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A15440	A supplication to the Kings Maiestie of Spayne, made by the Prince of Orange, the states of Holland and Zeland, with all other his faithfull subiectes of the low Countreys, presently suppressed by the tyranny of the Duke of Alba and Spaniards. By which is declared the originall beginning of al the commotions [and] troubles happened in the sayd low Countrie: to the relief wherof, they require his Maiesties speedy redresse and remedie. Faithfully translated out of Duytsch into English, by T.W.; Sendbrief. In forme van supplicatie aen die Conincklicke Majesteyt van Spaengien. English	William I, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584.; Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598.; T. W., fl. 1573-1595.	1573 (1573)	STC 25710; ESTC S120037	18,049	46

A supplication to the Kinges Maiestie of Spayne Made by the Prince of Orange the states of Holland and Zeland with all other his faithfull subiectes of the low Countreys presently suppressed by the tyranny of the Duke of Alba and Spaniards By which is declared the originall beginning of al the commotions troubles happened in the sayd low Countrie to the relief wherof they require his Maiesties speedy redresse and remedie Faithfully translated out of Duytsch into English by T. W. PSALM LXXXII Defende the poore and fatherlesse see that such as be in need and necessitie haue right Deliuer the outcast and poore saue them from the hande of the vngodly Imprinted at London by Henry Middleton 1573. A Supplicatiō to the Kings Maiestie of Spayne made by the Prince of Orange the States of Hollande and Zealande with all other 〈◊〉 faithefull subiects of the lowe Countrie● presently suppressed by the tyrannie of the Duke of Alba and Spaniardes MOste Soueraigne Lorde your ▪ Maiesties most obedient and lamēting subiectes of the low Countries as they haue often pondered with thē selues the natural affection and fatherly good inclination which your Maiesty hath since the time that your grace by the power of almighty God receyued the dominion and regiment of the sayd countreis always and continually shewed so haue they had a sure hope and vndoubted affiaunce that your Maiesty as well vpon their daily complaynts and lamentations as vpon the pitifull declarations and remōstrances of some christian Princes and Potentates vnto your Maiestie mercifully haue considered of our pitifull and most miserable suppressiō wherwith we by reason of the great and vnsupportable force arrogancy and wicked regiment of the Duke of Alba are suppressed and mercifully haue regarded the most miserable ruine and destruction of these your naturall low countreys who alwayes haue béen most faithful and obedient both to your Maiesty and also your Graces predecessours Not doubting but that your Maiestie would gréeuously haue béen moued that hée vnder pretence of protecting and defending the Romish religion vnder the colour of your Maiestyes name should presume to frustrate breake all the priuileges customes and rightes wherunto your Maiesty and your predecessours haue sworne persecuting your faithfull subiects in body and goods and destroying your countreys in none other sorte but as if he had declared himselfe to be an open enemy of your Maiesty and the subiects of the same Therfore haue they always earnestly attended that your Maiesty no longer suffering the sayde force woulde haue prouided some conuenient meanes for the safegarde of your countreys and deliuerance of your poore and suppressed subiects and haue a respect to the dutifull office of a kinge whom the almightie God the kinge of all kinges hath placed and ordeyned as a protectour of the righteous and a fatherly pastor of the people vnder your subiection to defend and preserue them from all force and violence and likewise to remember the manifolde and faithfull seruices which your sayd coūtreys and subiects haue from time to time most faithfully done to your Maiestie and your predecessours But they now to their extreme gréefe considering that all their former supplications are as nothing regarded and in vaine and that al other the remonstrances of sundry Princes and Potentates haue sortid no such effect as might haue turned to their comfort and consolation and they in their consciences assuring themselues that your Maiesty hath no reasonable occasion vpon euill will or displeasure ▪ so to alienate and turne your selfe from your lamentable subiects can not but vndoubtedly suspect that through malyce and false information of some who hauing more regard to their priuate lust and appetite than to the seruice of your Maiesty haue daily laboured to bring your Maiesties countreys into your displeasure Wherin they haue alwayes most manifestly and vnfainedly pretended and trauayled not onely by letting and defending that our humble supplications and faithfull warnings should come to your Maiesties eares misconstruing the same to the worst and peruersly accusing them to your Maiesty therby to bring the cuntrey into discention and commotion so vnder your name to suppresse and make desolate the same so with the goods and blood of your subiectes to quench their gréedy vnsatiable apetite This is that O most soueraigne Kinge which your saide subiects doo and haue not without occasion estéemed to be the greatest calamitie that might happen vnto them as considering that the way and meanes wherby they might complayne and shewe their griefes to your Maiestie as to their bountifull and naturall Protector so by God appointed as a refuge in their extremitie is by the vngodly dealing of their ennemies taken away from them a thinge which all wayes hath béen permitted to vnreasonable creatures namely to suffer them in their extremitie and néede to sue for remedy and redresse And therfore although they had resolued and taken in hand with patience to attende the time of redresse thinking that your Maiestie would at last haue opened your eares and eyes to heare and see their miserable estate from which your Maiestie by reason of their saide euill willers is nowe letted But now considering in the ende their suppression the longer the more to encrease to become more vnsufferable tending not onely to their damage and destruction but also of your Maiesties heritage and countreys which in times past haue florished in all prosperitie and now come to ruine they could not for the faithfull obedience and aliance sake wherin they are bounde to your Maiesty and their natiue countrey but now once againe by writing request your Maiesty to consider and weigh the originall occasion of the desolation of your countries by whose means the same is come to passe and consequently execute the office of a true King in defending the righteous and deliuering your countries from this tiranny oppression And first we humbly beséech your Maiestie to call to mind and consider that these your countries in times past hauing bene deuided amongst sundry Lords and rulers are since by mariadges agréements mutuall treaties in time and orderly by lawfull succession and conueniences come vnder the house of Burgondie and afterwards by meanes of mariages contracted with the most famous house of Austria and consequētly allied with the most mighty kingdome of Spaine ▪ yet alwayes with expresse condition that euery and singular the countries and prouinces should possesse and enioye their owne policies rightes and liberties in times past accustomed without that any prouince or countrie should be burdened of the dominion of the other or by any meanes be depriued of their customes or liberties but be bound ioyntly to liue one with another vnder one Prince and head as many children vnder one father to the intent with one accorde to defend their Prince common weale against all straūgers and foraine force Also the Princes of the countrie willing as fathers to shew and declare their loue affectiō to

vniuersall world that being thereunto extremely constrayned wée haue taken armes in hand agaynst the tyranny and abuses of the Duke of Alba and his cōplices to deliuer our lyues and goods wyues and children from the bloudthirstie hands of his ministers and if hée doo preuayle agaynste vs rather chuse to dye an honorable death and leaue a fame to our successours then to yéelde and bowe to such a tyrant and suffer our countrie to liue vnder vnsupportable slauerie So else we should be abashed and ashamed too shewe our faces in any other Countries as hauing neglected the seruice of your Maiestie And therefore haue all the Townes ioinctly and seuerally taken in hande and sworne the one after the other to abyde al sieges if néed bée to the vttermost though to the losse of their lyues and goods yea rather set fyre of our owne howses thē to yéeld to the force of this Tyrant For wée are well assured that at the hāds of such a Tyrant as regardeth no othe and hath so often and cruelly threatned vs there is no more to be looked for but that he wold rather colour the riuers and streames with our blood and to behange the countrie with our bodyes to satiate his bloudthirsty luste and appetite Therfore we prostrate our selues before the féete of your Maiestie desiring the same for GOD his sake who hath set the Crowne vppon your head and gyuen the Scepter into your hande once to bowe your eares to our reasonable complayntes Wée doe not desire to be dissolued from the obediēce of your Maiestie but onely that we may haue our consciences frée to Godwarde to heare his holy worde to follow the same to the intent to giue an accompt at the daye of Iudgement of our soules that we may atcheue such discharge for our miserable natiue Countrie which alwayes hath donne such faythful seruice to your Maiestie from the yoke and bondage of forayne Nations and Spanish Souldioures and to suffer the Countrie to enioye those liberties priuileges and customes as your Maiestie and the most puissant Emperour Charles your Maiesties most noble father of famous memorie haue to youre Subiectes solemply sworne Then will wée at the commaundement of your Maiestie lay downe our weapons armes and will venture body goods and all that wee haue in the world in the seruice of your maiestie by water or by land where whensoeuer your Maiestie shall commaund the same and your Maiestie shall finde that wée are not altered or abastarded from you but rarher that wée doe excell in faythefull seruice all our predecessours which hereby wée do promise and sweare to your maistie beséeching euē as wée doo faithfully meane it so to take mercie of our soules Desiring that this our declaration and othe be openly published and declared to all Kings Potentates Lordes and Nations to the intent they may knowe that we are no Rebelles towards our King for wée neuer learned such of our predecessours But that wée of méere force and necessitie haue bene constrayned to take on armes agaynst the enemies vsurpers of his maiesties name Requesting therfore all christen Princes and Potentates that they wil be moued with a pytyfull compassion of our miseries and much doubting that this our supplication declaration shal be kept back and suppressed as other our former Requestes haue bene not come to our Kings handes that they will thereof informe his Maiestie to the intent our iust cause maye come to light and that his Maiestie may be acquited of the innocent bloud which this Albanish Tyrant doth shedde This wée hartely desire and wée all will pray vnto almighty GOD for their prosperitie to remain for euer FINIS

townes cituated within the hart of the countrie leauing the borders and other places of importance without any garison whereby in some places thinges are come to alteration besides that by reason of lacke of paye his Spanish souldirurs are fallen into a most licentious and vnspeakable order of life threatning beating robbing spoyling and by all maner of cruell exactions vsing your subiects wherby is manifest that vnder pretence of your Maiesties name and religion he setteth nothing but to fill his gréedie and bloudthirstie appetite being to the contrarie most notorious that he hath so little regard to the seruice of our Maiestie as to the maintenance of the common weale of the low countries which he suffreth vtterly to perish and goe to ruine But what néedeth it with wordes to expresse this as if he had not sufficiently manifested whereunto his procéedings haue tended shewing it being blinded with his most vnsatiable presumptiousnes desire of vaine glory as in a token of a Tropheum or signe of victory in his notorious procéedings as before rehearsed hath caused to be erected within the castell of Andwarpe a brason Image standing vpon the nobilitie and states of the countrie We leaue now vnrehearsed what his meaning was thereby but when or where hath it bene séene that any Tirant in his life time hath caused any such Image to be erected We find that the Romaine Emperours and Kynges which in a maner had brought the whole world vnder their subiection haue sometimes caused to be erected Images of brasse and stone as at this present the Popes of Roome who pretend to be God his vicar yet it is done by ordinaunce and consent of the counsell commons or at the least by their aduise and suffrance but that they in their life time haue done such is not to be foūd by any exāples or Cronicles considering it to be a manifest token of madde arrogantie and insupportable pride we find onely that Nabucho donozar who caused him self to be honoured as a God set vp the like Image commaunding all men to knéele and bowe vnto the same yet durst he not do it but by consent of the chiefe and nobles of his countrie But this Tirant doth aswell in his presumpteous arrogantie as in execrable tiranie surpasse al other tirants who as though he would not onely aduaunce himselfe to the roome of the kyng but likewise in God his place hath without the aduise counsell or ordinance of any in his life time erected this proud Image to the defacing and emparing of your Maiesties dignitie shewing therby his force and tyranny wherwith hée hath subdued and brought vnder foote these countries And in like maner he hath not bene afraid following the example of the tirant Herode to place himselfe vpon the market place of Andwarpe in your Maiesties stoole cloth of estate which neuer had ben touched by any Liuetenant before sitting there representing the absence of your Maiestie as an Idoll and vnder pretence of publishing of a pardon which neuer Quéene Duke or any Gouernours or Gouernaunts of these countries haue done the like tending to the manifest disestimation and abasing of your Maiesties honour and dignitie These procéedings most soueraigne king are become so apparant and euident vnto al the world that all straunge nations and Potentates haue a terrour and execration therat ▪ insomuch as euen the Duke of Alba his souldiours and seruants do protest and say that they can not esteeme such for good much lesse that the seruice of your Maiestie and welfare of the countrie should therin consist Besides that we can not thinke that your Maiestie being therof sufficiently and truely infourmed would permit such forces and violences for it was neuer heard that any King or Potentate hath so vnmercifully dealt with his subiects your Maiesties auncetours of most famous memorie haue in most milde and gentle maner behaued thēselues towardes their subiectes that they haue therof giuen a most laudable example not onely to their successours but also to other Christian Princes Dukes rulers that whensoeuer any discention was risen betwéene the subiects and Magestrates by reason of misgouernement taken armes in hand and being againe brought vnder obedience by their Lordes and rulers were neuer molested with these examples of crueltie but by expresse capitulation frō word to word confirmed all their priuileges and liberties and the same to enioye their full effect So as wée shoulde greatly wrong your Maiestie if we should persuade our selues that your Maiestie were so farre diuerted from the example of your predecessours from the duetie of all other Christian Princes and Potentates that in steade of ministring right and Iustice to your obedient subiects and giuing audience to their most pitifull complaints shuld send such a tirant in such sort cruelly to murther thē destroying the countrie and burthening your subiects with most intollerable slauery seruitude and thraldome And now the sayd Duke presenting vnto vs his fained pardons vnder the name of your Maiestie for our rebellions and misdemeanours as he termeth them we coulde not accept the same without depriuing of your Maiesties dignitie Knowing well that your Maiestie will not before hauing heard the iustnesse of our cause condemne vs of rebellion Where is there any that iustly hath infourmed your Maiestie of our dealings or when did euer your Maiestie giue eare vnto any but such as were our manifest enemies Reason requireth both partes to be heard before sentence should be pronounced And therfore in the Cronicles of Alexander the great is much cōmended who whensoeuer he heard any parties leaned with his head vpon his shoulders with one of his eares closed and being asked why he so did aunswered that the later partie ought aswell haue audience as the first which order hath alwayes bene had in estimation of all nations as being conformable to all naturall rightes So as no offendour what gréeuous crimes so euer he had committed shal be iudged or condemned but that he shall first aunswere vnto such accusations as are alleged against him Now most mercifull soueraigne Lord and King we doe most hūbly prostrate our selues vnder the foot of your Maiestie most hartely requesting the same that it woulde please your Grace to bend towards vs one eare and as in a ballance equally to weye our estates Your Maiestie hath by postes letters and other meanes ben informed of this present estate and our mouthes haue ben closed vp our tongues pearsed with red burning Irons and our lippes seared vp with burning tonges because we shuld not giue our necessitie to vnderstād The waies haue as yet ben taken from vs so that our lamentable cryes could neuer come vnto or pearse the eares of your Maiestie How then can your Maiestie condempne vs of rebellion which always we haue had in hatred because that the Duke of Alba doth séeke to bring vs vnder his subiection with his letters of pardon and wée nothing estéeming of the same which he perceyuing

and that with force hée cannot by God hys prouidence preuayle we cannot therfore accept his said letters as being directed to vs who neuer strayed from your obedience except it were that we would take acknowledge the Duke of Alba for our King for him onely haue we resisted not your Maiestie whom we with life and goods so long as it shall please God to permit vs the same will faithfully serue and obeye And therefore his pardō doth nothing touch vs which tendeth onely to the Townes which haue ben seduced from the Kings obedience But we marke his intent knowing that eyther hee would be king himselfe or else that wée by entisemēt of his subtile pardons shoulde condempne our selues For wée receyuing pardon must acknowledge our selues gilty of commotions and rebellion agaynst oure King of tumult and sedition yea of heresie and declyning from the Christian faith and in fyne to the depriuinge of the honour of God and the Kings maiestie This is hys seeking that by receyuing of his false fayned pardōs we shuld by our subsignations seales confirme the same to the intent that hée hereafter might thereby defende and excuse himselfe of tyranny before your Maiestie and all other christian Princes and Potentates saying that if we had not founde ourselues culpable in these gréeuous offences for which we were punished and tormēted we would neuer haue receyued any remisse or pardon Wherein wée take God the searcher and knower of all hartes and your Maiestie to witnesse that if wée haue committed any such offences as by the sayd pardon are layd to our charge that wée doe altogither refuse all pardon but desire as the moste wickedst and vylest creatures on earth to make satisfaction for our offences with our bloud and doe not refuse O most mercifull King one after an other to suffer most extreeme torments if it may be found that wee haue offended in such order as is presumed And do request the Duke of Alba if any petition will take place with him that all such as come to him for pardon acknowledging the pretended offence that hée without shewing of mercy doe entreat them in such sorte as their offences according to righte haue deserued commending him therein in gyuing or mayntayning any fayth or credit with him as one so vnfaithfull to God his King as hath not ben abashed so greatly too abuse and contempne their Maiesties But what is it it shall not be found that euer we haue thoght any such matter much lesse in effect shewed the same We haue alwayes bene faithfull and seruiseable to our King and sought to serue God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ in spirit and truth according to his word and commaundment so farre as our féeble nature would permit euen to the last droppe of our bloud But considering that the Duke of Alba in stead of executing equitie and Iustice and hearing of their complaintes and gréefes persecutinge of your maiesties promises hath contrary to all right and reason our rightes and priuileges suppressed vs wyth most cruell tyrannie destroyed oure Countries and vsed vs more seuerely then euer Jewes or Turkes haue done against their vanquished enemies And in the meane space hath hée accused vs to your Maiestie and al other christian Potentates with false accusations of rebellion and heresie and we neuer could come to our aunswer or receyue any comfort in the vniuersall world So as by necessitie we haue ben forced to take the armes in hande and by all meanes possible sought to defende our poore natiue Country from such execrable tyrannie and rather w one accord to spende our lyues then to fall into the handes of such a Tyrant wherein wée meane to persiste except that it please your Maiestie with mercyfull cares to attende to our complaintes and minister to vs Iustice against such oppression and tyrāny For God be thanked we are not so il instructed in his word but that we know very well that aswell our lyfe as death consisteth in his handes that this death which no man can escape is but as a ready path too the lyfe euerlasting Therefore séeing our death maye bée a pleasure to other wee chuse rather to dye an honorable death in the behalfe of the liberties and common weale of our Country thē to fall into such seruitude and become footestooles vnto most arrogant aliants who alwayes haue hated vs For at the least wée shall thereby leaue to our successors suche a good fame as it may be sayd that their Predecessours had rather with renowne to dye with honour then lyue in all bondage and shame Wée contende for the libertie of our consciences in defence of our wyues and children our bloude and goods that is to saye whether the Duke of Alba with his complices shall according to his selfe will bée a Lord and Gouernour or that wée to the behoofe of your Maiestie O most Souerayne King shall defende it from him We know that the limites of our liues are set and shal not by the pardon of the Duke of Alba surpasse the same Therefore wée onely desire your Maiestie that it may please the same to weye and consider our cases and not to suffer that wee by accepting such pardones should for euer be reputed as rebels to God and our King which we neuer thought For wée are fully perswaded that although wee had receyued those pardons yet would it nothing haue preuayled for safegarde of our lyues for thereby the Duke of Alba might haue had the better action against vs the proceeded with most seueritye might had better haue answered for himselfe if we and confessed our selues gilty of rebellion both against God the King his Maiestie For then no mā would haue moned vs although we had bene slayne and murthered as disturbers of the peace and common wealth and not worthy to lyue And although it were not so yet it is apparant by all the Duke of Alba his proceedinges that he meaneth to obserue no faith with vs for seeing that he hath openly perpetrated the othe which the Duches of Parma with all the Lordes and gouernours of the countrie in the name of your Maiestie had sworne so solemply to these townes yet hath he in these latter warres sufficiently expressed his peruerse meaning in diuers townes as at Mons in Henauld hath he cōtrary to his othe caused a number of Burgeses to be hanged at Naerdon he hath executed his crueltie in such a sort as in a town of like bignes hath not ben hard of and now at Harlem hath he or at the least in his name Don Frederico assured the souldiours of their liues therunto certaine Lords as pledges they bound themselues and yet hath he euē to the young paiges caused them to be murthered one with another and their naked carcasses to the scandale of all women and virgins left lying vpon the scaffold a day a night And such as had consented to the deliuery of