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" D'Alva coming into the Netherlands with 10,000 veteran soldiers, the trading people of the town and country withdrew from the provinces in such vast numbers, that the Duchess of Parma, the Governess, wrote to Philip II., that in a few days above 100,000... "
Archaeologia Cantiana - Page 546
1880
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1846 - 780 pages
...in the year 1567, when 1 upon the report of the Duke D'Alva coming into the Netherlands with 1 0.UOO veteran soldiers, the trading people of the town and...Silk Weavers, Dyers, Cloth-dressers, Silk Throwsters, &c , and teaching the English to make Bayes, Sayes, and other light Stuffs. In like manner, about the...
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The History of the French, Walloon, Dutch and Other Foreign Protestant ...

John Southerden Burn - 1846 - 310 pages
...in the year 1567, when " upon the report of the Duke D'Alva coming into the Netherlands with 10,000 veteran soldiers, the trading people of the town and...Silk Weavers, Dyers, Cloth-dressers, Silk Throwsters, &c., and teaching the English to make Bayes, Sayes, and other light Stuffs. In like manner, about the...
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The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, Volume 2

Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 pages
...governess, wrote to Philip П., of Spain, that in a few days above one hundred thousand of his subjects had left the country with their money and goods, and that more were following every day." These industrious people, called Walloons, and for the most part natives of Artois, Hainault, Luxembourg,...
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Notes and Queries

1863 - 660 pages
...withdrew from the provinces in such vast numbers, that the Duchess of Parma wrote to Philip II. that 100,000 men had left the country with their money...and goods, and that more were following every day." Great numbers settled in London, and at Sandwich, CanterbuVy, and Southampton ; also at Norwich, Yarmouth,...
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The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, & Industries in England and Ireland

Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 594 pages
...spoiler.* The Duchess of Parma, writing to Philip in 15G7, said that "in a few days 100,000 men had already left the country with their money and goods, and that more were following every day." Clough, writing to Gresham from Antwerp in the same year, said — " It is * It is said that for some...
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The Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral; Its Architecture, Its History, and Its ...

William Archibald Scott Robertson - 1880 - 204 pages
...the year 1667, when, ' upon the report of the Duke D'Alva coming into the Netherlands, with 10,000 veteran soldiers, the trading people of the town and...English to make bayes.sayes, and other light stuffs. (Burn, p. 4). In chap, iv, under Canterbury (p. 38), Burn says (in reference to 1567) — "It would...
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The Huguenots, their settlements, churches, & industries in England and ...

Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 520 pages
...spoiler.1 The Duchess of Parma, writing to Philip in 1567, said that "in a few days 100,000 men had already left the country with their money and goods, and that more were following every day." Clough, writing to Gresham from Antwerp in the same year, said — "It is marveylus to see how the...
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The Marriage, Baptismal and Burial Registers, 1571-1874, and Monumental ...

London (England). Dutch Reformed Church, Austin Friars, Austin Friars (Church : London, England) - 1884 - 290 pages
...Duke of Alva with an army of Spanish soldiers. The Duchess of Palma wrote to Philip II " that in afew days above 100,000 men had left the country with their money and goods, and that more were following them every day." "Those who still saw a possibility of effecting their escape from the fated land,...
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Men of Invention and Industry

Samuel Smiles - 1884 - 410 pages
...Parma, writing to Philip II. in 1567, informed him that in a few days above 100,000 men had already left the country with their money and goods, and that more were following every day. They fled to Germany, to Holland, and above all to England, which they hailed as Asylum Chriati. The...
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Essex in the Days of Old

John T. Page - 1898 - 290 pages
...heretics to escape, large numbers fled from the land. The Duchess of Parma wrote to Philip informing him that in a few days above 100,000 men had left the...their money and goods, and that more were following them every day. For some years previously, owing to the Inquisition, a constant exodus had been going...
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