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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

a new Realme and a new people 10 In this action the wise and valiant Duke Alua shall be imployed in person whereas any other were he of the blood Royall or a Prince shall be of no esteeme so as being suspect yea in the smallest matters they must be dispatcht 11 No Contracts Rights Promises Donations Oathes Privileges and solemne Assertions of the Netherlands shall bee of any force for the inhabitants as being guiltie of high treason 12 But aboue al we must haue an especial care that in these matters of so great weight and moment wee proceed not violently but by meanes by degrees and that discreetly to the end the Princes Nobilitie and inferiour subiects may mutinie amongst themselues so that one may persecute yea execute the other vntill at last the hangman be executed himselfe For in all Christendome there is not a Nation more foolish and indiscreet and whose leuitie and inconstancie may sooner be deceived then these Netherlanders and God punisheth them accordingly There were other Articles found in President Vergaes chamber at Antwerpe and there Printed and those are more cruel then these By these articles and vnlimited power of these lawlesse Inquisitors noman had any assurance of life or goods for a day but were In danger continually to be called in question either for the law of their God or for some worke of mercie which either religion morall equitie or the bond of nature called for or else if they had colour for none of these they would impose such vnreasonable taxations which if the Cormorants had not their gorges cramed full they would make prey of all whether by right or wrong it mattered not But my purpose being to avoyd prolixitie and to passe by impertinences and needlesse repetitions I will come to tnat I intended In the yeere 1565 match was concluded for the Prince of Parma and the nuptials were solemnized at Bruxels whither all the Nobilitie and Gentry of the Countrey were inuited and accordingly there met of them about foure hundred who like faithfull Moses being grieued to see the dayly oppression of their brethren by the hard task-masters of the Inquisition who not onely robbed them of their goods but also by inhumaine cruelty and vnnaturall but chery depriued them of their liues who daily led them as sheepe unto the slaughter The consideration hereof they ioyntly layd to heart and hereupon being met vpon this occasion they resoved to present all petition to the Princesse of Parma which they did the 5 of Aprill next followings The Earle of Breedrod deliuering the petition humbly requested fauourable answer Three dayes after they receiued this answer viz. they should send two of their Noblement to the king by whom she would write in their behalfe The Lord of Barlaymont being present after their departure said like a flattering Courtier they were a company of Rascals and Beggars It was concluded that the Marquesse of Bargen and the Lord of Mountigny should goe into Spain who humbly presented their suite to the King but could get no answer in 16 moneths after The 26 of August anno 1566 the Princesse of Parma sent for the Gentrie telling them she had receiued letters from the King containing promise that all should be well and that the Inquisition should cease And for the Proclamations they should not be of force but his Maiestie would take such order as they and the State should like well of The Princesse also gaue them toleration for their Religion on condition they should not deface nor breake downe the ornaments of the Churches for there had beene before this time vilde and lewde persons that freequented the meetings of the Reformed these went into the Papists Churches stole their siluer and what was worth carrying away and brake downe their Images but the Reformed suspected that this was done by the appointment of the Princesse neither was their suspition without good ground Emanuel de Miter saith that in Flanders they tooke 50 of them at one time and hanged 22 and 〈…〉 the rest for it is to be seen in the kings letters Art 7 that she had order to hire this raskall company to doe this villany which fact was imputed to the Protestants to the end that they might not onely be odious there but also seeme guilty euen in the iudgement of other Nations howbeit the offenders were punished with imprisoment yea with death euen by the Reformed themselues who ioyntly confessed the action vnlawfull and were so farre from giuing occasion of offence in this nature that Papist Burgers themselues offered good security that no such thing should be attempted by them Who then can make any doubt that they were free from hauing any hand in those outranges layd to them the very opposites in Religion being Iudges who as appeares were willing to vndertake for them now as their saithfulnesse brought so good effect for their persons so did the Lord worke that the truth of Religion found many friends likewise the Lord wondrously prospering the course of Reformation in so much that in short space they had in Flanders 60 Assemblies some Churches they themselues builded but were by Duke d' Alua soon cast downe who errected gallowses of them and hanged them vpon them The Princesse of Parma also began to entertaine souldiers with pretence to apprehend the Church-robbers but intended indeed to take away the ancient Liberties and Priuiledges of the Netherlanders wherefore sending certaine companies to Valencyn the inhabitants denyed them entertainment who for that were proclaimed Rebels the 14 of December soone after they were besieged sacked and many of them put to death But before they of Valencyn denyed entertainment to the souldiers the Nobility had received letters out of Spain He pretended it for Religion but his aime was to get their lands and goods from the Marquesse of Bargen shewing that the King was exceedingly incensed against the Netherlands that he had in the presence of many vowed to be fully reuenged of them though it were with the hazard of all his Countries that he would make them an example to all the world and would inuite the Pope and Emperour to assist him in this quarrel Vpon the receit of the letters the Nobility assembled at Dortmond to consult what were best to be done but concluded not any thing some iudging it safest to ioyne and make head to resist his tyrannicall furie other seeking rather to escape by flight Now was the Inquisition againe brought in contrary to the Lawes and Liberties of the Countrey which the King was sworne to maintaine for execution whereof there were appointed 12 Inquisitors commanding them to receiue the Councell of Trent these were called The bloudy Councell and so they were indeed which Rome well knew refusing it anno 1559 when as they fell vpon the Inquisitors house set it one fire wounded the chiefe of them brake open the prison and set at liberty the captaiues and would haue burned a Cloyster that belonged

not with his for he knew well enough how to rule his subiects without their counsel Now when our Queenes Maiesty found his vnreasonablenesse and cruelty Ann. 1575. then and not before shee assisted them with Armes His owne sonne Prince Charles did intreat for them that it would please him to let them haue their Lawes and Priviledges and that they might not be oppressed and withall he told his father that those Countries did belong to him Marplam in his Chronicle Ann. 1567. and that they were given him at his Baptisme for the which his father sent him to prison and he never came out againe If the Lord would not haue forgot what Amalek did long after for smiting the weakest and hindmost of his people how may wee in equity forget the infinite murthers and spoyles this cruell Tyrant hath executed where-ever he hath prevailed And who can forget in speciall that bloudie attempt against our selues in the yeere 1588. If I should trace this Tyrant from place to place I should runne in infinitum having made the name of Christianitie hatefull by his crueltie aganst the Heathens that know not God further then the light of nature for it is confessed by the Spaniards themselues that some of the cheife of the Indians They were exorted by a Popish Priest minde that after this life there was one place for ioy and another torment who were to be burnt to death being told of heaven and hell they asked whether the Spaniards went whē they dyed It was answered to heaven Oh then sayd they we will never come there for we wil never come where the Spaniards are But not to run so far I will rest content to keepe me within the bounds I chiefly intended concerning these Countries When the Citizens of Leyden were in great extremity by reasō of a long sieg the Spaniards proffering conditions of peace if so be they would yeeld vp the Citie and themselue to them they returned answer Not while they had a right hand to hold the sword or a left to eat but if they should be driven to fall into their hands they would rather burne the Citie and drowne themselues then to submit to them of whose perfidiousnesse they had had so lamentable experience and when some of the Citizens pressed a yeelding in respect of the extremity of famine a Burger master called Peter Adrianson said Loving friends I confesse the famine is great and that some doe die for want of food yet rather let vs agree to eat vp one another as it shall fall by lot begin with me first and divide me amongst you At Antwerpe the Spaniards by the appointment of their Governour did come into the Citie in battell-order and marched vp and downe in their streets and shot into heir houses and made a tumultuous noise as if they had beene so many devils for one day and two nights and tooke the keyes from the Magistrates They did this as well to the Spiritualtie as to the Temporaltie no 〈◊〉 excepted and set watch at the Ports whereby they put the Citizens in so great feare that many women with childe fell in travell and some dyed with feare and they went by 12. or 20. into the best houses and commanded them to prepare them the best cheere as boyled and rost and other dainty dishes as they list to call for and besides beere they would haue at least two sorts of Wine And all the chiefest Citizens houses had at least ten of these guests And all cryed out for money and said They did offer them two 〈◊〉 in money and the third in cloth but they cryed all for money that they would haue 15. moneths pay before they went out of the Citie of them And the Magistrates told them that they would procure them in cloth and apparel and money the summe but they all cryed out for money that money they would haue before they went away so at the last the Magistrates got the money which did amount to 400. thousand Guldens And the charge they were at which these companions did cost the Citizens was 600. pound sterling the day and thus they were oppressed with them 28. dayes I doe make but a short Relation of some of the cruelties they did against this Citie yet there stands in the Chronicle out quire of Paper of their further crueltie in which time they had made them all rich suites some of sattin and velvet and some of cloth of gold and one of them had a cushion of velvet with these wordes in Letters of Gold I am the Dutchmans Bride well Master And thus they got rid of them for the present And about two yeares after they came againe and then they vsed the Citizens much more cruelly for these divels did bring straw and set on fire and put it into the houses whereby they set nine rich streets on fire and burnt them with many rich and costly goods and rifled the Citizens of all their rich and costly iewels and silver-workes with their money and three dayes did they torment the Inhabitants for money That they are now and haue beene this 30. years more quiet I easily yeeld it But why Not that they haue changed their former nature for they still hold the former principles of the Councell of Trent but being more subtill and finding their Kingdome is more weakned they dare not to presume as formerly In the yeare 1580. the States proclaimed King Philip to haue lost his right by reason he violated his oath and in this time there was murthered of the Citizens aboue foure thousand The money they tooke at that time is reckoned for more then fortie tun of gold besides the Iewels and the losse they had by fire was as much as the rest And thus was the best Citie of Marchants in Europe ruinated At Risell there was a Spaniard would force a rich woman to haue the vse of her body and the women cryed out for helpe and her husband came and two of his neighbours to helpe his wife and they thrust the Spaniard away and he ran into the street and cryed Spaynea Spaynea and there came many Spanish Souldiers about him and they rushed into the house and tooke the man and his neighbours and carried them before the Magistrates on the towne-house where they were assembled and there before them he complained of them to be rebels and stirrers vp of vp-rores and told the Magistrates that if they did not presently put them to death they would burne their towne and execute them themselues wherevpon they durst do no otherwise but hanged two and whipped the other Divers things being manifested of the Spaniards crueltie I will adde one instance of their trechery and that of a famous person to his neerest familiars yea when he pretended sweetest familiaritie and friendship Pope Alexander the 6. a Spaniard by birth invited divers Nobles Cardinals to a banket with a purpose to poyson them all The meetest instrument he made choyce of to effect this was a Spaniard one Caesar Burgia his sworne servant The Pope shewed himselfe wonderfull pleasant to avoyde suspition and dranke a carouse to them all willing that his trusty servant to fill from such a Bottle he knew well which he did very effectually to the Pope himselfe as well as to the rest A Spaniards kindnesse to his friends After the company was departed the Pope perceiving by an alteration in himselfe what was done and that he must die now also said to Burgia This is a right Spanish tricke It is written of them that they are so expert in these exployts that if Iudas himselfe were aliue he might got to them to Schoole I doe beseech the Lord to shew mercy to my natiue Country that they may never come vnder the government of the Spaniards and giue them hearts to repent of their transgressions and that they may sincerely imbrace the Gospel of Iesus Christ to their endlesse comfort Amen Yours to command in all services for the advancement of the truth of Iesus Christ