ABSTRACT
A firm opponent of any arrangement that would give the States General any say in military matters, Zuniga pleaded with Albert 'to conform himself in everything with the wishes of his Majesty and not to introduce any novelties without his knowledge and approval'. Moreover, he warned that the States 'had rebelled three times in the past and that it was to be feared they would do so a fourth time' if they were given such instruments of power. Stanley celebrated the occasion by having 'a solemne mass to be sung in the griat church at which did assist all the principall musicke of the archduke's chapel, which are for the most part Englishmen, and', Edmondes commented wryly, 'if the rest of those lewd instruments be suffered still to roust here, it is not to be expected that there will be anie end of their practicing'.
