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A03136	A true and briefe relation of the famous seige of Breda beseiged, and taken in vnder the able and victorious conduct of his Highnesse the Prince of Orange, captaine generall of the States armie, and admirall of the seas, &c. Composed by Henry Hexham quartermaster to the regiment of the honorable Coronell Goring.	Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?; Hondius, Hendrik, b. 1573. Baronnie van Breda.; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, 1584-1647.	1637 (1637)	STC 13265; ESTC S104008	46,456	76

all other spirituall men of what state or order soeuer they bee who haue bene accepted by the citty before the date hereof maye continew in the peaceable possession off all their goods rents donations tenths and incomes whatsoeuer they be aswell within as without the citty without any exception to receiue them a new or to surrogate others and as all and euery one haue held possessed and enioyed the same heitherto without doing any hindrance dāmage or hurt vnto them and all Canonists and Benefices which shall come to be vacant shall be giuen to the Romish Catholiques according to to the fundamentall Lawes and Statutes made thereof IV. Answere That all Spirituall persons shall enioy and haue the administration of their goods as they had in the yeare 1625. And as for those which will depart out of the Citty they maye take their goods and moueables a long with them as also if they haue houses or other things they maye sell them as the Burgers doe V. Demaund The yearely reuenew of the goods belonging to the Orphans Hospitall in the said citty aswell by inheritance as by will and Testament which they now enioy or may enioy hereafter either by will gift purchase or otherwise gotten shall be dristributed Prorate and according as the number of the poore Orphans shall be found of the one and the other religion they shall haue a Lodging and masters a part and the goods collections and almes of the Holy Ghost and the man-house vpon the end of the Gest-house situated vpon the Haghs dicke shall be gouerned and distributed by persons and giuen to the poore of the one and the other Religion as it hath ben to this day on which side soeuer the towne was V. Answere That the goods Collections Almes of euery Almehouse mentioned aboue shall be employed and administred as they were before the yeare 1625. without hauing respect of what Religion soeuer the persons bee which shall be employed thereto VI. Demaund That the Citty of Breda and the Jnhabitants thereof shall hold all their priuiledges and freedomes and that noe more taxations shall bee imposed vpon them then those which were instituted there from the yeare 1590. to the yeare 1625. during the time that it was vnder the Gouerment of the vnited Netherlands and seing the Citty with this hard seige is wholly ruinated to recouer the decay thereof that they may be free from paying of Licent for the Space of two yeares The VI. Answere His Highnesse agreeth vnto this article but for that which concerns the point of Licences He will recommend that for their good to the High and Mighty Lords the States Generall VII Demaund That all Burgers and Inhabitans of the afore said citty as well such as are present as those which are absent and fledd of what quality soeuer they bee whether they were in the King of Spayne his seruice or no according to the tenour of this treaty maye depart out of it whither they will with their families moueables writtings and other moueable goods or if they desire to continew their dwellings in it still they may for the time of foure yeares next ensuing then to resolue within the said time whither they will continew their habitation there or no. And during the afore said time that they maye freely conuerse and goe into the Country to see if they can finde a place conuenient for them to dwell in according to their desire as also for other their particular affaires And if so bee that they within the foresaid terme of foure yeares or at the expiration thereof resolue to depart the Towne they may doe it freely with their wiues children and goods whither they please either by water or by land without paying any toles Licences or searching of their shipping yea allthough any one of them during the time of foure yeares a boue said had bin in any particular ministration and that they maye freely dispose of all their goods make saile of them morgage or make transportation of them or by letters of atturney maye entrust others with their goods that maye receiue and dispose of them and if it should happen that they come to decease within or without the afore said citty testate or intestate the same goods shall come vnto their instituted Heires or to these of their next blood and kindred ab intestato respectiuè and all their moueables goods Marchandizes and others that they may carry them away at their will without seeking for any other pasport then this present treaty and those that will dwell in newtrall lands or resolue to dwell in the plaine Countrie maye come to dwell againe in the said citty at their pleasure without desiring any other consent VII Answere His highnesse granteth this request for the time of three yeares next ensuing especially for those that haue left the Towne vpon condition that those which shall dwell in newtrall Lands or in the plaine Country and are desirous to dwell againe in Breda shall be bound first to giue his highnesse or the Gouuernour knowledge thereof VIII Demaund That those which are desirous for their particular affaires to goe into the Countries and townes vnder the commaund of the King of Spayne may doe it during the time of the aforesaid foure yeares as often as they please and euery time may returne freely againe into the towne to remayne there or to depart from thence as is abouesaid The VIII Answer They maye depart during the time of three years into the Enemyes Countries and townes and returne againe into Breda with the foreknowledge and consent of the Gouernour The IX Demand Jn this Contract all Burgers and Jnhabitants of the abouesaid citty shall be included as also all Pastors and spirituall persons fled into the Citty as likewise all Pesants or husbandmen which are fled into the Towne or else where out of the Country who by vertue hereof maye freely returne into their villages and houses or may remaine in the towne during the time of the foure yeares at their pleasure And the Pastors of the Barronie of Breda being present or absent and their successors may returne againe vnto their parochiall Churches and Benefices that they may excercise in them their pastorall functious ministry and keepe their incomes as they did before the retorsion was made The IX Answer This article is graunteds for so much as concernes the Burgers but for the Pastors and other Spirituall persons mentioned herein they maye depart out of the Citty but afterwards shall gouerne themselues according to the edicts of Retrosion made by the Lords the Statess vntill some other order be taken touching that point The X. Demand That all sentences pronounced by the Magistrates of the aforesaid Citty and by the high-bench from which noe appeale hath bene shall continew in full vigour power and effect as likewise all contracts made before during the time of the seige whatsoeuer they bee The X Answer This article is graunted according to the

A TRVE AND BRIEFE RELATION OF THE FAMOVS SEIGE OF BREDA BESEIGED AND TAKEN IN Vnder the Able and Victorious Conduct of his Highnesse the Prince of Orange Captaine Generall of the States Armie and Admirall of the Seas c. Composed by HENRY HEXHAM quartermaster to the Regiment of the honorable Coronell GORING Printed at Delft by JAMES MOXON And are to be sould at Hendricus Hondius neere the gevangen Port in the Hagh Anno 1637. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND MOST Noble Lord HENRY LORD RICH of KENSINGTON Earle of HOLLAND Captaine of his Majesties Guard and Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber Chancellor of the Vniversity of CAMBRIDGE Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties thost Honourable Privie Councill c. RIGHT HONORABLE YOVR LORDSHIPS GRACIOVS ACCEPtance of my former Booke intituled The Principles of the Art militarie hath giuen mee encouragement to annex a second addition to it in the Practick of the famous seige and taking in of Breda this yeere by his Highnesse the Prince of Orange our Generall Marquesse Spinola of famous memorie one of the best Generals that euer his Maiestie the King of Spaine had in his Netherlandish warres blockt it vp in the yeeres 1624 and 1625 eleuen months and odd daies and had his Herman Hugo a Jesuite who in commendations of the Marquesse wrot a relation of some memorable actions touching this seige to posteritie and did it well It is now my turne according to my weake ability to writ some thing also to succeeding ages in the honour and memoriall of his Highnesse the Prince of Orange and those chiefe Commanders Gentlemen and Souldiers vnder his Commaund that were at the seige this yeare and I hope truely without giving offence to any man Heere your honour shall see the difference betweene a Towne blocked vp which is a languishing death and a Towne brauely beseiged taken in by Approaches which in a Souldiers opinion is accounted more honorable Againe if your Lordship compare the times of the one and of the other Generall together you shall finde that there was neuer Towne so strongly fortified hauing 3000 able men to defend it regained in so short a time to wit in 50 daies from the 18 of August namely the night that wee first brak ground against this towne till the sixth of October following that the Enemy cald for a parley your Honor may see the admirable expedition notwithstanding all opposition within and without to relieue it his hignesse made which the oldest souldiers in these Warres haue not seene the like This breife relation then craues that vnder your Lo gracious patronage it may finde fauour to come out in English to the view of the world to giue satisfaction to some of our owne nation that were at this seige which if it be acceptable to your honour as my former was then I am bound in a double Obligation to pray vnto the Almighty to blesse your noble family with much encrease of honour in this world and to crowne you with eternall felicity in the next resting Your Lordships deuoted Seruant euer to Commaund HENRY HEXHAM AN INFORMATION TO THE READER OF the State of BREDA Formerly CVRTEOVS READER the Cittie of Breda taken in this yeare by his Highnesse the Prince of Orange lying in the Land of Kempen is a part of the Dukedome of great Brabant and the Head-Towne of a braue Barrony hauing 16 villages and a walled Towne vnder the Jurisdiction thereof Among the which there is Steen-bergen a Towne newly fortifyed with a Strong-Fort or two vpon the hauen Rosendale a great and a very pleasant village and Osterhout a goodly Lord-ship This Citty is situated vpon a riuer called the Marck whose headspring beginneth some foure English Miles aboue Hoogh-strate It lyeth one and twentie English miles a halfe from Lier one and twenty from Anwerpe 15 from Bergin op Zoom 15 from Turnhout 9 from Seuenberke and 6 from Getruydenberke This Citty and Barronie fell by marriage to the illustrious house of Nassaw Anno 1404 two hundred three and thirty yeares agoe For that yeare Count Englebert Eare af Nassaw Espoused the Lady Io ane the onely Inheritrix of this Barronie of Breda and the Land of Leck for a long time it was the Court and ancient ressidency of the Earles of Nassaw vntill such time that Duke D' Alva by his tirannie droue Prince William the old Prince of Orange and Earle of Nassaw his Highnes Father of famous memorie out of his ancient inheritance It hath in it a goodly Castle double moated founded by Count Henry of Nassaw which if it had bene finished according to the model thereof it would haue bene one of the beautisullest goodliest Structures of Brabant Since the Warres began it hath bene strongly fortified with many Bulwarks Horneworks Halfe-moons Rauelings and a large moate round about the Towne in some places 14. rod or 180 foote broade 9 or 10 foote deepe with a good Counterskarfe without it This Towne hath suffered much by the warres as by surprises blocking vp Seiges hath beene subiect to many changes some times being lost and other-wiles regayned on both sides For in the yeere of our Lord 1585. Prince William of famous memorie enioyed it peaceably till Hautpenny one of the Ennemies Commanders surprized it that yeare on the 25 of Iune plundred it and burnt diuerse houses in it and so it continewed vnder the power of the King of Spayne vntill Prince Maurice of famous Memorie by a braue Stratagem vnder the conduct of Captaine Herangier who with 70 other vailliant and resolute men hid vnder a Turfe-Schip comming into the Castle by night broke out of that couert Ambuscado cutt of a Corps degard and tooke in the Castle Prince Maurice marching with part of the States Army to second his dessigne tooke in both Castle and Towne on the fourth of march in the yeare 1590. After this being an ill neighbour to the Busse Anthony Schtes the Gouenour thereof and Lord of Grubbing donck had an other enterprizce vpon it and falling on in the night with 4000 foote and eleuen troupe of horse those of Breda takeiug the alarme betimes he finding them in a readenesle to entertaine him was beaten off with the losse of a hundred men Againe Marquesse Spinola haueing Anno 1622 layne long before Bergin op zoom and lost and hurt in the space of twelue weekes a matter of ten thousand men before it being so repulsed by my Lord Morgan then commaunding with the Gouernour the Commanders Captaines officers souldiers of all Nations that he could not get so much as a foote of ground of them though he attempted and assaulted oftentimes the outworkes with the losse of a great many mē who at last by the cōming of Prince Morrice of happie memorie and Count Mansfeild to Rossendale with the States Armie not willing to stand them on a sudden brake vp and quitted the seige in the