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A35534	The history of the house of Orange, or, A brief relation of the glorious and magnanimous atchievements of His Majesties renowned predecessors and likewise of his own heroick actions till the late wonderful revolution : together with the history of William and Mary King and Queen of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland &c., by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1693 (1693)	Wing C7734; ESTC R25363	124,921	198

for the great services he had performed About this time by a publick Edict declared That all the Dignities Honours and Employments which he then enjoyed shall descend to his Eldest Son Prince William the Instruments whereof being drawn up and sealed by the States were presented to the young Prince in a Box of Gold After this Prince Henry continued still more successful taking the Towns of Ru●emond Veulo and Strall and lastly undertaking the Seige of Mastricht where he surrounded his Trenches with such strong circumvallations that both the Spanish and German Forces were obliged to march away with dishonour and leave him the honour of reducing so important a place Divers other prosperous attempts he made as his retaking the Fort of Skink Scans and regaining the Castle and City of Breda which the Marquess Spinola had been a whole year in taking with vast loss and expence and yet the Prince now reduced it to his Immortal honour in four months and answerable was his Fortune at Sea where Admiral Trump falling upon a numerous Fleet of the Spaniards in the Downs of 67 Men of War destroyed the greatest part of them to the number of 40 Ships sunk wherein above 7000 men were lost and 2000 carried Prisoners into Holland amongst whom was the great Gallion of Portugal called Maria Teresa carrying 800 men whereof not one escaped In 1641. Prince William only Son of the Prince of Orange married the Princess Mary Eldest Daughter to King Charles I. And soon after Prince Henry gained the strong Fort of Hulst in Flanders which the Spaniards were not able to relieve Thus it may be observed That William Prince of Orange laid the Foundations of the Commonwealth of Holland Prince Maurice his Son fixed and strengthned them by his Victories and Henry Frederick the Younger Brother by continuing his Conquests and enlarging their Territories at length compelled the Spaniard to renounce his pretended right over them and to acknowledge them an Independent State treating with them by the title of The High and Mighty States General of the Vnited Provinces So that by the Swords of the Illustrious House of Orange this Potent Republick was first founded which is now arrived to that Grandeur as to send Ambassadors upon equal terms with the most Potent Princes of Christendom even to the K. of Spain himself whose Subjects they were not above 100 years and whose revolt has proved a great advantage to that Crown they having been so many years a Barrier to the Spanish Netherlands against the excessive power and ambition of France which without their assistance had long since swallowed them up Prince Henry Married the Daughter of John Albert Count of Solms who came with the Queen of Bohemia into Holland a Lady of excellent Beauty Modesty and Prudence by whom he had one Son and four Daughters The Eldest named Lovison was Married to Frederick William Prince Elector of Brandenburg by whom he had several Children The second Henrietia was Married to the Count of Nassaw the third Catharina was espoused to John George Duke of Anhalt The fourth was Married to the Duke of Simeren Prince Henry died March 1● 1647. and was succeeded by William of Nassaw Prince of Orange Who was born in 1626. A Prince of worthy Hopes and Courage but was suddenly taken away by Death in the 24 year of his Age having been Married nine years to the Princess Mary Daughter to K. Charles the First by whom he had Prince William Henry who was born Nov. 4. 1650. some few days after his Fathers Death the Lords States General of Holland and Zealand and of the Cities of Dei●e Leyden and Amsterdam being his God fathers William Henry of Nassaw Prince of Orange THIS excellent Prince our present Gracious ●overeign 〈◊〉 endowed with all the Noble and Virtuous Qualities of his Ancestors of the Illustrious House of Orange which seem'd designed by Heaven to be the Protectors of Religion and Liberty for several Ages his Majesties glorious Predecessours being the Founders and Establishers and himself the Restorer of the half ruined Batavian Republick as well as the Deliverer of these three Kingdoms from the utmost danger of Popery and Slavery This excellent Prince suffered many affronts by Barnevels Party revived in the Persons of the De Wits expecting with inimitable patience the advancement to those Honours and Dignities which of right belonged to his Family and which by the Decree of a prevailing Faction he was deprived of presently after the Death of his Father But King Lewis his inveterate Enemy did accidentally very much contribute to his Exaltation for having in 1672. like a rapid Torrent over-run the flourishing Batavian Republick he thereby gave opportunity to the Prince to discover to the World the Spirit of his Ancestors in recovering the United Provinces from the ruine which seemed to attend them by the success of that King even beyond his hopes nay almost his wishes which put that People into such a consternation as occasioned them to complain of the unhappy Conduct of Cornelius and John De Wit who had then the sole management of all affairs and to believe that none but the glorious House of Nassaw was capable to support their tottering State in this Age against their Potent French Enemies as they had formerly rescued them from the Tyranny of Spain Neither was the Grandmother of the Prince wanting to engage the favourers of that Family to endeavour to remove that Eclipse under which it had so long sustered which Her Highness managed with a courage and magnanimity above her Sex so that being awakened by Her Remonstrances they began to consider how they themselves had of late been slighted and neglected whilst all the great Imployments of the Common-wealth were bestowed upon the Sons of Burgomasters and being seconded by the rage of the Commonalty who were dreadfully terrified to see a Victorious Army in the very bowels of their Countrey they obliged the States General in the beginning of 1672. to depute Monsieur Beverning John De Wit and Jasper Fagel to invest His Highness the Prince of Orange in the Dignities belonging to his Ancestors of Captain and Admiral General of the United Provinces who having accepted the same and taken his Oath presently went upon action against the French But the Province of Holland still suspected the fidelity of their Magistrates seeing their Frontier Towns and Garrisons fall daily into the hands of their Victorious Enemies and at Dort they raised a dangerous Mutiny and resolved that His Highness should be advanced to the Stadt-Holdership also as judging it absolutely necessary for the publick good Upon which an Act was instantly drawn up and read in the publick Hall by the Secretary wherein the Magistrates declared His Highness the Prince of Orange Stadtholder Captain and Admiral General of all their Forces by Sea and Land with the same Power and Authority that His Ancestors of glorious Memory had formerly enjoyed which occasioned great rejoycing in that City But Cornelius

Prison that if he had then had a Dagger or Penknise he would have certainly slain him then After this he came constantly to Prayers and Sermons and was observed to read Du Bartas Works particularly the History of Judith and Holofernes where there are certain persuasions and incouragements to cut off Tyrants Sometimes he borrowed a Bible of the Porter upon pretence of Religion so that at length he went about the Court without suspition A while after the Prince ordered him to be sent to Count Biron into France to try if he could make any advantage of the Pass-ports upon which he desired money to buy Shoes and Stockings being in an ill condition The Prince ordered him ten or twelve Crowns Next day he bought a Pistol of one of the Guard but finding it did not shoot true he bought two more which were according to his mind After this he watched when the Prince went down to the Hall to Dinner and demanded a Pass-port of him but in such a hollow and contused Voice that the Princess askt what he was for she did not like his countenance the Prince told ber his business After Dinner the Prince going out of the Hall the Villain stood behind a Pillar in the Gallery with his Cloak on one Shoulder having two Pistols under his left Arm holding in his right hand a paper like a Pass-port as it to have the Prince sign it As the Prince passed along having one foot upon the first step of the Stairs the Traytor advanceing drew forth one of his pistols so suddenly that he was not perceived till the blow was given the three builets wherewith the pistol was charged entring in at his left side and coming out on the right through the Stomach and Vital parts The Prince feeling himself hurt said only thus O my God take pity of my Soul I am sore wounded My God take pity of my Soul and of this poor People After which he began to stagger but his Gentleman Usher supported him and set him upon the Stairs the Countess of Swartsenburg his Sister asked him if he did not recommend his Soul to Jesus Christ he answered Yes and never spake a word more dying in a few minutes after The Murtherer endeavoured to escape but being taken and told he was a wicked Traytor to endeavour to kill the Prince I am no Yraytor said he but have done what the King of Spain commanded me and if I have not slain him cursed be my ill Fortune After this he freely consessed the whole matter and that he had done it by the instigation of the Jesuits and the incouragement of the Prince of Parma who assured him of the reward promised to the Assassinate by the King of Spain For this horrid Crime a particular and tremendous sentence was pronounced against him by the Judges That Baltazar Gerrard which he confest was his true name should be la'id upon a Scaffold in the Market place of Delft to have his right hand wherewith he committed that execrable deed torn with two burning hot pincers and the like to be done in six several parts of his Body as his Arms Thight and several other Fleshly parts his privy Members to be cut off and he to be Quartered alive to have his Heart plackt our and thrown in his Face and lastly his Head to be cut off and to be set upon a Pole upon the watch Tower behind the Princes lodgings His four Quarters to be hanged upon Gibbets upon the four Bulwarks of the Town This Sentence said the Judges we think fit to pronounce against this wicked Murtherer for having to the great grief and sorrow of all good men committed a most execrable Crime and abominable Treason upon the Person of so Famous and Renown'd a Prince as the Prince of Orange was for which he ought in no wise to remain unpunished but rather with all rigor and severity to be made an Example to future Ages Having notice of his Death he was at first astonished cursing the hour of his birth and wishing he had never learned the wicked Principles of the Jesuits at Dole but had been still a mean Tradesman and not fallen into this folly But since it is done said he there is no remedy and I must now suffer for it This dreadful Sentence was fully executed and yet in all his torments he never cryed out nor seemed to be in any pain Yea smiled at an accident that happened in the midst of his Tortures Having often boasted that he would not shew the least sign of fear Thus died the renowned William Prince of Orange at fifty one Years of Age. He was of an active Spirit and a strong memory and his Wisdom Constancy Magnanimity his Courage Patience and Labours were all so extraordinary that they are rather to be admired than described A Person in whom concurred a solid Judgment to undertake so great and difficult an Enterprize and an unparallelled Courage to carry it on and a very great Constancy to finish the Freedom of his Countrey against the mighty power of Spain and the Treacheries of many of his own Countreymen So that the States and People of the Netherlands who had so often experienced his Conduct and Magnanimity in their most pressing extremities admired his Virtues which scarce ever m●t before in one Person bewailing him as if no greater loss could have befallen them in this World and solemnized his Funeral with all imaginable magnificence that being the last Honour they could pay to his glorious memory He had four Wives by whom he had four Sons and eight Daughters Phillip William of Nassaw Was Eldest Son to the Great W. P. of Orange Philip II. K. of Spain being his Godfather who when his Father was compell'd to take Arms in his own defence was a Student at the University of Lovain and was taken thence by force to the Infringement of the Liberties of the Place notwithstanding all the Protestations of the Rector to the contrary and the Complaints of the Prince his Father who publickly exclaimed against the Cruelty of the Spaniards since no Privilege nor Innocence of Age could secure any from their Tyranny and Injustice He was carried from thence into Spain at 13 Years of Age and educated in the Roman Catholick Religion where he continued a Prisoner above 30 Years during which his Jailor presuming to speak abusively of the Proceedings of his Father the Prince who inherited his gallant temper not enduring his insolent discourse took him about the middle and throwing him out of the Window broke his Neck The K. of Spain consulted with his Council what Punishment to inflict for this great Action but at length by the interposing of a generous young Spaniard who was present and affirmed that the Captain 's ill carriage was the occasion of his Death it was passed over But at length in hope to create some Jealousies between his Brother Maurice and himself K. Philip released him and sent him into Flanders where