CONTENTS
THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
PHILIP THE SECOND IN THE NETHERLANDS
CHAPTER I. 1555
CHAPTER II. 1555-1558
CHAPTER III. 1558-1559ADMINISTRATION OF THE DUCHESS MARGARET.
CHAPTER I. 1559-1560
CHAPTER II. 1560-1561
CHAPTER III. 1561-1562
CHAPTER IV. 1563-1564
CHAPTER V. 1564-1565
CHAPTER VI. 1566
CHAPTER VII. 1566
[Etext Editor's Note: JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, born in Dorchester, Mass. 1814, died 1877. Other works: Morton's Hopes and Merry Mount, novels. Motley was the United States Minister to Austria, 1861-67, and the United States Minister to England, 1869-70. Mark Twain mentions his respect for John Motley. Oliver Wendell Holmes said in 'An Oration delivered before the City Authorities of Boston' on the 4th of July, 1863: "'It cannot be denied,'—says another observer, placed on one of our national watch-towers in a foreign capital,—'it cannot be de