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A08141	A proclamation by the states of the prouince of Utrecht, against certaine others of the conspirators Together with a new and full relation of the apprehension, examination, torturing, and confession of diuers of the principall conspirators, of the late intended treason against the Prince of Orange, and the state of the Vnited Prouinces. Both by letters, and other direction from the states themselues. As they were printed at Amsterdam, for Martin Iansen Brandt bookseller, dwelling by the new church at the signe of the reformed catechisme. Anno 1623.		1623 (1623)	STC 18507.100; STC 24561; ESTC S103029	10,052	25

March 7 1623. Numb 21. A PROCLAMATION BY THE STATES of the Prouince of Vtrecht against certaine others of the Conspirators Together with a new and full Relation of the Apprehension Examination Torturing and Confession of diuers of the principall Conspirators of the late intended Treason against the Prince of Orange and the State of the Vnited Prouinces Both by Letters and other direction from the States themselues As they were Printed at Amsterdam for Martin Iansen Brandt Bookeseller dwelling by the new Church at the signe of the reformed Catechisme Anno 1623. LONDON Printed for Nathaniel Butter Nicholas Bourne and Thomas Archer 1623. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE STATES OF the Prouince of Vtrecht against the Conspirators MAuritius by the Grace of God Prince of Orange Count of Nassaw Meurs Buren c. Marquis of Camp-veere and Flushing Lord and Baron of Breda Diest c. Gouernour or Deputie of Holland Zealand and Vtrecht with the States of the Land of Vtrecht send to all them which shall see or heare these presentes read greeting Seeing there is of Late discouered an abominable and most wicked Conspiracie against the State and well-fare of the Land and that amongst others the Instigators and Conductors or principall Instrumentes haue beene these following namely Hendrick Danielsson Slatius in former time Preacher at Bleyswick Adriaen Adriaensson van Dyck which was here before Secretary of the said place Cornelius Gesteranus in former time Preacher at Gorchum and Cornelius Velsius lately Preacher at Rackangie which is a village lying in the Iland of the Briel The Sonnes of the late Barneuelt and Adriaen Vander Dussen of Rotterdam are likewise accused of the crime afore sayd besides many more which are all fled intending to saue themselues in Brabant or other Countries of our Enemies so that they are not easily to be mett withall although their apprehension is much required and greatly necessary for the good of these vnited Prouinces So it is that there is notice giuen by these presents that whosoeuer can reveale any one of them or any of their complices and assistantes which haue had a hand in this abominable conspiracy and cause them a liue to be deliuered to the Iustice that he shall be rewarded with the sum of 4000. Gilders which amounte to 400. pound sterling for each one of the persons which are here aboue named and described and for any other they shall be recompensed with a summe of 600. Gilders which amounte to 60. poundes starling And here besides shall the reuealers or Informers be pardoned of this crime if they be guiltie of it and their owne persons and names shall not be made knowne to any We interdicte and prohibite likewise by these all manner of Persons to lodge any of the aforementioned which hide themselues or their complices and assistantes which are culpable of this damnable and detestable Conspiracy in their houses or keepe or suffer them in their Gardens Ships Boates Haye Reekes Barnes or permit them to goe away with their Waggons Horses Carts Sleds or any such like seruing to get away either by Water or by Land vpon paine of life and goodes and there shall not any fauour be shewed to any although it were first knowne many yeares after Furthermore seeing it hath appeared manifestly by diuers informations which the Commissioners authorised and appointed thereunto haue receiued that the Arminians or the Societie of the Remonstrants as they instile them haue in these Landes a formall Court or Colledge wherein they meete being also prouided of diuers Commissioners or chiefe vndertakers and a Superintendent likewise it is confessed that they haue diuers Commissioners in euerie Towne and Citie to gather the moneys amongst them of their owne Faction of which they must make accompt to their Court where the Superintendent sittes with the other Commissioners Moreouer that some of their societie had written to some of their Preachers in these Landes that they maruailed mightily that some of them mayntained that their societie might not right their cause by the way of violence And they had therefore consulted vpon this point at their meeting or Court where they iudged that the sayd way could not be tryed without indangering the Country to her vtter destruction and ruine neuerthelesse considering that they could not mend themselues as they thought in any other manner of wayes and suspecting their Confraters or Brothers to smell of Anabaptisme or Memnonisme knowing that their opinion was hurtfull to their dessignes they reiected them Whereby as likewise by that which is alreadie discouered of the aforesayd abominable and most detestable Conspiracy as also by the Enterprises and Machinations of the hidden Preachers aboue mentioned and diuers others of their Societie it appeareth euidently that they haue vsed all kind of sinister practises and deuises to disturbe againe not onely the Church and State but likewise to cause in these Countries an ineuitable or vnauoydable bath of blood and to destroy these Prouinces afterwards by Incendiaries or firers which should set seuerall places on fire whereupon when the Countrey should haue beene in this confusion and perplexitie would our Enemie haue assaulted vs and inuaded the Country to make himselfe Master of it which he hath not beene able to doe God be praised within the space of these last 50. yeeres and more although hee imployed to the sayd purpose great Armies and charges as it appeared likewise of late within these last two yeares Seeing also that a great while since it is perceiued that diuers Arminian preachers which were here tofore banished and led out of these Vnited Prouinces haue emboldened themselues to returne hither againe in such manner that there hath beene foure and twentie of them at once at Vtrecht against the Proclamations of the High and Mighty Lords the States Generall of the Vnited Prouinces and goe disguised with strange habits in the Vnited Prouinces and principally in this Prouince of Vtrecht as well in the Citie as the other Townes and Villages thereof conuersing and walking there both day and night Keeping also secret meetings and conuenticles in which they make euen their Sermons which are prohibited by the State and prouoke there and instigate the good Inhabitants of the Vnited Prouinces and especially them of the Citie the Townes and the Lands of Vtrecht to factions and commotions and dissentions as likewise to the disobedience of their Superiours and Magistrates In such manner that which is great pitty there are found some of their faction and Society that haue lost the one which they did beare in former time to the Almighty their Countrey and Countri-men before this Arminian Faction or Sect rather arose liuing then Peaceably with their neighbours and haue forgotten themselues so farre that they haue beene plotters and chiefe workemasters of this most wicked and abominable Conspiracy and made it ready to the execution which had happened assuredly if the mercifull God had not stopt their proceedings through his infinite wisedome and caused it to

who laughing accepted to tell the Prince of them and their desire suspecting that they had some strange toy or thing to shew to his Excellency who sent them word backe againe by the Lacquy that he would heare them as soone as he came out of his stable whereupon they answered that they would speak with his Excellency about a businesse that concerned mightily his own person and that there was perhaps danger in delay as the Ciuill Lawyers say Periculum in mora The Prince who hath loued continually the Mariners vnderstanding this caused them instantly to come to him where they made the best reuerence they could after their owne manner and reuealed all the matter vnto him Now you may guesse what the Prince thought of it hearing of an enterprise of which he knew not himselfe he commanded the Mariners to returne to the Court by the way of Vorburg which is a village about the Hage and rode himselfe with all speed to the Court where he communicated instantly this matter with the States Hereupon was presently giuen order that the two Innes here before mentioned should be searched instantly and that all them which were within the two Innes should be ceased vpon vntill such time as the heads and complices of this wicked onterprise should be found out They got the money master or Purser who payed the Mariners at the Inne called the little Foole the rest which were in the house are likewise apprehended and I cannot heare as yet that any one of them is set at liberty At the other Inne where the Secretary of Bleyswick escaped were euen also diuers apprehended but they are all dismist seeing they were found innocent and cleare of this businesse All the instruments aforesaid which were found in the two Innes were likewise carried away by the Officers of the Court. Concerning the Mariners they were 9. dayes kept in the house of the Keeper or Castelain of the Court vntil the States knew by examination that they were not guilty and had behaued themselues as true Patriots and well-willers of the Country ought to doe and discharged their consciences This night and the next day commanded the States strong watches to be kept as well of the Townsmen as of the Souldiers about the Hage and the passages to goe thence And they caused likewise a Proclamation to be published and printed as we haue heard before The next day being Wednesday vpon the 8. of this Moneth was the fasting and prayer day kept whereof the States had warned the Country fourteen dayes before This alteration seemed to cause a new zeale amongst the inhabitants that all the Churches were packt vp so full as the like was not seene by any man liuing About the euening came the Hangman into the Hage to put some of the apprehended to the torture The same day were likewise three of Barnevelts seruants taken prisoners and the house of the widow of Iohn of Oldenbarnevelt as likewise that of Renier of Oldenbarnevelt his sonne guarded by certaine officers of the Court. The 9. day of this Moneth were yet some at the Hage apprehended and there came newes that two were taken at Rotterdam and that some were fled thence whereupon the Country was much perplexed The same day there came also tidings from Harlem that there was made a great hole in the walls of the prison by some which were without with a great augre iust vpon the roome in which two Arminian Preachers were put about three weekes agoe because they were come into the Dominion of the States out of which they were banished The 10. and 11. day of this Moneth were in all the Cities and Townes of the Vnited Prouinces the Proclamations of the States concerning this Conspiracy published euery where great paines were taken to apprehend the Authors and Complices thereof In those dayes was the Lord vander Mylen sent for to come into the Hage where he came freely and is lodged now at the house of the Keeper of the Court whereby it seemeth that hee is not suspected The 12. day of this Moneth when it was night there were two poore Boers which saw Adriaen Adriaensson van Dyck the former Secretary of Bleyswyck wherevpon they went purposely to the Mayor of the place who tooke him afterwards whereupon the Boers got within few dayes the moneyes promised by the Proclamation of the States for the discouering of him namely 4000. Gilders which amount to 400. pounds sterling The 14. of this Moneth the fore-mentioned Adriaen Adriaensson van Dyck sent for some of his Children and Kindred a little before the Officers came to him out of the Hage and confessed vnto them that he had deserued death and cursed mightily the Arminian Preachers which seduced him hee was yet the same day brought to the prison of the Hage by the Officers which came for him from the Court. This day were the Sailers which had vntill that time made good cheare at the house of the keeper of the Court set at liberty and each one of them was honoured of his Excellency with a peece of gold whereon was the Picture and Armes of the Prince with his Deuice worth about 80. Gilders which amount to 8. pounds sterling as likewise with a siluerd Sword for each of them The States moreouer caused to each of them to be giuen 600. Gilders which amount to 60. pounds sterling besides a monethly pension of 16. Gilders or 32. shillings sterling during their liues granting them moreouer their Letters of recommendation to the Court of Admiralty for the first offices of which they be capable that shall fall Whereupon they returned with great contentment to Rotterdam and told their friends their fortune and cloathed themselues there in gray sutes of cloath and bought there for their own wearing gray hats with golden bands as if they had bin Sea-Captains already The same day were the bels of the Town house of the Hage rung whereupon the two sonnes of Barnevelt were warned to appeare within the space of 14. daies and to answer for themselues vpon paine of their banishment confiscation of their goods according to the Lawes and custome of the Country The 15. day foure Citizens were apprehended at Leyden about this Conspiracy and it was perceiued that some of their consorts were fled The 16. of this Moneth was at the Hage a rumour that both the sonnes of Barneuelt were seene at Scheuelingen about the Sea-coast with a skipper of their acquaintance who dwelt there wherupon his Wife was apprehended in the absence of her husband and carryed to the Hage where she confessed vpon examination that her husband departed the night before from his house with them search being made it was found out presently that they went from Scheuelingen to Berckerhey Catwyck Noortwyck Santvoort Wyck op Zee along a ditch towards the Sea which is called the Hondsbosh and came thence into the Island of Texel The 17. day of this Moneth was the town-house of Rotterdam fired very earely in the morning at which time the Cutler afore mentioned got away among the people which came to quench the fire he was taken because hee had sold diuers Instruments and armes to the Conspirators The other namely the Tinker was dismist by the Lords seeing there was at that time yet nothing found out wherwith they could charge him The Cutler went to diuers of his acquaintance but no man would receiue him and seeing hee is still absent there is promised a summe of mone● to them that shall cause him to be apprehended The 18. of this Moneth was the eldest sonne of Barnevelt taken in the Island of Texel with the skipper aforesaid and one of his men The 19. being the next day he was brought to the Hage and put in prison where he was examined since but we cannot heare as yet any thing of his confession The 20. of this Moneth were all the prisoners which were taken about this Conspiracy examined by the Iustices of the Court. The 21. were at Ouwerschic a village yet two other taken of this Conspiracy namely Dauid Corenwinder Secretary in former time of Berckel and the Boer which lodged him They were carried likewise the same day to the prison which is in the Hage where there are masters and seruants at least twenty apprehended for this Conspiracy FINIS

be reuealed in good time So it is that wee insisting vpon that which is aforesayd prohibite moreouer according to the tenour of the two former Proclamations of the generall States one of them was dated the third of Iuly 1619. the other the first of February Anno 1620. and the resolutions and interpretations made since vpon them expressely any manner of persons whatsoeuer to appeare vnder what pretext or colour soeuer at any of those meetings and conuenticles aforesayd neither in the Citie nor Townes nor Lands of this Prouince or to doe or say any thing which might in any manner of wayes preiudice the Land or the Gouernment vpon the paines appointed by the Proclamations aforesayd besides they shall bee accounted as perturbators of the State and shall be punished according to their offence and as the case shall require Likewise wee charge that none shall presume to lodge any of the banished Preachers afore mentioned which are also led out of the Country nor any of their young propounders or other which doe not stick to cause prohibited meetings to preach reade or exhort in the same without permission As likewise to administer the Sacraments and other Ecclesiasticall functions nor cause or suffer them to come in their houses gardens hay-reekes barnes ships boats wagons carts or sleds nor to hide them any where be it by water or by land vpon paine of banishment or otherwise as the fault shall deserue to be punished without that any long time shall excuse them although it were many yeares since discouered And because such persons may be the better reuealed and taken they which shall discouer them which are here last of all mentioned shall be rewarded with the summe of 300. Gilders which are 30 pounds sterling and shall receiue them of the Country or State and if they be guilty themselues they shall be pardoned promising moreouer that their persons or names shall not be discouered For wee haue iudged with a generall voyce this to be conuenient and a fit remedy to preuent all further Conspiracies and wicked Machinations and to aduance the welfare and preseruation of these Lands and their inhabitants And because the contents hereof may well be obserued and kept and that none might pretent ignorance We haue giuen order that this present Proclamation shall be published in all vsuall places as the custome is and command hereby the President and the Councell of Vtrecht as likewise all Officers Iustices and ministers of Iustice whom this may concerne to proceede against the offenders and cause likewise to bee proceeded against them without any connivency sauour or dissimulation to the contrary Giuen at Vtrecht the 14. day of February according to the new style Anno 1623. Vpon the margine was written Dirick van Eck. Vt. Lower stood By the order of the aforesaid Lords the States And was subscribed Ant van Hilten Vpon the Margine was the Seale of the said States in red waxe From the Hage Febr. 8. 1623. LOuing Friend knowing that there are dispersed amongst you strange speeches of the Prisoners here lately taken I would not forbeare to aduise you the truth of the matter The Prince of Orange being two dayes agoe about the afternoone at Ryswyck there came three or foure Saylers which desired to speake with his Excellency and hauing gotten accesse to his person they related that they were asked at Rotterdam whether they would be imployed in a seruice for the good of these Countries and were also promised great reward therefore They confessed moreouer that they had accepted the said seruice and had receiued certaine money thereupon and that they were sent afterwards to the Hage where they deliuered two dayes agoe their fire-workes and other things at a house vnto which they were directed called the little foole in the Achterom which is a street And that they had spoken there with the party vnto whom they were directed to receiue further instruction but he had not told thē at the same time what they should doe wishing them onely to goe on to the businesse with a good courage and promising that the next day the matter should be laid open vnto them They told moreouer that they got of them at that instant certaine Duch Riders of 21. shillings sterling a peece which they shewed also to the Prince of Orange and said that their great liberality made them to mistrust the goodnesse of this seruice and caused them to suspect some treason or Conspiracy Hereupon the Prince commanded them to returne to the Hage and to come towards euening to him at his Palace Which they did and informed his Excellency fully of all the businesse Whereupon he sent presently for the President and the Councell of State who forthwith after some deliberation sent the Atturney or Fiscall of the Court with the Prouost Marshall to the house or Inne aforesaid where they found the persons by them described and the man which paid them the money aforesaid whom they carried instantly to the Court and examined them The Townesmen and the Souldiers within were presently commanded to keepe strong watches euery where and to stop all passages that no body should come away without leaue But it was not possible for them to preuent it seeing there are no walls about the Hage They searched also afterwards the Helmet an Inne about the Waggons which goe to Harlem and when they asked for the man with his Trunks the owner thereof went speedily vp into a chamber where it stood and opening it he tooke some things thereour and leauing it open came downe in great haste and got out of the house seeing that there was a Serjeant which told to the rest that he was an honest man and that he had knowne him many yeares agoe When the Fiscall asked the Hoste whether there was not a man with a trunke in his house he answered no But seeing they found afterwards the trunke open with diuers pistols and other things as it was left by the owner when they searched the house the Hoste was taken prisoner though the owner the former Secretary of Bleyswicke had made an escape as is aforesaid the other were examined the same night and he which payed the money to the Mariners confessed that there was one dwelling at Rotterdam which had set him on work and hauing told his name and described his person there went about foure of the clocke in the morning two Councellors of State with diuers others to find him out but he was departed thence it is thought that the late Secretary of Bleyswick who was escaped had giuen him notice of the discouering of their conspiracy The examinations of the prisoners haue lasted yesterday and this night and day but their confessions are kept as yet very secret there are found in the meane time many pistols swords and daggers in the truncke aforesaid and in the other Inne and I haue seene some of them at the Court. To day had the Preachers order to giue God