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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
This missive was drafted at about the same time as the previous document (September 1573). Alva was still in office; he was dismissed by the king in October and left in December.
Therefore we can hardly imagine that if he knew the truth Your Majesty would permit such gross injustice, great outrages and wilful wantonness. For has there ever been a king or potentate who treated his subjects so improperly? Your Majesty's forefathers, very blessed be their memory, displayed such gentleness, clemency and regal moderation towards their subjects that they set a laudable example of these virtues not only to their descendants but to all the kings and potentates of Christendom. When any misunderstanding arose between His Majesty and his subjects, and even if the subjects openly took up arms because of some misdemeanour on the part of officers or for a similar reason and were again reduced to obedience by their lords and princes, your predecessors were so far from wishing to commit such examples of cruelty and wilfulness that they assiduously took care in all capitulations to specify expressly in every article that all the privileges and freedoms of the subjects should be kept and observed inviolate.
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