Friselande banished 50. H. Hawrech Castle taken 31. Harlyng Castle rendred 51. Hope of ayde for Steenwike 55. J. Imperiall diet at Wormes 30. Iesuites and Friers packe out of the Citie of Antwerpe Ibidem K. Kyng of Spayne ratefieth Dom Ihon his peace with the Estates 23. L. Losy his people appose them selues against Colonell Robles 12. Leeward Castle rendred 24. Lymbourg besieged and rendred 31. Leeward Castle besieged and rendred 50. M. Muteny amongest the souldiers at Mastright 30. Magistrate of Arras clapt in prison 38. Montigni taketh Menine Ibidem Mastright besieged and wonne 49. Menine surprised by the Estates 50. N. Nyuell rendreth 30. Not one bit of bread left in the Towne 66. O. Ordenaunces vpon the pacification of Gaune 30. Originall of the Malcontentes 38. P. Pacification of Gaunt 2. Prince of Oranges protestation 20. Prince of Orange commeth into Brabant 25. Prince of Orange chosen Gouernour of Brabant Ibidem Prelattes and Gentlemen taken prisoners at Groenyng Ibidem Phillipuille besieged and rendred 31. Peace of the Religion 32. Publique preachyng throughout all the lowe Countreis 37. Peace of Artois and Haynault with the Prince of Parma 49. Pullyng doune of Images at Leeward 51. R. Robles people make it straunge to be swome vnto hym 11. Robles made a prisoner 12. Robles his Captaines made prisoners 13. Request of the Estates to the Queene of Englande 30. S. Sackyng and massacre of Antwerpe 1. Spanyardes imagine them selues to bee maisters of the lowe Countreis 11. Spanishe souldiers assemble them selues in Braband 11. Skirmishe by Liege 14. Spanyardes driuen to leaue the Citie and Castle of Antwerpe 23. Skirmishe harde by Louuaine 32. Supplication exhibited for the hauyng of the exercise of the Religion Ibidem Substitutes of the Citie of Antwerpe 48. Substitutes of Bruges assembled at V●●ight 48. Substitutes 〈…〉 in Flanders assembled at Vtright 49. Stauere Castle rendred 51. Siege of Steenwike 53. Souldiers of Steenwike breake the Ise 57. Steenwikeans skirmishe liuely with the Enemie 60. T. Tyrannie of the Spanyardes at Mastright 11. The companie whiche laie at Dam ioyne with them of Groening 14. Tumult pacified at Valencia 31. The Tounesmen of steenwike set vp a bande of horsemen 51. They of Steenwike make a newe viewe for victualles 65. The Enemie chargeth them in the Wood. 65. The Towne reuictualled in the viewe of the Enemie 66. The Towne againe reuictualled Ibidem The siege raised from before Steenwike Ibidem The siege of Steenwike lasted fower whole monethes 67. V. Valencia rendred to the Estates 10. Vnion of the generall Estates 27. Vnion of Vtright 39. VV. Westenthorpe the Doctor made prisoner 13. Waue Castle rendred 24. FINIS

Horsemen vnder the charge of Hans Storiff of Enbricke wherevpon he caused his Army to marche towardes the Citie of Oldenzeel whiche Citie not meanyng to tarrie the siege rendred to the saied Count of Rennenbergue the 24. of September When thei of Steenwike heard of this thei receiued in a Garnison and Souldiers for their defence against the Enemie and so fortefied their Citie and Rampars still lookyng for the Army of the Euemie who planted his siege before the same the 18. of October about noone with 20. The Siege before Steenwyke companies of Almaines and others and 1500. Horse Wherupon that Euenyng two of the Gates of the Citie the one named the Giest Gate and the other Onniger Gate were with Earth and Trees fast rampard vp against the force of the Artillary of the Enemy The self same daie the Souldiers of the Toune sallied twise out to skirmish with the Enemie and so also did thei the 19. daie ensuyng and caried home with them fower Prisoners Towardes the Euenyng the Enemie passed the Riuer of Ae with eleuen companies of Friselanders and entrenched about the Chappell Steendicq The 20. daie there issued out of the Citie certaine Souldiers at the Wood Gate and had wonne and defaced the little Trench about the Chappell cariyng home the butin with them whiche Trench the night followyng was made vp againe The same daie in the Afternoone thei againe sallied out at the East Gate and after thei had skirmished with the Enemie thei caried backe with them three Prisoners and two Horses The 23. of October in the night the Enemy marched towardes the Kuynder to the ende thei might light vpon the two companies of Ihon de Eschede and Roeloff de Laughen whiche thyng thei performed For the next daie ensuyng as thei returned to the Campe thei trailed at an Horse taile iust before the Toune one of their Ensignes The 25. daie there was a braue skirmishe where the Enemie receiued a notable losse bothe of Souldiers and Horses and our men returned to the Citie without any losse cariyng with them two Prisoners and three Horses The 28. daie of the saied Moneth the Count George de Lalayng as Gouernor for his Maiestie in Friseland sent a Trumpet to sommon the Citie for the yeeldyng thereof whom Captaine Conrade aunswered that he kept the Citie for his Maiestie the Estates and the Prince of Orenge and would defende it against whom soeuer came Commaundyng the Tumpett to bee packyng without thei loued to be hausled with a Cannon shott The Count of Rennenbergue beyug stirred with this aunswere caused three peeces of greate Ordenaunce to be planted whiche he had that daie receiued and that euenyng discharged against the Citie three of the same Cannot shott This daie at the instaunce of certaine good honest Citezins was an ordenaunce made and a price sett vppon Victualles in maner and forme followyng whiche was proclaimed and afterterwarde set vp vpon one of the postes of the Toune house And first it was ordeined that no man should Brewe nor sell any Beare aboue halfe a Patart the pot of Steenwike measure A pounde of Larde was priced at three Sous A pounde of Butter fower Sous A pounde of Creame Cheese two Sous A pounde of course Cheese one Sous and one Lyard A Stockfishe two Sous sauyng a Lyard Twelue pounde of waightie Rye bread sixe Sous A measure of Eastland Graines eighteene Sous A measure of Countrey Graines sixteene Sous A measure of Barley fifteene Sous A measure of Buckweyt foreteene Sous A Bushell of Salte twelue Sous A pot of Beare called Iupenbere seuen Sous A pot of Rennishe Wine nine Sous A pot of Frenche Wine fiue Sous Whiche was proclaimed and commaunded to bee straightly obserued by the Enhabitauntes of the Citie The 29. of October were sixe greate peeces of Ordenaunce moe brought to the Campe of the Enemie and planted to batter the Citie withall whiche was in deede doen the next daie followyng so that thereby thei had no vse of the twoo Milles of the Citie The same daie the Citie understoode by Captaine Herman Olthoff his man that the Enemie meant to giue them a liuely assault The Citezens make them selues ready for the assault and therefore euery man prepared hymself to giue them an hot repulse and to that ende thei brought al the brewyng Vesselles in the Citie to the Rampars which thei had filled with hot skaldyng water and Lime for the washyng of the heades and bodies of the Enemie Thei prepared also all kindes of necessary Armour and Weapon to defende themselues against the force of the Enemie in so muche that the Souldiers and all the Citezens were fully determined to receiue and withstande the assault of the Enemie who in steade of assaulting the Citie cast vp his trenches from Giest Gate euen vnto Onniger Gate The first of Nouember a Messenger was sent to the Estates to aduertise them of the estate of the Citie And about 10. of the Clocke in the night there issued 26. valiaunt Souldiers vnder the conduct of Ihon Vorberg Captaine Cornput his Lieutenaunt who charged the very body of the Watche whiche laie betweene Giest Gate and Onniger Gate and there so pretely well cooled the courages of 24. men of the saied Watche as that 20. of them were leaft dead in the place and three caried awaie prisoners and one of them whiche would not goe was hurt vnto death and left without the Citie where he died that night but he that was in the watch saued himself with a light paire of heeles The 2. of the saied Moneth in the night the Enemie cast vp the Trenche betweene the foresaied Gates as if he would haue made there some Mount and therefore thei likewise within began to make an other Mount about Giest Gate and then were the Captaines quartered for the defending of the Rampars The same daie also were twoo deepe ditches made at Giest Gate because thei feared that the Enemie would vndermine the Citie The 3. daie at night issued certaine Souldiers and suddenly fell vpon the Pyoners certaine Countrie men and Souldiers whereof many were slaine and afterwarde thei retiered to the Citie with their butin The 7. Daie thei sallied out at the East Gate and brought awaie two Souldiers and a Victualler Prisoners leauyng behinde them vpon the waie many hurte men which would not goe with them Thei caried also awaie with them in despight of the Enemie fiue Kyne and a Souldiers wife The same daie in the afternoone there was the like sallie whereat was a liuely skirmishe so that by reason of the retraict of Captaine Oltholffe his Ensigne bearer and of Captaine Herman Olthoffe they were bothe hurt The Ensigne bearer also of Captaine Cornput standyng vpon the Citie Rampere was with a Cannon shot slaine in the place The 9. daie the Messenger returned with Letters from the Prince and the Estates to the Citie promising to ayde the Citie and raise the Campe of the