The pacification of Ghent ARTYCKELEN vanden payse, verbontenisse ende Unie, gemaeckt, besloten ende bevestight tusschen de Staten van Brabant, Vlaenderen, Artoys etc...Besloten ende gheaccordeert tot Ghendt, opten 8 Novembris 1576.
Delft (= Belgium?), 1576.. 4to. Woodcut royal coat of arms on title, woodcut initial. (15, 1 blank) pp.. Pamphlet on the Pacification of Ghent, signed on November 8, 1576. It was an alliance of the provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands for the purpose of driving mutinying Spanish mercenary troops from the country, and at the same time a peace treaty with the rebelling provinces Holland and Zeeland. Various issues of this pamphlet appeared in 1578, the first being printed in Brussels y Michiel van Hamont (Knuttel 260). Reasonable uncut copy.- (First leaf loosening with some tears and library stamp on verso). Knuttel 264; Tiele, Pamfletten 149; not in Typ. Bat.
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