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A08479	Newes out of Holland: concerning Barnevelt and his fellow-prisoners their conspiracy against their natiue country, with the enemies thereof the oration and propositions made in their behalfe vnto the Generall States of the vnited Prouinces at the Hague, by the ambassadors of the French king. With their answere therevnto, largely and truely set downe: and certaine execrable articles and opinions, propounded by Adrian du Bourg, at the end. VVherevnto is adioyned a discourse, wherein the Duke D'Espernons revolt and pernicious deseignes are truely displayed, and reprehended, by one of his friends.		1619 (1619)	STC 18803; ESTC S113455	12,506	30

Newes out of Holland Concerning Barnevelt and his fellow-Prisoners their Conspiracy against their Natiue Country with the Enemies thereof THE Oration and Propositions made in their behalfe vnto the Generall States of the vnited Prouinces at the HAGVE by the Ambassadors of the French KING WITH Their Answere therevnto largely and truely set downe And certaine Execrable Articles and Opinions propounded by Adrian du Bourg at the end VVherevnto is adioyned a Discourse wherein the Duke D'Espernons revolt and pernicious deseignes are truely displayed and reprehended by one of his Friends LONDON Printed by T. S. for Nathanael Newbery and are to bee sould at his shop vnder S. Peters Church in Cornehill and in Popes-head Alley at the signe of the Star 1619. THE ORATION AND PROPOSITIONS made on Barnavelt's and his fellow-Prisoners behalfe by the French Kings Ambassadors to the generall Estates of the vnited Prouinces of HOLLAND c. at the presenting of his Maiesties Letters vnto the said Estates MY Lords the King our Master commanded vs to recommend vnto you the same which we haue heretofore at other times motioned touching the good and peace of your estate although it hath not bin considered according to the worthinesse of the merit of his alliance and amitie but in the present state of your affaires his Maiestie will not cease to witnesse vnto you that he hath no lesse care thereof then of the peace and tranquilitie of his owne Kingdome We will therefore proceede to exhort you to continue stedfast in the vnion of your Prouinces as the principall foundation of your estate and to be carefull that the changing of Magistrates and Counsellors which hath bin made in diuers of your Townes doe not breede enmities and dissentions among your Citizens instead of ceasing them for that all mutations and changes of Magistrates Lawes and policies are dangerous to publique gouernements if they be not made vpon great necessity and so profitable for the Commons that no man may haue cause to dislike them Therefore it is requisite for you to take order that the Magistrates by their good and iust proceedings and behauiours may obtaine and deserue the good-will of the people and shew themselues so modest towards them that are dismissed that the inconstant multitude may haue no occasion to repine at such alteration and that those that haue bin deposed from their charges should patiently endure and beare that alteration as being made for the common good of the state The Sinode which you haue caused to be assembled puts vs in good hope that it will be a meanes to procure peace and concord touching those points of Religion which haue bred trouble and schisme in these Prouinces among you To make it effectuall and fruitfull it is requisite that it should be free and secure for all those that shall therein assemble together and that the points in controuersie should be examined and disputed of without passion or for any other consideration then onely for the honour of God and the peace of mens consciences And certainely whosoeuer taketh vpon him to interpret or attaine vnto those high misteries and treasures of diuine wisedome without great humility and submission shall finde himselfe as farre off from them as he thinketh he approacheth neere vnto them We are likewise to tell you somewhat from the King touching your Prisoners and to shew you how much it concerneth the honour and reputation of your affaires and generally the peace of your Prouinces and concord among your subiects to administer vnto them good and speedy Iustice They are accused of the most inorme and detestable crimes that can be as of Treason against their natiue Countrey secret intelligence with your enemies and for hauing exposed your Townes vnto the danger of pillage and effusion of blood If they be culpable of these disloyalties the King our Master giueth you counsell and aduise to exercise the rigour of your Lawes against them But as those crimes are grieuous and worthy of most great punishment so they haue beene reduced to certaine points whereunto good and wise Princes and well gouerned common-wealths would not stretch them To the contrary diuers Princes haue shewed themselues ready to pardon euen such enterprises as haue bin done against their owne persons and the freest Common-wealths alwaies vsed to spare the blood of their Citizens and that in the greatest malefactors it being one of the principallest signes of liberty and freedome not easily or lightly to touch the life of Citizens Therefore the crime of Treason ought to be taken and vnderstood in her proper tearmes without drawing it by consequences and inductions to other actions which are not of the same quality The contentions which oftentimes arise and are made in the management of affaires the iealousies of power and authority and ambition which alwaies drawes and driues men to enterprise and take more vpon them then they should are ordinary euils in all states whereby many inconueniences and mischiefes ensew Neuerthelesse they were neuer esteemed nor held to be treason against the State because crimes and offences are iudged by the will and intent and not by the euent We doubt not my Lords but that in your integrities and wisedomes you make distinction as you should of the faith and actions whereof men are accused question being made of the liues of your officers subiects placed in authority wherof one is the auncientest Counsellor of your state which is Monsieur Barneuelt so much commended for the good and notable seruices by him done for these countries whereof the Princes and States and allies vnto the same are witnesses that it is hardly to be thought or beleeued that he should haue conspired treason against his natiue Countrie for the which you your selues know hee hath taken so great paines neuerthelesse seeing he is called in question by order of Law it importeth the security of your estate that the truth should be known which to doe you ought both for him and the rest also to appoint Iudges that are neither suspected nor passionate that iudge according to the Lawes of the Countrey vpon cleere and euident proofes as equitie requireth and not vpon coniectures and presumptions which oftentimes deceiue Iudges because there are many things that are apparant and very likely which neuerthelesse are not true and others that are true and yet haue no likelinesse thereof and so by moderate and vpright Iudgement you shall manifest vnto the world that you are worthy of the possession and commandement of this estate to the gouernement whereof God hath called you The counsell which the King giueth you touching these Prisoners is not to vse rigour against them but rather fauour and clemency as most acceptable vnto God and fit and conuenient to win the hearts of the people to make them obedient It is the security of States such as yours is to revnite your subiects which are diuided and to molefie and appease the dislikes and bitternesse which is among them

to procure your owne safety and therein to take my counsell haueing heretofore giuen you warning of your former actions at the least I shall discharge my selfe of the duety which I owe vnto you for the fauours I haue receiued at your hands and I call heauen to witnesse of my sincerity let me then intreat you to peruse these few lines and suffer the truth therein by me set downe to worke some remorse of conscience in you Vpon what doe you thinke I beseech you when you discharge your arrowes against the Kings Maiesty and the peace of his estate you that haue both the grace and honour to be one of the officers of his crowne and haue as much charge and commoditie as any other about him This is not the way by waxing elder to grow wiser but rather to counterfeit the Ape which the older it groweth the vnhappier it is What in a manner hauing one foote already in the graue to damne his owne soule and disobay the King and not onely to disobay him but to offend him in the dearest thing that he hath and not onely to offend him therein but to take vpon you to raise his Subiects to beare armes against him vnder light pretences as the truth well sheweth I neither know nor can conceiue how a man esteemed to be wise whose beard is gray and seemeth to be of a stayed iudgement should fall into so great folly pardon me for speaking so freely A Canker must be lanched and cut away your euill is no lesse and most dangerous You are not ignorant that Kings are the images of the liuing God that their wils and commandements are Lawes to be specially obserued and that no man can dispense therewith without being guilty of high treason both diuine and humane and yet you haue not onely ventred to disobey them but also by a manner of new interpretation haue directly withstood his commandements The King thought your personall presence to be necessary in Metz and you thought the contrary and that your abode there would not like you though you were appointed thereunto his Maiestie desired your seruice in those parts and you would perferre certaine particular affaires to satisfie your owne pleasures and inclinations as if we were at the Romaines Saturnals You must grant mee this that there are no examples for your proceedings and that if in times past there were rebels and disobedient Subiects they alwaies sought to dissemble and to couer and hide their pretences with necessity you vse not any such meanes but are rather more hardned seeme directly and openly to oppose your selfe against his Maiestie What punishment thinke you doth such a crime deserue One fault willingly and most commonly draweth on another What haue you done since you came from Metz You haue borne away the Kings Mother and carried her to Angoulisme where you spread the ensignes of reuolt and there determine vpon warre and the subuersion of the State What audaciousnesse is this and whatan enterprise haue you vndertaken to circumuent the intents of a good Mother towards her deare Sonne to trouble and set at variance the harmony and consent of their wils to shake and as it were to breake the bond of nature and violently to pull out of so great a Princes brest the loue which she oweth to her Sonne to her King and to him that specially loueth her Miserable man if I must needes vse this tearme what is your pretence To ruinate his Maiesties affaires and to ouerthrow and subuert the publique peace of the Land It is the conceit of a franticke braine gouerned by the author of malice Doe you not think and perswade your selfe that reason once taking place but that the Queene will condemne your pernicious designes and the proceedings that you haue caused her to vse there is no doubt thereof your forces cannot altogether breake and dissipate the principall motions of her suggestions which are Nature and the feare of God able and sufficient to driue away the clouds and fictions wherewith you serue your turne The common people manifestly see it and curse you as often as they behold and looke into the euils which you bring vpon them They know that his Maiestie is a most Christian Prince that he loueth his Mother perfectly well and that he neuer gaue any iust cause to procure this euasion They are assured and otherwise comforted that this separation cannot continue long Their mutuall desire already is to see one another and to shew the effects of their reciprocall loues Expect not then to fortifie the weakenesse of your cause by the detention of the Queenes person you shall neuer haue the consent of her heart and will to the ruine of the State and her owne glory But this is not all I must begin againe and leade you to the execution of that which this burning feuer enduceth in your fantasie You haue disobayed allienated as you pretend the Queenes intents you must now blame the gouernement both within and without the Realme and in all places proclaime warre and the desolation of your Countrey wherein specially your designe cannot take effect Forraigne Princes honour too much desire the amity and alliance of our Monarch they haue seene miracles as it were in his actions and that in his young yeares with a manly and resolute generositie he hath danted the monsters of his Realme and by an admirable care and wisedome procured peace to those that had warre which is the cause that by a generall consent they giue him the glorious title of the Arbitrator of Christendome and his amity is so desirable and profitable that such as are admitted thereunto how farre distant soeuer they be sleepe and take their rests without any apprehension of trouble how then will they vnderstand your clamours vnlesse it be to blame and condemne them The peace that we enioy is an euident testimony of the piety iustice and prouidence of our King and therefore it is impossible that your inuentions should destroy the truth and that which we see with our owne eyes in such manner that if in long time there hath beene a happy raigne in France it is now at this present where all Orders and degrees are seene to flourish Vertue therein is commended and Pietie the true support of the State particularly adored where our King is as it were a perfect modell Ecclesiasticall persons are reuerenced and called to counsell in his Maiesties most important affaires they enioy and possesse their reuenewes without trouble the Nobility are loued and respected Iustice is indifferently and without feare executed the Commons are not oppressed nor charged with Subsidies or new impositions and all estates together haue nothing so much in recommendation nor so deare as this good King for whose health and prosperity they daily make their feruent prayers vnto God How then should they be moued to offence and that to accommodate your humours they should set fire on their houses and ruinate and spoile

one the other after that to expect nothing else but misery in this life and damnation in the life to come I know assuredly that you specially build your designes vpon the inconstancy of the popularity as if the consideration of your person or of any others were of more importance vnto them then the Kings and their owne preseruation Therein you are deceiued the loue and obedience that they beare and owe vnto him are by Gods owne finger ingrauen in their hearts with a caracter impossible to be defaced and your name is execrable as the sworne enemy of their good they openly report and say that it is impossible that he which is wicked cruell against his own children should euer be good to others that he which seeketh the ruine subuersion of his natiue Country vnworthy of humaine society that the poyson of your venemous heart hath long time appeared and that it ought and should be choaked in the birth that the spots and vncleanenesse of your soule and the counsels which your actions haue imposed vpon it makes you play the last act of your Tragedy To conclude and be short they are willing to contribute and giue fire and fagot to consume the author of so many mischiefes I disscribe all these circumstances vnto you without flattery to let you see the state wherevnto your affaires are reduced Tell me now who hath brought you to these extreamities Is it the discontentment of the Queene she had no other but that onely which you haue procured and say that she had doth it belong to you to intermeddle with the difference that is between Princes It is not like that of yours The Sonne and the Mother would soone haue agreed together and good endeauour would haue reduced all things to their true ends Therein you are two-fold culpable one by shewing your euill will the other by seeking to set diuision betweene the Sonne and the Mother the Subiect and the King and a loue which could not be broken but by the impiteous windes of your sinister counsels It may be ye will alleadge that you are none of his Maiesties priuie-Counsellours and your honour is such that you would know all that you may enterprise much let vs reason boldly The counsell which the King now hath is the same that his Father had who by his valorous actions and wise conduction was called the wonder of Kings That great King made profit of mens actions and perfectly vnderstood the mindes of his subiects and yet he neuer-made you priuie to the counsell of his most important affaires He was content to doe you good and to continue you in the Offices that you enioyed must you then complaine that the King his sonne and successour in his vertues followeth the same course and counsell by the ayde and dexterity whereof he had giuen vs a generall peace and almost a golden world Beleeue mee rather praise and commend that good King who in a manner had buried in obliuion the memorie of that which you know and which I dare not touch fearing to offend his indulgence I leaue it to the registers of the Court of Parliament Is it possible that you should be discontented that his Maiesty affecteth and doth good to some one of his Seruitors more then to you I thinke you are not at that point for what other should that then be but to shew your selfe vnthankefull for and to condemne that which Henry the third did for you He loued you most particularly and gaue you all that you enioy besides 8000. Franks yearely reuenews This your great fortune was much enuyed and many men spake thereof to your preiudice which reason denyed I remember that some in respect of you said that men in Kings hands are like vnto Counters which they make to value as much as they thinke good And that there was neuer any Monarch but that shewed some proofes of particular affections which in truth are Royall actions worthy of commendation And it is no small good to a great Prince to make a good choyse of and to haue faithfull seruitors about him with securitie and familiarity to whom hee may discouer and disclose his heart and thoughts Euery one of vs see it by experience and finde nothing more pleasing and acceptable then to impart and vnfold our affaires vnto and with those whose affections and amities are well knowne vnto vs. Our King loueth with great iudgement hee knoweth and will acknowledge the merit and fidelitie wherewith he hath bin serued I meane the more he specially whom he loueth hath amiable quallities and worthy the estimation of a King I will not particularize them nor proceed further in this subiect only I will say that we must hold all that for Law which pleaseth the Prince and that for their sake we must loue those whom they loue much lesse ought wee to enuye and hate them It should in truth be a most hard thing and without all likelihood or apparance of reason for Subiects to impose lawes to their soueraignes and to master their pleasures and affections they themselues being free in their owne particular houses to loue and to doe good to those to whom they will and I say further that the fauour and fortune whereof wee speake altereth not that which is due vnto Princes neither yet abateth any thing of the aduantage and estimation of the Nobilitie nor vseth any violence or euill entertainement towards others whereby we may truly say that no man can nor may dislike or contradict it but onely of meere enuy the sworne enimy of all good actions and of the aduancement and greatnesse of vertuous men This is the Table or Portraiture which I thought good to set before your eyes without dissimulation to let you see the greatnesse of your faults and the extreamity whereinto you are falne It may be you will be grieued that I display them so openly I protest that I haue not set them all downe and that without doing wrong to you and to mine owne intent I could not say lesse My purpose is herein to set downe sufficient to perswade you to the truth and to search the wound to the bottome to the end that hauing any feeling you your selfe may seeke how to heale it you should doe it while time serueth This is the aduice which I will giue you A Lampe goeth out if you put too much moysture vnto it acknowledge that your too great estate hath reduced you to this point of great losse and not yours onely but your childrens whom you cruelly drew into your rebellions Kings haue Iron armes for Gods sake stay not till our King lifts vp his you will surely be broken in pieces with the blow preuent it by humility certainely his Matesty is iust and benigne hee punisheth and exterminateth obstinate Rebells but he pardoneth those that aske mercy and forgiuenesse It is the onely hauen wherein you shall finde hope of reliefe refer your selfe with a good heart freely vnto his bounty and you shall not be deceiued in your expectation Suffer the Queene to be at libertie to revnite and ioyne her affections with her Sonnes let your children be suerties and pledges of your libertie let them fall downe at his Maiesties feete to protest and warrant your amendment and your most humble submissions to full fill all obedience in time to come Discharge your Souldiers and let euery place sound the praise of so compleat a Prince and your resolution to die in his seruice I am without doubt perswaded that this proceeding will be acceptable vnto him and that following the example of Henry the great his father he will imbrace and preserue you What glory my Lord will it be vnto you to haue appeased the wrath of so puissant a Prince To haue of your selfe reobtained his fauour To haue pacified the tumult which you had raised in his Realme To haue procured peace to your owne soule and rest vnto your latest daies and to haue reestablished the state and fortunes of your Children I beseech God gine you grace earnestly to thinke vpon these things and to put them in effect I desire and wish it more then any other that I may see you restored and haue the meanes hereafter to say as I haue hether done that I rest Your most humble and most affectioned seruant L S. D. From Paris the 28. of March 1619. Stilo nouo