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A50889 A narrative of the causes and events of civil-war between princes and people together with the manner how the people of Rome and of the Netherlands rejected and abjured their king and kingly government, with the form of their oaths of abjuration : extracted out of the Roman and Netherlands history : as likewise some objections now in contest concerning the taking of the like oath in this Common-Wealth examined and answered, if not for satisfaction at least for information of such as are concerned / by F.M. F. M. 1659 (1659) Wing M21; ESTC R3469 13,630 21

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Countreys who have alwayes been and ought to be Governed according to the Oath taken by their Princes when they receive them conformable to their Priviledge and antient Custome having no power to infringe them besides that most part of the said Provinces have alwayes received and admitted their Princes and Lords upon certain Conditions and sworn Contracts which if the Prince shall violate he is by Right fallen from the Rule and Superiority of the Countrey c. And after they have made a Recital of his Cruelties Oppressions and Tyrannies they further proceed THat having duly considered all these things and being prest by extreme necessity We have by a General Resolution and Consent Declared and do Declare by these Presents the King of Spain ipso jure to be fallen from the Seignory Principality Jurisdiction and Inheritance of these Countreys and that we are Resolved never to acknowledge him any more in any matter concerning the Prince Jurisdictions or Demean of these Netherlands nor to use hereafter neither yet to suffer any other to use his Name as Soveraign Lord thereof according to which we Declare all Officers private Noble men Vassals and other Inhabitants of these Countreys of what Condition or Quality soever to be from henceforth discharged of the Oath which they have made in any manner whatsoever unto the King of Spain as Lord of these Countries or of that whereby they may be bound unto him c. Enjoyning and Commanding all Judges Officers and all others to whom it shall appertain That hereafter they forbear to use any more the Name Titles great Seal or Signet of the King of Spain and have Injoynned and Commanded and do Injoyn and Command that all the King of Spain Seals which are at this present within these Vnited Provinces shall be delivered into the Sates hands and that from henceforth the Name and Armes of the King of Spain shall not be put nor stampt in any Coyns of these Vnited Provinces but that there shall be such a figure set upon them as shall be appointed c. In like sort we Injoyn and Command the Presidents and Lords of the Councel and all other Chancellours Presidents Provincial Counsuls and all Presidents chief Masters of Accounts others of all Chambers of Accounts being respectively in these Countreys and also all other Judges and Officers as holding them discharged of the Oath which they have made to the King of Spain according to the Tenure of the Commissions that they shall take a New Oath in the hands of the States of the Provinces where they are or to their Deputies whereby they shall Swear to be faithful to us against the King of Spain and his Adherents according to the Form set down by us which Oath accordingly was taken by the Publick Officers and Magistrates of every Town and Province and is as followeth I Swear that hereafter I shall not serve nor yield obedience to Philip King of Spain nor acknowledge him for my Prince and Lord whom I do Renounce by these Presents and do hold my self Free from all Oaths and Bands by the which I might be formerly tyed unto him Whereof finding my self presently Freed I Swear anew and bind my self to the United Provinces and namely to them of Brabandt Guelder Hollandt Zealandt and their Allies and to the Soveraign Magistrates that are appointed to be Faithful and Loyal unto them to yield them all Obedience aid and Comfort with all my Power and means against the King of Spain and his Adherents and against all the Enemies of the Countrey promising as a good Subject of the Countrey to carry my self Faithfully and Loyally with shew of all Obedience to my Superiors So help me the Almighty God Many notwithstanding made great difficulty to Abjure the King and to take the New Oath among others a Councellour of Frieslandt a man of great Judgement and Experience called Raa●da hearing the Abjuration propounded in open Councel at Leuwarden and the renewing of the Oath whether it were through a sudden amazement or for the affection which he bare to the King of Spain was so troubled as he fell in a Convulsion and died presently Now impartial Reader that you have seen a short and true Narrative extracted out of antient and modern History whereby you may receive satisfaction of the causes wherefore the Romans and our Neighbours of the Netherlands Rejected and Renounced their Kings and kingly Office and how they provided against their ever returning to Rule over them upon the whole matter it may be queried whether the Parliament and good People of England after God had so signally and miraculously owned their Cause against the late King and Family have not had an equivalent or far greater Cause to Free these three Nations of the yoak of Monarchs and Monarchy then the Romans or the States of the Netherlands had which any one may easily be convinced of if he will but take the pains and time to read the History of the Reign of the Kings of England Scotland c. but especially from the coming of that Bastard brood to the late Tyrant What murthers rapines oppressions wars devastations cruelties ravishments and what not have been acted in the three Nations during that time I shall onely hint to some few as first of King John of whom the History relates that when he had endeavoured by force of Armes and by other barbarous cruelties to impose his yoak of bondage and slavery over his People whom he forced to take up Armes for his own defence and that after they had obtained several victories against him whereby he was reduced to great extreams yet would not grant them Peace till he had made Tryal of all manner of cruel wayes to subdue them by force one whereof was that rather then grant to the People their Liberties and Freedoms he sent to the King of the Moors and made him an offer that if he would send an Army in England he would deliver up his right and title to him But to come nearer our time what cruel Murtherer and Tyrant was Richard the third and Henry the 8th his own Queens and many of his Nobles could not escape his fury and that for no other crime but to satisfie his cruelty lust and pleasure so notorious was he that to this day the Proverb remaineth resent of him That he neither spared man in his fury nor woman in his lust Queen Mary another fury how many pretious Souls she caused to be brought to the stake and burned King James so little he esteemed the lives of the People although no man of War yet if by accident any one hindred his sport in Hunting or not opened a Gate as soon as he commanded he would curse and swear and give express command that such a one should be hanged And for his Son what wars desolations and miseries hath he been authour of in the 3 Nations how many thousands killed and ruined how many millions of Treasure exhausted