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Title: Complete works
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877
Subjects: Oldenbarneveld, Johan van, 1547-1619
Publisher: New York, Kelmscott Soc
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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sorting to anyextremity or any ambush to destroy the man whomthej^ feared and hated. The presence of John Casimirwas an additional complication; for Orange, while hedespised the man, was unwilling to oifend his friends.Moreover, Casimir had professed a wilhngness to assistthe cause, and to defer to the better judgment of theprince. He had brought an army into the field, withwhich, however, he had accomplished nothing except athorough pillaging of the peasantry, while, at the sametime, he was loud in his demands upon the states to payhis soldiers wages. The soldiers of the different armieswho now overran the country, indeed, vied with eachother in extravagant insolence. Their outrages aremost execrable, wrote Marquis Havie; they demandthe most exquisite food, and drink champagne and Bur-gundy by the bucketful. ^ Nevertheless, on the 4th of 1 Letter to Sir P. Sidney. 2 Bor, xiii. 9. Apologia dOrange, pp. 108, 109. 3 Kerv-yn de Volkersbeke et Diegerick, Documents Historiques,i. 156, 157.
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WILLIAM OF ORANGE QUELLS THE RIOT OF THE SECTARIANS WHILETOULOUSE IS BEING ATTACKED BY LAUNIOY 1578) DIFFICULTIES SMOOTHED 79 December the prince came to Ghent.^ He held con-stant and anxious conferences with the magistrates.He was closeted daily with John Casimir, whose vanityand extravagance of temper he managed with his usualskill. He even dined with Imbize, and thus, by smooth-ing difficulties and reconciling angry passions, he suc-ceeded at last in obtaining the consent of all to areligious peace, which was published on the 27th ofDecember, 1578. It contained the same provisions asthose of the project prepared and proposed during thepre\ious summer throughout the Netherlands. Exer-cise of both religious was established; mutual insultsand irritations—whether by word, book, picture, song,or gesture—were prohibited, under severe penalties,while all persons were sworn to protect the commontranquillity by blood, purse, and Ufe. The Catholics,by viitue of this accord, reentered int

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