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A07032	A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries, otherwise called Flanders Wherein, is sett forthe the originall and full proceedyng of the saied troubles and ciuile warres, with all the stratagemes, sieges, forceble takynges, and manlike defenses, of diuers and sondrie cities, tounes, and fortresses of the same, together, the barbarous crueltie and tyrannie of the Spaniard, and trecherous hispaniolized Wallons, [and] others of the saied lowe Countreis. And there withall, the estate and cause of religion, especially, from the yere 1559. vnto the yere 1581. Besides many letters, commissions, contractes of peace, unions, articles and agrementes, published and proclaimed in the saied prouinces. Translated out of French into Englishe, by T.S. ge[n]t.; Chronyc. historie der Nederlandtscher oorlogen, troublen enn oproeren oorspronck, anvanck enn eynde, item den standt der religien, tot desen jare 1580. English.	Stocker, Thomas, fl. 1569-1592.; Marnix van St. Aldegonde, Philips van, 1538-1598, attributed name.; Rijckewaert, Carolus, called Theophilus, fl. 1577, attributed name.; Henricpetri, Adam, fl. 1576. General historien der aller namhafftigsten unnd fürnembsten Geschichten, Thaten und Handlungen.; Le Petit, Jean François, 1546-ca. 1615, attributed name.	1583 (1583)	STC 17450.3; ESTC S111524	324,446	432

would procure their ayde and deliuerance praying them to remaine constant not lightly and vnaduisedly receiue in any victuals without they saw himselfe or some assurance from him for he feared that the Spaniardes vnder his name might by some stratageme abuse and deceiue them A flying messen ger arriueth at Leyden The first flying messenger arriued at Leyden the 28. of that moneth which the magistrate by sound of the bel gaue the people to vnderstand the 29. day he read the letters opēly Declaring vnto them how that his Excellencie himself had been with the armie to giue order for their deliuerance and that he had him commended vnto them all beseeching them yet for a while to continue constant for the Lord of Hostes woulde send meanes to deliuer thē These letters greatly gladded and incouraged the people prayfing God and incessantly as the other confedered Townes had done made their prayers vnto the Lorde Now this great ioy was not without some mixture of sorrowe because that before and the same very day the winde blew vp at the Northeast which caused the water to fall rather then ryse so that the princes armie thought that they had as it were lost all hope of deliuering them if the inuisible meanes of God to wit the great flowing of the water which began that 29. day lasted vntill the second of October had not holpen them Wherfore the Admirall Boysot wrote vnto his Excellencie that if God of his mercy did not help both with wind also with the rising of the water and by suche meanes as no mā was able as yet to perceiue that he sawe not which way possible to bring to passe the reuictualling of the towne for this time and feared that after it woulde be too late considering that there was not a beaste left and that there were but two dissributions moe to be had and these but to last for right dayes Insomuch that the misery besides the pestilence diseases and discord was in the towne verie great as he vnderstood by the messengers and as was also after found to be most true For many of them had not in seuen weekes space eaten one byt of bread drunke nothing els but water Horse flesh also was then as good meat with the wealthiest of them as mutton is at this present Cats and dogs amongst the aduenturers Strange kinds o● meates whiche the Leydens did cate and others which lay at the gates of the Towne were thought to be delicate meate and so eaten It is impossible to describe vnto you all their maner of cookery although many tolde mee of it Some of them eate vine leaues mingled with Amell floure and salt There was great difference in the leaues of trees therefore they made sundrie kindes of meates of leeke blades rootes and roote stalkes and the roote leaues which fell to the ground was a very ordinary kinde of good meate Rootes and skinnes cut in small gobbins and sodden in butter mylke was an ordinary and common meate for manie Gentlewomen were driuen to eate their little pupprelles in whom before they tooke great pleasure To the place where the flesh was wonced to be cut out and diuided the poore children came and eate blood rawe the peeces of the flesh which fell away in the diuision All the old rottē shoes in the towne which lay in the dirt were takē vp eatē forthwt. The Poore women were seene sitting vpon the dounghils with their clokes cast ouer their heads gathering vp of the best bones they coulde finde and carryed them home to their houses And they no sooner founde the least stalk of a roote but that they immediately eate it vp The young boyes oftentimes sucked the bones which the dogs had gnawne Euery woman that lay in childbed was fain to be pleased with a quarter of a pound of bisket a day Some women againe were so honger bitten as that the childe in theyr wombe was almost pined to death The blood of the cattell was gathered vp out of the filthie stinking gutters of the towne The prices of certaine victuals in Leyden and eaten Neuerthelesse their drinke was somwhat more to be borne withall for beside the water they had Beare made of Dates which cost an Holland pennie the pot Yea some made drinke of the very huskes of the graines mingling therw t hearbe Grace Rue in steed of Hemlock Othersome dranke vineger water mingled together so that whē the town was freed at liberty there was scarcely any vineger to be had A pound of butter was worth xv souls A yellow carot one souls a rootstalk halfe a souls a Peare or Apple a grote There was offered for a sacke of wheate an hundred florins Ouer and besides this great misery the plague was so ryfe all the Towne ouer as that there dyed of it almost sixe thousand persons The young children which were staruen to death said as it is written in the lamentations of Ieremie Where is the bread where is the wine and so fell down stark dead in the streetes or betweene their mothers armes The insupportable calamitie and miserie of the Leydeus and therefore after that many young children were faine to eate horse flesh The men which could scarscely go ouer the bridge were enforced to ward as good as naked and in their returne founde neither wife nor children aliue They that were wont to goe with their dizaines to the warde came backe againe with eight sixe and sometimes three Noble women and their children which were wont to be clad in silkes and fed vppon the most delicate meates dyed of very hunger There was a dead man brought and layde before the gate of the Buroughmasters thereby to shewe hym as it was thought both closely and expresly that hee had beene the cause thereof therfore that it apperteined to him to seeke the mean to preuent it To bee short the extreeme miserie in the Towne was such as is impossible for mee to describe and set downe But they who after the deliuerance thereof had seene their leane faces and small and feeble legges might easily haue witnessed the same And now to returne againe vnto the Princes armie it had not needed to haue tarryed long at Norta if it had beene certainelie knowne that the Leydens coulde haue held out longer time Againe the Prince and chiefe rulers of the armie knewe right well that the neerer Winter drewe on the greater abundaunce of water woulde ensue And the generall of the armie knewe well enough also that hee must passe betweene Soeterwood Suyten house and so did the enemie likewise and therefore had especially placed his whole warde there In the meane while many thought it best to attempt by night Soetermeir Meere way towardes Stompwyke way but it was to no purpose because that all the ditches and chanels lay in and out crokedlie besides the Spaniard also warded there The Papists aforesaid had lying vpon the

of the said moneth the enemy neuer giuing ouer vndermyning caused the townes men also to plye it with counter-myning as fast and gaue foorth with fire thereto sending thereby a great number of the enemies into another worlde The same day by the aduise of the Borroughmaisters and Captaynes of the towne was ordeined that a newe Ditche and Rampare shoulde bee made like an halfe moone for they were afearde that the enemie woulde vndermyne the saide Forte or Bulwarke whiche in the ende they beate downe which Ditch and Rampare was with one consent and great diligence begun and finished so that there was no man absent at the doing of it but Borroughmaisters head Officers Captaynes Lieuetenants Citizens Souldiers Souldiers wiues and Pages laye at it daye night Insomuch that it was quickly dispatcht made an end of The eleuenth of the sayd moneth an Almayne comming from the entrie of the woode passed by boate ouer Spare and giuing a signe with his Cappe came towardes the Towne desiring to comein and beeyng in the Towne asked for Captayne Steinbach shewing Letters whiche were written vnto him Wherefore hee was brought to the said Steinbache his lodging who foorthwith brought him to the towne house where he was throughly examined and after put in prison The 12. day of Februarie arriued a boate laden with victuals which came from Leyden and the next day beeing the thirteenth of the saide moneth there came a messenger with letters from his Excellencie vnto the Magistrate The 14. of the saide moneth there came in the conuoy of 40. harquebuziers 2240. Rasieresof corne and other victualles and the next day came in a boate laden withe turues very good fyring in the lowe countries The 16 day came in a great Barke laden with bread and fishe But the next day beeing the 17. came in twentie and eight small boates loden with victuals and foure hundred souldiers the greater number of them in double pay vnder the charge of captaine Christopher Gunter The same day also were foure or fiue alarms giuen because the euemie offered to giue the assault setting fire on the myne whiles they stood about the Spittle in order of battaile with ensigne displaid although the firing of the myne stood them in small steed which was the cause that the assault began not The 18. day of February the first Gally of 84. feete by the keele hauing a boord in her certaine souldiers got into Harlem Mere. The same day also entred in foure or fiue small Boats laden with victuals one other laden with two peeces of brasse which came from Leyden The 19. of the saide moneth there arriued a boate laden with ten yron peeces pouder shot and victuals The same day arriued at Penninkfer the little Gallie of Amsterdam with foure or fiue small boates to the intent to cut downe the banke or dyke for the getting in into Harlē Mere who were incountred with the little Gally of Harlem and other small boates and by that meane stayed In the meane while the townes men fired a myne which they had cast vnder the Bulwarke whereupon ensued a braue skirmishe The next day fled out of the towne a Wallon whome before they had taken prysoner into the Almaines campe The 21. of the saide moneth the Amstelredamians returnes from Pennykfer with their boates to accomplish the work which they had begunne who before had fought with the little gally of Harlem There were also certaine horse men sent from Harlem whi the came out of the Sparewouwer gate vpon brydges and tooke one of the enemies Boates fraught with men the greater number of whiche were slaine and the reste hanged at Fuyke The 24. of February the Harlemians sent two of their Gallies to Fuyke and the 25. they receiued two brasse peeces from the Dordrightians one of which carried a bullet of fortie foure pounde weight and the other of thirtie and foure or fiue yrou Serpentines The same day entred fiue small vessels laden with victuals and graine to wit with wheare rye barley beanes and pease The 26. of the same moneth the great Gally of Harlem got before all the rest of the men of warre and entred the Mere where shee fell amongst a dosen men of warre of Amstelredam whereupon foure or fiue of them began to assayle her to haue clapt her a bord before such time as she perceiued that they were their enemies so that shee lost some of her men But Captaine Gerard the younger beeing hurt saued himselfe and his lieuetenant in a small vessel leauing his people in danger whome the enemie foorthwith ouercame an houre or two after the losse of the great Gally came the little Gally of Harlem vnder the charge of Captaine Iames Antony with other sinall men of warre who valiantly recouered the great Gally and wonne of the enemie a new Caruell killing as many as were within boord saue three whome they brought to Harlem one of them beeing a Gentleman of Louayne named Ranscot and the Harlemians returned to Fuyke hauing playd the tall souldiers The same day also entered into Harlem certaine small vessels laden with victuals The 27. of the said moneth the saide Gallies once againe met with the enemie and put the Amsterdamians to flight wher vpon the Harlemians stopped the hole which the Amsterdamians had made with boates stones and other things The last of this moneth very early in the morning the townes men fyred a little Myne that was digged at Saint crosse gate to the losse of some of the enemies The third day of Marche the Harlemians set a woorke and played with the great ordenance before named for as the enemie had made a platforme before the Fortor Bulwarke Iohn Coningham the Scottishe Lieuetenant played so lustily with the battery as that in halfe a day hee had beate it smooth to the grounde The same day also entred into Harlem two small vessels laden with victuals and powder The fourth of March the enemie gaue the alarme and in the meane whyle victualles entred into the towne And the next day the Chase of Harlem entred the Mere hoatly appointed The seuenth of the said moneth the townes men had beaten downe the enemies platforme The same day also a Proclamation was made that no assise shoulde bee payd of any thing within the towne The eight day entred into Harlem two ensignes of English men and Wallons which were quickly sent away againe because it was thought that there were about foure thousand souldiers in the towne The nienth day● as Captaine Enchuise and his horse men enbarqued wherefore the townes men skirmished against the enemie that laie in the wood and so did they likewise the xi day but to small purpose The twelfth of Marche came victualles into Harlem and alarme was giuen But the fourteenth of the said moneth the Harlemians fired a myne which dispatched some of theyr enemies amongest whome a Spaniard couered with earth was retyred howebeit hee neuer spake word and soone after dyed The

souldiours so played with them as that they recouered them agayne from them whiche dealing draue the Enemie into such a rage as that they left playing with the souldiours and shot at the kine The same daye also came a Walon from Rustenbrough to parle with the Chaptayne howbeit be refused it The thirteenth of the sayde Moneth there came flying to the Towne two Doues without Letters in which daye the Towne souldiours had gotten a myne guarded by the Spaniardes three of which were slayne and the rest full of lyfe in the heeles saued them selues The same daye the Magistrate caused certaine peeces of siluer to bee coyned of tenne and twentye Souls a peece howbeit they were not worth aboue the one halfe in siluer The 15. of Iune the Enemie shewed him selfe readye on all handes to giue the assaulte and through the bloweing vp of a myne there were hoysed vp into the ayre betweene thirtie and fortie souldiours of the Town and not one of them slaine And eftsoones whiles the smoake lasted the Enemie with targettes mounted vp lustely to giue the assaulte but when they see the Townesmen ready to receyue them they forth with made their retraite The nexte morowe there came in a Doue whiche Doue as it seemed had escaped from out of the hands of the Enemie The same day the enimse had againe set vpp a little house faste pinned to the toppes of foure shippe mastes where into they both went in and came out behinde The 17. day of the same moneth M. Serrats and M. Goutin were sent in a conuoy of many shotte towardes Fuyke to aduertise the Prince of euery thing and caryed with them certeine Doues in a basket giuing knowledge by the making of a fier of their safe passage The next morrow M. Serrats sent one of the Doues with Letters the contents wherof were these that the Prince of Orange was at Leyden that the Lorde of Batenbroughe laye betweene Vtright and Amsterdame to cut them from victualles and that him selfe would set forward the matter as much as was possible for him to doe In this meane while they beeganne to cast a new Rampare and ditch within the Towne all alongst from Sainte Margarettes vnto Sainte Iohns Gate and finished it There was also at that tyme great miserye in the Towne for then they beganne to eate horses and cowe hydes The 19. of the sayde moneth came in another of the sayde Doues with the Princes Letters written from Leyden the contentes whereof were these that he much merueiled that hee had not had any poste sent vnto him from the towne in al that while seeing hee had sent postes thither both by water and by lande which neuer came into Harlem The 22. of Iune there came from the wood a Lieutenaunt or some other Officer requiring to haue answer of his message which he had And the 24 which was saint Iohns day there returned a Doue with Letters from the Prince That his excellencie would shortly ayde them and at that time was none other meate to be had in the Towne but horse flesh cattes bread made of nauettes and of chanure seede The 25. of the same moneth the Townsmen shotte from a Courtin twise or thrise through the little house that was pinned to the foure Mastes and in the Euening a walon shot came from Fuyke about the rendring vp Rustenbrough and from thence wente to the Towne The 27. of the sayde moneth at night a Camysado of about fiue or six hundred men was made to goe to Fuike hoping to be ayded by the Princes ships but all in daiue and therfore they returned without doing of any thing The 28 of Iune at fiue of the clock in the morning arryued an other flying post with Letters of comfort to the Townsmen And the night folowing was another camysado of aboue a thousand men made to go to Fuyke howebeit the enterprise tooke none effect because the ships holpe them no whit which greatly discouraged the townsmen These two nights the enemy gaue the Alarme in many places of the cowne The 29. was a proclamation made that the townsmen should shew to the deputies therto appoynted al their victuals because the soldiours vnder the colour of searching for them robbed and spoyled the common people The next morow returned a poste of the ayre with two letters wherat al the town reioyced by reason of the good newes conteined in them The 1. of Iuly at 11. of the clock in the foren●one Captayne Pellican Captain Cornelius Mathew with a soldiour or two with thē fel to a parle with the Enemy in a field wtout the wood gate where they shewed them the wife of an Ensigne bearer of theirs whom they held as prisoner who talked with her husband And after ward the prouost Marshal of the Enemy said that their colonel desired to come to a parle with the Gouernour of the town which was brought to passe at 5 of the clock in the after noone For after these 2. Captaines had had ech of them their safe conduct graunted they came to a parle together Afterwarde came the Count Ouerstein accompanied with foure others and when safeconduct was graunted on eyther side the Burroughmaister Iohn Fliet captaine Steinbach Rosoni and Pellican had an houres conference with him betweene the little Wood gate and the Water gate deliberating three times together one with another before they left thē very curteously tooke their leaues About foure of the clock in the afternoone a Walon page of an 18. or 19. yeares old came running from the trench of the Enemie towards the Town whō our souldiours brought through Scaelwyke gate into the Towne whoe sayd that they wanted victualles in the Campe and so did they also in the towne The nexte morowe the Enemyes planted all the great ordenaunce they had any where in the trenches before the Towne and so battered Pyntoren and Rauestein as that the Towre and the wall fell to the ground they shot also through many houses ouerthrew great store of them howbeit through a violent Easte winde the little house that was fast pinned to the foure masts ends set vpon the platforme was blowne downe Thus that which the great Ordenance could not beat down was by God hisgrace ouerthrown by the wind In the afternoon was the towre neere to S. Ratherins bridge beat down and destroyed The same day was the Enemy set in order to haue giuen the assault wherupon the bell sounded to the Alarme howbeit nothing ensued therof At night the Enemy had brought to the ditches two bridges for their better more easie giuing of the assault but whils the townsmen stil waited for thē they flew 20. of the Enemies souldiers The same day had the Townsmen set vpon the Towre a blacke flagge letting the shippes therby vnderstand of their miserable distresse The 3. of Iuly the Enemy merueilously beat the Towne with canon shot howbeit about 5. of the clock in the afternoone the townsmen once more

haynous so euer the offence bee if you will not stande to the aforesayd pardon although indeede it bee verie large And therefore eschue you the greate plague and distresse that is neere you and if you haue not compassion of your selues yee at least haue pittie of your fellowe Citizens which are many in number Suffer not your selues to be abused by fables and trifling toyes neither be you carryed away with a Wanhope as it is very apparaunt that you are and heartened and comforted thereto by some For as we vnderstand there are certayne whiche daylie crie out on you at your gates say Where is your king Meaning thereby the French king who died about Whitsontide last from whom you shal haue but smal weake aide seeing that in Frāce the troubles are now greater thē in the low countries Howbeit if the french were comming to helpe you assure your selues that they should finde some in the way that would talke with them as they did who came with Count Lodwike Duke Christopher the sonne of the Count Palatine who through the helpe of GOD were as well cooled as the Almaynes For our king hath already aboue 250. ensignes of Souldiers besides his horsemen where can you find so great an armie to encoūter it Wherfore see that you consider deeply weigh of the matter and send vs hereupon some answere because we haue zealously louingly written thus much vnto you And so for the present commit you to God beseeching him so to mollifie your hearts enlighten you with his grace as that it may be for the preseruation of you all From his Maiesties campe before Leyden the 17. of Iune 1574. And subscribed as followeth By three credible and honest menne whose names you may not yet knowe THE sayd Matenes of Wybesma wrote also from the port of Poele the 22. of Iune 1574. to the Leydens greatly commending the pardon which was proclaymed the sixte of Iune at Bruxelles whom they as yet liked but not alwayes For he made no litle to doe of the force trenches and fortes of his campe and he so set downe all his fortes with the names of a dozen of them as that he thought it impossible for the towne to be victualed He likewise offered free passage to the most Trayeerous rebels to his Matesty that would come out And besides he further offered that if they feared to be deceiued as the Duke of Alua deceiued them to put him selfe and others into the Towne for Ostages and there remayne vntil such time as they which went out were not onely embarqued at Catwye but also vntill some of them beeyng safely arryued had written newes thereof and thereuppon might drawe the Articles of agreement When the Prince vnderstood the content of these letters he wrote the 28. of this moneth from Roterodam to Leyden and amongst other things greatly thanked them for their constaney admonishing thē not to feare those men who shamed to subscribe their names besides confuted the iangling toyes of the first letter told them that the nemy had maliciously concealed the losse of their shippes but especially the losse of the 2000. Souldiers in North Holland Monsieur de Licques and his fautors from whom it was thought the first letters came or it may bee that Baldez and his friends seeing that these letters and the letters from Wibesma tooke as little effect as the first sought by all meanes possible to ouercharge the Citizens and recompence their vertue and constancie with as wicked dealing as was possible for men to doe Wherefore they considering in what great steede their Garden herbes stoode them because they had plentifully sowen of them in the month of May which was their chiefe food and reliefe built a fort betweene the 17. 18. of Iuly neere to Rhinbrough gate at the very entrance or mouth of the riuer to barre the Citizens from comming out of the gate to goe to their Kitchin gardens Neuerthelesse the aforesaide M. Thierry de Bronchorst who during the siege had valiantly behaued himselfe vnto the death had by the aduise of the magistrate ordeined a certayne rewarde for whatsoeuer Citizen shoulde first set foote into the sayd fort Wherefore a great number of them salied out at the gate at once and so lustely charged the enemy as that they were enforred with great losse and shame inough to forsake the place the 18. of Iuly When the great commandator his adherents saw that a great number of their enterprises tooke no effect that the Townes in Holland and Zelande and els where were so well prouided for as that they could doe little or nothing that Sūmer they put their whole confidence in the great armie at sea which came out of Spayne the fame whereof more and more so spread abroad as that it might indeede haue so fallen out had not the Lorde God by his secret iudgements as wel by the pestilence as otherwise prouided well for the matter But to the end some diligence in the performing hereof might appeare as wel at Rome by the Pope his Cardinals as also in Spayne by the fathers of the holy Inquisition by their actes prowesses and that the aforesayde holy fathers might see wheruppon theyr money was bestowed Chiapin Vitelli about this time had with fifteene Ensignes of Swysses and other ensignes of Span●ardes besides twelue peeces of great ordinaunce besieged Lerdam Lerdam befleged rendred a little Towne belonging to the Count of Bure which was continually battered from 2. of the clocke in the morning vntill one of the clocke in the afternoone especially the Castle Flanker whiche was vtterly beaten to the grounde And about noone they came to a parle wherein they demaunded the Towne bodies and goodes reserued And that the 2. companies of the Princes people which laye there in Garnyson shoulde depart thence with their armonr and weapon whiche in the end was agreed vpon and performed in the beginning of Iuly The 10. of Iuly the Leydens coyned certaine peeces of siluer of 28. 14. souls a peece And on the one side was stāped as it is printed in the paper coyne which was coyned at the first coyning Haec libertatis ergo on the other side Godt behoedt Leyden Nūmus obsessae vrbis Lugdunensis sub gubernatione Illustris simi Principis Auriaci cusus And vpon the little penny Lugdunum Batauorum The 29. of the said moneth Proclamatiō was made that no beare should be made aboue 24. souls the barrell In this meane while was Leyden very straightly besieged but especially about Haye gate where one captaine Carion a spaniard had entrēched him selfe at the Waddinghe made many loope holes to shoot through in the dikes his first trēch ran alongest hard to Boshuysē whiche greatly anoied the towne Wherefore the Citizens because they had no souldiers concluded to salie out in this manner First Gerard Lane went out in a Gally well purueied of artillary and the greater

saied 25 And for the due execution as well of matters of life and death as ciuile and the reasonable satis●yng of euery man It is ordeined that all Lawes and Magistrates of perticuler Cities Castles Tounes and Manors of all the Countreis hereabout shall be chosen to be suche men as are best qualified and louers of their Countrey without difference of Religion 26 Which Lawes and Magistrates shall entermeddle them selues onely and altogether in the state of Iustice Pollicie or Gouernement of those Cities and places where thei are chosen 27 That no man shall herein any waie hinder trouble or let them nor by any meanes haue to doe with them in any matter or vnder any colour whatsoeuer 28 And seeyng that in this behalfe there haue of late newe Magistrates been chosen thei whiche are called the eighteene or others whiche are appointed in their steades whether thei bee moe or fewer shall fully and wholie be deposed and forbidden to thrust them selues in about any dealynges of the publique affaires nor yet with the fortefiyng and guardyng of any of the Cities except thei bee especially chosen and deputed thereto by the saied Magistrates 29 And as concernyng this point thei maie not set doime any order of importaunce without thei first talke thereof with those Magistrates of the Cities where thei are appointed to deale and that by their expresse appointment vpon the paines aforesaied 30 And to the cude that this our ordenaunce might the better bee obserued the Commissioners and the rest of the Deputies or suche as haue auchoritie to chose newe Magistrates shal substitute fower notable vertuous and well qualified persones who vppon all occasions without exception maie by vertue of their Office make inquisition of the infringyng and crossyng of the saied Ordenaunce and the same so made to sett it doune in writyng and three of their handes at the least to be at it and immediatly to bee deliuered vp into the handes of the Magistrate and he hauyng taken a sommary knowledge thereof to proceede against the transgressors with speedie execution vpon the paines aforesaied 31 Prouided alwaies that the Office of the said notable and vertuous men shall last but one yeare and bee newe chosen and chaunged with the Magistrate 32 And by reason that the disobedience of certaine Cities hereabout against their Magistrate giueth occasion of greate distrust hauyng partly euen vnto this present hindred the permission of the libertie of the Religion and that without the sinceritie of the saied obedience there can no good grounde of any assueraunce be looked for It is therefore enacted ordeined and accorded that not onely all Magistrates but also all others of what estate qualitie or condition soeuer thei are shall from henceforth be bounde to obeye and followe all the Ordenaunces Commissions Letters and Commaundementes aswell of the said Archduke his hignesse beyng Gouernour and Captaine Generall as also of the saied Lordes the generall Estates bothe for the leuiyng dischargyng entertainyng and wagyng of men of Warre and Garmsons and shall also accordyng to the custome and maner of a Gouernour and Captaine receiue and paie out all suche sommes of money as are meere for the maintenaunce of this present Warre and generally for all thynges els 33 And all Prisoners without exception of any of what qualitie or condition soeuer thei bee and where soeuer thei are kept shall forthwith bee brought to the Lawe before their ordenarie Iudge or for want hereof to be released vnder suche conditions as for the Common wealth the sauetie bothe of them selues and Countrey shall be thought conuement vpon paine that the offenders bothe in generall and perticuler shall be left to them selues as enemies and disturbers of the Common wealthe and their goodes to be bestowed vpon the necessitie of the rest in generall 34 Prouided alwaies that if so bee any reasonable causes maie be shewed why menne should not forthwith be bound to obeye the aforesaied Ordenaunces Letters and Commaundementes that then the execution of theim to bee deferred in case the matter be able to abide any delaye vntill suche tyme as vppon the receipt of a gentle and reuerend aunswere backe again some other order be taken therein 35 And the same seconde Ordenaunce and Commaundement euery man shall bee bounde to obeye without further repliyng or delaye 36 All this to bee doen without hurt to the Priuiledged and laudable Customes or Orders of euery of the saied Prouinces whiche are still in their full force and strength notwithstanding this Ordenaunce by whiche wee meane not any waie to derogate from the saied Priuileges Alwaies reseruyng to his highnesse and the generall Estates and to either of theim the interpretation declaration diminution augmentation or chaunge of this ordenaunce and euery parte and parcell of the same as to the welfare and peace of the Countrey hereafter shall be founde to appertaine And for a full confirmation and assuraunce of all that hath been before saied the high and mightie Princes willingly and in good earnest haue comprised themselues within this treatie whiche Princes and either of theim haue as a warraunt and pledge of their fidelitie as well on the one part as the other and for a full accomplishment and setled obseruation of whatsoeuer hath been abouesaied promised and sworne in the woordes of a Prince and by the faithe and Religion whiche thei receiued at their Baptisme to defend warraunt make restitution both on the one side and on the other vnto him whosoeuer he be that shal finde hymself hereafter to bee endomaged in what maner soeuer either in parte or in all by the breakyng or crossyng of that whiche heretofore hath been saied And will also if it be possible singulerly protecte the Prelates and all other Ecclesiasticall persones so that thei shall not any waie be molested or troubled either in their persones exercises of their said Religion neither yet in the peaceable possessyng and entoiyng either of their Tithes or whatsocuer gooddes and possessions els And this is bothe by the Counsell of Estate and also of the general Estates of the Countreis hereabout assembled at Antwerpe deuised and decreed the 12. of Iuly 1578. After the publication of this peace of the Religion Publicke preachyng throughout all the towe Couutreis the reformed Religion was publickly vsed in many Cities of the low Countreis but especially at Leeward in Friselande was the first Sermon that was openly preached the 13 of August 1578 in the Iacopines Churche euen by the consent of the Friers themselues that were owners of the saied Churche The Cities of Quesnoy and Landercy whiche the Estates had promised to Monsieur Duke of Aniowe would not receiue in the Frenche but refused theim And therevpon the Abbot of Marolles was sent to see if he could cause theim to graunt vnto it howbeit it was to no purpose And therefore the said Duke required to haue some other places The Emperour beeyng greeued in weighyng and consideryng of the miserie and warre