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A26186	The lives of all the princes of Orange, from William the Great, founder of the Common-wealth of the United Provinces written in French by the Baron Maurier, in the year 1682, and published at Paris, by order of the French King ; to which is added the life of His present Majesty King William the Third, from his birth to his landing in England, by Mr. Thomas Brown ; together with all the princes heads taken from original draughts.; Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Hollande et des autres Provinces-Unies. English	Aubery du Maurier, Louis, 1609-1687.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.	1693 (1693)	Wing A4184; ESTC R22622	169,982	381

Council of Troubles and by his Enemies The Council of Blood By the Establishment of this Council which was a supream Court of Judicature the Duke of Alva deprived all the other Councils of the Netherlands of their Power and Jurisdiction For all men without Exception were denied the Liberty of appealing even the Knights of the Golden Fleece who by the Statutes of their Order were to be tryed by their Peers alone in the Presence of the King Which was contrary to all Privileges The Judges of the Country were forbid to take cognizance of the last Troubles and all the Councils of the Provinces were to Answer before this Tribunal A rich Burgher was condemned to Death his hands being tyed behind his Back being bound to the Tail of a Horse and mercilesly dragged to the place of Execution The First and second Days of Iune Eighteen Lords and Gentlemen were barbarously executed at Brussels among the rest the two Barons of Battembourg Brothers Iohn de Montigny Lord of Villiers and the Lord de Huy a Bastard of the Counts of Namur Drums beating all the time of their Execution that their dying Speeches might not be heard nor the People stirred up to Compassion by hearing them complain of the Injustice which had been done to them The Fifth of Iune following were publickly executed at Brussels Count Egmont and Count Horn several Regiments of Native Spaniards being drawn up in the great Square to guard the Execution I may say that the Death of these two Lords cost the Spanish King the Low Countries so universally were they loved and esteemed The First won the Battle of St. Quintins and Gravelins The French Resident at Brussels writ to Court that he had seen that Head cut off which had twice made France tremble Cardinal Granville never feared any of the great Lords of the Netherlands but the Prince of Orange for the rest were not capable of forming or maintaining a Party and when the News was brought to Rome in general that the Duke of Alva had seized on all the great Lords of the Low Countries he asked whether Silence was taken meaning the Prince of Orange and when they told him No he replyed The Duke had done nothing The Prince of Orange who had put himself into a place of Security was Summoned to appear before the supream Council who condemned him for not obeying For he appeal'd to the States of Brabant his natural Judges and the King himself because he was Knight of the Golden Fleece and consequently could not be tryed by subdeligate and suspected Judges and his professed Enemies but by the King himself assisted by his Peers the Knights Which he represented at large in publick Manifesto's to the Emperour Maximilian and the German Princes who approved his Reasons and condemned the violence of the Council of Spain which went so far as to seize on his eldest Son William Count de Buren who was arrested in the College of Louvain at the Age of thirteen contrary to the privileges of the University and the Country of Brabant and afterwards carried Prisoner into Spain This hard usage made the Prince resolve to pass the Rubicon and hazard all as Caesar did and endeavour to do himself Justice and have satisfaction for his Injuries by way of Arms. He raised an Army in Germany and sent it into Friezland under the Command of Count Lodowick his Brother who made a happy beginning of the Compaign by the entire defeat of Iohn de Ligny Count of Aremberg Governour of the Province a famous Captain who the year before was sent General of a considerable Army into France to the Assistance of Charles the Ninth against the Huguenots who had the boldness to besiege him in Paris after having missed of surprizing him at Meaux This Count of Aremberg died upon the place But 't is said he revenged his Death by that of Count Adolphus of Nassau Brother to William Prince of Orange and Count Lodowick who remained Master of the Field of Battle of the Baggage and Artillery of the Spanish Army But Count Lodowick did not long enjoy the pleasure of this Victory for the Duke of Alva fell upon him in the same Country with old Disciplin'd Troops at a time when the Germans instead of preparing for a vigorous defence against so powerful an Enemy mutinied and demanded their Pay and routed his Army the most part of which were drown'd in the River Ems which lay behind them Count Lodowick with great difficulty saved his Life which he had certainly lost if he had not met with a little Boat and crossed the River which is very wide as it falling into the Seas leaving all his Baggage and Artillery in the hands of the Spaniards The Prince of Orange a man of a steady and unshaken Courage in all his misfortunes without being startled at this Blow raises another Army of Twenty four thousand German Horse and Foot which he joyned with a Body of Four thousand French Commanded by Francis de Hangest Lord of Genlis Before he entred into the Netherlands he published a Manifesto in which he lays open the Reasons he had to take up Arms clears himself of the Crimes he was charged with excepts against the Bloody Council and the Duke of Alva who pretended to be his Judge He owns that he had quitted the Church of Rome for a Religion which he thought more agreeable to the Holy Scripture declares that he was forced to make War for the preservation of his Country and to free it from the Slavery the Spaniards were preparing for it as in Duty bound being one of the great Lords of the Netherlands He hopes that King Philip whose good Inclinations were obstructed by the ill Counsels of the Spaniards will one day better consider the Fidelity of the Provinces and the Oath he publickly took of preserving their Privileges He says that the Laws of the Dutchy of Brabant dispense with the Subjects from paying that obedience to the Errors and Mistakes of their Princes which they only owe to their lawful Commands which ought to be conformable to the Customs of the Province He added that the Brabantines never suffered any Prince to take Possession of the Government before they had agreed with him That if the Prince breaks the Laws and the Constitutions of the Dutchy the Subjects shall be absolved from their Oath of Allegiance till their Injuries are redressed After this the Prince having passed the Rhine crossed the Meuse happily between Ruremonde and Mastreicht though the Duke of Alva was on the other side of the River to dispute the passage with him He passed his Foot over at a Ford whilst the Horse who stood above broke the force of the River in the same manner as Caesar passed the River Segre near Lerida in Catalonia The Duke of Alva would not believe the Count of Barlaymont who brought him the first News of it but asked him whether the Prince of Orange's Army were Birds Thus the Prince of