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A08591	Sir Thomas Ouerbury his obseruations in his trauailes vpon the state of the Xvii. Prouinces as they stood anno Dom. 1609 The treatie of peace being then on foote.	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.	1626 (1626)	STC 18903; ESTC S113538	13,386	32

old And all those Commodities that those Northerne Countries abound with and these Southerne stand in need of they likewise conuey thither which was the auncient Trade of the Easterlings And this they doe hauing little to export of their owne by buying of their Neighbour-Countries the former and selling them againe what they bring backe at their owne prises and so consequently liue vpon the idlenesse of others And to this purpose their Scituation serues fitly for Riuers of the Rhene the Maze and Skeld end all in their Dominions and the Baltike Sea lies not farre from them All which affoord them whateuer the great Continent of Germany Russia and Poland yeelds then they againe lying betweene Germany and the Sea doe furnish it backe with all Commodities forraigne To remember some pieces of their Discipline as patternes of the rest The Watches at night are neuer all of one Nation so that they can hardly concurre to giue vp any one Towne The Commissaries are no where so strict vpon Musters and where he findes a Company thither hee reduceth them so that when an Armie marcheth the List and the Poll are neuer farre disagreeing Their Army is euer well Clothed well Armed and had neuer yet occasion to mutinie for Pay or Victualls The Souldiers commit no where fewer Insolencies vpon the Burgers fewer Robberies vpon the Countrie nor the Officers fewer deceipts vpon the Souldiers And lastly they prouide well that their Generall shall haue small meanes to inuade their liberties For first their Army is composed of many Nations which haue their seuerall Commanders and the Commands are disposed by the States themselues not by the Generall And secondly he hath neuer an implicit Commission left to discretion but by reason their Countrie hath no great bounds receiues daily Commands what to doe Their Territory containes sixe entire Prouinces Holland Zealand Virick Groninghen Oueriscell and Ariezland besides three parts of Gelderland and certaine Townes in Brabant and Flanders the ground of which is for the most part fruitfull the Townes no where so equally beautifull strong and rich which equality growes by reason that they appropriate some one Staple Commodity to euery Town of note only Amsterdam not only passeth them all but euen Siuill Lisbone or any other Mart Towne in Christendome and to it is appropriated the trade of the East Indies where they maintaine commonly forty Ships besides which there goe twice a yeare from it and the adioyning Townes a great Fleete to the Baltique Sea Vpon the fall of Antwerp that rose rather then Middleborough though it stand at the same Riuers mouth and is their second Mart towne to which is appropriated our English Cloth Concerning the people they are neither much deuout nor much wicked giuen all to drinke and eminently to no other vice hard in bargaining but Iust surly and respectlesse as in all Democracies thirstie industrious and cleanly dishartened vpon the least ill successe and insolent vpon good Inuentiue in Manufactures cunning in Traffique and generally for matter of Action that naturall slownesse of theirs sutes better by reason of the aduisednesse and perseuerance it brings with it then the rashnesse and changeablenesse of the French and Florentine wits and the equality of spirits which is among them and the Swissers renders them so fit for a Democracie which kinde of Gouernment Nations of more stable wittes being once come to a Consistent greatnesse haue seldome long endured Obseruations vpon the State of the Arch-Dukes Countrie 1609. By Sir THO. OVERBVRY AS soone as I entred into the Arch-Dukes Countrie which begins after Lillow presently I beheld workes of a Prouince and those of a Prouince distressed with Warre the people heartlesse and rather repining against their Gouernours then reuengefull against the Enemies the brauery of that Gentrie which was left and the Industry of the Merchant quite decayed the Husbandman labouring only to liue without desire to be rich to anothers vse the Townes whatsoeuer concerned not the strength of them ruinous And to conclude the people here growing poore with lesse taxes then they flourish with on the States side This Warre hath kept the King of Spaine busie euer since it began which some 38. yeares agoe and spending all the Money that the Indies and all the Men that Spaine and Italy could affoord hath withdrawne him from perseuering in any other Enterprise Neither could he giue ouer this without forgoing the meanes to vndertake any thing hereafter vpon France or England and consequently the hope of the Westerne Monarchy For without that handle the Mynes of Peru had done little hurt in these parts in comparison of what they haue The cause of the expensefulnes of it is the remotenesse of those Prouinces from Spaine by reason of which euery Souldier of Spain or Italy before he can arriue there costs the King an hundred Crownes and not aboue one of ten that arriues prooues good besides by reason of the distance a great part of the Money is drunke vp betwixt the Officers that conuey it and pay it The cause of the continuance of it is not only the strength of the Enemy but partly by reason that the Commanders themselues are content the War shall last so to maintaine and render themselues necessaries and partly because the people of those Countries are not so eager to haue the other reduced as willing to be in the like state themselues The vsuall Reuenew of those Prouinces which the Arch-Duke hath amounts to 1200000. Crownes a yeare besides which there come from Spaine euery Moneth to maintaine the War 150000. Crownes It was at the first 300000. Crownes a moneth but it fell by fifties to this at the time when the Treaty began Flanders payes more toward the warre then all the rest as Holland doth with the States There is no Spaniard of the Counsell of State nor Gouernour of any Prouince but of the Counsell of Warre which is only actiue There they only are and haue in their hands all the strong Townes Castles of those Prouinces of which the Gouernours haue but only the Title The Nations of which their Armie consists are chiefly Spaniards Italians emulous one of another there as on the other side the French and English and of the Country chiefly Burgundians and Wallons The Popes Letters and Spinola's inclination keepe the Italians there almost in equality of Command with the Spaniard himselfe The Gouernors for the King of Spaine there successiuely haue bin the D. of Alva Don Lewis de Requiesens Don Iohn d'Austria the Prince of Parma the Arch-Duke Ernestus the Cardinall Andrew of Austrich and the Cardinall Albert till he maried the Infanta Where the Dominion of the Ach-Duke and the States part there also changeth the nature of the Country that is about Antwerp For all below being flat and betwixt Medow and Marsh thence it begins to rise and become Champion and consequently the people are more quicke and spiritfull as the Brabanter Flemming and Wallon The

taxes vnsupportable yet doe they little more then serue for necessary publike vses For the King of Spains greatnes Neighbourhood forceth the King there to liue continually vpon his Guard and the treasure which the Spaniard receiues from his Indies constraines him to raise his Reuenew thus by Taxes so to be able in some proportion to beare vp against him for feare else he should be bought out of all his Confederates and seruants For the Relation of this State to others It is first to be considered that this part of Christendome is ballanced betwixt the three Kings of Spaine France and England as the other part betwixt the Russian the Kings of Poland Sweden and Denmarke For as for Germany which if it were entirely subiect to one Monarchy would be terrible to all the rest so being deuided betwixt so many Princes and those of so equall power it serues only to ballance it selfe and entertaine easie Warre with the Turke while the Persian with-holds him in a greater And euery one of those first three hath his particular strength and his particular weakenesse Spaine hath the aduantage of both the rest in Treasure but is defectiue in Men his Dominions are scattered and the conueyance of his Treasure from the Indies lyes obnoxious to the power of any Nation that is stronger by Sea France abounds with Men lyes close together and hath Money sufficiently England beeing an Iland is hard to be Inuaded abounds with Men but wants Money to imploy them For their particular weaknesse Spaine is to be kept busie in the Low-Countries France is to bee afflicted with Protestants and England in Ireland England is not able to subsist against any of the other hand to hand but ioyned with the Lowe-Countries it can giue Lawe to both by Sea and ioyned with either of them two it is able to oppresse the third as Henry the Eight did Now the only entire body in Christendome that makes head against the Spanish Monarchy is France and therefore they say in France that the day of the ruine of France is the Eue of the ruine of England And thereupon England hath euer since the Spanish greatnesse enclined rather to maintaine France rather then to ruine it as when King Francis was taken prisoner the King of England lent Money towards the payment of his Ransome And the late Queene when the Leagers after the Duke of Guise his death had a designe to Cantonize France though offered a part would not consent So then this reason of State of mutuall preseruation conioyning them England may be accounted a sure Confederate of France and Holland by reason it partly subsists by it the Protestant Princes of Germany because they haue Countenance from it against the house of Austria the Protestant Swissers for Religion and Money the Venetians for protection against the Spaniard in Italy So that all their friends are either Protestants or enclyning and whosoeuer is extreme Catholike is their enemie and Factors for the Spanish Monarchy as the Pope the Cardinalls for the most part and totally the Iesuites the Catholike Princes of Germany and the Catholicks of England and Ireland For the Iesuites which are the Ecclesiasticall strength of Christendome France notwithstanding the many late Obligations hath cause to despaire of them for they intending as one Pope so one King to suppresse the Protestants and for the better support of Christendome against the Turke and seeing Spaine the likelier to bring this to passe they follow the neerer probability of effecting their end No addition could make France so dangerous to vs as that of our Lowe-Countries for so it were worse then if the Spaniard himselfe had them entirely As for their hopes of regaining Italie it concernes the Spaniard immediatly rather then vs. Concerning the state of the Protestants in France during Peace they are protected by their Edict For their two Agents at Court defend the Generall from wrong and their Chambres-impartyes euery particular person And if troubles should arise some scattered particulars might be in danger but the maine body is safe safe to defend themselues though all France ioyne against them and if it breake out into Factions the safest because they are both ready and vnited The particulars of their strength are first their Townes of surety two of which command the Riuer of Loyre Secondly their Scituation the greatest part of them lying neere together as Poictou Zanningtonge High Gascoigne Languedoc and Daulphin neere the Sea so consequently fit to receiue succours from abroad and remote from Paris so that the qualitie of an Armie is much wasted before it can approach them The third is the sufficiency of their present Gouernours Bulloigne and Desdeguiers and other second Commanders And for the Princes of the Blood whom the rest may in shew without emulation obey when they come once to open action those which want a party will quickly seeke them The last is the ayde they are sure of from forraine Princes For whosoeuer are friends to France in generall are more particularly their friends And besides the Protestant partie being growne stronger of late as the Low-Countries and more vnited as England and Scotland part of that strength reflects vpon them and euen the King of Spaine himselfe which is Enemie to France in generall would rather giue them succour then see them vtterly extirpated And yet no Forraine Prince can euer make further vse of them then to disturbe France not to inuade it himselfe For as soone as they get an Edict with better Conditions they turne head against him that now succoured them as they did against vs at New-haven Concerning the proportion of their number they are not aboue the seuenteene or eighteenth part of the people but of the Gentlemen there are 6000. of the Religion but since the Peace they haue increased in people as principally in Paris Normandy and Daulphin but lost in the Gentrie which losse commeth to passe by reason that the King when he findes any Gent. that will but hearken tempts him with preferment and those he findes vtterly obstinate suppresseth And by such meanes hee hath done them more harme in Peace then both his Predecessors in Warre For in all their assemblies hee corrupts some of their Ministers to betray their Counsell in hand and of the 100 6000. Crowns a yeare which he paies the Protestants to entertaine their Ministers and pay their Garrisons hee hath gotten the bestowing of 16000. of them vpon what Gentleman of the Religion he pleaseth when by that meanes he moderates if not gaines and besides they were wont to impose vpon him their two Deputies which are to stay at Court but now he makes them propose sixe out of which he chuseth the two and by that obligeth those yet notwithstanding all this in some occasions hee makes good vse of them too For as towards England he placeth none in any place of strength but firme Catholikes so towards Spaine and Sauoy he often giues charge to