Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . JOHN CASIMIR COUNT PALATINE, ETC.MEDAL STRUCK ON OCCASION OF HIS EXPEDITION INTO BELGIUM. with the subsidy which Queen Elizabeth had promised to hisagents in England. The shattered ranks of the national armywere rapidly filling. The great cities and the provincial Estateswere munificent in advancing loans and in furnishing contributions.New taxes were cheerfully imposed upon themselves by citizenswho knew that the Spanish soldiery were once more in possessionof many of their southern fortresses, and w

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Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . JOHN CASIMIR COUNT PALATINE, ETC.MEDAL STRUCK ON OCCASION OF HIS EXPEDITION INTO BELGIUM. with the subsidy which Queen Elizabeth had promised to hisagents in England. The shattered ranks of the national armywere rapidly filling. The great cities and the provincial Estateswere munificent in advancing loans and in furnishing contributions.New taxes were cheerfully imposed upon themselves by citizenswho knew that the Spanish soldiery were once more in possessionof many of their southern fortresses, and who remembered thehorrors of their former occupation of the land. Sainte Aldegonde was sent by the Estates to attend theImperial Diet of Germany, which met in the spring at Worms.He addressed the assembly in an oration, in which he set forththe wrongs and the dangers of his country with great eloquence, but with small effect on the unfavourable audience. At Worms, however, he learned that the King of Spain had been in negotia-tion with Sweden for some armed vessels to be employed againstAmst