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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

good people which demaundeth nothing else but to haue good counsels laide open before them nor desireth any thing else but to follow the same And this doing if you yet continue towardes me the fauour whiche heretofore you haue borne me I hope by your aide Gods grace which I haue so often heretofore felt and that in very perplexed and doubtfull matters that that which shall be resolued vpon by you shall be for the good and preseruation of your selues your wiues and children and all sacred and holie thinges ¶ The Copie of a Letter written by the King with his own hand to the Prince of Orange translated out of Spanish into Frenche I HAVE WITH GREAT AFFEction receaued your Letter of the xxvij of Maie and since that other which you writie vnto me the xivj. of sune and by that which I haue written to my sister you haue bin abie to vnderstande the small occasion that you haue to think that which you write vnto me in that Letter of the xxvij of Maie but rather the contrarie Also it is cetaine that you shoulde much deceaue your selfe to thinke that I would not haue all confidence and good opinion of you and albeit some certain one should meane to perfourme a contrarie duetie towardes me yet this should remame that I would not be so light as to giue credite thereto hauing so great expertence of your loyaltie and seruices Wherefore you neede not trouble your selfe therwith but stay your self vpon the Letters which heretofore I haue written vnto you in this behalfe and vpon your owne deedes but at no hande rest vpon that which some enemies it may be of my seruice and of your good estate would indeauour to cause you to vnderstande Touching the libertie you demaunde to leaue of your charges and offices it greeueth me that your particular affaires and businesses are in such tearmes and state as you say and I cannot but tell you that the affaires of those Countreis standing in such sorte and maner as they doe it is not reason that such persons as yours is to whom I trust and vpon whome I stay my selfe should abandon and forsake the same specially I my selfe being so farre off from the said Countreis yea rather it were reason that those that are in their owne houses should speedily prouide for and helpe this present necessitie and unploy themselues vpon that wherevnto they are bound as ye haue presently done ingoing to Antuerpe whereby I haue receaued great contentment and ioye and am very well assured that ye will there doe whatsoeuer shall bee most conuenient for my seruice and for the quietnesse and peace of the sayd towne and countrey and for the auoiding of the disorders that shall arise there which thing also I hope of you and I knowe that yee will not declare your selfe to be any other than such a one as yee haue heretofore declared your selfe to be all your life long And to the end yee may perceaue that I doe deale freely with you I will not cease to aduertise you that there hath bin in these quarters a great rumor cōcerning this to wit that your brother hath bin found to be a dealer in those thinges that are done there And because I cannot cease much and often to thincke of this matter I charge you straightly diligentlye to consider how it may be remedied and redressed that it proceede no further and looke that you doe effectuallie performe it and if it seeme good vnto you to remooue for a few dayes your brother far from you doe so From the Forest of Segouia the first of August Subsigned PHILIP And written vpon the backside To the Prince of Orange And sealed with the Kinges Seale ❧ A PROCLAMATION AND AN EDICT IN FORME OF A PROSCRIPTION made by the Maiestie of the King our Lorde against William of Nassau Prince of Orange as the cheefe Captaine and disturber of the state of Christendome and specially of these low Countreyes by which euery one is authorised to hurt him and to kill him as a publique plague with a rewarde to him that shall doe it and shall bee assisting and ayding therevnto PHilip by the grace of God King of Castile of Leon of Arragon of Nauarr of Naples of Cicilia of Maleorcha of Sardinia of the Isles of the Indes and the firme lande of the Ocean Sea Archeduke of Austrich Duke of Burgondy of Lothier of Brabant of Lembourg of Luxembourg of Gelderland and of Millan Countie of Habsbourg of Flaunders of Arthois of Burgundie Palatine both of Haynault of Holland of Zeland of Namure and of Zutphen Prince of Swaue Marques of the holy Empire Lorde of Friseland of Salines of Malines of the Citie Townes and countrey of Vtrecht of Oueryssel and Groninge and Gouernour in Asia and A frick To all those that shall see these present writinges greeting It is knowne to all the worlde how the late Emperour of most excellent memorie Charles the fift my Lord and father whom God absolue hath fauourablie handled and dealt with William of Nassau for the succession of the late Rene of Challon Prince of Orange his cousine and howe from that time forwarde euen from his first age he hath although hee were a straunger greatly aduaunced him which thing wee our selues also haue alwayes successiuely continued and day lie augmented more and more hauing made him first of our order afterwarde our Leiuetenaunt generall in the gouernment of Holland Zeland Vtrecht and of Burgundy and withall of our counsell of estate bestowing vppon him sundrie benefites and honours whereby both by reason of the othe of fidelitie and homages which he hath likewise made vnto vs because also of the fees pensions landes and Lordships helde of vs in diuers our Countreis and Prouinces he was greatlie subiected and bound to obey vs to keepe and holde his faith giuen and to procure the good and profite of our affaires and consequently to maintaine all quietnesse and peace in our estates and countreyes Notwithstanding euery one knoweth that we were not so soone departed out of those our low Countreyes but that the sayd William of Nassau made Prince of Orange by the meanes aboue mentioned did by his sinister practises deuises and craftes assaie firste to get the good willes of those whome he knew to be discontent greatly indebted haters of iustice studious of nouelties and speciallie such as were suspected to be of the religion bancketting them prouoking them and drawing them after him by faire wordes promises and vaine perswasions euen so farre that he was the principall authour promotor and framer of the first request presented by certaine companies of yong Gentlemen who did dayly frequent his house and table yea that the very plot thereof was layde in his saide house by and with the assistaunce of Countie Ludouick of Nassau his brother a great heretick And albeit that he was the director of al these deuises yet in that time he daily haunted the counsel of estate being present at