id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 4819 Motley, John Lothrop The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 18: 1572 .txt text/plain 14977 676 66 Alva--Don Frederic ordered to invest Mons--The Duke's impatience to act--Count Louis at Mons--Reinforcements led from France by Genlis-Spaniards before Mons--Alva urged by the French envoy, according to already captured, to death--Effect of the massacre upon the Prince of Orange--Alva and Medina in the camp before Mons--Hopelessness of the Prince's scheme to obtain battle from Alva--Romero's encamisada King of Spain, and to the Prince of Orange as his stadholder; to promise Count Bossu, appointed stadholder by Alva in the place of Orange. recognized the Prince as the King's lawful stadholder over Holland, of France to Louis of Nassau." In that letter the King had declared his French prisoners in Alva's possessions, was a natural result of the Saint your Most Christian master," asked Alva, "order these Frenchmen in Mons Such was the condition of affairs when the Prince of Orange arrived at in general accepted by Alva, but the beautiful archiepiscopal city of ./cache/4819.txt ./txt/4819.txt