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B11202	Newes from Antvverp, the .10. day of August. 1580 Contayning, a speciall view of the present affayres of the lowe countreyes: revuealed and brought to lyght, by sundrie late intercepted letters, of certaine vizarded and counterfeyt countrey men of the same countreyes. Translated into English, partly out of French, and partly out of Lattin: according to the originall copie, printed at Antwerp, by William Riuiere, a sworne printer, and bookseller.; Afgheworpene brieven van sommighe ... valsche patriotten. English	Fredericke, abbot of Marolles.; Schetz, Gaspar, d. 1580.; Georg, von Schönenberg, Bishop of Worms, 1530-1595.	1580 (1580)	STC 692; ESTC S112793	31,219	36

Newes from Antvverp the .10 day of August 1580. Contayning A speciall view of the present affayres of the lowe Countreyes Reuealed and brought to lyght by sundrie late intercepted Letters of certaine vizarded and counterfeyt Countreymen of the same Countreyes ¶ Translated into English partly out of French and partly out of Lattin According to the originall Copie printed at Antwerp by William Riuiere a sworne Printer and Bookseller Imprinted at London by John Charlewood ❧ To the Reader ALl persons bearing affection to the Common wealth of these Countreyes desire to be discharged of the oppressions which the warre of necessity leadeth and bringeth with it But this desire is onely a generall discourse For the effects of the same are hindred styll and heretofore haue bene interrupted by an irresolution which happeneth not as many haue thought by the faulte of the cheefe Captaynes and Gouernours who haue so often bothe by woord of mouth and wrytinges in print declared what counsell was meete to be taken and with so great paynes and dillygence sent into all the Prouinces yea and transported themselues thyther in their proper persons But the fault thereof is to be imputed to the particular Commynalties the greatest parte whereof doo order their matter with extreme delayes The causes of such delayes are diuerse But the principall of the same is that some subtyll and wylie fellowes amongst vs of the same humour that these were of whose Letters thou shalt see heere When they counterfeyted the good Countreymen with vs doo feede vs with a vayne hope of peace eyther by the way of Spayne or Almayne or by some other meanes Hoping that as already vnder coulour of peace they haue deuided the prouinces of Artoys and Haynault from vs so they will bring the lyke to passe amongst the other Prouinces that are yet at vnitie But if those thinges which we learne by the confession of our enemies ought to be taken for a trueth thou shalt know freendly Reader by these Letters that we may not any longer looke for peace with the king of Spayne except we will yet suffer our selues to be burnt And therfore it remayneth that we make good prouision to defend our selues valiauntly by all meanes possyble yea to repulse the force that we see repayring for our ruine Specially if the Spaniardes obtayne the kingdome of Portugall Which God forbyd Farewell ❧ Copies of Letters of the Abbot of Marolles to the Cardinall Granuellan The first Letter MY Lord within these fowre last moneths I haue written many Letters to your most honorable reuerend Lordshyp the which I feare by reason of the great daungers of the wayes are not so soone come to your hands as I would wish Because I haue receyued no aunswer but to those of the .xxviij. of Ianuary I would not let slyp the occasion therof for the vnderstāding of the trueth therof finding so 1 Not too sure for he was takē sure a man as the Lord of Grobbendonk sendeth into those parties for his perticular affayres to write this also and to send therwith the copie of the last Letter written the xvij of this moneth whereby your Lordship shall sée the continuance of my wryting from time to time to this ende that in case I may vnderstand the none receypt of my sayde former Letters I might 2 The Abbot thinkes that the Cardinal kepeth a Register of his Letters because they are of so great substaunce learning and eloquence But he taketh not so much paynes as to reade them hauing dr●wen out of the Abbot the thing he pretended also send after the Copies Sithence my sayd last Letters we haue receyued vnderstanding with great gréefe meruayle the departing of the Lord of Aussi from my Lord the Prince of Parma to goe and reioyne him selfe to the Prince of Orenge Delyuering into his handes withall his Castell of Liekerk lez Aloste Also the deteining of the Colonell De heze and other partakers whome my Lordes of Risbourge and Mountigny haue layde holde on laying to their charge that they would haue wrought some treason or slippery pranck to the Campe lying before Tournay and that by the intelligence and subornation of the sayd Prince of Orenge they should haue spoyled the principall heades of our sayd 3 The Marquesse of Risbourge Montigny accused him of an other matter to wyt that he had intellygence with the Duke of Amon. Campe and brought them by force to Tournay aforesayd to the ende to haue sunke our Army afterward I am so much astonished that I knowe not what to say séeing 4 You shall see an other manner of one when the Conspiracies of the Mōkes with the Spaniards shall be discouered this wickednesse lyghtnesse which I feare much will greatly diminish all our credites with his Maiestie who I doubt not will be highly offended therwith and also augment his distrust although the 5 Such as thou hast bene stedfast setled and well resolued sort ought not to suffer any thing therfore I remember that I haue by diuers Letters represented like inconueniences to your most honorable Lordship knowing the sleyghts and wyles of the sayde Prince being so 6 Yet thou thoughtest to be a more crafty Foxe when thou diddest countermine with thy complices in the counsel of estate And whē vnder shadowe of thy Ambassadorship thou madest thy boasts with thy complices to make him fall into the trap with all the good coūtreymen specially those of the Religion But God hath preserued them subtill and such a Foxe and the inconstancy couetousnesse of some in the world Quos merito leues iudicare poteram habentes etiam 7 Wytnesses the foure thousand Duckats of Pencion that the Duke of Terra noua hath promised thee animam venalem Wherevnto great héede is to be taken For they haue A dextris et a sinistris great Factors to wyt the 8 Wherfore then doost thou spread a rumor that he hath intelligence with the Pope and the King of Spayne Duke of Alanson the sayd Prince who accorde together in nothing but in making sharp warre against the king of Spayne our Lord Maister to strippe him of that is his Howbeit the ouerthrowe of the Lord de La noue lately happened in Flaunders and the victorie now newly wonne in Frizeland vppon the sayd Prince of Orenge his men endeuoring to hinder the succors of Groeninghen will giue great impediment to their desseins and purposes in this behalfe My Lord I will pray the Creator to giue vnto your most honorable and reuerend Lordship a long happy lyfe after I haue saluted the good graces of the same with my most humble recommendations Beséeching your Lordship withall that the same would vouchsafe to present to his Maiestie my Letters comming with these Wherby I send vnto the same the continuance of my good wyll and what hath passed touching my matter the which I desire to be construed in good part From Cullen

the .xxv. of Iune 1580. Vnder was written Your most honorable and reuerend Lordshippes most humble and obedient Oratour Fredericke Abbot of Marolles The superscription was thus To my Lord. My Lord the most honorable and reuerend Cardinall Granuellan c. my most honorable Lord. ¶ To the Cardinall Granuellan The second Letter MY Lord although by my three former Letters last sent to your most honorable reuerend Lordship the one of the first the other of the .xij. of Aprill and the last of the .x. of May which I think are surely conueyed by the meanes of my Lord the Duke of Terra Noua I had sufficiently informed your honourable Lordshyp in what state the affayres stande in these parties yet would I not fayle in my dutie to sende vnto the same againe at this present what hath passed Albeit that since my last Letters there hath not happened any great chaunge sauing the good victorie that God hath giuen to the Marquesse of Risbourg accōpanied with the Albanoys Wallons who haue surprised ouerthrowen put to flight and dispersed the Prince of Orenges men being in Flaūders vnder the leading gouernment of Mounsier de La noue a Frenchman who with many of his men was taken prisoner The which in good sothe is a very good gyrde giuen to the enimie and will coole his corage from enterprising hereafter according to his former custome I vnderstand that a part of the glory of this victory may well be attributed to the sayd Albanoys who by report played the men most valiauntly Notwithstanding this we vnderstand from Antwerpe that they doo not 1 They haue well shewed it vnto you when they haue taken two Townes by force and cutte in peeces your olde company of blood greatly quayle at this ouerthrowe but with all furie prepare them selues to gather together theyr spoyled and dispersed men and to make a new leuie Yea and that they labour very dilligently in their estates De abnegando rege et de transferendo imperio As touching the matter of renouncing his Maiesty and declaring him to be fallen from his Ryghtes I vnderstand they haue already 2 Thou thy selfe hast bene a hundred tymes of this opinion resolued vppon it hauing taken a shewe and cullour vppon the person of the Duke of Alanson whome they fayne that they will adopt giuing to vnderstand to the simple and vnwyse sort that the assumption of the sayd Lord Duke would cause a warre against the Crowne of Fraunce Presupposing that the most Christian King his brother giuing vnto him fauour and support would bende his forces vpon Italy Bourgundy Haynault and Artoys And that by meanes thereof the warres would be turned out of Flaunders Brabant and other Prouinces that will not be reconcyled But knowing the subtylties and wyles of such as at this day are in credite amongst their Estates I haue alwayes perswaded my selfe that they will 3 The Monke thinketh that euerie man so dallyeth with Princes as he hath done denying thryse his Waye and selling his fayth and honour for the Abbay of S. Bartin or a pencion in steede therof set the sayde Duke in the féelde onely for a shadowe that couering them selues with his cloake they may the more easily attayne to theyr pretended and desired renunciation Which obtayned 4 My Lord the Abbot shall not be called to this counsell vsing an other stratageme they will bring into consideration and delyberation whether his person wyll be beneficiall and profitable for the Countrey Not forgetting to sette the pride and 5 Is there any greater lyghtnes and inconstancie then in my Lord the Abbot and his complices lyghtnesse of the Frenchmen as a counterweight against the crueltie of the Spaniardes The small meanes and habillytie that he hath to succour the Countreyes for asmuch as the Crowne is not fallen vnto him and when he commeth to the same that hée wyll be too mightie a King and too néere a neyghbour and that so he might easily degenerate into tyranny whereof they call them selues great enemies although by theyr 6 These abhominable actes be that they take heede that they be not betrayed and solde by these Gentlemen Abbots who accustoming to sell their God in the Masse make no scruple to sell men to establishe their kettell abhominable actes a man might iudge them tyranny it selfe Therefore that it is in no wyse to be counselled to accept him for theyr King They may also set in concurrence to make a fayre shew of the matter the Emperour the Quéene of Englande and certayne other Princes neyghbours not forgetting though he come last the Prince of Orenge Then comming to the 7 This Monke iudgeth all at his pleasure of all the Princes of Christendome as though he were our holy Father and that he were theyr Scholemaister estimation of the merites of euery of them the Emperour wyll be found too weake and too young yea suspected because he is a Catholique and of the house of Austriche The Quéene of England scant capable for that she is a Woman and other Princes in no wyse to be lyked of But hauing regard to the long experience of the Prince of Orenge to the great and honorable seruices by him done for the recouering of the liberty of the Coūtrey the restoring of the Priuiledges By reason whereof he hath bene banished depriued of his Estates honors and goods Yea they will not forget to place amongst his first quarters and for the fayrest parte of his Armes that he hath 8 This is as great an honour as can be brought in and maynteyned the 9 In deede it is new to the eares of these Asses and Coltes that neuer heard the voyce of the Gospell new Religiō whereof they are so desirous and farre in loue with all That therfore of due desart he ought to be chosē elected and accepted for King giuing reasonable contentation to the others The which I sée verie likely to come to passe If it be so his Maiesty shall thereby lose but the name among them Ad tempus For the Prince in effect is the same already As for me I say the same that I haue oftē repeated by my former Letters that to haue peace it is 10 To deceyue them expedient to haue more or to make better warre against them then hath bene made hytherto Otherwise one whyle they will be beaten an other whyle they will beate As we fall out by the ouerthrowe abouesayd And a lyttle after by the reconquering of Diest and Malines before They of Cambray Tournay and Bonchaim continue theyr excursions vpon theyr neyghbours destroying the Countrey so that euery where is nothing to be séen but 11 This could not be seene without the treason of the heads and Magistrates of Artoys Haynault who haue perswaded the poore people that they would graunt them peace and in the meane while haue plunged them in the whyrle pytte of all the myseries of the

of Grobbendonk Written in Latin to the President Fonck The fowrth Letter I Will not declare in woordes albeit I might very well the singuler ioye that I receyued when I vnderstoode that your Lordship had so prosperous sayling from Fraunce that the same arriued within thrée dayes at the Porte of Larede in Spayne referring the iudgement thereof vnto you 1 Note the great freendship of these good men For according to the olde prouerbe Lyke wyll to lyke according to the mutuall fréendship that is betwéene vs. But it lyketh me very well to imagin that the most honorable Cardinall your Patron hath not onely very courteously But also with gratulation receyued you Séeing that by his last Letters to me written he signified vnto me that with a feruent desyre he had long looked for you in hope that you would vnburden and discharge him of some parte of his labours admonishing me also that the care of my businesse should be committed vnto you Then the which nothing more ioyfull or acceptable could be brought vnto me for newes For I haue set all my hope in your beneuolence onely It remayneth now that your Lordship shew your selfe vnto me in effect the same that you haue stedfastly promised to me Ye haue also my Supplication 2 To wyt to demaund money that I delyuered vnto you at your departing you haue the Articles of my peticions I thinke you yet remēber some of those thinges which I declared vnto you by woord of mouth Therfore I thought it not cōuenient to be tedious vnto you with any long repiticion of the same matters Howbeit I thought it not altogether superfluous bréefly to admonish you of it by the way to the end that you should not forgette me I thinke also that the Duke 3 As long then as the Duke of Terra Noua was at Cullen the faythfull Schetz who was Deputy to the States sollicited his owne affayres yea with their most great enimy and studied to betray the States of Terra Noua wyll be present who hath very lyberally promised me his fauor as well in his absence by Letters as in presēce by woord of mouth And certainly he may in this behalfe by his intercession helpe and aduaunce the good affection that you beare vnto me and make the same more effectuall and of greater efficacie I holde my selfe assured that you who are such excellent Patrones not onely for the affection which you beare me but also by the aucthority that you haue with the King wyll helpe and assyst mée your Client altogether depressed and brought lowe by the generall iniuries of the tyme and the particuler malice of mine enemies to the ende that at the least béeing discharged of my debtes which I haue runne and entred into not by reason of my accoumpts or particuler necessities But by doing my ready seruice in all thinges to the 4 At the same tyme that being here he falsely fayned dissembled whatsoeuer they would wishe at his handes King I might héereafter prouide for my chyldren that they fall not into extremity and so with a setled quiet minde consecrate the rest of my lyfe vnto 5 To wit to Vertune and Mercurie as he is accustomed For the good man careth not whether God be honored or not God or if it shall please his Maiestie to employ me in his seruice that then I might more promptly and chéerefully so farre as my age wyll suffer execute the duty of my office But that can not be effected except his Maiesty giue earnest and straight commaundement that I may be payde without delay whatsoeuer shall appeare vpon the due rendring of my accoumpts to be due vnto me The which howe it may most conueniently be accomplished I thinke I haue set downe in my sayde Supplication Others that haue serued the King a long tyme waxing ritch accustome to be carefull and procure that they may be honoured and encreased with tytles of honour and great benefites 7 Yet so it is that being not content with thy fortune how prosperous so euer it were Thou hast by Vsurie aspyred to gouerne the Kings Coffers seruing as it were for recompences and thanksgiuing for theyr rewardes But as for 6. me I haue reaped thus much of all my continuall seruice for thyrtie yéeres or thereabouts that I finde that I haue not lost my goodes onely but mine honour also Certainly I féele at this present more want of money then euer before By reason of my harde Fortune and my Creditors perceyuing it I finde them more rygorous and hasty with me then they were wont to be For which cause I will estéeme it as a gratious good turne if that which vppon the iust casting vp of my accoumpts is manifestly found to be due vnto me be payd to my handes or at the very least that the debt may be assygned with such assuraunce that with all by this sufficient caution my Creditors béeing pacified may cease from troubling me Yet notwithstanding I sollycite not this with such scrupulositie that I would make any diffycultie to receyue or neglect any good 7 For couetousnesse is vnsatiable benefice which might be offered vnto me by so great and mighty a Prince But for that I desire principally before all other thinges to be released and fréeed from this trouble and tediousnesse Wherefore at the last I shall desire your Lordshippe to procure me to be enrolled amongst them that haue deserued to taste of the kings beneficence and lyberallytie when occasion shall serue thereto But my chéefe desire is that the same may be bestowed vpon my chyldren whome I haue of purpose caused to be trayned vp in such instructions and learning that they should growe to be apt and fitte to serue as well Royall and publique affayres as also Ecclesiasticall dignities Some of them there be that I haue destined appointed to the 8 To wyt to transferre to their owne vses great Reuenues pertayning to the poore For this is the Religion of Spayn and the duty they doo to the Church Church and which towardly frame them selues to adorne and aduaunce the same as appertayneth I haue others very fitte for any manner of Offices whatsoeuer they be All the which I recommend to your Lordship as a principall fréend to the ende that they may be further recommended I will vse no moe woords vnto you referring all other matters to my Letters the last of March the .v. of April and the .xx. of May also all the which I thinke were in Spayne before your Lordshippe wherein I then bréefly comprehended the course of all that hath passed héere since your departing The ayde so long sollicited and demaunded is sent to Groeninghen at last that verily by the dilligence of our 9 He would say Buffo to wyt a Toade who vnder coulour of Ambassadorshyppe hath wickedly spread his poyson against his most innocent Countrey Bucho rather then by the sollicitation of the kings

10 What wyll the Prince of Parma say to that Who careth not for any thing that may ayde the Countrey so that hee procure the kingdome of Portugall for him and his counsayle of Estate The sayd Bucho hath so handled the matter that eyther without any or at the least with a very small expence of the kings money He hath caused a iust army to be leuyed brought ouer the Rhyne after that about sixe hundred horsemen sent from the Prince of Parma for ayde were ioyned to the footemen which had soiourned a good whyle about the same Ryuer but onely putting them in hope to receyue two months pay héere And albeit they be disappoynted 11 Beholde the fayre promises wherwith they haue hytherto fed the poore Malcontents therof yet hauing passed the Rhyne with the rest they haue made haste in marching together with such dillygence that hauing passed ouer all the riuers where there was any daunger It is thought that they be already safely entred into Frizeland In déede there ran a rumor that the Prince of Orenge would giue them impediment but besides rumors nothing else is yet 12 Count not your Chickens before they be hatched heard of Sauing that certayne Shyps of warre which peraduēture were sent to that effect came too late presented them selues before this Towne The which after they had stayed héere a certayne tyme hauing cōmaundement to depart it is vncertaine whether they haue sayled In the meane space we hope that the issue of the expedition will be prosperous taking this for a good presage that the Frizelanders at the onely report of their cōming began to be more intentiue carefull how to run away then to stād to theyr defence Further they of Groeninghen since the death of Bartholomew Ente slayne in an excursion who was in a manner the principall leader of the enimies haue taken courage Your Lordship very well knowing the scituation and importance of that Countrey vnderstanding aswell with how great hope such as beare good affection to his Maiesty doo now reioyce Who by reason of Diest lately occupied againe by the Statesmen are tormented with a new doubtfulnes feare for that they perceyue that Louain therby standeth in emynent present daunger with all the Countrey of Brabant which the Prince of Orenge would haue had ere this if Bolseduke had not giuen impediment thereto The report goeth that the Abbot of S. Gertrude with his presence maynteyneth kéepeth the men of the same Towne in theyr dutyes who I think is not exempt from feare whyle he cōsidereth with himselfe that all the Kings men by such newes of the taking of Townes lose courage waxe faynt for 13 Behold the prodigious and monstrous rytches whereby they promised to defend them selues without the charging of the inhab●taunts of Artoys and Haynault great scarcity of money For want of money giueth pretence to neglygence wicked dealing turneth from the wayes of dutifulnesse the mindes of all such as remayne in so doubtfull an estate I knowe too well that the warre of Portugall consumeth the Treasure Reuenues and that it is not possible for them to furnishe all necessities 14 Schetz hath in all respects a Spanishe minde to wyt swelling and proude For that he thinketh th●t so florishing a kingdome may be so easily ouercome But I am of this opinion that it were expedient to take some order in it quickly or that it had bene better neuer to haue bene 15 For the warre ought not to be tyrannously moued against the priueledges of Portugall by the enemy the Spanyard enterprysed The euent of this warre is of great importaunce for our affayres in these quarters Wherfore I beséech your Lordshyp that the same would vouchsafe to wryte vnto me howe the matter standeth concerning the same warre And if after the ende therof there should be want of corage or meane to atchieue our matters in good order I feare that I shall one day sée those thinges set foorth too late which in fytte and conuenient time to cōclude Peace peraduenture haue bene too hardly denyed I will not deny but that the exercise of diuers Religions is very vnconuenient in a wel ordred cōmon wealth as the most honorable Cardinall hath 16 But if thou speakest from thy heart thou thinkest thy Cardinall very vnwyse for suggesting such foolish counsel to his King wisely admonished me But all men specially these that are amongst these troubles are perswaded that the thing ought to be 17 To wyt tyll they shall finde occasion fytte to destroy vs. tollerated somtimes which cānot 18 For they reserue that which should be consumed afterward for the hote yron immediatly be amended And that it is requisite to auoyd the greater inconuenientes with suffering the lesser although that they which be far of and no séeers of the euylles but hearers onely are not of the same opinion To whome these woordes of the Comycall Poet might fitly be obiected If thou vvere in my case thou vvouldest be of an other minde But that I may make an ende I beséeche your Lordship to procure that we fayle not in our dutyes namely to make Peace by what meanes so euer or to make warre Fearing least we doo that too late which ought to be effected in conuenient tyme. Of all auncientie the house of Austriche hath bene blamed with this spotte that it hath accustomed to apply remedy 19 But now they of Austriche although it be very late giue no remedy too late to the euilles therof For the which cause it is expedient that your Lordship by your counsayles preuent that the king stumble not againe at the same Rocke At this present there is a treaty at Antwerpe touching the renunciation of the King and the accepting of Alanson but as farre as I heare the voyces neyther condiscende nor agrée together in so wicked a cause 20 Whether these deuiners be true the effect in the ende shall declare All men for the most part presage that by procuring the abiuration of the King aforehand the way is opened and prepared for the Prince of Orenge Howsoeuer it be these counsayles are daungerous and the King ought to haue great regard to the same We léese that is ours more lightly although vniustly then we recouer the same albeit iustly But héere I will cease hartily recommending my selfe to your Lordshippe to the which God graunt prosperity Dated at Cullen the .xvi. of Iune 1580. AFter I had writtē this Letter 21 Here it may be seene howe long the Abbot hath bene a Traytor the Abbot of Marolles béeing by chaūce then present moued through my example sayd that he would also write to your Lordship And therwithall hath caused me to remember to recommend vnto you 22 The Abbot hath a principall care of this To wyt the good father is enflamed with the loue of the Church his matter touching the Pencion of

are reuolted to the enemies who care not for the prisoners according to the Spanish fashion The which is experimented not onely by Elimes but also by Egmont the which onely cause sufficiently purgeth the sayd be Iussi from cryme in that he hath followed better counsayle Elimes his Lieuetenaunt receyue the salarie of theyr Actes I thinke also your Lordshyp hath styll in remembraunce that de Aussi first brought the Prince of Orenges souldiours into Flaunders all the whole Counsell béeing against it and how he cléered his dooing with 4 But de Aussi sayes thou lyest false Letters Such rewardes are méete for such déedes Amongst the which 5 Let the Malcontents iudge hereby what they are to looke for Fresin also for his vehemencie wherwith he was at the first so hote against the king is peraduēture taxed to haue wrought some thing And I thinke no lesse wyll one day befall to his brother Mounsier de Loyns● who depriueth the King of Cambray I am sory onely for this that the nobillytie of our nation wyll be noted and accused of vnfaythfulnesse in Spayne and all other Countreyes by reason of these Metamorphosies 6 He will beware of your treasonn But it is expedient for your Lordshyp to doo this duty to your Countrey that the dispositions of those that haue bene the workers of these thinges may be noted and discerned for feare least the offence of such manner of men which are but a fewe and most lyght Countreymen you see all hope of peace taken from you except the Friers be kindled again and the Spanish Inquisition established defyle not all others with infamy Further séeing we must haue warre for that there remayneth no hope to conclude Peace by suffering the exercise of a straunge Religion God graunt it may be ordered with lesse cost and more profit then it hath bene hitherto Which in my iudgemēt wyll be brought to passe if there be as many souldiours enrolled as the money will suffise to pay least for want of payment troubles aryse Secondly that Colonels Captayns be taken and chosen Ye see Countreymen what manner of moderators of peace ye haue had is not this as much as to commit the sheepe to the woolfe with singular discretion who are neyther raunsackers nor cowardes We haue héere the Earle of Swartzenberg whome your Lordshyp knoweth He séemeth vnto me worthy to be recommended and preferred for his lyberallytie magnanymitie and honorable representation of body and household gouernment whereby he kéepeth all his retynew in theyr dutyes Wherevnto is to be added his great kyndred that he hath in Germany the acquaintaunce and fréendshippe in a manner of all the Princes without forgetting the experience that he hath gotten by the affayres wherein he hath bene a dealer Whome lately in famylliar talke I found very ready and inclyned to serue the King Wherfore thinking that he is able to doo more then Focre now deceased or Fraunsberghe at this present altogether weakened without force Fraunsberghe and Pouluyller haue gottē great glory at the hands of the Spanished sort For that they haue quitted them selues so well in spoyling the lowe Countreyes or Pouluiller regarding all thinges lesse then money I haue by his owne consent declared his minde to the most honorable Cardinall And I can not refrayne my selfe from recommending the same matter vnto you not so much in respect that the sayde Earle is my fréende as for that in my iudgement it would greatly redound to the profite of his Maiestie I beséeche your Lordshippe to obtayne me aunswere in this behalfe to the ende I may not kéepe the honourable mans minde long in suspence God graunt you the aduauncement of your enterprises to your contentment A diew The feast of S. Iohn Baptist at Cullen 1580. ¶ The sayde Earle will kéepe a certayne matter that he hath to treate with the Emperor in suspence Vntyll he receyue aunswer from the King Therfore I beséeche your Lordship to vrge the same Affectionate and ready to doo seruice to your Lordship Iasper Schetz To the reuerend and honourable Lord. Iohn Foncke c. ¶ Certayne other Copyes of Letters of the Abbot of Marolles To the President Foncke The sixt Letter MY Lord supposing that ye are already arryued in Spayne I would not be behinde with my duty to congratulate your prosperous arryuall to say the Proficiat of the Estate that his Maiesty hath vouchsaued to honour you withall Beséeching God it may be to his honour Et ad multos annos 1 The Abbot was already a Traytor For performance of that I made vnto you when ye departed hence to aduertise you from tyme to tyme of the state of our affayres Maye it please you to vnderstand first of all that since that tyme there hath not happened any great alteratiō either good or bad sauing that according to the vttermost of all worldly affayres 2 But lost a great deale more then they haue won by wytnesse of the good Townes we haue taken sometimes his Maiesties men haue triumphed and otherwhyles haue lost 3 Such as are good to maintayne the Spanish tyranny The good perseuere to procure the restablishing of the affayres But the necessity that they suffer through want of money suffreth not that they can execute their good intencions 5 Where is the treasure of Peru that they promised The wicked waxe obstinate more and more preparing themselues with all furie to offensiue and de fensiue warre And though they haue bene well gauled in Flaūders and their principall Captaines as the 6 Maister Monke ye haue no cause to be so ioyfull For in steede of one prisoner of ours we haue three of yours Lord de La noue and other taken prisoners Nihil tamen sunt mutati ab illis sed potius facti deteriores et 7 Better resolued then that they will sell theyr lybertie and Countrey for the Spanyardes rewardes obstinatiores tantum abest vt cum piscatore icti sapiant imò nunc seriò videntur egisse de abnegando rege et transferendo imperium in 8 Note that the Abbot counselled this an infinit many of tymes when the time serued not But what else may be looked for at a Monks hands that haue no other God but his belly Alansonium Sed ni fallor quidquid dicant aut pretexant credo sterni Auriaco viam Quod si fit mutatio parua erit aut paene nulla quia propter ipsorum dicere aut nominare nihill mutabitur in re I haue written mine opiniō in that matter to my Lord the Cardinall And sée to my great gréefe that their obstinacie wyll cause the whole ruine and destruction of our Countrey And that this warre wyll be of long contynuaunce with great charges and small profite For the feates 9 The Monk speaketh lyke a braue warrior to mayntayne his fleshpot of Armes must be better ordered to get the

victorie or more must be graunted for the conclusion of Peace The men of Cambray Tournay and Bouchain make warre according to theyr custome destroying the Countrey to the great displeasure detryment of the 10 Who feele the smart of the folly of theyr Gouernours and wicked Magistrates poore people The Prince of Espinoy hath accepted the office of Generall Mounsier de Ainsy and they of Cambray Iurarunt in verba Alanson So 11 By your infidelitie and treason all goeth amysse I beséeche you my Lord to vouchsafe by your wisedome and discretion to enforme his Maiestie in what state at this present the affayres in these parties remayne exhorting him to followe the healthsome wayes of myldnesse and clemencie 12 As appeareth by the contynuance of the warres he maketh with all extremitie against his owne subiectes which he hath heretofore taken and inclyning him rather to Peace then to warre Nam adhuc grandis restat via quia illud vere quadrat in eos quod sole vulgo dici vno salus victis nullā sperare salutem I think you were a good whyle ere this aduertised of our losse of Malines And also that the Towne of Diest was surprised in these dayes 13 Here he calleth vs ouercome and before h● sayde that they haue not yet got the match So he singeth a triumphe before the victorie Which wyll fall out very euyll for the poore Towne of Louain These be 14 Euents of the warre nay rather fruites of your folly which causeth this warre vnder coulour of Peace euents of the warre And tyll there be some meane found to establish an assured Peace each partie must prepare him selfe to beate and be beaten Touching mine owne 15 Which my Lord Abbot preferreth before the common wealth particular affayres I recōmend them vnto you as to him that knoweth my 16 These seruices are secrete seruices that by theyr right named are called Treason Fellony committed against his countrey against three Princes whose Almo 〈◊〉 he hath bene one after an other seruices good wyll hoping that by your meanes that which hath bene fréely 17 The Abbot then whyle he named him selfe Ambassador to the States had created with the enemies being ouercom by such promises as are aduantageable to his fleshpotte promised me by the Duke of Terra Noua shall be ratified vnto me by his Maiestie For a beginning whereof I haue had some experience already hauing receyued vnderstanding within these few dayes by Letters from my Lord the Prince of Parma that his sayde Maiestie had vouchsaued to name me one of his Counsell of Estate notwithstanding that there was a diffycultie raysed by some of mine aduersaries of 18 The Abbot of Hannon as honest a man as he of Marolles So one Woolfe will cyte an other myne owne profession whome I estéeme lytle or nothing which bringeth me in hope that in short tyme shall be giuen vnto me the assygnification of the Pencion of 19 See that all is done for money and according to the ordinarie trade of Monkes Metuo danaos et dona ferentes thrée thousand Duckattes that the sayde Lord the Duke promised me for giuing ouer myne action touching the Abbay of Saint Bertin Besides the absolute forsaking of the administration that I had by the charge ordenaunce of the generall Estates Whervnto I beséech you to lay to your good helping hand Which shall make mée héeafter 20 20. Note that money maketh him wylling to serue the King according to that Curio romana non querit oues sine lana more wylling to procure the seruice of his Maiestie and the Coūtrey and binde men to doo you all the seruice that is possyble for me Héerewith my Lorde I wyll ende this present Letter with my most humble recommendations to your good grace Beséeching the Creatour to graunt you a prosperous and long life From Cullen the .xvij. of Iune 1580. Vnder was written Your Lordships obedient Oratour Vnder signed Fredericke Abbot of Marolles ❧ An other The seuenth Letter MY Lord fearing least my Letters were intercepted by the way I would not let slyp by this 1 It was not too sure for thanks be to God by this meane the Rosepot was found out assured meane of my Lord of Grobbendonkes man to send you a copy of my former Letters wherby your Lordshyp may sée what was then passed in these quarters worthy of aduertisement and also to giue you to vnderstand at this present the strāge Metamorphosies happened here sithence by the inconstancie of Malcontents who are become euill mānered I meane the 2 They haue seene with theyr eyes in what a whyrle pyt they were plundged by the false perswasions of certayne Monkes Lords of Heze de Auxi and theyr associates as my Lord of Grobbendonck hath writtē at large vnto your Lordshyppe But the victorie myraculously happened within these few dayes to our men against the Rebelles and Earle of Hollach with his men endeuouring to stoppe the succours of Groeninghen that you had so 3 Flattery for the Malcontents of Frizeland complayne aboue all thinges that they had no helpe from them of the Counsell carefully and dillygently procured whylst you were in this Cittie causeth the losse of these personages to be forgotten Specially for that the sayd de Heze certaine Captaines prisoners And as the sayd Lord Grobbendonk informed me he aduertised your Lordshyp of the same wherevnto I referre my selfe Beséeching you to be a meane that his sayd Maiesty by this occasion withdraw not his 4 He should say deceyuing mercifull hand nor distrust his good 5 As is this maister Monke who in hope to become ritch hath forsaken but three or fowre tymes the Princes to whome he was bounde by oath And in the ende betrayed the States of his Countrey beeing sent as their Ambassadour stedfast and constant vassalles who by good reason are most sory for this fowle and vntollerable faulte Further recommending after the publique my small particuler affayres With thus much my Lord I praye God graunt you a long happy life with my most humble recōmendations to your good Lordshyps grace I wryte at this present to his Maiestie what hath passed touching my denomination in the Counsell of Estate Béeing sure that my Letters wyll come to your hands I pray you vouchsafe to giue good interpretation to the same and to ad of your owne thereto what you thinke may serue to my intencion which is no other but to further the seruice of his Maiestie to saue his Aucthoritie and my honour From Cullen this .xxv. of Iune 1580. Your Lordshyps obedient Oratour to doo you seruice Sygned Fredericke Abbot of Marolles The superscription was To my Lord my Lord Fonck President in Spayne of his Maiesties Counsell for the affayres of Flaunders My good Lord. A Copy of the Letter of the Lord of Grobbendonck To Cardinall Granuellan The eyght Letter MY

but also for counsell and to haue in the Campe a personage that with aucthority good ground can speake touching the iustification of the cause béeing a thing of great importaunce in the warres which Princes are constrained to make against their subiects Referring the whole to your moste honorable Lordshippes wisdome onely beséeching you moste humble to vouchsafe to pardon me if I haue gone too farre in a matter that is without the compasse of my profession and that you would at your leasure send me some aunswer therunto that according to the same I may order my selfe and frame my speache to the sayd Earle Without saying any more hereby to your honorable Lordship for that this Letter séemeth vnto me to be already too longe I beséeche our Lord to graunt you my Lorde long and prosperous life in health From Cullen this xxvi of Iune 1580. Thus vnder signed Your moste honorable and reuerend Lordships most humble seruaunt Iasper Schetz My Lorde Fonck will giue your Lordship part of the good newes of the succors sent from this Citie to them of Groeninghen by meanes whereof it séemeth that 15 We hope it shall not so prooue all Friezland alreadie loste may be recouered ¶ A Copie of a Letter of the Lorde Wormes to the Lord De Gommicourt Gouernour of Mastreighte The ninthe Letter MY Lord Gouernor I humbly recommend me to your good grace This shal be to aduertise you that I haue béene with my Lord the Earle of Mansfeld He is in hand to fynde all meanes to content all the Allemains which are in the Countrey of Luxemburghe For he hath charge from the Princesse of Parma by all meanes in the world to agrée with them My selfe haue béene with the Princesse She tolde me that it is aboue a moneth since she sent aswell to the Kinge her Maister as to all Princes in the world that are his fréendes to fynde Money 1 Then shee hath not yet all those Millions that the Malcontents so much bragged of the which mée thinkes she cannot accomplish as she desireth Not withstanding the woords of the sayde Princesse and the promises of the Earle of Mansfeeld Our Regiment and Foncres menne will not be content without they haue eight Monethes paie altogether there are but thrée offered vnto them I thinke that the sayd Princesse being at accord with vs will send vs to the ayde of the Friselanders in default that nothing can be executed touchinge 2 Note that there be yet some of the Spanished sorte in the Countrey that are the cause of our erre solutions a waiting occasion to playe their parte the intelling that my Lord Gouernour wotteth of I haue shewed your letter to my Lady the Princesse who thinketh it very straunge that the noble party of Gelderland hath writtē nothing to vs since Howbeit touching the other Personage My Lady taketh him for an honest man in assuraunce that for money all will goe well though it be with leapes When I departed from my Lady shée gaue me one thing in commaundement and not to me alone but also to you and Captaine De Carpe commaunding mée also to speake therof to 3 This is one of the Arbitrators of peace Grand Criado to the Pope the Elector of Cullen He hath promised me to stand my fréend to my Lady the Princesse in this matter and in all that he can besides in the worlde The thing that my Lady demaūdeth is that by our meanes we should fynde the meanes to practise by force of Armes to take browne or burne the Vesselles of our enemies which are néere to Bonne The sayd Lady hath promised that if we can bring it to passe shée will giue vs thrée thousand Crownes of golde For that my men are but euill Armed I pray my Lord Gouernour to ward the accomplishment thereof to send me sixe and thirtie Souldiers with Musquets and seauē or eight Pikemen Then I will sée with 4 The Councellors of the Spaniardes the Elector Mounsier Lopez whether we can finde the meane to performe it My Lady hath moste expressely commaunded me that I should tell you by woord of mouthe and spare for no Money to kéepe touche with those 5 Of the Countrey of Gelderland Noble men abouesayd And that his Grace of 6 It is a good Neighbour but he is a Cardinall and beaten in a corner of Rome Liege for the effecting thereof will furnish you with the summe of a thousand Florens of fyue and twentie Patars a peece For that I am not well at ease you shall holde me excused in that I am constrayned to 7 Surely there is ● great hurt in that write vnto you being very sory that I could not come to you my selfe Yet notwithstanding if you haue any matter of secretnes ye may tell it to this present bearer my good fréende Beléeue mée there is great pouertie that my men are so euill Armed It is a horrible matter that there can no Armor be gotten at Cullen nor Franckefort scate for any Money If the affaires of England There be enow sh● let him and the French Kings brother goe forward as the reporte goeth it will goe euill for the King of Spaine our Maister No more at this time but that here I wyll end praying God my Lord Gouernor to graunt you a moste perfect longe and happie life Dated at Andrenac this second of Iuly the yeare fourescore Your humble and obedient seruaunt VVormes I know not what to thinke of that Priest of Gelderland which kéepeth himselfe with my Lorde Conwer at Cullen He is an euill man for I can by no meane get the Armor of him The superscription was To my Lord my Lorde of Gommicourte Gouernour of Mastreight for his Maiestie at Mastreight FINIS