A short Admonition or warning, Vpon the detestable Treason wherewith Sir William Stanley and Rowland york haue betrayed and delivered for money unto the Spaniards, the town of deventer, and the Sconce of Zutphen.  
Translated into English by C. C.  
 portrait of a man in armor  
At London printed by Richard jones, according to the Dutch copy first printed at utrecht by John Cornelissoon, ordinary sworn Printer to his excellency, with consent of the counsel of the said town.  
Anno 1587.   

A short admonition or warning vpon the detestable treason wherewith sir William Stanley and Rowland york haue betrayed and delivered for money unto the Spaniards, the town of deventer, and the Sconce of Zutphen.  
IT is a common saying, that love covereth and turneth all things to the best, even as hatred( to the contrary) taketh& construeth all things to the worst. What the queen of England hath lately on these parts done for us, wherein also my lord the earl of Leicester was pleased in his own person to be employed for our sakes, is sufficiently known to all men of any iudgement. If the same hath been done unto the thankful or to the ungrateful, to well-willers, or to dissemblers, may be perceived out of the spe●ches of them that are daily talking of the treason done by colonel Stanley within deventer, and captain york in the Sconce before Zutphen. But those that talk of it indifferently, will not nor cannot lay the blame on the English nation, but to aclowledge, that one man ought not to bear the blame of an others fault: much less then a whole kingdom bear the blame for the fault of one, two, or three traitors.  
If that might be so, then ought we not to trust any one of the Lords of the low countries, among the which, such treacherous ungodly traitors haue been found: as in our time, the Lord of Ville, who did most lamentably betray the town of Groeninghen, and caused to be murdered the most virtuous Burghma●ster that he could find in the whole town, which procured these bloody civil wars, for our punishment to happen amongst vs.  
Also in Flanders the Prince of Chimay, who professing the reformed religion, yea coming from the Lords Supper, did not only betray and deliver into the hands of the enemy the town of Bridges, but also the whole government of Flanders. And before him the Lord of Bours, who hath betrayed& delivered Mechelen: the Lord of Florence Phillip Ville Lamotte, traveling. The marquis of Berghen, the castle of Wowe: the Lord of Fresyn, Breda. We omit the general that took in Brussell treacherously, and the low country colonel that would haue betrayed Berghen op Soome, but through his unskilfulness, could not deliver it, with innumerable others too long to be rehearsed. With which faults we never would, nor desired to charge the nation of the low countries: neither Princes, nor provinces, who received and placed them( notwithstanding all faithful warning) to be Gouernours.  
But héere may it be known of what nature these good people be, which for the fault of Stanley and york, cause the whole English nation to be suspected. But if they be particular persons, they err either by ignorance, or else they themselves bearing a traitorous mind, would rather haue the Spaniards then the Englishmen. If they be public persons, either they are of the same condition, or else would rather remain maisters themselves. How so ever it be, they show that they bear neither faith nor love unto hir majesty, his excellency, nor to the people of England, seeing they turn all things to the worst, to the great prejudice of the guiltless.  
If there had not been great spite and injurious high mind born both to hir majesty and his excellency, in stead of thankfulness, and namely by those that should haue been a great while ago under the yoke of the enemies, if the almighty GOD had not bent the heart of hir sacred majesty to assist vs. Which soundeth even thus, as if wee would scorn at all Princes and Potentates, when as wee haue used their help to succour us in our distress.  
Kings and Princes which in our affairs and matters past, haue undertaken to venture herein their money and subiects, ought not by such unjust censure to bee displeased, and thereby provoked to alter their good meaning. It may be thought bad enough, that when sir Phillip Sidney hath on these parts  shed his blood, and lost his life, and an innumerable number of English soldiers, lost their lives and perished for want: Also certain sums of money was brought out of England hither, and consumed: and yet notwithstanding, wee stand still in need of further help. If then I say we should enter into such dealings, wee err greatly, and declare by our unthankfulness, that( not only) wee do not desire any further aid, but also determine to recompense the great good and unspeakable pleasures past and done unto us with mere unthankfulness.  
The English lords and Gentlemen haue been conversant among us with all freendlinesse, courtesies, and good example, they haue little regarded to venture their bodies and lines for us, as for their own native country, inhabitants, and kindered.  
They haue neither desired of us land or living, Lordships or jurisdictions, but to the contrary, haue oftentimes declared, that if they may bring to pass to rid these countries of Spanish tyranny, and made with us an everlasting covenant, to aid, help, and to defend each other( as themselves) that then they should desire no greater bliss of the almighty God, nor of us any other thankfulness or recompense.  
Wee haue tried and had experience in our countries, as well of Spanish, French, Scottish, Italian, Hungarians, Polanders, Highdutch, walloons, yea, almost all kind of Nations: their tyranny, unfaithfulness, falsehood, droonkennesse, whoredom, forcing of women, ravishing of yoonge maidens, unnatural and intolerable viciousness, ambition, and rapines without ceasing.  
Wherefore being of some tyrannised, of others deceived, we are justly fallen from them, and converting ourselves to a godly Christian princess. Yea, a princess, which when wee were rejected and forsaken of other Kings and Potentates, hath not only sent to our aid and succour, earls lords, Gentlemen and Souldiers, of whose modesty, sobriety, virtue, and freendlie conversation, we are to yield thanks unto above all other nations, but also hath ordained such a Prince for our governor, as none hath been hithe●to known in these parts to excel him, in godliness, virtue, righteousness, fréendlinesse, liberality, courtesy, and kindlinesse. Who hath also declared in every place where he came, that he wisheth no other pleasure of his age, then that in doing the work of his Lord GOD faithfully, he might assure and seal unto us the freedom of our lands and consciences, against his and our enemies, with his own blood. even as all those that haue been in the field with him, must confess with us, that they never saw him merrier and better disposed, then when he might come in the sight of his enemy, yea which is more, when as some lords were somewhat dismayed at the approaching of the en●mie, which he utterly disliking, and showing himself to be highly displeased, would ask them this question: If then they thought to live here for ever.  
Hir majesty thus having sent unto us such a Prince, witnessing thereby, how greatly shée doth love& esteem of us,& we on the other part, having received such innumerable& vnestimable benefits,& we yet( nevertheless) standing still in great need of the continuance therof, why should we then either do unto hir such unreasonable and detestable wrong, or once offer, or suffer it to be done or offered, in charging the English nation with the fault of one or two Traitors. And if we charge them therewith, what should we declare thereby, otherwise then that we mind to depart from hir, reject hir aid, and reward the great pleasure and comfort done unto us, with displeasure and discourtesy. finally, if we would provoke hir majesties displeasure against us, it is even like as if we should covet to be lead like Buffes by the nose, from hir bountifulness under the Spanish tyranny, from hir godliness into the ungodly papistry, and to be driven under the yooke, like as a people unworthy, unhappy, and most slavish kind of creatures.  
Some say that in England many Traitors are punished, whose quarters are to be seen round about London in great number. But would to God there were in other places more Londons, about the which might be seen the quarters of the traitors, which in other places escape their deserved punishment: then should it be seen and known, that the Spanish ducats and Pistolets, are of as great force in other places as in England. Treason is very bad every where, but far woorsse where it is not punished: the standing quarters in England show Gods blessing vpon that nation, who doth reveal them, and the iustice of the country that doth punish them. But where some times they stand not abroad in show, betokeneth Gods curse, and the country sleeping or iustice oppr●ssed.  
It is hard and dangerous to practise secret Treason in England against the queen, but most easy and without danger against the state where many heads govern. For, be it so that the King of spain would make war on these countries with traitors, what need were it for him to p●t his secret friends in danger, seeing that the greatest service they could do unto him, should be partly in shortening the delivered use of the sovereign power, which is above all things most needful in the handling of our matters, partly in the severing of the resolutions, slackness, and great number of reports, in prolonging of executions, all which they could or might cloak and colour with faire trimmed favourable pretexts and protestations of our privileges, which otherwise should bee utterly unpossible to bee obtained.  
But it is the papists money, whereby many people are deceived, and sedcued to undertake such dangerous attempts, though the papists themselves are not to boast of any such ungodly deeds, showing thereby their kind, that they haue the divell to their father, who from the beginning hath been a liar and a murderer.  
And as touching the faithful, they are to impute all this to the providence and appointment of God, who suffereth such things to happen for a better mean to stir up our slumbering mindes, to take the matter in hand with greater and more fervent zeal, and to pray and beseech the most highest God, that it may please him to bless us in such sort in these countries, in the disclosing of such treachery, as he hath blessed the queen of England before our eyes: and to grant us at last,( for as much as he ordaineth all kingdoms and governments) that such a virtuous, godly, and blessed princess, may haue the government over vs. Whom God long preserve to the unspeakable comfort of all afflicted Christians.  
Amen.  
FINIS.   

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