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He was no sooner, however, in the open country and upon a spot remote from human habitations, than he was suddenly beset by a band of forty soldiers under command of Don Alberic Lodron and Don Sancho de Lodrono. These officers had been watching his movements for many days. The capture of Bakkerzeel was accomplished with equal adroitness at about the same hour.
"Amid all the perplexities of the Duchess Regent," Says a Walloon historian, "this virtuous princess was consoled by the exploits of Bakkerzeel, gentleman in Count Egmont's service. On one occasion he hanged twenty heretics, including a minister, at a single heat."
As a body, they had justified the sarcasm of Hubert Languet, that "the confederated nobles had ruined their country by their folly and incapacity." They had profaned a holy cause by indecent orgies, compromised it by seditious demonstrations, abandoned it when most in need of assistance. Bakkerzeel had distinguished himself by hanging sectaries in Flanders.
Continued dissensions in the Spanish cabinet Ruy Gomez and Alva Conquest of the Netherlands entrusted to the Duke Birth, previous career and character of Alva Organization of the invading army Its march to the provinces Complaints of Duchess Margaret Alva receives deputations on the frontier Interview between the Duke and Egmont Reception of Alva by the Duchess of Parma Circular letters to the cities requiring their acceptance of garrisons Margaret's secret correspondence Universal apprehension Keys of the great cities demanded by Alva Secret plans of the government, arranged before the Duke's departure Arrest of Orange, Egmont, Horn, and others, determined upon Stealthy course of the government towards them Infatuation of Egmont Warnings addressed to him by De Billy and others Measures to entrap Count Horn Banquet of the Grand Prior The Grand Prior's warning to Egmont Evil counsels of Noircarmes Arrests of Egmont, Horn, Bakkerzeel and Straalen Popular consternation Petulant conduct of Duchess Margaret Characteristic comments of Granvelle His secret machinations and disclaimers Berghen and Montigny Last moments of Marquis Berghen Perfidy of Ruy Gomez Establishment of the "Blood-Council" Its leading features Insidious behavior of Viglius Secret correspondence, concerning the President, between Philip and Alva Members of the "Blood-Council" Portraits of Vargas and Hessels Mode of proceeding adopted by the council Wholesale executions Despair in the provinces The resignation of Duchess Margaret accepted Her departure from the Netherlands Renewed civil war in France Death of Montmorency Auxiliary troops sent by Alva to France Erection of Antwerp citadel Description of the citadel.
After this work had been completed, all the papers by which they intended to justify their answers were taken away from them. Previously, too, their houses and those of their secretaries, Bakkerzeel and Alonzo de la Loo, had been thoroughly ransacked, and every letter and document which could be found placed in the hands of government.
After this work had been completed, all the papers by which they intended to justify their answers were taken away from them. Previously, too, their houses and those of their secretaries, Bakkerzeel and Alonzo de la Loo, had been thoroughly ransacked, and every letter and document which could be found placed in the hands of government.
After this work had been completed, all the papers by which they intended to justify their answers were taken away from them. Previously, too, their houses and those of their secretaries, Bakkerzeel and Alonzo de la Loo, had been thoroughly ransacked, and every letter and document which could be found placed in the hands of government.
His sanguinary exertions were ably seconded also by his secretary Bakkerzeel, a man who exercised the greatest influence over his chief, and who was now fiercely atoning for having signed the Compromise by persecuting those whom that league had been formed to protect.
No sooner were these gentlemen in custody than the secretary Albornoz was dispatched to the house of Count Horn, and to that of Bakkerzeel, where all papers were immediately seized, inventoried, and placed in the hands of the Duke.
Alva, while he sat at the council board with Egmont and Horn, was secretly informed that those important personages, Bakkerzeel and Straalen, with the private secretary of the Admiral, Alonzo de la Loo, in addition, had been thus successfully arrested.
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