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

executioner to prepare ladders and ropes to hang up that night in their doores 70 of the citizens and gave them his vvarrant in vvriting vvhat they should be But God in his providence prevented this his cruel purpose Anno 1573. April 1. in that there came news that the Graue of Mark had taken in the Brill so the tyrant did not goe forvvard vvith his bloody enterprises I have instanced but 4. or 5. towns but there were scarce any town escaped their cruel pillaging except they had bribed their Commanders with exceeding large gifts Thus having given you a t ste of some of those many things I have o●served concerning the intolerable oppression vvorse then salvage cruelty of the Spaniards exercised upon the people vvhich they endured and laboured under the space of sixteene years I will novv leave these cruel tyrants to the Lord for judgement and address my self to speak somevvhat further concerning this Earle of Mark vvho had those Gentlemen vvith him that fled Before this hee had layne vvith his shipping in England but the King of Spaine sending his Ambassadour to our Queen vvho vvas then in peace vvith him to desire her that she vvould not suffer his subjects to have their harbour in her land and that she would not give them or suffer them to have any reliefe whereby they should make head against him and hereupon the Queene sent and commanded them out of her harbour and she commanded that they should not be suffered to have any provision in her coasts so that now they had no other means but onely God who did in his mercie provide for them better then they expected For they were purposed to have gone for the Tassel and to have taken some towne about that part but when they came neere that part they had the wind contrary that they could not come there so they went for the Maise and came with their ships before the Brill and there they went presently took it yet the Duke of Alva had his forces in the towne neere so m ny as they were whom they presently killed and chased out of the towne and out of the Iland The Prince of Orange being in France and hearing what had happened he sent them souldiers with as much speed as could be out of France And within one moneth after Duke Alva sent certain companies to Vlishing to keep that place strong for himself and many of the commanders were come into the towne So the Magistrates commanded the citizens to come presently upon the Statehouse so they told them they must lodge Spaniards in their houses and they knowing how they hade used the citizens in all places where they came they told the magistrates they would not have the Spaniards in their towne the Magistrates asked them which of them it was that did refuse to receive them They said All of them So the Magistrates seeing them so earnest against the Spaniards they joyntly tooke their Armes and killed and took prisoners all them that were in the town and with their Ordnance they shot at his ships where the Spaniards were and they made away And of those that were taken there were the names of about 80 that they had in writing from Duke Alva that dwelt in the Iland that they should put to death So those of the Bril sent their Souldiers with speed to help them He had appointed those to bee executed because they were the chiefe that stood against the pryment of the tenth peny And shortly the Prince of Orange came with forces and defended them and some other townes seeing the crueltie of the Spaniards forsooke the Spaniard and joyned with them and took the Prince of Orange to be their Protector yet the States notwithstanding did remain in obedience to the King some seven yeares after Again it is further worthy to be noted that these Provinces did three times send to the King their Noblemen but could obtain no mercy and many more times they went to the Princesse of Parma and made their humble petition for redresse of their oppression but could not obtain any favour then they made friends to the renowned Queen of England and to the Princes of Germany and to the Emperour who did earnestly entreat by their Ambassadours for them The King of Spain answered their Embassadours with these words he bade them tell their Masters That they should meddle with their own subjects and not with his for he knew wel enough how to rule his subjects without their Counsel Anno 1575. Now vvhen our Queens Majesty found his unreasonablenesse and cruelty then and not before she assisted them with Armes His ovven son Prince Charles did intreat for them th●t it vvould please him to let them have their Lavves and Priviledges and that they might not be so oppressed and vvithall he told his father that those Countries did belong to him Marplam in his Cronicle Anno 1567. Pray the like may not be he●e in England and that they vvere given him at his Baptisme for the vvhich his father sent him to prison and he never came out again If the Lord vvould not have forgot vvhat Amalek did long after for smiting the vveakest and hindmost of his people hovv may vve in equity forget the infinite murthers and spoiles this cruel Tyrant hath executed vvhereever he hath prevailed And vvho can forget in special that bloudie attempt against our selves in the year 1588. If I should trace this Tyrant from place to place I should runne in infinitum having made the name of Christianity hateful by his cruelty amongst the Heathens that knovv not God further then the light of nature for it is confessed by the Spanyards themselves that some of the chief of the Indians vvho were to be burnt to death They were exhorted by a popish priest to 〈◊〉 minde that after this life there was one place for joy another for torment being told of heaven and hel they asked whither the Spaniards vvent vvhen they dyed It vvas ansvvered to heaven Oh then sayd they we will never come where the Spaniards are But not to run so far I vvill rest content to keep me vvithin the bounds I chiefly intended concerning these Countri●s When the Citizens of Leyden vvere in great extremity by reason of a long siege the Spaniards proffering conditions of peace if so be they vvould yeeld up the Citie and themselves to them they returned ansvver Not while they had a right hand to hold the sword or a left to eat but if they should be driven to fall into their hands they would rather burn the Citie and drovvn themselues then to submit to them of vvhose perfidiousnesse they had had so lamentable experience and vvhen some of the Citizens pressed a yeelding in respect of the extremity of famine a Burgermaster called Peter Adrianson said Loving friends I confesse the famine is great and that some doe die for want of food yet rather let us agree