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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

vnderstanding that their wickednesse was growen so great so apparaunt and so palpable that no man was able to indure them but that they were cast out of the countrey as a venime or poyson yea as a publicke plague Nowe for as much as they haue not onely directed themselues against my person Of the last mariage of the saide Lord Prince accusing me of vnthankefulnes and vnfaithfulnes but euen as rage and madnes doth equallie byte the whole worlde as wel the innocent as he whom men iudge culpable so their petulancie and disorder hath bin so great as that they haue desired to touche taint the honour of my wife by the blame which they suppose to laye vppon my last mariage I knowe not whether I may iudge them more to be condemned in impudeucie or in beastlines whilest that these skilfull men who boast them selues to be so good painters knowe not as yet to practise that lesson which is so often saide and repeated by the meanest schollers that be that is that he that prepareth him selfe to speake euill of an other man ought to be exempted from all crime and faulte For this argueth great impudencie and rashenesse if men knowe their notable faultes and yet will notwithstanding passe ouer their owne thornes and thissels as if they were roses or if they knowe them not what beastlines blockishnes doth this argue not to perceaue and see that which euerie houre of a daye offereth it selfe to their eyes and sight They see euery day before them an incestuous king which is one onely halfe degree nigh vnto Iupiter the husbande of Iuno his owne sister yet they dare reproch me with a holy an honest and a lawfull mariage made according to Gods worde and celebrated according to the ordinaunces of the Church of God And againe I am here inforced to beseeche you my Lordes not to thinke of me that which as yet you haue neuer seene in me to witt that by their wicked speaches I am moued to laie open these abhominable biles and to sett before the eyes of al the worlde the benummednes and hardnes of such consciences as these men carrie but rather that it would please you to impute it to this rage and desperate madnes of the enemies of God of the enimies of all Christendome and your enemies particularly who are inflamed set on fire against me for no other reason but for this that they knowe the great care diligence and faithfulnes that I haue had for your preseruation He then that hath maried his Neice dare reproche vnto me my mariage a mariage I saye verie lawfull and according to Gods order He I say dare vpbraied me with my mariage who to the end he might obtaine such a mariage hath cruelly murthered his owne wife the daughter and sister of the kings of Fraunce as I vnderstande they haue in Fraunce The murther of the Queene of Spaine informations and instructions concerning that matter yea his lawfull wyfe the mother of two daughters the true heires of Spaine as I doubt not but that the Crowne of Fraunce the whiche heretofore hath giuen the Crowne of Castille to a bastard of whom Philip is descended dispossessing a tyraunt thereof though he were lawfully borne thereto shal haue no lesse power to mainteine and keepe it for the true heires if God which is a iust Iudge and neuer suffereth such wickednesses vnpunished doo not take vengeaunce of it in his life time depriuing him of his estate which thing he hath most rightly deserued although he had not committed anie other faulte but this incest accompanied with so abhominable a murther But you wil say he had a dispensation for it From whom From the Pope of Rome which is a god in earth Verely I beleeue that for the God of heauen would neuer haue cōsented thereto But what was the groundworke and foundation of this earthly heauenlie dispensatiō For soth this that he must not leaue so goodlie a kingdome without an heire and marke wherefore there was added to the former horrible faultes a most cruell murther the father vnnaturally murthering his owne childe and heire The murther of the Prince of Spaine to the ende that by that meanes the Pope might haue a gapp open to giue a dispensation for so execrable an incest abhominable to God and men If therefore we saye that we do reiecte the gouernement of such an incestuous king the slayer of his sonne and the murtherer of his wife who can iustlie accuse vs therefore Howe many Kinges haue there bin which haue bin banished and driuen out of their kingdomes which had not committed such horrible crimes For as concerning Don Charles his sonne was he not to be in all likelyhood our Lord and Maister And though the father could alledge against his sonne a iust cause of death did not this matter belong vnto vs who had so great interest therin rather to iudge thereof than to three or foure Friers and Inquisitors of Spaine But it may be that he made conscience to leaue him for his heire whom he knewe to be borne in vnlawfull mariage because that at the time that he seemed to marie the daughter of Portugale the mother of Don Charles he was maried to the Ladie Isabella Osorius The mariage of the K. of spaine vvith the Ladie Isabel Osorius by whom also he had two or three children whereof the first was named Don Pedro and the seconde sonne was named Don Bernardino of which mariage Rigomes the Prince of Yuoli if he were liuing could giue a good and sufficient testimonie for he was the procurer thereof whereby also he obtayned that great credite and so much goodes in Spaine the which they do at this present vnkindlie sucke and drawe from his widowe as it were with a sponge Nowe if he haue so well behaued him selfe in that supposed mariage that mariage also which he hath made with the daughter of Fraunce hath not as yet bin more happie For beside the murther of the Queene his wife it was also made noble by an adulterie excelling all other adulteries that is that he kept ordinarie and common housholde with the Ladie Eufrasia The adultery vvith the Ladie Eufrasia who being become great with childe by him he inforced the Prince of Ascoli to marie hir and at the ende of a certayne tyme the poore Prince as the ministers of the Kinges tyrannie saye died for griefe because that hauing to strong an enemie he was not able to remedie this but that an other mans bastarde shoulde be his heire But they that speake more certainlie of this matter affirme that he receaued a morsell more easie to swallowe downe than to digest And yet he who is decked with a crowne of three such mariages being I saye him selfe three tymes such a husbande dare vpbraide and reproch me with my mariage But suppose that he were not so defiled and that we might coūt him for a guiltles person yet for

this is this infamous frame or building of Proscription stayed and setled But if on the other side I should come largely to laye out howe much the house of Spaine is bounde to my predecessors for concerning my selfe I will as yet say nothing I am afraide to enter into so great a sea which I can not passe ouer in many monethes wherefore I will touche onely the principall matters leauing vnto you my Lordes and to the readers the particular searching and finding out of the saide boundes in the histories and auncient recordes of this countrey He that of the house of Austriche firste came into the lowe countreis and that a long time after that my predecessours helde therein both Counties and Baronneis was the Emperor Maximilian then Archduke of Austriche Nowe who knoweth not that the Countie Engelbert my great vncle was he who maintayned and vphelde the saide Emperour My Lorde Engelbert Countie of Nassau imploying his goodes his life and his witt for the presetuation of him Was it not the Countie Engelbert together with my Lorde of Romont that obtayned the victorie of Guinegaste hauing by his courage kept the footemen together when as the horsemen had broken the rancke and order by meanes whereof the great conquest of King Lewis the eleuenth was stayed and let which thing dyd afterwardes assure Maximilians state and condition Was it not he which vpon his returne out of prison out of Fraunce founde Maximilian wonderfully troubled in Flaunders against my Lorde of Rauestain and those of Bruges who also preuayled so much by armes and by counsel that a truce and conclusion was made who was once againe the cause to vpholde and mainteyne the saide Archduke and who in like sorte caused the accorde made with the inhabitaunts of Bruges to be mainteyned whereof euen yet at this day there do remaine notable markes and tokens both of his fidelitie and of the thankefulnes of the inhabitaunts of Bruges It is the verie same Engelbert that subdued those that rebelled against him about the borders of the Rhine and established the saide Emperour quiet in his countreis of Oultremeuze that I may speake no more of the daungerous voyages attempted for the saide Emperor as that voyage into Brytan for the treatie of mariage betweene the saide Lorde Archduke the Ladie Anne heire of the Dutchie and afterwardes twise Queene of Fraunce which matter he so well followed that all was agreed and further proceeding should haue bin made therein sauing that my Lord Iohn Prince of Orange father of my Lord Philibert The saide Coūtie Lieu tenaunt generall from the time of Duke Charles dashed all and procured the mariage of the said Ladies cousin germaine with Charles the French king And the merites and valures of the saide Lord Countie were in those countreis so great that he was made Lieutenaūt general thorowe out the lowe countrie The successour and heire of the saide Lorde Countie Engelbert and of his goodes which he had in these countreis was my Lorde the Countie Iohn of Nassau My Lorde Henry Coūtie of Nassau his brother and my great vncle and after his death there succeeded him my Lorde the Countie Henrie my vncle the eldest sonne of the said Lord Countie Iohn and his heire in the goodes and possessions he had here in Brabant Luxenbourg Hollande and Flaunders and my Lorde the Countie William my father was his heire in the goodes and possessions which he had in Germanie No man can denie that in his time there was anie Lorde in all these countreis who laboured more in the seruice of the Emperour Charles than he And to the ende I be not ouerlong in reciting that which is so well knowne I will onely in a worde tell you that it was he that put the imperiall crowne vpon the Emperours heade hauing so earnestly followed this matter euen then when the Emperour in respect of his young age by reason of his absence for he was in Spaine was not able to pursue the same that he perswaded the Princes Electours to preferre the Emperour before the Frenche King who earnestlie laboured to obteyne the saide election And as euerie one knoweth that this imperial crowne was the bridge which afterwardes made a passage to the Emperor to obtaine so manie conquestes so none can denie but that the acknowledgement thereof ought to be giuen to the saide Lorde Countie But can anie man shewe me at this present so much as one marke or note of recompence or one onely good turne that our stocke hath receaued from the house of Spaine Men may see in sundrie places of these countreis peeces of ordinaunce with the armes of Hungarie vppon them which the King of Hungarie gaue to my predecessors in testimonie and remembraunce of that their vertue and strength which they had imployed and shewed in their seruice against the Turkes certaine of which peeces were violently taken from me caried away by the Duke of Alua out of my house of Breda when he played the tyraūt in this countrey and yet some of them remaine there to this day Which thing I put downe to declare that so long as these peeces shall last so long also shall the notes and markes of my auncestours vertue indure there shall remaine also a notable testimonie which the King of Hungarie hath giuen them But as my predecessours haue bin so noble and by the grace of God the good gouernemēt of their things were neuer yet poore so they neuer yet demaūded any thing of the Princes of these coūtreis neither yet receaued any thing as of free gift and yet I am sure that the imperial Crowne at the least deserued some one recompence or other I confesse that the succession of Challon and of the Princedome of Orange was a great increase vnto our house but if we be bound to any for that truly it is to the great King Frauncis who gaue in mariage to the Lord myne vncle the sister of my Lorde the Prince Phillibert the daughter of my Lorde the Prince Iohn who was nourished and brought vp with Quene Anne the Graūdmother of the said Lord King whose Cousin the said Princes was And thus you here see my Lordes the honestie and good behauiour of this Monarche of Fraunce The Emperour got and receaued his crowne by the paines and tranayles of my vncle Frauncis the King who knew all that the saide Lord had done for his Competitor that is for him that sought to be Emperour as well as he ceased not for all that to giue him this Princesse in mariage who was not the supposed heire only but the verie heire in deede of my Lorde the Prince Philibert the saide King confessing that he ought not to be displeased with him who had constantly followed that parte which he tooke vpon him to followe In so much that I may say of him as the Historiographers of his time said that it was an assured testimonie of a noble and

intreated the preestes vvere punished when they are not ashamed to obiect vnto me the murtheringes of the people of their Church seeing that not onely they knowe my naturall disposition to be altogether estraunged from such violences but also that you and the whole worlde doo verie well knowe that by commaundement and appointement some in respect of such outrages as these men would charge me withall were put to death and other some being of great note and noble houses were arrested by the principall seruauntes of my housholde and after that they had bin kept prisoners a long time they were not deliuered but in respecte of the house from whence they had this honour to proceede and come the long imprisonment of their persons being appointed vnto them for the punishment which they had deserued But that whiche was done by my charge and appointement is in such sorte knowne to all the worlde that they are not able eyther to disguise or darken the same onely as they haue verie well learned to speake trueth that which I haue done vertuouslie they saye that I haue feigned that the thing did displease me But who hath tolde them that I feigned Or who is he that hath reuealed vnto them so much of my secreates They see that which I haue done they can not iudge my hearte neyther is there anie man so malitious except it be the forger of this writing or some Spaniarde whiche ought not rather to giue iudgement vppon that whiche he seeth than vppon that whiche he malitiouslie and wickedlie suspecteth The cast also infinite blames and slaunders vpon our religion and they call vs heretiques But it is such as a long time since they tooke vpon them to proue it and yet were neuer able to bring it to purpose or effect And I saie that these iniuries being like vnto the wordes of women prouoked chafed with collor do not deserue any aunswere much lesse that beastlinesse to saie that I neuer trusted any eyther Preest or Friar vnlesse he were maried and that I inforced them to marie For who is it that knoweth not that without choise or discretion they cast at my head euery thing that they finde in the waye so great is their furie and their passion so outragious and vnmeasurable And albeit that these things were true Cōcerning the mariage of Preestes as in deed they are not neither yet reasonable for we learne by our Religion that mariage ought to be free and should not be either inforced or forbidden yet so it is that this faulte should not be comparable with that tyrannie ouer cōsciences which hath forbidden mariage to a great part of Christendome against which forbidding nor onely the East churches opposed them selues but also the churches of Germanie and Fraunce But that my Lordes which is greatly to be esteemed in this Proscription so true and well grounded is this That the King commanded not the Duke of Alua to impose the tenth and twentieth pennie without the consent of the people If thē the Duke of Alua in a matter of so great importaunce and whiche was the cause of the death and destruction of so many thousandes of men hath passed his commission what punishment folowed thereof The Duke of Alua for hauing perfourmed to his owne sonne this dutie to wit that he might marie his cousin leauing another whom vnder the colour of mariage accomplished he had abused euen as Rigomes had before perfourmed for the King as before hath bin declared was cast into prison and put out of fauour and shoulde not as yet haue bin deliuered if in all Spaine they had bin able to haue founde a tyraunt Cōcerning the tenth tvventith pennie more fitt to exercise tyrannie vpon the poore Portugales then he He was then chastised for a small faulte and for such a great one he was honoured much made of and filled with rewardes And he that would presse the King with the death of my Lordes of Egmount and of Hornes he would say as much and disallowe againe the Duke of Alua for it Is not this a good meane thinke ye to discharge him selfe of all faultes But let them take which parte they will either the King commaunded it and then he can not auoyde the name of a tyraunt or els he commaunded it not and yet for all that the name of a tyraunt shall remaine vnto him because he did not chastise and correct him who of his owne priuate authoritie had vsurped such a tyrannie vppon a franck and free people whereby it appeareth that he is culpable thereof And albeit that I haue alwayes esteemed the Duke of Alua for the enemie of the Countrey and as one who hath willingly bathed him selfe in our blood and in the blood of all Christians carying closely a Turkishe hearte within him yet so it is that I haue knowne him to well and haue bin to to much practised to beleeue this that he should be so sottishe and so presumptuous as to dare to attempt to laye vpon the people an imposition of such consequence and to pursue it so long time and that by such extraordinarie yea altogether insupportable meanes to the countrey without good and sufficient cōmaundement directed vnto him therefore and that not once only but sundrie times I beseeche you my Lordes to weye this well whether he that in his owne proper and priuate name durst condemne or fauoure them that did condemne the Burgmaster of Amstelredam in fiue and twentie thousande Florins of amercement because he set him selfe against the tenth pennie was not well assured and had not sufficient discharge for the same from his Superior Neither neede we my Lordes any other place then this whereby to knowe the fraudes dissimulations and craftes wherewith the King hath so long a time led and deceaued vs and yet purposeth still to do if we suffer him to wound vs with the prick of his tongue or to astonishe vs with the threatnings of his armies And because he will haue the bruite thereof sounded abroad by reason of the Townes taken and surprised in Hollande to witte within this two three or foure veeres and that with more force then he hath fought against the Turke withall I aunswere him that hauing the aduantages whereof he braggeth he ought to consider whether this tende not to his very great shame that he is altogether driuen out of that Countrey And it standeth him not in any steede to alleadge the mutinie of the Spaniardes For a Gouernour and specially such a one as had such great meanes as hee had doeth sufficientlie bewraie his insufficiencie vnworthinesse to commaunde when he is not able by such meanes to keepe in obedience his own Souldiers on the other side in excusing him selfe so foolishlie he seeth whether he will or no that he is inforced to confesse that I and my Lordes of Hollande and Zealande hauing verie slender meanes as namely but foure or fiue thousande men haue broken his attemptes and