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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

vnto them had they not been by faire means disswaded by two Lords in the Citie viz Marc. Antonio Colunus and Iulio Caesar Likewise Venice Naples and Millaine though they be Papists would not suffer it the Marchants of Lisbon who are as superstitious in the Romish Religon as any in the world yet they did offer the King two millions and a halfe that they might not haue it in their parts Yet the crueltie of this Inquisition did here increase and many Souldiers came into the Countrey that some of the Countrey forsooke their houses and resorted towards Freezland and some did stay at home and went to meet Duke Alva and well-commed him into the countrey and shewed him all the kindnesse they could As the Graue of Egmond and the Graue of Horn and many of the Gentry at Brussels 1●6● but he very shortly tooke off most of their heads so that he did so terrifie the Inhabitants that there fled out of the Countries more then an hundred thousand houshoulders besides many that were taken in flying were taken and hanged and all these had their goods confiscated to the King The Prince of Orange and the Earle of Bredrod and fiue Earles eight Lords and 50. Gentlemen and they had some fiue thousand of Souldiers being in Freesland but were most over-throwne by the Duke of Alva his forces so that were driuen to Embden land and there prepared themselues to the Sea Now the Duke of Alva did command all the Inhabitants to pay the hundreth penny of all their goods and of all that was bought and sold the which some of the States did yeeld vnto and then he commanded them to pay the twentith penny and then he commanded the tenth penny of all things that were bought and sold so often as they should be sold Some of the States did make their humble petition to the Duke and to the Princes shewing them that it would driue all Trading out of the Land The Duke of Alva told them that he would haue it though it did ruinate all the Land but if he saw them willing to doe their best to pay it he would deale favourably with them All the prisons were filled insomuch as they were sorced to prepare more and filled them also But he sayd that it was against the Kings honour if they should not pay it seeing it was his pleasure to require it And now did the Inquisition imprison and execute many of the richer sort as well Papists as of the Reformed Church and if they were rich there was no escaping for them And whosoever was found to haue any hand in way of suit and petition to haue the tenth penny to be remitted they were adiudged to haue committed high treasom against God and the King and all these must forfeit life and goods to the King and not any of their children to enioy one penny worth of the same but poore Orphanes they must begge their bread And some that had beene buried certaine months they caused them to be digged vp and hanged on the gallowes and some to be burned because they had not the sacrament and confessed before their death but it was because he would consiscate their goods to the King yea when these insatiable gold-thirsty and blood-thirsty wretches wanted colour to cover their iniustice and cruelty they had their officious imps false witnesses suborned by Iesabel to get Naboths vineyard witnesse Martin Hutton who was one of the Inquisitors Clarkes and being committed to prison did acknowledge that hee had made many false testimonies against sundry rich persons some whereof were of the Reformed Church Here might fitly be brought in the hundred Marchants of Granado who were of the Romane Religion and were never other what pretence had he to cause them to be murthered all in one night and then presently to command all their goods to be brought to his Treasury or Exchequer whose estate was worth more then 28 hundred thousand pound sterling Now as this tyrant was a devourer and destroyer of the liues of men so did he presume to vsurpe further not onely vpon civill ordinances but vpon the things of God so that those that were married in the Reformed Church he forced to be married againe and if they were rich hee tooke them from their husbands and gaue them to his Souldiers to make prize of them Those that were baptized in the Reformed Church he compelled to be baptized againe contrary to Gods word and to the decree of the ancient Councels so that intollerable were the burthens this cruell Pharaoh laid so excessiue was his crueltie that he filled all places with bloud bloud touching bloud as the Prophet speakes For in small townes he executed 50. and in great townes 200. and 300. or 400. And in places as men travelled from one towne to another they might see many that his Souldiers had hung vp in trees to death and some were worth 80. thoussand guldens and some lesse yea this tyrant did confiscate so much lands and goods as by his account sent into Spaine did amount yearly to 8 tun of money sterling besides the many thousands that he and his Souldiers had All the money that he did exact out of this land 〈◊〉 6. yeares did amount to more then 50. millions of Gold And if any were knowne to haue any thing that did belong to any that were put to death and had not brought it to the knowledge of the Inquisition they did loose both life and goods yea the 16 of February 1566. he gaue sentence in his court at Madrill that they were all traytors against God and himselfe At Vtrecht he beheaded a widow that was 84. yeares old because she had before lodged a preacher one night whose living was worth foure thousand guidens yearely And at Mastrich a father for lodging his son that he had not seene in a long time that was fled for religion was put to death And at that place there was one put to death for giving a widow a peck of come for an almes whose husband this bloody court had put to death And many women were put to death because they received their husbands in the night that were fled for religion yea they haue killed women great with child and ripped vp their bellies and taken out the child and killed it and some they haue fleyed aliue and covered drummes heads with their skins and some they haue tyed to a post and made a small fire round about them and so rosted them to death The like cruel they did at Oudwater At Naerden they received the Spaniards friendly into the towne who promised them both their liues and goods and as soone as they came in they commanded them to come to the State-house without their Armes the which they did and the Spaniards gaue fire vpon them and murthered them all and then they ran about in the town and ravished the women and after killed them and fired the towne The young children that

lay in the cradle they quartered them and tooke them vpon their pikes and so went vp and downe the towne reioycing in their crueltie Such savage cruelty is scarcely to be found in any History what Christian heart can heare it and not be affected with deepe sorrow yet behold some monsters herein haue bin found that haue beene so farre from humanity herein for hee that hath humanity in him will commiserate others calamities that they haue applauded it as if he had in all these outrages done God good service Amongst the rest I shall content my selfe at present but to name the holy Father the Pope and one of his chiefe sonnes in this businesse The Pope sends his Legat to commend these so rare expioits and cals this cruell Duke Alva his beloved son sends him a costly sword the hilts whereof were of gold and a hat wrought with gold and beset with rich and costly stones thanking him for his good service in maintaining the Romish Religion and subverting of heretiks Howbeit that his chiefe sonne I mentioned exceeding this man of sinne in the sinne of cruelty as if hee would verifie himselfe to be ten fold more the child of Satan then his father the Pope thinkes not so well of it his name Vergas the President of this bloudy Inquisition for going shortly after into Spaine hee told the King that he and Duke d' Alva did marre all in the Netherlands by shewing so much mercy to those people Concerning this Duke d' Alva of whose outrage and crueltie so many haue felt and perfiduous dealing which many haue found by lamentable experience whereby may easily appeare of what stamp his excessiue mercies are even such as the Wiseman speakes of Pro. 12.10 the tendermercies of the wicked are cruel In which hee prides himselfe These words he spake at a banquet as he sat at the Table reioycing he had done the King so good service boasting he had slaughtered eighteene thousand and six hundred in forme of justice in six yeares times and ten times so many he and his Souldiers murthered otherwaies And many more would he doubtlesse haue murthered had not the Lord restrayned and limited him for his desire herein was as hell that cannot bee satisfied Witnesse the purpose of his proceeding against the Magistrates of Bruxels because they did not collect the tenth peny so as be desired He sware that he would haue it and before he would let it fall or remit it the Sunne and Moone should leaue their shining so he went to Brussels and commanded the executioner to prepare ladders and ropes to hang vp that night in their doores 70. of the Citizens and gaue them his warrant in writing what they should be But God in his providence prevented this his cruel purpose Anno 1573. April 1. I haue instanced but 4 or 5 townes but there were scarce any towne escaped their cruel pillaging except they had bribed their Commanders with exceeding large gifts in that there came newes that the Graue of Mark hath taken in the Brill so the tyrant did not goe forward with his bloody enterprises Thus having given you a taste of some of those many things I haue observed concerning the intolerable oppression worse then salvage cruelty of the Spaniards exercised vpon the people which they endured and laboured vnder the space of sixteene yeares I will now leaue these cruel tyrants to the Lord for judgement addresse my selfe to speake sormewhat further concerning this Earle of Mark who had those Gentlemen with him that fled Before this hee had layne with his shipping in England but the King of Spaine sending his Embassadour to our Queens who was then in peace with him to desire her that she would not suffer his subiects to haue their harbour in her land and that she would not giue them or suffer them to haue any reliefe whereby they should make head against him and heere vpon the Queene sent and commaunded them out of her harbour and she commanded that they should not be suffered to haue any provision in her coasts so that now they had no other meanes but onely God who did in his mercie provide for them better then they expected For they were purposed to haue gone for the Tassel and to haue taken some towne about that part but when they came neere that part they had wind contrary that they could not come there so they went for the Mase and came with their ships before the Brill artd there they went presently and tooke it yet the Duke of Alva had his forces in the towne neere so many as they were whom they presently killed and chased out of the towne and out of the Iland The Prince of Orange being in France and hearing what had happened he sent them souldiers with as much speed as could be out of France And within one moneth after Duke Alva sent certaine companies to Vilshing to keepe that place strong for himselfe and many of the commanders were come into the towne So the Magistrates commanded the Citizens to come presently vpon the Statehouse so they told them they must lodge the Spaniards in their houses and they knowing how they had vsed the Citizens in al places where they came they told the magistrates they would not haue the Spaniards in their towne The Magistrates asked them which of them it was that did refuse to receiue them They sayd All of them So the Magistrates seeing them so earnest against the Spaniards they joyntly tooke their Armes and killed and tooke prisoners all them that were in the town with their Ordenance they shot at his ships where the Spaniards were and they made away And of those that were takē there were the names of about 80. that they had in writing frō Duke Alva that dwelt in the Hand that they should put to death Hee had appointed those to be executed because they were the chiefe that stood against the payment of the tenth peny So those of the Brill sent their souldiers with speed to helpe them And shortly the Prince of Orange came with forces and defended them and some other townes seeing the crueltie of the Spaniards forsooke the Spaniard and joyned with them and tooke the Prince of Orange to be their Protector yet the States notwithstanding did remaine in obedience to the King some seven yeares after Againe it is further worthy to be noted that these Provinces did three times send to the King their Noblemen but could obtaine no mercy and many more times they went to the Princesse of Parma and made their humble petition for redresse of their oppression but could not obtaine any favour then they made friends to the renowned Queene of England and to the Princes of Germany and to the Emperour who did earnestly entreat by their Embassadours for them The King of Spaine answered their Embassadours with these words he bad them tell their Masters That they should meddle with their owne subiects and

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