The Earl of Leicester's governorship of the Netherlands, 1586-1587

One of the aims of this study is to describe and where possible to explain the policies of Leicester as governor of the Netherlands; another to analyze the political situation in the provinces under his government. Among the factors which influenced the governor's career and which have been described in some detail are, (1) the financial and military emergency which the northern provinces faced after the subjugation of the South, and (2) the political duties imposed upon Leicester by the treaty of alliance. In connection with the second point the question has been discussed why not only the St... Mehr ...