to make the Captains promise and subscribe likewise if they think good and that the rest of the Cities may also make or receiv such of the like Articles at their pleasure Herewith the foresaid Committee trust to have satisfied your N. G. M. intention referring all to their further order and Disposition Don and advised thus by the foresaid Committee-Members of your N. G. M. the last daie of March 1651. Draught of The Form of Oath to bee taken by the Souldierie keeping Garrison within the Province of Holland and West-Friesland in relation to and before the States thereof or their Committees WEe do promiss and swear unto the States General of the United Netherlands such as shall continue to maintain the Union and maintenance of the true Christian Religion and by Name to the States of Holland and West-Friesland to bee true and faithful to them to serv them uprightly and faithfully for the defens of the foresaid United Netherlands and by name the Countries of Holland and West-Friesland the Quarters Cities or Members thereof against all their Enemies to bee obedient to the said Lords the States of Holland and West-Friesland or their Commissioned Counsel whiles wee are in the said Province in such things as they shall command us for the furthering of the service and defens of the foresaid Countries to help protect the foresaid Provinces from inquarterings and throughfairs of other forces as also not to march within this same Province but by and upon Patent or Commission of the foresaid Lords the States of Holland and West-Friesland or their Commissioned Council and consequently in every thing to submit and follow all the Orders and Articles of War So truly God Almightie help us Draught of The form of Oath to bee taken by the Captains and Officers before the Magistrates of the Cities where they are lying in Garrison with their Companies respectively I Do promiss and swear to bee true and faithful with the Companie under mee unto this Citie and the Magistrates thereof and faithfully to serv and obey them in what they shall command mee for the maintenance service and tranquillitie of their Citie and in particular against all uproars and sedition the commands which the Lords the States of this Province or their Commission'd Council shall give mee So truly c. Upon the 22 of March the Nobilitie Gentrie and Cities of Braband resorting under the State did likewise address themselvs unto the Great Assemblie and as in the year 1648. before and at the conclusion of the Peace they had presented a certain long Deduction or Remonstrance so they did now also that which here ensueth and desired to have Audience carrying themselvs in the Superscription of their Address and in the Text it self not as Petitioners by waie of humble or submissive request but as fellow Confederates and that which is more as the first Member of the Union They had sent divers of their own into the particular Provinces before to recommend their affair where they received courteous indeed but onely general and no concluding Answers and Resolutions from them The Deduction of the Nobilitie Gentrie and Cities of Braband Vnited and associated with the rest of the Vnited Netherlandish Provinces shewing how well they are grounded in their desire presented to the Generalitie PHILIP surnamed the Good Duke of Burgundie Earl of Flanders Arthois c. beeing by right of Collateral succession becom Duke of Braband and Limburg and of the lands of Over-Mase Earl of Hainoult Holland Zealand and West-friesland and by purchase Duke of Lutsenberg Earl of Namen and Lord of Mechelen Hee first joined all these Countries beeing formerly under several Lords into One Bodie Emperor Charls the V. afterwards having gotten likewise the Over-Rhenish Provinces of Friesland Utrecht and Over-Yssel Groningâ—en and the Omlands Gelderland and Zuâ—phen for himself and his Heirs and posteritie as Dukes of Brâ—band and Earls of Holland and having reduced and reannexod to that Bodie certain considerable parcels which for a long time had been alienated and distracted Hee in the year 1549 with consent and at the desire of the Stateâ— of those Countries made a fundamental Law or Sanctiâ—â— to that end and purpose That all the foresaid Netherlands should thenceforward for ever remain united in one Bodie under one Prince onely And when after in the year 1555 the foresaid Emperor resigned the Sovereigntie over these Netherlands unto his Son King Philip the second taking his leav of all the Provinces hee exhorted them that notwithstanding the Countries were divers and separated in themselvs yet all of them making but one Bodie the Members of that bodie ought still to help assist and succor one another considering that without such a Concord and Conjunction among them the Enemies would easily get great advantage upon and means to surprize and invade them when as on the contrarie they remaining united together and assisting one another experience had shewed what they were able to perform in resisting those that durst attemt to hurt or molest them After the Peace concluded at Camerick in the year 1559 all the States together unanimously resolved to keep out all Spanish and forrein forces and promised each other ever to continue so doing After which the troubles and bloodie Wars ensuing in the Netherlands the most principal of the said Countries allied themselvs together from the very beginning for their Common Libertie and opposed themselvs jointly with common advice and aid goods and blood against the Inquisition and Spanish Tyrannie The Confederated Nobilitie who in the year 1566 presented their Petition to the Duchess of Parma at Brussels as to the Governess of these Countries were indeed som out of all Provinces but most of them of Braband and Flanders And the men of Brussels were those which principally opposed themselvs against the execution of the Tenth penie notwithstanding that the Duke d'Alva was present then within their Citie and had a strong Garrison of Spaniards about him Whereupon there following that unexspected beginning of the Deliverance by the taking in of the Briel most of the Cities of Holland and Zealand joined themselvs together for Libertie at which time those of Braband and other adjacent and Inland-Countries beeing oppressed and opposed by the Tyrannie of Duke d'Alva with Castles and strong Garrisons had not yet found or met with the conveniencie and opportunitie which they of Holland and Zealand had of casting off the Spanish Yoke but the Citie of Anwerp was plundered first twice over by the Spaniards At the Treatie of Peace at Breda in the year 1575 the Deputies of the Prince of Orange the States and Cities of Holland and Zealand Bommel and Buren with their associates and som particular Noblemen out of other Provinces treated there with the King's Commissioners In the time of greatest streight when as North Holland and South-Holland through the loss of Haerlem and the Province of Zealand through that of Ziriksea and the land of Scâ—owen were rent
saying Shee did not desire her daughters should go training it after Madam Stanhop At last it was agreed that the Ladie of Dhona daughter of the Lord Brederode should carrie the Childe to Church as shee did led on the right hand by Count Maurice and on the left by my Lord Goring aliâs Earl of Norwich the Train was born by two Ladies of Dhona and two of Brederode After them followed the Queen of Bohemia led by and then Princess Dowager Grandmother led by Prince Edward after her the Princess Louyse the young Princesses of Orange of Hozenzollen and others most of them confusedly Beeing Coach'd and brought to Church and seated there the nois and stir of the people was so great that the Minister was glad to dispatch and hasten to the Administration of the Sacrament by reading the usual institution during which the whole companie stood up and then the Childe was presented by the Queen and baptized by Lindanus naming it William-Henrie The speech went that the Princess Roial would gladly have named it Charls-William but that the Grandmother opposed it with that eagerness that shee said If they will call him CHARLS I will not go along to see him Christned The Church-Cerimonies beeing performed the Deputies rose up one after another in their order and passing by the Ladies took Coach again each partie repairing to their usual Randevouz and the rest back to the Court. Where having reposed themselvs a little there came the Deputies of their Hi. Mi. the States General finding the Princess Roial standing before her bed side and right over against her the Queen and Princess Dowager And after my Lord Van Soelen had complemented her according to the occasion hee presented a gilt-box for the Infant wherein there was an Obligation of an yearly pension for him of 8000 Gilders The Princess Roial answered with a like complement yet did not reach forth her hand to receiv the Box from him but hee beeing beckned towards a Chair standing by there hee set it down and thus taking their leavs again they withdrew having caused a thousand Gilders in fair gold to bee bestowed upon the Nurserie A little after those of Holland came whose present was a gilt box with a pension of 5000 flor per ann giving 800 flor to the Nurserie Delft gave a pension of 200 flor per ann Those of Amsterdam one of a 1000 flor per ann Those of Zealand 20000 flor once for all The two Ministers the one for preaching the other for Administring the Sacrament had each 300 flor given them in the young Prince his behalf From the Prince Elector of Brandenburg there assisted none at all at the Font nor from any other forrein friend neither in person nor by Deputation The Deputies from the States General were the Lords Van Soelen Wimmenum Vett Renswoud Donia Mulart and Essinga Feast or Collation there was none Som did not take it well that the Halbardiers went by the Coach sides of the young Prince nor that the childe was covered with Ermyn-fur black on white that beeing Roial The Lord Donia one of the Deputies from the States General sickned next daie and died on Fridaie following The Enterrement was resolved to bee performed Tuesday Mar. 7 but the weather proving foul and tempestuous it was put off till Wednesday the 8 the Companie was summoned against 9 in the forenoon but it was full noon before they began to march and that in order as followeth First of all the Guard of his High s consisting of 400 men in their best array trailing their Colors and Pikes the Muskets under the arms with the bores downward All the Militarie Officers which were present at the Hague Two Comtrollers with staves to conduct the Mourning All the Houshold both Gentrie and others Two Kettle-drums Twelv Trumpets with velvet Jackets the Trumpets hung with great Tassels and the Arms of his High s. A Herald of Arms. Le Cornet des Couleurs Le Guidon des Couleurs beeing a field-Banner with Colors The Helmet of Turney or Tilting with feathers born upon a short Staff The Target beeing a shield with Colors likewise born upon a short staff The Turney or Tilting Hors hung down to the ground with Colors and Devises The great Standart with colors of Arms. An Herald of Arms. Hereafter followed the Horses and Bannerets The Hors with the Arms of Warneton and the Banneret thereof Herstall Grimbergen Cranendoncq Gertruydenberg Diest Grave and land of Kuyck Ysselstein Breda and Polanen Veer andVlissinghen Leerdam Buyren Meeurs Linghen Chalon Diets Vyanden Cazenelleboghen Nassaw The Hors with the Arms of Orange and the Banneret thereof The Herald of Arms Le Penon des armes or field-Banner of Arms. Le Guidon des Armes or the field-Banner of War The Hors of the Battel embroidered down to knees with the Arms of his High s. The great Standart with the complete Arms of his High s. The Hors of Honor embroidered with the complete Arms of his Highness down to the ground The great Banner The IV Head-quarters 1. Wittgenstein 2. Colligny 3. Solms 4. Nassaw all born orderly The Helmet with the Crown born on a short staff The shield with the plain Arms beeing the complete Arms of his Highness together with the Crown a top and order of the Garter about born on a short staff The sword sheathed beeing the sword of Arms. The Coat of Arms born upon a staff The Hors of Mourning The Color and Garter of England born upon a Cushion The Sword of Sovereigntie born naked the point upward The Princely Crown The principal Herald Hereupon followed the Princely Hears covered with black velvet upon a Chariot under a Canopie very leisurely drawn along with 8 horses all deckt with black velvet down to the ground attended round about with abundance of Gentlemen Noblemen and others of great qualitie and on both sides guarded with the Halbardiers of his Highness After this there followed the Dukes Princes and Earls of next kindred and alliance to the famous hous of Nassaw one after the other all in long trailing Cloaks As first the Duke of York accompanied with Don Emanuel and Don Ferdinand sons of Don William Louys Prince of Portugal Count John Wolfart of Brederode The Count of Solms Count Christian of Donaw Count Frederick of Nassaw Prince Edward Palsgrave Count John Maurice of Nassaw Count Henrie of Nassaw Count William Frederick of Nassaw Stadholder in Friesland The Rhingrave Governor of Mastricht The Count of Limborgh and Stirum Then followed the Deputies of the Assemblie of the States General in bodie and a Herald before every Province with the Arms thereof Then the Nob. Mi. the Lords of the Council of State The Commissioned Council of the No. Gr. Mightie Lords the States of Holland and Westfriesland The Nob. Mi. Lords the President and Council of the High Court of Holland Zealand and Westfriesland The No. Mi. Lords of the Provincial Court of Holland Zealand and Westfriesland The No. Mi. Lords
disburdening of the feeble Treasurie on the other is much better to bee obtained by our waie of Casheiring then by the effect of that of his High s wee therefore held it best seriously to remonstrate all this to his said High s and caused our Deputies to perform the same with many pregnant reasons and especially by a most exact Ballance of our Treasurie exhibited unto him whereby wee shewed That according to our waie the Rate of this Province would yearly bee eased more then by his waie by two hundred eighteen thousand nine hundred and fourtie Gilders 14 Stivers 2 d. Desiring in that regard that hee would bee pleased so to direct the business and recommend it to the rest of the Provinces that the Cashiering propounded by Us may bee expedited and accomplished with all speed At last after many serious instances applied to this end in vain wee found our selvs necessitated to make known unto the Generalitie that by reason of the weakness of our Treasurie wee were not able to grant or bear that which the Council of State desired of us and by the above-named project of the state of War was assigned and charged upon upon us and that consequently wee were absolutely enforced in part to excuse our selvs of that desire declaring that as to the continuing and paying of the before mentioned 105 Foot-companies and 32 of Hors together with other particulars expressed in the above-cited Advice of our Commission'd Council wee could grant no Consent And howbeit that by virtue of the Freedom which the respective Provinces ever had in matters of charging them even under the Dominion of their Dukes Earls and Lords themselvs in the strictest sence wee were not bound to give any particular reasons thereof or to use any persuasive means but might by the vigor of the said Freedom sufficiently have acquitted our selvs with a simple notification of discontinuing our Consent yet for to satisfie all wee forbore not to discover and laie before the Deputies of the States of other Provinces our Confederates at the Generalitie the whole State of our Treasurie and to deduce there all the pregnant motives of the foresaid Discontinuance at large and several times with solid demonstration That a less number of forces effectively would bee retain'd in service then wee had declared our Consent for if so bee that the State will entertain more then they are able to paie Nothing doubting but all this might and would have wrought a fair correspondence of the said Deputies with us and caused theirs by a faithful report of our foresaid Reasons and Motives especially of our great necessitie unto their Principals easily to dispose the same That the foresaid dis-banding of forces and lessening of charges might according to the antient order and old waie have speedily been set a work and effected Nevertheless wee not onely saw our selvs disappointed of any such effects but on the contrarie found to our great grief that the paiment of those charges which wee had consented to as before began to bee required at our hands insomuch that at last wee were constreined to declare unto the Generalitie as also in Januarie 1650 wee had formally declared that the Treasurie of this Province was not able any longer to bear the heavie charges imposed upon them during the Wars now the Peace had already continued so long And whereas every Province hath libertie each year to consent or not to consent to the Petition addrest unto them by the Council of State and likewise to accept of or to excuse the charges therin proposed according to every one's constitution and condition and that the said state of War was knownly nothing els but a Petition of the Council of State and so was transcribed and sent to the respective Provinces That wee finding the charges therein mentioned to bee insufferable for us had found good therefore to make difficultie and to yield no further then our Provincial Advice formerly return'd and often renewed there did import and that consequently wee were resolved in case the other Provinces could not bee disposed to the like to proceed to the execution of the said Provincial Advice according to the contents thereof within our selvs it beeing sure that the before-mentioned Freedom of consenting cannot possibly consist in a bare and emtie sound of words but in such effectual realities whereby one may hold himself free from paying such charges to the continuation whereof hee hath expressly declared hee cannot consent But then the Deputies putting us in som hope they would speedily bring in their Provincial Advices upon our foresaid proposals of saving charges wee again for further satisfaction 's sake to all superseded the foresaid execution for som further time and at the request of the foresaid Deputies continued to delaâ—e it from time to time until at last in the latter end of March and beginning of April next following their respective Advices were produced And notwithstanding our hopes that his foresaid High s the Prince of Orange of immortal memorie would have used som endeavors upon our serious and reiterated desires with the said Deputies of the Provinces of their Principals that the same might have conformed themselvs with our foresaid Resolution or however that his High s would so have directed the matter as that at leastwise they might have accepted of his High s former own proposals made unto us Decemb. 8 1649. Wee saw contrariwise to our grief the matter so carried that the Provinces remained far beneath them yet Allowing onely 55 Foot-Companies and 12 of Hors to bee disbanded and the rest of the Hors to bee reduced to 60 or 50 riders and the altering of the Cuirassiers into Carabins urging besides all this that the cashiered Ritmasters and Captains should still enjoie a pension of 1500 and 1000 gilders respectively the Lievtenants Cornets and Ensigns therein proportionably And whereas thereby wee should nothing near have been able to save the Moitie of that whereunto wee had forborn our Consent wee again most seriously represented to his High s the Prince of Orange the real Considerations whereupon our former Provincial Advice was grounded with earnest desire to approve and yet to recommend and second the same in dealing with the other Provinces which beeing denied by his High s and the Deputies of the Provinces insisting and pressing that the same Forces for whose continuance wee had not consented should bee entertained and paid by us for the most part beyond our abilities Wee thereupon according to the Right belonging to us andin conformitie of our above-mentioned Declaration presented to the Generalitie in Januarie 1650 began to consider how and by what means wee might best and most conveniently eschew the paiment charged upon us against all right and equitie in prejudice of our Freedom and to the intolerable burthen of our good Commons and consequently to put in effect our former Resolution of saving charges and yet before the effecting thereof the project beeing
serv's likewise that in the Conditions whereupon the Prince of Orange bought the Citie of Flushing in the year 1581 it is expressly set down That all other Domains and Lordly consequences whereof the the Letters make not mention and which the Lord nevertheless or his forefathers had or enjoied and might have had and enjoied by Right the same shall ensue the Buyer without any reservation Whereby there is not acquired to the Lord Marquiss any particular right in and over the said Cities in respect whereof onely those Cities should tanquam mixtum statum obtinentes bee owned by and subject to the Marquiss and have remained without his Jurisdiction immediately under the Earl so as divers Cities in Germanie as Hamburg in respect of the Duke of Holstein Magdeburg in respect of Saxonie Brunswick and Cullen in respect of their Princes and divers others which onely in certain respects acknowledg their Lords and for the rest are immediately subject to the Empire But the Citie of Veer hath alwaies been subject to their particular Lords and the Citie of Flushing was reduced to the same nature and condition by the Earl of Zeland in his foresaid Letters of Transport and Sale in the year 1477. Whereunto serveth ungainsaiably that the same Letters do expressly contein a special charge and command from the Earl to the subjects portiers and Inhabitants of the said Citie for to obey and swear unto the Buyer their Lord his Heirs and Posteritie as to their just Inheritor and Lord proprietarie To which Letters and those of Renuntiation hath relation the Decree of the year 1581 whereby the Cities aforesaid are sold to the Prince of Orange Those which are vers'd and skill'd in the Laws and Matters of this nature ever understanding it thus That the Cities which are bound to call their Lord Inheritor or Lord Hereditarie and must swear hereditarie Allegiance to him are to bee held subjected Cities absolutely The like Oaths of Hereditarie Allegiance beeing made to the Prince of Orange in the years 1581 and 1588 there were silver coins thrown abroad in remembrance thereof upon which there was the Arms of Nassaw with this circumscription Nodus indissolubilis To this serv's further that by the Grant or Charter of the year 1574 given to the said Cities by Prince William the said Prince take's the said Cities into the Earl's immediate protection and subjection with promiss never to alienate the same which execution had been needless if those Cities were not subject to their particular Lord. From whence may well bee considered that the Lord Marquiss hath not onely ex praesumtâ mente but also by express surrender of the Earl by virtue of the foresaid Letters of the year 1477 and all succeeding feodarie Letters intentionem fundatam to all Rights and Dues which the Earl had in and over the said Cities And that therefore it is a groundless inference for the Commissioned Council to aver as they do Artic. 13. of their Considerations touched above That whatsoever belong'd not to the Act of Sovereigntie the same should bee left and reserved to the Cities Whence followeth likewise that all the Rights and Prerogatives which the Cities and Magistrates do enjoie and which are rehearsed at length by the Lords of the said Council begining from the 13 Artic. to the 15 touching any Jurisdictional interests they are deriving from the gracious Concessions both of the Earls and the particular Lords unto the said Cities and granted from time to time unto them as likewise the same is alleged by the foresaid Consideration in sundrie Articles and may bee seen too in the old Statute-book of the Citie of Flushing that of all antient times the Election and Ordinances in the behalf of Justice the Orphant's-chamber the Companies and other matters serving for the Government and ordering of the said Citie were made and caused to bee promulgated by the Lords of Flushing So that all those Privileges are belonging to the said Cities not of themselvs ex Jure ullo Universitatis without the exercise whereof no Universitie or Civil Societie could bee instituted Although otherwise also it is conceived that the Jus illud publicum Universitatis is screwed up somwhat too high by the Council in their Considerations for the deriving thence such conclusions as would exceedingly prejudice the Lord Marquiss in his Lordlie Prerogatives It is a known business in the Laws that not onely Cities but Castra Villa Vicus and even Courts or Bodies Collegiate which are comprehended under the name of Universitie may have and possess goods and revenues like unto particular persons and may appoint men for to manage protect and defend the same and also dispose of the said goods at pleasure of their own accord Which nevertheless they of Flushing may not do without the consent of the Bailiff in the Name of the Lord or at least without his privitie or notice given That the Universities may both sue and bee sued in Law and also contract without it And furthermore according to the diversitie of the Universities whether they bee Counties Cities Villages or bodies Collegiate expedite the affairs and negotiations concerning themselvs But from this Right to attribute so great a Right unto those Cities as by the Considerations seem's to bee don wee hope that shall not bee found to have ground in any Laws What kinde of autoritie and power is belonging to the Magistrates of these Cities considered in their own nature as Vassal-Cities the same would soon bee determined by the Laws if there were any question about that between the Lord and the Cities As also it is an easie matter to know by the Laws what the Magistrate eo ipso quòd Magistratus factus sit may do according to the nature of his Office and that the greater and populous the Cities bee the more is their autoritie for to keep their Citizens in order But yet that the said Autoritie is different from the Jurisdiction and the rights deriving thence aud belonging onely to the Lord. And that the privileges depending thereon cannot com or bee acquired to those Cities but by gracious Concessions Purchase Grants and other singular titles past unto them from the Lord. As the same also appear's in what concern's the Cities of Flushing and Veer by the Contracts and privileges alleged by the Commission'd Council in the foresaid considerations and otherwise well known And that consequently those Cities and Magistrates have such acquired Jurisdictional privileges not Jure Magistratûs proprio or from the autoritie of beeing Magistrates there exercising the same but ex accidenti Coming herewith to Artic. 51 conteining the ninth Argument brought in by the Commissioned Council in their Considerations as the main and principal foundation of their Pretence Namely the great Grant or Charter of Privileges given by Prince William of happie Memorie to those of Flushing and Veer respectively in the year 1574. In which regard your N. M. are desired to consider in his High s behalf that
had no power and autoritie in civil matters without their Lord but absolutely in all things depended on him Fifthly the same is put out of all Controversie in regard of the particular Domains Revenues Royalties Lordships and Offices which the said Cities of old have had and still own the proprietie of and whereof they ever had the sole and full disposing without any intervention or opposition of the Lord. By reason whereof also it is expressly said in the 5 Article of the Charter aforesaid granted to those of Flushing by Prince William That they shall have power yearly to Commissionate the Rent master or Treasurer for Receiver of the Revenues particularly belonging or appropriated to the said Citie And for further proof may bee added that the foresaid Rent-master is bound yearly to bring in a due Account of his Receit and Administration together with his Evidences and Remains before and in the presence of the Burgomasters and Senators without making any mention of the Lord or his Commissioners passing by the very Counsellors beeing that they are particularly put in by the Lord for the administration of Justice as also to this very daie there is not the least notice taken of those things in the Lord's behalf Upon which ground also Artic. 7 ensuing the King 's Domains are pertinently distinguished from the Citie-Revenues And Artic. 8 it is again declared that the Burgomasters according to their antient privileges should have the Disposing of the Citie Revenues to emploie them to the use there rehearsed without any mention made of the Lord. It beeing likewise known that in conformitie hereof the Districts and and Lordships of Soutelanden and Coudekerck do particularly appertain at present to the Citie of Flushing the Lord not pretending the least Right or Direction therein As also in times past the Lordship of the Oost Capelle belong'd to those of Veer which afterwards they alienated to their own benefit without needing or seeking for the consent of the Marquiss And further it is as well known that both the foresaid Cities for the maintenance of their said Revenues Domains and other Rights sustein and prosecute all processes of Law actively and passively in their own name and at their own charges as likewise the Sentences pronounced in that behalf are directed to and executed accordingly onely in relation to the said Cities Sixthly the same is also strongly manifested thereby that the Cities aforesaid were privileged and autorized of old as is expressly agreed by Artic. 9 of the foresaid Charter of Prince 〈◊〉 of their own power to make themselvs such Ordinances Statutes and Inhibitions for both Civil Justice and Goâ—ernment as they shall finde good and useful for themselvs and their Inhabitants The same right and power beeing grounded partly upon the Jus directum Universitatis alleged above and partly upon the free concession of Count William or other their Lords for the better direction of the Civil Societie of the said Cities In which regard it is likewise remarkable what is further said in the tenth Article of the foresaid Charter That viz. in Case of Discrepancies in opinion about that point and differences arising thereupon about Conclusions the same should bee reserved to bee determined by the Discretion and sentence not of the Lord or Marquiss but of his Excellencie as Stadtholder of the Province assisted with the Senate in the name of the Earldom an evident testimonie that the said Cities in the point aforesaid are all subject to their Lord's feodataries In the seventh place the Assertion aforesaid is also confirmed thereby that the Collation or Conferring of most of the Offices regarding the Administration of the Civil Government there doth appertein not to the Lord but unto the Cities themselvs by reason whereof also it is notably declared Artic 7 of the Charter above-mentioned That the Burgomasters Senators and Counsellers of Flushing have the Autoritie for to create all Officers requisite for the service and maintenance of the Government there where the Officers requisite for the maintenance of the Lord's Autoritie are all of them plainly and expressly distinguished from the former Insomuch that as among other things the Lord is qualified and wont in the foresaid Cities to appoint in his own behalf for the direction and assistance of justice the Bailifs and Secretaries and for the administration ofhis Domaines and survey of the works standing on his charge certain Rent-masters and Clarks so on the other side the Cities were privileged of old not onely to appoint peculiar Treasurers and Receivers over their proper goods and revenues but likewise partly in matters of Government such as are called Assessores Universitatis Surveyors of the fortifications Water-Clarks Porters and other Ministers partly for assisting and dispatching of justice the Orphant-Masters the Sâ—out or Sheriff and elected Senators of the lands quadri-partition the Commissioners and Secretaries of the land-right together with the Clerks and messengers and som likewise to oversee the poor and hospital and other attendants belonging thereunto So also do the said Cities use of their own autoritie and without the privitie or knowledg of the Lord not onely to send their Deputies to the Assemblie of the Provincial Government but also to Commissionate som persons both for the Commissioned Council and Court of the Admiraltie as likewise for the Chamber of Accounts and the States of Wolcheren besides the Elections which are made by them too out of the Nomination of the triple number for Adventures in the East and West-Indie Companies And all this originally from that power which directly belong's unto them in matter of Policie and Government and out of respect of the particular and singular interest which the foresaid Cities have in the Conservation and prosperitie of the Province Eightly The same may further bee deduced out of the manifold Privileges and Immunities granted unto them not onely by the Earls and Countesses of Zeland as was told alreadie above but also by forrein Kings and Princes as well if not more in favor and respect of the Governors and common Inhabitants of the said Cities then for their subaltern or subordinate Lord's sake Whereunto among others especially relate's a certain Privilege given them by King Edward of England in the year 1475. to Henry van Borssele as Lord of Veer together with the Burgomasters and Governors distinguished from the Lord as also the general Inhabitants and Commons of the said Citie which then were or should bee hereafter Which kinde of Privileges especially there beeing many of them are of that validitie and weight in regard of the foresaid Cities and must so bee understood in Law that although the Lords thereof should either committ any felonie or delinquencie against the Earl as the direct Lord or have given to the said forrein Potentates any just caus of offence and merited thereby to bee deprived of the Disposition and Contents of the foresaid Privileges so far forth as concerneth them nevertheless the same could not bee