News out of Holland: Concerning Barnevelt and his fellow-Prisoners their Conspiracy against their Native Country, with the Enemies thereof: THE Oration and Propositions made in their behalf unto the General States of the united Provinces at the HAGVE, by the Ambassadors of the French KING. WITH Their Answer thereunto, largely and truly set down: And certain Execrable Articles and Opinions, propounded by Adrian du Bourg, at the end. Whereunto is adjoined a Discourse, wherein the Duke D'espernons' revolt and pernicious designs are truly displayed, and reprehended, by one of his Friends.  
LONDON: Printed by T. S. for Nathanael Newberry, and are to be sold at his shop under S. Peter's Church in Cornhill, and in Popes-head Alley at the sign of the Star. 1619.   

THE ORATION AND PROPOSITIONS made on Barnavelt's and his fellow-Prisoners behalf, by the French Kings Ambassadors, to the general Estates of the united Provinces of HOLLAND, etc. at the presenting of his majesties Letters unto the said Estates.  
MY Lords, the King our Master commanded us, to recommend unto you the same which we have heretofore at other times motioned, touching the good, and peace of your estate: although it hath not been considered according to the worthiness of the merit of his alliance and amity: but in the present state of your affairs, his Majesty will not cease to witness unto you, that he hath no less care thereof, then of the peace and tranquillity of his own Kingdom.  
We will therefore proceed to exhort you, to continue steadfast in the union of your Provinces, as the principal foundation of your estate, and to be careful, that the changing of Magistrates and Counsellors, which hath been made in divers of your Towns, do not breed enmities and dissensions among your Citizens, instead of ceasing them; for that, all mutations and changes of Magistrates, Laws, and policies are dangerous to public governments, if they be not made upon great necessity, and so profitable for the Commons, that no man may have cause to dislike them: Therefore it is requisite for you to take order, that the Magistrates, by their good and just proceed and behaviours, may obtain and deserve the goodwill of the people; and show themselves so modest towards them that are dismissed, that the inconstant multitude may have no occasion to repine at such alteration; and that those that have been deposed from their charges, should patiently endure and bear that alteration, as being made for the common good of the state.  
The Synod which you have caused to be assembled, puts us in good hope that it will be a means to procure peace and concord touching those points of Religion, which have bred trouble and schism in these Provinces among you: To make it effectual and fruitful, it is requisite that it should be free, and secure for all those that shall therein assemble together, and that the points in controversy should be examined and disputed of, without passion, or for any other consideration, then only for the honour of God, and the peace of men's consciences.  
And certainly, whosoever taketh upon him to interpret, or attain unto those high mysteries and treasures of divine wisdom, without great humility and submission; shall find himself as far off from them, as he thinketh he approacheth near unto them.  
We are likewise to tell you somewhat from the King, touching your Prisoners, and to show you, how much it concerneth the honour and reputation of your affairs, and generally the peace of your Provinces, and concord among your subjects, to administer unto them good and speedy justice. They are accused of the most inorme and detestable crimes that can be, as of Treason against their native Country, secret intelligence with your enemies, and for having exposed your Towns unto the danger of pillage, and effusion of blood.  
If they be culpable of these disloyalties, the King our Master giveth you counsel and advise to exercise the rigour of your Laws against them. But as those crimes are grievous, and worthy of most great punishment; so they have been reduced to certain points, whereunto good and wise Princes, and well governed commonwealths would not stretch them.  
To the contrary, divers Princes have showed themselves ready to pardon, even such enterprises as have been done against their own persons: and the freest Commonwealths, always used to spare the blood of their Citizens; and that in the greatest malefactors; it being one of the principallest signs of liberty and freedom, not easily or lightly to touch the life of Citizens.  
Therefore the crime of Treason ought to be taken and understood in her proper terms, without drawing it by consequences and inductions to other actions which are not of the same quality. The contentions which oftentimes arise and are made in the management of affairs, the jealousies of power and authority, and ambition which always draws and drives men to enterprise and take more upon them than they should, are ordinary evils in all states; whereby many inconveniences and mischiefs ensue. Nevertheless, they were never esteemed nor held to be treason against the State, because crimes and offences are judged by the will and intent, and not by the event.  
We doubt not, my Lords, but that in your integrities and wisdoms you make distinction as you should, of the faith and actions whereof men are accused; question being made of the lives of your officers & subjects placed in authority, whereof one is the ancientest Counsellor of your state, which is Monsieur Barneuelt, so much commended for the good and notable services by him done for these countries, whereof the Princes and States and allies unto the same are witnesses, that it is hardly to be thought or believed, that he should have conspired treason against his native Country, for the which you yourselves know he hath taken so great pains: nevertheless seeing he is called in question by order of Law, it importeth the security of your estate, that the truth should be known; which to do, you ought both for him, and the rest also to appoint judges that are neither suspected nor passionate, that judge according to the Laws of the Country, upon clear and evident proofs, as equity requireth, and not upon conjectures and presumptions, which oftentimes deceive judges; because there are many things that are apparent and very likely, which nevertheless are not true; and others that are true, and yet have no likeliness thereof: and so by moderate and upright judgement, you shall manifest unto the world, that you are worthy of the possession and commandment of this estate, to the government whereof God hath called you.  
The counsel which the King giveth you, touching these Prisoners, is, not to use rigour against them; but rather favour and clemency, as most acceptable unto God, and fit and convenient to win the hearts of the people, & to make them obedient. It is the security of States, such as yours is, to reunite your subjects which are divided, and to mollify and appease the dislikes and bitterness, which is among them; whereunto we have special charge to add his majesties request and recommendation, in respect of the interest which he hath in the preservation of your State, and his knowledge of the great services, which this Prisoner hath done for you; as also of the affection; which he always bare to the maintenance of the alliance between France and this State, so notable actions and testimonies of his loyalty and fidelity, that they seem to exclude all suspicion of treason and disloyalty; and whereof as yet, his Majesty cannot hold or think him to be culpable, until by evident proofs you make the crime manifest unto him.  
Now after so many good advises, which are on the King's behalf propounded unto you, if you, for your parts, rather choose a rigorous course, his Majesty shall have sufficient glory and satisfaction, to have, like a true friend and ally, given you wholesome and sound counsels, whereof the use and event will be as happy and profitable for your State, as the contrary is hurtful and dangerous: And his Majesty cannot choose but be much offended at the small respect which you still make of his counsels, requests, and amity, which thereby may procure as much slackness, as in times past you have found promptness and favourablenesse in your need. In the Hague, presented to the States.  
Signed, de Thumerie, and, du Morier.   

The general States answer to the Propositions, made unto them by the French KING'S Ambassadors.  
THe STATES general of the united Provinces, having in open assembly, heard, and deliberately perused the Propositions of Messieurs do Boissise & du Morier, Ambassadors of the most christian King of France, delivered by word of mouth the 12 of this month, and the next day in writing, by virtue of their Letters of Credit, bearing date the 28. of November. signify and declare, that as they have had nothing in more singular recommendation, then by the uprightness of their actions and governments, to give all good means and occasions unto his Majesty, to move him to continue his royal favours and aids (following the example of the late King, of immortal memory & incomparable wisdom) unto them, for the good and maintenance of their Commonwealth: to the which end also, they have always carefully, in their need, sought for and embraced his wholesome counsels, advises, and favours, against the threatenings, devices and powers of their enemies, for the which they are obliged to give and yield all kind of thanks and gratefulness unto his Majesty and kingdom: So they are exceedingly much grieved, to perceive themselves to be mistaken, and taxed, not to have resolved upon the affairs done for them upon occasion of these last motions, touching the good of this State, according to the merit of his alliance and amity, because they cannot conceive whereupon this complaint of dislike should be grounded; in regard that they have always had a special care, most exactly to observe and keep all the points, & Articles of Covenants, which they have had the honour to have contracted and renewed with his Majesty, not once neglecting any clause thereof, whereby the least cause or occasion of discontentment, or jealousy might grow or arise; and therefore the said States, assure themselves, that continuing the same course for the security of their state, which hitherto they have carefully held and observed, in the strict amity, and confederation wherewith the two Kings consequently have vouchsafed to honour him, his majesty will not at this present make any other construction of their wills, and present carriages, then that which is requisite to be made of a state which is most thankful for, and memorative of, his favours and benefits, and no less desirous to show the continuance of the most strict bond thereof, in all respects which shall be thought or found to be profitable for the service of his Majesty, and convenient for their own security.  
Nevertheless the said states, receive and accept of, (as a most great favour) the good and wholesome counsels which it pleaseth his Majesty to give them, in this present estate wherein their affairs now stand, exhorting them to remain firm and constant in the union of their provinces, because they are altogether conformable to their intents; for they have always had the same desire and design, specially to be careful of the means to preserve and defend their state against their enemies, and to use their friends and Allies worthily, according to their qualities and degrees.  
They also say that they have not without great & good consideration been moved to change certain of their Magistrates, in some of their Towns: whereof it may be, the report hath been otherwise spread abroad, than the case requireth, seeing that the remedy was most necessary & easy being wisely and moderately applied, without any violence or danger of bloodshedding, in such manner that public authority, union by peace, and assurance against disorders are entirely established, which certain ambitious & factious spirits would have much altered, not without great danger, (if longer forbearance & patience had been used) to overthrow and destroy all the state, and to the ruin and desolation of good men, and to the prejudice of his Majesty, & the good of his kingdom.  
Besides that, they have only made a necessary change of some certain persons, not once thereby touching or altering the laws, rights or policies of their Towns; neither have they had any other intent or meaning in their elections of new Magistrates, then only to cease the great partialities that have crept in among them, by the practice of factious persons, which in those Towns and families proceeded so far as to erect Altar against Alter: and in the same changes they have placed none but such persons as are well qualified, faithful, and affected to their Country, who without doubt, by their upright and just behaviour, know full well how to procure and get the goodwill of the people, and to preserve and defend the State from all violent alterations or motions; and that in many Towns the proof of this lenity already appeareth, in that the order which hath been reeffablished for the protection and defence of Innocents', against the first oppression, is already notable and pleasing, whereby all the members of this State conspire and consent together to cast off and abandon their bad motions, and to range themselves under lawful obedience, by voluntary acknowledging of their superiors: And that if this proceeding of their factious subjects had drawn them unto any greatextreamity, they would hopefully have relied upon the ordinary good will of his Majesty, for their support and means, which might have failed them, by their power to have redressed those confusions, which by the mercy and goodness of God they did in time prevent, without trouble or extraordinary charge to their allies.  
Touching the Synod, which hath been called and assembled together in these Provinces, they always certainly believed, that thereby some means of peace and concord concerning, those points of religion which have been the cause to administer trouble in the Churches of some of their Provinces, would be found, esteeming it the most meet, ancient, and lawful means thereunto, used in the primitive Church, even in the time of the Apostles: But what means soever they have heretofore used to obtain and publish that convocation, it was never till now in their power to attain to that holy and wholesome remedy, to rule and stop the differences in their first birth: And his Majesty may well call to mind and remember, if it pleaseth him, the entreaties and humble motions divers times made by them unto him, to be aided and assisted in this good work, by the assistance of some of his subjects, chosen out of the reformed Churches in his Realm; but were crossed and put off by them, with a small number of persons, who contrary to all reason and order of government, neglecting their vocation, outwardly made the just labour of the said States unfruitful: but now nevertheless that by the goodness of God, and the most wise and resolute conduction and dexterity of the Prince of Orange, they have assured their temporal state from present danger, they thought it not convenient to neglect the care which they ought to have of the Spiritual: To the which end, the Synod was freely opened, and began to be holden in the month of November last, as they desired, with this only prescription and clause, not to seek any other thing thereby, than the honour of God, and the peace of men's consciences, in the purity of his word, wherein there is found and assembled so great a number of excellent persons, both for piety and uprightness, chosen and appointed thereunto by their superiors, that the States have good cause to hope well of their labours; and that also, by God's holy grace, the event will testify their just and sincere intentions, to the contentment of his Majesty, the good and peace of their commonwealth, and the confusion of the authors of this faction.  
Further the said State also esteem, weigh, and think very well of the reasons and considerations formerly set down by the said Lords Ambassadors, in favour of the Prisoners, to administer unto them good and speedy justice, and to use them favourably, if they have not conspired the ruin of their State, with their enemies: but for that the said States have been continually busied about settling the necessary security of their commonwealth, which had been greatly shaken by the violent proceed of such as aspired to novelties, by alteration of Religion, justice, and fundamental Laws of all politic orders: and that otherwise this conspiracy grew so great, that nothing was exempted from the infection thereof, they thought it not convenient to run headlong upon such a process of so great importance, & that first it was most fit severally to gather and collect all such evidences as might tend unto, and concern the same, for their full instruction therein, clearly to make known and manifest the grounds and depth of the cause, and that such delay could not be any ways hurtful or prejudicial to the Criminells, if they presumed to have any advantage to justify their innocency. Notwithstanding, there hath not therein been any loss of time, but things have been done orderly and diligently, & have already proceeded so far, that they are persuaded that judgement shall not long be deferred, and such without doubt, that at the publication thereof, all their allies, which affect the prosperity of this State, and specially his Majesty, who is a just and virtuous Prince, will commend their upright dealing, when they shall be better informed of the state of the conspiracy.  
In the mean time, they desire the said Lords Ambassadors, to assure his Majesty from them, that they will incline themselves so much to clemency and favour (whereunto they, and the condition of their government are naturally addicted) as equity, justice, and the preservation of their State, may in any wise permit them: Hoping that his Majesty (in regard of the cause) will not be persuaded to prefer the important and ill-grounded solicitations of certain particular criminels, or of their favourites, before the general interest of the dignity and worthiness of this Commonwealth; but to the contrary persuade themselves that his Majesty will find it more expedient for his service, & the good of the said Provinces, to refer the same to the said States government and judgement, which they will take pains to conclude and finish, with so much equity and clemency among themselves, that the obedience of their subjects shall by their authority be confirmed, and with so great wisdom & respect of their allies, that his Majesty shall have occasion to content himself with the duty which they will show for the observation and maintaining of his alliance with them, whereof they will truly yield him satisfaction.  
Given in the Hague at the general assembly of the said States. Seven   

Seven ARTICLES propounded by Adrian du Bourg.  

1. THat Originall-sinne, is no sin, but an occasion of sin.  
2. That the great Mercy of God, is the only cause of man's good, and that he hath power to accept or refuse it.  
3. That Faith, by the virtue of God's great mercy, is the proper work of man.  
4. That God's providence is such, that it foreseeth all things, but worketh not in men particularly, whom he leaveth to their free-will.  
5. That the faithful or believing Children of God, in this life, may perfectly accomplish God's commandments, although they do them not.  
6. That the Children of God may fall from his grace and saving mercy, and so be damned.  
7 That the original cause of justification before God, is the passion of Christ, but the works of Obedience are the first original cause of this justification.    

The Duke D'espernons' revolt and pernicious Designs, truly displayed and reprehended by one of his Friends.  
IT is true, and a common saying, my Lord, that those which use to play, before they begin, should be sure to make a good match: it is the same advise which you yourself gave to a turbulent spirit, that sought the disquietness and ruin of France: an advise which you suggested to be convenient, by the knowledge that you had, that those who seek to set upon and conspire against their King, in the end come by the loss, I mean both of honour and life: And nevertheless forgetting your own instructions, and the examples which time hath produced; you are now fallen into the same crimes, which formerly you abhorred, and thereby become disobedient and rebellious: Crimes, so much the more to be blamed, as they are committed by a person, who not only aught to shun them, but to the contrary, is obliged and bound by all manner of duties, to employ both his body and goods against those that enterprise them. I am so much grieved at your proceed, that it moveth me boldly without difficulty to tell you, (being culpable as you are) that my advise is, and instantly I beseech you, to seek out means to cure your malady, and to procure your own safety, and therein to take my counsel, having heretofore given you warning of your former actions, at the least, I shall discharge myself of the duty which I own unto you, for the favours I have received at your hands, and I call heaven to witness of my sincerity; let me then entreat you, to peruse these few lines, and suffer the truth therein by me set down, to work some remorse of conscience in you. Upon what do you think, I beseech you, when you discharge your arrows against the King's Majesty, and the peace of his estate? you that have both the grace and honour to be one of the officers of his crown, and have as much charge and commodity as any other about him? This is not the way, by waxing elder, to grow wiser, but rather to counterfeit the Ape, which the older it groweth, the unhappier it is. What? in a manner having one foot already in the grave, to damn his own soul, and disobey the King? and not only to disobey him, but to offend him, in the dearest thing that he hath, and not only to offend him therein, but to take upon you to raise his Subjects to bear arms against him under light pretences, as the truth well showeth; I neither know, nor can conceive, how a man esteemed to be wise, whose beard is grey, and seemeth to be of a stayed judgement, should fall into so great folly; pardon me for speaking so freely: A Canker must be launched and cut away, your evil is no less, and most dangerous. You are not ignorant, that Kings are the images of the living God, that their wills and commandments are Laws to be specially observed, and that no man can dispense therewith, without being guilty of high treason, both divine and human, and yet, you have not only ventured to disobey them, but also by a manner of new interpretation, have directly withstood his commandments. The King thought your personal presence to be necessary in Metz, and you thought the contrary, and that your abode there would not like you, though you were appointed thereunto; his Majesty desired your service in those parts, and you would perferre certain particular affairs, to satisfy your own pleasures and inclinations, as if we were at the Romans' Saturnals.  
You must grant me this, that there are no examples for your proceed, and that if in times past, there were rebels and disobedient Subjects, they always sought to dissemble, and to cover and hide their pretences with necessity: you use not any such means, but are rather more hardened, & seem directly and openly to oppose yourself against his Majesty: What punishment think you doth such a crime deserve? One fault willingly and most commonly draweth on another. What have you done since you came from Metz? You have borne away the King's Mother, and carried her to Angoulisme, where you spread the ensigns of revolt, and there determine upon war, and the subversion of the State? What audaciousness is this, and whatan enterprise have you undertaken, to cirumvent the intents of a good Mother, towards her dear Son; to trouble and set at variance the harmony and consent of their wills; to shake, and as it were to break the bond of nature, and violently to pull out of so great a Prince's breast, the love which she oweth to her Son, to her King, and to him that specially loveth her? Miserable man, (if I must needs use this term) what is your pretence? To ruinated his majesties affairs, and to overthrow and subvert the public peace of the Land? It is the conceit of a frantic brain, governed by the author of malice: Do you not think and persuade yourself, that reason once taking place, but that the Queen will condemn your pernicious designs, and the proceed that you have caused her to use? there is no doubt thereof, your forces cannot altogether break and dissipate the principal motions of her suggestions, which are Nature and the fear of God, able and sufficient to drive away the clouds and fictions wherewith you serve your turn: The common people, manifestly see it, and curse you, as often as they behold and look into the evils which you bring upon them: They know that his Majesty is a most Christian Prince, that he loveth his Mother perfectly well, and that he never gave any just cause to procure this evasion: They are assured and otherwise comforted, that this separation cannot continue long: Their mutual desire already is to see one another, and to show the effects of their reciprocal loves: Expect not then to fortify the weakness of your cause, by the detention of the Queen's person; you shall never have the consent of her heart and will, to the ruin of the State, and her own glory.  
But this is not all, I must begin again, and lead you to the execution of that which this burning fever enduceth in your fantasy. You have disobeyed, & allienated (as you pretend) the Queen's intents, you must now blame the government both within and without the Realm, and in all places proclaim war, and the desolation of your Country; wherein specially your design cannot take effect. Foreign Prince's honour, & too much desire the amity and alliance of our Monarch; they have seen miracles, as it were, in his actions, and that in his young years, with a manly and resolute generosity, he hath daunted the monsters of his Realm, and by an admirable care and wisdom, procured peace to those that had war; which is the cause, that by a general consent they give him the glorious title of the Arbitrator of Christendom; and his amity is so desirable and profitable, that such as are admitted thereunto (how far distant soever they be) sleep and take their rests, without any apprehension of trouble; how then will they understand your clamours, unless it be to blame and condemn them?  
The peace that we enjoy, is an evident testimony of the piety, justice, and providence of our King; and therefore it is impossible that your inventions should destroy the truth, and that which we see with our own eyes, in such manner, that if in long time, there hath been a happy reign in France, it is now at this present, where all Orders and degrees are seen to flourish; Virtue therein is commended, and Piety (the true support of the State) particularly adored, where our King is as it were, a perfect model; Ecclesiastical persons are reverenced, and called to counsel in his majesties most important affairs, they enjoy and possess their revenues without trouble; the Nobility are loved and respected; justice is indifferently and without fear executed; the Commons are not oppressed nor charged with Subsidies or new impositions; and all estates together, have nothing so much in recommendation, nor so dear, as this good King, for whose health and prosperity they daily make their fervent prayers unto God. How then should they be moved to offence? and that to accommodate your humours, they should set fire on their houses, and ruinated and spoil one the other, after that to expect nothing else but misery in this life, and damnation in the life to come?  
I know assuredly, that you specially build your designs upon the inconstancy of the popularity, as if the consideration of your person, or of any others, were of more importance unto them, than the Kings, and their own preservation: Therein you are deceived; the love and obedience that they bear and owe unto him, are by Gods own finger engraven in their hearts, with a character impossible to be defaced, and your name is execrable, as the sworn enemy of their good: they openly report and say, that it is impossible that he which is wicked & cruel against his own children, should ever be good to others; that he which seeketh the ruin & subversion of his native Country, unworthy of humane society: that the poison of your venomous heart hath long time appeared, and that it ought and should be choked in the birth; that the spots and uncleanness of your soul, and the counsels which your actions have imposed upon it, makes you play the last act of your Tragedy. To conclude and be short, they are willing to contribute and give fire and faggot to consume the author of so many mischiefs. I described all these circumstances unto you without flattery, to let you see the state whereunto your affairs are reduced.  
Tell me now, who hath brought you to these extremities? Is it the discontentment of the Queen? she had no other but that only which you have procured; and say that she had, doth it belong to you to intermeddle with the difference that is between Princes? It is not like that of yours: The Son and the Mother would soon have agreed together, and good endeavour would have reduced all things to their true ends: Therein you are twofold culpable; one by showing your evil will; the other by seeking to set division between the Son and the Mother, the Subject and the King, and a love which could not be broken, but by the impiteous winds of your sinister counsels.  
It may be, ye will allege that you are none of his majesties privie-counsellours, and your honour is such that you would know all, that you may enterprise much; let us reason boldly: The counsel which the King now hath, is the same that his Father had, who by his valorous actions, and wise conduction, was called the wonder of Kings: That great King, made profit of men's actions, and perfectly understood the minds of his subjects, and yet he never-made you privy to the counsel of his most important affairs: He was content to do you good, and to continue you in the Offices that you enjoyed; must you then complain, that the King his son, and successor in his virtues, followeth the same course and counsel, by the aid and dexterity whereof, he had given us a general peace, and almost a golden world? Believe me, rather praise and commend that good King, who in a manner had buried in oblivion the memory of that which you know, and which I dare not touch, fearing to offend his indulgence: I leave it to the registers of the Court of Parliament.  
Is it possible that you should be discontented, that his Majesty affecteth, and doth good to some one of his Servitors, more than to you. I think you are not at that point; for what other should that then be, but to show yourself unthankful for, and to condemn that which Henry the third did for you? He loved you most particularly, and gave you all that you enjoy, besides 8000. Franks yearly revenues. This your great fortune, was much envy, and many men spoke thereof, to your prejudice, which reason denied: I remember that some in respect of you said, that men in Kings hands, are like unto Counters which they make to value as much as they think good: And that there was never any Monarch, but that showed some proofs of particular affections, which in truth are Royal actions, worthy of commendation. And it is no small good, to a great Prince, to make a good choice of, and to have faithful servitors about him, with security and familiarity, to whom he may discover and disclose his heart, and thoughts: Every one of us see it by experience, and find nothing more pleasing and acceptable, then to impart and unfold our affairs unto, and with those whose affections and amities are well known unto us. Our King loveth with great judgement, he knoweth and will acknowledge the merit and fidelity wherewith he hath been served; I mean, the more he (specially) whom he loveth, hath amiable qualities and worthy the estimation of a King. I will not particularise them, nor proceed further in this subject, only I will say, that we must hold all that for Law, which pleaseth the Prince, and that for their sake, we must love those whom they love, much less ought we to envy and hate them: It should in truth be a most hard thing, and without all likelihood or appearance of reason for Subjects to impose laws to their sovereigns, and to master their pleasures and affections, they themselves being free in their own particular houses, to love and to do good to those to whom they will; and I say further, that the favour and fortune whereof we speak, altereth not that which is due unto Princes, neither yet abateth any thing of the advantage and estimation of the Nobility, nor useth any violence or evil entertainment towards others, whereby we may truly say, that no man can nor may dislike or contradict it, but only of mere envy, the sworn enemy of all good actions, and of the advancement and greatness of virtuous men.  
This is the Table or Portraiture which I thought good to set before your eyes, without dissimulation, to let you see the greatness of your faults, and the extremity whereinto you are fallen. It may be you will be grieved that I display them so openly; I protest that I have not set them all down, and that without doing wrong to you, and to mine own intent, I could not say less. My purpose is herein to set down sufficient to persuade you to the truth, and to search the wound to the bottom, to the end, that having any feeling, you yourself may seek how to heal it; you should do it while time serveth: This is the advice which I will give you. A Lamp goeth out if you put too much moisture unto it; acknowledge that your too great estate hath reduced you to this point of great loss, and not yours only, but your children's, whom you cruelly drew into your rebellions. King's have Iron arms; for God's sake stay not till our King lifts up his, you will surely be broken in pieces with the blow; prevent it by humility, certainly his Matesty is just and benign; he punisheth and exterminateth obstinate Rebels, but he pardoneth those that ask mercy and forgiveness. It is the only haven wherein you shall find hope of relief, refer yourself with a good heart freely unto his bounty, and you shall not be deceived in your expectation.  
Suffer the Queen to be at liberty to reunite and join her affections with her Sons; let your children be sureties and pledges of your liberty, let them fall down at his majesties feet, to protest and warrant your amendment, and your most humble submissions to full fill all obedience in time to come: Discharge your Soldiers, and let every place sound the praise of so complete a Prince, and your resolution to die in his service. I am without doubt persuaded, that this proceeding will be acceptable unto him, and that following the example of Henry the great, his father, he will embrace and preserve you. What glory (my Lord) will it be unto you to have appeased the wrath of so puissant a Prince? To have of yourself reobtained his favour? To have pacified the tumult which you had raised in his Realm? To have procured peace to your own soul, and rest unto your latest days, and to have re-established the state and fortunes of your Children. I beseech God give you grace earnestly to think upon these things, and to put them in effect: I desire and wish it more than any other, that I may see you restored, and have the means hereafter to say, as I have hither done that I rest  
Your most humble and most affectioned servant, L: S. D. From Paris the 28. of March, 1619. Stilo novo.