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"It was necessary," said Davison, "that some one person of wisdom and authority should take the helm. Among the Netherlanders none was qualified for such a charge. Lord Maurice is a child, poor, and of but little respect among them. Elector Truchsess, Count Hohenlo, Meurs, and the rest, strangers and incapable of the burden.
In brief, the place was easily mastered, and taken possession of by Martin, in the name of the deposed elector, Gebhard Truchsess the first stroke of good fortune which had for a long time befallen that melancholy prelate. The administration of Leicester has been so minutely pictured, that it would be superfluous to indulge in many concluding reflections.
Ever since Gebhard Truchsess had renounced the communion of the Catholic Church for the love of Agnes Mansfeld, and so gained a wife and lost his principality, he had been a dependant upon the impoverished Nassaus, or a supplicant for alms to the thrifty Elizabeth.
Truchsess swore that he would not put up with that low fellow, that Brettschneider. All of them were furious with the stuck-up young man; and though they had hitherto gone through their duty without much fuss or grumbling, they were now filled with a thorough repugnance for the soldier's uniform and a perfect hatred for military life in which one had to knuckle under to idiots like that.
The Effects of her Anger Quarrels between the Earl and the Staten The Earl's three Counsellors Leicester's Finance Chamber Discontent of the Mercantile Classes Paul Buys and the Opposition Been Insight of Paul Buys Truchsess becomes a Spy upon him Intrigues of Buys with Denmark His Imprisonment The Earl's Unpopularity His Quarrels with the States And with the Norrises His Counsellors Wilkes and Clerke Letter from the Queen to Leicester A Supper Party at Hohenlo's A drunken Quarrel Hohenlo's Assault upon Edward Norris Ill Effects of the Riot.
The Papists were making rapid progress, the land being undermined by the steady and stealthy encroachments of the Jesuits. Lord Burghley sent many copies of his pamphlet, in Latin, French, and Italian, against the Seminaries, to Gebhard Truchsess; and the deposed archbishop made himself busy in translating that wholesome production into German, and in dispersing it "all Germany over."
While these events had been occurring in the heart of the republic, Martin Schenk, that restless freebooter, had been pursuing a bustling and most lucrative career on its outskirts. All the episcopate of Cologne that debatable land of the two rival paupers, Bavarian Ernest and Gebhard Truchsess trembled before him.
Councillor Carl Roorda maintained at the table of Elector Truchsess that the country had fallen 'de tyrannide in tyrrannidem; and if they had spurned the oppression of the Spaniards and the French that it was now time to, rebel against the English.
Kleerhagen, driven into the Holy Cross tower, ascended to its .roof, leaped, all accoutred as he was, into the river, and with the assistance of a Scotch soldier, came safe to land. Ferdinand Truchsess, brother of the ex-elector of Cologne, was killed. Four or five hundred of the assailants nearly all who had entered the city were slain, and about fifty of the burghers.
He is in great melancholy for his town of Neusz, and for his poverty, having a very noble mind. If, he be lost, her Majesty had better lose a hundred thousand pounds." The melancholy Truchsess now became a spy and a go-between.
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