Excerpt from William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the Moderate Man of the Sixteenth Century, Vol. 1: The Story of His Life as Told From His Own Letters, From Those of His Friends and Enemies and From Official Documents In making selections, my aim was to choose letters that have a personal bearing, many of which have never before been published in English, but it proved impracticable to treat of the Prince Of Orange with out sketching the public events with which he was so closely allied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.