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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42187	Two letters from the Lord Pieter de Groot to the states of Holland and West-Friesland and to the governours of Rotterdam in vindication of his reputation and the occasion of his retiring to Antwerp, dated August the first, 1672.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Groot, Pieter de, 1615-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing G2066; ESTC R23354	1,787	6

TWO LETTERS From the LORD Pieter de Groot TO THE States of HOLLAND AND WEST-FRIESLAND And to the Governours of ROTTERDAM In Vindication of his Reputation and the Occasion of his Retiring to Antwerp Dated August the first 1672. With Allowance August 24 1672. LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Jonathan Edwin at the Sign of the Three Roses in Ludgate-street 1672. and the Affection of the Inhabitants in such a manner that I should have needed no other Aid Assistance and Security for my Safety But I have God help and forgive those that are the occasion thereof found more cruelty and rage in the midst of my Native Countrey and in the City wherein I was born where to my Knowledge I never gave any man the least occasion of discontent than ever was used amongst People of one and the same Nation My House hath been set upon several times as well by night as by day my Messengers dragg'd along the Streets my Children threatned my Self and my Followers on a Sunday coming from the Stadt House in Sermon time assassinated with drawn Knives insomuch that nothing but the miraculous hand of God could have delivered me from apparent death And yet my Noble Great and Mighty Lords all these dangers have never moved me to prefer my Safety before the Welfare of my Country or to spare my Person or Estate so long as I believed that my poor Service might be advantagious to it or that there might be more madness than design mixt with this boysterous Work always judging that the duty of a faithful Governour is to oppose the Common Insurrections in a State by private Consultations and Debates But after that I evidently perceived out of the Reports and Propositions which were made in your Noble Great and Mighty Lordships Assembly that the general Danger would be changed to a particular one and by the exposing of my Person make a Sacrifice to the Communalty I believed that that which hitherto might in me have passed for a sincere and faithful Intention would henceforward be accounted Carelessness and Imprudence and therefore judged that I was bound as well in respect of my Family as for the defence of my Honour to secure my self from the violent hands of my Enemies and to retire so long till I might return into my native Country without Danger and according to my Duty perform the Services of your Great and Mighty Lordships I have therefore retreated into Brabant w●th Intention if I be too hotly pursued to seek my Safety farther till I meet with a Place where I may live secure and without Molestation Nevertheless assuring your Great and Mighty Lordships that I will never stain my former Fidelity which is clouded by these troublesome times by any Action that shall prove prejudicial to my native Country disadvantageous to your Great and Mighty Lordships derogating from my Reputation or contrary to the Opinion which I am assured that all Honourable and Worthy Governours have of me This I judged my Duty bound me to make known to your Great and Mighty Lordships whilst I with a sincere Heart implore the Almighty God to grant your Great and Mighty Lordships a laudable Regency Peace from without Unity within and accordingly the good Inhabitants all manner of Happiness Dated in Antwerp August 1 1672. Underneath stood Your Noble Great and Mighty's Humble and Obedient Servant Signed P. de Groot The SECOND LETTER Noble Honourable Wise and most Prudent LORDS My Lords ALthough my Return into my native Country was not so timely as I could have wished yet I have time enough to see that the Disorders which have been there for some Weeks past proceeded from no small occasion and that the good Governours were very ill treated yet I have nevertheless though in my Conscience with many others well knowing that my Deportment which may sufficiently be justified had not given the least occasion thereto patiently endured the Outrages committed on my House Family and Person in respect of the Publick so long as the Commotions were frequent But after that I found the Danger would be distinguished and deliver up my Person as a Victim to the tumultuous Communalty I judged that it was time that I secured my Safety by my Retreat as well in respect of my Care due to my innocent Children as also to be the better able to defend my Reputation which I esteem equal with my Life before the whole World which will need little Trouble when my Actions agreeing with the Orders from the States shall by some of the Members be examined I have suddenly retreated into the Spanish Netherlands that I might not give the least occasion of Dislike to my Enemies with intention to return and perform my Duty so soon as I am assured that your Noble and Honourable Lordships are in condition and inclined to protect me and assure my Safety which is proper and necessary for the meanest Inhabitants but more especially for Governours So committing your Noble and Honourable Lordships to the Protection of the Almighty God I remain From Antwerp Aug. 1 1672. Noble Honourable Wise and most Prudent Lords Your Noble and Honourable Lordships Most humble Servant P. de Groot FINIS