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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05374	Certein letters vvherin is set forth a discourse of the peace that was attempted and sought to haue bin put in effecte by the lords and states of Holland and Zelande in the yeare of oure Lorde 1574 Also a supplication put vp by the saide States of Hollande and Zeland, and other places of the Low Countryes to the king: together with the aunsvvere and a reply vppon the same, and diuers other particularities.		1576 (1576)	STC 15527; ESTC S101103	45,236	122

treasoÌ„ for that they being then the vassals of the King of Fraunce yea and that more is lincked very nere vnto him in baÌ„des of blood and hauing yelded vnto him their homage fealtye did take armes not only withowt his appointment but also against his owne person and estates in the feeld Surely no maÌ„ caÌ„ make me beleue but that the good Duke Phillip knew very well what was the dutye of a subiect wheÌ„ as to reuenge the deathe of Duke Ihon his father who alitle before had slayne the Duke of Orleans brother to the King he caused the King of England to comme into Fraunce and made him Lorde of the Cittye of Paris and of the best parte of the whole kingdome If this lawe which nou set downe here were so generall as you woulde make it surely he had neuer atteined vnto the name of so good a Prince as he was accompted neither had he lefte behinde him to his posterity so good a reporte of immortall glory as wee know of Likewise his sonne Charles the hardy when he tooke armes against Lois the. 11. and defeated a parte of his armye at Monthelery knew not hee very well that subiectes mighte make no sturre withowt appointment or aucthoritie from their Lorde wil you say then that owr King doothe wrongfully enioy the countye of Burgondy the which was graunted by the same Lois and Charles vnder the title that the subiect did beare armes against his liege Lorde But howe often hathe it been sene and iudged to be right and reasonable that the subiectes in particuler and the Townes and Prouinces in generall haue taken Armes in such cases as this not only withowt the appointment of their Lorde but also euen against their soueraignes them selues and yet hathe nether your lawe nor Maxime been of sufficient waight against the reasons and argumentes that they alledged in defence of their equytie Wherefore of force your conclusion cannot holde when as you inferre by this your Maxime that they of Holland and Zeland haue committed an offence vnexcusable in hauing taken armes against their Prince For first you shoulde haue declared that the groundes and occasions that forste them therevnto were not reasonable or at the least not sufficient to maynteyne the equitye of their cause and then mighte you haue had somme better apparaÌ„ce of reason But surely it seemeth that for becaus you wolde haue the equitye of their cause quyte suppressed from the eares of the worlde and from the knowledg of his Maiestie you haue cleane troden vnder foote and sent backe againe their request grownding your self only vpon the opinions of suche of the courte as you knewe before to bee aduersaries to their attemptes And I pray you what if theis of owr side shall say that they not only haue not taken armes against his Maiestie but also that they haue not stirred but by his consent and aucthoritie Dothe it not seeme vnto you reasonable that the othe which the King hath taken and the expresse article wherin he coÌ„maundeth that no man shall any longer yelde obedience vnto him self than he obserueth the points of the artiles that he is sworne vnto may iustifye their doinges especially seeing that bothe his Maiestie is absent that straungers vnder the title of his name haue not only broken theis articles but also soughte vtterli to disanull that sollemne coÌ„tract the which he made at his entrye into Brabant which is the chiefest of all the Prouinces he possesseth in theis partes for as touching that which you saie That to beare armes against his Maiestie or his Ministers is all one I cannot comprehend where of that should be grounded considering that the King him self at his foresaid entry and acceptacion dothe promise sweare declare that presently ipso facto all officers Maiestrates ad Mynisters shal be taken but for sciphers of no validity who either haue ben heere before or shal be hereafter placed in preiudice of those articles which he is sworne vnto or that shal coÌ„mit any thing against the same So that the King him self dothe by his othe disgrade all suche ministers and dothe put weapens into owr haÌ„des to resist their iniquitye violeÌ„ce And if that you graunte that all this is trew in respect of theÌ„ of Brabant but that HollaÌ„d and Zeland may be no partakers thereof theÌ„ muste you needes Iustifie the Prince of OreÌ„g and all those that serue him being bothe inhabitantes naturally borne in Brabant in that they wolde not acknowledge suche ministers as haue violated and broken the othes and contractes of the king And since that they wear not bounde to acknowledge or allow theÌ„ but mighte take armes against theÌ„ it followeth that they might with good reaso occupie enioy all those landes Prouinces which did yelde any fauour or deuocyon at any tyme to suche mynisters being disanulled and disgraded And as touching the rest of Holland and Zeland their fault and offence can be none other but that they bee not borne in Brabant For I cannot thinck that you wil denie but that the said ministers against whome they beare armes haue brokeÌ„ and violated in a maner all those articles which the King was sworne vnto at his firste entrye And if thies things were not thus what is he that seeth not plainly how that in this point the Kings hands be fast tyed together synce that your selues doe confesse that in all matters Ecclesiasticall and touching faithe he is bounde to be obedient vnto the Pope his legates and vicars Dooe not we know how that that CoÌ„mission which was coÌ„cluded vpon and ordeined amongest your ecclesiastical persons and Bishops to roote owt this owr religion which you call new was inuented and forged by Pope Pius the fourthe being sollicited therevnto by Docter SoÌ„nius who for that cause remayned at Rome by the space of three or fower yeares afterwarde broughte amongest vs into theis quarters the pestileÌ„t seed of theis troubles calamities that we feele at this day Do not we knowe that it was onely the Pope which gaue coÌ„maundemeÌ„t to the king that thordinauÌ„ces of the Councell of Trent should be published here againste the which all the Estates both Ecclesiasticall and Temporall did set themselues to withstand as a thing preiudiciall against the aunciente lawes customes and priuiledges which the king hath sworn vnto vs Briefly haue not all the Instruments and Authours of this Tragedy bin created onely by the Pope And who is ignoraÌ„t I pray you that the Pope in his decres doth openly vaunte that all kinges and Princes are bound to hold all their Crownes and Scepters of him and to obey him in euery point Haue we no learned of our auncestours how that the â—opes of Rome haue coÌ„maunded at their pleaâ—ure the most noble Emperours and Prince â–ª of Christendome and sought to execute their wils by excommunicating and accursinge of them as often as they would resist their pleasures FroÌ„ whence proceeded those cruell and

wisedome and perfecte pollioy haue very well ordeyned heretofore that especially the king should very straightly be bounde and vnited with the Estates of the Country not to do any thing of importauÌ„ce without communicating the matter vnto them firste as they on the other side oughte to behaue themselues vnto theyr Prince as to their heade giuen to theim of god From hence is proceeded the great and vniforme loue and Fidelitie which Princes in these partes haue borne to their people and they likewise to them And surely this principle appeared in the person of the good Duke PHILIP who at the firste vnited all those low Countries into one body and made many lawes the assured vnitye which either is or oughte to bee betweene a Prince and his people Esteeminge it better to be beloued called father by them than to be feared and redouted of theÌ„ For he knew well ynoughe that loue is the surest grounde and faithfullest garde of all gouernmeÌ„ts and prehemineÌ„ces in such sort that they be greatly to be detested and to be accoÌ„pted publique pestileÌ„ces who to bringe theÌ„selues in credite by villanies and seruile flatteries vnder the pretence of maintayning the auctoritie of our Prince haue whispered in the eares of his councell that whosoeuer talketh of the generall assemble of the Estates doth catch at the Crowne from his Maiesties head For surely these be the auctours of all tyraÌ„nies troubles and insolencies these be the disturbers of our common quiet these be the enemies both of God and the worlde although they attribute neuer so much wisdome and experience vnto themselues doing in this case not vnlike vnto him that would dismember the parts of the body from the head and depriue them of their vertues and naturall actions vnder the pretence of doing good to the head True it is that for a time they seeme to yelde as it were a staye and proppe vnto the power of Princes in causinge theym in generall to be more feared than loued but in th ende they shew themselues to seeke noughte els but the fall of Princes and the ouerthrow of all their people at one time as wee see most clearely by th' example of the kingdome of Fraunce the calamitie and ruine whereof hath not proceded from any thing els but by the breaking of thordinaunces of the Estates generall and by sufferaunce that the kinge mighte gouerne at his owne appetite with absolute authoritie without hauing regard either to the body politique or to them that should represent the same I would to GOD that this poore Country of ours would behold it selfe in this glasse which is so cleare so neare vnto it without fallinge into the same inconueniences But our sinnes being already growen to a certaine rypenes haue hastened our vtter ouerthrowe in blindinge the eyes of such gouernours as haue perswaded our Princes to thinck that their ruine consisteth in the Assemblie of the generall Estates of the country whose order is a common consente to resolue vppon such pointes as do concerne the tranquillitie of the same whereas if at the least this had bin lookt vnto in the begiÌ„ning before that those troubles did breake out into so great a flame according to those instructions which the Gentlemen of the confederates gaue vnto his Maiestie surely then might all the incoÌ„ueniences which haue happened since haue very well bin auoyded Yet at length let vs looke although very late first which be the grounds and occasions that hinder vs from hauinge recourse vnto that so ready and wholsome a remedie which in times past hath alwayes bin the refuge both of Prince People when any incoÌ„uenience did threateÌ„ them You say That since that these Countries do consist vppon diuers Seignories vvhich in degree iurisdictions and customes haue nothing to do the one vvith the other but onely a neighbourhode vnder one Lord therefore they are not to compell the king to assemble the estates generally I beseech you then sirs If wee shoulde demaunde of the kinge to assemble onely the Estates of Holland and Zeland which Prouinces haue alwayes bin ioyned together and that by their aduise hee woulde ordaine some conuenient remedies for these present troubles calamities euen as his Maiesties predecessours the Princes of Bauier were wont to do in the like cases not adding any other to these Prouinces except it were Hainault and Ostrenant woulde you iudge then that wee had any reason on oure sides At the leaste your argumente whereon you seeme to ground moste would seeme to be of no force And I surely do thincke that this particuler assembly since that you cannot abyde the generall were much fitter for the people of Holland and Zeland than th' other weare which they demaunde But I pray you consider what wrong they of Holland Zeland haue committeÌ„d in submitting themselues in their foresayd request vnto thorder of their Prince without presuming to prescribe any law vnto him or in referringe themselues to the Iudgement of the generall Estates of all the low Countries to whoÌ„ they were content to submit theÌ„selues to th end that they might not seeme to seeke to be iudges in their owne cause And if there be no reason at all to asseÌ„ble the generall estates of so many and diuers ProuiÌ„ces in a matter that toucheth only one particuler Prouince then I pray you why should that protestatioÌ„ which the Estats of Brabant FlauÌ„ders presoÌ„ted wherin they would admit Religion but that of Rome bee preiudiciall vnto them of Holland and Zeland Howe be it surely if all be well considered this disease is growen so generall in all these prouinces as it cannot be remedied but by a medecine generally taken For who knoweth not howe that in this cause there are ioyned to Holland and Zelande in a maner all Gelderland Phriseland and Ouerijsel wyth many both of the townes and peoples of Brabant Flaunders Hainault and Arthois who vnderstandeth not that when this request was presented by those gentlemen in the yeare 66. there were almost as many of oure Prouince as of any other yea and that the nomber of them of Hainaulte Arthois and Nanin did farre exceede them of Holland and Zelande Wherefore if some haue bin frighted by force and threatninges some other oppressed by the tyranny of the Duke of Alua and some againe haue not bin able to finde oute the oportunities and open wayes which they of Hollande and Zeland haue founde is it therefore to be saide that they ought to be barred from giuinge ayde and remedie to quench this great fier and generall cause of Ruine No for this is certaine that the harme which proceedeth of these warres doth touche the other Prouinces as neere as it doth Holland and Zeland For if it happen that these Countryes bee either destroyed or alienated from the obedience of the Kinge Consider I pray you whether Braband and Flaunders with many other Prouinces shal be subiect to any inuasion that first will assaulte them or not

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