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A10588	A briefe relation, of what is hapned since the last of August 1598. by comming of the Spanish campe into the dukedom of Cleue: and the bordering free countries, which with most odious and barbarous crueltie they take as enemies, for the seruice of God, and the King of Spaine (as they say). Heerunto is adioyned a translation out of Latin, of a letter of the Emperours embassadour, to the admirant of Arragon, the generall of the said army: with his answere. Together with a description of the vvhale of Berckhey, or the great fish which stranded or came on shoare at Berckhey in Holland, the third of February 1598. ... Also a letter of the Emperour of Germany, to the admirant of Arragon ... With the admirants answere. ... Faithfully translated out of the Dutch coppy printed at Roterdam.; Walvisch van Berkhey. English.	Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1552-1612.; Mendoza, Francisco de, 1549-1623.	1599 (1599)	STC 20861; ESTC S115784	37,984	48

against the people which thou hast chosen for thy heritage It is true that we deserue to be wholie cast from the sight of thy sacred face We haue deserued to be robbed of thy holye worde which now thou teachest vs yet Lorde for thy names sake fauour vs yet and alwayes shew thy mercie to thy Church XIII O you states of the vnited lands who haue chosen for your Lieutenant the Counte Maurice melt all your spirits together beséech GOD continually to encrease in you through his goodnesse the spirit of (a) Concordia res parue crescunt concorde (b) It is an olde saying Romanus sedendo vincit wisedome and (c) Woe to the lande whose king is a child eyther in years or vnderstanding vnderstanding to the building of his church and the countries good But first séeke for Gods kingdome further by all meanes his Church then will hee cast his blessing vpon this land and abolish all Achitophels complots and at your soules departure from hence receiue them vp to him in his celestiall dwelling (d) Religio verè ligat Where the hearts of men are not through the bonde of true religion bound together there is no foundation Therefore all those which seeke the countries welfare must also and especially procure the furtherance of the true Catholicke reformed religion in euery place where it is possible setting wise and learned men to preache the same and ordaining good Schooles wherein youth may bee well educated and taught not onely in speach and sciences but especially in the true religion to which ende the Emperiall goods ought to be vsed which doone there shall be no occasion giuen to the enimies of the religion and the patrimonie to say that we driue away the Monckes and Fryers not so much through zeale of religion as because we might get the fingering of the spirituall goods FINIS THE LETTER OF THE EMPEROVR OF GERmanie to the Admirant of Arragon Generall for the Archeduke Albertus in the Counties of Cleue and Munster c. With the Admirants answere The conspiracie of the three Bishops The death of the Earle of Brooke The Admirants Letter to the counsaile of Gulich The list of the Souldiours leuied by the protestant Princes of Germanie Faithfully translated out of the Dutch copie Printed at Roterdam Imprinted at London by Iohn VVolfe and are to be solde at his shop in Popes head Alley neere vnto the Exchange 1599. A Letter of the Emperour Roduphus the second to Don Francisco de mendozza Admirant of Arragon Generall of the army of the King of Spaine in the Lands of Gulich and Cleue touching the dammages by him done in the Empire I Rodulphus by the grace of God the second chosen Romaine Emperour at all times an augmenter of the Empire in Germany Hungaria Bohemia Dalmatia Croatia and Sclauonia c. king Archduke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Steyr Keredten Gray and Wittenberch Earle of Tiroll c. send gréeting to the well-borne our especiall beloued Don Francisco de mendossa Admirant of the kingdome of Arragon Marquesse of Quadelles Knight of the Calatranonian order Commaunder at Valazenas Generall vnder our beloued brother Albertus Archduke of Austria also to V. N. and N. to all and euery Regiment Admiranty Coronels Captaines Lieuetenants and Commaunders of Souldiers horse and foote of what nation State and condition soeuer vnto which these our credible letters may appeare be shewed or declared to such as remaine in our Empire or the Fortresses ground bottom Citties Townes Sconces and Riuers of the same by Water or Land wee make knowne that our Princes and Lordes of the Netherlandish and Westphalian Croytes especially the high-borne Iohn Wilhem Duke of Gulich Cleue and Berge c. our beloued Nephew who of a longtime most obediently had made knowne and highly complained vnto vs in what manner you Admirant with a great Hoast Force and Might yea aboue 30000. armed men are departed out of Brabant in the ende of the moneth of September last past and presently taken your way through the Dukedome of Gulich in the same month forcing and besetting his Citty of Orsoy and after that you haue sent certaine thousands of horse and foote ouer the Rhyne where they haue cast a Sconce and on both sides of the same taken all the cattell and beasts great and small spoiled the flat land and besides this oppressed the poore people with imprisoning ransoming burning and murthering in such odious sorte as the like hath not béene heard héeretofore of any insomuch that the greater parte of the inhabitants and subiects haue béene forced to abandon their housen lands and all else what with their great labour they haue béene able to get héerwith not satisfied but haue sent the souldiours into the countrie of Berge being a place appertaining to the Duke of Gulich and the late W●eringen of Dau● Earle at Valkensteyn dwelling vpon the house called Brooke haue assailed the same and notwithstanding that the Earle of the house had rendred vp the same vpon condition of liues and goods saued haue murdred diuers of the said souldiors and the Earle himselfe who had the Admirants sauegarde they helde some dayes imprisoned and vpon a time by the will and consent of the Captaine who laye in the house being gone to walke abroade they haue must wickedlye murthered him Meane while the armie hath taken and forcibly marched through some cities of Glene as Burich Dinslaegen Holt Rees Emmerick with other Forts Gentlemens housen Villages appertaining to the said Dukedome the which some of them they haue with their Ordinance beaten downe destroied ransacked forced and deuoured amongst which were many spirituall and temporall persons without fauouring any one but plaging and tormenting them to the vttermost some with imprisonment other with strangling and such like togeather with the violating and deflouring of women damsels maides in more filthie or beastlye sorte then euer hath béene heard and haue moreouer so oppressed the Cittie of Wesell that they haue béene forced to pay 150. thousand Dollars the one halfe ready and the other at shorte time together with 1000. measures of Rye which they haue béene forced to promise to the Chéeftains of you the Admirants campe ouer and aboue the houses and Lordships as Kruydenberch Weyfflyck houen also the Princely Gentlemens housen and Forts as Lhan Windendal Dusport Noisan Impel Dornich Lack●unsen Woremsemmerwogen and also reduced the Duke of Gulich himselfe with his court to the extreamest and the vttermost pouertie with many more other places which haue béen with force taken ransacked and spoiled whereof we haue a great number of specifications sent vs. Also some of the armie haue vaunted to dare to suppresse and driue away the Duke in person Aboue all this you Admirant with your Spanish souldiours haue attempted to beset some Citties in the Prouince of Munster and those which denyed your demaunds you haue by force compelled and taken also you haue caused the said bishopricke with

A briefe relation of what is hapned since the last of August 1598. by comming of the Spanish campe into the Dukedome of Cleue and the bordering free Countries which with most odious and barbarous crueltie they take as enemies for the seruice of God and the King of Spaine as they say Heereunto is adioyned a Translation out of Latin of a Letter of the Emperours Embassadour to the Admirant of Arragon the Generall of the said Army With his answere Together with a description of the VVhale of Berckhey or the great fish which stranded or came on shoare at Berckhey in Holland the third of February 1598. With anotation therupon Also a Letter of the Emperour of Germany to the Admirant of Arragon Generall for the Archeduke Albertus in the Countries of Cleue and Munster c. With the Admirants answere The conspiracy of the three Bishops The death of the Earle of Brooke The Admirants Letter to the Counsaile of Gulich touching the death of the said Earle The list of the Souldiers leuied by the Protestant Princes of Germany Faithfully translated out of the Dutch coppy Printed at Roterdam Imprinted at London by Iohn VVolfe and are to be solde at his shop in Popes head Alley neere vnto the Exchange 1599. The scituation of the lands of Cleue and Munster Where the Spanish forces now are A breefe relation of what is happened since the last of August 1598. by the comming of the Spanish campe into the Countries of Cleeue c. DOn Francisco de Mendossa Admirante d'Arragon c. Generall with Earle Frederick van den Berge as Marshall of the campe belonging to the Archeduke Albert in the Beginning of Septēb last An. 1598. came to the Riuer of Rhine at Orsoy with 62. Ensignes of Spaniards 19. Ensignes of Italians 2. Ensignes of Irishmen 4. regiments of Wallons containing 43. Ensignes 4. regiments of Germaines of 42. Ensignes together with 168. Ensignes of footemen which in all is esteemed to be 22. thousand footemen with 2. thousand horse comprehended in 28. companies aswell Spaniards Italians Netherlanders and others with these troopes the aforesaid Admirant desired to be let into the little cittie of Orsoy scituated vpon the Rhine a mile aboue Berck being by the Marshall of Cleue who protested as Neutrall denied he began to seale the cittie Orsoy taken which the Cittizens perceiuing being affraide let his people in vppon promise of onely passing the Rhine But he forgetting his promise began to strengthen the cittie and caused 10. Ensignes of Wallons and 3. regiments of Spaniards with 12. companies of Horsemen to be passed ouer the Rhine and ouer against Orsoy at Walsem he caused a strong Sconce to be made Vpon the Castell of Orsoy laye some Souldiours belonging to the Prince of Cleue to the which the Admirant went himselfe in person with thrée Fryars and a hangman hauing many halters in his hand with which he threatned the Souldiours that if they would not deliuer vp the Castell they might confesse themselues for that there was a hangman ready to hang them The Castell summoned and yeelded so that the Souldiours were forced to yéelde the same vp vnto him also all other Forts and Citties thereabout he caused to be summoned taken pilled and ransomed not fauouring the citties of Alpen and Meurs which had obtained a letter from Albertus that they might remaine as Neutrals By letters written out of the Campe was vnderstood that the Admirant had taken Orsoy the 10. of September with intent to remaine there to strengthen the same on both sides of the Rhine before that he would attempt any thing else The Campe did as then nothing else but ouerrunne and robbe the land of Cleue as enemies by some prisoners was vnderstood that they meant to winter in the Neutrall Citties to spare the Brabanders and Flemmings that the Souldiours daylye by wante of money runne away That the heads in the campe were different Earle Frederick counselled to go towards Ouer-ryssell but the Admirant would passe downe alongst the Rhine The Cittizens of Orsey made pittifull moanes and requests to their Lord the Duke of Cleue to obtaine of the Admirant that with wife and children they might peaceably depart leauing all their goods and wealth behinde them for they were by the Spaniards forced to worke like slaues The 25. of September the cittizens and chéefe in Cleue land concluded that the redeliuery of Orsoy should with all diligence be procured and that if in case the Admirant denied to doe it that as then with all expedition meanes should be sought to leuie men for the defence of the Country which of many was little estéemed The last of September the * The cheefe Counsellors and officers touching martiall causes Creyts at Dormont being assembled concluded to send the Earle of Lippe to the Admirant to procure the rendring of Orsoy There was great want of money and victuals in the Campe for the Country aboue fiue miles round of Orsey was destroyed insomuch that the souldiers ran away in great number as well Spaniards as other The sixt of October some part of the Campe departed to the Castle of the Earle of Brooke situate on the Roer who notwithstanding that he shewed all good neutrality and that he defended his libertie they forcibly besiedged beshot tooke and pilled as enemies his Castle and place of residence or dwelling his wife and children they conueyed to a monastery the Souldiers of Cleue Berge with the house-kéepers which were flee into the Castle contrary to their promise and agréement they flew in the fielde after they were with theyr consents departed from the Castle The Earle himselfe they vsed as a criminall prisoner notwithstanding that he answered himselfe as being a Noble man belonging to the Empire and appealed therupon that he had yéelded vp the Castle vpon condition of life lands goods saued for himself and those which were with him vpon thesame The Lorde of Herdenbergh with a Preacher murdred in the Castell they forced him to goe to Masse and as they fell in disputation thereabout they there slewe his Nephew the Lorde of Herdenbergh wyth a Preacher This Castle of Brooke being thus as enemy taken without in any sorte respecting their promise that it was yéelded vpon condition of life and goods saued The Admirant of Arragon Don Francisco de mendossa durst well defend the same to the Counsaile of Cleue that it ought not to be badly taken what his men did that there was occasion giuen And that those of Cleue and Berge ought not to reuenge all what happeneth but ought much rather to haue pacience in hope of a good ende of those miseries which now they endured through néede for the common good and that there ought no enmity to be shewed to the end not to bring themselues in the danger of the furious and bitter armes of the angred Souldiers which were thereby mooued Moreouer the Iesuits make themselues

to be sure and had by so many promises bound himselfe would be found true as concerning that the cittie of Orsoy should within 10. or at furthest within 20 dayes be discharged of those expences and redeliuered Item that the Campe should bee remooued out of these Neutral lands as soone as Berke shuld be rendred And the more did I beléeue that this should haue béen fully accomplished because that the same hath at diuers times bin promised and confirmed by worde and sealed letters to the Illustrous Prince of Cleue and his sister I now finde my selfe greatly deceiued sith I perceiue nothing but breaking of promises and néedlesse delaies yea more there is nothing followed vpon the promises but foe-like enterprises and the iust contrariety of the said promises For being departed I haue vnderstood how the one Citty after the other hath béen forcibly taken and others constrained to paye great summes of moneys and quantities of corne all the which comming to the Court I found to be true and more ouer heare and sée some Citties taken and other some with great cruelty forced to pay great exactions Any one who willingly would haue his country fréed from such troubles may easily iudge howe the Emperour in whose behalfe I am héere appointed to take care for the country and the Prince thereof with all the other Germaine Princes yea all other Princes of Europe will be mooued at the report hereof for this is a matter which toucheth them in generall The house of Lorrayne shall by this marriage be ioyned and bound to that of Cleue also the house of Lorraine shall by a new brotherhood be knit to the King of France And many Princes doe belong to this house aswell by bloud as mariage Therefore one ought to take care that all these together be not vexed nor vrged by the great dishonour and shame which is done them and so to renue and teare vp the olde wound which is yet scarce whole which I wishe his Catholique Maiesty as being one of his welwillers to looke vnto Where are there any so vnwise and vnexperienced that vnderstand not that it greatly hindreth and disturbeth the seruice of God that a Catholique Prince who hath with such zeale and innumerable charges defended and vphelde the Catholique religion in the middest of the streames and stormes of heresie should bee thus suppressed and spoiled and his kindred be dispised That leauing the enemy vnassaulted the whole power of the warre with the worst and basest rascals that can be found in the world shall be bent against the Kings couzens and bloud kindred That the Churches shoulde bée pylled and the Monestaryes robbed the spirituall men thrust away and beaten The young Virgins deuoted to God rauished and all holines tredden vnderfoote Also that the Embassadour which among the heathens are frée are with publique force apprehended as is happened to my owne person and the Embassadours of other Princes some daies past when I came by water to Cleue Where can any one I say be found so simple and sencelesse that doeth not perceiue and marke that this stretcheth to the dispising and hindraunce of Religion Besides that which is greatly to be doubted that is that the honour of the renouned house of Austria will be dispised of euery man the which vntill nowe for their iustice and kindnesse the simplicity of their enterprises and honorable déeds hath béen fauoured ouer all as also because they haue alwaies wisely shunned the suspition of friends or foes of bearing armes in any wrongefull warres yea it is to be suspected that the Catholique Kinge and all other raisers and authors of those cruelties shal be by God most iustly punished the guiltlesse bloud which they spyll crying for reuenge For O beloued what prosperity are those to expect which themselues fauour nothing nor leaue nothing vnspoiled which lay their hands vpon and molest their kindred as straungers their friendes as enemies the worthy as malefactors and the guiltlesse as the guiltie I am forced by my office to aduertise his imperial maiesty of these bloodie tyrannies euen in a rowe as they are happened I admonish and earnestly pray your honour to desist from vsing of violence henceforward but to the contrarie to giue and render againe to the hands of the illustrious Prince of Cleue his taken Citties Castels and forts to transport your Armie for some other continent to make amends and restitution of the damages doone and to giue no occasion of further displeasure or discommoditie All the which although it were lawfull iust lawdable and beséeming to a Prince yet will I by the bearer héereof expect a reasonable and discréete answer I commit your Honor to the protection of God From Cleue the last of October 1598. Vnderstood Carolus Sonderpuhill Legat of his Imperiall Maiestie The Author In sooth I beléeue that this Embassador meanes well enough and would willing see the Carte goe vpright but his Lorde and maister is not of that minde For were it otherwise and that he were displeased therewith wherefore dooth he not deale earnestly with his brother Albertus who must confesse to haue giuen his Lieutenant the Admirant commission and charge to take the citties of Cleue to robbe them and murther the people by multitudes c. Or he must say that the Admirant had doone all without his consent and commaundement and of propria authoritate Hath he then doone this without commaundement he ought then to punish him well for it and to set the citties of Cleue and Munster in their fréedome againe and to recompence their damages But it appeareth daily more and more that the court of Spaine the Emperor and his brethren as also the Pope are well agreed that all is but dissimulation they faining to be displeased with the things whereof they are causers I will therfore to the delight and seruice of the Reader yet ioyne heereto the copie of the Admirants answere Superscription To the Noble and worthie Lord Carolus Sonderpuhill Knight of Ierusalem Counsellor and Legat of the Emperour my especiall goodfriend NOble and Worthy Lorde wee haue with all reuerence the seuentéenth of Nouember receiued your honors Letters dated the last of October wee haue also vnderstood each point of the same First we commend and praise your honors seruice care in the executing of the commaundement of his imperiall maiesty touching the encreasing of the honour and welfare of the Illustrous Prince of Cleue and the defence of his countries and subiects Your honor séemes at this present iustly displeased by reason of many faults and misdemeanors which being first beheld and not sufficiently grounded would greatly agrauate the Kings campe and vs except that from the beginning and first enterprise the cause could be prooued that those which are accused should haue sought and procured miserie and calamitie instéed of helpe and counsaile insomuch that these troubles must be moderately applyed to the circumstance of the matter and cause of the

naked out of the tyrants hands as his name signifies is parlous gallant with 24000. men he passed the Rhine and first tooke Orsay Euery one was affrighted through out all the land each cittie imagined that they leueld at them yea séemed that at a clappe he would haue taken all the Citties which lye héere belowe on the banke But it was not so the case goes otherwise he whetteth his téeth in the lands of Cleue Munster where he so abuseth both men and women that no body can endure by him VI. By the small eyes of the Whale is signified the little foresight and vnaduisednesse of the Admirant who was so gréedy to conuay his great hoast déeper into the countrie that he tooke no care for his foode (a) All wise Generals forecast where and frō whence the campe may be best victuailed but this wonderfull fellowe comming ouer the Rhine whē the Corne was ripe would not giue the countrimen of Zutphen any sauegarde whereby in lying peaceably in the countrie they might haue victualed the Campe. But willingly gaue them respite and leasure to flie into the strong Citties insomuch that shortly after his Souldiours through hunger were constrained to eate Coletwort-stalkes and clodded blood of beasts rootes and hearbes c. And whilest that the land was full of food and victuals they said it is not royall nor honourable inough for the King to take contribution of his subiects but now when the clownes were fled he graunteth them sauegarde for the Countrie people fled and conuayed the Corne and cattle away insomuch that Signor through famine was constrained to eat Colewort stalkes for they could not get any bread yet when this hungrie crew came into the (b) So I call the citties of Cleue and Munster but truly the Spaniards doth not now esteeme or holde them for Neutrall but as his owne and respecteth them no more then hee dooth Deutecum which alwayes heeretofore hath beene on our side And euen as the Pope did giue this king of Spaines predecessors the land of America whereof the Heathen king Artibalyba greatly wondered saying Surely this Pope must needs be some great foole to giue my countrie and citties wherein he hath not a foote of right to an other Euen as great right and reason hath he to giue Albertus who is one of his best sonnes the Lordships of Cleue and Munster if so it may please his holinesse But to whom soeuer the said Prouinces belongeth of Cleue and Munster the Spaniards supposeth to haue good right in them saying that at the time when Knipperdolincke and Iohn Becolt of Leyden with the Annabaptists in Anno. 1533. had made themselues maister of the Cittie of Munster the Bishop beeing not able ynough to take the Cittie againe and to beate out the Annabaptists he besought those of the house of Burgundie for ayde promising that himselfe and his subiects at any time thereafter should bee thankfull vnto them for it Now is it the right time saide the Spaniards to accomplish that promise and therefore they thinke they may lawfully call in their debts and to pay themselues See how easily a staffe is found when one will beate the dogge if one cannot finde a straight one a crooked one will serue the turne Neutrall citties and there lodged in c Some poore Cittizens which with their hands and the sweate of their browes get their liuing are pestered with ten fifteene yea twentie souldiers in their housen other some 25. 30. 36. more or lesse which eate and consume all what the miserable Inhabitants of the neutrall citties are able any way to get My Lords they sit at the table making good cheere The hoast like a Page must stand behind them bare headed to serue them yea he must see them with money before they will vouchsafe to touch one bit of the good meate which is set before them Where Signior the Spaniard hath any gouernment there the Gentlemen and Cittizens of the Citties must stand with cap in hand and bow themselues to a filthie rotten pockie Spanish basketmaker and such a one must bee called Signior as is woorse then the most basest Boore in all the Netherlands heaps listen what they did Browne bread and powdred flesh they scorned to eate throwing it at their hoasts féete d Yea so wicked and immodest are these pockie abhominable wretches and heathnish Christians that they will not respect wenches of eight nine tenne eleuen or twelue yeares of age and through their villanies they haue vndone many a maide and honest woman VII Through the vnnecessarie and vgly tongue of the whale is signified Whē our ships the last yeare were come into the Pepper countrie and that the Heathen King at Bantam for a summe of money had granted them trafficke in his countrie hee notwithstanding soone broke his promise seeking to destroy our men contrarie to his oath and promise Whereof being reprooued and demaunded the cause thereof he answered that hee had no bone in his tongue and that he could turne and winde the same at his will and pleasure this may likewise be applied to the Spaniard for he breaketh his oath and promise as often when he listeth And being he cannot condemne those of Cleue and Munster of heresie and that the olde rule of the Concile of Trent faith ought not to be held vnto heretickes can take no place there The Admirant when complaints are made that hee hath not helde his promise answereth The seruice of god and the king require so much that I cannot keepe my promise Hath he not cause and reason ynough thinke you to breake and violate the oath It is euen with the Spaniards as it was whilome with the ambitious heathens Iulius Caesar and others which were wont to say Si violandum est Ius regnandi causa violandum est Alpen Anholt and Meurs vnto which the Cardinall vnder his hand and Scale had graunted neutralitie haue notwithstanding by the Admirant bene taken that the promises which the Spaniarde maketh vs are vaine and of no woorth It is stinke it is filth burning and murthering which stickes in his heart and herewith his minde is stuffed puffed vp like the bellie of the whale with filthie infection f The Spaniard seemes to haue minde vpon nothing so much as vpon the Romish religion and the furtherance thereof In so much that his Catholicque Maiestie the king of Spaine is esteemed to be the truest and faithfullest seruant vnto the Romish seate Vnder this hypocriticall vaile they seeke to cloake their insatiable ambition couetousnesse and bloodthirst Euery where that they lie in Cleueland they do no more fauour the Catholicques then those of the reformed religion or others yea the places could be named where they haue broken the Churches and monuments which by our people were leaft vndefaced Shew of holinesse and pariurie are the two sinnes wherewith hee purposeth to subdue the Netherlands He hath heretofore done many an