A
Supplication
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
lamenting
subiectes
of
the
low
Countries
,
as
they
haue
often
pondered
with
them 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
remonstrances
of
some
christian
Princes
and
Potentates
vnto
your
Maiestie
,
mercifully
haue
considered
of
our
pitifull
and
most
miserable
suppression
,
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
countreys
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
consequently
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
straungers
and
foraine
force
.
Also
the
Princes
of
the
countrie
willing
as
fathers
to
shew
and
declare
their
loue
&
affection
to
euery
one
,
did
at
their
solemnisation
and
entring
into
their
dominion
&
rule
,
by
a
solempne
othe
,
bynd
themselues
to
vse
and
kepe
eche
countrie
in
their
rightes
and
franchises
,
without
suffring
that
any
of
them
should
be
enfringed
or
deminished
,
or
that
the
one
Prouince
should
haue
dominion
or
rule
ouer
the
other
,
much
lesse
be
subiect
vnto
any
foraine
dominion
or
power
:
vpon
which
conditions
he
is
accepted
and
taken
as
a
supreme
Lord
and
Gouernour
ouer
the
countries
,
and
theruppon
receaueth
the
othe
of
obedience
and
faithfulnesse
of
his
subiectes
.
Of
which
the
premises
néedeth
not
any
further
or
larger
rehersall
,
whilest
that
vndoubtedly
your
Maiestie
doth
sufficiently
remember
,
how
that
the
Emperour
Charles
,
of
most
noble
memorie
,
following
the
presidentes
of
his
predecessours
,
and
acknowledging
that
the
sayd
othe
of
solempnisation
is
the
onely
and
right
foundation
,
vppon
which
doth
consist
aswell
the
might
,
&
authoritie
of
a
Prince
,
as
the
faith
and
obedience
of
his
subiects
,
did
in
his
life
time
,
and
presence
of
your
Maiestie
,
cause
your
Maiestie
to
receaue
the
sayd
countries
vnder
the
sayd
othe
,
and
sware
your
Maiestie
to
the
ioyfull
income
in
all
the
landes
and
most
of
the
townes
,
as
next
successour
and
onely
heire
of
his
emperiall
Maiestie
:
and
afterwardes
the
same
Emperiall
Maiestie
departing
out
of
these
countries
,
and
your
Maiestie
receauing
the
full
dominion
,
and
administration
of
the
Land
:
did
once
again
,
in
presence
of
the
Deputid
of
the
countries
then
assembled
,
rehearse
and
strongly
confirme
the
saide
priuileges
.
So
that
in
all
times
past
the
sayd
countries
haue
enioyed
and
bene
ruled
by
their
former
priuileges
&
liberties
.
Out
of
which
hath
followed
such
faithfulnesse
and
obedience
of
the
subiects
towards
their
Prince
,
and
such
vnitie
and
loue
amongest
ech
other
,
that
the
countries
by
God
his
prouidence
,
haue
florished
with
most
happie
prosperitie
,
the
Princes
then
adorned
with
all
honour
and
high
dignities
,
and
greatly
redoubted
and
feared
of
their
enemies
.
And
because
it
néedes
not
to
rehearse
any
thing
out
of
the
old
histories
,
being
notwith
standing
explenished
with
many
presidents
,
it
hath
appeared
in
all
the
warres
of
the
Emperiall
Maistie
,
what
earnest
care
hée
had
to
the
defence
and
mayntenaunce
of
his
countries
in
rest
and
quietnes
.
Likewise
your
Maiestie
can
well
remember
that
he
taking
his
leaue
of
these
countries
,
did
specially
and
earnestly
recommend
the
state
therof
vnto
your
Maiestie
:
Yea
your
Maiestie
being
at
his
arriuall
burdened
with
gréeuous
warres
and
extréeme
charges
,
hath
by
experience
found
that
all
your
subiectes
both
great
and
small
,
euerie
one
to
his
state
and
abilitie
,
haue
bene
readie
to
venture
both
life
and
goods
in
seruice
of
your
Maiestie
.
Wherin
aswel
the
Lords
and
nobles
,
as
commons
,
haue
so
acquited
and
behaued
themselues
,
that
your
Maiesty
hath
vanquished
&
ouercome
your
enemies
,
gotten
great
praise
&
renowne
of
al
kings
,
and
potentates
,
and
made
a
fynall
end
of
al
warres
and
discentions
,
wherewith
many
yeares
before
your
auncetors
and
countries
were
troubled
.
Now
if
it
might
please
your
Maiestie
,
(
which
your
lamentable
and
faithfull
subiects
do
most
humbly
require
)
to
enquire
of
and
consider
the
originall
occasions
of
the
alterations
of
such
good
&
quiet
prosperitie
,
into
such
miserable
commotions
and
extremities
,
wherwith
the
countries
are
now
suppressed
:
your
Maiestie
shall
find
them
to
spring
out
of
the
malice
and
enuie
which
some
(
being
about
your
Maiestie
)
do
beare
to
the
prosperitie
and
welfare
wherewith
God
almightie
hath
blessed
your
countries
and
subiectes
.
Which
enuie
and
cancred
malice
,
being
further
incensed
and
stuffed
with
vnsatiable
auarice
and
vnmeasurable
prodigalitie
,
hath
brought
them
to
such
crueltie
and
tiranny
,
that
they
altogether
forgetting
all
affection
and
seruice
which
they
did
owe
vnto
the
countrie
wherin
they
haue
gotten
great
honour
&
benefites
,
haue
(
to
the
great
preiudice
of
the
seruice
of
your
Maiestie
and
common
wealth
of
these
countries
)
procured
by
all
meanes
and
practises
this
most
haynous
fyre
of
commotion
,
to
th
intent
to
aspire
to
the
dignitie
surpassing
the
states
of
the
land
,
yea
of
your
Maiestie
.
And
knowing
well
that
to
compasse
that
deuise
,
it
was
a
matter
impossible
,
the
customes
and
liberties
of
the
countries
remayning
in
force
,
which
do
altogether
contrary
their
wicked
pretence
:
considering
besides
,
how
diligent
and
faithful
they
of
the
said
countries
were
euery
one
in
his
vocation
(
according
to
their
othe
)
to
stand
to
the
maintenance
of
the
same
:
they
attempted
in
peruerse
maner
too
interprete
too
your
Maiestie
the
doings
and
procéedings
of
the
Lordes
,
gouernours
,
and
states
of
the
land
,
tending
to
the
maintenance
of
the
said
rights
,
and
liberties
,
in
such
sort
as
if
they
tended
to
disobedience
or
rebellion
towardes
your
Maiestie
.
Amongest
which
,
specially
some
being
spirituall
persons
,
haue
by
all
meanes
attempted
and
sought
,
vnder
pretence
and
shadowe
of
religion
to
confederate
with
other
foraine
prelates
,
and
so
by
secret
attempts
and
practises
,
to
bring
the
countrie
in
hatred
of
your
Maiestie
,
to
th
intent
that
they
with
their
confederates
which
are
by
oth
allyed
not
with
your
Maiestie
,
but
with
straunge
rulers
and
countries
in
Italie
&
els
where
,
specially
with
the
Pope
of
Roome
,
might
here
beare
rule
and
gouernaunce
,
&c.
and
as
possibilitie
and
commoditie
serued
,
to
enlarge
and
confirme
the
same
.
For
when
they
first
perceiued
that
in
all
the
countries
here
abouts
,
yea
ouer
all
Christendome
,
their
rude
and
manifest
abuses
,
and
errours
,
by
reason
of
the
negligence
and
auarice
of
the
priestes
were
discried
,
&
specially
when
it
began
to
gréeue
the
chiefe
&
notablest
persons
,
that
they
which
ought
onely
to
meddle
with
instructing
of
the
people
,
in
the
faith
and
feare
of
God
,
and
to
execute
his
seruice
with
all
fidelitie
,
according
to
the
example
of
the
Prophetes
and
Apostels
,
did
in
steade
therof
,
not
onely
contrarie
to
God
his
commaundement
,
but
also
to
the
decrées
of
the
former
Popes
,
and
to
all
ordinaunces
of
the
old
counsels
,
yea
against
all
statutes
and
vsages
of
Princes
and
countries
▪
take
vppon
them
to
deale
in
worldly
and
Ciuill
pollicies
:
yea
also
in
matters
toutching
warfare
and
rule
of
countries
,
séeking
to
suppresse
all
degrées
,
and
to
reserue
the
generall
gouernement
to
themselues
,
taking
in
hand
to
bring
all
estates
in
disdaine
and
hatred
of
the
Princes
,
aswell
the
subiects
of
your
Maiestie
,
as
of
diuers
other
kinges
,
&
Potentates
,
accusing
them
slaunderously
with
sedition
and
rebellion
:
whereby
they
haue
stirred
and
prouoked
,
in
all
countries
,
troubles
,
and
discention
,
warres
and
bloudshed
,
setting
the
subiects
at
discord
with
their
rulers
,
and
the
rulers
against
the
subiects
,
&
generally
turned
all
things
vpside
down
,
and
brought
in
execrable
confusion
and
errour
,
not
estéeming
who
was
endamaged
,
so
as
they
might
atchiue
the
accomplishment
of
their
rule
and
dominion
,
and
bring
all
thinges
vnder
their
rule
and
aucthoritie
.
And
to
that
intent
,
haue
they
sought
,
to
plant
in
this
countrie
the
inquisition
,
deuised
and
inuented
in
Spaine
by
certaine
Jewes
,
and
Renegados
,
by
that
meanes
to
breake
all
priuileges
,
rightes
,
and
auncient
customes
,
and
to
make
frustrate
all
sworen
contracts
,
vsages
,
and
counselles
,
and
so
to
get
a
full
power
and
dominion
ouer
all
your
Maiesties
faithfull
seruants
,
which
stand
to
the
oth
which
they
haue
made
to
your
Maiestie
,
not
acknowledging
any
foraine
Lords
,
spirituall
or
temporall
,
which
might
séeke
by
false
accusations
to
impute
vnto
your
subiectes
,
heresie
and
rebellion
,
to
the
intent
therby
to
attayne
to
their
purpose
,
For
better
accomplishing
wherof
haue
they
by
force
vrged
and
brought
in
the
new
Bishops
,
contrary
to
all
landrights
,
and
sworne
priuileges
,
to
the
emparing
of
your
Maiesties
aucthoritie
:
chusing
them
not
for
vertue
,
prudence
,
or
learning
(
being
most
of
them
,
of
the
most
rude
and
vnlearnest
sort
)
but
onely
for
that
they
take
them
as
faithfull
and
true
assistents
,
in
the
executing
of
their
tiranny
and
crueltie
.
Their
sayd
vngodly
enterprises
and
consequences
of
the
same
being
the
longer
the
more
espied
,
haue
the
most
notablest
Lords
,
Gouernours
,
and
Gentlemen
,
with
the
townes
and
countrie
,
giuen
intelligence
&
knowledge
to
your
Maiestie
by
continuall
supplications
,
remonstrances
and
other
possible
meanes
,
how
much
the
aucthorite
of
your
Maiestie
should
be
empared
,
shortned
and
deminished
,
by
the
said
Inquisitors
and
Bishoppes
,
being
most
of
them
straungers
and
outlanders
,
by
othe
bound
vnto
foraine
Princes
,
and
(
as
they
pretend
)
exempt
of
your
iurisdiction
,
and
by
the
same
haue
alleaged
the
euident
impossibilite
to
bring
in
such
inuocations
,
and
newelties
,
but
that
it
would
tend
to
the
vtter
ruine
&
destruction
of
the
whole
countrie
:
seing
that
it
was
most
apparant
that
the
bringing
in
therof
was
but
a
borowed
cloake
to
shadow
their
doings
,
in
abusing
of
your
Maiestie
,
&
suppressing
of
such
as
would
controle
their
wicked
and
most
notorious
procedings
and
abuses
,
which
they
themselues
can
scarce
conceale
.
Of
which
the
number
in
these
countries
is
so
great
and
manifold
,
and
dayly
doth
more
encrease
:
that
if
your
Maiestie
would
haue
ben
ruled
by
their
persuasions
&
counsell
in
executing
of
rigour
and
extremities
,
they
would
haue
made
your
Maiestie
a
kyng
without
subiects
,
and
your
subiects
without
rulers
,
as
is
most
notorious
by
the
innumerable
number
of
those
,
which
in
these
countries
haue
vnder
pretence
of
religion
bene
executed
and
murthered
aswell
with
fyre
,
&
water
,
as
with
the
sword
:
besides
an
infinite
multitude
which
are
fled
out
of
the
countrie
bearing
with
them
all
occupations
&
notable
sciences
to
the
instructing
of
others
,
&
vnspeakeable
preiudice
of
your
Maiestie
and
countries
.
Whereupon
your
Maiestie
was
in
the
end
occasioned
to
a
myld
moderation
of
the
placardes
,
by
the
same
declaring
that
your
meaning
was
not
to
bring
in
the
Inquisition
:
which
likewise
was
by
the
Duchesse
of
Parma
,
and
the
Lords
and
Gouernours
of
the
countrie
in
the
behalf
of
your
Maiestie
,
solemply
promised
to
all
the
Townes
and
subiects
,
and
accordingly
published
by
open
proclamations
,
by
commaundement
of
the
Maiestrates
.
But
shortly
after
,
al
that
was
ouerturned
by
meanes
of
the
aforesaid
persons
,
who
in
déed
séeme
to
haue
firmely
persuaded
your
Maiestie
,
that
suche
was
to
the
deminishing
of
your
Maiesties
reputation
and
dignitie
,
vniustly
alleadging
,
that
your
subiects
would
withdraw
themselues
from
the
duetifull
obedience
of
your
Maiestie
.
So
that
it
is
euident
that
your
Maiestie
vpon
their
informations
,
was
moued
to
send
the
Duke
of
Alba
out
of
Spaine
into
these
Countries
,
to
the
intent
with
armes
and
force
to
compell
your
Maiesties
subiectes
,
to
that
which
they
of
themselues
haue
with
all
humilitie
and
obedience
at
all
times
offred
.
And
notwithstanding
that
the
aforesayd
Lordes
and
Townes
of
these
countries
had
good
occasion
to
thinke
that
they
should
bée
greatly
wronged
through
force
of
forayne
souldiours
,
and
rule
of
a
straunge
Gouernour
,
not
being
of
their
Countrie
,
nor
of
your
Maiesties
kinred
or
descent
,
but
such
a
one
as
did
beare
towards
them
a
most
cancred
hatred
,
had
meanes
sufficient
to
preuent
his
comming
into
the
countrie
:
yet
because
hée
came
in
the
name
of
your
Maiestie
,
and
to
make
euident
that
they
had
not
rebelled
or
declined
from
the
obedience
of
your
Maiestie
,
trusting
to
their
conscience
and
right
,
haue
willingly
and
honorably
receiued
him
with
all
such
as
it
pleased
your
Maiestie
to
sende
with
him
,
opening
to
him
the
gates
of
the
Townes
,
deliuered
into
his
hands
the
fortresses
and
strong
holdes
,
and
entertayned
garrisons
,
onely
for
that
hée
declared
,
that
such
was
the
will
and
pleasure
of
your
Maiestie
to
be
thereby
assured
of
the
fidelitie
&
obedience
of
your
subiectes
,
which
were
accused
to
your
Maiestie
as
rebels
and
traytours
.
Therfore
,
reason
would
haue
required
,
that
the
aforesaid
Duke
of
Alba
should
by
all
meanes
and
diligence
haue
informed
your
Maiestie
of
such
your
subiects
true
obedience
and
inclination
:
and
before
hée
had
procéeded
to
the
execution
of
rigour
,
taken
good
and
full
information
of
their
complaints
,
and
chiefly
touching
the
bringing
in
of
these
new
Bishops
and
Inquisitors
,
contrarying
God
and
all
rightes
,
and
that
vpon
good
and
true
report
thereof
made
to
your
Maiestie
,
redresse
and
remedie
might
haue
ben
had
.
But
now
cleane
contrarie
wyse
,
so
soone
as
hée
was
receyued
and
was
in
possession
of
the
force
and
rule
of
the
Countries
,
hath
without
kéeping
of
any
order
of
Iustice
,
or
hauing
regard
to
the
landrightes
and
priuileges
whereunto
your
Maiestie
is
sworne
:
not
onely
put
to
death
and
chased
away
the
most
part
of
the
Lordes
and
Gouernours
of
these
countreis
,
by
your
Maiestie
elected
&
placed
,
but
also
generally
declared
all
the
priuileges
and
liberties
to
be
forfaited
,
and
the
Countrie
to
be
vsed
as
a
country
newly
conquested
by
force
of
armes
,
to
the
vse
of
him
and
his
associates
,
and
so
consequently
freely
to
deale
with
the
lyues
and
goods
of
your
subiectes
,
as
their
lustes
and
appetites
shall
require
.
And
if
possibly
might
be
layd
before
your
Maiesties
eyes
the
excessiue
force
and
not
beard
of
cruelties
which
here
haue
ben
vsed
since
the
beginning
of
his
gouernement
,
by
spoyling
,
robbing
,
chasing
away
,
and
desolating
:
by
apprehending
,
taking
,
banishment
,
and
confiscating
of
goods
,
yea
by
burning
,
hanging
,
headding
,
hacking
,
racking
,
&
most
horrible
and
not
before
heard
of
tormentes
and
murtherings
of
the
Subiects
of
your
Maiestie
,
aswell
Noble
as
innoble
,
poore
as
riche
,
yong
as
olde
,
widowes
and
orphanes
,
men
,
women
,
and
yong
maidens
,
of
what
state
,
qualitie
,
or
condition
soeuer
they
were
:
we
doubt
not
but
that
your
Maiestie
would
be
amased
to
heare
the
rehearsall
thereof
:
yea
and
would
be
gréeued
at
the
same
,
that
vnder
your
name
such
vnnaturall
crueltie
and
tyranny
should
be
vsed
▪
as
neither
Phalaris
,
Nero
,
Pharao
,
Herode
,
or
any
other
Heathen
Tyrant
could
haue
inuented
the
lyke
,
as
now
is
vsed
towards
your
faythfull
subiects
,
which
with
their
liues
and
goods
haue
alwayes
laboured
to
kéepe
the
Crowne
on
your
Maiesties
head
,
agaynst
all
your
enemies
.
And
that
your
Maiestie
would
also
haue
taken
remorse
of
so
many
innocent
infants
chased
awaye
out
of
their
natiue
Countrie
into
straung
lands
:
so
many
poore
widowes
and
orphanes
,
and
also
vpon
the
lamentable
crye
of
the
whole
Countrie
which
now
are
suppressed
by
this
most
horrible
tyrant
.
For
there
is
none
which
could
defend
or
preserue
his
goods
from
their
auarice
,
their
wyues
or
daughters
from
their
filthy
lustes
,
or
their
lyues
from
their
bloudthirstinisse
.
Nobilitie
,
Richesse
,
manhood
,
or
good
seruice
done
in
tymes
past
,
could
nothing
preuaile
,
if
once
hée
was
entred
intoo
hatred
of
them
.
And
without
taking
regard
to
the
Iurisdictions
or
ordinary
courses
of
the
countrie
,
hath
stopped
the
Iurisdictions
of
al
Iustices
,
either
in
ciuill
or
criminall
causes
which
in
any
wyse
concerne
the
confiscations
pronounced
in
his
bloudy
Counsell
,
in
such
sorte
as
neyther
spirituall
or
temporal
persones
,
widowes
or
orphanes
,
hospitalls
,
Spittels
,
Lazarus
houses
,
or
other
whiche
had
good
and
deuable
reuenues
,
amongst
the
confiscated
goods
,
could
get
any
payment
or
satisfaction
.
But
the
Duke
of
Alba
hath
gotten
all
into
his
hands
without
any
mind
to
discharge
any
the
premisses
,
notwithstanding
the
diuers
and
earnest
solicitations
&
requestes
to
him
made
in
that
behalfe
by
the
States
of
the
Countries
,
delaying
the
poore
agréeued
subiectes
with
dilatorie
and
vnfounded
apostillations
,
the
one
alwayes
contrarying
the
other
,
and
without
sending
ouer
the
matters
to
the
prouinciall
Counsels
or
ordinary
Iustices
,
to
the
intent
to
make
them
dispaire
of
any
satisfaction
to
be
made
by
the
court
,
where
by
proces
they
haue
ben
sommoned
to
their
excissiue
charge
,
and
vpon
summes
of
small
value
haue
bene
forced
to
greater
charges
then
the
principal
hath
amounted
vnto
,
not
suffering
any
law
full
transport
to
be
made
of
any
one
debte
for
the
other
.
To
consider
what
number
of
honest
woomen
and
yonge
maydens
they
haue
with
force
and
violence
rauished
&
that
the
one
after
the
other
:
yea
misused
some
euen
to
the
death
.
Howe
often
haue
they
compelled
the
husbande
to
remaine
with
the
wife
,
and
the
father
with
the
daughter
,
to
force
them
with
their
eyes
to
beholde
their
most
vilanous
filthinesse
,
and
made
them
as
instruments
to
the
accomplishinge
of
their
luxurious
luste
,
vsing
such
vnnaturall
and
beastly
fashions
,
that
wée
are
in
a
manner
abashed
and
astonied
to
declare
the
same
to
your
Maiestie
.
Howe
often
hath
it
happened
,
that
the
husband
séeking
to
defend
hys
wyfe
or
daughter
of
their
rauishement
,
that
they
haue
all
togither
as
furious
curres
,
run
out
of
the
house
togither
crying
Spania
,
Spania
,
murtheringe
a
number
of
the
poore
commons
.
How
many
women
great
with
childe
haue
they
ript
vp
the
bellies
off
,
and
murthered
the
frute
in
their
wombes
.
Haue
they
not
fleyed
and
pulled
off
the
skinns
of
some
men
being
aliue
and
headdid
their
drommes
with
the
same
skin
?
others
haue
they
not
tosted
with
small
fyres
,
nypped
them
with
red
burning
tonges
euen
to
the
death
,
and
consequently
murthered
a
number
and
made
them
dye
a
hundreth
deathes
?
Howe
many
women
haue
they
chased
from
their
husbands
,
and
children
from
their
parents
:
yea
what
is
there
vnder
the
heauens
so
honest
or
holy
which
they
haue
not
defiled
and
troden
vnder
foote
?
Uerily
amongest
all
other
Nations
,
yea
amongest
the
cruelest
,
the
buryinge
of
the
dead
,
hath
alwayes
bene
permitted
and
reuerenced
.
But
this
Tirant
in
the
despyte
of
God
and
nature
,
is
so
obstinate
and
peruerse
,
that
hée
hath
caused
to
be
taken
out
of
the
graue
the
carcasses
of
the
dead
,
and
conueyed
vnder
the
gallowes
,
vnder
pretence
because
some
of
them
dying
without
shrifte
,
&
others
without
houseling
had
forfaited
his
goods
which
hée
tooke
as
confiscated
.
What
is
there
amongst
men
more
holy
and
honest
,
then
is
the
state
of
Matrimonie
being
the
only
and
true
foundation
of
all
mutual
loue
&
friendship
,
the
originall
of
loue
,
the
bond
of
peace
,
and
the
direct
way
of
all
dealings
amongst
men
:
whereof
this
Tyrant
maketh
so
little
accompte
,
that
hée
seuereth
the
men
from
their
wyues
,
and
the
wyues
from
their
husbands
,
being
ioyned
togither
in
the
congregation
before
God
and
his
Angels
,
cleane
contrary
to
the
commaundement
and
institution
of
almighty
God
and
rightes
,
&
all
vnder
pretence
that
they
were
ioyned
togither
in
the
way
of
heresie
:
but
to
saye
trueth
,
it
is
onely
in
spoyling
manner
,
to
match
the
beautifull
and
riche
Matrones
with
his
Souldiours
&
ruffians
,
and
finally
by
his
crueltie
burst
in
sunder
the
original
bande
tending
to
the
intertayning
of
all
mutuall
loue
:
murthering
and
killing
the
women
which
in
time
of
extremitie
had
reléeued
their
husbands
,
&
the
children
for
succouring
the
necessitie
of
their
parents
,
yea
those
which
had
onely
with
a
letter
conforted
any
of
them
.
And
to
the
ende
that
nothing
shuld
by
him
be
left
vndefiled
,
hath
hée
troden
in
most
despitefull
manner
vnder
foote
the
most
holy
Sacrament
of
Baptisme
,
whereby
wée
are
incorporated
in
the
body
of
Iesus
Christ
and
communion
of
God
his
Church
,
willing
and
commaunding
that
those
children
which
were
Christened
openly
and
lawfully
according
to
the
institution
of
Iesus
Christ
,
in
the
name
of
the
Father
,
Sonne
,
and
holy
Ghoste
,
should
once
agayn
be
baptised
,
vnder
pretence
that
they
were
Christened
as
heretiques
,
and
repugnant
contrarie
to
all
godly
and
naturall
rightes
,
ordonances
of
the
church
,
&
decrées
of
Counsells
.
Furthermore
it
néedeth
not
to
rehearse
to
your
Maiestie
,
the
gréeuous
exactions
inuented
by
him
,
one
after
an
other
,
and
with
out
measure
doth
vrge
of
the
poore
commons
,
as
the
hundrethes
,
twenties
,
yea
the
tenth
penie
,
of
all
goods
,
mouables
and
immouables
,
of
all
goods
bought
and
sold
,
demaunding
,
yea
&
vrging
by
execution
contrarie
to
the
aduise
&
counsell
of
al
estates
in
these
countries
,
not
of
the
cleare
gaines
of
the
same
,
but
the
tenth
,
and
twentie
penie
of
the
capitall
some
of
all
sales
.
Whereby
not
onely
all
trades
and
trafficques
,
are
abandoned
out
of
the
land
,
but
likewise
the
subiectes
of
the
same
,
depriued
from
the
getting
of
the
liuing
,
of
them
,
their
wiues
,
and
children
.
And
notwithstanding
that
the
states
,
haue
at
sundry
times
done
their
endeuour
largely
to
infourme
the
said
Duke
of
the
inconueniences
which
might
follow
vppon
the
said
demaund
:
and
requested
that
he
would
in
their
behalfe
aduertise
your
Maiestie
therof
:
would
not
hearken
to
them
,
but
shaked
them
of
without
any
comefort
:
although
he
was
by
intercession
of
the
counsel
&
states
of
the
land
therunto
most
earnestly
instanced
,
and
so
therby
caused
the
decay
of
all
marchandise
,
compelled
the
inhabitants
through
misery
to
flée
away
into
other
countries
.
And
yet
it
is
apparant
,
that
when
any
necessitie
is
towardes
for
payment
of
the
souldiers
,
no
money
is
to
be
had
,
in
such
sorte
that
the
Spanish
souldiours
are
at
afterdele
in
their
payment
xxviij
.
monethes
,
and
the
Dutche
moste
of
them
constrayned
to
go
a
begging
from
doore
to
doore
:
of
which
some
haue
by
famine
and
misery
perished
.
Notwithstanding
the
great
sommes
which
the
states
haue
leuied
and
paid
to
the
paying
of
the
said
souldiours
,
&
yet
neuerthelesse
haue
his
garnisons
consumed
,
and
eaten
out
the
most
part
of
the
townes
,
&
suppressed
the
same
with
the
Seruitio
,
which
they
haue
bene
forced
to
minister
to
the
said
Spanish
souldiours
,
and
those
which
haue
giuen
most
money
,
as
well
to
him
,
as
to
Don
Frederico
,
or
any
of
theirs
,
haue
bene
the
first
that
were
discharged
of
the
sayde
bondage
of
Seruitio
.
With
which
garnisons
he
hath
most
vexed
the
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
found
by
any
examples
or
Cronicles
,
considering
it
to
be
a
manifest
token
of
madde
arrogantie
and
insupportable
pride
:
we
find
onely
that
Nabuchodonozar
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
themselues
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
from
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
them
,
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
commended
:
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
humbly
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
vnderstand
.
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
pardon
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
entisement
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
pardons
,
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
tormented
,
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
with
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
tyranny
.
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
,
then
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
man
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
contrary
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
euen
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
the
towne
,
and
were
entred
into
his
seruice
,
hath
he
caused
to
be
caried
to
the
Galies
,
and
vpon
the
Fuycke
before
Harlem
when
he
had
promised
the
souldiours
their
liues
,
suffred
them
to
perish
with
hunger
,
saying
:
that
he
had
assured
them
of
their
liues
,
and
not
of
meate
and
drinke
.
As
also
the
Burgeses
of
Harlem
,
whom
he
had
assured
their
liues
,
hath
he
compelled
to
be
Myners
before
the
towne
of
Alkmar
,
where
they
are
by
the
inhabitants
slayne
:
which
doth
passe
all
barbarous
tiranny
and
crueltie
,
and
is
a
most
manifest
token
wherwith
he
séeketh
to
maintaine
his
vntrue
procéedinges
.
So
that
it
is
euident
that
he
meaneth
not
to
obserue
any
othes
or
promises
,
but
for
a
small
time
:
to
the
entent
he
might
the
better
haue
his
will
of
others
,
and
because
hée
might
the
better
hereafter
defend
his
case
,
against
your
Maiestie
,
and
other
Princes
,
doth
produce
this
pardon
,
for
if
we
do
accept
the
same
we
must
néedes
acknowledge
our selues
giltie
of
such
offences
,
as
he
layeth
to
our
charge
▪
and
is
not
bound
to
the
obseruing
of
any
othe
:
for
by
the
counsell
holden
at
Constance
,
it
was
aboue
ij
.
hunderd
yeres
enacted
that
no
faith
is
to
be
kept
with
heretiques
.
For
wheras
he
doth
in
his
pardon
subtilly
alleadge
that
such
offences
as
haue
bene
committed
,
were
done
more
vpon
euill
suggestin
,
and
euill
will
,
then
of
their
owne
nature
and
enclination
.
This
is
but
a
subtill
pollicie
,
wherwith
he
ment
to
disceaue
the
simple
,
and
bring
them
vnder
his
yoke
:
and
to
furnish
himselfe
of
power
to
suppresse
all
such
as
he
thinketh
good
,
and
that
without
reproch
of
any
,
séeing
that
it
standeth
in
his
iudgement
who
hath
offended
,
the
premisses
or
not
.
But
once
consider
most
soueraigne
King
,
how
that
the
righteous
GOD
hath
deceaued
this
subtile
dealer
in
his
procedings
,
for
in
this
pardon
wherin
he
pretendeth
most
gréeuously
to
accuse
vs
,
he
doth
by
expresse
wordes
confesse
,
that
he
can
by
no
meanes
thinke
that
we
could
not
haue
bene
so
altered
or
chaunged
,
but
vppon
euill
suggestion
or
els
we
shuld
haue
continewed
in
al
faith
and
willingnesse
,
which
we
alwayes
haue
shewed
to
your
Maiestie
.
For
if
it
be
so
,
that
we
before
this
last
offence
(
as
he
termeth
it
)
haue
shewed
to
your
Maiestie
all
obedience
as
he
himselfe
witnesseth
?
Why
hath
he
then
vsed
such
crueltie
and
persecution
?
Wherefore
hath
hée
in
such
sorte
distroyed
the
townes
,
burned
the
the
villages
,
and
places
:
murthered
the
inhabitants
,
and
spoyled
them
of
all
their
goods
,
hath
not
he
by
his
souldiours
by
fyre
consumed
Catwicke
vpon
Zea
,
Sandwicke
and
Alfen
,
&
that
long
before
these
transgressions
,
wherof
he
complayneth
,
were
begone
.
Did
not
they
pretend
to
set
fyre
on
the
towne
of
Vtrecht
,
which
was
so
well
addicted
vnto
them
,
haue
not
they
in
Rotterdam
,
where
as
they
were
receaued
as
fréends
,
cruelly
murthered
a
number
of
Burgeses
,
was
not
found
by
Pacheco
a
bill
of
innumerable
number
,
aswell
of
the
nobilitie
,
as
most
substantiall
commons
in
sundrie
and
diuers
townes
,
which
by
commaundement
of
the
Duke
should
haue
bene
murthered
,
if
matters
by
Gods
prouision
had
not
altered
.
And
wherunto
tended
the
demaund
of
the
tenth
penie
,
to
none
other
end
but
that
we
should
at
his
handes
buy
our
goods
,
which
he
pretended
to
be
confiscated
:
whereby
it
appeareth
that
he
and
his
adherents
are
sworne
enemies
vnto
your
Maiestie
:
whilest
he
doth
in
such
sort
execute
his
tiranny
,
murther
,
burning
,
and
with
such
force
and
seruitude
,
doth
agréeue
vs
your
subiects
,
whom
he
himselfe
doth
alleage
to
haue
bene
most
faithfull
vnto
your
maiestie
.
So
as
through
necessitie
we
haue
ben
compelled
to
enter
into
armes
to
resist
his
force
and
tiranny
:
which
his
seruants
could
not
denie
,
who
diuers
times
haue
sayd
that
they
would
so
long
vexe
and
trouble
this
countrie
and
inhabitants
therof
,
that
in
the
end
they
should
be
forced
to
rebell
,
and
so
haue
occasion
to
bring
it
vnder
subiection
,
&
spoyle
the
same
of
all
their
substance
:
which
is
to
be
approued
by
some
letters
,
wherby
was
written
,
that
this
it
was
for
which
they
longed
.
It
is
very
trew
most
soueraigne
King
,
that
the
Duke
doth
heare
alleage
,
as
that
your
subiects
would
neuer
had
rebelled
,
but
vpon
suggestion
of
certaine
euill
disposed
,
which
euill
disposed
are
none
other
then
the
Duke
himself
,
with
his
bloudy
counsel
,
and
sanguine
adherents
,
which
of
meare
set
,
euill
will
,
and
vnsatiable
auarice
,
haue
sucked
the
sweate
&
bloud
of
your
subiects
,
&
of
long
time
so
earnestly
persecuted
,
and
gréeued
to
the
vttermost
,
that
they
for
defence
of
themselues
,
their
wiues
,
children
,
and
all
that
which
in
this
world
they
do
estéeme
of
,
haue
bene
forced
to
take
armes
in
hand
:
Therfore
where
as
he
presumeth
that
he
hath
so
louingly
dealt
with
other
townes
,
take
example
by
Tourn●y
,
Valencien
,
Lysle
,
Jpre
,
Maestricht
,
Deuenter
,
and
likewise
by
Machlin
,
Oudenard
,
Dermonde
,
and
Naerden
,
where
they
haue
by
murthering
,
robbing
,
hanging
,
rauishing
of
women
,
and
with
diuers
outrages
persecuted
the
poore
commons
.
Besides
this
hath
there
bene
murthered
at
Bruxels
at
sundry
times
aboue
CC.
and
xxx
.
Burgeses
,
and
that
long
before
the
beginning
of
these
warres
,
as
also
in
a
commotion
at
Gaunt
,
which
happened
amongst
the
Spaniards
,
where
of
the
commons
haue
bene
slaine
LX.
or
LXX
.
besides
an
infinite
number
of
men
and
women
▪
which
at
sundrie
times
haue
bene
murthered
,
which
we
leaue
to
enlarge
here
séeing
those
their
procéedinges
are
accompted
mercifull
dealings
besides
other
most
wicked
insolences
vsed
in
the
said
townes
.
And
therefore
hée
néedeth
not
to
threaten
vs
,
that
if
wée
do
not
accept
his
pardon
,
that
no
rigour
which
may
be
deuised
,
shal
be
left
vnexercised
towardes
our
persones
,
by
desolation
,
honger
and
sword
,
in
such
sorte
,
as
no
remembrance
shal
be
left
of
them
present
.
For
wée
are
certaine
,
that
here
about
hée
hath
sought
as
much
as
is
to
him
possible
:
and
would
vndoubtedly
haue
vsed
further
crueltie
(
whereof
hée
boasteth
so
much
)
if
the
feare
which
hée
hath
,
that
the
Countries
would
not
any
longer
abyde
his
crueltie
,
had
not
letted
him
.
Hée
doth
not
so
much
estéeme
the
seruice
of
your
Maiestie
,
nor
regardeth
your
heritage
&
countries
,
as
that
hée
would
abstayn
from
ruining
and
destroying
the
same
:
yea
vtterlye
to
roote
out
the
reliques
and
memories
thereof
,
so
farre
as
it
were
to
him
possible
,
as
the
burning
&
desolating
which
hée
before
these
warres
,
hath
vsed
,
doe
sufficiently
beare
witnesse
.
But
wée
truste
that
the
almighty
God
will
neuer
suffer
that
your
Maiestie
should
permit
your
Countries
altogither
to
fall
into
the
force
of
suche
a
Tyrant
and
destroyer
.
For
,
whereas
hée
here
alleadgeth
that
we
haue
put
on
armes
agaynst
your
Maiestie
:
that
wée
vtterly
denie
.
For
wée
proteste
before
your
Maiestie
,
yea
before
God
&
hys
Angells
,
that
our
meaning
or
pretence
was
neuer
such
.
For
wée
wil
aduentur
our selues
and
all
that
wée
haue
in
this
world
,
as
likewyse
we
haue
don
towards
your
Maiesties
predecessours
,
with
lyfe
and
goods
to
stande
to
the
defence
of
your
maiestie
against
al
your
enemies
and
ill
willers
.
But
this
wée
will
acknowledge
before
the
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
complices
,
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
,
them
to
yéeld
to
the
force
of
this
Tyrant
.
For
wée
are
well
assured
,
that
at
the
hands
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
obedience
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
rather
that
wée
doe
excell
in
faythefull
seruice
,
all
our
predecessours
,
which
hereby
wée
do
promise
and
sweare
to
your
maistie
,
beséeching
euen
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
.