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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18982	An ansvver and true discourse to a certain letter lately sent by the Duke of Alba (in maner of a pardon) to those of Amsterdam to be by them conueyed and distributed vnto the other townes in Hollande. Set forth by certayn true louers of their natiue country, namely desirous to liue vnder the due obeysance of the King of Spayne, according to the old customes and priuileges of their said countrie: faithefully translated out of the Dutch into English, by T.W.	Alba, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, duque de, 1507-1582.; T. W., fl. 1573-1595.	1573 (1573)	STC 540; ESTC S119168	18,121	50

AN ANSVVER And true discourse to a certain Letter lately sent by the Duke of Alba in maner of a pardon to those of Amsterdam to be by them conueyed and distributed vnto the other Townes in Hollande Set forth by certayn true louers of their natiue Country namely desirous to liue vnder the due obeysance of the King of Spayne according to the old customes and priuileges of their said Countrie Faithefully translated out of the Dutch into English by T.W. Imprinted at London by Henry Middleton To the Reader HAuing of late diuers sundrie times bene vrged to write declare put in light the iuste occasions mouing vs to put on armes to stand in defence against certain our straūge and foraine enimies of whose force vniust and cruell tyranny we haue also giuen to vnderstand al Christiā Princes and Potentates nations and coūtries And hauing also sufficiently answered and put to silence such iniurious and slaunderous Bookes writings and libels as our said aduersaries had put in light whereby they thought sought to make vs odious vnto al kinds of people our hope and confidēce was that thei wold haue once abstained from their slaunderous writings séeing it so smally serued their purpose which for a long time they séemed to doe But at the last perceyuing that since their tirānous regimēt began the longer the more it became lothsome vnto all people and that there was small hope to obteyne to their former aucthoritie force and regiment by force of armes do now returne to their accustomed prancks and would faine vnder pretence of pardons and letters of fauour through false accusations bring vs in hatred with all men and by vntrue persuasions séeme to purge their owne factes therby alluring the people vnto them and so by littel and littell reduce the townes countries reuolted from them to their vile yoke of seruitude And to that intent haue they of late put forth a certaine letter vnder the name of the Duke of Alba offering therby pardon and forgiuenes vnto the said townes of al their trāsgressions as they term it cōditionally that they shoulde willingly submit themselues to their obeysance and subiection Which letters were by meanes of them of Amsterdam dispersed into diuers townes in Holland Notwithstanding we are assured sufficiently that no person of vnderstanding discretion much lesse townes countries wil be moued by these their cautelous and most false and slaunderous Bookes to returne from the frée and loyall obedience ●●ruice of our most natural Lord and King ●he kyng of Spaine vnder whom the Prince ●f Orange beareth the gouernement to ●he shamefull and accursed seruitude of a ●traunge generation yet to the intent to make the trueth manifest vnto all men ●o detect the false and subtile practises and ●euises of our enimies we coulde not but aunswere vnto the sayde letter Desiring al such as regard the common wealth of their countrie the preseruation of his wife and children his life and goods to read this with indifferencie and not to suffer themselues to be seduced by the false propositions of our sworne enimies but rather with all their power to aduaunce the iustnesse of our cause deliuery of our coūtrie from the vnsupportable yoke of this straunge nation Don Fernando Aluarez of Toledo Duke of Alba Lieutenant Gouernour and Captain Generall TRustie and welbeloued it is well inough knowne that the kyng our soueraign● Lord is one of the myldest and most gracious Princes that may bee found yet haue the Rebells endeuored themselues with lies and false persuasions to persuade diuers townes to the contrary putting a doubt in their heads to the intent to seduce and allure them from the obedience of his maiestie as they haue done wheras in dede as commonly the trueth will not remaine vnknowen it hath appeared what hath bene done with the townes of Gelderland Friesland Ouerissell and Vtrecht which were reuolted who of their free accords vncompelled haue put themselues vnder the obedience of his maiestie who hath not touched any one Burges or inhabitant of the same but hath suffered him to remayne in his former estat enioying and possessing their owne goods as they did before their reuolt But hath vsed rigor onely against such townes as haue offered weapons and stoode at defence And the like grace as aforesayde wee intende to extende towardes all ●●ch other Townes in Hollande as in lyke ●rder will submit them selues to the obey●●nce of his Maiestie without attending the ●ōming of his armie which we in the name and behalfe of his Maiestie do firmely pro●ise and assure by these presentes whereof ●e thought good to aduertise you to the ●ntent ye giue knowledge to the Townes whom ye hope wil be reduced admonishing them further to haue a regarde to this occa●ion offered not slacking the benefit there●f to return to the obeisance which they owe to the Kings Ma. their naturall Prince and Lord whose grace and fauour they with ●ll the Burgesses Inhabitants of the same ●o presenting them selues within xv dayes after the receipt of your notice and insinuation shall receyue without thinking on or calling to remembrance any matters past whereof ye may firmely assure them on our behalfe and wee promise you by these our letters by vs subsigned that such shal be performed and accomplished without default or contrauention Shewing them further how greatly they erre if they think to withstand the Kings power and what euill successe it will haue if they obstinately persiste and will trye his Maiesties power and force Trustie and welbeloued the Lord bee wyth you VVritten in Nymmeghen the x. day of Februarie 1572. after the style of th● Court Signed F. A. Duke de Alba And lower was written Bevtij The superscription was as followeth To our trustie and welbeloued the Borrowmaisters Schepens and Rulers of the towne of Amsterdam Collected and conferred with the true and originall copie By me VV. Pieters Secretarie of Amsterdame An answere to the letter lately sent by the Duke of Alba written in maner of a pardon to those of Amsterdam and to be by thē conueyed to all the Townes there about THE confidence and assured persuasion that wée haue alwayes had and yet haue of the kings naturall disposition hath besides many other weightie reasons and considerations moued vs that we can not ascribe or impute this vnreasonable and tyrannous regiment the open subuersion of all good customes rightes vsances priuileges and liberties of the towns and whole Countrie vsed by a straunge Nation now of late cōtrarie to the Kings promises letters and othe by méere force brought into the same vpon the Kings Maiestie For séeing we haue effectually found him a louer of his subiects a mild hearer of the complaintes and cryes of the poore and suppressed a tutor of the iust and a defendour of the liberties and rightes of the coūtrie How can wée then beléeue by any meanes that he of his own frée will should permit much

lesse commaund that these his naturall base Countries should thus pitifully be suppressed and by violence of a straunge Nation brought to euerlastinge subuersion and ruine For at the first not being conquered by the sword but through friendly alliance and agréement first ioyned with the famous house of Austria and afterwards with the Kingdomes of Spayne and so from time to time haue vsed their entire affection and faithfull seruice aswell towards his Maiestie as also to his moste noble Auncesters with singular industrie and diligēce Namely in the last warres with France it hath manifestly appeared wherin they neither spared charges nor paynes but to the maintenāce of the same in short space leuied iiij C. millions of Golde and likewise in all other matters declared towards his Maiestie all due obedience Also his Maiestie hath againe at al times shewed a Fatherly and benigne disposition towards the said Countries Howe could hée then haue stopped his eares from the cryes and lamentations of his poore and true subiectes Or how could he shut his eyes and not behold the lasciuious and wilfull dealings of a straunge Nation or his hart be shut vp from hauing compassion ouer such a miserable destructiō of his Townes and Countrie so florishing and prospering at that time as no land in Christēdome more Where as the States of the whole lande aswell in generall as particular yea the chiefest of the Nobilitie and Lordes themselues with humble Supplications Remonstrances Ambassades and many other meanes haue obediently requested to bée hard indifferētly and to be released of such a tyrannicall yoke No certainly we know and beléeue that our King of nature is the most gratious and mercyfullest Prince that may be found But séeing we know this we conclude resolutely that this is not his doing nor will which by the Albanish faction hath of late ben done but they giue the King to vnderstand slaunderous tales by them falsely deuised kéeping him faste in Spaine to the intent he should rule according to their appetit abusing his name seale and blankes at their pleasure giuing out commaundements in his name such as best serue for their purpose which thing is so plaine and notorious as no man is of so simple vnderstanding and iudgement which doth not sée yea féele it For they perceyuing about vi yeares past the Nobilitie and Gentlemen of the countrie to take to hart the state of the same presenting Requests to be dismissed from the Inquisition and tyrannie of the new Bishops then could they beginne to say that to the Kinges naturall good inclination towards his subiects and their good obedience great wrong was offered as who would say it was not the Kings mind nor pleasure that his owne Landes should bee charged with such a tirannicall seruitude as the Inquisition is that he neuer thought it which thei published vnder the Kings letters and seale which they sent not onely vnto certaine townes and congregations but likewise to certaine of the chief Lordes and Nobles of the Lande Then within a short whyle after thinking the time fit to serue their turne they published new Letters Edictes in the Kings name expressely to the contrarie wherein his Maiestie willed and streightly commaunded that the new Bishoppes the Counsell of Trent and Inquisition should be planted vppon payne of his extréeme displeasure Within a whyle after they considering a great alteration like to happen and some commotion towards amongest the people not findinge them selues sufficiently strong they once ageyne called in the same and in the kings name made a new agréement confirming it vnder his Seale But within a whyle after béeinge prouided of a power the Kyngs letters vnder his great seale was by them broken and violated and the commons charged with new othes and taxes Then began the Gallowes scaffoldes and poles to be erected the swoordes whetted and the fiers kindled and then they began to murther burne and hang all the kyngs true subiects without end or measure yea the most noblest Lordes of the countrie were forced to flée or to be murtherid Now wel knowing that they kyng hath no pleasure in these doings that his true subiects should thus vniustly and tirannously bée handled as he himselfe hath often declared and as we are fully certified do therfore not against our kyng but against certain presumptious straungers which haue aduaunced themselues to inuade our country without right or reason take the sword in hand to defend and deliuer our bodies from their bloudie swoords our goods from their gryping hands our wiues and daughters from their vnchast desires knowing therby for certaine that we do our Kyng herein both good and faithfull seruice the truth wherof being vprightly related vnto him we hope he wil take in good part Therfore we do not estéeme our selues for rebels as this writing doth vniustly charge vs but the Kyngs true and faithfull seruants and so wil remain to the death séeking nothing more than to defend his heritage from the execrable tiranny of straungers so as the same be not compelled to giue themselues to any reuolting or Rebellion We also denie that which they further alleage That we with lies and false persuasions seeke to rayse a slaunder vppon the Kyng to the states and commons of the countrie therby to allure his subiects from his obedience drawe them to vs. Undoubtedly any reasonable person may easely consider this to be a false accusation as all the other are wherewith they burthen vs and that they themselues are culpable of the same being manifest that they haue alwayes wrought with open lies and false persuasions to set these countries at debate with the Kyng by false accusations therby séeking occasion to inuade the land and so to bring it vnder their subiection This is easely to be considered out of the request for ix yeres which in anno 1552. the King himselfe did propone vnto the generall states of the lād within the towne of Valencia namely that the meanes wherby to maintain the warres against Fraunce any longer were at an end and that his maiestie knew not how to leuie any more money Desiring therfore that they would appoynt some amongest them which were expert in the state of the countrie to find some meanes to succour the matter Wheruppon an assembly of their Deputies was kept at Bruxels where after many deliberations it was finally concluded to the King was graunted the sume of eight hunderd thousand Gilderns a yeare for the space of nine yeares whereof forthwith should be leuied vppon the sale of rēts xxiiij hunderd thousand Gilderns for the mayntaining and paying of xviij thousand footemen and eight thousand horsemen whereof the one third parte to be straungers and the rest inhabitants of the countrie and that for the space of vj. monethes ouer and besides twentie shippes of warre for seuen monethes And further according to the particular instructions therof made to bring the same to effecte there were certaine necessarie specified