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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15438	A declaration and publication of the most worthy Prince of Orange, contaynyng the cause of his necessary defence against the Duke of Alba Translated out of French into English, and co[m]pared by other copies in diuers languages.	William I, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584.	1568 (1568)	STC 25708; ESTC S101851	7,362	24

A declaration and publication of the most worthy Prince of Orange contaynyng the cause of his necessary defence against the Duke of Alba. ❀ ❀ ¶ Translated out of French into English and cōpared by other copies in diuers languages PSALM XCIIII They gather them together agaynst the soule of the righteous and cōdemne the innocent bloud But the Lord is my refuge and my God is the rocke of myne hope And he will recompence them their wickednes and destroy them in their owne malice yea the Lord our God shall destroy them ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Day beneath S. Martins ouer Aldersgate ❧ We William by the grace of God Prince of Orange Earle of Nassaw Catsenellebogen Vianen Dietz Bueren and Leerdam Baron of Breda c. After all due and friendly commendations giue to weete to all those that shall see or read this present declaration ⸫ ALlthough that to our seming it be not necessary to declare here at large the occasyon that moueth vs with our Allies confederates to vse this begon enterprised defence not for any great pleasure that we take therein but rather through vnmoueable reasons and constraintes against the vnreasonable and horryble practises the like not heretofore heard of practised or executed of the Duke of Alba hys adherents and bloud thirsty rabble in the in the low Countrey Nothing doubtyng but that all good and godly mē will hold vs for more thā excused knowing our nature so enclined to peace therewith the faithfull and diligent duties which we vsed during the time of tumult and sedition employing body goods and honor to the profit of his Maiesty and Countrey Seeing also the confiscations prizes and withholding of our coūtrey subiects and goods the blasphemous Proclamations and iniuries against all right and reason offred vnto our person And also that this our so iust reasonable defence which with Gods furtherance we hope to goe thorow with tendeth to none other end but first and chiefly to the aduaūcing of the honor of God and his word to the profit of his Maiesty countrey and subiects and likewise of the Emperial Maiesty our soueraigne Lord and his wel beloued sonne which in time to come as true successors of the said coūtrey pretend right thereto likewise the rooting out of the great not euer tofore heard of more than barbarous fury and rage of the Duke of Alba and his adherēts which they haue of long time vsed and put in effect Neuertheles we haue thought good publikely to declare by these presents the vnauoydable occasions by which we with our Allies and frendes haue bene cōstrained and enforced to take in hand this our defence principally to put away all suspicion of rebellion which we haue fled mortally hated all the dayes of our life First we are not ignorant that it is manifest to all the world how and after what māner through the practises and fetches of the Cardinall of Granuelle with other couetous and bloud thirstye which vnder the colour and cloake of the religion pretēded catholick sought none other thing but the diminishing of the honor of God the aucthority of the king and the weale of the Commons and louing nothing more than their proper and particular profit the vndoing and destruction of other good men where through the intollerable Inquisition hath bene put forth with the vnmercifull Placcards of the execution therof notwithstanding that we and other our brethren went about by all meanes to disswade them from it seing and considering the great euils inconueniences that alredy sprang therof the great likelyhoode of more to ensue they nothing regarding our humble sutes therein such I say not long since haue brought and thrust in the sayd Inquisition into this low countrey Wherby is come to passe that vnder coloure of the said Inquisition the Inquisitors and dissembling hipocrites haue with all outrages procéeded against such poore innocēts and faithfull people as desire to liue according to the pure doctrine of the Gospell First by confiscation of their goodes both moueable and immoueable thā by banishment torment and tortures by fire water gibbet by prisons otherwise dispatching them in corners by meanes as wel vnlawfull as lawfull All which tyrannies and persecutions vntill this present are nothing assuaged or diinished but rather since the vnhappy entry of the sayd Duke of Alba into the sayd low Countreys from day to day are encreased and augmented so that daylye they inuent now torments and executions against y e poore people yea such as not only Christians but the very Turkes and Sarazens would haue pity and compassyon of I will not for shame reherse the vnspeakeable iniuryes and villanies that are daily committed by the soldiors of the sayd Duke of Alba so that there is no good mā but had rather choose to die than to sée such cruelty and tyranny executed both vpon him and his before his face And séeing that such crueltyes and tyrannies vsed by the sayde Duke of Alba and his adherentes couetous and bloud-thirsty persons doe wholy repugne the cōtractes letters sealed and promises made betwene his said royall Maiesty and those of the low Countrey yea agaynst the very othe that his Maiesty sware and promised whereby we may sée and clearly perceiue that the sayd Duke of Alba abuseth the charge that he hath obtained of his sayde Maiesty only for his owne auarice and desire of bloud to the damage and hindrance of his said Maiesty and the destruction and ruine of his faithfull subiects chiefly wyth this horrible fury and tyranny that he vseth towards those poore people no dout against the kings will who according to his accustomed clemency and gentlenesse neuer minded any such thing This to preuent there is none other meane to wythstand the sayd crueltyes considering also that the passage or accesse to his Maiestye is shut vp from vs but this our present vnauoydable defence For although that héeretofore the Duchesse of Parma c. at that time Gouernesse for his Maiesty in the low countreis hath expresly permitted and agréed to the preaching of the word of God to the end to auoid such imminent perils and daungers as at that time threatned the said coūtrey with promise that none should attēpt any euil against such as had heard the said preaching or hereafter wold heare them which at commaūdement of her highnes we caused to be published through all the Countreys vnder our gouernement binding vs and our person that the aforesayd shoulde bene inuiolably obserued towards the subiects of his sayd Maiesty All this notwithstanding the said Duke of Alba and his adherentes haue constrained diuers of the Uassals and Subiects of his Maiesty to anoyd the country and that for none other cause but for that they haue bene at suche Sermons and haue shewed themselues affectionate to that which they found agreable to the word of God And after they had brought it in wyth impertinent Citations agaynst all