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A02239	A generall historie of the Netherlands VVith the genealogie and memorable acts of the Earls of Holland, Zeeland, and west-Friseland, from Thierry of Aquitaine the first Earle, successiuely vnto Philip the third King of Spaine: continued vnto this present yeare of our Lord 1608, out of the best authors that haue written of that subiect: by Ed. Grimeston.; Grande chronique. English	Le Petit, Jean François, 1546-ca. 1615.; Grimeston, Edward.; Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535-1612. Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis.; Sichem, Christoffel van, ca. 1546-1624, engraver.	1608 (1608)	STC 12374; ESTC S120800	2,253,462	1,456

in the yeare 1572 in diuers townes thereby to compell them to yeeld to the tenth penie What horrible murthers were done and committed in Naerden and Harlem contrarie to the faithfull promises made in Dom Fredericks name is manifestly knowne to euery man where hee caused all the souldiers not sparing their young boyes and pages to bee executed suffering their dead bodies starke naked to lye a whole day and a night vpon the scaffolds and in the market place to the great shame and feare of the women and maids and some of them that had deliuered the towne vnto him hee determined to send them into Spaine to bee gally slaues and those that lay in the Fuyck by Harlem hee suffered them to die for hunger saying That he promised them their liues but not to giue them meat The good bourgers hee compelled to bee pioners before the towne of Alcmar that so hee might bring them vnto their ends There is no honest nor godly Christian but abhorreth and is ashamed to doe any iniurie vnto the bodies of the dead and the buriall of the dead is thought a fit and an honourable thing amongst the Heathens and Barbarians but the duke of Alua caused diuers dead bodies to spight both God and man after they had beene buried and layne certaine daies in the ground to bee digged vp againe and to bee drawne vnder the gallowes and there to bee hanged or burnt alledging that they died without receiuing the Sacrament or being confest but in trueth it was done onely that according to his proclamation hee might confiscat their goods The state of mariage the onely foundation of all societie in euerie place and towne and the bond of loue and peace the right ground of all good life and conuersation amongst men which most consisteth in true and right consent was by the Duke of Alua broken and disanulled for that the parties that were maried in the reformed assemblies were held as heretikes vnlesse they maried againe which many did by that meanes to bestow the rich women vpon his souldiers for a prize To conclude hee did openly breake and disannull all honest amitie and loue that one man is bound to shew vnto the other murthering and executing women that holpe their husbands and children that comforted their parents in their vttermost and greatest extremities and such as did but comfort them with a letter as was to bee seene in the towne of Mastricht where the father was cruelly put to death because hee lodged his sonne that hee had not seene in long time before one night and another because hee gaue a poore widow whose husband had beene put to death for religion certaine corne for almes another for that hee sent certaine money vnto his friend which was then in England and confiscated the goods of many honest and rich women because they had lodged their husbands in their houses whereby they were compelled to beg their bread Hee likewise prophaned the holy Sacrament of Baptisme causing the children that had beene openly and publikely baptised in the name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to bee Baptised againe because they had beene Baptised as hee said by heretikes which was against the decrees of Counsels and all the lawes both of God and man To shew his extreame pride and high mind in the castle of Antuerp hee caused his image to bee made and erected of brasse like Nabuchadnezer placing vnder his feet the nobilitie and states of the countries of the Netherlands and at Antuerpe in the market place where hee published a pardon hee caused a princely throne to bee erected which is vsed to bee set vp onely therewith to honour princes and kings which hee of himselfe caused to be set vp and sat therein to the diminishing of the kings honour which no lieutenant to the king before him euer durst attempt This is that wherewith the countries of the Netherlands both of the one and the other religion doe charge him The duke being safely arriued in Spaine was well esteemed and accounted of by the king but not of the common people which appeared when as he was committed to prison by Bulloa his owne prouost in times past in the Low countries for the mariage of his sonne Dom Frederic whereat the people generally reioyced the cause was for that his sonne Dom Frederic that lay prisoner in Tordesilias because hee would not marie one of the queenes maids of honour was by him counselled and prouoked to get out of prison and to be maried to Alua Maria de Toledo daughter to Dom Garcia de Toledo who beeing maried returned into prison againe After that he was alwayes one of the principall of the kings priuie counsell with one Dom Iohn Idiaco a man of his owne humor and hee made him generall of his armie in the conquest of Portugall where nine yeares after hee died vpon the twelfth day of September in the yeare of our Lord God 1582 and in the seuentie fourth yeare of his age Hee was a tall leane man going verie vpright with a long leane visage hollow eyes sterne and fower of countenance hauing a great and a verie proud heart a man well experienced in subtile courtly policie endowed with great gifts of nature good vnderstanding and great experience Hee was neither couetous nor liberall but verie costly and exceeding proud and glorious in his house Hee was generally hated and enuied and euill spoken of in regard that hee was sower sterne and proud both to his inferiours and equals hauing too great a conceit and opinion of himselfe Hee was not beloued neither of the emperour Charles the fifth nor of the king of Spaine his master although hee had serued them both for the space of threescore yeares Hee was an old and well experienced souldier not onely surpassing all Spaniards but one that in his time gaue place therein to no man and a verie strict obseruer and keeper of militarie discipline when need required Hee was a man of great iudgement and vnderstanding to conduct and lead an armie in regard that for the most part he had vsed defensiue warre He was couragious and bold ynough of his owne person when hee aduentured himselfe but to come to a battayle without great aduantage hee was not much addicted Hee had serued the emperour Charles and the king of Spaine his sonne in their principall warres as in the countries of Italy Spaine Fraunce Hongarie Germanie the Netherlands and Affrica complaining that hee had not seene the Turkes camp●… Hee neuer got lesse honour and reputation tha●… hee did in the Prouinces of the Netherlands alwayes behauing himselfe more wisely and discreetly in crosses than in prosperitie By reason of his sternnesse hee could doe much with the king whom hee procured to bee much sterner than hee was by nature although the emperour Charles the fifth his father often said That his sonne was the sowrest sternest prince in the world and that the Netherlands should find him so

town of Vianen and therabouts but he would not trust to it seeing that the prince himselfe did not trust but had aduertised him Wherfore the superintendents of the towne hauing furnished him with ships victuals mony in loane he retired the 27 of April about midnight being accompanied by many gentlemen and other confederats He went towards Embden and from thence into the country of Cont Ioos of Schouwenburch whereas the 15 of February the yeare following 1568 he died in the castle of Haremburch of the iurisdiction of Reockelinghuysen and lieth buried at Gemme He and his predecessors haue alwaies bin of great reputation as well for their nobilitie being issued from the most noble earles of Holland and Zeeland as for their great possessions and alliances His father was Reinold lord of Brederode of Vianen Almeyden c. knight of the order of the golden Fleece and one of the brauest men at armes in his time And as for him enioying the same possessions hee was captaine of one of the kings bands of Ordnance a man of a tall stature and a cheerefull countenance somewhat reddish with curled haire valiant as might be suddaine cholericke and resolute in that which he designed yet liberall and courteous In his youth he carried for his deuice Peut estre And after his retreat out of the countrey he would vsually say Lord preserue my soule and mine honour He had to wife the lady Emilia contesse of Nieuwenar who a yeare after his death married againe with the Palatine Frederic prince elector His souldiers which were at Vianen and the forts thereabouts went forth with their colours flying the eight and twentieth of Aprill before day passing by Amsterdam where they spoyled and ruined the cloyster of the Chartrons Monkes then taking their way along the dike of Sparendam they went to Egmont where they spoyled the abbey and passing through West-Friseland they imbarked at Medenblyck The earle of Meghen pursuing them with his Regiment and approching neere to Amsterdam terrified the bourgesses especially the Protestants who feared least the Catholickes should suffer them to enter wherefore they were all night in armes and their feare encreased the more for that they heard that the lord of Noircarmes aduanced thitherwards with other troupes and artillerie Meghen not able to ouertake Brederodes men retyred towards Vtrecht spoyling the countreymen vnder colour that they had lodged them as they passed There were yet remayning in the towne of Vianen three companies vnder the Seignior of Vchtenbroec Nyuelt and Renesse on the six and twentieth of Aprill they went forth to skirmish with them of the fort of Vaert but they were well encountred and some of them were taken prisoners among others the Seignior of Renesse who was carried to the castle of Vredenburch in Vtrecht where afterwards hee was beheaded Duke Erick of Brunswicke was about Vianen wasting and spoyling the countrey wherewith the garrison and bourgesses were so terrified as vpon the third of May they did abandon it and fled some here some there The duke entred it vpon the fifth of the moneth his souldiers committing all the insolencies that might be he caused the gates to be taken downe and left the place open Some gentlemen thinking to retyre by sea out of Holland to goe to Embden were by the disloyaltie of their marriner beeing cast vpon a banke of sand betwixt Harlingen and Staueren betrayed and deliuered to captaine Muyert of Cont Arenberghs regiment who caried them prisoners to the castle of Harlingen among the which were two brethren Thierry and Ghisbrecht barons of Batenbourch Siurd of Beyma and Hartman Galama gentlemen of Friseland the which were afterwards sent to Brussels by the duchesse commandement The 28 of May the Gouernesse seeing her affaires so successefull in the townes of Antuerpe and Amsterdam caused a most rigorous proclamation to be made the which chased many Protestants out of the countrey and the 13 of Iune following she caused an instruction to be made for all the prouinciall courts containing how they should proceed against the Protestants She did also write vnto all the townes how the magistrats should gouern themselues to restraine the people from retiring out of the country and did also make an Edict to that end As the persecutions began now to grow more violent against the Protestants and that there was no more hope of mercie in the king nor duchesse and that their only refuge was a retreat and exile out of the countrey To the end that after ages might not iudge lightly of all that had passed nor of the beginning of these troubles whereof so many miseries haue followed the said Protestants caused a little booke to be printed in forme of an apologie to iustifie both the nobility and the people And whereas their aduersaries had grounded all their accusations of Rebellion high Treason vpon the deliuerie of the noblemens petition the publike preaching the carrying of armes and vpon the breaking of Images they did answere pertinently to euery point as well by liuely reasons as examples both out of the holy Scriptures and prophane hystories both ancient and moderne Whereby they concluded that the nobilitie cannot be iustly taxed for their behauiour and proceeding in the presenting of the said petition nor yet the people charged for their assemblies publicke preaching bearing of armes and beating and pulling downe of Images of any sedition tumult mutinie or rebellion as their calumniators would then haue vniustly accused them and that vpon the said accusations the Inquisition and Counsell of Spaine had concluded so tyrannously and barbarously against them and by their aduice was so iudged by the king himselfe By these meanes the Regent got the masterie ouer the Netherlands so that in all the seuenteene Prouinces there was no resistance made against her and the gentlemen truly called Gueux that is beggers were with diuers other men of good qualitie and reputation that had meanes to liue in good sort within their owne countries forced to be beggers and strangers in forraine nations being many thousands in number and yet during their absence they neuer left off their manner of Netherlands apparell which they vsed there in hope one day to returne home againe They that stayed in the Netherlands were imprisoned hanged and put to death others liued in miserable and continuall feare and sorrow and most of them driuen to pouertie as in the hystorie ensuing shall be declared Such are the iudgements of God and yet iust good and true FERDINANDVS A TOLEDO DVX ALVA MAR CORIAE GVBERNAT ET CAPITA GENER BELGICAE FERDINANDO ALVARES OF TOLEdo duke of Alua Lieutenant Gouernor and Captaine Generall of the Netherlands for Philip the second K. of Spaine To bring the Belgians that heretickes were thought An●… rebels in subiection all practises I sought To put invre and rul'd by force and crueltie Constraining them by meere deceit by fraud and subtiltie To build vp castles great and make strong citadels That serued

and Charolois And to that end to cause the generall Estates of the said countrey to assemble or the particular Estates in euerie prouince or els to obserue any other course that shal be thought fitting for this donation cession and transport to signifie it to take an othe to the Estates and the subiects of the said countries to demaund the inuestiture and admittance to euerie peece and seigniorie if the case shall so require As also to receiue a fit othe of them to bind them to al that wherunto they were reciprocally bound by precedent othes Andvntil our said daughter shall haue taken or caused to be taken in her name the reall possession of the said Netherlands and countie of Bourgoigne and Charolois in that maner as it is set downe by her patent wee doe make and constitute our selfe possessor thereof in the name and behalfe of our said daughter In witnesse whereof we will and ordaine That the same letters patents bee deliuered vnto her granting vnto our daughter the Infanta to retaine admit and establish in the said Netherlands and Bourgoigne Gouernours Iudges and Iustices as well for the preseruation and defence thereof as for the administration of iustice and policie and the receit of reuenues or otherwise And moreouer to do all that which a true princesse ladie of the inheritance of the said countries by right or according to the customes might or ought to doe and as wee haue done and might yet doe alwayes obseruing the conditions hereunto inserted To which effect we haue quitted absolued and discharged and doe quit absolue and discharge by these presents al bishops abbots prelats and other church men dukes princes marquesses earls barons gouernors heads and captaines of the countrey townes courts presidents men of our counsell chancellors them of our treasure and accounts and other justices captaines men of warre and souldiers of forts and castles their lieutenants knights squires vassals magistrats bourgers inhabitants of good townes boroughes franchises and villages and all and euery of our subiects of our said Netherlands and the countie of Bourgoigne and Charolois and euerie of them respectiuely of the othe of fidelitie faith and homage promise and bond by the which they were bound vnto vs as to their lawfull prince and soueraigne lord willing and expresly commaunding them to sweare and to accept the said Infanta our daughter for their true princesse and ladie and to giue her their othe of fealtie faith and homage promise and bond after the accustomed maner according to the nature of the countries places fees and seigniories And moreouer that they shew vnto her and to her future husband all honour reuerence affection obedience fidelitie and seruice as good and loyall subiects ought and are bound to their lawfull prince and naturall lord as they haue hitherto made demonstration And to supply all defects and obmissions as well in law as in fact which may bee omitted in this present donation cession and transport and which might be wel inserted of our owne motion certaine knowledge and full and absolute royal power which by these presents we will vse we haue derogated and do derogate to all lawes constitutions and customes which may impugne and contradict these presents for such is our good will and pleasure And to the end that all that is formerly said may be for euer firme and stable wee haue figned these presents with our name and caused our great seale to be hanged thereunto willing and commanding that it shall be registred to be held of force in euerie counsell and chamber of accounts Giuen in our citie of Madril the 6 of May 1598 of our raigns of Naples and Ierusalem the 45 of Castile Arragon Sicile and others the 44 and of Portugall the 19. It was paraphed N. D. V. Signed Philippes And vnderneath By the King signed A. de la Loo This resignation was also ratified by the letters patents of prince Philip at this time king of Spaine the 3 of that name as followeth Philip by the grace of God Prince sonne and onely heire of the Realmes Countries and Seigniories of king Philip the second of that name my lord and father To all present and to come greeting Whereas my said lord and father hath resolued to marie the ladie Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia our most deere and well beloued good sister to the Archduke Albert our good vncle and cosin And that according to the same his Catholike Maiestie hath determined with our liking and consent being thereunto induced for certaine great reasons and respects for the common good namely for the generall quiet of all Christendome and in particular for the peace tranquility of the Netherlands to the end that our said sister may be prouided for according to her qualitie and great merits to giue vnto our said sister the Netherlands and the countie of Bourgoigne in that forme and maner as it hath beene made and past as it appeareth by the letters patents which my said lord and father hath caused to be made signed with his hand and sealed with his great Seale wherof the tenor followeth word by word Philip c. All which being here aboue inserted it is not needful to repeat Wee let them know that hauing particularly vnderstood all that is mentioned therein considering the publike good that may thereby come vnto Christendome especially by reason of the singular loue which we are bound to beare and do beare vnto our sister the Infanta for her graces and great merits we commend approue and allow and by these presents hold for good notwithstanding any preiudice that may grow thereby to vs or our successors hereafter And for the same reason we consent and are content by these presents that the said Netherlands and countie of Bourgoigne and Charolois shall be giuen and transported to our good sister the Infanta as my said lord and father hath done And to the end it may subsist the better for the greater assurance corroboration and strengthening of that which his Maiestie hath disposed and decreed in fauour and for the aduancement of our good sister wee dispose and ordaine as farre as it is needfull by these presents in fauour thereof and in the same forme and manner in euerie point of our owne proper and free wil without any extortion constraint deceit fraud nor any respect fatherly reuerence nor feare nor by any other indirect persuasions our will and intention being that the said countries shal belong and appertaine vnto our sister the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia and to her successors conformable to the disposition of the king my lord and father And to the end it may take full effect and remaine firme and stable for euer wee haue renounced and do renounce by these presents in fauour of our good sister for vs and our successors all benefits which may by right come to vs or them to contradict these presents or that it were by the law Derestitutione in integrum to the

into his house and the towne of Emden which is verie famous of great trafficke and one of the Hans and Imperiall townes This quarrell had his beginning and first motiue in the life time of Cont Iohn Brother to this Earle Edsard a peaceable man zealous to the reformed religion and a great protector of the priuiledges of the towne of Emden and of the whole countrie VVhereas on the other side Edsard prouoked by his wife who was daughter to the King of Sueden and would gladly haue commanded like a Queene in that towne notwithstanding their Imperiall priuiledges sought to change the Estate of religion according vnto the confession of Ausbourg with the constitutions and customes of the said towne as well in matters of pollicy as Church gouernement euen vnto the distribution of the publike almes and other deedes of charitie the which the Earle would haue depend vppon his sole authority Against the which the Magistrates and Burgers opposed them-selues constantly and their heart-burning grew so great on either side as they fell to armes But as the Earle who had his Castle within the said towne demanteled feared some bad euent of this warre their controuersie was referred by a mutuall consent to the arbitrement of the generall Estates of the vnited Prouinces of the Netherlands who sent their Deputies to heare both parties in their fort of Delfziel lying vppon the Dollart and the Riuer of Ems two Leagues from Emden to reconcile them and decide their quarrels as they did by arbitrarie sentence the which was very well accepted both of the one and the other But afterwards it was reiected by the Earle so as they of the Towne were forced to haue some recourse vnto the Emperour and to the Imperiall Chamber where they obteyned a definitiue sentence according to their desires as you shal hereafter here The towne of Ham except the Castle in the country of Vermandois and that of La Fere were then hauing beene before deliuered vnto the Spaniards by the Leaguers in the King of Spaines power The French King had at that time his Armie lying before La Fere the which was a campe ill gouerned and tedious although the King were there him-selfe in person the Earle of Saint Pol and the Lord of Humieres hearing that the Seignior of Gomeron Gouernour of the Castle of Ham was at Brusselles and had agreed to deliuer the said Castle vnto the Spaniards for a certaine summe of money and that he had sent word vnto the Seignior of Deruillers his Brother in law and to his wife to yeeld it vp The said Deruillers refuzing to doe it made a contrary accord with the Earle of Saint Pol and Humieres to giue them passage by the castle to winne the towne vppon condition as the said Gomeron had ingaged him-selfe for the deliuerie of the sayd castle that hee should haue the chiefe prisoners of the Spaniards that were in the same towne deliuered him to redeeme his Brother in law The Duke of Bouillon and the aboue-named two Noblemen beeing entred with good troopes into the castle the twentith day of Iune they of the towne were presently aduertised thereof who intrencht them-selues against the castle so as they must needes attempt it by force The French Kings men hauing beene twise repulst dispayred in a manner to become maisters thereof if the Duke of Bouillon and the Lord of Humieres had not assured and incouraged them to continue so as after twelue houres fight and more they entred the towne with the losse of the Lord of Humieres who was slaine there of Captaine la Croix with some twenty Gentlemen and about sixe score soldiers where there were s●…aine aboue seauen hundred Spaniards Italiens French Leaguers and Germaines the rest were taken prisoners among the which were the Collonell of the Neapolitans the Collonel of the Germaines and Marcello Caracio for whome the Seignior of Gomeron was redeemed The King did much lament the death of the Lord of Humieres his Lieutenant in Picardie a braue and valiant Knight who had done him faithful seruice The Earle of Fuentes a Spaniard being then Gouernor by prouision of the Netherlands for the King of Spaine expecting the comming of the Cardinall Albert of Aus tria the Emperors Brother had then sent the Prince of Chymay now Duke of Arschot and of Croy to beseege the towne of Chastelet in the same countrie of Vermandois whilest that he himselfe was with the bodie of his Armie before Cambray Mons de la Grange was within Chastelet with 600. soldiars where he defended him-selfe valiantly but after that he had endured many assaults hee was forced to yeeld it vp hauing an honorable composition And by this meanes the Earle of Fuentes did presse Cambray the more Chastelet being thus wonne the Earle of Fuentes went to beseege the towne and Castle of Dourlans a small towne but well seated vpon the riuer of Anthy Valentine de par dieu Seignior of la Motte gouernor of graueling General of the Artillery for the King of Spaine being neere vnto the Artillery to prepare the battery was shot into the head from the towne whereof he dyed soone after and was carried to be buried at Saint Omer making an end of so many warres and so great seruices which he had done vnto the King of Spaine being now growne very old not long before he had purchased of a French Nobleman the Lordship of Eckelbeke a goodly thing in Flanders which the King of Spaine erected to an Earledome in recompence of his loyall seruices and so he died in the bed of honor and was buried with the title of an earle He was a French man borne a gentleman in the beginning of very smalle meanes both his father and he being young came to serue the Emperor at the Campe before Teroanne at the first hee was entertaynd by the Lord of Bignicourt a Knight the of order where hee had his first aduancement in quality of a Squier to the said Nobleman vntill he was captaine then in the beginning of the troubles besides his company he was Sargent Maior of the Earle of Reux his Regiment during which time he committed great cruelties in Flanders against them of the religion Then he went to be Lieutenant to the Siegnor of Croissoniere gouernor of Graueling after whose death being slaine before Harlem he succeded in the said gouernment and continued vntil his death and had afterwards great charges as well in the seruice of the generall Estates during their generall vnion as of the King of Spaine to whome he did neuer any bad seruice what shew soeuer he made as of Collonel generall of the Artillery Marshall of the campe cheefe and conductor of diuers honorable exployts and enterprises the which for the most part succeded happely with other titles and degrees of honor in the which he gathered together great welth He died without children although hee had one daughter by his first wife the which died being redie

to marry He had to his second wife the daughter of the Lord of Croix of the house of Noyelle of Arthois He was one of the most pollitike although hee were vnlearned and subtill Captaines of his time Mounsier de Villars gouernor of Rouen and Newe-hauen being come with certaine troupes of horse and foote to releeue the beseeged within Dourlans was incountred and charged by the Earle of Fuentes men and put to rout many of his men were slaine he himselfe being ouerthrowne from his horse was taken prisoner hauing his leg broken afterwards the Spaniards stabd him with their daggers in cold bloud for that hee had forsaken the league and reconciled him-selfe to the King Dourlans being in this sort beseeged by the Spaniards and the Castell furiously battered the forts betwixt the towne and the Castell wonne and by the blowing vp of a mine a small breach made the beseeged who thought of nothing lesse then an assault holding the breach not assaltable yet the Earle of Fuentes caused a furious assault to bee giuen with such a multitude as the soldiars thrust one another forward with their shoulders to make them enter the breach such as it was the which they hauing forced at a confused cry of victoria victoria the beseeged grew amazed and abandoned this breach euery one beginning to fly and to saue himselfe as he could And so the towne was taken at this assault the last day of Iune whereas the slaughter was very great but their insolency against wiues and virgins exceeded all measure It is a strange thing that a thousand fiue hundred men which were within it among the which there were so many bragging Gentlemen and of the Nobility could not repell such an assault at so insufficient a breach but it seemed that GOD would purge France of these Lees of the league who had but for faction sake reconciled them-selues vnto the King About that time the Earle of Fuentes vnder coullor to punish a certaine mutinie made of purpose by the Germaines who were in garrison in the towne of Brusselles thought to draw two thousand Spaniards into the towne the which the Burgers discouering preuented So as for spight beeing in like manner kept out of Macklyn and Vittevorde they fell vppon the Champian country of Brabant who by this meanes were more afflicted by their owne men then by their enemies besides the dearth was generally very great which made the poore commons to weepe and to lament their miseries yet knew they not to whome to flie for remedie to relieue their wants For which consideration the Estates both of the Clergie and the Secular of those Prouinces which remained vnder the King of Spaines obedience but especially the Nobilitie were moued of them-selues to seeke some meanes of peace and after diuers conferences togither hauing receiued pasport from the Estates of the vnited Prouinces to send their Deputies into Zealand to the said Estates and to Prince Maurice They deputed the Seignior of Lyesvell sometimes Chancellor of Brabant in the Duke of Anious time with Hartius and Maes Lawiers with a Secretarie of the Duke of Arschot The which on the fourteenth of Aprill came into Zealand where they conferred with Prince Maurice being accompanied by Iames Valck Tresorer general and Christopher Roels Pentioner of the Countie of Zealand requiring that they might bee admitted to propound some way of an Accord betwixt the King of Spaine and his reconciled Estates with the sayd Prince and the confederate Estates of the vnited Prouinces Where-vppon the Prince made answer that the generall Estates confederate had no intent to treat but with the said Estates of the reconciled Prouinces and not with the King of Spaine against whome as their mortall enemie they were allied with other neighbour Princes who were also his enemies and that they had long since abiured him Wherefore they held him so irreconcilably offended as they knew well hee could neuer forget the wrong which hee holds hath beene therein done him But that vppon the first opportunitie hee would be reuenged building vpon the Canon of the Councel of Constance Cum hereticis non est seruanda fides But if the Estates vnder the King would faithfully and sincerely enter into any conference of peace that the sayd confederate Estates of the vnited Prouinces were content to conuert their wars into peace and friendship therewith sending their resolution in writing conteyning foure Articles which they must resolue vpon before they would begin to enter into treaty with them which were 1 First that they should cause all strangers and soldiers to depart out of the countrie and to reduce them-selues into an absolute freedome whereby they might treat of a peace without the King and that the Deputies and Estates of the said Prouinces which should treat of a peace should be appointed by them without the King with whome the generall Estates of the vnited Prouinces would then treat as desiring nothing more then to see those long and bloudy wars conuerted into an assured and firme peace vpon good and tollerable conditions 2 Secondly that nothing should be altered nor changed in religion but it should be referred to the discretion of the Estates of each Prouince and that no man else should deale therein 3 That the Prouinces which were willing to treat of a peace with the vnited Prouinces among other conditions must be content to enter into treaty with the French King and the Queene of England and to vndergoe all the charges of the whole body of the generall Estates all the debts where-into the vnited Prouinces are falne for the defence of their liberties against the Spaniards and other strangers 4 Lastly that peace beeing made vppon those and other conditions the said vnited Prouinces offered all their power and meanes to helpe to maintaine the other Prouinces in their liberties and freedomes and to oppose them-selues against all that should seeke to molest wrong or dismember them In this case the sayd Ambassadours had no other commission but to moue a treaty of peace betwixt the King and his Estates on the one part and the vnited prouinces on the other so as the question betweene them now was whether the king should be comprehended therein or not where-vpon the Ambassadors returned againe speedely and made report what had beene propounded the which was sent into Spaine with the opinion of the said Ambassadors The Articles of the confederate Estates were by some which held the King of Spaines party very ill taken and by others which desired a peace in some sort tollerated saying that they were not altogether voyd of reason and that by a good conference they might be easely moderated And therefore considering the quality of the time which prest them and the pouerty and lamentations of the people they should not let slippe so good occasions without treating and if they did absolutly reiect the said conference of peace it was to be feared that