Add MS 33953

" PIÈCES touchantes la ville d'Anvers "; 1521-1585. Flemish and French. Included are:-

1. " Tax ende settinghe " of the contribution assigned to Antwerp of a levy of 12,000 foot-soldiers imposed on Brabant by an ordinance of 21 Oct. 1521. f. 3.

2. Lotter from the Three Estates of Brabant to the States-general, on the condition of Antwerp after the Spanish Fury; [Nov. 1576]. Fr. Two copies. ff. 13, 146. A Flemish version is printed in Bor, Oorsprongk ... der Nederlandsche Oorlogen, vol. i. (Amsterdam, 1679), p. 733; and the latter part, in Latin, is in Papebrochius, Annales Antverpienses, vol. iii. (Antwerp, 1846), p. 343.

3. Petition to the Estates of Brabant, for leave to demolish the Citadel, from the " Dekens, Oudermans ende goede mannen van alle d'ambachten der desolater Stadt van Antwerpen "; and order of the States-general for the desired demolition, 20 Aug. 1577. ff. 18, 21.

4. Letter from [Luis de Requesens in tho name of] the King [of Spain, Philip II.] to the Governor of Antwerp; Brussels, 19 Apr. 1574. f. 2 3.

5. The burgomasters, etc, of Antwerp to the States-general, respecting a petition of François de Rondeau; 23 Oct. 1577. f. 26.

6. Qu. Elizabeth to the burgomasters, etc., of Antwerp, promising help against the Prince of Parma; Greenwich, 10 July, 1585. f. 27. Printed by L. P. Gachard, Analectes Belgiques, vol. i. (Brussels, 1830), p. 21.

7. Alexander [Farnese], Prince of Parma, to the "Deputes des provinces estans en Anvers "; 12 Mar. 1579. Signed. f. 28;-to the " Doyen et ceulx de la nouvelle confrerie de larc a main de la ville d'Anvers "; 13 Nov. 1584. Signed. Printed, with title Letere envoyée par le Prince de Parme aux Bourgmaistres .... d'Anuers (Antwerp," M.C.LIIII." for 1584); and again by Gachard, Analectes Historiques, vol. v. (Brussels, 1871), p. 323. f. 29;-to the burgomasters, etc., of Antwerp; 10 Dec. 1584. Fl. and Fr. Printed in Gachard, Anal. Hist., vol. v. p. 341. fir. 32, 34, 38;-to the same; 7 Jan., 18 Feb. 1585. Fl. and Fr. ff. 36, 37, 41, 42;-to the deputies sent to him from Antwerp; 12 July, 1585. Printed in Gacbard, op. cit., vol. v. p. 368. f. 43.

8. Resolution of tho " B[urgomeesteren] S[chepenen] T[resoriers] ende Rade " of Antwerp; 16 July, [15]85. f. 45.

9. " Regester van den Rechten ende Privilegien van Antwerpen bij oordene van A. B. C." f. 46.

10. Extracts from the " Privilegiboeck " and other volumes in the archives of Antwerp, including a summary of the privileges granted to the city by the Dukes of Brabant, from Henry I. (1190- 1235) to the Emperor Maximilian (ob. 1519). f. 71.

11. " Chroinijck van Brabant ende ander omliggende landen int dichte, ende meest van Antwerpen " : said in an introduction at f. 87 (in a later hand) to be a copy, from the original by an unknown author, written by Joannes Gevaerts the advocate (ob. at Antwerp, 1613), father of Caspar Gevaerts, and annotated by him in the margins, after comparison with the chronicles of Ortelius and others. It begins with a prologue: " Dut at geschapen heef hemel ende eerde," etc. ; after which the chronicle begins at the year " ab orbe condito 3897 " (f. 89), and goes down to the year 1557. f. 88.

12. " Dagelijcke geschiedenissen van den Nederlanden," especially those relating to Antwerp, from 1569 to 1576. f. 113. Many other parts of the volume besides art. 11, notably artt. 9, 10, and 12, appear to be in the handwriting of Gevaerts. Paper; ff. 156. xvith-xviith centt. Folio.