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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08085	The aunswere of the Lords the Estates Generall of the Vnited Prouinces of the Lowe-Countries, to the letter of the Archduke of Austria, heere-after inserted together vvith the proposition done in the name of the sayde arch-duke to the forenamed states, by Otto Hartius, and Jeronimus Coomans, learned in the lawes : also, the extract of certaine letters, written out of the campe before Groning.	United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.	1594 (1594)	STC 18451.5; ESTC S458	10,711	18

people knowe vnderstand the same by these presents as well to abandon all suspition as to the more neerer reuealing of our foresaid goodnes and vpright inclination towardes you and those which might looke for the same at our hands Forasmuch then as the matter toucheh you so neer you your people and those which are vnder you should set before your eyes the luck fortune and welfare which thereby might come and redound to your natiue Countrey so pittifully oppressed and spoyled through these long lasting warres And so far foorth as the good luck which you had this last yeare as matters of warre bee sickle and inconstant should make any to forget the foresaid euils and mischiefes and not to think vpon those which might chaunce and fall out and thereby seeme to assure themselues ten fold without any accepting of this good occasion shall it not then bee needefull to thinke on examples and things passed which teacheth that in short time such great alteration may happen that oftentimes that is soone lost which shortly before hath beene gotten with greate labour honour and reputation Wherefore we do pray you both hartely and earnestly that you will altogether take good counsell therein deepely weighing and pondring all things and you your selues offer vs such laudable and honest conditions of peace that by meanes thereof it may be perceiued the sooner the better that you be not such as seeke to lengthen or prolong the warres which bringeth so many kindes of oppressions to the Communally as is well knowne to all men but that thereby the same might be brought to some perfect ende sure rest and quietnes And for our parts we wil shew you with our déedes that no deceit or craft is hid therein not seeking any thing els then a true stedfast peace which and all that we do is with good earnest and simplicity to the furthering of the Common wealth Wherein if you shew your good will Then shall you shewe what you esteeme and thinke of vs and desire to be in time of neede as is best knowne to you your selues Like as the bringers hereof Maister Otto Hartius and Ieronimus Coomans learned in the lawes shall declare being thereto appointed by vs with proffering of our good will towards you Praying almightie God c. From Brussels the fift of May Anno. 1594. Vnderneath stood Yours to commaund Ernestus The superscription was ¶ To the Honorable the Estates of Gelderland Holand Zealand Freesland Vtricht Ouer-Jsell and others assembled at Earles Hagh in Holand ¶ The proposition done by Otto Hartius and Jeronimus Coomans learned in the Lawes to the Lords the generall Estates of the vnited Nether-landish Prouinces My Lords AS wée lately had gotten Pasport of the Lordes of the Counsell of the Estates that wee might come into these vnited Prouinces for the dispatching of our busines and particuler matter for which we yeeld the said Lordes freendlie thanks and those which put to their helping hands for furthering of the same with offering the like to be done to be sorrowed for on our side for those which shall néede to goe from hence and the same beeing brought to the knowledge of his Highnes the Arch-duke of Austria Ernestus he hath thought good to send vs that we shoulde in his name salute you proffering you all good and to declare vnto you that the principall cause which moued him to send vs into these Countries was the singuler loue affection which he hath alwaies borne to the welfare and quietnes of the same And that he hopeth that God of his grace will sende such meanes that through him the same may be vnited againe in good peace and tranquility as it was before the beginning of these ciuill troubles towards the which and to vnderstande hys good will and meaning the better hee hath charged and commaunded vs to recite vnto your Worships the Letters which we deliuered the twelfth day of this Month of May. Hoping that your Worshippes shall thereby cleerely perceaue his will and meaning is to settle a sure peace and long during vnitie in these Countries and that the indwellers thereof may be pacified to their contentment And although the same in the yeare past prooued to bee in vaine and also when any entreaty of peace or accord is agreed vpon straightwayes through misconstruing therof they fall into new enmity and warres through whose occasion and dooing is not at this time to be ript vp and God graunt it be not hereafter neither So that if your Worships should be conceiued with any mistrust of suspicion or mooued with any misliking to deny such reasonable conference especially because that lately matters haue fallen out according to the will and pleasure of your Worshippes yet doth his Highnes hope that the same shall not rest or depend vpon any temporall and alterable prosperitie whereby this present occasion should cease or come to none effect For which all honest people and louers of the whole Lands peace and vnitie should desire and wish your worships to set the same before your eyes First that all worldly matters haue their howres times and seasons And like as there is a time of diffidence thereafter may well come and followe a season of confidence That all men together ought to trust vnto and to looke to the security of himselfe and his successors Secondly there neuer rose vp in any Country so great wars tumults or discorde either publiquely or perticularly but it was lastly ended and layde downe more with entreaties and conditions then with force of Armes For warre is of such vnhappie fruitfulnes that it bringeth out a beard to one and a foote to another Thirdly that it neuer went well or prospered with any Prince estate or Common wealth which refused or denyed a laudable proffer of entreaty of peace Touching which wee had rather haue the examples of our time and remembrance thereof to passe vntouched then by repeating or reauealing therof to remember the faults of them or others For if your Worships at this time should bee mooued or detracted with any kinde of diffidence or mistrust or thinking to refer the same till another time yet wee hope you will respect the time and season and howe the sam● is put to the arbitriment of your Worships and of other persons to say with his Highnes sprong out of the house of Austria whose vpright dealing vnderstanding vertue and honour well beseemeth such a Prince Whereby only may be vnderstood that seauen or eight one after another of the same house haue come to bée Emperours not by succession which is giuen aswell to euill as good Princes but by the voyces and free election of the Electors and Common-estates of the Empire commonly grounded on princely vertue and constancy in worde and deede of him that is elected Like as not long agoe appeared in the person of Maximilian the second Father to his Highnes who for his moderation and goodnes might haue been accounted for a speciall selected instrument of the Common wealth for reforming of discords and controuersies of religion to hold vp in ballance and to lay downe Such as the like of him hath not beene in times past or likelie to follow And following the footesteps of the same hath by vs sent the original letter to your Worships which wee doubt not is receiued by your Worships with such frendly and good affection as we do hold assuredly the same to be written without enemity We pray therfore and earnestly request you that your Worshippes will duely ponder the contents of the same with such an answere that his Highnes and all honest people may the sooner the better haue cause to conceaue some good hope of their long desired peace which they looke to haue through your worships wisdome and prouidence With humble petition that if your Worships repre-senting this honourable assembly or any one in perticuler should finde himselfe agreeued with any difficulty in any wordes points or vnderstanding of the aforesaid writing of hys Highnes we are ready at all times to explane the same if wee may stand you in any steede Also we hope that our interpreting thereof shall bee to your Worships contentment Which in effect is cōtayned in the force of the clauses of the said letter of Credent and standeth vpon our persons Friendly praying you to accept thereof in good part And note withall by the way with your Worships leaue ●●at by the confession and declaration of certaine persons which are taken and examined his Highnes is empreached that hee should haue pretended the death of Earle Morrice of Nassow through the meanes of the same persons or otherwise as likewise should haue been done to the Earle of Barlaymont Being an absurd and impudent delation because they neuer came or euer passed from his Highnes in the least respect or from his house or stock from which in times past neither such infamous deedes haue proceeded nor with Gods helpe shall proceede We are heere in the name of his Highnes to enquire the truth of the matter praying your Worshippes that the prisoners may be safely kept and sent with some Comissary to Antwerp or Brussels with writing to his Highnes that they at certaine time and place be sent back againe or els to be transported to Breda being vnder the iurisdiction of this gouernment to the said Earle of Barlaymont who for this purpose shall be accompained with a Comissary in the name of his Highnes and appeare there in person to examine them vpon such circumstances and perticulers as shal be aduised and found needefull to be examined of With due pasport to be giuen Or els if it please your Worships to aduise some other expedient meanes that the trueth may be discouered which surelie should redound to the vnburthening and excusing of his Highnes and your Worships shall thereby attaine great honour for your good iustice as in such case the like hath not beene thought of or of any other perticuler consideration which the prisoners should say and declare or els not publishing the same to the preiudice of any man or contemning any good meaning of his Highnes c. Propounded and done in the assembly of the Lords the generall Estates the sixteenth of May. Anno 1594. in Earles Hagh And subscribed by vs Otto Hartius and Ieronimus Coomans FINIS

and procurement of the aforesaid Earle of Fuentes and Stephen di Narra not long agoe Doctor Lopez Phisition to the Queenes Maiestie of England was promised fiftie thousand Crounes to poyson her Maiestie And that the same Doctor Lopez Emanuell Lewes Tinaco and Stephen Ferrera de Saua all companions of the aforesaid murtherish feate were taken in England iudged to death That through the practise and procurement of the said Fuentes and di Narra Emanuell Andraga tooke on him to poyson the French King with a Nosegay of flowers or Roses so tempred with pouder that the very smel therof should poisen him to death We omit the matter and what thereby will fal out of Michael Remichon otherwise naming himselfe Triuiere a Priest of Namour that was sent two monthes agoe frō Brussels disguised in the apparel of a souldier into the vnited Prouinces Who hath confessed that he and certaine other murtherers with fayre promises and money were sent foorth to murther the most excellent Prince Morrice borne Prince of Orrenge and Earle of Nassow Yea that his Princely Highnes yongest Sonne beeing onely tenne yeares olde and lying in the Vniuersitie of Leiden at Schoole bee not taken from thence as his eldest Brother the Earle of Buren against all right freedome and priuiledges of the Countrey and all lawes of Nations was violentlie carried out of Louen looking dailie to be murthered Like as the said Spanish counsel through their murtherish acts did kil the Prince of Orrenge his Highnes father Out of which his Highnes and euery one without any gainsaying may well vnderstand by what people and by what meanes the good Inhabitants of the Low Countries haue beene deceiued and howe little the Estates haue forgotten the same Being occasioned to say as much nowe of this aforesaid entreaty of peace of the Spaniards and to iudge with like affection thereof as of these matters rehearsed Yea now such horrible and shamefull matters do come to light against the Realmes of Fraunce England and these Countries as neuer the like was before So that the humors of the Spanish counsell are altered for any goodnes towards these Countries neither is there any appearance that the same should be furthered seeing that they are now most highly offended Or that these Countries whereunto they pretend such right should be better dealt withall then the Kingdoms of Fraunce England and Scotland whose subiects are in like authority and like dignitie For which causes the foresaide Estates in respect of their dutie and oath are bound and forced to take better heede and regard to the crafty practises of the aforesaid Counsell Especially the vnited Prouinces for such horrible pretended murther of the King of Fraunce and Queene of England with the apparence of warres since his Highnes comming into the Lowe-Countries begun and continued against the Crowne and estate of Fraunce And yet are not against it but that all former pretexts ceasing do take the motion so neere their harts as the good allience friendship and Communalty of the matter requireth And all is that a man might well beleeue that his Highnes hath a misliking of such murthering and diuilish actes yet notwithstanding greater heede is to be taken to the purpose of the ill will meaning and intent of the King of Spaine and Spanish counsell of whome his Highnes hath his Commission and authoritie who also at all times may reuoke the same and put another in his place against which no man can assure him with any condition Whereby the aforesaid generall Estates cannot perceiue that they should reape any fruite or profit by the aforesaid intreatie of peace either within the said vnited Prouinces or without the same with the Queenes Maiestie of England with whom in such matters and others they stand fast in confedracy nor yet with the French King and other Potentates Princes and Common wealths of these Countries the whole Christian cause their friends and alliances But do meane to haue their refuge vnto almightie God at whose mightie hand and goodnes they looke for a laudable issue of their righteous cause as they haue alwaies pondered and yet do consider howe alterable worldly matters are expecting not onely the welfare of the vnited Prouinces but also of the Neitherlandish Prouinces to the furthering of his glory and holy word Thus ended and resolued in the assembly of the Lordes Estates generall in Earles Hagh the 27. of May. Anno. 1594. Ernestus by the grace of God Archduke of Austria c. Knight of the Order Lieutenant Gouernour and Generall Captaine HOnourable Noble Worshipfull c. The inward natural loue and affection which we beare to the rest and welfare of the Lowe Countries and the misliking which we haue long had of discord and miserie wherein they are is the principall cause that hath mooued vs to take vpon vs the gouernment thereof with stedfast hope that almightie God would giue vs his grace that we might release you frō these heauy and ciuill warres which now haue lasted so long to the great griefe oppression and hinderance of the said Countries and of all Christendome For if men will consider in what estate and prosperitie they were in times past when they were in peace and vnitie vnder due obedience of the house of Burgundy and Austria and the good rules and orders kept the same time in points of iustice pollicy and other orders of wars whereby the aforesaid Countryes were increased and renowned throughout all Kingdomes and Countries Also the great riches which was so aboundant there by meanes of the dealings aliences confederacies nauigation and Traffick which they had to Portingall Spaine and India we are sure that there is no man of vnderstanding that is not sorry with his whole hart for so great and pittifull alteration of the said Countries in the time of sixe and twentie yeares or vpwadrs with the manifold oppressions exactions and greeuances which the poore common people in that time haue suffered and in sundry places therof yet presently is suffered And that do also wish that with the first some good end and tollerable meanes might be wrought to bring the said Countries into their former estates common tranquillity due obedience and agreement Wherevnto also wee do imploy all our thoughts and with the same pretence and meaning are come hether leauing the company of the Emperours Maiestie our Soueraigne Lorde and Brother and others our Bretheren and Kinsfolkes our natiue Countrie and the gouernment of so many Kingdomes and Countries committed vnto vs with departing from other things not néedful heere to be repeated to the end we might find you ready to come to our good meaning and intent And although we doubt not but that all the same is well knowne to your people as well by common report as otherwise and by them accepted as wee hartily desire the safety rest and welfare of you and those which come after you yet notwithstanding wee haue thought it necessary and conuenient to let your