he vanished Papacy
Hankering for peace, when peace had really become impossible
Hating nothing so much as idleness
Mirror ever held up before their eyes by the obedient Provinces
Rigid and intolerant spirit of the reformed religion
Scorn the very word toleration as an insult
The word liberty was never musical in Tudor ears

CHAPTER XIII. 1587

Barneveld's Influence in the Provinces--Unpopularity of Leicester
intrigues--of his Servants--Gossip of his Secretary--
Its mischievous Effects--The Quarrel of Norris and Hollock--
The Earl's Participation in the Affair--His increased Animosity to
Norris--Seizure of Deventer--Stanley appointed its Governor--York
and Stanley--Leicester's secret Instructions--Wilkes remonstrates
with Stanley--Stanley's Insolence and Equivocation--Painful Rumours
as to him and York--Duplicity of York--Stanley's Banquet at
Deventer--He surrenders the City to Tassis--Terms of the Bargain--
Feeble Defence of Stanley's Conduct--Subsequent Fate of Stanley and
York--Betrayal of Gelder to Parma--These Treasons cast Odium on the
English--Miserable Plight of the English Troops--Honesty and Energy
of Wilkes--Indignant Discussion in the Assembly.

The government had not been laid down by Leicester on his departure. It
had been provisionally delegated, as already mentioned to the
state-council. In this body-consisting of eighteen persons--originally
appointed by the Earl, on nomination by the States, several members were
friendly to the governor, and others were violently opposed to him. The
Staten of Holland, by whom the action of the States-General was mainly
controlled, were influenced in their action by Buys and Barneveld. Young
Maurice of Nassau, nineteen years of age, was stadholder of Holland and
Zeeland. A florid complexioned, fair-haired young man, of
sanguine-bilious temperament; reserved, quiet, reflective, singularly
self-possessed; meriting at that time, more than his father had ever
done, the appellation of the taciturn; discreet, sober, studious. "Count
Maurice saith but little, but I cannot tell what he thinketh," wrote
Leicester's eaves-dropper-in-chiefs. Mathematics, fortification, the
science of war--these were his daily pursuits. "The sapling was to become
the tree," and meantime the youth was preparing for the great destiny
which he felt, lay before him. To ponder over the works and the daring
conceptions of Stevi