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A05067	A treatise against the proclamation published by the King of Spayne, by which he proscribed the late Prince of Orange wherby shall appeare the sclaunders and falce accusations conteyned in the sayd proscription, which is annexed to the ende of this treatise. Presented to My Lords the Estates generall in the Low Countries. Together with the sayd proclamation or proscription. Printed in French and all other languages.; Apologia. English	Loyseleur, Pierre, ca. 1530-1590.; Languet, Hubert, 1518-1581.; William I, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584.	1584 (1584)	STC 15208; ESTC S106849	105,192	136

his Lord the Countie or Earldome of Charollois and yet for all that he ceasseth not to make warr against the crowne of Fraunce yea he neuer leaueth of continuallie to practise and deuise somewhat against the same He taketh this as a sure foundation or rule that being a soueraigne gouernor in some other place it is lawfull for him to reuenge him selfe of the wrong which he pretended was done vnto him by the late French King Henrie of most noble memorie When he made warre against the Pope Caraffa because as a vassall he helde of him the kingdomes of Sicilia and Naples he published his defence by which he mainteined that he was absolued from his othe because that the Pope kept not him selfe within the termes or pointes that the Lord oweth to his vassall according to the feodall lawes which are mutuall and respect as well the one as the other Now Sir there is nothing so naturall or kindlie as that euerie one should in his owne cause receaue the verie selfesame rule and order that he would haue an other man to receaue or allow of Wherefore he should not thinke it straunge that I being so maine wayes reuiled iniuried by him and not being his subiect that I I say do ayde my selfe with the meanes that God hath giuen me and with which he hath bin willing to helpe him selfe against his Lordes who haue not offended him in anie thing whats●euer that draweth nigh to the wrong which I haue suffered at his hande yea he should not thinke it straunge that I vse against him that reprochefull note hy which he assayeth to marke as it were in the forehead both me and my race And because my Lords the Estates who haue more nighly knowen the trueth of all that is contained in this my defence and haue approued the same haue yeelded vnto me sufficient testimonie inough touching my life past I do most humblie also beseeche your Maiestie Sir in approuing this same myne aunswere to beleeue that I am not either a traytour or wicked person but that I am thankes be to God for it a noble man of a verie good and most auncient house yea a good man and true in euerie thing that I promise not vnthankeful nor vnfaithfull nor hauing committed anie thing whereby a Lord or Knight of my state coūtenaunce may receaue anie reproche or shame most humblie beseeching you to holde and account me in the number of your most humble seruauntes And thus hauing most humblie submitted my selfe vnto your Maiestie I will pray God Sir to giue it together with perfect health a most blessed and most long life At Delft in Holland the iiij day of Februarie 1581. Your Maiesties most humble and obedient seruaunt WILLIAM of NASSAV ¶ A declaration made by my Lord the Prince of Orange to my Lords the Estates General of the lowe Countries MY Lordes ye haue heretofore seene a certaine sentence in the forme of a Proscription which was sent by the King of Spaine and afterwards published by the appointment and order of the Prince of Parma and howe by the meanes thereof myne enemies haue against all right and reason attempted grieuously to touche and to taint myne honor and to cause my former actions to be thought euil and wicked wherin I haue bin very willing and desirous to take the aduice and counsell of sundrie notable personages and men of great name and calling yea of the principall counselers and wyse men of this countrey But by reason of the qualitie and forme of the said Proscription and the haynous and greeuous crimes wherewith I am charged although in deede wrongfully I haue hitherto stayed notwithstāding I haue bin aduised and counselled by sundrie my frendes that I cannot otherwise defende myne honour but to shewe by publike writing howe vniustly I haue bin accused and charged with many faultes and also howe I haue bin openly iniuried and maliciously slaundered According to which aduice and counsell my Lords seeing that in this worlde I acknowledge you only for my superiors I offer vnto you this my defence written against the reprehensions of myne aduersaries by which I hope that I haue not only discouered all their deceits slaunders but also lawfully iustified all my actions past And because that their principall marke and purpose is to seeke out all the meanes they can to take away my life or els to ca●se me to be banished out of these countries or at the least to diminishe the authoritie which it hath pleased you to giue mee as if obtayning that thing once all should fall out as they would wishe it on the other side because they slaunder me that by vnlawful meanes I keepe and holde my authoritie I beseech you my Lords to beleeue that albeit I be content to liue amongst you so long as it shall please God and to continue towardes you my faithful seruice yet notwithstāding that myne owne life which I haue dedicated to your seruice and my presence in the middest of you are not so deare vnto me but that I can most willingly abandon and forgo my lyfe or els withdrawe my selfe out of the countrey when you shall thinke or know that either the one or the other may any māner of way serue your turne to purchase vnto you a more assured libertie And as cōcerning the authoritie which it hath pleased you to giue me you knowe my Lords howe many times I haue besought you to content your selues with my seruice and to vnburden me thereof if you should thinke that it would stande well with the good estate of your affaires which thing euen as yet I do demaunde of you offering notwithstanding as I haue alwayes done in all that wherein it hath pleased you to commaunde me stil to continue to employe my selfe in the seruice of the coūtrey in regard of which I esteme nothing of all that is in the worlde as I doo more largely declare the same vnto you in this my defence Which if you shal iudge it conuenient I beseeche you to thinke it good and to take care that it may be brought to light and published to the ende that not only you my Lords but also the whole worlde may iudge of the equitie of my cause and of the vniust dealing of myne aduersaries Presented by my Lord the Prince of Orange to my Lords the Deputies of the Estates generall and of the Prouinces vnited togither being assembled in the towne of DELFT the xiij of December 1580. Vnderneath was written II. HOFFLIN being present The aunswere of my Lordes the Estates generall made to the former declaration THE Estates generall hauing not many dayes since seene and read a certaine Proscription published by the enemies against your Excellencies person by which they charge the same with hainous crimes indeuouring to make it odious as though by vnlawfull meanes and indirect wayes it had vsurped the place and degree wherein it is sett and established and to deliuer your saide

of all these coūtreis then in that proude ambitious profane heathnishe and withall foolishe setting vp of his owne Image in the middest of the Cittadell at Antwerpe going impudently vpon the bellies of the Noble men of the Estates and of all the people of this countrey Was not this thinke you a notable monument of his tyrannie and a testimonie of his pride What shall I neede to speake of his seruauntes and of all that vermin that came out of Spaine who spake of vs not as it were of Villacos as they vse to say or villaines but euen as it were of brute beastes You my Lordes haue euen as yet your eares altogether beaten with such matters and you are able to set out their gestures their proceedinges their wordes full of boldnesse of pride and of contempt also their vnsupportable actes and howe when they were within your townes with what pride and insolencie they did commaunde you Wherefore if that be true which wise men report that for the vnderstanding of the naturall disposition of a Lorde or Noble man men must examine him by his friendes and familiars and for the knowledge of a maister men must sift his seruauntes you may my Lordes by the vertues of the Duke of Alua his masters principall officer and the executor of all his counsels easely iudge what good affection and wil the King beareth you who sent him to you to torment you and also ye may knowe what yee ought to looke for vnlesse yee prouide for it in time as in deede yee ought which thing also all the good people of this lande looke for at your handes I will speake nothing of the rauishings raunsomes and exactions committed by the Spaniardes I wil onely staie my self vpon the principall point Yee could neuer yet tell howe to obtaine a free assemblie The assemblie of the Estates general euer refused of the Estates generall your enemie verie wel knowing that to hinder the calling together meeting of them was in deede to cut of by the foote the tree of your priuiledges and vtterly to drie vp the spring of your libertie For to what ende serueth it the people to haue priuiledges in faire parchement kept vp in a cofer if by the meane of the Estates those priuiledges be not mainteined and so men feele the effectes thereof And in deede long time before the King him selfe had receaued a dispensation from the Pope The King taketh a dispensation from the Pope for his othe made at his gladsome entraunce for the othe which he had made vnto you to keepe your priuiledges Wherein he did not onely violate and break his faith but also did ouer easely yea verie hurtfully beleeue foolishe counsellours whereby he to to manifestly declared howe great his owne wisedome was For might he not verie well vnderstand that counting him self free from the othe which he had made to you you also were freed and quitt from your othe towards him In so much that he minding to be vnburdened of his othe towardes you you ought not vnto him any obedience and subiection That I may at this time say nothing but leaue it vnto others more exercised in such matters than I to handle this question whether the Pope may iustlie vaunt that he hath anie such power and authoritie yea or no and whether anie thing in the world shall remaine certaine and sure if othes so solemnely made may vnder such a pretext and cloake be violated and broken At the same time mariages made out of the countrey were wholy forbidden and that whiche was neuer practised was prohibited to wit that youth might not go out of the countrey to studie in any other schoole of the worlde but in that at Rome and condemning by that meanes all other schooles whiche is an ouer great arrogancie they did condemne so vnwarie they were euen those of the Iesuites The scholes of all the vvorld forbiddē saue that of Rome only without thinking anie whit of them and so whiche is in deede the worst they opened a waye to verie barbarousnes For as the meetinges together of all maneer of learned men hath brought forth vnto vs in this Countrey sundrie persons well qualified who haue greatly innobled these Prouinces so this interdiction and forbidding could not but in processe of time cause a more than Turkishe ignoraunce that I maye saye nothing of this that by that meanes they would make this Countrey subiect The publishing of the councell of Trent to such cōditions as neuer were heard of About the same time the Councell of Trente was published which Councell hath seemed euen to the Frenchmen them selues so vniust that euen vnto this daye it could not as yet be published in the kingdome of Fraunce A little while before this time there was egerlie pursued and at the last obteyned the installing of the newe Bishoppes whiche had bin so long tyme before debated Bishoppes nevvly made by reason of the inconueniences which all wise people and louers of the Countrey and haters of the tourmenting of mens consciences did foresee would insue therevppon which thing also I my selfe write euen vnto the King that I may saye nothing of the warninges that I gaue to the Dutchesse sometime in open counsell and oftentimes els where all these their purposes tending to no other ende but to set vpp the cruell Inquisition of Spaine and to establishe the sayde Bishoppes that they might serue in steede of Inquisitours burners of mens bodies and tyrauntes ouer their consciences It is true that at this daye they denie that euer they ment to bring in this cursed Inquisition but if I bring forth vnto them a man worthie of creditt who was at that tyme a Pensioner of Franck and who had the racke twise shewed him to be tormented vppon it that he might confesse who they were of the Lordes of the saide Franck which were purposed to refuse the Inquisition will they saie that he is a forged witnesse who yet notwithstanding is such a one as they are not able to obiect any thing against him And beside if need were I could finde inough other plaine most manifest proofes There followed the most rigorous placardes licences Placards licences renevved with expresse cōmaundement to abate nothing of the old rigor and verily the bul graūted by the Pope for the erection of the saide Bishoppes doeth plainlie carie with it this much that euery Bishopp might giue in his owne Cathedral church two prebends that euery one of the Canons should be boud to assist him in the matter of the Inquisition and that particularlie two amongest them should actually and in deede be Inquisitours And as Princes or tyrauntes which possesse new Kingdomes or Lordshippes do laye vppon them a tribute in signe of their victorie so the Duke of Alua in testimonie of his conquest for this was his common speache to witte that these countreis apperteyned to the King not in title or by right or