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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
held by the tyrant; the fugitive had no asylum but the ocean. The establishment of subservient courts was followed by arbitrary taxation. But feudal liberty forbade taxation except by consent; and the levying of the tenth penny excited more commotion than the tribunal of blood. Merchant and landholder, citizen and peasant, catholic and protestant, were ripe for insurrection; and even with foreign troops Alba vainly attempted to enforce taxation without representation. Just then, in April, 1572, a party of the 1572. fugitive beggars succeeded in gaining the harbor of Briel; and in July of the same year, the states of Holland, creating the prince of Orange their stadtholder, prepared to levy money and troops. In 1575 1575. Zealand joined with Holland in demanding for freedom some better safeguard than the word of Philip II., and in November of the following year nearly all 1576. the provinces united to drive foreign troops from their soil. The spirit that animates them, said