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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B14964	Advice given unto the states of of [sic] the Lovv-Countries obedient & faithfull to his Maiesty of Spaine, upon occasion of the letters written by Count Henry Vanden Bergh the 18. day of Iune 1632. to her Highnesse the Archdutchesse, and the estates in those dominions. As also unto the declaration made by him concerning his discontent received, being all fully answered and found to be unjust and unreasonable. If the reader please to compare them together, you shall find Henry of the Bergh his letters and declaration, printed in our aviso of Iune, the 30. Numb. 31. and Iuly 6. Numb. 32. Translated out of the French coppy.		1632 (1632)	STC 18507.262; ESTC S103527	13,346	19

reioyce in a most happy and honourable peace assuredly euen such a peace which good subjects ought to wish vnto their Prince for the reputation of his Crowne As for the Commission of Master of the Field Generall which hee saith was conferred vpon him two yeares agoe by her Highnesse in the name of the Kings Maiesty and which hee is now resolued to exercise and execute for the service of the Countryes the preseruation of the Privilidges and the vpholding of the H. Catholicke Apostolicall and Roman Church You may thereby see vnto what a degree and height of impudency the audaciousnesse of this Traitor is come How doth hee pay and recompence our good and vertuous Princesse with ingratitude How doth hee accuse her of Conniuance saying that hee knowes that she wisheth that the affaires went better And as it were acknowledging the goods deedes and supreme honours which hee hath receiued from her extreame goodnesse and bounty hee hath so much boldnesse and audacity to take her for a prote trix of his mischiefe and so doth declare himselfe openly to bee guilty as now hee is proclaimed To bee guilty of crimen laesae Maiestatis in the highest degree and capitall Enemie of the publike rest and therefore consequently fallen away and deprived of all his Honours offices Dignities and interest which hee hitherto hath had in his Maiesties service In the yeare 1484. the Count de Rom●nt did by the like practice bare Armes against the Arch-Duke Maximilian his Lord attributing in like manner to himselfe the title of Captaine Generall of the Prince Philip his sonne hee wrote in this sort to the States generall assembled in the City of Bruxels his answer giuen him was this That they did not acknowledge him for such but an Enemie of the Prince and of the state As for the Countryes in the name of God let him leaue them in peace for there is no need of forging any innouation wee need no broiles nor Traitor to trouble our tranquility The flock would bee in good case vnder the clawes of the Wolfe if our Religion had no better Protector Oh had but this blacke soule as much capacity and ability as hee hath hatred and malice wee should soone see a strange Religion and such Lawes that Saturue and ●up●ter would not bee brought in but for them onely I cannot conceiue how a man that hath no Religion at all who hath falsified his Faith and who in the yeare 1621. when hee went before Iulliers by Testament written by his owne hand which hee left to his sister Anne did ordaine to bee bu●yed or enterred in a prophane place neerer vnto his sisters will not onely cloake and cover himselfe with a vaile of Religion but also counterfeite himselfe to bee a protector of the Catholike Apostolicall and Romish You deceiue your selfe Monsieur Count Henry you must not send your manifestations and declarations into your Government of Geldria hereof your Conscience is to well knowne there the City of Stefenswert which you haue made neutrall to serue for a retreat vnto the Enemies of the King and to the Hereticks and where you haue brought the Ministers to poison the people and instruct your Sisters Anne and Charloite these shall testifie of your carriages and your secret behaviour Doe not you remember that sometimes by chaunce and through forgetfullnesse you left a little haereticall prayer booke in high-dutch on a seate in the Iesuitish Church at Ruremond Which booke you called your Haureman you haue written to Priests and other persons well qualified and of diuers Nations that your sisters were christianly deceased and that their soules were very happy In the meane while you know that they gaue vp the ghost in the Armes of such Ministers which you had procured them Wee know more of your newes than you doe thinke for Hee ends his letter with the retreat which hee had made into the City of Liege for the advancement of his desseyns Wherein his subtiltye ill compacted together is failing for the Deputes of the Prince and States of Liege not willing to prejudice any way to so good neighbourhood haue disclaimed his action by a decree ●une the 23. the contents whereof are these A declaration published to shew that his letters and his declaration haue bee●e published without any knowledge of theirs or participation and consent and that they intend in no wise to entermeddle with any affaires of the said Count Henry Nay for their better Iustification they haue obliged him by a writing of his owne hand the 25. day of June That they would haue it manifested That as hee had published the said letters without hauing given notice or asked permission of his H● of Liege or the Deputes of his states and how that hee intended not by those publications to attempt any thing against their right nor envolue their affaires into his actions This retreat of his hath beene intended along time not for the service of the Countryes nor Religion but plotted and combined with our Enemies And if it were not so how could hee haue had time enough to treate with the King and Princes which in the end of his Letter to the States he affirmes to bee inclined to contribute their forces for the execution of his designes But there are other sufficient proofes it is not of a day or two that his treason hath bin ●eproched unto him and hit in his teeth by the brother of the husband of the bastard daughter wee shall speake of that in his due place it is sufficient for this point to manifest what is most true that before ever the Prince of Orange came to field to march to Venlo hee had beene to conferre with him in Holland and did so within a mile from the City in the Castle of Holtmullen where also was the Earle of Culenbergh his brother in Law and that before that time he had caused five Barrels of Silver to bee convayed to Meseycke there to buy the necessary provision for the siege of Mastricht under a colour that they were the Prince of Orange his moneys destined by him at the retreat of Count of Horne engaged the Prince of Liege See there these be the good charitable Offices which this dissembling Patriot intends to practice for the good of the Countryes The letter which he sent to the States was almost of the same tenure and contents as that written to her Highnesse we will onely examine these things which are of note and moment He saith that he had given advice that the place of the enemies meeting or rendevons should be at Moock neerest of all to his Government He would speake according to knowledge concerning the place and not without reason but hee might know since it was he that had called the enemy thither But is absolutely false that hee gave them any advertizement or notice at all but onely at the very instant when the enemy arrived He proposeth his naturall affection vnto the

good of the Countries He is a stranger revengefull full of ill will and malice who intends and labours to make a private discontent grudge a publike cause he stomacks the Marquise De Leganes who hath beene indeed raysed in these Countries to be a Patriot him he accuseth imprudently and unadvisedly of such businesse which he was never acquainted withall the said Marquise at that time not being interessed in the matter If hee thinke himselfe wronged in any thing it is lawfull for him to right himselfe by an ordinary course But not to commit such a loosenesse and to play the little Tyrant What have these Countries to doe with his particular quarels heart-burning If his courage had had edges sharpe enough and wings swift enough for honour and that he thought himselfe so grievously offended as he speakes of as oftentimes as hee hath had occasion to see the Ma●quise Nay more as often as hee hath seene him who hath hindered him from demanding him satisfaction As for the Spanish Nation which he complaines doe wish his death and that they shot at his Picture which hangs neere the Steenport he hath exceeding great wrong for if it be true that the Spaniards be such as hee speaketh of they had all of them long since beene made away and he who for the present serves for Counsellor hath oftentimes inculcated the meanes to destroy them and said that therein hee went in the Kings service But his Oracles sounded alwayes so little profitable to the King that no trust might be given to his perswasions It hath proved better to goe a milder way to worke and to strive to redresse whatsoever was amisse by gifts and employments than to practise any such extremitie which the world would never have judged worthy to bee executed if the proofe had not beene drawne as now it is by his owne declaration It is very pretty that he complaines of the Spanish because they shot at his Picture his spyes would have much a doe to bring sufficient witnesse for the proofe thereof although to be true plaine he that betrayes his Prince deserves othergesse punishment than he that onely exerciseth his treason against his picture It was he the felon who so lately on the 27. of Iune was so ras● and impudent as might lye in the City of Bruxels by the patricidious hands of his wicked adhaerents caused attempt to bee made against the sacred Image of the King his Lord and good Master by that meanes to endeavour to begin by that execrable fact the first exployts of his rebellion But the contrary of which they intended is happened and the wicked projects of these imps prevayled not for two dayes after the States of Braband not being able any longer to endure the indignity of this abomination of their owne proper motion came personally in publike audience to the great edification of all that were present and presented themselves before the Princesse and there renewed solemnely the Oath of fidelity and allegeance to the King their Prince and Naturall Lord to her Highnesse declaring that they were ready to take the same Oath to the Prince of Spaine As for those Offices and charges which he sayes are not conferred upon any bat Spaniards I must here needs repeat that hee himselfe at their conclusion had the principall of all but hee hath very ill discharged himselfe and I must say that his ingratitude hath neyther bounds nor limits Wicked servant as he is he never served but by interest and never Prince was more liberall to any man than our Princesse haue beene to him Never did hee march forth with the Armies but in the upshot he obtayned some summes of moneys for his particular and ever received more than any Spaniard or Lord of the Countrey besides those secret gratuities and benefites which hee obtayned under hand whereof hee never made any account but applyed them to his private gaine profit He knowes well enough how punctually he caused all reareges to be payd him downe before ever he would set one foote on the way to the Palatinate In a word for that estate substance which now he hath he is more obliged than any man in the world for it and to that King against whom hee now takes up Armes From a meane Soldier hee was made a Captaine of Horse afterward Master of the Campe hee was trusted with the City of Oldenzel afterward with Groll and at last hee had the Government of the Province of Geldres which than was one of the best and fairest Province of all the Countries hee hath also had the generall Government of the Cavallery and the Generalship of the Artillery he hath commanded the whole Army and alwayes with retention of the wages of all places and charge which formerly he exercised to be short In the yeare 1629. he was by her Highnesse in the name of the King made Generall Master of the Campe of the whole Army of his Majesty Whereunto could his ambition aspire higher unlesse it were to Tyrannie which he now affects at this present Our enemies themselves with whom he hath held correspondency and wrought his mischievous practises a long time have beene astonished many times that so many recompences should prodigally bee lavished and wasted upon one who was so vndeseruing and demeriting Last of all which is more when the Earle of Stryrum entred into Gueldres with the Enemies troupes seeing the County of Montfort which is worth more in reueneus than twentie thousand Florins and which the King had given to Count Henry de Bergh with many other Townes and villages of the Country of Stefens wert hee could not withhold nor abstaine from saying that hee marvailed much how the King could find in his heart to bestow so much vpon one of a contrary party Adding withall that if he should haue serued the States of Holland an hundred yeares hee would not haue beene requited with such an honourable reward As for his Expression That he invites vs to accept of one of his passions and to take another course vnder the gouernment of her Highnesse Wee thanke him for his good will and to thanke God that hee hath beene pleased to discover vnto vs and Enemie who could so closely and covertly hatch and plot our ruine and destruction if he had but so much ayde and conduct as hee is full of euill motions and intentions Our wise Princesse hath no need of such a Tutor to dissipate and scatter abroad the Patrimony of the King her Nephew And desolate and ruinate a Country so well gouerned which for many yeares together hath cost his Maiestie all the ri●hes of Spaine and the Indyes and the blood of so many thousand Spaniards spilt for the safety and preservation of the same and for the Catholick Faith and Religion There remaines yet his Declaration which is nothing else but a manifestation of his discontent and a profer of entertainment vnto those that will bee his followers It is