Spanish tyranny in Nertherlands. Portraits are Margaret of Parma, Spanish Regent in Netherlands (1559-67), Philip II of Spain, and Antoine Granvell, Spanish diplomat and prelate. Main picture, execution of Huguenots. Man in foreground being treated 'mercifully' by being garotted before flames reach him. Copperplate engraving

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Spanish tyranny in Nertherlands. Portraits are Margaret of Parma, Spanish Regent in Netherlands (1559-67), Philip II of Spain, and Antoine Granvell, Spanish diplomat and prelate. Main picture, execution of Huguenots. Man in foreground being treated 'mercifully' by being garotted before flames reach him. Copperplate engraving

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