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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85934	Baltazar Gerbier Knight to all men that loves truth	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing G577; Thomason E510_1*; ESTC R205643	13,063	20

Douer and during the time of my attendance in the office of Master of Ceremonies after I had consumed my selfe in his Maiesties seruice during my eleven yeares Residency in the Court of Bruxels greate part of my arreares being 〈◊〉 payed No vvouder that I tooke then hold on the occasion to passe into France vvhen I had obtained the letter of Credence as aforesaid vvhich being about the time that a question vvas moved on as intercepted letter sent from London to Oxford fathered on me though no man could proure the caracter to be myne not to haue his sent directly nor indirectly by me my said departure then did not as it seemes satisfy all those that heard of the said letter not some that haue bin pleased to vent glosses theron Though I had to pleade on that subiect first not guilty Secondly That I vvas charged vvith a letter of Credence to passe a Compliment vvith a King vvho vvas acere the Angonies of death as it proued since ere I landed att Callis he vvas deceassed Thirdly that I had a passe from the Parliament declaring my libertie to attend his Maiesties seruice and this vvithout limitation of place vvhen his Maiestie had full povver on me to command mee to go or to come That my dependency vvas Manifest and publike my attendance but a Coremoniall part vvithout any relation to the dicipline of vvarres Fourthly 〈◊〉 my going from London I vvas in no constraint nor vnder any guarde Fiftly it vvas ten the ClocK in the morning vvhen I did embarke my selfe in the ordinary packett boate att Douer vvhereof one Master VVhi● vvas master vvho had Knovvne me many yeares before I payed the duties vvhich the Officers there demanded of mee all men that vvere there did see my face vvhich vvas not disguised by falce heare nor peruix Master vvhit vvas at the starren of the Boate and I neuer vvent under deck to hidde my selfe Sixtly that iff the letter could haue been proved to bee mine yet could it not have argued mee to bee a dangerous man since I had no voyce in chapter vvith either parties that I vvas no instrument of the unhappy difference betvven the King and his People for vvhich I shall praise God vvhille I live and di●●rs of my publick dispatchs vvhich I have made to the King and State during my Residency at Bruxels as my Iournals can manifest vvill prouve that I did faithfully relate hovv little the vvorld did reflect on His Majesties povver so long it vvas not seasoned by an Harmonious concordance of Parliaments VVhich vvas often cast in my teeth VVhen I did incist as my duty vvas and my Instructions did beare on the point of the restitution of the Palatinat VVhich endeauours besides the pursuance of His Majesties interests lost me vvith some of the Spanish Ministers as namely vvith the President Role vvho vvhen I did demand Iustice for His Majesties subjests and such possitiue ansvvers as I vvas commanded to put to him insolently questioned vvhetber the King had an Army of fifthy thousand man at his back VVhich he ●●eered vvith disrespectfull VVords vvheron I made a just complaint to the Infant Cardinall vvho did blame the said President Rose for it No men vvill vvonder as I do conceiue that I did at last sue for my recall from that imploiment as I did vvhen I had so long vvithstood the violence and malice of the Cottintoniens vvho by these great Intelligence vvith the most depraued Ministers the King of Spaine had some of vvhich the said King hath been constrained to shake of all the good and solid Orders sent to me by His Majesties Principall Secretaries of State vvere of no force and all good indeavours destroyed to the prejudice of His Majesties Seruice Honour and the reall good and greatnesse 〈◊〉 the State of England No vvonder also that I did sue for my said recall vvhen the Kings ennemies made use of Spirits of Dil●●ion to attempt on the Soules and minds of the first of my family a persecution vvhich vvithout comparaison Iob neuer felt for his calamity did not follovv him from one Countrey to another As sirst it begun against me in Brabant It continued at my returne in England and follovved me into France as feemes to finish vvhere it begun vvith my Predecessors For no sooner had I gotten in France a Surintendance of an Office vvhich vvould haue proued vvorth to me many thousand pounds a yeare but vvas pursued by factionnaries vvho did boldly maintaine in Petitions presented by the Bishop du Puis to the Queen Regent that She vvas Ipso facto excommunicated for having conferred such an Office on an Heretique as they terme all that are not of the Church of Rome This vvas pursued by libels and mischie●●●● contrivances in vvhich English Papists had part as especially those vvho impudently and most falcoly did sustaine me to be the man who crost all the King of great Brittains affaires abroad alledging 〈◊〉 other ground for their utterances but vvhat I had openly declared to the Lords in Parliament concerning the Lord Cottington and ha● during my being at Paris one Sir Thomas Dishington had free accesse to me That the said Sir Thomas Dishingt on should have said that it vvas I vvho disuaded the Queen Regent from sending any Ambassado●r into England that had not left a good esteeme there that the Queen Regent being graciously pleased to aske my opinion vvhat person seemed most fit for that Ambassage I said in ansvver to her most gracious commands that to me the Mareshall de Bassompie●●e seemeed the fittest being a peaceable graue good and vvise noble man vvho hauing once reconciled the tvvo Nations might perhaps prou● a fit Minister for the reconciliation betvveen the King and his people That the said Sir Thomas Dishington had said that the Lord Lanthian had departed as ill satisfied from the French Court as any man euer could If I had not represented to the Queene Regent and to the Cardinall Mazarin the true condition of that Lord That I had likevvise procured a present of a golden chaine to the said Sir Thomas Dishington and presented him to the Cardinall Mazarin before his going for England vvhich vvas in the yeare one thousand six hundreth fourty foure VVeake Objections indeed and vveake grounds for Master VVilliam Crafts to proceede on for the utter destruction of my familly and to take hold on any other occasion to do me mischief as vvas intended vvith a report that I had since my being in France corespounded vvith some that are not in good intelligence vvith the French On vvhich point I vvas not bound to ansvver to any man liuing for as I am a free man borne in Zeeland It vvas free to me being not ingaged in any seruice to correspond vvith vvhom I vvould Yes cannot any man doubt of my Integrity and Maxime● considering the profession I haue made during many yeares my experience and the cruell persecutions vvhich I have suffered by those

BALTAZAR GERBIER KNIGHT TO ALL MEN THAT LOVES TRVTH BALTHAZAR GERBIER KNIGHT To all men that Loues Truth THe Diuine p●ecopts of Christ forbidd men to Iudge one annother Iudgment belongs to God and to none else for he saith IVDGMENT IS MINE It pleaseth God to suffer my Parents to fly the bluddy persecutions in France against those vvhich the Roman Catholikes called then 〈◊〉 My said Parents left and lost all for that cause My Father Anthoine Gerbier vvas a genthleman borne and had a Baronnie in Notmandie My Mother vvas Radegonde daughter jn Ayre to the Lord of Blayet in Picardie I vvas borne att Middelbourg in Zelandt vvhence I vvas by one of my Brothers transported into France and thence returned and about 〈◊〉 tuinty one past in the company of Noël Caron then Holl●ndt Ambassadeur into England vvhere I applied myselfe to George Villiers nevvly become fauorit to King Ieames the said George Villiers being immediatly after Baron Viscount Earle and aftervvards created Marquis and Duke of Buckingham My attendance vvas pleasing to him bijcause of my seuerall languages good hand in vvriting skill in sçiences as Mathematicks Architecture dravving painting contryuing of scenes Marques shovvs and entertainments for greate Princes besides many 〈◊〉 vvhich I had gathered from diuers rare persons as likvv●e for making of Engins usfull in vvarre as I made those vvhich might blovve vpp the Dike that stopt the passage to the Tovvne of Rochell for it vvas on the same Modell of that of the Prince of Parms vvhen the attempt vvas on Antvverpe He did puts to me first the contryuance of some of his habitations to chouse for t him rarities bookes medals marble of mony of vvhich I neuer vvould hane the managing I did keepe his Cifers vvith his jntelligences abroade vvas sent by him vvith the king his Masters aprobation in secret Messages No sooner vvere those markes of trust obserued butt malicious Ignorant persons made glosses theron according the places vvere I vvas sent My first publike inployment abroade vvas a iourney into Holland to meete theire an Eminent person from Brabant vvho vvas to make ouuertures from Spaine and Germani●e for the restitution of the Palatinat I vvent att that same justant jnto Tessei and assisted Sr. Sackville Trevers to gett cleere from the Eastindian Company theire dessigne vvhich vvas to stay him vvith the Shipp called the S. Esprit vvhere vviht he made aftervvards for England My second jmployment vvas jn France to expostulate vviht the Cardinall de Richelieu concerning large promisses France had made to assist Count Mansfelt vvhen king Ieames vvas mouued to engage him selfe on theire fai●e promisses againts Spaine vvhich assistance prouued att last butt bare Cabinet discourses and no reall engagement of that king nor Ministers of state vvhich seemed to vexc Count Mansfelt art my returne to Douer and semed to mouve him to desire that I should say to King Ieames that he had keijes to make his one passage through France iff the king vvould giue him leaue though it vvas a question vvhether Count Mansfelt ment it for he neuer had any o●ttaine promisse of a reall conjonction nor assistance of the french his Tresorier then for shovve only did passe aquittances to the french thereby to persuade king Ieames that the jntended vvare for the Palatinat should not vvholly lay on his charge I vvas aftervvards jmployed againe jnto Brabant vvhere I vvas commanded to comune vvith the Marquis Spinola about the reconcilliation betvveene the Crovvne of England and Spaine on vvhich secret conference the treaty vvas sett on foot and pursued vntill it vvas braught to à conclusion I vvas jmploied jnto France to remonstrate the greate jnconueniencies of theire countenancing of the Spanish trade for that theire shipping did transportte all the Spanish Marchandise and thereby frustrated the king of England of those hopes during the breach betvveene the tvvo Crovvnes after the desoluing of the tvvo Treaties of the Spanish match and that of the Palatinat the Spaniards might haue been pu●t to it and thereby mouued to giue fitt satisfaction on the point of the Palatinat I vvas likvveise imployed by the King to remonstrate to the French King and to the then Queene Mother the mistakes of the French Ambassador Monsieur de Blinuille vvhen his men vsed violence on the Kings Officers Constables and others that did theire Duty to hinder the scandalous resort of English Papists att Durham house I did then deliuer to the Cardinall des Richelieu a letter of the Duke of Buckingham vvhich vvas by some taken for the cause and begining of mis-intellgences betvvene the tvvo Crovvnes of England and France because those tvvo greate fauorits did then declare theire ressents vvhich vvere so violently vttered on the Cardinall de Richelieu side as that hee accompanied them vvith unciuill glosses vvho gaue ground to some licencious discourses vvhich did so little vvorck on me that had not other Northstarre then his Majesties seruices and my duty as mouued mee to proceed as befitted a person sent on good grounds and to make apparant to the haughty spiritt of that Cardinall that threats vvere to vveake to driue me from my byas nor could his compliments aftervvards vvork any other effect on me vvhen he desired my toturne then to mouue me to heare him and to relate his vtterances vvhich concluded vvith compliments that he contented himselfe to knovve the fame of a fauorit so great as the Duke of Buckingham vvas but for him only to act the part of a single Minister of state vvho did admire the povver of the Canon of an English Admirall but that hee him selfe did remaine in the humility of the Canons of that Church vvhereof he vvas a Disciple and as those vtterances vvhere indeed butt flovvers of Rethorice they coueted serpents for he caused men to follovv me to the very port of Bollogne vvhere the foldiers vvere apointed to ceasse on all my papers butt he vvas disapointed for I gott safe into England I vvas aftervvards commanded tovvards Spaine on an invitatin● from that King and a Passe sent for my safe Landing In any 〈◊〉 of CANTABRIA it vvas to proceede to the intended Treaty of reconcilliation betvvene the tvvo Crovvnes butt an Irish blee●d Eyd Papist Priest vvas sett on by Mr. Endimion Porter to make the Duke of Buckingham beleeue that the Conde-Duch d'Oliuaras the king of Spaines fauorit desired the said Mr. Porter to be sent on that Treaty vvhich prouued but a plot of the said Mr Porter as apeared by his proceedings for after he got the Duke of Bukinghams consent to go allong vvith them and the Abot d'Escaillie then Amb●ssad from the Duke of Savoye no sooner vvere vvee arriued at Bruxels butt the said Mr. Porter vvith out knovvledge of the said Abot d'Escalie lesse of m●e repaired secretly to the Arch Duchesse Infame Isabells and to Don Carlot Colom●● to contrice his disguised passage into Spaine vvithout the said Abot d'E●caille and my selfe vvich he undertooke