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

prince of Cleue 1585 Sterckenhof and Cantercrois yeelded The castle of Stralen yeelded 1585 Macklyn yeelded by composition 1585 La Noues speech to the prince of Parma 1585 The prince of Parma made knight of the Order 1585 1585 1585 1585 The Queene taketh counsell what to do touching the low countries 1585 What money Holland had contributed in 9-yeares 1585 Reasons why the Queene of England did not take vpon her the absolute gouernment of the Netherlands 1585 Aide of 5000 foot and 1000 horsemen The time of repaiment of the money disbursed Flessingue and the Bryel giuē to the Queene in caution The townes shall be left furnished with ordnance c. as they were found Receiuing in of English garrisons but still holding their owne ciuile gouernment 1585 They shall not haue any conference or con spiracie with the enemie c. The obseruing and keeping of priuiledges The English souldiers must paie impost excise Prouision for discipline and pay to be made by the Queene Deliuering of the townes againe when the money is paid An oath of fidelitie to bee made by the souldiers Prouision for the field Monethly paiment The souldiers shall haue free exercise of religion Order for victuals Entrance and permission to fit in the counsell of Estate 1585 The authoritie of the gouernour generall Reformation of the Mint Prouiso for publicke authority martiall discipline The gouernor shall haue ouersight of all things without altering religion or priuiledges No compact to be made with the enemie without consent of her Maiestie c. The Queene shall make no treatie but by consent Taking vp of new souldiers paying thē to be done by the gouernour c. To change or chuse new gouernors The authority of the admiral of England Free vse of the hauens on both parts 1585 To end all questions and controuersies Free passage for horses The Englishmen may passe ouer with the generals pasport alone The commanders oathes A declaration in print made by the Queen of England 1585 Graue Maurice letter to the Queene for consent of deliuering Flessingue into her hands 1585 1585 1585 1585 1585 1585 1585 1585 1585 1585 Isselloort yeelded to the Estates 1585 The Queene of Englands letters to the townes of the east countries 1585 1585 1586 1586 The earle of Leicester acknowledged gouernour generall 1586. The Earle of Leicester refuseth all instructions 1586 The Queene of England offended with the states for 〈◊〉 the Earle of Leicester the gouernment 1586. A proclamation made by the Earle of Lecester for marshall discipline and for the prohibiting of trafick with the enemy c. The Earle of Lecester sought to force the seafareing men to buy passeports and to contribute something to the warres 1586. The King of Spaine arested the Englishmen in Spaine The Englishmen of warre take the Neitherlanders at sea and make them prizes Certaine Protestants Frisons defeated 1586. 80. Spanish horse defeated An enterprise vpon Zybrich failed 1586 The Marshall of Westphalias men defeated The brauery of thirty soldiers 1586. Schenck ouer-runs the Diocesse of Collogne The Prince of Parma besiegeth Nuys 1586 Nuys sommoned The Prince of Parmas offer The answer of them of Nuys 1586. Nuys battered The gouernor Cloet shot in the legge They of Nuys offer to yeeld and are sent back The great spoile and slaughter at Nuys 1586. The cruell death of Cloet Gouernor of Nuys The Pope sends a halloued sword to the Prince of Parma 1586. The Earle of Leicester discontented Paul 〈◊〉 Prisoner at Vtrecht Some banished from Vtrecht 1586 Paul Buys escapes out of prison 1586. 1586. R●…inberg besieged by the Prince in vaine Dearth of corne in Bruges 1586 Peter de Bronsqualx Ioos van Peenen beheaded in Brugges The discrip●… of Doesborch Doesborch wun by the Earle of Leicester the 13. of September 1586 The Earle of Leicester marcheth to Zutphen The Earle of Leicester entreth into Deuenter The Prince of Parma ●…aueth Berck 1586. Sir Philip Sidney shot before Zutphen whereof hee died The Earle of Leicester besieged the sconce at zutphen The Prince of Parma victualeth Zutphen The Earle of Leicester takes one of the sconces by zutphen forcibly Sir Edward Stanley for his valor made knight by the Baile of Leicester The greatest sconce by zutphen forsaken by the enemy 1586. Rouland yorke made gouernor of the sconce before Zutphen Sir William Stanley made gouernor of Deuenter The Earle of Leicester breakes vp his campe in Nouember The States request to the the Earle of Leicester 1586. The Earle of Leicester at his departure commandeth the gouernment of the Neitherlands to the Councell of Estate by act dated the 23 of Nouember 1586. An act of restraint made by the Earle of Leicester during his absence The Earle of Leicesters picture made in gold giuen to his friends in the Lowe-countries 1586 Death of the Cardinall Granuelle The Earle of Maeurs leuies Reistres and they mutine A great drought Deuouring Snayles An extraordinary dearth of corne 1586 Flanders punnished with three scourges this yeare Captaine Luth a prisoner and inlarged A prodigy of bloud Deputies of the Estates sent into England to attend on the Earle of Leicester A discours of aduise to the Earle of Leicester 1586. 1586. 1586. 1586 1586. 1586. 1586 1586 1586 The complaints of the States soldiars Aqua●…ll betwixt the earle of Hohenlo and Sir Edward Norris 1587. A vaine enterprise vpon Bu●…ich Wouwe castle sold to the Spaniards by a French Captaine 1587 Roero ort surprized by Schenck The King of Denmarke seekes to make a peace betwixt the King of Spain and the states Caius Ranson being vnknowne is taken prisoner Ranson complaines vnto his King Stanley seekes to berray Deuenter to the Spaniard 1587. Stanley yeelds Deuenter to the Spaniard Stanley seekes to excuse him-selfe Rouland Yorkes life and treason 1587. Certaine speeches vsed in th●… counc●…ll of State 1587 1587 1587. 1587 1587 1587. The towne of Graue besieged by the Prince of Parma The towne of Graue ye●…lded vp the 7. of Iuly 1587. The fort of Sgr●…uenweert built by Schinck called Schenks sconce The Lord of Hemerr beheaded in Vtrecht The Nobility of the Netherlands fall in dislike of the Earle Venloo besieged by the Prince of Parma and won the 28. of Iune 1587. Venloo yeelded to the Prince of Parma A conuoy of 3000. strong going to Colle●… cut off by their owne soldiars and many of them slaine 1587. Prince Maurice gouernes in the Earle of Leicesters absence The Barron of Buckhorst s●…nt into the Netherlands 1587. Rose nobles coynedat Amsterdam 1587 1587. S●…phen Perret a prisoner 1587. General Norris called home into England The Queene discontented vvith the Estates letters The Duke of Parma prepares to besiege Scluse The Seignior Groenevelt gouernor of Scluse 1587. Sir William Russel Lord gou●…nor of Flussing sends corne to Sluce and men Supplies of men and munition sent to Scluse Patton a Scottish-man yee●…ds Gelders to the Spaniards 1587. Prince Maurice m●…kes a roade into

deepe ditches in the drowned lands where they were presently swalloed vp Two things did help to amaze the Spaniards in Soeterwoude the one was that the Protestants comming to Meerbruche went and fired some houses in the village with a generall alarme the other was that the great Ordinance which they had left vnder the charge of Phillip Asseliers Comissary being vppon Noorda neuer ceased to play vpon them on that side the which did strike a great terror into the Spaniards This was the very iudgment of God to abate their proud presumption for there was neuer seene a more dishonorable shamefull rout hauing lost aboue a hundred boats great and small wherewith they had made an account to fight with the whole armie of the Prince and States Those that saued them-selues towards the Voorschote staied at a fort which they had made at the house of Iacob Claes vppon the great chanell which goes from Leyden to Delf called the Vliet in the which they had a Culuerin and an other peece or two with the which they began to shoot but did no harme At the first they might see them of the fort of Lemmen amazed and wauering and if the Protestants had gone directly thether it is thought they would haue abandoned it But it was not possible to effect so many things at an instant It was also a matter of no small importance to seeke to force a mighty strong fort well furnished with artillerie by a narrow chanell whereas but one boat could enter in front for there was not any meanes to approche neere vnto it but by one chanell for that from the said lake vnto the towne the country is higher then any part where they had yet past so as the least of their boats could not float there wherefore they resolued to rest satisfied with that which God had giuen them at that time and to giue order that all things might bee ready with the great Ordinance the which was sent for to batter it at the breake of day and to trie to force it if the Spaniards would attend an assault This fort was not much aboue a canon shot from the towne of the euent whereof we will presently relate In the meane time besides the plague and other diseases which grew through pouerty and famine there was a diuision in the Towne which grew by the ill affected Bourgers who neither could nor would suffer any longer for in seauen weeks they had eate no bread nor drunke any thing but water In the richest houses horse-flesh was as delicate as a partridge doggs and cats roasted was wonderfully pleasing vnto the taste it were vnpossible to expresse the diuersitie of pottages that were made some did eate vine leaues with salt others made diuers sauces with the leaues of leeks the roots stalks of coleworts min●…'d cabbage was an ordinary meat The Gentlewomen did eate their little dogs wherewith they were wont to play If any beast were kild the poore boyes were there gaping like vnto hungry doggs to see if any little morcell would fall the which they gathred vp and deuoured rawe the skinnes of dryed sooles and bones which had beene gnawne by the dogges were gathred vp in the streetes and of the dunghills A woman beeing in childbed had but a quarter of a pound of bisket allowed her by the day and women with childe were so samished as the fruits of their wombes were so weakned as they had no force to come into the world Some children crying for bread dyed in their mothers armes some men scarce able to creepe to the gard at their returne home found their wiues and children dead either of famine or pestilence if ten entred into gard there returned but six or seauen and in the end but three the rest beeing dead in the place To conclude the miserie was so great as it could not possible bee any greater For there dyed within the Towne during the siege of pouertie famine plague and other bad and miserable diseases about the number of six thousand persons men women and children Their succors being so neere vnto them one of the Bourguemaisters beeing vppon the rampar said vnto thepeople that were about him Behold my friendes behinde yonder Fort is now our bread what thinke you shall wee leaue it there Wee will rather go and pull downe this Fort with our nayles then loose it so You may imagine what contentment these poore famished forlorne creatures had to see their succors so neere them But all was not yet done for the Spaniards were betwixt the towne and their succors the which was not without some difficultie seeing the doubtfull euents of warre and if it hapned that they should not force this fort of Lemmen all that they had formerly done was in vaine or else they must haue staied a moneth longer vntill the waters had bene higher which the besieged could not indure Where-vppon the Captaines went to Councel and resolued seeing there was no other expedient to lodge one night vpon the way which goes from the said fort of Lemmen to Leyderdorpe betwixt the which there is a good quarter of a league distance presuming that from thence they should let slippe what victuals they would into Leyden with small boats leauing the greater at Palpen-meer and Meerbrunche and that this meanes should bee safe and without danger neither of reputation nor of losse the which had not beene if they had beene constrained to attempt Lemmen by force which seemed in shew stronger then it was holding it to be of canon proofe was scituated in a plaine champian where there were no chanells but were stopt beeing distant a quarter of a league from the towne The water which goes to Delfe passeth byas-wise neere vnto the one side on the other side there is a chanell by the which they enter into the Rhine and on the third quarter that which goes to Soeterwoud the rest was very easie to intrenche for there were trees ynoughe the rampars of this fort were reasonable large but not so strong as to resist the canon it was well fortified with a good palisado gabions artillery and men Therefore to speake according to humaine sence if the Spaniards had defended it well the Protestants could not haue past without very great losse for they must haue come within a harguebuze shot and lesse The approche being viewed the chanells vnstopt and the Admirall hauing sent the second of October at night Captaine Grenu Asseliers and Henry to see where they might best plant their batterie it was now time to go for the spaniards that remained in the fort had no intent to do any better then those of Soeterwoude and others had done they onely made a little shew to retire their ordinance the which notwithstanding they did not for they did abandon it the same night with the fort in the which there was a Demie canon carrying a bullet of twenty four pound waight and some

earl of Rennenberghs regiment and euery day insconced himselfe neerer to the towne making a dam in Reediepe and certaine bridges ouer the other waters whereby hee thought in short time to famish them out where many skirmishes were giuen on both sides They of Groning hauing raised certaine companies of their townes-men fortified the suburbes and two myll-hils without the towne by which meanes euery day they draue their cattell to pasture in the meddowes But for that there was little done in that siege which Bartel Entens was told of and in regard of a certaine controuersie betweene him and those of Duwsum in the territories of Groning the Estates sent the earle of Hohenlo thither with seuen companies of Christopher van Iselstein his souldiers and nine companies of the regiment belonging to William Lodowic earle of Nassau sonne to Iohn earle of Nassau as then made a colonel which disliked Bartel Entens in regard that he thought to haue had all the honor thanks and profit vnto himselfe but it fell out otherwise for that vpon the seuen and twentieth of May being at Rolde with the earles of Hohenlo and Nassau where he had drunke and made good cheare he rode with a drunken head vnto the campe before Groning saying That he would doe something that men might speake of him and when he came thither and found the captains consulting together about some enterprise to be done he checked them as if they had been boyes and bad them follow him saying That he would either enter the Scuytendiep or the suburbes of the towne and so without any more stay went thither with the couer of a butter barrell on his arme in steed of a targuet in scorne or mockage of his captaines base courages as he thought and being followed by diuers of them and at the same time taking the Loopesconce where certaine captaines and commaunders were hurt some of them told him That it was impossible for them to take the Scuytendiep without ladders or else by a breach Whereupon he stood stil behind the loope-holes of the sconce where one leuelled at him with a fouling piece and shot him through the head whereof he died His body was buried at Midlestam where he was borne His father likewise long before was stabbed by one of Wigbols men of Duwsum He had been a student in Groning and commonly went apparrelled in white and there had consumed most part of his patrimonie amongst women and by other riotous meanes and in anno 1571 he went with other freebooters to sea where he played his part so well as for his share alone he had gotten a hundred thousand dollars in his purse and in anno 1572 he went with the earle vander Marke to take the Bryel where hee was his lieutenant colonel and after that went with certaine companies to besiege Ter-Goes in Zeeland where for want of experience and before he saw the enemie he fled shamefully away as soone as he heard that Mont-Dragon had passed through the water to aid them of Ter-Goes After that when Harlem was besieged by Dom Frederic sonne to the duke of Alua hee and the earle vander Marcke with two companies of foot and some horsemen marched against the enemie without any order forgetting to take the rest of his companies with him where he was ouerthrowne but he put the fault thereof in the prince of Orange and the Estates For which cause he hauing brought the said earle vander Marcke to be so insolent as he began to make no account of any superiors the Estates committed him to prison in Delft But the said earle vander Marcke seeking to carry him forcibly out of the towne he was likewise taken and committed where they remained prisoners a whole yeare after and there Bartel Entens spent all the money he had gotten vnprofitably After that being released in anno 1576 hee once againe went to sea by consent of the Estates and did a certaine enterprise vpon Oostmahorn where in the beginning of May he made a sconce but for that his mind was more vpon couetousnesse than any other thing vpon the eighteenth of Iuly Monsieur Billy draue him from thence After that the pacification of Gant being made and that Monsieur Iselstein had committed 2 or 3 murthers that regiment of foot and a company of horse was giuen vnto him by the prince of Orange by the intreaty of Vlfkins which being discharged within 3 months Bartel Entens ran away with their pay for which cause he had like to haue bin taken prisoner with the cōsent of the prince of Orāge by the Markgraue of Antuerp but hauing intelligēce therof he escaped Not long after that he holpe himselfe by meanes of the controuersie betweene the towne of Groning and the territories for which cause hauing done some things against Groning he was by them taken and committed to prison where he lay a whole yeare but after that he was againe entertained into seruice and so remained as I said before vntill his dying day He was a man much giuen to drinke women and playing at tables setting fifteene hundred gulderns vpon a game with the lord of Koutsbach He made no account of any Religion and yet his conscience accused him of his bad life and especially for the drowning of diuers marchants which in his time he had throwne ouer-boord whereof he was wont to tell that once a dead body swam a great while after his shippe wheresoeuer it went At the last he began to leaue off his great drunkennesse and to looke more after getting of money both from the pesants and euery man else in such sort as he left great summes of money behind him and yet spent and consumed much vainely He had made Delf-Ziel inuincible as he thought and began to giue commission for men to goe to sea and had bought the Island of Rottumrooge and caused great store of stones of the broken cloysters to be carried thither from all places intending to build a castle there and thereby to commaund the riuer of Ems presuming in time to become master of Groning and the territories therabouts and with his ships to dominiere ouer the sea which he could not refraine to boast of This and much more was reported of him both by his friends and kinred as also by others that knew him well which is here set downe only for an example vnto others The earle of Rennenbergh and they of Groning were exceeding glad of Bartel Entens death and yet sorry because the warre by that meanes should be conducted by wiser colonels the earle of Hohenlo being appointed to that charge but for that he could not wellattend it Escheda was by prouision made his lieutenant colonel At the last they of Groning were driuen out of two sconces and yet although they heard bad newes That Mechelen Willebrooke other places were taken from the prince of Parma and also that the succours promised them by the said prince had been gathered about Carpen were

King that all would go to ruine in the Netherlands if speedy remedie were not had especially then when as he was ready to go to ayd the League in France therfore he thought it not fit to leaue such backe-biters comptrollers behinde him in the Countrie so as he obtained leaue to send Champigni out of the Netherlands the which he put in practise with no small rigour commaunding him to dislodge out of the Netherlands and to retyre into Burgongne within a very short time Champigni asking him the reasons why the duke answered to teach your tongue to keepe silence your pen to write better so as no intreaty nor intercession of his friendes could preuaile nor the indisposition of his body beeing scarse able to trauaile desiring that hee might rather continue in some Cloyster of Capuchins or Iesuits but all was in vaine and so hee was forced to liue a banished man in Bourgongne so long as the Duke of Parma liued The Duke seeing him-selfe maligned and slandered by them that were and ought to be neere his person to iustefie all his actions as they of Arthois and Henault were more affected vnto him then vnto any other Spaniard that might aspier vnto the gouerment he sent the said Richardot presidēt of Arthois into Spaine vnto the king to answer in his name to al obections and slanders wherwith they had filled the Kings eares and to bring back a continuation of the dukes cōmission in his gouernment of the Netherlands in despite of his enemies Whilest that Richardot was in Spaine the duke went the eight of May toward the Spawe as we haue said for his indisposition his seruants and other Italiens complayning openly at the Spawe that the Spaniards had drest their maister in that manner hauing his belly and legges sowlne The Duke of Parma being much distasted both of Spaine and Spaniards he wanted no remembrance●…s to put him in minde of the Kings displeasure being charged to haue beene the cause of the bad successe of the Kings Army and that great Princes doe not easely forgiue nor forget conceyued displeasures and that it were better for him to looke to himselfe and following Machauells councell rather make him-selfe Lord of the country wherevnto hee had good reason to aspire in regard of the Spaniards hatred towards him and the wrong which was done to his sonne Raynutius touching the crowne of Portugal whervnto he had better title as they said then the king himself And that if he would attempt any thing in the Netherlands whether it were with the title of Soueraigne or as Protector or Lieutennant thereof he should want no friends within the contry nor wel-willers without it as France England and the vnited Prouinces themselues with whome secret treaties might be made whereby the Netherlands on the other side might obtaine a good and free enter course of trafficke for the good of the whole country for as then hee had to many ouerseers both before behind and round about him it being well fore-seene long before by the councell of Spaine hauing therein taken example by the procedings of Don Iohn of Austria Others thought hee would defer the execution of his desseigns till after the death of the King of Spaine being very old and that the house of Farnese was wont to be subtill and couetous inough yet alwaies warie and very circomspect But the King granting his desire and at the last sending for the Duke of Pastrana into Spaine he was well satisfied And for that the King was fully resolued to ayde the Leaguers in France at Richardots returne out of Spaine hee recommended that busines vnto him as the fittest man for that action and he for his part resolued to vndergo the charge being a fit meanes to purchase more honor and for that cause hee made all the hast he could sending both men and money to the frontire townes and gathering an army together in Arthois wherein La mot had the cheefest charge who not long before in April thought to haue surprized Ostend by the secret intelligence with some of the soldiars but hee fayled of his purpose where-vpon the garison of Berghen vp Zoome with that of Ostend and others spoyled Gramont or Geecsbergh On the twenty of September the duke of Parma went from Spawe to Aken or Aix la Chapelle three leagues of hauing three companies of horse with him there he was honorably entertained and presented with diuers guifts In that towne hee did visit the cheefe relicks which are Iosephs breeches the virgine Maries smocke the sheete wherein Iohn Baptist was buried Charlemagnes chaire and some other petty ones and from thence he went to Bins to bee neerer vnto the frontiers of France This sommer Berke was beseeged by the Duke of Parmas forces Collonel Schencke came in the end of Iuly with many shippes to releeue it with victualls mounting vp the riuer within a league of the towne from whence hee carried such store of victualls and munition as they had neede of by land and entred safely there-with into the towne Cont William Lewis of Nassau Gouernor of Freezland for the Estates was daily at warres with Verdugo Gouernor of Groning for the King of Spaine to whose aide the Duke of Parma sent seauen Companies of foote and three of horse the which marched through the Country of Westphalia and the Conty Vander-Lippe and so to enter into East Friseland and then into the countrie of Groning Colonel Schenck being aduerised of the course they held hauing gathered together all the men he could out of the garrisons of Gelderland he went attended these troupes vpon the heath or plaines which they call Lipper-heyde where hee defeated them and put them to rout taking from them all the money which they had brought to pay the garrison of Groning and other neere places which the King held in those parts of Friseland Schenck victualled Berck and defeated these troupes in lesse then eight daies about the beginning of August The third day after his victory beeing fortefied with all the forces hee could get carrying a splene to them of Nymeghen he went from his sconcse called the Bril or Vossenhole lying by Tolhuys and sailed along the riuer of Wahal that hee might come to Nymeghen by night hauing sent his horsemen by land It was a very still night and the tyde very high so as they could not aduance much with their ships being vnfit to rowe and they came on so slowly as day began to breake The Punts or smaler vessells for that they went with owers came on first and gaue an alarum to the towne so as the Bourgers and some souldiars went to armes wherevpon Schenck not staying for the rest resolued to giue an attempt before it was day and landed by the Maie-gate then presently taking two Rammes which he had brought he went to Saint Anthonies gate the which although it were very strong hee brake open

own other mens hurts and hindrances which neuerthelesse are sometimes by many persuasions and iealousies wonne to stirre therein to grant to the disbursing of any great summes of money or to begin warre and therefore their strict standing vpon the nicenesse of that article was not so well liked of by all the prouinces They also agreed to make an other draught touching their trade in the Netherlands and other parts of Europe thereby also to reduce it vnto a neerer conformitie more agreeable vnto the writing deliuered vnto them by the Spanish and the archdukes deputies which hauing done they caused pasports to be drawne for two or three marchants of Antuerpe After that the deputies on both sides met againe vpon the 25 of March in the afternoone where the said draughts were againe read and considered of but the Spanish deputies would not as then accept of them so as after many disputations had betweene them they brake vp for that time to the end that euery man might consider the better thereon The Estates deputies vnderstanding better the Spanish deputies meaning what they chiefly desired and would be brought vnto in that respect once againe perused and mended their said draught which they restrained and limited as neere as the said article might by any meanes be drawne and deuised with least preiudice and while they were busied about it Richardot thereby to stirre vp and persuade such persons as were against it vnto a better liking therof and to dispose their mindes thereunto desired to speake with them which they allowed him who beeing alone amongest them beganne to complaine of the Estates precisenesse in that point saying that the marquesse and he were much grieued that they had beene employed in that matter concerning a treatie of peace seeing they were like to loose their labours for that the Estates in those points sought onely to haue their owne willes and thereby would be the cause to hinder and breake off so good an action as the making of peace was and would bee desiring them therefore most earnestly so to set downe and accommodate these articles touching the traffique into the Indies and the trade and traffique in the Netherlands and Europe in such points and tearmes as in Spaine they might bee liked and accepted of whereas to the contrarie it was to bee expected that they would not onely bee disliked but wholly reiected and that thereby the said treatie would presently bee broken off for the which hee seemed to be so much grieued as the teares fell from his eies thereby to mooue them thereunto producing withall many reasons why the Estates ought rather to bee a meanes to further the said treatie than by ouer much precisenesse to cause it to bee broken off and made fruitlesse which speeches vsed by him were no small meanes to mooue them to frame the said articles in a more indifferent manner and the rather for that many men were of opinion that it behooued them to drawe vnto an end that they might see the vttermost aduantage and benefit that the prouinces were to expect from and by the said treatie of peace and what burthens the Spaniards and archdukes would offer to impose vpon these countries in recompence of the title by them giuen and graunted vnto those prouinces especially for that many of them were of opinion if that they could make the vnited prouinces free from all pretences of soueraigntie of the house of Burgondie and withall procure a peace and discontinuance of and from those long and bloodie warre for that cause onely vndertaken and maintained that then they had fought a good fight and brought the matter to the desired end and their shippe to a safe and an assured port and for that cause they drew the said articles to as strict points and tearmes as possibly they could deuise by any meanes And so vpon the last day of March in the afternoone they met together on both sides where they sate long and there the last draughts of the said articles were read and deliuered and after many discourses had betweene them touching the same thereby to shewe the reasons thereof the marquesse determined to send them into Spaine by frier Iohn Nayen asking thirtie eight daies time to effect the same for that as hee past through Fraunce he was to stay there certaine daies and hoped in that time to bring a finall answer out of Spaine touching the same The substance of the article made concerning traffique to the Indies whereon the greatest disputation arose betweene them was that the inhabitants of the vnited prouinces should continue their nauigation into the Indies after the manner of marchants and traffique there for the space of nine yeares from the time of the truce graunted and set downe if that the treatie proceeded and were fully finished and determined and to that end it was agreed that the said nine yeares should beginne on this side the cape de bona speranza vpon the first day of September in the yeare 1608 and on the other side of the said cape de bona speranza vpon the first day of September in the yeare 1609 and that they should traffique into all the places hauens townes and forts of the Indies which at the end of the aforesaid truce shall not absolutely be vnder the power of the king of Spaine nor his lieutenants and in those places hauens townes or forts that are belonging vnto the said king of Spaine they shall neither enter nor traffique into them but by the licence and consent of those that haue authoritie and shall commaund therein for the said king of Spaine vnlesse it bee vpon some great extreamitie in which case they shall bee vsed there like friends as the subiects of the king of Spaine in like manner shall bee vsed in the townes forts and places that belong vnto the said States And that during the said nine yeares all acts of hostilitie vsed in those parts shall cease as well betweene the subiects of the king of Spaine the archdukes and those of the Estates as of all the kings lords towns and places that shal as then be in friendship and league with the one or the other partie whose names shall within three yeres bee certified by the king of Spaine and the archdukes vnto the Estates in the Hage and on the Estates behalfe the sayd names shall also bee certified vnto the said king and archdukes within the said time in the towne of Brussels as it is inserted and set downe in the treatie and that all wrongs and dammages done and suffered to bee done to the contrarie shall bee demaunded sued for and repaired in the places where they were done and committed or in the places where those that haue done the said wrongs and iniuries dwell and remaine without dealing or medling therein in any other places or forts or by reprisals than onely in the places aforesaid And that two yeares before the time of expiration of the aforesaid