Title:  The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1567

Author:  John Lothrop Motley

Release Date:  January, 2004 [EBook #4813] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on March 19, 2002]

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Language:  English

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MOTLEY’S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, PG EDITION, VOLUME 13.

THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC

By John Lothrop Motley

1855

1567 [Chapter IX., Part 2.]

Calvinists defeated at Lannoy and at Waterlots—­Elation of the government—­The siege pressed more closely—­Cruelties practised upon the country people—­Courage of the inhabitants—­Remonstrance to the Knights of the Fleece—­Conduct of Brederode—­Orange at Amsterdam—­ New Oath demanded by Government—­Orange refuses—­He offers his resignation of all offices—­Meeting at Breda—­New “Request” of Brederode—­He creates disturbances and levies troops in Antwerp—­ Conduct of Hoogstraaten—­Plans of Brederode—­Supposed connivance of Orange—­Alarm at Brussels—­Tholouse at Ostrawell—­Brederode in Holland—­De Beauvoir defeats Tholouse—­Excitement at Antwerp—­ Determined conduct of Orange—­Three days’ tumult at Antwerp suppressed by the wisdom and courage of Orange.

It was then that Noircarmes and his “seven sleepers” showed that they were awake.  Early in January, 1567, that fierce soldier, among whose vices slothfulness was certainly never reckoned before or afterwards, fell upon the locksmith’s army at Zannoy, while the Seigneur de Rassinghem attacked the force at Waterlots on the same day.  Noircarmes destroyed half his enemies at the very first charge.  The ill-assorted rabble fell asunder at once.  The preacher fought well, but his undisciplined force fled at the first sight of the enemy.  Those who carried arquebusses threw them down without a single discharge, that they might run the faster.  At least a thousand were soon stretched dead upon the field; others were hunted into the river.  Twenty-six hundred, according to the Catholic accounts, were exterminated in an hour.