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A27415	The compleat history of the warrs of Flanders written in Italian by the learned and famous Cardinall Bentivoglio ; Englished by the Right Honorable Henry, Earl of Monmouth ; the whole work illustrated with many figures of the chief personages mentioned in this history.; Della guerra di Fiandra. English	Bentivoglio, Guido, 1577-1644.; Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing B1910; ESTC R2225	683,687	479

not be then at Breda they were invited together with all the above-named the next day to supper in Hostrat by the Count thereof The aforesaid confederacy was much discust first in Breda and then in Hostrat At these meetings Orange after many complaints made against the Cardinalists shewed how that it appertained to them who were of the Councel of State and of the Order of the Golden Fleece to endeavour the remedy of those evils which so important a commotion did threaten the Country withall He said that the number of the confederates was great in all parts and especially those of the better sort and he spake as if he approv'd of the confederacie and as if he endeavoured to draw the rest of his Colleagues joyntly to embrace it Lodovick the Brother of Orange agreed with him in all things who was commonly thought to be an heretick and was not displeased to be thought so either for that he really was so and valued not those punishments which he did not fear or for that Orange himself for some hidden ends of his own was well enough content to see his brother in favour and Authority with the Hereticks Egmont and Berghen did not seem to adhere to Orange his sence and the Count of Mega much less who spake boldly against the rashness of the confederates Horn and Hostrat suspended their opinions and thus the meetings ended no particular resolution being taken The Regent was soon acquainted with all these proceedings by Egmont and Mega who together with Barlemonte and Vighlio encouraged her and advised her to raise some soldiers to which necessity seemed likewise to perswade her for that it was every day heard how the number of confederates did every where encrease as also the suspition that they would attempt some novelty nor did they any longer delay it When a great number of them were gathered together they drew near to Brussels and desired the Regent that she would permit them to propound a business of importance unto her and which as they said concerned the Kings service as well as their own good The Councel differed in their opinions what they ought to advise the Regent to do in this point the manner of the request being considered some thought that it was absolutely to be rejected others that only two or three might be permitted to present it but that opinion which was judged most necessary pleavailed at last since without forces there was nothing else to be done and it was That all of them should be suffered to enter Brussels which was coloured over by such of the Councel as were not displeased at the action by alleadging that it was not fitting to exasperate so many of the Nobility by rejecting their Petition before it was heard and that they came but to make supplication the most desirable tribute of submission which Princes could receive from their people Of all the confederates who had as yet subscribed Henry of Brederode Lord of Viana a Town in Holland in which Province he was highly esteemed for the nobility of his bloud and for which he was likewise much respected throughout the whole Country was acknowledged as the Head or Chieftain he was an heretick without dissimulation of a troublesome spirit and more troublesome tongue desirous of novelties and the more incited thereunto at this time by his being chosen to be the head of so many Nobles He therefore came into Brussels accompanied with a numerous multitude in the beginning of April 1566 and was soon followed by Count Lodovick brother to the Prince of Orange who was likewise wel accompanied as also by the Counts of Collemburg and Tresemberg These four were then the chief men their rendezvous at Brussels was in the Count Colemburgs house and therefore that house was afterwards razed to the ground in Duke Alva's time in memory of so execrable an excesse their numbers are diversly spoken of Some will have them to be 200 others 300 others 500. The Dutchess had this mean while endeavoured by many expedients and did still endeavour to bring the confederates to some more wholesome Councels They therefore fearing lest some of their associates might be thereby wrought upon Brederode desirous to appear in the first place and to enjoy it rather by the boldness of his advice then by the prerogative of persons spoke thus at one of their meetings We have already overcome the worst generous Associats in being met together in so great a union from parts so far distant and now in so great numbers here The Regent cannot any ways deny our just desires But say she should do so and still persist in the rigor of the Edicts and the bitterness of the Inquisition according to the Orders received from Spain which of us is it that in such a case will not expose his estate and life to free himself his wife his children and his Countrey from such sore yokes Let us first consider the condition of our evils and then we shall see the great justice of our desires And to say truth what more unhappy condition can be imagined then to have so many miserable creatures under pretence of Heresie be continually hurried away into the Inquisition and there either to die by torments or be starved in prisons or being out of prison to be deprived of their Countrey and Estates and oft-times of life it selfe by the horrible punishment of Fire What greater unhappiness can there be then to see innocency it self so often suffer shipwrack in that sea of Calumnies for every Argument for every accusation Then to see secrecy banisht from out houses friendship from out Cities and to have all Human rights and rights of Nature violated amongst such as are neerest ally'd in blood and in belief These are the Fruits these the publick and privat advantages which the Inquisition brings with it And yet we must esteem the present punishments but slight and tolerable in respect of those which threaten us in the future Which of you is unacquainted with the coming of Don Alonzo del Canto that new Spanish Inquisitor into these parts and who knows not what cruell and fearfull Orders he brings with him New prisons are already begun to be built new Irons to be made and other new ingenious inventions of torments by this Architects designing Gastly looks sad complaints and in fine the height of calamity will reign in all places And this sort of slavery will then appear to us the harder by how much we have been accustomed by the Laws of our former government to the sweets of Liberty Kings themselves I know not whether you know so much or no are liable to the laws of the Inquisition oft-times to the great scorn of their Scepters they must undergo the severity of punishment the superiority of Empire cōmand and what more unworthy case can be heard of then what befell our Emperour of ever happy memory it affrights me to relate it That vanquisher of Europe that

Monark of new worlds and he who was more glorious in renouncing them then in possessing them He even he was compeld by Orders from the Inquisitors to do publick penance at his return to Spain for having onely treated with the Lutheran Hereticks in the wars which he made in Germany Now if the dangers of the Inquisition be so many and if they be so hard to be evaded by the very Spaniards and Italians who are by nature so wary and cautious how shall we Flemings ever hope to escape the least part thereof We I say whose hearts are with such candor seen in our words who lead so free and so conversable a life and who hold it for a particular law of faithfull friendship not to keep any thing concealed one from another in our baals feastings cups and invitations shall it be imputed as a fault of misbeliefe if some vain or idle word escape our mouths amidst those our innocent delights The Inqusition will quickly take from us these our contentments we shall be turn'd Savages in our demeanours and our Cities will at last be turned into Desarts and our Provinces into solitary habitations Commerce will be every where destroyed which consists almost wholly in contracting with such foraigners as profess liberty of conscience and who cannot tolerate so much as the very name of the Inquisition Thus Flanders will in a short time fall into ruine and desolation And thus our formerly so fortunate Provinces will for the future be an example of infinite misery to all Europe whereas formerly their felicity hath been envied by all other Countries By the condition of the evils which I have laid before you the justice of the desires which we shall make to escape them will consequently and clearly appear The King hath sworn to maintain our Countrey in her liberties and what doth more destroy them then doth the Inquisition The King himself hath for a long time been vers'd here in our customes and what is more averse unto them then these his Edicts The Spaniards will introduce the government of Spain into Flanders and what greater repugnancy can there be then what is seen between their Laws and ours between Subjection ' which is there adored and by all men here so much detested Kings cannot extend their Laws beyond those of Nature nay they are as liable to her Laws as are their subjects Let Spain and Italy then retain and enjoy their Inquisition as they shall like best which Flanders never received but by force and from which force she is now resolved to free her self But since 't is understood that those amongst our selves who partake of the Regents most secret resolutions and which are now more Spanish then Flemish endevour to divide us who is he amongst us that will be found faulty in his faith Faulty in things so solemnly promis'd and sworn unto And finally faulty to himselfe to his blood to his honor and to the so great danger of his Countrey God forbid that any such thing should be dream'd of much less seen Let each of us consider the ancient glory of our Belgicks and esteem it a good fortune to be able upon this occasion to imitate them The worth of progenitors ought to passe together with their blood into those that descend from them And the later ought not onely to approve themselves heirs but even competitors of the former in all glorious actions I then most noble companions will with all humility lay before the Regent the bitterness of the evils which we undergo and the necessity of our being relieved therein But if all due respect obsequy and reason shall prevail no more in these our present instances then they have formerly done what is to be done in such a case but to have recourse to such remedies as desperation useth to suggest against violence I shall for my part be as ready to hazard my life then as I am willing now to use my tongue upō this present occasion We shal find the greatest in the Councel wil agree with our sense and we shall find their assent to what we shall say by their silence And doubtlesly all the rest of the Countrey wil cheerfully take up such resolutions as we shall do in such a case which cannot be more just since they cannot be more necessary Thus did Brederode inflame himself and the rest against the inquisition But it was not true as hath been often said that the King intended to introduce a setled form of the use thereof in Flanders Nor was it true that Alanson Del Canto was come to Brussels for any thing concerning the inquisition and what he affirmed touching the Emperour Charls the fifth was a meer fable rashly invented and beleeved who accompanying so many of his other excellent vertues with his innate piety did never treat with the Hereticks in Germany but when necessitated so to do that he might rid them of their Frenzy either by the usuall way of their Diets or by force of Arms in Battel and for what concerns the inquisition though the Country were generally averse thereunto yet there were many of try'd wisdom and zeal who found in themselves desired to inform others by the benefit which Spain and Italy had received thereby how advantagious it would be to Flanders to have a moderate form thereof introduced in her Provinces They said That some little seeming of severity being taken away from the inquisition there were not in effect any Tribunals lesse severe then hers Nor whereby more just and Candid wayes the preservation of the Honour and Purity of Faith was endeavoured That the name and use thereof was to be esteemed most sacred That if so many temporal Lawes were made in favour of Princes to keep humane Majesty unharmed spirituall Lawes were much more to be approved of in favour of the Church by punishing those who were guilty of high treason against the Majesty of God That by defending this right which doth so straitly binde the faithfull to God and to Religion the other which was due from the people to Princes and their States was the better sustained That if Calumny were to give way to truth as of right it should it must necessarily be confest that nothing maintained States in the sincerity of Faith more then the inquisition where as when Heresie once enters Factions suddenly arise from Factions civil Wars and from civil Wars Forrein ones inevitably So as Princes together with their People were suddenly seen to fall into deplorable miseries and calamitie what unhappy proof may Flanders fear herein through her own evils and to how many fat all seenes may Germany and France serve for a Theatre by reason hereof nor were the same revolutions and misfortunes lesse in other Countries where Heresie hath been able to open the Schools of error and display the Ensignes of Rebellion That Spain and Italy this mean while did enjoy a perfect and happy peace which was the supream good of mortals

manner as it will be too hard a matter for any Foreign Nation to land there much more hard to keep there when they are landed That Kingdom is inclosed and fortified on all sides by the Sea the Havens there are but few and any Fleet may be easily kept from entring thereinto The English yield not to any Nation of the world for skill in maritime affairs and their maretime Forces together with those that will be added to them by Holland and Zealand may without doubt oppose whatsoever Fleet Spain can set forth at least by way of defence But say that our men were landed in the Kingdom how can we hope to establish them there Usually in the making of Conquests some internal disposition is required and there is a continual necessity of external aids to maintain them There can no safe correspondencie be hoped for from the English it being a Nation which will suffer no other Government then its own And succours from elswhere will be so hard to be effected so expensive and so uncertain as the Forces of Spain which are already so distracted will never be able to supply them Hath not your Majesty experience by your marriage with Queen Mary how much the English doe hate all manner of Foreigners and how contrary all the Laws of the Kingdom are there unto Is not the Rebellion of Flanders sufficient to let out the best blood of Spain without adding thereunto that which you shall suddenly see arise in England Then since there is so little hope of any good success in this affair methinks it were better to let it alone and so to resent the wrongs done unto you by the Queen as fighting with her at her own weapons not to come to open war upon her States If war shall be made and the design not succeed how much more will she oppress the Catholicks of England and of Ireland How will she foment the troubles in Flanders nourishing still her own desire of usurping the government thereof And how much more justly shall she plot all manner of mischief with the Hollanders and Zealanders to the Crown of Spain in the Indies and in all other parts So as by this enterprise no glory or advantage will redound to your Majesty but shame and loss Let your Majesty therefore bend all your might to end the Rebellion of Flanders The Duke of Parma's Army being reinforced by Land and the Provinces of Holland and Zealand being set upon by Sea with the same Forces which would be imployed against England your Majesty may safely believe to see that Rebellion subdued and the Church restored to its former right as also your Royal Crown If in the mean while the Queen of England shall continue to aggravate her offences yet more against your Majesty then may you resent your self against her in open war with more expedition more advantage and more happy success The former success will doubtlesly very much help the other where as on the contrary if the design of assaulting England misgive as it is to be feared it will for my part I fear and I wish my fears may prove false the Rebellion of Flanders will never have an end The Duke of Parma being desired to signifie his mind in this point seemed to incline to this second opinion And howsoever if the business concerning England were to precede he said that some Port or Haven in Zealand was first to be won and this out of two very important reasons The one that upon any occasion the Spanish Fleet might have some safe and near refuge and the other that the Kings Havens in the Province of Flanders might not be hindred by the Hollanders and Zealanders in the Duke of Parma's transporting his Army into England The King staggering between these two opinions was a while in dispute with himself which of them to follow But in fine it appeared that the securing of England did so absolutely draw with it the putting an end to the Rebellion of Flanders as it was resolved in Spain to make all the speed and all the greatest preparations that might be for the execution of this enterprise The King was afterwards the more encouraged herein by the disposition he found in the Pope not only of approving but of favouring the design Sixtus Quintus was then Pope who appeared very zealous in maintaining the universal cause of the Church In the particular of England he considered what had befaln in the time of Pius Quintus by whom he had been made Cardinal When Pope Pius found that the Queen of England grew still more perverse in prosecuting the Catholicks and to doe all ill to Religion both at home and abroad he at last published an Apostolical Bull wherein was contained such punishments against her as the Church in like cases had alwayes wont to inflict But instead of being thereby bettered the Queen grew more cruel and impious Nothing was seen or heard of in that Kingdom but a perpetual irremissible fury against Catholicks some were banisht others imprisoned others deprived of their goods together with their Country and many bereft both of goods and life The Priests were chiefly persecuted and Heresie triumphing over their punishments and to see their Ministery already wholly routed out 't was thought the Queen intended fully to extinguish all the remainder of Catholick Religion and all the footsteps of that Piety which for so many Ages had so exceedingly flourisht there Nor was her hatred towards the Church bounded within her own Dominions it was known how greatly and how continually she fomented the Heretical factions of Germany France and Flanders to nourish troubles there and particularly to beat down the Catholick religion by her means likewise Scotland was greatly subverted and her beheading of the Queen of Scots who had been alwayes very zealous in the Catholick cause was generally detested by all the Catholick Princes of Europe and in particular had caused much horror in the Pope Wherefore joyning this with many other actions whereby the Queen did so cruelly afflict the Church and disturb the publike peace almost every where he considered he was not to let slip the occasion now presented of favouring the King of Spains aforesaid enterprise thereby to advantage the Catholike cause universally over all Europe and particularly in England and Ireland To this purpose he thought it fit to make a Subject of England Cardinal and this was Doctor Allen who was one of the antientest and most qualified Ecclesiasticks both for learning wisdom and goodness of all those of that Nation that were abroad Allen was then at Rome and the Popes intention was to send him into Flanders and then into England in case the design should succeed there to exercise such Ministerial duties as should upon such an occasion be most needfull for the service of the Church and particularly for those Catholicks The Pope being thus minded the King applied himself with all fervencie to the business and to make very