Complete works . he task, and the responsibility is heavy uponthe man who shared the power and directed the career,but who never ceased to represent the generous resis-tance of individuals to frantic cruelty as offenses againstGod and the king. Yet extracts are drawn from his letters to prove thathe considered the Spaniards as proud and usurping,that he indignantly denied ever having been in favorof subjecting the Netherlands to the soldiers of thatnation, that he recommended the v\ithdrawal of theforeign regiments, and that he advised the king, whenhe came to the country, to bring with him bu
Complete works . he task, and the responsibility is heavy uponthe man who shared the power and directed the career,but who never ceased to represent the generous resis-tance of individuals to frantic cruelty as offenses againstGod and the king. Yet extracts are drawn from his letters to prove thathe considered the Spaniards as proud and usurping,that he indignantly denied ever having been in favorof subjecting the Netherlands to the soldiers of thatnation, that he recommended the v\ithdrawal of theforeign regiments, and that he advised the king, whenhe came to the country, to bring with him but fewSpanish troops. It should, however, be rememberedthat he employed, according to his own statements,every expedient which human ingenuity could suggestto keep the foreign soldiers in the provinces, that helamented to his inmost soul their forced departure,and that he did not consent to that measure until thepeople were in a tumult and the Zealanders threateningto lay the country under the ocean. You may judge. MARGARET, DUCHESS OF PARMA After the painting by A. Moro nf Dashorst,Imperial Picture (lallerj-, Vienna. 1564] GRANVELLE AGAINST GRANVELLE 67 of the means employed to excite the people, he wroteto Perez iu 1563, • by the fact that a report is circulatedthat the Duke of Alva is coming hither to tyrannize theprovinces. ^ Yet it appears by the admissions of DelRyo, one of Alvas Blood-Council, that Cardinal Gran-velle expressly advised that an army of Spaniards shouldbe sent to the Netherlands, to maintain the obedience tohis Majesty and the Catholic religion, and that the Dukeof Alva was appointed chief by the advice of CardinalSpinosa, and by that of Cardinal Granvelle, as appearedby many letters written at the time to his friends. ^By the same confessions it appeared that the course ofpolicy thus distinctly recommended by Granvelle wasto place the country under a system of government likethat of Spain and Italy, and to reduce it entirely underthe council of Spain. ^
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