210:. The citizens of Maaseik and Stokkem submitted to the prince-bishop rather than suffer a similar fate. With increasing numbers of Protestant refugees from the Habsburg Netherlands entering the principality, edicts were issued on 14 April 1567 and again on 27 September giving all foreigners three days' notice to depart from the territory, unless they were able to claim citizenship rights or could demonstrate that they had been living there peaceably for more than two years, with attestations that they had not participated in the
245:, all of which were plundered by one side or the other. On 28 October 1568 Orange appeared before the walls of Liège with an army, demanding passage and promising to respect the city’s liberties, but was refused entry. He assaulted the city and began siege works, but quickly abandoned them, burning the convents of Saint-Laurent, Saint-Gilles and Val-Benoît before retreating. He and the Estates of Liège declared the Prince-Bishopric a
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