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To sustain these two great measures, through which Philip hoped once and forever to extinguish 1he Netherland heresy, it was considered desirable that the Spanish troops still remaining in the provinces, should be kept there indefinitely. The force was not large, amounting hardly to four thousand men, but they were unscrupulous, and admirably disciplined.
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