The History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 3
The History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 3
Watson Robert
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I have been prefent, when thefe counfellors, who knew well their matter's fenti- ments, advifed him to the purfuit of meafures, by which you were all to have been adjudged to death. But it was by accident I came to know that thcfe bloody counfels had been adopted. From the French king's own mouthy when I refided at his court as an hoftage, \ learnt that a plan had been concerted with the '^uke of Alva, to extirpate froni France and the Netherlands all who were fufpefted of being favourably incl...ined to the reformed religibn. 1 concesded from the French monarch, my ig- norance of the dcfign; and the indignation v^^hich it excited in me. By the interceffion of the dutchefs of Savoy, I obtained leave to re- turn into the Netherlands, where (I deny jt not, on the contrary I glory in it) I promoted with all my, influence that earneft requeft, which the States preferred to the king for th« removal of the Spanifti troops. . " I ACKNOWLEDGB, that amidft the num* berlefs fallchoods with which this profcription is filled, there is truth in another part of the charge which is laid againft me.
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