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A43214 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. T. H. 1665 (1665) Wing H132B; ESTC R215854 72,394 218

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and that the Conscience should be free 2. That Religion consisted not in outward Ceremony but in the inward Perswasion 3. That the King should hear every mans perswasion and endeavour to convince them 4. That the Scripture should decide Controversies 5. That every peaceable man should be allowed free exercise of Religion whatsoever might be his perswasion because all the World could not hinder a Religion that is of God 6. That several abuses in the Church whereat the people were offended should be reformed 7. That the King should think none could be true to him that was not faithful to God 8. That the Masters of the most useful Trades and most large Stocks in the Nation would desert it upon the first settlement of the Ecclesiastical Government to enjoy the Liberty of their Consciences and go to Embden France and England with whom likewise ●the best Souldiers and Gentlemen would take this occasion to withdraw 9. That the strength of Kings is the love of their Subjects whereof the most considerable are they of the Religion for Birth Interest Parts Estates Prudence and Learning 10. That it is no new thing to tolerate divers Religions the danger of a Countrey proceeding not from private Opinions but from secret Passions and Interests which together with the noise made of trouble and War which they pretended most to fear who most promoted them put the discontented Nobility assembled at the Prince of Parmai's marriage at Brussels And afterward at St. Tradon after a Declaration how much pity it was that so populous a Countrey should be ruined by evil Counsellors upon a resolution to Petition his Majesty in the name of the people for their ancient Rights and Liberties and for the further prosecution of the affairs to enter to mutual Oaths to stand by one another that what wrong was done to any one should be done unto all a Confederacy that gratified the Hopes of many improved the Fears of more and disturbed the Minds of all men altering the very Face of the Government the King and Church being awaked to a resolution and Rigour on the one hand and the People to a Fury and Madness on the other it being among other matters bruited abroad that the Duke of Brunswich should Levy 10000 German Horse to reduce them to subjection which together with the French suggestion of their approaching desolation and the German Princes aggravation of their Slavery when all their neighbour Countreys were free and they were themselves Members of the Empire and so should enjoy the priviledges of the Pacification at Passau adding that their Kingdom was Elective and that upon six such Articles as their King had broken That by the Feodau Law that King their Lord had forfeited his Right to his Fee by fellonious actings on their goods and lives and many more unseemly allegations in Private discourse and Publick Pasquils encouraged the Contrivers of this disturbance to Commissionate Agents to remonstrate the case of the Provinces in the Imperial Diet then at Ausburch before Maximilian the Emperour and when the Governess had offered so much reasonable moderation as prevailed with the more modest part of the Knights of the Order and other Noblemen interceding likewise very zealously with his Majesty of Spain for the confirmation of it the People are taught to protest against their Governours proceedings as to compliance with the Governess and his Majesty in their four seditious Petitions to the King and State which were no more than so many sawcy Menaces what would follow if they were not gratified in their Propositions that were not so much vouchsafed the honour of a perusal as were not the other unmannerly Remonstrances of Gaunt Bruges Ypre Hondschoon about the decay of Trades and Handicrafts and those of Flanders about Liberty of Religion carried on in a most Tumultuous and Riotous manner by a Rabble of Geux or Beggars as my Lord Barlement called them upon which appellation they coyned Meddals with the Kings Picture on the one hand a Wallet and a Dish on the other with this Inscription Faithful to God and the King even to bear the Wallet and presented a rebellious Petition by the Lord of Brederode to which the unquiet people would take no answer but an allowance for all their factious Assemblies for the time past and a full Liberty to their Consciences for the time to come with ●ecurity that all matters should be hereafter trans●cted with the consent of the Estates Yea and notwithstanding as can did and satisfactory a return as could be expected the Gentlemen of the Confederacy as they were called fearful of the consequences of their Seditions and Mutinies exasperated the people with strange Letters bearing Date An. 1615 which they discovered threatning them and their Adherents with extremities intimating the mighty Sea and Land preparations which enflamed the Countrey into a general sedition and combustion that provoked the Government to Rigour on the one hand and incensed the Populacy to Tumults on the other The chief Conspirators judge the humour so high that they might work upon it and to that purpose order an Assembly amongst themselves for the Government An Assembly I know not whether more rediculous as wherein some were attired in Fryars Gray others carried Foxes-tailes in their Hats others carried Dishes and goods like Beggars their servants crying God save the Beggars Or more dreadful all being rude and unruly which yet the Princess invited civilly to Arschor and Duffel the one 6 Leagues the other 3 from Antwerp where a daring Petition is delivered to the Earl of Egmont and other Grandees who under pretence of acting for the Governess betrayed her insisting on the very same things in their H●rang●es that the Rabble did in their Petitions yea and enrolling underhand formidable Levies under pretence of their securities about Villevoord while Antwerp was in a Combustion by the Faction of Brederode who raised Forces for the Liberty of the Subject on the one hand as the Earls of Megen and Arembergh drew up Forces for the Kings Prerogative on the other The Prince of Orange taking this opportunity to seize the Government of the Place as Seditious Preachers did to usurp the Pulpits of it the Magistrates being jealous and distrustful of the Populacy and the Populacy of the Magistracy and all afraid of the 1200 newly levyed there Which general distemper being not a little improved by the approaches of the Duke of Brunswick's Army to the Borders they rescue some Prisoners in a Mutiny and create such fears and jealousies touching the Confederate Gentlemen as they were termed that they insist upon Assurance and Security The Ministers dissen●ions and disputes come to Tumults the Sectaries under which name all discontents were shrowded preach and hear in Armes upon pretence of Letters intercepted that the Droissard had 3000 men inrolled with Cartloads of Arms to Massacre all those of the Reformation upon the Ringing of a Bell A suggestion that enraged the Multitude to cast off the