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A08075	Newes from the low-countreyes. Or The anatomy of Caluinisticall calumnyes, manifested in a dialogue betweene a Brabander, and a Hollander Vpon occasion of a placcart, lately published in Holla[n]d, against the Iesuites, priests, friars &c. by those that there assume vnto themselues, the tytle of the high-mighty-lords, the States &c. Translated out of the Netherland language, into English. By D.N.; Anatomie van Calviniste calumnien. English.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.; D. N., fl. 1622.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 18443; ESTC S120471	29,088	102

to Frankford where by the leaue of God we meane to go we should happen to be set vpon by theeues who with their swords should hurt wound vs and take our money goods from vs I demaund of you whether they ought lawfully to possesse it as their owne because they got it by their swords The Hollander I am not obliged to shape you an answere to euery tryfling question you may aske me The Brabander And I am of opinion that no man is obliged to answere vnto any questiō whereunto he is not able to answere But yet I know that if such robbers by the high-way-side should fall into the handes of Iustice they should not be freed frō the hands of the hangman by excusing thēselues that our money goods belonged vnto them because they had gotten it from vs with their swordes The Hollander Let it be as be it may Our high mightfull Lords and States Generall of the Vnited Netherlands haue power and authority and because at the beginning of our discourse you asked me for Newes know now that these our Lords and States haue lately published a Placcart wherein in spite of all that are agaynst it they haue shewed that they haue authority This Placcart conteyneth a prohibition that no Iesuytes Priests Friars or other ordayned persons of Romish profession shall come into these vnited Prouinces or being there may still remayne and continue Moreouer that no man shall send any children to schoole or to remayne in any Cittyes Places Vniuersityes or Schooles vnder the commaund of the King of Spayne in the enemies Countreys or in other Colledges of Iesuites And that no gatherings or collectiōs of money gold siluer coyned or vncoyned or of other goods or wares shal be made to or for the benefit or behoofe of any Churches Hospitalls Spirituall or other Colledges or Conuenticles The Brabander In this tytle of a Placcart published by authority of such as haue not any authority all I note three points 1. The first is the prohibition or forbidding of Priestes and Iesuytes the Countrey 2. The second is that no children may goe to Schoole in any place vnder the commaund of the King of Spayne or in Colledges of Iesuytes 3. The third is that no money may be giuen to the vse or benefit of any Churches Hospitals Spiritual or other Colledges The Hollander So it is and so enacted and established in the assembly of the aforenamed High-mighty Lords the States generall in the Earles-Hage the six and twentith day of February in the yeare of sixteen hundreth two and twenty and there printed by Hillebrand Iabobson sworne printer vnto the High-mighty Lords the States generall The Brabander Heerby I am brought to vnderstand that this Placcart of the High-minded Lords the States is printed in the Earles-Hage Ergo There is an Earle to whome this Hage appertayneth this Earle notwithstanding that he is lawfully issued and descended and consequently the true heyre vnto those ancient Earles that haue gouerned there yet is he of new States which are no Earles wholy thurst out who haue now made thereof a States-Hage but must neuerthelesse suffer it to continue the name of an Earles-Hage in memory of the true claime which the Earle owner thereof hath vnto it Heere then is this Placcart printed by Hillebrand Iacobson sworne Printer vnto the High-minded Lords the states wherby may be noted that this sworne Printer vnto those States is not to leaue out any lye that they shall please to giue him in any Placcart of theirs to print for feare of being found periured The Hollander The Lords the States do giue him no lyes to print The Brabander Doe they punish him when lyes are found printed in their Placcarts The Hollander He is not punished because no such lyes are found The Brabander They that know not a lye from a truth or will not know it fynd it not but they that can discerne vntruthes from truthes can find them out albeit they stand in established Proclamatiōs of highly named Netherland States And surely this must needes proue a more lucky Placcart then many forgoing haue proued if no lyes were to be found in it and especially where there is mention made of Iesuytes and Ecclesiasticall persons The Hollander Indeed the Iesuytes in this Placcart are called a pernicious murtherous sect that they of this sect other priests Friars and spiritual or religious named persons of the Romish Religion doe endeauour to bring the good inhabitants of these vnited Netherland Prouinces by meanes of their fals doctrine Idolatry to an auersion from their lawfull Superiours to the murthering of Princes and Potentates to instruct them in all kyndes of treason agaynst them thereby to preferre the Tyranny and absolute Domination of the King of Spayne and his adherents in worldly and of the Pope of Rome and his dependants in spirituall causes The Brabander Haue I not ghessed right I see now that this Placcart will not for lacke of lyes make any fore-going Placcart ashamed for heere they fall so fast one vpon another that I had need of some breathing tyme to note them The Iesuytes are heere named a pernicious and murtherous sect which is a shamefull lye That the Iesuytes other Priests and spirituall named Persons of the Romish religion doe seeke to bring the inhabitants through their false doctrine to Idolatry is a blasphemous lye That they seeke to bring these inhabitātes to an auersion from their lawfull superiours is a needlesse lye for the Caluinian Preachers and the States themselues haue already done the same That they seeke to bring them to the murthering of Princes and Potentates is a Diuelish lye That they instruct them to all kind of treason agaynst Princes and Potentates is a horrible lye That they seeke in these Countreys to preferre the Tyranny of Spayn is a villanous lye The Hollander It is not inough to say that these are all lyes but they must be prooued so to be The Brabander How els Haue you but the patience that I may haue tyme to doe it Seeing then that the Iesuytes are heere put in the first place and called by the Epithere of a pernicious murtherous sect and that they and other spirituall persons do seeke to procure the murthering of Princes and Potentates this also being a common slaunder and Calumny which dayly rydeth on the serpētine tonges of your Holland Caluinian Ministers It is then needfull to examine and call into consideration what murthers of Princes and Potentates haue hapned in Christendome in this age of ours and since the tyme that the order of the Iesuits by Saint Ignatius de Loyola was founded The number of Princes and Potentates that haue come to such violent and vnfortunate endes I fynd to haue byn eight The first of these was the most Reuerend and Illustrious Lord Melchior Zobel Bishop of Herbipolis and Duke of Franconia in Germany This Prince was cruelly murthered as he was

NEWES FROM THE LOW-COVNTREYES OR THE Anatomy of Caluinisticall Calumnyes manifested In a Dialogue betweene a Brabander and a Hollander Vpon occasion of a Placcart lately published in Hollād against the Iesuites Priests Friars c. by those that there assume vnto themselues the Tytle of The High-Mighty-Lords the States c. Translated out of the Netherland Language into English By D. N. M.DC.XXII THE TRANSLATOVR TO HIS FRIEND SYR you shall please to vnderstand that this present yeare of our Lord 1622. came forth a Placcart in Holland there published by the authority of the States wherin the Iesuytes are accused of no lesse cryme thē to be the murtherers of Princes Against which placart came foorth soone after an answere made dialogue-wise vnder the title of The Anatomy of Caluinisticall Calumnies And seeing this accusation of the Iesuytes to be the murtherers of Princes is made by such as are knowne to be no friendes to Princes I was desyrous to see what could be sayd agaynst it And finding this answere to conteyne very serious matter and so many proofes for the manifesting of this accusation to be but a meere Calumny I considered with myselfe that euery man in reason and charity is obliged to preferre truth to excuse the falsly-accused Heerupon I resolued to enforce so much tyme out of my other affaires as to translate it into English and chiefly for your sake because I know you to be a man curious and desirous to penetrate into the truth of thinges and not cōtented to be carryed away with vulgar noyses wherwith Idiots are soone satisfyed This when you shal h●ue read it I leaue vnto your owne iudgement to censure my selfe still to remayne at your comaund From the Low-Countreyes the last of Iuly 1622. Your euer louing friend D. N. THE WRYTER OF THIS DIALOGVE IN THE NETHERLAND LANGVAGE VNTO his friend MY Very especiall friend I could not leaue to let you vnderstand that being aryued heere in Cullen this present moneth of Aprill about my affayres certayne merchants came to lodge in the same Inne where I am loged that also intend to take their iourney to Franckford Mart among these a Merchant of Brabant and a Merchant of Holland hauing one night supped togeather at the table wherat myselfe among others was present they chanced after supper to fall into discourse which seeming vnto me to be worth the wryting I haue taken paynes to pen it and heere I now send it you supposing you may be asmuch pleased with reading it as my selfe others were with hearing it when we willingly sate vp late in the night to that end It was then occasioned by this meanes Whē according as the custome is when men from different places happen to meete togeather we began to aske one another what newes there was stirring abroad The Brabander demaunded of the Hollander what newes there was in Holland The Hollander as som-what dissembling sayd he knew of no newes there Heerupon sayd the Brabander When a reformed Brother comming out of Holland knowes no newes it is a signe that the brethren there haue no newes to their liking The Hollander It is your pleasure so to say but when there is no newes then can none be told The Brabander Then must I tell you what newes I heare out of Holland It is told me that your Holland-States of what trades soeuer they haue byn heertofore they doe now all of them practise Pressing-worke The Hollander What meane you by that I vnderstand not what you say The Brabander Then are you more fortunate then many thousandes that both know it well and feele it well by reason that their very harts are in effect pressed out of their bodies through the intollerable and vnsupportable taxations which are layd vpon them in so much that many do now begin to say God be with the good Duke of Alua that demaunded no more but the tenth penny of our goods And that which is yet more grieuous is that of these most grieuous exactions no end appeareth but to the cōtrary they do dayly increase more as though they were but in their beginnings which falleth out in a fit tyme for the comon people when things are so good cheap especially food fuell that the price is double as much as but a whyle since it was and where traficke so flourisheth that merchants marryners and artifices are forced to keep more holy-dayes or rather play-dayes then are set downe in the Almanacke The Hollander Concerning Trade it may be compared vnto the tyde which ebbes and flowes If it be not so good now as it hath byn we must haue patience vntill it mend And as for the exactions they are not ordayned without reason by our High-mighty Lords the States who well know what they haue to doe The Brabander They know it well and the poore comons feele it well you comfort your selues with patience vpon hope of amendment of traficke but the patience is much more certayne then the amendment I agree with you in opinion that the exactions are not ordayned without reason for lawlesse necessity is the reason and need it is that enforceth them And therfore your high-minded Lords the States that well know their heauy charge their great debts and their small in-comings must consequently well know what they doe happy it were that they also well know wherin they do not well The Hollander I note your words very well you call our High-mighty Lords the States The High-mynded Lords the States you ought not so to abuse mis-name our Lords and Land-rulers The Brabander I see not wherein I abuse or misname them because in very right and reason the tytle of High-mynded farre better befitteth them then High-mighty for Lownesse they haue inough but Highnesse none at all except in their myndes which agrees but ill with such as liue so low that they should sit vnder water if they did not hemme thēselues from it with walles of earth Being then such as they are and dwelling so low as they doe the High-nesse of their minds appeareth the more in that they will needes assume vnto themselues the tytle of High-mighty or High-powerfull Lords and States The Hollander They assume vnto themselues this tytle in regard of their authority The Brabander Whence haue they authority The Hollander From God The Brabander Haue they heeretofore byn Princes or subiects The Hollander Our Countrey was sometime belonging vnto the King of Spayne but so is not now The Brabander God hath comaunded that subiects must be obedient vnto their Kings and Princes Shew me where God hath graunted a priuilege vnto the States of Holland to relinquish and reiect all obedience vnto their lawfull and soueraigne Lord the King of Spayne and to band agaynst him in publike rebellion and to assume vnto themselues the Princely authority belōging vnto him The Hollander We haue obtained our freedome by the sword The Brabander Put the case that now in our intēded iorney

day that this Father was deliuered into the handes of the English Ambassadour at Duyseldorp the sayd Palsgraue dyed at Heydelberge so came to tast of death himselfe sooner then the Father which he intended to send to the slaughter The Father was carryed into England where after he had remayned prisoner many yeares in the Tower of London and not the least point in the world could be proued against him cōcerning the aforesayd Treason notwithstanding that in some printed bookes it was published that he was culpable he was at last deliuered out of prison and dismissed the Realme Concerning one Peter Pan sayd to be sent by the Iesuytes of Ipres in Flanders to kill Prince Maurice in Holland the matter hath byn throughly examined and the Calumny raysed agaynst those Fathers sufficiently refuted in a Printed booke wherein is also set downe an attestation of the Magistrates of Ipres of whence this Peter Pan was wherin this accusatiō is shewed to be false Peter Pan was knowne to be a fellow that was frantike but the madnes of his braynes could not free him out of the handes of the Holland-hangman for the Iustice of Holland found it wisdome to put this poore foole to death I trust I haue heere cleerly declared how the Iesuites haue by their Caluinian enemyes byn most falsly calumniated and albeit that themselues do in such cases recomend their cause to God disposing themselues to beare with patience all iniuryes for the loue of CHRIST IESVS notwithstanding they well know how false they are yet my selfe euen of zeale vnto truth and equity could not omit to vtter thus much vpon the occasion now giuen The custome of giuing out that Iesuites and Priests do intend to murther Princes was first takē vp in England put in practise by some of Queene Elizabeths Caluinian Counsellers who to haue the better colour to persecute Catholikes whome they feared might encrease to fast as also to make them the lesse compassionate of the people did seeke to make them odious by ordinarily giuing out that they went about to kill the Queen But that the sayd Queen and her Counsellers themselues did not belieue this reason maketh manifest for whē is it found that a Prince or Ruler fearing that for some certaine notorious cause he is in dāger to be killed by any of his subiects will notwithstāding continue the same cause yea and daily more more increase it as this Queen did her persecution how can this agree with reason of State for through continuance and increase of persecution those that are persecuted doe comonly also increase and it might fall out that among the number of the persecuted for all do not alwayes endure with like patience some might be found that being driuen to desperate termes might attempt some such thing for as the Philosopher sayth the fly hath her splene but the patient suffering for religion is especially taught and recomended by Catholike teachers and the contrary by others of contrary Religions and especially Caluinists of whose hoat and reuengefull spirits the world hath already had testimony inough Father William Criton the Scottish Iesuyte before named being before some of Queene Elizabeths Counsell a little before his departure out of the Countrey sayd vpon occasion concerning this matter My Lords you vse heere a manner of giuing out among your subiects that Iesuites and Priestes do go about to kill your Queene but in very truth if we intended any such thing she could not liue for you must vnderstand that there are a multitude of people of the Catholike religion that haue wholy abandoned the world and haue chosen to liue in all strictnes and austerity sequestring themselues from all worldly pleasures desiring and indeauouring nothing more then to leaue this world and to liue with God in his Kingdome of heauen Among these men that so little respect the world diuers may be found who beeing perswaded that it were so meritorious a deed before God that he who should deliuer the world from an enemy and persecutor of the Catholike religion and therfore loose his life should straightwayes enter into the eternall ioyes of heauen without all doubt this matter would not be left vnattempted The counsellers hearing this had little to say to the contrary The Hollander To say the truth I must needs confesse I haue heere heard much more thē I supposed could be sayd I do now well perceaue a man can neuer come to the true vnderstanding of what standeth in controuersy before he haue heard both partyes The Brabander I haue first recounted what Princes and Potentates haue byn murthered or made away in our dayes and after that I haue spoken of intentions or meanings to make away Princes It resteth that I now speake of the intentions of Gewses or Caluinian reformed Brethren about the murthering or making away of Princes those innocēt wolues I meane that haue had their handes in the bloud of fiue of the eight Princes before named to the end we may also see how pure and vnspotted they are in their good meanings intentiōs to haue put that busines in further practise First then it is a thing cleere notorious that the Hugnenots of France had a resolued purpose to haue murthered the most Christian King Francis the second with his mother and sundry of the nobility in the Citty of Amboise It is also most certayne that a Zeland Gewse or Caluinist meant to haue blown vp William of Nassaw Prince of Orange with some of the Holland and Zeland States with gun-powder in the Towne-house of Flushing if it had not byn discouered by him that assisted him to conuey the powder into the seller or vault of the sayd Towne-house And had this succeeded according to the purpose of the authour thereof Baltazar Gerard that afterward killed the sayd Prince of Orange had saued his life and his labour and the Gewses reformed Brethren had had the honour of murthering six of the eight Princes before named When I consider this Prince and these intentions of his death me thinkes it must needes be a great signe that he was not in the fauour of God since as well Caluinists as Catholikes went about to kill him Heerto may also be added the Earle of Gowry in Scotland a Caluinist also The history is publike in print how he meant to haue killed the King wherof yearly memory both in Scotland England is continued on the fifth day of August for his Maiesties deliuery The Hollander You make me almost ashamed of my selfe to consider that our people in Holland do make such exclamations agaynst Iesuytes and Priestes and are shewed to be in those foule facts faulty themselues and the Iesuyts and Priests whome they accuse not faulty at all The Brabander I am well content thinke my labour well bestowed when I fynd my selfe to haue to doe with such as wil affoard place vnto truth and reason before passion and partiality But heere are you also to vnderstand