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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08435	A relation of sundry particular wicked plots and cruel, inhumaine, perfidious; yea, vnnaturall practises of the Spaniards Chiefly against the seuenteen prouinces of the Netherlands: yea, before they tooke vp armes. Gathered and translated out of seuerall Dutch writers, as that reuerend diuine Gulielmus Baudaitius, in his Morghen Wecker, and Emanuel de Miter, by S.O. a louer of truth and equity, and an vnfeigned hater of oppression and tyrannie, the bane of common-wealths.; Adjoyner of sundry other particular wicked plots and cruel, inhumane, perfidious; yea unnaturall practises of the Spaniards	Ofwod, Stephen.	1624 (1624)	STC 18756; ESTC S121681	13,204	18

lay in the cradle they quartered them and tooke them vpon their pikes and so went vp and downe the towne reioycing in their crueltie Such savage cruelty is scarcely to be found in any History what Christian heart can heare it and not be affected with deepe sorrow yet behold some monsters herein haue bin found that haue beene so farre from humanity herein for hee that hath humanity in him will commiserate others calamities that they haue applauded it as if he had in all these outrages done God good service Amongst the rest I shall content my selfe at present but to name the holy Father the Pope and one of his chiefe sonnes in this businesse The Pope sends his Legat to commend these so rare expioits and cals this cruell Duke Alva his beloved son sends him a costly sword the hilts whereof were of gold and a hat wrought with gold and beset with rich and costly stones thanking him for his good service in maintaining the Romish Religion and subverting of heretiks Howbeit that his chiefe sonne I mentioned exceeding this man of sinne in the sinne of cruelty as if hee would verifie himselfe to be ten fold more the child of Satan then his father the Pope thinkes not so well of it his name Vergas the President of this bloudy Inquisition for going shortly after into Spaine hee told the King that he and Duke d' Alva did marre all in the Netherlands by shewing so much mercy to those people Concerning this Duke d' Alva of whose outrage and crueltie so many haue felt and perfiduous dealing which many haue found by lamentable experience whereby may easily appeare of what stamp his excessiue mercies are even such as the Wiseman speakes of Pro. 12.10 the tendermercies of the wicked are cruel In which hee prides himselfe These words he spake at a banquet as he sat at the Table reioycing he had done the King so good service boasting he had slaughtered eighteene thousand and six hundred in forme of justice in six yeares times and ten times so many he and his Souldiers murthered otherwaies And many more would he doubtlesse haue murthered had not the Lord restrayned and limited him for his desire herein was as hell that cannot bee satisfied Witnesse the purpose of his proceeding against the Magistrates of Bruxels because they did not collect the tenth peny so as be desired He sware that he would haue it and before he would let it fall or remit it the Sunne and Moone should leaue their shining so he went to Brussels and commanded the executioner to prepare ladders and ropes to hang vp that night in their doores 70. of the Citizens and gaue them his warrant in writing what they should be But God in his providence prevented this his cruel purpose Anno 1573. April 1. I haue instanced but 4 or 5 townes but there were scarce any towne escaped their cruel pillaging except they had bribed their Commanders with exceeding large gifts in that there came newes that the Graue of Mark hath taken in the Brill so the tyrant did not goe forward with his bloody enterprises Thus having given you a taste of some of those many things I haue observed concerning the intolerable oppression worse then salvage cruelty of the Spaniards exercised vpon the people which they endured and laboured vnder the space of sixteene yeares I will now leaue these cruel tyrants to the Lord for judgement addresse my selfe to speake sormewhat further concerning this Earle of Mark who had those Gentlemen with him that fled Before this hee had layne with his shipping in England but the King of Spaine sending his Embassadour to our Queens who was then in peace with him to desire her that she would not suffer his subiects to haue their harbour in her land and that she would not giue them or suffer them to haue any reliefe whereby they should make head against him and heere vpon the Queene sent and commaunded them out of her harbour and she commanded that they should not be suffered to haue any provision in her coasts so that now they had no other meanes but onely God who did in his mercie provide for them better then they expected For they were purposed to haue gone for the Tassel and to haue taken some towne about that part but when they came neere that part they had wind contrary that they could not come there so they went for the Mase and came with their ships before the Brill artd there they went presently and tooke it yet the Duke of Alva had his forces in the towne neere so many 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 certaine companies to Vilshing to keepe that place strong for himselfe and many of the commanders were come into the towne So the Magistrates commanded the Citizens to come presently vpon the Statehouse so they told them they must lodge the Spaniards in their houses and they knowing how they had vsed the Citizens in al places where they came they told the magistrates they would not haue the Spaniards in their towne The Magistrates asked them which of them it was that did refuse to receiue them They sayd All of them So the Magistrates seeing them so earnest against the Spaniards they joyntly tooke their Armes and killed and tooke prisoners all them that were in the town with their Ordenance they shot at his ships where the Spaniards were and they made away And of those that were takē there were the names of about 80. that they had in writing frō Duke Alva that dwelt in the Hand that they should put to death Hee had appointed those to be executed because they were the chiefe that stood against the payment of the tenth peny So those of the Brill sent their souldiers with speed to helpe them 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 tooke the Prince of Orange to be their Protector yet the States notwithstanding did remaine in obedience to the King some seven yeares after Againe it is further worthy to be noted that these Provinces did three times send to the King their Noblemen but could obtaine 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 obtaine any favour then they made friends to the renowned Queene of England and to the Princes of Germany and to the Emperour who did earnestly entreat by their Embassadours for them The King of Spaine answered their Embassadours with these words he bad them tell their Masters That they should meddle with their owne subiects and