THE ARRAIGNMENT Of John van Olden Barneuelt late Advocate of HOLLAND and WEST-FREISLAND.  
Containing the Articles alleged against him, and the reasons of his execution, being performed upon the 13. of May Anno 1619. Stilo Novo, In the inner Court of the graven Hage in HOLLAND.  
TOGETHER WITH A LETTER written by the General States, unto the particular United Provinces, concerning the foresaid action.  
Published by Authority, and with privilege of the State's General.  
LONDON, Printed by Edward Griffin for Ralph Rounthwait at the sign of the Golden Lion in Paul's Churchyard. 1619.   

THE PRIVILEGE.  
THE States general of the united NETHERLANDS, have given and granted licence unto Hillebrant Jacobson, sworn Printer to them, and to the States of Holland in particular, and by these presents give and grant licence, that he only for the space of two years, next ensuing the date hereof, shall print and deliver out in Dutch, the sentence and judgement given & pronounced by the judges, by them thereunto appointed, upon and against john van Olden Barnevelt, sometime Advocate or Counsellor of Holland and Westfreseland, and executed on his person, upon the 13 of May 1619. Stilo novo, in the inner Court of the Hage, for bidding and prohibiting all other Printers, and subjects of these Provinces, to print, or cause the aforesaid Sentence within the time aforesaid of two years to be printed or given out in Dutch, upon pain of forfeiture of such Books, and further of the sum of 300 Carollus gulden's: the one third part thereof to the behoof of him that shall be the officer to execute the Commission: an other third part, to the use of the poor, and the last third part to the use. & benefit of the aforesaid Hillebrant Jacobson, given in the Assembly of the said General States in Graven-hage, the 14 of May 1619. I. V. Dorth. vt.  
By order from the general States. C. AERSEN.   

THE COPY OF A LETter, written by the general States, unto the particular united Provinces in the Netherlands.  
WE send your Honours herewith, a copy of the sentence, which the judges thereunto appointed, pronounced against the prisoners (long deliberated upon by us) which on the 13 of this present month, was published, and execution done upon the person of john van Olden Barnevelt, late Counsellor or Advocate of Holland and Westfreseland: The said judges withal sent us certain overtures, of divers other points, that were made known unto them, and are not mentioned in the aforesaid sentence, which according to the informations, & consequences thereof, gave great suspicion that he had intelligence with the enemy, and wholly bended his actions thereunto, seeking nevertheless not to give nor minister any offence to the other side, but to the contrary made show to favour the same; but for that the substance of the confessions made upon those points, were such, that no definitive sentence could have been given upon them, without further inquisition, and sharper examination, which by the said judges, was not thought convenient, in respect of his great age, and other considerations, concerning the service of the Land, as also for that the decision of them & other matters, could no longer be delayed, and that the articles in the said sentence contained, are sufficient to condemn him; we have omitted them, and thought it good and necessary hereby to certify you thereof, beseeching God to have your Honours & us in his holy keeping: from the Hage the 19 of May 1619. underwritten  
john van Dorth v t. and a little lower, By the order of the States, C. AERSEN.   

THE JUDGEMENT GIVEN AND PRONOUNCED upon John van Olden Barneuelt, late Advocate of HOLLAND and WESTFRESELAND, together with his execution performed upon the 13 of May 1619. Stylo novo.  
IOhn van Olden Barnevelt sometime Advocate or Counsellor of the Provinces of Holland and West-Freesland, and at this present committed to prison, Commissioners being by the general States ordained and appointed to examine him, and to make report thereof unto the judges by the said general States ordained to sit upon the same, without rack or any torment confessed, (as to the said judges also it manifestly appeared)  

1  
That notwithstanding, it is not lawful for any man, to break or violate the unity, and fundamental laws, whereupon the government of the united Netherlands is grounded, and whereby the said Countries (by God's special blessing, notwithstanding all the forces, practices and devices of their enemies and evil willers) hath been hitherto preserved and defended: he the said prisoner had taken upon him, to trouble the state of the Religion, and thereby to bring the Church of God into great trouble and extremity. To that end had maintained and put in practice, most exorbitant and pernicious maxims against the state of the Land, and among them, with great boldness, of himself and by his complices inserted, that some of the Provinces of the said united Netherlands, had power & authority of themselves, to order and dispose of religion at their wills and pleasures, and that the rest of the Provinces had nothing to do therewith.   

2  
That without commission or authority, he had in his own house made certain protestations in the name of the Provinces of Holland, Vtrecht, and Ouerissell, whereby they together, by manner of complot (against all order used in the assemblies of the general States) protested, that the Deputies of the Provinces which were appointed for the furthering of the Nationall Synod, would be the authors and causers of great troubles and inconveniences.   

3  
That he contemning the good and wholesome counsels of divers Princes, Lords, and noble Personages both in and without the land, as much as in him lay, had sought to withstand and hinder the remedies procured for the ceasing of controversy in Religion.   

4  
That to further and maintain his designs aforesaid, he had abused certain of the mightiest Potentates with unseemly and sinister practices, and to that end by his own authority instructed, and caused to be instructed, the Ambassadors for the States with untrue propositions.   

5  
That he also had taken upon him to write to the State's Ambassador resident in Great Britanny, that if any thing should be written by the said King concerning the state of Religion, that it should be sent to the States of Holland; and that he should procure the staying thereof, until he had sent the copy unto him to consider of it, and to stay his answer thereupon, before he sent the same, and that the letters should be directed unto him, that he might deliver them, for the good and service of the land (assuming to himself all the authority and government thereof.)   

6  
That he took upon him, in the name of the States of Holland and West-Friesland, to write to the King of France, that those State's General that proclaimed a national Synod, usurped the names of the General States, wishing his Majesty not to send any of his subjects unto the said Synod, but rather to aid and assist those of Holland against the factions of the States.   

7.  
That by indirect means he had sought for and procured letters from the King of England, which he himself had first drawn and corrected, and then sent them over to the Ambassador, tending to the furthering of his own designs, which he himself delivered to the general States, but made them not acquainted in what manner he had procured them, writing to the said Ambassador, that he should not by any means make the Ambassadors at that time in England for the general States, acquainted therewith.   

8.  
That for the better furtherance of his designs and pretences, by the said Ambassadors means he sought to procure the like letters again from the King of England, which when he could not get, he did not stick to presume to tax the said King, with being the cause of the troubles that were then risen in the united Provinces.   

9  
That, to procure the more and greater trouble in religion, he had placed and brought into the Churches divers heretical Divines and Teachers, and in the mannageing of the State had put in such men, as he thought to be fit instruments for the effecting and furtherance of his faction.   

10  
That he likewise had brought to pass, that his said creatures and instruments at divers and several times, and sundry places, contrary to all good order of government, had holden divers conventicles and secret assemblies, where, by him and his complices it was determined how they might proceed in their bad pretence: and to the end the same might be authorized under the names of the States of Holland and West-Freisland, he had so plotted, that by multitude of voices (contrary to the will and desire of some of the chiefest members of Holland) they might resolve upon that which they desired and intended: and yet he himself confesseth, that such private assemblies are not to be permitted in a well-governed Commonwealth.   

11  
That he did not seek to hinder the rigorous commissions in some places sent forth against the true professors of religion, whereby they were upon strict penalties forbidden the exercise of the true religion, making them hateful in all places both within and without the Land, by the names of strangers, and Puritans, who there Flanderising, caused the subjects to contend with their Governors. Notwithstanding that all the united Provinces together, by many and sundry treaties, agreements, and resolutions, (whereof he himself, as one of the States, had been the author and inventor) had promised and bound themselves one unto another, with body, life, and goods, to maintain, preserve and uphold, the reformed evangelical religion, received and preached in every place of those Countries, without any alteration thereof whatsoever. And that for confirmation thereof, in Anno 1588. the oaths of all the Governors, Generals, Captains, and soldiers, in one point specially mentioned the same, which was that they should swear to be true and faithful to the general States, who by the unity and faithful combination of promise, should uphold and maintain the true reformed religion: and that in all the treaties and compositions made with such towns as they either won, or that yielded themselves to them, one special Article was, that they should yield to the preaching of the aforesaid religion, which by all their adherents and allies had been received, allowed of, and accepted.   

12  
That he esteeming all this not to be sufficient to effect his bad and erroneous designs, sought by the means of his complices and adherents, to perturb and trouble the politic State, devising to invent and find the means to reduce and bring the government thereof into disorder and confusion, by means thereof the better to effect his mischievous pretence against the security and prosperity of the same.   

13  
That to the same end, and for a foundation of his faction, under divers special pretences, he had kindled the fire of dissension, and procured all manner of distrusts between the Provinces, and making himself head of the faction, had caused the Deputies of eight towns in Holland to hold divers secret assemblies, upon certain points by them agreed upon, to prevent the rest of the towns, (and so by plurality of voices, having formerly complotted together) in the assembly of the States of Holland, to bring them in, and to make such resolutions thereupon as they had formerly determined. In which private assemblies, the Deputies of the said eight towns, among other things, first complotted and agreed upon divers points, (which at several times were by them debated) and concluded to bring to effect.   

14  
That he himself had therein inserted the sharp and severe resolution made the 18. of August 1617. and against the wills and consents of divers chief members of the said assembly, caused the same to be ratified and confirmed. By which resolution, the prohibitions of ordinary justice made against their pretences, were declared and pronounced to be void and of none effect: and the Magistrates of the towns, warranted, not to obey the same; and such as were thereunto incited and consenting, authorized and allowed, of their own authorities, for their defences, to raise new companies of soldiers, and to give them another oath (contrary to their oath of allegiance made to the State's General) by the which also all Officers, justices, and those that were by oath bound unto the particular Provinces of Holland and West-Freisland, were sworn to maintain and further the said resolution: And further ordained, that all Generals, Captains and soldiers of the ordinary companies, should earnestly be charged and commanded, upon pain of losing of their places, to be obedient to the States, their paymasters, and the Magistrates of the towns where they lay in garrison, notwithstanding any other prohibition or commandment made to the contrary: whereby it followed, that divers towns in Holland (whereof some before that by his advice and counsel had begun to take up soldiers) upon the same resolution (and his secret instigation that they should look unto themselves and their securities) began to raise a great number of soldiers, giving them a particular oath, as aforesaid, with special charge to be obedient only to their commandments, against all men whatsoever, and particularly against the generality, and his Excellency, in such cases, wherein the said towns (so strengthening themselves with new soldiers) should judge and understand the proceed of the said generality and his Excellency to tend unto the overthrow of their particular rights and privileges.   

15  
That he by force of the said resolution, was a means to procure Commissioners to be sent unto the Brill, who (without the knowledge of his Excellency being State-holder and Captain general) going thither, caused the ordinary garrisons therein to take their oaths in manner aforesaid, and such as would not, were threatened to be cashiered.   

16  
That he, within few days after the said resolution was made, went to Vtrecht, and counseled some of the States there likewise, to raise new companies of soldiers, contrary to the accustomed manner, and the common oath of the generality and his Excellency, as Captain general, which they accordingly raised, with a particular oath as aforesaid.   

17  
And when the General States, perceiving the said raising of soldiers to be contrary to order and general custom, thought it fit to advertise them by letter, to surcease from the same, that he was the author and cause, that the said States of Vtrecht, took upon them by letters of the 5. of September 1617. to excuse their said proceeding unto the General States, with vain and idle pretences, as that they were raised for the diverting of popular commotion, and yet he knew well, that the defence and preservation of the Provinces, towns, and forts thereof, in general, by the union is referred to the disposition of the generality of our united States in general: as also, that by the counsel of State holden in Vtrecht anno 1610. it was likewise ordered, that whatsoever belonged unto the security, peace and tranquillity of the town and territories of Vtrecht in all respects should be referred to the said States General. And that then a great garrison, belonging unto the said General States, lay therein, which while the Armies were in Gelder's and Cleaveland, was not diminished: And beside, that by the said States, it was expressly ordered, not to diminish the said garrison, but rather (if it were found necessary) to increase the same.   

18  
That by the consent and knowledge of him, this instruction was inserted, and the new soldiers were raised in Vtrecht, by the which, clean contrary to the allegations and reasons in the letter aforesaid pretended, the said new soldiers were bound, to serve both without and within the said Province, against all and every person, both by water and by land, only under the commandment or commission of the states of Vtrecht, and that they should not only be ready at the commandment of the said States of Vtrecht, but also aid and assist their good neighbours, friends, and allies.   

19  
And as in Vtrecht news was brought that his Excellency the Prince of Orange, was to come into, and pass through the said town, a letter was by the said States of Vtrecht (not without the said prisoners knowledge, as then being in Vtrecht) sent unto the said Prince, to desire him, not to pass, nor come through that town, with earnest advice to follow their counsel therein: he not many days before, advertised the Secretary Ledenberch by private letters, that it was fit and expedient for them, to keep a strong watch at their gates, and also that both from above and beneath the river of Leck, they should be advertised by the next towns, whether any soldiers were coming up or down the said river, as also that the like was to be done upon the way that entered into the town by Amersfort gate, desiring Ledenberch when he had read the letters to burn them.   

20  
That he, by his instructions and counsels brought to pass, that by the Deputies of the aforesaid eight towns, first in private meetings, in unaccustomed places, and undue times, a certain procuration, or an act of union, was drawn, which afterward also, was in some of the said towns by the consent of the Common Council, and in some of them without their knowledge, concluded and agreed upon, the 14. of May 1618. whereby they authorised their Deputies, to consult, advise and resolve with the States and Deputies of the other towns, upon a means of present resistance; as also, all together to provide for, and to assure, all such promises of assistance, help, and indemnities, as they should find to be necessary, needful and convenient.   

21  
That he caused a copy of the same act to be given unto Mons: Modesberghen by Hoogherbet the pensionary, and withal desired him to consider thereof, who thereupon presently went to Vtrecht, and procured the like act there also to be propounded, containing likewise an authority to be given unto their Deputies touching the two former points of stricter union, and certain and present means of resistance: and for that the town, together with some other of the members of the States, would not grant nor consent thereunto, he desired the Borghomaster van Pol (then being in the Hage) by his letters to move them thereunto, or purposely to go thither about it: which to effect, the said Borghomaster went personally thither; but the Magistrate of Vtrecht perceiving whereunto the force of the said procuration or authority tended, would not consent thereunto, but with an express limitation, that the Committees, should not extend their authority to the furtherance or procuring of present or new extremities, or to the making of new unity with any several Provinces, towns or members thereof.   

22  
That when the States of Vtrecht, to ease themselves of the burden and charge of maintaining the new companies of soldiers, and to let and withstand the decreasing of their treasure and revenues, upon the 19 of june 1618. Stilo vet: found it convenient to send a competent number of their Deputies to the Hage, together with Monsieur Modesberghen and others, at the assembly of the General States, to be holden there, and with his Excellency the Prince of Orange, as Governor and Captain General of the Province of Vtrecht, to agree upon the discharging of the said new soldiers, he counseled Ledenbergh (as then one of the Deputies) in his own house (having intelligence of their said commission by the said Ledenbergh) not to discover the same unto the Prince of Orange, but to keep it secret, and to follow other advice by him given unto the said Ledenbergh; not remembering that he himself confesseth that he knew full well, the great charge and burden of the Land, and the unfitness thereof for the maintaining of new companies of soldiers, especially so great a number.   

23  
That he had intelligence given him, that the said Ledenbergh, together with the pensionary Hoogherbet, and Grotius, in the house of john Vtenbogaet did consult upon the reasons, and motives, that should be observed with the aforesaid Deputy of the States of Vtrecht, to divert, and dissuade them not to put their commission in effect; as also, that the same deliberation holden, and required by Ledenbergh, should be kept secret: whereupon it followed that the said Hoogerbets and his complices, in the house of Daniel Tresel Clerk to the general States, meeting together, with many very sharp and pernicious speeches, and motions used by Grotius, dissuaded the Deputies of Vtrecht to show their authority; whereof also the said prisoner was advertised, and whereby also the said Deputies were compelled to go back again to Vtrecht, without showing their commission, notwithstanding, that by the States of Vtrecht, they were reiteratively willed and required to do it.   

24  
That he earnestly advised the said Deputies at their departure, to stand against the assembly of a Nationall Synod, and to urge the continuance of their new companies of soldiers, as also, to keep good and strong watch both at their gates and in their towns, adding thereunto, that if it fell out, that at the first the business were not found out, and that the said new soldiers should thereby, be longer held in pay, that then they should have cause together with the interessed towns in Holland to enter into further communication, upon the increasing, and assuring of the number of the new soldiers, which they together should think fit for their necessary assurance, and to find out means for the maintenance of them, by reciprocal assistance among them: he also advertised divers Deputies of the aforesaid eight towns thereof.   

25  
That he also persuaded the town of Schonehoven, besides the ordinary and common contributions by them to be disbursed for the necessary defence of the land, and payment of the garrisons, to agree unto the raising and payment of the new companies then raised. And also that he thought it convenient, and winked thereat, that divers towns (to the eminent danger of the land) gave their consents with strange and unaccustomed exceptions.   

26  
That to make the service and counsel of his Excellency in all places unprofitable and of no force, he sought to disgrace and scandalise his said Excellency by divers calumniations, and utterly to dishonour him, making men believe that he sought to have the sovereignty of the Land in his own power, and that he had practised the same by premeditated counsel, at the very same time and hour, that the necessity of the Commonwealth (in the highest degree) required his said Excellencies advice, in secret assemblies of certain Deputies for the government, being his confederates: with other such like imputations; and that thereupon he also had conference with other Countries, by letters written in ciphers, and by him sent abroad.   

27  
That he by certain persons expressly sent out in the night time, advertised the Magistrate of Leyden, that his Excellency was to go from the Hage, and that apparently he would go thither, that they therefore should stand upon their guard, and advertise other their neighbour towns thereof, that they also should look unto themselves. Upon which his advice it followed, that the watchbell being rung, the new soldiers and shot ran to arms at midnight, and some towns in Holland by them were advertised with all speed to look unto themselves as aforesaid: as also that the gates of the said town were kept shut the next day after, until he gave them other advice, that his Excellency was gone another way; although he had no intent of harm against that, nor any other town.   

28  
That he confessed, that he was much grieved and discontented, when he understood that the town of Brill, to prevent the sending of new companies of soldiers thither, was guarded by the ordinary garrison of the General States, therein placed by his Excellency, and that he wrought from Vtrecht to the ordinary counsels of Holland and West-Freisland, to advertise and forewarn all the towns of the said Provinces, to look well unto themselves.   

29  
That also to withdraw the ordinary soldiers from the obedience of the General States and of his Excellency, he had laboured by all the means he could to make them to understand, that they were by oath bound, before all others to obey the States of the particular Provinces, (their paymasters) though it were against the general States and his Excellency; as also that they ought and were bound expressly to resist their commandments, whensoever they should undertake any thing contrary to the wills or resolutions of the States of the Provinces, and the Magistrates of the towns wherein they should lie in garrison.   

30  
And when the General States, perceiving that they could not by any serious advertisements or instances attain to the discharging of the new companies of soldiers, thought it convenient to send other committees with his Excellency to Vtrecht, he practised and found means, that by very few Gentlemen, three towns, and some counsel of State, which had no commission so to do, Hoogerbeets, Grotius, and some others were appointed Committees to go to Vtrecht, and there in the name of the States of Holland and West-Freesland, to proffer all aid and counsel to the States and Magistrates of Vtrecht, for the staying and letting of the discharge of the new companies, giving letters also to the commanders of the soldiers there, that were likely to be discharged, (drawn by him the said prisoner) and yet not read in the assembly then holden; whereby they were advertised that they were bound and obliged, to be true and obedient to their paymasters, together with the States of the respective Provinces, wherein they lay in garrison, or were otherwise employed: and to aid and assist them in upholding of all their resolutions, without doing or attempting any thing, or suffering to be done or attempted to the contrary.   

31  
That he also affirmed, that the commission given to his Excellency, and other their Committees of the General States, touching the discharging of the new Companies, if it were done without the consent of the States of Vtrecht, was contrary to the union, and would be a cause of force which might be used to expel force, as well as they did and were compelled to do against the King of Spain and his Governors; whereas he himself by his remonstrances given out in writing showeth, that all violent courses are corrosive and ruinous for the state of the Land, and a right Spanish counsel, tending to the subversion and utter ruin of these famous Provinces. Whereupon it followed, that the aforesaid Hoogerbeets, Grotius, and other Deputies coming to Vtrecht, to the intent aforesaid, secretly and in private assemblies, advised with some of the States of Vtrecht, and the Secretary Ledenberch, made proposition touching present resistance, and how to move the new companies thereunto, as also to procure the ordinary soldiers, by virtue of the letter aforesaid, not to be obedient to the commandments of his Excellency, and the Committees for the General States, and to second them by the Artillery men of the town; to appoint places for the said new soldiers to assemble in; to have divers pieces of ordinance ready, and that Monsieur Modesberghen and Ledenberch had told them, that if they could find a means to keep the soldiers that were then in ordinary pay of Holland, from stirring, that they had taken such order among their new soldiers, that they would easily obtain their wills: and that also the said Hoogerbeets with his complices, the day before the discharging of the aforesaid new companies of soldiers, had delivered their letters to the aforesaid ordinary soldiers.   

32  
That he had revealed the secrets of the Land, and contrary to the acts of sovereignty, of his own authority, without the knowledge or consent of any of the Provinces, refused and denied to accept of certain notable unexpected alliance, which in the highest degree concerned the Common wealth.   

33  
That he procured divers Courts of justice (in the administration of their offices) by divers ways, and in several matters, contrary to the laws, privileges, freedoms, and statutes of the Land, to use untrue dealing in the administration of justice.   

34  
And that he, contrary to his oath, and by the instructions of some foreign Princes, Lords, and others, received divers great sums of money, and presents, without making any that had to do therewith acquainted therewithal. All which his proceed, tending to the end not only to make the town of Vtrecht a slaughter-house, but also to bring the state of the Land, and the person of the Prince of Orange into utter subversion, whereby, and by means of all other his machinations and conspiracies, it is so fallen out, that States against States, government against government, and new contracts in and against the unity, and general perturbations in the state of the Land, as well spiritual as temporal, are risen up, the treasure consumed, and the Country compelled to an expense of many millions of crowns, general distrusts and dissensions moved and brought in among the united Provinces, and the inhabitants of the Land, the union broken, the Country made unfit and unapt to defend itself, and brought into danger, to endure and suffer some scandalous wrong, or utterly to be overthrown and subverted: which are matters of such consequence, that they are not to be suffered in any government, but rather ought to be punished, for an example to all others.  
Therefore the judges aforesaid, with deliberation of the counsel of the States general, having well considered upon and weighed all the articles aforesaid, wherein they concerned, or in any wise might tend to the matter in question; doing justice, in the names and behalfs of the General States of the united Provinces, have condemned, and by these presents condemn the said prisoner, to be brought to the Inner Court, to the place thereunto appointed, there to have his head stricken off, and all his goods, lands, and revenues to be confiscated. Given in the assembly of the judges aforesaid in the Graven-hage, and executed the 13. of May 1619.  
By order from the judges aforesaid. Signed H. POTZ.    

A PROCLAMATION made by the General States of the united netherlands Provinces, for the holding of a general Fast, and day of Prayer for the good success of the Synod, and peace and preservation of the LAND.  
FOrasmuch as it is so fallen out, by means of misunderstanding disagreement, & contentions within certain years hitherto happened, not only in the Church, but also among the Commons of these Countries, and likewise in the politic government and administration of justice: that some ambitious persons, for the furtherance of their particular designs and ambitions, to the great hindrance of the reformed religion, and special disadvantage of the service of the Land, stirred up, sought to have reversed and annihilated the true religion, and together at one time, wholly to have ruinated and subverted the state of the Land, if the Nationall Synod had not been summoned and called, by the advice of most famous, learned, well experienced, honest, and godly persons, strangers, and Inhabitants of these Countries, to examine the differences in matters of religion, and the same to extinguish and utterly exterminate: as also, if we had not restored and re-established the lawful authority of government and justice, by lawful proceed against the contradictors and violaters thereof: And for that they have already proceeded so far in the said Nationall Synod, that the hardest and most important controversies and questions, with great unity and one general consent, are already determined and decided: And likewise that a lawful judgement and sentence is to be pronounced by the judges thereunto appointed by the General States of the united netherlands Provinces, against those that have in such sort perturbed the state of the Land, in such manner that the affairs of these united Netherlands both in spiritual and temporal matters, are apparent and likely to incline unto a peaceable and quiet end: The General States of the said united netherlands Provinces have thought it fit and convenient, and likewise have fully determined, to proclaim a common and general Fast, and day of public prayer, throughout all the united netherlands Provinces, Territories, and Towns thereof, to be holden upon Wednesday the 17. of the month of April, thereby and therein to praise and give thanks unto the most mighty God for his grace and blessing, and with earnest zeal and penitent hearts to pray unto and call upon him, that he would be pleased to continue his said grace and blessing for the honour of his most holy name, and the planting and restoring of the true reformed religion, together with the preservation and maintenance of the justice and lawful authority of the said united Netherlands, and the peace and tranquillity of the inhabitants of the same, both in spiritual and temporal proceed. That so, with a good harmony and one consent, God Almighty may truly be called upon and served; the state of the Land secured; and more and more prosper in their trade and continual traffic; and all the counsels, machinations, and conspiracies of the enemies of this Land broken and prevented, etc.