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honour_n	earl_n	lord_n	viscount_n	2,547	5	11.7917	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41163	A brief account of some of the late incroachments and depredations of the Dutch upon the English and of a few of those many advantages which by fraud and violence they have made of the British nations since the revolution, and of the means enabling them thereunto.	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1645 (1645)	Wing F731; ESTC R38871	64,396	76

and Reputation that he would neither be accessary to see the Nation Betrayed nor Silently Connive at it and whom therefore tho the Prince of Orange kept a great while at the Hague under a Publick Character from hence yet he was let into none of the Secrets nor trusted in the Management of the Weighty Affairs of State which were Agitated and Adjusted between our Belgick King and those who have assumed to themselves the Haughty Stile of High and Mighty Lords and in whose hands is the Administration of the Government of the Seven Provinces in all things relative to Peace War Traffick and Commerce Nor is it matter of Wonder or Surprize that he Treats those English with Disdain as well as Reservedness whom he pretends to Employ under Publick Characters Abroad seeing the Ministers who are supposed to be at the Head of Affairs at Home and who are believed to be admitted into all the Secrets of the Government are made acquainted with very little Previous to it's coming to be 〈◊〉 but then they whom he did not think worthy to be his Councellors tho they bear the Name are called upon and set at work as his Tooles to see that performed which only himself and his Minion Benting and may be one certain Person more who is in credit with him for having formerly betrayed unto him both his Master and the Kingdom had Debated and Resolved upon Yet those whom he calls his Principal Secretaries of State signifie no more nor make no better Figure in the most important and weighty Matters than that of little and Servile Commis which one of these so Resented heretofore that he Surrendered his Post and withdrew from business but being Tempted with the Profits Salaries and Perquisites of the Place and Allured by a Lofty Title and a Blew Ribon and likewise Flattered with the Hopes that were given him of being otherwise and more Honourably dealt with for the future he hath reassumed it again but meets with the same Reasons and has the same Cause given him of Abandoning it afresh as he Pretended to have for his Deserting it before But mo●eover besides all these Advantages the Dutch are possessed for the Undoing us thro the Interest they have in their Stadtholder and our Brittish King or by reason of the Services which a Hollander can do them to our Prejudice by being Constituted Ambassador o● Envoy from the Crown of England to foreign Courts or by vertue of the Capacity that Benting is in to Betray us and to be useful unto them and promote their separate Designs and Undertakings by the Room he filleth both in our Council and Senate House as well as by the Post of special Access and Favour which he enjoyeth about his Master This same Gentleman Benting who is the Minion and Darling of our Monarch for Familiarities and Privacies which I blush to mention has Granted unto him as well as Assumed the whole Superintendency of the Kingdom of Scotland Governs it intirely by his Creatures who are the only Persons there Trusted with the Administration and to whom he gives such Measures in Reference both to the Legislative and to the Executive Part of the Government in that Kingdom as may best Quadrate with the Benefit of Holland and prove most Disserviceable to the Prosperity of England Witness among many other Things the New Erecting of a Scotch East India Company and the Terms and Immunities upon which it is Established whreof I shall discourse hereafter Having now briefly Detected and Declared the known perfidious and encroaching Temper of the Dutch Nation what awak'ning Examples and Premonitions we had antecedently to the Revolution to Fear and Expect their dealing Treacherously and Rapaciously with us should we have the Folly and Madness as to Trust them and of which Means and Advantages they became thereby possessed for Encroaching upon and Undermining us in all our Concernments I shall proceed in the next Place to Discover and lay Open some of those many Methods Ways and Instances wherein since that time they have Committed Depradations upon us and made us both the Tooles of their Sel●ish and Ambitious Designs and the Prey of their Malice Craft and Avarice And the Granting away such large Estates and the Settleing such ample Inheritances upon some Individuals of the Dutch Nation may be just●y accounted a Robbery Perpetrated upon the Kingdom and a Plundering of the Crown and People to Enrich both those Persons upon whom those La●ds are bestowed and the whole Belgick Republick which is not only made Opulent by this Accruing Wea●th of its particular Subjects but whither the Profits and Emoluments of those Estates are Carried and Transported For not to insist upon the vast Summes of Mony which many of that People have Acquired Here in the way of Salaries Gifts and Bribes since the Prince of Orange made a Descent into this Kingdom and which they have Conveyed and Transmitted thither to the Enriching that Common-wealth as well as themselves how many Noble Real Estates have been Conferr'd upon and Vested in them And to omit the many other Alienations of Lands from the Crown and the Ravishment of Ancient Freeholds and Inheritances from divers of of the Subjects of these Dominions that have been lavishly bestowed upon your Ginkles and your Rovignies the later of whom besides the Grant of the Title and Honour of Lord Viscount Galloway has the Estate of Sir Patrick Trant given unto him which has been represented and is held worth Three Thousand Pounds Sterling Annually and the Former is not only Created Earle of Athlone but has the Estate of the Earle of Limerick as likewise that of the Lord Baron of Stone Conferred upon him of which the Last is reckoned to be at least worth Two Thousand Five Hundred Pounds per Ann. and the First Three Thousand Pounds Yearly But I shall only take Notice and think it Proof enough of what I have Suggested of the Large Grants made to Benting of the Lands at Theobalds and of the Lordships of Denbigh Land Bromfield and Yale in the County of Denbigh And which a●e not only Given unto Him from the Crown for a certain Term of Years or merely during his Master's Life but are Disposed aw●y and Alienated for Ever to Him and his Heirs For the Dutch Gentleman knowing his own Invaluable tho Secret Merits and how and in what Manner he had Debased and Prostituted himself to Deserve of his Highness by Accommodating and Serving him in his unnatural Pleasures thought that if Mrs. Villars for Gratifying him in his Lusts in a more natural Way albeit not a lawful hath Merited the Gift of the King's Lands in Ireland which without another Revolution or a Resumption of them by Act of Parliament will come at last to be worth Twenty Thousand Pounds per Ann. to her and her Posterity He might well Pretend unto and Claim something more Considerable as having Contracted a higher Guilt and Submitted to a worse Infamy for the