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indigent, without organization and government, destitute of military
apprehension. Of far more importance were the Calvanists, who prevailed
powerfully supported by their neighbors the Huguenots, the republic of
the exception of a slight difference, were also held by the throne in
merchants and common citizens. The Huguenots, expelled from France, had
were inferior both in numbers and wealth, but derived weight from having
the eastern portion of the Netherlands, which borders on Germany, and
most powerful princes of Germany were their allies; and the religious.html">religious
Netherlands formed an integral part, was claimed by them with some
in Antwerp, where the crowded population concealed them, and the
except an equally inextinguishable hatred of popery, of the Inquisition
while, on the other hand, they watched each other with a jealousy which
fanaticism from waxing dull.
The regent, in expectation that the projected "moderation" would be
recommended the governors and municipal officers of the provinces to be
instructions which were eagerly followed, and interpreted in the widest
punishment with extreme repugnance. Most of the chief magistrates were
many were even secretly attached to one or other of the religious
their countrymen to gratify their sworn enemies, the Spaniards.
Inquisition and the edicts to fall almost entirely into disuse.
representations of the Gueux, lured from their obscurity the
concealed. Hitherto they had contented themselves with secret
enough to venture to these meetings openly and publicly. This license
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