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<P>A Faithful ADVERTISEMENT TO ALL GOOD PATRIOTS OF THE United-Provinces, In the pre&s;ent Conjunctures &s;ince the death of the PRINCE of ORANGE.</P>
<P>Engli&s;hed by the Dutch-Copie Printed at <HI>Leyden</HI> 1650.</P>
<P>Reprinted by <HI>W. D.</HI> 1650.</P>
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<HEAD>The Summarie, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>That their Lord&s;hips found good to &s;end their Deputies un|to the re&s;pective Provinces, to that end and purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>That the Committees of the other Provinces are earne&s;tly de&s;ired to &s;econd the good intentions of their Lord&s;hips, by their &s;erious Letters unto their re&s;pective Principals.</P>
<P>That in the interim all matters concerning the State, &s;hall bee left in their u&s;ual cour&s;, and fundamental order of Go|vernment; the &s;everal Coun&s;els, and chief Militarie Of|ficers remaining in their re&s;pective Commi&s;sions, and in|&s;tructions till &s;uch time, as further order &s;hall bee taken about the whole Government by the Provinces.</P>
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<HEAD>THE ADVERTISEMENT.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Dear Patriots! and upright lovers of your Countrie, the good and faithful inhabitants of the United Provinces!</HEAD>
<P>_WEe have good cau&s;, indeed, to bee affected with the untimelie and &s;ud|den Departure of his Highne&s;s <HI>Prince William of Orange;</HI> beeing thus &s;natcht away from among us, in the flower of his Age, and in the mid&s;t of his Power and great Autoritie; leaving behinde him a memorable example, that neither Youth, nor Pedigree, nor anie Worldlie re&s;pect or condition, availeth ought again&s;t the &s;troke of death. And therefore wee ought all of us, to applie our &s;elvs to the amend|ment of our &s;inful cour&s;es, and praiers to God, that hee would teach us <HI>to number our daies.</HI></P>
<P>Prai&s;ing withal, his loving kindne&s;s to us, that hee endueth the Government &s;till with Wi&s;dom, the &s;pirit of Unitie, and Love, as is abundantly made apparent unto us, by the above-recited whole&s;om Re&s;olutions of the Province of <HI>Holland,</HI> mo&s;t unani|mou&s;ly and cheerfully yielded unto, and embraced
<PB N="2" REF="3">in their Solemn A&s;&s;emblie. And therefore praying to God Almightie, &s;o to guide and &s;teer the hearts of the re&s;t of the Provinces, that they may all meet with In&s;tructions and Re&s;olutions an&s;werable to the de&s;ired (the onelie indeed and mo&s;t ab&s;olute) e&s;ta|bli&s;hment of mutual love and Unitie; to the &s;hame &amp; confu&s;ion, on the one &s;ide, of all our forrein enemies, who may change their <HI>hair</HI> for a &s;ea&s;on, though they cannot their <HI>kinde;</HI> and on the other &s;ide, that the eies of all &s;uch as were mi&s;-led through anie ba&s;e and pernicious impre&s;&s;ion, and as if <HI>Holland</HI> &s;hould have harboured anie thought or de&s;ign to recede from, or de&s;ert the Union, may open their eies and &s;ee how they are abu&s;ed. Shame overtake them, which coun|&s;elled the good young Prince tho&s;e extremities of la&s;t Summer's Expedition; the rather for that the &s;aid Coun&s;el intended again&s;t both this, and all the Provinces, cannot but prove now the greate&s;t preju|dice to the Hou&s; of him to whom it was given. Hee him&s;elf indeed having &s;een &s;om of the bad fruits thereof, whereas in lieu of love and affection, the onelie and be&s;t ligaments and props of a State, hee &s;aw him&s;elf a&s;&s;per&s;ed with all manner of cur&s;ings and reproches; and the Citie of <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> (whence both the whole Countrie, and his Predece&s;&s;ors, had often been &s;o mightily relieved with &s;hips, Ammu|nition, Monies, and anie thing that was in their power, as beeing the principal &s;tore-hou&s; and Ma|gazine of the <HI>Republick</HI>) nece&s;&s;itated, by rea&s;on of &s;uch enterpri&s;es, to fortifie her &s;elf, to double their guards and garri&s;on, to repair their walls and palli|&s;adoes, and to &s;ecure the <HI>Amstel</HI> with out-works again&s;t the like attemts. Hee &s;aw and heard the free
<PB N="3" REF="3">and high di&s;cour&s;es that were occa&s;ioned thereby in all the Provinces again&s;t his proceedings; and how flat and cold the &s;everal procured and forced Thank&s;|givings were, from the re&s;pective parts in that behalf, (though they could not avoid it, &s;eeing <HI>Amsterdam</HI> could not, but was fain to &s;toop) that it had better been left unperformed.</P>
<P>And now after his death, his familie &s;ee'th, that the Provinces, and all good members of the &s;ame, do mo&s;t unanimou&s;ly applie them&s;elvs to prevent the like mi&s;|chief, as in his life time they di&s;covered and &s;uf|fered; which cannot but impair their repute and con|dition, that were wont hitherto to wield the State at their plea&s;ure, and more ab&s;olutely indeed, then ever King did. For even the greate&s;t flatterers of their own mu&s;t confe&s;s, I appeal to their own con&s;ciences, That a free State and Republick, ought not to bee under &s;uch Ward&s;hip.</P>
<P>Where was it ever heard, that a Creature created its Creator? that one in Commi&s;&s;ion command's them that gave it? that one writing him&s;elf <HI>Your humble &s;ervant,</HI> doth bridle and ride his Ma&s;ters at plea&s;ure?</P>
<P>The good and faithful &s;ervices of the Hou&s; of <HI>Na&s;&s;aw</HI> are gladly acknowledged by all; That Prince <HI>William</HI> did help the laying of the foundation of the State that Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> and Prince <HI>Henrie</HI> have faithfully, zea|lou&s;ly, and valiantly continued in it; that the like might have been ex&s;pected from the late young Prince.</P>
<P>But I praie; have they not al&s;o from the beginning, &s;ought and found their own particular intere&s;t in, and by it? was not the fir&s;t ri&s;e more from Court-Jealou|&s;ie (again&s;t the Spani&s;h Faction and direction at <HI>Bru&s;|&s;els</HI>)
<PB N="4" REF="4">the Common make-bate in all Courts, then from anie thing el&s;. Doth not <HI>Borre</HI> aver, that Prince <HI>Wil|liam</HI> knew not well in the beginning, whether hee &s;hould bee of the <HI>Lutheran,</HI> or the Reformed profe&s;&s;ion? did not hee advi&s;e that the <HI>Lutheran</HI> &s;hould hee main|teined as principal? did not Prince <HI>William</HI> aim at the Sovereigntie? is not the Original Act to bee &s;een in the <HI>Court-Rowls</HI> of the late Prince, which hee had got|ten from mo&s;t Cities already: you may &s;ee it in <HI>Borre</HI> and <HI>Hooft.</HI> The Princes his Succe&s;&s;ors, have they ever more a&s;&s;erted or ea&s;ed the Land in their true pri|vileges, liberties and immunities, then the Kings did? have they ever remitted ought of their own Autoritie or intere&s;t to the State? nay have they not been <HI>&s;em|per Augu&s;tus,</HI> intere&s;ting and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing them&s;elvs of whatever they could, e&s;pecially the giving of Patents, or Commi&s;&s;ions; the di&s;po&s;ing of Garri&s;ons (which in the beginning was, and ought to bee, and in <HI>Frie&s;|land</HI> yet is, <HI>taliter, qualiter,</HI> in the State's hand, both for Cities and Countrie) and the whole power of the Souldierie? have they not forced a <HI>premier Noble</HI> upon <HI>Zealand,</HI> by which means they got the whole Directi|on of that Province into their own hands. Did not the la&s;t Prince, but a year ago, make a change in the Ma|gi&s;trates of that Province, e&s;pecially at <HI>Flu&s;hing,</HI> con|trarie to their cu&s;toms? Did not hee in 1649, by meer autoritie and power of the Souldierie again di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;s tho&s;e of <HI>Nimmegen</HI> again&s;t their will of their free Ele|ction of Magi&s;trates; which by very old privileges they claimed like other Cities of <HI>Gelderland,</HI> and now by virtue of the Peace they are to enjoie? have not all the &s;aid Princes &s;waied the A&s;&s;emblie of the States General <HI>&agrave; la bagnette,</HI> under the rod? The like parti|culars
<PB N="5" REF="4">would bee too long to rehear&s; all, it beeing needle&s;s, and none indeed ignorant of them; none can denie, but they have all of them &s;ought their particular Intere&s;t, pretending the publick; if you de&s;ire a fre&s;h example, peru&s;e but the late particular Treati&s;e, and what conditions are put there upon the King of <HI>Spain</HI> by the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> be&s;ides what is conditioned in the general Articles of the Peace; and tho&s;e &s;tatelie conce&s;&s;ions of <HI>Turnhout,</HI> and <HI>Sevenbergen</HI> for my Ladie the Prince&s;s <HI>Dowager.</HI></P>
<P>And who know's not, what honorable and prince|lie Enterteinments, Emoluments, Profits, Pen&s;ions, Advancements, Pre&s;ents and Honoraries have conti|nually been drawn and enjoied, as well by the Princes them&s;elvs, as by tho&s;e of their hou&s; and kin|dred? which is in no wi&s;e alleged here to upbraid them with; beeing a thing both equal and cu&s;toma|rie, and the &s;tyle of the world; But it mu&s;t bee &s;aid, to &s;hew, that if they did great &s;ervice to the State and Countrie, they were likewi&s;e mo&s;t roially re|warded.</P>
<P>And for tho&s;e &s;ervices they performed, was it not &s;till with and by the means of the Land? Have not the Commons been fain to gather it together with their &s;weat and blood? Have they ever contributed a pennie towards it, out of their own pur&s;? Nay, have not they and their Families alwaies been exempt from all exci&s;es, impo&s;itions, and Taxations, which the lea&s;t pea&s;ant and poore&s;t inhabitant was forced to paie &s;till? Neverthele&s;s it was held fit and conve|nient, and I do not di&s;commend it: I &s;peak it not to le&s;&s;en their Merit, Honor and re&s;pect; the Land &s;ped not th wor&s;e for that.</P>
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<P>But in regard that &s;om few pick-thanks here and there take upon them to di&s;cour&s;, to the prejudice and di&s;couragement of the Land; as if the State could not &s;ub&s;i&s;t, now it is de&s;titute of a Governor; Let this &s;erv for better information and in&s;truction; <HI>That the true, and perfect &s;overeigntie is in the Republick, which never die's,</HI> and that the wi&s;dom, prudence, concord and Love therein doth not depend upon a per&s;on. At <HI>Venice</HI> and <HI>Genoa</HI> th&eacute;y have a <HI>Doge</HI> or <HI>Duke,</HI> when hee dieth, they chu&s;e another; and all is well. The thir|teen <HI>Swi&s;&s;er-Cantons</HI> are kindled and allied together, much like our &s;even Provinces; and though of dif|ferent Religions, yet they live in peace and concord among them&s;elvs: they know of no Governor, Cap|tain-General, or &s;tadholder; Hee that meddle's with one, doth rouz them all; they meet twice or thrice a year in a general A&s;&s;emblie, con&s;ulting of &s;uch things as concern their general Weal. They lie betwixt <HI>Au|&s;tria, Venice,</HI> the <HI>Pope</HI> and <HI>Spain;</HI> yet none dare's annoie them mainteining not onely them&s;elvs, but their Neigbors al&s;o, as the <HI>Valtoline, Geneva, &amp;c. Bern</HI> is like unto <HI>Holland,</HI> the &s;econd in order, and greate&s;t in power, <HI>England</HI> at pre&s;ent hath wars (I leav the cau&s; and circum&s;tances to them&s;elvs) and therefore they mu&s;t have a Head for the <HI>Militia.</HI> General <HI>Cromwel</HI> is but a member of the <HI>Council</HI> of <HI>State,</HI> as al&s;o of the <HI>Parlament,</HI> having, nor claming no pre|rogative, no not the lea&s;t above his fellow-mem|bers. And do not wee daily &s;ee and hear, what migh|tie things are don there both by Sea and Land? The Republicks of <HI>Nurenberg, Strasburg, Ulm,</HI> and all the re&s;t of the <HI>free Imperial Cities</HI> are governed by Bur|goma&s;ters
<PB N="7" REF="5">and Senators, and have maintained them|&s;elvs in that &s;ort for manie hundreds of years, making their own Magi&s;trate, and knowing of no &s;tad|holder, or Governor; though in ca&s;e or fear of war, they chu&s;e a Head, &s;omtimes a Nobleman, other|while one of meaner condition, a fouldier of For|tune, to command their Forces. <HI>Embden</HI> it &s;elf, hard by us, doth practi&s;e the &s;ame, though no Imperial or free Citie. <HI>Venice, Genoa, Luca,</HI> and the <HI>Swi&s;&s;ers</HI> do the like. But all after &s;uch a manner, that they finde it no &s;ooner otherwi&s;e expedient, but they laie tho&s;e Heads, Generals or Coronels by again, in part, or altogether, more or le&s;s: and it is &s;o far from it, that tho&s;e Militarie Heads &s;hould make anie re&s;i&s;tance, or pre&s;cribe unto their Ma&s;ters, that on the contrarie receiving their Di&s;mi&s;&s;ion with all &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, they praie, that upon the next emergencie or opportuni|tie, the Magi&s;trate would bee plea&s;ed to remember them with further Emploiment.</P>
<P><HI>This is Libertie and Freedom;</HI> of which wee had, and enjoied but the &s;hadow here all this while.</P>
<P>All the antient, both Greek and Romane Repub|licks kept the &s;ame cour&s;; employing in time of war, none but their fellow-Citizens; who when the war or expedition cea&s;ed, forthwith &s;urrendred their charge and autoritie.</P>
<Q>Juvit &s;umpta Ducem, juvit demi&s;&s;a pote&s;tas.</Q>
<P>It was never heard of in a Republick, that there &s;hould bee a General, where there was no war; &s;o as that hee &s;hould have the ab&s;olute Command of the State-forces, even to emploie the &s;ame again&s;t his own Ma&s;ters. In the field indeed it is expedient, that the General or Coronel di&s;po&s;e of the Charges and
<PB N="8" REF="6">Offices, by rea&s;on of &s;udden emergencies and acci|dents, brooking no delaie, and that there on the place, they know be&s;t, who de&s;erv's be&s;t. But at home they ought to bee di&s;po&s;ed of by the Pai-ma|&s;ters. To &s;aie, that a Prince doth be&s;tow mo&s;t of the Offices upon the worthie&s;t, is ridiculous; For wee have &s;een with our eies; that &s;carce anie here get them but fawning Courtiers; the old and good &s;oul|diers remained &s;till what, and where they were. Doth it go by favor too among the Pai-ma&s;ters, that is le&s;s &s;trange; they are ma&s;ters. The Princes far exceed|ed therein; I have often heard Gentlemen complain, that there was &s;caree anie thing left for them to ende|vor, or a&s;pire unto, whiles the Prince's kindred was &s;o numerous. Wee know, there can bee no perfe|ction here on earth, and the&s;e and the like above re|hear&s;ed complaints &s;tood daily in a multiplying con|dition.</P>
<P>The Amba&s;&s;adors &s;ent over into <HI>England</HI> about the Match, made the King there believ mightie things, of I know not what Hereditarie Govern|ment&s;hip, and mightie A&s;&s;i&s;tance that King might thereupon ex&s;pect from this State.</P>
<P>Touching the former, there need's no producing of Acts; do not wee &s;ee at this pre&s;ent, how upon the Prince&s;s Roial her Deliverie, the Court-&s;panniels prate and keep ado, as if the State was nece&s;&s;arily ob|liged, there beeing a young Prince, to admit him without di&s;pute to the charge of Governor-General, and Stadholder. Is not this claiming Inheritance and Sovereigntie? Hath there not been intimation pre|&s;ented already, <HI>that the&s;e things might not bee debated. For, proceeded in they may turn to the prejudice of her i&s;&s;ue;</HI>
<PB N="9" REF="6">What remain's then for us to do, but that wee pa&s;s an expre&s;s <HI>Act</HI> of <HI>Hereditarie Governor,</HI> to make good the Amba&s;&s;ador's word; (though unwarranted) that &s;o wee may the more ea&s;ily bee brought likewi&s;e under that unluckie Hou&s; of the <HI>Stuarts,</HI> which the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> them&s;elvs have &s;haken off, and the <HI>Scots</HI> them&s;elvs declare, to bee <HI>full of blood and &s;in;</HI> although I pa&s;s no verdict on it.</P>
<P>It will bee &s;aid, <HI>that neverthele&s;s this rule was followed in|to the third Generation:</HI> it is partly true; but yet after Prince <HI>William,</HI> wee took <HI>Leicester;</HI> and after him Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> and Prince <HI>Henrie:</HI> Howbeit, it is remarkable, that hee who in tho&s;e daies had the chiefe&s;t direction in the affairs of State, counted it &s;erviceable for his turn, to devolv the Autoritie on Prince <HI>Maurice;</HI> that by the Prince, beeing but young then, and &s;tanding in need of courting again the favor of the &s;aid Director, hee might everie where &s;upplie the Magi&s;trates, with his Creatures; whom Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> afterwards, in the year 1618. ca&s;t all out again. Upon that ground al&s;o, and the advice of the &s;aid Director, was it that Prince <HI>Mau|rice</HI> in <HI>Anno</HI> 1611. changed the Magi&s;trate of <HI>U|trecht,</HI> and took the election to him&s;elf, as al&s;o at <HI>Alcmar,</HI> and the Election of the Common-Councel at <HI>Rotterdam.</HI> Prince <HI>Henrie</HI> likewi&s;e in 1625 was as &s;uddenly received, without in&s;tructions: why? hee had the Republick's arms and forces in his own hands then.</P>
<P>Upon the Birth of the late Prince <HI>William,</HI> there ap|peared a <HI>ruere in &s;ervitium,</HI> each one &s;trove to bee fore|mo&s;t in offering the &s;urvivance, or Rever&s;ion. One of <HI>Over Ye&s;&s;el,</HI> one of <HI>Utrecht,</HI> and a few more el&s;where
<PB N="10" REF="7">knew how to manage and compa&s;s the &s;ame. And &s;ince, what the Provinces got from Spain, they lo&s;t from time to time in their Freedom, Laws, and Privileges, <HI>Quant&ograve; quis ob&s;equio promtior, opibus &amp; honoribus extollebatur.</HI> Ba&s;e fellows, and oft-times &s;trangers, whom none knew whence they came, beeing but once entered and &s;ettled at Court, were look't up|on, and held like pettie-gods.</P>
<P>When anie State's-matters was propounded; the fir&s;t care was how it would reli&s;h at Court. The State's intere&s;t came not once into con&s;ideration. Was there anie thing that meerly concerned either his Highne&s;s in particular, or anie of his hou&s; and cold allies, that mu&s;t bee di&s;patched forth with, not according to the in|tere&s;t of the State, but in favor and to the advantage of his Highne&s;s, or his kindred and alliances.</P>
<P>Let us but reflect upon <HI>England.</HI> At the begining tho&s;e of the <HI>Parlament,</HI> as formerly the <HI>Scots</HI> al&s;o, were favo|red; but no &s;ooner was the match concluded but wee heard another tune. Whatplots were therenotlaid? what practices remained unattemted to engage us in War again&s;t <HI>England? France, Spain, Denmark,</HI> did never &s;o much as look about once in the King of <HI>England's</HI> be|half, though near in blood, and Kings them&s;elvs. Wee a Republick, of no kin, were haled along <HI>pede ligato,</HI> to provoke and attemt a Rupture, Indeed wee may thank <HI>Holland</HI> wee &s;tand yet unengaged. How often and frequently, without anie notice given to the State, have our &s;hips been attending the &s;ervice of that King? what &s;tore of Ammunition; Officers, and Souldiers, have there been tran&s;ported? What labor and indu&s;trie was there not bu&s;ied by a certain man at <HI>Middleburgh,</HI> to engage <HI>Zeland</HI> in ho&s;tilitie again&s;t <HI>England,</HI> without
<PB N="11" REF="7">anie regard of hazarding the lives and e&s;tates of the Commons there, but onely to plea&s;ure his Highne&s;s, and thus to plaie the ma&s;ter in <HI>Zealand,</HI> putting by his place a right hone&s;t, old, and honorable Council-com|mittee-member, again&s;t all order and cu&s;tom there, to &s;eat him&s;elf in his room.</P>
<P>In the A&s;&s;emblie of the States-General, it went much alike in mo&s;t things. Tho&s;e of Holland have great cau&s; to de&s;ire, that the State's A&s;&s;emblies of the Pro|vinces may com to the <HI>Hague</HI> once, and look to the&s;e matters, and carriages; for their ordinarie Deputies &s;aving but a few, evermore had their eie upon and &s;teered according to the Court-motions in all delibe|rations.</P>
<P>The Queen Regent in France, though &s;i&s;ter to the King of Spain, yet is too hone&s;t to have the lea&s;t re|gard to the intere&s;t of her Brother in prejudice to the State, where &s;hee is &s;eated; of that wee have &s;een proof enough the&s;e manie years.</P>
<P>Here, on the contraie, the advantage and intere&s;t of this State mu&s;t not bee regarded at all; but the que|&s;tion is pre&s;ently; Doth it concern his Highne&s;s, or the King of <HI>England,</HI> or <HI>Scotland,</HI> or <HI>Denmark,</HI> or <HI>Frie&s;land?</HI> if &s;o, that &s;ufficeth; wee mu&s;t needs &s;teer by that Com|pa&s;s, and by no means according to our own.</P>
<P>In <HI>Spain, Portugal,</HI> at <HI>Bru&s;&s;els,</HI> at the <HI>Court of the Grand Signior,</HI> and el&s;where, there is no &s;cruple made of ad|mitting of the Agents of the <HI>Parlament</HI> of <HI>England,;</HI> the <HI>particular Provinces</HI> have given publick audience to the &s;ame. But at the General A&s;&s;emblie in the <HI>Hague,</HI> none dur&s;t vote the like; and why? Not to di&s;-oblige the Court for&s;ooth. And yet they made no difficultie at all to give publick Audience to Commi&s;&s;ioners of
<PB N="12" REF="8">other neighboring States and Cities; and to the Scot's Commi&s;&s;ioners al&s;o, a&s;&s;oon as they &s;aw them di&s;po&s;ed once to Treat with their King.</P>
<P>But to tho&s;e of <HI>England,</HI> by no means, which in|deed had never been denied, had there not been that re&s;pect to his Highne&s;&s;e's alliance, whereupon at la&s;t is followed that <HI>ju&s;t affront</HI> wee received, by &s;en|ding the Amba&s;&s;ador <HI>Joachimi</HI> thus home again; which as much as in them laie, tho&s;e of <HI>Holland</HI> pro|vidently endevored to prevent, by &s;ending over <HI>Com|mi&s;&s;arie Sharp.</HI> For it can no waies &s;tand with the Commerce and Navigation of <HI>Holland,</HI> to bee in broils with <HI>England.</HI> But lo, this was &s;o re&s;ented by mo&s;t Deputies among the States General, &s;teering ever according to the Court-winde, that they made it a <HI>State-trea&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Breach of the Union.</HI></P>
<P>How many other matters pre&s;ented them&s;elvs from time to time, which the Pre&s;idents dur&s;t not, for fear of di&s;plea&s;ing the Prince? <Q>And therefore was it an inveterate cu&s;tom, that no Pre&s;ident dur&s;t adven|ture to com into the A&s;&s;emblie, without repai|ring to the Prince fir&s;t, and making him privie of all matters of importance, there to receiv, and af|ter to &s;aie his Le&s;&s;on.</Q></P>
<P>And truly I cannot blame anie of them; for it is natural, that everie one love's and &s;eek's to advance his Children, Brothers, Friends and Kindred; and there was not anie advancement almo&s;t to bee had, but by him and his means. But if anie have complied thus of meer de&s;ign and malice, to bereav and de&s;poil the Land of it's Freedom and Privileges, they above all others are unexcu&s;able.</P>
<P>Neither can I finde fault with his Highne&s;s; there
<PB N="13" REF="8">is not a Boor, Burgher, Gentleman, in Court, Town, Countrie, but &s;trive's to advance his Fortune. The Monk or Friar would fain bee Abbot, the Abbot Bi|&s;hop, the Bi&s;hop Cardinal, the Cardinal Pope. Greatne&s;s and Ambition is but an humane condition. His Highne&s;s &s;aw <HI>homines ad &s;ervitutem di&s;po&s;itos,</HI> the opportunitie; and improved what others fitted for him.</P>
<P>But now, that God Almightie hath delivered our Dear Countrie from that impending Servitude, and reacheth forth the golden Libertie from Heaven into our Lap, wee were indeed the mo&s;t unthankful and abject people of all the world, if wee did not in all due manner embrace the &s;ame. Hee might well &s;aie afterwards of us, <HI>They have for&s;aken mee,</HI> and give us a <HI>King</HI> again <HI>in his wrath:</HI> For the Scripture is plain, that <HI>Republicks are more acceptable or agreeable to God, then Monarchies.</HI> Which may well make us to won|der and ponder, whence it is that &s;om <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> are &s;uch abominable flatterers; Sure Ambition lie's at the Bottom. Peradventure they will not have the name of Bi&s;hops and Prelates; but really, they minde the thing, they covet Autoritie. For, having the favor and ear of the Prince, they never leav till thereby they are impower'd to domineer it as well over their fel|low-brethren, as in Civil and State-Affairs; like unto that perverter of Scripture, <HI>Teling</HI> in <HI>Zeland,</HI> and that Para&s;ite, <HI>Sterremont,</HI> at the <HI>Hague,</HI> who, in the rehear|&s;al of the circum&s;tances of his Highne&s;&s;e's death, and in the Pulpit, took upon him to prophecie, that the Prince's death was but the fore-runner of the ruine of the&s;e Countries. All good and faithful Mini&s;ters of the Word of God, may take warning, and bee &s;ure that &s;uch Flattering, Court-hunting, Court-depending
<PB N="14" REF="9">Preachers do &s;eek for &s;omwhat el&s;, then they can finde in their Bible; and that they do not follow the Le&s;&s;on to bee <HI>like unto the lea&s;t;</HI> but that they gape after the <HI>Surplus:</HI> that like the Bi&s;hops, <HI>quondam,</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> they may bee men of Autoritie, and bear &s;waie over their brethren, &s;tooping to them to bee provided or advanced-with good fat Livings, lying in their Di&s;|cretion. What bitter complaints there were taken up again&s;t &s;uch, by the better &s;ort of Mini&s;ters in <HI>England,</HI> together with woful effects of &s;uch enormities is noto|rious: and wee have &s;een &s;om copies of the like, not onely at the begining of the Truce, when <HI>Utenbogart</HI> for it was termed Pope at the <HI>Hague;</HI> but likewi&s;e at the begining of this Peace. For it is not Religion, but affectation of Greatne&s;s which haunt's the&s;e men, po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ing the good young Prince and his Confidents with &s;uch things as came &s;hort of heaven and earth, and which never entred into the thoughts onely of the good Magi&s;trates in Holland and other Provinces; as if they &s;hould have gone about to alter the lea&s;t tittle in matters either of State or Religion. What mean el&s; the&s;e &s;everal blewcoat-books of <HI>Bicker's tumults,</HI> the <HI>Free Di&s;cour&s;,</HI> the <HI>Bay-garland, &amp;c.</HI> but to render the Civil Magi&s;trate, which found the Peace whole&s;om, Chri&s;tian and nece&s;&s;arie for the State, &s;u&s;pect and odi|ous, and even to a&s;&s; per&s; and blame the late Prince <HI>Hen|rie</HI> him&s;elf, and the &s;urviving Ladie Dowager (who&s;e &s;ollicitations of the Peace, and earne&s;t painful pur&s;u|ing thereof as by them&s;elvs, &s;o e&s;pecially by my Lord <HI>Knuyt,</HI> hath been con&s;picuous) as guiltie of the &s;ame fault, which now they charge upon the whole Go|vernment. Her Highne&s;s &s;elf, and all the Hou&s; of <HI>Na&s;|&s;aw,</HI> do manife&s;tly di&s;approve the extremitie of la&s;t
<PB N="15" REF="9">Summer's attempts; declaring their wi&s;hes, that it had never happened; and yet a <HI>Sterrimont</HI> and <HI>Teling</HI> dare take upon them to extol it; mo&s;t impiou&s;ly applying and abu&s;ing the holie Scriptures and pa&s;&s;ages thereof, to &s;helter their wicked a&s;&s;ertions.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that are inve&s;ted with the Government, do not know them&s;elvs yet to this hour, what mo ved his Highne&s;s to tho&s;e &s;trange proceedings, and the&s;e prat|ling fellows dare of their own haughtie ambitious &s;pi|rit pronounce &s;entence; and know how to applie Scrip|ture to that no man know's, that which hath no beeing, and which none of all the re&s;t of the pious, di&s;creet and &s;ound Mini&s;ters do meddle with, but are willing with everie one to remain ignorant of.</P>
<P>The Governors of <HI>Holland</HI> neverthele&s;s, are &s;o di&s;|creet and prudent, that they can wink at all, never troubling them&s;elvs either to &s;earch into the cau&s;es (which cannot but bee vain and frivolous) or to re|member what is pa&s;t; it beeing apparent, that it is to bee imputed to nothing el&s; but the bad coun&s;il of his Highne&s;'s con&s;i&s;ting of the forenamed and publick Sycophants; but they declare, and make it manife&s;t, that their aim is no other, but to maintein Religion, the Union and the <HI>Militia,</HI> together with all mutual Con|cord, Love and Friend&s;hip; inviting all the other Pro|vinces to repair by their States-A&s;&s;emblies into the <HI>Hague,</HI> to advi&s;e and re&s;olv together, of what may bee mo&s;t expedient in the pre&s;ent high and weightie conjunctions. For then and there they &s;hall &s;ee by their own eies into tho&s;e upright, and peaceable intentions of <HI>Holland,</HI> in the behalf of a firm and unchangeable wel-fare, and pro&s;perous condition of our common <HI>Father land,</HI> again&s;t all forreign and dome&s;tick, e&s;pe|cially,
<PB N="16" REF="10">&s;uch flattering, venemous enemies, and haters of it's Re&s;t and Unitie. And this is that heartie wi&s;h and de&s;ire of all the good ordinarie Deputies in the Ge|neralitie them&s;elvs, as finding them&s;elvs not warrant|ed, and abhorring to bee led by the no&s;e, and move at the book of the above-named, or anie &s;uch like flat|terers.</P>
<P>If each Province &s;hall bee plea&s;ed then, to chu&s;e another Stad-holder for them&s;elvs, either in general, or particular; they may di&s;po&s;e and determine, eve|rie one according to their plea&s;ure. That lie's in everie one's bre&s;t and freedom; as al&s;o to impart &s;uch Com|mi&s;&s;ions and in&s;tructions, as they think good them|&s;elvs. But to receiv or admit of a Governor without in&s;truction, without limitation, is ab&s;urd, and not practi&s;ed in anie place, no not where Inheritance give's title; for even there are Capitulations, and &s;ti|pulations made, and men do not blind-fold and hood-winkt &s;ubject them&s;elvs to anie. Much le&s;s here, where the States of the Land them&s;elvs are the <HI>Sovereign's,</HI> pa&s;t all di&s;pute, and acknowledged &s;uch by all the Kings, Princes and Potentates they have, or had to do withal. For which Sovereigntie, the good Commons of the Land have now the&s;e four&s;core years &s;o freely adventured, and contributed their E&s;tates and lives, ex&s;pecting now at length &s;om ea&s; and repo&s;al. But how will that bee compa&s;&s;ed, when there &s;hall bee no relaxation, whereby Debts may bee cleared, the Souldierie and other charges readily defraied, the Companies kept compleat and full, all the di&s;orders in mu&s;terings redre&s;&s;ed, as much as po&s;|&s;ibly may bee; for now it is too too bad and palpa|ble; Captains beeing through bad coun&s;el, winked at by
<PB N="17" REF="10">the Court, e&s;pecially &s;trangers; to have them in the better readine&s;s, and by them to Lord it over the States them&s;elvs. Have not wee &s;een &amp; heard it, in the late Attempt and &s;iege of <HI>Am&s;terdam,</HI> how the Mi|litarie men began to brave and crow, how they triumphed and in|&s;ulted over the States, and trampled the Freedom and Privileges of the Land under their feet. All confidence between the States and His Highne&s;s was out of date; there was no tru&s;tie, familiar, and inti|mate communication both with Militarie men and flattering Crea|tures; According to who&s;e appetite and liking, new members be|gan to bee obtruded into the Magi&s;trates every where, even and al|together, as if wee were no more a Republick, but down-right &s;laves. What&s;o&euml;ver was intimated, that it went not thus in other Repub|licks, greater and &s;maller, that was put by as mi&s;-applied, wee want|ed di&s;cretion, wee were unworthie to enjoie that Libertie, and tho&s;e Privileges, that were wre&s;ted out of the <HI>Spaniard's</HI> hands; Hogs wee were, and to bee put into the &s;tie, onely for&s;ooth to make fat and great a &s;mall companie of ba&s;e flatterers.</P>
<P>Till God in Heaven above could no longer endure it; who now once again hath rear'd us up, and di&s;intangled our feet, and open|ed our eies to &s;ee what wee lo&s;t. If wee are not po&s;&s;e&s;t now with a &s;pirit of giddine&s;s: if wee will not return to feed on husks; here is a new-cre&auml;ted occa&s;ion for us to bee as true and complete a Repub|lick as <HI>Venice, Genoa, Luca, Geneva, England, Swit&s;ers,</HI> and all other free Cities and placcs, and to becom ma&s;ters of our own hou&s;es. Wee have cau&s; &s;till to look well about us; the flatterers are not gone yet, nor quiet, they have not yet forgotten the reli&s;h of the &s;weet mor&s;el their flatteries procured them: if they can enveigle and hood-wink us again, they are &s;ure both then and after to bee made much of, and to get as much as they are able to &s;wallow, and bee the be&s;t and bu&s;ie&s;t cocks in the pit &s;till. <HI>Sterrement</HI> and <HI>Teling</HI> will not bee long to &s;eek for Texts out of the Bible, and rather pull them by the hair, and wre&s;t them into anie <HI>metamorph&ocirc;&s;is</HI> but they &s;hall &s;erv their turns, to Pope it among us.</P>
<P>The que&s;tion is, What wee &s;hould do then? That is an&s;wered by the Summarie above rehear&s;ed, at the head of this Di&s;cour&s;; name|ly, <HI>That all matters concerning the State and the Militia, &s;hall bee left in the u&s;ual cour&s; and fundamental order of Goverment the &s;everal Coun&s;els and chief Militarie Officers remaining in their re&s;pective Commi&s;sions.</HI></P>
<P>Manie of the Cities in <HI>Holland, Gelderland, Overy&s;&s;el, Groningen,
<PB N="18" REF="11">Zealand,</HI> and <HI>Frie&s;land,</HI> have their own Election of Magi&s;trates, and had the &s;ame under former Sovereigns; which Sovereigns, either of good will and freely, or for monie, gave up that right unto them. <HI>Groningen</HI> got it by capitulation of Prince <HI>Maurice Anno</HI> 1621. Everie Citie may now endevor for the like, &s;o as it may bee don by the States, and have the &s;tamp of Sovereign Autoritie. And why &s;hould not <HI>Middleburgh, Zirick&s;ea,</HI> and <HI>Tolen</HI> enjoie it as well as <HI>Goes?</HI> Why &s;hall not the re&s;t of the Cities in <HI>Holland, &V;trecht,</HI> and <HI>Nim|megen</HI> have it as well as <HI>Horn, Enckbuy&s;e, Edam, Munikedam, Arnhem, Zurphen, Bommel, Harderick, Kampen, Deventer, Swoll, Hattum. El|burg, Wageningen, Geelmuyden?</HI> The Nobilitie and Gentrie in all the Provinces appear likewi&s;e, either by their Qualitie, or by a free E|lection of their own, and therein no Governor ever medled.</P>
<P>To what end then &s;hould a Governor or Captain General bee requi&s;ite unle&s;s it were to command all the &s;ouldierie at his plea&s;ure, and to force &s;uch Re&s;olutions upon the States, as his humor prompt's him; and to bow and bend our Freedom and Privileges according to his own fancie, and then to return again to the old cour&s;; No, not &s;o, my Dear fellow-Patriots. In the very begin|ning of the War, the Governor had no power to di&s;po&s;e of Patents or Commi&s;&s;ions; but with the knowledg and allowance of the States; but if wee cre&auml;te a new Captain-General, let us tie him never &s;o &s;trictly by In&s;tructions, hee will, by means of the flatterers and other practi&s;es, never re&s;t, til hee have wre&s;ted all the Direction from time to time into his own hands again, beyond all po&s;&s;ibilitie to prevent it.</P>
<P>And what need have wee of a Captain General? wee are in peace: <HI>Spain</HI> and <HI>France</HI> are in broils; <HI>Germanie</HI> hath laid down arms, being divided be&s;ides into manie pettie Principalities, Counties, Cities, &s;tanding in aw of us, and beeing ever jealous one of the other. Wee &s;ee no manner of appearance to draw us into the field; and if there &s;hould happen anie &s;udden occa&s;ion, wee have a Field-mar&s;hal, the Lord of <HI>Brederode;</HI> the General offices for the Hor&s;, Artillerie, &amp;c. are well provided. How doth <HI>Venice, Swi&s;&s;erland, Genoa,</HI> and all the&s;e &s;maller Repulicks and free Cities in <HI>Germanie?</HI> not one of them doth &s;o much as dream of having a Captain General, a Go|vernor, a Stad-holder. Hee that &s;hould attemt but to &s;peak of &s;uch a thing among&s;t them would hardly e&s;cape to be charged with High Trea&s;on. The Kings of <HI>Poland, Denmark, England,</HI> might lea|vie
<PB N="19" REF="11">no Armies without con&s;ent of their re&s;pective States: no Prince nor Count of the Empire, neither, (but what is don by meer u&s;urpa|tion) becau&s; that an armed Prince doth alwaies &s;quecz monies from his &s;ubjects beyond all equitie and rea&s;on, through the in&s;tigation of flatterers, to enrich them&s;elvs and impoveri&s;h the Common. One of the manie cau&s;es, why our fore-fathers took up Arms again&s;t the Spaniards, was, that hee &s;ought to bring in Armies into the Coun|trie. So tender and delicate a point is that of Militarie Autoritie. And have not wee now much more right and rea&s;on to keep our Souldierie, which wee paie our &s;elvs, in our, I mean the State's own direction, and not to temt anie with a new occa&s;ion of turning the &s;ame <HI>in no&s;tra vi&s;cera,</HI> into our own bowels, as of late hapned.</P>
<P>Can anie of the Nobilitie and Gentrie, can anie Citie-per&s;on re&s;t &s;ecure in their homes and beds, as long as a General hath the power by &s;ecret and particular Pattents or Commi&s;&s;ions, to command the Armie in one night, to bee at our Gates and Hou&s;es, and either by &s;light or force (both kindes have been e&s;&s;aied) to get into them. Truly no man can bee &s;ure of pound or pennie, no not of his own life and &s;afetie, or the be&s;t Jewel of his Wife and Daughters, if wee &s;uffer the loo&s; reins of Militarie Direction to abide in the hand of a Captain or Governor General. At Sea wee have very good Lievte|nant Admirals, but wee are Ma&s;ters of them, wee have the autoritie over them; wee mu&s;t know where and whereto our men of war are emploi'd. The Prince being Admiral never went to &s;ea, and yet by the Lievtenants wee &s;ee tho&s;e &s;ervices are well and gallantly per|formed.</P>
<P>Why may it not as well bee don by land, though now there is no need of anie; the mo&s;t and main is atchieved &s;till by dependent Offi|cers. The King of <HI>Spain</HI> is &s;o jealous of his own Generals and Go|vernours, that u&s;ually hee changes mo&s;t of them once in 3 years. The Archduke enjoies but <HI>Simulacrum Gubernationis.</HI> The King of <HI>France</HI> hath a new General &s;til for every Expedition, and &s;everal ones for &s;everal places. <HI>Venice</HI> and all <HI>Republicks</HI> are yet more circum|&s;pect. <HI>England</HI> excu&s;ed <HI>Fairfax;</HI> In a word, Every one is jealous of the Power hee own's, and loath to part with &s;uch a Jewel's ab&s;olute di&s;po&s;ing, upon &s;uch ea&s;ie terms, as wee did hitherto. Truly, when wee were under the King, wee had Stad-holders; and there was rea&s;on for it. Hee was ab&s;ent, and had need of &s;om in his &s;tead or place, to manage the Government. And Hee changed them often. But here
<PB N="20" REF="12">the Sovereign, the States of the Land, are pre&s;ent them&s;elves. It is ab&s;urd and again&s;t nature and natural rea&s;on for us to have Stad|holders; All Nations, e&s;pecially Republicks, mock and jeer us, like children, and fools, wilfully and knowingly running into &s;laverie. And now wee &s;hould pro&s;titute our &s;elvs much more, &s;ince by His Father's death there appear &s;o many great Pretenders, which by rea|&s;on of their Experience and long &s;ervices might bee fitte&s;t, &amp; would hardly brook it, every one to &s;ee that Honor enjoy'd by another; each one pretending to bee the neere&s;t and the worthie&s;t; to pre|vent their jealou&s;ie, there can bee no better cour&s; taken, then to let things bee as they are, and the highe&s;t Command where it is. The &s;e|veral great Pretenders beeing well provided and placed already, doubtle&s;s will bee well enough contented.</P>
<P>But mo&s;t ab&s;urd and inconvenient would it prove &s;ure, to make the new-born Infant our Captain-Generall or Stad-holder: For, of Monarchies it is truly &s;aid, <HI>Wo unto that Kingdom, who&s;e King is a childe;</HI> much rather would a Republick bee counted mad and frantick to chu&s;e a Babe for their Stad-holder, Governor or Captain-General.</P>
<P>This Infant-Prince will bee brought up by a Mother; who&s;e Fa|milies intere&s;t &s;hall &s;wallow up all other, and ever bee preferred be|fore the&s;e of our State, our Trade (the onlie &s;upport and mainte|nance of the State) and our own welfare. Hitherto wee were in &s;om Mediocritie yet, but this Prince will bee Nephew to <HI>Spain,</HI> to <HI>France,</HI> to <HI>Au&s;tria, Denmark, Scotland;</HI> and under this pretext &s;hall his minde ever bee harkning after a Roial <HI>Alterra,</HI> and after Maje&s;tie, and the &s;hip bee &s;teered &s;till according to the&s;e Intere&s;ts and intentions. Flatterers, <HI>Sterrem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nts, Telings,</HI> will not bee wanting. Haughtine&s;s, o&s;tentation, pomp, luxurie, riot, pride and wa&s;tefulne&s;s will invade the land ten times more and wor&s; then ever. O let us avoid it, as the mo&s;t dangerous Rock, that would &s;plit our Ship. Our condition would bee ten-fold more intolerable then ever it was before. It were better everie Province, &s;aving their Privileges, had a Stad-holder apart; but be&s;t of all to bee and abide as all other Republicks. Ne|verthele&s;s the corruptions are &s;o great in the world, the practi&s;es and &s;ubtilties &s;o manifold, that, looking meerly on man's part, I have great cau&s; to fear, wee may &s;uffer our &s;elvs to bee lull'd a&s;leep again, and cajoled out of this &s;o admirably-recovered golden Free|dom; Which God in mercie forbid, and endue our good Gover|nors with all encrea&s; of Wi&s;dom, Knowledg and Couragiou&s;ne&s;s.</P>
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