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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61883	A justification of the present war against the United Netherlands wherein the declaration of His Majesty is vindicated, and the war proved to be just, honourable and necessary, the dominion of the sea explained, and His Majesties rights thereunto asserted, the obligations of the Dutch to England, and their continual ingratitude : illustrated with sculptures : in answer to a Dutch treatise entituled, Considerations upon the present state of the United Netherlands / by an English man.	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1672 (1672)	Wing S6050; ESTC R9857	73,902	89

utterly overthrown as their Enemies expected by molesting them with long unjust and bloody Wars the which the Estates according to their duties and in respect of their places in the behalf of their Fellows and Brethren were forced to withstand and as much as in them lay oppose themselves against the manifest slavery which they thought to impose upon the poor Common-people and by their best endeavours ●o maintain their ancient Freedoms Laws and Priviledges with the exercise of the true Christian Religion whereof her Majesty truly and by good right did bear the Title of Defendress against the which the Enemy and all his Adherents had f●rmed so many Leagues attempted so many fearful and deceitful Enterprises and Treasons and yet cease not daily to invent practise and devise the destruction of her Majesties Royal Person together with her Estate and Kingdoms which the Almighty God under the protection of his everlasting goodness hitherto hath preserved from all dangers for the good and upholding of the Church of Christ here upon earth For these reasons and many other good considerations the Estates aforesaid with one full and free consent had altogether determined and fully resolved to flye unto her Majesty in regard it is an usual thing for all oppressed and distressed people and Nations in their great distress and necessity to seek just aid and assistance against their Enemies from Kings and Princes their Neighbours and especially from those that were endued with courage fear of God uprightness of heart and other Princely Ornaments and to that end the Estates aforesaid had enjoyned and commanded them to beséech her Majesty to accept of the Soveraignty and Supreme Dominion over the said United Provinces upon certain and reasonable Conditions especially tending to the upholding maintaining and furtherance of Gods true Religion and the ancient Freedoms and Priviledges to them due and belonging together with the government and managing of the Wars Policy and Iustice of the said Vnited Provinces of the Netherlands And although the said Netherlands had endured divers losses and that many of their Towns and Forts had been won from them by the Enemy during these Wars nevertheless in Brabant Guelderland Flanders Macklin and Overissel there were yet many good Towns and places that held out against the Enemy and the Provinces of Holland Zeland Utrecht and Frizland were by Gods-grace and wonderful providence still kept and preserved in their whole and entire possessions wherein they W Sherwin sculpt had many great and strong Towns and Places-fair Rivers Deeps havens whereof her Majesty and her successors might have good Commodities Services and Profit whereof it were needless to make any longer discourse but one in special That by Vniting the Countries of Holland Zeland Utrecht and Frizland the Towns of Ostend and Seluse unto her Majesties Kingdoms and Dominions she might have the full and absolute Dominion over the great Ocean and procure unto the subjects of her Majesty perpetual and most assured safe●y together with their prosperity They did therefore most humbly beseech her Royal Majesty to vouchsafe out of her Royal favour and Princely bounty to yield to the foresaid points of their Request and so to accept for her and her lawful Heirs or Successors in the Crown of England Defenders of the true Christian Religion the Soveraign Rights Principality and Dominion of the said Netherlands and in regard thereof to reecive the Inhabitants thereof as her Majesties most humble and obedient Subjects and Vassals into her perpetual Safeguard and Protection a People as true faithful and loving to their Princes and Governours without vai● boasting be it spoken as any other in Christendom And so doing she should preserve and protect many fair Churches which it had pleased Almighty God in these latter days to gather together in several of the said Provinces being now in many places being now in great fear peril and danger and to deliver the Netherlands and the Inhabitants thereof from miserable thraldom who not long before the wicked and hostile Invasions of the Spaniards were so rich and flourishing in all sorts of wealth by reason of the great Commodities of the Sea Havens Rivers Traffick manual Trades and Occupations whereunto they are much given and naturally inclined She should likewise preserve them from utter destruction and perpetual slavery both of Body and Soul and so effect a right Princely and most Royal work pleasing to God profitable for all Christendom worthy of eternal praise and glory and sitting well with the Magnanimity ●●d other Royal Vertues of her Majesty as also most advantagious to the security and welfare of her particular Subjects This being said They presented their Articles unto her Majesty with the greatest humility imaginable beseeching God who is the King of Kings to defend protect and preserve her from all her Enemies to the increase of her Honour and Greatness and perpetually to keep her in his holy protection and safeguard The Queen heard them graciously and received their Overtures with very obliging acknowledgments the Deputies kissing her Royal hands retired with much satisfaction and her Majesty was no less pleased with the honour of that day's Audience For albeit that the King of France had the first tender of their Soveraignty yet neither was it made with such submission and deference as to her Majesty neither was the tender so absolute then as now The Deputies to France were sent indeed with a general pretence and declaration of surrendring up the Dominion of the Netherlands to that Crown but they had separate instructions from their several Principals the which they never imparted one to the other but kept secret with different procurations The Deputies of Brabant Flanders Zeland and M●chlin were enjoined to finish the Negotiation upon any terms they could get so as that Religion and general priviledges were confirmed unto them Whereas Holland and Vtrecht had so limited their Deputies that they were to insist upon better terms and rather not to come up to the general Instructions of the States than to exceed them I do not read of any such difference in the Procurations sent over hither neither do I find any reason to believe there were any such the Queen for several weighty reasons declined to take upon Her the Soveraignty or perpetual protection of the Netherlands yet did She consent to enter into a League with them to aid them with 5000 Foot and 1000 Horse and to pay them during the War which the Estates were to repay when a peace should be concluded In the mean time Flyssing and the Castle of Ramm●kins in Waleheren and the Isle of Brill with the City and two Forts were to be delivered into the Queens hands to be kept by her Garrisons for caution The Governour General and two Englishmen whom the Queen should name should be admitted into the Council of Estates c. The confederacy was finished upon the tenth of August and accordingly Sir Iohn Norris was sent

quarrel of the Dutch is not with His Majesty His Royal Highness and the Court but with the Nation In other cases it is irrational and imprudent to distinguish betwixt the Political and private Capacity of our King but in this they are so inseparable that the interest of the People King and Court are all one and equally concerned in the evil success of our Fleet and were we by a detestable fiction deprived of the King and Court the Controversie would still remain betwixt the Dutch and the unhappy survivors in England It was not the want of force at that time which occasioned the misfortunes of the Hollanders but the Courage and Valour of the English and what may we not under God promise our selves from the same persons now who besides the sense of their past Victories have this further incitement that they fight under their lawful Prince a Prince so just and generous and the auspicious Conduct of his Royal Highness Through all these difficulties and innumerable others we have by the mercies of God waded and would have wished with all our souls by a long continued Unity the true and innocent Interest of our Peace-coveting Republick to have tasted the ●ruits of our sharp labours and dangers but it hath pleased God to order and dispose it otherwise who by his just and adorable judgments forceth us to acknowledge that we now as much as ever stand in néed of his powerful protection since we find our selves at this present time encompassed with a necessity to oppose the extreamest assaults of the greatest Forces of Europe with a power which indéed is inconsiderable in comparison of that of our Enemies by which yet how weak soev●r we da not despair to defend and secure our selves strengthned with hopes that God shall please to look upon the Equity of our innocent case with the eyes of his justice and our sins and defects with the eyes of his mercy And in truth if ever the Sword is drawn in time of necessity and for innocent defence of our dear Country it is at this present in which it séems the Grandees of this world have in the counsel of the power of darkness concluded the ruine and destruction of the United Netherlands assuming to their associates all such as value Christian blood no more than that of Sheep and Goats delighting their eyes with the devastation of Countries and Cities even as if they beheld Comedies Wise people do frequently look back upon things passed and by comparing those with the present Transactions they from thence form unto themselves Documents and Rules whereby to regulate their deportment If our Enemies the Hollanders had amongst the difficulties through which they have waded called to mind the meaness of their own condition when they sought refuge here and when Queen Elizabeth supported them the Vicinity Strength and Generosity of the English Nation the candor and sincerity which hath been constantly expressed unto them by the Royal Ancestors of his Majesty whilst they favoured these infamous Netherlanders Had they considered the vicissitudes of Fortune how great and unexpected they are the dangers of growing too puissant though the foundation of Grandeur be not laid in the wronging and depressing of others that 't is requisite for them who advance themselves by fraudulent means and the injuries of others to retain some firm Allies and by the repute of their sincerity to some efface the ignominy and allay the odium which their perfidiousness to others would create them Had they assumed such thoughts as these they had never contracted so universal an enmity as they are now in danger to sink under Their condition is altogether like that of the Earl of S. Paul who having enriched and advantaged himself by a constant practice of Treachery to the Kings of England and France and the Duke of Burgundy none of them being safe from his machinations nor being able to relye upon any promises of his how solemn and sacred soever they all together resolved to establish the common tranquillity by the ruine of that perfidious man And when the City of Venice had by several arti●●c●s aggrandized her self and incroached upon the Dominions of sundry Princes the Emperour French King Pope and others did all joyn against that Republick which by so many practices in raising and fomenting of the Divisions and Wars of Italy breaking of former and entring into new Leagues as advantage not right did excite them and deprived the Venetians of all they held in the Terra firma It is in vain for the Considerer to justifie the present War unto his Country-men by urging Necessity and Innocent defence of themselves How specious soever those pleas are they avail not in this case because they by the manifold injuries and contumel●es done to the K. of England have provoked him to attacque them and created to themselves this Necessity of Warring nor is their Defence innocent because it includes a Defence of the most barbarous Criminals against all Laws divine and humane And certainly if ever any War was justified by the Laws of Nature and Nations if self-preservation the protection of injured Subjects vindication of Rights revenge of great Injuries and Indignities be just motives to commence a quarrel as each one of them is never was any Prince more wronged than his Majesty is when the glory of his present actings is extenuated or soiled by any charge of injustice nor do I find amongst his Associates any such as value Christian blood no more than that of Sheep and Goats but I find He hath for Enemies those that so exquisitely tormented and so barbarously put to death the English at Amboyna and by a thousand actions no less cruel have testified their little regard to Christian blood The Considerer that he might evince the Equity of their Cause pretends to deduce its original the sum of his prolix discourse is this That the King of France urging his pretensions on a considerable part of the Spanish Netherlands in right of his Queen to whom they were devolved The United Netherlands moved by a Peace-loving inclination and apprehension of a terrible N●●●hbour d●d endeavour to extinguish the sury of that War whose flames they fea●ed would not only consume the adjacent Countries but also scorch the more remote places and to that end they associated Counsels with the Kings of Great Britain and Sweden and joyntly concluded a Triple Alliance betwixt themselves by which they ●ave mutually obliged each other to promote the peace betwixt France and Spain on the terms and proffers of the Alternative and by the same peace to secure the quiet and tranquility of Christendom promising each to other for further confirmation of the said Triple League That betwixt them always should be and continue a Sincere Vnity and serious correspondence from their hearts and in good faith to advance each others profits utility and dignity and whatsoever should oppose it self thereunto with their best endeavours to