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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