Note 769 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
Ibid., pp. 80-88.—Strada, De Bello Belgico, tom. I. p. 243.—Meteren, Hist. des Pays-Bas, fol. 42.—Correspondance de Philippe II., tom. I. p. 433.
A Confession of Faith, which appeared in 1563, was revised by a Calvinistic synod, and reprinted in Antwerp, in May of the present year, 1566. The prefatory letter addressed to King Philip, in which the Reformers appealed to their creed and to their general conduct as affording the best refutation of the calumnies of their enemies, boldly asserted that their number in the Netherlands at that time was at least a hundred thousand. Brandt, Reformation in the Low Countries, vol. I. p. 158.