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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
This request of the consistories was addressed to the few remaining nobles of the Compromise (Brederode and some others), who added it to the third petition that was handed to the governess on their behalf on 8 February 1567. This petition was stubbornly rejected by Margaret.
To the confederated seigniors and nobles,
My lords, because of the ardent desire we have always cherished to see the service of God and of the king in these Low Countries well and firmly established so that his obedient and faithful vassals and subjects might enjoy the state of prosperity they have so long been waiting for, we greatly rejoiced when we noticed that thanks to the agreement of 23 August such felicity had begun to be realised. We hoped then that this excellent measure, inspired – as it has pleased you to declare to us – by order of Her Highness and promises of the seigniors knights of the Order, might be kept inviolate to the prosperity of the country and the satisfaction of His Majesty's subjects. But to our very great regret we have found for a long time now and are finding every day more and more through clear, pernicious and very dangerous experiences, that the assurance which was given to us by you, seigniors, served only to make us stop our activities and to lull us, while means were being prepared and set in train to ruin and overwhelm us completely.
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