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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

August 3. Numb 38. ADVICE GIVEN VNTO THE STATES OF of the Low-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 LONDON Printed by B. A. and T. F. for Nathaniel Butter and Nicholas Bourne 1632. SIRS THere is nothing that makes men more commendable before the face of Heauen and Earth in comparison of true fidelity towards God and their Prince It is a Primitive vertue which is borne with vs and ought not to die but with vs without prejudice or wrong to any forraine Nations it may bee averr'd with preeminence of honour that there is not any place or Nation where the Divine worship is more religiously observed the Churches better maintayned and served the Cleargy more exemplary the Nobility more pious the people more devout and observant in religious duties than in those Provinces of the Low-countries which are subject and obedient to his Majesty M●… tru●… Their Temples are in reputation and in effect to be numbred and esteemed amongst the fairest and most adorned and beautified of all Christendome and the Doctrine of their Prelates in singular esteeme with the Church of Rome As concerning the fidelity due unto their Prince N●… do●… the same is immoveable and constant hath beene so acknowledged and tryed by the continuance and prosecution of many succeeding yeares yea such that maugre all the power devices and stratagems of the enemie and discontented braines the same will still subsist in integrity and true obedience Wee are under a King the best that ever bore Crowne in many ages the most pious and best affectioned unto his sul stitutes and such as are in authority under him At this day when Piety Religion are so lively opposed set upon in his Person and States by impiety and heresie when God and our Prince are both assaulted at once whi●e every man is now putting to his helping hand in the Ship untill the tempest be overpast you will not I assure my selfe wonder if among a multitude and infinite number of good men you shall find one wicked faithlesse servant who turnes his backe to his Master and kissing him betrayes him wonder not I say if among so many faithfull ones you meet with one who under pretence of a Patriot and faithfull supporter of the Countryes opens a way to easement Our enemies are so much the more dangerous by how much more they doe flatter vs. And as the promise of liberty of conscience is nothing else but an Introduction of heresie So is the other of publike liberty tendered by the hand of a disloyall one nothing else but a deceitfull bayte to replunge our Provinces into the fore-passed calamities out of which the mercy of the Omnipotent hath delivered and brought vs forth Our sweetnesse GOD bee blessed is not mixed with any bitternesse our Sacrifices are not intertu●bed or troubled our lives passe along in tranquility and under the manifold blessings of Heaven under the example and government of a Princesse most devout and debonayre and hope and expectation of a young Prince of Royall race What is there now wanting to the height of our happinesse but the accomplishment of a Peace which cannot be with-held from us if wee make but some tryall and proofe worthy of our zeale and good will We can doe much if wee have but the will onely let us have this care that the want of courage turne not to our reproach shame since that our domesticke enemies are discryed brought to light those without shal be inferiour to us Our domesticke enemies are such who under colour and pretence of raysing up the publike liberty labour and endeavour to destroy it by inovation and bury the same in their owne ambitious engrossing And who having no other Religion but that of their ambition and of their owne interest doe neverthelesse make profession of being very good Catholickes The worst cause that ever was in the world wanted not some pretence or other There is nothing so like unto an Angell of light as a Daemon or Devill nothing doth so counterfeyte and appeare like unto the truth as falshood a lye You have my Lords seene the ridiculous pretences of Count Henry de Bergh in those Letters which hee hath sent to her highnesse to the States of the Countrey and the declaration which he made to sollicite the fidelity of soldiers and men of honour You have seene I say his foundation without foundation upon the which he grounds his perverse intentions But the dislike and distast which you have taken against his proceedings hath beene such and your loyalty and fidelity so commendable that even to convince his felony you have with an extraordinary affection love to the good of the Countrey contributed unto the Prince farre greater ayde and helpe than formerly you had done Moreover it is necessary that besides you the world be satisfied which oftentimes doth judge by the outward appearance not knowing the truth of things and that the same may see the truth discovered lest men be abused by the cunning slights and pretences where withall he hides the grossenesse and basenesse of his treason He begins his letter written to her highnesse with insupportable and boldnesse without measure presenting most traytour-like bread in one hand and a flinty stone in the other He exposeth his wicked designes with all submission Never I am sure was there any rebellion declared with more shamelesnesse and impudency After this his fayned Ceremony and complement he complaineth that the Souldiers were withdrawne from his government to the end that they might make him be the cause of their destruction It is lawfull for a man to make his complaint but not perfidious That which he sayes is not truth and the Letters of the Marquise De Sancte Croes doe testifie as much for he required no men from him but onely beacuse he judged that the enemy would attempt nothing on that side leaving all to his owne choise and desiring him to see the Bridge well guarded and provided before Venlo to suffer the troupes to passe over safely which should be seat to relieve the same And put the case that which he affirmeth were true if hee had beene well minded and his intention good he ought to have defended her government to the last man and have kept himselfe in the City of Gelder which is a strong place as he had promised by Letters to her highnesse and allowing that Venlo was able to be

good of the Countries He is a stranger revengefull full of ill will and malice who intends and labours to make a private discontent grudge a publike cause he stomacks the Marquise De Leganes who hath beene indeed raysed in these Countries to be a Patriot him he accuseth imprudently and unadvisedly of such businesse which he was never acquainted withall the said Marquise at that time not being interessed in the matter If hee thinke himselfe wronged in any thing it is lawfull for him to right himselfe by an ordinary course But not to commit such a loosenesse and to play the little Tyrant What have these Countries to doe with his particular quarels heart-burning If his courage had had edges sharpe enough and wings swift enough for honour and that he thought himselfe so grievously offended as he speakes of as oftentimes as hee hath had occasion to see the Ma●quise Nay more as often as hee hath seene him who hath hindered him from demanding him satisfaction As for the Spanish Nation which he complaines doe wish his death and that they shot at his Picture which hangs neere the Steenport he hath exceeding great wrong for if it be true that the Spaniards be such as hee speaketh of they had all of them long since beene made away and he who for the present serves for Counsellor hath oftentimes inculcated the meanes to destroy them and said that therein hee went in the Kings service But his Oracles sounded alwayes so little profitable to the King that no trust might be given to his perswasions It hath proved better to goe a milder way to worke and to strive to redresse whatsoever was amisse by gifts and employments than to practise any such extremitie which the world would never have judged worthy to bee executed if the proofe had not beene drawne as now it is by his owne declaration It is very pretty that he complaines of the Spanish because they shot at his Picture his spyes would have much a doe to bring sufficient witnesse for the proofe thereof although to be true plaine he that betrayes his Prince deserves othergesse punishment than he that onely exerciseth his treason against his picture It was he the felon who so lately on the 27. of Iune was so ras● and impudent as might lye in the City of Bruxels by the patricidious hands of his wicked adhaerents caused attempt to bee made against the sacred Image of the King his Lord and good Master by that meanes to endeavour to begin by that execrable fact the first exployts of his rebellion But the contrary of which they intended is happened and the wicked projects of these imps prevayled not for two dayes after the States of Braband not being able any longer to endure the indignity of this abomination of their owne proper motion came personally in publike audience to the great edification of all that were present and presented themselves before the Princesse and there renewed solemnely the Oath of fidelity and allegeance to the King their Prince and Naturall Lord to her Highnesse declaring that they were ready to take the same Oath to the Prince of Spaine As for those Offices and charges which he sayes are not conferred upon any bat Spaniards I must here needs repeat that hee himselfe at their conclusion had the principall of all but hee hath very ill discharged himselfe and I must say that his ingratitude hath neyther bounds nor limits Wicked servant as he is he never served but by interest and never Prince was more liberall to any man than our Princesse haue beene to him Never did hee march forth with the Armies but in the upshot he obtayned some summes of moneys for his particular and ever received more than any Spaniard or Lord of the Countrey besides those secret gratuities and benefites which hee obtayned under hand whereof hee never made any account but applyed them to his private gaine profit He knowes well enough how punctually he caused all reareges to be payd him downe before ever he would set one foote on the way to the Palatinate In a word for that estate substance which now he hath he is more obliged than any man in the world for it and to that King against whom hee now takes up Armes From a meane Soldier hee was made a Captaine of Horse afterward Master of the Campe hee was trusted with the City of Oldenzel afterward with Groll and at last hee had the Government of the Province of Geldres which than was one of the best and fairest Province of all the Countries hee hath also had the generall Government of the Cavallery and the Generalship of the Artillery he hath commanded the whole Army and alwayes with retention of the wages of all places and charge which formerly he exercised to be short In the yeare 1629. he was by her Highnesse in the name of the King made Generall Master of the Campe of the whole Army of his Majesty Whereunto could his ambition aspire higher unlesse it were to Tyrannie which he now affects at this present Our enemies themselves with whom he hath held correspondency and wrought his mischievous practises a long time have beene astonished many times that so many recompences should prodigally bee lavished and wasted upon one who was so vndeseruing and demeriting Last of all which is more when the Earle of Stryrum entred into Gueldres with the Enemies troupes seeing the County of Montfort which is worth more in reueneus than twentie thousand Florins and which the King had given to Count Henry de Bergh with many other Townes and villages of the Country of Stefens wert hee could not withhold nor abstaine from saying that hee marvailed much how the King could find in his heart to bestow so much vpon one of a contrary party Adding withall that if he should haue serued the States of Holland an hundred yeares hee would not haue beene requited with such an honourable reward As for his Expression That he invites vs to accept of one of his passions and to take another course vnder the gouernment of her Highnesse Wee thanke him for his good will and to thanke God that hee hath beene pleased to discover vnto vs and Enemie who could so closely and covertly hatch and plot our ruine and destruction if he had but so much ayde and conduct as hee is full of euill motions and intentions Our wise Princesse hath no need of such a Tutor to dissipate and scatter abroad the Patrimony of the King her Nephew And desolate and ruinate a Country so well gouerned which for many yeares together hath cost his Maiestie all the ri●hes of Spaine and the Indyes and the blood of so many thousand Spaniards spilt for the safety and preservation of the same and for the Catholick Faith and Religion There remaines yet his Declaration which is nothing else but a manifestation of his discontent and a profer of entertainment vnto those that will bee his followers It is

very well knowne that he bath moneyes and good store of Coine if hee had no more but what hee hath gotten by the Passeports which hee continually sold without ceasing whilest the licencyes were shut and the traffick and commerce prohibited and interdicted with the rebellious Provinces It is also well known that he hath receiued many gifts presents from Princes and those people that were neare adioyning neighbours vnto his Government No these things wee are no more ignorant of than wee are of the monies which hee still hath in his hands for which pence of siluer hee treacherously sold his Maister but his insatiable couetousnesse would neuer suffer him to vse his riches liberally towards those which were honest and good men There is not one soldier that knowes him who doth not also know the small account which he makes of them and who doth not remember how euilly he hath alwaies intreated them in his goverment cutting off from them the commodities which in other places the Country people did not deny them to extort most exo●bitant contributions for his owne particular so that certainly you may beleeue my Lords that the soldiers will giue no more credency to his declaration than your honours haue done to his letters You haue witnessed the condemnation which you haue made your good zeale toward Religion your sincere affection to the Princesse and your duties in the behalfe of the Countryes Religion shall euer bee obliged vnto you the King shall euer acknowledge your loyaltye and accept of your fidelity the Princesse doth highly esteeme and commend yea reioyce in your affection towards her shee embraceth them and gives you hearty thankes And the Countryes shall see their owne preservation by your meane● Doe so much more for the publick good that henceforward all those that audaciously and presumptuously shall dare to take part and adioyne themselues to this new Tyrant or protect his cause so vniust and detestable may bee reputed and accounted as fauourers and complotters of his Rebellion As for the rest that concernes the plots practices and diuises of our Enemies remember the cost and charges of the time past that all the Inventions of liberty of conscience which now he pretends haue not beene invented for any other end but meerely to ruine the beautifull foundation of our Religion to establish an hundred other new ones and to corrupt the tendernesse of our Children by the pernicious examples and introduction of heresie These are the wayes cunning windings which our enemies goe and walke in These are the enchanted kindnesses which they present unto us Should we have a heart to receive such impoysoned gifts which are profered us by the hand of an enemy Who should then furnish and provide us with Prelates and Priests and persons necessary for our Ceremonies for the comfort and consolation of our Soules the ease and peace of our Consciences When our Prelates shall be deceased whence should wee have new ones bred amongst us What Aposto●icall Bulles would authorize them Who would set them in possession when our enemies hold this for a maxime and foundation not to acknowledge the Romish Church And last of all what assured treaty and contract could we make with our victorious enemies and their cautions which at this day doe trouble whole Europe and leave not one corner of the World where the Catholickes are not persecuted eyther by effect or apprehension in the expectation of the progresse of Armes and by the fu●our of the Heretique FINIS