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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10088	An account of the famous siege of Antvverp by Alexander prince of Parma, in the year 1584. Being the most memorable siege that was ever laid to any city. / Written in Latine by Famianus Strada: and Englished by T.L. ...	Strada, Famiano, 1572-1649.; Lancaster, Thomas, gent.	1672 (1672)	Wing S5776A; ESTC R184657	85,189	204

Antwerpians Delinquencies for having waged warr against God and their lawfull Soveraigne and incited others of the Low-countreys as with an allarme from that strong hold to defection but would rather have respect to his Majesties clemency and from thence would moderate the chiefest of their conditions In the interim And dismisseth them to three Presidents hee had appointed men of understanding wisdome and no ways partiall with whom they might more freely conferre Therefore they should depart to them to treat of the articles and then hee would deliver the Kings minde not in the worst sence Hee had chosen for that purpose Pamaelio Richardott and Vandenburge Presidents of the privy Councell of Artois and Mechlin and committed To whom he referred all things except the Articles of obedience to the King and religion every thing to their judgement and wisdome the Articles pertaining to obedience due to the King and religion onely excepted which hee with more then ordinary care as he had received an expresse from his Majesty reserved to himselfe for when long agoe his Excellency had proposed it to the King thereby to make the Antverpians more willing to surrender whether hee should set a certaine time to the Hereticks wherein to dispatch their affaires or to permit them so long untill there might be hopes of their better disposition and reducement His Majesty made reply that he The King thus expresseth his mind concerning religion should not grant an unlimited time what hope or perswasion soever there was of their reconciliation Upon which subject because hee had often at other times treated I thought it best to insert one of the latest letters from Spaine concerning this matter part of which was written with his Majesties own hand In every treaty or parley with Cities or Castles that come into our hands let this be your first and last regard that in these places the Catholick religion be settled without leave to the Hereticks of professing or exercising their sects or doctrines in City or countrey unlesse you grant them some time for composing their affaires and let that be limited concerning which matter I absolutely command that no dubious clause capable of interpretation or moderation be inserted that those may assure themselves who desire to live in our Belgium to make choyce either of the true worship of the ancient Romane faith or after their prescribed time is ended forthwith to seeke their habitation else-where Which things if they be performed I put my confidence in the Almighty power to whose honour and service this warr hath for so many yeares been managed with so great losse of bloud and expences that all things for the future will proceede fortunate and that his heavenly majesty will our of his wonted providence always so moderate our affaires that men by their happy successe may understand of what importance it is to put their confidence in the Divine goodnesse and to preferr the service due to him before all secular businesse But if God by reason of our great offences will have it otherwise I think it better to spend all my Kingdomes for his sake then for any humane respect to decline from this if not a lucky doubtlesse a pious determination And truly this firme purpose of his Catholick Majesty was very apparent to be acceptable to God for on the same day these were written by the King which was the seventeenth of August on the same day the Antwerpian agents at their meeting at Bevera receiving their articles delivered up the City When notwithstanding when they begun to treat with the Kings Commissioners the businesse of their reconciliation seemed The Agents treat with the Presidents they differ about three articles to be very intricate and would go but slowly on For they insisted immoveably on these three heads above others That religion as then it was might freely bee exercised that the Castle now halfe down might not be repaired That no garrison of what nation soever might be admitted into the City Yea when they understood that the Commissioners were not impowred to treat about religion they told the Prince of Parma they would proceed no further with them unless they might have power for that also And Aldegund amongst other Aldegund promiseth great matters if liberty of conscience be granted conferences one time staying with his Excellency foure whole houres alone in private discourse concerning this article stuck not to affirme that upon that condition of freedome in religion Zealand and Holland yea all the confederate Belgica might be drawne to the Kings obedience And would take it upon him and was confident for that authority which he had with the Provinces shortly to produce a great benefit to both parties But his But Prince Alex discourse with him was wholly to the contrary Excellency utterly dashing all hopes of liberty and confusion in religion whereby as hee said the Cities and Provinces divided into sects and factions could neither live in peace amongst themselves nor with God or their Princes Gods Deputies upon earth courteously admonished him that they should consider the daily decay of their forces succours from France by reason of the troubles there past all hopes the subtile delay of the English the invincible power of the Catholick King not to be exhausted by any expences nor tyred out by warr and indirectly hee insinuated some things which might bee of great concernment for his own private interest with hopes of favour from his Majesties clemency And those things hee uttered before Aldegund with such eloquence with such courage and with words wholly dictated to him as hee after writ to the King by Almighty God that Aldegund Aldegund is wonderfully taken with his discourse admiring the vigour of his discourse professed after his departure thence he had often treated with many eloquent persons but hee never met any more efficacious and affable then the Prince of Parma and that with reason hee might use that of Asdruball concerning Scipio viz. that Prince Alexander appeared farr more admirable to him in presence then fame had set him out for his warlike actions And indeed whether taken with the wordes and civility of the Prince of Parma or wholly hopeless of supporting the siege any longer by little and little hee made shew that his And is more forward for the surrender minde was altered being more propense to treat on the surrender Moreover in a book which afterward he se● forth when hee had to the life extolled Yea in a book which afterwards hee set forth he extolleth Alexanders virtues and the Kings cause the deeds performed by Alexander Farneze his mercy towards the conquered sanctity in keeping his Oath and other vertues pertaining to a Generall amongst other things hee added that King Philips subject● could not with a safe conscience take up armes against their King Which confession not rashly uttered in talke but witnessed in writing he being a man of great authority among

the States and a grounded Calvinist was a great blemish to the confederates cause Hee thenceforth daily And was therefore hated of the confederates growing out of favour and hated by them was not afterwards admitted to any Government in the Common wealth But then the Agents and the Kings Commissioners often meeting together lastly after some debates it the Prince of Parmas's presence the The conditions imposed upon the City at the surrender article concerning religion was in the first place confirmed one and that the ancient Catholick profession being appointed to the Antwerpians They were commanded to reedify the Churches which they had rased and to restore the ejected families of religious orders into the City into their owne houses possessions Which Article concerning religious orders when the Agents would thus have penned it that those religious orders should bee reduced into the City which had had their residence in Antwerp in the Emperour Charles the fifths dayes A deceit discovered in them His Excellency understanding by that fraud the Fathers of the society of Jesus whose assistance hee chiefly made use of against the Hereticks to be excluded utterly rejected it and would have all orders equally included In repairing the Castle and in placing a garrison of Spaniards and Italians from whom the Citizens desired to be free hee dealt more favourably Yet the Article was us That the Prince of Parma should draw with him into the City a garrison of well affected nations and if the Hollanders and Zealanders were reconcil'd to their Soveraigne the City should be exempt from the Castle and garrison for ever after if not he would provide for the safety of Antwerp against the neighbouring Zealanders and others In the rest of the conditions the Prince of Parma being very liberall gave pardon in hi● Majesties name to the Antwerpians of the high Treason committed against their King restored to the ●ity its ancient priviledges granted th● Hereticks foure yeares to tarry in th● City to settle their affaires And although hee might with reason hav● charged the City with the greate● part of the huge expences laid out a● the siege yet hee was contented to exact only foure hundred thousand Florens 160000. Crownes nor that to be payd all at once for his souldiers pay It was also agreed that the prisoners on both sides should be released though the Royalists had more then the enemies unlesse they had already covenanted for their ransome Tilinius onely excepted whose case although reserved to the King his Excellency promised to recommend him to his Majesty and to effect that as some dayes before hee had dismist Lanoy into France to be exchanged with Count Egmont so Tilinius should ere-long follow his father Whilst these and other Articles being The articles are read in the City in all twenty seven were read by the Commissioners returned to Antwerp in presence of the Magistrates people with great attention of all there was suddenly heard a huge noise of Cannons from the bridge on the Scheldt the adjoyning forts which still increased when many going out of the City and looking from the banks and towers reported that a cruell battle was then fought at the Farnezian bridge and upon the banks rampires of the River And without And it being rumoured that the English succours were arrived and had set upon the Royalists the Antwerpians are at a stand about admitting the conditions doubt either the French or English succours were arrived by whom the Spaniards being suddenly engaged as unprovided would not doubtlesse long subsist against the fresh and hardy enemy Whereupon many of the people verily believing it as oftentimes HOPE and desire makes men credulous upon new designes and encouraged by those that were against the surrender forthwith take armes and constipating the Commissioners demand a longer time to deliberate on the conditions untill they were certified by frequent messengers one after another that there appeared no ayd from France or Navy from England but that it was a joyfull and fayned combat of the Royalists And Seeing themselves deluded they returne againe to heare the conditions one of them a witty conceipted fellow having informed himselfe more fully affirmed that no auxiliary navy was arrived from England but that the Grecian fleet had brought the golden Fleece from Colchos to the The occasion of the mistake Prince of Parma But they being thus d●luded and offended with the incendiaries returne againe with the same levity as before they had broken off to heare the articles of their surrender But not a few were drawn with a desire The solemnity of Alexanders receiving the golden Fleece to see that military triumph celebrated in the royal Army for the solemnity of the Golden Fleece which Chaine sent by his Majesty long before Prince Alexander had deferred to receive untill this time that now secure of the Antwerpian Victory he might enter the City more graced by that dignity And the souldiers for The description of that celebrity their love and reverence to their Generall made all things more stately for armed companies ranged in Battalia at their posts were extended from the Camp at Bevera where the Prince then resided even to Calloo and from thence to the Scheldt and Bridge The chiefe Commanders of the Army placed themselves on the Bridge the banks of the Scheldt the Castles Rampires and ships all glittered with armed Regiments Saint Philips fort in the head of the Bridge on Brabant shoare was chosen to augment the pomp To which his Excellency moving from Bevera on horse-back accompanied by the chief of the Nobility and entertained by the way with showes of warlike skirmishes sometimes of horse sometimes of foot when hee arrived at the bridge which resounded with the joyfull Eccho of shoutes and Trumpets hee was saluted with a volley of Cannons without intermission thundering from the Castles Forts and shippes Having passed the bridge and entered the chappell of Saint Philps after Masse sung by Lodowick Barlamont Arch-Bishop of Cambray hee put on the collar of the Golden fleece received from the handes of Count Mansfield who said hee represented the person of Octavio Duke of Parma and Piazenza in that office with whom about thirty nine yeares before he was preferred to that order by Charles the fifth Then his Excellency departing thence returned unto the Camp at Bevera and againe all along the river-banks the roaring of Candons mixt with the exulting shoute of the souldiers wishing all happinesse and prosperity to their Generall renewed the joy And it was manifest to all that this Order was never by any Prince received with greater magnificence viz. in the midst of his Veterans and so often victorious Regiments upon the admirable structure of the Bridge on the Scheldt having subdued the most potent City in all the Low-countreyes after a siege the most memorable that ever was Prince Alexander was not as yet arrived at the Camp