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<P>&para; A Dialogue or &s;pea|king together of two Per&s;o|nages of the which, the one is the Well willing Comminaltie, and the other the Noble and mo&s;te puy&s;&s;ant Prince, my Lorde the Duke of Aniou.</P>
<P>OVR MOST REDOVBTED LORD. &amp;c.</P>
<P>Jmprinted at London, by Thomas Pur|foote, dwelling in newgate market, and are to be &s;old at his &s;hop ouer again&s;t S. Sepul|chers Church. 1582.</P>
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<SPEAKER>The well willing Comminaltie.</SPEAKER>
<P>_MO&s;t gracious lord con&s;ide|ring that the gouernment of countries hath bene al|wayes e&s;teemed not onely among&s;t the Philo&s;ophers but al&s;o among&s;t all nati|ons, to be a matter of great waight and impor|tance, &s;pecially when as a Prince and Gouernour doth faythfully attende on the &s;ame. Therefore now that we haue conceiued &s;uche hope of your highnes, we haue bene moued fir&s;tly in all reuerence to &s;alute your highnes, and thereafter as true &s;ubiectes to pre&s;ent and &s;hewe all obedience.</P>
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<SPEAKER>My Lord the Duke.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>My louing friendes I thanke you hartely for the loue and kindnes which you doe &s;hewe vnto me. And al&s;o do promi&s;e neuer to fru&s;trate you, nor make any default of the duetifull good con|fidence which ye do beare to my per&s;on.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>The well willing Comminaltie.</SPEAKER>
<P>We looke for nothing el&s;e of your highnes, but for the office of a good Prince. Which is to protect and defend his &s;ubiectes from all wrong, outrage, and violence. And to loue them as the father loueth his children, and the &s;hepeheard his &s;heepe, which doth venter his lyfe for to defend them.</P>
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<SPEAKER>My Lord the Duke.</SPEAKER>
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<P><HI>My friendes you &s;peake very well and I will al|&s;o feruently endeuour my &s;elfe to the &s;ame, for I hope euen as you &s;hall find me alwayes a benigne and faythfull Gouernour, that I lykewi&s;e &s;hall haue you obedient &s;ubiects, for like as the father is bound to loue his children, and the &s;hepheard his &s;heepe, euen &s;o the &s;hepe likewi&s;e are bound to follow their &s;hepeheard and &s;hew him obedi|ence.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>The well willing Comminaltie.</SPEAKER>
<P>Your highnes &s;hall be hereof ynough a&s;&s;ured ha|uing read ouer our auncient Con&s;equences and Chronicles. Wherein euery where is to be founde the greate affection which we naturally do beare to oure lawfull Princes and Lordes. But in ca&s;e your highnes did vouch&s;afe to heare vs, it woulde not &s;eeme vnto vs to be inconuenient, (becau&s;e your highnes &s;houlde haue knowledge of all thinges, which is moo&s;t needfull for well to admini&s;ter the gouernement of countries,) that we nowe &s;peaking togeather, might briefly di&s;cour&s;e or run ouer the e&s;tate of the&s;e our lowe countries, and the &s;umme of things which theirin be pa&s;&s;ed &s;ince the beginning of the troubles vntill now.</P>
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<SPEAKER>My Lord the Duke.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>My louing friendes, I am very well plea&s;ed to heare the &s;ame and that more is, I thinke it who|ly nece&s;&s;ary, to haue knowledge thereof. Bycau&s;e we might thereby in all thinges deale the more circu~&s;pectly, to the welfare of the countrie, and
<PB REF="3">the &s;aluation of vs all. And therefore I reque&s;te you in no wi&s;e, to hide from me the knowledge of &s;uch thinges.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>The well willing Comminaltie.</SPEAKER>
<P>Seeing that your highnes doth reque&s;te this of vs, we will gladly do the &s;ame, thanking the al|mighty god that it hath plea&s;ed him to &s;end vs your highnes hence forward to protect and make vs free from the tyranny, intended to be brought vppon vs by our enemyes. Your highnes mu&s;t fir&s;tly vnder|&s;tand that the king of &s;payne after the dece&s;e of the Emperour Charles the fir&s;t of worthy memory. Of whom he hath receaued all the&s;e Lowe countries, forgetting the &s;eruices, which a&s;wel his Lord and father as al&s;o he him&s;elf had receaued of the&s;e coun|tries and the inhabitants of the &s;ame, wherby &s;pe|cially the king of Spayne hath obtained &s;o famous victories again&s;te his enemyes, that thereby his name and power became famous &amp; feared through all the world. And forgetting al&s;o the admonition which the Emperours maie&s;tie afore&s;ayd had gy|uen him at other times to the contrary he hath bent his eare, and gyuen credit to tho&s;e of the coun&s;ell of Spaine, being neare him which had conceyued in their hartes, and enuy again&s;t the&s;e countries and there freedomes. For that they might not haue any charge to gouerne in chefe countries, nor to beare the principall e&s;tates or offices as they did in the realmes of Naples, Sicilia, at Millan, in India, and at other places being vnder the kinges domi|nion,
<PB REF="4">whereof the mo&s;te part of them knewe the ri|ches and power.</P>
<P>Which Coun&s;ell of Spayne or &s;ome of the prin|cipall thereof haue declared to this king at diuers times. That it was better for his Maie&s;ties repu|tation, a newe to Conquere the&s;e countreys for to commaund thereouer fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ely and ab&s;olutely, (which is to playe the Tyrante according to his plea&s;ure) then to be driuen to gouerne vnder &s;uch conditions, &amp; re&s;trictions, as he hath ben fame to &s;were, in the acceptinge of the dominion of the&s;e countreys, Ac|cording to y^e which the king hath euer &s;ince &s;ought by all meanes to bring the afore&s;aid countries from their ancient freedomes, and vnder a Tyrrannicall gouernment of the &s;pani<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">rds inte~ding fir&s;tly vnder the cloke of religion to putte in newe bi&s;hops in the cheefe&s;te and mo&s;te principall Citties, giuing and endewing them with adiunction and incorporation of the mo&s;te Riche&s;te Abbyes, and adioyning vnto them, nine <HI>Canonicos or Regulars,</HI> which &s;hould be of his Coun&s;el. Whereof the three &s;hould haue &s;peci|all charg ouer the Inqui&s;ition&punc; By which incorpo|ration the &s;aide Bi&s;hops (which might haue beene a&s;well &s;traungers as Natiue of the Countreys) haue had the fir&s;t places &amp; voices in the a&s;&s;emblies of the e&s;tates of the&s;e countreys, And haue bene his creatures ready at his commaundement and deuo|tion: and &s;houlde haue brought in by the &s;aide ad|ioyned <HI>Canonicos or Regulars,</HI> the &s;pani&s;he <HI>Inqui&s;iti|on:</HI> Which hath alwayes bene (as it is manife&s;te
<PB REF="4">vnto al men) &s;o horrible and odious in the&s;e Coun|treys as the verye bondage it &s;elfe: In &s;uche wi&s;e that the &s;aide Imperiall Maie&s;tie hauing at other times proponded the &s;ame to the countreis he did let it re&s;t again, by rea&s;on of the remon&s;trations which were done again&s;t it vnto his Maie&s;tie, therin &s;hew|ing the affection which he did beare to his &s;ubiects. But howbeit diuers remon&s;trations which be done vnto the King by word of mouth as well by perti|culer Prouinces and Cities, as al&s;o by &s;ome of the principall Lordes of the Countrye, <HI>viz.</HI> The Lord of <HI>Montingni,</HI> and the Earle of <HI>Egmont,</HI> being &s;ent to <HI>Spayn</HI> to that purpo&s;e at &s;undry times by the con&s;ent of the Duches of <HI>Parma</HI> then Gouernant o|uer the &s;ame countreyes by the adui&s;e of the Coun|&s;ell of E&s;tates and Generalitie. And al&s;o that the &s;ayd king of <HI>Spayne</HI> had giuen vnto them by word of mouth good hope to prouide therein, according to their reque&s;t, he notwith&s;tanding to the contrarye thereof, &s;hortly thereafter &s;harpely by Letters vpon his indignation co~maunded to receiue the Bi&s;hops, and to place the~ in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of their Bi&s;hoprickes, and incorporated Abbies, To giue the Inqui&s;ition her cour&s;e, where it thertofore had bene, and to fol|low the ordinance of the Coun&s;el of Trent. Which was in many poyntes contrary to the Priuiledges of the afore&s;aid countreis, which thing being come to the knowledge of the Comminaltie, hath with good rea&s;on cau&s;ed occa&s;ion of great commo&s;ion a|mong&s;t them: and an alienation of the good affecti|on
<PB REF="5">which they alwayes as good &s;ubiects haue born to the &s;ayde king of <HI>Spayne</HI> and his Predece&s;&s;ors. Specially con&s;idering that not onely hee did go a|bout to play the Tyrant vpo~ their per&s;ons &amp; goods, but al&s;o vpon their con&s;ciences, of the whiche they thinke to be bound to giue reckoning, or make an|&s;were vnto no body but only vnto God.</P>
<P>For which cau&s;e, and for pitie of the &s;ayd Comi|naltie, the principall of the Countreys haue exhibi|ted a certaine Remon&s;tration in the yeare, <HI>1565.</HI> Reque&s;ting that for to &s;till the Cominaltie, and preuent al Seditions, his Maie&s;tie &s;hould a&s;&s;wage the&s;e poyntes, and &s;peciallye concerning the rigo|rous Inqui&s;ition and puni&s;hment of the Religion, &s;hewing therewith the loue and affection whiche he as a benigne Prince did beare vnto his &s;ubiectes, and for to notifie the &s;ame vnto the &s;ayde king of <HI>Spaine</HI> more nearer, and with more authoritie, and for to prooue how nece&s;&s;arye the &s;ame was for the welfare of the countreis, and to maintain the &s;ame in quietne&s;&s;e, to put or leaue of &s;uch nouelties, and mittigate the rigor of the general Petition of the Place at in matters concerning the Religion at the reque&s;t of the &s;ayd Gouernant, Coun&s;ell of the E|&s;tates, and of the generall e&s;tates of all the coun|treys, were &s;ent to <HI>Spaine</HI> as Amba&s;&s;adors; The Marquis of <HI>Berghen,</HI> and the Lord of <HI>Montingni</HI> a|fore named, But in &s;teede to giue attendaunce vnto them, and to prouide in the inconueniences whiche there had bene propounded, which by delaying of
<PB REF="5">the remedye in due tyme, according as the neede re|quired, did alreadie begin to appeare or &s;hew them|&s;elues almo&s;t in all Countreies, among&s;t the Con|gregation, he by the alluring of the &s;pani&s;h Coun|&s;ell, hath cau&s;ed the &s;ayd per&s;ons which had made the afore&s;aid Remon&s;tration, to be declared Rebels and to be guiltie of the crime of Trea&s;on, and con&s;equently to be punni&s;hed in bodye and goodes. And moreouer he thinking thereafter that the &s;ayd Countreys were wholy &s;ubdued vnder his &s;ubier|tion and Tirannye, by the power of the Duke of <HI>Alba,</HI> cau&s;ed the &s;ayd Lords Amba&s;&s;adors to be ap|prehended, murdered, and their goodes confi&s;ked, contrary to all common orders, or lawes, whiche alwayes haue bene inuiolately ob&s;erued amonge&s;t the mo&s;t cruell and tyrannicall Princes. And how|beit that the greate&s;t troubles ri&s;en in the &s;ayde Countries, by the dealing of the &s;ayde Gouernant and her Adherentes, in the &s;ayd yeare <HI>1566.</HI> was agayne pacified, and many driuen away whiche did vnder&s;tand the freedomes of the countreis, and the re&s;t oppre&s;&s;ed and &s;ubdued in &s;uch wi&s;e, that the king had no cau&s;e at all to oppre&s;&s;e the &s;ayd Coun|treis by force of Weapons, yet notwith&s;tanding, to haue &s;uch an occa&s;ion which the &s;ayde Spani&s;he coun&s;ell of long tyme had &s;oughte and looked for, according to the &s;ame is playnelye declared by th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2+ letters"> intercepted and detayned letters of <HI>Alana,</HI> the Am|ba&s;&s;ador of <HI>Spayne,</HI> re&s;ident in <HI>Fraunce,</HI> being at that time written to the Duches of <HI>Parma</HI> for to anic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">|late
<PB REF="6">all the Priuiledge of the Countreis, and to go|uern the &s;ame according to hir wil, tirannically by the <HI>Spainiardes</HI> as the <HI>Jndians</HI> and the new conque|red Landes: He by the motion and coun&s;ell of the &s;ayd <HI>Spainiardes,</HI> &s;hewing the little loue whiche he hare to his good &s;ubiectes, contrary to that whiche he as their Prince, Protector and good &s;heapheard was bound to do. Hath &s;ent towards the &s;aid coun|treyes for to oppre&s;&s;e them with a great armie the Duke of <HI>Alba,</HI> being infamous of hardne&s;&s;e and crueltie, &amp; one of the principall enemies of the cou~|trey: and being, for to be his Coun&s;ellors, accom|panyed with per&s;ons of like nature and humoures. Which haue executed &s;uch innumerable deale of cruelties and tirannies vpon the&s;e Countreis, that the &s;ame woulde bee to long before your highne&s;&s;e here to be rehear&s;ed. And thereafter the great Co~|mandador (whome the King of <HI>Spaine</HI> did &s;ende to the&s;e Countreis after the Duke of <HI>Alba</HI> not for to amend ought, but for to pro&s;ecute the &s;ayde way of tiranny by a more &s;ecrete meane which haue com|pelled the other countreis whiche they kepte vnder the Spani&s;h &s;ubiection with their Garri&s;ons and built Ca&s;tels, for to v&s;e all their per&s;ons and might for to helpe to oppre&s;&s;e them, &s;hewing notwith&s;tan|ding vnto the &s;aid countreis which they did employ in their a&s;&s;i&s;taunce as is afore&s;ayd, no more fauoure then if they had ben their very enimies, permitting that the <HI>Spainiardes</HI> vnder y^e cloke that they were in &s;edition before the face of the great Co~mandador,
<PB REF="6">forcibly did enter into the Citie of <HI>Antwerpe</HI> there according to their di&s;cretion to wa&s;te and &s;pend for the &s;pace of &s;ixe weekes at the charges of the Citi|zens, con&s;trayning furthermore in the meane tyme the &s;ayde Citizens becau&s;e they &s;houlde be di&s;char|ged of the violence of the &s;ame <HI>Spainiardes</HI> to fur|ni&s;h to the payment of foure hundred thou&s;and gyl|drens, their demaunded wages, and al&s;o thereafter the &s;pani&s;he &s;ouldiers v&s;ing a greater boldnes haue aduaunced them&s;elues publikelye to take vp their weapons agayn&s;t the countrey, thinking fir&s;tly to take the citie of <HI>Bru&s;&s;els,</HI> and in place of the ordina|ry re&s;idence of the Prince of the Countreis beeing there, to make their Caue of robberie, whiche thing not &s;ucceeding vnto them, they haue ouerthrowne the Citie of <HI>Aelst,</HI> and thereafter forciblye taken, &s;acked, &s;poyled, murdered, and burned the Citie of <HI>Maestricht</HI> and <HI>Antwerpe,</HI> afore&s;ayd, and &s;o hand|led the &s;ame that the mo&s;t cruell and Tyrannicall enemies of the Countreis can not doe any more nor wor&s;e, to the vn&s;peakable domage not only of the inhabitants, but al&s;o almo&s;t of all the Nations of the world, which there had their wares and money. And howbeit that the &s;ayd <HI>Spainiardes</HI> by the coun|&s;ell of E&s;tates (by whome at that tyme by rea&s;on of the death of the great Comandador was accepted the Gouernmente of the Countreis by the charge and commi&s;&s;ion of the king of Spayne) were de|clared and publi&s;hed for enemies of the Land in the pre&s;ence of <HI>Ieronimo de Rhoda,</HI> for the outrage,
<PB REF="7">force and viole~ce which they v&s;ed, yet the &s;aid <HI>Rho|da</HI> by his owne authority, or el&s;e (as it is to be pre|&s;umed) by vertue of &s;ome &s;ecret In&s;tructio~ which he might haue fro~ <HI>Spaine,</HI> had taken vpon him to be the Chiefe or heade of the&s;e <HI>Spainguartes</HI> and their a&s;&s;o|ciated, And without to haue re&s;pecte to the&s;e coun|&s;ell of E&s;tates to v&s;e the name and authoritie of the king to counterfaite his &s;eale, and to behaue him|&s;elfe publikelye as gouernoure and Liefetenaunt of the king, whereby the e&s;tates were cau&s;ed to make agreement at this time with my Lorde the Prince and e&s;tate of Hollande and Zexlande, whiche agree|ment hath bene approued and bene found to be good by the councell of the e&s;tates and lawfull Gouer|nours of the countreis, for ioyntly and with one ac|cord to &s;et vppon and driue out of the countreys the <HI>Spainguartes</HI> as common enimies of the Countreys. Neuerthele&s;&s;e not pretermitting as good &s;ubiectes in the meane while with all dilligence by diuers humble remon&s;trations to the king of <HI>Spaine</HI> and al fyt and po&s;&s;ible meanes to &s;ue and be&s;eeke the king that hee taking regarde and con&s;ideration on the troubles and inconueniences which alreadye were happened in the&s;e countreys, and yet were likelye to happen. It might plea&s;e him to cau&s;e the <HI>Spain|guartes</HI> to departe out of the countreys and punni&s;h them which haue bene occa&s;ion of the &s;poile and ru|ine of his principall Citties, and other vn&s;peakea|ble outrages, which his &s;ubiects haue &s;u&s;tained: for the con&s;olation of tho&s;e on whome the &s;ame had fal|len,
<PB REF="7">and for an example to other. But the king al|though hee fayned with wordes that the &s;ame was chaunced again&s;t his will and plea&s;ure, and that he did intend to puni&s;h their cheifes, and forthwith for the quietne&s;&s;e of the Countery to be willinge to ap|point &s;ome order with all fauoure as it beco~meth to a prince. Yet notwith&s;tanding the &s;ame he hath not onely cau&s;ed Iu&s;tice nor puni&s;hement to be admini|&s;tred again&s;t them, but contrary wi&s;e it doth &s;uffici|ently by his deeds apeare, that al was don with his con&s;ent, and by a proceading &s;pani&s;he Coun&s;ell, as the &s;ame within a while after found out by certaine Intercepted, and detained letters, that by the king him&s;elfe had bene written to <HI>Rhodas,</HI> and other Captaines (being an occa&s;ion of the afore&s;aide mi&s;|cheife) that he not onely founde their doinges good but did prai&s;e them for the &s;ame and promi&s;ed to make recompence, e&s;pecyally to the &s;aid <HI>Rhodas,</HI> as hauing done a &s;ingular &s;eruice vnto him, euen as al&s;o he hath &s;hewen the &s;ame in dedes, at his return in <HI>Spaine,</HI> vnto him, and to all other his &s;eruiters of the &s;aide tyrranny, which haue bene in the&s;e coun|treis. And the kinge al&s;o at the &s;ame time (min|ding &s;o muche the more to blind the eyes of his &s;ub|iects) did &s;end as Gouernour in the &s;aid countries, his ba&s;tard brother <HI>Don Iohn D'au&s;trya</HI> as one y^t was of his bloode who vnder the cloake that he did finde good and approue the agreement which was made at Gaunt, the promi&s;e to defend the E&s;tates, the <HI>Spainguartes</HI> to departe and to cau&s;e y^e aucthors of
<PB REF="8">the violence and di&s;cordes which bee done in the&s;e countries to bee puni&s;hed, And to take order for the common quietne&s;&s;e of the countries and the anncient lyberties, did go avoute to deuide the &s;aid E&s;tates, and to &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">dewe the one countrey after the other, which thing euen as that which is fainedlye done and with outward &s;hewe again&s;t, the meaning can|not longe continue &s;ecrete. So likewi&s;e the &s;ame breakinge out before he had fully compa&s;&s;ed his In|tention. He could not performe the &s;ame according to his purpo&s;e, but he in &s;teade of peace &s;turred and ray&s;ed vp newe warre, wherof hee did boa&s;t at his comming and which as yet doth indure, we hauing re&s;i&s;ted the &s;ame, according that rea&s;on doth greatly moue vs thervnto. Here you haue heard mo&s;t graci|ous Lord the principall matters which be chaunced in the&s;e our lowe Countreis during the time of the afore&s;aid troubles and therfore we be&s;ech you with all reuerence, That &s;eeing youre entring is mo&s;te hartily welcome vnto vs, it maye plea&s;e you to re|ceaue vs in youre protection, and to execute at all &s;ines on vs the Office of a good Prince.</P>
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<SPEAKER>My Lord the Duke.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Therof my louing friendes you nede not in a|ny wi&s;e to doubt as long at it &s;hall plea&s;e the al|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ightie God to graunt me his grace.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The well willing Comminaltie.</HI></P>
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<P>We be&s;ech the almighty God that it may plea&s;e him here vnto to pre&s;erue your highnes, and to grant vs togeather much ioy, and ad|uauncement, that we may &s;pedely &s;ee the enemy conquered by our handes.</P>
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<TRAILER>Finis Coronat opus.</TRAILER>
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