GEORGE BELL & SONS LONDON: YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN NEW YORK: 66 FIFTH AVENUE, AND BOMBAY 53 ESPLANADE ROAD CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON BELL & co. CONTENTS. PAGE Early History of the Netherlands to the Sixteenth Century.- The Netherlands under Charles V.-Philip II., Governor of the Netherlands.-The Tribunal of the Inquisition.-Other Encroachments on the Constitution of the Netherlands.- Cardinal Granvella.-The Council of State.-Count Egmont in The Iconoclasts.-Civil War.-Resignation of William of Orange. -Decay and Dispersion of the Gueusen League.—Alva's |