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A03452	Obseruations concerning the present affaires of Holland and the Vnited Prouinces, made by an English gentleman there lately resident, & since written by himselfe from Paris, to his friend in England; Spiegel der Nederlandsche elenden. English	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 13576; ESTC S116935	38,409	134

suppose the Hollanders to deserue the same in regard of a kind of loue and affection which they beare vnto that State albeit no effect or shew of good deeds to proue it doth anv way breake out This inuisible affection must then be imagined to consist in a true desire they haue to the countiuuance of the present State Gouernement as now it standeth Les vs then see how likely it is by first of al calling into consideration the affection they manifest themselues to beare vnto our Kings Maiesty of England for this ought to giue the first and best light vnto this great obscurity Surely if I should relate vnto you what myne owne eares haue heard in this point you would stand amazed Respect of conscience and duty doth not permit me to repeate those most odious Epithets which without any r●spect of Maiesty are euery where common in these rebellious Hollanders mouthes And I protest vnto you that I verily thinke they did neuer more spytefully raile against the King of Spayne whome they hold for their greatest enemy Their wordes as I sayd I will not repeate for feare least an alleadger of the calumnyes of others might be taken for a subtil calumniator himselfe but if you doubt of the truth heerof make further enquiry of such as since the late famous battaile fought in Bohemia haue come out of Holland into England for there want no witnesses to affirme this to be true And if you shall chance to meet with One who for affection to the Hollanders will rather dissemble then confesse the truth especially being demaunded therof in Englād I doubt not but you wil meet with Two who will affirme it and withall confesse that there is not any remedy to ●h●rme their durty mouthes and much lesse to any purpose for an Englishman to oppose himselfe against the lauish tongues of such an vnbridled multitude of cocks crowing vpon their own dunghil And who can otherwise imagine but that they who are in authority amongst them be content that the common sort doe speake that which themselues also thinke and in priuate speake the same as well as they seeing in publike they shew no dislike therof That the Hollanders do desire the continuance of the present State and Gouernement of the Realme as now it standeth by wishing the long raigne of his Maiesty of England and of the Prince his Highnes after him who can imagine since all their dri●ts do wholy tend to their owne ends and that the Count Pa●atine by his Mothers side is of the house of Nassaw to which house of all othe● vpon earth they are most deuoted and that by the sayd Count Palatine his attayning to the Crown of Englād diuers of the same house that want liuings as wel in Holland as in the Duchy of Bullion as also in other places might come to be aduāced in England And no doubt since the Count Palatine hath already had the tast of one Crowne they will the more desire the pleasing of hi● appetite with another The religion of England they also like not and therefore in regard of a more pure and perfect Reformation they do out of zeale and conscience the lesse desyre the continuāce of the State as it is Their freindes the Puritanes haue long since giuen them to vnderstand how ilfauour●dly the Religion of England is now reformed and what great want they haue of a Holland-discipline and such a worshipfall Consistory of Church-counsellours as they h●ue there in euery of their Townes They haue also enformed them of the great lyuings that certayne men in England do possesse who beare the name of Bishopes and whose large reuenewes would fall out very fit for sundry poore Countes of the aforesayd howse of Nassaw to begin withall til confiscation of English Noblemens lyuinges might be able to make them the more capable of the titles of Dukes and Princes And this being matter to reflect vpon I will so leaue it vnto your further ponderation and proceed to giue you satisfaction according to your demaund in the rest CHAP. V. Of the present state of the Hollanders and of the diuision among them about matters of Religion and whether respect of Religion may vrge England still to assist them THAT the Hollanders haue a will to continue their warres to the end that at last they might in quiet possession attayne to their wished great Republike of the whole seauenteene Netherland Prouinces with such adiacent and Anseaitcke places as they could come to incorporate and annexe vnto them there is no doubt but their want of meanes to vndergoe this charge wherof no end can be determined is also out of doubt It is now about some two yeares ago that I saw a note of calculation made of their debts which then appeared to be about six millions of florins for the which they payed do yet yearly pay interest It is not lyke that this debt is diminished but that it is rather since that tyme much augmented besydes theyr yearely ch●rge of mayntayning their presidies and fortifications they haue beene at a great deale of lost cost in their monethly great summes of money disbursed for the ayding of the Count Palatine Their meanes and trafficke of marchandize is well known to be nothing so good as it hath beene and dayly to declyne to worse and worse for they haue not only had ex●reme losses by pirates but haue shewed themselues so vnpartiall that because the English Merchants should not thinke them only bent to spoyle their trade they spoyle their trading amongst them selues in so much that Holland doth not only spoile the trading of Zeland but euen in Holland they dayly study to spoile the trade one of another so as it hath beene noted that when in Amsterdam it selfe some Merchant hauing gotten priuate aduice from his correspondent els where that in such or such a place such and such a commodity will be well vented and that this Merchant thereupon fraighteth a ship with wares accordingly another that perceaueth him to be fraighting though not knowing whither his voyage is intended will straight wayes and with all diligence fraight a ship also with the self same wares and follow and dogge him by sea till he arriue to the same Hauen vnto which the other is bound and so by hindering of his gaine catch away the bread out of his mouth And as by this so by all other wayes and meanes ●ch one seeks to spoyke and hinder another for all will be Merchants aswell the Boores in the Villages as the Burgers in the Towne This then trading then thus hindred what by Pyrats what by the multitude of Merchants and other wayes spoyled they cannot draw sufficient meanes for the maintenance of warre only out of toles and customes neither can it be raysed by taxes and impositions layd vpon the people they being already more heauily burdened that way then they are able to beare and farre beyond the tenth penny which the Dulde of 〈◊〉

poysoned and preuented by one whome himselfe had thought by such a meanes to haue made away He dyed without any signe of a Christian and being dead seemed so vgly a corse as euen amazed the beholders His body was opened and in his stomake were great holes eaten through with the poyson His Landes were all presently seized on for his debts to the Queene whereby he was now as much disgraced being dead as he would perhaps haue beene if he had liued but a little longer and as his life was not much laudable so was his death not greatly lamented The next in this ●anke must be Queene Elizabeth her selfe by whose meanes as this rebellion at the first began so was it by her ayd euen to her last end continued And if a happy death be the true happynes of the precedent life she cannot be sayd to haue had it neither in regard of the good of her selfe nor yet of her subiects for she sought not the one and she had not the other She sought not the good of her subiects which in all reason and right she was bound to do both before God mā because she prohibited both speach and euen the knowledge as it were of any successor to her Crowne as all the world well knoweth In so much that if some of the Nobility presently vpon her death had not resolued to receaue vnto her Crowne dignity the true lawfull Heyre that now raigneth the bloud of many thousandes of her subiects might haue beene spilt for ought she did to preuent it Some do report her to haue sayd that whyles she liued no Heyre apparent should be de●lared and after her death she wished that she might for a while remayne betweene heauen earth to see how they would tugge for the Crown Surely the desire of seeing such a sport could litle deserue the loue that her subiects bo●e vnto her and heerby may we see vpon how little cause and reason vulgar affection is oftentymes grounded That her death was not happy appeareth in that it is no happynes to dye distracted and not to haue had from the beginning to the end of her sicknes the perfect vse of reason and consequently not to haue beene able most earnestly to call vpon God which as it is most fit that at their end a●l men should doe so is it most requisite that in the end of a life which hath been entertayned with all the pleasures that the World could affoard it should be done with the greatest compunction contrition of hart that may be And I haue heard it confidently reported that Syr Thomas Gressam more then thirty yeares before Queene Eliza●eths death did in priuate discourse tell vnto some friends of his and namely vnto Syr Philip Scidamore then not Knight that at the death of Queene Mary he then being in the Citty of Antwerp a woman comming into a house where he was sayd vnto him Your Queene Mary is now dead and Queene ●lizabeth that succeedeth her shall in the end come to dye mad Whether this woman had the spirit of prophesy or no I cannot say but certaine it is that she seemed not in her sicknes nor at her death to be in her perfect senses whe●eby she could neither be carefull for the future good of her subiects by not then declaring that which she needed not any longer to haue concealed nor in calling vpon Almighty God for mercy for a soule that so greatly had need thereof Let vs now lastly come vnto the great Statesman and Menager of this State composed of States the Holland-aduocate Berneuelt This man after the death of the Prince of O●ange aforesayd when his sonne Count Mauri●e and his other children were but young and the State and gouernment wholy raw and out of order deuised and set down the plot and meanes for the mayntayning of it in the forme of a Republike he made the alliances between it and other Princes and States abroad and became a most careful Tut or for the bringing vp of the Prince of Orange his children yet in the end about realousies and wranglings grown vp among themselues this great Aduocate of Holland and Sterne-holder of that whole State hauing deserued so well thereof as any man could came to dye on a scaffold as a criminall malefactor by the handes of the hangman whereby the King of Spayne and their Highnesses the Princes of the Netherlands whome he had most offended and had not the meanes to punish him did see him punished by those whome himself had most serued in offending them Some may heer a●leage that the Archduke Matthias who afterward came to be Emperor had beene a chief Commaunder and gouernour also ouer this rebellious faction and yet came not to any vnfortunate end To this I answere that true it is this Prince had such a charge layed vpon him when by reason of his youth he wanted iudgment perfectl● to descern what he did William of Nassaw the vnhappy Prince of Orange before mentioned being his chief Lieftenant vnder him and the only man that disposed of al. And yet escaped this yong Archduk not without disgrace among thē when they neither cared for him nor much respected him in their ordinary speaches gaue him the name of their Foster chyld esteeming him but as a chyld or as a cipher that only serued to supply a place But in the end this noble Prince discouering their vniust courses his own errour left thē and gaue ouer that mistaken gouernment and retyring himselfe into Germany sought and found meanes to reconcile himself vnto his Cousin the King of Spayne whose grace and fauour he obtayned which none of the former that came to vnfortunate endes euer sought for And by this meanes all former soars were salued this Prince by leauing to follow this wrong course was not only freed from comming to an vnfortunate or disgracefull end but came to dy as a good Christian Prince and in the most high estate of an Emperour Thus haue I heere briefly related vnto you how ill they haue sped who haue beene the chiefest Actors in so ill a busines as is rebellion the assisting of rebels against their most iust and lawfull Soueraigne what may succeed to others that do or intend to continue the same vniust course must be reserued to the manifestation of tyme but apparent it is by that which heere hath been shewed that the most high and supreme Ruler of all hath by permitting these their disgracefull endes shewed his dislike of their actions contrarywise to such as haue beene obedient to his will his benediction hath been manifest in a copious manner The benefits then which England might expect by continuing to take the Hollanders partes must be vnderstood to be endles Charges great Dishonour and the high Displeasure of Almighty God togeather with the Hollanders recompensing the same with contemptuous ingratitude which are motiues to mooue mad men to be their friendes Some may perhaps