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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61883	A justification of the present war against the United Netherlands wherein the declaration of His Majesty is vindicated, and the war proved to be just, honourable and necessary, the dominion of the sea explained, and His Majesties rights thereunto asserted, the obligations of the Dutch to England, and their continual ingratitude : illustrated with sculptures : in answer to a Dutch treatise entituled, Considerations upon the present state of the United Netherlands / by an English man.	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1672 (1672)	Wing S6050; ESTC R9857	73,902	89

from France though the Prince of Orange atchieved great things and reduced many Towns in Holland and Zealand unto his party yet such was their distress that An. Dom. 1575. they entred into a debate of putting themselves under the Protection of some Foreign Prince least through want of Money and of Soldiers and also the fickle inclinations of a discontented populace they should suddenly fall under the power of the Enemy And in the name of the States of Holland and Zeland and Prince of Orange was an Embassy sent into England to offer unto the Queen not only what was agreeable to equity reason and religion but to the exigency of their condition and what self preservation and extream necessity prompted them unto The Commission of the Embassadors was either to make a League with the Queen or to submit themselves under her Protection or if necessity required it to acknowledge her for their Princess and Soveraign Lady issued from the Earls of Holland and Zeland by the Lady Philip Daughter to William the third of that Name Earl of Henault and Holland c. The Queen thanked them for their good will towards her but fearing the enmity of Spain the envy of France and the charge of the War as also not being satisfied how she might with her honour and a safe conscience receive those offered Provinces into her protection much less possession she declined the Overture yet promised to intercede for them with Spain and in the mean space gave them leave to raise what Souldiers they could in England either from out of the English Scots or exiled Netherlanders and to furnish themselves with what provisions and Ammunitien they wanted and to transport them Notwithstanding this transcendent favour of the Queen's the ingrateful Zelanders the next year affronted her Majesty and seised upon sundry of her Merchants Ships upon various pretences whereupon she was so incensed that there had been an absolute difference betwixt them had not the Prince of Orange prudently composed all After this when Don Iohn became Governour of the Netherlan●● and withall aspired to marry the Queen of Scots and render himself King of England the Queen enters into a more strict League and confederacy with them to aid them with men and money and 't was at her charge principally that Prince Casimire came to their aid with a German Army And out of England there went over the Seas to them the Lord North's eldest Son Iohn North the Lord Norris's second Son Iohn Norris Henry Cavendish and Thomas Morgan Colonels with very many Voluntiers and after that the Germans mutinously deserted the States the Queen furnished them readily with a great sum of money the ancient Jewels and rich Plate of the House of Burgundy being 〈…〉 ed unto her for it After this for several years the 〈…〉 erlands cast themselves under Arch-Duke Matthia 〈…〉 Duke of Anjou but with so ill success that they found themselves not able to continue long Antwerp and sundry other places being taken and William Prince of Orange murdered the French King not being able or willing to receive the Soveraignty of those Provinces so that they determined by a solemn Embassy to tender her Majesty the entire Dominion and Principality of the Netherlands They had treated with her before by I. Ortelius about protection but the Queen refused to espouse their quarrel except she might have cautionary Towns that her expences might be repaid at the end of the War But now that the desperate condition of their Affairs made any terms to be prudential they resolved to subject themselves unto her or contract any League for protection which she would enjoin them Upon the sixth of Iuly 1585. their Deputies came to London which were these For Brabant although by reason of the Siege of Antwerp not fully authorised was sent Iacques de Grise chief Bailiff of Bruges for Guelderland was Rutgert van Harsolt Burgomaster of Harderwick for Flanders although likewise not fully authorised Noel Caron Seignior of Schoonwall Burgomaster of Franc for Holland and Friseland was Iohn Vander Does Lord of Noortwick and Ioos Van Menin Counsellor of the Town of Dort and Iohn van Oldenbarnevelt Counsellor of the Town of Rotterdam Doctor Francis Maelson Counsellour of the Town of En●khuysen for Zeland was Iacob Valck a Civil Lawyer and one of the Council of State for Vtrecht was Paul Buys Doctor for Friseland was Ielgher van Seytzma Counsellor of State Hessel Aysma President and Laest Ioughema They were kindly received by the Queen and nobly feasted at her cost upon the ninth of Iuly they were brought to their Audience at Greenwich the Audience was most solemn and publick the Queen being seated on her royal Throne and all the Privy Council attending on each hand of her Majesty The Deputies being introduced fell upon their knees before the Throne of the Queen and Ioos Van Menin with great reverence and submission made an Oration to her in the name of the Distressed States of the United Netherlands unto this purpose That the States of the United Netherlands Provinces humbly thanked her Majesty for the honourable and many Favours which it had pleased her to shew unto them amidst their extreme necessities having not long since received the testimonies of her Princely clemency when after the cruel Murther of the Prince of Orange it pleased her Majesty by her Ambassador Mr. Davidson to signifie unto them the great care she had for their defence and preservation and after that again by the Lord of Grise by whom she let them understand how much she was discontended to see them frustrated of their expectations reposed upon the hope they had in the Treaty with France adding that nevertheless her Majesties care for the support of the Netherlands was rather augmented than diminished by reason of the difficulties which multiplied upon them For the which not only the Provinces in general but every particular person therein should rest bound unto her Majesty for ever and labour to repay so transcendant obligations by all pos●●ble fidelity and obedience And therefore the Estates aforesaid observing that since the death of the Prince of Orange they had lost many of their Forts and good Towns and that for the defence of the said United Netherlands they had great need of a Soveraign Prince who might protect and defend them from the insolencies and oppressions of the Spaniards and their Adherents who sought daily more and more all the means they could with their Forces and other sinister Practices to spoil and utterly root up the foundation of the aforesaid Netherlands and thereby to bring the ●oor af●●icted people of the same into perpetual bondage and worse than Indian slavery under the insupportable yoke of the most exeerable Inquisition Finding likewise that the Inhabitants of the said Netherlands were perswaded and had assured confidence that her Majesty out of her Princely inclination would not endure to see them

over with some Souldiers The Earl of Leicester followed as General of her Majesties Forces The Netherlanders received him with more honour and conferred on him more power than the Queen approved of They made him General of all their Forces State-Holder and Governour of all their Provinces invested him with all that power which Charles V. used to commission his Governours with The Queen reproved the Earl of Leicester for accepting of such power and the States for giving it to him But the Earl soon found himself deceived by these Netherlanders for notwithstanding that they had chosen him to be their Governour in so solemn a manner and sworn themselves and the Souldiers obedience to him yet they pretend to rule him model sometimes sometimes oppose his Orders and Constitutions Insomuch that the Earl found that he should have but a Titular Government being subject to the Commands and Authority of those pitiful States and ordinary Burgomasters whereupon he relinquished the Government proclaiming even in Medails the Ingratitude of those Fellows Let them make what complaints they please against his deportment there it is certain that All the Clergie adhered unto him and regretted his departure The Souldiers did mutiny in his behalf Vtrecht and Frizland besides other Provinces and Towns did solicite for his return and I find that all the clamour against that Earl did arise from the Province of Holland and some Zelanders only as they themselves boast in a Remonstrance against the other Provinces To invalidate that Power which they had so publickly given him Holland a Province always branded for Faction and Ingratitude having advantaged themselves much by the credit of the assistance more by the Auxiliaries of the English began to think it unfitting that according to the Articles the English should be privy to the secret transactions of the Council of State and by the advice of Oldenbarnvelt they found out an Evasion not daring openly to violate the Treaty nor to infuse jealousie into the Queen by holding Clandestine Cabals and 't was this that only ordinary matters and such as the English might know should be dispatched in the Council of State but that another Assembly should be formed termed the Convention of the States General unto which they should draw all matters of importance and which required secrecy under the pretence that the Council of State had so much business already as not to be able to dispatch the other Thus early did they abuse the favours of Queen Elizabeth and by this illusion did they lay the foundation of their H●●h and Migh●ies It is evident that during the whole Reign of Queen Elizabeth they were never faithful to the League they treated with France and ayded that King without the Queens knowledge which was a breach of the League And whereas by the express words of the Articles The Queen was to conduct them to and settle them in a firm Peace and this being done by her mean● the money was to be repaid She never could prevail with them to come to a Treaty much less any accord but they had the impudence to solicite her to continue her aids to a War which they never purposed to end it proving so beneficial to them When the Queen urged that by the Treaty she was to be Arbitress of War and Peace they evaded it by saying those expressions were but Complemental and argued their respects to her not their dependence on her judgment I find them upon their knees again and beseeching her m●st humbly that she would not conclude a Peace with Spain A. D. 1598. And this Grotius saith was done because it is the custom of the English Court to petition the King in that suppliant posture but certainly this usage extends not to the Ambassadours of their High and Mighties But in the same year when they thought that Queen Elizabeth might stand in some need of their friendship whether they bended their knees unto her Majesty I cannot find but I read that they dealt with Her not as formerly but with more arrogant language The English Court did then look upon the Hollanders as notorious Cheats who pretended poverty and had Collections here when the splendour and growing opulency of their Towns besides the vast Bribes which their Treasury could spare occasionally were demonstrations of their Riches that they declined to repay the Queen her monies not because they could not do it but that they might tye her unto their fortune and assistance by the hopes of a re-imbursement of those vast Sums which She had expended for them Her constant Charge being above one hundred and twenty thousand pounds each year and it is not to be doubted but that She would have reduced them by force to a better observance of Articles and punished them for their fraudulent dealings with Her but that She prudently foresaw that France to depress Her and Spain to ruine Her and disable France were ready to assist and protect them In fine the Histories I have read do seem to demonstrate this that the Dutch were a most ingrateful people towards Queen Elizabeth that they never rendred her any Service but when it was to their proper advantage all their pretensions to Religion contained little of reallity and their acknowledgments were but verbal and consisted principally in extraordinary submission and deference which prevailed much upon the spirit of Her who was a Woman and had much of Haugtiness When she first undertook publickly to aid them the chief inducement thereunto was not the Necessity of her Affairs not the concern for the Protestant Religion for She advised them to be very cautious how they changed their Religion but a Feminine Hum●ur carried away by their flatteries and humble applications and delighting to see greater submissions paid to Her than to the King of France by the King of Spain's Subjects No sooner had She concluded upon an open amity with them but the Zelanders triumphing with joy and to honour Her did stamp money with the Arms of Zeland viz. a Lyon arising out of the waves and this inscription Luctor emergo that is I struggle and get above water and on the other side with the Arms of the Cities of Zeland and this Authore Dec savente Regina that is God being the Author and the Quéen Favourer and I find it to have been an usual form of speech amongst the Dutch in that Age which they applied to all discourses where it might be suitable By the Mercy of God and the Goodness of Quéen Elizabeth and by such Wheedles did they inveigle the Queen to take as the King of Sweden then said the Diadem from her head and set it upon the doubtful chance of War And it is an action not to be parallel'd out of the Annals of impudent and Ungrateful persons that the Dutch having been so effectually obliged by that Queen and having by such a continued series of protestations averred that they did

then they should repute them as Enemies without expecting a declared War and destroy them and their Ships or otherwise seize and confiscate their Ships and Goods And these Instructions have been retained in use as well since the Treaty of Breda as before it The like Instructions are given by the Venetians to their Captains in reference to the Adriatick Sea and by several other Princes It is manifest and agreed upon by the Considerer that this Article must decide the present Controversie and 't is no less evident that this Article doth decide it to their prejudice and that they are inexcusable as to the breach thereof I will not stretch the words of the Article so far as to infer that they ought to strike Flag in acknowledgment of the Soveraignty of the Sea since otherwise they do not strike it in such manner as the same hath been formerly observed in any times whatsoever though the words oblige them not only to the thing but circumstantiate the manner of it Let their sentiments be free but yet let us see how they comply with the Article as to matter of Fact They say that O. Cromwell would needs after a long debate have those words put in whereas the Article was otherwise penned at first But this allegation is impertinent since we now enquire not into What was at first debated nor insist upon the first draught of the Treaty but what was at last ratified and confirmed on both sides For 't is thence ariseth the Obligation Secondly They say that by the earnest instance of their Ministers O. Cromwell was so far prevailed upon as to relax that Article and leave out the said words and therefore the Article must not be so understood as if an entire Fleet of the States by virtue thereof should be obliged to give the said salute to one single Ship of the English but the said Article must be taken for a Regulation according to which the single Ships and Vessels of their State in point of saluting this Ship of England are to govern themselves To this I reply that it is not credible nor believed here by any that were privy to the transactions of O. Cromwell that ever he consented to any such alteration in the said Article There is no proof of any such thing alledged and 't is notoriously known to all our Admiralty that he never did vary his Instructions and Commissions in the Navy but enjoined them as before to enforce all Ships to strike without regarding whether they were entire Fleets or single Ships And I think this to be a demonstration of the falshood of the Dutch in this suggestion Lastly I find the Articles of peace published at Amsterdam in 1655. in Latine where is not any such thing to be seen as is here insinuated Artic. 13. 13. Item quod Naves Navigia dictarum foederatarum provinciarum tam bellica ad hostium vim propulsandam instructa quàm alia quae alicui è navibus bellicis hujus Reipublicae in maribus Britannicis obviam dederint vexillum suum è mali vertice detrahent supremum velum demittent eo modo quo ullis retrò temporibus sub quocunque anteriori regimine unquam observatum fuit This is sufficient to disprove this impudent forgery of the Considerer but had any such thing intervened betwixt the State and O. P. if it do not appear that His Majesty did make the like accord how comes it to pass that the expressions of his Majesty must be construed by the sense of Cromwell If this Notion of exempting Fleets from saluting any single Man of War were never thought upon nor mentioned much less debated and decided at the Treaty of Breda doth not common Equity and Reason oblige the Dutch to acquiesce in the plain sense of the words and not to distort or pervert them by far-fetch'd interpretations and evasions It is usual in the last Articles of Treaties or in the Ratification for Princes to express that they do sign consent and ratifie the Agreement in its true proper and most genuine sense or sincerely and bonâ fide and where it is not so declared yet it is understood in all Contracts but more especially in the Contracts of Soveraign Princes and Charles V. and Lewis of France are blamed for making use of those little shifts and elusions of Treaties which better become a Pettifogger than a King This is the common Tenet of the Civil Lawyers and consonant to the Law of Nations It is true there lies a ready Evasion for All this is averred concerning Princes and their Contracts but the Dutchmen have nothing that is Royal amongst them their High and Mighties are not Princes and they have different jura Majestatis as they have different ends from the generous and sincere part of mankind After an impertinent Harangue concerning God Piety Protestancy they are absolved from giving honour to them unto whom honour is due Reverence to whom reverence or Right to whom right They can plausibly recede from and evert an Article that is prejudicial to their Interest and insatiable Ambition and impudently exempt Fléets from amongst the number of Ships Such men presume strangely upon their power or the stupidity of the world that impose thereon such Glosses as these There was no such word mentioned no such interpretation proposed at Breda much less assented unto The common usage of that Naval term admits not thereof and the immemorial practice at Sea to the contrary doth sufficiently refute this sentiment The Ambassadours had no power delegated them to part with such a Regality and perhaps it may be said that the King himself hath no such Authority as can devest the Crown thereof However if any such thing had been done had such a sense been admitted of or intended by the Dutch Why did not They urge it sooner and demand that the Instructions to our Admiral and the Commanders at Sea should be changed from what they have been during the space of above four hundred years Their High and Mighties have very much prejudiced themselves in the opinion of all prudent men by so long a silence and in the judgment of all honest persons by remonstrating thus now since thereby they declare that to be the right sense of the Article which is indeed Non-sense and that to be Iustice which is as notorious an Usurpation as any Chronicles inform us of But lest this sense of the Article should not be admitted of They say further in defence of themselves that since in the judgment of the King of Great Britain the striking of the Flag and the acknowledging the Soveraignty of the Sea are equipollent things and that by the one His Majesty understands the other they cannot consent to the striking of the Flag lest it should be construed to a yielding him a Soveraignty and Dominion over the Sea which is too much for these High and Mighty Zealots and such Protestants that abominating all