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B14964	Advice given unto the states of of [sic] the Lovv-Countries obedient & faithfull to his Maiesty of Spaine, upon occasion of the letters written by Count Henry Vanden Bergh the 18. day of Iune 1632. to her Highnesse the Archdutchesse, and the estates in those dominions. As also unto the declaration made by him concerning his discontent received, being all fully answered and found to be unjust and unreasonable. If the reader please to compare them together, you shall find Henry of the Bergh his letters and declaration, printed in our aviso of Iune, the 30. Numb. 31. and Iuly 6. Numb. 32. Translated out of the French coppy.		1632 (1632)	STC 18507.262; ESTC S103527	13,346	19

reioyce in a most happy and honourable peace assuredly euen such a peace which good subjects ought to wish vnto their Prince for the reputation of his Crowne As for the Commission of Master of the Field Generall which hee saith was conferred vpon him two yeares agoe by her Highnesse in the name of the Kings Maiesty and which hee is now resolued to exercise and execute for the service of the Countryes the preseruation of the Privilidges and the vpholding of the H. Catholicke Apostolicall and Roman Church You may thereby see vnto what a degree and height of impudency the audaciousnesse of this Traitor is come How doth hee pay and recompence our good and vertuous Princesse with ingratitude How doth hee accuse her of Conniuance saying that hee knowes that she wisheth that the affaires went better And as it were acknowledging the goods deedes and supreme honours which hee hath receiued from her extreame goodnesse and bounty hee hath so much boldnesse and audacity to take her for a prote trix of his mischiefe and so doth declare himselfe openly to bee guilty as now hee is proclaimed To bee guilty of crimen laesae Maiestatis in the highest degree and capitall Enemie of the publike rest and therefore consequently fallen away and deprived of all his Honours offices Dignities and interest which hee hitherto hath had in his Maiesties service In the yeare 1484. the Count de Rom●nt did by the like practice bare Armes against the Arch-Duke Maximilian his Lord attributing in like manner to himselfe the title of Captaine Generall of the Prince Philip his sonne hee wrote in this sort to the States generall assembled in the City of Bruxels his answer giuen him was this That they did not acknowledge him for such but an Enemie of the Prince and of the state As for the Countryes in the name of God let him leaue them in peace for there is no need of forging any innouation wee need no broiles nor Traitor to trouble our tranquility The flock would bee in good case vnder the clawes of the Wolfe if our Religion had no better Protector Oh had but this blacke soule as much capacity and ability as hee hath hatred and malice wee should soone see a strange Religion and such Lawes that Saturue and ●up●ter would not bee brought in but for them onely I cannot conceiue how a man that hath no Religion at all who hath falsified his Faith and who in the yeare 1621. when hee went before Iulliers by Testament written by his owne hand which hee left to his sister Anne did ordaine to bee bu●yed or enterred in a prophane place neerer vnto his sisters will not onely cloake and cover himselfe with a vaile of Religion but also counterfeite himselfe to bee a protector of the Catholike Apostolicall and Romish You deceiue your selfe Monsieur Count Henry you must not send your manifestations and declarations into your Government of Geldria hereof your Conscience is to well knowne there the City of Stefenswert which you haue made neutrall to serue for a retreat vnto the Enemies of the King and to the Hereticks and where you haue brought the Ministers to poison the people and instruct your Sisters Anne and Charloite these shall testifie of your carriages and your secret behaviour Doe not you remember that sometimes by chaunce and through forgetfullnesse you left a little haereticall prayer booke in high-dutch on a seate in the Iesuitish Church at Ruremond Which booke you called your Haureman you haue written to Priests and other persons well qualified and of diuers Nations that your sisters were christianly deceased and that their soules were very happy In the meane while you know that they gaue vp the ghost in the Armes of such Ministers which you had procured them Wee know more of your newes than you doe thinke for Hee ends his letter with the retreat which hee had made into the City of Liege for the advancement of his desseyns Wherein his subtiltye ill compacted together is failing for the Deputes of the Prince and States of Liege not willing to prejudice any way to so good neighbourhood haue disclaimed his action by a decree ●une the 23. the contents whereof are these A declaration published to shew that his letters and his declaration haue bee●e published without any knowledge of theirs or participation and consent and that they intend in no wise to entermeddle with any affaires of the said Count Henry Nay for their better Iustification they haue obliged him by a writing of his owne hand the 25. day of June That they would haue it manifested That as hee had published the said letters without hauing given notice or asked permission of his H● of Liege or the Deputes of his states and how that hee intended not by those publications to attempt any thing against their right nor envolue their affaires into his actions This retreat of his hath beene intended along time not for the service of the Countryes nor Religion but plotted and combined with our Enemies And if it were not so how could hee haue had time enough to treate with the King and Princes which in the end of his Letter to the States he affirmes to bee inclined to contribute their forces for the execution of his designes But there are other sufficient proofes it is not of a day or two that his treason hath bin ●eproched unto him and hit in his teeth by the brother of the husband of the bastard daughter wee shall speake of that in his due place it is sufficient for this point to manifest what is most true that before ever the Prince of Orange came to field to march to Venlo hee had beene to conferre with him in Holland and did so within a mile from the City in the Castle of Holtmullen where also was the Earle of Culenbergh his brother in Law and that before that time he had caused five Barrels of Silver to bee convayed to Meseycke there to buy the necessary provision for the siege of Mastricht under a colour that they were the Prince of Orange his moneys destined by him at the retreat of Count of Horne engaged the Prince of Liege See there these be the good charitable Offices which this dissembling Patriot intends to practice for the good of the Countryes The letter which he sent to the States was almost of the same tenure and contents as that written to her Highnesse we will onely examine these things which are of note and moment He saith that he had given advice that the place of the enemies meeting or rendevons should be at Moock neerest of all to his Government He would speake according to knowledge concerning the place and not without reason but hee might know since it was he that had called the enemy thither But is absolutely false that hee gave them any advertizement or notice at all but onely at the very instant when the enemy arrived He proposeth his naturall affection vnto the