id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 4817 Motley, John Lothrop The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 16: 1569-70 .txt text/plain 13491 629 65 persecution--Individual cases--Present of hat and sword to Alva from with the act--Complaints of Alva to the King--Fortunes and fate of executions, in pursuance of that sentence, had been daily taking place. Early in the following year, the provinces still remaining By the middle of the year 1569, Alva wrote to the King, with great Netherlanders were sentenced to death, the exceptions had been very few, Soon after Alva's arrival in the Netherlands, the first part of Duke of Alva pronounced sentence against him. the King to Don Eugenio de Peralta, requiring him to place the prisoner communicate the sentence of death to Montigny, in presence of Don Eugenio "Bishop's Tower." A letter, written at Madrid, by Philip's orders, had sentence of Alva was now again recited, the alcalde adding that the King, Don Eugenio de Peralta, were transmitted by Philip to the Duke of Alva. prince save Philip, King of Spain. ./cache/4817.txt ./txt/4817.txt