A BRIEFE CRONICLE and perfect rehearsall of all the memorable actions hapned not onelie in the low-Countries but also in Germanie Itaâ—y Fraunce Spaine England Turkie and other Countries since the yeare of our Lord. 1500. to this present yeare â—â—â—â— AT LONDON Printed by â—ohn Wolâ—e A BRIEFE CHRONICLE AND perfect rehearsall of all the memorable actions happened not only in the Low-Countries but also in Germanie Italie Fraunce Spaine England Turkey and other Countries since the yeare of our Lord 1500. to this present yeare 1598. year 1500 IN this yeare vppon the 25. day of the moneth of Februarie the Emperour Charles the fift was borne in the towne of Gaunt in Flaunders and in the same yere about the beginning of Sommer in Germany and Luke-land there sell Crosses of â—iâ—ers colours â—uâ— of the 〈◊〉 vpoÌ„ 〈◊〉 câ—â—theâ— year 1502 This yeare there was so great a death in Germany that the common speech among them was that all those on whom the bloody Crosses fell the yeare before should die at the same time there fell such a Haile by Vitupord in Brabrant as the like was neuer seene for the haile stones were as big as any Tennis ball year 1503 This yeare about the last of Iulie in the afternoone all the Towne of Herderwicke was burnt in the space of three houres so that there remained but three or foure houses by the which fire there were smothered aboue 1500 men and al that was within the houses kurnt The same yeare there were 200. houses burnt in Gorcum and at Belle in Flaunders 500 houses year 1504 This yeare died Isabell Queene of Spaine year 1506 About the beginning of Ianuarie preparation was made to bring king Phillip and his wife into Spaine The same yeare when king Phillip was gone into Spaine the Gelders began againe to war vppon Holland and Brabrant The same yeare about the 27. of September died Phillip King of Spaine and Granado presently after his Coronation year 1507 The Towne of Tienen was taken by those of Gelder with the aide of certaine Frenchmen which was done vpon Saint Michaels day and Turnholt spoyled year 1508 The 8. of September there arriued two ships at Teruere in Zealand that came fro the Canaries being the first ships that euer sailed out of Zealand into Spaine or the Islands they were laden with Canarie Sugars the ships went to Antwarpe there offered the Suger to be sold for two blankes a pound but they could not sell it for so much The same yeare the Prince Charles with the Emperour Maximilian his Grandfather made his entrye into Gaunt year 1509 On the xiiij of October there was an Earthquake in the Cittie of Constantinople that continued for the space of 18 dayes so that the walles of the Citie and all the houses vpon the Sea side fell downe and the sea rose so high that it flowed ouer the walles of the Towne and drowned aboue 14000. men year 1510 There happened wars betweene Hans King of Denmarke and the Townes of Holland zealand Frezeland against certaine Townes lying vppon the sea as Lubecke Rostocke and their adherents which continued for the space of two yeares year 1511 The Emperour Maximilian held a Parliament of the states of Germanie at Ausberg where there was 〈◊〉 maÌ„ brought before him that was so great that he eate a whole Calfe and a Sheepe raw at one meale and yet was not suffized year 1512 There was such a Frost for the space of nine weekes that in many places men went on foote vpon the salt water year 1513 This yeare Henry the right King of England landed at Callis with a great power of men from thence entered into the frontiers of Flaunders to make warre against the king of Fraunce and at that time hee tooke Turwin Turney and built a Castle in Turney year 1514 In the moneth of Ianuarie at Wittenberge in Saxonie there was three Sunnes seene in the aire and in each Sunne a bloody sworde the eleauenth of the same moneth ware three Moones likewise seene The 7. of March there were two raine bowes seene in the aire that stood backe to backe The same yeare in Layden there was a Child borne without a heade with eyes mouth in the brest the armes and handes sticking close by the sides and beneath it was round without legges or feet year 1515 The first of Ianuarie died Loys the eleueuth King of Fraunce The same yeare vppon satterday after candlemas day Prince Charles entred into Andwarpe and the next day after hee was inuested Duke of Brabrant receiued homage of al the 17 Prouinces year 1516 The 20. of October the order of the Golden Fleece was holden by Prince Charles at Brussels and Leenuerden was besieged by the Guelders year 1517 The same yeare Charles Duke of Austria went into Spaine there to bee Crowned king The same yeare the Frost was so great at Anwarpe that they went on foote ouer the Riuer of Scheld people roade with Horse and wagons ouer the water into Brabrant year 1518 Prince Charles was crowned King of Spaine within the towne of Valedolet and by Vento about 1200. souldiers were slaine that were named the Blacke company the same yeare likewise there was an accorde made betweene Brabrant Flanders Asperen was won from the Gelders year 1519 The 12 of Ianuarie died Maximilian the Emperour Grandfather to Charles King of Spaine The same yere in the month of February Francis de Valois King of France bought the towne of Tourney of Henry king of England for a great summe of money The same yeare wheate was sold for 12. stiuers and Rie for 9. stiuers the quarter year 1520 This yeare vpon the 23. of October Charles King of Spaine was elected Emperour and at Acen in Germanie hee receaued the Imperiall Crowne with great triumph The same yeare in the moneth of October there was three hundred houses burnt in Romerswald year 1521 The Emperour Charles in presence of the King of Denmarke laide the first stone of the foundation of the new quier of our Ladies church in Andwerpe and spread the morter with a trowell The same yeare vppon the 19. of Nouember there was 70. parishes in Holland ouerflowne and drowned by force of the water that entred into the land and in the same moneth the Towne of Turney was besieged by the Emperour and vpon Saint Andrewes day it was taken since which time it hath bin holden vnder the king of Spaines subiection year 1522 The Island of Rodes was wonne by the Turke and while it was besieged there rose a muteny in Andwarpe the people saying that the bakers were the cause of the dearth of corne which as then was verye deare the like did the women of Machelen and Brussels against their Bakers The same yeare in the moneth of Aprill by Egmont in Holland there was a Fish taken being of 80. foote long in greatnes correspondent whereof they made 160. barrels of Fish besides the
in trailes The same yeare vpon Palmesonsonday at Konlen there were 2. children borne that cloue fast together hauing two Heades two Armes and two feete maiden Children but dead borne Vpon Saint Andrewes day the same yere a shippers wife oâ— Moerbeke baked a loafe of breade oâ— pure wheate and when she drewe iâ— out of the Ouen it was as blacke as pitch year 1523 This yere in the month of March there was so great a storme of thunder lightning that there fel hailestones as big as hennes egges and of diuers colours The same yeare Rodes was againe wonne from the Turkes year 1524 This yeare there was 5. thousand houses burnt in the towne of Troy in Champania year 1525 This yeare during the besieging of Pauia there rose great trouble in Germanie for preaching of the Gospell by Martin Luther The same yeare the Emperour Charles married the king of Portingales Daughter in the Towne of Ciuill in Spayne year 1526 This yeare vppon the 25 of Februarie happened the fearefull and cruel battaile before Pauia betweene the Emperour Charles and Francis king of Fraunce wherin the king of Fraunce was taken prisoner year 1527 This yeare vppon the seauenth of May Phillip eldest son to Charles the Emperour was borne at Valedolet in Spaine The same yeare the citie of Rome was besieged and taken by the Emperour Charles the Pope taken prisoner and in scaling the walles the Duke of Burbon was slaine year 1528 This yere vpon the 6. of March 1500. Guelders and many Citizens of Vtrecht robbed and spoyled the Towne of Hage in Holland This yeare the Ilande Peru was first found out The same yeare vppon the first oâ— Iune the Bishop of Vtrecht tookâ— the towne of Vtrecht from the Guelders slaying and imprisoning alâ— the Captaines and souldiers drowning two Prebends and beheadinâ— two Citizens year 1529 This yeare in the moneth of Iulie the Frenchmen bearing thâ— imperiall armes by subtiltie tookâ— the towne of Myllan The same yeare the Turke besieged Vienna with an Armie of twâ— hundreth and fiftie thousand men The same yeare vppon Michaelmas day in the Euening there dieâ— many people of the sweating sicknes in Anwarpe year 1530 This yeare vppon the two 〈…〉 Fâ—bruary the 〈◊〉 Charles was crowned king of â—â—â—bardie within the towne of Bononia where the Emperour kissed the Popes foote The same yeare vpon the twentie foure of March the first stone of the foundation of the Court of Parliament at Machelen was laide which before was holden in the Pallace The same yeare vppon the fift of Nouember foure hundred foure Parishes were drowned in the low-Countries year 1531 This yeare the Emperour came to Collen where Ferdinand his Brother was crowned king of Romains The same yeare in the moneth of August about Saint Laurence day there was a Comet or Blazing star seene in the Low-Countries The same yeare and moneth there was a fish taken vpon the Sea side in Holland of sixtie eight 〈◊〉 loâ—g 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 being thirteene foote broad The same yeare there happened an Earthquake in Portingale that coÌ„tinued for the space of eight daies wherby 1050. houses within Lisbon fell downe This earthquake happened sometimes seauen or eight times a day which made the Citizens for feare to leaue the towne lie in the open fields year 1532 A woman in Germanie beeing great with child killed her husband in the night time and eate vp his left side with the arme the rest of the dead body she boyled and kept it to eate The same yeare ouer the towne of Munster in Westfalie there was a man all armed seene in the aire year 1533 This yeare Henry the eight king of England repudiated his wife Katherin daughter of Ferdinand king of Spaine and married his second wife called Anne of Bullen The same yeare Charles Duke of Guelderland with fiue thousand men ouerthrew the power of the Earle of East Freesland beeing of fifteene thousand men The same yere vpon the sixt of October about twelue of the clocke at night our Lady Church in Andwarp was burnt The same yeare the Towne of Breda was increased and made greater by Henry Earle of Nassau who likewise founded the Castle year 1534 This yeare vpon our Lady euen in the month of March there assembled great numbers of men women both of Holland and Zealand called Anabaptists that ment to passe through Harlame to goe to Munster but at blacke water they were taken and most of them burnt punished The same yeare vpon Mary Magdalens day there was more then one thousand houses burnt in Breda The same yeare Iohn van Layden principall of the Anabaptists with his company tooke the Towne of Munster driuing out the Bishop and all the spiritualty but beeing besieged by the Emperours troupe and constraind by hunger it was wonne from him Iohn Van Layden with his associates were executed The same yeare the towne Cleruaus in France was spoyled with thunder and in three houres cleane burnt The same yere the towne of Montalbon in France was in three houres space cleane burnt consumed with fire The same yeare the Anabaptists ranne naked through the towne of Amsterdam and made great vprore year 1535 This yeare the Emperour with a great Armie sayled into Africa where he draue the Barbarians out of the towne of Tunis and restored Muleasses to his kingdome againe The same yeare a Gentleman being aliue suncke into the earth because hee would not sell corne to the poore people at a reasonable price This yeare Henry the eight King of England in despight of the Pope because he would not consent to the deuorce of Queene Katherin permitted Luthers doctrine in England year 1536 This yeare vppon the ninth of May the towne of Delft was burned and consumed with fire in the space of three houres The same yere died Erasmus of Roterdam year 1537 This yere Francis king of France with fifty thousand men tooke the towne of Hedding The same yeare and moneth the Earle of Buren burnt the townes of Saint Paul and Mutterell besieged Turwin year 1538 This yeare Henry King of England suppressed diuers Abbies and Cloysters in England keeping all their lands to himselfe year 1539 This yeare vppon the second of May Isabell Queene of Spaine and Empresse and Daughter to the king of Portingale died at Toledo in Spaine year 1541 This yeare the Emperour came out of Spaine and at Gaunt hee punished diuers rebels and therein made a goodly Castle The same yere the Summer was so hote that the Riuer of Rhiin in some places was dried vp so that men past ouer it on foote the like did the Riuer of Seine in Fraunce and the Figges in Flanders were as ripe vppon the trees as if they had come out of Spayne year 1542 This yeare vppon the twentie foure of Iune warres were againe proclaimed betweene the Emperour and the King of France The same yeare in the moneth of Iulie vpon Saint Iames day Martin Van Rosse with
tooke Dornicke by composition after hee had many times assalted it The twentie nine of October Duke Mathias went out of the Low-Countries year 1582 This yeare vpon the ninteene of Februarie the Duke Alenson by ship at riued in Andwarpe and the twenty two of the same moneth hee was sworne Gouernour of the Countrie of the States The eighteene of March the Prince of Conde was shotte into the heade within the towne of Andwarpe by one Iohn Iauregni The ninteene of Aprill the Prince of Parma besieged Andenard tooke it for want of aide The twentie three of Aprill Monsieour de Tion Tempel and Monsieour de la Guard tooke Aelst The eleauenth of Iulie Nicholas Zalcedo thought to haue slaine the Duke of Alenson but hee was taken and brought to Paris where vppon the twentie two of October he was torne in peeces by foure horses The second of August the Scots that lay in Liere betraied the towne and deliuered it to the Prince of Parma The fifteene of August the Duke Alenson was receiued into the town of Gaunt as Earle of Flaunders The xxiii of September Lochem was deliuered by the Earle of Hollocke wherin were three Earles The same moneth the Prince of Parma tooke Nieuenhouen year 1583 This yeare the seuenteene of Ianuarie the French furie happened in Andwarpe where the Duke Alenson vnder pretence of a muster meant to haue betraied it in the which enterprise he lost fifteene hundred Frenchmen besides hurt men prisoners and but 83. Burgers slaine The thirteenth of Februarie the new Burse of Andwarpe was burnt In August the Spaniards tooke Dixmuyden and in December they besieged Ipre The twenty foure of October the Spaniards tooke Sas by Gent. The thirteenth of October the baylie of Wast deliuered the land of Wast to the Spaniards and they of Andwarpe cut the Diches year 1584 In this yere in the month of Februarie Aelst was deliuered to the Prince of Parma The twelfth of April the Prince of Parma tooke Ipre The tenth of Inne the Prince of Parma besieged the sconce of Lillo but hee was forced to leaue it with shame The tenth of Iuly the Prince of Parma tooke Liefekins hooke The same day the Prince of Orange was slaine in Delf by one Balthazer Gerrats the same month the States lost Herentales The sixteene of August Dermond was deliuered to the Prince of Parma The twentic six of September the towne of Gaunt for want of victnals yeelded to the Prince of Parma year 1585 This yeare Graue Holocke tooke Hertogenbosh but hec was forced to leane it againe with some losse of his men The same yeare vppon Saint Matthews euening the bridge by Calco was fully finished The tenth of March Brussels for want of victuals agreed with the Prince of Parma The fourth of Aprill the ships that were set on fire and sent by them of Andwarpe to fire the bridge entred vnder it and did much hurt The same time the Hollanders and Zealanders took in Liefskins hooke S. Annes hooke and Venten The seauenteene of Iuly the towne of Mechelen for want of victuals yeelded to the Prince of Parma The tenth of August an agreement was made betweene England and the Low Countries The eleuenth of August the Prince of Parma receaued the Golden Fleece at the bridge of Calloo on Brabant side The twenty seauen of August the Prince of Parma entred into Andwarpe The second of September the bridge was broken The ninth of Nouember the Diches of the Castle of Andwarpe were digged againe year 1586 This yeare about the beginning thereof the Earle of Lecester came into Holland and the sixt of Februarie after was proclaimed Gouernour The sixt of Iune the towne of Graue by composition yeelded to the Prince of Parma The twenty nine of Iune he tooke Venlo likewise by composition The sixteene of Iuly the Englishmen tooke Axel in Flaunders The seuenteene of Iuly the Prince of Parma besieged the towne of Nuse and the xxvj of the same hee tooke it by assault The tenth of December at Limer a village lying by Tienen there rained blood vpon the Ise in a gentlemans Orchard and it fell so hot that there with the Ise hissed as if one had thrust a pipe of Lead into it sunke at the least a foot deepe into the Ise year 1587 This yere vpon the xvij of Ianuarie the Frenchmen traiterously yeelded vp the Castle of Woud by Bergen The same month the towne of Deuenter was betraied to the Spaniard by Sir Edward Stanley The fourth of Iuly the towne of Gelder was betraied by a Scot called Patron The last of Iulie Rye was solde in Andwarpe for twelne Guilders wheat for fifteene guilders the quarter The ninth of August the towne of Sluce yeelded to the Prince of Parma after he had shot 16000 Cannon shot at the towne The same yere died Augustus Lantgraue of Saxon. year 1588 This yere the Queene of Scots was beheaded in England Not long before that the Earle of Lecester returned againe into the low Countries The same yeare hapned the trouble before Medenblicke The same time the Lord of Buckhurst came into the Low Countries in the Queene of Englands behalfe The same yeare in Iune the Earle of Hollocke tooke the house of Loon the Sconce of Enghelen in the water that goeth to Bosch where Houtepen was slaine and died at Hertogenbushe The sixt of Iuly there was contētion in Vtrecht betweene the Earle of Newenare and the Magistrates Burgers About August September there was much talking of peace wherevpon the Queene of England sent her Ambassadors out of England into Flanders at the request of the Prince of Parma but it was all but treason The twenty six of October at Layden were executed Iaques Valmar Cosmo de Pescarenges Nicholas Mauld and some for the same cause banished out of the towne The twentie three of December Shenk tooke Bon. About this time the Prince of Parma prepared diuers ships and flatte bottomed boates at Andwarpe and at Dunkerke which did little profit or aide to the Spanish Fleet. The xxvij of Februarie 1588. a woman in Dort was deliuered of iiij men children at a birth that were all liuing and christned their names being Abraham Isaac Iacob and Samuel The tenth of March Gertrudenberge fell in a muteny The xij of Aprill the Earle of Lecester was discharged of his gouernmēt by open placart About this time died the king of Denmarke The twentie eight of Aprill a woman in Dort was deliuered of three children at one birth and christned Abraham Sara and Susanna About the middle of May the Prince of Parma thought to haue put out of Dunkerke with a great Fleet of Ships but the Hollanders kept him in At the same time the Queene of England prepared her Nauy in a readines made great preparation for the wars although in the meane time a peace was intreated of The thirteenth of May a great Armie of Spanish ships set out of