Protestant propaganda engraving depicting the arrest of the stadtholder of friesland, gaspar de robles, in groningen on november 23-25, 1576, during the eighty years' war. A monk, vasles of zutphen (right), is also arrested. The original version included a text, in german, that celebrated the event and regretted that those arrested had not been hanged. Date: 1 January 1588.
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