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A11787	A Second part of Spanish practises, or, A Relation of more particular wicked plots, and cruell, in humane, perfidious, and vnnaturall practises of the Spaniards with, more excellent reasons of greater consequence, deliuered to the Kings Maiesty to dissolue the two treaties both of the match and the Pallatinate, and enter into warre with the Spaniards : whereunto is adioyned a worthy oration appropriated, vnto the most mighty and illustrious princes of Christendome, wherein the right and lawfulnesse of the Nederlandish warre against Phillip King of Spaine is approued and demonstrated.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Verheiden, W.; Strategia e organizzazione (Firm)	1624 (1624)	STC 22078.5; ESTC S1714	34,814	46

preparing of that cruell Fleet that both France and England had been a prey vnto their enemies Wheras those good Princes notwithstanding had nothing at all endamaged him neither was he by any juiustice provoked to that warre vnlesse peradventure it be that he thought this occasion sufficient that the Pope at the will and desire of Phillip had excommunicated those two flourishing Kingdoms for their exercising and ministery of the Reformed Religion who for the extirpation and eradication of that Religion Phillip as a Cato Maior with the puissance of the Romish Censores or correction masters vseth to haue regard vnto all the Kings and people of the earth and therefore to correct and punish them which is indeede a matter known vnto you all for which no man can sufficiently wonder at the shamefulnesse thereof and might now neither be passed by nor omitted And that Phillip in these warres of France dealt most earnestly and with the greatest diligence and alacrity with the Duke of Feres and other Spaniards of the League whom he as companions had assisted in that warre to haue estranged the Right and Title of the Crowne of France not onely from the succession or descent of the Kings blood and kinred but euen from all Frenchmen and to haue drawne the same to Spaine These things are so certaine O Princes that there is no man which doubteth of the truth hereof But to what end do I bring these into your Remembrances What is this to maintaine the purpose I haue in hand For this end it serueth thereby to proue how exceeding great the ambition is of this most cruell Tyrant and to the end you may perceiue and see how greatly not onely we but euen all of you together must keep good watch and looke vnto it For like as the nature of the Vine is to extend the branches as the armes thereof farre and wide and therewith embraceth and layeth hold vpon euery thing that is neer it if it be not lopt and pruned Euen so shall Phillip if you doe not all at once make resistance at the last destroy and devoure all Christendom with most cruell and bloody warre Moreover he by his Btibery and secret conspiracy had lately effected so much in Scotland that some of the chiefe of that Kingdome should haue received and taken in twenty thousand Spaniards if they had not been punished after the matter was knowne and revealed according as their treason deserued I need not to thinke with my selfe that I can sufficiently expresse with words what treasons what perills what daungers he so oftentimes hath attempted against the Queene and Kingdome of England Can ambition and violence proceed yet any further Yes truely For the like treacheries practised hee a little before against the Principallity of Collen the Dukedomes of Gelders Gulich Cleane the County of Berghe and that ancient Emperiall Towne of Aken All which is most manifestly and apparantly knowne by good Testimony and by his owne letters And who knoweth in what lurking hole and corner of hipocrisie and dissimulation he hideth and sheltreth his most mortall hate against the most mighty Princes of Italy whom as soone as the wind of the first oportunity shall blow very suddenly shall be turned into coales and ashes by his vnquenchable and fearefull great flames of Warre Doe ye not yet see and perceiue enough ô Princes what treacheries and deceits that Philip prepareth for your most happy Kingdomes and Prouinces which are your Patrimonies Considering there is no man so blind nor senselesse who seeth not and vnderstandeth not that the ambition of Phillip neuer resteth but dayly draweth him from land to land and raiseth a new warre out of war So that he by warres sinne mischiefe and meere villanous deceits and treacheries vnder the pretence of a seeming-peace seeketh to deject and detrude euery one of you from the seate of your Gouernment For this his desire is vnsatiable and immoderate and cannot be included nor shut vp neither in Heauen nor in Earth If that all Phillips Kingdomes which he useth commonly in that long traine or taile of his most proud Titles and Termes of Honour were put or layd into one of the Seales of Critolaes ballance and in his other seale his Ambition or greedie desire of Honour All the Kingdomes would scarcely weigh the quantity of one graine in comparison of his Ambition Alexander the Great looked about for more worlds when he had conquered the whole world but Phillip would if he could with the Gyants assault the heauens And therefore O Princes and you most peacefull Princes I intreate you and I would admonish you that you judge no more of the occasion and lawfulnesse of our warre but in your judgements and opinions to hold it for good and I exhort you most earnestly againe and againe that you by all meanes both in your vnderstandings and with all your powers will take heed of the treacheries robberies and mischievous practises of Phillips deceit In former times whenas the Athenians partly with warre and partly with deceits and treacheries sought to get unto themselues certaine neere adjacent places as the Cities of Syracusa Lacaedemon Messena and Catina they by their immoderate Ambition and desire of others Rights drewe such an hatred upon their owne heads that Darius the most mighty King of Persia with the whole country of Grecia voluntarily undertooke and prosecuted warre against them unto which euery man ranne and hasted as to quench a publicke flame But you O most Illustrious Princes ought long ago to haue expelled Phillip with your conjoyned forces from you and from your prosperous States that seeketh continually your liues and Kingdomes by most unjust warre and by most wicked enterprises And it concernes and is fitting not onely for you who for a long time since haue beene provoked spurred and stirred up thereunto by the many injuries and ambition of Phillip but euen you altogether who see and perceiue that he incroacheth with violence upon the limmits of your neighbours and with an easie and slow pace creepeth and incroacheth towards your Countries It standeth you upon in time to looke unto it to the end that your neighbouring Countries being conquered and brought under his slauery and bondage Tyranny when you lest thinke upon it do not incroach upon you When as Phillip of Macedon the Father of Alexander the Great after the Battell with the Tribaldes had entertained a long dissembling warre with the Athenians the Thebeans assembled themselues for this occasion fearing lest when the Athenians had bene conquered the fire of their neighbouring-warre might haue flowne unto them And a little before there being a confederacy made betwixt two of the mightiest Cities who before had bene at extreme enmity with each other terrified thereby and by their Embassadors all the Country of Grecia esteeming it so that a common enemy ought and must be repelled with common force so that if the first invasion of Phillip of Macedon had had good successe he

seruice in maintaining the Romish Religion and subuerting of heretikes Howbeit that his chiefe son I mentioned exceeding this man of sin in the sin of cruelty as if he 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 is Vergas the President of this bloudy Inquisition for going shortly after into Spaine he told the King that he and Duke d' Alua did marre all in the Netherlands by shewing so much mercy to those people Concerning this Duke d' Alua of whose outrage and cruelty so many haue felt and perfidious dealing which many haue found by lamentable experience whereby may easily appeare of what stamp his excessiue mercies are euen such as the Wiseman speakes of Pro. 12.10 the tender-mercies of the wicked are cruell In which he prids himselfe These words he spake at a banquet as he sate at the Table reioycing he had done the King so good seruice boasting he had slaughtered eighteen thousand and sixe hundred in form of iustice 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 be satisfied Witnesse the purpose of his proceeding against the Magistrates of Bruxels because they did not collect the tenth peny so as he 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 Anno 573 1 April 1. I haue instanced but 4 or 5 towns but there were scarce any town escaped their cruell pillaging except they had bribed their Commanders with exceeding large 〈◊〉 and gaue them his warrant in writing what they should be But God in his prouidence preuented this his cruell purpose in that there came newes that the Graue of Mark had taken in the Brill so the tyrant did not goe forward with his bloudy enterprises Thus hauing giuen you a taste of some of those many things I haue obserued concerning the intolerable oppression and worse then sauage cruelty of the Spaniards exercised vpon the people which they endured and laboured vnder the space of sixteene yeares I wil now leaue these cruell tyrants to the Lord for iudgement and address my selfe to speak somewhat further concerning this Earle of Mark who had those Gentlemen with him that fled Before this hee had laine with his shipping in England but the King of Spaine sending his Embassadour to our Queen 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 hereupon the Queene sent and commanded them out of her harbour and she commanded that they should not be suffered to haue any prouision in her coasts so that now they had no other meanes but onely God who did in his mercie prouide 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 the wind contrary that they could not come there so they went for the Malse and came with their ships before the Brill and there they went presently and tooke it yet the Duke of Alua 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 speede as could be out of France And within one moneth after Duke Alua sent certaine companies to Vlishing 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 all 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 said All of them So the Magistrates seeing them so earnest against the Spaniards they ioyntly tooke their Armes and killed and tooke prisoners all them that were ●n the town Hee had appointed those to be executed because they were they were the chiefe that stood against the payment of the tenth peny 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 Alua that dwelt in the Iland that they should put to death So those of the Bril sent their souldiers with speed to help thē 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 ioyned with them and took the Prince of Orange to be their Protector yet the States notwithstanding did remaine in obedience to the King some seuen yeares after Againe it is further worthy to be noted that these Prouinces 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 fauour 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 not with his for he knew well enough how to rule his subiects without their counsell Now when our Queenes Maiestie found his vnreasonablenesse and cruelty then and not before she assisted them with Armes Ann. 1575. His owne sonne Prince Charles did intreat for them that it would please him to let them haue their Lawes and Priuiledges and that they might not be so oppressed Marplam in his Chronicle an 1567. and withall hee told his father that those Countries did belong to him and that they were giuen him at his Baptisme for the which his father sent him to prison and he neuer came out againe If the Lord would not haue forgot what Amalek did long after for smiting the weakest hindmost of his people how may we in equity forget the infinite murthers and spoiles this cruell Tyrant hath executed where-euer hee hath preuailed And who can forget in speciall that bloudy attempt against