to ruine a Counseâ—lor of Spain it should seem a Pensioner of Holland coming in great hast to the Earl of Egmont thâ— Lord Horn and others at Chest in Gaunt with news that all those that consented to the Petition for the removal of the Spaniard the great Patron of the peoples Liberty should be put to Death when yet his Majesty parted from them friendly 26 Aug. 1357. recommending to them the maintenance of Religion that general stay of Government the finishing of the new River from Antwerp to Brussels for the conveniency of Trade the erection of Doway University for the propagation of Orthodox Learning and the impression of the Complutensian Bible for the â—dvancement of Religion four excellent Designes but so far envyed by these undutiful people that they suspected the last as a Plot as if the Printing of the Bible were a stratagem against Religion and cryed out against the third as a breach of their Liberties CHAP. II. The Revolt of the Hollanders from their natural Allegiance 1564 and the management of that Revolt till they became a Free State FOr you must know that about this time these good People weary of their ancient Government began to search for their old Charters Priviledges Bulls of favour Customs of which they pretended one was That no Popish Seminaries such as Doway was should be built upon their Frontiers another That they should suffer no violence forsooth their Kings must wear a Sword in vain a third That no persons should be admitted to Office unless he swore to be faithful to the Prince and people and a fourth That they might meet and act without their King but he could do nothing without them and that if he presumed to do any thing otherwise they were discharged of their Alleigance These and other Moth-eaten Liberties belonging to the Dutchy of â—rabant if to any at all since the Contract with Maximilian May 16. An. 1488 together with the jealousies about Religion and the murmurings about the tenth Peny when their King was onely intent upon the settling of their Government by that Tax and the prevention of Anabaptistical outrages such as that in Munster by his Proclamation against turbulent Innovaters were alledged first against the Inquisition which yet Mary Dowager of Hungary lately regent graciously suspended upon their Petition at Antwerp That she should not spoil their Trade by her overmuch zeal for Religion And now they had got that surmize of the Inquisition into the multitudes heads every thing the King did was termed the introducing it for his Majesty no sooner observing that the four Bishops of Cambrey Arras Tournay and Vtrecht were unable to oversee effectually the 17 large Provinces of Belgium set up 14 new Bishops by the Pope Paul the Fourth's Order and Cardinal Granvill's solicitations than they declaim against them as so many new Inquisitors and their respective Prebends as so many assistants in Persecutions insomuch that the Earl of Egmont their Admiral finds out another Charter wherein it was declared That the Ecclesiastical estate could not be enlarged without their consent and dispatcheth some Burgemasters with complaints against dead Trade and new Bishops to Spain where observing the Kings resolution to assert his Government against these popular surmizes they remonstrate that his Majesty did ill to act without the concurrence of the Lords the States and at their return home raised such Tumults and discontents as might give opportunity to the Lords to meet an opportunity they imbraced wherein they unanimously agreed to a manifesto of the state of the Countrey to be delivered to Margaret Dutchess of Parma their Governess containing first That the King was misled by ill Councellors Secondly That Cardinal Granvill the principal Person the King relyed on should be removed as their Declarations sent by Montigni and others Aug. 16. 1562. March 11. 1563. into Spain out of their Assemblies which the Tumults made necessary for the good Governess to call too frequently out of which some Lords to palliate their Ambition desired to be dismist to which his Majesty returns gracious Answers whereat they pretended dutiful submission while they made their combination effectual which they had no sooner done than they tyre the Governess with her Assistant the Cardinal with their debates and divisions in all Meetings that he retyres to Spain and they raise Tumults at Harlem stop the Courts of Justice at Antwerp make a breach with England 1564 that made to the great prejudice of their poor people who improved the Commotions for a whole year together In a word such was the apprehensions and fears that were wrought in the people that Groningen Leeur-warden Duenter and Ruremond do violence to their Bishops and Clergy Ourwexgen Abbey is robbed all the Clergies Power and Jurisdiction is questioned matters are aggravated on both sides to dangerous debates notwithstanding the gracious Answer his Majesty vouchsafed Count Egmont Count Horne the Lord of Brederode and others upon their respective addresses to the Court of Spain in behalf of that unquiet people Whereupon his Majesty thought good to settle Religion as he did by his own and the Dutchess of Parmaes Letters which the Grandees opposed with the bare consideration of the present Commotions though all the World knew they were the Authors of those Commotions as appeared upon the very first publication of the Kings Letters touching the Council of Trent when there were Libels the fore-runners of Sedition contrived by a great Lord containing Complaints and Exhortations in the name of the people to the Noblemen about their Priviledge and the Kings breach of promise scattered up and down in three or four streets of Antwerp wherein amongst other things they directed the Grandees to cite the King to the Imperial Chamber about breach of Promise and the infringement of their Liberties This bold Libel and other false reports of which this one to incense and injealous the Nobility was most malicious viz. That the King of Spain should say that it was but folly to busie themselves with Frogs they must first fish for the great Salmos meaning Horne and Egmont brought the Netherlanders to an expostulation with their Soveraign why he should decree any thing concerning them without their consent And a popular Tumult against these four Points The Inquisition The new Bishops The entertainment of the Council of Trent and The decay of Trade Insomuch that most of the chief Noblemen the Prince of Orange the Marquess of Bergen the Earles of Egmont Horne Hockstrate the Lord of Brederode met with the Male-content Princes of France and Germany under the pretence of an entertainment at Breda and Hockstrate where they heightned one anothers animosities to that degree of discontent as produced a private League among themselves and a Publick Manifesto of the state of the Provinces by Francis Baldwyn an Outlawed but cunning Person they sent for and consulted out of France wherein among other matters it was expressed 1. That the Mind could not be forced
Shallops 1631. And now Gustavus Adolphus held the house of Austria in play and Cardinal Richlieu set all Europe together by the ears especially engaged Spain their Enemy with the power of France Now Catalonia and Portugal begin to revolt and the French fall into Flanders notwithstanding the loss of Crun and Schenke and their defeat of Hulst being healed by the taking of Breda and the success at Lentz never hearkned to peace till they were acknowledged a Free-state at Munster 1648 where the peace was concluded Jan 8. which was confirmed at the Hague March 26 and published throughout this Republick June 5. 1648. CHAP. V. Their dealings towards the English BUt assoon as these ungrateful people had made an end of their War by the Truce 1607 and Commenced their Soveraignty they forgot their Protectors and did so much wrong to the English in the Indies where yet they had never traded had not we assisted them against the power of Spain then Lord of that Countrey in right of the first Discoverers of it amounted in the estimate of English Parliament 1606 to 1500000l sterling and had drawn out King James his sword which they painted nailed to a scabbard and provoke that Parliaments Resolve and Vote for a War or a Reprizal had not the High and Mighty humbled themselves and by all their Allies begged a Treaty that began to no other purpose but to busle and elude us at London 1613 ending a year after to as little purpose as it was begun had not their humble Petition renewed it 1615 at Londâ—n 1616 at the Hague 1619 at London where it was concluded with a general amnesty upon equal ballance of allowance for what was past and an exact Method of Trade for the time to come But how sincerely they observed either these Terms or their former Obligations to us is too evident from their Hostile attempts on Lantore Polleroon and other places in our possession by accord which they took razing our Forts there and behaving themselves Barbarously towards our people there both living and dead over whom they usurped Authority in all Controversies which they exercised most cruelly in Whipping Fining Imprisoning Sequestring and torturing them Besides that they forced them in Partnerships to be contented with their Accounts laying to their Bills what had been disbursed upon their private occasions it being indeed their business while we as the Subjects of a Noble Monarck contented with his own Dominions traded fairly there to invade Islands take and build Forts acquire Dominion and exclude all Partners Especially at Amboyna an Island fourty Leagues round near Surat where we traded for Cloves maintaining five Factors But these people setting up there four Forts with four Bulwarks belonging to each Fort and six great pieces of Ordinances mounted upon each Bulwark guarded by Dutch ships in the Sea round it did what they pleased a great while and at last torturing the poor Natives to allure the English of a pretended Plot and the English to charge the Natives where its not probable either would attempt so strong a place and people insomuch that CHAP. VI. Their Cruelty at Amboyna and the Judgement of God upon it FIrst * The Tortures at Amboyna They hoysed them up by the hands with Cords over a large Door made fast with two Staples of Iron at the top of the Door-posts as wide as they could stretch as they did their Legs too then binding a cloth about their necks and faces so close that little or no water could go by they poured the water softly on their heads till the cloth was full to the mouth and nostrils Insomuch that in drawing their breath they must of necessity suck in the water which with long continuance forced all their inward parts out of their Nose Ears and Eyes till they were almost stifled and choaked then would they take them down till they vomited the water and hoyse them up again till their bodies swelled to double their own proportion their eyes stand out of their heads setting burning Candles in the bottom of ther Feet while they thus hung till many times the fat dropped out the Candles as also under their Elbows in the palms of their Hands and under their Arm-pits till their very Inwards might be seen making the English believe the Japouers had accused them and the Japoners that the English had testified against them the poor Heathens crying O English where did we see you The English answered Why then did you accuse us And they replyed If a Stone were thus burnt would it not change its Nature How much more we who are but flesh and blood A cruelty unparalleld among Christians or indeed among men which therefore the God of both pursued with vengeance 1. In that King James and King Charles excepted the murders from the Indemnities that passed in their time between us and the Hollanders 2. In that a sudden Hurricano almost destroyed the Dutch ships in the Haven of Ambayna at the very hour of this â—orrid execution 3. In that the first Informer against the English fell down dead upon the very place where these men are buried rising again distrâ—cted in which condition he continued to his dying day 4. In that An. 1630 18 Dutchmen whereof three were guilty of the Massacre at Amboyna supping at Frankford in their way to Strasburgh boasted how they served our Nation in this place glorying in their shame which one in the Company noting and relating to two English Captains then in the Germane Wars whose Kindred had suffered there These two way-laying the Hollanders in a Wood with a Troop of Horse bid them stand willing them to prepare for death for they must dye The Dutch answered They hoped not so for all their money was at their dispose We seek not your money said the Captains but your lives for our Countrey men and Allies you murthered at Amboyna And so hanging up Johnson the chief Amboynist and giving the rest leave to throw Dice which of them should escape to bring the news of this to Holland they trussed up all but Jobs Messenger the odd man sent home to tell his Countrey-men that Doubtless there is a God that judgeth in the Earth Cruelty not to be paralleld among the Barbarous much less among Christians and especially between the Netherlanders and the English who when newly recovered from Popery and unsettled when engaged in Ireland and the Countreys about when governed by a Woman when threatned from Spain relieved the distressed Estates espoused their quarrel spent their lives and fortunes in their behalf So dear were those poor people to us that they seemed to be one Nation with us and their Cause and quarrel the same with ours being entertained by us with the affection of Brethren the love of Friends and the respects of Neighbours and Allies For which though they promised it before the year 1625 they never made any suitable satisfaction nor returned to us any of those Islands of Spices
AN EXACT SURVEY OF THE AFFAIRES Of the United NETHERLANDS Comprehending more fully than any thing yet extant all the Particulars of that Subject In Twelve HEADS mentioned in the Address to the READER Ictus Piscator sapit LONDON Printed by Thoâ— Mabb for Thomas Johnson at the Golden Key in Cannon-Alley over against the great North-door of Saint Pauls Church Anno 1665. The Preface to the READER THese discourses now in hand are published with no further care of their reception and entertainment than the consequence of them may deserve whereof the Readers not the Publishers must be Judges And we need not be moved with the common Passions of such as make Epistles and Prefaces conceiving our trust very well discharged when we have given the Reader the usefull Contents of the Book which contains I. An exact History of the Dutch since they inhabited that Countrey An. 700 to this present year 1665 with a continued and close succession p. 1. II. A very particular account of their Revolt from the King of Spain's subjection and their being declared a Free-state at the Hague 1608 and confirmed so at Munster 1648. III. An impartial view of the assistances by Councils countenance 60000 men and 3 mâ—llions of Money afforded by Q Elizabeth K. James K. Charles the first of Famous memory upon their humble Petition when the Distressed States that they might live under our Protection IV. A faithful Narration of such affronts and injuries as they have offered us in Europe Asia Affrica and America particularlarly in Amboyna V. A compleat Recapitulation of the seven Advantages they make of our Fishing and Royal favours of his most Sacred Majestie 1. In their shipping and their Mariners 2. In Trade 3. In Towns and Fortifications 4. In their Power abroad 5. In publick Revenue 6. In private wealth 7. In all manner of Provisions and store of things necessary amounting to 24 Millions yearly by His Majesties gracious permission at home and abroad VI. How unable they are in that and 16 other respects to engage with England and that point made out VII In a very punctual relation of the last Dutch War from its rise when it began 1650 1651 throughout its whole management to the years 1652 1653 when it was ended with the virtues of that Peace VIII A prudential survey of the present State of the united Netherlands in regard of the Sâ—iâ—uation of their Countrey and in respect of their Neighbours IX A satisfactory consideration of their present State in point of Interest throughout the World and their dealings with every Prince particularly X. Very curious reflections on their present State in point of Government and that not only in the States General but in every one of the 7 Provinces and the Towns belonging to them apart XI Choice Observations on the present state of the Dutch 1. In point of Government 2. In matters of Religion 3. In the particulars of their strength by Sea and Land XII An exact account of the state of the present Controversie between England and the Vnited Netherlands in the three great points 1. Of Trade 2. Of Fshing 3. Of Pretensions Claims affronts and Wrongs And all this directed to no other end than the framing of right and clear Apprehensioâ—s touching the present affairs in those mens minds who are very many that are therein concerned in point of Interest or in those who are almost all who concern themselves therein in point of Discourse Consideration and Observation for whose accommodation these Discourses are contrived Close and not Tedious Real and not Wordy justly entred in the List of those Writings that express more than they promise and Intimate more than they do Express Books lately Printed A Disswasive from Popery By the Right Revereud Father in God Jeremy Taylor L. Bishop of Down and â—onner A Vindication of the Lords Prayer as a formal Prayer to be used by Christians as a Prayer By Meric Casaubon D. D. The History of the French Academie erected at Paris By Card Richleiu consisting of the most refined Wits of that Nation The lives of the two most Illustrious Princes Henry Duke of Glocester and Mary Princess of Orange Sir Walter Raleigh's Maxims and Aphorisms of State published by John Milton Esquire The Mystery and Iniquity of Non-coaformity In an Historical account of the Designes and Practises of the Non-conformists against Church and State Instructions for Jury-men on the Commission of Sewers Delivered in threee several Charges at several â—essions of Sewers at Spalding in Lincolnshire A Treatise of Spiritual Infatuations the Present visible distemper of the English Nation By Dr. William Stamp Trigonometrâ— or the Doctrine of Triangles â—y the Famous Mr. William Oughtred both in Latine and English either with the Tables of Logarithms or without And there is now in the Press ready to be published â—n ingenuous Discourseâ— written by a Persâ—â— of quality Intituled Europae Modernae Speculum Or a view of the Empires Kingdoms Principalities Seigniories and â—ommon wealths of EUROPE in their Present State their Government Policy different Interest and mutual Aspect one towards another from the Treaty at Munster Anno 1648. to this present 1665. All to be sold by Thomas Johnson at the Golden Key in Cannon-Alley over against the great North door of Saint Pauls Church The Original and whole History of the Hollanders In an exact Succession from the year 700 to this present year 1665. CHAP. I. SECT 1. THE Hollanders being a People that seemed born to fill the last Age of the World with Disturbance and this with Noise I was as restless as they are till I could find the Original of those Bustlers Power whereof as old as I am I am likely to see an end The men are the old Hirmodures that were lodged by Nature in no more benign an Habitation than the dreadful distance between the Hercyâ—ian-Forest â—nd Sâ—ythia and they retain this of their Wilderness that they would have still all things in Common whence upon a quarrel about the Salt-pits of Sala as unreasonable as that since about the salt waters of the Ocean the Caths Cerusieâ—s and Ligiens chased those troublesom Neighbours to Cat senel boggen a Port of Fessen an Earldom which the House of Nassau claims but that of Fessen enjoyeth and thence Battus and Zelandus the two Principals of the Nation falling out 〈◊〉 came with his Train to Holland called from him Batavia and Zealand to Zealand called so from him Holland and Zealand it seems were divided in their Founders the one building Bata vâ—durum or Wychterduyrstede a famous Town 800 years ago of three miles compass some three Leagues from Vtrecht now a small Village and the other Arm Viden and Gumpuere but both subject to the Gaules or French who thereupon have a Right to Holland § 2. For Charles the bald King of France 863 at a general Assembly of his Princes and Barons at Bladell in Brabant of Champeigni upon some Lords motion bestowed upon Thierry