It need hardly be stated that Barneveld came down to the states’-house with these papers in his hand, and thundered against the delinquent and intriguing governor till the general indignation rose to an alarming height. False statements of course were made to Leicester as to the substance of the Advocate’s discourse. He was said to have charged upon the English government an intention to seize forcibly upon their cities, and to transfer them to Spain on payment of the sums due to the Queen from the States, and to have declared that he had found all this treason in the secret instructions of the Earl. But Barneveld had read the instructions, to which the attention of the reader has just been called, and had strictly stated the truth which was damaging enough, without need of exaggeration.
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All business has been
transacted with open doors
Beacons in the upward
path of mankind
Been already crimination
and recrimination more than enough
Casting up the matter
“as pinchingly as possibly might be”
Disposed to throat-cutting
by the ministers of the Gospel
During this, whole war,
we have never seen the like
Even to grant it slowly
is to deny it utterly
Evil is coming, the
sooner it arrives the better
Fool who useth not wit
because he hath it not
Guilty of no other crime
than adhesion to the Catholic faith
Individuals walking
in advance of their age
Never peace well made,
he observed, without a mighty war
Rebuked him for his
obedience
Respect for differences
in religious opinions
Sacrificed by the Queen
for faithfully obeying her orders
Succeeded so well, and
had been requited so ill
Sword in hand is the
best pen to write the conditions of peace
Their existence depended
on war
They chose to compel
no man’s conscience
Torturing, hanging,
embowelling of men, women, and children
Universal suffrage was
not dreamed of at that day
Waiting the pleasure
of a capricious and despotic woman
Who the “people”
exactly were
HISTORY OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS
From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year’s Truce—1609
By John Lothrop Motley
History United Netherlands, Volume 53, 1587
CHAPTER XVI.
Situation of Sluys—Its Dutch and English Garrison—Williams writes from Sluys to the Queen—Jealousy between the Earl and States— Schemes to relieve Sluys—Which are feeble and unsuccessful—The Town Capitulates—Parma enters—Leicester enraged—The Queen angry with the Anti-Leicestrians—Norris, Wilkes, and Buckhurst punished— Drake sails for Spain—His Exploits at Cadiz and Lisbon—He is rebuked by Elizabeth.