¶
A
Iustification
of
the
Prince
of
Orendge
,
against
his
sclaunderers
.
SUch
as
haue
experience
of
the
affayres
of
states
and
common
weales
,
are
wel
able
to
discerne
them
that
seeke
to
trouble
the
trauquilitie
and
quiet
of
the
publike
weale
,
through
ambition
and
desire
of
priuate
commoditie
,
and
doo
take
all
maner
of
straunge
and
vnaccustomed
kinde
of
dealyngs
,
which
men
of
power
,
credite
,
and
authoritie
doo
vse
,
to
bee
sure
and
infallible
tokens
of
lyke
driftes
.
And
therefore
to
shewe
who
haue
bin
the
chiefe
ringleaders
and
authours
of
the
troubles
that
haue
happened
in
the
low
Countrey
:
the
onely
thyng
to
be
considered
,
is
,
who
they
were
that
had
cause
to
desire
innouation
in
that
Countrey
,
for
any
commoditie
or
profit
which
they
looked
for
,
and
were
the
first
beginners
and
putters
therof
in
execution
.
For
the
doing
wherof
,
in
my
opinion
it
is
necessarye
to
set
downe
the
state
of
the
sayd
low
Countrey
,
in
such
wise
as
it
was
before
the
late
troubles
,
and
after
the
warres
,
whiche
as
well
the
late
right
high
and
cenoumed
Emperour
Charles
,
as
the
kyng
of
Spaine
,
Princes
of
the
same
lowe
Countrey
,
and
soueraigne
Lordes
of
the
subiectes
there
,
maynteyned
in
maner
continually
by
the
space
of
ten
yeares
together
,
against
the
French
king
.
Which
state
was
such
,
that
although
in
the
meane
season
the
people
were
in
some
vnquietnesse
,
by
reason
of
the
Inquisition
and
Iniunctions
that
were
obserued
in
diuers
Prouinces
in
the
case
of
Religion
,
whiche
vnquietnesse
augmented
dayly
more
and
more
through
the
increase
of
the
Religion
,
and
through
the
rigour
of
the
Iniunctions
[
a
](A15442-e270-b)
a
It
appeareth
by
the
Iniunctions
put
forth
in
the
yeares
,
1521.
1526.
1529.
1531.
40.
44.
46.
50.
56.
and
others
.
(
which
grew
so
extreme
,
and
so
farre
out
of
all
square
,
as
it
was
a
woonder
that
they
were
suffered
and
borne
withal
so
long
tyme
,
and
so
patiently
in
so
freee
a
Countrey
,
)
as
shal
be
declared
hereafter
:
yet
notwithstanding
it
was
euidently
seene
,
that
in
all
other
respectes
the
subiectes
were
ready
,
not
onely
to
yeelde
al
due
obedience
,
but
also
to
spend
their
bodyes
and
goodes
for
his
maiesties
sake
.
For
the
Nobilitie
behaued
them selues
with
incredible
courage
and
forewardnesse
in
the
sayd
warres
,
and
the
States
of
the
Countrey
dyd
freely
and
of
their
own
accord
geue
an
incredible
masse
of
money
towards
the
charges
thereof
,
amountinge
fully
to
the
summe
of
fourty
millions
of
Florens
:
&
that
so
wyllyngly
,
as
there
was
neuer
any
signe
of
ini●…ikyng
perceyued
for
the
matter
:
by
reason
wherof
it
might
wel
haue
bene
thought
,
that
the
Countrey
was
so
affectioned
towardes
his
maiestie
,
as
they
would
not
haue
spared
any
thyng
for
the
mayntenaunce
of
his
state
and
honour
against
his
enemyes
.
And
therefore
his
maiestie
might
easily
thereby
assure
hym selfe
thereof
against
all
forreyne
powers
.
And
for
as
muche
as
it
is
a
naturall
thyng
,
that
all
great
seruices
and
well
dooinges
shoulde
ingender
truste
:
it
could
not
be
,
but
that
the
said
countrey
,
(
namely
the
Noble
men
in
consideration
that
by
their
peril
,
bloudshed
,
&
prowesse
his
maiestie
had
atchieued
so
many
honourable
victories
,
and
the
commons
,
for
that
he
had
dispatched
so
long
and
tedious
a
warre
with
so
great
honour
,
by
their
succour
,
ayde
,
and
a●…istaunce
,
)
must
needes
be
in
great
hope
that
his
maiestie
would
haue
regard
of
their
so
great
duetifulnesse
and
notable
seruice
,
when
so
euer
occasion
were
offered
.
By
meanes
whereof
a
man
might
also
haue
openly
warranted
the
Countrey
from
al
inward
troubles
and
commotions
.
For
when
the
subiecte
can
looke
for
nothyng
but
well
at
his
Princes
hand
,
he
continueth
the
more
wyllyngly
and
earnestly
in
his
obedience
.
So
that
consideryng
how
the
state
of
the
Countrey
florished
by
the
intercourse
of
al
kindes
of
trafique
and
marchaundise
,
and
of
all
other
thyngs
dependyng
therupon
:
although
it
were
sore
nipped
by
the
former
warres
,
and
ouercharged
,
&
in
maner
oppressed
with
tallages
,
impostes
,
and
exactions
layde
vpon
them
by
reason
of
the
said
summes
of
money
,
which
they
had
graunted
to
be
leuyed
for
the
charge
of
the
sayd
warres
:
yet
is
it
most
apparant
,
that
beyng
sure
from
enemies
with
out
,
and
vnited
with
their
Prince
within
,
and
mainteined
with
priuiledges
&
ordinaunces
accordyng
to
the
tyme
,
it
would
not
onely
haue
bin
refreshed
&
set
cleare
,
&
discharged
of
all
dettes
,
but
also
haue
atteined
to
that
top
of
all
worldly
felicitie
within
few
yeares
.
By
meanes
wherof
his
Maiestie
commyng
to
bee
renowmed
and
feared
of
straungers
:
and
to
be
reuerenced
&
loued
of
his
subiectes
,
might
haue
bin
taken
for
the
greatest
kyng
&
happiest
Prince
of
his
time
.
In
somuch
as
it
must
nedes
be
confessed
,
that
they
whiche
haue
bin
the
hinderers
of
this
prosperitie
&
happy
state
,
by
breakyng
the
sayd
vnion
,
&
by
turnyng
away
the
sayd
affection
,
haue
committed
so
great
an
offence
to
the
domage
of
his
Maiestie
and
of
the
common
weale
,
that
they
deserue
to
be
punished
and
chastised
to
the
example
of
others
.
And
I
beleue
,
that
all
such
as
see
the
countrey
at
this
present
,
how
it
is
brought
from
so
apparaunt
felicitie
to
extreme
wretchednesse
,
bondage
,
and
miserie
,
wil●…e
of
myne
opinion
,
and
iudge
as
I
do
.
And
we
William
of
Nassaw
Prince
of
Orendge
beyng
taken
for
the
[
b
](A15442-e350-b)
b
It
appeareth
by
the
writ
of
Sūmones
dated
the
xix
.
of
Ianuary
and
by
the
Proclamation
the
24.
of
the
same
moneth
inserted
in
〈◊〉
end
hereof
.
author
of
this
alteration
,
by
the
Attourney
generall
,
accordyng
to
the
letters
patentes
of
summons
&
citation
,
refuse
not
the
sayd
punishment
,
in
case
that
the
suggestion
of
the
said
Attourney
be
true
.
Who
to
pretend
some
cause
and
occasion
that
might
haue
prouoked
vs
thereto
,
and
hauyng
not
any
likelyhode
that
wee
would
enterprise
it
without
cause
:
alledgeth
that
our
ambition
and
vnordinate
desire
of
authoritie
was
the
cause
of
it
.
Whereupon
it
followeth
that
the
finall
cause
of
our
doings
and
attemptes
should
be
honour
,
desire
of
dealynges
and
extraordinarie
authoritie
.
But
to
bereue
the
Attourney
of
that
ground
,
wherupon
he
pretendeth
to
build
his
accusation
:
it
might
suffise
for
such
as
are
acquaynted
with
our
person
,
to
alledge
myne
owne
naturall
disposition
,
whiche
is
nothyng
inclined
to
such
desires
:
and
for
other
men
,
to
alledge
the
portion
of
worldly
substaunce
,
wherewith
God
of
his
grace
hath
indewed
vs
by
good
gouernment
&
order
,
where
through
we
might
rather
hope
for
aduauncement
and
authoritie
,
then
by
any
other
kynde
of
dealynges
.
For
all
men
must
needes
graunt
,
that
to
get
vs
home
to
our
owne
house
and
to
liue
priuately
,
was
a
much
better
meane
to
gather
treasure
and
riches
,
wherby
to
get
,
preserue
,
and
mainteine
authoritie
:
than
to
spend
wastefully
in
the
Court
in
hope
therof
by
vsurping
superioritie
vpon
vs
.
For
they
that
haue
any
vnderstandyng
at
all
of
our
dealynges
,
do
know
very
well
that
I
neuer
passed
for
any
superioritie
.
And
in
asmuch
as
the
countrey
is
so
affectionate
to
his
maiestie
,
as
is
said
afore
,
there
is
nothing
more
vnlikly
than
to
charge
vs
with
intent
of
vsurpation
,
aboue
the
authoritie
of
hym
and
of
the
countrey
.
Specially
seyng
I
was
alwayes
of
opinion
,
that
his
Maiestie
should
rather
keepe
still
his
subiects
in
the
sayd
loue
&
good
wil
,
by
mitigating
of
his
Edictes
,
than
turne
them
away
from
it
,
by
proceedyng
with
newe
deuises
of
rigour
:
which
is
the
only
point
&
meane
wherby
it
might
haue
bene
pretended
,
that
we
would
haue
atteyned
to
the
foresaid
attempt
.
For
it
cannot
be
denied
,
but
that
loue
&
good
will
are
the
meanes
wherby
a
Prince
may
mainteine
his
authoritie
and
keepe
his
countrey
.
And
therfore
it
must
needes
be
confessed
,
that
in
being
of
that
opinion
,
we
sought
the
preseruation
of
his
Maiestie
,
and
not
the
vsurpyng
of
authoritie
ouer
h●…n
.
Now
then
whereas
others
were
of
opinion
that
it
was
more
expedient
that
his
state
should
be
mainteined
by
rigour
:
it
followeth
of
necessitie
that
I
was
of
contrary
opinion
vnto
them
,
onely
as
touchyng
the
meane
of
the
maynteinyng
therof
,
but
not
as
touchyng
the
maintenaunce
and
preseruation
it selfe
,
whiche
thing
experience
sheweth
to
be
vnpossible
to
be
done
by
rigour
,
so
long
as
the
foresaid
countreys
continue
in
this
apparaunt
prosperitie
,
wherein
my
desire
was
that
they
should
haue
bene
mainteined
,
vnder
his
Maiesties
iurisdiction
:
whiche
thyng
was
(
next
Gods
seruice
)
the
onely
cause
that
I
allowed
not
the
rigour
of
the
foresayd
Inquisition
&
Ed●…tes
.
Wherof
all
our
other
doynges
also
will
beare
record
,
in
that
they
be
alienated
or
rather
cleane
contrary
to
all
ambition
.
For
euen
before
that
time
,
I
had
giuen
ouer
my
roome
which
I
had
in
the
Counsell
of
Estate
,
&
the
office
of
Lord
Treasurer
[
c
](A15442-e410-b)
c
It
appeareth
by
the
commissions
dispatched
therupon
and
sent
backe
agayne
.
An.
1558.
apparant
places
to
win
the
attendance
&
sute
of
all
the
states
,
yea
&
to
bryng
as
it
were
the
ouerrulyng
of
all
affaires
to
my
hands
,
if
I
had
listed
,
&
whereof
other
men
had
so
good
skill
to
make
their
owne
gayne
.
But
God
be
thanked
,
I
was
so
farre
of
from
such
meanyng
,
that
when
I
saw
I
could
not
do
his
Maiestie
good
seruice
in
those
offices
as
I
would
●…aine
haue
done
,
by
reason
of
the
practises
of
other
men
that
letted
me
:
I
surrendered
them
both
into
his
handes
.
And
yet
notwithstandyng
,
like
as
his
Maiestie
after
our
sayd
demeanour
,
and
vpon
the
surrender
of
our
commissions
,
left
not
to
call
vs
often
tymes
to
counsell
:
so
we
on
our
part
haue
discharged
our selues
as
much
as
is
possible
,
in
counsellyng
him
what
we
thought
best
for
his
seruice
,
and
for
the
benefite
of
the
countrey
.
And
it
was
a
great
hart-breaking
to
vs
,
to
see
that
a
two
or
three
persons
should
so
ouerthrow
his
Maiesties
good
meanyng
.
Neuerthelesse
whereas
his
Maiesty
hauing
knowen
the
sinceritie
of
my
dealyngs
,
and
my
forewardnesse
in
his
seruice
of
all
that
tyme
,
and
beyng
then
in
Zeland
on
his
way
towardes
Spayne
,
●…treated
me
very
earnestly
to
take
vpon
me
agayne
the
state
of
a
Counseller
:
I
after
much
excusing
of
my selfe
,
obeyed
him
.
Howbeit
when
I
saw
afterward
,
that
thyngs
kept
on
their
wonted
trade
,
and
went
farre
otherwise
than
his
Maiestie
had
put
me
in
hope
of
:
I
sewed
to
be
put
of
againe
about
a
ij
.
yeares
after
.
[
d
](A15442-e430-b)
d
It
appeareth
by
letters
sent
to
the
king
the
23.
of
Iuly
.
1561.
And
for
asmuch
as
I
saw
them
indeuer
by
all
meanes
to
bryng
the
countrey
to
bondage
,
(
which
some
men
terme
full
obedience
)
as
shal
be
shewed
hereafter
:
bycause
I
would
haue
no
occasion
to
deale
with
that
poynt
,
which
seemed
to
tend
wholly
to
the
hinderaunce
of
his
Maiestie
and
of
the
common
weale
:
I
made
the
more
earnest
sute
and
intreataunce
to
be
discharged
of
my
gouernement
,
that
I
might
withdraw
my selfe
,
and
intend
wholly
to
myne
owne
priuate
affaires
,
and
not
bee
blamed
for
the
inconneniences
that
were
like
to
ensue
therof
.
To
the
which
end
[
e
](A15442-e440-b)
e
It
appeareth
by
letters
sent
to
the
king
the
11.
of
March
1562.
&
the
29.
of
Iuly
.
1563.
I
made
diuers
sutes
,
as
wel
to
his
Maiestie
,
as
also
to
the
Regent
,
yea
euen
more
then
once
after
the
putting
vp
of
the
petition
of
the
Confederates
,
which
is
so
greatly
[
f
](A15442-e450-b)
f
It
appeareth
by
letters
sent
to
the
king
the
20.
of
April
,
&
the.
27.
of
May
.
1566.
defamed
by
our
aduersaries
.
And
surely
if
I
had
bene
any
thyng
suspected
of
ambition
,
it
is
not
likely
that
his
Maiestie
would
haue
refused
to
remoue
me
:
at
lest
wise
he
would
not
so
often
ha●…e
expresly
commaunded
and
instantly
requested
me
,
to
be
contented
to
[
g
](A15442-e470-b)
g
It
appeareth
by
the
kings
letters
dated
the
2●…
.
of
Sept.
〈◊〉
.
&
the
6.
of
I●…ne
.
〈◊〉
.
&
the
31.
of
Iuly
.
1566.
continue
in
office
still
.
For
it
is
a
playne
case
,
that
such
as
are
douted
to
be
ambitious
,
ought
to
be
remoued
from
all
authoritie
and
gouernement
.
And
therfore
his
maiesties
causing
of
me
to
continue
in
the
said
rowmes
&
offices
,
is
a
plaine
proofe
directly
against
the
allegation
of
the
foresayd
Attorney
general
,
that
neither
before
nor
after
his
maiesties
departing
from
these
low
Countreys
,
I
was
neuer
suspected
of
any
ambitious
desire
of
vsurpyng
authoritie
ouer
him
or
his
countreys
.
Nay
rather
it
appeareth
sufficiently
therby
,
that
I
desired
nothyng
so
much
,
as
to
be
discharged
of
al
administration
and
authoritie
.
And
if
a
man
consider
how
that
after
Ferdinando
Gonzaga
Gouernour
of
Millaine
,
and
with
Reinart
a
Counsaylour
here
:
insomuch
that
while
the
Cardinal
had
the
orderyng
of
the
affayres
of
Italie
,
the
sayd
Lord
Ferdinando
was
fayne
to
geue
ouer
his
gouernment
there
,
and
euen
vnto
his
dying
day
,
to
folowe
the
suite
of
a
certayne
criminal
action
,
commenced
agaynst
hym
by
the
Cardinals
meanes
,
thereby
to
get
the
Spaniardes
the
ful
superioritie
of
that
countrey
,
like
as
they
had
of
al
other
the
kings
dominions
in
Italie
:
And
the
sayd
Reynart
is
constreyned
to
leaue
his
house
,
wyfe
,
chyldren
,
&
goodes
here
in
the
low
countrey
,
&
to
get
hym
into
Spaine
,
where
he
is
like
to
ende
his
dayes
as
an
exiled
and
banished
man
:
)
he
shall
not
find
it
any
thing
likely
,
that
if
I
had
gone
aboute
to
vsurpe
authoritie
aboue
the
king
by
my
gouernment
,
(
which
thing
I
coulde
not
haue
done
without
diminishyng
of
the
Cardinals
authoritie
)
I
should
haue
bin
helde
styll
in
the
sayde
offices
:
but
rather
contrarywise
after
the
examples
afore
mentioned
,
I
shoulde
haue
bin
driuen
to
leaue
them
vnrequested
,
or
at
leastwise
I
should
haue
had
leaue
to
depart
from
them
vpon
my
first
suit
,
and
much
rather
vpon
myne
often
renuyng
of
my
sutes
afterward
.
But
the
Cardinal
knowing
my
nature
to
be
vtterly
voyde
of
al
ambition
,
and
that
in
very
deede
I
cou●…ted
not
to
haue
any
dealinges
at
al
,
and
much
lesse
any
great
and
extraordinary
dealings
,
whereby
I
might
haue
seemed
to
ouermatch
hym
in
authoritie
:
was
wel
willing
to
seeke
meanes
to
keepe
me
styll
in
office
,
therby
to
bleare
the
eyes
of
the
people
,
of
whom
he
knewe
hym selfe
to
be
sore
hated
,
&
by
ours
and
other
mens
meanes
to
make
his
owne
doynges
to
seeme
better
then
they
were
,
after
the
example
of
Dennis
the
Tyrant
of
S●…ilie
,
who
intertayned
such
men
of
his
counsaile
,
as
the
people
had
good
opinion
of
,
not
to
the
intent
to
vse
their
aduice
,
(
as
he
bare
them
in
hand
)
but
only
to
make
a
countenance
that
he
vsed
it
.
And
after
the
departure
of
the
sayde
Cardinall
,
when
occasion
was
offered
me
to
haue
bewrayed
myne
am●…ion
,
if
any
had
bin
in
me
:
it
was
neuer
sen●…
that
I
tooke
any
thing
at
all
vpon
me
aboue
others
,
were
it
neuer
so
litle
:
but
that
I
yeelded
the
Duches
of
Parma
,
them
Gouernesse
,
the
authoritie
that
belonged
vnto
her
,
and
whiche
the
sayde
Cardinall
had
vsurped
from
her
,
making
her
(
as
he
had
done
the
rest
of
the
Co●…sayle
)
but
as
a
cloke
and
shadow
to
shroude
his
owne
doings
:
insomuch
that
the
Duchesse
dyd
afterward
openly
declare
and
confesse
,
that
shee
vnderstood
more
of
the
affayres
of
the
Countrey
,
within
a
fewe
monethes
after
the
Cardinals
goyng
away
,
than
shee
had
done
of
all
the
tyme
that
he
was
about
her
.
And
when
as
afterwarde
at
the
firste
troubles
shee
was
mynded
to
haue
forsaken
the
towne
of
Brusselles
,
and
to
haue
withdrawen
her selfe
to
Mons
,
leauyng
all
thyngs
to
their
own
sway
,
wherby
shee
should
haue
ministred
occasion
to
such
as
had
lysted
,
to
incroche
vpon
her
authoritie
:
We
with
others
made
greate
suite
and
supplication
vnto
her
,
requestyng
and
beseechyng
her
,
that
shee
would
not
do
so
great
wrong
to
her selfe
,
nor
so
great
dishonour
and
●…yaltie
to
the
kings
maiestie
▪
Which
dealyng
of
ours
shewed
well
,
that
our
deedes
and
thoughtes
haue
bene
cleane
contrary
to
ambition
,
whereof
I
am
wrongfully
accused
at
this
present
.
And
surely
if
I
had
had
any
intent
to
vsurpe
the
authoritie
to
my selfe
alone
:
a
more
fit
and
conuenient
occasion
or
meane
could
not
haue
ben
offred
me
,
than
to
see
the
Regent
accomplishe
her
purpose
.
But
because
my
meanyng
was
cleane
contrary
,
I
hindred
it
to
the
vttermost
of
my
power
,
as
is
sayd
afore
.
Also
,
when
as
it
was
infourmed
his
maiestie
,
that
it
was
expedient
for
his
seruice
,
that
the
Counsayle
of
the
lowe
Countrey
shoulde
be
augmented
with
Lordes
and
men
of
learnyng
,
further
authorised
in
some
poyntes
,
for
preuentyng
of
all
confusion
and
disorder
,
that
they
might
be
the
better
able
to
go
thorow
with
a
number
of
matters
,
&
specially
also
to
the
ende
that
the
decrees
&
determinations
of
the
same
myght
be
obserued
&
take
effect
with
the
greater
authoritie
&
regard
,
&
al
occasion
be
taken
away
from
euery
man
to
vsurpe
any
authority
or
iurisdiction
,
or
to
seke
his
own
commoditie
,
to
the
losse
of
the
common
Weale
:
I
beyng
required
by
the
Duches
to
name
some
persons
meete
to
be
preferred
to
that
place
,
dyd
shyfte
my
handes
of
it
,
because
I
woulde
ge●…e
no
occasion
of
mistrust
,
that
I
woulde
put
in
any
man
that
were
at
my
de●…otion
,
or
with
whom
I
had
had
familiaritie
:
and
I
referred
the
whole
to
the
kynges
maiestie
,
without
makyng
of
any
countenance
of
myndyng
myne
owne
peculiar
profite
.
Whereupon
it
may
be
inferred
,
that
we
be
not
onely
wrongfully
,
but
also
without
all
likelyhood
of
truth
accused
of
practising
to
vsurpe
against
his
maiestie
,
through
ambition
and
desire
of
gouernment
and
superioritie
,
and
for
the
same
purpose
to
haue
troubled
the
peace
and
tranquilitie
of
that
countrey
,
to
the
whiche
we
be
in
maner
as
muche
beholden
,
as
to
our
owne
natiue
soyle
:
yea
,
and
that
without
hauyng
any
regard
to
our
owne
losse
&
hynderance
,
which
we
should
needs
openly
incurre
by
reason
of
the
po●…ōs
that
we
haue
in
the
same
Countrey
,
if
it
should
be
in
any
trouble
,
insomuch
as
our
welfare
,
hynderance
,
or
damage
are
inseparable
from
that
Countrey
.
For
wheras
the
nature
of
ambitious
folkes
is
to
desire
to
raigne
aloue
,
with
foredetermination
to
exclude
al
others
:
I
contrarywise
haue
not
onely
geuen
●…y
consent
,
that
the
Counsaile
should
be
●…reased
,
&
the
authoritie
cōmunicate●…
to
many
:
but
also
haue
offered
to
depart
out
of
it
,
to
giue
roome
to
others
,
wher
of
the
Regent
&
they
that
are
of
the
said
Counsell
can
be
witnesses
.
Therefore
it
is
meete
to
seeke
more
apparaunt
causes
of
the
troubles
some
where
els
,
and
for
the
accomplishment
thereof
,
to
consider
,
that
the
sayd
countreys
were
very
ielous
for
the
preseruation
of
the●…
liberties
and
fraunchises
which
they
had
as
well
by
vertue
of
couenauntes
made
with
their
Princes
,
as
by
force
of
priuiledge
obteined
by
them
,
and
specially
of
the
Emperours
of
old
time
,
for
feare
least
they
might
be
depriued
of
them
by
bringyng
in
of
straungers
,
and
namely
of
the
Spanyardes
,
bicause
By
reason
whereof
all
innouations
became
so
much
the
more
suspicious
&
odious
,
the
rather
bycause
that
in
the
tyme
of
the
last
warres
,
the
extreme
rigour
of
the
Inquisition
and
Iniunctions
had
bin
meetly
wel
moderated
and
bridled
,
and
libertie
procured
by
the
brynging
in
of
the
Almayn
souldiers
(
wherwith
they
were
inforced
to
strengthen
them selues
)
to
make
Sermons
openly
among
them
as
well
in
Cities
as
in
Townes
,
and
secretly
also
among
others
in
many
●…o
places
,
besides
that
the
doctrine
whiche
is
contrary
●…o
the
doctrine
of
Rome
,
was
receiued
already
in
all
the
Countreys
thereaboutes
:
by
meanes
wherof
the
state
of
Religion
was
so
aduaunced
from
time
to
tyme
by
the
space
of
so
many
yeeres
togither
in
that
countrey
so
well
peopled
and
haunted
on
all
sides
,
that
in
the
end
men
abhorred
the
very
name
of
the
sayde
Inquisition
&
Iniunctions
,
Which
thing
only
did
breede
an
alteration
,
but
also
so
great
a
hartburnyng
ageynst
the
Inquisition
&
Iniunctions
in
diuers
respectes
,
that
in
many
places
the
officers
durst
not
proceede
any
more
to
the
execution
of
them
,
but
by
night
&
by
stelth
,
and
that
not
without
perill
and
daunger
of
truble
.
And
they
themselues
can
witnesse
,
whither
they
had
not
much
ado
oftentymes
to
saue
their
liues
from
the
rage
of
the
comons
,
moued
to
displeasure
at
the
pitifull
beholdyng
of
so
horrible
executions
.
Wherby
all
they
that
had
experience
in
ma●…ters
of
state
,
foresawe
that
that
only
point
woold
be
an
occasion
of
great
trubles
,
if
it
were
not
wysely
preuented
in
tyme
.
The
which
inconvenience
and
diuers
others
the
Lady
[
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The
Queene
of
Hungary
.
Mary
gouernesse
of
that
Countrey
feary●…g
euen
in
hir
tyme
,
went
in
propre
persone
to
Awspurg
in
the
yeere
.
1550
,
vnto
Charles
the
late
Emperour
of
most
happy
memory
,
to
asswage
&
mitigate
the
rigour
of
the
Iniunctions
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h
It
appeereth
by
the
Proclamation
set
forth
in
April
.
1550.
that
were
then
a
setting
forth
,
and
to
procure
the
holdyng
backe
of
the
Inquisition
from
the
Citie
of
Andwerp
and
the
Countrey
of
Brabant
,
&
from
other
places
that
had
not
yit
bin
subiect
to
it
:
Which
thyng
shee
obteined
at
his
maiesties
hand
.
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It
appee●…th
by
the
Iniunction
set
forth
in
Septem.
1550.
Neuerthelesse
the
fore said
Cardinall
wi●…
his
creatures
&
Inquisitors
,
ceassed
not
their
persecutions
and
practizes
,
whereat
the
people
dyd
greatly
murmur
and
grudge
.
Yea
and
they
practized
a
great
point
of
suttel●…ie
:
for
in
the
begynnyng
of
the
kings
Maiesties
reigne
which
was
the
yeere
1555.
they
got
out
letters
of
commission
in
his
name
to
assiste
the
Inquisitors
.
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It
appeereth
by
the
Commission
set
foorth
.
1555.
and
by
the
letters
of
reuocation
graunted
afterward
.
And
although
they
were
reuoked
incontinently
after
,
as
soone
as
his
Maiestie
was
infor●…ed
of
the
thynges
that
were
a●…edged
ageinst
the
Inquisition
:
yit
did
it
cause
a
great
hartburning
among
the
people
when
they
saw
their
maner
of
dealyng
.
And
therefore
at
his
Maiesties
departing
,
they
had
their
eye
vpon
him
that
should
be
appointed
generall
gouernour
of
the
Countrey
:
and
that
so
much
the
more
,
bycause
the
states
in
general
had
much
〈◊〉
at
that
time
●…o
obteine
at
his
Maiesties
had
,
that
the
Spanish
souldiers
wherwith
the
Cardinal
minded
to
fortifie
himselfe
,
should
be
withdrawen
out
of
the
Countrey
.
Which
thyng
the
Cardinall
also
(
then
Byshop
of
Arras
)
foreseeing
at
length
,
notwithstanding
that
he
intended
in
effect
to
haue
the
gouernment
of
the
countrey
alone
.
Yit
did
so
much
that
the
title
and
name
of
Regent
or
Gouernesse
was
giuen
to
the
Duchesse
of
Parma
,
(
who
at
that
tyme
had
no
●…perience
of
the
affaires
and
dispositions
of
the
low
countreys
,
〈◊〉
shee
had
continewed
alwayes
in
Italy
,
and
therfore
should
be
fayne
to
referre
hirselfe
to
that
which
he
should
perswade
her
)
:
and
to
countenance
his
doyngs
the
better
,
he
had
caused
the
kyng
before
his
departure
,
to
ordeine
a
counsell
of
estate
,
wherin
certein
of
the
chief
Knightes
of
the
ordre
were
appointed
deputies
,
and
among
the
rest
we
also
,
notwithstandyng
our
refuzall
,
as
is
sayd
afore
.
For
the
Cardinall
perceiuyng
himselfe
to
be
counted
an
enemy
to
all
liberties
fraunchizes
and
priuiledges
that
might
hinder
his
procedings
,
&
to
be
the
chief
Author
,
Ringleader
and
furtherer
of
the
Inquisition
and
of
the
execution
of
the
Co●…missions
:
knew
very
well
that
the
people
of
those
Countreys
woold
not
haue
suffered
his
Go●…ernement
without
settyng
of
themselues
ageynst
it
euen
at
the
first
.
Now
then
whereas
the
rest
&
tranquillitie
of
the
Countrey
was
vphild
vnder
this
shadow
countenance
&
couert
,
that
the
affaires
were
managed
by
the
authoritie
of
the
sayd
Regent
,
and
by
the
aduice
of
the
said
Counsel
of
estate
:
this
vizor
was
anon
after
plucked
of
&
layd
bare
by
the
Cardinals
owne
ambition
and
vnaduized
dealyng
:
For
within
a
while
after
the
kyngs
departure
,
he
began
to
deale
with
all
matters
of
i●…portaunce
alone
by
himselfe
,
or
with
some
one
or
two
that
hung
vpon
his
sleeue
,
without
makyng
the
Regent
priuie
to
them
as
he
ought
to
haue
done
,
&
without
communicatyng
or
propoundyng
of
them
to
the
Counsell
of
estate
:
saying
openly
to
the
deputies
of
the
Prouinces
and
Cities
,
that
it
behoued
them
to
repayre
to
him
and
to
none
other
,
if
they
woold
come
to
a
good
end
and
haue
redy
dispatch
of
their
matters
:
and
yit
neuerthelesse
bearyng
the
Lordes
of
the
Counsell
in
hand
,
that
they
should
answer
all
alike
for
the
inconueniences
if
any
happened
:
Which
thing
seemed
very
straunge
and
vnreasonable
to
some
of
the
Counsell
,
who
also
aduertized
the
kyng
thereof
by
their
letters
accordyng
as
he
had
left
order
that
they
should
do
in
such
caces
.
And
they
certified
his
mai●…stie
therwithall
,
howe
that
of
a
Bishop
he
was
become
a
Cardinall
,
and
one
Viglius
a
Pries●…
,
one
of
the
chiefe
about
hym
was
made
President
,
and
the
report
went
,
that
there
should
be
new
Bishoprikes
and
incorporations
of
Abbies
and
Prelacies
,
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It
appeereth
by
the
Bulles
of
Paule
the
4.
&
P●…s
the
fourth
.
and
an
executyng
of
the
determinations
of
the
Councell
of
Trent
,
(
thinges
agreed
vpon
by
his
Mai●…stie
before
his
departure
by
the
connsayle
of
the
two
aforesayd
,
and
of
three
or
foure
others
that
went
about
to
satisfie
their
owne
ambition
and
〈◊〉
therby
)
wherethrough
the
people
was
sore
vexed
and
disqu●…ted
,
insomuch
as
there
was
no
member
nor
degree
of
them
,
which
fealt
not
it selfe
greatly
touched
with
it
.
For
the
Lords
and
Noble
men
were
of
And
although
it
appeare
in
histories
that
alterations
,
troubles
,
and
rebellio●…s
haue
happened
vpon
lesse
occasions
:
yet
notwithstandynge
,
that
Countrey
was
so
intirely
affectioned
towardes
their
soueraigne
Lord
&
prince
,
as
those
causes
had
not
yet
taken
their
ordinary
and
accustomed
effectes
,
because
it
was
hoped
,
that
the
States
of
the
Countrey
beyng
commended
to
his
Maiestie
by
their
〈◊〉
and
seruice
done
in
the
former
warres
,
myght
turne
his
mynd
,
so
as
he
would
rather
apply
his
determinations
to
the
tyme
,
and
stop
all
new
deuices
,
yea
,
and
the
proceedynges
of
the
Bishops
,
and
the
Inquisition
,
and
the
rigorous
Iniunctions
at
the
request
of
so
loyall
and
faythfull
a
people
,
accordyng
to
their
treaties
and
priuiledges
:
than
to
further
so
vnmeasurable
alterations
,
at
the
pleasure
of
a
straunger
,
and
of
certayne
vnknownen
persons
,
agaynst
the
oportunitie
of
the
time
,
the
priuiledges
of
the
Countreys
,
his
owne
promises
,
and
in
effect
euen
nature
it selfe
:
specially
consideryng
that
the
troubles
in
France
were
styrred
vp
at
the
same
tyme
,
by
occasion
of
Ordinaunces
and
Edictes
tendyng
to
like
effect
,
howebeit
,
that
the
Realme
of
Fraunce
is
not
so
frequented
,
and
on
al
partes
so
inclosed
and
inuironed
with
Countreys
that
folowe
the
Religion
,
contrary
to
the
Romishe
Religion
,
as
the
sayd
low
Countreys
are
.
And
their
hope
was
,
that
he
would
doo
it
so
muche
the
rather
,
because
the
sayd
innouations
began
also
to
be
misliked
of
strangers
,
namely
of
the
Archbishops
and
Bishops
of
the
Empire
,
whose
iurisdiction
within
their
own
dioces
,
was
impeached
by
the
foresayd
erection
of
the
newe
Bishoprikes
:
and
that
his
Maiestie
would
reape
none
other
profit
by
them
,
than
to
bestowe
his
authority
vpon
such
as
made
open
profession
,
that
they
woulde
neuer
thinke
them selues
beholden
to
hym
for
it
.
In
respect
of
which
reasons
and
other
like
,
which
euery
man
dyd
set
before
hym
,
accordyng
to
the
capacitie
of
his
wyt
,
and
specially
vpon
hope
,
which
the
said
Countreys
,
as
well
generally
as
particularly
conceyued
of
his
maiesties
goodnesse
,
for
as
muche
as
he
no
lesse
than
his
predecessors
,
had
alwayes
dealt
reasonably
with
them
by
Iustice
,
and
accordyng
to
the
customes
of
their
countreys
,
and
that
wherin
soeuer
they
found
them selues
greeued
,
they
had
bin
woont
to
open
it
vnto
his
maiestie
,
by
waye
of
request
and
complaynt
:
their
desire
was
to
take
the
same
way
nowe
also
,
and
thereby
to
aduertise
his
maiestie
of
the
sayd
innouations
and
inconuenicnces
that
wer
like
to
ensue
,
if
they
were
not
remedied
out
of
hand
:
in
consideration
wherof
,
as
well
on
the
behalf
of
the
Regent
,
as
of
the
Lordes
assembled
in
counsell
,
(
whom
the
Cardinall
bare
in
hand
(
as
is
said
afore
)
that
they
should
be
burthened
with
all
inconueniences
that
might
insue
,
as
wel
as
he
)
the
Baron
of
Mountignie
,
a
knyght
of
the
Order
was
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August
.
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sente
to
his
Maiestie
in
post
,
with
all
speede
that
might
be
,
with
charge
&
instructions
to
shew
the
state
&
necessitie
of
the
Countreys
,
&
their
generall
mislikyng
of
the
sayd
innouations
,
which
made
the
Noble
men
and
states
of
the
Countrey
to
surcease
all
further
and
particular
pursuite
of
the
matter
,
in
hope
that
his
Maiestie
would
vpon
such
declaration
,
take
order
for
some
amends
,
or
at
leastwise
for
some
mitigation
of
those
poyntes
,
wherewith
they
found
them selues
distressed
and
greeued
:
the
rather
,
in
as
muche
as
for
the
staying
of
the
incorporation
of
the
Prelacies
and
Abbeys
then
vacant
in
Brabant
,
the
Prelates
&
other
Noble
men
of
the
Countrey
,
(
like
as
they
of
Andwerp
also
had
done
)
had
sent
their
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February
.
1562.
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afore
to
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In
May
.
1562.
stop
the
Inquisition
,
and
the
bringyng
in
of
the
newe
Bishop
:
whiche
thing
helde
the
Countrey
for
a
tyme
in
suspence
without
any
commotion
or
trouble
,
vpon
hope
that
by
those
deputies
of
theirs
,
they
should
obteyne
some
such
good
redresse
and
composition
,
as
the
state
of
the
case
required
.
But
yet
notwithstandyng
the
state
Notwithstandyng
all
this
,
the
Cardinall
continued
his
bringyng
in
of
the
sayd
Bishops
,
&
his
inuestyng
of
them
,
incrochyng
to
hym selfe
the
Archbishoprike
of
Mechline
(
by
vertue
wherof
he
intended
to
syt
as
Metropolitane
and
Primate
of
those
Countreys
,
and
to
deuoure
the
Abbey
of
afflighem
,
which
is
the
richest
in
all
Braband
,
nexte
to
the
Abbey
of
Saint
Amand
,
which
he
had
seised
into
his
possession
already
)
and
partyng
the
residue
among
so
vnfit
and
vnmeete
persons
,
that
men
mocked
at
them
openly
.
And
although
those
inuestitures
were
made
in
some
Cities
without
any
open
withstandyng
,
yet
was
it
easie
to
be
perceyued
,
that
many
folke
misliked
of
it
,
and
some
also
did
set
themselues
euen
openly
against
it
,
namely
they
of
Andwerpe
,
of
Grooning
,
of
Leedward
,
of
Deuenter
,
and
of
Ruermond
.
And
it
was
easie
to
see
wherto
these
doyngs
tended
,
in
as
much
as
the
Cardinal
(
who
ouerruled
all
the
Counsaylers
,
yea
and
the
Regent
her selfe
,
and
had
so
absolute
power
and
authoritie
)
was
become
the
head
of
all
those
Bishops
,
who
by
reason
of
their
vnfitnes
and
lacke
of
experience
,
should
hang
all
vpon
hym
,
by
meanes
wherof
he
tooke
more
vpon
him
than
euer
any
prince
of
the
Countrey
had
done
.
And
to
mainteine
,
stablishe
,
increase
,
and
augmente
his
authoritie
by
forcible
meanes
,
he
had
set
forewarde
the
Inquisition
and
the
Iniunctions
aforesayde
.
And
to
pleasure
me
withal
,
he
had
at
his
commaundement
,
the
geuyng
,
distributyng
,
&
bestowing
of
all
the
kyngs
offices
,
Benefices
,
and
Fees
,
and
likewise
of
the
Regentes
,
also
ouer
and
besides
the
helpes
that
he
had
of
his
owne
and
of
his
sayd
Byshops
.
So
that
in
conclusion
he
had
opened
himselfe
the
right
way
to
get
&
mainteine
superioritie
ouer
the
kyng
&
his
Countreys
.
And
moreouer
,
to
be
aduertized
trewly
of
thynges
that
were
done
euery
where
,
and
to
hold
in
with
the
Kyngs
and
Princes
that
were
next
neighbours
:
hee
had
as
it
were
in
his
hand
&
at
his
becke
,
all
the
kynges
Ambassadours
,
Agentes
,
and
deputies
,
and
among
others
,
his
owne
brother
also
,
who
did
set
the
affaires
of
Fraunce
in
such
a
broyle
,
that
for
the
benefite
and
quietnes
of
the
same
realme
,
the
queene
there
did
make
very
earnest
request
to
the
kyngs
Maiestie
to
take
him
thence
.
Therfore
whosoeuer
looketh
well
to
theis
things
,
shall
eazly
be
able
to
iudge
who
it
was
that
tooke
vppon
him
authoritie
aboue
the
kynges
Maiestie
:
namely
whither
it
was
we
whiche
vsed
not
any
of
the
foresaid
meanes
,
(
but
vtterly
misliked
all
innouations
:
and
had
once
afore
refuzed
to
be
of
the
Counsell
and
giuen
ouer
the
office
of
thief
treazurer
,
desiryng
nothyng
so
much
as
to
haue
bin
spared
afterward
ageyne
from
Counsell
in
matters
of
estate
and
from
office
of
gouernment
,
and
specially
from
that
Counsell
)
:
or
the
Cardinall
whiche
bare
all
the
sway
,
&
by
his
innouations
&
extraordinary
dealynges
,
shewed
him selfe
to
haue
the
said
authoritie
,
with
intent
to
stablishe
and
mainteine
himselfe
in
the
same
by
their
meanes
,
yea
and
in
farre
greater
than
euer
any
Prince
of
the
Countrey
had
.
Surely
I
am
of
opinion
,
that
such
as
consider
well
the
thyngs
aforesayd
and
iudge
of
thein
without
affection
,
shall
finde
as
litle
reason
why
men
should
go
about
to
accuze
vs
in
this
behalfe
,
as
why
they
should
excuze
the
sayde
Cardinall
.
But
when
as
the
deputies
of
the
Prelates
had
by
meanes
of
rewardes
and
pensions
obteined
,
that
the
Incorporation
of
the
Abbyes
should
not
go
foreward
:
and
when
as
the
men
of
Andwerp
had
obteined
that
no
man
should
molest
them
with
the
Inquisition
,
&
that
they
should
bee
winked
at
concernyng
the
bryngyng
in
of
the
new
Byshop
:
for
a●…uch
as
the
sayd
Lord
of
Mountignie
was
returned
without
sufficient
resolution
for
the
remedying
of
other
inconueniences
,
so
as
there
was
smalf
hope
that
matters
should
bee
redressed
,
in
as
much
as
by
meanes
of
the
sayd
Pensions
the
doynges
of
the
Bishops
(
whose
only
labour
was
to
bryng
in
the
Inquisition
)
was
furthered
,
and
it
was
practized
to
disappoint
the
men
of
Andwerp
of
the
benefite
of
winkyng
at
them
,
&
to
bring
them
in
subiection
to
the
Cardinal
,
&
vnder
the
Archbyshopricke
of
Mechlyne
:
the
Regent
thought
it
good
by
the
aduice
of
hir
Counsell
,
to
informe
the
king
once
ageine
of
the
state
of
the
Countrey
,
and
specially
of
Ualencien
&
Turnay
,
where
it
seemed
vtterly
impossible
to
keepe
the
people
from
the
exercize
of
the
Religion
,
without
a
continuall
garrison
.
Wherupon
hir
hyghnesse
sent
a
Counseller
of
hirs
named
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yeere
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Armenteros
to
his
Maiestie
,
so
that
in
conclusion
it
was
fully
resolued
by
him
,
that
the
Cardinall
the
apparant
authour
of
all
the
alterations
and
discontentementes
,
should
get
him
out
of
the
Countrey
:
whiche
thyng
did
giue
the
people
some
contentation
and
hope
of
amendement
of
their
state
.
But
forasmuch
as
the
Cardinals
creatures
continewed
still
their
innouations
,
&
managed
all
affaires
in
his
absence
after
the
same
maner
that
he
him selfe
had
obserued
:
the
former
disorders
returned
by
and
by
ageyne
.
And
it
was
vnpossible
to
remedy
them
,
bycause
of
the
disagreement
that
was
betweene
the
three
cheef
Counsels
,
that
is
to
wit
,
the
Counsell
of
the
States
,
the
priuate
Counsell
,
and
the
Counsell
of
the
Erchequer
,
which
were
all
three
ouerruled
in
effect
by
the
Cardinall
and
his
creatures
,
but
yit
in
such
wise
as
they
coulde
neuer
come
to
agreement
among
themselues
.
Wherein
a
man
may
note
the
notable
leawdnesse
and
wylinesse
of
the
Cardinall
,
who
to
keepe
the
rest
of
the
sayd
Counsell
of
the
estates
from
doyng
such
seruis
to
the
kyng
as
they
woold
haue
doone
,
had
vtterly
excluded
them
from
all
entrance
&
intermedlyng
with
checkermatters
and
matters
of
Law
,
and
from
all
such
orders
as
were
taken
in
gouernement
or
otherwise
,
knowyng
well
that
without
the
intelligence
of
them
,
it
was
impossible
for
them
to
consult
&
determine
well
of
most
matters
of
importance
all
whiche
drift
tended
to
the
reteyning
and
stablishyng
of
his
owne
authoritie
.
And
yit
for
all
that
,
he
laboreth
to
accuze
vs
&
others
of
high
treazon
,
bycause
that
for
the
better
seruis
of
the
king
,
we
desired
to
haue
the
secretes
of
the
sayd
Courtes
communicated
to
the
Counsell
of
the
estates
,
as
a
needfull
thyng
for
the
discharge
of
our
dewtyes
,
whereas
in
the
meane
season
,
hee
himselfe
,
&
after
him
the
President
Uiglius
ouerruled
all
the
sayd
three
Counselles
,
as
though
that
of
right
all
authoritie
had
belonged
to
him
and
his
,
and
that
on
the
contrarye
part
it
had
bin
a
heynous
crime
and
offence
for
other
men
to
require
any
part
of
the
same
authoritie
to
be
conueyed
ouer
,
not
vnto
vs
which
do
offer
to
depart
from
the
same
Counsell
,
but
to
the
whole
cheef
counsell
togither
.
Such
is
the
sinceritie
wherby
they
proceede
at
this
present
in
the
low
countrey
,
for
the
preser●…atiō
of
the
kings
authoritie
as
they
beare
men
in
hand
.
For
asmuch
therefore
as
the
affaires
of
the
Countrey
were
so
disseuered
,
as
it
was
not
possible
for
the
Lordes
of
the
cheef
Counsell
(
whom
they
went
about
to
burthen
with
all
the
inconueniences
,
that
might
happen
)
to
prenent
&
redresse
the
same
incō●…niences
&
thereby
to
set
foreward
the
seruis
of
his
Maiestie
,
for
want
of
authoritie
&
conference
with
the
other
counsels
:
&
forasmuch
as
the
people
saw
that
the
new
Byshops
,
by
reason
of
their
vnfitnesse
&
their
disordered
life
&
behauiour
,
(
whiche
was
so
great
that
the
Regent
was
fayne
to
call
them
before
hir
and
to
rebuke
them
,
)
could
not
serue
to
do
any
good
to
the
Countrey
,
&
that
the
pride
,
the
threatnings
,
&
the
other
maner
of
dealynges
vsed
by
them
and
their
followers
,
bewrayed
that
it
was
decreed
at
[
q
](A15442-e1260-b)
q
It
appeereth
by
the
foresayd
Bulles
of
the
Popes
and
the
Decree
of
the
seuen
Cardinals
.
Rome
that
euery
Byshop
should
haue
ix
.
prebendes
affectioned
to
helpe
foreward
the
Inquisition
,
whereof
two
should
be
Inquisitors
themselues
,
by
reason
whereof
they
should
serue
to
none
other
purpoze
,
but
to
set
foreward
&
stablish
the
Inquisition
:
To
the
end
they
might
by
his
Maiesties
good
meanes
[
r
](A15442-e1320-b)
r
In
the
begynnyng
of
the
yeere
.
1565.
send
vnto
his
Maiestie
the
Prince
of
Gawre
Erle
of
Egmond
:
who
at
his
returne
gaue
great
hope
and
likelyhode
of
some
am●…ment
and
redresse
of
matters
,
as
in
respect
of
mitigatyng
the
Iniunctions
and
of
abolishyng
the
Inquisition
,
vpon
the
performaunce
or
not
performaunce
whereof
it
was
to
be
seene
openly
both
in
deede
and
by
experience
,
(
as
well
by
the
example
of
Fraunce
(
as
hath
bin
sayd
afore
)
as
otherwize
,
)
that
the
commotion
or
appeasement
of
the
people
depended
,
and
therefore
that
all
that
euer
insewed
afterward
was
to
be
imputed
vnto
them
,
and
not
to
any
ambition
of
ours
as
they
pretended
.
[
s
](A15442-e1350-b)
s
In
the
S●…mer
.
1565.
For
to
the
purpose
aboue
mentioned
there
mette
togither
iij.
Byshops
,
three
Diuines
,
three
professers
of
the
Ciuill
law
,
&
three
other
of
the
Canon
law
:
whose
aduice
beyng
taken
concernyng
the
foresayd
mitigation
,
was
sent
to
the
kynges
Maiestie
:
but
by
the
instigation
of
the
Cardinall
and
others
that
were
continewally
ticklyng
him
in
the
eare
,
he
had
no
regard
of
it
(
notwithstanding
that
it
was
still
ouerrigorous
,
)
nor
yet
to
the
former
informations
,
but
Hereof
were
diuers
Copies
and
extractes
sent
abroad
byandby
to
all
Cities
,
and
they
were
inioyned
and
charged
to
conforme
themselues
to
his
ma●…iesties
resolution
and
commaundement
,
which
was
the
second
and
cheef
cause
of
all
the
alterations
,
mischeeues
and
inconueniences
that
followed
afterward
,
the
very
fountaine
wherof
was
not
any
ambition
of
ours
,
but
the
ambition
of
the
Cardinall
&
the
distrust
that
he
had
caused
among
the
people
by
his
foresayd
innouations
,
as
appeereth
euidently
by
that
which
hath
bin
sayd
,
and
is
confirmed
by
the
[
v
](A15442-e1400-b)
v
It
appeareth
by
the
reports
and
requests
exhibited
in
Court.
complaintes
made
afterward
by
the
Cities
of
Graband
and
the
members
of
Fla●…nders
and
other
places
,
matched
with
the
confederacie
that
was
made
anon
after
betweene
certein
Lordes
and
Gentlemen
,
ageinst
the
Inquisition
and
the
rigour
of
the
foresayd
Iniunctions
.
Wherefore
it
hath
no
likelyhode
of
Spanishe
Inquisition
,
as
though
the
maner
and
forme
of
the
Inquisition
,
rather
than
the
effect
&
execution
of
it
should
cause
men
to
make
insurrection
.
Which
is
a
thyng
so
〈◊〉
the
more
ageynst
reason
,
for
asmuch
as
it
is
not
the
qualitie
of
death
that
putteth
men
in
feare
&
causeth
them
to
make
mutinies
,
insurrections
,
and
vprores
,
but
the
very
terrour
of
death
it self
:
specially
in
this
present
case
,
where
by
the
addyng
of
this
word
Spanish
,
nother
the
qualitie
nor
the
kinde
of
punishment
is
pu●…ishment
,
but
only
the
generalname
of
Inquisition
is
restrayned
to
the
particular
name
of
Spanish
:
which
is
no
sufficient
cause
to
make
men
to
ry●…e
and
to
rebell
.
Howbeit
,
that
to
speake
more
pe●…emptorily
,
I
say
playnly
,
it
lay
neither
in
me
nor
in
any
others
▪
to
make
men
beleue
that
his
Maiestie
intended
to
bring
in
the
Spanishe
Inquisition
,
for
as
much
as
there
had
neuer
bin
any
m●…tion
made
of
tha●…
Inquisition
befor●…
:
and
that
afterward
the
forme
of
the
●…quisition
that
was
to
be
set
foorth
,
was
she
wed
expressely
by
the
kyngs
〈◊〉
,
in
maner
hereafter
written
,
wherby
they
be
readily
conuinced
,
whiche
〈◊〉
that
the
people
wer
〈◊〉
vp
and
moued
to
〈◊〉
by
mean●…s
of
this
For
as
much
then
as
the
Inquisition
〈◊〉
and
declared
by
his
〈◊〉
sai●…e
letters
,
was
the
cause
of
the
po●…ples
displeasure
,
and
that
there
was
no
further
hope
of
remedy
to
be
looked
for
:
it
foloweth
,
that
al
the
thyngs
that
insued
afterward
,
are
to
be
wyted
vppon
it
,
&
not
vpon
any
other
thyng
,
and
consequently
that
it
is
not
true
,
that
I
by
my
like
inductions
&
perswasions
,
had
caused
many
of
his
maiesties
subiectes
to
ryse
and
to
rebel
agaynst
hym
,
or
that
I
had
so
seduced
,
corrupted
,
and
prouoked
a
great
part
of
the
Nobilitie
aforehande
,
that
they
made
leagues
,
conspiracies
,
&
coniurations
,
and
had
sworne
to
defend
and
fortifie
them selues
thereby
agaynst
his
Maiestie
and
his
ordinaunces
that
had
bin
kept
and
obserued
at
all
tymes
afore
,
and
that
to
the
same
end
there
had
bin
certayne
meetings
kept
in
my
houses
,
as
well
at
Breda
,
as
at
Brusselles
,
by
meanes
whereof
I
should
haue
bin
the
chiefe
head
,
author
,
furtherer
,
fauourer
,
and
barbro
●…gher
of
Rebels
,
Conspiters
,
Coniurators
,
priuie
practisers
,
and
troublers
of
the
cominon
weale
and
quietnesse
.
For
there
appeareth
not
any
rebellion
or
commotion
made
against
his
maiestie
,
whereof
we
should
be
bounde
to
answere
.
And
as
for
the
said
confederacy
,
it
came
not
by
our
occasion
,
but
by
reason
of
the
distresses
that
were
caused
by
the
sayd
Inquisition
and
Iniunctions
,
and
by
infrindgyng
the
promises
made
the
yeares
.
1550.
1555.
1562.
1565.
and
at
other
tymes
,
as
hath
bin
shewed
heretofore
:
and
therfore
the
troublyng
of
the
common
Weale
,
and
the
dist●…rbing
of
the
peace
of
the
Countrey
,
are
to
be
imputed
to
them selues
and
to
the
Cardinals
ambition
,
&
not
to
so
fonde
perswasions
&
impressions
,
as
the
terme
of
Spanish
Inquisition
,
&
such
like
.
For
no
lesse
fond
is
that
allegation
,
than
were
the
wordes
of
hym
,
[
*
](A15442-e1620-b)
*
Viglius
.
who
thought
to
staye
all
innouations
,
by
saying
that
the
kyng
meant
not
to
stablish
an
Inquisition
,
but
onely
a
visitation
:
as
who
should
say
,
men
respected
more
the
woord
than
the
deede
,
and
were
more
hasty
to
make
insurrection
for
the
termes
of
Inquisition
and
Spanish
,
than
for
the
rigor
and
crueltie
that
they
had
seene
and
wer
afraid
of
by
the
execution
of
the
Iniunctions
.
And
therfore
I
say
,
that
the
sayd
confederacie
and
complaints
,
and
al
the
●…est
of
the
thyngs
that
insued
,
dyd
but
onely
shewe
the
effecte
of
that
whiche
we
had
told
the
Lady
Regent
asorehand
,
in
open
counsel
,
that
we
feared
would
come
to
passe
:
that
is
to
wyt
,
that
his
maiesties
sayd
resolution
would
cause
some
great
alteration
,
specially
by
reason
of
the
hope
that
a
number
had
conceyued
vpon
the
returne
and
report
of
the
sayd
Lord
the
Countie
of
Egmond
.
[
x
](A15442-e1680-b)
x
It
appeareth
by
two
letters
sent
in
the
beginnyng
of
the
yeare
1566.
And
wheras
I
wrote
the
same
thyng
in
effect
to
her
highnes
afterward
:
she
confessed
to
vs
by
her
answer
,
that
she
perceyued
clearly
howe
the
sayd
resolution
was
the
cause
of
all
the
troubles
:
and
therfore
(
as
is
sayd
)
the
sayd
confederacie
being
made
without
my
knowledge
or
aduice
,
ought
not
to
be
imputed
therunto
.
For
when
I
was
aduertised
of
it
within
a
while
after
,
(
as
it
were
a
fifteene
dayes
or
theraboutes
)
before
the
confederats
were
mar●…es
,
I
protested
openly
and
●…atly
,
that
I
liked
not
of
it
,
ne
thought
it
to
be
the
right
meanes
to
maynteyne
the
quietnesse
and
tranquilitie
of
the
common
Weale
.
It
is
very
true
that
I
esteemed
it
not
as
a
rebellion
,
con●…piracie
,
or
coniuration
,
because
the
confederates
stood
st●…dfastly
vpon
this
poynt
,
that
they
meant
not
to
doo
or
attempt
any
thing
against
the
welfare
of
his
Maiestie
and
of
his
Countrey
,
[
y
](A15442-e1700-b)
y
It
appea●…eth
by
the
●…xpresse
●…ordes
of
●…he
confederacie
sig●…ed
with
●…heir
hands
.
wherein
they
were
of
the
same
opinion
that
we
be
,
confirmed
by
common
experience
,
whiche
was
,
that
the
Inquisition
and
rigour
of
the
Iniunctions
coulde
neuer
come
to
good
,
in
so
muche
that
by
the
examples
whiche
we
had
seene
afore
in
Almain
,
France
,
Ingland
,
and
Scotland
,
we
were
driuen
to
confesse
that
the
kynges
resolution
in
that
behalfe
,
could
not
but
bryng
great
waste
,
desolation
,
&
destruction
to
those
Countreys
,
without
any
furtheraunce
of
his
proceedings
:
wheras
on
the
contrary
part
it
was
to
be
seene
,
that
the
Countreys
which
haue
the
libertie
of
Religion
,
or
at
leastwise
of
conscience
,
and
where
the
Inquisition
and
the
rigor
of
the
Iniunctions
is
not
put
in
execution
,
continue
in
rest
and
quiet
:
which
is
an
euident
proofe
,
that
to
lyue
without
the
Inquisition
in
libertie
of
conscience
,
is
an
other
maner
of
thing
,
than
to
liue
loosely
,
lawlesly
,
and
without
order
,
as
some
haue
falsly
and
sclaunderously
reported
:
for
otherwise
the
princes
of
Germanie
,
which
set
as
much
store
by
the
rest
and
quietnesse
of
their
Countreys
,
as
the
kynges
maiestie
doth
,
would
in
no
wise
abyde
it
,
specially
if
they
mistrusted
that
any
disobedience
would
insue
of
it
.
And
was
so
much
the
more
confirmed
in
this
opinion
,
because
the
confederates
shewed
not
them selues
stubborne
,
ne
meant
to
obteyne
their
request
by
force
,
but
onely
sued
that
[
z
](A15442-e1770-b)
z
It
appeareth
by
the
request
of
the
confederates
and
the
answer
thereto
,
which
are
both
inserted
hereafter
.
his
maiestie
(
who
(
sayd
they
)
was
abused
by
certayne
persons
,
which
vnder
the
colour
and
pretence
of
Religion
,
went
about
to
satisfie
their
owne
ambition
&
couetousnesse
)
would
vouchsafe
to
take
intelligence
of
their
complaint
and
suit
,
and
thereupon
folow
the
aduice
of
his
counsell
,
offryng
them selues
to
be
ruled
and
lead
accordingly
as
the
same
being
duely
informed
,
should
decree
concernyng
the
matter
of
Religion
.
So
that
when
they
were
once
vp
in
this
rebellion
,
conspiracie
,
or
coniuration
,
he
ought
to
haue
inclined
to
their
petition
,
and
to
haue
regard
of
their
supplications
,
either
in
that
they
required
to
haue
their
Noble
men
heard
,
or
for
that
all
confederacies
▪
generally
without
exception
,
do
stande
in
their
own
conceyt
,
wherin
I
confesse
I
liked
none
of
both
his
maiesties
doings
.
For
in
my
iudgement
,
a
Prince
may
be
a●…sed
:
and
therfore
it
is
good
reason
that
the
subiect
,
vassall
,
or
what
soeuer
he
is
that
is
indomaged
,
shoulde
haue
leaue
to
vtter
his
griefe
.
And
Emperours
and
kinges
haue
bin
commended
in
that
they
haue
●…uffered
them selues
to
be
rebuked
by
prinate
persons
,
for
not
seemyng
to
geue
eare
to
their
requestes
and
complaints
,
as
he
was
which
suffered
one
to
say
to
hym
in
open
str●…ate
,
If
thou
lyst
not
to
heare
our
suites
,
lyst
not
to
be
our
Emperour
:
and
as
an
other
was
,
who
beyng
a
kyng
and
soueraigne
Lord
,
dyd
notwithstandyng
suffer
an
old
woman
to
appeale
from
hym
,
because
(
as
shee
sayd
)
he
gaue
no
●…are
to
her
matter
.
And
seeyng
that
in
these
low
Countreys
,
in
cases
of
importances
,
whereupon
both
honour
and
goodes
depend
,
whether
it
be
publikely
or
priuatly
,
men
haue
bin
wont
to
referre
them selues
to
the
states
,
who
haue
b●…
of
that
authoritie
,
that
in
all
tymes
,
yea
&
euen
in
the
tyme
of
Charles
late
the
Emperour
of
happy
memorie
,
they
haue
oftentymes
assembled
by
reason
of
occurrents
of
lyke
or
lesse
importance
,
yea
,
and
euen
in
the
case
of
Religion
,
and
an
Edict
by
their
aduice
,
in
the
yeare
.
1531.
whiche
was
then
published
,
as
appereth
by
the
style
and
processe
therof
:
let
vs
not
thinke
it
vnlawfull
for
vs
to
require
the
same
thyng
nowe
which
we
see
to
haue
bin
done
and
vsed
in
like
cases
heretofore
.
And
many
good
confederacies
and
holy
leagues
are
founde
to
haue
bin
made
heretofore
,
(
as
for
example
,
the
confederacies
of
the
Machabees
&
other
doinges
)
and
that
men
may
make
them
styll
to
the
honour
of
God
and
to
the
prosperitie
of
their
kynges
and
countreys
:
So
that
in
my
iudgement
,
there
can
no
rebellion
be
inferred
vppon
the
poyntes
aforesayd
.
For
as
touching
that
the
confederats
did
promise
and
sweare
to
mainteine
,
helpe
and
defend
one
an
other
agaynst
the
Inquisition
and
Iniunctions
:
seeyng
that
that
promise
might
haue
bin
made
to
cease
by
the
meanes
aforesayd
,
and
they
offered
in
effect
by
their
petition
to
goe
from
it
,
because
it
seemed
to
be
agaynst
the
kyngs
commoditie
,
&
to
obey
what
soeuer
should
be
ordeyned
by
the
aduice
of
the
States
:
it
seemeth
against
reason
,
that
whereas
hunters
and
others
that
deale
with
the
tamyng
of
vnreasonable
beastes
,
do
indeuour
to
put
away
their
fiercenesse
,
moodinesse
,
and
wyldnesse
,
by
diligence
,
company
,
and
cherishing
,
rather
than
by
cudgelling
,
whippyng
,
and
roughnesse
,
the
kyng
should
by
the
froward
instigations
of
the
Cardinall
and
his
hangers
on
,
vse
rigour
and
roughnesse
towardes
so
loyall
subiectes
and
faythfull
vassals
,
rather
than
meeldnesse
and
clemencie
,
to
keepe
them
at
his
accustomed
deuotion
by
surceassing
(
at
leastwise
for
a
tyme
)
the
execution
of
the
sayd
Inquisition
&
Iniunction
,
which
(
to
all
mens
seemyngs
)
could
not
be
set
foreward
nor
continewed
in
that
tyme
,
without
apparant
domage
,
hurt
,
&
preiudice
to
his
Maiestie
and
Countreys
,
specially
seyng
that
the
former
warres
had
already
as
good
as
suspended
and
asswaged
the
rigour
of
them
as
is
sayd
afore
,
whereby
it
was
come
to
some
discontinewation
,
and
the
variances
and
alterations
which
had
risen
vp
since
that
tyme
euery
where
,
seemed
not
to
suffer
that
it
shoulde
by
any
meanes
bee
renewed
and
set
vp
agayne
.
And
it
should
seeme
that
the
Regent
also
was
of
the
same
minde
:
who
before
the
commyng
of
the
confederates
,
sayd
that
she
had
considered
aforehand
of
the
mitigation
of
the
[
a
](A15442-e1840-b)
a
It
appeareth
by
the
purposed
conceit
of
a
new
Edict
.
Iniunctions
.
And
she
had
already
on
the
kings
behalfe
declared
the
Countrey
,
of
[
b
](A15442-e1860-b)
b
It
appeareth
by
the
agreement
made
the
24
of
March.
1566.
by
the
common
Register
of
1565.
called
the
Register
of
Braband
.
Braband
to
be
exempted
from
the
Inquisition
,
in
somuch
that
nother
at
the
first
nor
at
the
last
(
at
leastwise
vntill
the
tyme
of
my
departure
)
she
made
not
any
countenaunce
of
accountyng
the
sayd
confederacie
or
the
supplication
presented
vpon
the
same
,
for
any
rebellion
.
Which
thyng
I
thought
good
to
shewe
,
not
of
purpose
to
enter
into
any
forme
of
Protestation
in
respect
o●…●…he
confederacie
,
which
toucheth
not
me
(
as
appeereth
by
that
which
is
said
:
)
but
only
to
shew
that
there
was
no
reason
why
I
alone
should
take
the
confederates
for
rebels
,
&
so
seclude
them
from
their
accustomed
resortyng
to
my
houses
,
in
the
which
I
am
sure
,
that
to
my
knowledge
,
there
hath
not
any
assembly
bin
made
,
agaynst
the
welfare
honour
,
and
prosperitie
of
the
Kynges
Maiestie
.
And
agayne
seyng
that
the
Lady
Regent
tendered
the
confederates
so
farre
by
the
kinges
commaundement
and
by
the
aduice
of
all
his
Counsell
,
as
to
promis
then
by
letters
signed
with
hir
own
hand
and
sealed
with
hir
scale
,
[
c
](A15442-e1890-b)
c
It
appeereth
by
hir
letters
of
assuraunce
dated
the
25.
of
August
.
1566.
hereafter
in
serted
.
that
they
should
not
be
blamed
for
the
same
confederacie
or
for
any
thynge
that
insewed
thereupon
:
there
was
no
reason
that
I
should
deale
otherwise
with
them
,
or
make
any
other
account
of
them
,
than
she
had
done
.
And
if
any
man
will
say
she
did
it
to
an
other
end
,
only
to
bryng
them
a
sleepe
&
to
serue
hir
owne
turne
by
them
agaynste
those
that
had
ouershote
thēs●…iues
to
farre
in
the
breakyng
downe
of
images
:
it
maketh
nothing
at
all
agaynst
our
intention
.
For
although
it
may
be
inferred
ther
upon
,
that
our
meening
extended
not
so
farreforth
:
yit
notwithstanding
we
agree
fully
with
the
opinion
of
the
kyng
and
of
the
Regent
,
in
the
point
of
keepyng
company
with
them
,
and
in
suffering
them
to
haunt
and
frequent
our
howses
.
And
therfore
in
so
doyng
we
haue
not
letted
or
hindered
,
but
rather
furthered
his
Maiesties
good
proceedynges
and
seruis
:
or
else
at
least
wise
we
haue
bin
deceiued
by
the
foresayd
declaration
of
his
Maiestie
and
of
the
Lady
Regent
,
which
is
a
sufficient
excuce
for
vs
agaynste
all
pretended
fauoryng
&
furtheryng
of
the
confederates
,
for
asmuch
as
they
nother
be
nor
were
rebels
,
or
at
leastwise
were
not
so
counted
and
taken
to
bee
by
the
kynges
Maiestie
&
the
Lady
Regent
,
and
by
all
others
in
generall
.
For
it
is
to
bee
noted
that
a
generall
errour
or
mistakyng
,
especially
where
it
is
caused
by
the
kyng
or
prince
himselfe
hath
the
force
of
Law
and
right
.
To
the
conformation
wherof
his
maiestie
wrate
vnto
vs
with
his
owne
hand
in
the
moneth
of
August
,
[
d
](A15442-e1920-b)
d
It
appeereth
by
the
kynges
letters
of
the
first
of
August
.
1566.
the
translation
whero●…
is
inserted
hereafter
.
so
that
after
that
the
sayd
confederacie
and
the
putting
vp
of
their
sute
came
to
his
knowledge
,
he
was
very
wel
contented
with
our
seruis
,
&
misliked
not
of
any
thyng
that
had
passed
willyng
vs
not
to
think
the
contrary
,
but
that
hee
did
repose
his
whole
trust
in
vs
,
and
beleued
not
the
things
wherewith
some
malicious
persons
charged
vs
,
in
saying
that
we
dyd
our
dewty
very
ill
,
and
many
such
other
wordes
.
And
surely
considering
the
cace
as
it
ought
to
be
,
his
Maiestie
had
no
cause
(
〈◊〉
r●…spect
of
any
thyng
that
is
sayd
)
to
iudge
otherwise
thereof
,
for
asmuch
as
before
the
sayd
confederacie
,
I
had
sufficiently
declared
that
my
opinion
was
,
that
the
Inquisition
and
the
rigour
of
the
Iniunctions
could
not
bee
put
in
execution
,
wi●…hout
truble
and
inconue●…ēce
,
&
therupon
made
sure
[
e
](A15442-e1960-b)
e
It
appeareth
by
letters
sent
to
the
kyng
,
the.
14.
of
Iune
.
1566.
to
be
discharged
of
●…ine
offices
&
gouernement
,
wherby
his
Matestie
was
sufficiently
certified
,
that
I
tooke
not
any
like
confederacie
to
be
a
rebellion
,
and
my
keepyng
stil
of
myne
offices
and
gouernement
confirmed
sufficiently
(
at
leastwise
by
secrecy
)
that
I
continewed
in
the
same
opinion
and
in
the
thyngs
that
depend
therupon
.
And
therfore
ther
is
no
likelihode
why
To
the
whiche
effect
they
accuse
vs
also
for
that
some
of
the
confederates
had
entered
into
armes
,
in
diuers
places
:
not
consideryng
that
we
be
not
bounde
to
answere
for
other
mens
doyngs
,
nor
ought
to
be
charged
though
some
of
the
confederates
perchaunce
became
rebels
afterwarde
,
for
asmuch
as
they
were
none
such
nor
so
taken
to
be
at
the
●…yme
that
they
haunted
and
frequented
our
houses
,
and
that
whatso●…uer
was
done
in
that
behalfe
,
was
done
not
only
with
out
our
aduice
,
but
also
to
our
vnutterable
greef
,
and
farre
of
from
vs
,
for
at
that
time
I
was
in
Holland
,
wher
and
not
in
any
other
place
,
I
must
needes
haue
leuyed
men
of
warre
,
if
I
had
bin
minded
to
vsurpe
authoritie
against
his
Maiestie
,
bycause
the
townes
and
fortresses
there
were
at
my
commaundement
.
But
myne
intent
hath
bin
nothyng
els
,
but
to
pacifie
the
sayd
countreys
and
the
Prouinces
of
Zeland
and
Utreight
beyng
all
vnder
my
gouernement
,
and
to
keepe
them
in
obedience
to
the
kings
Maiesty
,
accordyng
to
my
Commission
and
the
Lady
Regentes
expresse
commaundement
geuen
vnto
me
.
So
that
,
I
haue
indeuered
to
the
vttermost
of
my
power
,
to
acquite
my selfe
well
and
faythfully
of
that
charge
,
as
the
Presidentes
,
Counsellers
,
States
,
Officers
,
&
Magistrates
of
the
Cities
of
the
same
Countreyes
can
wel
witnesse
:
and
they
are
able
to
say
whither
I
did
euer
minister
any
speech
vnto
them
,
otherwise
than
to
incorage
them
in
their
obedience
loyaltie
,
and
seruis
towardes
his
Maiestie
,
lyke
as
I
haue
done
in
all
other
places
where
I
had
any
office
or
authoritie
.
Whiche
thyng
appeereth
openly
by
this
,
that
notwithstandyng
all
theis
broyles
,
I
haue
by
Gods
grace
vsed
such
forecast
,
as
no
place
,
towne
,
or
fortresse
of
our
gouernement
hath
bin
destroyed
,
sacked
,
or
turned
away
from
their
dew
obedience
to
the
kynges
Maiestie
or
the
Regent
.
Out
of
the
same
forge
commeth
this
forgerie
also
,
which
is
put
into
the
Citation
of
the
County
of
Hoochestraten
,
wrongfully
slaundered
to
haue
bin
a
furtherer
of
our
ambitious
practises
:
name
ly
that
we
should
haue
hild
many
suspicious
communications
and
priuy
packynges
at
Hoochestraten
,
and
that
at
Deuremond
we
should
haue
determined
with
the
foresayd
Countie
of
Egmond
,
and
with
the
County
of
Horne
,
and
with
the
sayde
County
of
Hoochestraten
,
to
enter
into
armes
agaynst
his
Maiestie
,
and
to
keepe
him
from
commyng
into
the
lowe
countrey
,
by
force
.
For
I
reporte
me
to
the
Lordes
that
were
at
Hoochestraten
when
I
was
there
,
whither
there
were
any
other
talke
than
of
makyng
good
cheere
,
and
of
visityng
one
an
other
,
and
of
feasting
certeine
straunge
Lordes
as
frendes
&
alyes
meetyng
togither
:
so
as
it
can
neuer
bee
auowed
that
any
thyng
was
concluded
there
,
that
was
woorthy
to
bee
suspected
,
or
any
disloyaltie
practised
agaynst
his
Maiestie
.
Also
it
shall
neuer
be
found
true
,
that
we
practised
either
at
Deuremond
,
or
any
where
els
,
to
stop
his
maiesties
comming
by
force
,
or
otherwise
.
For
although
we
were
aduertised
that
all
our
dooynges
were
misconstrued
to
his
Maiestie
,
to
turne
away
the
good
wyll
that
he
bare
towards
vs
:
in
so
much
that
there
came
to
our
handes
the
copies
of
certaine
letters
written
by
the
Lord
Frauntes
of
Alua
,
his
Maiesties
Ambassadour
in
France
,
to
the
Lady
Regent
,
[
f
](A15442-e2050-b)
f
It
appeareth
by
his
two
letters
sent
in
the
moneth
of
August
.
1566.
the
contents
wherof
were
,
that
the
three
within
noted
,
(
whiche
were
the
Countie
of
Egmond
,
the
Countie
of
Horne
,
and
Wee
)
should
be
punished
in
tyme
and
place
accordyng
to
their
desertes
,
vntyll
the
whiche
tyme
he
woulde
that
men
should
make
good
countenan e
towards
vs
:
and
that
in
effect
these
letters
blamed
vs
for
all
the
euylles
that
had
happened
in
the
sayd
low
Countreys
,
auowyng
the
same
thyng
to
haue
bin
the
principal
cause
of
the
foresaid
meting
at
Deuremond
:
yet
notwithstandyng
we
trusting
altogether
to
our
own
innocencie
,
Only
this
I
adde
,
that
he
which
had
foreseene
the
outrages
and
violence
vsed
at
this
tyme
in
the
low
countreys
,
&
had
done
his
duetie
and
indeuor
to
stop
them
,
accordyng
to
couenants
with
the
Duchie
of
Braband
,
and
accordyng
to
his
owne
oth
and
bond
:
should
peraduenture
not
be
thought
worthy
of
blame
for
any
other
rebellion
:
consideryng
that
if
he
had
mynded
any
such
thing
,
he
could
haue
found
no
meanes
to
doo
it
,
than
our
aduersaries
weene
,
were
it
not
that
the
opinion
which
we
haue
conceiued
of
the
kyngs
goodnesse
,
(
who
notwithstandyng
doth
waste
,
destroy
,
an●…
spoyle
the
Countrey
so
well
affectioned
to
his
maiesties
seruice
,
at
the
onely
pleasure
of
the
Cardinall
of
Granuill
)
had
not
turned
me
away
from
all
suche
thoughtes
.
And
therfore
to
come
to
other
points
And
that
so
much
the
more
,
because
that
in
the
low
Countreys
it
hath
at
all
times
bin
lawfull
for
Gentlemen
of
abilitie
&
liuyng
,
to
furnish
&
fortifye
their
places
wherof
it
hath
bin
sene
,
that
many
both
of
old
tyme
and
euer
since
,
haue
bin
fortified
by
vertue
of
the
same
liberty
,
not
only
vpon
the
Frontiers
,
but
also
euen
in
the
myddes
&
in
the
very
hart
of
the
Countrey
,
which
fortifying
was
so
much
the
more
lawful
for
the
said
Lord
Brederode
to
make
,
because
he
held
and
possessed
the
said
towne
of
Uiane
with
all
right
of
soueraigntie
.
And
although
his
predecessors
had
bin
in
controuersie
at
the
law
vpon
that
point
of
long
time
before
:
yet
notwithstandyng
he
had
continued
styll
in
possession
and
seisure
of
the
said
royalties
.
And
if
a
man
looke
more
neare
into
the
aduice
:
he
shall
fynd
that
it
is
against
all
reason
and
equitie
,
to
grounde
any
crime
of
treason
thereuppon
,
because
it
was
not
geuen
vppon
the
principall
poynt
,
that
is
to
wyt
,
whether
the
fortification
should
be
made
or
no
,
whereof
the
Lord
of
Brederode
made
no
doubt
nor
scruple
at
al
:
but
only
vpon
the
maner
and
forme
of
the
fortification
.
Which
not
withstandyng
could
not
haue
bin
folowed
,
vnlesse
the
poynt
goyng
afore
,
were
fully
concluded
and
agreed
vpon
,
whereto
none
but
the
onely
Lorde
of
Brederode
should
be
bound
to
answer
.
And
it
maketh
not
to
the
matter
,
that
the
fortification
was
put
in
execution
after
the
commotions
.
For
seeyng
that
the
aduice
was
geuen
before
:
respecte
ought
to
be
had
to
the
same
tyme
.
Wheras
it
is
auouched
that
we
shold
haue
suffred
the
said
Lord
of
Brederode
to
leuie
men
of
warre
in
the
citie
of
Antwerp
in
the
open
fight
&
knowlege
of
al
men
,
contrary
to
the
expresse
order
then
newly
taken
and
proclaymed
,
&
to
shyp
them
to
the
towne
of
Uiauen
,
with
all
maner
of
munitions
of
warre
.
This
shall
serue
for
answeare
,
that
although
my
commyng
to
the
citie
of
And
werpe
was
onely
to
keepe
it
in
quiet
and
in
obedience
to
the
kinges
maiestie
,
which
thing
may
appeare
by
the
Regents
letters
[
g
](A15442-e2140-b)
g
It
appeareth
by
her
letters
dated
the.
12.
of
Iuly
.
1566.
sent
both
to
me
and
to
the
Magistrate
of
the
town
,
yea
&
euen
by
the
confession
of
the
Attorney
generall
conteyned
in
the
said
Summons
:
yet
notwithstandyng
as
soone
as
I
vnderstood
of
the
sayd
leuying
,
and
of
the
place
where
it
was
done
:
I
declared
it
to
the
magistrate
,
and
to
the
Markgraue
,
who
is
the
chiefe
Officer
of
the
Towne
,
&
vnto
whom
it
belonged
to
looke
to
those
and
such
other
accidentes
,
and
I
commaunded
hym
(
accordyng
to
the
tharge
that
the
Regent
had
geuen
me
by
her
letter
directed
to
me
in
that
behalfe
)
that
he
should
apprehend
and
attach
the
parties
that
dyd
it
.
Wherupon
the
Markgraue
departyng
from
me
,
and
findyng
the
parties
at
a
Table
together
,
which
were
reported
to
be
the
makers
of
the
sayd
Musters
:
in
stede
of
executing
my
commaundement
,
sate
downe
with
them
,
and
afterwarde
reported
to
me
that
he
could
not
find
them
:
by
meanes
wherof
they
had
oportunitie
to
get
them
secretly
away
.
It
was
very
true
,
that
long
time
before
Therfore
to
come
to
the
pithe
of
the
said
Now
when
report
was
made
to
the
Regent
how
I
had
commaunded
the
said
Lord
of
Bouxtell
to
receiue
no
garrison
into
the
Ile
,
no
not
euen
though
it
were
sent
from
her
highnesse
:
I
intended
to
haue
excused
my selfe
by
my
letters
:
howbeit
that
at
that
tyme
such
order
had
not
bin
expedient
,
bycause
that
as
then
I
was
at
Antwerp
&
hir
highnesse
at
Brussels
,
who
in
like
caces
concernyng
my
gouernement
,
had
not
bin
wont
to
do
any
thyng
without
making
of
me
priuy
to
it
afore
,
and
therefore
I
assured
my selfe
that
she
would
not
send
any
garrison
into
the
Ile
,
without
makyng
me
of
counsell
therewith
,
seyng
she
might
do
it
without
let
or
delay
:
Wheras
on
the
contrary
part
,
vnder
pretence
of
the
sayd
garrison
,
the
fortresse
might
be
surprised
,
(
as
hath
bin
seene
to
haue
happened
diuers
times
vnto
others
)
for
the
which
I
might
afterward
haue
bin
driuen
and
constreined
to
aunswere
,
by
much
more
apparaunt
reasons
than
are
now
made
to
accuze
me
withall
.
In
so
much
that
for
th●…
more
assurance
of
the
sayd
fortresse
and
countrey
,
I
had
good
reason
to
forbyd
the
sayd
Capteine
and
all
others
,
(
yea
and
that
euen
by
special
and
expresse
commaundement
)
to
receiue
any
garrison
,
bycause
the
fortresse
was
sufficiently
prouided
for
already
,
and
the
want
of
vittels
should
bee
increaced
by
the
ouer
increacing
of
the
garrison
.
By
reason
wherof
,
and
for
asmuch
as
the
other
places
and
Cities
of
the
Countrey
haue
alwayes
offered
to
spend
their
bodies
and
goods
in
his
Maiesties
seruis
,
&
haue
certified
him
that
they
needed
no
garrison
,
by
sendyng
their
deputies
to
the
Gouernesse
for
the
same
purpoze
:
there
was
no
likelihode
at
all
that
I
shoulde
by
that
meanes
surprize
the
sayd
Countrey
,
and
by
that
shift
shet
out
the
kynges
Maiestie
,
and
cut
of
his
passage
by
sea
,
seyng
that
the
very
deede
it selfe
hath
bewrayed
and
shewed
the
contrarie
.
For
at
such
time
as
certeine
Barkes
loden
with
men
whom
I
had
put
out
of
Andwerp
by
open
Proclamation
for
the
better
assurance
of
the
rest
and
quietnesse
of
the
towne
,
came
before
the
Ile
:
the
inhabitauntes
did
set
themselues
at
defence
,
&
woold
not
suffer
them
to
take
land
,
so
that
beyng
fayne
to
take
ship
and
returne
backe
agayne
,
they
were
afterward
disco●…fited
vpon
the
riuer
about
Andwerp
,
for
want
of
vittels
armour
&
other
needefull
thyngs
,
notwithstanding
that
they
had
caused
it
to
be
bruted
that
they
would
go
to
the
ayde
of
the
Lorde
of
Br●…rode
.
Which
thing
caused
great
vprore
and
hurlyburly
in
the
Towne
,
where
both
the
Lord
of
Hoochestrate
&
I
,
were
often
in
daunger
of
our
lyues
,
(
by
reason
of
the
Magistrates
cowardlinesse
in
that
he
durst
not
shew
himself
,
which
gaue
great
occasion
of
the
vprore
,
to
the
breach
of
the
peace
there
stablished
)
bycause
it
was
thought
that
we
letted
the
succours
that
some
intended
to
haue
ministred
vnto
them
,
(
togither
with
the
outrages
that
leawd
folkes
attempted
to
practize
,
)
howbeit
that
in
the
ende
through
Gods
goodnesse
we
appeazed
all
without
any
bludshed
.
Which
dealyng
of
ours
argueth
vs
to
haue
bin
farre
of
from
sending
those
men
into
Zeland
to
surprize
the
Countrey
,
in
asmuch
as
all
our
doynges
tended
to
the
contrary
.
For
had
that
bin
our
purpoze
,
wee
shoulde
not
haue
commaunded
the
Capteyne
and
the
men
of
that
Countrey
to
receiue
no
men
of
warre
,
but
contrarywise
to
haue
receyued
them
and
taken
them
in
:
and
it
appeered
so
much
the
more
,
in
that
wee
offered
the
men
of
Andwerp
,
to
goe
out
of
the
Towne
and
to
discomfit
the
assembly
our selues
,
with
such
company
as
was
there
which
thyng
was
misliked
of
for
feare
of
commotion
,
which
discouered
it selfe
after
the
sayd
discomfiture
as
hath
bin
sayd
afore
.
Now
then
seyng
there
was
no
lookyng
for
his
Maiesties
commyng
by
sea
:
there
was
not
any
likelyhod
that
by
the
takyng
of
Zeland
wee
ment
to
stop
his
passage
and
to
shet
him
out
of
it
,
whiche
thyng
(
consideryng
how
the
townes
and
fortresses
were
at
his
Maiesties
deuotion
)
it
was
not
possible
for
vs
to
do
by
sending
men
without
head
,
without
capteine
,
without
authoritie
,
without
expresse
commaundement
from
vs
,
&
which
could
not
bee
receiued
there
bycause
of
our
order
taken
to
the
contrary
:
but
in
that
cace
we
should
haue
bin
there
personally
in
the
Countrey
,
whereby
I
should
haue
giuen
some
cause
for
men
to
thinke
,
that
folke
would
euery
where
haue
stooped
to
me
as
to
their
gouernour
,
and
haue
yelded
me
their
accustomed
obedience
,
as
they
had
done
in
all
other
Cities
and
holdes
of
our
gouernement
:
for
that
had
bin
a
more
apparant
and
sure
meanes
,
than
to
send
thither
a
sort
of
rascall
fellowes
,
vnarmed
vngouerned
,
and
vnguided
(
for
whom
we
should
at
leastwise
haue
prouided
in
a
cace
,
beyng
so
well
able
to
doe
it
by
meanes
of
the
towne
of
Andwerp
as
euery
man
knowes
)
and
which
were
afterward
dispatched
in
manner
without
any
resistence
or
defence
,
in
somuch
that
no
man
hauyng
any
experience
of
the
warres
,
would
haue
trusted
to
them
in
an
exployt
of
importance
,
and
much
lesse
I
,
who
had
farre
better
meanes
to
assure
me
of
the
Countrey
,
if
I
had
mynded
it
,
as
I
did
not
.
And
therfore
I
maruell
that
men
of
skill
and
wisedome
wil
vse
such
allegations
,
whereof
they
not
only
nother
haue
nor
euer
shalhaue
any
proofe
,
but
also
which
haue
not
in
them
any
shewe
of
likelyhode
.
Wherfore
to
come
to
the
poynt
of
the
[
h
](A15442-e2300-b)
h
It
appeareth
by
their
owne
report
made
the
4.
of
Sept.
1566.
that
by
my
meanes
and
order
they
accounted
them selues
assured
of
the
quietnesse
of
the
Towne
,
thankyng
vs
for
it
with
al
their
hartes
.
Whiche
thyng
falleth
out
in
effect
to
be
confirmed
approued
and
confessed
by
the
Regent
also
,
who
hauyng
co●…itted
the
keepyng
of
the
citie
in
quietnes
,
to
the
County
of
Hoochestraten
,
in
our
absence
,
while
we
were
pacifying
the
Countreys
of
Holland
Zeland
and
Utreyght
,
inioyned
and
appoynted
him
expresly
[
i
](A15442-e2320-b)
i
It
appeareth
by
her
letters
of
the.
4.
5.
and
8.
of
Octob.
1566.
to
followe
the
steppes
that
I
had
gone
before
him
.
Whiche
thyng
neuerthelesse
they
do
now
go
about
to
deface
,
chaungyng
the
thynges
that
were
openly
allowed
,
into
the
crime
of
hygh
treason
,
agaynst
all
likelyhode
of
truth
.
For
I
graunted
not
any
Religion
one
or
other
in
the
towne
,
but
only
suffered
&
bare
with
such
as
had
begon
to
preach
openly
before
my
commyng
thither
,
accordyng
to
my
declaration
heretofore
blamed
.
For
although
the
Regent
shewed
sufficiently
that
she
hild
with
all
Religions
which
agreed
not
with
the
Romish
Religion
,
&
esteemed
of
them
all
alike
,
as
namely
with
the
Anabaptistes
,
agaynst
whom
I
was
desirous
to
haue
●…ade
publicke
defence
if
her
hyghnesse
had
liked
it
:
yet
did
I
put
all
such
to
silence
,
as
did
put
them selues
forth
to
begynne
any
preachynges
after
my
commyng
thither
.
Moreouer
the
preachings
that
were
made
without
the
towne
,
were
not
receiued
into
the
towne
by
vs
:
but
when
I
was
called
to
the
Court
,
without
hauyng
obteined
that
some
other
bodye
might
be
substituted
in
my
sted
to
looke
to
the
quietnesse
of
the
towne
,
or
that
I
might
send
a
Lieutenant
thither
,
(
notwithstandyng
that
I
did
expressy
require
it
)
:
in
the
meane
while
some
fell
to
pullyng
downe
,
destroying
,
and
breakyng
a
sunder
of
images
euery
where
,
&
they
that
preached
erst
without
the
towne
,
began
to
get
them
Churches
,
yea
euen
by
authoritie
of
the
magistrate
.
And
(
after
the
composition
made
betweene
the
Regent
authorized
by
the
kyng
,
and
the
contederates
)
[
k
](A15442-e2350-b)
k
It
appee●…eth
by
the
agreement
made
the
23
of
August
.
1566.
when
as
in
the
end
they
were
contented
to
haue
left
vppe
their
Churches
agayne
,
and
to
haue
continewed
their
preachynges
in
their
accustomed
places
without
the
town
accordyng
to
the
composition
:
the
Magistrate
thought
it
[
l
](A15442-e2360-b)
l
It
appeereth
by
their
owne
report
made
the
24.
of
August
.
1566.
more
expedient
for
many
considerations
,
to
graunt
and
assigne
them
places
within
the
Towne
.
By
meanes
wherof
,
when
the
parties
were
once
agreed
,
I
could
do
no
lesse
by
vertue
of
my
Commission
,
but
followe
the
composition
.
For
in
asmuch
as
I
was
sent
to
kepe
the
towne
in
quiet
,
and
in
loyaltie
to
the
kyng
:
it
was
our
dewty
to
frame
our selues
to
that
whiche
we
sawe
they
had
settled
in
vnitie
and
quiet
,
specially
considering
the
weyghtinesse
of
the
reasons
that
had
moued
the
townesmen
to
consent
to
the
thynges
aforesayd
,
(
whereof
I
did
then
aduertize
as
well
the
kyng
as
the
Regent
,
)
[
m
](A15442-e2380-b)
m
It
appeereth
by
their
letters
sent
in
Septemb.
1566.
besides
that
it
was
not
possible
to
keepe
the
peace
without
sufferyng
of
the
sayd
preachynges
and
the
exercizyng
of
the
Religion
out
of
hand
,
the
necessitie
of
which
exercize
offered
it selfe
welneere
hourely
by
reason
of
the
multitudes
that
followed
the
Sermons
,
whiche
were
sayne
to
be
suffered
euery
where
,
in
somuch
that
they
were
vsed
openly
in
Churches
,
which
was
the
cause
that
the
Magistrate
thought
it
good
&
needefull
to
suffer
,
not
only
the
exercize
,
but
also
the
erection
of
Churches
.
And
that
so
much
the
rather
,
byeause
winter
was
at
hand
,
by
reason
whereof
,
otherwise
an
other
second
inuasion
was
to
be
feared
,
wherin
the
other
churches
were
like
to
haue
bin
taken
:
and
therfore
the
Magistrate
was
not
only
willyng
but
also
desirous
to
further
the
sayd
Churches
:
whereunto
bycause
we
sawe
that
all
others
had
no
lesse
good
will
than
he
:
wee
thought
it
stoode
not
in
any
wise
with
our
dewtye
,
to
hinder
the
thyng
that
might
assure
vs
of
the
execution
of
our
charge
.
The
same
may
also
ser●…e
vs
for
answer
,
in
respect
of
their
consistories
,
in
as
much
as
both
before
our
commyng
,
yea
and
euen
before
there
was
any
publike
preachyng
,
the
Protestants
kept
their
Consistories
,
(
for
in
dede
they
had
their
consistories
euery
where
euen
in
all
rymes
)
&
also
because
that
although
we
neuer
consented
vnto
them
,
yet
we
neuer
saw
any
likelyhood
of
trouble
to
insewe
by
meanes
of
them
.
It
is
very
true
,
that
to
let
the
assemblyng
of
the
common
people
vpon
euery
occasion
,
I
affirmed
and
thought
good
,
that
some
should
be
appoynted
to
deale
in
the
name
of
all
the
rest
,
because
I
saw
no
way
els
to
performe
my
charge
,
and
to
mainte●…e
and
preserue
the
peace
,
and
to
auoyd
all
confusion
and
disorder
.
Againe
,
I
could
not
perceiue
that
any
inconuenience
or
danger
should
folow
of
their
buildyng
of
Churches
(
as
some
surmized
,
)
seeyng
that
a
Church
could
cause
no
more
euil
than
a
house
or
any
other
place
?
and
that
for
as
much
as
I
was
sent
to
kepe
the
citie
in
peace
and
tranquilitie
,
it
behoued
me
for
the
auoyding
of
all
inconueniences
,
rather
to
disappoynt
the
occasions
and
purposings
of
attaynyng
thereunto
,
than
to
styrre
vp
&
prouoke
the
parties
by
impeachyng
the
erection
of
a
Church
,
or
by
any
such
other
meane
,
a●…d
so
to
giue
occasion
of
other
troubles
,
whiche
it
should
haue
bin
impossible
to
haue
ouerruled
afterward
,
without
doy●…g
directly
agaynst
our
Commission
,
and
without
settyng
of
all
thynges
in
a
broyle
.
Also
this
may
serue
partly
for
a
solution
to
the
last
part
of
the
foresayde
Suminons
,
which
conteyneth
that
I
should
suffer
the
leuying
,
taxing
,
and
gatheryng
of
money
to
be
imployed
afterward
vpon
the
reteynyng
of
souldiers
and
men
of
warre
.
For
I
know
of
none
other
leuyinges
,
taxations
,
and
gatheryngs
,
than
onely
such
as
were
made
afore
my
commyng
,
for
the
reliefe
of
the
poore
,
and
the
maintenaunce
of
the
Ministers
,
and
af●…erwarde
for
the
buildyng
of
the
Churches
.
And
it
shall
neuer
be
found
that
any
collection
was
made
to
my
benefite
,
or
imployed
vpon
the
leuying
of
souldiers
,
or
vpon
the
intertaynment
of
men
on
myne
owne
behalf
,
by
reason
wherof
I
should
haue
apparant
occasion
to
suffer
the
said
taxations
and
collections
.
Moreouer
,
my
refuzing
of
the
fiftie
thousand
Florens
that
were
offered
me
from
the
accountantes
by
the
States
of
Holland
,
for
the
good
ser●…is
that
I
had
done
to
the
kyng
and
the
Countrey
duryng
the
troubles
,
by
appeasing
the
vprores
there
,
dooth
(
as
I
thinke
)
sufficiently
shew
,
that
it
was
not
mine
intent
to
suffer
any
such
collections
,
taxations
and
leuyings
,
which
it
was
not
otherwise
possible
to
let
in
Cities
of
traffike
,
as
in
Antwerp
,
where
ther
was
in
maner
nothing
els
but
gatheryng
of
money
for
diuers
purposes
.
For
as
much
therfore
as
I
haue
most
euidently
(
as
I
hope
)
shewed
that
no
euyl
or
inordinate
affection
of
mine
,
vpon
any
ambitious
desire
to
vsurpe
aboue
the
authoritie
of
the
kyng
,
(
wherof
all
our
countenances
,
sayinges
,
and
doinges
haue
bin
cleare
,
yea
and
cleane
contrary
to
it
)
hath
bin
the
cause
of
any
trouble
,
as
wherby
we
could
not
haue
hoped
for
any
benefite
,
so
that
I
was
not
the
cause
of
any
innouation
,
that
might
set
the
people
in
any
broyle
or
vnquietnesse
:
but
that
on
the
contrary
part
,
the
sayd
Cardinall
of
Granuill
,
was
the
cause
of
al
the
said
innouations
and
of
al
the
mislikyng
that
was
ingendred
afterward
betweene
the
king
and
the
people
,
by
his
vsurping
of
extraordinary
authoritie
aboue
all
the
Counsels
,
yea
and
euen
aboue
the
Regent
,
in
hope
to
mainteyne
,
augment
,
and
increase
the
same
his
authoritie
by
institutyng
of
new
Bishops
,
by
confirming
of
the
Inquisition
,
and
by
renewyng
of
the
Iniunctions
,
to
satisfi●…
his
owne
ambition
and
couetousnesse
,
whiche
caryed
hym
away
so
headlong
at
other
times
also
,
that
he
dyd
set
dissension
and
mi●…iking
betweene
great
Potentates
,
yea
and
euen
betweene
the
late
right
high
and
happy
Princes
.
Charles
the
Emperour
,
and
his
brother
Ferdinand
and
his
sonnes
:
I
thinke
that
such
as
are
of
iudgement
,
and
haue
experience
in
matters
,
wyll
not
sticke
either
to
acquit
me
of
the
mischiefes
and
inconueniences
that
haue
happened
in
the
said
countreys
,
and
of
the
alteration
of
the
appara●…
felicitie
thereof
,
into
extreme
bon●…age
,
penurie
,
and
wretchednesse
:
or
to
charge
the
said
Cardinall
with
them
,
whom
men
go
about
to
set
vp
againe
in
authoritie
,
by
the
ouerthrow
and
destruction
of
the
countrey
,
in
recompence
not
of
any
good
seruis
of
his
,
(
for
the
which
,
had
he
done
neuer
so
many
and
so
great
good
turnes
,
he
and
his
had
sufficiently
cut
out
their
own
shares
already
,
without
leauyng
any
part
to
the
discretion
of
the
kings
maiestie
)
but
of
the
mischiefes
&
inconueniences
abouesaid
,
and
to
giue
hym
oportunitie
to
worke
mo
:
wheras
al
our
seuices
done
to
the
great
damage
and
hinderance
both
of
vs
and
of
our
auncetours
,
of
whom
some
haue
dyed
in
his
seruis
,
and
euen
at
the
fe●…te
of
his
Emperiall
maiestie
,
are
forgotten
,
and
we
spoyled
,
not
only
of
our
goodes
,
by
trifling
,
false
,
and
surmised
causes
,
reasons
,
and
allegations
,
and
by
such
kind
of
proceedings
as
are
vtterly
against
all
right
,
law
,
and
custome
,
(
as
hath
bin
shewed
heretofore
,
and
by
[
n
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n
It
appeaeth
by
the
lisproofe
&
●…uoydance
●…ent
to
the
●…ttorney
●…enerall
,
&
●…o
the
Duke
●…f
Alua
,
the
〈◊〉
of
March
●…568
.
an
other
writing
of
ours
:
)
but
also
of
our
honour
and
our
childe
,
which
are
things
dearer
to
vs
than
our
lyfe
:
all
which
is
to
the
preiudice
,
not
only
of
vs
,
but
also
of
the
kyngs
maiestie
,
of
whose
couenants
,
bonds
,
othes
,
and
promises
there
is
no
regard
at
all
had
,
which
is
so
vnorderly
,
vnreasonable
,
and
spitefull
a
kind
of
dealing
,
as
it
can
not
be
auoyded
,
but
that
it
must
one
day
breede
some
inconuenience
,
which
I
beseech
God
,
that
the
kyngs
maiestie
being
inlightened
with
his
diuine
brightnesse
and
light
,
may
turne
away
and
preuent
,
and
rightly
take
intelligence
of
the
dooynges
of
his
good
seruants
and
faithfull
subiectes
,
which
are
now
wrongfully
selaundered
,
persecuted
,
and
afflicted
:
so
as
the
world
may
know
that
the
thinges
which
haue
passed
,
proceeded
not
of
his
maiesties
own
nature
,
but
of
the
misreportes
,
tales
,
and
sclaunders
of
such
as
haue
disguised
the
truth
,
and
concealed
it
from
hym
,
euen
to
this
ho●…re
.
¶
The
Summons
or
Citation
sent
out
against
the
Prince
of
Orendge
.
Spanish
Inquisition
into
those
our
Countreys
,
in
so
much
that
by
his
like
inductions
and
impressions
,
many
of
our
subiects
haue
rizen
vp
and
rebelled
agaynst
vs
,
and
specially
the
sayde
prince
hath
seduced
,
corrupted
,
and
stirred
vp
a
great
part
of
the
noble
men
,
&
gentlemen
,
so
as
they
haue
made
leagues
,
conspiracies
,
&
coniurations
,
&
sworne
to
defend
&
strengthen
themselues
therby
against
vs
and
against
our
ordinances
which
haue
bin
alwayes
kept
and
obserued
in
those
Countreys
.
And
for
the
same
purpose
he
hath
made
assemblyes
in
his
owne
houses
,
as
well
at
Breda
,
as
in
this
our
city
of
Brusselles
,
yea
and
afterward
receyued
the
Rebels
into
his
protection
and
safegard
,
with
promise
of
his
assistence
.
Whereupon
they
haue
put
them selues
in
Armes
against
vs
in
diuers
places
of
the
countrey
.
Also
the
sayd
Prince
hath
counseled
and
ayded
the
Lord
of
Brederode
cheef
Capteine
of
the
Rebelles
,
to
fortifie
his
towne
of
Uiane
agaynst
vs
,
and
suffered
him
to
leuye
men
of
warre
in
our
Citie
of
Andwerp
in
the
open
sight
and
knowledge
of
all
men
,
contrary
to
the
orders
then
newly
taken
and
proclaymed
,
and
to
shyp
them
to
the
sayd
town
of
Uiane
with
all
manner
of
warrelike
munitions
,
moreouer
furnishyng
the
sayd
Lorde
of
Brederode
with
certeine
peeces
of
artillerie
,
besides
that
he
forbade
certeine
towns
&
places
to
receiue
any
garrisons
from
vs
,
&
among
others
,
our
countrey
of
Zeland
,
vnto
the
which
he
sent
men
of
purpoze
to
surprize
it
,
&
by
that
meanes
to
shet
vs
out
,
&
to
stop
our
passage
by
sea
.
Furthermore
where
as
the
sayd
Prince
was
sent
to
our
Citie
of
.
Andwerp
to
pacifie
the
trubbles
and
commotions
of
the
people
:
he
of
his
owne
priuate
authoritie
and
besides
his
commission
,
hath
permitted
and
graunted
the
exercize
of
all
sectes
indifferently
in
the
Citie
,
and
giuen
the
sectaries
leaue
to
erect
many
Temples
and
Consistories
,
according
whereunto
they
were
erected
in
deede
,
whereof
haue
insewed
the
inconueniences
&
dangers
which
euery
man
knowes
of
.
Also
he
hath
suffred
leuyinges
,
taxations
,
and
collections
of
money
to
bee
made
,
whiche
afterward
were
imployed
about
the
payment
and
wagyng
of
men
of
warre
.
Many
other
thyngs
hath
he
done
duryng
his
abode
there
,
whiche
our
Attourney
shall
declare
more
at
large
,
&
make
apparant
in
dew
tyme
&
place
,
if
neede
be
.
Al
which
thynges
tend
to
his
foresayd
drift
,
that
by
that
meanes
hee
might
vsurpe
vpon
our
subiectes
,
&
take
vpon
him
the
authoritie
that
belongeth
allonly
vnto
vs
,
which
is
apparantly
high
trazon
not
to
be
borne
with
nor
to
be
winked
at
,
but
worthy
of
punishment
and
correction
to
the
example
of
others
,
if
it
be
as
our
said
Attourney
sayth
,
who
requireth
that
it
may
pleaze
vs
to
graunt
him
conuenient
prouision
accordyng
to
the
crime
,
with
clauze
of
authoritie
agaynst
the
sayde
prince
of
Orendge
.
Therfore
be
it
knowne
to
you
,
that
we
hauyng
considered
the
thynges
aforesayd
,
doe
commaunde
and
authorize
you
by
theis
presentes
,
that
at
the
request
of
our
sayd
Counseler
&
Attourney
generall
,
you
put
foorth
your selfe
,
and
(
with
such
ayde
and
assistaunce
as
you
shall
thinke
meete
,
)
attache
and
apprehende
by
the
body
the
sayd
Prince
of
Orendge
wheresoeuer
ye
shall
fynde
him
in
our
sayde
Countreys
heere
,
and
him
leade
and
conuey
vnder
good
&
sure
gard
,
to
the
prisons
of
our
Court
in
our
sayd
Citie
of
Brussels
,
there
to
appeere
before
our
right
deere
and
trusty
Cousin
,
Knight
of
our
order
Gouernour
&
Capteyne
generall
for
vs
of
our
sayde
Countreys
the
Duke
of
Alua
,
Marquis
of
Coria
&c.
appointed
purpozely
by
vs
for
the
same
matter
,
&
to
receiue
punishment
and
correction
for
his
sayd
crimes
and
conspiracies
,
accordyng
to
the
desert
of
them
,
as
shal
be
founde
meete
by
reason
and
equitie
in
that
cace
.
And
that
if
you
cannot
take
or
apprehend
him
,
ye
summon
him
and
cite
him
by
publicke
proclamation
and
crye
,
vnder
peine
of
perpetuall
banishment
and
forfeyture
of
his
goodes
,
to
appeere
personally
within
〈◊〉
.
fifteenes
then
next
insewyng
(
whereof
you
shal
assigne
him
the
first
fifteene
for
the
first
day
,
the
second
fifteene
for
the
second
day
,
and
the
third
for
the
last
&
peremptory
day
of
lawe
without
lookyng
for
any
moe
)
before
our
sayd
Cousin
the
Duke
of
Alua
,
in
our
sayd
Towne
of
Brusselles
,
or
in
such
other
place
as
he
shall
then
bee
within
our
low
Countreys
,
to
answere
to
such
points
and
articles
as
our
sayde
Attourney
generall
shall
take
and
chooze
agaynst
him
,
concernyng
the
foresayd
matters
and
others
,
that
by
keepyng
of
the
day
hee
may
set
them
downe
and
debate
them
more
at
large
accordyng
to
his
Commission
,
and
proceede
further
therin
,
and
see
what
is
to
be
done
accordyng
to
reason
.
And
you
shall
signifie
to
the
sayd
Prince
,
that
if
hee
come
not
at
the
first
,
second
,
or
third
and
last
fifteene
dayes
:
Iustice
shall
proceede
agaynst
him
in
his
absence
,
as
is
conuenient
in
such
caces
.
And
whatsoeuer
you
shall
haue
done
in
that
behalfe
,
we
will
haue
you
to
certifie
our
sayd
Cousin
the
Duke
of
Alua
thereof
sufficiently
at
the
sayd
day
:
to
whom
we
giue
commission
and
speciall
charge
for
the
causes
afore
sayd
,
that
vpon
the
heeryng
of
the
parties
,
hee
doe
and
minister
,
good
,
short
,
rightfull
,
and
reasonable
Iustice
,
as
becommeth
in
such
caces
.
And
if
the
Prince
of
Orendge
bee
stubborne
and
make
default
:
we
will
that
he
proceede
to
the
pronouncyng
of
the
sayd
banishment
,
&
to
the
proclayming
of
the
sayd
forfeyture
,
and
to
the
executyng
of
all
such
other
thyngs
as
he
shall
see
meete
to
be
done
,
by
right
and
reason
in
that
cace
.
And
so
to
do
,
we
giue
you
full
power
and
authoritie
and
speciall
commission
.
Chargyng
and
commaundyng
all
our
Iustices
Officers
and
subiectes
to
obey
you
in
doyng
hereof
,
and
to
attend
diligently
vppon
you
,
and
to
geue
you
counsell
ayde
and
comfort
,
and
prizonroome
also
if
neede
bee
&
that
you
require
it
.
For
so
is
our
pleasure
.
And
bycause
the
sayd
Prince
of
Orendge
(
as
we
heere
say
)
hath
gotten
him selfe
away
out
of
our
coūtveys
:
our
will
is
in
that
●…ace
,
that
the
summons
&
citation
which
you
shal
make
by
Proclamation
and
open
cry
within
the
barres
of
our
Court
at
Brusselles
,
&
your
settyng
vp
of
the
Copyes
of
this
our
presentes
togither
with
your
sayd
doynges
,
and
your
castyng
of
them
in
at
the
outtermost
part
of
the
Prince
of
Orendges
houses
within
our
countreys
,
&
your
stickyng
vp
of
like
Copyes
vpon
the
doores
and
Iawmes
of
the
cheef
church
there
,
to
the
intent
he
may
not
be
able
to
pretende
ignoraunce
,
shal
be
of
as
good
force
,
valew
,
&
power
,
as
if
it
had
bin
done
to
the
sayd
Prince
of
Orendgis
owne
person
,
&
for
such
haue
we
authorized
&
do
authorize
the
said
Summons
and
Citation
by
theis
presentes
.
But
for
asmuch
as
other
men
haue
commission
to
deale
with
the
takyng
of
the
Inuentorie
of
the
sayd
Princes
goods
,
meddle
not
you
with
them
.
Giuen
in
our
sayd
Citie
of
Brussels
,
the
xix
.
day
of
Ianuary
,
the
yeere
of
grace
1567
:
and
the
yeere
of
our
reigne
,
ouer
Spayne
,
Sicile
,
&c.
the
xiij
:
and
ouer
Naples
,
the
xv
.
It
was
subscribed
thus
:
By
the
kyng
.
And
vnder
written
thus
,
Mesdach
.
And
sealed
with
a
Seale
of
red
wax
vppon
a
halfe
labell
.
¶
A
Copie
of
the
Serieant
at
Armes
doynges
.
BY
vertew
of
the
letters
patentes
of
personall
Summons
wherof
the
Copy
is
set
word
for
word
heere
before
,
I
Frauncis
Knibber
ordinary
Serieant
at
armes
to
the
priuy
&
the
great
Counsels
,
haue
this
present
xxiiij
.
day
of
Ianuary
the
yeere
1567.
at
the
request
and
instance
of
the
kynges
Maiesties
Counseller
and
Attourney
generall
the
obteiner
of
them
,
came
into
the
Listes
of
the
Court
at
Brusselles
at
eleuen
of
the
clocke
in
the
forenoone
,
where
hauyng
caused
the
Trump●…s
to
be
sounded
I
haue
with
lowd
voyce
and
open
crye
red
the
sayd
letters
patentes
,
and
by
the
vertew
of
the
same
,
summoned
and
cited
William
of
Nassawe
Prince
of
Orendge
on
the
kynges
Maiesties
behalfe
,
to
come
and
appeere
personally
,
from
fifteene
dayes
to
fifteene
dayes
in
.
tymes
,
wherof
the
first
fiftene
shal
be
the
ix
.
day
of
February
,
the
second
fifteene
shal
be
the
xxv
.
of
the
same
moneth
,
and
the
third
and
last
fifteene
which
is
the
peremptorie
day
of
law
without
lookyng
for
any
mo
,
shal
be
the
eleuenth
day
of
Marche
followyng
.
And
this
to
be
done
before
the
hygh
and
mighty
Duke
of
Al●…a
,
(
Marquis
of
Coria
&c.
Knight
of
the
order
,
and
Gouernour
and
Capteine
generall
for
the
kynges
Maiestie
in
his
low
countreys
)
in
the
sayd
Citie
of
Brusselles
,
or
in
any
such
other
place
as
my
Lorde
the
sayde
Duke
shal
then
be
:
vpon
Peyne
of
perpetuall
bannishement
and
forfeyture
of
all
goodes
belonging
to
the
sayd
Prince
of
Orendge
:
there
to
answere
to
such
points
and
Articles
as
the
sayd
Attourney
generall
shall
list
to
take
&
chooze
agaynst
him
,
and
moreouer
,
as
is
reherced
more
at
large
in
the
sayd
letters
patentes
.
Done
vnder
my
signe
manuell
the
day
,
moneth
,
and
yeere
aboue
written
.
Underneath
was
written
thus
:
Conferred
and
founde
to
agree
,
by
me
.
And
it
was
signed
thus
.
Knibber
.
¶
An
abstract
of
the
last
Letters
&
writynges
sent
by
the
kyng
to
the
Lady
FIrst
as
touchyng
the
Iniunctions
and
decrees
as
wel
old
as
new
wich
concerne
the
cace
of
Religion
,
his
maiestie
vnderstandyng
in
what
state
Religion
stode
in
those
quarters
,
thought
it
not
expedient
to
make
any
chaunge
or
alteration
of
them
,
but
that
as
well
the
Iniunctions
of
the
late
Emperours
Maiestie
,
as
his
owne
Maiesties
Iniunctions
should
be
put
in
execution
:
for
he
saw
that
the
cause
of
all
the
mischief
that
had
happened
,
&
the
cause
of
the
increacyng
&
spreadyng
of
it
so
farre
,
had
bin
the
negligence
,
cowardlynesse
,
and
dissimulation
of
the
Iudges
.
And
therfore
if
there
were
any
of
them
that
either
durst
not
or
would
not
execute
their
office
for
feare
of
summe
hurlyburly
:
they
should
aduertize
his
Maiestie
,
that
he
might
prouide
others
of
more
corage
and
better
zele
towards
the
execution
of
thynges
,
wherof
there
ought
to
be
no
want
in
that
Countrey
where
there
is
such
store
of
Catholikes
,
and
so
many
desi●…ous
to
do
God
&
his
Maiestie
seruis
:
by
the
doyng
whereof
&
the
executyng
of
the
Iniunctions
,
there
was
good
hope
that
the
hurt
which
was
done
there
,
would
better
and
sooner
be
remedied
,
than
by
any
other
way
.
Secondly
,
as
touchyng
the
Inquisitors
of
the
fayth
,
his
Maiestie
chargeth
hir
highnesse
to
beare
such
an
euen
hand
,
as
they
might
be
fauored
in
the
execution
of
their
Commission
,
as
the
thyng
that
was
expedient
for
the
benefite
and
vpholdyng
of
the
Religion
:
for
it
was
his
Maiesties
mynde
that
the
Inquisition
should
be
executed
by
the
Inquisitors
as
it
had
bin
thitherto
,
and
as
belonged
to
them
by
the
lawes
of
God
and
man
:
affirmyng
that
it
was
no
new
thyng
,
for
asmuch
as
it
had
bin
vsed
continewally
,
as
well
in
the
tyme
of
the
late
Emperour
,
as
in
his
owne
time
,
and
the
inconueniences
that
were
to
be
feared
were
much
apparanter
,
neerer
,
and
greater
,
where
the
Inquisitors
were
not
suffered
to
prouide
for
things
accordyng
to
their
office
,
nor
ayded
in
their
doynges
.
And
for
〈◊〉
as
hir
highnesse
knew
what
that
ment
,
his
Maiestie
charged
hir
to
do
what
she
could
in
that
behalfe
,
(
for
it
was
very
requisite
that
shee
should
so
doe
)
and
not
to
consent
that
any
other
thyng
should
bee
treated
of
in
that
behalfe
,
bycause
hir
highnesse
knew
how
neere
it
touched
hys
hart
,
and
what
pleasure
and
contentation
it
would
bee
vnto
hym
.
Thirdly
,
his
Maiestie
tooke
order
with
her
highnesse
,
that
sith
the
holy
Councell
of
Trent
was
already
published
,
so
as
ther
remayned
now
no
more
to
doo
,
but
the
puttyng
therof
in
execution
,
which
was
a
thyng
that
belonged
to
the
Bishops
:
her
highnesse
shoulde
giue
them
all
the
furtherance
and
helpe
that
shee
possibly
coulde
,
that
it
might
take
effect
as
it
ought
to
doo
.
Also
he
would
that
the
Decr●…es
of
the
Councel
of
Trent
that
concerned
the
reformation
of
the
lyues
and
maners
of
the
Clergie
,
should
be
put
in
execution
:
chargyng
as
well
hir
highnesse
,
as
all
his
Officers
,
to
fauour
and
further
them
by
all
requisite
meanes
:
and
that
if
neede
should
require
any
further
prouision
to
be
made
on
his
maiesties
behalfe
,
shee
shoulde
cause
it
to
be
dispatched
out
of
hande
,
that
euen
where
the
men
of
the
Church
would
not
obey
the
reformation
that
was
to
be
made
by
the
bishops
,
there
they
might
be
framed
and
made
conformable
by
the
Decrees
of
the
sayd
Councel
of
Trent
.
And
finally
he
affirmed
that
the
thinges
which
his
maiestie
had
written
to
her
highnesse
,
as
hath
bin
sayd
heretofore
,
concerned
the
prosperitie
of
Religion
,
and
of
the
countreys
there
,
which
would
be
nothyng
worth
,
without
that
Order
,
for
that
was
the
onely
way
to
kepe
them
in
iustice
,
peace
,
and
tranquilitie
.
And
seeyng
that
her
highnesse
knewe
what
commoditie
it
brought
:
he
desired
her
eftsoones
to
folow
that
way
whereby
the
foresayde
thynges
might
take
effect
,
for
it
was
the
thyng
wherby
his
maiestie
should
receyne
moste
contentment
,
as
well
at
the
handes
of
her
highnesse
,
as
of
the
Lordes
that
were
about
her
:
to
whom
he
would
haue
her
to
geue
the
same
charge
,
to
the
end
they
should
imploy
them selues
therunto
,
as
his
maiestie
hopeth
that
they
wil
,
without
faile
,
because
they
be
sure
that
he
wil
like
well
of
it
,
besides
that
they
shall
therein
doo
the
duetie
of
such
personages
as
they
be
,
and
accordingly
as
they
be
bound
to
doo
in
respect
of
their
seruis
towards
God
and
his
maiestie
,
&
in
respect
both
of
the
benefit
of
the
whole
Countrey
there
,
and
of
their
owne
peculiar
welfare
.
¶
Margaret
by
the
grace
of
God
,
Duchesse
of
Parma
and
Pleasance
.
&c.
RIght
deare
and
welbeloued
,
althoughe
that
euen
from
the
first
begynnyng
of
the
reigne
of
my
Lord
the
kyng
,
ouer
these
Countreys
,
as
wel
by
the
reuiuyng
and
publishyng
of
the
Iniunctions
and
Decrees
concernyng
Religion
,
made
by
my
late
Lord
of
noble
memory
the
Emperour
Charles
(
whom
God
hath
receiued
into
his
glory
)
and
now
ratified
and
confirmed
by
the
kinges
maiestie
,
as
by
the
thynges
that
he
hath
written
vnto
you
since
,
specially
from
his
last
departure
out
of
these
countreys
into
his
realmes
of
Spayne
,
you
might
alwayes
well
perceiue
his
good
zeale
and
most
holy
affection
in
mainteinyng
our
〈◊〉
true
fayth
and
Catholike
Religion
,
and
for
the
rootyng
out
of
all
s●…ctes
and
heresies
in
these
Countreys
here
:
yet
notwithstanding
for
as
muche
as
it
hath
pleazed
his
maiestie
for
certeyne
occasions
,
to
reuiue
his
most
holy
intent
by
his
late
letters
:
we
by
expresse
commaundement
from
hym
,
haue
thought
it
good
to
imparte
vnto
you
what
he
hath
written
vnto
vs
,
the
effect
wherof
is
this
:
that
his
maiestie
coueting
nothing
more
than
the
maintenance
of
the
said
Religion
,
and
of
his
good
subiectes
hereawayes
in
good
quietnesse
,
peace
,
vnitie
,
and
concord
:
and
to
preserue
them
from
the
inconueniences
that
haue
bin
seene
to
happen
in
many
parts
of
Christendome
through
the
chaunge
of
the
sayd
Religion
:
purpozeth
and
intendeth
that
the
Iniunctions
and
ordinances
made
as
well
by
the
late
Emperors
Maiestie
,
as
also
by
hym selfe
,
shal
be
throughly
kept
and
obserued
,
and
likewise
that
men
shall
most
straytly
keepe
the
Decrees
of
the
holy
Councell
of
Trent
,
and
the
prouinciall
Councelles
,
specially
in
respect
of
the
reformation
of
the
Clergie
,
without
gaynsaying
of
any
thing
,
to
the
ende
that
heresies
may
be
punished
,
and
manners
also
corrected
,
and
men
may
yeeld
all
fauour
and
assistence
to
the
Inquisitors
of
the
fayth
in
the
executing
of
their
office
,
and
that
the
Inquisition
may
be
put
in
vre
as
it
hath
bin
hitherto
,
and
as
it
ought
to
be
by
the
law
of
God
and
man
,
which
thyng
his
Maiestie
commaundeth
expressely
by
his
said
letters
.
Wherfore
according
to
this
his
maiesties
writyng
againe
,
to
the
intent
to
obey
the
same
in
a
thyng
so
holy
&
so
worthy
to
be
fauored
,
I
could
not
forbeare
to
write
thus
much
〈◊〉
you
,
praying
and
beseching
you
,
and
on
his
maiesties
behalfe
expresly
commaunding
you
to
rule
&
behaue
your selues
herein
accordyng
to
his
appoyntment
,
without
withstandyng
of
it
in
any
point
or
article
,
yea
and
to
giue
intelligence
therof
to
the
Officers
&
●…en
of
Law
of
the
chiefe
townes
of
the
countrey
&
Duchie
of
Braband
,
that
they
also
may
rule
them selues
according
hereunto
,
without
dissembling
or
winkyng
at
thyngs
,
vnder
the
penalties
conteyned
in
the
sayd
Iniunctions
.
And
that
ye
may
the
better
intend
vnto
it
,
you
shall
appoy●…
and
ordeyne
a
Counseller
of
your
Colledge
,
(
who
notwithstandyng
may
be
chaunged
at
euery
halfe
yeare
,
to
the
intent
that
no
one
man
be
ouerburthened
continually
)
to
doo
nothing
els
but
to
haue
an
eye
to
the
Countrey
of
Braband
,
for
the
keepyng
of
the
Decrees
of
the
said
most
holy
Councell
,
and
to
ad●…ertize
you
from
tyme
to
tyme
of
all
occurrents
▪
that
ye
may
prouide
for
them
accordyng
to
his
Maiesties
meanyng
.
And
to
the
intent
we
may
continually
know
the
state
of
religion
,
in
the
poyntes
aboue
mentioned
:
we
desire
and
commaund
you
,
as
before
,
to
write
vnto
vs
particularly
of
the
successe
of
thinges
from
three
monethes
to
three
monethes
,
&
to
repayre
to
vs
(
if
there
happen
any
hard
poynt
)
or
to
such
as
are
of
his
maiesties
priuie
counsel
,
that
report
thereof
may
be
made
vnto
vs
,
for
the
which
purpose
we
likewise
wil
appoint
some
Counseller
to
take
peculiar
charge
therof
,
and
to
be
answerable
to
you
,
or
to
hym
whom
you
shall
assigne
.
And
to
the
end
that
in
all
the
thyngs
abouesayd
,
ye
may
the
better
perceiue
his
maiesties
expresse
wyl
:
we
haue
caused
the
poyntes
of
his
letters
and
other
writinges
that
concerne
this
matter
,
to
be
annexed
to
this
letter
,
that
ye
may
rule
and
guide
your selues
accordyng
to
th●…
forme
&
tenor
of
them
,
without
making
any
default
.
And
thus
right
deare
and
welbeloued
,
our
Lord
haue
you
in
his
holy
keeping
.
Written
at
Brussels
the
〈◊〉
.
day
of
December
.
1565.
H.
V.
It
was
subscribed
thus
:
Margaret
.
And
somewhat
lower
it
was
signed
thus
:
Of
Ouerloepe
.
Agayne
vpon
the
backe
i●…
was
indorsed
thus
:
To
our
right
de●…
and
welbeloued
the
Chauncelor
and
men
of
the
kynges
Counsell
in
Brabant
.
¶
A
Supplication
of
the
Noble
men
of
the
low
Countrey
,
presented
MAdame
,
it
is
well
enough
knowen
,
that
the
people
of
the
low
Countrey
haue
alwayes
&
yet
are
styll
greatly
renowined
throughout
all
Christendome
for
their
great
faythfulnesse
towardes
their
naturall
Lordes
and
Princes
,
wherin
the
Nobilitie
and
Gentlemen
haue
alwayes
gone
foremost
,
as
they
that
neuer
spared
either
body
or
goodes
,
in
the
mayntenance
and
increasement
of
their
Princes
states
.
And
in
the
saine
manner
we
his
ma●…sties
most
humble
subiects
are
mynded
to
continue
styll
,
from
well
to
better
,
so
as
we
be
ready
night
and
day
to
doo
hym
humble
seruis
both
with
our
bodyes
&
our
goodes
.
And
for
as
much
as
we
see
in
what
plight
thinges
stand
at
this
present
,
we
haue
chozen
rather
to
hazard
the
bryngyng
of
some
mislikyng
and
displeasure
vppon
our
owne
heades
,
than
to
conceale
suche
thynges
from
your
highnesse
,
as
might
hereafter
turne
to
the
preiudice
of
the
kyngs
maiestie
,
and
therwithal
disturb
the
peace
and
quietnesse
of
the
Countrey
.
Hopyng
that
the
euent
wyll
shewe
in
time
,
that
of
al
the
seruises
which
we
either
haue
done
,
or
shal
doo
to
his
maiestie
hereafter
,
this
is
worthy
to
be
taken
for
one
of
the
noblest
,
and
to
best
purpoze
:
in
respect
wherof
we
be
throughly
perswaded
,
that
your
highnesse
can
not
but
take
it
in
good
worth
.
Therefore
Madam
,
although
we
doubt
not
but
that
all
that
euer
his
maiestie
hath
decreed
both
heretofore
,
and
now
newly
again
at
this
present
,
concer●…yng
the
Inquisition
,
and
the
streight
obsernyng
of
the
Iniunctions
in
the
case
of
Religion
,
haue
some
good
grounde
and
iust
title
,
namely
for
the
continuyng
of
the
thynges
which
the
late
Emperour
of
noble
memorie
Charles
,
had
vpon
very
good
meanyng
determined
and
stablished
:
yet
notwithstandyng
,
seeing
that
the
diuersitie
of
tymes
bringeth
diuersitie
of
remedyes
with
them
,
and
the
sayd
Iniunctions
haue
already
geuen
occasion
of
many
griefes
and
inconueniences
now
many
yeares
since
,
for
all
the
executyng
of
them
with
extreme
rigour
.
Surely
his
Maiesties
laste
resolution
whereby
he
not
only
forbyddeth
the
mitigatyng
of
the
Iniunctions
any
whyt
at
all
,
but
also
commaundeth
expresly
that
the
Inquisition
should
proceede
,
and
the
Iniunctions
be
executed
with
all
rigour
:
doth
giue
vs
sufficient
cause
of
iust
feare
that
therby
not
onely
the
inconueniences
wyl
be
greatly
augmented
:
but
also
there
wyl
in
the
end
insue
some
general
commotion
and
insurrection
,
tendyng
to
the
miserable
ruine
of
the
whole
Contrey
,
accordyng
as
the
manifest
tokens
of
m●…tinie
among
the
people
,
(
which
appeareth
already
euerywhere
)
doo
shewe
vs
openly
to
the
eye
.
Wherfore
consideryng
the
apparance
and
greatnesse
of
the
daungers
that
manace
vs
,
we
haue
hoped
hitherto
,
that
either
the
Lordes
or
els
the
states
of
the
Countrey
would
haue
aduertized
your
highnesse
therof
one
tyme
or
other
,
that
you
might
haue
remedyed
it
by
remouyng
the
cause
and
grounde
of
the
mischeef
.
But
when
we
sawe
that
they
did
not
put
forth
themselues
to
do
it
,
by
reason
of
sum
occasions
to
vs
vnknowen
,
and
that
in
the
meane
while
the
mischeef
increaced
from
day
to
day
,
so
as
it
was
lyke
to
come
to
a
generall
insurrection
and
ceuolt
:
we
ha●…e
thought
it
our
dewtie
to
wayt
no
longer
tyme
,
but
rather
accordyng
to
the
othe
of
our
faith
and
allegeaunce
,
matched
with
good
meening
and
zeale
towardes
his
Mai●…stie
and
the
countrey
,
to
put
forth
our selues
foremost
in
doyng
our
needefull
indeuer
,
&
that
so
much
the
more
frankly
,
as
we
haue
more
cause
to
hope
that
his
Maiestie
will
take
our
aduertizement
in
very
good
part
,
for
asmuch
as
the
matter
toucheth
vs
much
neerer
than
any
others
,
as
them
that
lye
more
open
to
the
inconueniences
and
calamities
that
are
customably
wont
to
spryng
of
like
accidents
,
bycause
the
most
part
of
vs
haue
our
houses
and
possessions
situa●…e
in
the
open
fieldes
,
redy
for
all
men
to
pray
vpon
:
and
also
forasmuch
as
if
we
should
follow
the
rigour
of
the
sayd
Iniunctions
,
in
such
wise
as
his
Maiestie
commaundeth
vs
expresly
to
procede
,
their
should
not
generally
be
any
man
among
vs
,
no
nor
in
all
the
Countreys
heeraboutes
,
of
whatsoeuer
callyng
state
or
degree
hee
were
,
which
should
not
roune
in
daunger
of
losse
both
of
body
and
goodes
,
&
bee
subiect
to
the
slaunder
of
hym
that
would
bee
his
enemye
who
to
haue
a
share
of
his
goodes
so
forfeyted
,
might
accuse
him
vnder
pretence
of
the
sayd
Iniunctions
,
wherein
there
was
none
other
refuge
left
for
the
defendant
,
but
only
if
the
officer
listed
to
winke
at
him
,
at
whose
curtesie
both
his
life
&
his
goods
did
wholly
stand
.
In
consideration
wher
of
,
we
haue
the
more
cause
to
beseeche
your
highnes
most
humbly
,
(
&
so
do
we
in
deede
by
this
our
Supplication
)
to
voutsafe
to
take
some
order
in
the
cace
,
&
(
bycause
it
is
a
matter
of
great
importance
)
to
send
a
fit
and
conuenient
person
to
the
Kynges
Maiestie
with
all
speede
possible
,
to
aduertize
him
therof
,
&
to
beseech
him
most
humbly
on
our
behalfe
,
that
it
may
pleaze
him
to
prouide
remedy
in
that
behalfe
as
well
for
heerafter
as
for
the
present
tyme
.
And
that
for
asmuch
as
that
cannot
be
done
by
sufferyng
the
sayd
Iniunctions
to
stand
in
force
,
bycause
they
bee
the
very
welspring
and
roote
from
whence
all
the
sayd
inconueniences
spryng
it
may
pleaze
him
to
giue
eare
to
the
abolishyng
of
them
:
which
he
shall
finde
to
be
necessary
for
the
turnyng
away
of
the
vniuersall
ruine
&
destruction
of
all
his
countreys
heere
.
And
to
the
intent
his
Maiestie
may
haue
no
cause
to
thinke
,
that
we
which
haue
none
other
meenyng
than
to
yeld
him
most
humble
seruis
,
would
take
vpon
vs
to
bridle
him
and
to
bynd
hym
to
the
stake
at
our
pleasure
,
as
we
dout
not
but
our
aduersaries
will
incense
him
to
our
disaduantage
:
it
may
please
him
to
make
other
ordinaunces
by
the
aduice
and
consent
of
all
the
States
assembled
generally
togither
,
to
prouide
for
the
things
abouesaid
,
by
sum
other
meanes
more
fit
and
conuenient
,
and
without
any
euident
daunger
.
Also
we
most
humbly
beseeche
your
highnes
,
that
in
the
meane
seazon
while
his
Maiestie
may
take
intelligence
of
our
iust
request
,
and
determine
thereof
accordyng
to
his
good
&
rightfull
pleasure
,
you
will
prouide
for
the
sayd
daungers
by
a
generall
surceassing
,
as
well
of
the
Inquisition
as
of
all
execution
of
the
sayd
Iniunctions
,
vntill
his
Maiesty
haue
taken
other
ordre
in
the
matter
.
And
we
protest
expresly
,
that
(
asmuch
as
in
vs
lay
)
we
haue
discharged
our
dewries
by
this
present
aduertizement
:
so
that
we
do
now
vnburthen
our selues
of
it
before
God
&
men
:
declaryng
plainly
,
that
if
any
iuconuenience
,
disorder
,
sedition
,
reuolt
,
or
sheadyng
of
blud
insew
thereof
herafter
for
want
of
redresse
in
tyme
,
we
cannot
be
blamed
of
the
concealyng
of
so
apparant
a
mischeef
.
Wherin
we
take
God
,
the
kyng
,
your
highnesse
,
the
Lordes
of
the
Counsell
,
and
our
owne
consciences
to
witnesse
,
that
our
proceedyng
therein
hath
bin
as
becommeth
the
kynges
good
&
trusty
seruauntes
,
and
faythfull
subiectes
,
without
passing
the
boundes
of
our
dewty
in
any
point
in
respect
wherof
also
,
we
beseech
your
highnesse
so
much
the
more
instantly
,
to
voutsafe
to
giue
eare
to
it
,
before
any
further
harme
insew
thereof
.
So
shall
you
do
well
.
¶
The
Answere
and
Replication
made
to
the
sayde
Supplication
in
the
Counsell
of
the
States
by
the
Lady
Regent
,
was
as
followeth
.
HIr
highnesse
hauying
considered
¶
The
Letters
of
assurance
giuen
MArgaret
by
the
grace
of
God
Duches
of
Parma
and
Pleasance
,
Regent
and
Gouernesse
heere
in
theis
Countreys
for
my
Lord
the
king
to
all
such
as
shall
see
theis
presentes
,
greetyng
.
Whereas
a
great
nomber
of
the
Gentlemen
of
this
Countrey
togither
,
did
put
vp
a
certein
Supplication
vnto
vs
in
the
moneth
of
Aprill
last
past
,
the
effect
wherof
was
that
it
might
pleaze
the
kynges
Maiestie
to
abrogate
and
abolish
the
Inquisition
and
Edictes
,
as
well
old
as
new
,
(
which
they
sayd
were
ouerrigorous
&
therfore
could
not
be
put
in
execution
)
and
in
sted
of
them
to
make
others
by
the
generall
aduise
and
consent
of
the
states
of
the
sayd
Countrey
,
beseechyng
vs
to
send
the
same
Supplication
to
his
Maiesty
,
that
he
might
prouide
for
it
:
wherupon
we
hild
many
great
consultations
with
the
gouernours
of
the
Countreys
,
the
Knightes
of
the
Order
,
the
Counsell
of
estate
,
&
his
Maiesties
priuy
Counsell
:
after
we
had
preferred
the
whole
vnto
him
,
togither
with
our
aduice
therin
.
For
asmuch
as
we
sawe
that
the
sayd
Gentlemen
might
perchaunce
haue
some
scruple
or
dout
,
that
the
kyng
would
take
in
ill
part
their
sayd
Supplication
togither
with
the
confederacie
which
they
had
made
therupon
among
themselues
,
&
all
that
had
insewed
therupon
:
which
misdoutyng
might
cause
some
greater
mischeef
in
those
countreys
:
We
thought
it
good
by
the
aduice
aforesayd
,
and
vpon
deliberation
as
is
mencioned
afore
,
to
sew
to
the
kynges
Maiestie
,
that
it
might
pleaze
him
likewize
to
giue
them
letters
of
assuraunce
,
that
they
should
not
be
charged
with
any
thyng
hereafter
,
that
had
bin
do
by
the
occasion
therof
.
Whereupon
his
Maiestie
hath
certified
vs
of
his
good
pleazure
and
meenyng
,
accordyng
wherto
we
tenderyng
the
benefite
,
rest
,
and
tranquilitie
of
the
sayd
Countreys
,
and
to
mainteine
the
sayd
Gentlemen
in
such
wise
as
they
may
the
more
willyngly
yeld
their
obedience
and
seruis
to
his
Maiesty
,
accordingly
as
they
be
bound
as
well
by
nature
as
by
othe
,
and
as
they
themselues
haue
alwayes
offred
:
we
(
I
say
)
at
their
request
and
information
,
by
the
power
&
authoritie
which
we
haue
vnder
his
Maiestie
,
as
Regent
&
Gouernesse
generall
of
theis
his
Countreys
,
and
by
the
aduice
of
the
foresayd
Gouerners
,
Knightes
of
the
Order
,
and
Lordes
of
the
Counsell
of
state
beyng
with
vs
,
haue
for
their
sayd
assurance
giuen
them
a
Charter
signed
with
our
hand
in
maner
and
forme
followyng
.
HEr
highnesse
.
&c.
We
doo
you
to
vnderstande
,
that
all
things
afore
mentioned
considered
,
and
by
the
kings
maiesties
consent
and
good
will
,
and
by
the
power
and
commaundement
whiche
we
haue
from
hym
,
we
in
the
name
and
by
the
power
aforesayd
haue
promised
,
and
by
these
presents
do
promis
,
that
nother
his
Maiestie
nor
we
,
wyll
blame
or
charge
the
said
Gentlemen
for
the
foresayde
Supplication
or
the
confederacie
made
therupon
,
or
for
any
thing
that
hath
insued
of
them
vnto
this
present
,
so
their
othe
and
faythfulnesse
whiche
they
haue
giuen
and
plighted
vnto
vs
,
as
well
for
them
selues
as
for
the
confederates
,
be
conformable
to
the
poyntes
and
articles
aboue
specified
,
and
wherunto
they
haue
bound
them selues
.
Therefore
on
the
kings
maiesties
behalfe
,
we
wyll
and
commaund
all
Gouernors
,
Knights
of
the
Order
,
Lords
of
the
Counsell
of
Estate
,
the
Chiefe
,
the
President
,
and
the
Lordes
of
the
priuie
Counsel
,
and
all
other
his
maiesties
Iustices
and
Officers
,
to
whom
this
cace
perteyneth
,
to
mainteine
this
present
assurance
,
and
to
cause
it
to
be
mainteyned
,
in●…iolably
&
continually
,
causing
,
suffering
,
and
permitting
the
said
Suppliants
to
vse
and
inioy
it
fully
,
quietly
,
and
perpetually
,
without
causing
,
procuring
,
or
dooyng
,
and
without
suffering
to
be
caused
,
procured
,
or
done
,
presently
,
or
in
tyme
to
come
,
directly
or
indirectly
,
any
trouble
or
impeachment
to
the
contrary
,
and
also
without
attempting
any
thyng
against
the
said
Suppliants
,
in
any
maner
of
wise
,
for
any
cause
aboue
specified
.
For
so
is
it
the
kings
maiesties
pleasure
and
ours
.
In
witnesse
whereof
we
haue
signed
these
presents
with
our
name
,
and
set
thereto
our
seale
.
Giuen
in
the
Citie
of
Brusselles
the.
xxv
.
day
of
August
.
1566.
Signed
vpon
the
foldyng
on
the
right
side
of
it
thus
:
Margaret
.
And
on
the
left
side
of
the
same
foldyng
,
was
written
thus
:
By
the
expresse
appoyntment
of
her
highnesse
.
And
vndersigned
:
Of
Ouerloepe
.
These
letters
were
sealed
with
her
highnesse
owne
Seale
,
in
red
waxe
,
vpon
a
double
Labell
.
¶
The
copie
of
a
letter
written
by
the
kyng
with
his
owne
hand
,
vnto
the
Prince
of
Orendge
,
translated
out
of
Spanish
into
French.
WIth
great
good
wyll
haue
I
receiued
your
letters
,
one
the
〈◊〉
.
of
May
,
and
afterward
an
other
the.
〈◊〉
.
of
Iune
.
You
might
haue
vnderstoode
by
that
which
I
wrote
to
my
syster
,
how
small
cause
you
haue
to
thinke
the
thinge
that
you
writ
to
me
in
your
letter
of
May
,
or
rather
that
you
ought
to
thinke
the
cleane
contrary
.
And
surely
you
should
be
much
ouerseene
,
if
you
should
thinke
that
I
trusted
you
not
in
all
thinges
,
or
that
if
any
body
had
gon
about
to
make
me
conceiue
amisse
of
your
duetifulnes
towards
me
,
I
would
haue
bin
so
light
of
credit
,
as
to
beleue
it
,
hauyng
had
so
great
experience
of
your
loyaltie
and
good
seruis
.
Therefore
you
may
forbeare
your
mistrust
in
that
behalfe
,
and
referre
your selfe
to
the
letters
whiche
you
haue
written
heretofore
in
that
matter
,
and
to
your
owne
doyngs
,
and
not
to
the
things
that
may
haue
bin
put
into
your
head
,
by
some
that
perchance
are
enemies
both
to
my
seruice
,
and
to
your
welfare
.
As
touching
the
leaue
that
you
sue
for
,
to
geue
vp
your
Offices
:
I
am
sory
that
your
priuate
affayres
are
in
suche
state
as
you
speake
of
:
howebeit
seeing
that
the
state
of
those
Countreys
is
so
tickle
as
it
is
,
I
can
not
forbeare
to
tel
you
,
that
it
is
no
reason
that
such
personages
as
you
be
,
in
whom
I
trust
,
and
vpon
whom
I
rest
,
should
nowe
abandon
them
,
specially
sith
I
am
so
farre
of
from
them
:
but
rather
it
were
more
reason
that
suche
as
are
at
home
in
their
houses
,
shoulde
come
running
out
at
such
a
time
of
nede
and
put
to
their
helping
hande
as
they
be
bound
to
doo
,
and
as
you
haue
done
at
this
present
in
goyng
to
And
werpe
,
whereof
I
like
very
well
,
assuring
my selfe
that
you
wyll
doo
there
what
soeuer
is
most
expedient
for
my
seruis
,
and
for
the
peace
and
tranquilitie
both
of
the
Citie
and
of
the
Countrey
,
and
also
for
the
redresse
of
such
disorders
as
are
ther
,
according
to
the
truste
that
I
haue
in
you
:
and
so
to
doo
I
geue
you
expresse
charge
and
commission
,
knowing
that
you
wyll
not
shewe
your selfe
otherwise
towardes
me
,
than
you
haue
bin
of
all
your
lyfe
long
.
And
to
the
ende
you
may
see
howe
freely
I
deale
with
you
,
I
can
not
spare
to
tell
you
howe
it
is
much
spoken
of
here
,
that
your
brother
is
a
medler
in
the
thinges
that
are
done
there
,
as
you
be
.
For
as
muche
therfore
as
I
can
not
but
greatly
mislike
of
it
,
I
charge
you
to
looke
to
the
redresse
thereof
,
that
he
proc●…ede
no
further
,
and
that
you
doo
it
out
of
hande
.
And
if
you
thinke
it
conuenient
,
to
put
hym
from
you
for
certayne
dayes
,
doo
so
.
From
the
wood
of
Segouia
,
the
first
of
August
.
1566.
vndersigned
,
Philip.
Indorsed
:
To
the
prince
of
Orendge
.
And
sealed
with
the
kinges
owne
seale
.
¶
A
Letter
of
the
kynges
Ambassadour
MAdame
,
although
I
wrote
to
you
at
large
a
fifteene
dayes
ago
,
and
also
by
the
Post
that
came
out
of
Spayne
,
as
he
passed
this
way
a
six
&
twenty
dayes
since
:
yet
notwithstandyng
for
as
much●…
as
yesterday
I
receyued
aduertisementes
from
out
of
Spayne
,
I
purpozed
to
giue
your
highnes
intelligence
of
them
incontinently
,
and
to
send
you
the
copies
of
the
two
letters
that
were
written
vnto
me
,
wherby
you
may
see
many
suche
poyntes
,
as
I
am
sure
you
wyll
very
well
like
of
,
and
also
vnderstand
the
good
order
which
the
kinges
Maiestie
hath
taken
,
and
the
great
preparation
that
he
maketh
dayly
,
as
well
to
withstand
the
Turkes
power
,
if
it
should
aduenture
to
arriue
vpon
those
Coastes
,
&
to
profer
any
attempt
,
as
also
to
bring
all
his
subiectes
to
the
obedience
of
God
and
of
hym selfe
.
Also
your
highnes
shal
vnderstand
,
how
well
your
manner
of
dealyng
is
liked
of
,
whiche
you
haue
vsed
since
the
styrre
that
hath
happened
in
the
countrey
where
you
be
:
and
that
the
last
poynt
concernyng
intelligences
and
strong
places
,
is
found
very
good
,
and
to
very
great
purpoze
aboue
all
the
rest
.
In
so
much
that
now
by
that
meanes
the
kyngs
maiestie
maketh
full
account
to
bring
his
matters
about
with
small
payne
●…nd
resistence
,
contrary
to
the
doubt
which
he
had
of
it
at
the
beginnyng
:
specially
for
as
much
as
the
straungers
meddle
not
ouer
farre
,
and
also
by
reason
of
the
continuall
wisedome
and
cunnyng
handlyng
of
thynges
,
where
with
your
highnesse
hath
begonne
to
order
the
whole
matter
.
For
I
am
well
able
to
assure
you
,
Madame
,
that
his
Maiestie
attributeth
the
preseruation
of
his
low
countreys
vnto
you
,
next
after
God
:
who
of
his
grace
wyll
bring
to
passe
,
that
this
inconuenience
whiche
is
befallen
,
shall
t●…rne
so
greatly
to
his
benefit
and
commoditie
,
as
he
shall
see
them
brought
wholy
vnder
his
obedience
,
and
to
such
state
,
gouernment
,
and
rule
,
as
his
predecessors
could
neuer
attayne
vnto
,
and
which
he
hym selfe
had
so
long
desired
&
labored
for
,
together
with
this
occasion
which
no
good
seruant
of
his
wyll
counsell
hym
to
looze
,
wherby
he
is
in
forewardnesse
to
subdue
the
one
sort
,
and
to
ryd
his
handes
of
the
other
,
as
he
hym selfe
shall
find
best
,
and
perceiue
to
be
most
expedient
for
the
incounteryng
of
thyngs
hereafter
,
to
the
benefit
of
his
affayres
in
the
saide
Countreys
.
And
for
as
much
Madame
as
the
point
which
to
my
seeming
is
of
greatest
importance
and
of
most
necessitie
as
now
in
this
cace
,
is
to
make
those
vizored
seruaunts
(
whom
you
note
of
)
more
&
more
carelesse
,
and
out
of
mistrust
:
your
highnesse
(
by
your
fauour
)
muste
not
thinke
amisse
of
me
for
that
I
haue
often
warned
you
,
and
nowe
againe
doo
put
you
in
mind
,
to
dally
with
them
for
the
present
tyme
,
and
to
feed
them
so
far
foorth
,
as
to
hold
talke
with
them
ofttymes
your selfe
,
or
to
cause
them
to
be
talkt
with
by
persons
appoynted
for
the
nonce
,
which
must
feed
them
with
the
great
opinion
and
good
liking
that
the
kings
maiestie
hath
of
their
doyngs
,
and
with
the
good
wyll
which
he
beareth
them
,
yea
euen
so
farre
forth
as
to
assure
them
that
he
beleueth
,
&
sayth
,
that
they
haue
done
hym
so
notable
seruis
,
as
he
thinketh
him selfe
beholden
to
them
for
that
his
low
Countreys
are
styll
vnder
his
obedience
,
&
that
but
for
their
presence
and
wisdome
they
had
eyther
bin
a
pray
to
straungers
,
or
els
bin
bathed
in
the
blud
of
their
own
people
.
For
although
madame
,
such
speches
be
but
〈◊〉
&
fayned
in
very
deede
,
yet
doo
the
tyme
and
occasion
require
,
that
such
artificial
talke
should
be
vsed
for
the
seruis
of
his
maiestie
.
And
I
beleue
your
highnesse
shall
see
by
experience
,
that
they
wyll
serue
to
good
purpoze
for
the
holdyng
of
them
in
,
or
at
leastwise
for
to
hold
the
fast
,
as
we
haue
perceyued
alreadye
,
not
onely
in
them
,
but
also
in
the
two
that
are
gone
to
his
maiestie
,
who
haue
bin
so
cunnyngly
and
skilfully
handled
,
and
haue
had
so
good
countenance
and
intertaynment
giuen
them
,
that
they
swear●…
by
nothyng
els
but
by
the
faith
that
they
owe
to
their
maister
.
And
on
the
otherside
,
there
is
so
good
order
taken
,
and
such
fetches
practized
in
their
houses
at
home
,
that
accordyng
to
the
meanes
that
your
highnesse
counseleth
,
they
can
nother
doe
nor
say
any
thyng
,
wherof
good
intelligence
is
not
giuen
backe
agayne
.
Besides
this
,
it
is
determined
to
holde
them
a
good
while
at
the
Court
,
and
not
to
suffer
them
to
depart
thence
,
no
more
than
they
haue
suffered
the
Lord
of
Ibermount
,
who
thought
he
should
haue
retunred
out
of
hand
.
But
I
must
tell
you
Madame
,
that
the
greatest
inconuenience
whiche
I
know
to
be
in
this
cace
at
this
preset
,
is
that
they
which
are
of
greatest
power
and
credit
about
the
kyng
,
(
that
is
to
witte
the
Duke
and
the
[
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*
This
Duke
is
the
Duke
of
Alua
:
and
the
Prince
is
the
prince
Deboly
Ruygomes
.
Prince
)
agree
well
vpon
the
punishment
,
but
not
vpon
the
meane
how
to
punish
them
.
For
the
one
vrgeth
the
kinges
goyng
thither
as
much
as
he
can
,
&
the
other
on
the
contrary
part
letteth
&
hindereth
it
,
&
propoundeth
other
new
meanes
.
As
for
me
,
I
haue
alwayes
bin
of
opinion
,
that
in
such
caces
the
kynges
presence
would
stand
in
great
stead
:
&
that
aboue
all
thynges
,
diligence
and
speedy
dispatch
is
needefull
,
and
would
greatly
aduauntage
the
matter
,
and
that
in
suddein
diseazes
it
behoueth
to
vse
speedy
,
yea
&
euen
violent
remedies
:
which
is
the
opinion
,
wherein
the
kynges
Maiestie
as
I
am
informed
(
onely
by
one
litle
soule
)
doth
now
dwell
fully
settled
and
resolued
:
in
so
much
that
the
same
day
that
he
arriued
last
at
Madrid
after
his
sicknesse
,
hee
sware
in
the
presence
of
the
sayd
Lords
,
how
he
knew
well
that
in
the
thynges
whiche
he
had
to
do
in
his
low
Countreys
,
his
going
should
be
,
not
onely
to
his
own
reputation
,
but
also
to
the
seruis
of
God
:
and
therfore
that
it
touched
him
so
neere
,
as
he
would
rather
hazard
all
the
rest
of
his
dominions
,
than
fayle
to
punish
such
Rebellion
to
the
example
and
open
sight
of
all
Christendome
.
And
for
the
same
cause
his
Maiestie
determined
resolutely
in
the
same
place
,
to
depart
out
of
Spayne
as
soone
as
he
possibly
might
,
and
to
cary
with
him
the
Prince
his
sonne
,
&
the
Queene
,
(
who
notwithstandyng
(
as
it
was
thought
)
might
haue
passed
thorough
Fraunce
,
)
leauyng
his
suster
the
Regent
of
the
countrey
and
his
two
nephewes
the
Emperours
sonnes
with
hir
,
howbeit
that
the
Emperour
was
mynded
afterward
to
take
home
the
elder
of
them
:
and
that
the
duke
should
go
his
way
certaine
dayes
afore
to
refresh
the
garrisons
of
Italy
,
and
to
fetche
thence
the
best
and
auncientest
Capteines
and
souldiers
,
&
in
their
places
to
put
those
whom
he
should
carry
with
him
out
of
Spaine
:
and
that
anon
after
,
his
Maiestie
shal
go
into
Italy
and
speake
with
some
of
the
Princes
and
potentates
of
that
countrey
,
and
talke
mouth
to
mouth
with
the
Pope
,
¶
The
Princes
answere
to
the
Attourneyes
Summons
or
Citation
.
MAister
Attourney
,
I
haue
receiued
a
Copie
of
the
Summons
And
for
as
muche
as
it
is
an
odious
thing
,
as
the
worlde
goes
now
adayes
,
to
accuse
men
of
pretensed
heresie
,
to
the
intent
they
may
punish
it
without
incurryng
the
indignation
and
turnyng
away
of
mens
hartes
,
which
they
woulde
faine
holde
in
bondage
:
it
standeth
them
in
hand
to
couer
it
with
the
cloke
of
treazon
,
wherof
who
soeuer
is
accused
,
shall
in
vaine
goe
about
to
purge
and
cleare
hym self
,
before
one
to
whom
he
perceyueth
hym selfe
to
be
suspected
of
heresie
.
For
in
as
much
as
treazon
is
not
the
finall
cause
,
for
which
he
is
pursued
,
arrested
,
apprehended
,
and
accuzed
:
though
he
make
his
innocencie
appeare
by
neuer
so
due
proofe
:
yet
can
he
not
hope
for
any
acquitment
or
deliuerance
,
but
must
be
condemned
vnder
title
and
pretence
of
treazon
:
or
els
(
be
his
innocencie
too
too
apparant
)
he
must
looke
for
●…
perpetuall
and
miserable
deteynyng
in
lawe
by
delay
of
proceedyng
:
which
thing
ought
to
excuze
me
sufficiently
for
not
appearing
before
the
Duke
of
〈◊〉
Gouernor
and
Capteyne
general
of
the
low
countreys
:
Besides
that
your
〈◊〉
which
you
haue
sued
out
,
is
for
in
●…any
reas●…ns
vtterly
without
right
,
and
such
as
I
am
not
bounde
to
obey
.
For
●…esides
that
the
officer
of
Armes
●…ath
not
giuen
any
intelligence
,
warnyng
,
or
●…clyng
of
his
doing
vnto
me
,
who
vpon
aduertizement
giuen
to
my
Lady
the
Duchesse
of
Parma
then
Regent
,
dyd
withdrawe
my selfe
〈◊〉
into
this
●…y
Countie
of
Nass●…
▪
for
certaine
vrgent
affayres
of
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
▪
(
accordyng
also
as
I
certifyed
his
〈◊〉
long
ago
that
I
was
mynded
to
doo
)
and
〈◊〉
of
purpoze
to
flee
awaye
,
or
to
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
head
,
as
your
Writ
conteyneth
▪
the
termes
,
respites
,
and
distances
were
〈◊〉
short
,
as
it
was
vnpossible
for
me
to
be
aduertized
of
the
proclaymyng
of
〈◊〉
in
Brusselles
,
&
to
make
my
apparance
there
within
the
compasse
of
them
,
and
much
lesse
in
any
places
further
of
,
●…ther
the
Duke
of
Alua
might
〈◊〉
in
the
meane
while
.
For
seeing
that
euery
terme
and
day
of
respit
had
his
●…ffect
:
it
is
wel
knowen
that
respect
ought
to
be
had
to
ech
of
them
seuerally
,
and
not
to
●…em
all
three
ioyntly
and
continuingly
together
.
And
therefore
to
set
ter●…s
〈◊〉
of
●…eene
dayes
a
●…eece
,
for
suche
a
〈◊〉
as
is
betweene
this
and
Brusselles
:
is
nothing
els
but
to
set
out
E●…es
▪
Summons
,
and
Citations
that
are
vnpossible
to
be
obeyed
.
Agayne
,
by
the
hndlyng
vppe
of
your
saide
respites
,
and
by
your
taking
of
three
for
one
:
I
finde
that
notwithstandyng
the
great
importance
of
the
cace
,
&
the
state
and
calling
of
my
person
,
your
meanyng
is
to
proceede
agaynst
me
by
one
onely
Summons
,
contrary
to
all
order
of
iustice
:
specially
seeyng
that
in
like
caces
,
the
proceedyng
is
speedy
ynough
accor●…ing
to
right
,
when
there
is
no
more
done
,
but
the
keeping
of
the
accustomed
order
:
which
is
,
that
there
should
be
no
proceedyng
to
the
peremptory
day
,
before
there
haue
〈◊〉
three
seuerall
〈◊〉
sued
out
,
with
sixe
dayes
distance
at
the
least
betweene
Summons
and
Summons
,
and
that
the
Iudge
beyng
●…ely
●…ed
of
the
places
&
hauntes
where
the
partie
absent
that
is
to
be
summoned
abydeth
,
do
appoint
the
respites
accordyng
to
the
farrenes
of
that
distance
that
he
hath
to
come
.
Which
thing
sith
your
Summons
dooth
not
,
it
foloweth
of
necessitie
,
that
it
is
of
no
value
,
nor
any
Summons
at
all
.
Of
like
●…ffect
are
all
your
Iudiciall
actes
vnduely
and
vncompetētly
done
,
so
much
the
more
,
because
your
pre●…ed
Citation
and
〈◊〉
can
take
no
place
or
effect
,
in
as
much
as
they
be
done
against
such
a
one
as
dwelleth
out
of
the
kyngs
territorie
and
iurisdiction
,
within
the
boundes
of
the
Empire
,
and
is
a
member
and
state
of
the
same
:
(
the
priuiledge
and
authoritie
wherof
is
s●…che
,
)
that
if
any
withdraw●…
them selues
out
of
it
,
〈◊〉
may
of
right
be
required
to
be
sent
backe
agayne
,
but
it
is
not
lawful
to
cal
them
out
of
the
Empire
by
any
Citation
,
or
by
any
pre●…sed
Summons
,
Iniunction
,
or
Proclamation
.
Which
thing
hath
bin
of
suche
estimation
in
〈◊〉
past
,
that
chiefly
by
reason
thereof
,
the
sentence
that
was
geuen
by
the
●…rour
Henry
,
against
Robert
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Sicilie
was
reuersed
and
〈◊〉
▪
the
rather
because
the
said
kyng
〈◊〉
stood
in
doubt
of
the
Emper●…
〈◊〉
accompanyed
with
a
puissant
ar●…y
,
as
the
duke
of
Alua
is
at
this
prese●…
wit●…
an
army
of
Spaniardes
,
bearing
suche
good
wyll
to
me
as
all
the
world
●…weth
.
And
therefore
it
ought
to
〈◊〉
for
the
bewraying
of
the
〈◊〉
of
your
sayd
Citation
and
Summons
,
specially
seyng
that
the
Duke
is
notoriously
knowen
to
be
a
more
vncompetent
Iudge
in
respecte
of
me
,
than
the
saide
Emperour
was
in
respect
of
the
kyng
of
Sicilie
:
Considering
that
such
as
are
knightes
of
the
Order
,
can
not
by
the
Lawes
,
Ordinances
,
and
Constitutions
therof
,
be
otherwise
s●…moned
than
before
the
chiefe
of
the
same
Order
,
and
their
brethren
,
no
not
●…uen
for
the
woorst
,
heynousest
,
and
shamefullest
matters
that
they
can
commyt
.
Nay
,
there
can
not
any
man
proceede
to
the
apprehending
,
attaching
,
and
deteynyng
of
those
knightes
,
vnlesse
it
be
decreed
by
the
aduice
of
sixe
of
their
brethren
at
the
least
:
and
in
such
cace
they
must
be
put
by
and
by
in
the
custody
of
their
owne
.
Colledge
,
and
of
the
frendly
company
of
their
owne
Order
,
and
not
be
rigorously
dealt
withall
,
as
our
Cosins
and
brethren
of
the
same
Order
already
apprehended
,
are
vsed
:
whiche
thing
doth
also
confir●…e
the
insufficiencie
of
the
Writ
that
you
haue
sued
out
,
and
specially
of
the
rigorous
clause
of
bo●…yly
attachment
put
thereinto
.
For
seeing
that
man
is
naturally
giuen
to
〈◊〉
hym selfe
:
it
is
not
likely
that
we
wyll
be
made
to
appeare
among
〈◊〉
men
,
&
before
such
Iudges
,
as
we
mistrust
,
and
specially
to
yeelde
our
selues
into
such
prizons
as
are
farre
more
streyt
and
rigorous
,
than
we
of
duetie
are
bound
vnto
,
or
than
of
right
belongeth
vnto
vs
.
For
of
right
the
Prizon
should
serue
but
onely
to
keepe
the
prizoner
forthcommyng
,
and
not
to
〈◊〉
hym
from
all
company
,
〈◊〉
,
co●…nsel
,
&
aduice
:
without
the
which
it
is
impossible
that
any
cace
of
importance
shoulde
be
well
and
duely
pleaded
and
defended
:
the
whiche
neuerthelesse
I
vnderstand
in
very
dede
to
haue
bin
vsed
&
to
be
vsed
styll
towardes
our
said
Cosins
and
brethren
of
the
Order
,
whom
we
see
also
to
haue
bin
fetched
out
of
the
Countie
of
Braband
,
notwithstandyng
the
expresse
Couenants
,
Lawes
,
and
Conditions
,
wherby
the
same
countrey
is
bounde
to
the
obedience
of
the
kyngs
maiestie
.
And
I
see
that
the
lik●…
is
come
to
passe
in
the
person
of
myne
own
sonne
the
Countie
of
Bure
,
without
any
regarde
had
of
his
young
age
,
and
apparant
innocencie
:
whiche
ser●…eth
me
for
a
warnyng
,
that
the
Duke
of
Alua
meaneth
not
to
stand
to
any
couenauntes
,
bondes
,
lawes
,
rightes
,
or
customes
,
and
therfore
that
it
should
be
impossible
for
me
to
obteyne
any
discharge
at
his
hande
,
though
I
made
myne
innocencie
to
appeare
neuer
so
sufficie●…tly
by
like
allegations
.
Wherfore
,
&
forasmuch
as
both
by
right
of
law
,
&
by
force
of
couenaunt
,
brought
in
at
ioy
full
enteraunce
,
conteinyng
the
lawes
whereby
the
Duchy
of
Braband
〈◊〉
obedience
,
we
whiche
haue
alway●…s
had
our
dwellyng
place
in
the
●…ame
Duchy
,
haue
good
ground
to
withhold
and
suspend
all
obedience
which
we
owe
to
the
kyng
,
vntill
his
Maiesty
beyng
better
informed
,
haue
amended
the
thyngs
that
haue
bin
done
and
attempted
contrary
to
the
said
ioyfull
entrance
&
in
preiudice
therof
:
I
thought
it
good
to
aduertize
you
and
to
tell
you
playnly
by
theis
presentes
,
that
in
respect
of
the
reasons
before
alledged
,
we
take
your
sayd
Summons
and
Citation
for
none
and
of
no
valew
.
Expr●…y
protestyng
the
like
,
of
all
that
shal
be
done
and
decreed
by
vertue
and
confequence
of
the
same
,
specially
bycause
of
the
apparaunt
vnsufficiencie
of
the
Duke
of
Alua
,
to
whom
the
Commission
of
this
cace
is
directed
in
respect
of
his
Gouernershyp
and
Capteinship
generall
ouer
the
low
Countreys
:
which
protestation
our
wil
is
to
haue
to
serue
for
our
excuze
,
&
consequently
also
for
our
refusall
in
respect
of
him
,
and
so
farre
forth
as
is
nedefull
besides
,
bycause
we
finde
in
very
deede
&
by
experience
,
that
we
cannot
hope
to
obteine
of
him
,
the
right
which
our
cace
shall
deserue
,
by
reason
of
the
causes
aforesaid
.
And
we
offer
to
present
our
selues
before
the
Emperour
,
the
Electors
,
the
Princes
,
the
States
,
and
other
th●…
Lordes
of
the
Empyre
,
or
any
othe●…
meete
and
vnsuspected
Iudges
,
to
haue
the
examining
and
deciding
of
our
cace
,
accordyng
to
the
desert
of
it
openly
and
without
partialitie
or
affection
.
Protestyng
yit
once
agayne
,
that
all
is
nothyng
,
which
is
or
shal
be
done
,
sayd
,
ordeyned
,
iudged
,
or
decreed
to
our
preiudice
,
by
the
said
Duke
of
Alua
,
suspected
and
refuzed
as
an
incompetent
Iudge
as
is
sayd
afore
,
or
by
any
that
shal
be
put
in
Commission
for
him
and
in
his
steade
.
And
for
asmuch
as
all
this
serueth
to
none
other
end
,
but
to
do
you
to
vnderstand
the
sayd
declarations
,
offers
,
and
protestations
:
that
by
you
and
others
such
regarde
may
be
had
of
them
as
is
meete
:
I
will
pray
to
the
Creator
to
haue
you
Maister
Attourney
in
his
holy
keepyng
.
Written
at
Dillenbourch
the
thyrde
of
Marche
.
1568.
Under-signed
,
William
of
Nassaw
.
The
superscription
of
it
was
,
To
Maister
Attourney
Generall
.
¶
An
answere
sent
to
the
Duke
of
Alua
by
the
Prince
of
Orendge
,
vpon
the
Citation
or
Summons
.
SIr
,
for
asmuch
as
my
doyngs
Your
brother
of
the
Order
,
William
of
Nassaw
.
The
superscription
was
,
To
my
Lord
the
Duke
of
Aluaze
grace
.
¶
The
Copie
of
an
other
Letter
written
by
the
foresaid
Frauncis
of
Alua
Ambassadour
for
the
king
of
Spaine
in
Fraunce
,
to
the
Duchesse
of
Parma
.
&c.
Regent
:
besides
that
whiche
is
inserted
heertofore
in
the
page
.
106.
No.
6.
MAdame
,
the
aduertizement
which
your
highnes
hath
giuen
me
of
the
affaires
where
you
are
,
hath
confirmed
the
opinion
which
I
haue
alwayes
had
:
namely
that
this
styrre
was
neuer
made
without
the
knowledge
and
supportance
of
the
greatest
,
and
specially
of
the
three
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n
He
meeneth
the
Prince
of
Orendge
,
the
Countie
of
Egmond
,
and
the
Countie
of
Horn.
whiche
make
so
fayre
countenance
.
For
as
your
highnesse
hath
considered
with
greate
care
and
discretion
:
you
must
also
beleue
that
all
the
mischief
spryngeth
of
them
three
.
I
haue
not
fayled
to
aduertize
the
kings
Maiestie
of
all
thynges
,
and
specially
of
that
matter
.
And
I
am
sure
that
whereas
your
highnesse
hath
informed
his
Maiestie
of
them
,
you
shall
not
neede
to
handle
them
as
they
should
be
,
and
accordyng
to
your
owne
information
:
for
they
may
be
well
assured
,
that
they
shal
be
the
first
whom
his
Maiestie
will
deale
with
:
not
to
shewe
them
fauour
,
for
they
be
not
worthy
of
it
:
but
to
punish
and
correct
them
as
their
rebellion
deserueth
.
Therfore
your
hyghnes
shall
not
neede
to
giue
them
any
euill
countenance
,
or
to
make
any
shewe
of
misliking
,
for
feare
of
marring
the
matter
:
But
you
must
hold
them
stil
in
hope
that
the
kynges
Maiestie
taketh
them
for
his
faythfull
seruauntes
:
&
that
will
stand
vs
in
great
stead
.
For
,
by
causing
them
to
beleeue
so
,
you
shall
ouertake
them
the
eassyer
.
But
when
the
time
commeth
,
you
shal
talke
to
them
in
an
other
maner
of
language
.
And
your
highnesse
must
assure
your selfe
,
that
if
your
will
be
good
to
make
them
receiue
the
payment
that
they
haue
deserued
:
his
Maiestie
wil
be
no
lesse
willyng
to
do
what
soeuer
is
needefull
in
that
behalfe
.
Also
Madame
,
to
aduertize
you
in
what
assuraunce
we
bee
of
succour
in
Fraunce
,
accordyng
to
the
instructions
that
you
gaue
me
:
I
must
bee
fayne
to
tell
your
hyghnesse
,
that
we
haue
promises
inough
made
vs
,
but
I
feare
me
they
will
stand
vs
in
no
great
stead
,
and
in
the
end
all
will
turne
to
bare
words
,
bycause
they
haue
not
their
own
willes
,
nor
are
able
to
helpe
vs
as
they
promise
,
by
reason
that
the
Hugonotes
heerawayes
are
strong
and
doo
make
head
.
I
will
not
fayle
to
do
what
may
be
done
,
and
to
aduertize
your
highnesse
thereof
vpon
all
occasions
.
But
in
any
wise
I
beseech
you
to
behaue
your selfe
very
cunnyngly
towards
the
three
persons
whom
I
haue
named
vnto
you
.
And
so
&c.
From
Paris
the
xxix
.
of
August
,
1566.
¶
Letters
of
the
Prince
of
Orendgis
to
the
Regent
.
MAdame
,
I
haue
receyued
the
letters
[
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o
These
are
the
letters
with
the
kings
resolution
sent
abrod
by
the
Regent
,
the
18.
of
Decemb.
1565.
No.
2.
fo.
77.
which
it
hath
pleased
your
highnesse
to
write
vnto
me
,
together
with
the
Counselles
letters
,
concernyng
my
gouernment
:
whereby
I
vnderstand
the
kinges
maiesties
intent
,
consistyng
in
three
poynts
,
which
he
commaundeth
me
very
expressely
to
cause
to
be
executed
in
all
places
of
my
gouernmente
.
Nowe
although
Madame
,
that
myne
aduice
is
not
asked
in
the
matter
beyng
of
so
greate
weight
and
importance
:
yet
notwithstandyng
as
a
faythfull
seruaunt
and
subiect
to
his
maiestie
,
being
moued
with
a
zelous
desire
to
satisfie
the
duetie
of
my
calling
and
othe
,
I
coulde
not
forbeare
to
say
myne
opinion
freely
and
frankly
,
choozing
rather
to
aduenture
the
gainyng
of
displeazure
at
the
present
for
myne
aduertisementes
and
informations
,
than
to
be
noted
and
blamed
hereafter
as
an
vnfaithful
,
negligent
,
and
carelesse
Gouernour
,
for
my
wi●…king
and
silence
,
to
the
defamation
and
desolation
of
the
Countrey
.
Firste
,
as
touching
the
puttyng
of
the
As
touchyng
the
second
poynt
,
which
It
may
please
your
highnesse
to
remember
,
that
the
complaintes
,
strifes
,
and
quarrels
that
haue
byn
moued
through
the
whole
Countrey
here
for
the
stablishyng
of
Bishops
,
haue
risen
vppon
nothyng
els
,
but
for
feare
least
some
forme
of
Inquisition
shoulde
be
brought
in
vnder
that
pretence
.
So
odious
and
yrksome
is
,
not
on●…ye
the
execution
,
but
also
the
very
name
of
it
.
Besides
this
,
it
may
please
your
highnes
to
vnderstand
,
(
for
it
is
cleare
and
manifestly
knowen
to
the
most
part
of
the
kings
maiesties
subiectes
,
and
specially
to
al
men
of
any
good
countenance
&
calling
hereawayes
)
that
both
the
Emperours
maiesty
And
vndoubtedly
Madame
,
the
sayd
assurances
and
promises
haue
kept
his
maiesties
subiectes
and
other
dwellers
here
from
fallyng
into
any
alteration
,
and
caused
many
men
of
good
wealth
and
countenance
to
forbeare
the
alienating
of
their
goodes
,
and
the
seekyng
of
any
other
places
where
they
might
liue
without
feare
of
any
Inquisition
.
And
so
consequently
they
haue
bin
a
meane
to
mainteine
the
vnion
,
tranquilitie
,
trade
of
Marchandise
,
and
supply
of
the
most
part
of
the
treasures
for
the
maintenance
of
the
warres
:
wheras
els
the
Countrey
being
made
bare
both
of
inhabitantes
,
men
,
and
money
,
had
bin
abandoned
as
a
pray
to
whosoeuer
had
listed
to
lay
hold
of
it
.
As
touching
the
third
poynt
,
whereby
his
maiesty
wylleth
and
commaundeth
expressely
,
Madame
,
(
to
my
seemyng
)
that
likwise
is
a
very
hard
poynt
,
because
the
Iniunctions
are
many
and
dyuers
,
and
haue
byn
limited
,
qualified
,
and
restrayned
nowe
and
then
heretofore
,
and
not
pursued
with
rigor
:
in
so
muche
that
they
were
not
so
sharpe
euen
in
the
tyme
of
the
vniuersall
misery
,
as
they
be
now
,
nother
were
our
people
so
much
inclyned
to
innouation
,
as
they
be
now
by
the
instigation
and
practizes
of
our
neighbors
.
Wherfore
,
to
vse
more
extremity
presently
,
and
all
at
one
instant
to
renue
the
Inquisition
more
vehemently
,
and
to
proceede
on
to
execution
wyth
all
seueritie
:
surely
Madame
,
I
can
not
see
howe
the
kynges
maiestie
shall
wyn
aught
els
by
it
,
than
to
put
hym selfe
to
payne
,
and
the
Countrey
to
trouble
,
with
the
losse
of
his
good
subiectes
hartes
,
by
makyng
euery
man
mistrust
,
that
his
maiesty
intendeth
to
goe
an
other
way
to
woorke
than
he
hath
alwayes
assured
them
of
and
pretended
,
and
to
hazarde
the
puttyng
of
all
thynges
into
hys
neyghbors
handes
,
as
wel
by
vnpeoplyng
of
the
Countr●…y
by
such
as
wyll
forsake
it
,
as
by
reason
of
the
small
truste
that
can
be
repozed
in
them
that
shall
remayne
,
&
al
without
any
profit
or
redresse
of
Religion
.
To
auoyde
tediousnesse
,
I
omyt
the
alledgyng
of
many
inconueniences
in
this
behalfe
,
because
I
know
that
both
his
maiestie
and
your
highnesse
haue
bin
aduertized
of
them
at
large
already
.
Moreouer
,
(
I
speake
it
vnder
correction
)
me
thynkes
the
tyme
is
very
vnfit
to
styrre
the
braynes
and
humors
of
the
people
,
whiche
is
too
muche
disquieted
and
troubled
alreadye
with
the
present
scarsitie
and
dearth
of
corne
.
It
were
muche
better
(
in
myne
opinion
)
to
deferre
and
let
all
alone
,
vntyll
his
maiesties
commyng
,
who
is
sayd
to
be
in
preparyng
hym selfe
hytherwarde
.
And
I
woulde
to
God
he
were
so
steaded
,
as
he
myght
be
here
with
speede
,
to
the
intent
that
by
his
presence
suche
order
might
be
taken
,
as
shoulde
be
expedient
for
the
seruice
of
God
and
his
maiestie
,
and
for
the
reste
and
quietnesse
of
his
Countreys
and
subiectes
here
.
For
in
caces
of
trouble
,
thynges
would
be
remedyed
more
readyly
by
his
presence
than
otherwyse
.
Howbeit
,
if
hys
maiesty
and
your
highnesse
be
styll
at
one
staye
,
and
fully
bent
to
haue
all
the
sayde
poyntes
folowed
to
the
ful
:
for
as
muche
as
I
see
clearely
and
before
myne
eyes
,
that
it
can
not
be
now
executed
without
great
hazarde
of
the
ruine
of
the
whole
Countrey
,
(
which
it
may
be
that
his
maiesty
would
haue
regarde
of
,
yf
he
were
here
:
)
If
it
be
so
that
your
hyghnesse
wyll
not
deferre
the
Inquisition
tyll
then
,
but
wyll
needes
persist
in
the
present
executyng
thereof
:
I
had
leuer
that
his
maiestye
shoulde
put
some
other
in
my
place
,
that
can
better
skyll
of
the
peoples
humors
,
and
is
better
able
than
I
to
keepe
them
in
peace
and
quietnesse
:
than
to
incurre
the
shame
that
maye
lyght
vpon
me
and
myne
,
if
any
inconuenience
should
fal
vpon
the
Countrey
,
vnder
my
gouernment
,
and
duryng
my
charge
.
And
his
maiestye
and
your
hyghnesse
may
well
assure
your selues
,
that
I
saye
not
this
because
I
am
loth
to
folowe
his
commaundementes
,
or
desirous
to
lyue
otherwyse
than
as
a
good
Christian
:
for
my
former
doynges
can
wel
beare
witnesse
therof
,
and
I
hope
his
maiestye
hath
well
perceyued
by
experience
,
that
I
haue
neuer
spared
eyther
body
or
goodes
to
doo
hym
seruice
,
wherein
my
desire
is
to
continue
styll
all
my
lyfe
long
.
Besides
this
,
if
the
affayres
of
the
Countrey
shoulde
goe
otherwyse
than
well
,
I
woulde
(
for
my
duetyes
sake
to
his
maiesty
and
my
natiue
soyle
)
I
woulde
(
I
say
)
aduenture
not
onely
al
the
goodes
that
I
haue
in
the
worlde
,
but
also
myne
owne
person
,
my
wife
,
and
my
children
,
whom
euen
nature
wylleth
me
to
preserue
and
keepe
.
Wherefore
I
beseech
you
,
let
it
please
your
highnesse
to
haue
regard
of
it
according
to
your
tryed
and
accustomed
discretion
,
and
to
take
this
mine
information
in
good
parte
,
as
proceedyng
from
one
that
speaketh
of
earnest
affection
and
good
wyll
,
to
doo
his
maiestie
seruis
,
and
to
preuent
all
inconueniences
▪
wherof
I
take
God
to
witnesse
,
whom
(
hauing
commended
my selfe
most
humbly
to
the
good
grace
of
your
highnesse
)
I
beseeche
to
giue
you
long
and
good
lyfe
in
health
.
From
Brusselles
,
the.
xxiiij
.
day
of
Ianuarye
.
1565.
accordyng
to
the
Computation
of
Braband
.
[
p
](A15442-e4300-b)
p
Accordyng
to
the
computation
of
the
Empire
,
it
is
.
1566.
¶
The
Regentes
answere
to
the
Princes
Letter
.
MY
good
cousin
,
I
haue
receiued
your
two
Letters
of
the
xvi
.
e.
of
this
present
[
q
](A15442-e4350-b)
q
Accorling
to
the
ōmon
rec●…ening
,
it
●…as
.
1566.
It
was
vnderwritten
.
Your
good
Cousin
:
and
signed
,
Margaret
:
and
further
countersigned
,
Berty
.
And
the
superscription
was
,
To
my
good
Cousin
the
Prince
of
Orendge
,
Countie
of
Nassaw
,
Knight
of
the
Order
,
&
Gouerner
of
the
Countie
of
Burgon
,
and
of
the
Countreys
of
Holland
,
Zeland
,
and
Vtreyght
.
¶
Extractes
of
certaine
points
comprized
FOr
asmuch
as
in
consideration
First
,
that
no
person
of
what
state
,
degree
,
or
callyng
so●…uer
he
bee
,
shall
haue
,
sell
,
giue
,
cary
,
read
,
preach
,
teach
,
maynteine
,
talke
of
,
nor
dispute
of
,
either
secretly
or
openly
,
the
doctrines
,
writynges
,
or
bookes
that
are
made
or
shal
be
made
by
Martin
Luther
,
Ioh.
Wickliffe
,
Iohn
Husse
,
Marcil
of
Padua
,
Oecolampadius
,
Vlrichus
Zuinglius
,
Philip
Melancthon
,
Frauncis
Lambert
,
Iohn
Pomerane
,
Otto
Brunfelsius
,
Iustus
Ionas
,
Iohn
Puper
,
and
Gorcian
,
or
by
any
other
authors
of
their
sect
,
or
by
any
other
heretickes
and
〈◊〉
:
or
the
errours
disallowed
by
the
Church
,
or
the
doctrine
of
their
adherentes
,
fauorers
,
and
complices
:
no
nor
euen
the
new
Testaments
Printed
by
Adrian
of
Bergues
,
Christopher
of
R●…mōd
,
and
Iohn
Zell
,
[
nor
theis
Latin
bookes
followyng
,
videl.
]
The
phrases
of
holy
Scripture
,
The
Interpretation
of
the
Chaldey
names
,
Vadians
Abridgement
of
Topographie
,
The
Paralippomenon
or
Chronicles
of
thyngs
worthy
of
rememberance
,
The
story
of
the
originall
of
the
Garmanes
,
The
Commentaries
vppon
the
Poetry
of
Pythagoras
,
Walcurioze
Commentaries
vpon
Aristotles
Phisikes
,
The
workes
of
Eobanus
Hessus
,
Griphies
Prayers
vpon
the
Lordes
Prayer
,
The
Method
vpon
the
cheef
places
of
Scripture
,
The
Cathechizin
of
Erasmus
Sarcerius
,
The
same
mans
Scholies
vpon
the
Gospels
of
Mathew
Marke
&
Luke
,
The
same
mans
Postilles
vppon
all
the
Sondayes
Gospelles
through
the
whole
yeere
,
Also
of
the
maner
of
learnyng
Diuinitie
,
Of
the
framyng
of
a
mans
lyfe
,
and
of
the
reformation
of
manners
.
Christopher
Hegendorphius
exhortation
,
The
same
mans
instruction
of
Christen
youth
,
with
an
exposition
of
the
Lordes
Prayer
,
Philip
〈◊〉
abridgement
of
Chronicles
both
in
Latin
and
in
Duche
,
Sebastian
Munsters
Annotations
vppon
Saint
Mathewes
Gospell
,
and
the
Enterludes
played
not
long
ago
in
our
Citie
of
Gaunt
by
the
nineten
places
of
Rhetoricke
,
vppon
this
question
,
what
is
the
greatest
comforte
to
a
man
that
is
at
the
point
to
dye
:
nor
any
other
bokes
written
or
printed
within
theis
xviij
.
yeeres
last
past
,
without
declaryng
of
the
author
,
printer
,
tyme
,
and
place
nor
likewise
the
new
Testament
,
the
Gospels
,
the
Epistles
,
the
Prophesies
,
or
any
other
bookes
in
Frenche
or
Duche
conteining
Prefaces
,
Prologes
,
Appostils
,
or
glozes
,
sauoryng
of
doctrines
disallowed
,
repugnant
,
or
contrary
to
our
holy
Catholicke
fayth
,
or
to
the
Sacramentes
,
or
to
the
commaundementes
of
God
or
of
the
Church
.
Also
that
no
man
shall
peynt
or
cause
to
bee
peynted
or
portrayed
,
or
holde
,
haue
,
or
keepe
any
Images
,
portraitures
,
or
pictures
,
to
the
reproche
or
disgracyng
of
the
virgin
Marie
,
or
of
the
saints
that
are
canonized
by
the
church
:
nor
also
breake
,
deface
,
or
pull
down
the
Images
made
or
heerafter
to
be
made
in
the
honor
or
rememberance
of
them
:
&
that
if
any
body
haue
any
such
books
peyntyngs
in
his
hands
or
keepyng
,
he
burne
them
incontinently
.
Upon
peyne
(
in
cace
that
any
be
found
to
haue
done
agaynst
any
of
the
pointes
aboue
declared
,
)
to
be
executed
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
men
by
the
sword
,
and
the
women
[
*
](A15442-e4520-b)
*
That
is
to
wyt
,
by
burnyng
of
them
quick
.
by
the
pit
so
they
do
not
maintein
&
defend
their
errours
:
but
if
they
stand
in
those
errours
and
heresies
,
then
they
shal
be
executed
by
the
fire
:
and
in
all
caces
their
goodes
shal
bee
confiscate
to
our
behofe
.
And
we
will
and
declare
,
that
from
the
day
wherin
the
said
heretickes
shal
be
falne
into
their
errours
,
they
shal
be
vnable
to
dispoze
of
their
go●…des
:
and
all
alienations
,
giftes
,
conueyances
,
sales
,
settyngs
ouer
,
Testamentes
,
&
last
bequestes
by
will
,
made
by
them
after
such
tymes
,
shal
be
as
nothyng
and
of
none
effect
.
Furthermore
we
obteine
and
decree
it
for
a
perpetuall
statute
and
law
,
as
afore
,
that
no
man
shall
presume
to
hold
or
suffer
in
his
house
or
els
where
,
any
co●…enticles
or
meetynges
,
or
to
talke
or
dispute
of
holy
Scripture
,
(
specially
in
matters
hard
and
doutfull
)
or
to
read
the
same
holy
Scripture
to
others
,
or
to
preach
it
:
vnlesse
they
be
Diuines
allowed
by
some
famous
Uniuersitie
,
or
admitted
thereto
by
the
ordinarie
of
the
place
:
vnder
like
penaltie
.
Also
that
no
man
shal
Print
or
cause
to
be
Printed
,
or
otherwise
put
forth
any
booke
,
that
treateth
or
maketh
mention
of
the
holy
Scripture
,
or
that
in
any
wise
toucheth
our
holy
fayth
and
the
constitutions
of
the
Church
:
vnlesse
it
be
first
ouerseene
by
the
ordinary
of
the
place
,
&
that
he
haue
gotten
our
graunt
&
licence
to
Print
it
:
vnder
like
penaltie
.
Moreouer
we
ordeine
&
decree
,
that
no
man
of
what
state
or
callyng
so
euer
he
be
,
shall
presume
to
lodge
,
receiue
,
in●…ine
,
or
fauour
any
heretickes
,
or
Anabaptistes
,
&
that
all
such
as
shall
haue
lodged
,
receiued
,
interteined
,
or
fauored
them
,
knowyng
them
to
be
such
▪
shall
come
and
bewray
&
accuze
them
to
the
officer
of
the
place
(
if
it
be
a
priuiledged
place
)
:
or
els
(
if
it
be
not
)
to
the
cheef
officer
of
the
good
towne
next
to
the
place
where
they
dwell
:
vnder
peyne
of
being
punished
as
heretickes
.
And
bycause
we
be
desirous
to
come
to
the
knowledge
of
the
sayd
heresies
,
errours
,
and
abuses
:
we
inact
&
decree
,
that
the
accuzers
&
bewrayers
of
them
shall
haue
the
one
moitie
of
their
goods
that
are
so
bewrayed
and
accuzed
before
their
misusage
do
appeere
,
&
they
dewly
conuicted
thereof
:
condicionally
that
the
sayd
goodes
passe
not
the
summe
of
one
hundred
poundes
Flemishe
of
the
great
:
for
if
they
passe
that
summe
,
then
shall
they
haue
but
the
tenth
penny
of
that
which
the
said
goodes
amount
vnto
aboue
it
,
the
costes
and
charges
in
the
law
first
deducted
.
And
to
the
end
that
our
Iustices
&
Officers
which
shall
haue
apprehended
the
sayd
Heretickes
or
Anabaptistes
,
may
not
haue
occasion
to
beare
with
them
,
their
complices
and
fautors
,
or
to
punish
them
lesse
than
they
deserue
,
vnder
pretence
that
the
punishementes
may
seeme
to
great
and
rigorous
,
&
to
haue
bin
set
but
onely
for
the
terrour
of
offenders
,
as
we
see
it
commeth
oftentymes
to
passe
.
We
will
and
commaunde
that
whosoeuer
violateth
this
our
ordinance
,
by
keepyng
,
printyng
,
sellyng
,
distributyng
,
or
settyng
forth
any
bookes
,
writynges
,
or
images
,
that
are
hereticall
or
offensiue
,
or
otherwise
against
the
points
aboue
declared
,
or
any
of
them
:
shal
be
punished
and
corrected
indifferently
by
the
peynes
afore
mencioned
.
Forbiddyng
all
our
Iudges
,
Officers
,
and
Iustices
,
to
alter
,
qualifie
,
or
chaunge
the
same
punishmentes
in
any
maner
of
wise
:
and
[
chargyng
them
]
onely
to
denounce
the
sayd
penalties
and
punishmentes
vpon
them
,
as
soone
as
they
shall
perceiue
them
to
haue
violated
any
of
the
sayde
points
:
vnder
penalty
to
be
depriued
of
their
roomes
&
offices
,
&
to
be
denounced
vnable
to
beare
any
Office
for
euer
after
,
and
moreouer
to
be
corrected
for
it
at
our
pleasure
.
And
we
commaund
all
our
Officers
to
aduertize
vs
or
our
sayd
sister
the
Queene
,
when
our
Iudges
,
Headborowes
,
Aldermen
,
or
any
others
hauyng
the
examination
of
such
offenders
,
do
make
nyce
to
follow
this
our
decree
,
and
to
denounce
the
sayd
penalties
:
that
we
may
proceede
agaynst
them
by
the
selfe
same
punishmentes
.
Furthermore
we
decree
,
that
if
any
man
chaunce
to
know
any
place
where
any
hereticke
or
Anabaptist
doth
secretly
lurke
:
he
shal
be
bound
to
bewray
it
to
the
officer
of
that
place
,
vpon
peyne
to
be
taken
for
a
fa●…rer
,
harbrowgher
,
and
adh●…ent
of
the
heresie
wherewith
the
person
so
hidden
is
infected
,
and
to
bee
punished
with
the
same
peyne
that
the
hidden
person
should
bee
punished
withall
,
if
he
were
caught
.
And
bycause
that
heeretofore
when
some
Heretickes
or
Anabaptistes
being
appeached
and
cited
,
haue
gotten
them selues
out
of
the
Countrey
,
and
shrunke
a●…de
or
hid
them selues
in
some
secret
place
▪
there
could
bee
no
proceedyng
agaynst
them
by
any
other
conuenient
punishment
than
onely
by
banishment
:
and
that
such
heeryng
that
their
compli●…es
&
adherentes
were
dead
or
executed
,
so
as
it
was
not
possible
for
the
officer
to
proue
sufficiently
that
they
were
rebaptized
or
heretickes
,
did
vpon
hope
&
confidence
therof
some
forth
dayly
,
and
make
sute
to
get
leaue
to
pu●…ge
them selues
,
or
to
get
some
other
benefite
of
law
:
w●…he
thyng
ministred
〈◊〉
of
delay
of
Iustice
,
and
made
the
heretickes
and
Anabaptistes
bold
to
returne
into
our
countreys
,
and
there
to
sow
abrode
their
errours
&
false
doctrines
,
to
the
great
pe●…ill
,
offence
,
&
preiudice
of
our
sayd
countreys
&
subiectes
:
We
myndyng
to
prouide
for
it
,
do
forbid
the
cheef
Iustices
of
our
hygh
Courtes
,
&
the
Presidents
of
our
prouinciall
Counselles
,
to
giue
,
graunt
,
or
cause
to
be
sealed
to
such
as
are
suspected
&
appeached
for
〈◊〉
or
Anabaptistes
,
and
ha●…yng
bin
once
cyted
by
order
of
law
,
appeere
not
,
but
suffer
themselues
to
be
banished
through
their
owne
wilfulnesse
,
)
any
protection
of
law
to
stand
to
their
purgation
,
or
otherwize
to
frequent
our
sayd
countreys
.
And
we
denounce
,
that
such
fugitiues
&
banishēd
●…olke
shal
be
taken
for
conuicted
,
&
that
processe
shall
go
out
agaynst
them
vnder
the
peynes
aforesayd
.
Besides
this
,
we
forbyd
all
men
of
All
whiche
poyntes
and
articles
we
And
for
the
performance
of
that
which
¶
Secondly
,
of
the
perpetuall
Decree
FIrst
,
that
no
person
of
what
estate
Martin
Luther
,
Iohn
Oecolampadius
,
Vlrichus
Zuinglius
,
Martin
Bucer
,
Iohn
Caluin
,
or
other
heretikes
and
authors
of
their
sectes
,
or
of
other
wicked
&
false
sectes
,
disallowed
by
the
holy
Churche
,
or
of
their
complices
,
adherents
,
and
fauourers
,
whiche
are
gone
astray
from
our
holy
Catholike
fayth
,
more
largely
specified
in
a
certaine
Declaration
,
and
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c
In
that
they
forbid
in
maner
al
Bibles
&
Testamentes
,
sauing
the
Latin
ones
:
and
therin
are
conteyned
an
infinite
number
of
bookes
,
&
among
other
,
the
bookes
of
Melancthon
,
Carolostadius
,
Coruine
,
Sarcer
,
Lambert
,
Bullinger
,
Agrippa
,
Wick●…e
,
Husse
,
Pomerane
,
Ionas
,
Pupper
,
Brentius
,
Spangenberg
,
〈◊〉
,
Epin
,
Martir
,
Vrbane
,
Musculus
,
and
Bucer
.
Register
ioyned
herunto
,
newly
made
at
our
commaundement
,
by
the
Chauncelour
and
the
Students
of
the
vniuersitie
of
our
Citie
of
Louane
,
dated
the
xxvi
.
of
March
last
,
which
we
auow
our selues
to
haue
authorized
,
and
doo
authorize
it
:
willyng
and
commaundyng
that
it
be
followed
,
maynteyned
,
and
published
with
these
our
present
Letters
:
and
also
that
no
other
bookes
made
or
printed
,
or
that
shal
be
made
or
printed
hereafter
,
(
be
suffered
)
without
declaryng
the
author
,
Printer
,
tyme
,
and
place
.
✚
✚
Nor
also
paynt
,
or
cause
to
be
paynted
,
sell
,
or
set
to
sale
,
haue
,
holde
,
or
kepe
any
Images
,
Pictures
,
or
figures
reprochful
to
the
virgin
Mary
,
or
to
the
Saintes
that
are
Canonized
by
the
holy
Church
,
or
to
the
state
of
the
Clevgie
:
nor
breake
,
deface
,
or
pull
downe
the
Images
and
Pictures
that
are
made
in
the
honor
of
them
.
✚
✚
Nor
in
their
houses
or
els
wher
hold
or
suffer
to
be
held
,
any
secret
conuenticles
or
vndue
assemblies
,
nor
come
in
place
where
the
sayde
heretikes
and
seducers
doo
secretly
and
priuily
sowe
and
teach
theire
errours
,
rebaptize
,
and
make
many
conspiracies
agaynst
holy
Church
and
the
common
weale
.
Furthermore
,
we
for●…
all
men
,
as
well
laye
folke
as
others
,
to
talke
or
to
reazon
,
openly
or
secretly
,
of
the
holy
scripture
,
specially
in
great
and
doubtfull
matters
:
or
to
reade
or
teache
the
holy
Scripture
to
others
:
vnlesse
they
be
Diuines
brought
vp
in
Diuinitie
,
&
allowed
by
some
famous
Uniuersitis
,
or
admitted
thereto
by
the
Ordinarye
of
the
place
:
or
finally
to
preach
,
defende
,
alledge
,
or
mainteyn
openly
or
secretly
,
any
doctrine
of
the
sayd
Authors
.
Uppon
payne
(
in
cace
that
anye
bee
founde
to
haue
incountred
or
done
against
any
of
the
poyntes
aboue
mentioned
)
of
being
punished
as
seditious
persons
and
distrublers
of
the
state
and
common
weale
,
and
to
be
executed
for
suche
:
that
is
to
wytte
,
the
men
by
the
sword
,
and
the
women
by
the
pyt
,
so
they
do
not
vphold
and
defend
their
errors
:
but
if
they
stande
in
their
errors
,
opinions
,
and
heresies
,
then
they
shal
be
executed
by
the
fire
,
and
in
all
caces
their
goodes
shal
be
seazed
,
confiscate
,
&
forfeyted
to
our
behoofe
,
and
they
shal
not
be
able
to
dispoze
of
their
goodes
from
the
day
that
they
shal
haue
done
against
our
ordinance
,
statute
,
and
prohibition
,
or
bin
falne
into
the
said
errors
.
And
all
alienations
,
gyftes
,
conueyances
,
sales
,
settinges
ouer
,
Testamentes
,
and
last
willes
,
made
or
passed
by
them
after
the
sayd
day
,
shal
be
as
none
,
and
nothyng
worth
,
and
of
none
effect
nor
force
.
Further
,
we
decree
,
and
prohibite
euery
person
(
of
what
state
or
callyng
so
euer
he
be
)
to
presume
to
harbor
,
receiue
into
his
house
,
interteyne
,
furnishe
,
or
succour
with
any
victuals
,
money
,
apparell
,
or
other
necessaries
,
or
to
releeue
with
his
goodes
,
or
otherwise
wittingly
to
fauour
any
that
hath
bin
counted
or
suspected
for
an
heretike
:
and
that
al
such
as
shall
lodge
,
harbour
,
receyue
,
or
keepe
company
with
them
(
knowing
them
to
be
suche
)
shal
be
bounde
to
bewray
and
declare
them
to
the
Inquisitor
,
or
to
the
Officer
of
the
place
,
if
the
place
be
priuiledged
,
or
if
it
be
not
,
to
the
chefe
Officer
of
the
good
towne
that
is
next
the
place
where
they
dwell
:
vnder
paine
(
if
they
make
default
)
to
be
punished
as
fauourers
of
the
●…aid
heretikes
.
Item
,
we
wyll
,
ordeyne
,
and
decree
,
that
no
man
of
what
state
or
callyng
so
euer
he
be
,
shal
be
admitted
or
receyued
into
any
towne
or
village
of
our
Countreys
hereawayes
,
to
dwell
there
,
vnlesse
he
bring
a
Certificat
of
his
conuersation
from
the
Curate
of
the
place
where
he
dwelt
last
:
which
Certificat
he
shal
be
bounde
to
exhibite
and
deliuer
into
the
handes
of
the
chiefe
Officer
of
the
Towne
or
village
where
he
intendeth
to
lyue
:
vnder
payne
,
that
they
whiche
bring
not
such
certificat
,
shall
not
be
admitted
to
dwell
there
,
but
shal
be
taken
for
suspected
.
And
we
commaunde
our
Officers
to
lay
diligently
for
informations
against
them
,
&
to
proceede
therin
as
shal
be
expedient
.
And
it
shall
not
be
lawfull
for
our
sayd
Officers
to
giue
any
respite
or
protection
to
such
persons
.
Also
we
wyll
that
all
our
Iustices
,
officers
,
&
men
of
Law
,
together
with
our
vassalles
and
subiectes
,
Lords
temporall
,
and
high
Iustices
,
shall
vppon
payne
of
forfeytyng
of
their
Offices
,
Iurisdictions
,
and
high
Iusticeships
,
or
other
penaltie
,
at
our
pleazure
,
accordyng
as
the
cace
shall
require
:
be
bound
to
inquire
diligently
of
them
,
and
to
proceede
,
or
cause
their
vnder
Officers
to
proceede
againste
all
suche
persons
,
of
what
state
or
callyng
so
euer
they
be
,
specially
in
the
poynt
of
incounteryng
of
our
saide
ordinance
,
and
in
matters
fallyng
within
the
compasse
of
their
examination
,
and
dependyng
vpon
their
temporal
iurisdiction
.
And
further
that
at
the
request
and
desire
of
the
Inquisitors
of
the
faith
,
and
of
the
Bishops
ordinary
Iudges
,
(
being
mynded
to
procede
together
or
as
they
chance
to
meet
,
against
any
man
,
because
the
thing
concerneth
the
Ecclesiasticall
crime
of
heresie
)
they
shall
minister
and
giue
them
al
the
ayde
,
fauour
,
and
assistence
that
they
can
,
for
the
executyng
and
performyng
of
their
charges
,
and
also
for
the
appreh●…nding
,
imprisonyng
,
and
safekeeping
of
such
as
they
find
to
be
infected
,
accordyng
to
the
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o
Whiche
was
very
large
and
maruelous
●…gorous
.
instructions
that
the
Inquisitors
haue
of
vs
,
and
the
commission
that
we
haue
caused
to
be
graunted
vnto
them
to
the
same
end
.
The
which
Officers
,
Iustices
,
and
vassals
,
we
comma●…nd
to
minister
the
said
ayd
and
assistence
without
any
delaye
or
lingryng
,
vnder
pretence
of
any
sute
hangyng
,
preuention
,
or
other
occasion
what
soeuer
:
Chargyng
our
Attorneys
generall
,
and
their
deputies
,
to
proceede
against
such
as
are
negligent
,
&
to
procure
sentence
against
them
,
to
the
end
they
may
be
depriued
of
their
roomes
,
offices
,
and
authoritie
of
iurisdiction
,
&
haue
such
other
punishment
as
shal
be
found
requisit
according
to
the
state
of
the
cace
.
Item
,
that
whosoeuer
knoweth
or
vnderstandeth
of
any
that
is
infected
of
heresie
,
shal
be
bound
to
bewray
,
discouer
,
and
name
hym
incontinently
without
delay
,
and
to
giue
knowledge
of
hym
to
the
Inquisitors
,
or
to
the
officers
of
the
Bishops
,
and
in
their
absence
to
the
pastors
and
Curates
of
the
Churches
,
that
they
maye
aduertize
their
superiours
thereof
.
Againe
,
if
any
man
be
found
to
haue
done
against
our
ordinances
and
prohibitions
,
shewing
hym selfe
to
be
infected
,
or
a
fa●…orer
of
heretikes
,
or
a
dooer
of
any
act
against
our
sayde
ordinances
and
prohibitions
,
specially
tendyng
to
offence
,
commotion
of
the
people
,
or
sedition
:
(
We
wyll
)
that
all
such
as
haue
knowledge
or
vnderstandyng
of
them
,
shall
be
bounde
to
aduertize
our
Attorneys
therof
incontinently
,
or
their
substitutes
and
Deputies
,
or
the
Officers
of
the
place
where
such
infected
persons
the
fauorers
of
them
,
or
offen●…ers
dwel
.
Likewise
,
if
they
perceyue
where
any
such
heretikes
abyde
and
hyde
them
selues
,
they
shal
be
bound
to
bewray
them
to
the
Officer
of
the
place
,
vpon
(
as
is
●…ayd
afore
)
to
be
taken
for
fa●…orers
,
re●…eyuers
,
and
adherentes
of
their
heresie
,
&
to
be
punished
with
the
same
punishment
that
the
heretike
or
offender
should
be
,
if
he
were
taken
.
In
the
same
Decree
,
among
other
thinges
,
¶
Thirdly
the
generall
and
perpetuall
FUrthermore
we
prohibite
all
men
both
lay
folkes
and
others
,
to
talke
Under
peyne
,
that
if
any
be
found
to
haue
incountred
or
done
agaynst
any
of
the
poyntes
afore
declared
,
they
shal
be
punished
as
seditious
persons
and
disturbers
of
our
state
,
and
of
the
quiet
of
the
comon
weale
,
and
so
executed
,
that
is
to
wit
,
the
men
by
the
sword
,
&
the
women
by
the
Pitte
,
so
they
do
not
maynteine
and
defend
their
errours
:
but
if
they
stand
in
their
opinions
,
errours
,
&
heresies
then
they
shal
be
executed
by
fire
:
&
in
all
caces
their
goodes
shal
be
seazed
,
confiscate
,
&
forfeyted
to
our
behofe
.
And
whereas
by
our
late
decrees
in
our
former
Iniunctions
,
we
haue
ordeyned
that
from
the
day
wherin
they
shall
haue
done
against
them
or
falne
into
the
sayd
errours
,
they
shal
be
vnable
to
dispoze
of
their
goods
,
and
that
all
alienations
,
giftes
,
conueyances
,
sales
,
settings
ouer
,
Testaments
and
last
willes
made
&
passed
by
them
after
the
sayd
day
,
shal
stand
voyde
and
be
of
no
force
or
effect
:
we
do
you
to
vnderstand
,
that
our
meening
was
not
(
as
some
haue
listed
to
say
and
brute
abrod
)
by
any
meanes
to
impeache
the
subiectes
of
our
Countreys
in
their
lawful
traffike
and
bargayning
with
straungers
,
so
as
they
might
not
freely
dispoze
of
their
goods
,
accordyng
to
the
law
written
,
and
according
to
the
customes
of
the
place
respectiuely
:
but
only
to
pr●…uent
such
as
would
do
it
fraudulently
,
to
eschew
the
penalties
of
our
Statutes
,
and
thereby
discharge
themselues
of
the
feare
whiche
they
ought
to
haue
of
the
punishment
for
their
misdealyng
or
doyng
agaynst
them
.
And
therfore
our
intent
is
onely
to
prouide
for
Gods
seruice
,
their
owne
welfare
,
&
the
health
of
their
soules
,
that
they
might
not
be
sed●…ced
,
nor
directly
or
indirectly
drawen
or
led
into
any
wicked
and
disallowed
errours
:
wherin
we
shewe
the
office
of
a
good
Prince
.
Also
we
decree
and
prohibit
furthermore
,
that
no
person
of
what
state
or
callyng
soeuer
he
be
,
shal
presume
to
lodge
to
receiue
into
his
house
,
to
intertein
to
furnish
or
serue
with
vittelles
,
necessaries
or
money
,
or
otherwise
to
helpe
with
his
goods
,
or
willingly
to
fauour
any
that
haue
bin
taken
or
notoriosly
suspected
for
〈◊〉
:
and
that
all
such
as
shall
lodge
,
receiue
,
or
intertei●…e
them
,
(
knowyng
that
them
to
be
such
,
&
that
they
go
about
to
seduce
or
infect
themselues
or
others
openly
or
priuely
)
shal
be
bound
to
bewray
&
preferre
them
to
the
Ecclesiasticall
Iudges
,
or
to
the
Officer
of
the
place
(
if
it
be
priuiledged
)
,
or
els
to
the
chief
officer
of
the
good
town
next
the
place
where
they
dwell
:
vpon
peyne
(
for
so
makyng
default
)
to
be
punished
as
fauorers
of
heretickes
.
Prouided
alwayes
that
this
prohibition
shall
not
touch
any
Inkeepers
,
or
any
other
men
that
receiue
and
lodge
such
as
come
into
our
sayd
countreys
for
traffike
or
other
buzinesse
of
their
owne
,
of
what
countrey
so
euer
they
be
:
Sauyng
that
such
straungers
must
not
incounter
this
our
Decree
,
but
behaue
them selues
so
as
they
giue
no
offence
:
and
if
they
do
,
then
if
their
hostes
do
not
bewray
them
and
accuze
them
,
as
is
sayd
afore
:
we
decree
and
denounce
that
they
shal
fall
into
the
penalties
aboue
mentioned
.
Also
for
as
much
as
many
of
our
countries
being
suspected
of
heresie
,
and
specially
of
Anabaptistrie
,
do
change
their
dwellynges
,
to
infect
the
simple
people
in
places
where
their
disposition
is
vnknowen
:
we
to
prouide
therefore
,
do●…
wyll
,
ordeyne
,
and
decree
,
that
no
person
of
the
inhabitants
of
our
low
countreys
,
of
what
state
,
qualitie
,
or
condition
soeuer
he
be
,
shal
be
admitted
or
receyued
into
any
towne
or
village
of
those
countreys
to
dwel
there
,
vnlesse
he
bring
a
certificat
from
the
Curate
of
the
place
where
he
dwelt
afore
,
which
Certificat
he
shal
be
bound
to
exhibit
and
deliuer
into
the
hands
of
the
chiefe
officer
of
the
towne
or
village
where
he
intendeth
to
dwel
,
vpon
payne
,
that
they
which
bring
not
such
Certificat
,
shal
not
be
admitted
to
abide
there
.
And
we
charge
our
officers
to
seke
diligent
information
against
them
,
&
to
proceede
as
shal
be
expedient
:
and
it
shal
not
be
lawful
for
our
said
officers
,
or
for
the
peculiar
Lordes
,
or
for
their
officers
,
to
giue
licence
or
pasport
to
any
suche
persons
.
And
as
touchyng
merchant
strangers
&
others
that
list
to
come
into
our
sayd
low
countreys
,
our
meanyng
is
,
not
to
compel
them
to
bring
such
Certificat
with
them
,
or
to
exhibit
it
,
sauyng
that
they
must
lyue
there
accordyng
to
our
saide
ordinances
,
&
behaue
themselues
without
giuyng
cause
of
offence
,
as
is
sayd
afore
.
Also
we
wil
that
al
our
Iustices
,
officers
,
&
men
of
law
,
and
al
our
vassals
&
subiects
,
Lords
temporal
&
high
Iustices
shal
(
vpon
forfeyture
of
their
offices
,
iu●…dictions
,
&
Iustice
ships
,
or
vpon
other
penaltie
,
at
our
pleasure
,
according
to
the
state
of
the
cace
)
be
bound
to
make
diligent
serch
,
&
to
procede
,
or
to
cause
their
officers
to
procede
,
to
the
verifying
of
the
matters
aforesaid
against
al
persons
,
of
what
state
or
calling
soeuer
they
be
,
specially
in
the
thyngs
that
concerne
the
incounteryng
of
our
said
ordinances
,
&
in
the
caces
that
belong
to
their
examination
,
and
depende
vpon
their
temporall
iurisdiction
.
Moreouer
,
when
the
Ecclesiasticall
Iudges
meane
to
proceede
against
any
man
,
because
he
is
faulty
in
the
ecclesiasticall
crime
of
heresie
:
they
shall
require
of
the
officers
of
our
cheefe
Courtes
or
prouincial
Councels
,
to
haue
some
one
of
their
company
or
other
assistent
appoynted
than
to
be
at
the
informations
&
procedings
which
they
intend
to
prefer
agaynst
suche
as
are
suspected
.
And
we
wil
,
comma●…nd
,
&
inioyne
al
our
officers
,
Iustices
,
&
vassals
,
to
yeeld
&
to
giue
to
the
said
Iudges
,
&
their
felow
Commissioners
,
all
the
helpe
,
fauour
,
furtherance
,
&
assistence
that
they
can
,
for
the
executyng
&
performing
of
their
charge
,
&
also
in
the
apprehendyng
imprisonyng
,
&
keepyng
of
such
as
they
shall
finde
infected
,
without
delay
or
impediment
vnder
pretence
of
any
sute
hanging
,
preuention
or
other
occasion
whatsoeuer
vnder
peyne
to
bee
corrected
at
our
pleazure
.
And
we
commaund
our
Attourneyes
generall
and
theirdeputies
,
to
proceede
agaynst
such
as
are
negligent
,
&
to
procure
sentence
vpon
them
,
to
the
end
they
may
be
depriued
of
their
roomes
&
offices
,
&
of
the
priuiledges
of
their
iurisdictions
,
and
receiue
such
other
punishmentes
▪
as
shal
be
founde
meete
accordyng
as
the
cace
requireth
.
Item
,
that
all
such
as
know
or
vnderstand
of
any
that
are
infected
with
heresy
,
shal
be
bound
to
bewray
,
vtter
,
name
,
&
geue
knowledge
of
them
immediately
without
delay
,
to
the
ecclesiasticall
iudges
,
the
Bishops
officers
,
and
others
to
whom
the
matter
belongeth
.
Also
that
if
any
man
be
found
to
haue
don
against
our
decrees
&
prohibitions
,
shewing
himselfe
to
be
infected
or
a
fauorer
of
heretickes
,
or
to
haue
done
any
act
agaynst
our
ordinances
&
commaundementes
,
specially
tending
to
offence
,
commotion
of
the
people
,
or
sedition
:
they
that
know
them
or
vnderstand
of
them
,
shal
be
bound
to
giue
intelligence
of
them
out
of
hand
to
our
Attourneys
,
or
to
their
deputies
&
vnder
officers
,
or
to
the
officers
of
the
place
,
where
such
infected
persons
offenders
or
fauorers
of
them
do
wel
,
&
that
vnder
peyne
of
beyng
punished
at
our
pleasure
.
Likewise
if
they
know
the
place
where
any
such
hereticke
lyeth
hid
,
they
shal
be
bound
to
bewray
him
to
the
officer
of
that
same
place
vpon
peyne
to
be
taken
(
as
is
sayd
afore
)
for
fauorers
,
receiuers
,
&
adherentes
of
the
heresie
,
&
to
be
punished
with
the
same
punishment
that
the
hereticke
or
offender
should
be
,
if
he
were
apprehended
.
And
to
the
end
that
the
said
Iustices
,
&
officers
which
shal
haue
aprehended
such
heretikes
,
Anabaptists
,
&
transgressors
of
oursaid
ordinances
&
commaundements
,
may
haue
no
occasion
to
beare
with
them
,
their
complices
,
&
fauourers
,
vnder
pretence
that
the
punishmentes
may
seeme
to
great
&
rigorous
,
&
set
out
but
onely
to
terrifie
offenders
&
euil
doers
:
nor
also
to
punish
them
lesse
greuously
than
they
haue
deserued
,
as
hath
bin
found
to
haue
bin
done
oftentymes
heertofore
:
we
will
that
such
as
shal
wittingly
haue
done
agaynst
this
ordinance
,
by
keeping
to
them selues
,
or
by
printyng
,
sellyng
,
distributyng
,
or
puttyng
forth
any
bookes
,
writings
,
or
pictures
that
are
heretical
and
offensiue
,
or
otherwise
agaynst
the
points
heertotore
declared
or
any
of
them
:
shal
be
really
punished
,
corrected
and
chastized
with
the
punishmentes
aboue
mentioned
.
Prohibityng
all
Iudges
,
Iustices
,
&
officers
,
togither
with
our
vassals
and
subiectes
,
Lordes
temporal
hauyng
,
authoritie
of
Iustice
,
&
their
officers
,
to
alter
,
mitigate
,
or
chaunge
the
sayd
punishments
,
in
any
wise
&
commaunding
them
that
as
soone
as
any
withstandyng
appeereth
,
they
vtter
&
denounce
the
sayd
punishment
simply
according
to
this
decree
:
vpon
peyne
to
be
rigorously
punished
,
vnlesse
that
for
some
great
&
notable
considerations
,
the
iudges
finde
some
hardnesse
in
the
cace
about
the
preeize
execution
of
the
punishment
that
is
appointed
by
our
sayd
decrees
against
the
transgressour
:
in
which
cace
,
notwithstandyng
,
they
shall
not
of
their
owne
authoritie
proceede
to
any
qualification
,
but
be
bounde
to
cary
or
send
the
same
crime
in
all
proces
faithfully
,
folded
vp
&
sealed
,
to
the
cheef
or
prouinciall
Counsell
,
vnder
the
Iurisdiction
whereof
they
shall
resort
togither
to
be
there
looked
vpon
,
ouersene
,
&
counseled
,
whither
there
be
fall
any
alteration
or
mitigation
of
the
said
penalties
,
or
no.
And
if
any
of
our
sayd
Counselles
finde
that
any
alteration
or
mitigation
is
requisite
by
good
Iustice
&
accordyng
to
right
and
reason
,
wherewith
we
charge
their
consciences
:
In
such
cace
they
may
be
well
aduized
therof
,
&
put
it
in
writyng
,
&
send
it
whole
backe
agayne
to
the
said
Iustices
&
officers
to
dispatch
&
determine
the
cace
according
therunto
.
Neuertheles
we
charge
&
commaund
them
expresly
,
yea
&
euen
vpon
peyne
to
be
corrected
&
punished
at
our
pleasure
,
that
they
cause
not
such
consultation
to
be
had
,
without
great
&
apparant
cause
:
but
that
they
deale
(
as
farre
as
they
can
,
euen
to
the
vttermost
)
accordyng
to
the
tenor
of
this
present
d●…ret
.
In
the
same
Edict
,
among
other
thyngs
,
were
inserted
word
for
word
,
the
three
first
points
or
Articles
conteined
in
the
former
Edict
,
and
marked
there
at
their
begynnynges
with
a
dubble
Crosse.
[
††
](A15442-e5180-b)
††
†
†
.
Likewise
there
were
rehersed
and
repeated
[
†*
](A15442-e5220-b)
†*
†
*
¶
The
Articles
of
Agreement
made
with
the
noblemen
that
were
the
Confederates
by
the
Regent
in
the
kyngs
name
the
xxiij
.
day
of
August
,
and
afterward
put
at
large
into
hir
letters
of
Assurance
set
downe
heeretofore
pag.
99.
where
the
begynnyng
of
it
is
touched
also
.
HIr
highnes
caused
the
gentlemen
that
And
first
of
all
she
declareth
,
that
his
maiestie
hauing
regard
of
the
thyngs
that
hir
highnesse
hath
shewed
vnto
him
,
is
contented
vpon
the
aduice
of
his
lords
,
the
knights
of
the
Order
,
&
others
as
wel
of
his
Counsels
of
estate
,
as
of
his
priuy
Counsell
,
that
the
Inquisition
whereof
they
complayne
,
shall
ceasse
.
Secondly
his
maiestie
consenteth
that
a
new
Edict
should
be
made
,
but
he
was
not
resolued
whether
it
should
be
done
by
meane
of
the
states
in
general
,
or
no.
Neuerthelesse
hir
highnesse
hoped
,
that
she
should
shortly
haue
his
full
resolution
therein
,
accordyng
as
his
maiestie
had
written
to
her
.
And
she
would
willingly
doo
hir
indeuer
stil
at
al
tymes
,
that
his
maiestie
might
vout●…afe
to
condescend
to
the
thynges
aforesayd
,
as
he
had
done
by
his
letters
agayne
.
And
as
touchyng
the
assurance
wherof
they
made
mention
in
their
last
sute
:
her
highnes
was
determined
to
giue
it
them
,
so
farre
forth
as
lay
in
her
:
And
as
nowe
shee
was
able
to
put
them
out
of
all
doubt
,
for
as
much
as
his
maiestie
had
consented
hereunto
,
&
giuen
her
authoritie
concernyng
the
maner
&
forme
of
it
,
as
shee
should
fynd
it
conuenient
.
Wherfore
shee
said
&
declared
vnto
them
,
that
his
maiestye
abhorryng
nothyng
more
than
rigor
,
&
beyng
desirous
by
his
accustomed
clemencie
to
put
them
all
out
of
suspition
,
whiche
might
thynke
that
he
was
misinformed
of
them
,
&
to
discharge
them
of
the
mistrust
which
had
caused
those
troubles
,
was
contented
that
her
hyghnesse
should
for
the
pacifying
of
al
inconueniences
,
make
them
al
kynds
of
letters
that
might
serue
to
that
purpoze
,
and
in
such
forme
as
shee
should
perceiue
to
be
moste
for
their
safetie
,
for
what
soeuer
was
past
:
Conditionally
that
henceforth
thei
behaued
themselues
like
good
&
loyal
vassals
&
subiects
towards
his
maiesty
.
which
thyng
her
highnesse
hopeth
that
they
wyll
not
faile
to
do
,
as
becommeth
them
,
like
as
shee
was
ready
to
accept
their
presentment
.
And
nowe
,
for
as
much
as
they
haue
ful
&
whole
satisfaction
made
vnto
them
:
her
highnesse
wyl
not
refuze
the
offer
that
they
had
made
diuers
times
,
concerning
their
imploying
of
them selues
in
the
seruis
of
his
maiesty
&
of
her
highnesse
,
for
the
benefit
,
rest
,
&
tranquilitie
of
the
countrey
,
wherto
the
duetie
of
faithfulnesse
&
of
nature
bindeth
them
.
According
wherunto
shee
intendeth
that
they
shall
giue
her
their
faith
,
first
that
they
shal
nother
do
nor
procure
directly
nor
indirectly
,
any
thyng
agaynst
his
maiesty
,
his
states
countreys
,
&
subiects
,
but
that
they
shal
imploy
them selues
wholy
to
al
maner
of
thyngs
that
good
&
loyal
vassals
&
subiectes
ought
to
performe
towards
their
soueraigne
Lord
&
natural
prince
.
In
doyng
wherof
they
shal
to
the
vttermost
of
their
power
,
saythfully
helpe
to
stay
the
present
troubles
,
commotions
,
&
vprores
,
and
to
restraine
the
insurrection
of
the
people
:
that
the
sacking
,
pilling
,
&
pulling
down
of
churches
,
chappels
,
cloysters
,
&
religious
houses
may
cease
in
al
places
:
yea
&
they
shall
helpe
to
punish
such
as
haue
committed
such
sacriledges
,
outrages
,
&
abominations
:
&
see
that
no
wrong
be
done
to
any
ecclesiasticall
persons
,
ministe●…s
of
Iustice
,
Gentlemen
,
or
any
other
of
the
kynges
subiectes
and
vassalles
.
Item
,
they
shal
earnestly
indeuor
,
that
the
weapons
which
the
people
haue
taken
in
hand
(
where
through
so
many
mischefes
haue
bin
committed
,
and
may
be
committed
hereafter
)
may
be
layd
away
incontinently
.
Also
they
shal
do
the
best
they
can
by
al
good
seruis
,
to
prohibit
preachyng
in
places
where
none
hath
bin
afore
:
and
to
prohibit
al
force
,
&
cause
of
offence
,
&
publike
disorder
where
preaching
is
vsed
already
Moreouer
,
they
shal
indenor
and
put
to
their
helpe
,
accordyng
as
they
are
bound
by
oth
&
fealty
towards
his
maiesty
,
to
the
expulsing
and
repressyng
of
al
strangers
that
are
enemyes
&
rebels
to
his
maiestie
&
the
Countrey
.
Finally
they
shal
do
their
indeuor
,
according
to
the
credit
which
they
haue
among
such
as
are
now
rizen
vp
for
religion
or
otherwise
,
to
cause
them
to
submyt
them selues
to
the
thyngs
that
hys
maiesty
shal
decre
by
the
general
aduice
of
his
estates
,
for
the
furtherance
of
religion
,
&
the
quietnes
and
tranquilitie
of
the
same
.
Geuen
at
Brusselles
,
the.
23.
of
August
.
1566.
Undersigned
:
Margaret
.
¶
A
copie
of
the
letter
which
the
WE
Lewis
Countie
of
Nassaw
,
Eustace
of
Fiennes
Lord
of
Esquerds
,
Charles
of
Reuel
,
Lord
of
Andrignyes
,
Barnard
of
Merode
Lord
of
Rumen
,
Charles
of
Vander
Noot
Lord
of
Risoire
,
George
of
Mountegnie
Lord
of
Noyelles
,
Martin
of
Sarclas
Lord
of
Tilly
,
Philip
Vander
Meeren
Lord
of
Sterbek
,
Philip
of
Marbais
lord
of
Louuerual
,
Iohn
of
Mountegny
lord
of
Vilers
,
Charles
of
Lieuin
Lord
of
Famars
,
Francis
of
Haeften
,
and
Iohn
Sauage
Lord
of
Escaubecke
,
as
wel
in
our
own
names
,
as
deputies
&
committies
for
all
the
rest
of
the
Lords
&
gentlemen
confederates
,
that
dyd
put
vp
the
supplication
to
the
kings
maiesty
in
the
moneth
of
April
last
,
concernyng
the
Inquisition
&
Iniunctions
for
heresie
:
Forasmuch
as
this
day
we
haue
receiued
certaine
letters
patents
from
the
right
high
&
excellent
princesse
the
duchesse
of
Parma
&
Pleasance
,
Regent
&
Gouernesse
for
the
kyng
in
theis
countreys
heere
,
authorized
therunto
by
the
king
our
souerein
Lord
&
naturall
prince
,
in
maner
&
forme
folowyng
,
that
is
to
say
,
Margaret
by
the
grace
of
God
Duchesse
of
Parma
&
Pleasance
,
Regent
&c.
as
in
the
letters
of
assurance
aboue
rehearsed
:
We
do
you
to
vnderstand
,
that
according
to
the
same
letters
of
assurance
,
we
haue
promised
&
do
promis
solemly
by
our
fayth
and
in
the
word
of
Gentlemen
,
&
as
trew
&
loyall
vassals
&
subiectes
of
his
maiestie
,
That
we
will
obserue
,
mainteine
,
&
fulfill
,
all
maner
of
pointes
&
articles
aforesayd
:
&
as
well
on
our
owne
behalfe
as
on
the
behalfe
&
in
the
name
of
all
the
rest
whose
deputies
we
be
,
&
whose
power
,
commission
,
authoritie
,
&
cōmaūde●…ēt
we
haue
,
we
giue
&
will
giue
our
wordes
,
that
both
we
and
the
rest
of
our
confederates
shal
keepe
,
mainteine
,
and
performe
the
same
:
in
respect
wherof
we
hold
our
former
confederacie
as
voyde
,
broken
,
&
vndone
,
so
farre
forth
&
so
long
as
the
foresaid
assurance
promised
by
hir
highnesse
in
the
kings
maiesties
name
,
shall
hold
.
In
witnesse
whereof
we
haue
signed
theis
presents
with
our
names
.
Made
at
Brussels
the
xxv
.
day
of
August
.
1566.
Signed
vnderneath
thus
:
Lewes
of
Nassaw
.
Eustace
of
Fiennes
,
Bernard
of
Merode
,
C.
of
Vander
Noot
,
Charles
of
Reuel
,
George
of
Mountegny
,
Philip
vander
Meeren
,
Philip
of
Marbais
lord
of
Louerual
,
I.
Mountegny
Lord
of
Vilers
,
Charles
Lieuen
Lord
of
Famars
,
Iohn
Sauage
,
Mart.
Tserclas
,
and
Frauncis
of
Haeften
.
And
vpon
the
backeside
was
written
.
This
present
XXV
.
of
August
.
1566.
the
deputies
and
committies
for
the
Lordes
&
gentlemen
confederate
,
named
in
the
sayd
writyng
(
sauyng
the
L.
Lilly
&
Frauncis
of
Haeften
which
were
absent
)
tooke
their
solemne
&
requisite
othe
as
well
for
themselues
as
for
&
on
the
behalf
of
the
rest
of
that
confederates
,
to
mainteine
obserue
&
performe
,
all
&
euery
poynt
&
article
conteined
in
the
sayd
writyng
,
in
the
hands
of
the
most
honorable
the
princes
of
Orendge
&
Gawre
,
the
County
of
Horne
,
the
Lord
of
Hachicourt
,
and
the
Counseller
of
Assouleuille
assigned
therto
by
her
highnes
.
Subscribed
thus
:
In
my
presence
.
And
signed
:
Of
Onerloepe
.
Beneath
that
was
written
again
:
The.
27
day
of
the
said
moneth
of
August
,
the
said
yeare
.
1566.
the
said
lord
of
Lilly
&
Francis
of
Haeften
,
after
the
readyng
of
the
sayd
writyng
vnto
them
,
haue
also
set
to
their
names
&
seales
,
&
taken
the
oth
abouesayd
in
the
handes
of
the
most
honorable
the
prince
of
Bawre
,
the
Counties
of
Manusfeld
,
&
of
Horne
,
the
Lord
of
Hachicourt
,
&
the
Counseller
of
Assouleuille
assigned
thereto
by
her
highnes
,
as
is
sayd
afore
.
Subscribed
:
In
my
presence
also
.
And
signed
:
Of
Ouerloepe
.
¶
A
copie
of
the
Letter
closed
by
the
Regent
,
and
sent
heereupon
to
the
Counsellers
and
townes
of
the
low
Countreys
.
MArgaret
by
the
grace
of
God
Duchesse
I
wyll
not
omit
to
let
you
vnderstand
how
my
Lord
the
king
aduertiseth
vs
by
his
letter
of
the.
13.
of
the
last
moneth
,
of
his
resolution
concernyng
the
things
wherin
I
asked
his
counsell
and
aduicc
in
the
moneth
of
May
last
.
Wherof
his
maiesty
could
not
giue
answere
any
sooner
,
because
〈◊〉
taryed
for
the
commyng
of
the
Marques
of
Berghes
,
and
the
Baron
of
Mountegny
sent
vnto
hym
by
vs
,
vpon
whose
report
al
the
cheefe
handling
of
the
matter
consisted
.
And
truly
as
touching
the
Inquisition
,
his
maiesty
taking
regard
to
the
thinges
which
I
informed
hym
of
by
the
aduice
of
the
knights
of
the
Order
,
and
of
the
counsellers
both
of
estate
,
and
of
the
priuy
counsel
,
being
with
vs
,
is
contented
that
it
shall
cease
.
Likewise
also
aes
touchyng
the
Iniunctions
in
the
cace
of
heresie
:
he
is
contented
that
newe
shal
be
made
,
so
as
respect
be
had
to
the
maintenance
of
the
holy
ca●…
faith
&
of
his
●…sties
authority
.
But
he
is
not
yet
resolued
whether
that
shal
be
done
by
the
states
generally
,
or
otherwise
.
And
therfore
I
haue
written
very
earnestly
vnto
him
agayne
,
and
I
looke
shortly
for
his
maiestyes
good
wyll
and
pleasure
in
that
behalfe
.
Moreouer
,
wheras
I
informed
his
maiesty
of
the
dout
which
the
Gentlemen
that
preferred
the
Supplication
to
vs
in
Aprill
last
,
to
the
ende
afore
said
,
dyd
east
,
lest
his
maiesty
should
mislike
of
theyr
sute
,
and
of
the
confedoracie
that
they
made
among
them selues
for
the
same
,
which
dowt
might
haue
caused
distrust
,
&
consequently
the
trouble
and
vnquietnes
of
the
Countrey
:
his
maiesty
intendyng
to
deale
according
co
his
accustomed
clemencie
,
and
abhorryng
all
rigor
as
much
as
may
be
,
is
contented
that
(
if
we
see
that
his
so
doing
may
cause
al
vnquietnes
to
cease
,
as
we
be
promised
that
it
shall
)
we
shall
make
requisite
assurance
,
in
such
maner
&
forme
as
we
perceyue
to
be
expedient
.
Which
thing
is
don
,
so
as
nothing
shal
be
imputed
to
to
them
by
his
maiesty
nor
by
vs
,
for
aught
that
is
past
:
condicional
ly
that
they
behaue
themselues
henceforth
lik
good
and
loyall
subiectes
&
vassals
of
his
maiesty
:
wherupon
al
their
confederacies
must
be
void
,
broken
of
,
&
vndon
,
so
long
as
the
things
that
I
haue
promised
them
in
the
kings
name
do
hold
&
stand
firme
as
you
may
see
by
the
acts
passed
therupon
.
And
we
aduertise
you
further
,
that
the
kings
maiesty
intendeth
and
purposeth
to
mainteyne
the
true
ancient
Catholike
Religion
:
and
that
his
gouernors
,
counsellers
,
officers
,
and
magistrats
●…al
do
their
indeuor
to
the
full
,
that
there
may
no
inconvenience
happen
in
the
meane
while
,
tyl
he
come
hyther
to
take
order
:
which
thyng
he
promiseth
to
do
shortly
,
if
he
can
by
any
meanes
▪
possble
.
Of
al
which
thynges
as
seruyng
to
the
pacification
and
quieting
of
these
present
troubles
,
as
wel
in
Religion
as
in
the
common
weale
:
W
▪
thought
good
to
aduertise
you
,
that
ye
migh●…
indeuor
your selues
so
much
the
more
to
do
your
dueties
as
becommeth
his
maiesties
true
and
faythful
subiectes
,
and
also
folowe
his
holy
and
good
meanyng
,
in
resistyng
the
froward
and
seditious
disturbers
of
the
common
weale
,
in
maintena●…ce
of
the
Catholike
fayth
,
and
in
his
maiesties
seruis
,
to
the
quietnesse
and
tranqui●…tie
of
the
Countrey
and
your selues
.
And
so
right
deare
and
welbeloued
,
our
Lord
haue
you
in
his
holy
keepyng
.
From
Brusselles
,
the.
xxv
.
day
of
August
.
1566.
FINIS
.