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A07032	A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries, otherwise called Flanders Wherein, is sett forthe the originall and full proceedyng of the saied troubles and ciuile warres, with all the stratagemes, sieges, forceble takynges, and manlike defenses, of diuers and sondrie cities, tounes, and fortresses of the same, together, the barbarous crueltie and tyrannie of the Spaniard, and trecherous hispaniolized Wallons, [and] others of the saied lowe Countreis. And there withall, the estate and cause of religion, especially, from the yere 1559. vnto the yere 1581. Besides many letters, commissions, contractes of peace, unions, articles and agrementes, published and proclaimed in the saied prouinces. Translated out of French into Englishe, by T.S. ge[n]t.; Chronyc. historie der Nederlandtscher oorlogen, troublen enn oproeren oorspronck, anvanck enn eynde, item den standt der religien, tot desen jare 1580. English.	Stocker, Thomas, fl. 1569-1592.; Marnix van St. Aldegonde, Philips van, 1538-1598, attributed name.; Rijckewaert, Carolus, called Theophilus, fl. 1577, attributed name.; Henricpetri, Adam, fl. 1576. General historien der aller namhafftigsten unnd fürnembsten Geschichten, Thaten und Handlungen.; Le Petit, Jean François, 1546-ca. 1615, attributed name.	1583 (1583)	STC 17450.3; ESTC S111524	324,446	432

souldiers And ouer and besides fiue companies of the Regiment of the Count of Arenbergue Howebeit all these people could doe Counte Lodwicke no hurte because his armie dayly encreased The Duke of Alua sent thither Sir Iohn of Ligny Count Arenbergue who was newely come out of Fraunce with a Regiment of Spaniardes and fiue ensignes of Almaynes to set vpon the enemie whiche hee did in deede but to his great losse before the Count Megue was come The first skyrmishe was very brauely handled in a place where a thousande shot of the Count Nasious lay in wayte for the comming of the Count Arenbergue Howebeit the night separated them and the Spaniardes retyred vnto their Campe but the Count Nassou in the night raysed his Campe. When the day was come the Spaniardes thought that the Count Nassou and his people had fled and therefore they followed them But when Count Lodwicke vnderstoode that there were no more horsemen but Curtius Martinengo his bande hee charged the Count Arenbergue with three hundred horses and ouerthrewe tenne ensignes of Spantardes and fiue companies of Almaynes The Count of Arenbergue for the sauing of his honour defended him selfe valiantly Howebeit his horse was slayne vnder him and he falling to the grounde was suddenly surprised by a shotte and slayne The Count of Arenbergue ●layne notwithstanding that hee cryed out and sayde saue my life for I am a Count but all woulde not serue and so his noble blood was there splite Certayne of the Spaniardes fledde vnto a Monastery not farre from the place where the ouerthrowe was giuen called Heiligher Lee to hide and saue them selues Howebeit they were forthwith sette vpon where at the very first assault was slayn Count. Adolfe of Nassou Count Adolf of Nafsou slayne count Lodwicke his brother and his Chauncelor The rest of the Spaniardes and Almaynes saued them selues in the town of Groening By this ouerthrowe the Duke of Alua lost sixe peeces of great Ordinaunce with all their munition but chiefly the count of Arenbergue who was all his comfort Ouer and besides the great store of money which they had brought with them for the paying of their souldiers their plate and other ritches which the Nassouans made good butin of This battell was fought the 23. of May 1568. betweene Heiligher Lee and Winschote in Friselande The Count of Arenbergue was buried in the Church of the saide Monasterie and the Count Adolfe at Welden The 29. of May the Duke of Alua caused a Proclamation to bee placlaymed at Bruxelles That all such as were departed their Countrey shoulde returne to their place of aboade vppon payne of confiscation both of body and goodes The welthie fugitiues were expressely named howebeit fewe or none returned because they hoped of a better way and a more conuenient time to do it This discomfiture greatly greeued the Duke of Alua but hee was auenged for it vpon the noble men and Gentlemen and other welthie Citizens whome he had in prison whose liues he tooke away For the first day of Iune he caused eighteene Gentlemens heads to be striken off in the Horsemarket at Bruxelles The tyrannie of the Duke of Alua. to wit Gysbert and Thierry of Batenbourgh Barons Peter de Andelot Philip de Winglen Maximilian Cocke Philip Triest a Gantois Iohn de Blays Bortholomew de Val Sir Beyma a gentleman of Friseland and Harman Galama a gentleman of Friselande also Iames de Pentan Ferdinand Peletier Constantine of Bruxelles Iohn de Rumaul Lewis Carlier of Cambray Peter and Philip de Altz brethren The next day beeing the seconde of Iune were put to death the Lorde of Vilers and the Lorde of Due who were taken at the ouerthrowe of Dalham Quintin Benit and a minister of the worde named Cornille Nyeen a very learned and famous doctor vpon all these persons aforesayde vomited he vp his cholor The thirde of the saide moneth hee caused to bee brought foorth the Count Egmond and Philippe de Memorencie count of Horne knights of the order two very famous gentlemē both for their language and honour as also for their notable feaces of armes especially the Count Egmonde for the good seruice which he had done his Maiestie in the viage to Saint Quintins where the Constable and many other Frenche noble men were taken and afterwarde in the voiage to Groening where hee valiantly ouercame the Frenche to their great losse both of men and otherwayes Howebeit all these his notable good and faithfull seruices stoode him in no stead These two Countes were brought from Gand to Bruxelles in a wagon with a conuoye of tenne ensignes of Spaniardes and a bande of Horses and ledde to the markette place of Bruxelles and lodged at an house called the Breadhouse about three of the clocke in the after noone and there were indited and sentence pronounced as followeth The Duke of Alua his highnesse Marques of Coria gouernour Lieutenant and Captayne generall for his Maiestie our redoubted and beloued Lorde in his lowe Countreys and Lorde chiefe Iustice in the Counsayle of life and death ouer his Maiesties prisonners hauing seene the Attorney generall his declaration and information and also the mynutes documentes depositions and letters by him exhibited but especially the confession and propositions of the prisonners their answeres and defence and the billes by them exhibited by which the L. that are But nowe to returne to my first matters whiche I was in hande withall The Count of Egmond his answere vnto the sentence when the Count of Egmond hearde of this seuere sentence hee saide Truely this is an harde iudgement I do not beleeue that euer in all my life I haue so offended his Maiestie as to haue deserued so seuere sentence Neuerthelesse if so be that I haue offended I beseeche the Lorde that my death may take away all my sinnes to the ende that neyther I nor none of mine be any more dishonored and that my deare wife and feare and my innocent children suffer no more torment after that my bodie and goods shall bee confisked my good seruices haue deserued not to haue any such grace granted vnto me But sith it is the pleasure of almightie God and my Lord the king that thus it shal be I wil patiently suffer death And afterwarde he wrote vnto the king this letter The Count Egmonde his letter to the king I haue hearde the decree of your Maiesties sentence giuen vpon mee although I neuer eyther ment or thought to commit any thing that might be hurtfull vnto your person seruice or the ancient Catholike religion But I take in good parte what so euer it shall please the Lorde to lay vpon mee and if I haue during these troubles in the lowe Countreys any way offended or suffered any thing that might haue happened to others and not to my selfe the same hath come from a loyall and faithfull heart to the honour of God your Maiesties seruice and as the time required Wherefore I most humbly

fled with all possible speede to the other side of Norta little Meere where the Spaniardes were intrenched Whereupon the Admirall lustily pursued them with force of Oares and orderly enbattailed himselfe within an barquebuze shot of the enemie From this trenche in Norta houses were the muskets brauely discharged but the Orengians so defended themselues with their great ordenance as that the Spaniarde knewe not where to hide his head When the aforesaid Almaines had closely conueyed themselues behinde two hay stackes to keepe them out of the danger of the great shot they retyred towards Soeterwood which skirmishe lasted from noone vntill the Euening But about mydnight the Admyrall caused an Alarme to be giuen by certayne small shot whom the Spaniardes aunsweared foure or fiue tymes to the end to shew them that they were not departed but they fearing of surprising so stilly and flyly retyred towards Soeterwood as that the Admirall neuer perceyued it vntill the next morrow The Orengians were greatly annoyed by reason that the Spaniardes had stopped the course of the water whiche ranne downe towardes Soeterwood besides they were in a greate fault in that they made not a trenche at the entrie of the little Meere for if they had the Admyrall had found as daungerous a peece of work of it as was the enterprise at Soetermeir bridge howbeit the Lord God meaning to increase his glory so blinded them as that they became senslesse When all the rest of the army were come with the great ordinance The liuelines of a lusty captaine reuined men halfe dead the Admiral al his whole army were gottē into a very large broad streame running towardes Suyten where they discharged all their greate ordinaunce because the Leydens should both see heare and bee encouraged for in seuen daies before they had not heard so much as a worde from them The Leydens againe aunsweared them with their great ordinaunce in token that they were not as yet discouraged although their food was no better then Cow beefe and horse flesh They had in the towne about nientie horses and from the foureteenth of September they beganne to distribute halfe a pound of thesayde horse flesh to a man for one dayes victuall The Colleagues and adherents of proud Baldez came dayly before the gates of the Towne menacing mocking and iesting and mixing withall sometimes very sweete and sugred wordes And on a tyme certayne of his Captaynes and Officers meeting with a young youth going frō the Towne to Leyer thorp sayde vnto him Tell your Townes men that it is as possible for your Prince to aide and deliuer your Towne as it is for you to catch the starres in the skie with your handes These were the flaunderous high and proude woordes of this Infidell Maran and of his adherentes who thought themselues to haue as well prouided for the Campe and siege about the Towne as that neither the Townes men nor yet any man liuing was able to withstand him or hinder his deuise neuer thinking that there was a God who could and woulde deliuer the poore afflicted soules from the handes and sword of the Tyrant Howbeit these threatning wordes faire promyses withall were not altogether fruitlesse because they wrought effectually in some inconstant vnsetled mynds by which they being moued by reason of the great famyne which so grieuously touched thē as that there was like to haue bin a manifest discord in the Town had not the Lord God by M. Iames Iohn de la Does Lords of Northwyke wisely and grauely prouided against it For about the very self same tyme that these things thus fel out 15. Citizens who as they said had aboue 300. moe of theyr confederacy went to the Towne house calling for victuals and that if none were there to be had that meanes might be found for that prouiding of some where one of the Borroughmaisters protested A discord in Leyden by reason of the famine that he would not be the cause of the death of those which died of hunger who as they said had at that instāt 7. Bacon hogges left in his house insomuch that these words had wrought a farre greater effect had not the Deputies the rest of the Magistrates with the Captaynes the other citizēs in authority been more constant faithful had besides trusted more assuredly to the merciful prouidēce of God For where some of the rest of the Magistrates earnestly trauelled to perswade the people of the great mercy of Baldez and of the notable pardon and withall of the promises conteyned within the letters aboue written these men on the other side set before the eyes of the simple and faynthearted Citizens all examples to the contrary For the sayde pardon was by some so lustely mainteyned as that they shamed not to giue their good fellow citizens reprochful words only but of a froward affectiō belied thē also saying that they which trusted not to the pardon were errād the eues which saying put them in great feare not sticking besides freely to cry out say that they had redeemed the tōgs of their Lombard this speech as before hath byu sayde arose by reason that the commissary Bronchorst was dead who so long as he liued helde them at the staues end and trussed some of them vp in an halter Ouer besides these iniurions reprochfull words the secret councels which they there oftentimes held came to litle effect for the Lord God had stirred vp the hart of a godly woman who from time to time aduertised the faithful ones of all their whole deuises so that they continually put themselues in armes before their secret enemies could bring any part of their enterprise to passe and it was so wisely and discreetly handeled as that they thought it to bee done vpon some other occasion which caused the dissemblers and counterfets not once dare to take in hande that theyr deuise by reason they were inwardly stricken with shame and feare There were certaine also which came the very same time to Peter Adryanson the Burrough master shewing him both by lamentable threatning words of their pouertie hunger thinking that they should thereby moue him to seeke some meanes to agree with the enemie Howbeit he in these few wordes answered them and said My good friends beloued fellow citizens I haue made an oth which by the grace of god I meane constātly to keep If my death sith I am sure I must once die may any way pleasure you it is all one to me whether you or the enemie kill mee for for mine owne part I intend god willing to go on a plaine direct course therfore if this carkasse of mine will do you any good in gods name take it cut it in peeces deuide it as farre as may possibly stretch for I shal be cōtented therwith The citizens were at this answere so amazed as that they went away without any moe words Now for

perturbers of the common weale The Lorde of Brederode gaue the Secretary none other answere but this Thou art a man not worthie any answere c. The Antwerpians after long resistaunce agreed with the Dutchesse in manner and fourme following That the Sermons shoulde cease but none to be syfted or troubled for the cause of Religion And therefore for the very same purpose it was ordeined and proclaymed in Antwerpe the 7. of April 1567. That all ministers shoulde depart thence and the preachinges cease That all Catholikes shoulde bee restored to their offices and the first Commissions be obserued and kept Alwayes prouided that no man shoulde bee sifted or troubled for the religion vntill such time as his Maiestie by the aduise of the generall Estates had otherwise appointed it This matter was accomplished after that the ministers were gone out of the Citie of Antwerpe and their Churches were fast shutte and sealed vp In this sort passed the matters of Flanders Hollande zeland and the rest of the Prouinces and the persecution dayly encreased against such as had taken armes vpon them broken downe the Images and opposed themselues against the Edictes and Commissions The 18. of April The Lady Regent entred into Antwerp Count Manfields garnysoneth Antwerpe and with her the Count Mansfielde with 16. Ensignes of footmen and fiue hundreth horse After that the Prince of Orange was departed thence which was the 11. of the sayde Moneth with a great number of Citizens and enhabitauntes of the same Citie in very great miserie and with much weeping and wailing When the Lorde of Brederode had receyued the sharpe message aforesayde hee soone after in the deade of the night The L. of Brederode flyeth from Amsterdame departed the Countrey with many noble men and other souldiers whome the Count Megue pursued but it was to small purpose The 5. of May the same yeere there fell in Friselande into the Count Arenberge his handes certayne of the nobilitie that were betrayed by a Mariner who in steede to carry them ouer the seas set them on the playne grounde where they were taken by Captayne Mulert as a captayne of one of the companies of the Count Arenberge The Lords of Battenbrough and two Lordes of Friselande to witte Herman Galama and Sir Beyma besides many other Gentlemen and Captaynes The tenth of May there entred into Amstelredame certayne bandes of Souldiers and a little before into Bostleduke and Vyane of whiche the Duke Ericke of Brunswike was chief and the Countrey of Vtryght was deliuered to the Catholikes The 21. of May The Marques of Bergues died in Spayne The Marques of Bergues as it is said was poisoned in Spayne of whom wee haue before spoken And the Marquesse his wife at another time caused many Infantes to bee baptized and many to be married agayne by the priestes whome the ministers had before baptized and married and suche as refused it muste forsake the Countreye so that many menne and women were fayne to departe and goe into other Countreys The 24 of this Moneth by her highnesse appoyntment was a Proclamation proclaymed in Antwerpe muche more for the behoofe of the Catholiques then for the Protestauntes wherein was declared That as manye as woulde remayne in the Countrey shoulde from thence foorth lyue peaceably and in quiet and that all mynisters and suche as frequented Sermons and had defaced the Images shoulde lose both bodies and ●oodes and that the Father Master or Lorde shoulde answere fortheir children and seruantes And besides that all Infantes which were baptized by the ministers shoulde bee rebaptized by the Priestes after the maner of the Catholique Churche Also that no Schoolemasters might teache before such tyme as they were examined and their bookes allowed Moreouer against Printers and Statyoners which solde bookes not allowed of and agaynst all such officers as did permitte and suffer them Against all such as without his Maiesties knowledge be collectors of money vpon any of his subiectes Against euery assembly which is made agaynst the ordinaunce or consent of his Maiestie Against all Straungers which depart not the Countrey within 24 houres or bring not a testimoniall from the place from whence they come and the cause of their remayning there Lastly that no man shoulde withstande any Ecclesiasticall person The persecution dayly encreased whiche caused the people to forsake the Countrey by thousands There were in one day at Tournay an hundred and sixe riche Merchauntes and many others spoyled of their goodes and a great number put and deteyned in pryson and there ill entreated The 18. of Iuly The Dutchesse departed from Antwerpe to Bruxelles and the Count Manssielde remayned there with his Garnison An addition of certayne thinges woorthie remembrance which happened in diuers places and prouinces THe 26. and 27. of Iune 1566. The publique preaching of the syncere woorde of God beganne throughout all the low Countreys with the administration of the Sacraments in many Cities and Townes About the 16. and 17. of August the same yeere The images in diuers cities and townes of the lowe Countreys were broken in peeces and the alters and ornamentes of the Churches pulled downe and destroyed The date of this yeere when this geare was done is to bee founde by the Capitall letters of this verse following Con Cio saCra ●●Vit tVMidi CeCidere deastri The 6. of September the same yeere were in three parishe Churches of Leawarde all the Alters pulled downe and the Images broken by the appointment of the Magistrate The 8. of the sayde moneth and the same yeere were the first Sermons made in the chiefe parish Churche of the Citie of Oldenbone by the ministers of the woorde of God and that by the consent of the Magistrate And the 15. of the sayd moneth was the supper of the Lorde there administred The 10. of September that yeere were the Aulters of the franciscane Fryers in Gr●ening pulled down by the leaue of the Magistrate and the Images broken The 25. of September the same yeere was the first stone of the foundation of the reformed Church in Antwerpe laide The same day were they of the reformed Religion of the citie of Nymmegue in Gelderlande driuen out of the same The 3. of October the same yeere the Ministers of the woorde of GOD were forbidden at Bruxelles vppon payne of hanging to preache within the said Citie or in any other places there about This was the first dispersing sithens the publique preachings The 17. of October aforesaide there were certayne insolent partes playd by certayne young persons in our Ladye Church of Antwerpe Whereupon the Lorde of Hooghstrate Gouernour at that time beset the Churche rounde about with souldiers and entring into it tooke certayne prisoners and the next day in the morning about the dawning were sixe or seuen of them hanged in the market place The 10. of Ianuarie 1567. The ministers of the reformed religion were expulsed the Citie of Leunwarde in Fryselande The 9. of