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A07280	The triumphs of Nassau: or, A description and representation of all the victories both by land and sea, granted by God to the noble, high, and mightie lords, the Estates generall of the vnited Netherland Prouinces Vnder the conduct and command of his excellencie, Prince Maurice of Nassau. Translated out of French by W. Shute Gent.; Nassauschen lauren-crans. English	Orlers, Jan Janszn., 1570-1646.; Shute, W.; Haestens, Henrick van. aut	1613 (1613)	STC 17676; ESTC S114453	320,305	400

comming sorth this murderer stood without the Hall doore making shew as if he craued his passe-port he discharged one of his Pistols vpon him charged with three bullets The Prince feeling himselfe hurt sayd onely thus My God take pittie on my soule I am sore wounded my God take pittie on my soule and on this poore people Hauing vttered these words he began to stagger but was supported by Iaques Maldrè vvho witnesseth that he heard those words and was set downe vpon the staires where he grew speechlesse And as the Countesse of Swartsenbourg his sister asked him in the high Dutch Tongue if he did not recommended his soule to Iesus Christ he aunswered in the same language yea and neuer afterwards spake He was presently layed vpon a bed in the same roome where he dined where within a while after hee gaue vp the ghost Such was the end of this Prince esteemed not onely of his friends but enemies the most wise constant magnanimous patient and excellent Prince that liued or died in our time according to his Embleme Saeuis tranquillus in vndis which is to say quiet in the middest of troubles A goodlie end seeing he died for his Countrie a thing which all godlie wise men desire whom death neuer takes vnprouided as also because he was soon freed from feare and griefe a death whereby our great God hath since manifested that the good successe of warre depended not on this Princes person but on his mightie arme seeing that the victorie which his enemies thought they had gained of him sorted not according to their desire but hath conuicted them of inhumane crueltie for his second sonne Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange did from that time though he were not aboue 17 or 18 yeares old resolue to follow his Fathers steps and to serue his Countrie And the better to incite him thereunto he inuented an Embleme of a Tree cut downe to the root from which issued tender young plants which in time became Trees and vnderneath this motto in Latine Tandem sit surculus arbor viz. In time the plant becomes a Tree inferring thereby that they had not yet woon all by his fathers death represented by the cut Tree but that the plants which sprouted forth might in time let them that cut the Tree know how worthie their rash and bloudie attempt is to be derided by the whole world The Princesse his wife there present was greatly grieued crying out and intreating God to giue her the gift of patience seeing it had pleased him to take her father first husband now the prince from the world The murderer sought to haue escaped by a back way in running let fall the other Pistoll hauing alreadie passed the stables and running through the Schol-street towards the Rampiers thought to leape from the walles downe into the Dike which was full of water hauing two bladders and a quill to blow wind into them which he thought to make vse of for his better swimming ouer But he was ouertaken and stayed by two of the Princes seruants At first he was perplext and daunted but when he perceiued they did not hurt him he began to take courage hoping perhaps to haue his fact allowed and by some meanes to escape and sayd that he had done nothing but that which the King his master had commaunded him He was carried before the Magistrats of Delft to be examined There he craued paper penne and inke promising seeing he was prisoner to vnfold the truth of the matter which he did not but mingled many lyes among some true points as it afterwards appeared He confessed that his name was Baltazar Gerard of Ville sans in Burgondie and that for the space of sixe yeares he had a desire to kill the Prince which he imparted to diuers who reprehended him for it But some three yeres past vnderstanding that the Prince of Orange stood attainted and condemned by the King of Spayn he vsed meanes to come hither to execute that sentence yet hearing that a certaine Biscan had alreadie dispatcht him he put himselfe into the seruice of Iohn du Prè Secretarie to Count Mansfeldt but within a while after hauing notice that the Prince still liued he resolued to kill him whatsoeuer should happen hoping to find meanes of secret departure from Count Mansfeldts Campe to the Prince and by seeming to be of his Religion to present him certain blankes of the sayd Earles signed and sealed with red wax and so to watch a time to kill him with lesse daunger But at last being hindered by sundrie occasions in March he left his master and came to Treues where he confest himselfe to a Iesuit vnto whom he bewrayed his designe intreating him after Easter to acquaint Count Mansfeldt therewith This Iesuit aduised him to impart it likewise to the Prince of Parma which he afterwards did by letter in the Citie of Tournay but he durst not tarie for an answer fearing least he would take the carrying of those blankes in bad part with which hee went to Delft to put his plot in executiō But finding no fit opportunitie to doe it he went into Fraunce with the Lord Caron from whence he was sent backe with letters both to the Prince and States containing the death of the Duke of Anjou and afterwards he watcht all occasions to performe his diuellish enterprise thinking it the fittest time to dispatch him either at a Sermon or when he should bee at meat and that thereupon he had bought two Pistols and charged them the one with three bullets wherewith he shot the Prince and the other with two which he could make no vse of being hindered by the Gard for which he was verie sorie affirming that if at that time he had beene two thousand miles from thence he would haue returned backe to kill him All this did he voluntarily and without torture confesse and set downe in writing Afterwards being in Prison he confest at sundrie times that which followeth and perseuered in it to the verie death First without any torture he declared that not long before he vnderstood the Kings proscription against the Prince being in May last at Delft he would haue done the deed if he could haue found a fit time and meanes to escape Afterwards he sued to carrie letters of the Dukes death and that the day before he thought to haue slayne him but that he durst not then attempt it because he saw no meanes of escape But the same day he did it he wholly resolued to contemne all daunger and to kill the Prince though he were inuironed with fiftie thousand men Concerning his declaration to the Iesuit he persisted in his former confession and how that being in Fraunce this businesse did so torment him as he could not rest night nor day Whereupon he quarrelled with some of his fellow seruants that he might the sooner be dispatched away with letters And if in that journey he should haue missed his

purpose his meaning was to haue returned into Fraunce and to haue become one of the reformed religion in some Congregation or other and to haue so delt with the Consistorie as he would haue obtayned letters of recommendation to get him accesse to the Prince and by that meanes to perform the deed Being tortured likewise before he confest that he had acquainted Doctor Gery Warden of the Friers at Tournay with his purpose After his torture he confessed that the sayd Frier had incouraged him and giuen him his blessing promising to pray to God for him That the Iesuit of Treues had likewise assured him that if he died in the attempt he should be reckoned in the number of martyrs He had likewise imparted the same to 3 other Iesuits Being againe tortured he sayd that he was a poore fellow seeking some means to aduance himselfe That he had acquainted the Prince of Parma with his plot who appointed the Counsellor Assonuille to conferre with him who vpon the difficultie of the matter told him that he should doe great good seruice to the King of Spayne and that the Prince of Parma allowed thereof so as if he performed it he should receiue the recompence proposed in the proscription but if he shold be taken he aduised him by no means to make any mention of the Prince of Parma He told Assonuille that he would change his name and call himselfe Francis Guyon son to Peter Guyon put to death for Religion and his goods confiscat and so being a poore fellow and wanting meanes but yet affectionat to Religion he would goe to the Princes Court and the better to insinuat hee would present him his seruice and those sealed Blankes all this did Assonuille consent to and vehemently exhorted him to performe it intreating him againe not to make any mention of the Prince of Parma for diuers respects and perceiuing him resolute in the attempt he sayd vnto him Goe my sonne if thou performe this the King will keepe his promise with thee and thou shalt purchase immortall fame He should beside haue the Prince of Parma for his friend that the sayd Prince had seene those blankes and was content they should be vsed but Count Mansfeldt should change and alter his seale and haue it no more engrauen in the forme of a Lozenge with diuers other instructions which Assonuille gaue him Whereupon the sayd Baltazar aunswered that he hoped so well to counterfeit himselfe to be of the reformed Religion as to get into the seruice of some Secretarie thereby to find some oportunitie to present letters to the Prince to signe and in the meane time to kill him with his ponyard After his torture he still continued in one mind that he was not sorie for the fact but if it were againe to be done he would attempt it though it should cost him a thousand liues All these confessions both those that he had voluntarily set down in writing and those that he made vpon the torture seen heard my Lords of the great Councell those of the Prouinciall appointed to examin and judge the prisoner together with the magistrats of Delft pronoūced sentence against the said Baltazar as followeth Baltazar Gerard borne at Villesans in the franche county of Burgondie hauing confest to haue attempted to kill the illustrious and mightie Lord the Prince of Orange and to this end obtayned certaine Blankes from Count Mansfeldt and conferred with the Counsellour Assonuille in Tournay sent to him by the Prince of Parma who had promised him that if the Prisoner should execute the sentence of proscripion against the Prince of Orange the King of Spayne should pay him the recompence proposed in the sayd proscription together vvith the summe of fiue and twentie thousand Ducats that the sayd prisoner should call himselfe Frauncis Guyon and make shew of beeing affectionat to the reformed Religion to haue the better accesse to the Princes Court That the sayd Prisoner according to this resolution came thither vnder the name of Frauncis Guyon and on the ninth of Iulie bought two Pistols which on the tenth day he charged whilest my Lord the Prince was at dinner and returning hung them at his girdle and hid them vnder his Cloke And as the sayd Prince after dinner was going forth of the Hall to ascend the staires leading to his Chamber he discharged one of the Pistols wherewith he slew the sayd Lord Prince This being an execrable deed and abhominable treacherie perpetrated against the person of so illustrious a Prince of happie memorie the offendor ought not to escape vnpunished but is to be seuerely chastised to serue for an example to all others In this regard my Lords aboue named hauing well and maturely weighed the confession of the sayd prisoner and considered euerie circumstance thereof haue by these presents condemned and doe condemne the sayd Baltazar Gerard to be led to a scaffold erected before the State-house of the sayd Citie there first to haue his right hand wherewith he committed this so execrable fact burned betwixt two burning yrons and afterwards his flesh to be burnt and torne off with burning pincers in sixe seueral parts of his bodie as legges armes and other fleshie places and lastly to be quar ered aliue his bowels and heart to be taken forth and throwne in his face his head cut off and his quarters to be set vpon the foure Bulwarkes and his head vpon a pole to stand vpon the Schoole-Tower behind the Princes house and all his goods to be confiscat This sentence was pronounced in the State-house of the Citie of Delft the 14 of Iulie anno 1584. Signed A vander Moer On Saturday the foureteenth of Iulie hee was publikely brought to a scaffold set vp in the Market place of Delft where he was executed according to the sentence with admirable patience shewing the same courage and resolution he had at first he would not conferre with any Minister when his hand and flesh was burnt and torne off he made no noyse nor seemed at all to be moued and in this manner was quartered and his head set vpon a pole which was afterward secretly stollen away After this illustrious Prince was thus slayne by the hand of this wretched Bourguignon his bodie by the commaundement of my Lords the States of Holland Zealand Frize land Vtrecht was magnificently buried in the new Church of Delft where his tombe is now to be seene His funerals were solemnized after this maner First the Burguers of Delft armed went before next them the Trumpets after them followed eight horse trapped with black downe to the ground behind euerie horse went a Gentleman bearing a banner representing the Armes of the sayd Lord Princes Signiories with Scutchions on euerie Horse The first Horse was led by two Gentlemen the one called Gerard de Schoten and the other Paule Wijts representing the Citie of Breda The banner with the Armes of Breda was borne by Philip

c. with the rehearsall of his death and funeralls BEfore we set downe the great and valorous actions of the most illustrious Prince Maurice of Nassau vve will briefely in manner of an introduction speake somewhat of the Genealogie descent birth life and death of my Lord his father William of Nassau of happie memorie William by the grace of God Prince of Orange Earle of Nassau Catzenelbogen Dietz Vianda c. Marquis of Veer and Flushing Vicount of Antuerpe and Bezanson Baron of Breda Diest Grimberg Arley Nozeroy c. Lord of Castelbelin Lieutenant generall in the Low-countries and Gouernour of Brabant Holland Zeland Vtrecht and Frize-land Admirall of the Belgick Seas was sonne to William of Nassau brother to Count Henrie of Nassau both of them sonnes to Iohn who was brother to Engelbert to whom Iohn of Nassau was Father and Marie of Loon their mother This William married Iulian Countesse of Stolberg a verie wise and vertuous Ladie by whom hee had fiue sonnes namely William of Nassau Prince of Orange c. Iohn of Nassau Lodwicke Adolph and Henrie three of them vvere slayne in the Low-countrie vvarres and seuen daughters all excellently well married to Earles and haue had many children so that the sayd Ladie mother to my Lord of happie memorie being 75 yeares old did in anno 1578 see of her owne issue 123 persons both Earles and Countesses her children and childrens children how the number is since encreased to me is vnknowne The late Prince of Orange of happie memorie was borne at Dillenbourg in anno 1533 the foureteenth of Aprill old stile He was of more than middle stature the colour of his beard browne more leaue than fat What his inward parts were his heroicke actions testifie Being come to mans state he married first the onely daughter and heire of Maximillian of Egmont Earle of Buren Leerdam c. on whom he begat Philip of Nassau Count of Buren now Prince of Orange and a daughter called Marie married to Graue Hohenlo His second wife was Anne sole daughter to the Elector Maurice Duke of Saxonie by whom he had a sonne called Maurice of Nassau borne of Dillenbourg in the Countie of Nassau the thirteenth of Nouember anno 1567 by whose discreet and valorous conduct it pleased God to blesse these Low-countries before extreamely afflicted He had moreouer two daughters by her the one named Anne the other Emillia His third choice was the Ladie Charlotta of Bourbon daughter to Duke Mompensier of Fraunce by whom he had sixe daughters namely Louisa Iuliana Elizabeth Catherina Belgica Flandrina Charlotta Brabantina and Emillia Secunda His fourth and last wife was Louisa of Colligni daughter to the Admirall of Fraunce and widow to the Lord Telligni both her father and husband were slaine in the masacre at Paris by whom he had a sonne borne in the Towne of Delft called Henrie Frederick a Prince worthie such a father I vvill not vvrite the life and actions of this valorous Prince For it is not my meaning or intent to make a long discourse of all his victories and defeatures by sea and land taking of towns sieges difficulties trauels miseries vvhereunto this life is subiect especially that of Princes and great men nor likewise how often and by sundrie wayes his enemies haue sought to murther him Onely I vvill briefely set downe how he was treacherously slayne in the Towne of Delft And if any be desirous to see a more ample description thereof let him read the Histories of things done in the Netherlands written by Emanuell Demetrus Iohn Petit and others In the yeare 1584 in the beginning of May there came to the Princes Court in the Towne of Delft a young man of the age of seuen and twentie yeares of a middle stature simple countenance and euell aspect his name vvas Baltazar Gerard borne at Villesans in Burgondie he had changed his name and termed himselfe Francis Guyon of Besançon sonne to Peter Guyon of Lyons vvho had beene put to death for his Religion and for enterprising somewhat in behalfe of those of the reformed Religion This fellow deliuered a letter to the sayd Prince shewing vnto him the zeale he did beare to the reformed Religion and how desirous he was to serue him and withall how that passing through Luxembourg he had visited a Cosin of his called Iohn du Prè Secetarie to Count Mansfelt vvith whom he had continued for a time till at last he resolued for the quiet of his conscience to leaue him The vvhich he was the sooner enforced to do because the Iesuits began to suspect him He told him besides how that he had gotten from his Cosen diuers blanks signed by Count Mansfelt whereof hee thought good vse might be made for enterprising vpon certaine towns of Luxembourg elsewhere with many other such like discourses circumstances tending to this end to insinuat himselfe into the Princes fauour and to enter into his seruice He grew likewise familliar vnder colour of Religion vvith certaine of the Princes houshold seruants and vvas present at Sermons and vsuall Prayers carrying eyther a Psalme Booke Bible or Testament still in his hand The Prince acquainted vvith all this answered that he thought those signed blankes would doe small good in any enterprise but onely serue to safe-conduct messengers from Bruxels to Cambray and therefore vvilled him to leaue some of them And at vvhat time the Lord of Schoonwall vvent into Fraunce his Excellencie thought good to send the sayd Baltazar vvith him to the Marshall Byron who men thought should haue beene Gouernour of Cambray that he might make vse of these signed blankes And vvith him he vvent into Fraunce After that he returned from Fraunce with Letters both to the Prince and States mentioning the death of the Duke of Brabant A njou in vvhich regard the Prince sent for him into his Chamber as he lay in his bed that he might particularly informe him of the Dukes death He hath confest since that if his dagger had beene then about him hee vvould haue killed him in his bed Within a vvhile after he was commaunded to returne into Fraunce whereupon he craued some money shewing how his hose and shooes vvere broken the Prince commaunded his Secretarie to giue him some on the eight day of Iulie with this money he bought two Pistols of one of the Gard therewith to execute his diuelish enterprise The tenth of Iulie about dinner time he came to the Prince of whom with a fearefull and trembling voice he craued a passe-port which the Princesse there present did well obserue who asked the Prince what he was because shee saw he had a bad countenance his Excellencie told her that he vvas a fellow that sued for a passeport and so gaue order for his dispatch Whilest they were at dinner he was seene to walke neere the stables behind the house towards the Towne Rampiers After dinner as the Prince was