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<P>ARTICLES AGREED VPON AND GRANTED BY His Excelencie, and the Deputies <HI>of the high and mighty Lords, the</HI> States Generall of the Vnited Prouin|ces, vnto the Clergie, Magi&s;trates, Burgers, and inhabitants of the Towne of <HI>Bois|leduke,</HI> or the <HI>Bu&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLES, Agreed vpon and granted by his Excel|lencie, and the Deputies of the high and mighty</HI> Lords, the States Generall of the Vnited Prouinces, vnto the Clergie, Magi&s;trates, Burgers, and Inha|bitants of the Towne of <HI>Boisleduke,</HI> or the <HI>Bu&s;&s;e.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. _FIr&s;t All offences, injuries, and all acts and deedes committed betwixt this Towne and tho&s;e of the Vnited Pro|uinces, both from the beginning of the&s;e troubles, and ciuill commotions or warres, as al&s;o during this pre&s;ent Siege, in what place, and in what &s;ort or manner &s;oeuer, whether in generall or in particular, a&s;well within as without, they are, and &s;hall be and re|maine, pardoned, forgotten, and as neuer done; &s;o that neuer any mention, mole&s;tation, action, or inqui&s;ition by way or forme of Iu&s;tice, or otherwi&s;e, can be made or in&s;tituted, either again&s;t &s;uch as are liuing, or again&s;t the Heyres of &s;uch as are decea&s;ed, or their goods, re|&s;pectiuely on both &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">es</P>
<P N="2">2. The Inhabitants of this Towne are to behaue them|&s;elues according vnto the commandements Lawes and Proclamations of the&s;e Prouinces; enioying in the mean
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 87 -->time the liberty of con&s;cience, as it is practi&s;ed euery where. And all religious per&s;ons and Churchmen are to be gone and withdraw them&s;elues out of this Town: But in the meane while they are to gouerne them&s;elues al&s;o according to the &s;aid Lawes; and then they may carry away with them their moueables, Images, Pi|ctures, and all the Ornaments of their Churches.</P>
<P>The fore&s;aid Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall or Church-per&s;ons may enioy during their life, all their reuenues and fruites of their goods, lying in places where contribution is paid. But it is conceiued and to bee vnder&s;tood, that all the Church-goods are to belong vnto the high and mighty Lords, the States generall, that they may di&s;po&s;e of them either to the good of the Towne, or otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Nunnes, and religious women may remaine in the Towne, during their life time, being to bee re|&s;pectiuely nouri&s;hed by the goods of their Cloi&s;ters: the re&s;t remaining wholly in the di&s;po&s;ition of the high and mighty Lords the States generall: and the &s;aid Nuns &s;hall be fitted with dwelling places, eyther in their Co|uents or hou&s;es, or el&s;e-where.</P>
<P N="5">5. There is al&s;o granted, that all the inhabitants of this Towne, both Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall and religious per&s;ons, as al&s;o Seculars, and all &s;uch as are gone away, and all o|thers, what&s;oeuer they be, either in or without charges, or military admini&s;trations, or otherwi&s;e, of the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> or of the States of <HI>Braband,</HI> or of this Towne, re&s;pectinely, are to haue free both their liues and goods, both in generall and in particular, in&s;omuch as this is not contrary to the former Article.</P>
<P N="6">6. This Towne, with the Burgers and inhabitants thereof, afore-mentioned, a&s;well &s;pirituall and &s;ecular, is and &s;hall be receiued and u&s;ed by the high and mighty Lords, the States generall of the Vnited Prouinces, and the Lord Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> with all clemency and mild|ne&s;&s;e, hereafter to liue in amity, friend&s;hip and concord
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 87 -->with the other vnited Prouinces and Townes, trading and corre&s;ponding together, according to their ancient liberties, as it is conuenient.</P>
<P N="7">7. The &s;aid high and mighty Lords the States gene|rall, and His Excellence are to v&s;e and exerci&s;e within the &s;aid Towne and Maiorie, the &s;ame being annexed to the Towne, &s;uch juri&s;diction and right, as the Dukes and Dutche&s;&s;es of <HI>Braband</HI> haue had there vntill this pre&s;ent time; and they are to v&s;e this Towne therein wholly, &s;o as the other Townes and Cities of <HI>Braband</HI> are v&s;ed.</P>
<P N="8">8. This Towne, and the Burgers and inhabitants thereof and of the liberties of the &s;aid towne, are to keepe all their rights, cu&s;tomes, freedomes, liberties, exemptions, and all other priuiledges, a&s;well in gene|rall as in particular, which from ancient time, and be|fore the beginning of this towne they haue enioyed, both by Sea and Land, within and without the towne, in <HI>Bra|band, Gelderland, Holland, Zealand,</HI> vpon the <HI>Rhine,</HI> and in other Prouinces, places and waters.</P>
<P N="9">9. The gouernment of the town, a&s;well in the Courts of Iu&s;tice, as in affaires of Policy, is to remaine in the hands of the Magi&s;trate, and of the three members of the towne re&s;pectiuely; and no body is to be preferred, promoted, or receiued vnto the &s;ame, vnle&s;&s;e he he born in the &s;aid towne, or he that hath beene chri&s;tned there, or &s;uch other per&s;ons as the Lords States &s;hall finde good and fit to naturalize and qualifie to that end: But with this condition, that at and for this time, the Go|uerment in Iu&s;tice and Policie, both of high and inferi|our Magi&s;trates, Officers, Gouernours, and other mini|&s;ters, &s;hall be con&s;tituted and e&s;tabli&s;hed by His Excel|lence, and the Deputies of the Lords the generall States.</P>
<P N="10">10. This towne is likewi&s;e to keepe and to retaine at her di&s;po&s;ition and admini&s;tration, all the common and hereditary goods, rights and impo&s;itions, fi&s;hings,
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 88 -->toles, Cu&s;tomes, taxes for merchandi&s;es and wares, and all other rights and reuenues heretofore belonging to the &s;ame in the &s;ame manner as the &s;aid towne hath en|ioyed it, and had the di&s;po&s;itiou and admini&s;tration thereof vntill this time, as beeing &s;o priuiledged and grounded by right: With this condition neuerthele&s;&s;e that the other members of the vnited Prouince doe re|ceiue thereby no preiudice.</P>
<P N="11">11. This towne is al&s;o to retaine and keepe all her owne proui&s;ions that are re&s;ting, both of victuals, ma|terials, and all other common goods, liquids and not li|quids, to be dealt withall, &s;old or kept vnto the profit and di&s;charge of this towne, according to the di&s;po&s;ition of the fore&s;aid three Members; Except all Peeces of Ordnance, Armes and other amunitions, which are to remaine for the &s;eruice of the towne, and not to be &s;old.</P>
<P N="12">12. All Societies, Companies, Trades, or Corporations thereof, that for this time are in the towne, are there to remaine, and to retaine re&s;pectiuely their Charters, or|ders and priuiledges, and withall their goods, both li|quids and not liquids, without re&s;pect to what end the &s;ame may be bought or gotten by the &s;aid Trades, Soci|eties or Companies, that they may be di&s;po&s;ed of vnto the comon profit, according to their owne will and plea&s;ure, by the Prouo&s;ts, Officers, and Ma&s;ters of euery Company.</P>
<P N="13">13. Within the Countrie of <HI>Holland,</HI> nor in any o|ther Prouince of the&s;e Vnited Prouinces, no body &s;hall counterfeit or v&s;e the Armes of this towne, nor the Armes en&s;ignes or markes of the trades or Companies thereof, to wit, of Cuttlers, Pinne and Needle makers, and many other handicrafts. But euery one &s;hall keepe and v&s;e his owne marke, or of his towne, where the ware &s;hall be made, and all &s;uch trades and handiworks. As all&s;o all dying and all new Faires, that haue been ob|tained and e&s;tabli&s;hed during the time of the&s;e troubles,
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 88 -->are hereafter to cea&s;e within the Mayorie of this town; vnle&s;&s;e tho&s;e of the &s;aid Mayorie, being heard thereup|on by the Lords the generall States, they be found &s;o e|quitable, that there be made &s;ome other new order and po&s;ition concerning their Faires.</P>
<P N="14">14. The Inhabitants of the <HI>Bu&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>Boisliduc,</HI> and all tho&s;e of the Countrey thereabout, dwelling in places that pay contributions, are to be treated and v&s;ed as all other good &s;ubiects and inhabitants of the vnited Pro|uinces, whether they dwell within townes, or without in the Countrey here and there.</P>
<P N="15">15. As concerning all the rents and lawfull debts, con|con&s;tituted, made, or taken vpon change, to be paid by the three Members of this Towne, or their Deputies as well during this Siege as before the &s;ame, whether there be &s;ome Letters di&s;patched and &s;ealed about the &s;ame, or none. The Magi&s;trate of this &s;aid towne is to deliuer vp an e&s;tate of all, to be hereafter di&s;po&s;ed of with all e|quity by the &s;aid Lords the generall States.</P>
<P N="16">16. As concerning the payment of the &s;aid debts, and of other charges as may fall vpon the towne, the Courts therein are to keepe their wonted Se&s;sions and Si&s;es, and a&s;lo their impo&s;itions, and other meanes of the &s;aid towne, as now are ready at this pre&s;ent, and in cu&s;tome, all which may be rai&s;ed increa&s;ed, or dimini&s;hed by the three Members, according to their priuiledges and cu|&s;tomes; but &s;o, that thereby no preiudice doe en&s;ue vp|on &s;uch meanes, the which the Common Cau&s;e may re|quire to be leuied, vnto the profit and good of the &s;aid Common Cau&s;e.</P>
<P N="17">17. All Acts, Re&s;olutions, Decrees, Orders, and Pro|clamations made by the &s;aid three Members, or Magi|&s;trates, for as much as they &s;hall not be contrary to the State, or to the good of the Vnited Prouinces; As like|wi&s;e all &s;entences giuen by the <HI>E&s;cherins,</HI> or Iudges, vp|on <HI>rem indicatam:</HI> And moreouer, all euictions of
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 89 -->goods, &s;ituated either within or without the Towne and duely &s;olemnized, are to remaine in their force an<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> vigour; but &s;o that the intere&s;&s;ed party &s;hall keepe hi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> right of appeale or reformation, if &s;o it doe plea&s;e him</P>
<P N="18">18. Tho&s;e that now are, or haue heretofore beene o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Magi&s;tracie, are not to be mole&s;ted or troubled for the acts or orders by them giuen to pay or to di&s;bur&s;e any money or proui&s;ion of the Towne: Neither any Trea&s;urers. Receiuers, or Payma&s;ters to haue paid or disbur&s;ed the &s;aid moneys or proui&s;ions, nor to haue made any accompt: And the &s;aid accompts made vp by the &s;aid Receiuers and other Deputies of this towne, &s;hall not be &s;ubiect to be reviewed: As likewi&s;e all ac|compts made by the Trea&s;urers of the Dominions, of the States of <HI>Braband,</HI> Receiners of Licences, Contri|butions, and Fortifications, are to remaine as they were, without trouble or &s;earch</P>
<P N="19">19. The Gouernment of the <HI>Table of the Holy Gho&s;t,</HI> of the Great Ho&s;pitall, of the building of the Churches, of the hou&s;es of the Orphants, of leprous, of ba&s;tards, of mad or Bedlam, and of all other particuler foundati|ons of Ho&s;pitals, both of men and of women, and the election of the Pourueyors and Rulers thereof, are to be made, e&s;tabli&s;hed and conferred, in &s;uch manner as hi|therto the cu&s;tome hath beene, according to the old priuiledges of the &s;aid Towne.</P>
<P N="20">20 All proprieties, and ma&s;ters of Mills, and Hor&s;e-Mills, and Milles to make Oyle, within this Towne and the liberties thereof, that haue beene broken, beaten downe and &s;poiled, either by the Ordnance, or other|wi&s;e, during this Siege, and by the Warres in the for|mer time, may bee againe erected and built vp vpon their old places and grounds, it being not nece&s;&s;ary nor required to obtaine for the &s;ame any new Act or con|&s;entment, or to pay any new right <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">au<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4+ letters">ely &s;uch as the &s;aid Mills haue been bound formerly to pay, before they
<PB N="7" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 89 -->were de&s;troyed, vnle&s;&s;e they were imployed in the &s;er|uice of the Countrey.</P>
<P N="21">21. All &s;ecular per&s;ons, of what condition &s;oeuer, being &s;worne vnto or in &s;eruice of the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> or of this Towne, or not; &s;hall haue freedome and liberty, and it &s;hall bee free and permitted for euery of them to withdraw him&s;elfe out of this Towne with his Family and goods, pre&s;ently after the reddition of the &s;ame, and for the &s;ame end to cau&s;e to come Waggons, Carts, Ships, and Boats, from the Townes and places of <HI>Bra|band, Holland,</HI> or al&s;o neutrall parts, and neither their per&s;ons nor goods, nor tho&s;e that &s;hall tran&s;port the &s;ame, &s;hall bee hindred, troubled, or harmed, by the Souldiers, Fi&s;cals, or other what&s;oeuer: They &s;hall al&s;o haue no neede to obtaine or get for the &s;aid purpo&s;e, any other con&s;ent, pa&s;&s;eport or &s;afe-conduct.</P>
<P N="22">22. Moreouer, the &s;aid Burgers being gone out of the Towne, and al&s;o tho&s;e that will remaine therein, whether they haue beene &s;worne, or in &s;eruice or other|wi&s;e belonging to the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> or not, and their heyres re&s;pectiuely, are to haue the &s;pace of three yeares next en&s;uing, that in the meane time they may &s;ell, change, or otherwi&s;e put away, as they &s;hall finde good, their goods, euery where, as well in the Towne, as in the liberties and Mayories thereof; or el&s;e they may cau&s;e the &s;aid goods to be receiued and admini&s;tred by &s;uch as they &s;hall appoint and thinke conuenient. And if they dye either within or without the &s;aid Towne, during the &s;aid &s;pace of three yeeres, hauing made Te&s;taments, or none, in that ca&s;e their goods are to befall to their heyre as they &s;hall haue in&s;tituted or to their neere&s;t kinsfolkes re&s;pectiuely.</P>
<P>And tho&s;e that during the &s;aid three yeeres, will goe into the dominions or Townes belonging to the &s;aid K<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ng of <HI>Spaine,</HI> about their particular affaires they &s;hall haue liberty to doe the &s;ame foure times in one yeere;
<PB N="8" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 90 -->but &s;o that they fir&s;t giue knowledge thereof vnto the Gouernour, of whom they &s;hall be bound to take Pa&s;&s;e|port, the which he &s;hall not deny vnto them, vnle&s;&s;e hee haue &s;ome important rea&s;ons to the contrary And at the end of the &s;aid three yeeres they may make their dwelling either in this Towne, or in any neutrall place that doth pay contribution, where they &s;hall enioy the &s;aid liberty and freedome to goe and come, and to trade in all places, and likewi&s;e all other Articles of this Trea|tie.</P>
<P N="24">24. There &s;hall be ordered or made no other Gouer|nour, or Lieutenant Gouernour ouer this Towne, but one of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Na&s;sawe,</HI> or &s;ome other Lord of the Low-Countries.</P>
<P N="25">25. The Garri&s;on of this Towne is to haue no ex|emption of impo&s;itions, or Sub&s;idies, But is to beare like charges as the other inhabitants.</P>
<P N="26">26. There &s;hall be comprehended in this Treatie, all Citizens Burgers, and inhabitants that now are ab&s;ent, with their Wiues and children, and all other per&s;ons, both &s;pirituall and temporall, that haue withdrawne them&s;elues.</P>
<P>All per&s;ons that are &s;icke or hurt, and now in the great Ho&s;pitall or in other hou&s;es, both &s;ouldiours and others, may remaine &amp; &s;tay there vntill they be recoue|red and well; and a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">terwards they may be gone or &s;tay where they &s;hall l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ke be&s;t, &amp; then they &s;hall be furni&s;hed with Wagons or Carts, for them&s;elues and their bag|gage, without any let or hinderance.</P>
<P>All which Articles haue beene concluded, con&s;ented and agreed vpon and granted by his Excellency, and the Lords Deputies of the high &amp; mighty Lords the States Generall, vnto the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ons, the Magi|&s;trate, Burg<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rs, and Inhabitants of the &s;aid towne, who haue a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pted of the &s;ame by power and vertue of their Procurations re&s;pectiuely.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>In witne&s;&s;e whereof, the&s;e
<PB N="9" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 90 -->pre&s;ents haue been &s;igned at <HI>Vught,</HI> in the Campe be|fore the <HI>Bu&s;&s;e,</HI> <DATE>this 14. of <HI>Septemb.</HI> 1629. <HI>&s;tilo nouo.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed, 
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<ITEM><HI><HI>F. HENERY</HI> de Na&s;&s;au.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>F. Michael, Epi&s;copus Bu&s;coducen&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ioannes Moors, Abbas Bernen&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ioannes Hermes, Deaconus Bu&s;coducen&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>R. van Verone.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>I. van Velde.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>R. van Grieneuen&punc;</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>B. Loef van Sloot.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hen. Somers.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pet. Huberts&punc;</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Heriald Heuvel.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>THe Generall States of the &V;nited Prouinces, hauing heard the report of their 'Deputies, after they had &s;eene, read, and examined the aboue-&s;et points and Articles, haue approued them vpon mature deliberation, euen as by the&s;e pre&s;ents the &s;aid Generall States doe approue and avow the &s;ame, promi&s;ing to keepe, and cau&s;e them to be kept, according vnto their former tenour.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen in the Campe before <HI>Bois|leduc,</HI> or the <HI>Bu&s;&s;e,</HI> <DATE><HI>this</HI> 14. of <HI>Septemb.</HI> 1629, &s;tilo nouo.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>It was Signed, HENRY. And lower it was written, <HI>By order from the high and mighty Lords the States Generall.</HI> Signed, <HI>Corn. Mu&s;h.</HI></P>
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