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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     Been already crimination and recrimination more than enough
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     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
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     Succeeded so well, and had been requited so ill
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     They chose to compel no man’s conscience
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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.