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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... It had been rumored for many months that Philip''s choice was at last fixed upon the Archduke Cardinal Albert, Archbishop of Toledo, youngest of the three surviving brothers of the Emperor Rudolph, as the candidate for many honors. He was to espouse the Infanta, he was to govern the Netherlands, and, as it was supposed, there were wider and wilder schemes for the aggrandizement of this fortunate ecclesiastic brooding in the mind of Philip than yet had seen the light. Meantime the cardinal''s first care was to unfrock himself. He had also been obliged to lay down the most lucrative episcopate in Christendom, that of Toledo, the revenues of which amounted to the enormous sum of three hundred thousand dollars a year.1 Of this annual income, however, he prudently reserved to himself fifty thousand dollars by contract with his destined successor. The cardinal reached the Netherlands before the end of January. He brought with him three thousand Spanish infantry and some companies of cavalry, while his personal baggage was transported on three hundred and fifty mules.2 Of course there was a triumphal procession when, on the 11th February, the new satrap entered the obedient Netherlands, and there was the usual amount of bell-ringing, cannon-firing, trumpet-blowing, with torch-light processions, blazing tar-barrels, and bedizened platforms, where Allegory, in an advanced state of lunacy, performed its wonderful antics. It was scarcely possible for human creatures to bestow more adulation, or to abase themselves more thoroughly, than 1 Soranzo, Relazione apud Barozzl et Berehet, Le Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veueti, i. 45. 2 Bor, iv. 167. 1596 RETURN OF PHILIP WILLIAM 395 the honest citizens of Brussels had so recently done in honor of the... John Lothrop Motley, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, History of the United Netherlands (6 V.) Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781235725258

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... It had been rumored for many months that Philip''s choice was at last fixed upon the Archduke Cardinal Albert, Archbishop of Toledo, youngest of the three surviving brothers of the Emperor Rudolph, as the candidate for many honors. He was to espouse the Infanta, he was to govern the Netherlands, and, as it was supposed, there were wider and wilder schemes for the aggrandizement of this fortunate ecclesiastic brooding in the mind of Philip than yet had seen the light. Meantime the cardinal''s first care was to unfrock himself. He had also been obliged to lay down the most lucrative episcopate in Christendom, that of Toledo, the revenues of which amounted to the enormous sum of three hundred thousand dollars a year.1 Of this annual income, however, he prudently reserved to himself fifty thousand dollars by contract with his destined successor. The cardinal reached the Netherlands before the end of January. He brought with him three thousand Spanish infantry and some companies of cavalry, while his personal baggage was transported on three hundred and fifty mules.2 Of course there was a triumphal procession when, on the 11th February, the new satrap entered the obedient Netherlands, and there was the usual amount of bell-ringing, cannon-firing, trumpet-blowing, with torch-light processions, blazing tar-barrels, and bedizened platforms, where Allegory, in an advanced state of lunacy, performed its wonderful antics. It was scarcely possible for human creatures to bestow more adulation, or to abase themselves more thoroughly, than 1 Soranzo, Relazione apud Barozzl et Berehet, Le Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veueti, i. 45. 2 Bor, iv. 167. 1596 RETURN OF PHILIP WILLIAM 395 the honest citizens of Brussels had so recently done in honor of the... John Lothrop Motley, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, History of the United Netherlands (6 V.) Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction <

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