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"And we beseech Thee, O Lord, to give help and succour to Thy servants the people of Holland, and to deliver them from the cruelties and persecutions of their wicked oppressors; and grant Thy blessing, we pray Thee, upon the arms of our soldiers now embarking to aid them in their extremity." These were the words with which the Rev. John Vickars, rector of Hedingham, concluded the family prayers on the morning of 6th December, 1585. For twenty years the first portion of this prayer had been repeated daily by him, as it had been in tens of thousands of English households; for since the people. | By England s Aid 1 By England s Aid The Project Gutenberg EBook of By England s Aid by G. A. Henty Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title By England s Aid Author G. A. Henty Release Date August 2005 EBook 8679 This file was first posted on July 31 2003 Edition 10 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BY ENGLAND S AID E-text prepared by Charles Franks Michelle Shephard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team By England s Aid Or Or the Freeing of the Netherlands 1585-1604 BY G. A. HENTY Illustration GEOFFREY AND LIONEL SAVE FRANCIS VERE S LIFE PREFACE. In my preface to By Pike and Dyke I promised in a future story to deal with the closing events of the War of Independence in Holland. The period over which that war extended was so long and the incidents were so numerous and varied that it was impossible to include the whole within the limit of a single book. The former By England s Aid 2 volume brought the story of the struggle down to the death of the Prince of Orange and the capture of Antwerp the present gives the second phase of the war when England who had long unofficially assisted Holland threw herself .