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A02239	A generall historie of the Netherlands VVith the genealogie and memorable acts of the Earls of Holland, Zeeland, and west-Friseland, from Thierry of Aquitaine the first Earle, successiuely vnto Philip the third King of Spaine: continued vnto this present yeare of our Lord 1608, out of the best authors that haue written of that subiect: by Ed. Grimeston.; Grande chronique. English	Le Petit, Jean François, 1546-ca. 1615.; Grimeston, Edward.; Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535-1612. Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis.; Sichem, Christoffel van, ca. 1546-1624, engraver.	1608 (1608)	STC 12374; ESTC S120800	2,253,462	1,456

faith and forbearing all outward force he sought by all policie to hinder their encrease wherein he preuailed much more for that some through couetousnesse others through ambition suffered themselues to be persuaded to that whereunto they could not be forced by any violence or threats I will not compare here this new kind of doctrine which is now in question with the Pagan Religion for it is not my intention to interpose my censure but I will onely conclude That in that which consisteth in the persuasion of the heart corporall violence preuailes no more than the vapour or wind that blowes to hinder the heat of the fire as dayly experience hath taught vs. The meanes then to diuert them from their opinions is to persuade them that their faith and beleefe is not conformable to the word of God To effect the which there is no other meanes than to giue them free audience to the end that they may propound their reasons and motiues with all libertie and that they be confuted of errour and heresie by the word of God if they remaine obstinate yet when this disputation and instruction shall be done in the eye of the world those that are weake shall by this meanes bee persuaded not to follow their errours For as for the obstinate euen as instruction would auayle them little or nothing so much lesse would fire or death turne them from their resolued opinions But on the other side those which behold others to die with such constancie take a delight to seeke their opinions and they which by this means come to fall into the like inconuenience should be wholly preserued when they should heare them vanquished by the word of God and by reasons which they cannot contradict If then prelates and bishops trust in the bountie of their cause as with all reason they ought there is not in the world a better means to attaine vnto the kings intention and to preuent the multiplying of sects than to confeire together publickly that all the world may know that the others do falsely brag that they haue the word of God on their side For it is most certaine that when truth is compared with falshood she must of necessitie shew her beautie and obtaine the victorie discouering to the eye of all men what is false and counterfeit And by this meanes a great good shall rise for that they which know not now what to follow in so great a diuersitie of opinions may settle a firme iudgement of the truth after that they haue heard the grounds of either side so as in conference all confusion and disorder all noise and rayling be laid aside As wee haue seene in the disputations and conferences which S. Paule hath made as well with the Iewes as against the Pagans then presently those which sought the truth knew that he had reason and that the other were in ●…rror So in the counsell of Nicene the Arrians were admitted to propound their reasons and grounds with all libertie and being conuicted by the word of God of error and heresie were forced for a time to desist from their enterprise but presently after when they persecuted them they had suddenly many disciples some mooued by pitie others by their false persuasions the which was the cause of great mischiefes and inconueniences in the Church yea in our times we haue seene in all places where the Anabaptists haue beene persecuted they haue encreased infinitly and contrariwise where they haue been heard in publicke conference and disputation and conuicted of errour and heresie by the word of God they haue had no more credit in the world And therefore Mahumet hath so carefully forbidden that they should neuer dispute vpon the points of religion brought in by him knowing well that the truth being once confronted against his lies his doctrine of necessitie must goe to smoake It is a true marke and badge of truth that it desires to be knowne made manifest and debated being like vnto the Palme-tree the more it is deprest and charged the higher and straiter it growes For this reason the auncients did appoint to hold free and generall counsels euery yeare although by the corruption of time many abuses haue beene brought in by the ambition and couetousnesse of those that should giue their voices So it is that the hereticks and sectaries feare nothing in the world more than to be made manifest be it by a free and general counsell or in any other place wheras matters may be freely debated on either side the which we see at this day apparently in the Anabaptists who flie all disputations more than death If then such as desire to root out this new religion which multiplies so fast are assured of the bountie and truth of their cause and of the falshood of their aduersaries there is no fitter meanes than to come publickly to field and to giue their aduersaries free audience and leaue to dispute without doubt if they maintaine heresies there shall need neither fire nor gibbets to hinder the course of their doctrine for that the more manifest it is the more it will decay It will be to no purpose to say That they haue beene often heard and confuted for admit it were so yet a great multitude of people which are enclined thereunto deserue so much paine as to bee instructed in hearing and examining their reasons But when you haue sayd all they were neuer heard with patience For when as Luther began to preach this doctrine in Germanie it was presently condemned by the Pope and persecuted by all the kings and princes of Christendome He was once called to be heard but it was to see if he would recant or maintaine his writings and his doctrine and he on the other side protested nothing more than the desire which he had to be better taught and instructed by the holy Scripture The like proceeding was held against Iohn Hus at the counsell of Constance who was neuer heard in his owne defence but as soone as he was arriued there they laid before him certaine Articles drawne by some aduersarie of his out of his bookes asking him if hee would maintaine those articles which were reproued and condemned by the holy church and therupon they gaue sentence that he was an hereticke and damned the which the world sees to be against all right and reason To say that those were condemned by other counsels before is nothing to the purpose For if it be so as they say it will bee the more easie to ouerthrow them now for that the Auncients haue neuer condemned any doctrine but that which they held contrarie to the word of God the which they haue alledged to that effect I say to confute errors and heresies so as now the way shall be traced and they shall need onely to quote the same Scriptures to confute these for that the word of God remaineth eternally and the Scripture hath now as much force and vertue

Fleece in the Cittie of Tournay then hee made his preparations to returne into Germanie to an Imperiall Dyet which should bee held at Ratisbone to conclude the controuersies in relligion and the Turkish warres The Count Palatin came to Brussells to fetch him with whome hee parted the 17. of Ianuary 1532. This yeare was published in Holland Zeeland and other Prouinces of the Netherlands the third bloudy Edict against them of the reformed relligion and more rigorous then any of the former The Hollanders hauing by the Emperors commandement deliuered certaine ships vnto Christierne the 2. King of Denmarke beeing exiled to carry him backe into his Kingdome with the which hee past into Norway those of Lubeck and their Allies beeing much incensed thereat rigged forth many shippes of warre which they sent to Sea causing them to keepe the Sounde in such sort as no Hollanders shippes could passe which was the cause of great pouertie and want among their marriners and such as get their liuing by the nauigation of the Sea Corne grew exceeding deere there and had beene deerer if those of Breme had not sent in a great quantity of wheat and rye to Amsterdam during the Sommer time The Hollanders complained to the Queene of Hongary who did write to the Lubekers desiring a day of meeting might bee appointed betwixt her and them touching their controuersies where-vppon they resolued on either side to assemble at Hamberough whether the Deputies of Amsterdam came and one of the Priuie Councell But those of Lubeck came not sending onely some Deputies excusing them-selues that they could not come to the same Assembly without the presence of Frederic Duke of Holsteyn their Lord beeing then newly chosen King of Denmarke or of his Commissioners who had written vnto them that hee desired the said Assembly might bee held the next yeare at Coppenhagen whither hee would come him-selfe in person to treat with the Emperour and seeke all meanes of peace Although the Deputies of the Netherlanders were not well satisfied yet for that they could not helpe it they were content to remitte the Assembly vnto the time required returning as well into Holland as Brussels to make their report Soone after the returne of the Deputies some shippes of warre of Lubeck came running along the Coast of Zeeland where they tooke a shippe of Edam laden with salt comming from Lisborne beelonging to them of Amsterdam Wherevppon the Court at the sute of the Hollanders caused all the ships goods marchandise and generally what-soeuer did belong to them of Lubeck and Hambrough to bee staied and arrested in recompence of this ship that was taken by them The 10. of Iune Ioos Ameson Vander-Burch Gerard Mullart van Campen with Cornell●… Bennick of Amsterdam parted out of Holland to this assembly at Copenhagen The King of Denmarke and Prince Christierne his sonne who afterwards was King called Christierne the 3. receiued these Deputies honourably Those of Lubeck propounded many complaints in the open Assembly against them of Holland blaming them with many Articles Yet the King and all the Townes of the East countries layed the fault vppon the Lubekers And so a Peace was concluded betwixt Frederic King of Denmarke and his sonne with the Townes of the Easterlins of the one partie and the Emperor with the Hollande●…s of the other where-vnto the Lubeckers were forced to consent with the other Townes and to set their signe and seale to the treatie of Peace so as all shippes and goods that had beene stayed on either side were discharged the Sounde remaining open and free The newes of this peace did greatly reioyce them of Amsterdam and did bring downe the price of pitche rozen tarre corne and of all other comodities that came out of the East Countries by the Sounde In the beginning of Ianuary 1532. the Emperour beeing as wee haue said parted out of the Netherlands and came with his Brother King Ferdinand to Ratisbone to hold a Dyet whither came all the Princes except the Duke of Saxony and the Landtgraue of Hessen The Emperour beeing come to Ments the first of February the Arch-bishoppe of that place and the Count Palatin did sollicit him againe for peace and hauing warrant from him to deale in it they did admonish and aduise the Princes of Saxony and Hessen to harken to it So as after many letters sent on either side in the end they mette in the beginning of Aprill at Schuynfort There a proposition was made to liue in peace vntill a Councell were called and some points were propounded by the Emperours commandment touching the which there was some debate on the behalfe of the seauen Princes and the twenty foure Pr●…testant Townes yet notwith-standing there followed an Accord the 〈◊〉 whereof followes As well those that haue presented the confession of their Doctrine at Ausbourg and the defence thereof as those which shall hereafter ioyne vnto that relligion shall conteyne them-selues within these limit●…s without any Innouation vntill a Councell ●…ee called They shall not conuerse with those that teach the Sacraments of the Lords supper and of Baptisme other-wise ●…hen is se●…te downe in their declaration at Ausbourg Touching that whic●… concearnes matters of Doctrine they shall not suborne nor defend any one of a strange ●…urisdiction vnder coullor of relligion But if the law allowes any to go at their pleasure after they haue giuen notice thereof vnto their Lords they may then go where they like or are admitted They shall not send their Preachers out of their Count●…ies to teach if the Magistrate doth not require it or suffer it when th●…re shal●… bee any Assembly there if hee denies then may they preach in the houses ●…f they bee called to an imperiall Dyet or if they send their men against the Turke they shall allwaies haue their Preachers and the administration of the Supper according to the commandment of CHRIST They shall auoyd iniuries and the Ministers o●… the Church shall according to their duties reprehend errors and vice modestly and teach the truth They of their relligion shall not bee excluded from the Imperiall Chamber The Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction shall remaine as it is at this present and it shall not bee lawfull for the Bishop to call any one into question for matters of relligion All sentences giuen touching relligion Iurisdiction ceremonies and holy things which are not yet put in execution shall remaine in suspence vntill a Councell Those shall enioy the goods of the Church which shall bee resident vppon the place to whome properly such goods belong That nothing bee taken away violently from any man That the yearely reuenues bee carried to those places where they were wont to bee vntill the Councell doe ot●…er-wise determine in polliticke matters euery one to do his duty and to bee caref●…ll of the common-weale carrying them-selues faithfully together and louing one an other mutually According to these Articles the Protestants for their parts beeing seauen

w●…thout any proofe or demonstration it were a leane defence and vnworthie to bee presented to your Maiestie but if this enuie bee seene with the eye and felt with the hand wee hope by the helpe of the almightie God that your Maiestie will find want of iudgement in many of them which seeke all the meanes they can to effect their bad affections vnder your Maiesties authoritie for without doubt there shall no enuie bee found in the world if it appeare not in this action where vnder a colour of a priuat mischiefe they would ruine all and reduce a populous countrey to a wast and solitarie desart If a finger of the hand be interessed and festred must wee therefore cut off all the arme and cast it to the dogges or if the foot bee greeued must wee therefore abandon the whole bodie and giue it in prey to Lyons and sauage beasts And it hath beene one of the goodly and graue counsels which of late dayes hath been giuen to your Maiestie to hold Brabant for an enemie countrey and a land of conquest onely in regard of the priuiledges which it hath pleased your Maiestie to grant them If there had beene question of any crimes of any rebellion and disobedience of any practise of treason as well against God as your Maiestie or of any villanie whatsoeuer it had beene much more tollerable But that which they brought in question was the entertainment of your gifts of your promises of your greatnesse your othe your honour and your good fame the which shall bee the more glorious by the inuiolable maintaining of your word and promise the which they seeke to blemish labouring to dissolue that which you haue once confirmed by a solemne othe What counsell then is this can it proceed from pietie seeing they would haue your Maiesties indignation fall generally vpon all good and bad without distinction Can it proceed from any good zeale and affection to your Maiesties greatnesse and dignitie seeing it tends to the ruine and destruction of your faithfull subiects whose riches are your treasure whose quiet is your glorie and their prosperitie the happie increase of your Maiesties greatnesse But rather their bad disposition is shewed in that those which serue God and your Maiestie faithfully are contained in one list with the wicked by the opinion of such people and made subiect to the same condemnation Wherein wee acknowledge our selues so much the more bound to you when as sinister censures beeing propounded by some indirect meanes and tending couertly to our ruine they haue beene repelled by your Maiesties discretion and loue towards vs so as they haue sodainely vanished away to the great ioy and content of your subiects The which giues vs more future hope to expect al good things from your ordinances and commandements and still to attend greater testimonies of your clemencie to the end that we for our parts may endeuor to do you acceptable seruice and worthy of your high and soueraigne Maiestie In the meane time although that through your wisedome these mists haue beene dispersed for a time yet is it not rooted out of the hearts of some which persuade at the least endeuour secretly to persuade the same all they can as if they made mines vnder the earth to compasse that which at the first they had incountred and maintained with all vehemencie for whereas before they talked of exposing the countrey in prey now they will finish the same worke begun vnder colour of a remedie against sects which rise in some of your Maiesties countries so making the number sometimes double and deuising other meanes to depriue vs of all accesse vnto you and to hinder the peace by the which we haue yeelded you all dutifull obedience as well in fighting against your enemies as in seeking the aduancement of your glorie They charge your countrey with infinit wickednesse to plant hatred in your heart which is alreadie grauen in theirs to the end if it were possible that your edicts might bee cords to tye them that offer you all seruice and your magistrats and officers the inhumane executione●…s of their passions not that wee will condemne of so damnable a mind all those that make any bad report vnto your Maiestie of the Netherlauds for wee know many of them thinke by this meanes to root out the sects that grow for the zeale they beare to the Romish Church And others in like sort thinke that two religions can neuer bee entertained together contrarie to the testimonie of so many examples which haue beene and are at this day apparent to our eyes although wee know in trueth that there is but one onely seruice of God but whatsoeuer it bee they abuse themselues much in this for first they thinke without any further search that for one heresie there an hundred and that mens minds are wholy inclined thereunto moreouer that the princes noble men and magistrats of the countrey winke at them and care not to preuent these growing errours and hauing done this disgrace vnto your Maiesties well affected subiects they giue you to vnderstand that it is impossible to preuent heresies but by rigorous courses by murthers and cruell persecutions Whereat many euen of your Romish Church are amazed alledging the antient examples of the doctours of the Church especially of Saint Augustine against the Pelagians Donatists and Circoncilians who held townes and countries in their power by force whereas now they haue not the hundred part of that power and authoritie And whereas they thinke that the Inquisition is the true and only means to root out heresies and errours they consider not on the other side that it is the way to impouerish your subiects to vnfurnish your countries of inhabitants and euen to depriue you of an infinit treasure growing from the traffique of strangers for it is common in the mouth of all men that whereas the Inquisition sets footing the marchant flies away The which wee speake the more freely to the end your maiestie may vnderstand what inconuenience would grow by such a decree if our enemies and such as hate vs had preuailed so much with you as to plant and settle such an Inquisition in these countries as wee doubt not but they haue imployed all their meanes and doe still make many practises to that end It is not our intents to call the Inquisition in question whether it be receiuable or no or to dispute of the newnesse or vse thereof but onely to 〈◊〉 you vnderstand what is fit for your glorie the preseruation of our countrey and the increase of your power and greatnesse For as these things bee annexed and coupled together inseperably in like sort we may easily shew that this Inquisition whereof they talke so openly is repugnant to all these things and cannot stand but in ouerthrowing them dispersing and diuiding those things whereof vnitie is more than necessarie in all your Netherlands the which is notorious to all men without seeking of farre

hauing gotten this libertie since the breaking downe of Images leauing the fields did appropriate vnto themselues certaine churches within the townes so as they were forced with the Gouernesse consent to suffer them to build new Temples in Antuerpe for their exercise with some rules and ordinances ouer all to auoid scandales and disorders after that those of the Consistories of the Religion and the Ministers Iohn Taffin Herman Modet and George Siluain for the French Dutch churches had made their excuses by writing vnto the magistrat of Antuerpe in manner as followeth My masters we protest in truth as before God that what hath beene done touching the beating downe of Images was without our priuitie or consent As for the spoyles robberies drunkennesse and other dissolutenesse and insolencies we both blame them and detest them Wherfore the Ministers of the Word shall exhort as they haue already done their auditors in their sermons to abstaine and to deliuer into your hands what hath bin stolne away Those of our Church are ready to yeeld you all obedience and to oppose themselues vnder your command against all violences thefts and other insolencies We will acknowledge you to be established by the lord in the office of magistrat and therfore we are bound to obey you not only for feare of punishment but also for conscience sake and by consequence we ought and will faithfully pay all taxes imposts customes subsidies tithes and other duties ordinarie and extraordinarie that shall be imposed vpon vs. We confesse that such as shall refuse shall deale fraudulently offend God and are to be punished by you For the better assurance whereof the Ministers of the Word and others committed for the gouernment of the church are ready if need be to take an oath to be faithful and obedient vnto you in all things except against God and his Word for the good and profit of the towne and of the inhabitants beseeching you that vnder your authoritie and protection we may be suffred to assemble in some Temples fit and capable for the exercise of our Religion and not to take it in ill part if wee make vse of some according to the present necessitie vntill you haue otherwise prouided In the meane time we pretend not to force any one in his conscience nor constraine him to our Religion contenting our selues and praysing God that wee haue meanes to serue him according vnto ours hoping that you will prouide so as both the one and the other may haue cause of content giuing charge that they shall not doe any iniurie or outrage one vnto another for matter of Religion Vpon which request there was a certaine accord made in Antuerpe betwixt the one and the other Religion whom the magistrat tooke equally into his protection the second of September the said accord containing seuenteene articles Signed by the prince of Orange and vnderneath Ex mandato Dominorum Polites The like in a manner were made in Vtrecht and Amsterdam then at Gaunt Tournay and other places to entertaine the inhabitants in concord and loue one with another and to assure the townes from all eminent danger vntill the king had otherwise prouided by the aduice of the generall estates the which was done by the particular gouernours and magistrates of townes as well in Brabant Flanders Holland Zeeland Vtrecht Friseland Gueldres as other prouinces of the Netherlands whereby the reformed Religion did wonderfully encrease and the Protestants had for a time some cause of content seeing themselues freed from that odious Inquisition from the new bishops bloudie Edicts persecutions and obseruation of the counsell of Trent enioying the libertie of their consciences and the preaching of their doctrine The confederate gentlemen holding themselues well assured by the letters which the Gouernesse had giuen them after that they had written vnto the Consistories to carry themselues modestly in their assemblies they retyred euery one to his owne house And soone after there followed an Edict by the which to giue the people the better satisfaction the Inquisition and the Edicts against them of the Religion were surceased by the authoritie of the court commaunding notwithstanding to punish both in body and goods the breakers of Images causers of tumults robbers and disturbers of the publicke quiet vpon paine of the losse of their priuiledges for such as should not doe their duties forbidding expressely the carrying of armes to the preaching Yet the people did not altogether forbeare carrying of armes but in many places did assemble like men of warre for which cause the Seignior of Backerzeel a chiefe counsellour to the earle of Egmont who had beene one of the deputies for the nobilitie and had signed the compromise issuing out of the Audenarde with some bourgesses and pesants fell vpon a troupe of these armed men neere vnto Gramont whom he surprised suddenly not fearing any such encounter defeated them and put them to rout whereof hee slew twelue and tooke one and twentie prisoners the which were afterwards hanged This was the first exploit that was done by armes against them of the Religion and afterwards they began by little and little by vertue of letters and secret commaundements from the Gouernesse to pursue them in diuers places whereof some seeing this change and that the consederate gentlemen had thus abandoned them and withall that the earle of Egmont notwithstanding his permission to preach within his gouernment of Flanders was the first that did persecute them began to retyre out of the countrey some here some there and they had at the first retyred in greater numbers if the duchesse had not giuen them a new assurance that his Maiestie comming into those parts would heare their complaints and entreat them as a good and mercifull prince assuring them that he had no entent to vse rigor against his subiects with the which and many other goodly reasons shee sought to persuade them And in the meane time she sent secret instructions to th●… gouernors and particular magistrats to punish such as were culpable whereby those that were not the most rigorous nor forward in the execution of her secret instructions found that al the duchesses persuasions did not tend so much to grace in retaining them that would retire as to punishment Wherupon the magistrat of Alcmat in West Friseland writ vnto the Gouernesse in what perplexitie they were in by these latter letters written in secret directly contradicting the letters of assurance and the kings bountie whereof she made so great brags desiring to haue a more ample resolution therupon Wherunto she answered that notwithstanding any obiections made by them of West-Friseland which are the townes of Alcmar Horne Enchuysen and Medenblyc they should gouern themselues according vnto the instructions sent to the officers particular magistrats This passing in this sort in the Netherlands and the contract aforesaid being sent into Spain to the king he was not a little grieued and offended thereat being as then at

and other Church-men pretending that they had broken the last accord in suffring Monkes to preach in their Churchs whereas none but their Curats and Viccars should haue beene admitted And in truth a Monke preaching sediciously in Saint Michaels Church was the cause of the first muti●…e The like happened in march at Denremond and Oudenard so as those Townes sell into a greater Labirinth of troubles then before The States armie being as wee haue saide broken and dispersed of it selfe and Duke Casimiers troupes feeding vpon the poore countrymen all the winter about Tillemont and Arschot attending their pay The Prince of Parma marched into that quarter with his army and began to treat with them to make them retire so as in the end they had a pasport to depart out of the Netherlands within fifteene daies robbing spoyling and carrying away all they could lay hand on in the villages where they past hauing no entry giuen them into any towne Duke Casimire being at Flessinghes at his returne from England hearing of the retreat of his troupes followed them with all speed taking no leaue of the Archduke nor of the States being then assembled at Antwerp who hearing of the departure of his army they sent after them intreating the collonels that they might retaine still in their pay two or three thousand men horse and foote but being already vpon the way they would not returne the regiment of Lazarus Muller did also retire The Germains that were in Deuenter after that they had made as great resistance as they could vnder the gouernment of the Seignior of Hauercourt a Bourguignon and had held it from the end of Iuly to the twentith of Nouember making many skirmishes so as of 1200. men which they had they were reduced to fiue hundred after that the. Towne had beene battred three daies togither by the earle of Rheneberg Gouernor of Freezland seeing the assault readie to be giuen they yeelded vpon composition to haue their liues and goodes saued The first of December the Earle of Swaertzenbourgh of whome wee haue made mention before being Ambassador from the Emperor presented him-selfe againe vnto the States by aduise of the Emperor and of some Princes Electors vppon the last propositions and treatie of Peace demanding an answer thereof with the which for the desire he had to pacifie the warres and to settle the Netherlands in peace he transported him-selfe to the Prince of Parma but they could not agree so as it proued fruitlesse The one and twentith of the Moneth Maximillian of Henin Earle of Bossu generall of the Sates Armie Lord Steward to the Arch-duke Mathias Councellor of State being taken with a burning feuer died in Antwerp who was much lamented both of the Nobilitie soldiers and common people The fiue and twentith day the Duke of Aniou defender of the libertie of the Netherlands as he tearmed him-selfe gaue the States to vnderstād by Monsieur Domartin the causes which moued him to returne into France to leaue those countries Among other points he alledged the instāce which the king his brother made by reason of some tumults which had hapned in France and that in the Netherlāds they had giuen the people to vnderstand that his Presence did hurt the general Peace that was in hand that hee sought to seaze vpon the townes of the said countrie wherein he would disproue them in deliuering vp all thinges after his departure into the States hands He also made an offer that where-soeuer he were he would remaine alwaies well affected vnto them In the end taking his leaue of them he wisht them to remember the great charges he had bene at to succor thē leauing Monsieur D'Espruneaux for his Ambassador Leeger with the States The States being amazed at this sodaine and vnexpected departure they sent the Seignior of Fromont and Doctor Gilles Martini Secretarie of the towne of Antwerp to let him vnderstand how much they were greeued beseeching him so to accomodate his affaires as he might remaine in the Netherlands and acknowledging the benefits and fauors they had receiued from him they offred all seruice with a promise of full contentment and satisfaction fit for his greatnesse After his departure a good part of his troopes retired to the Malecontents of Menin especially of his footmen In Ianuarie 1579. Salentin Earle of Isenbrug Arch-bishop and Prince Elector of Cologne leauing his ecclesiasticall dignitie married with the daughter of the Earle of Arembergh The Chapter and the Diocesse could not at the first agree vppon the election of a new Prince yet in the end Trucses was chosen but being also married and seeking to reforme his Diocesse and to retaine the dignitie with his wife there followed great warres the Chapter hauing dispossest him At the last Ernest the victorious Prince of Bauaria hauing chased away Trucses and dispersed his troopes was acckowledged Arch-bishoppe of Cologne Bishoppe of Liege of Frissinghe Hilessem other Bishopprickes and great Benifices and the Popes Legat in the lower Germany The first of March the Prince of Parma caused his armie to aduance before Antwerp trusting it may be vpon some intelligences which he presumed to haue presenting him-selfe in the quarter of Deurne and Burgerhout suburbes of the towne The Burgers hauing drawne the chaines of their streetes set their rounds of euery side appointed euery man his quarter and shewed themselues very resolute and vnited to defend the towne saluting the Spaniards with their great ordinance who were in skirmish with certaine companies of English and Scottish in the trenches of those suburbes and of Berchem whome they charged vntil night but in the end they were forced to retier by the towne canon after they had lost aboue 500. men and 200. of the States The Spaniards retired presently towards Louvaine after that they had burnt some houses and milles of the Iurisdiction of Antwerp The Captaines and chiefe officers of the States side that were either flaine or hurt were brought into the towne the dead were buried and the rest were gratified by the Magistrates for their valour and good seruice those of Antwerp complaining of the bad paiment the States made vnto the soldiers considering the great summes of money which they had furnished to that end for their parts Wherevpon not long after the English companies suing for their pay from the generall Estates beeing assembled at Antwerp seeing they delaid them too much some forty of them attending the comming forth of the States from the Councell about noone day seazed vpon the Abbot of S. Michael a rich Abbay in the sayd towne carrying him in the midst of them through the towne vnto the hauen where they imbarkt him in a ship among their men threatning him that if they were not payd by his meanes to cast him into the water But the Prince of Orange and the Collonels of Antwerp did pacifie them and vppon promise that they should bee speeddily paid