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A26186	The lives of all the princes of Orange, from William the Great, founder of the Common-wealth of the United Provinces written in French by the Baron Maurier, in the year 1682, and published at Paris, by order of the French King ; to which is added the life of His present Majesty King William the Third, from his birth to his landing in England, by Mr. Thomas Brown ; together with all the princes heads taken from original draughts.; Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Hollande et des autres Provinces-Unies. English	Aubery du Maurier, Louis, 1609-1687.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.	1693 (1693)	Wing A4184; ESTC R22622	169,982	381

belief when King Philip was going aboard the Ship at Flushing which was to carry him into Spain The King looking on him with a great deal of anger reproach'd him with hindring the execution of his designs by his private intrigues The Prince replying with much submission that the States had done every thing voluntarily and of their own accord the King took him by the hand and shaking it answer'd in Spanish No los Estadós mas vos vos vos repeating the word vos several times which the Spaniards use by way of contempt as we say in French Toy Ioy Thou thou This particular I had from my Father who learn'd it from a Confident of the Prince of Orange who was present The Prince after this publick affront had more wit than to conduct the King aboard his Vessel but contented himself with taking leave of him and wishing him a good Voyage into Spain For he was secure enough in the City where he was well beloved and where there was a great concourse of people from all parts to see the King 's Embarkment As a further proof of his disgrace instead of having the Government of the Netherlands conferr'd on him which his Ancestors had enjoy'd and which he passionately desired he saw Cardinal Granville his Enemy at the Helm intrusted with all the secrets of the Court of Spain under Margaret of Austria Duchess of Parma and Governess of the Netherlands who had particular Orders to have an eye on his Actions and to communicate no affair of importance to him which made him resolve for the preservation of his Honour and his Life too which he saw openly threatned to support himself with the love of the People and court Foreign Alliances From hence 't is reasonable enough to conclude that King Philip by his ill usage of the Prince of Orange who had done such great Services to the Emperour his Father was himself the cause of all the Disorders in the Low-Countries For had he continued a favourable Treatment to the Prince of Orange according to the advice and example of his Father he had without dispute been a good Subject and never had taken those desperate resolutions which kindled a fire that lasted above a Hundred years and cost the Lives of so many Thousand Men and drain'd the Treasure of the Indies This ought to be a warning never to drive great Courages to despair We meet with a Thousand instances of this nature in History but particularly of Narses This famous Eunuch after all his great Services were slighted for the Empress Sophia Wife of Iustin the Second had sent him word that she would make him Spin with her Women replied That he would weave such a Web that she and the whole Empire should never be able to cover And to make his Threatnings good he call'd the Lombards into Italy who conquer'd the best part of it to which they left their Name This done without returning to Constantinople he stay'd some time at Naples where he died quietly in his Bed in spite of all the designs of this proud Empress who had sent Longinus a wicked and cruel Man to succeed him with Orders to dispatch him But before I enter upon the General History of the Actions of this Prince 't will be proper to say something of his Family leaving the Particulars which would be too tedious to the Genealogists The House of Nassaw is without contradiction one of the greatest and ancientest in all Germany For besides its high Alliances the number of its Branches and the honour of giving an Emperour near Four hundred years since it has this particular advantage to have continued Ten entire Ages and to boast with the State of Venice as a Learned Man says That its Government is founded upon a Basis of a Thousand years standing Count Oiho of Nassaw who liv'd Six hundred years since had two Wives The first brought him in Marriage the Country of Gueldres and the other Zulphen which were preserved Three Ages in the House of Nassaw After him another Count Otho of Nassaw Married the Countess of Viandden who had great Estates in the Netherlands above Three hundred years since His Grandson Engilbert the first of that Name Count of Nassaw Married the Heiress of Laeke and Breda A. D. 1404 and was Grandfather to Engilbert of Nassaw the second of that Name This Prince was great in War and Peace He won the Battle of Guinegaste punish'd the Rebellion of Bruges and was Governour-General of the Netherlands under Maximilian the First He died without Children and made his Brother Iohn Heir of all his Estates This Count Iohn had two Sons Henry and William The Lands in the Low-Countries fell to Henry's share the Eldest William the Youngest had those of Germany This is that Henry Count of Nassaw to whose strong Solicitations against Francis the Fifth Charles the Fifth owed his Empire This was he who on the Day of his Coronation put the Imperial Crown upon his Head Nevertheless after the conclusion of Peace between those great Princes when he was sent by the Emperour to do Homage for the Counties of Flanders and Artois King Francis by an incredible generosity forgetting all what was pass'd Married him to Claude de Chalon only Sister to Philibert de Chalon Prince of Orange who had been brought up by Ann of Bretan his Mother-in-law By this means Rene de Nassaw and of Chalons his only Son was Prince of Orange after the Death of his Uncle Philibert de Chalons who died without Issue William Count of Nassaw Brother to Count Henry embraced the reform'd Religion and banish'd the Catholick out of his Dominions 'T was he who was the Father of the great William of Nassaw whose Life I am writing who became Prince of Orange and Lord of all the Estates of the House of Chalons by the Will of Rene de Nassaw and de Chalon his Cosin German who was kill'd at the Siege of St. Desier A. D. 1544. and left no Children behind him The Emperour Charles the fifth who was so much obliged to the House of Nassaw was extreamly concern'd to see this young Prince bred up a Heretick with much ado he removed him from his Father and placed him near his Person in order to his Conversion to the Catholick Religion which indeed the Prince made a publick profession of as long as the Emperour liv'd and in the beginning of the Reign of Philip the Third But the prejudice of the Education and the new Religion which he had suck'd in with his Milk and had a taste of afterwards at the Court of France where the new Opinions were very much in Vogue when he was a Hostage at Paris for the Peace of Cambray made so strong an Impression on him that he could never wear it off His Father Count William of Nassaw had Five Sons and seven Daughters by Iulienne Countess of Stolbourg The eldest was this William of Nassaw Prine of Orange The youngest was Iohn Count

nothing left to preserve the Memory of the Spaniards but their Bones and their Graves As for the Address which they make a Crime of he thinks it as advantageous to his own Credit and Honour as to the King's Service and the Interest of the Provinces to have advised the presenting it as a certain method to divert the Deluge of these infinite Disorders which afterwards happened And as for the Protestant Sermons he advised Madam de Parma to permit them things being in such a posture that they could not be hindered without a manifest danger of the entire Subversion of the Government When the King says that the Care and Providence of Madam de Parma was so great that he was obliged to quit the Netherlands he owns that the Charge would be true if his Treachery and Disloyalty had been the Cause of it but that a year before he would willingly have retired and surrendred all his Employments When he saw that Monsieur de Bergues and Montigny had lost their Lives in Spain and Gibbets were erected and Fires kindled all over the Country he thought it high time to put himself in a place of Security without trusting to the King's Lerters full of fair Promises and Offers the better to deceive him That they had fallen upon his Person and Estate That neither the Consideration of the Privileges of the University of Louvain nor the Province of Brabant could hinder them from carrying his Son Prisoner into Spain And that by so rigorous and unjust a Treatment he was absolved from all his Oaths and had good Ground to make War upon his Enemy which was objected to him as a Crime That the King laid nothing to his Charge but what his Predecessor Henry of Castile had been guilty of who tho' a Bastard rebell'd against his lawful Prince Don Pedro King of Castile and Leon and kill'd him with his ownhand If the King answers that Don Pedro was a Tyrant and that he possessed Castile only by that Title wherefore says the Prince should not the King of Spain be used in the same manner for there never was a Tyrant who subverted the Laws and Constitutions of the Country with more Arrogance or broke his Oath with more Impudence than King Philip. And that at least Don Pedro was neither guilty of Incest nor a Parricide nor a Murtherer of his Wife And though he was born the King's Subject and should take up Arms against him 't was no more than Albert the first Duke of Austria formerly Count of Hapsburg his Predecessor had done against the Emperor Adolphus of Nassaw his Lord one of the Prince's Ancestors The Prince affirms that there is an origiginal mutual Contract between the Dukes of Brabant and their Vassals that they owe Obedience to their Prince who on his side is bound to preserve their Privileges the chief of which are That the Dukes cannot change the Constitution of the Province by any Decree That they are to be satisfied with their ordinary Revenue That they can lay no new Impositions nor bring any Troops into the Province without the Consent of the States nor alter the Price of Money nor imprison any man without the Information of the Magistrate of the place nor send him out of the Country The Lords of the Provinces are obliged by their Oath to maintain and assert these Privileges because by their Prerogative they have the Charge of the Militia and the Arms of the Province and not doing it they are to be accounted Perjur'd and Enemies of their Country That the King has not violated only one of these Privileges but all and many times over He has seiz'd upon his Estates his Dignities and his Son contrary to his Immunities That for this Reason he was absolved from his Oath of Allegiance and by Consequence had a right to defend himself by Force of Arms and above all because the King would never redress and make Amends for his Faults having rejected the Intercessions of the Emperor Maximilian and the Petitions of his Subjects who deputed to him the principal Lords of the Netherlands which he put to Death by the Hands of the Hangman against the Law of Nations as he had served all others whom he could seize on by his Artifices and who were too credulous in believing his false Promises This abundantly justifies the Prince for taking up Arms for his own and his Country's Preservation and if he could not take footing in the Netherlands at his first Entry as the King reproaches to him 't was no more than what had happened to the greatest Generals and to the King himself who has often invaded Holland and Zealand and been driven shamefully out without being able to make himself Master of one Inch of Ground And in regard by his Oath he dispenses with his Subjects from obeying him if he acts contrary to the Laws why is he so impudent to say that the Prince has taken up Arms against him unjustly To that Article in which the King says he returned into Holland and Zealand by Bribery and Corrupting the Inhabitants he makes answer that he went there at the Instance and Sollicitation of the principal Men of the Province which he is able to make appear by their Letters When the King accuses him of having persecuted the Church-men driven out the Catholicks and banished that Religion he replies That all this had been done by a common Consent to preserve their Lives and Privileges against Men who had taken an Oath to the Pope and were setting all Engines a work to subvert their Liberties and the newly established Religion Which was represented at the Treaty of Peace at Breda where this Article of Religion was confirmed by the Decree and Seal of all the Cities and that 't was not fair to impute that to him which was done by an unanimous consent of the whole Country When he reproaches him for granting Liberty of Conscience he answers that he had always been as averse to the Burning so many Men as the Duke had taken pleasure in it and that he was of Opinion to put a Stop to all Persecutions He ingenuously owns that the King before the holding of the States at Ghent and his Departure into Spain had commanded him to put to Death many good Men suspected to favour the new Religion but he never put these cruel Orders in Execution but gave them notice of it not being able to do it with a safe Conscience and chusing rather to obey God than Man He says that they do him Wrong in laying the Murther of some Ecclesiasticks to his Charge for he punished the Criminals with Death and those who were of an illustrious Family as the Count de la Mark convicted of those Outrages were condemned only to Imprisonment and loss of their Employments in Consideration of their great Alliances To that Head wherein the King declares that he did not command the Duke of Alva to establish the Imposition of the 10th and 20th

Battle of Senef p. 256. C. COligny Gaspor de His Character p. 3. Coeverden lost p. 231 retaken p. 232. Coligny Lovise de Her Life p. 137. Cambray besieged and surrendred p. 280. D. DOn Iohn of Austria made Governour of the Low Countreys p. 57. His Story p. 58 59 c. Surprises the Castle of Namur and Charlemont p. 61. Defeats the Army of the States at Gemblours p. 65. Dies of Grief p. 67. E. COunts Egmont and Horn Executed p. 20. Q. Elizabeth loved to be thought handsome p. 153 c. F. FRench King almost over-runs the United Provinces p. 214. G. CArdinal Granville his Character and Story p. 14 15 c. Name of Gueux or Beggars whence the Rise p. 17. Grave besieged p. 265. and taken p. 269. Ghent taken p. 291. H. HAerlem taken by Famine p. 42. Henry Frederick born p. 114. His Life p. 177 c. His Children p. 178. I. INquisition declares those guilty of High-Treason who had not opposed the Hereticks of the Netherlands p. 19. Ipres taken p. 291. L. COunt Lodovick c. presents a Petition to the Governess of the Low Countreys against the Inquisition New Bishops c. which at first is slighted p. 17 18 c. Lewis de Requesens made Governour in the place of the Duke of Alva p. 44. Leyden relieved by breaking down the Dykes p. 45 46. and the University settled there p. 47. M. MArgaret of Austria made absolute Governess of the Low Countreys with Orders to Establish the Spanish Inquisition and several new Bishopricks in the Netherlands p. 14. Mons surprised p. 32. and retaken by the Spaniards p. 34. Count de la Mark takes the Brill with several other Cities p. 36. Middburg taken by the Spaniards p. 44. Maurier traduced at the French Court c. p. 120 121 122. Maurice Prince of Orange his Character p. 125. raises the Siege of Berghen ap Zoom p. 129 and 140. takes Breda p. 130. and Sluise p. 134. defeats Arch Duke Albert p. 135. and the Lord de Balancon p. 138. his Description p. 148 149 150 c. Maestricht besieged by the French p. 235. and taken p. 236. Mansfeld's Story and Character p. 141 142 c. N. NArses the Eunuch his Story p. 8. House of Nassau their Genealogy p. 9 10 c. The Netherlands demanded to have all the ' Spanish Forces drawn out of the Low Countreys p. 14. Nimighen Treaty p. 273. O. OStend taken by the Spaniards p. 134. St. Omers surrendred to the French p. 285. P. KIng Philip the Cause of the Disorders in the Low Countreys p. 8. His Description p 13 14 c. Perpetual Edict concluded between the States and Don Iohn of Austria p. 60. Prince of Parma made Governour of the Low Countreys p. 68. King Philip published a Prescription against the Prince of Orange p. 74. Philip William of Nassau his Life p. 115. taken by force out of the Colledge of Lovaine by King Philip p. 115. shut up in a Castle in Spain at 13 Years Old p. 116. released and sent to bring the Infanta Isabella into the Low Countreys p. 117. marries Eleanor of Bourbon p. 118. S. STates General Consent to a Toleration of both Religions p. 66. Request the Duke of Anjou and Alemon to be their Lord and Protector p. 73. T. Treaty of Peace set on foot at Breda p. 48. Treaty of Peace at Ghent p. 50 51 ● Treaty of Peace at Nimighen concluded p. 297. V. MArquess Vitelli his Character and Epitaph p. 28. Valenciennes taken by the French p. 279. W. WIlliam the First of Nassau his Birth p. 3. the Favours show'd him by Charles 5th p. 4. made Generalissimo at 22 Years Old p. 5. builds Charlemont and Philipville p. 5. supports the Emperour at the Resignation of his Empire and is recommended by him to the King of Spain p. 6. his Description p. 12. Retires into Germany p. 19. Raises an Army there which is defeated near the River Ems p. 24. Raises another of Twenty Four Thousand German Horse and Foot p. 25. which refusing to follow him into France to assist the Hugonots he disbands p. 27. Enters the Low Countreys with a great Army and is received into Ruremond Malines c. p. 33. Acknowledg'd Governour of Holland Zealand c. by the States p. 38. banishes the Romish Ceremonies out of the Church p. 39. received into Brussels in great Triumph p. 62. lays the Common-Wealth of the United Provinces p. 68. publishes his Apology against King Philip's Prescription p. 75 76 77 c. Marries Lovise de Coligny p. 113. killed at Delft p. 115. his Funeral p. 119. William Count de Buren Eldest Son to Prince William seized at the Colledge of Lovain and carried Prisoner to Spain p. 23. William Henry of Nassau his Birth p. 211. deprived of the Offices belonging to his Family p. 212. chose General of the Army p. 215. and restored to all the other Commands belonging to him which Cornelius de Witt opposes p. 220. Prince William takes Naerden p. 237. falls sick of the Small-pox and recovers p. 270. besieges Maestricht p. 275. and raises it p. 277. Marries the Princess Mary p. 288. Attacks and almost Routs Luxemburgh near Mons p. 298. Cornelius de Witt and his Brother killed p. 224. William the Second born p. 203. besieges Amsterdam p. 206. dies of the Small-pox 208. THE Author's Preface THE Reader whoever he is must not expest in these Memoirs to find a gay or rather an impertinent Discourse fill●d with New Terms which some presumptuous little Authors who mind nothing but bare words call fine Language These people are to understand that I was never bred at a Colledge and that the little Skill I have in Languages I receiv'd from Masters at home or from common use in Conversation I never read one single Line of Priscian or of any other Grammarian Their Lexicons and their Syntaxes which my Father was used to call The Plague of Youth are as much unknown to me as the Isle of Pines I never was able to comprehend what a Gerund or a Supin meant and though perhaps I use them upon occasion I neither know how to define or describe them I have not without a great deal of pleasure read the Quintus Curtius of Monsieur de Vaugclas whose solid Vertue and extraordinary Sweetness as well as his inviolable Fidelity to his Friends I esteem although I was never able to edify much by his Remarks upon our Language And what is more than all this having had the misfortune to debauch my own Natural Language during my long abode in Forreign Countries where I was bred as also by my long stay at Mayne where their Language is extreamly vitious and thinking it not worth the while to spend money to no purpose at Court and to feed my self with Vain Expectations my Reader ought not to be surpris'd if he meets in this Work some terms and manners of speaking that have not receiv'd the

him alive or dead to him and besides a free Pardon and Indemnity of all his Crimes and to make him a Gentleman in case he was not so before He declared all his Adherents to have forfeited their Nobility Estate and Honour if within a Month after the Publication of this Out-law'ry they did not leave him and return to their Duty In December following the Prince of Orange published his Apology which is a very long eloquent and handsome Piece and read it publickly in the Assembly of the States-General The Prince made a Discovery of a great many Secrets which 't was the King's Interest never to have had known Kings have not so much Advantage in Defending themselves against their Subjects with their Pens as their Swords and for that Reason the King made no Answer to it but because this Apology is very considerable 't is proper to put down the Substance of it After having submitted his Life and Conduct to the Consideration of the States he says He was forc'd contrary to his Nature and Custom to discover some Indecencies which he would very willingly have concealed and if they had not loaded him with Injuries and Abuses he would have only answered the Proscription which he would have made appear unjust and without any Foundation That his Enemy who made it and the Duke of Parma who published it not being able to kill him by Poison or Sword endeavour to blot his Reputation by the Venom of their Tongues As for the Obligations they reproach'd him with he owns to have received a great deal of Honour from the Emperor Charles the V. who bred him up 9 years in his Chamber and that his Memory these are his own Words will be for ever honoured by him but at the same time he is obliged to justifie his own Innocence to declare that he never received any Advantages from the Emperor but on the contrary suffered great Losses in his Service That he could not deprive him of the Succession to Renè de Nassaw and de Chalons Prince of Orange his Cousin-german whose sole Heir he was without a manifest Injury unless they reckon the not seizing upon another Man 's Right to be a Liberality That he was so far from having received any Advantages from him that on the contrary the Emperor for the good of his own Affairs being pressed on one hand by the Protestant Princes and on the other by the King of France had by the Treaty of Nassaw disposed at his Expence of the County of Catzenellebogen in favour of the Landgrave of Hesse though it had been adjudged to him by the Imperial Chamber at Spires with above two millions of Arrears and the Emperor had taken no care to restore Prince Renè of Nassaw his Cousin-german to the Possession of the third Part of the Dutchy of Iuliers which belong'd to him by their Grandmother Margaret Countess de la Mark though he had gained the Victory by the Valour of that Prince That the King had deprived him of the Possession of the Seigniory de Chartel velin for which there was due to him above 350000 Livres by bringing the Cause to be tryed in his Council when it was to be judged by the Parliament at Molines and it has ever since continued undecided Which he mentions to show the World who ought to be taxed with Ingratitude he or the King That h●… had spent above 500000 Crowns in the Embassy he made against his Will to the Emperor Ferdinand and when he was Hostage in France for the Peace of Cambray and that year when he commanded the Imperial Army and built Charlemont and Philipville in sight of the French Generals in all which time he only received 300 Florins a Month which would not pay for the pitching his Tents That quite contrary those of his Family had spent great Estates and exposed their Lives freely in the Service of the Princes of the House of Austria that Engilbert the second Count of Nassaw his Great Grandfather being Governour of the Netherlands for the Emperor Maximilian the I. had secured him these Provinces by the gaining of a Victory That Count Henry of Nassaw his paternal Uncle prevail'd upon the Electors to preferr Charles of Austria Grandson of Maximilian to Francis the I. King of France and put the Imperial Crown upon his Head That Philibert de Chalon Prince of Orange had conquered Lombardy and the Kingdom of Naples for the Emperor and that by the taking of Rome and Clement the VII his Enemy he had gained him vast Honour and Renown That the Nephew of this Philibert Renè de Nassaw and de Chalon his Cousin-german was killed at the Emperor's Feet before St. Dizier after having repaired the Loss of a Battel and conquered the Dutchy of Gueldres That if the House of Nassaw had had noBeing in the World and had not done such great Exploits before the King was born he could never have been able to put so many Titles Countries and Seigneuries in the Front of that infamous Proscription which declares him a Traitor and a Villain Crimes which none of his Family had ever been guilty of That for so many Expences and signal Services of his Family they could not shew the least Mark of Acknowledgment from the House of Austria That the Kings of Hungary had given to his Predecessor as a perpetual Proof of their Valour in defending them from the Invasion of the Infidels several Pieces of Artillery which were carried away by Force out of his Castle of Breda when the Duke of Alva tyranniz'd in the Low Countries When the King reproaches him with having made him Governour of Holland Zealand Utrecht and Burgundy Knight of his Order and Councellor of State he answers That if he ought to thank any one for that 't is the Emperor Charles V. who at his Departure for Spain had so appointed it in consideration of his great Services That the King himself had forfeited his Pretensions to that Order by breaking the Statutes which expressly enjoyn that no Knight can be tryed but by his Peers in Condemning the Counts Egmont Horn de Bergues and Montigny by Rascals and Men of no Birth or Merit That the Government of Burgundy belonged to him hereditarily the House of Chalon having all along enjoyed it without Contradiction And as for the Employment of a Councellor of State he obtained that by the Policy of Cardinal Granville who screen'd himself from the People by the Authority of the Prince in whom they reposed an intire Credit and Confidence When the King to render him odious charges him with Marrying a Nun he answers That Slanderers ought to be free from all Blame and that 't is an unaccountable Impudence in the King to reproach him with a lawful Marriage and agreeable to the Word of God whereas the King is all covered over with Crimes He maintains that he was actually married to Donna Isabella Osorio and had three Children by her when he married the