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authority_n	call_v	king_n	time_n	2,545	5	3.5489	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08070	Nevves of the Netherlands Relating the whole state of those countries at this present.; Description of the prosperitie, strength, and wise government of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.		1615 (1615)	STC 18437.5; ESTC S113184	16,068	30

NEVVES OF THE NETHERLANDS RELATING THE WHOLE STATE OF THOSE Countries at this present PARNASSO ET APOLLINE DIGNA AT LONDON Imprinted by FELIX KYNGSTON for Edward Marchant 1615. A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROSPERITY STRENGTH AND WISE GOuernment of the vnited Prouinces of the Netherlands See how by wisedome Hollands house doth flourish And trust not Leopards craft that warre doth nourish A Friend to his natiue Countrey GOd saue you Batauian gentlewoman I am very glad to see you thus triumphantly set in your throne of freedome it seemes the world goes better with you now then it did in times past The Batauian gentlewoman In deede my good friend it is true that it is otherwise with me now then it was heretofore for now God bethanked I am in my first and pristinate state Friend Is it better with you now gentlewoman then it was and are you as you said in your former ancient state and how vnderstand you that I pray you tell me Batauia My good friend marke the particulars as I shall set them downe plainely vnto you and you shall easily vnderstand it I was long since in former time a free State but after that I fell into great slauerie and bondage and now at this present I am restored againe to my former liberty and free state For when my first founders came hither into this free countrey which as that time belonged not vnto any man in perticular but onely vnto those that first tooke possession thereof and inhabited the same according to the Law of nature in this free place they built me this house which was called the Batauian gouernment and at this time the Holland Common-wealth wherin I placed my seat or Throne called freedome or liberty Friend Had you at the first no soueraigne Gouernour that had the chiefe command ouer your house and houshold Batauia The gouernment of my house was committed vnto two States chosen and appointed out of mine owne people and inhabitants that is the noblest and honourablest men amongst them and the best and greatest Citizens and inhabitants of the same These were the principall Commanders of my house and houshold who for the better gouernment thereof made certaine customes and lawes for the strengthening of peace therein and had a great care ouer the same for the preseruation of the Common-wealth And in processe of time there was a principall person as a King chosen out of those two States who as the chiefest officer or high Steward had the principall command ouer it and the common-wealth Friend Then your forefathers in time past were gouerned after a princely manner by a chiefe Commander Batauia Yea Kings by name as Veromerus who was called the first Batauian King who notwithstanding was but the chiefe man amongst the principall persons of the Land and had the first command and chiefe authoritie thereof So were all the rest that succeeded him Kings ouer my Batauian Land but had more authority to giue their counsell and aduice for the gouernment thereof then power to command and rule ouer it For the other Rulers and States that were chosen out of the Nobilitie and Commons had as much power or superintendance ouer the King as the King had ouer them who with him together ruled the Land But the King had an vpper command or highest power permitted him but not by authority or power of or in himselfe onely in regard and respect of his princely name he was obeyed and his authority allowed with great reuerence and respect and yet he himselfe neuerthelesse subiect to the Lawes of the Land as is ordinary in electiue not hereditarie Kings Friend Hereby I perceiue that your house called the Batauian Gouernment from the very first originall thereof was a free Common-wealth and your commonaltie free people Batauia We were neuer subiect vnto any forraine Nations but onely to our elected Gouernour and States together with the lawfull and probable Lawes made for the good gouernment thereof whereunto euery man willingly submitted himselfe In this state we continued long time before the Romane Monarchie and were vnited vnto the same and by her liued in peace although the Romans had the sole command and gouernment of the greatest part of the world and yet they were content to account of my forefathers as their vnited friends acknowledging my house to be a free State and calling my houshold seruants the Batauian commonaltie and when they had any warres and were aided by vs therein they called vs their fellowes and companions as Iulius Caesar did and which is more esteemed vs as their brethren friends and vnited neighbours in regard of the great aide and strength they found at our hands to helpe them in their need against their enemies Friend Then the Romans had no imperiall command ouer the Batauian Countrey when they were Monarches of the world Batauia No. For my forefathers of Baetauia according to their ancient Lawes were still gouerned by their owne people which continued aboue an hundred yeeres during the Romane Monarchie vntill such time as their friendship turned into deceit and extreame oppression seeking to rob and spoyle mee and my Land with pretence to turne my freedome into slauery and bondage contemning our vnity and wholly forgetting the forepassed friendship and aide by vs formerly shewed and done vnto them For which cause my forefathers tooke armes in hand and began a lawfull warre for the defence and safegard of mine honour and freedome whereby the name of the Romans in short time was wholy driuen away cleane rooted out wherein personally they neuer had any absolute authority nor gouernment For the which my Batauian people were so much honoured and esteemed of that as then they were called and held to be the authors of the freedome and liberty of our neighbours and other Princes who likewise were vnder the subiection of the Romans but I obtained my freedome againe and after that continued long in my free state and was gouerned by my two states of the Land vntill the sauage Normans came and inuaded vs. Friend Was it then at that time that you began to be gouerned by Earles Batauia I but not as Soueraigne Gouernours but onely chosen as chiefe Commanders to serue in stead of Iudges wee subiecting our selues willingly vnder their command esteeming and holding them worthie to be our Protectors and to haue the superintendance ouer our Batauian gouernment but had no power by authority to alter the Lawes and customes nor to raise tolles nor impositions without the consent and good will of the two States but were bound by oath to defend and maintaine the Lawes and priuiledges of the Land and to subiect themselues thereunto Friend Whereby it appeareth that neuer any Prince nor Earle had Soueraignty or chiefe power alone ouer you and your house Batauia No for in the time of the Earles there haue been some of them that by their bad gouernment and life became oppressors of the Lawes and customes of the Land and for that