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A18982	An ansvver and true discourse to a certain letter lately sent by the Duke of Alba (in maner of a pardon) to those of Amsterdam to be by them conueyed and distributed vnto the other townes in Hollande. Set forth by certayn true louers of their natiue country, namely desirous to liue vnder the due obeysance of the King of Spayne, according to the old customes and priuileges of their said countrie: faithefully translated out of the Dutch into English, by T.W.	Alba, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, duque de, 1507-1582.; T. W., fl. 1573-1595.	1573 (1573)	STC 540; ESTC S119168	18,121	50

lesse commaund that these his naturall base Countries should thus pitifully be suppressed and by violence of a straunge Nation brought to euerlastinge subuersion and ruine For at the first not being conquered by the sword but through friendly alliance and agréement first ioyned with the famous house of Austria and afterwards with the Kingdomes of Spayne and so from time to time haue vsed their entire affection and faithfull seruice aswell towards his Maiestie as also to his moste noble Auncesters with singular industrie and diligēce Namely in the last warres with France it hath manifestly appeared wherin they neither spared charges nor paynes but to the maintenāce of the same in short space leuied iiij C. millions of Golde and likewise in all other matters declared towards his Maiestie all due obedience Also his Maiestie hath againe at al times shewed a Fatherly and benigne disposition towards the said Countries Howe could hée then haue stopped his eares from the cryes and lamentations of his poore and true subiectes Or how could he shut his eyes and not behold the lasciuious and wilfull dealings of a straunge Nation or his hart be shut vp from hauing compassion ouer such a miserable destructiō of his Townes and Countrie so florishing and prospering at that time as no land in Christēdome more Where as the States of the whole lande aswell in generall as particular yea the chiefest of the Nobilitie and Lordes themselues with humble Supplications Remonstrances Ambassades and many other meanes haue obediently requested to bée hard indifferētly and to be released of such a tyrannicall yoke No certainly we know and beléeue that our King of nature is the most gratious and mercyfullest Prince that may be found But séeing we know this we conclude resolutely that this is not his doing nor will which by the Albanish faction hath of late ben done but they giue the King to vnderstand slaunderous tales by them falsely deuised kéeping him faste in Spaine to the intent he should rule according to their appetit abusing his name seale and blankes at their pleasure giuing out commaundements in his name such as best serue for their purpose which thing is so plaine and notorious as no man is of so simple vnderstanding and iudgement which doth not sée yea féele it For they perceyuing about vi yeares past the Nobilitie and Gentlemen of the countrie to take to hart the state of the same presenting Requests to be dismissed from the Inquisition and tyrannie of the new Bishops then could they beginne to say that to the Kinges naturall good inclination towards his subiects and their good obedience great wrong was offered as who would say it was not the Kings mind nor pleasure that his owne Landes should bee charged with such a tirannicall seruitude as the Inquisition is that he neuer thought it which thei published vnder the Kings letters and seale which they sent not onely vnto certaine townes and congregations but likewise to certaine of the chief Lordes and Nobles of the Lande Then within a short whyle after thinking the time fit to serue their turne they published new Letters Edictes in the Kings name expressely to the contrarie wherein his Maiestie willed and streightly commaunded that the new Bishoppes the Counsell of Trent and Inquisition should be planted vppon payne of his extréeme displeasure Within a whyle after they considering a great alteration like to happen and some commotion towards amongest the people not findinge them selues sufficiently strong they once ageyne called in the same and in the kings name made a new agréement confirming it vnder his Seale But within a whyle after béeinge prouided of a power the Kyngs letters vnder his great seale was by them broken and violated and the commons charged with new othes and taxes Then began the Gallowes scaffoldes and poles to be erected the swoordes whetted and the fiers kindled and then they began to murther burne and hang all the kyngs true subiects without end or measure yea the most noblest Lordes of the countrie were forced to flée or to be murtherid Now wel knowing that they kyng hath no pleasure in these doings that his true subiects should thus vniustly and tirannously bée handled as he himselfe hath often declared and as we are fully certified do therfore not against our kyng but against certain presumptious straungers which haue aduaunced themselues to inuade our country without right or reason take the sword in hand to defend and deliuer our bodies from their bloudie swoords our goods from their gryping hands our wiues and daughters from their vnchast desires knowing therby for certaine that we do our Kyng herein both good and faithfull seruice the truth wherof being vprightly related vnto him we hope he wil take in good part Therfore we do not estéeme our selues for rebels as this writing doth vniustly charge vs but the Kyngs true and faithfull seruants and so wil remain to the death séeking nothing more than to defend his heritage from the execrable tiranny of straungers so as the same be not compelled to giue themselues to any reuolting or Rebellion We also denie that which they further alleage That we with lies and false persuasions seeke to rayse a slaunder vppon the Kyng to the states and commons of the countrie therby to allure his subiects from his obedience drawe them to vs. Undoubtedly any reasonable person may easely consider this to be a false accusation as all the other are wherewith they burthen vs and that they themselues are culpable of the same being manifest that they haue alwayes wrought with open lies and false persuasions to set these countries at debate with the Kyng by false accusations therby séeking occasion to inuade the land and so to bring it vnder their subiection This is easely to be considered out of the request for ix yeres which in anno 1552. the King himselfe did propone vnto the generall states of the lād within the towne of Valencia namely that the meanes wherby to maintain the warres against Fraunce any longer were at an end and that his maiestie knew not how to leuie any more money Desiring therfore that they would appoynt some amongest them which were expert in the state of the countrie to find some meanes to succour the matter Wheruppon an assembly of their Deputies was kept at Bruxels where after many deliberations it was finally concluded to the King was graunted the sume of eight hunderd thousand Gilderns a yeare for the space of nine yeares whereof forthwith should be leuied vppon the sale of rēts xxiiij hunderd thousand Gilderns for the mayntaining and paying of xviij thousand footemen and eight thousand horsemen whereof the one third parte to be straungers and the rest inhabitants of the countrie and that for the space of vj. monethes ouer and besides twentie shippes of warre for seuen monethes And further according to the particular instructions therof made to bring the same to effecte there were certaine necessarie specified

haue reiected their yoke séeing they haue vsed such cruel tirāny oultrage insolentie in those townes which at the first haue as friendes receiued them and shewed them all friendshippe helpe and assistaunce Enquire of the townes of Maestricht Shertoghenbosch Wtrecht Tourney Valencien Lyle and other more where they haue lyen in garrison what grace they haue there extended towardes the commons of the same And whither there be any kynd of oultrage insolentie spite or crueltie to be deuised which there hath not bene vsed So as many of their commons haue in great nombers bene piteously murthered as within the townes of Lyle Valencien and Tourney hath notoriously ben séene and would haue set on fire and spoiled diuers of the notablest townes as we haue rehearsed of Rotterdam and as was aparant at Wtrecht where they were determined to haue done the like Yea let vs sée how they haue done at Amsterdamme which Towne was well affectioned towards them Let vs consider what good fruites they of Amsterdam haue reaped by it These haue first exacted of them a hundreth thousand Gilderns vppon condition to haue no Souldiours afterwardes they were the first that were condemned in the payment of the tenth penie and cōsequently haue so charged and burdened them that the Towne is in a manner vndone But for what respect will they be so fauourable and mercyfull to our Countrie to graunt this fauour towards vs It must procéede either in respect of our persons or theirs As touching their owne persones they muste be moued to it of nature or in respect of their gayne and profit It is notorious that of nature they ar not enclined to mercy or kindnesse to vse such singular grace towardes vs For if men consider what cruell and inhumain factes they haue committed in the kingdom of Naples with in the Dukedome of Milan in the Indies and in all partes of these lowe Countries where they are become vanquishers yea in their own natiue Countrie by robbing murthering burning rauishing of womē cutting of childrē out of their mothers bellies and such like abhominable déedes vnder the colour of rebellion heresie which they alwayes alledge for them selues no occasion wil be therby found why any man might accompt them pitiful and gratious Then this their pitie and mercye muste procéed out of a respect for their own gayn But that can not be for they think that the Townes which are declined from them haue so done bicause they did not vse sufficient crueltie against them but spared many which now are become their chéefe enemies according to the prouerbe which their Vargas doth vse Nimis magna clementia nos perdidit that is to saye Too much mercy hath spilled vs Now therefore they make their rekoning thus that if they may once againe obtaine to be Maisters they will so tame and yoke the Countrie that thei shal not néede to be at great trauell or charges to kéepe the inhabitants therof vnder their subiection Nowe séeing wée can not expect any mercy or fauour at their hands for respect of their persones Let vs then sée whither they might be thereunto moued for respect of ours certainly much lesse For besides that the Spanish Nation are of nature lofty and proud and doe contemne all other Nations séeking the superioritie ouer all they do beare a singular and priuie hatred against this our Nation of the lowe countries which hatred as commonly it is séene is bred of a ielousie For they séeing that our naturall Princes and Lordes the Dukes of Brabāt Earles of Holland c. haue matched and allied them selues with Spanish women heires of the kingdomes of Spaine and by that meanes obtayninge the gouernement ouer them sometimes haue ordeyned Netherlanders to rule in the regiment of Spayne as in the time of the Lord of Cheures and the Cardinal Adrian borne in Hollande who afterward was elected Pope of Rome hath ben séene This hath not a little gréeued the Spaniards that they should be ruled by Flemings for so thei terme all the Netherlanders And hereout it happened that within a whyle after that Charles the Emperour of noble memorie as lawfull heire did succede his Grandfather Ferdinandus king of Spayne the whole countrie of Spaine especially the kingdome of Arragon began to rebell against Charles their naturall Lord wrongfully pretēding that the succession of the kingdome belonged not vnto him and to that ende sent for a certaine Duke of Calabria which was of the auncient house of Arragon who then laye in prison offering him the kingdome which he denied to accept Notwithstanding shortly after by the good fortune and pollicie of the Emperour Charles all those matters were brought to a quiet ende yit euer since that time haue the Spaniards borne an inward grudge malice against our nation as they haue alwayes well declared when soeuer they had any oportunitie but especially against the Nobles of the Countrie whom they perceyued to be in speciall grace and fauour with the Emperour Charles of most famous memorie and the Kinges Maiestie that now is inuēting al maner of meanes to bring these Countries into the displeasure of their Maiesties which besides the examples aforesaid doth euidently appéere by this last proposition of the Emperour Charles who departing out of these Countries towards Spayne leauing the same to his Sonne our soueraigne Lord saide hée did sufficiently perceyue that the Spaniards sought by all meanes to incense him and bring into his hatred his subiects of the lowe Countries according to their accustomed enuious nature which they bare towardes the countrie but he should not credit them but to the contrarie hold these Countries for speciall recommended as those who in his most necessitie aboue all others had declared towards him most obedient faythefulnesse and had reserued the Crowne on his head requesting they would shewe the like towards their yong King and that hée should minister Iustice to all men according to reason defending them against the rigour and violēce of their enemies without giuing credit to their euill willers and aduersaries with many other holsome admonitions which some Lordes presently liuing heard him speake Furthermore if we consider in what estimation we are with them we shal soone perceiue whereof this hatred and malice is further sprong It is manifest that by reason of the neighbourhed which we haue with the Germanes and other nations addicted to the Gospell they haue alwayes estéemed vs for Lutherians and heretikes I meane not onely of those that haue cast off the Popes religion but in generall the whole Nation perceyuing our people of nature not to be giuen to many ceremonies and little estéeming the Apish toyes and tromperies which they haue learned of the Sarrasins Moores and other Heathen people We sée what an Apes play they vse in the time of Lent in scourging of them selues with other mockeries which they vse at our Lordes sepulchre as they call it This they extéeme for the greatest holynesse which