Manumission was the freeing of slaves after their term serving their masters.
specifically is resolved to do, and what hope is held out from Venice,
extraordinary, and we have a Spanish army at our front door."
The armaments, already so great, had been enlarged during the last month
cavalry and 8000 foot, paid for by Spain and the Pope; 24,000 additional
of Bavaria at the expense of the League. Even if the reports were
as apathetic as the rest of the Protestants.
"We receive advices every day," he wrote to Caron, "that the Spaniards
trying to amuse the British king and to gain time, in order to be able to
vigorous resolution there. To wait again until we are anticipated will
and especially of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg. We likewise
our cross, as men said last year in regard to Aachen, Wesel, and so many
how he can throw the net over the heads of all our religious allies.
all tossed to the winds, to the ruin of so many of our co-religionists.
speeches or letters, it would be better to say so clearly to our friends.
subsidies for this most necessary purpose, so long I fail to believe that
taken to heart by England."
He adverted with respectfully subdued scorn to King James's proposition
suggestion," said Barneveld, "unless as a notorious trick, and if he did,
great commander having the purses and forces of the Spaniards and the
not be a very considerable personage for us. And that may happen any
Prince Maurice in his relations to our state and that of Marquis Spinola
the Emperor, King of Spain, and the princes of the League, such as
tranquillizing for all the Protestant princes and estates of the Empire,
.
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