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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90222	Observations upon the Provinces United. And on the state of France. Written by Sr Thomas Overbury.; Sir Thomas Overbury his observations in his travailes upon the state of the Xvii. Provinces as they stood anno Dom. 1609.	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1650 (1650)	Wing O609; Thomason E1317_4; ESTC R203062	13,450	85

flat and betwixt Medow and Marsh thence it begins to rise and become Champion and consequently the people are more quick and spiritfull as the Brabanter Flemming and Wallon The most remarkable place in that side is Antwerp which rose upon the fall or Bruges equally strong and beautiful remaining yet so upon the strength of its former greatness twice spoyled by the Spaniard and the like attempted by the French The Cittadel was built there by the Duke of Alva but renewed by the Prince of Parma after his 18 months besieging it the Town accepting a Castle rather then a Garrison to mingle among them There are yet in the Town of Citizens 30000 fighting men 600 of which kept Watch nightly but they allowed neither Canon upon the Rampier nor Magazins of powder In the Castle are 200 peeces of Ordnance and commonly seven or eight hundred Souldiers Flanders is the best of the seventeen Provinces but the Havens therof are naught OBSERVATIONS On the State of FRANCE Having seen the forme of a Common-Wealth and a Province with the different effects of Warres in them I entred France flourishing with Peace and of Monarchies the most absolute because the King there not only makes Peace and Wars Calls and dissolves Parliaments Pardoneth naturalizeth Innobleth Names the value of money Presseth to the War but even makes Laws and imposes Taxes at his pleasure And all this he doth alone for as for that forme that his Edicts must be authorized by the next Court of Parliament that is the next Court of Soveraign Justice first the Presidents thereof are to be chosen by him and to be put out by him and secondly when they concurre not with the King he passeth any thing without them as hee did the last Edict for the Protestants And for the assembly of the three Estates it is growne now almost as extraordinary as a generall Councell with the losse of which their Liberty fell and when occasion urgeth it is possible for the King to procure that all those that shall be sent thither shall be his Instruments for the Duke of Guise effected as much at the assembly of Bloys The occasion that first procured the King that Supremacy that his Edicts should be Laws was the last Invasion of the English for at that time they possessing two parts of France the three Estates could not assemble whereupon they did then grant that power unto Charls the Seventh during the War And that which made it easie for Lewis the Eleventh and his Successors to continue the same the occasion ceasing was that the Clergy and Gentry did not run the same fortune with the people there as in England for most of the Taxes falling only upon the people the Clergy and Gentrey being forborne were easily induced to leave them to the Kings mercy But the King having got strength upon the Peasants hath been since the bolder to invade part of both their Liberties For the succession of this Monarchy it hath subsisted without intermission these 1200 years under three Races of Kings No Nation hath heretofore done greater things abroad in Palestine and Egypt besides all parts of Europe but for these last forty yeares they have onely made Sallies into Italy and often suffered at home Three hundred years the English afflicted them making two firme Invasions upon them and taking their King prisoner the second Greatnesse of Christendome next the Emperour being then in competition betwixt us and them And to secure themselves against us rather then the house of Austria as it then stood they chuse to marry the Heir of Bretaigne before that of Burgundy And for this last hundred yeares the Spaniard undertaking them hath eaten them out of all but France and endangered that too But for this present France had never as France a more entire greatnesse though it hath often been richer For since the Warre the King is only got aforehand the Countrey is but yet in recovering the Warre having lasted by spaces 32 years and so generally that no man but had an Enemy within three miles and so the Country became Frontier all over Now that which hath made them at this time so largely great at home is their adopting into themselves the lesser adjoyning Nations without destruction or leaving any marke of strangenesse upon them as the Bretons Gascoignes Provincalls and others which are not French towards the which Unions their nature which is easie and harborous to strangers hath done more then any Lawes could have effected but with long time The King as I said enjoying what Lewis the Eleventh did gaine hath the entire Soveraignty in himselfe because he can make the Parliament do what he please or else do what he please without them For the other three Estates The Church is there very rich being estimated to enjoy the third part of the Revenue of France but otherwise nothing so potent as elsewhere partly because the Inquisition is not admitted in France but principally because the Popes ordinary power is much restrayned there by the Liberties which the French Church claymeth Which Liberties do not so much enfranchize the Church it selfe as conferre the Authority the Pope loseth upon the King as first fruits and the disposing of all Spirituall preferments And by reason of this neutrality of Authority the Church men suffer more there then either in England where they wholly depend upon the King or in Spaine and Italy where they wholly subsist by the Pope because the Pope is not able totally to support them and the King takes occasion ever to suppresse them as being not entirely his Subjects and to him they pay yearely both the tenth of all their Tithe and of all their Temporall land The Gentrie are the onely entire Body there which participate with the Prerogatives of the Crown for from it they receive Priviledges above all other men and a kind of limited Regality upon their Tenants besides reall supply to their estates by Governments and Pensions and freedom from Tallies upon their own Lands that is upon their Demaines and whatsoever else they manure by their Servants but so much as they let to Tenants is presently Tallie-able which causeth proportionable abatement in the Rent and in recompence of this they owe the King the Ban and the Arriereban that is to serve him and his Lieutenant 3 Months within the Land at their owne charges And as in Warre they undergo the greatest part of the danger then is their power peremptory above the rest wheras in time of Peace the King is ready to support inferiour persons against them and is glad to see them to waste one another by contention in Law for fear they grow rich because hee foresees that as the Nobility only can do him service so they only misapplyed can doe him harme The Ancient Gentrie of France was most of it consumed in the Warres of Godfrey of Bulloigne and some in those of Saint Lewis because upon their setting out they pawned all their