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 5461880Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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