ens has devoted nearly all the first volume of his
"_Supplement_" to pieces illustrative of the proceedings against Egmont
and Hoorne. The articles of accusation are given at length. His
countrymen are under obligations to this compiler, who thus early
brought before them so many documents of great importance to the
national history. The obligations would have been greater, if the editor
had done his work in a scholar-like way,--instead of heaping together a
confused mass of materials, without method, often without dates, and
with so little care, that the titles of the documents are not seldom at
variance with the contents.

[1127] At least such is the account which Foppens gives of the
"Justification," as it is termed, of Hoorne, of which the Flemish editor
has printed only the preamble and the conclusion, without so much as
favoring us with the date of the instrument. (Supplement a Strada, tom.
I. pp. 241-243.) M. de Bavay, on the other hand, has given the defence
set up by Egmont's counsel _in extenso_. It covers seventy printed
pages, being double the quantity occupied by Egmont's defence of
himself. By comparing the two together, it is easy to see how closely
the former, though with greater amplification, is fashioned on the
latter. Proces du Comte d'Egmont, pp. 153-223.

[1128] Correspondance de Philippe II., tom. I. p. 582.

[1129] "Quoique, avant le depart du duc, il ait ete reconnu, dans les
deliberations qui ont eu lieu a Madrid en sa presence, que cette
pretention n'etait pas fondee, le Roi, vu la gravite de l'affaire, a
ordonne que quelques personnes d'autorite et de lettres se reunissent de
nouveau, pour examiner la question.--Il communique au duc les
considerations qui ont ete approuvees dans cette junte, et qui
confirment l'opinion precedemment emise." Ibid., p. 612.

[1130] The letters patent were antedated, as far back as April 15, 1567,
probably that they might not appear to have been got up for the nonce.
Conf. Ibid., p. 528.

[1131] "J'espere en la bonte, clemence et justice de Votre Majeste
qu'icelle ne voudra souffrir que je sorte vos pays, avec mes onze
enfants, pour aller hors d'iceux chercher moyen de vivre, ayant ete
amenee par feu de bonne memoire l'Empereur, votre pere." Ibid., tom. II.
p. 5.

[1132] "Haud facile sine commiseratione legi a quoquam potest." Strada,
De Bello Belgico, tom. I. p. 387.

According to Alva's biographer, Ossorio, the appeal of the countess
would _probably_ h