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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15442	A iustification or cleering of the Prince of Orendge agaynst the false sclaunders, wherewith his ilwillers goe about to charge him wrongfully. Translated out of French by Arthur Goldyng; Justification or cleering of the Prince of Orendge agaynst the false sclaunders, wherewith his ilwillers goe about to charge him wrongfully.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1575 (1575)	STC 25712; ESTC S120044	80,195	190

our cace accordyng to the desert of it openly and without partialitie or affection Protestyng yit once agayne that all is nothyng which is or shal be done sayd ordeyned iudged or decreed to our preiudice by the said Duke of Alua suspected and refuzed as an incompetent Iudge as is sayd afore or by any that shal be put in Commission for him and in his steade And for asmuch as all this serueth to none other end but to do you to vnderstand the sayd declarations offers and protestations that by you and others such regarde may be had of them as is meete I will pray to the Creator to haue you Maister Attourney in his holy keepyng Written at Dillenbourch the thyrde of Marche 1568. Under-signed William of Nassaw The superscription of it was To Maister Attourney Generall ¶ An answere sent to the Duke of Alua by the Prince of Orendge vpon the Citation or Summons SIr for asmuch as my doyngs may be a sufficient testimonie that frō my youth vp I haue desired nothyng more than to imploy my selfe in the seruis first of the late Emperour of noble memory and afterward of the kyng my Maister I haue hoped that his maiestie beyng aduertized from me lyke as my Lady of Parma then Regent was also that I was come into this my county of Nassaw for certeine very vrgent affaires of myne would in respect of my faythfulnes good wil not haue ceased to haue shewed me so much fauour as to commaūde me wherin soeuer I could haue done him seruis which I offered hym continewally by my sayd letters of aduertizemēt or at leastwise that I should haue vnderstode at your hand that the kynges Maiestie was mynded to haue me to leaue myne owne affaires heere and to returne immediatly thither as wel as you gaue intelligence of his maiesties minde to all other Lords states and Cities But as I was stil wayting with great longyng for his Maiesties commaundementes I was aduertized that processe was gone out agaynst me to seaze vpon my Lordshyps Landes and goodes and whiche woors is by Proclamatiō vnder the name of the Attourney generall ful of false and vntollerable slaunders and afterward by the apprehendyng of my sonne whom I had left at Louane that he might be the better able to serue the kyng and the cōmon weale heerafter Whereat I wondered very much me thought it was right strange that they should proceede in such sort against a man of my calling forgettyng so soone the great and noble seruices done as well by my predecessours and by my selfe and in theis last trubbles by name Wherfore where as I haue reasons allegations well framed to Iustifie my cace with all and to cleere declare myne innocencie the wrong that is done me in this behalfe which I reserue till fit time place may serue I thought it inough at this tyme to answere the Attourney general with speede and to lay open and to shewe to him the insuffi●…iencie of his Summons by other reasons which I had agaynst the same before the expiring of the ouer hasty terme that is prefixed vnto me to the ende that men should not thinke I felt my selfe gilty in any thing or that I ●…eene not to pursew my right so farre forth as I shal finde it expedient by reason And thereof Syr I thought good to aduertize you also by sendyng you Copic of the letter that I wrate to maister Attourney togither with this letter to the intent there may be no more proceedyng or dealyng agaynst me or myne through ignoraunce furtherforth than may be iustified heerafter by order of law whereto I hope I shall one day haue my recours And to the ende that this may not serue to any other effect I pray God Syr to giue vnto you health and whatsoeuer is for your saluation and vnto me that my Prince may once truly vnderstand the sinceritie of my dealynges From Dillenbourch this thyrd of Marche 1568. The subscription of it was Your brother of the Order William of Nassaw The superscription was To my Lord the Duke of Aluaze grace ¶ The Copie of an other Letter written by the foresaid Frauncis of Alua Ambassadour for the king of Spaine in Fraunce to the Duchesse of Parma c. Regent besides that whiche is inserted heertofore in the page 106. No. 6. MAdame the aduertizemēt which your highnes hath giuen me of the affaires where you are hath confirmed the opinion which I haue alwayes had namely that this styrre was neuer made without the knowledge and supportāce of the greatest and specially of the three whiche make so fayre countenance For as your highnesse hath considered with greate care and discretion you must also beleue that all the mischief spryngeth of them three I haue not fayled to aduertize the kings Maiestie of all thynges and specially of that matter And I am sure that whereas your highnesse hath informed his Maiestie of them you shall not neede to handle them as they should be and accordyng to your owne information for they may be well assured that they shal be the first whom his Maiestie will deale with not to shewe them fauour for they be not worthy of it but to punish and correct them as their rebellion deserueth Therfore your hyghnes shall not neede to giue them any euill countenance or to make any shewe of misliking for feare of marring the matter But you must hold them stil in hope that the kynges Maiestie taketh them for his faythfull seruauntes that will stand vs in great stead For by causing them to beleeue so you shall ouertake them the eassyer But when the time cōmeth you shal talke to them in an other maner of language And your highnesse must assure your selfe that if your will be good to make them receiue the payment that they haue deserued his Maiestie wil be no lesse willyng to do what soeuer is needefull in that behalfe Also Madame to aduertize you in what assuraunce we bee of succour in Fraunce accordyng to the instructions that you gaue me I must bee fayne to tell your hyghnesse that we haue promises inough made vs but I feare me they will stand vs in no great stead and in the end all will turne to bare words bycause they haue not their own willes nor are able to helpe vs as they promise by reason that the Hugonotes heerawayes are strong and doo make head I will not fayle to do what may be done and to aduertize your highnesse thereof vpon all occasions But in any wise I beseech you to behaue your selfe very cunnyngly towards the three persons whom I haue named vnto you And so c. From Paris the xxix of August 1566. ¶ Letters of the Prince of Orendgis to the Regent MAdame I haue receyued the letters which it hath pleased your highnesse to write vnto me together with the Counselles letters concernyng my gouernment whereby I vnderstand the kinges maiesties intent consistyng in three

of the sayd leuying and of the place where it was done I declared it to the magistrate and to the Markgraue who is the chiefe Officer of the Towne vnto whom it belonged to looke to those and such other accidentes and I commaunded hym accordyng to the tharge that the Regent had geuen me by her letter directed to me in that behalfe that he should apprehend and attach the parties that dyd it Wherupon the Markgraue departyng from me and findyng the parties at a Table together which were reported to be the makers of the sayd Musters in stede of executing my commaundement sate downe with thē and afterwarde reported to me that he could not find them by meanes wherof they had oportunitie to get them secretly away It was very true that long time before these alterations I presented the Lord of Brederode with three peeces of great Ordinance which I caused to be shot new againe afterward at Utreight a Towne of the kynges maiesties in the open sight of all men and sent them to the said Lord howbeit long tyme before the sayd mustryng when he was yet in the kyngs maiesties seruis and had the charge of certayne Ordinance vnder hym So that it is no lesse agaynst reason to blame vs for geuyng and presentyng the sayd artilerie than to blame them that preferred the sayde Lord of Brederode to the said Lieutenantship of the Ordināce specially seeyng that the same Lord of Brederode beyng assured by the Regent authorised by the kyngs maiestie as is sayd afore that none of the things aforepassed should be layd to his charge had not any reason to fortifie hym selfe agaynst the kyng Nother was there any likelyhood of cause why we should refuse the performāce and deliuery of the sayd gyft which we had promised hym before and which he knew to be redy and appoynted afore hande for hym and to be as neare Uiane as vtreyght Therfore to come to the pithe of the said Summons the effect wherof was that I should forbid certaine of the kynges maiesties places and cities to receyue his garrisons and among other places in Zeland whether it is expressely said that we sent men to take it thereby to shut the kyng out and to stop his maiesties passage by sea I doo not thinke that euer I vsed any suche speache as might minister occasion to deuise that accusation or to cause it to be surmised that if our part had had sufficient proofe of it they should haue bin driuen to haue specifyed the tyme and place seyng that all accusers are bounde of right to such specification Yet notwithstanding for as much as Zeland is named amōg others I wyllyngly graunt that knowyng and hauyng oftentymes infourmed the Counsaile of the importance of that Countrey being aduertised that there was a drift in practising agaynst it I sent the Lord Bouxtel thyther to the end that no men of warre should be receiued there without myne appoyntment accordyng to the ordinary maner custome which is that no such thing may be done in those countreys but by the commaundement of the Gouernour of them And I confesse also that hauing receyued aduertisement from the Captayne of Zeburge which is a Fortres in the I le of Walcheren a part of Zeland aforesayd which was all vnder my gouernment that two hundred souldiers were arryued there sent from the Regent to enter into the sayd Fortresse that he could not receiue them as well for feare of some mutinie of his owne men which were vnpayd and woulde not abide that others stronger than thē selues should so openly step in among them as also because of the strey●…nesse of the place and for scarsitie of victuals I sent him word agayn that I thought his reasons very good that he should not receyue any souldiers there without further commiss●…on from the Regent and from vs as Gouernor there Of the which distresses the Regent beyng likwise aduertised by the Captayn became of the same opinion that I was of and sendyng money to pay the souldiers tooke order that of the two hundred no moe but fiftie should be receiued whiche entered in anon after by our commaundement to the Capteine by our letters Now when report was made to the Regent how I had commaunded the said Lord of Bouxtell to receiue no garrison into the I le no not euen though it were sent from her highnesse I intēded to haue excused my selfe by my letters howbeit that at that tyme such order had not bin expedient bycause that as then I was at Antwerp hir highnesse at Brussels who in like caces concernyng my gouernement had not bin wont to do any thyng without making of me priuy to it afore and therefore I assured my selfe that she would not send any garrison into the I le without makyng me of coūsell therewith seyng she might do it without let or delay Wheras on the contrary part vnder pretence of the sayd garrison the fortresse might be surprised as hath bin seene to haue happened diuers times vnto others for the which I might afterward haue bin driuen and constreined to aunswere by much more apparaunt reasons than are now made to accuze me withall In so much that for th●… more assurance of the sayd fortresse and countrey I had good reason to forbyd the sayd Capteine and all others yea and that euen by special and expresse commaūdement to receiue any garrison bycause the fortresse was sufficiently prouided for already and the want of vittels should bee increaced by the ouer increacing of the garrison By reason wherof and for asmuch as the other places and Cities of the Coūtrey haue alwayes offered to spend their bodies and goods in his Maiesties seruis haue certified him that they needed no garrison by sendyng their deputies to the Gouernesse for the same purpoze there was no likelihode at all that I shoulde by that meanes surprize the sayd Coūtrey and by that shift shet out the kynges Maiestie and cut of his passage by sea seyng that the very deede it selfe hath bewrayed and shewed the contrarie For at such time as certeine Barkes loden with men whom I had put out of And werp by open Proclamation for the better assurāce of the rest and quietnesse of the towne came before the I le the inhabitauntes did set themselues at defence woold not suffer them to take lād so that beyng fayne to take ship and returne backe agayne they were afterward disco●…fited vpon the riuer about Andwerp for want of vittels armour other needefull thyngs notwithstāding that they had caused it to be bruted that they would go to the ayde of the Lorde of Br●…rode Which thing caused great vprore and hurlyburly in the Towne where both the Lord of Hoochestrate I were often in daunger of our lyues by reason of the Magistrates cowardlinesse in that he durst not shew himself which gaue great occasiō of the vprore to the breach of the peace there