it a wrong to History But he never conceived an Historian might be freer then in his description of the siege of Hierusalem From whence he takes occasion to speak of the Originall and Manners of the Iews so profusely and so far deriving them even from Saturn heaping so many several things together Of Moses Of that Peoples Religion Of their Meats Of the Sabbath Of Circumcision Of the Eternity of the soul Of Balsom Of Brimstone and other specialties as if he wrote the History of that Nation And yet Tacitus keeps within compasse if you compare him with Sallust that is so frequent in Excursions Nay he himself doth not dissemble it For having taken a large and indeed unnecessitated scope at last â—ounding a retreat he sayes But I have gone too carelessely and too farre being nettled and vexed at the Manners of the Town Now I come to the matter Nor did he keep to it for all this but in the division of the King dome between Iugurth and Adherbal he amply discourses of Africa and its Inhabitants from their very beginning Again licentiously inveighing against the Manners of Rome he copiously relates the causes of Faction between the Senate and the People and with a check for his own flying out he brings himself again into the way Yet what he adds to this Digression upon the By concerning the Leptitans exceeds the other by many degrees For having mentioned the citie of Leptis when he had spoken of its Founders of its situation and Language he wheels about and for a Corollary brings in an old History not at all appertaining to the Leptitans For sayes he because following the businesse of the Leptitans I am come into this Region I think it not amiss to set down a noble and memorable action of two Carthaginians Which told neither sparingly nor timorously he goes on again But why do I quote so many Presidents when that one of Catilines Conspiracy evidently shews what liberty a Historian may assume the Writer whereof so freely digresses and hath so many Out-lets and Parergons that the additionall Matter is much more then the fourth part of the Historie Which being granted ours likewise in case it be any where redundant will I hope be fairly interpreted by the Readers As likewise that which I have not forborn whilst I compare the ancient with the modern times that is like to like Which as I am not ignorant the Latines seldome do so I know it is familiar with the Greeks Indeed Polybius not more properly the Writer then Master of History whilst he at large compares the Form and Situation of Sicily with Peloponnesus the Fleets of Carthage and Rome with those of Antigonus Ptolomey Demetrius and others of former Ages whilst he resembles the Republicks of Rome and Carthage to generous birds fighting even to their last breath to omit the rest of the same kind which if you read but his first Book will presently occurre truly he needs not fear that goes in the steps of so authentick an Example Thus having rightly premonished and prepared Thee I will no longer stay Thee at the Threshold of my Work The Historie of the LOW-COVNTREY WARRES The first Book I Enter upon the Historie of a Warre doubtfull whether to call it The Warre of the Low-Countrey-men and the Spaniards or almost of all Europe For to this hour we see it manag'd by the Arms and Purses at least by the Designes and Counsels of so many Nations as if in the Low-Countreys onely the Empire of Europe was to be disputed Wherein many I presume will be concerned to read what their Countrey-men what their Kinsmen have acted in the field The rest though unconcerned may yet desire to know from whence a few Belgick Provinces have had the confidence and strength to fight for threescore years together with a most Potent King on equall terms from whence upon the coast of Holland out of a few fisher-boats there hath sprung up a new State which growing daily stronger in Arms will now brook no Superiour by Land and can have none by Sea That in mighty fleets have sent Plantations to the remotest parts of the Earth That by their Ambassadours making Leagues with Princes carrying themselves as not inferiour to Kings have got a Principality more then ever Europe knew From whence the Belgick soil among the continuall tempests and storms of Warre such as in far shorter troubles have laid other Regions waste and barren affords so great plentie of all things as if the place were as violently bent to maintain a War as the People so that directly you would think Mars onely travels other Countreys and carryes about a running Warre but here seats himself Some indeed have fancied the King of Spain out of Policy to spin out the Low-Countrey War for as a Prince the great body of whose Empire must be spirited with a great soul they conceiv'd he trains his Militia in these Provinces afterwards to dispatch them as the Turk doth his Ianizaries into severall Climates As if his enemies should not be taught in the same school and sure it were more to his advantage their arms should rust with idleness then shine with exercise The Emperour Charles the 5th Prince of the Low = Countreys Ro Vaughan 〈◊〉 Onely thou O God of Peace and Warre for aswell the writers of as the actours in business ought to begin with Prayer do thou guide my mind and pen that not trusting in Prudence that sâ—arches humane secrets but in Wisdome that assists thy throne I may perfect a History worthy the purity of life which I profess equall to the greatness of the work I have designed nor lesse then the exspectation that hath long since called me forth THe bloudy Warre that grievously distempered Europe still continued between the Emperour Charles the fifth and Henry the second King of France to whom their fathers with their Crowns had left their enmities and animosities But Mary Queen of England immediatley upon her marriage with Philip Prince of Spain began seriously to mediate a Peace and followed it so well as this year 1555. the Emperours and Kings Commissioners met at Callice and though the exspected Peace was not then concluded yet there was laid a foundation for Peace in a five years truce Then the Emperour calling his son Philip out of England resolved to execute what he had long determined the resignation of his Crowns and be Authour of a Prodigie unknown in Princes Courts When he might reign to give it off This secret divulged through the Low-countries brought men from all parts to Bruxels and on the twenty fifth of October the day appointed for meeting of the three Estates the Knights of the order of the Golden fleece and the Magistrates The Emperour in the great Hall of his Pallace commanding Philip King of England Maximilian King of Bohemia and Emanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy to sit on
Spanish triumph for immediately he took Calice which Port the Kings of England used to call The Portall of France and so long as they enjoyed it they said They wore the keyes of France at their girdle being all the remainder of their two hundred years conquest that was kept by the Englishmen upon the continent of France which Kingdome in a few dayes they were forced to restore to its ancient bounds retiring to their own within the Sea But shortly after the Die of War ran on the Spanish side For King Philip perceiving the French Army to be divided proud of their number and success having in hope devoured all the Low-Countreys he himself divided his own forces part he sent against Paulus Termus burning and spoyling the Sea-coast of Flanders under the Command of Lamorall Count Egmont the gallantest of all the Low-countrey-men who was Generall of his Horse at the battel of S. Quintin and a great cause of the victory The other part of his Army he sent into Savoy to attend the motion of the Duke of Guise Count Egmont fighting a battel before Graveling a port of Flanders with great valour and fortune won the day For whilest the old souldiers of both Armies fought doubtfully for sometime on a sudden the French gave ground and lost the battel for ten English ships as they sailed by seeing the fight struck into the mouth of the river of Hay and with their Cannon so galled the French on that side where they held themselves to be impregnable coming upon them with such an unexspected and therefore a more dreadfull storm from sea that the Foot being disordered their fear was infused into the Horse so as their Army being routed there scarce remained one of the whole number to carry home news of the overthrow For part were sâ—ain in the fight the Duke and his great Officers taken prisoners the rest were either knocked down as they swam by the English besides two hundred taken alive and presented to the Queen for witnesses of their service at the battel or by the Boors in revenge of the plundering and firing of their houses killed without mercy To their misfortune was added that the reliques of the Army scattered in places they knew not about Flanders had their brains beaten out by the women that came upon them with clubs and spits and which is a more dangerous weapon armed with the furie of their sex some almost railing them to death others pricking their bodkins into them with exquisite barbarity pulled them to pieces with their nayls as the Bacchanals tore Orpheus Thus Henry of France loosing two battels in one year seeing his old souldiers slain and which is of fadder consequence the noblest of his subjects taken prisoners which are the strength of the French Militia He willingly embraced that peace which so long as fortune smiled upon him he had sleighted And King Philip moved by the accession of Calice to the Kingdome of France and his experience of the War had the like inclination to Peace Just as we see after the clouds have fought and are broken the Sun breaks forth nor ever shines a greater hope of Peace then when a War is seriously prosecuted fury being as it were glutted and weary with the slaughter The honour of this Peace was attributed to Christiern Dutchess of Lorain mediating between the two Kings as cosen-germane to King Philip and by late affinity gracious with King Henry Nor is it unusuall to employ that Sex in such transactions for it is held a point of Civility to yield to their solicitation The news of this Peace which after long dispute opened it self with the Spring in the city of Cambray was received with so great a joy of the Christian world weary of the tedious War that higher expression of contented minds are scarce recorded in the memory of man They that compared this peace with that concluded between the fathers of these Kings above thirty years before mediated likewise by Princesses and concluded where this was in the Town of Cambray a place destinated as it seems for peacemaking shall find then no common joy because divers Princes were not parties to the League and the warr in Italy still continued Whereas all the Princes of Europe being equally comprehended in this Peace an equall joy spread it self through all nations filling every mind with great hope of long friendship between the Kings which afterward fell out accordingly A Marriage was likewise made the better to confirm the Peace which notwithstanding continues among Princes no longer then ambition suffers it to which for the most part Kings are more truly married King Philip Mary Queen of England being dead the year before was offered a wife that had been promised to his son Charles Prince of Spain Isabella King Henries daughter eleven years of age who because she was born when the peace was begun with England and married to make a peace with Spain they called the Princess Peace In like manner Emman Philibert married King Henries sister Margaret and had in portion with her all those towns beyond and on this side the Alps which France the first and Henry himself had taken from him But never did France celebrate so joyfull a Wedding with so sad a close Among other preparations there a Tournament that is fearfull pleasure and an honourable danger wherein one cannot think them to be in jest that fight nor to fight when they see all intended but for sport It is an exercise the French exceedingly affect and they account it noble as being a bold and warlike nation The Lists now set up and scaffolded like a stage were filled with the best Tilters in Christendome for France challenged Europe at the breaking of a spear The two first dayes the King himself ran and had the Victory but when he came the third time in all his glory into the Lists against the advice of the Lords encountring the Captain of his Guard before his Bever was down a splinter of his Launce flying in his face struck out his right eye and shooting into his brain the Queen and Queen-mother with the Kings children beholding those unfortunate Revells he presently fell in a swound and being caught in mens arms the whole stage running bloud which but now rung with joyfull acclamations and applauses suddenly turned into mournings and lamentations The fifth day after this Prince no less valiant then religious and every way worthy a better fate departed his life And before the eyes of an infinite multitude which it seems he had proudly invited to his own funerals he acted to the life without scene or fable the Tragedy of mortall happiness They say one that cast his nativity as these kind of Predictions are commonly produced after the event foretold this very accident For Queen Katharine of Medices desirous to know the fate of her children of
corrupted with heresie to be made Devils and numbered among the slaves condemned to eternal torments And although Princesse Mary could not prevail with the Mother in her suit for these boyes yet a few years after God gave her the same number of that sex and it is probable that her desire of breeding up anothers children to be Gods servants was recompensed by God himself with as many children of her own Nor will I omit a memorable passage that happened in the same Port where one of the Kings ships by accident was set on fire not farre from the Admirall where the Princesse was aboard And while some strove to quench the flame and some to save themselves and their goods she running out of her Cabin to the Prow made a little stop and said Well and shall I lose my box of sacred Reliques presently the flame approaching near her she ran back and with a mighty courage plucked the box out of the Cabinet either forgetting or despising the jewels it contained to an infinite value Presently returning again from her Cabin for the furie of the fire was not yet asswaged a Gentleman met her and stepping in with great reverence took her by the arm and beseeched her whilst she might to flie the danger But she casting a frown upon the man said Sir you were best unhand me As if she 〈◊〉 more fearfull to be touched by him then by the flame so unsuppoâ—â—â— she went forward to the Prow and the fire being presently extinguished they set sail for the Low countreys About the beginning of November the fleet arrived at Ulushing where she was received and attended by such as the Governess had sent upon the sudden news of her landing that train being augmented by the horse and foot of the severall towns through which she passed till she came to Bruxels Where all sorts of people welcomed her with greater joy and gratulation because they heard she had so difficult and dangerous a passage Octavio Duke of Parma being a few dayes before come out of Italy purposely to be at his sonnes wedding upon the next Saint Andrews day appointed by Philip Duke of Burgundy for the Anniversary feast of the Order of the Golden-fleece which he instituted and commended to the patronage of that Saint the Nuptials were celebrated at Bruxels with such magnificence as befitted the Neice to Emmanuel King of Portugall and the Grand-sonne to the Emperour Charles the fifth but likewise with such Christian Pietie as was exspected out of the opinion conceived of so religious a Lady and made good by her presence beyond all imagination Maximilian de Bergen Archbishop of Cambray married them The King of Spain was present by Didacus Gusman à Silva his Majesties Embassadour to the Queen of England commanded for this reason to take the Low-countreys in his way Embassadours of neighbour Princes were at the wedding to joy them from their Masters All the Low-countrey Nobility was there the Knights of the Golden-fleece expressed a particular contentment because about a hundred and fifty years before their Order had been founded at the marriage of Duke Philip of Burgundy with Isabella of Portugall and now at the like marriage of this Princesse of Portugall they revived the memory of that Day in all kind of shews and pleasures seeming to forget their present discontents and factions So great was the gallantry of the Lords and they so taken up with revells But after the nuptiall feast was over and the Bride and Bridegroom departed from the Low-countreys as if the Truce were ended they fell to their differences again The narration of which differences I shall wave a while till I have in reference to Princesse Mary related some passages noble in themselves but rendered more illustrious by her royall Bloud and because they equally concern her husband Prince Alexander and his posteritie which we must often mention in the progresse of this History therefore it will be the best in this place to summe them up together Princesse Mary now come into Italy was received with unusuall pomp and ceremony For drawing near to Parma she was met by two gallant troops one of Lords the other of Ladies her husband Alexander being in the head of that and this led by his Aunt Vittoria Farneze wife to the Duke of Urbin On that side such a multitude of horses and on the other such a world of Coaches vying bravery and rich Liveries that seldome hath been seen a more magnificent and glorious Show But the Princesse after she had been the second time thus entertained applyed her self to serious matters her example and endeavours in a few dayes changed the face of Parma And she her self many times having prayed to God for a Sonne to continue the name of the Farnezes accidently conceived a hope that if she took up some Orphan or beggar-boy and bred him for Charity she should compasse her desire She therefore took up one in the street and bred him in her Court and nine moneths after she was delivered of Ranucio But her hope proving as fruitfull as her self she resolved to beg of God another Sonne that she might settle the house upon more pillars and directing her prayer to our Lady in the Church called the Scala Prince Alexander by chance coming thither she turned to him and said Come Sir let us joyn our prayers to God that in obedience to his Virgin-mother he will gratiously please to give us another Sonne They prayed together with great faith and within nine moneths after she brought forth Odâ—ardo which was not the cause of greater joy in Prince Alexander then it was of admiration and reverence towards his wife at whose suit God had given him both his Sonnes From thenceforth he more and more honoured her Sanctimonie insomuch as at the battle of Lepanto boarding the enemy with more valour then caution and afterwards being reproved by Don Iohn of Austria he replyed He had at Home the Cause and Patronesse of his confidence Indeed she spent the whole time of that warre in devotion and penance for her husband But for her children because she knew they were granted her by Gods speciall favour she bent her study while she lived to season their tender years with divine precepts and when she came to die was not so earnest with her husband for any thing as to be carefull of their education using that very prayer to God which she heard was made by the Queen of France Mother to Saint Lewis In this moment of time which is my last I pray and beseech thee O Father of mankind that if my children be inclined to commit any fouler crime against thee thou wilt hasten their ends and prevent their treason against thy Majesty A prayer worthy all mother-Queens that would have no children but such as will acknowledge God the
a gentler execution of the Emperours Edicts against the Hereticks And this Petition was presented in all their names to the Governesse who by her letters certified his Majestie as well of the publick as private carriage of the conspiracy Moreover as she was ignorant of nothing that passed among them for in their Cities and private houses her Spies which are the ears and eyes of Princes knew all they did and gave her intelligence so making no shew of fear she thought it best to strengthen her self in case they should break out into Rebellion She therefore minded the people of their duty by her Edict the Magistrates by her letters and she had her private Confidents that viewed the towns and their Fortifications She caused it to be reported that the King would shortly come in person She sent Expresses post to the Spanish Embassadours residing with the Emperour the King of France and Queen of England to let them know what a conspiracy was set a foot in the Low-countreys whereunto as it was said the Germans English and French were the Incendiaries Shortly she omitted nothing that might either expresse her knowledge of what was then plotted or her courage to oppose it At this time she had intelligence given her by Count Megen That about the beginning of April some five hundred Gentlemen intended to come to Bruxels and present her a Petition against the Inquisition and the Emperours Edicts Others told her as commonly true reports are mixed with falsities that the conspiratours were resolved unlesse she gave them audience to bring their forces into the Town and carry away the Governesse to Vilvord there to detain her prisoner till she had granted their desires Which though aâ— first she laughed at yet in the end as it may be gathered by her letters she doubted whether it would not be safest for her to leave the Town and retire to some place of strength In the mean time she summoned a fuller Senate then ordinary to meet upon the twenty seventh of March not so much to hear their advices as to sound their affections and lest they might turn her enemies whom she did not acknowledge to be her friends Then writing new letters into Spain she represented to his Majestie the present condition of the Low-countreys complaining that she had often foretold it but never could be heard The Governours of Provinces the Knights of the Golden-fleece and the Lords of the privy Councell met all upon the day appointed and sate in Senate next day where by the Senatour Filibert Bruxellius divers letters were read containing whether true or false the conspiracie of the Lords and the Hereticks designes The Governesse making a short speech That she had called that noble Senate to prevent by their counsels and indeavours the impendent evils in the first place asked their advice whether it were safe to admit those that were shortly to come to Bruxels led By Henry Brederod Then what answer she should make to their demands which Fame had then divulged Lastly what course should be taken to dissolve that confederation and how the new motions of those turbulent men might speedily be composed The Lords came thither severally affected many hated the Inquisition others had secret projects and few but preferred their private interest before the publick Philip Croi Duke of Areschot and Charles Count Barlamont were of opinion that the Conspiratous should not be suffered to enter the citie so many at once For what need of five hundred men to deliver one Petition that they could not think such pomp fit for suppliants that they might send out of their number some one of quality to present their desires with lesse ostentation and envie Lastly that either the Ports should be shut which they rather inclined to or that in the next place there should be many eyes upon their behaviour and such as carried themselves contumaciously to be forthwith punished Contrarily the Prince of Orange that hated those Lords as Cardinallists and especially Areschot for the old contest of the Houses of Croi and Nassau about Precedency affirmed those fears to be vain that were conceived against persons not unknown to him many of them being allyed to him in friendship some in bloud that it would be a great indignity if that were not permitted to Noblemen which is lawfull for the poorest peasant to petition To the same effect that no danger could be in their coming spake Count Egmont Especially since if they were to be resisted forcibly or by the sword he did not see how the Governesse was prepared to encounter men already armed and likely by such a repulse to be exasperated That it was not safe to affront those we have not power to destroy But though Count Mansfeldt liked not the Popes Inquisitours in the Low-countreys yet he said it was ill done of those that by such mutiny and tumult behaved themselves more proudly then became petioners and added that he had schooled his Sonne Charles who he heard was one of the Conspiratours And indeed I have a letter of his wherein with great fury he disclaims him for his sonne unlesse he presently renounce that league and bids him otherwise never hope to recover his fathers favour But the youth being of a fiery nature slighted those admonitions and threatnings belike he thought his Father was not in earnest and therefore would not leave his party for the present The Counts of Aremberg and Megen had the same sense of the conspiracy and Covenant as if by such ostentation of their forces they came to compell not to intreat their Prince and concluded That a Treaty of this kind should be rejected or to use milder terms put off Nor could such a sudden confederacy last long but in a little time must necessarily fall asunder for no Mutineers were ever constant to their Principles or to one another The rest of the Senatours spake doubtfully and moderately of the Covenanters violently and plainly against the Inquisition The same arguments though in a more obscure and remisse manner were made against the Emperour's Edicts By degrees they fell to complaints against the King and pressed them with more confidence because they knew he had then more use of their services The Prince of Orange said he could add to those old Grievances but perhaps he feigned new ones that he might have the more colour to desert the Kings interest and to pursue his own because he was lately informed some enemies to the House of Nassau had moved his Majestie to take off his head and confiscate his estate and that the King onely exspected an opportunity to sign the warrant Was this the reward of service done in the late warres by the Low-countrey Lords for defence of his Authority in the Netherlands though he had now sufficient experience that King Philip looked not upon the Low-countreys with the eyes of his Father Charles the
Daughter this is the Infanta Katherine married to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy he consented to her Departure from the Low-countreys professing he allowed of it as his Sister's desire not for the benefit of the Provinces for the governing whereof wisely and undauntedly in times of the greatest difficulty hee gave thanks to her vertue in selected Words promising aboundantly to remunerate the Service Vpon the receipt of this Expresse her Excellence delivering to the Duke of Alva his Commission for the Government of the Low-countreys sent by the same Machiavell out of Spaine and giving notice to the Spanish Embassadours with the Emperour the French King and Queene of England that they might informe those Princes of her going she wrote to the Estates of the Low-countreys that some things which she could heartily have wish'd to have spoke in a publique convention before she departed from the imbraces of her people must be supplied since now she had no further Power from the King to summon them by her Letter wherein setting down briefly but not sparingly nor falsly all she had done in her nine yeares Government and by what meanes the Troubles continuing for two yeares past were before the end of April so composed that she had reduced all the Low-countreys by the Help and Advise of the good Subjects to the King's Obedience She prayed them unanimously to endeavour the preservation of the State in the same condition and to persist in the Religion of their Ancestours and their Allegeance to their Prince from whose merey it was to be hoped that even the Tratours themselves would be gently punished That she had in her Letter to the King delivered her Opinion concerning it and would write againe to the like effect before she departed from them nor would she heareafter faile to use her utmost power with her Brother for the Good and Peace of the Low-countrey-men whom she so intirely loved And accordingly a while after she wrote in this manner to his Majesty Sir The happy Delivery of my Lady the Queene for which good newes I humbly kisse your hand rejoyceth me beyond expression to see the propagation of that great Bloud worthy of immortality But that whilst you give me leave to depart you are pleased to increase your royall Favours by adding that for my Governing these Provinces to your mind you your selfe so much it pleases your Clemency to descend are greatly obliged to me I must confesse nothing could more content me since in all I have done I only proposed to my selfe your Majesties satisfaction that being the Rule to all my actions And if I have my End I must accompt my Labour gloriously bestowed I will not deny but in this almost nine yeares space I have gone through many and grievous Difficulties most of my Counsellours being either at variance among themselves out of their ambitions Emulation or their Fidelities by me suspected at least their Enmity to the Spaniard so that it was inconvenient for me not to heare their Advise and not safe to follow it Yet that amidst all this darkenesse and the subsequent Tempest of Rebellion the Common-wealth was steered and peaceably brought into the Harbour by a woman's hand but by no humane influence it is only which I I must acknowledge and reverence your Piety for whose sake the Divine Goodnesse hath assisted me in governing the Low-countreys for you But now since by Gods grace things are reduced to such a condition that nothing remaines but to punish the Authors of the Troubles I cannot omit to signifie to your Majesty what it is that may chiefly overthrow this present happy State Feare of punishment threatned by such an Army as it hath caused many despairing of Pardon to fly into other Countreys to the great prejudice of this so I doubt it will force the rest whilst their flight is stopped and they as it were besieged in the Low-countreys to breake out into more dangerous Factions and Insurrections Terrour is not the way to beget reverence in the Low-countrey-men They that advise this rigid Course I wish I may be deceived will purchase Spaine more Envy then Authority I am sure it will bring to the Low countreys first eivill Warre then forreiene Forces and finally Desolation Therefore I most humbly beseech your Majesty that in contemplation of God's Mercy and your own you will contract Revenge into a few Examples and rather desire the Repentance then the Punishment of your Subjects So God Almighty long preserve your Majesty and the Queene my Lords the Princes and your little Daughter In the meane time the newes flying about that the Governesse was to goe away there came dayly from all parts of the Lowcountreys men of the best quality in the name of the Provinces professing their own Griefe and the generall Losse and praying earnestly as the manner is for her happy Journey The neighbour Princes by their Letters and Embassadours did the like but they were all exceeded by Elizabeth Queene of England who should hereafter as she writ want the neighbour-hood of so good and deare a Sister perhaps out of love to the Governesse or it may be out of hatred to her Successour the Duke of Alva In February when she was ready to set forth the King having assigned her a Pension of fourteen thousand Duckets and the Duke waiting upon her to the Marches of Brabant the Low-countrey-Lords into Germany she arrived safe in Italy where in a mighty concourse of People her Husband the Duke of Parma in great State received her who left in the Low-countrey-mens hearts a deep Impression of her goodnesse which the following calamities so much augmented as they stuck not in the presence of Alva and Requesenes which Princes Successours seldome heare to make an honourable glorious and almost upbrayding mention of her Actions Nay at Doway when Margarett Dutchesse of Parma out of her love to Learning repaired the Franciscans Colledge and that her Armes as the Custome is were set over the Gates the People never passed by but they bowed and put off their Hats But their Longing then principally shewed it selfe when the Low-country-men writing to the King earnestly desired to have the Dutchesse of Parma for their Governesse againe as there only Stay and help in their Afflictions And soone after the Death of Don Iohn of Austira she with her Son Alexander joyned in Commission returned to governe the Low-countreys The Historie of the LOW-COVENTREY WARRES The seventh Book THUS farre I have writt of the Lowcountreys though not flourishing in Peace yet not imbroyled in continued Warre Howsoever their Troubles were composed at last and their antient Tranquillity restored Now I must open the prospect of a History where you will read the publique Rebellion of the Provinces great armies on both sides greater Hatred many Generalls Souldiers falling in the Quarrell Nor am I ignorant that the Cause of all
France and England sent for into the Low-countreys and a Peace concluded with the Prince of Orange an Enemie to Religion to his King and Countrey truly they held it their duties with united forces to oppose the Confederates lest they expelling the the Kings souldiers out of the Low-countreys should likewise shake off which they had now in design the Royall Government That the sack of Antwerp was lamented by all men but merited by the City having received contrary to their faith obliged by Oath the forces of the League and attempted to besiege the Castle so as the Spaniards could not defend themselves and the Fort without calling in their fellow souldiers though some oneby by divine Providence came unsent for Who if they behaved themselves more fiercely or cruelly in defending the Fort and beating the Enemy out of the Town that was done upon a sad necessity when they must either kill or be killed Yet that it is not easie to hold mens hands when Victoriâ— shews them both Revenge and Bootie But howsoever they excused their military licentiousnesse common Fame absolved them not but reported their valour in taking the citie against twenty thousand Defendants to be no greater then their covetousnesse in plundering that richest Port-town of Christendome for three dayes together forcing the richest Citizens and Merchants to redeem their merchandise and goods out of which they made twenty hundred thousand pistols Many câ—using sword-hilts helmets and breasts to be made them of pure gold but discoloured lest they might be taken notice of And those poor men which entered this rich citie went out rich men and left it a poor town as the Low-countrey Historians say with an odious commendation of the Spanish courage Unlesse in this as in other things they have exceeded the truth out of their hatred to that Nation Though I am not ignorant that the Captains and common souldiers occasioned for the most part these disorders the Colonells and superiour Officers having all shares in the fault not all in the spoil Nay I am assured that Sanchâ— Avila Governour of the Castle restrained the rage of many both by command and punishment And Camillo a Monte one of the first that took the town when he had secured the Florentine Merchants and might have had a great summe of money of them out of so much wealth took nothing but a little bitch as if he strove by his continence to expiate the transgression of their plunder I likewise know the destruction of Antwerp was not the crime of the Spaniards alone but the Low-countreymen Burgundians Italians and Germans had every one their part in that tragick desolation and diverse of them acted more barbarously then the Spanish Indeed some great moneyed men taken by the Spaniards when Cornelius Vanindems souldiers would have had the prize were as they say betwixt despair and envie cruelly murdered Among whom Giles Smissart a rich Lapidary and therefore more greedily searched for by the plunderers was miserably used who at last being found out and buying his life and fortunes of the Spaniards for ten thousand Florens could not avoid death so For a companie of Germans coming in that saw themselves defeated of the profit they gaped after a quarrell growing about it one of them thrust him through the back with his pike See the unhappie fate of riches how much more easily may he avoid the spoilers hands that never hath allured an envious eye For no naked man is sought after to be rifled Little things being by their littlenesse secured Touching the execution done and the number of the dead they that were present do infinitely vary Some affirming them of the Spanish side to be at least two hundred others not above fourteen But of the States souldiers and the townsmen the Low-countrey men and Spaniards which is strange agree upon the number of six thousand unlesse perhaps those out of their hatred and these out of their pride do over-reckon whereof they say almost three thousand were killed by the sword fifteen hundred burned or trod to death and as many drowned in the waters thereabout and in the River Schelt where they say a Low-countrey horseman pursued by Pedrâ— Taxiâ— as he was armed with his Lance in his hand leaped from a huge height into the Town-ditch and swimming it with his horse got off safe without so much as breaking of his Lance. And yet at the very same time Count Otho Oberstein Commander of the Germans and Governour of the Town Garrison when he was taking boat upon eaven ground his foot slipping was in a moment devoured by the water Nothing is therefore to be presumed upon or despaired of since the Levell precipitates those that stand on plain ground and precipices save men falling headlong The End of the eighth Book The Historie of the LOW-COVNTREY WARRES The ninth Book Don Iohn of Austria Son to Charles the 5th Governour of the Low countreys Don Iohn took time to consider of it for the disbanding of the Spaniards troubled him And calling to him Iuan Escovedo and Octavio Gonzaga his intimate Counsellours and Confidents very much troubled he desired their advice Gonzaga immediately denyed that it could be either advantagious or honourable For saith he if the Prince of Orange were this day of Counsell with you what else do you think he would perswade but to send away the Spaniards and to establish the Government of the Low-countreys in the love of the Low-countreymen not in the fear of a forrein and hated souldiery Which is in effect that you dismissing your Garrisons might with moreâ—ease lie open to the Plots and Stratagems of turbulent persons injoying at present a kind of Government during pleasure and upon the first breath of the giddie multitude none at all We are deceived if we hope this people differing from us in Manners and Language many of them in Religion all in Resentment of our Countreymens late victory will be governed of their own accord without the terrour of our arms They article with an armed Governour what will they do when he is disarmed Let them know there is come a sonne of Charles the fifth lesse then his Father in Power not Courage to whom it belongs to give not to receive the Law But they are resolved except this be granted them not to admit a Governour Let them be compelled If it be disputed by the sword can our men and theirs have other thoughts then such as are familiar to the Conquerours and the conquered If you seek praise by this Indulgence it is â—ver hasty and will be of no long continuence with proud people made impudent by our modestie These names of humanitie and favour will shew more noble after a victory when they are demonstrations not of Necessitie but Moderation It may be objected that some good subjects well-wishers to the Royall party would have all forreiners disbanded I would gladly know these Low-countrey Royallists for
Duell between two French Gentlemen l. 1. p. 13 Dui passes the Mose l. 7. p. 46. is defeated and taken ibid. condemned to loose his head l. 7. p. 49 Dullart a Bay l. 7. p. 56. 47 Duncher a Pilot. l. 6. p. 19. his ship taken ibid. Duveland an Island drown'd by the sea l. 8. p. 10. reinhabited ibid. the sea about it waded over ibid. the Island taken by the Spaniards l. 8. p. 13. Sentences in D. DANGER it self the best remedy for danger l. 5. p. 113 Men in like DANGER easily associate l. 5. p. 137 Between the businesse of life and day of DEATH a space ought to be interposed l. 1. p. 10 Resolutions are given with greater authority at a DISTANCE l. 4. p. 88 It is more DISREPUTATION to fall from a place of eminence then never to have been advanced l. 10. p. 15 E. EArthquake in Asia insert in the reading 12 Cities of Asia l. 5. p. 127. in Brabant l. 7. p. 40. swallows 33. Villages l. 7. p. 47. Ebolo the Prince vide Rodorick or Ruigomez Eclipse of the Sun l. 1. p. 22 Edam a town l. 7. p. 72 Edict of the Duke of Alva for exacting of tribute l. 7. p. 65. 67. mitigated l. 7. p. 70. of Charles the fifth at Wormes against Luther and the Hereticks l. 2. p. 34 seven times renewed ibid. revived and published l. 4. p. 96. reprehended l. 5. p. 1. l. 5. p. 105. 106. defefided l. 5. p. 105. mitigated l. 7. p. 106. Of Charles the ninth of France against the Heriticks l. 5. p. 138. against the Germans that should oppose the Spaniards in the Low-countreys l. 5. p. 134 Of Francis the first of France against Maroi's Poetry l. 3. p. 63. of Margaret of Parma for religion l. 4. p. 96. against the Heriticks that dwelt at Antwerp l. 5. p. 117. against their sermons ibid. against their exercises ibid. against Fugitives from the Low-countreys l. 6. p. 34. against the Low-country men that should bear armes against France ibid. against the French that should fight in the Low-countryes l. 5. p. 134. of the Royall Senate against the souldiers at Aclst or Aloost l. 8. p. 18. of the States against the Spaniards ibâ—d l. 9. p. 39. of the pacification at Gant l. 9. p. 30 Edward Horsey Governour of the Isle of Wight l. 9. p. 33 Edward Prince of Portugall l. 4. p. 92 Egmond a town in Holland l. 7. p. 53 Egmont vide Charles Lamorall and Philip. Elections of new Bishops in the Low-countreys l. 1. p. 18. made Reversioners to Abbats by â—ius the fourth vide Bishops and Abbats Electors of the Empire of Brandenburg l. 6. p. 18. of Colen l. 1. p. 14. of Mentz l. 5. p. 134. the Palsgrave l. 1. p. 14. l. 5. p. 134. the King of Bohemia l. 7. p. 43. the Duke of Saxony l. 6. p. 18. Trier l. 5. p. 134. Electo chosen by the Mutineeres l. 8. p. 5. p. 8. p. 22 Elogy of Alva l. 7. p. 82. 83. of Aremberg l. 7. p. 47. of Don Iohn l. 10. p. 21 22. of Count Egmont l. 7. p. 53. of Cardinall Granvell l. 4. p. 83. of Lewis of Nassau l. 8. p. 3. of Princess Mary of Portugall l. 4. p. 92. of Requesâ—nes l. 8. p. 15. of Vitelli l. 8. p. 14. vide Encomion Elizabeth Queen of England takes part with the Low-countrey Conspiratours l. 5. p. 101. seizeth the King of Spains money sent to the Duke of Alva l. 5. p. 104. l. 7. p. 65. 66. which occasioneth a contest between her Majesty and the Duke of Alva ibid. she prohibits the Holland Pirats to come within her Ports l. 7. p. 71. her Embassage to the Governesse when she was to leave the Low-countreys l. 6. p. 37. to Don Iohn when he came to the Goverment l. 8. p. 33. she is by the Lords proposed for Governess for the Low-countreys l. 9. p 38. she sends to Don Iohn for a cessation of armes l. 9. p. 49. and threatnes ibid. is not heard ibid. a rumour that she was to be married to Don Iohn l. 10. p. 20. Elizabeth Cuilemburg l. 1. p. 20 Embassador from the King of Spain to the Pope l. 1. p. 18. l. 3. p. 66. to the Queen of England l. 4. p. 94. to the King of France l. 5. p. 134. l. 5. p. 140. l. 7. p. 79. l. 10. p. 20. l. 10. p. 24. from France to the Pope l. 4. p. 85. the contest between the French and Spanish Embassadours in the councell of Trent ibid. revived at Rome ibid. what was done thereupon in â—he Emperours Court ibid. what at Rome ibid. Emden a town l. 7. p. 55 Emmanuell King of Portugall l. 4. p. 92. 94 Emmanuell Montiny Commander of a Regiment l. 9. p. 50. Emmanuell Philibert Duke of Savoy Governour of the Low countreys l. 1. p. 11. victorious at Saint Quintin ibid. his marriage with Margaret sister to Henry of France l. 1. p. 13. he and his wife go for Italy l. 1. p. 26. how highly the King of Spain valued him l. 6. p. 21. 26. Emperour sued unto by the Low-countrey Nobility to accept of the Low-Countreys l. 5. p. 135. punishmentâ— by Emperours decreâ—d against Heriticks l. 2. p. 33 3â— Ems a River l. 7. p. 55 56 71 Encomion of Count Barlamont l. 10. p. 5. of Isidor Pacecho l. 8. p. 12. of Mondragonio l. 8. p. 2. of Penonio l. 10. p. 1â— of Vitelli l. 7. p. 62. vide Elogit Engelbert Count of Nassau Governour of the Low-countreys l. 1. p. 1â— Engelbert of Nassau the first l. 2. p. 43. 2. ibid. their power in the Low-countreys how increased ibid. Englands King vide Philip the Second Englands Queen vide Elizabeth and Mary The English loose Calice l. 1. p. 11. do execution upon the French Army from Sea l. 1. p. 12. their ships and goods embargued in the Ports of the Low-countreys and Spaiâ— l. 7. p. 66. they take the Portugall ships richly laden ibid. some conspiring against Don Iohn of Austria are put to death l. 10. p. â—0 Engines l. 8. p. 9 â—0 Engineeres l. 6. p. â—1 Enterprise of Alex Farnese l. 9. p. 45 51 of Caius Fabias l. 9. p. 40. of Ciacconio l. 8. p. 8. of Iohn Boccace a lâ—suite l. 9. p. 40. of Mondragonio l. 6. p. 30. l. 7. p. 77. of him and others l. 8. p. 9. of Perotto l. 8. p. â— Envy at Court l. 2. p. 37 41. l. 3. p. 56. between the Low-countrey Lords and Granvell l. 2. p. 41 42 l. 3. p. 72. between the Spanish and Low-countrey Nobility l. 2. p. 42. between Granvell and Reguard l. 3. p. 67. between the Duke of Alva and the Prince of Eboâ—o l. 6. p. 22. l. 7. p. 65. between Alva and Egmond l. 7. p. 51 vide Ambition Epirots l. 6. p. 30 Erasso a Courtier very intimate with the King of Spain l. 3. p. 66. Erick Duke of
Centron l. 5. p. 119. What was acted in that meeting ibid. They frame a new Petition to the Governesse l. 5. p. 12â— They plunder Churches l. 5. p. 121. The Geâ—tlemen Gheuses consent to the Destruction of Churches l. 5. p. 127. Their Threats against the Governesse l. 7. p. 129. From whom they Extort some grants l. 5. p. 130. They are slain at the battel neer Austervell l. 6. p. 4. The Tornay Gheuses take up arms l. 6. p. 6. are defeated at Lanoi l. 6. p. 7. Are made true Gheuses beggar l. 6. p. 21. They leave their Couâ—try ibid. are receiv'd into grace ibid. Sentenc'd by the Duke of Alva l. 7. p. 42. The Wood Gheuses rob by the high way l. 7. p. 59. The Water Gheuses l. 7. p. â—1 Their General and chief Officers ibid. turn Pirats ibid. are forbid the English Ports ibid. Take Brill l 7. p. 12. Destroy all things sacred ibid. Beat off the Spaniards ibid. Plunder Amorssort l. 7. p. 75. Are beat from Amsterdam l. 10. p. 5. vide Gentlemen Covenanters Ghibercius one of the Covenanters l. 5. p. 101. Ghisella a Covenanter ibid. Giles or Aegidius Clarke a Lawyer of Tornay l. 5. p. 100 127 141. Giles Smissart a Lapidary l. 8. p. 14. Giovanni Baptista Castaneo Archbishop of Rossana the Popes Legate l. 5. p. 132. His Relation to Cardinall Alexandrino of the Commitment death of Charles Prince of Spain l. 7. p. 43. Giovanni Baptista Marquesse a Monte Commander of horse at the Battel of Mooch l. 8. p. 43. a Girle of three years old buried dig'd up again â—nd eaten by her parents l. 7. p. 10. Gisbert together with his brother Batenburg runs away is taken and executed Glime Vice-Admiral of the Belgick sea l. 6. p. 19. defeated and slain Ibid. Glime Governour of Wallon-Barbant takes the Senators out of the house and imprisons them l. 8. p. 26. is routed by the Spaniard l. 8. p. 21. His Enmity with the Prince of Orange l. 10. p. 9. Glimè the Marquesse vide Iohn Glimè Marquesse of 〈◊〉 Gniffius Bishop of Groninghen or the Groine l. 7. p. 58. Godfrey Sterch Pretor of Antwerp l. 3. p. 66. Goes in Zeland is reliev'd l. 7. p. 77 78. The Sea warled over to Goes ibid. Gargni vide Anthony Gomez Figueroa Duke of Feria l. 2. p. 38. his disposition l. 6. p. 23. His vote in Councel for sending an army into the Low-countreys ibid. 25. He waits upon the King when his Majesty apprehended Prince Charles l. 7. p. 44. Gomez a Silva Prince of Ebolo vide Roderick Gonzaga vide Hannibal Camillo Ferdinando Octavio Gorcom revolts from the Spaniard l. 7. p. 72. is taken by assault l. 8. p. 9. Gorcom Martyrs l. 7. p. 75. Gotha a Town l. 5. p. 42. Goude revolts from the Spaniards l. 7. p. 72. Governour vide Praefect Governesse vide Margaret of Parma Grange of Narbon a Calvinist l. 5. p. 6. Ring leader of the Seditions Ibid. disswades the Valencenians from the rendring of their Town l. 6. p. 9. Granvel vide Anthony Nicolas Graveling a Port of Flanders l. 1. p. 12 l. â— p. 53. its Governour l. 7. p. 80. Gregory the Third multiplyes the Bishops in Germany l. 2. p. 30. Gregory the thirteenth offended with the Vice Roy Granvell l. 4. p. 82. His Joy for the newes of the Massacre at Paris l. 7. p. 76. He and the King of Spain resolve to assist the Queen of Scots l. 8. p. 16. He proposes to the King Don Iohn for Governour of the Low-countryes and General in the invasion of Great Britain ibid. He sends Philip Sega his Nuncio to Don Iohn in the Low-Countreys l. 9. p. 36. with supplies of money ibid. He incourages Alexander Farneze to go for the Low-countreys l. 9. p. 48. His letters to the Catholick Army wherein he pardons their sins l. 9. p. 49. His Exchange of Prisoners l. 10. p. 6. He treats with the King of Spain to make Don Iohn King of Tunis l. 10. p. 19. Gromhamberg Colonel of foot l. 5. p. 132. Gresser the Queen of Englands Agent l. 5. p. 133. Graningen or the Groine threatens to revolt from the King l. 6. p. 1. receives a Garrison of the Kings men l. 6. p. 20. Besieg'd by Lewis of Nassau l. 7. p. 54. strongly defended by Vitelli ibid. Dispos'd of by the Duke of Alva l. 7. p. 58. It s Bishop and Governour ibid. A Fort there design'd by the Duke of Alva ibid. The 6 Cannon of the Groin call'd by names of the 6 first Elements in Musick l. 7. p. 47 56. Guerrao de Speo the King of Spains Embassadour to the Queen of England l. 7. p. 66. Guinegas l. 1. p. 15. Guinichè vide Paula Prince of Lucca Guise vide Charles of Loram and Francis of Guise Guiralto wadeâ— over Sea to Duveland l. 8. p. 10. Guntâ—y Count Swartzenburg l. 7. p. 51. l. 8. p. 9. a Covenanter l. 5. p. 101. Commander of horse in the Prince of Oranges Army l. 7. p. 58. treats in the Emperours name to make peace between the Royallists and the Orangians l. 8. p. 9. Gusman vide Antonio Ayamant Didaco Guy Brai of Mons l. 6. p. 6. Sentences in G. A Good GENERAL can never be long liv'd l. 7. p. 83. GOD is not pleas'd with those that giue out of other mens fortunes l. 8. p. 6. H. HA a River l. 1. p. 12. Hadrian Iansen l. 7. p. 80. Heresie how it was brought into the Low-countreys l. 2. p. 36. The mother of sedition ibid. What occasions it makes use of to raise Tumults ibid. l. 2. p. 42 48. Prone to Atheisme l. 2. p. 36. Teaches Contumacie ibid. slights Allegiance ibid. Heresie in France l. 3. p. 55 61 72 l. 6. p. 35. Protected l. 3. p. 57. The Heretical custome of singing Davids Psalmes in French meeter l. 3. p. 61 62 The French Hereticks assist the Low-countrey Hereticks l. 5. p. 138. A Catalogue of Hereticks inclos'd in the Kings packet l. 4. p. 83. brought to execution with various success ibid. l. 6. p. 19 20. The attempt of an Heretical Minister l. 4. p. 83. Their Joy for the difference between the King of Spain and the Pope l. 4. p. 86. Their Jealousies upon the Conference at Baion l. 4. p. 88. The Kings Letters and the Governesse Edict against them l. 4. p. 96 97. At the promulgation of the Edict they mutiny l. 5. p. 100. They stir up the Covenanters ibid. They break from all parts into the Low-countrey Pulpits l. 6. p. 116. Three Classes or kindes of them ibid. They are permitted to preach l. 5. p. 130. They turn the Franciscans out of Doores l. 5. p. 131. Their design to send Calvinistical books into Spain l. 5. p. 137. l. 7. p. 45. Their Consistories l. 5. p. 138. They desire liberty to exercise their Sects l. 5. p. 139. They rejoyce at the defection of the Lords from the King l. 6. p.
16. the first that promiseth to take the Oath of fidelity l. 6. p. 11. sent with the Fleet to transport Princess Mary from Portugall l. 4. p. 91. high in the Kings esteem l. 5. p. 135. l. 8. p. 17. his disposition l. 5. p. 136. combines with other Lords against Granveâ—l l. 3. p. 75. is with the Gentlemen Covenanters in the Prince of Orange his house l. 5. p. 107. opposeth some of them ibid. gives his Vote in Senate against the Covenanters l. 5. p. 103. is enraged at his son for joyning with them ibid. discovers to the Governess many particulars concerning the Gheuses and their Design l. 5. p. 121. his opinion of the Iâ—onomachy in the Netherlands l. 5. p. 127. of Lewis of Nassau ibid. of using Armes to suppress the Gheuses l. 5. p. 129. is Lievtenant Governour of Bruxells for the Governeâ—s l. 5. p. 130. Count Egmonts Letter to him l. 5. p. 136. his answer ibid. ready to serve the King in all things ibid. l. 8. p. 17. the Duke of Alva sends him General into France l. 7. p. 64. there he gives a totall Rout to Lewis of Nassau's horse fighting for the Hugonots ibid. his right Arme shot ibid. he writes to Margaret of Parma what the Duke of Alva did in the Low-Countries l. 7. p. 68. endeavours to pacifie the seditious Spaniards l. 8. p. 18. is designed by Requeseres on his death-bed Commander in Chief of the Low-Countrey Militia l. 8. p. 16. violently taken out of the Senate and committed to Prison l. 8. p. 20. Chosen to Command the Spanish Army departing out of the Low-countries l. 9. p. 32. Camp Master in the battel of Gemblac l. 9. p. 50. his Vote in a Councel of War l. 10. p. 8. his place at Iohn's Funeral l. 10. p. 22. Philibert Chalon the last of the Chalons that was Prince of Orange l. 2. p. 43. Philibert Bruxellius speaks to the Estates of the Low-Countries for the Emperour when he resigned l. 1. p. 4. appointed by the Governess to examine the Tumults at Valenciens l. 3. p. 62. in Senate he reads a Letter touching the Lords Conspiracy l. 5. p. 103. Philipland a Desert Island l. 8. p. 10 13. Philipland besieged l. 9. p. 57. its site Ibid. Governour l. 9. p. 58. 't is invaded ibid. rendred ibid. Philip the first son to the Emperour Maximilian and Mary Dutchesse of Burgundy l. 1. p. â—7 Philip the second son to Charles the fifth and Isabella of Portugal is born l. 1. p. 9. l. 4. p. 92. why publick joy was forbidden at his birth l. 1. p. 9. he marryeth Mary Daughter to Iohn the third of Portugal l. 4. p. 92. Mary Queen of England married to him l. 1. p. 3â—4 l. 3. p. 71. the English love him not l. 1. p. 9. he moves his father and hastens his Resignment of the Low-countries ibid. the Emperour resigning makes him Master of the Order l. 1. p. 3. l. 5. p. 107. all the Emperours Kingdomes given him l. 1. p. 5. l. 2. p. 30. what answer he made to one that minded him of the Anniversary day of his Fathers Abdication l. 1. p. 6. he makes the Duke of Savoy Governour of the Low-countries l. 1. p. 11. concludes a Truce with Henry the second of France ibid. is at War with the Pope ibid. sets the Queen of England at difference with the French ibid. victorious at St. Quintin ibid. receives a blow at Calice ibid. beats the French at Graveling ibid. p. 12. makes a peace with the French ibid. marrieth Isabella daugther to Henry King of France ibid. thinks of returning into Spain l. 1. p. 14. settles the State of the Low countries ibid. Political l. 1. p. 16. Military l. 1. p. 17. and Sacred ibid. and l. 2. p. 29. Convenes the Estates and the Knights of the Golden Fleece at Gant l. 1. p. 18. Creates Margaret of Austria Gouernesse of the Low-countries l. 1. p. 19 â—4 makes some New Knights of the Order l. 1. p. 25. l. â— p. 46. treats with the Deputies of the States ibid. 26. goes for Spain ibid. as he was hunting acknowledges Don Iohn for his brother l. 10. p. 18. angry with him for offering to steal away to the War of Malta ibid. 19. offended at his fortifying Tnnâ—s ibid. suspects him ibid. the people discourse and Judgment against the King ibid. others are for him l. 2. p. 35. the diversity of his and his Fathers Disposition l. 2. p. 38. he delayes the revocation of the Spaniards from the Low-countries l. 3. p. 50. l. 9. p. 27. his reason for it l. 9. p. 32. he recalls them l. 3. p. 52. Commands the Governesse to send assistance to the King of France l. 3. p. 55 60 61 71 72. offers Sardinia to the King of Navarre l. 3. p. 59. his Letters touching the marriage of the Queen of Scotland l. 3. p. 59. he sends from Italy Auxiliaries into France l. 3. p. 60. gives his reasons for increasing the Low-countrey Bishops l. 3. p. 71. defends Granvel ibid. his answer to the Letter signed by Count Egmont the Prince of Orange and Count Horne l. 3. p. 73. a false rumor of his being murthered l. 4. p. 77. his Commands to the Governesse concerning infamous Libels ibid. and the Cognizances given by the Lords ibid. 78. and the punishment of Hereticks l. 4. p. 84. he sends away Granvell from the Low-Countries l. 4. p. 79. goes to take possession of the Kingdome of Portugal l. 4. p. 82. seriously commends to the Governesse the Care of Religion l. 4. p. 83. instructs her how to intercept the Hereticks ibid. his bounty to English Exiles ibid. his earnestnesse in receiving the Councel of Trent l. 4. p. 85. his difference with the Pope ibid. in great indignation he recalls his Embassadour from Rome ibid. gives an account to the Low-countrey men and to the Princes of Europe of the occasion of the Conference at Bayon l. 4. p. 87. why he was not there in person ibid. 88. he consults the Divines what their opinion was touching Liberty of Conscience desired by the Low-countrey men l. 4. p. 89. his words before the Image of Christ ibid. his Instructions delivered to Count Egmont ibid. p. 90. and Alexander Farntze to be conducted into the Low-countries ibid. his Letter to the Governesse touching the Marriage of Alexander Farneze l. 4. p. 91. he enjoynes her to punish the Hereticks c. l. 4. p. 96. he receives intelligence from the Governesse of the Conspiracy of the Low-countrey Lords and of their annuall Actings l. 5. p. 102 106 113 114. is not satisfied with the Requests made by the Embassadour Mâ—ntiny ibid. unseasonably defers the grant of a Pardon to the Covenanters l. 5. p. 115. promiseth his personal presence in the Low-countries ibid. how he assented to the desires of the Governesse l. 5. p. 120. he Commands her to make preparations of Armes l. 5. p. 132. gives
the one hand and on the other Elianor and Mary Queen Dowagers of France and Hungary with another Mary Queen of Bohemia and Christiern daughter to the King of Denmark Dutchesse of Lorrain First he created his sonne Philip master of the order of the Golden-fleece then he commanded Philibert Bruxellius one of the Lords of his great Councel to signifie his pleasure to the Estates of Flanders The summe of his speech was this That the Emperour being admonished by his dayly decay of health which had much broke and brought him low to settle his affairs in this world resolved to transferre that weight which he could no longer support as became his own and the Empires dignity â—pon his sonne both in vigour and wisdome able to bear so great a burthen Therefore Cesar wishing it may be for the happiness of himself and the Provinces resigned his Dominion of the Low-countreys and Burgundy released the People of their â—ath of Allegiance and voluntarily gave the right and possession of the Low-countreys and Burgundy to his sonne Philip King of England Whilest Philibert was gravely speaking this The Emperour rises on the sudden and leaning on the shoulders of William Prince of Orange interrupted his speech and out of a paper he brought to help his memory as the Register of the Empire he himself began to read in French What he had done from the seventeenth year of his age to that day nine expeditions into Germany six into Spain seven into Italy four into France ten into the Low-countreys two into England as many into Africa eleven Sea-voyages Warres Peace Leagues Victories and set forth the particulars rather magnificently then proudly Moreover That he had proposed to himself no other end of all these labours but the preservation of Religion the Empire Which hitherto whilest his health permitted he had by Gods assistance so performed that Charles the Emperours life and Reign could offend none but his enemies Now since his strength and almost life was spent he would not prefeâ— the love of Empire before the safety of his People In stead of an oâ—d Bed-rid man the greatest part of him already in the grave he would substitute a Prince in the spring of his youth of active strength and courage To him he desired the Provinces tâ— pay their obedience likewise to keep Peace among themselves and be constant to the Orthodox Religion Lastly That they would favourably pardon him if he had trespassed in his Government For his own part he would alwayes remember their fidelity and services in his prayers to God to whom alone he resolved to live for the short remainder of his dayes Then turning to his sonne he said If these Provinces had descended upon thee by my death I had yet deserved something at my sonnes hands for leaving him so rich and improved a patrimony Now since â—hine Inheri ance is not a necessitated but a voluntary act and that thy Father hath chosen to die before his time that he may antedate the benefit of his death all the interest thou owest me for it I assign it to thy Subjects and require thee to pay it in thâ— love and care to them Other Princes rejoyce they have given life to their sonnes and shall give Kingdoms I am resolved to prevent fate of this gasping and posthumous favour esteeming it a double joy if I may see thee not onely living but live â—o see thee reigning by my gift This example of mine few Princes will imitate for I my self in all antiquity could hardly find one to follow But sure they will commend my resolution when they see thee worthy to be made the first president Which thou wilt be if thou firmly retein the wisdome thou wert bred to the fear of the Almighty and which are the pillars of a Kingdome the patronage of Religion and the Laws One thing remains which thy Father makes his last wish That thou maist have a sonne grow up worthy to have thy Government transferred upon him but yet have no necessity to do it Having spoken this he embraced his sonne that was upon his knees striving to kiss his hand and piously and fatherly praying God to bless him his tears broke off his words and drew tears abundantly from the eyes of the beholders King Philip humbly kissing his Fathers hand then rising to the Estates excused his ignorance in the French tongue commanding Anthony Perenott Granvell Bishop of Arras to speak for him who in a most learned Oration interpreted the Kings mind as gratefull to his father so likewise affectionate to the Low-coutrey-men by his fathers precept and example Iames Masius an eloquent Civill Lawyer answered in the name of the three Estates Lastly Mary Queen of Hungary resigned the Government of the Low-countreys which she had managed five and twenty years for the Emperour her Brother So for that day the Session was adjourned Two moneths after in a farre greater Assembly for fame had further spread it self the Emperour gave to his sonne Philip at once the possession of all his Kingdomes Provinces and Islands aswell in our World as beyond the Line Finally not long after he sent the Crown and Scepter of the Empire all he had then left to his Brother Ferdinand created many years before King of the Romans by the hands of William Prince of Orange who they say at first declining the Ambassage told the Emperour in King Philips presence that he hoped better things from heaven then to see his Master take the Imperiall Crown from his own head and send it by him to another whether it was love to the Emperour of whose grace and bounty he had many proofs or flattery to King Philip whom he knew designed for the Empire by his father who often to that purpose had treated with his Brother Ferdinand For Cesar to confirm the Spanish power of the House of Austria by accession of the Empire had many times by Mary Queen of Hungary sounded his Brother Ferdinand if he would surrender the Kingdome of the Romanes to Philip among other proposals promising to share the Empire with his Brother that ever after there should be two Cesars of equall authority But all this moved not Ferdinand Charles the fifth from so great an Emperour now no body leaving the Court to the new Prince staid a while in a private house till the fleet was ready then losing from Zeland with his sisters Queen Elianor and Queen Mary he sailed with a prosperous wind into the port of Laredâ— in Biscany To follow him out of the Low-Countryes will not be I suppose to wander from the History since by continuing a relation of the last passages of a Prince of the Low-Countreys and the last Prince born a Low-Countrey-man I may appear to be in the Low-Countreys still However I presume the Reader will approve the bringing to light of this great retirement
the Low-countrey-men were to pay at once For thus they said the Exchequer might be replenished which the Warre had emptyed and likewise the Provinces secured Because Spaine ingaged in a long Warre with the Moores and now setting forth a chargeable Fleete against the common Enemy could afford small supplies Nor was it reason to expect any thing from King Philip and unseasonable to divert him wholly applying his Indeavours and Expences for the Defence of Christendome But the Estates that to settle these Taxes were summoned to Bruxells would not yield to the Tenths because they should thereby lose their Traffique the only subsistence of the Low-countreys Indeed how could the Merchants and Artificers brooke the payment of many tenth parts out of one Commodity for before Cloth or Hangings and other Stuffes were woven and put off their hands they must pay the Tenths of wooll so for thread then for weaving and dying and such like parts of manufacture and thus the price of Commodities being enhansed they should have no buyers the Worke-men would go to other Nations and the Low-countreys be reduced to extreame Poverty The Duke of Alva might consider what advantage it had been to England since the Low-countrey-men above 200. yeares agoe forced by an inundation of the Sea to leave their Countrey had taught the English the art of Weaving which before they understood not Many other Manufactures were yet in the Low-countreys not known to their Neighbours whereby they would be greatly inriched if the Worke-men should go and live among them All this prevailed not with the Duke in the midst of his command victorious and no enemy appearing who therefore assured himselfe the Low-countrey-men would easily obey But the Queene of England in the interim somewhat startled him and made Alva thinke of a new enemy A Biscaine man of warre with foure Pinnaces sayling out of Spaine and bound for the Low-countreys convoying of money to pay the Duke of Alva's Army a vast summe 200000. Ducats as some Writers affirme according to others 40000. nay there is one that saies 800000. forced either by a tempest or for feare of Pyrats came into an English Harbour The Queene resolving not to part with that Treasure first commanded an accoumpt of it should be taken then causing them to unlade under pretence of the Kingdome 's necessity it was carried to the Exchequer Guerrao Despeo the Spanish Embassadour and his Majesties Admirall Stephano Serra protesting against it to no purpose The Duke of Alva bitterly resenting the Injury made an Imbaâ—go in the Low-countreys arresting all the English Merchants Goods and Shippes the like was done in Spaine On the other part the Queene of England seized upon all the Commodities of the Low-countrey-men and Spaniards so as they were upon the very point of Proclaiming Warre on both sides And Christopher Assonvill sent into England by the Duke to demand the money and to compose the matter in controversie found the Queene so offended and inraged that he was commanded backe to the place from whence he came the Queene refusing to treat upon conditions with Alva or any man else but the King himselfe She was so peremptory as I have read in Assonvill's Letters because shew knew the Moores intended to rebell in Spaine and the Germans were againe preparing to invade the Low-countreys she her selfe in the meane while being inriched with dayly Prizes taken from the Low-countrey-men and Spaniards At the very same time 14. Portugall-shippes laded with Indian Merchandise Ignorant of the Quarrell between the Nations thinking they might passe securely were surprized by the English and it is not to be imagined how much that Booty inflamed those Islanders with a desire to continue a difference so advantageous Which made the Spaniard the more earnestly to labour the composing of it And to this end Thomas Raggeus was sent into England on whose prudence the Duke of Alva much relyed who was afterwards when the King knew him better made his Treasurer Raggeus though he could not prevaile with the Queene that was resolved to keep the money yet so won upon her as she was no longer deafe to an Agreement Then the Duke sending over the Marquesse Vitelli with Raphael Barberino and his Secretary Turrius the Queene received them more gratiously and publiquely explained her selfe that she understood the money appertained not to the King whom she never had any Intention to wrong in any kind but to the Genoa-Merchants that she had use for it at the present and would hereafter returne it to the owners faithfully and with interest This Answer was reported to the Duke of Alva from the Spanish Embassadour and Vitelli by Barberino who advised him notwithstanding the Queene intended not Repayment since no Merchant could demand the Money to take into consideration whether the Low-countrey-men or the English would be more prejudiced by the Quarrell And further told his Excellence that he had taken notice of 80. Low-countrey and Spanish Ships under Arrest in the English Ports their lading dayly decaying and imbezelled And therefore the Embassadour and Vitelli held it best that matters should not be aggravated with new causes of offence for they hoped that in a little time the fury of both sides being allayed by mutuall Losses at last with equall Dissimulation they would fall to their antient intercourse For the Duke 's better satisfaction therein he delivered him a Breviate wherein he had stated the controversie All this was truth as afterwards appeared when the contestation being ended the losse of the Low-countrey and Spanish Merchants was found so farre to exceed the damage of the English as these were forced to refund above 200000. Florens Neverthelesse Alva would not desist either from revenging the Injury done by England or from exacting the Tribute he had begun to demand of the Low-countreys That he thought concerned the King in point of honour and though he knew this for the present would hinder the Exchange and Traffick yet he hoped those Losses would be soone repaired Especially since his mony was interecepâ—ed by the English he held it just to aske Supplies from the Low-countrey-men for whose benefit that money should have been imployed When the Duke therefore to his Requests and Admonitions added Threats the Estates pretended the People's wants there was a note subscribed with an unknowne name scattered in the Presence directed to the Duke of Alva in these words that if he acted Themistocles to raise money brought two Goddesses Perswasion and Violence they would play the Andrians to prevent Payment interpose as many as great Goddesses Poverty Impossibility Thus while the Contest was kept a foot on the one part with Petitions and Complaints on the other with often varied Edicts Commands yet the yeare ended without any thing concluded at last the Duke of Alva in a Rage advertised the Provinces That the
suspected the Low-countrey men unanimously petitioning for the removall of the Spaniards For the Prince of Orange who had assured himself Don Iohn would never send away the Spanish and consequently never be admitted Governour over the Low-countreys when he heard the Spaniards were departed Don Iohn with a great and generall joy inaugurated at Bruxels whither Embassadours daily came to him from neighbour-Princes the Queen of England her self sending Edward Horsey Governour of the Isle of Wight and that he likewise saw the Prince and Senate by their Commissioners required him with the Provinces Holland Zeland which onely were not included in the League to subscribe the perpetual Edict the man that would upon no conditions part with the Dominion he had now got into his hands answered That the Provinces with him confederated were in conscience barred froÌ„ consenting with the rest to the maintenance of the Romish faith and being pressed by Duke Areschot for he was sent to the Prince of Orange to ratifie the common League he said he could not do it for which his reason was the Faith of Calvine presently putting off his hat and laughing he said to the Duke Do you see this bald crown let me tell you there is not more Calvisme on my head then there is Calvinism in my heart Then applying himself wholly to his business he sent Letters Messengers to the Senators the Delegates of the Estates and all his friends pitying withall reviling them What did they intend whither were their courages judgements fled that they had admitted Don John not onely not inlarging but not so much as swearing to preserve their priviledge Were they so much taken with empty forms of Courtship as not to observe the Bird-call that by sweetnesse of sound brings the free creatures of the air into the net They had now sufficient experience that new Men came out of Spain not new Manners for in that Shop they were all cast in the same would But above all the rest they should beware of this Gentleman puft up with his Imperiall bloud fortune in the wars which if he now dissembled stooping to the civility of a private person the more it goes against the hair with a haughty and tyrannicall nature the sooner would his hypocrisie be laid by and their slavery inhaunsed No proud man carried ever himself like a servant to any over whom he did not hope to be a master Why hath he got a Guard if he be so popular as wholly to confide in the affection of the Subject Can any one doubt whither all these excessive bounties and promises tend wherewith that princely Merchant loads men of merit and no merit Yet some there are who notwithstanding they see this general Munificence traffick for the liberty of the Low-countreys think that fre-men sell themselves into bondage at a considerable rate Wherefore let them look into the man they will find it impossible that he should love the Low-countreys who betrayed to King Philip the Patron of the Low-countrey Lords Charles Prince of Spain The Prince of Orange not thus contented by those he imployed abroad particularly by Teronius Vascho lately come over to his party made it be privately rumoured That the Spaniards and forrein soldiers whose departure had been so longed for by the Low-countreymen let them not deceive themselves lay part concealed in the Province of Luxemburg part stayed in Burgundie part fought against the Hugonots in France and from these places exspected Don Iohns Orders for their immediate return And it was held more credible because of Don Iohn's Escovedo's Letters intercepted in France and about that time published at Bruxels which they said contained complaints to the King against the Estates Reasons for the necessity of a war an humble suit for money to that end All which aggravated by a large printed Comment of the Prince of Orange took away of much of Don Iohns Authority and estimation that whether his Bountie ebbed or flowed when their minds were once possessed with jealousie they interpreted all in the worst sense Those very men to whom he had shewn extraordinary favour advancing them to honours and great pensions on a sudden alienated from him not only shunned his sight as if all his graces had been poured into colanders hearts with holes in them but openly railed at aspersed and now endeavoured to prove themselves disobliged to him by their hatred of him Thus are unsound mind like unsound bodies the more you feed the more you poyson them Nor did the Hereticks leave their knavery thus but represented his words and actions as things of meer design Nay to some that wondered at his unexampled condescentions they told it as a secret That the Low-countrey-men had no great reason to trust the Oath so willingly taken by his Highness for confirmation of the perpetuall Edict Because he had sworn before he came out of Spain not to consent unto any thing in the Low-countreys prejudicial to the King By which Oath he had preing aged himself and as his Religion taught him the later being contrary to the former would not oblige him as being of no validitie A Doctrine long since preached in many Courts and now practised by Princes So the Florentines were deceived by Charles the viii of France who having sworn to deliver Pisa to them when they claimed his promise answered that he had first sworn the contrary to the Pisons When the Prince of Orange found this to work according to his wishes thinking Don Iohn that had parted with his Spaniards and lost the hearts of the Low-countreymen might easily be oppressed he left it to be acted by Philip Mornixius de Saint Aldegund whom he sent to Bruxels for that purpose and by William Horn Lord of Hese both undertaking either by force or stratagem to seiz upon his Highnesse and carry him into Zâ—land Which attempt though it was consonant to the rest of Aldegunds life a man ignominiously wicked who when he was a boy was Calvins auditour and now he himself being an old man preached to others nor less agreeable to the manners of the Lord of Hese especially since the removall of Don Iohn from Bruxels would be much to his advantage that was for be Governour of the Town who being afterwards condemned to lose his head it was thought practised the like against Alexander Farneze Duke of Parma Yet whether they really plotted it as Don Iohn understood from many credible authours or rather by the Prince of Oranges direction were contented with the fear resulting from the report of such a plot I dare not positively affirm For to breed enmity between Don Iohn and the Low-countrey Lords which was the Prince of Oranges end the means would be all one whether they intended or onely gave out that he should be taken prisoner the former being an odious thing
of severall Nations in the Camp l. 10. p. 22 Controversie touching the Conjunction of goods and Institution of Bishops in the Low-countreys l. 2. p. 29 30 c. defined by the Universitie of Lovain l. 2. p. 31 32. between the Duke of Alva and the Quxn of England l. 7. p. 65 66. between the Embassadours of France and Spain l. 41. 85 Convention of the Knights of the Golden Fl 〈◊〉 at Gant l. 2. p. 46. of the Princes of the Empire at Frâ—nkford l. 3. p. 71. of the Cardinals at Rome l. 4. p. 81. of the Estates in the Low-countreys l. 1. p. 18. of the Convenanters at Amsterdam l. 5. p. 137. at Eâ—da p. 142. of the hereticks at Geneva l. 3. p. 56. of the Low-countrey Lords at Dendermond l. 5. p. 134 of the Gbeuses at Centron or St. Truden l. 5. p. 119. of the Electors at Worms l. 2. p. 34 Conventicles of hereticks in the night l. 5. p. 116 Convening of the Knights of the Golden Fleece l. 3. p. 69. the Estates Generall not permitted to convene â— 3. p. 68 69. l. 8. p. 20. Covenant of the Gentlemen engagers against Religion l. 5. p. 101. published in severall languages ibid. Countrey-men rout the Image-breakers l. 5. p. 122. â—nd their souldiers l. 7. p. 75. as Lewis of Nassau washed his wounds in the Mose they killed him l. 8 p. 3. their forces l. 6. p. 7 Corâ—â—lius from a black-smith come to be a Calvinistiâ—all Preacher l. 6. p. 7. Commander in chief of the Armentâ—rians in Flanders ibid. Cornelius Vandem l. 8. p. 24 Cosmo Duke of Florence l. 1. p. 21. 〈◊〉 p. 14 Cosse vide Arthur Covaâ—â—â—vias vide Didato Courtiers subtil to ingratiate themselves l. 1. p. 40. slippery-footed l. 3. p. 74. a Court-prodigie l. 1. p. 3 8. their phantasticall manners l. 1. p. 8. their derision of the Duke of Alva l. 7. p. 65. the change of their faces l. 4. p. 79. they follow the Princes example l. 10. p. 21. Vide Antoxy Perenot Granvell and the Sentences in C. Cressouerius a famous Engineer l. 6. p. 6. l. 7. p. 54. runs a Trench to the walls of Valâ—â—cims l. 6. p. 10. is Governour of Graveling l. 7. p. 80. dyes ibid. Crimpen l. 8. p. 13 Croi a house great in piery towards the blessed Virgiâ— of Hell l. 5. p. 111 Croi vide Charles Iohn and Philip. Cuilemburg vide Florence Palantius Court of Justice burnt down at Antwerp l. 8. p. 23. Curtius Comes Martinengo Captain of a foot company l. 6. p. 30. not present at Count Aremberg's defeate l. 7. p. 47. he pursues the flying Nassavians l. 7. p. 55. Cyprian Warr l. 5. p. 139. Sentences in C. PRinces names are always registred in the Kalander of publick CALAMITIES l. 5. p. 128 CALUMNIES and defamations without any distinction of truth or falshood are ever greedily entertained and as greedily communicated l. 5. p. 117 In CONSULTATIONS reason is not at all times permitted to make a free Election l. 9. p. 28 Some evills cured by CONTEMPT l. 4. p. 79 Though Women conceale their other Virtues yet they may glory in their CHASTITY l. 4. p. 92 The fire of CIVIL Warr can never be extinguished without the Conquerours losse l. 6. p. 23 COMPLAINTS though just loose part of that Iustice if they he importune l. 5. p. 104 Power seldome grows old at COURT l. 3. p. 55 Favour at COURT hath a better face then inside l. 4. p. 79 No virtue is lesse raised at COURT then that which is most feared l. 4. p. 79 It is hard to decesve the COURT l. 2. p. 40 Long prosperity makes not COURTIERS more secure of favour then impatient of affronts l. 4. p. 80 D. Devills accompany Church-Robbers l. 5. p. 125 obsesse their bodies l. 6. p. 17 Dalhem summoned l. 10. p. 3. the Fort besieged and taken ibid the unhappy fortune of a maid ibid Damianus Morales a Captain l. 8. p. 23 Damme a town in Frisland surprized by the Nassavians l. 7. p. 47. recovered by the Spaniards ibid. Death suffered gallantly Denmark the King l. 1. p. 13 l. 3. p. 53 Davaso vide Cesar Charles Daventry receives a garrison of Spaniards l. 6 p. 20. l. 7. p. 34. David secretary to the Duke of Parma l. 10. p. 23 David the Prophets psalmes sung by the Heriticks l. 3. p. 61 63. l. 5. p. 124. prohibited by Catholicks l. 3. p 63 Delph in Holland l. 7. p. 77. receives a garrison of Spaniards l. 6. p. 20 Delphino vide Flaminio Deputies of the Estates govern the Low-countryes vide Estates Derdendius Gallus l. 7. p. 80 Diana Phalanga a Surreatine l. 10. p. 22 Destruction of Nardhem l. 7. p. 73 Diary of Battels B. Didacus restores Charles Prince of Spain to his health l. 7. p. 43 Didaco of Austria Prince of Spain l. 7. p. 83 Didaco Cardinall Spinosa the Grand-Inquisitor for causes of Faith l. 6. p. 22. President of the Councill of Castile p. 23. l. 7. p. 46. called the Spanish Monarch ibid. votes for a warr with the Low-countryes l. 6. p. 22. presses the King to punish C. Egmont and C. Horne l. 7. p. 51. looseth the Kings favour l. 3. p. 74 Didaco de Chiaves Confessor to Charles Prince of Spain l. 7. p. 45 Didaco Covarrnvia Bishop of Segovia and President of Castile l. 4. p. 82 Didaco Gusman a Silva Embassador from Philip the second to the Queen of England l. 4. p. 94 Didaco Hurtado Mendosa l. 10. p. 6. Difference between the Duke of Alva and the Prince of Ebolo l. 6. p. 23. between Count Attempse and the Governour of Axtwerp l. 8. p. 17. between Don Iohn of Austria and Vâ—nerio l. 9. p. 49. between the Burbons Colignies Momorancies and Guises l. 3. p. 56. between Saint Charles Borronco and Requesenes l. 8. p. 15. between Charles the seventh of France and his Son Lewis l. 7. p. 44. between the Calvinists and Lutherans l. 6. p. 4. between Count Egmont and Duke Areschot l. 3. p. 72. and Count Aremberg p. 73. and Count Hochstrat l. 6. p. 14 15. between Cardinall Granvell and the Arch-Bishop of Naples l. 4. p. 81 82. Count Laline l. 3. p. 75. between Pope Pius the fourth and Philip the second of Spain l. 4. p. 85 c. between Philip the second and his Son Charles l. 7. p. 43. Diesthem taken by the Prince of Orange l. 7. p. 75 Don Iohn of Austria commands Alexander Farnese to besiege it l. 9. p. 54. 't is rendred p. 55. mercy shewed to the town ibid. the garrison take pay of the King ibid. Dilemburg the ancient seate of the Nassaus l. 7. p. 77 Dioclesian the Emperour l. 1. p. 6 Discipline of War observed by the Army l. 6. p. 31 Disputation between a Jesuite and Heriticks l. 6. p. 15 Doway l. 6. p. 37 Dort or Dordrecbt revoltâ— from the Spaniard l. 7. p. 72 Dreux a Town of Normandy
Sedition Storming vide siege Stuart vide Mary Swartzemburg vide Count Gunter Sultanies l. 9. p. 46. Sun in Eclipse how prodigious it was to Florence l. 1. p. 22. Supplications by publick Order l. 6. p. 29. l. 7. p. 64. Sâ—â—rentine Archbishop l. 5. p. 114. Suspition upon the Conference at Baion l. 4. p. 87 88. that the Emperours mind was changed in the Abdication of his Kingdomes l. 1. p. 5. touching the plunder of the Mutineers l. 8. p. 6. that the Low-Countries were betrayed l. 5. p. 127. Symboles or Badges of a Conspiracy decreed at a Feast l. 4. p. 78. worn by the Lords Servants ibid. interâ—reted by the Common People ibid. Prohibited by the Governesse ibid. layed aside by the Lords and supplyed with another device Ibid. forbidden by the King ibid. Switz l. 6. p. 26. Sentences in S. A Prince can never be SAFE among those Subjects that cannot think themselves secure among his Souldiers l. 9. p. 25. SECURITY is established by a mutual Safeguard Ibid. Nothing SECURE unlesse suspected l. 10. p. 15. In a Violent SICKNESSE there is not a more certain signe of Death then if Remedies be applyed sparingly and out of time l. 8. p. 19. 'T is hard to stand long in a SLIPPERY place if a man be just led by many l. 3. p. 74. 'T is the SPADE and Pickaxe which build and destroy Forts l. 9. p. 58. SPIES the Ears and Eyes of Princes l. 5. p. 10â— The life of SPIES is to know and not be known l. 5. p. 134. SUBJECTED people think themselves partly free if governed by a Native l. 1. p. 24. Confidence increaseth by SUCCESSE l. 9. p. 45. SUDDAIN and doubtfull Accidents ever strike a Terrour l. 5. p. 125. Those that have not ill Eares will be SUFFICIENTLY answered by not being answered l. 6. p. 16. Some that they may have SUPPLIANTS seek to make Delinquents l. 2. p. 35. Some kind of SUSPITIONS no innocence can absolutely cleer l. 10. p. 20. T. TAgus the River drawn up to the top of the Mountain of Toledo l. 1. p. 7. Tarquin the proud l. 3. p. 57. Tarquin Aruns his Example revived l. 7. p. 47. Taxio vide Petor Raymund Tavan a French Colonel l. 1. p. 6. Taxes imposed upon Men that for their health drink water at the Wells l. 7. p. 69. Taxes of the tenth twentieth and hundreth part imposed by the Duke of Alva l. 7. p. 65. the Low-Countrey men refuse to pay them ibid. p. 67 69. some disswade the Duke of Alva ibid. others perswade him ibid. his moderation ibid. he forbears to Exact them ibid. upon occasion of these Taxes the Low-countrey men Revolt from the King ibid. p. 73. Teliâ—an a Divine of Lovaine l. 3. p. 75. Temple a Village l. 9. p. 49. Tent of the Prince of Orange invaded by the Spaniards l. 7. p. 76. Tâ—â—â—nius Vasco sent by the Prince of Orange to sow Enemy between Don Iohn and the Low-countrey Lords l. 9. p. 33 35. Towin stormed by Charles the fifth l. 1. p. 10. Thames waded over l. 8. p. ix Theodorick Batemburg forced to flye Holland l. 6. p. 19. taken ibid. Executed Ibid. Theador Beza author of the Tumult at Ambois l. 3. p. 5â— his Councel for a new Model of Religion like the Profession of Ausburg l. 5. p. 138. he finisheth Davids Psalmes in French Meeter begun by Morot l. 3. p. 63. Theonvill l. 6. p. 3â— Theoph. Frisio Camerarius or of the Bed-Chamber to the Pope brings a red hat to Granvell l. 3. p. 54. Tholosiens defeated at Ostervell l. 6. p. 8 Thole an Island l. 8. p. 2 10. Tholose vide Iames Marnixius Iohn Thomas Armenterius sent into Spain by the Governesse l. 3. p. 75. heard at large by the King ibid. 76. alters the Kings mind from retaining Granvell in the Low-countries ibid. returning from Spain into the Netherlands he brings Granvells discharge l. 4. p. 79. Thomas Perenot the Spanish Embassadour in France acts chiefly by advice from his brother Granvell l. 3. p. 55 58. Thomas Raggius sent into England l. 7. p. 66. Tiber l. 7. p. 56. Tiberius Caesar l. 1. p. 2. l. 2. p. 40. l. 5. p. 126 127. l. 6. p. 29. manageth his Wars by his Sons l. 6. p. 23. his boast in Senate of the Twins his Wife brought him l. 9. p. 41. Tiâ—â—emont a Town of Brabant possessed by the Prince of Orange l. 7. p. 75. rendred to Don Iohn l. 9. p. 53. the Battel there l. 8. p. 21. Toledo the Archbishop l. 1. p. 8. the Aquaeduct of Toledo l. 1. p. 7. Toledo vide Ferdinando Federico Pedro Roderigo Tholous the Dioces divided l. 2. p. 30. Câ—ests full of Calvinistical books found at Tholous l. 7. p. 45. Torellii Lords of the Isle of Aenare l. 8. p. 15. Tongren l 7. p. 60. Tornay a Province of the Low-countries l. 1. p. 16. Governour ibid. Tornay the City ibid. its Governour l. 8. p. 8. Tumults raised at Tornay and quieted l. 3. p. 61. how frequently the Hereticks preached there ibid. l. 5. p. 116. Churches allowed to the Hereticks l. 5. p. 131. they threaten to revolt from the King l. 6. p. 1. Tornay Gheuses take up Armes and invade Lisle l. 6. p. 6. divert Lanoi ibid. routed and slain l. 6. p. 7. a Garrison imposed upon them l. 6. p. 8. the Rebels punished ibid. Tosond'or vide Herald Tournament l. 1. p. 13. Trent a City l. 2. p. 39. Councel of Trent vide Councell Triumphal pomp of the King of Navarre entring Roan l. 3. p. 61. of Granvell with the King of Spain l. 4. p. 83. of the Governesse at Antwerp l. 6. p. 18. of the Duke of Alva at Bruxells l. 7. p. 64. of Don Iohn of Austria l. 9. p. 32. of the Generals for the Estates l. 9. p. 31 32. Troops of Horse famous thorow out Europe l. 1. p. 17. Trophe erected by Germanicus Caesar l. 7. p. 57. by the Duke of Alva ibid. the interpretation thereof l. 7. p. 64. vide Statue Alva Truce for 5. years between the French and Spaniards l. 1. p. 3. 11. l. 2. p. 41. broken l. 1. p. 11. between Don Iohn and the Low-Countrey Estates not allowed of l. 10. p. 6. Truden vide Centron Tserclasse sent into Spain by the Brabanters l. 3. p. 66. Tullia Tarquins Wife compared with Albret l. 3. p. 57. Tumults presaged to the Low-countries l. 7. p. 53. their Causes l. 2. p. 17. l. â— p. 39. the prâ—â—â—ry and 〈◊〉 â—â—uses l. 2. p. 36. the sum of the Causes and occasions l. 2. p. 27. why they are varioâ—â— Argued by Historians ibid. being layed and almost extinguished by whom they were revived l. 3. p. 55 56. The retaining of the Spanish Souldiers in the Netherlands whether or no it was a Cause of the Tumults l. 2. p. 28. or the increase of the Bishops l. 2. p. 29. or the Inquisition introduced by the Emperour's Edicts l.
him refused The state of the Provinces Breda besieged by the Genera's of the Confederates Cardinal Granvels Brother A Messenger with a Letter to Don John Discovered Another counterfeit Letter was sent The Town rendred The Perfidiousness of the Garrison Ruremond holds out against the Confâ—iderates Still the Treaty of Peace continues The Queen of England moves for a Cessation of Arms in a threatning way She is not listned to The hope of Peace vanisheth Aprodigious Comet In Novemb. Decemb. 1577. January 1578. Of the Battel of Gemblac Both Armies mustered January 20. Don John's is lesse The enemie's greater But his are better men And more confident for this respect 6. January Pardieu Lord de la Mot. Goigny Commander in chief for the Confederates from 18. 1567. 1576. The Order of his Army Goigny Lievtenant-General to the Arch-duke Matthias for this Expedition Scoutes sent out and an ambush laid by Don Iohn The Catholick Army thus marshalled The Standard Don Johns orders Parties of both sides first skirmish Perotto of Sassoferrata The place of battell Alex. Farneze's conjecture of the enemy His words to the Gentleman of his Horse Curtius He communicates his designe to the Officers about him Henr. Viennius Lord of Ceuravium And they following he first passeth over the Gulph They all together charge the enemies horse And rout them Execution done upon the Confederates army Ianuar. 31. The day won by the horse Christ. Assonv in Relatione sayes One Spaniard was too hard for ten Confederates How great the Victorie Mar. Delr sayes but two were slain Mich. ab Isselt Leo. Belg. Febr. 2. Gemblac besieged by the Conquerours Yielded Mercy shewed to the town And to the prisoners Don Iohn's words to General Goignie The Conquerours commended by Don Iohn Prince Alexander especially With some adâ—â—â—ition Alex. Farneze's Answer His letter to the King in praise of Don Iohn Fâ—br 5. The like Commâ—ndations inserted in many other letters from Prince Alexander to Anton. Perez Marc. Almazar and Marc. Ayemont Feb. 15. Feb. 13. wherein he writes nothing of himself The Deputies of the Estates ignorant of the Victory sit in Councell Their trepidation when they heard the news The Arch-duke and the Prince of Orange flie Lord of Hierg Lovain yields to Don Iohn Feb. 5. And Iudoigne And Tienen Feb. 7. And Areschot Feb. 17. And Bovines Sichem summoned Refuseth to treat Alex. Farneze makes ready for an assault Febr. 21. Ordering his Forces In this manner The fight The Royalists The Sichemers Peter Henriquez and Baraiaz The Town is taken They that flie are cut to pieces The Town plundered The Castle holds out But Alex. Farneze batters down their works And raises new of his own The Castle rendred The Prisoners executed Diestem terrified Feb. 24. Submits And are gratiouâ—â—y used The Garrison-souldiers take Pay of the King Levia reduced Febr. 27. C. Mansfeld attemps Nivel Is repulsed The Town treats with Don Iohn A mutinie in the Catholick Army Don Iohn severs the Mutineers Demands the Principall of them Makes them cast lots for their lives At last one is hanged March 11. The Nivellers render themselves The Garrison suffered to depart without their Arms which are bestowed upon the French A gift that ruins them Mar. Delr l. 5. Turb Belg. saith 200 were lost The like misfortune formerly happened to their Nation Anno 1552. Pont. Heuter l. 3. Thuan. lib. 10. The Frenchmen move for a discharge from the service Duke of Alen-Son Don Iohn easily grants their suit They return in arms against him Part of them slain by surprise Part retire to a Fort. And will take no conditions Towns surrendred to Don Iohn Binch 1554. Malbuge Reux Beanmont Soigniac Barlamont Cimace taken by Assault April 15. The Castle yields Philipvil besieged It 's site 'T is invaded As we read in Cesar Livie and others Don John performing the parts of a Generall and a common souldier It is rendred Upon these terms May 19. 1578. The expedition of Limburg by Don John in his sicknesse committed to Alexander Farneze Why he undertakes it Part of his Forces sent before Iune 7. The Suburbs taken The site of Limburg Vvest Woâ—kes in order to an Assault Prince Alexanders Letter to the Limburgers They defer the sending of their Answer Whereat enraged He hastens the finishing his workes Comes Nicolaus Caesius And begins to batter from the hill A large Breach made The besiegers come up to the City gates A Messenger from the Towne to Prince Alexander His Answer He grants them an houres time to consider The women Supplicate from the walles Iune 16. The Towne is rendred Thought fortified And in a condition to hold out The Conquerours give God thanks P. Alexander summons Dalhem His Trumpet not admitted The Castle batterred To no purpose The Burgundians scale it And take both Castle and Towne by storme Iune 10. With a great Slaughter of the Citizens The sad fortune of a Maid Two Souldiers strive for her and in their struggle use their prisoner most inhumanely Who wounded and halfe dead Is taken from them But immediatly dies The benefit that followed the taking of Limburg Thanks sent to Alex. Farneze by the Princes whose Estates lay neare the Towne To the confederates great griefe at first afterwards to their great joy Vpon a Report that Prince Alexander with diverse more was slaine Coyned by the Prince of Orange Why such kind of newes is often forged What truth was in this Rumour A Miraculous Accident Iune 30. The Deaths of Count Barlamont Count Megen C. Barlamont's Encomion Aegidius Lancelloâ— Charles Don John's prosperous fortune troubles the Enemy Amsterdam attempted by the P. of Orange 1577. November Beates out his men Mar. Del. l. 4. Turb Belg. For which the Women are to be commended February At last the Towne is rendered and deceived The Prince of Orange votes for a Truce March 10. Sellio in the Kings name Treates with the Deputies of the Estates But to no end The Prince of Orange will onely give eare to a Truce Which Prince Alexander likes not March 25. His Letter to his Father Octavio Duke of Parma Neither is it approved of by Don Iohn New Officers from Spaine Pedr. de To. ledo Lopez Figueroa Alphons-Leva Gabr. Serbellonio Iune 22. New supplies of money from the King to Don Iohn To Alexander Farneze To Octavio Gonzaga To Mondragonio To Verdugo To Ant. olivera To Count Mansfeldt New levies in Italy Vnder these Commanders Don Iohn troubled at it Stops their proceedings Three Armies of the Enemy The States Forces The Duke of Alencon's Iuly 19. â—ohn Casimir's Iuly 17. Don Iohn's Councell of Warre Alex. Farneze votes against fighting them August 18. Only Serbellonio concurres with Prince Alexander The rest viz. Gonzaga Mansfeldt Olivera Montin and Mondragonio were of Don John's opinion Especially hearing the Prince of Orange was falne out with Campin And with Hese and Glimè Mart. Delr l. 4 Turb Belg. Don Iohn resolve to fight The site of the Enemy's