August. 3. Numb. 38.  
ADVICE GIVEN UNTO THE STATES OF of the Low-Countries, obedient & faithful to his Majesty of Spain, upon occasion of the Letters written by Count Henry Vanden Bergh the 18. day of june 1632. to her Highness the Archdutchesse, and the Estates in those Dominions.  
As also unto the declaration made by him concerning his discontent received, being all fully answered and found to be unjust and unreasonable.  
If the Reader please to compare them together, you shall find Henry of the Bergh his Letters and Declaration, Printed in our Aviso of june, the 30. Numb. 31. and july 6. Numb. 32.  
Translated out of the French Copy.  
LONDON, Printed by B. A. and T. F. for Nathaniel Butter, and Nicholas Bourne. 1632.   

SIRS,  
THere is nothing that makes men more commendable before the face of Heaven and Earth, in comparison of true fidelity towards God and their Prince. It is a Primitive virtue which is borne with us, and ought not to die but with us without prejudice or wrong to any foreign Nations, it may be averred with preeminence of honour, that there is not any place or Nation, where the Divine worship is more religiously observed, the Churches better maintained and served, the Clergy more exemplary, the Nobility more pious, the people more devout and observant in religious duties, than in those Provinces of the Low-countries which are subject and obedient to his Majesty. 
M●… tru●…  Their Temples are in reputation, and in effect to be numbered, and esteemed amongst the fairest, and most adorned and beautified of all Christendom, and the Doctrine of their Prelates in singular esteem with the Church of Rome. As concerning the fidelity due unto their Prince, 
N●… do●…  the same is  and constant, & hath been so acknowledged and tried by the continuance and prosecution of many succeeding years, yea such, that maugre all the power, devices, and stratagems of the enemy, and discontented brains, the same will still subsist in integrity and true obedience.  
We are under a King the best that ever bore Crown in many ages, the most pious, and best affectioned unto his substitutes and such as are in authority under him. At this day when Piety & Religion are so lively opposed & set? upon in his Person and States by impiety and heresy, when God and our Prince are both assaulted at once, whi●e every man is now putting to his helping hand in the Ship until the tempest be overpast, you will not (I assure myself) wonder if among a multitude and infinite number of good men, you shall find one wicked faithless servant, who turns his back to his Master, and kissing him betrays him, wonder not I say, if among so many faithful ones you meet with one who under pretence of a Patriot and faithful supporter of the Countries, opens a way to easement.  
Our enemies are so much the more dangerous, by how much more they do flatter us. And as the promise of liberty of conscience is nothing else but an Introduction of heresy: So is the other of public liberty tendered by the hand of a disloyal one, nothing else but a deceitful bait to replunge our Provinces into the forepassed calamities, out of which the mercy of the Omnipotent hath delivered and brought us forth. Our sweetness (GOD be blessed) is not mixed with any bitterness, our Sacrifices are not intertu●bed or troubled, our lives pass along in tranquillity, and under the manifold blessings of Heaven, under the example and government of a Princess most devout and debonaire, and hope and expectation of a young Prince of Royal race. What is there now wanting to the height of our happiness, but the accomplishment of a Peace, which cannot be withheld from us, if we make but some trial and proof worthy of our zeal and good will? We can do much, if we have but the will: only let us have this care, that the want of courage turn not to our reproach & shame, since that our domestic enemies are descried & brought to light, those without shallbe inferior to us. Our domestic enemies are such, who under colour and pretence of raising up the public liberty, labour and endeavour to destroy it by inovation, and bury the same in their own ambitious engrossing. And who having no other Religion but that of their ambition and of their own interest, do nevertheless make profession of being very good Catholics.  
The worst cause that ever was in the world wanted not some pretence or other. There is nothing so like unto an Angel of light as a Daemon or Devil, nothing doth so counterfeit, and appear like unto the truth as falsehood & a lie. You have (my Lords) seen the ridiculous pretences of Count Henry de Bergh in those Letters which he hath sent to her highness, to the States of the Country, and the declaration which he made to solicit the fidelity of soldiers and men of honour. You have seen I say, his foundation without foundation, upon the which he grounds his perverse intentions. But the dislike and distaste which you have taken against his proceed hath been such, and your loyalty and fidelity so commendable, that even to convince his felony, you have (with an extraordinary affection, & love to the good of the Country) contributed unto the Prince fare greater aid and help than formerly you had done. Moreover it is necessary that besides you, the world be satisfied, which oftentimes doth judge by the outward appearance, not knowing the truth of things, and that the same may see the truth discovered, lest men be abused by the cunning slights and pretences where withal he hides the grossness and baseness of his treason. He gins his letter written to her highness with insupportable and boldness without measure, presenting most traitorlike bread in one hand, and a flinty stone in the other. He exposeth his wicked designs with all submission. Never I am sure, was there any rebellion declared with more shamelessness and impudence. After this his feigned Ceremony and compliment, he complaineth, that the Soldiers were withdrawn from his government, to the end that they might make him be the cause of their destruction. It is lawful for a man to make his complaint but not perfidious. That which he says is not truth, and the Letters of the Marquis De Sancte Crows do testify as much for he required no men from him, but only beacuse he judged that the enemy would attempt nothing on that side, leaving all to his own choice and desiring him to see the Bridge well guarded and provided before Venlo, to suffer the troops to pass over safely which should be seat to relieve the same. And put the case, that which he affirmeth were true, if he had been well minded, and his intention good, he ought to have defended her government to the last man, and have kept himself in the City of Gelder which is a strong place, (as he had promised by Letters to her highness, and allowing that Venlo was able to be held) & therein have imitated the generosity of his Brother Count Frederick, who in the year 1597. defended himself within the City Lingen, even to the extremity, with only three Companies of foot and one of Horse. But this, two days before the enemy did come before Venlo, called the Magistrates and told them, that the city would soon be besieged, & to take away the courage from the Citizens demonstrated unto them the small appearance and hope he had of defending the same. Wherefore he excused himself from protecting of them, nay and besides this being Governor of that Province, said he had other places to guard & look to, nevertheless he presently made haste unto the City Gelder, from whence he departed presently accompanied only with one servant, or Companion, & betook himself to Liege, there to put in execution the perfidiousness which he had plodded a long time.  
As for his service of forty years, which he mentions: 'tis true, in the beginning they were considerable, and of some worth when his brother (whose death he doth allege) did animate him by their good and valorous examples. But ever since, from the year 1606 that he defended the City Groll with expectation of relief by the Marquis Spinola who came time enough to rescue him, his services have not been so remarkable nor of such moment, and moreover they have been recompensed an hundred fold with dignities and titles, gifts, and honourable charges, and excessive sums of Money.  
As for the ill government of the Countries, and the progress of our enemies, that proceeds from nothing else but from the manifold treacheries, and the to too much confidence and trust which our Princes have in his person, having with a fatherly and favourable affection which they bore unto their servants, endured a long time his discontentments, and greevances, which in time by little and little, and more and more are still degenerated unto this action the most base and ignoble that ever could be returned with reproach unto a reasonable Soul, manifested in these two branches, ingratitude, and revolt.  
One of the first testimonies of his disloyal and evil will which he cunningly concealed, was observed at Bergen on Zoom in the year 1622. for then and here having received command reiterated by her Highness, to conduct the Marquis Spinola with all diligence unto the Army which he than had on the , he made a thousand excuses to prolong the time, and stay him or keep him back until the want of relief caused us to raise the siege. And it was told the Marquis than, (who was in travail with impatiency, during this delay) by the Lieutenant of the Artillery, Wyngart by name, that he would lose his head, if Count Henry de Bergh (whom he had known by long experience) did arrive, before the occasion should be let slip.  
He thought to have played the same prank two years after, in like manuer to divert the siege of Breda, making proffer of an enterprise upon Ravensteyn, afterward upon the Grave, and lastly upon the Castle of Genepe. The cunning Letters which after his subtle manner he wrote full of excuses, have sufficiently discovered what was his design. They are printed at large, in the history of the siege of Breda, composed and set forth by Father Hermanus Hugo.  
The confidence which her Highness had ever since in his fidelity for the relieving of Groll. In the year 1627. was the cause why we lost that City. For being there was a difference risen between two Masters of the Camp, for the vanguard, being of different Nations, he instead that he should have rid them out of the Field, and done as it befitted him for his Majesty's service, he counsels the one not to yield to the other, by that means in the mean time, to prevent them both from defeating a Convoy which eased and refreshed the Enemy, for want of which Convoy the Enemy must of necessity have raised the siege. He was put to his excuse, and 〈◊〉 quitted because his authority was not great enough for the deciding the preeminence of Nations, But let us see, if he hath better be haved himself when he had received more authority. The City named Shortogenbosch, was besieged by the Prince of Orange in the year of our Lord 1629. We than praised God, because the Enemy was fallen before a City which was able to defend itself and hold out until relief should come. Her Highness at that time used so much diligence, that in few days we had a most flourishing Army on Foot and able to make a strong assault. There was only question made, who should command the same, the Marquis Spinola than being absent. In the end this was the resolution that Count Henry de Bergh should have the honour, and to this end he was sent for by her Highness. No sooner was he come to Brussels, but he began to propound an hundred difficulties one after another, and frame excuses, to the end that the Enemy might gain the more time to fortify themselves. In these extremicies, and by reason of the confidence which we had in him, and partly by reason of his experience nothing was denied him which he demanded. Many days passed in these entermedlings, but in the end he goes to Field, and was by the way (so great hast he made) from the 3. of June to the 27. and than he found that the besieged had not yet lost one Inch of ground of all their outworks, although the quarters of the Enemy were in good reasonable defence. The advice of the most part of the Colonels was to open Trench against trench, and weary out the enemy in such sort, that he should not be able to disquiet the besieged, and so expect until the Autumn should be passed, and than the waters would cause him to departed of his own accord, or at the leastwise be constrained to forsake some quarter or other, by which means we might have a way opened to bring in Munition, and soldiers and necessaries, as much as should be required for the deliverance of the City. Count Henry cannot approve this enterprise, indeed he made trial of some others, in those places which were most fortified, and contented himself with this conclusion, that the Enemy's trenches were not possible to be entered. Having therefore intended a diversion of his Army he leaves the siege, and sends to hazard the passage of the Yssel, by Lucas Cayro, who having passed happily, he followed him, and joins the Imperial Army with theirs, which Army was come for our aid and relief. And what doth he than? he gins to treat with the Burgomaster's of Cities, only to replenish his own Coffers, and famish the fairest and compleatest Army which had been seen in a long time, in stead of demanding up those places where there were neither soldiers nor munition, and which doubtless would have surrendered at the very sight of a stock of a tree, or the smallest and simplest stroke which could have been made at them.  
You shall observe, if you please, an excusable perfidiousness. When Lucas Cayro had passed the yssel. Contrary to the opinion of Count Henry, and that the terror of an explioct so newly put in practice, and not foreseeene had astonished all Holland. The Prince of Orange having assembled the whole Council, and propounded unto them what had so lately and unexpectedly happened, put into deliberation whether the siege should be raised yea or no. The advice and opinion of all the Council, and each of them was, that the Veluwee being thus occupied and possessed unexpectedly, the Cities of Arnheym, Amersfort, Doesburgh, Wageningen, Rhenen, and other near adjoining places about the Veluwee would be taken without any resistance at all, and that the gain and profit which they should make of Shertogenbosch could not countervail nor recompense the least of all those losses, which they should suffer elsewhere, if their enemy were permitted to cease upon the very heart of the Country. The Prince of Orange did very much commend the advice of these Counsellors, and said, that verily some course must be taken, if that which they objected must needs fall out so, but he could assure them to the contrary, and that the event would prove otherwise. And from whom I pray, could he have this knowledge and assurance but from Count Henry De Bergh, who in effect never made so much as any show of demanding up any City. Who within his own view permitted the City Desburgh to be revictualled, and that was the cause that some poor Hollanders were executed being Catholics, because they had declared and manifested the intelligence which he had received from them privately. In a word Shertogenb●●ch was not relieved, and in effect nothing could be expected on his part since he had engaged himself by promise to his sisters not to reseve the same.  
What water can wash him clear from the loss of Wesel, which was taken from us at the same time? seeing that as soon as ever he heard of the news, he kept himself shut up in his Chamber for 24. hours together, for fear lest he should be required to send help to recover the same City; and when as Count John of Nassau having entreated him to furnish him with men, to regain that place, before the open breach where the Enemy entered, was made up, he refused it. The Governor of Diden hath spoken it to Count john of Nassau with his own mouth that if he had come to relieve the City of weasel any time within five days after the same was taken he might have entered without any difficulty. If Count Henry had been an honest man, we had finished our war that year, and the Catholic Religion, (with which cloak he hides his baseness, and the blackness of his Hypocrisy) had never suffered so much as the same hath done ever since.  
What wonders hath he wrought? where are the great exploicts of his Conquests? Let this also moreover be spoken for the great services which he allegeth in General. He himself hath oftentimes avouched, that he never hath received wound or hurt in the King's service (notwithstanding that some Histories and report would have made him believe that he was once hurt in the leg or thigh, in a skirmish near unto Ruremond in the year 1598.) which he attributed to a Mandegloire, or little figure or shape of a man, which he ordinarily carried in a small box, very dirty and foul, which he hath showed to more than one person.  
Indeed his services are well known, if ever any man's were; he entered very poor into the service of our Princes, and now at this instant he is so rich that he possesseth millions. From a particular Horseman, and meanest of his house, he was advanced to the greatest offices which any servant of his Majesty could aspire unto. And therefore he hath great reason to say, that the Nobility is not in that esteem as they ought to be; seeing that the Honours, Offices, and Dignities are so ill bestowed; and that he alone doth possess that, which a dozen others better deserving then himself would esteem themselves happy to enjoy. God be thanked there are none that are unprovided, and not one who hath just cause to complain.  
Are they not fare engaged and employed in the house, and service of their Sovereign? Do not they hold the most part of the Governments? Who do possess the principal Offices, and Ecclesiastical Dignities but those of the Low-Countryes? If the Spanish, whom Count Henry upbraids to be the sole Governors have any part in the Government, and charge, it is for to expose their lives for our preservation, and proceeds from the great care which the King hath for our protection. Which this new reformator qualifies with the name of Domination, intending thereby to make the same odious.  
Those of the Country in particular, and those of other nations, who unanimously live in service here, and brotherly one with another, have their part in the chiefest charges and offices as well as the Spaniards. The Marquis Spinola hath bad the Generalship both by Sea and Land; and at this present the Generalship both of the Cavalry and artillery, are not possessed by the Spanish. We have seen those of these Countries reciprocally in the Counsels of Spain, and the managing of the most important matters: And we have such still at this present. Our discontented Count Henry contradicts himself, he doth not remember that in his letter full of sedition which he wrote unto the Stat●● of these Countries, he confesseth that he was called upon by the King, to be employed in great affairs.  
The Nobility than is not in so small esteem as he would make the world believe, and his complaints are altogether without ground and foundation full of contradictions, seeing that he himself hath been honoured with the command of being General of the Army, when the Spanish, and other Nations have been excluded therefrom. It is he himself that hath lost some of the Nobility. The Prince of Chimay, and the Baron De Belvoire, who have been displeased at their very death, seeing the King betrayed by his Monopolies, will one day acouse and reproach him before the throne of God, of the loss of twenty thousand good men, which he caused to languish in Misery, to the end he might use the King's Enemies gently, who did contribute great sums of money to satisfy his Avarice. The Father Hermanus Hugo, did in the Army reproach him at the very point of death, and could not survive the public Calamity.  
Count Frederick his Brother shall accuse him in like manner & lay as much to his charge, for being so slack and remiss, and lo●sing all occasion of relieving the most Catholic City of Shertogenbosch, which that Generous Cavalier hath formerly delivered (in the year 1604) from the siege of Grave Maurice, who had blocqued up the same. Let therefore Count Henry blame his own insatiable covetousness for disorder, and attribute the ill government to himself, without the which we might at this day rejoice in a most happy and honourable peace, assuredly even such a peace which good subjects ought to wish unto their Prince for the reputation of his Crown.  
As for the Commission of Master of the Field General, which he saith was conferred upon him two years ago, by her Highness in the name of the King's Majesty, and which he is now resolved to exercise and execute for the service of the Countries, the preservation of the Privilidges, and the upholding of the H. Catholic, Apostolical and Roman Church. You may thereby see unto what a degree, and height of impudence the audaciousness of this Traitor is come? How doth he pay and recompense our good and virtuous Princess with ingratitude? How doth he accuse her of Connivance saying, that he knows that she wisheth that the affairs went better? And as it were acknowledging the goods deeds, and supreme honours which he hath received from her extreme goodness and bounty, he hath so much boldness and audacity to take her for a prote trix of his mischief, and so doth declare himself openly to be guilty, as now he is proclaimed. To be guilty of crimen laesae Maiestatis in the highest degree, and capital Enemy of the public rest, and therefore consequently fallen away, and deprived of all his Honours, offices, Dignities, and interest which he hitherto hath had in his Majesty's service.  
In the year 1484. the Count de Rom●nt did by the like practice bare Arms against the Archduke Maximilian his Lord, & attributing in like manner to himself the title of Captain General of the Prince Philip his son, he wrote in this sort to the States general assembled in the City of Brussels, his answer given him was this. That they did not acknowledge him for such, but an Enemy of the Prince and of the state.  
As for the Countries, in the name of God let him leave them in peace, for there is no need of forging any innovation, we need no broils nor Traitor to trouble our tranquillity. The flock would be in good case under the claws of the Wolf, if our Religion had no better Protector. Oh had but this black soul as much capacity, and ability as he hath hatred and malice, we should soon see a strange Religion, and such Laws, that Saturue and ●up●ter would not be brought in but for them only. I cannot conceive how a man that hath no Religion at all: who hath falsified his Faith, and who in the year 1621. when he went before juliers, by Testament written by his own hand, which he left to his sister Anne, did ordain to be buoyed or interred in a profane place nearer unto his sisters, will not only cloak and cover himself with a veil of Religion, but also counterfeit himself to be a protector of the Catholic, Apostolical, and Romish.  
You deceive yourself Monsieur Count Henry, you must not send your manifestations and declarations into your Government of Geldria, hereof your Conscience is to well known there, the City of Stefenswert, which you have made neutral to serve for a retreat unto the Enemies of the King, and to the Heretics, and where you have brought the Ministers to poison the people and instruct your Sisters Anne, and Charloite, these shall testify of your carriages, and your secret behaviour. Do not you remember that sometimes by chance and through forgetfulness you left a little haereticall prayer book in high-dutch on a seat in the jesuitish Church at Ruremond. Which book you called your Haureman? you have written to Priests and other persons well qualified, and of diverse Nations, that your sisters were christianly deceased, and that their souls were very happy. In the mean while you know, that they gave up the ghost in the Arms of such Ministers which you had procured them. We know more of your news than you do think for.  
He ends his letter with the retreat which he had made into the City of Liege for the advancement of his desseyns. Wherein his subtlety ill compacted together is failing; for the Deputes of the Prince and States of Liege, not willing to prejudice any way to so good neighbourhood, have disclaimed his action by a decree. ●une the 23. the contents whereof are these. A declaration published to show that his letters and his declaration have bee●e published without any knowledge of theirs or participation, and consent, and that they intent in no wise to intermeddle with any affairs of the said Count Henry. Nay, for their better justification, they have obliged him by a writing of his own hand the 25. day of June. That they would have it manifested. That as he had published the said letters without having given notice or asked permission of his H● of Liege, or the Deputes of his states, and how that he intended not by those publications to attempt any thing against their right, nor envolue their affairs into his actions.  
This retreat of his hath been intended along time, not for the service of the Countries nor Religion; but plotted and combined with our Enemies. And if it were not, so how could he have had time enough to treat with the King and Princes which in the end of his Letter to the States he affirms, to be inclined to contribute their forces for the execution of his designs? But there are other sufficient proofs: & it is not of a day or two that his treason hath been reproached unto him, and hit in his teeth by the brother of the husband of the bastard daughter, we shall speak of that in his due place, it is sufficient for this point to manifest what is most true, that before ever the Prince of Orange came to field to march to Venlo, he had been to confer with him in Holland, and did so within a mile from the City, in the Castle of Holtmullen, where also was the Earl of Culenbergh, his brother in Law, and that before that time he had caused five Barrels of Silver to be conveyed to Meseycke, there to buy the necessary provision for the siege of Mastricht, under a colour that they were the Prince of Orange his moneys destined by him at the retreat of Count of Horn, engaged the Prince of Liege. See there, these be the good & charitable Offices, which this dissembling Patriot intends to practice for the good of the Countries. The letter which he sent to the States, was almost of the same tenure and contents as that written to her Highness: we will only examine these things which are of note and moment. He saith that he had given advice that the place of the enemy's meeting or rendevons should be at Moock nearest of all to his Government. He would speak according to knowledge concerning the place, and not without reason, but he might know since it was he that had called the enemy thither. But is absolutely false that he gave them any advertizement or notice at all, but only at the very instant when the enemy arrived.  
He proposeth his natural affection unto the good of the Countries. He is a stranger, revengeful, full of ill will and malice, who intends and labours to make a private discontent & grudge a public cause, he stomaches the Marquis De Leganes, who hath been indeed raised in these Countries to be a Patriot, him he accuseth imprudently, and unadvisedly of such business which he was never acquainted withal, the said Marquis at that time not being interessed in the matter. If he think himself wronged in any thing, it is lawful for him to right himself by an ordinary course, But not to commit such a looseness, and to play the little Tyrant. What have these Countries to do with his particular quarrels & heartburning? If his courage had had edges sharp enough, and wings swift enough for honour, and that he thought himself so grievously offended, as he speaks of: as oftentimes as he hath had occasion to see the Marquis Nay more, as often as he hath seen him, who hath hindered him from demanding him satisfaction? As for the Spanish Nation which he complains do wish his death, and that they shot at his Picture, which hangs near the Steenport, he hath exceeding great wrong, for if it be true, that the Spaniards be such as he speaketh of, they had all of them long since been made away, and he who for the present serves for Counsellor, hath oftentimes inculcated the means to destroy them, and said that therein he went in the King's service; But his Oracles sounded always so little profitable to the King, that no trust might be given to his persuasions: It hath proved better, to go a milder way to work, and to strive to redress whatsoever was amiss by gifts, and employments, than to practise any such extremity, which the world would never have judged worthy to be executed, if the proof had not been drawn, as now it is by his own declaration.  
It is very pretty that he complains of the Spanish, because they shot at his Picture: his spies would have much a do to bring sufficient witness for the proof thereof, although (to be true & plain) he that betrays his Prince deserves othergesse punishment than he that only exerciseth his treason against his picture. It was he, the fellow, who so lately on the 27. of june was so ras● and impudent as might lie in the City of Brussels, by the patricidious hands of his wicked adherents caused attempt to be made against the sacred Image of the King his Lord and good Master, by that means to endeavour to begin by that execrable fact the first exploits of his rebellion. But the contrary of which they intended is happened, and the wicked projects of these imps prevailed not, for two days after the States of Braband not being able any longer to endure the indignity of this abomination, of their own proper motion, came personally in public audience, to the great edification of all that were present, and presented themselves before the Princess, and there renewed solemnly the Oath of fidelity and allegiance to the King their Prince, and Natural Lord, & to her Highness, declaring that they were ready to take the same Oath to the Prince of Spain.  
As for those Offices and charges which he says, are not conferred upon any bat Spaniards. I must here needs repeat, that he himself at their conclusion, had the principal of all, but he hath very ill discharged himself, and I must say that his ingratitude hath neither bounds nor limits. Wicked servant as he is, he never served but by interest, and never Prince was more liberal to any man, than our Princess have been to him. Never did he march forth with the Armies but in the upshot he obtained some sums of moneys for his particular, and ever received more than any Spaniard, or Lord of the Country, besides those secret gratuities and benefits which he obtained under hand, whereof he never made any account but applied them to his private gain & profit. He knows well enough how punctually he caused all reareges to be paid him down before ever he would set one foot on the way to the Palatinate. In a word for that estate & substance which now he hath, he is more obliged than any man in the world for it, and to that King against whom he now takes up Arms.  
From a mean Soldier he was made a Captain of Horse, afterward Master of the Camp, he was trusted with the City of Oldenzel; afterward with Groll, and at last he had the Government of the Province of Geldres, which than was one of the best and fairest Province of all the Countries, he hath also had the general Government of the Cavalry, and the Generalship of the Artillery, he hath commanded the whole Army, and always with retention of the wages of all places and charge which formerly he exercised; to be short, In the year 1629. he was by her Highness in the name of the King made General Master of the Camp of the whole Army of his Majesty. Whereunto could his ambition aspire higher unless it were to Tyranny which he now affects at this present? Our enemies themselves with whom he hath held correspondency and wrought his mischievous practices a long time have been astonished many times, that so many recompenses should prodigally be lavished and wasted upon one who was so undeserving and demeriting. Last of all, which is more, when the Earl of Stryrum entered into Gueldres with the Enemy's troops, seeing the County of Montfort, which is worth more in reveneus than twenty thousand Florins, and which the King had given to Count Henry de Bergh, with many other Towns and villages of the Country of Stefens wert, he could not withhold nor abstain from saying, that he marvailed much how the King could find in his heart to bestow so much upon one of a contrary party. Adding withal, that if he should have served the States of Holland, an hundred years, he would not have been requited with such an honourable reward.  
As for his Expression. That he invites us to accept of one of his passions, and to take another course under the government of her Highness. We thank him for his good will, and to thank God that he hath been pleased to discover unto us and Enemy, who could so closely and covertly hatch and plot our ruin and destruction, if he had but so much aid and conduct, as he is full of evil motions and intentions. Our wise Princess hath no need of such a Tutor, to dissipate and scatter abroad the Patrimony of the King her Nephew. And desolate and ruinated a Country so well governed, which for many years together hath cost his Majesty all the richeses of Spain and the Indieses, and the blood of so many thousand Spaniards spilt for the safety and preservation of the same and for the Catholic Faith and Religion.  
There remains yet his Declaration, which is nothing else but a manifestation of his discontent, and a proffer of entertainment unto those that will be his followers.  
It is very well known that he bathe monies and good store of Coin, if he had no more but what he hath gotten by the Passports which he continually sold without ceasing, whilst the licencyes were shut, and the traffic and commerce, prohibited and interdicted with the rebellious Provinces. It is also well known that he hath received many gifts & presents from Princes and those people that were near adjoining neighbours unto his Government. No, these things we are no more ignorant of, than we are of the moneys which he still hath in his hands, for which pence of silver he treacherously sold his Master; but his insatiable covetousness would never suffer him to use his riches liberally towards those which were honest and good men. There is not one soldier that knows him, who doth not also know the small account which he makes of them, and who doth not remember how evilly he hath always entreated them in his government, cutting off from them the commodities, which in other places the Country people did not deny them, to extort most exorbitant contributions for his own particular; so that certainly you may believe (my Lords) that the soldiers will give no more credency to his declaration than your honours have done to his letters.  
You have witnessed the condemnation which you have made, your good zeal toward Religion, your sincere affection to the Princess, and your duties in the behalf of the Countries. Religion shall ever be obliged unto you, the King shall ever acknowledge your loyalty and accept of your fidelity, the Princess doth highly esteem and commend, yea rejoice in your affection towards her, she embraceth them, and gives you hearty thankes. And the Countries shall see their own preservation by your meane●. Do so much more for the public good, that henceforward all those that audaciously and presumptuously shall dare to take part and adjoin themselves to this new Tyrant, or protect his cause so unjust and detestable, may be reputed and accounted as favourers, and complotters of his Rebellion.  
As for the rest that concerns the plots practices and divises of our Enemies remember the cost and charges of the time past, that all the Inventions of liberty of conscience which now he pretends, have not been invented for any other end but merely to ruin the beautiful foundation of our Religion, to establish an hundred other new ones, and to corrupt the tenderness of our Children by the pernicious examples, and introduction of heresy. These are the ways & cunning windings which our enemies go and walk in. These are the enchanted kindnesses which they present unto us. Should we have a heart to receive such empoisoned gifts, which are proffered us by the hand of an enemy? Who should then furnish and provide us with Prelates and Priests, and persons necessary for our Ceremonies, for the comfort and consolation of our Souls, the ease and peace of our Consciences? When our Prelates shall be deceased, whence should we have new ones bred amongst us? What Apostolical Bulls would authorise them? Who would set them in possession, when our enemies hold this for a maxim and foundation, not to acknowledge the Romish Church. And last of all what assured treaty and contract could we make with our victorious enemies, and their cautions which at this day do trouble whole Europe, and leave not one corner of the World where the Catholics are not persecuted either by effect, or apprehension in the expectation of the progress of Arms, and by the furor of the Heretic.  
FINIS.