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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08477	Barneuels apology: or Holland mysterie· With marginall castigations.; Mysteria Hollandica. English	Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van, 1547-1619.; Holderus, Petrus.	1618 (1618)	STC 18800; ESTC S121064	70,746	62

treatie concerning Peace I declared so much to your Honours and Highnesses and proffered neuerthelesse to resigne my offices and liue a priuate life and therefore of set purpose I absented my selfe from the Assembly But (b) This was kindely done of them howsoeuer the feare of a greater inconuenience made them choose this you laught in your sleeue when you perceiued that the Foxes skinne auailed there where the Lyons could not You are very politick I wish you to continue so I vnderstood both by vvord of mouth by the commissaries of the Nobles and free-cities and also by letters that the Assembly of your Honours and Highnesses did with one accord approue of my offices and seruices and willed me to persist therein and againe resort vnto the Assembly that they would furthermore esteeme so of all inconueniences which happened vnto me as if they should happen to the generall Assemblie I obeyed your Honours and Highnesses heerein perseuered in my office brought the treatie to a desired and (a) You know what Menelaus sayes in Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is worth the wishing for to bee without the compasse of exception commendable issue and with others subcribed thereto (b) Better better stil but you hunt after prayse with too great earnestnesse Was not the once vttering of these things sufficient But happely doating old age hath depriued you of your memorie so that you obserue not that in a short space you repeate the same thing ouer and ouer But the Reader must hold him excused hee was sometime wise new hee dotes Nam quaecunque sedens modo legerat haec eadem stans Profert atque eadem cantabit versibus ijsdem What sitting earst he read that standing hee rehearses And vents the self same things all in the selfe same verses Gaudent I was imploied also in diuerse Treaties vvith the Embassadours of the Queene Mother in France with Embassadours in England both as long as the foresaid meeting held and before as also to continue the same Moreouer I was made gouernour of the forces which were sent by the King of France and put in trust to make euen the debts betwixt vs and the King of England all the agreements whereof vvere sealed by me Afterward I was chiefe instrument and procurer of vniting the Prouinces which the King of England helped first of all more then 24 yeares one after another afterward with the countenance and authoritie thereof and great store of money and now by the care and direction of the Kings of the foresaid Kingdome things were brought to that passe which I tolde you a little before that they could fully discharge the debtes wherein they were engaged and redeeme their cities and places laid to pledge and recouer their bonds and obligations (c) Garrula securi narrare pericula nautae So Mariners when all is safe and wel Their perills ouerblowne doe ioy to tell Yet you sooth your selfe too much and make your selfe the Atlas and sustainer of the whole state of Holland But let mee tell you in your eare for I hope you will vnderstand mee Si suelen algunos hombres subir tan alto que se pierden à se mismos de vista Many haue mounted so high that haue lost the benefit of their sight It is the language of a nation with whom you are now familiar and well acquainted And I settled the money-matters of the Prouinces in those tearms that the companies of the Admiralties which before in the yeare 1609 were burdened with about two Millions and eight hundreth thousand Florens were so eased that whereas in the beginning of my office we paid yearely pensions of 12 in the 100 and 2 for brokeage now instead thereof our last borrowed money is at 16 and three in the hundreth for brokeage to bee redeemed at 9 in the hundred or at vse at sixteene Whereas (a) Some Times haue their oportunitie and some Oportunities their time and there will both time and oportunitie bee found to put vp complaints against you doe you conceiue mee then after so many so great so singular and extraordinarie offices and seruices for so long a time continually performed the administration of the Common wealth is now complained of whereas it is pretended that they know not whence and what I am whereas I am accounted a forreiner a stranger and that other such-like vnseemely reports are noised abroad these things must needs trouble mee hauing sustained more then 32 yeares the office of the disposer of the affaires of the country in all your Honours and Highnesses Assemblies and being possessed in the said Assemblies of another place and office nine yeares before But I answer I was borne at the city of (b) Is it so come you from Amersfort then you know how to bragge and swagger triumph and ioy in it But how doe you proue your selfe to be of that noble Familie or to bee legitimate If New-kerke in the Welue wil giue you a Testimonie of your legitimatenesse I will easily beleeue it they may iustly make claime of a place in the meetings of Gelderland you vniustly But I spare to speake of these things and you happely were borne in a place of no note where you were not known to your nearest friends Amersfort where my predecessor in office was also borne By my fathers side I deriue my pedigree from the ancient and noble stocke of the Olden-barneuells the line descending euery way lawfully from our ancestors for many yeares which Olden-barneuells for some hundred yeares appeared alwaie vpon warning in the Prouincial assemblies and other meetings of the Gentrie of Welue as they doe yet euen at this day By my mothers side a matrone of worthy memory I descēd lawfully euery way too from the worshipful family of (d) I know nothing but good concerning that Family yet I adde thus much but not in scorne Such once we were c. And I further maruaile why you should so carefully search and as it were mendicate these things for you haue no reason at all to make mention of the familie of Lockehorst which you doe a little after I know both that Familie and you and therein Marchants also at Amsterdam in the Warmestraet but you reply hee is an Anabaptist So by the same reason Wynbergen of Amersfort shall bee no Gentleman because hee goes in black It is not the Garment but the Place and Office which debases men Winbergen is principall of the Perfectists and you of the Arminians both your Religions are starke naught Amersfort which in progresse of time after the branching out hereof was called Wede and this was also of good account and ancient ●oo vvhich now some 300 or 400 yeares since in treaties of peace bewixt the Count of Holland the Bishop of Vtricke and others as also in affaires with the gouernours of Amstel and Woerden was ranked in the order of gentlemen and was possessed with some thousands of acres of

him Reader he purposes slaughter vnder a Lambs-skinne yet seeing hee prouokes vs let vs make a publick enquirie Berneuell why doe you make no conscience so often to lie Why doe you so maliciously oppose the reformed Religion Why are you an enemy to the Ministers of your Countrey why do you extenuate their authority Why are you a hater hinderer of a future Synod Why are you a traytor to your countrey A priuate friend to the Spaniard A hunter after glory wealth A foe to the house of Nassaue Orenge A spend-thrift of the common Treasure A persecutor of all good men and fauourer of euill Will you answere mee Doe but publickly otherwise you shall be held as guiltie of all these crimes neuer so small in businesses either publique or priuate managed by mee seeme liable to the reproofe of any let that man openly speake it whosoeuer he is I craue no fauor I presume I shall conuince him and in reasonable tearmes shew him his errour It is true that according to a custome receiued in transactions of leagues and peace I receiued gifts more then the Lords condeputed with mee though they were of great estimation and of this publique notice was taken But that either (c) Hee that hath not learned to lie notably fayles in confirming his owne cause Sweare forsweare doe any thing sooner then bewray your secrets before or after the Treatie either directly or indirectly either by my selfe or any proxie I eyther did take or purposed to take any thing whatsoeuer more of the Spaniard or his complices or had the least dealing communication or treatie by my selfe or by another with the Spaniard or his confederates without publike knowledge that I solemnly auow to bee deuised fained and most contrary to the truth Furthermore it is knowne vnto you that I my selfe motioned and thought fit that the gratuities before spoken of which were bestowed on me should bee kept for the publike good benefit and some others there were who approued not hereof For the space (a) How oft haue you sung this song your repetition of the same things argues your memorie lies in your heeles of 32. yeeres in which as Aduocate of the Countrey I bestowed my paynes in your seruice I was thus much honoured that I was often intreated by the (b) What doe you meane man here is another grosse absurditie you leaue out your great friend the King of Spayne whose right challenges the first place in your Catalogue But you will say it is conditioned bewtixt vs that I should not name him but vpon the rack Excuse me I was not priuie to your crafty dealing King of France by Eliz. Queene of England both of famous and immortall memorie That I was often intreated by the King of great Brittaine the K. of Sueland the Elector Palatine of Bradenburg (c) It is suspected you had too great dealings with him and afterward through his meanes with the Spaniard the Elector of Colen in diuers occurrences and businesses concerning them to doe vnto them acceptable Offices and seruices This I did being so desired either by their Letters or Embassadors or Commissaries in such matters as might be done with the benefite of the Countrey or at least without the losse and hindrance thereof Namely and for example I laboured in the Elector of Colens behalfe that agreement might bee made betwixt him and the Arch-Dutchesse of Arschot the Countesse of Neeuweuaer the Count and Countess of Solmes euen to the finishing cōpounding of maters controuerted among them finally with the Count of Benthem for restitution of speciall Offices of the Arch-bishoprick of Colen For which seruices hee both thanked me by Letters presented me with gifts In like maner I helped other Princes Counts and forain Cities earnestly requesting mee thereto by my good counsell And thus much also was performed by me to Domestick Prouinces Commanders Counts Lords and moreouer to great societies and also to many priuate and particular persons who willingly of their owne accord acknowledged these my seruices although I neuer asked or demanded any of them any thing directly or indirectly by my selfe or by another The (d) Now he swels Reader giue him the hearing Now a stiffe gale filles his sayles lend him your best obseruance Here are great maine matters of greatest consequence and import Bragge is a good Dog still chiefe matters which I did performe for the vnited Prouinces are these (e) Hee harpes againe vpon the same string you see he dotes but he is old we must pardon him for he was a great bragger from his infancy shortly he wil leaue it First fiue times I performed a Regall Embassage and in foure Embassages the managing and (a) How the cōmonwealth was adminished by his words guidance gouernment and successe behold now he meditates direction of all things was committed vnto me and I my selfe spake to Kings face to face The first was in the yeere 85 wherein we first obtained of the Queene of England the ayde of foure thousand armed men to rayse the siege from Antwerpe afterward a promise of 5000. foote-men and a thousand horse-men the Garrison at Brill and the Forts of Flushing and Rammekens not reckoned herein because they were places and cities deliuered vp to her Maiestie as pledges for securities sake to be maintained in the time of warre The second Embassage was in the yeare 1598 to the King of France a promise was made by his Ma of paying two millions nine hundreth thousād Florens to the States within the space of 4. yeares furthermore a securitie concerning his Maiesties full and sincere purpose to preserue the good of these Dominions In my third Embassage performed the yeare premised vnto the Queene of England I (b) Paice vol figlio di padre crudele We haue a sweete sonne of so cruella Father effected that howsoeuer the King of France had couenanted a league of peace with the K. of Spayne the Archduke at Veruyns neuertheles his Maiesty was moued to deferre and suspend the like Treaty In my fourth Embassage into England a remission of the third part of the exacted debts esteemed one and twenty hundred thousand Florens was obtained of the Queenes Maiesty So that it was agreed much labour and difficultie praeceding concerning the payment of fourescore thousand pounds Flemish and the tearme of payment appointed for the halfe part viz. fortie hundred thousand pound was about twentie yeere when in the compact made in the yeere 1585 wee couenanted to pay the whole debt within the space of foure yeares and the terme when wee should paie the other halfe was delaied and put off till another time In my Embassage to the King of England at this day I obtained that the King gaue vs libertie to muster two or three thousand souldiers in Scotland for the benefit of the Prouinces and also consented that the King of France for that yere