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

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