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A18742	A lamentable, and pitifull description, of the wofull warres in Flaunders, since the foure last yeares of the Emperor Charles the fifth his raigne With a briefe rehearsall of many things done since that season, vntill this present yeare, and death of Don Iohn. Written by Thomas Churchyarde Gentleman.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1578 (1578)	STC 5239; ESTC S105019	41,870	76

whiche was held as a greate and holy Relique among the Frenchmen At this siege was the Erle of Penbrooke sent from Quéen Mary as Generall ouer fiue thousande Englishemen and in that company the Lorde Grey of VVilton the Earle of Leycester called then Lorde Robert Dudley and the Lord Henry his brother Lorde Bray Lorde Delawaer Sir William Courtney Sir Iohn Pollard and a greate number of nobilitie and worthy Gentlemen which being mustred and putte in order of battell on Saint Peters gréene by Callice made as gallant a shewe as was séene in those partes a long season before King Phillippe béeyng happye in warres and hauyng alwayes or the most parte victorie and aduauntage ouer the Frenche made what stirre or businesse hée pleased during the time of his abode in Flaunders and departing to Spaine lefte the Dutchesse of Parma as Regent But about that season or anone after the French Kyng sente Monsieur de Termes who was Generall of Callice when England had loste it with tenne thousand Souldioures to destroy a greate péece of the lowe countrie and they prospered a while and burnte Donkirke and Berges and sundrie other Townes and Uillages But the Counte De Egmond with a noble bande of Burgonions gaue a charge vppon Monsieur de Termes before Grauelin and ouerthrewe hys whole armye leauing but a fewe horsemenne to runne awaye and make reporte of the conflicte Oure shippes on the Sea as some saye dyd further muche this victorie Thus all this while did Flaunders moste manfullye an●… stoutlye striue with the Frenchmen and gote commonly●… twice so muche as they loste either by martiall feates in field or pollicie at home in peace And surely Flaunders had the name to haue as greate souldiors and as wise Counselloures as any one parte of Christendome Lette their actes in our daies be a testimonie to trie their valor and worthinesse and for my parte I goe no further in their fame and glorie than al their neighboures can beare witnesse of and hath bin séene in the compasse of thirtie yeares of whiche time I haue had some triall among them of their wars and experiences in martiall causes But what can mans force or pollicie doe when God withdrawes his goodnesse from the people●… Did not Rome florish many yeares and conquered in a maner the greater parte of the world Did not Carthage Thebes Athens Florence Genewa Venice Naples and a number of other Kingdomes and Seigniories abounde in wealth and glorie and nowe at these daies are but a few of them left able to compare with this little Iland And to speake of Flaunders though I knew the day when it might haue compared with the greatest state that I haue named the greater is the fall thereof at this presente and the more it is to be lamented not onely bicause it was our antient neighbour and friende but for that it was a famous and riche countrey whiche I leaue to Gods ordinance and appointmente purpos●…ng to follow the matter I haue taken in hand The Dutchesse of Parma remaining Regent had much adoe to quiet things in hir time for the state beganne to be deuided and a quarrel betwéene the Cardinall Granduiell and Monsieur Degmond who gaue the Cardinall a blow encreased such dissention as coulde not be a long w●…ile bée pacified and then the Prince of Orange Counte de Horne Counte de He●…traed and others of the greatest calling aduaunced Religion and brought suche matters in question as bredde great businesse and bloudshed The first of this ruffling and sturre began at Antwerpe where they threwe down Images and made a greate vproare among the common people so that they fell to sides and factions and thereby a grudge of ranckor tooke roote in their heartes in suche sorte that the one side sought the others ouerthrow and vtter subuersion At thys tyme a greate Citie called Valentian taking holde and sauoure of Religion reuolted from the Regent whiche towne was besieged a long season by the Regents power and by practise and policie surprised taken and cruelly handled But in the mean season there was one called Monsieur Tolouse that assembled a company of souldioures to the number of two thousand and fortified a place neare Antwerpe called Auste●…uiel in minde to exercise Religion there and to draw as many vnto them as were fauorers of that enterprise The Regent hearing thereof with all expedition sente Monsieur Beauoys with a sufficient hand both of horsmen footemen which set vpon Monsieur Tolouse his companye when they were not well prouided to withstande such a chardge and ouerthrewe the whole assembly putting to the sworde as many as they coulde lay hand vpon with as great terror and crueltie as coulde anye waye be imagined The common people of Antwerpe standyng on their walles and beholding this murther and massacre began to murmure at the matter and so burst out in open words of malice and swore to reuenge the bloudshed they behelde of their brethren and countrimen Whervpon a common crie was sodain●…ly raised throughout the stréetes of Viue le geuxe all the people arming themselues in euerye parte of the Citie came running to the Mear Broeg a wide and large stréete adioyning to the Borse when they hadde assembled togither to the number of tenne thousand shotte and armed menne they determined to march out of the towne and méete Monsieur Beauoys as hée returned from Austreuiel But in the market place was assembled twelue Auntients of the Regents side who had the keyes of the gates and so kepte the people from their purpose a little season But the multitude was so greate and the people swarmed so thicke in euery place that the Regentes power in the Market place were ●…aine to drawe the Cannons from the walles and gather theyr friendes togither from all partes of the Citye and hauyng a greate power all in one place they chardged all theyr Cannons and greate péeces with haile shotte and dydde fortifye themselues in the Market place verye stronglye The nighte before one Capitayne Bright and Capitaine Marya an Italian hadde broken all the bridges and passages that the people of the Citie shoulde haue gone ouer or haue hadde anye passage at whiche was done vppon some suspition they had conceiued of a reuolte The people being with this and other occasions made angrie and brought in a rage beganne furiouslye to goe aboute the walles and kepte togither by thousandes and multitudes the number whereof coulde not easilye be knowen but they were iudged in all to be fiue and twentye thousande able men and yet among them hadde they no speciall Captaine no●… any that woulde take vppon him to sh●…w what was necessarie to be done in this their extreame hazard and danger The Prince of Orange the Count de Horne the Count de Host●… Monsieur Decaerdes al the nobilitie being afraide to offende the King with an open reuolte did perswade the Regents power to make peace with the people and aboute that

Meatz in Lorraine in whyche Towne was a greate number of the floure of Fraunce placed as Duke D'Aumail Duke De Namures and the Vidaem de Chartoys a lustie and noble Gentleman wyth whyche Vidaem was the Lorde Charles Howarde of Effingham that nowe is And the Frenche so worthilie behaued themselues in that Towne by sallies and issuing out vppon the Emperoures Campe that the Emperoure was fayne to rayse hys séege wyth the losse of twentye thousande menne by Sworde and Pestilence and so departed and missed the thyng hée looked for ▪ From Artoys the meane whyle Monsieur Grande Maeter with a greate power wente along the water of Some and spoyled two Townes of good strength the one called Noyon and the other Roye wyth a number of other Uillages And in the same iourney before Pyroen was Sir William Drurie shotte through the bridle hande by a Frenchmā y offered to breake a Lance vpō him who threwe downe his staffe when hée shoulde haue putte it in the rest and so discharged hys Dagge at Sir William Drurie whyche was accompted the parte of a Cowarde At the same instant or very soone after the Frenchmen beséeged Hedding agayne where Monsieur Byron was as Generall His Father Mon. Grand Maeter came to raise y séege with a sufficiente power but came too late for the French hadde wonne it the same nyghte that we laye in Campe within two leagues of Hedding and Monsieur Byron commyng away wyth bagge and baggage sente vs worde of hys misfortune whyche newes so tooke away the courages of oure people I meane Burgonyons and suche as were in oure Campe that we marched without sounde of Drumme or Trumpet that nyght to Saint Poule a neutre Towne on the frontiers and the season was then so terrible cold that all the way we had but Snowe and sléete in oure faces with suche a winde and blustering storme as many dyed by the way and many fell sicke of their suddayne and sore trauell Héere I must a little tell you of the strange manner of both oure Camps at all times and extremities whyche in déede was of the worlde to be wondered at for the French woulde sometimes make hast to followe vs but when they came néere then woulde they retyre wyth as greate expedition as they made hast before and in lyke sorte we followed them vppon the lyke aduantage But when our Campe came in the smell of theyr Poulder away wée trudged as fast God knowes without any greate occasion And in this trade and manner the whole forces of both the sydes continued a maruellous tyme and yet assuredlye on both partes were manye stoute and valiante Captaynes and menne of suche fame as to these dayes there are but a fewe lefte alyue of theyr worthynesse About this time Rentie was besieged where manye noble things were done so valiantly and with suche courage and conduct as merits great praise but in fine the French were faine to withdraw themselues and the Burgonians succoured the Fort with no little losse or hazarde The greate Citie and Towne of Arras had like to haue bin betrayed but the treason was espied and the practise preuented to some losse of the French side Monsieur Dernes dyed and in his place came Monsieur Benningcourt who being Graund Maister prepared to besiege Dorlean and laye neare it with a huge power the French by a great pollicie laide an ambushe of horsemen and footmen in a place conuenient and the Burgonions casting no doubt went about some enterprise and fell in the lapse of the French where was a maruellous great fighte and sharpe encounter horsemen to horsemen at the leaste fiue thousand on a side and the Burgonians at the first wan a gyddon or two from the French and tooke manye prisoners But in the end the broile began to be so hote that the Prince of P●…anoys was smored to deathe in hys armoure and the Duke of Ascot was takē prisoner and the Burgonions were forced to make the best shift for thēselues that they coulde at whiche seruice and other exploites before was Sir William Drurie and moste of the Gentlemen and souldioures of Englande before named Hedding was againe besieged by the Burgonions and wonne from the French and rased to the verye grounde to the vtter disgrace of the Frenche and great glorie of the other side The Emperoure his owne person and his sister the Regent came with a wonderfull great armie to Cambris and abode the French Kings cōming for a battell The French King came and presented the battel with such a multitude of braue Souldyers horsemen and footemen as seldome I euer sawe before and in déede they marched full in the face and viewe of the Emperours campe which was so entrenched that the French coulde not haue any aduauntage and so after the great ordinance had gone off a long season the Frenche in a moste noble and braue order retired A strong and goodly Towne called Turwaine was besieged by the Burgonions battered and assaulted at which assaulte we lost many men But the Spaniardes were euen with the towne after For at a parlée the Spaniarde sodainely entred the towne and so a greate murther of all sortes of people was made in somuche that I sawe sundrye wounded and sicke Gentlemen and Gentlewomen leape downe from the toppe of the walles but that preuailed not for the murther continued and the towne was cleane spoyled throwne down and rased in moste cruell dispite There was many other seruices in Flaunders the whiche I saw not at that seasō wherfore I do commit the reporte thereof to those that are better experimented with the causes and haue a minde to set them out at large For my onlye meaning was but briefly to make a rehearsall of suche things as I knewe to be true and may not wearye a willing Reader Nowe after a number of broyles and warlike affaires were ended the Emperour and the Quéene of Hungarie tooke shypping and went into Spaine and ended their liues in a Monasterie and in Flaunders was placed King Phillip in whose time was many great actes done and sundry battels worthily gotten The greatest of those victories was at Saint Quintines whiche towne King Philip besieged To the rescue of the same towne the French King sent the chiefest of al his nobilitie with a puissaunt power but the King of Spaine hys hap was to encounter them and ouerthrowe them and making a greate slaughter tooke the highe Conestable of France and many other honorable and mightie personages prisoners The town of Saint Quintines notwithstanding stoode to the mercye of the sworde and woulde not yéelde in any respect Wherevpon a Generall assaulte was roundly giuen in going to the whiche assaulte the Lorde Henry Dudley was slaine a lustie and towarde Gentleman but in ●…ine with much adoe and very great seruice and slaughter Saint Quintines was won and spoiled and an English Gentleman nowe sir Nicholas Malby of good valor and courage wanne Saint Quintines heade

too strong for Don Iohns power Sundrie skirmishes oneof thē before L●…ine I could a little write of but for that no great thing was atchieued by thē I lap thē vp among other matters that I neither haue occasion much to dilate off nor you are desirous to heare For he that shall write of euerye thing was done hadde néede to haue manye bodies to be in euerye place at once and twice so many eies to note in what order the thinges fell out or otherwise he maye misse of the troth as some haue that were in the fielde when seruice was to be séene whose intelligence I hadde and yet an other in the same company doth tell me a contrary tale For whiles one is in the skirmishe and another is a forraging they are seuecallye occupyed and will make sundry discourses and for my owne parte I proteste before God I hadde rather followe the truth of the matter than the flatterie of the time so that if anye error haue passed my pen it oughte to be pardonable for that I hate to publishe set out a fable and loue to preferre the knowledge and vnderstanding of a troth and speaking of any man or matter enimy or friend I woulde yéelde them due praise and commendation not onely for to winne my workes the more credite but lykewise to vse a kinde of duetifull courteste and so to pay in reporte euery person lyuing the debt that I do owe him Nowe it is to be vnderstoode that whiles Don Iohn was busie aboute his warres the Quéenes Maiestie sente Embassadours to treate of amitie and peace as you haue hearde before and the laste that went ouer aboute these chargeable affairs were two most honorable personages the Lord Cobham sir Francis Walsingham on whom attended as gallant a traine of Gentlemen as wente from hence to Flaunders these twenty yeares And as the true reporte goeth these noble Embassadoures helde and kepte suche chéere in a déere and scarce season for victualles that the like hathe not béene séene neyther of late nor manye yeres agoe And the bountie that one of the Embassadours vsed whose déedes shall shewe his name out of hys owne purse and francke liberalitie excéeded and is to be honoured for euer And when these Embassadors had laine there a greate while and finished that was thought necessarie méete they returned to the Courte Since whiche time as God ordaines all thinges Don Iohn is dead and many other noble men more And the plague is so hote among the Spaniardes and the rest that lies in camps as is to bée proued that euen as a shephearde doth point oute his shéep●… and ●…ulles out those lambēs that he sendes to the slaughter house so God as it séemeth with his stretched out arme toucheth whome hée pleaseth by the finger of hys wrath and scourge of plague ●…ings thousandes vnderfoote and tūbles thē in their graue And this is a thing maruelously to be noted not specially abroade but wisely here at home that some haue no power to goe from the plague and some goe where they will the plague doeth followe them For it skippeth ouer houses and housholdes and enters in their doores that maketh sa●…e bothe doores and windowes not brought altogither by infection of clothes and garmentes but sent for foule offences by a power past our iudgemēts and is to be presupposed a messenger of Gods anger an Angell of yre that waytes as well on the good to take thē from the badde wicked of this worlde as followes the wicked to make Gods power knowne and man confesse his own faults follie Now if men would looke narrowly into the sore affliction of Flaunders for the space of thirty yeares they would thinke they haue had plagues ynowe if God so were pleased besides the fearefull pestilence it selfe which of all things is most terrible and yet the more is the pitie there cannot be a worse plague among Christians than disagréement and publique dissention whiche is to bée feared hathe taken suche déepe roote in Flaunders that it wil not nor can not be holpen but by the pollicie of puissaunt Princes and prayers of good people Thus farre haue I gone Gentle Reader to make thée conceiue howe mercifully God hathe dealte with oure Countrey and howe sharply our neighbors hau●… bi●… afflicted in a manner rounde aboute vs whiche I wil God willing speake of in an other volume if fououralby you can afoorde to giue this my bare and barraine Discourse youre good reporte and at the least for my study and labor althoughe you mislike it recompence me with silence or else as this was done in little time so take what leysure you list and write another worke of more value weight whiche I shall be as gladde to giue commendation vnto as I shall be sorie when I knowe these paines haue not contented you as witnesseth our liuing Lorde who multiply his graces among vs and sende concorde and quietnesse to the iarring and troubled state of Flaunders Finis ꝙTHOMAS CHVRCHYARD ¶ To the VVorlde GO sillie Booke to suttle Worlde and shevv thy simple face And forvvard passe and do not turne agayne to my disgrace For thou shalt bring to peoples eares but troth that needes not blush And though Maell Bouch giue thee rebuke care not for that a rush For euill tongs do ytch so sore they must be rubbing still Against the teeth that should hold fast the clapper of the Mill. Desire those men that likes thee not to lay thee dovvne againe Till some svveete nappe and harmelesse sleepe hath settled troubled brayne And vvhen one house doth shutte thee out creepe to another streight And though thy mayster be but playne yet looke thou vse some sleight To purchace loue and credite both for that shall breede good bloud And thou vvith prayse and honest brute mayst do thy Maister good But if they reade thee in disdeyne slippe from them if thou may Let enuye svvell and malice poult I heare not vvhat they say I made thee for to please the best the vvorst may mend the vvhile So vvisedome bids thee vvelcome Booke thou mayst at folly smile An ounce of prayse from vvise mens mouth vvayes dovvne a pound of fame That fooles do giue vvhose slender skill scarce scannes mens honest name If Court embrace thee for my sake to Countrey then in post Be sure then neyther thy bare vvords nor my poore vvorke is lost Where Souldioures are aduance thy selfe for though some faults they spye Their martiall minds vvill make them cast on thee a friendly eye Among Diuines and Scholemen oft come not but for a change For at thy levvde and rubbish phrase the learned vvill looke strange To men of Lavv do freelie goe for they good fellovves are And can vvith toyes sometimes vvell ease the vveight of Countreys care With Merchant men make thine aboade vvho loues to heare of Peace So shall it be vvhen bloudie broyles in Flaunders ginnes to ceasse Thus haue I taught thee vvhat good course thou oughtst of right to hold Thou art a Booke goe vvhere thou vvilte like Bayard blind be bold Thou shalt haue mates to follovv thee and help thee if thou fall I haue vvide scope at vvill to vvalke yea Penne and Muse at call And other Bookes that I must needes committe to Worldes report He is thrice blest that vvell doth vvorke our time is heere but short FINIS