1584-1609 by John Lothrop Motley]@TWC D-Link book 1584-1609 2/55 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. 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. |