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A65983	Severall remarkable passages concerning the Hollanders since the death of Queene Elizabeth, untill the 25th of December, 1673 Some animadversions thereupon, in answere to a scandulous pamphlett called Englands appeale to the Parliament, from the private caball at white hall. With the continuation of the case between Sr. VVilliam Courten his heires and assignes and the East-India Company of the Netherlands, faithfully recollected by E.W. armig: and rendred into English, French, and Dutch, for satisfaction of his particular friends, in England, France, and the low countriers.	E. W.	1673 (1673)	Wing W21; ESTC R219253	71,264	105

confiscated The claymours However pretending their voyages were spoyled by bringing in their Shipps under those Letters of reprisall which discouraged their trade they obtained a Proclamation to suspend the Execution of the letters pattents pro tempore and likewise an order of the Councel-table dated at Mithtehall the 10. of August 1666. old stille signed by severall Lords of the Councell to gratifie the Spanish Agents and their confedrates Whereby M. r Car●w was committed to the prison called the fleet notwithstanding he offered to give sufficient bayle in any Court of Judicature to Answ●re any pretence whatsoever the claymours had against him which was denied and M. r Carew forced to remayne a prisoner untill the most dreadfull fyer in London had consumed all the houses about him But stopt at his owne dwelling house in the Parish of St. Andrews Holborne where his severall tenements adjacent escaped those flames that perished his next neighbours houses And it is very Remark-a●●● That the Pensionaris John de Witt● M. r Carews grand adversary concerning the Letters of Reprisall was Massacred at the Hague on the 10. of August 16-2 old still where Mr. Carew was then a prisoner and by treating those burgers with wine and brandy in his owne defence contributed much towards John de Witt●s distruction Nisew mens Hominum fats sortisque Captaine Tyrence Byrne in persuance of the sayd Letters pattents for Reprisall being fitted out with a small frigat by Mr. Ionathan Frest the owner seized a fly boate nere Portland bay about the month of Ju●● 1666. laden with French Wine and salt bound from France for Holland which Shipp being brought into Poole and from thence to Chichester the Capt sent to Mr. Suckley his owne proctor for a Comission out of the Admiralty Court to examine the Master and the Marriners of the prize which was directed to the Magistrates and a publique Notary in Chichester who found upon the Examinations that the Shipp was dutch built the goods Consigned to Dutch men and the Marriners to be Hollanders borne and inhabitans there Yett upon returne of the sayd Comission Mr. Peter G●rrard and afterwards Mr. Peter Victorine claymed the sayd Shipp and goods pretending they belonged to Mr. Michaell vander Planeken Andreas vande Bogard and Mr. John Neitz of Brugis in Flanders under the Notion of the Shipp Godelieve belonging to that Citty Then Sir Lyonell Jenkins Judge of the Admiralty Court decreed that there was good cause of seizure and ordered that the claymours might have the Shipp and goods forthwith restored upon bayle to abide the sentence of the Court upon hearing the cause which the Captors consented unto but the claymours refused it having brought their Action at Law against Captaine Byrne and arrested him by writt out of the Admiralty Court in 1000. pound damages upon pretence of a false seizure breaking bulke and making sale of some salt at Poole to buy provisions for the men Whereupon the Captaine gave sufficient bayle to Answere the claymours who reglected to give caution and take away the Shipp and goods which were left with the Vice-Admirall at Chichester for that purpose Sone after the Captaine and his suerties that were bayle for him moved for a prohibition but Sir John Keeling then Lord Cheife Justice of England refused an allowance thereof notwithstanding by the knowne and established Laws of the realme such matters of fact alleadged to be committed within his Majesties Ports were to be tryed in his Majesties Courts of record by Juries and not to be brought into any Arbitrary way before incompetent Judges Afterwards the claymors upon new attestations from the same Marriners and some pretended certificates sent out of Flanders mentioning that the Shipp and goods belonged to the Subjects of the King of Spaine which ought to have been certified by Commissioners appointed out of the same Court whereby the persons might have bin interogated yett a restitution was thereupon decreed by the Judge of the Admiralty and likewise confirmed by the Lords Comissioners for prizes soe that the Shipp and goods were actually delivered by the Vice-Admirall to the claymors accordingly and 150. Pound Sterling was left to be payd in Chichester that the Master and the Marriners of the prize had expended for which Captaine Byrne and Frost were ingaged and afterwards sued Nevertheless Sir Walter Walker and Mr. Franklinn then advised the Claymors without any discontinuance of their former Action against Capt Byrne to exhibite Articles in the Admiralty Court joyntly against Sir Edmond Turnor Mr. Carew Captaine Byrne and Mr. Frost wherein they were charged with trespasses and spoyles for goods imbeazilled and plundered by their owne men And from thence a sentence was drawne against them for 1800. pound damages which was pronounced by Sir Lyonell Jenkins in favour of the claymors who insisted that the sayd damages cheifely arrised by leakage and avarage and soe would make double the profitt of their voyage by the seizure more then if they had escaped Captaine Byrne From which sentence the Captaine and Mr. Frost appealed to the ordinary deligates but Sir Edmond Turnor and Mr. Carew appealed specially unto Sir Orlando Bridgman then Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and prayed that some judges of the Common Law might be appointed as adjuncts to consider of the Nullity of the sayd sentence which Sir Walter Walker and Mr. Franklinn most vexatiously opposed by a Request and insisted that Sir Edmond Turner and Mr. Carew might be ordered to give bayle to abide the sentence of the Judges deligates or that their Appeale might be rejected which Sir Orlando Bridgman irregulary appointed Although noe caution was given by them Prima instantia neither were S● Edmond Turnor or Mr. Carew at any time summoned or arrested in the sayd cause or ever made any defence or were concerned therein Yett the sayd Sir Walter Walker and Mr. Franklinn forced the sayd Sir Edmond Turnor Mr. Car●w to give extraordinary caution to avoyde that impertinent sentence which they threatned should be executed upon their persons And which still depends before the Judges deligates adjuncts And ought to be declared null and voyde to all intents and purpoposes against Sir Edmond Turner and Mr. Carew admitting Captaine Byrne and Mr. Frest were guilty of any thing layd to their charge And if the Subjects of England should not be admitted to appeales and revisions in such cases they would be rendred in a worse Condition then any slaues in Spaine or Turkey As it is against the Law both divine and Civill that one person should be punished for the offence of another soe it is as unreasonble that the claymors should take any advantage against Captaine Byrne and Mr. Frest of their owne willfull reglect or to seeke after treble the value of all the goods that they cost in France when there was good cause of seizure which made them lyable to the charge and expences of bringing up the Shipp and making inquiry after the

of Spaine the French King the States Generall and many other Kings Princes and States Those Keepers haveing stamped their Coyne with the inscription of God with us on the one syde and the Comon wealth of England on the other Which proved a true motto ●f their dissolution In the yeare 1651. The Keepers of the Comon wealth of England As their ●ist Essay abroade sent M● Olvier St. Johns and M● Strickland their Embassadours extraordinary with a great Equipage and splendour unto the States Generall of the United Netherlands the substance of their instructions being to contract an everlasting league offensive and defensive against all the enemies of both comon wealths and to borrow a considerable summ of money upon the publique faith of their Masters to supply their present occasions and for incouragment thereunto The Embassadours told them of an Act of Parliament that should Naturallize all the United Netherlanders whereby they might have and injoy the same rights and priviledges equally with free borne subjects of England But the old crafty States men in Holland knowing that England would draw away their best Marchants and fishermen into better Ellements And that the publick faith was allready upon the taynters they rejected the first proposall and denied the second presuming to continnue their priviledges they had in the English seas and harbours upon their owne termes Then the English Embassadours told the States Generall that they must pay for their Herring fishing and make satisfaction and reparations for the spoyles and damages committed at Amboyna and upon Sir William Courten and his partners in the East-Indies Unto all which they persisted in the negative Then after some personal affronts offered to the Embassadours and their retinnue by the Kings party in the Hague they returned re infecta to make their report to the Councell of State at Whitehall who highly resented the indignity shewne to their supreame greatnes and suddainly resolued to chastise the Hollanders for their contempt without any formall declaration of warr and to that purpose Equipped out a fleete of Shipps The States Generall doeing the like they were demanded by the English Admiralls to strick their flaggs and lower their topp-sayles but the Hollanders refusing to give that acknowledgment unto their younger brothers they went both to it Catch that Catch could allmost three years together wherein the States Generall lost soe many Shipps and were soe often beaten in solemne fights that they sent their Embassadours over into England to treat with Oliver Cromwell who was stept into the Goverment under the title of Lord Protector to give him satisfaction in the premises It appeared then that although the Hollanders were insolent they were not invincible In the yeare 1655. Oliver Cromwell made an unprofitable peace with the States Generall without disarming them or taking caution against future spoyles and injuries granting unto the Marritine Provinces Holland Zeland and Frizland the same priveledges in the English Seas streams and havens that they had in former times When they were under the Dukes of Bourgundy and Arch-dukes of Austria notwithstanding The Kings of England gave them the liberty of Free fishing then upon the English Coast in consideration of the mutually assistance their Lords and Princes gave against France Amsterdam being then a pore fishing towne and content with the rest of the Hollanders to live upon their honest labour and industry with what they could gett by fish and the product of their owne Country as they did before the East and West-India Companies were Errected and before they had built soe many Shipps of warr out of the spoyles of Spaine Portugall and England Cromwell only compelled them to make some reparations to the English East-India Company for the spoyles at Amboyna and obliged them to referre all other differences concerning the English Damages to Commissioners which nevertheless they reglected to doe finding out expedients even in those days to evade their Articles A Po●… that the Hollanders have beyond any other Nations in the universe In the yeare 1655 Cromwell appeared most dreadfull to all partes of the world receiued noe addresses from Emperours Kings or Princes but under the style of deare Brother and most Screene highnes he concluded an Alliance with France made a warre with Spaine assisted in the taking of Dunkirke as Auxilliary and kept it a principall layed out for the Spanish plate fleetes Attempted Hispaniola and by a mistake toke Jam●aca then runn himselfe out of breath for want of money and dyed If usurp●rs in a divided Kingdome could ●●ate the Hollanders shake France and make Spaine tremble what may not the Lawfull Soveraigne doe with his Lords and Comons united in Parliament against the en●m●●s of the King of great Brittaigne France and Yreland In the yeare 1660 when a peace was concluded betweene France and Spaine upon the Match with the Infanta The Lords and Comons in England invited King Charles the second to come and take possession of his Crowne and Kingdomes The Hollanders then fearing another storme they stricke in with the new Ministers of State in France finding Cardinall Mazarine under a cloude but however the States of Holland treated the King of great Brittaigne at the Hag●e in his returne and all the Commissioners of English Lords and Comons in great glory and least it should be forgotten they also register their treatment in their Almanacks with the gifts presented by the States to His Majesty viz. Nine hunderd-thousand gilders in money and to the value of eight thousand gilders in Harlems ●amaske and ●iaper for His Majesties Table linnen which altogether amounted unto 9200 pound Sterling A small recompence for the affront in bannishing his Majesty and his Brother the Duke of Yorke and Duke of Gloucester out of their Provinces during Cromwells usurpation and for all the Shipps and goods they had lately taken with Spanish Comissions And gott condemned to their owne use as free prize at Oastend and other Spanish Portes Which ought to have bin puni●hed as Pyr●cy in the Hollanders and the Z●…ders by the Laws of Comon Amity and Commerce About six months after the King was arrived in England the States Generall sent M. r Symon van H●rne a Burgermaster of Amsterdam and Director of the East-India Company with M. r Michaell van G●gh their Embassadours Extraordinary to his Majestie to reneue the cheife Articles of Cromwells treaty which was made persuant to the treaty betweene Philip Arch-duke of Austria and Henery the VII in the yeare 1495. And withall to gett a generall abolition and extinguishment of all Actions for spoyles injuries and dammages whatsoever sustained by his Majestie or his Subjects at any time before his Majesties most happy restauration and gave such Documents alonge with them that if any objections should be raised against the materiall poynts in Cromwells treaty or that his Majestie was not obliged to allow the same that then they should insist upon the loss of all their Shipps and

knew the time when it was as difficult to gett a good farme or a house for a tenant in England as it is now to gett a good tenant for either since the Hollanders by their seditious practises are growen soe populous and soe great I knew also the time when Ipswich Hadley and Buildstone flourished as much as Harlem Leyden and Delf And when Ratcliffe and Limhouse flourished as much as Surdam and Dordr●●ht And doe believe there was a time when Orford Dunwich and Alborough and other ancient Sea-port townes upon that Coast had not their Priviledges granted only to Catch Oysters Macharell and Sprats where the bancks are washed away with the waues and their Havens stopt up with sands while the Fishermen from Anchuysen Schiedam Zirrickzee c. in Holland Zeland and Frizland take the Herrings Haberdine and linge with their Busses Hookers and Dogger boates to increase their strenght and means to dispute the right and Priviledges of free fishing upon the English Coast Which brings me also to tell you what the Hollanders say in some of their remarques upon the Kings Answere to the States Letter but in another style then formerly they writt to King James in the beginning of his raigne In their first Remarque they say that Titus Livius and all the Roman Emperours gave medalls in gold upon their conquests and Victories And cite a Text of Scripture in Exod. 17. and 15. That Moses erected an alter when Ameleck was beaten calling its name the Lord is my Banner where the verse following says the Lord hath sworne that he will have warr with Ameleck from one generation to another In the fourth remarque they say it is not true that the States were obliged to send Comissioners into England to regulate a trade in the East-Indies only the King of great Brittaigne proposed a reglement which was soe absurd that the English nation would have a trade equall to the Hollanders which was fomented by the French and for feare something might be undertaken by the French against their State they sent Monsieur van Bewninghen for England to remove all sinister impressions that the French proposalls might have made upon his Majestie against the Triple Alliance and offered for the preservation of the peace of all Christendome to make a defensive and offensive warr against France for the further confirmation of the Triple Alliance which was rejected and a league made since with France contrary to the Triple League which the French Ministers presumptiously called The Beggers agreement And in their Ninth Remarque which concernes only the Herring fishing they say can any body lay clayme or make pretence to wha the never yett possessed was it not indeavored in the yeare 1635. by King Charles the first His Majesties Father to introduce a tribute by forcing the same with some Shipps of warr which is repugnant to the longe and free custome of Fishery that for theise last 140. years Persuant to the treaty made in the yeare 1495. betweene England and their State hath bin continually and quietly practised and injoyed untill the yeare 1635. as aforesiad Now I appeale to the greatest Champions for the Hollanders in any parte of His Majesties Dominions Whether they can heare without greife and Astonishment such impudent Arrogant expressions belehed out vp the States and their Predicants and Audatiously applied to themselves with reflections upon the King and his Kingdomes or whether they can with patience heare the States and their mercinaries to give the King of great Brittaigne the ley concerning the East-India trade or be perswaded that the only way to priserve the peace of Christendome was to joyne with the Hollanders in an offensive and defensive warr against the French King that hath lately consumed for much treasure and wasted soe many families of the Nobility and gentry towards the Chastizing of those high and mighty Lords and great and mighty Lords that toke their titles from a French Complement and were protected by the French Kings against all their Adversaries for the space of sixty eight years together or whether they can containe themselves any longer when they heare those States affront the King of great Brittaigne in that peremptory manner to tell him that the Crowne of England was never possessed of the herring fishing or that the late King his Father had not force of Armes in the yeare 1635. to obstruct their right to the herrings upon his owne Coast where they clayme the priviledge of free Fishing by prescription of the treaty Anno 1495. which was 77. yeares before they were acknowledged to be free Countries and had the liberty of the English Coast in Compensation of the leagues offensive and defensive against France who were then the Hereditary Enemies of the Crowne of England But it is objected by their Friends that if the Kings Subjects should eate any quantities of herrings barrell codd or stoc●fish there would not be such a consumption of beife mutton and veale in his Majesties Kingdomes which brings up the rents of Land And it is pretended that the King is at noe loss by the Hollanders Zelanders and Frizlanders fishing for herring and ●odd upon his owne Coast which otherwise would be lost for want of taking and all the Cloysters Monasteries and Religious houses in the Spanish Netherlands Germany Poland France Westphalia etc. would be left distitude of provisions which vp the strick● rules of their Religion doe abstaine from flesh severall weeks in a yeare and severall days in every weeke which in England Scotland and Ireland since the Reformation the Protestants are not obliged to doe As to the Kings Right to the Herring fishing It admitts noe dispute being upon his owne Coast But if any man gives nourishment to a vulture or huggs a serpent in his bosome he may be distroyed for his kindnes and eredulity As for the Herrings and Codd that would be lost for want of Catching and the Monasteries and Cloysters left destitude for want of provisions it is a great fallacy There would be noe less fish taken if all strangers were obliged to pay the King a yearely tribute for an acknowledgment of that right which the Laws of God the laws of nature and the laws of nations appropriates to the King of great Brittaigne upon his owne Coast And it would not undervalue the price of Lands or lessen the value of mutton beife or veale if more Herrings Codd and ling were Eaten in England but rather increase the publick Treasury the rents of Lands and the particular Estates of all trades men And for incouragement to the Fishing trade at home if Every Inkeeper Ale-house keeper and vintener in England should be obliged to buy a barrel of pickled Herrings once a yeare The Hollanders doe esteeme every stranger that comes to inhabite in their united Provinces to render unto the publick yearly viis et modis 5. pound sterling at least although he be of a meane Capacity there being soe many Excises Verpounding

years the Queene Mother and Cardinall Rich●l●●u being at difference about the slate of affaires in France she left the Court and went to the Hague in Holland and there proposed a match betweene the Prince of Orrange and the Eldest Daughter of the King of great Brittaigne which motion Prince Henry Fredrick entertained with high Esteeme then the Queene Mother transported her selfe for England and effected the Mariage accordingly Upon hopes that Alliance might have ballanced the Cardinalls interest with the Bernevelt fa●tion which was Uppermost in all the States to the great prejudice of the Crowne of England In the peare 1640. the longe Parliament begun their usurpacion at Westm●●ster where the Commons prevayled with the King to pass a bill that their assembly should not be dissolved without their owne consent Then so●● after they sett up for themselves and gave advantages to their bretheren in the ●nited Provinces to be inriched beyond Measure by the Civell dise●tions that followed and were fo●ented by those factious partyes that confederated themselves together In this yeare 1640. the Portugalls renounced the King of Spaine and declared John Duke of Braguance the Lawfull successoir of D●na Catharina and Crowned him their King being the 1● King of Portugall and 4. of that name Who was Father to the pre●ent Queene of England 〈◊〉 the II. King of Spaine haveing invaded Portugall usurped the Crowne after the death of Sebastian that was slayne in Barbery fighting against the Mores in the yeare 15●8 The Portugalls who 〈◊〉 under the S●aniards for the ●ace of 60. years were not ●e much oppre●ed by them in the East and West-Indies as they were by the H●●●anders who have mo●● regard to 〈◊〉 owne 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 ●●en they have to the orrig●●●● rights or 〈…〉 of other men In the yeare 1643. The States Generall reneued their pla●●ate against English Cloath Kersies and Dozens under greater Penalties then before with many additions concerning the ●are and at the same time spoyled M● C●u●t●n and his partners in the East-Indies 〈◊〉 their Acts of violence 〈◊〉 as they did of oppression at home while the Subjects of England were weltring in their owne b●oud in many partes of his Majesties Kingdomes 〈…〉 〈…〉 In the yeare 1648. the longe Parliament haveing run● into all Extreames by subverting the goverment of Church and state they acted their bloudy tragedy which I am unwilling to mention but that I find the s●heane yearly represented in my dutch Almanacks and the impressions in Folio at Amsterdam with the names of the R●gicides under the Sculptures which they send unto all parts of the world insinnuating to the Pagans and in●idells that English men are the worst of all Nations not worthy of any trade or commerce having murthered their King at noone day in the face of the ●onn and soe for their owne Ends would s●andalize and reproach a whole Kingdome for the inveterate malice of some particular men that toke away the life of their Lawfull soveraigne Lord and King Who they knew by the Maximes of their owne Law could not erre In this yeare 1648. the States Generall fearing that France upon the conquest and dividing of the Spanish Netherlands would betoo potent a neighbour for them they make a peace with Spaine at the treaty in Munster against the consent of the French King who would not be included in the sayd treaty And in the same yeare at that generall treaty there was a peace concluded betweene the Emperour of Germany The French The Sweeds and The German Princes after those intestine warrs had continued thirty years and the people in the Pallatinate reduced to such Extreamity that they were forced to eate their owne children to satisfie their hunger The Hollanders after they had drayned the West-Indies Spoyled the trade of Ant●●erpe Gante and Brugis by Magnifi●ing Amsterdam Rotterdam and Dort They left the Spanish Netherlands to be a Bulwerke betweene the● and France as the House of Austria remayned a Bulwerke to Spaine and that Monarchie the cheife Fortress of Rome But now all three are became Auxilliaries to the Hollanders for Propogation of Gods word at Amsterdam amongst the Jews and in●idells there Sone after the peace with Spaine the States of Holland against the consent of the generality would disband and Cashiere many English and French Regiments of horse and foote Although the Officers were Gentlemens yonger sonns that had spent their Youth and fortunes in the States service The Prince of Orrange refusing to doe it without pentions granted them for their lives according to the Custome of Armes They shutt up the Comptores of Amsterdam Delf and Dort c. assigned for their payments This ingratitude Which Comprehends all other vices Moved the Prince of Orrange to send severall of the cheife Agents in that designe to the Castle of Lovestine From whence their party are called the Lovestine Faction and drew up his whole Armey in the yeare 1650. before Amsterdam to apprehend the rest of their consorts who were opposite to his interest and the Alliance with the King of great Brittaigne But was prevented in his approach by the sluices that were opened to obstruct his March Sone after that attempt the Prince of Orrange dyed and the Lovestine Faction made this Epitaph upon him De Prince is doodt de gift is groot gheen bli●der maa● in tachtentigh j●er Which was sounge by their children about the Streets and mentioned in the pulpitts for joy But within eight dayes after his death there was another gift sent to the great comfort of man●y The Princess Royall was delivered of this yonge Prince of Orrange on the 14. of November 1650. new stile against whome John de Witt and his faction in the States of Holland framed an oath which every man was obliged to take before he could be admitted into any office of the goverment either as Burgermaster Belieu Scout Schepen or Pentionaris the substance whereof was that they should not directly or indirectly advance the Prince of Orrange or his interest but oppose it by all means possible And the malice of the faction was such that many of them sealed their resolutions with their owne bloud making small incisions in their hands whereout issued some dropps of bloud into a glass of wine which they drunke and were not ashamed to shew those markes of pyety to their brethren as toakens of their devotion And would not suffer their Ministers in the publique congregations to pray for the Prince of Orange even as Christians were obliged to doe for their enemies Yett ●e was not forg●tten by the meane people but hath lived to see two of the faction rewarded according to the Laws of Candy where ingratitude is punished with death In the yeare 1650. Custodies libertatis Angliae Authoritatae Parliamenti that had se●luded halfe their owne members and voated downe the house of Lords called themselves the supreame Authority of great Brittaigne and were styled ●oe by the King