[History of the United Netherlands<br> 1584-1609 by John Lothrop Motley]@TWC D-Link book
History of the United Netherlands
1584-1609

CHAPTER VI
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For it was obvious, if more precious time should be lost, that Holland and Zeeland would share the fate of Antwerp.

Already the belief, that, with the loss of that city, all had been lost, was spreading both in the Provinces and in England, and Elizabeth felt that the time had indeed come to confront the danger.
Meantime the intrigues of the enemy in the independent Provinces were rife.

Blunt Roger Williams wrote in very plain language to Walsingham, a very few days after the capitulation of Antwerp: "If her Majesty means to have Holland and Zeeland," said he, "she must resolve presently.

Aldegonde hath promised the enemy to bring them to compound.

Here arrived already his ministers which knew all his dealings about Antwerp from first to last.


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