History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

now made compelled 20,000 more to flee. The
weavers of Bruges and Ghent carried to England
their art of cloth-making, and those of Antwerp that
of the silk manufacture. Nor was it the disciples of
the Reformation only that sought asylum beyond
seas. Thomas Tillius forsook his rich Abbey of St.
Bernard, in the neighbourhood of Antwerp, and
repaired to the Duchy of Cleves. There he threw
off his frock, married, and afterwards became
pastor, first at Haarlem, and next at Delft.[9]
Every day a deeper gulf opened to the
Netherlands. The death of the two Flemish envoys,
the Marquis of Berghen and the Baron de
Montigny, was immediately consequent on the
departure of the duke for the Low Countries. The
precise means and manner of their destruction can
now never be known, but occurring at this moment,
it combined with the imprisonment of Egmont and
Horn in prognosticating times of more than usual
calamity. The next measure of Alva was to erect a
new tribunal, to which he gave the name of the
"Council of Tumults," but which came to be
known, and ever will be known in history, by the
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