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A05067	A treatise against the proclamation published by the King of Spayne, by which he proscribed the late Prince of Orange wherby shall appeare the sclaunders and falce accusations conteyned in the sayd proscription, which is annexed to the ende of this treatise. Presented to My Lords the Estates generall in the Low Countries. Together with the sayd proclamation or proscription. Printed in French and all other languages.; Apologia. English	Loyseleur, Pierre, ca. 1530-1590.; Languet, Hubert, 1518-1581.; William I, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584.	1584 (1584)	STC 15208; ESTC S106849	105,192	136

these fauourers of the Spaniardes And why shall he come to vpbraide me with the Pacification of Gaunt which yet hath caused this to be declared vnto vs by the Lorde of Selles that he would not keepe it Shall he to my hurt enioye a priuiledge which he him self renounceth and forsaketh And when we haue saide all it is not with him that I and the Estates of Hollande and Zealande haue contracted and accorded but it is with you my Lordes Now if after so many breaches of the Pacification and that in such sundrie sortes if after that contrarie to the saide Pacificatiō they haue destroyed the Townes where they could exercise their tyrānous gouernement and the best Burgesses and Citezens therein alleadging against them false and wicked thinges If then I saye after these thinges you my Lordes haue iudged that for your owne suretie you ought to inlarge some of the articles yea and if neede were that you were minded altogether to breake cut in sunder and reuoke them who is he that could accuse you therefore If yee haue vsed that which was your owne as you your selues thought it conuenient for your owne profit vnlesse it be he which would vse his owne othe as a nett and snare to catche you in For as concerning that whiche they say that the chaunge hath bin on my behalfe though that were true yet so it is that I am no more bounde in respect of the contractours with me seeing that they haue so manie wayes violated and broken the contracte it selfe and seeing that on your part it was thought conueuient that the chaunge should be made you haue as much authoritie and power to dispose thereof as a Lord hath right in his own inheritaunce for the Pacification was yours which also you might vse at your own pleasure and discretion But I haue so often times both by worde and writing declared nothing to be broken on our partes that I shall not neede to bestowe anie more time to sett out the same vnto you Onely I will confesse this that they of Hollande and Zealande were in deede forbidden to innouate or chaunge anie thing in that countrey but that the other Estates might not in their Prouinces by some lawefull condition Nothing vvas attēpted by the L. Prince the Estates general and those of the Religion against the pacification of Gaunt prouide for their safetie it will neuer be founde that there was as yet anie such obligation or bonde whiche thing may be manifestlie seene and knowne by the reading of the eleuenth and the twelueth Article And in deede vpon the making of the saide Pacification as one of those which were Deputies on our side did declare vnto some one of the principall persons of the other side that some such matter might fall out and that therfore it was better to accorde some libertie for the poore subiectes of the Prouinces whose causes they handeled and for whom they were to make agreement so some other aunswered him againe that he needed not take care for such matters and that those of Brabant Flaunders and the other Countreis would not at any time demaunde a chaunge in the matter of Religion Nowe if they haue bin deceaued what cause is there for them so furiouslie to direct thē selues against me I giue them also the same aunswere in respecte of the chaunge which fell out in certaine Townes of my gouernemēt for I can in deed assure mē before God that I haue not giuen any aduise or consent thereto and that many things fel out ther as also in Flaūders which pleased me no whit at all and I do defende it against thē that if there haue bin some souldiarlike insolencie violēce that that was nothing but sweete smelling roses in respect of the intollerable excesses which thei haue cōmitted and also at the least that we haue not had on our parte any infidelitie or treason or intelligence with the Spaniardes as our enimies on their parte haue had For haue not they against their faith promise with an armed power begunne a warre and assaulted their confederates when we were within twoo dayes readie to giue battaile to our enemies The beginning of the vvarr of the Malcōtents euen then vvhen they vvere readie vvithin 2. dayes to driue avvay Don Iohn Haue not they pursued the execution of their cōplott and conspiracie against their confederates and declared their defection and falling away at that time when the good towne of Maestricht was besieged Was there euer anie detestable and vile act in the worlde and is it not this Euen then when you your selues looked for the forces and powers of your confederates to succour a good Towne besieged with which they were entred into a sworne league and of which they could not in any sorte eyther wrongfully or rightly complaine Euen then I say they did not onely destitute and forsake you but also made warre vpon you and that as whotly and as fiercely as they coulde The stories report that Suffetius was drawen in peeces with foure horses because he stirred not but only looked on when Tullus Hostilius his confederate fought the fielde then what Gibbettes and what punishmentes can a man deuise whiche might be sufficient to correct this vnfaithfulnesse and treason And whose treason Those my Lordes who before had laide their handes The continuance during the siedge of Maestricht vpon the Countie of Mansfelt Viglius Fonc Assonuille Berti and others of the Councell of Estate then whē I was not so straitely bounde vnto them as since I haue bin was not yet come into Brabant Those I say that by such laying handes vpon them had giuen all the world to vnderstand what iudgementes they had concerning the King his counsaile Leauing it to you my Lordes to iudge what great consideration there is in such people that whilest we make warre they can not foresee that they sharpen the swordes of those whom they had takē prisoners to take away their own heads They will say that I haue not shewed my selfe to be an enemie against them of our side who haue passed the boundes set thē Verely I haue not approued the excesse of any but doo they thinke that I am so vnwarie as that for to shewe them a pleasure I will open a gapp to the destruction of the Countrey and so make Escouedo a prophet Haue they euer heard that a wise father for the contentement of his enemie would seeke the ruyne of his children Nay rather this is his dutie to correct the faultes and in amending of them to labor the preseruation of his familie and housholde But Bours Montigni and others doo not they knowe the duties that I haue performed to establish euery thing in good order Haue they forgotten the Articles agreed vppon euen such as they them selues demaunded which since that time they haue brokē against their othe It is then rage follie ambition hatred against the religion desire to gouerne which

all that I feare him not as though he were able to reproche me with any faulte and thankes be to God I haue not done any thing but verie aduisedlie and that by the counsell of sundrie honourable wise and discreet persons Neither is it needfull that he should trauayle much in that matter wherein he hath no interest but to beholde and see and of which also I am not bounde to yeeld him any account or reason For as concerning my wife that dead is she was alied to Princes of verie great credit to wyse honourable Princes who I doubt not but that they are fullie satisfied in that behalf if I would enter further into that discourse I could easely make it to appeare vnto him that the most skilful of his doctors cōdemne the same As concerning the mariage by which I am alied at this presēt albeit that thei the sonne of the saide Countie Ottho maried the Ladie of Leck and of Breda from whom also I am in the right male line descended and that in the fifth degree May I therefore by any good right be called a straunger And that I may saye nothing at this present time of the goodes which I haue in Burgundie where I haue thankes be to God a verie good portion ●haie I iustly be counted a straunger And I leaue it to you my Lordes to iudge who knowe better our lawes than anie people of the worlde howe our Auncestors haue vsed it time out of minde and whether the Lordes of Rauestain or Luxenbourg and of Saint Paule of Neuers of Estampes and other Lordes holding Counties and Baronneis in this countrey were accounted for straungers and whether yet at this day you account not as naturalles of the countrey all those which possesse such Lordshippes so that they wil take part with these countreis and haue we not for that in deede an expresse lawe amongest vs as well in Brabant as in other places For as concerning the title of the Duke of Brabant Countie of Flaunders and others which he beareth and braggeth of albeit I confesse these dignities to be great yet not withstanding if he and his Spaniards knowe it not they must learne this that the Barons of Brabant with the good townes and cities of the Countrey haue in deede when the Dukes of Brabant haue so farre forgotten them selues that they haue passed the boundes of reason verie well taught them what was the power of the Barons and generally of the Estates of the countrie of Brabant Nowe it is manifest that I am descended from such Lordes as for sundrie ages together haue possessed the principal Baronneis and Lordshippes of Brabant Flaunders Hollande and Luxenbourg But I hope that my Lordes the Estates haue so well begunne to declare vnto him howe much he hath fayled in his dutie and also that the saide Lordes will hereafter take him forth so good a lesson that the poore people of Sicilia Calabria Lombardie Arragon and Castille will learne by our example that this tyraunt ought not to be suffered on the earth yea that the poore people of Granata them selues will knowe howe they ought to handle such a tyraunt who in the time of the warre with the Moores caused to be imprisoned about an hundred marchauntes inhabitauntes of Granata all of them being Christians of which the least was worth fiftie thousande Ducates and afterwardes by a hurlie burly amongst the people caused them to be slaine putting into his coffers all the goodes of those poore people And to be short my Lordes the Estates God ayding them wil teache them how such must be handled that will falsifie their othes made and giuen to so good a people at their ioyfull entraunce But my Lordes if I come to proceede further and should beginne largely to laye out before you the long time past in which my predecessours had not onely their beginning here but were also Lordes and possessed great goodes titles and dignities in these countries I might saie vnto you that at the time that his predecessours were Counties of Habsbourg remained in Switserlande myne were long time before Lordes of the Countrey of Gelderlande whereof yet at this present there are remaining the armes of our house of Nassau for the armes of the Duke of Gelderland and we haue not as it were passing by it kept the saide countrey in possession but after that my Lorde the Countie Ottho had maried the daughter and heire of the Voght or Regent of Gelderlande for so did men name at those dayes the Lordes of Gelderlande which continued from the yere 1039. vntill the yeere 1350. my predecessours were the Lordes Counties and Dukes of the Countrie of Ghelderlande The Counties of Nassau vvere the Coūties Dukes of Gelderland frō the yere 1039. to the yeere 1350. as yet euen to this day men maye beholde the monumentes and markes thereof And I assure my selfe that so farre of is it that he that calleth me a straunger can shewe such markes that he had his originall and beginning from these countreis that on the other side his rase in the saide time was altogether vnknowne in the said countrey And because that he imployeth him selfe to make a false foolishe and ridiculous declaration conteyning as he sayeth the progresse and proceedings of my enterprise because that many amongst you when these matters were begunne were not of competent age to vnderstande the same or els because you hauing not then intermedled in the publike affaires could not well see howe all thinges were directed and gouerned by the craft of the Cardinall and his fauourers and by the counsell comming out of Spaine The inhabitants of the lovve countreis coūted for the Spaniards subiectes and sclaues which alwayes ment to commaunde this countrey as it had done others Spaine it selfe being in their opinion the head of our Lordshippes and we their subiectes and sclaues I wil for these causes recite vnto you how al things haue bin gouerned by these goodlie heads and wise braines who suppose that the rest of the worlde are as beastes in respect of themselues vntill they had brought vs within two fingers breadth of our destruction and of a miserable bondage if God by his prouidence had not watched ouer vs and had not deliuered vs from their cruel counsels and bloodie handes Nota. And as I haue here neede I do once againe beseeche you my Lordes of your patience to continue well and quietly to heare me as you haue alreadie done I doubt not but that as many among you haue seene the whole or els some parte of my actes and behauiours or els haue vnderstoode it from their fathers and other good people whiche haue bin witnesses thereof so hauing hearde me ye wil as easelie iudge my wordes to be as true as those of mine enemie are false and shamelesse I will not my Lordes recite vnto you anie thing of that which I haue seene in the Emperours time not because I did not

haue saide heretofore but that the Emperour did greatlie honour me whilest he nourished me made me of his Chamber by the space of nine yeeres and afterwardes in my two first warres hauing appointed me giuen me charge ouer all his ordinaunce in these countreis And albeit that I was not then one and twentie yeeres olde yea though I were absent from the Court at my Lordship of Bueren notwithstanding the Duke of Sauoie attempting a voyage the Emperour him selfe chose me for generall of the armie albeit that the Lordes of the Coūsel My lord the princemade generall of the armie at the age of 21 yeeres yea the Queene hir selfe did present thereto sundrie other persons whose capacitie and vnderstanding was verie great as my Lordes the Counties of Boussu of Lalaing Martin van Rossem olde Knights and Souldiers and the Coūties of Arenbergh of Meghem and of Egmont who was twelue yeeres elder than I. All this notwithstanding albeit that no man named me as afterwardes they affirmed to the Emperour by reason of my youth yet so it was that it pleased the Emperour to chuse me for the reasons which then he declared which the Queene of Hungarie inforcing me to take the charge vpon me caused me afterwardes to vnderstande which also I like better for this present time to conceale than to declare least I might seeme ouermuch to prayse prise and esteeme my selfe I saye yet more that it pleased the Emperour my Lordes then to cause me to come from the campe when he declared vnto you the will and purpose that he had to put ouer his kingdomes into the handes of his sonne the King and it pleased him yet further so much to honor me that he would not perfourme this solempne act in my absence yea he presented him selfe amongest you in your assemblie leaning vpon me by reason of his infirmitie which thing sundrie at that time thought was a verie great honour vnto me But be it so that since that time the King had bestowed vpon me some honours yet I cannot see howe after anie sorte he can preuayle or get anie thing thereby seeing that contrarie to all right and reason yea contrarie to his owne othe he hath gone about to take them from me As concerning the order if the Emperour and the Colledge or companie of the Knightes thereof haue giuen me their voyce I am no more bounde to him therefore than to other Knightes seeing it was necessarie for him to allowe of that which the Colledge approued euen as he him selfe knoweth that we in the last assemblie of the order helde in these countreis did by pluralitie of voyces without his aduise and against his will chuse sundrie Knightes of the order and caused them so to be receaued and accepted But be it that I were indebted to him therefore yet so farre of is it that he may reproche or vpbraide me therewith that on the other side he him selfe is to be therefore greatly charged The priuiledges of the order He hath sworne and it is also contayned in the pointes that concerne the order that the Knightes of the order should be iudged by their brethren that is them of the same order Verely it was neuer in the power of Duke Philipp surnamed the Good to inforce my Lorde Iohn of Luxenbourg to forsake the othe which he had made to the King of Englande the said Lorde of Luxenbourgh committing the determination of the matter in controuersie betweene them to the Colledge companie of the Knightes of the orders But the brethren which the King hath appointed to my Lordes the Counties of Egmount and of Hornes to the Marques of Bergues of Montignie for their triall were porters petiefoggers and people of no account by which also he hath caused me to be cōdemned against all order and course of law euen as I haue heretofore protested and haue alleadged the insufficiencies thereof in the presence of all Europe In so much that hee him selfe hauing done against his owne othe and against the orders and articles of the Colledge or companie he is at no hande to be hearde in such reproches as these are wherein there are founde the ingraued markes of his owne othe being violated and brokē And beside if I ought to yeeld thanks to anie of the order for the gouernementes and other dignities that I haue it must be to the Emperour whose minde it was who had so decreed the same before he would depart out of this coūtrey hauing before known the duties that I had performed my faithfulnes namely in respect of my seruices yeelded in the gouernemēt guiding of his armie wherein I haue for witnes my Lord of Neuers and the late my Lorde of Chastillō Admiral of Fraūce who in deed made vs afterwards to know that he was our aduerse partie all which notwitstanding they gained nothing thankes be to God vpō me but I builded in despite of their beards the town Philippe Charlemōt albeit that the plague did very strōgly afflict our armie As concerning the gouernemēt of Burgūdie I can certainly assure al mē that I haue not receiued any thing The gouernement of Burgundie but that which my predecessours haue at all times mainteyned as appertayning vnto them by inheritaūce and in deede my Ladie Philibert of Luxenbourg my Lorde the Prince Philibert hir sonne being in Italie caused the Estates of Burgundie to assemble and meet in the Town of Nozeroy And because that some thought it not meete and couenient because my sayd towne was vpon one of the Frontiers of the Countie of Burgundie she aunswered that she ment to mainteine the possession of the Lordes of the house of Challon who were by inheritaunce Gouernours of the Countie of Burgundie But be it whatsoeuer it be the behauiours of the King towardes me do sufficiently declare that he can not obiect vnto me these honours which against all rules of honor he goeth about to take from me together with my life and goodes hauing by violence taken from me mine owne Sonne against all lawe either of God or man yea against the priuiledges of the countrie which he sware to obserue at his glad entraunce into it As concerning the chardge and office of Counsellour of Estate Counsellor of the estate I haue sufficiently inough declared in my defence made heretofore in the yeere sixtie seuen that the Cardinall and others practised this matter that I might be called thereto thinking thereby to cloake and couer them selues onely with my authoritie before the people and therefore I ought not to thinke my self bounde vnto them for this because that in doing this they sought not so much myne aduauntage as their owne profit But if they be deceaued of their hope they must attribute it either to their owne want of capacitie as not being able wisely inough to order and direct their enterprises or els which in deede is more true for they dyd not want witt