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A01248	The copy of the articles of agreement betwixt His Highnesse Henry of Nassaw Prince of Orange, and the governour, burgers, captaines, and souldiers of the city of Breda, about the surrendring of the said city Made the 26. of Septem. 6. Octob. Faithfully translated out of the Dutch copy.	Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, 1584-1647.	1637 (1637)	STC 11364; ESTC S118601	5,891	26

The Copy of the Articles of Agreement betwixt His Highnesse Henry of Nassaw Prince of Orange and the Governour Burgers Captaines and Souldiers of the City of Breda about the surrendring of the said City Made the 26. of Septem 6. Octob. Faithfully Translated out of the Dutch Copy LONDON Printed by E. P. for Nathaniel Butter and Nicholas Bourne 1637. The Copy of the Articles agreed upon betwixt his Highnesse the Prince of Orange and the Governour Captaines and Souldiers within the City of Breda about the surrendring of the said City 1 THat the Governour of Breda and all his military Officers and Soldiers of what condition or quality soever none exempted although they had forsaken the Service of the Lords the States generall and betaken themselves to the Cardinall Infants side shall march thence without any let or hinderance with their high and low Armes bag and baggage beating of drums displayed Colours with their Matches lighted Bullets in the mouth as they use to march in war together with all their Goods and shal safely be cōducted as far as the city of Mechelen II The Governour shall have leave to choose immediately 4. peeces of Ordnance and 2. Mortering peeces with all their Equipage and Amunition of warre according to his owne pleasure and mind proportioning onely to 12. charges for every Canon III That there shall be Horses and Waggons with their drivers left unto him sufficient to draw the aforesaid Artillery with their traine to the aforenamed City of Mechlen IIII That all Munition of warre and provision therein late belonging to the King of Spaine shall be delivered without any fraud or deceit into the hands of such as are deputed thereunto by his Highnesse except such which was sold before the 26. of September the 6. of October when the Parley was begun But that which was sold before shall remaine to the buyer without enquiry after those that have bought it V That all Officers and Souldiers as are sicke and wounded shall stay in the Hospitall or Elder-house so long till they recover againe their former health to go to Mechlen and that then a free Convoy shal be given unto them to carry their Armour and Baggage VI. That his Highnesse shall furnish them with Waggons and Horses as many as the Governour shall desire and need both for his particular service as also for all other Officers and Souldiers to carry their Baggage and other Goods as farre as Mechlen amongst which are comprehended all manner of Weapons both of the garison Souldiers absent dead sicke wounded and of those that ranne away and that the aforenamed Waggons shall not be searched in any wise VII That such as desire to have their Baggage and Goods carryed by water to Mechlen shall be provided with fitting Bottoms for their conveyance thither through Holland unlesse it be any manner of Wares And that there shall likewise bee granted unto them to send along certaine men that may looke to the Goods and Baggage which shall not be searched nor arrested in any places under what pretence soever it may be but shall passe safely as farre as Mechlen VIII That the Governour Captaines Officers Counsellers of warre and Souldiers taking pay of the King of Spaine aswell Temporall as Spirituall persons none excepted as also the widowes with their children which in the afore said city have any Houses Inheritance or Rents whether it lie under the States of Brabant in this quarter or under this city houses or inheritances of particular Goods moveable or immoveable shall enjoy the time of 2 yeres after the sealing of this Accord to transport sell remove or dispose otherwise of their Goods according to their will and pleasure and during the time they shall enjoy their Rents and the benefits of the hire of their houses and have the fruits of their Goods which they expect or may expect upon the Conditions agreed of whatever they be IX That the Officers and Souldiers of what condition or state soever they be shall have licence to leave their Wives and Children in the City and that they may during the time of 2. yeeres dispose of their Goods moveable or immoveable whether they lie within or without the said City nothing excepted and that they shall neither bee confiscated nor detained from them X. None of the Officers or Souldiers in person shall be arrested or stayed whether present or comming for the Rents of their houses where they dwelled neither their Baggage staied for any debts if they depart with the garison XI That all the Souldiers which are taken prisoners aswel by one as by th' other side of what quality or dignity soever they be shall be set at liberty without paying of any ransome but shall ohely pay for their diet according to the taxation of the Quarter As also Preachers and other prisoners shall goe out paying onely for their diets XII That all the Booty which they have gotten before and during the siege shall not bee demanded of them but be left to them XIII That after the subscription and sealing of the Articles of this agreement the Governor of Breda shall have licence to send un Expresse to His Highnesse the Cardinal Infant with a safe conduct and assecuration to certifie him of it what hath passed during the time of the siege which the Governour may doe the same day when the Accord is subscribed XIIII The said Conditions being subscribed and sealed at least a dayes respit shall be granted unto the Governour and Souldiers to make themselves ready against their departure which time being expired the Governour and Officers of the said garison shall promise to depart namely upon Saturday following being the 30. of Septem no of Oct. 1637. XV. The meaning of the former Article is that none afore the 2. dayes are expired shall come out of the City into our Camp neither that those of our army shall come into the city and to prevent all disorders every one shall keep in his trenches and for tisications except perhaps one side or other should offer to make any approaches or do any hostility for the assecuration whereof Hostages shall be given of both sides XVI That before the garison departeth two sufficient Hostages shall be delivered as pledges for his Highnesse the Prince of Orange who shall march along with the garrison as farre as Mechelen and that on the other side two Hostages shall be left by the Governour so long till the aforesaid Hostages of the Prince of Orange are returned backe againe with the weapons and that then his Highnesse the Prince shal likewise send again the two aforesaid Hostages of the Governour with a safe conduct or convoy as farre as Mechelen XVII That the Officers and Souldiers and others comprehended in the first article of the aforesaid accord having any Armour boats Shaloopes or other materials of warre belonging to particular persons may sell or transport them and that they shall not be stay'd or any wares or goods

that are bought or are transported upon them XVIII And that there shall be no restitution of horses amongst merchants wares moveable goods or other wares which are sould and held for a bootie and that because of them none shall be stay'd or detained Actum in the Campe before Breda the 27 of September the 7 of October 1637. A Copie of the Articles propounded by the Clergie and the Burgermasters Sheriffs and Senate of the City of Breda to His Highnes the Prince of Orange Lord and Baron of Breda His Highnes having seen and examined the Articles here standing by hath declared himselfe upon it in this manner I THat all faults Hostilities and misdeeds how great and of what quality soever they may be without exception of any person Churchman or Layman of the aforesaid City committed by them either present or absent whether it be in generall or particular shall fully be forgotten and pardoned as if they never had been done or committed I THis Article is agreed upon if so bee that all the persons mentioned in it do behave themselves hereafter as they ought to do II That in the aforesaid City of Breda now and ever hereafter be granted free and open exercise of the Romane Catholike Religion in the great Church in the Cloysters and Nunneries as it hath been those 12. yeeres last past in that manner That no man of what quality soever he be whether Civill or Military shall undertake to offer or do any hinderance obstacle or scandall in the Church or in the street whether in words or deeds upon paine of arbitrary correction II That two Cloysters of Nunnes and Bagynes shall be maintained in the same manner as they have been before the yeere 1625. in the time of the government of the Lords States Generall III That the Magistrate shall be chosen out of all persons indifferently as well of the Romane Catholike as reformed Religion III That the Magistrate shall be chosen of the best qualified persons of the City according to the priviledges and Lawes of Brabant and of the aforesaid City of Breda IIII That the Lords of the Chapiter with their Subprovosts Provost and Nunnery of Saint Catharine Dale the Pastor the College of the Societie of JESUS the Convents of the Patres Capucyns and Minorites and all other spirituall persons of what state or order soever they be which afore the date of those Articles have been accepted and placed shall continue in a peaceable possession of all manner of goods Rents gifts Tithes privileges and Revenewes whatsoever they be as well within as without the aforsaid City without exception to place new ones or surrogate others but possesse them in the same manner as they all and every one keep possesse and use them now without any let hinderance or harme and if any Canons places or Benefices shall come to be void they shall be given to the Romane Catholiks according to the foundations and ancient Statutes IIII That all Spirituall persons may have the benefit use of their goods and administrate them in the same manner as they have done before the yeere 1625. Those that depart out of the City shall freely take along with them their goods and movables as also if they be houses or lands they may sell them like the Citizens V The yeerely revenewes of the goods and lands of the Orphane-house in the aforesaid City Whether it be by inheritance or donation which it hath already attained or shall attain unto hereafter whether it be by service gift purchase or any otherwise shall be divided prorato and proportionally that the poore children of what Religion soever they be found shall likewise have their Masters and dwellings apart And goods almes and collections from the Hospitall or Almes-house called the Holy-Ghost shall be administred and divided by persons amongst the poore without regard of what Religion they are as it hath bin done hitherto V That the goods Collections Almes of the respective poore houses nominated in this Article shall be used and administred as they have been before the yeere 1625. without regard to the Religion of the persons which are employed in that behalfe VI That the City of Breda and all its Inhabitants shal continue all their priviledges and liberties and that no further burthens shall be laid upon them then there have been from the yeere 1590. till unto the yeere 1625. so long as the City was under the government of the united Nether-lands and being their City by this siege is exceedingly ruinated they desire that they might be free of the Licents for 3. yeeres to recover themselves againe VI His Highnesse grants this Article but what concernes the point of the Licents He will recommend it in the best manner to the Lords States Generall VII That all the Citizens and Inhabitants of the aforesaid Citie whether present or absent of what quality soever they be whether they have been in service of the King of Spain or no may freely according to this treaty depart and go wheresoever they please with their whole family and moveable goods and papers or that they may continue in their dwelling places in the aforesaid City during the space of a set time that within that space they may resolve whether they wil stay and dwell there longer or no and that during the said time they may safely and freely travaile up and down in the Countrey as well to provide where to pitch their dwelling places as for their particular affaires and busines for the space of 4. yeers and if in the end of the set time they intend to depart they may likewise do it freely with their Wives Children and goods according as they please by water or land without paying of customes Licents or searching of the Ships although one or other had done any publike service in the aforenamed 4. yeers and they shall have leave to dispose of all their goods sel them transport them or appoint others to receive and administer them as they think fittest and if it come to passe that they die whether it be within or without the City whether He make his last wil or no the said goods are to belong to the lawfull heires or their next friends ab intestato respectivè and they may carry away all their moveable goods merchants wares and other goods as they think best without requiring any other Passe then this present treatie and those that go into Neutral Countries if they please they may return back againe into the City to dwell there without desiring of any further consent VII His Highnesse granteth this Petition for the space of three yeeres in particular also for the fugitives with condition that those which intend to goe into Neutral places or into the flat Country and afterwards will return againe into the City they shall be bound to do it with a precedent knowledge of His Highnes or of the Governour VIII That those which for their particular affaires will go into the Countries and Cities under the King of Spaine may have leave to do it during the time of the aforesaid 4. yeeres as often as they please and may alwaies return againe into the said City to stay and to dwell there or to depart as aforesaid VIII They may depart during the time of three yeeres into the enemies Countries or Cities and may return againe into Breda yet not without a precedent consent of the Governour IX In the aforesaid contract shall be comprehended all Citizens and Inhabitants of the aforesaid City which are absent as also all Pastors and spirituall persons which are fled into the City as also the Inhabitants which are fled from the Country into the City which by vertue of this Contract may freely returne to their Villages and dwellings or stay in the City the aforesaid 4. yeeres according as they please and the Pastors of the Baronie of Breda present or absent and their successors may exercise againe in their Parish Churches their pastorall services and keep the revenewes as they had before the Retorsion IX This Article is granted so farre what concernes the Citizens but the Pastors and other Spirituall persons mentioned in this Article may well depart out of the City but regulate themselves according to the Patents of Retorsion published by the Lords States X That all the Sentences given by the Magistrate of the aforesaid City and by the Head-Bench wherof nothing was yet reformed shall remain in their full force as also all contracts made before and in the time of the siege howsoever they be X This Article is granted as it stands XI That all the perfected accounts of the City as also all others that are done by the Magistrate shall remain entire and stand in force XI This Article is likewise granted as it stands if so be that all Charters Registers and Papers Feods Dominions as also others whether they be spirituall or temporall goods concerning His Highnes be put into the hands of those that His Highnes shall appoint XII That those which have Rents or debts depending upon the Citie shall yearly be payd without abatement or otherwise avoyding them XII This in like manner XIII That the City of Breda shall not be bound to make repaire and support the Walls Forts Gates Bridges Corps de guards and other Fortifications and Workes they having been freed of it these last 12. yeares under the King of Spaine XIII Those of the City of Breda shal behave themselves in this as they have before the yeere 1625. XIIII That the Souldier and Garrison which shall be layd into the said City as well foot as horse or shall be lodged into the Baruques or in any other manner shall not be burthensome to the City or the Citizens and if so be that any Souldier should be Billited in the Citizens houses they shall be payd for their services XIIII The Souldiers shall be Billited like as in other Cities of the united Provinces is done Actum in the Campe before Breda the 7. of October 1637. FINIS Hampt court 15. of Octob. 1637. These Articles of Breda may be Printed R. WECHERLIN