The Spoil
of
Antwerp.
_Faithfully reported by a
true Englishman, who was
present at the same._
November 1576.
_Seen and allowed._
Printed at London by RICHARD JONES.
[The first thing here is to settle the authorship of this
anonymous tract; which was also anonymously entered at
Stationers' Hall, probably from political reasons. From
internal evidence at pp. 149, 155, 161, it is clear that
the Writer was _not_ one of the Fellowship of the English
Merchant Adventurers in Antwerp; but was an Englishman
who had arrived in that city on the 22nd October 1576.
Who this Writer was would seem to be clearly settled by
the following extracts from documents in the State Paper
Office, London.
S. P. _Foreign. Eliz._ Vols. 139-140.