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A08473 The arraignment of Iohn van Olden Barneuelt late Aduocate of Holland and West-Freisland Containing the articles alleadged against him, and the reasons of his execution, being performed vpon the 13. of May anno 1619. stilo nouo, in the inner court of the Grauen Hage in Holland. Together with a letter written by the Generall States, vnto the particular Vnited Prouinces, concerning the foresaid action. Published by authoritie, and with priuiledge of the States Generall. Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van, 1547-1619.; United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal. 1619 (1619) STC 18799; ESTC S113450 11,145 46

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accordingly raised with a particular oath as aforesaid 17 And when the Generall States perceiuing the said raising of souldiers to be contrary to order and generall custome thought it fit to aduertise them by letter to surcease from the same that he was the author and cause that the said States of Vtrecht tooke vpon them by letters of the 5. of September 1617. to excuse their said proceeding vnto the Generall States with vaine and idle pretences as that they were raised for the diuerting of popular commotion and yet he knew well that the defence and preseruation of the Prouinces townes and forts thereof in generall by the vnion is referred to the disposition of the generalitie of our vnited States in generall as also that by the counsell of State holden in Vtrecht anno 1610. it was likewise ordered that whatsoeuer belonged vnto the securitie peace and tranquilitie of the towne and territories of Vtrecht in all respects should be referred to the said States Generall And that then a great garrison belonging vnto the said Generall States lay therein which while the Armies were in Gelders and Cleaueland was not diminished And besides that by the said States it was expresly ordered not to diminish the said garrison but rather if it were found necessary to increase the same 18 That by the consent and knowledge of him this instruction was inserted and the new souldiers were raised in Vtrecht by the which cleane contrary to the allegations and reasons in the letter aforesaid pretended the said new souldiers were bound to serue both without and within the said Prouince against all and euery person both by water and by land onely vnder the commandement or commission of the states of Vtrecht and that they should not onely be ready at the commandement of the said States of Vtrecht but also aide and assist their good neighbours frends and allies 19 And as in Vtrecht newes was brought that his Excellencie the Prince of Orange was to come into and passe through the said towne a letter was by the said States of Vtrecht not without the said prisoners knowledge as then being in Vtrecht sent vnto the said Prince to desire him not to passe nor come through that towne with earnest aduice to follow their counsel therein he not many dayes before aduertised the Secretarie Ledenberch by priuate letters that it was fit and expedient for them to keepe a strong watch at their gates and also that both from aboue and beneath the riuer of Leck they should be aduertised by the next townes whether any souldiers were comming vp or downe the said riuer as also that the like was to be done vpon the way that entred into the towne by Amersfort gate desiring Ledenberch when he had read the letters to burne them 20 That he by his instructions and counsels brought to passe that by the Deputies of the aforesaid eight townes first in priuate meetings in vnaccustomed places and vndue times a certaine procuration or an act of vnion was drawne which afterward also was in some of the said townes by the consent of the Common Councell and in some of them without their knowledge concluded and agreed vpon the 14. of May 1618. whereby they authorized their Deputies to consult aduise and resolue with the States and Deputies of the other townes vpon a meanes of present resistance as also all togither to prouide for and to assure all such promises of assistance helpe and indemnities as they should finde to be necessarie needfull and conuenient 21 That he caused a copie of the same act to be giuen vnto Mons Modesberghen by Hoogherbet the pentionarie and withall desired him to consider thereof who thereupon presently went to Vtrecht and procured the like act there also to be propounded contayning likewise an authoritie to bee giuen vnto their Deputies touching the two former points of stricter vnion and certaine and present meanes of resistance and for that the towne togither with some other of the members of the States would not grant nor consent thereunto he desired the Borghomaster van Pol then being in the Hage by his letters to moue them thereunto or purposely to goe thither about it which to effect the said Borghomaster went personally thither but the Magistrate of Vtrecht perceiuing whereunto the force of the said procuration or authoritie tended would not consent thereunto but with an expresse limitation that the Committies should not extend their authoritie to the furtherance or procuring of present or new extremities or to the making of new vnitie with any seuerall Prouinces townes or members thereof 22 That when the States of Vtrecht to ease themselues of the burthen and charge of maintayning the new companies of souldiers and to let and withstand the decreasing of their treasure and reuenues vpon the 19. of Iune 1618. Stilo vet found it conuenient to send a competent number of their Deputies to the Hage togither with Monsieur Modesberghen and others at the assembly of the Generall States to be holden there and with his Excellencie the Prince of Orange as Gouernor and Captaine Generall of the Prouince of Vtrecht to agree vpon the discharging of the said new souldiers he counselled Ledenbergh as then one of the Deputies in his owne house hauing intelligence of their said commission by the said Ledenbergh not to discouer the same vnto the Prince of Orange but to keepe it secret and to follow other aduice by him giuen vnto the said Ledenbergh not remembring that he himselfe confesseth that he knew full well the great charge and burthen of the Land and the vnfitnes thereof for the maintayning of new companies of souldiers especially so great a number 23 That he had intelligence giuen him that the said Ledenbergh togither with the pentionarie Hoogherbet and Grotius in the house of Iohn Vtenbogaet did consult vpon the reasons and motiues that should be obserued with the aforesaid Deputie of the States of Vtrecht to diuert and disswade them not to put their commission in effect as also that the same deliberation holden and required by Ledenbergh should be kept secret wherevpon it followed that the said Hoogerbets and his complices in the house of Daniel Tresel Clarke to the generall Sates meeting together with many very sharpe and pernicious speeches and motions vsed by Grotius disswaded the Deputies of Vtrecht to shew their authoritie whereof also the said prisoner was aduertised and whereby also the said Deputies were compelled to goe backe againe to Vtrecht without shewing their commission notwithstanding that by the States of Vtrecht they were reiteratiuely willed and required to doe it 24 That he earnestly aduised the said Deputies at their departure to stand against the assembly of a Nationall Synode and to vrge the continuance of their new companies of souldiers as also to keepe good and strong watch both at their gates and in their townes adding thereunto that if it fell out that at the first the businesse were not found out and that
his oath and by the instructions of some forraine Princes Lords and others receiued diuers great summes of money and presents without making any that had to doe therewith acquainted therewithall All which his proceedings tending to the end not only to make the towne of Vtrecht a slaughter-house but also to bring the state of the Land and the person of the Prince of Orange into vtter subuersion whereby and by meanes of all other his machinations and conspiracies it is so fallen out that States against States gouernment against gouernment and new contracts in and against the vnitie and generall perturbations in the state of the Land as well spirituall as temporall are risen vp the treasure consumed and the Country compelled to an expence of many millions of crownes generall distrusts and dissentions moued and brought in among the vnited Prouinces and the inhabitants of the Land the vnion broken the Country made vnfit and vnapt to defend it selfe and brought into danger to endure and suffer some scandalous wrong or vtterly to be ouerthrowne and subuerted which are matters of such consequence that they are not to be suffered in any gouernment but rather ought to be punished for an example to all others Therefore the Iudges aforesaid with deliberation of the counsell of the States generall hauing well considered vpon and weighed all the articles aforesaid wherein they concerned or in any wise might tend to the matter in question doing iustice in the names and behalfes of the Generall States of the vnited Prouinces haue condemned and by these presents condemne the said prisoner to be brought to the Inner Court to the place thereunto appointed there to haue his head stricken off and all his goods lands and reuenues to be confiscated Giuen in the assembly of the Iudges aforesaid in the Grauen-Hage and executed the 13. of May 1619. By order from the Iudges aforesaid Signed H. POTZ A PROCLAMATION made by the Generall States of the vnited Netherland Prouinces for the holding of a generall Fast and day of Praier for the good successe of the Synode and peace and preseruation of the LAND FOrasmuch as it is so fallen out by meanes of misunderstanding disagreement contentions within certaine yeeres hitherto happened not only in the Church but also among the Commons of these Countries and likewise in the politique gouernment and administration of iustice that some ambitious persons for the furtherance of their particular designes and ambitions to the great hinderance of the reformed religion and speciall disaduantage of the seruice of the Land stirred vp sought to haue reuersed and annihilated the true religion and together at one time wholly to haue ruinated and subuerted the state of the Land if the Nationall Synode had not beene summoned and called by the aduice of most famous learned well experienced honest and godly persons strangers and Inhabitants of these Countries to examine the differences in matters of religion and the same to extinguish and vtterly exterminate as also if we had not restored and re-established the lawfull authoritie of gouernment and iustice by lawfull proceedings against the contradictors and violaters thereof And for that they haue already proceeded so farre in the said Nationall Synode that the hardest and most important controuersies and questions with great vnitie and one generall consent are already determined and decided And likewise that a lawfull Iudgement and sentence is to be pronounced by the Iudges thereunto appointed by the Generall States of the vnited Netherland Prouinces against those that haue in such sort perturbed the state of the Land in such manner that the affaires of these vnited Netherlands both in spirituall and temporall matters are apparant and likely to incline vnto a peaceable and quiet end The Generall States of the said vnited Netherland Prouinces haue thought it fit and conuenient and likewise haue fully determined to proclaime a common and generall Fast and day of publike praier throughout all the vnited Netherland Prouinces Territories and Townes thereof to be holden vpon Wednesday the 17. of the month of Aprill thereby and therein to praise and giue thankes vnto the most mightie God for his grace and blessing and with earnest zeale and penitent hearts to pray vnto and call vpon him that he would be pleased to continue his said grace and blessing for the honour of his most holy name and the planting and restoring of the true reformed religion together with the preseruation and maintenance of the iustice and lawfull authoritie of the said vnited Netherlands and the peace and tranquillitie of the inhabitants of the same both in spirituall and temporall proceedings That so with a good harmonie and one consent God Almightie may truly be called vpon and serued the state of the Land secured and more and more prosper in their trade and continuall trafficke and all the counsels machinations and conspiracies of the enemies of this Land broken and preuented c.
THE ARRAIGNMENT Of John van Olden Barneuelt late Aduocate of HOLLAND and WEST-FREISLAND Containing the Articles alleadged against him and the reasons of his execution being performed vpon the 13. of May Anno 1619. Stilo Nouo In the inner Court of the Grauen Hage in HOLLAND TOGETHER WITH A LETTER written by the Generall States vnto the particular Vnited Prouinces concerning the foresaid action Published by Authoritie and with priuiledge of the States Generall LONDON Printed by Edward Griffin for Ralph Rounthwait at the signe of the Golden Lion in Pauls Church-yard 1619. THE PRIVILEDGE THE States generall of the vnited NETHERLANDS haue giuen and granted licence vnto Hillebrant Jacobson sworne Printer to them and to the States of Holland in particular and by these presents giue and grant licence that he onely for the space of two yeares next ensuing the date hereof shall print and deliuer out in Dutch the sentence and iudgement giuen pronounced by the Iudges by them therevnto appointed vpon and against Iohn van Olden Barnevelt sometime Aduocate or Counsellor of Holland and West-Freseland and executed on his person vpon the 13 of May 1619. Stilo novo in the inner Court of the Hage for bidding and prohibiting all other Printers and subiects of these Prouinces to print or cause the aforesaid Sentence within the time aforesaid of two yeares to bee printed or giuen out in Dutch vpon paine of forfeiture of such Bookes and further of the summe of 300 Carollus Guldens the one third part thereof to the behoofe of him that shall be the officer to execute the Commission an other third part to the vse of the poore and the last third part to the vse benefit of the aforesaid Hillebrant Jacobson giuen in the Assembly of the said Generall States in Grauen-Hage the 14 of May 1619. I. V. Dorth vt. By order from the generall States C. AERSEN THE COPIE OF A LETter written by the generall States vnto the particular vnited Prouinces in the Netherlands WE send your Honors herewith a copie of the sentence which the Iudges thereunto appointed pronounced against the prisoners long deliberated vpon by vs which on the 13 of this present moneth was published and execution done vpon the person of Iohn van Olden Barnevelt late Counsellor or Aduocate of Holland and VVest-Freseland The said Iudges withall sent vs certaine ouertures of diuers other points that were made knowne vnto them and are not mentioned in the aforesaid sentence which according to the informations consequences therof gaue great suspition that he had intelligence with the enemy and wholy bended his actions thereunto seeking neuerthelesse not to giue nor minister any offence to the other side but to the contrary made shew to fauour the same but for that the substance of the confessions made vpon those points were such that no definitiue sentence could haue bin giuen vpon them without further inquisition and sharper examination which by the said Iudges was not thought conuenient in respect of his great age and other considerations concerning the seruice of the Land as also for that the decision of them other matters could no longer be delayed and that the articles in the said sentence contained are sufficient to condemne him we haue omitted them and thought it good and necessarie hereby to certifie you thereof beseeching God to haue your Honors vs in his holy keeping from the Hage the 19. of May 1619. vnderwritten Iohn van Dorth v t. and a litle lower By the order of the States C. AERSEN THE IVDGMENT GIVEN AND PRONOVNCED vpon John van Olden Barneuelt late Aduocate of HOLLAND and WEST-FRESELAND together with his execution performed vpon the 13 of May 1619. Stylo novo IOhn van Olden Barnevelt sometime Aduocate or Counsellor of the Prouinces of Holland and West-Freesland and at this present committed to prison Commissioners being by the generall States ordained and appointed to examine him and to make report thereof vnto the Iudges by the said generall States ordained to sit vpon the same without racke or any torment confessed as to the said Iudges also it manifestly appeared 1 That notwithstanding it is not lawfull for any man to breake or violate the vnitie and fundamentall lawes whereupon the gouernment of the vnited Netherlands is grounded and whereby the said Countries by Gods speciall blessing notwithstanding all the forces practises and deuices of their enemies and euill willers hath bin hitherto preserued and defended he the said prisoner had taken vpon him to trouble the state of the Religion and thereby to bring the Church of God into great trouble and extremitie To that end had maintained and put in practise most exorbitant and pernicious maximes against the state of the Land and among them with great boldnes of himselfe and by his complices inserted that some of the Prouinces of the said vnited Netherlands had power authoritie of themselues to order and dispose of religion at their wills and pleasures and that the rest of the Prouinces had nothing to doe therewith 2 That without commission or authoritie he had in his owne house made certaine protestations in the name of the Prouinces of Holland Vtrecht and Ouerissell whereby they togither by manner of complot against all order vsed in the assemblies of the generall States protested that the Deputies of the Prouinces which were appointed for the furthering of the Nationall Synode would be the authors and causers of great troubles and inconueniences 3 That he contemning the good and wholsome counsels of diuers Princes Lords and noble Personages both in and without the land as much as in him lay had sought to withstand and hinder the remedies procured for the ceasing of controuersie in Religion 4 That to further and maintaine his designes aforesaid he had abused certaine of the mightiest Potentates with vnseemely and sinister practises and to that end by his owne authoritie instructed and caused to be instructed the Ambassadors for the States with vntrue propositions 5 That he also had taken vpon him to write to the States Ambassador resident in Great Britannie that if any thing should be written by the said King concerning the state of Religion that it should be sent to the States of Holland and that he should procure the staying thereof vntill he had sent the copie vnto him to consider of it and to stay his answer thereupon before he sent the same and that the letters should be directed vnto him that he might deliuer them for the good and seruice of the land assuming to himselfe all the authoritie and gouernment thereof 6 That he tooke vpon him in the name of the States of Holland and West-Friesland to write to the King of France that those States Generall that proclaimed a nationall Synod vsurped the names of the Generall States wishing his Maiestie not to send any of his subiects vnto the said Synod but rather to aid and assist those of Holland against the factions of the States 7.