THE
CONFESSION
,
Arraignment
,
and
Iudgement
of
Gielis
van
Ledenberch
sometimes
Secretarie
to
the
States
of
VTRECHT
:
Together
with
the
Execution
done
on
his
dead
body
,
vpon
the
15.
of
May
,
anno
1619.
Stilo
Nouo
.
GIELIS
van
LEDENBERCH
sometime
Secretarie
to
the
States
of
VTRECHT
,
being
committed
to
prison
by
the
Generall
States
of
the
vnited
Netherland
Prouinces
,
without
racke
or
any
bodily
torments
,
confessed
vnto
the
Commissioners
thereunto
appointed
by
the
said
Generall
States
,
(
as
the
Iudges
by
the
said
States
thereunto
ordained
,
for
the
deciding
of
the
said
Processe
)
by
his
said
confession
and
otherwise
found
to
be
true
.
1
That
notwithstanding
that
the
vnited
Netherland
Prouinces
,
by
diuers
and
seuerall
treaties
,
agreements
,
conclusions
,
instructions
,
and
resolutions
,
were
bound
with
body
,
life
,
and
goods
to
maintaine
and
vphold
the
reformed
religion
by
them
receiued
,
and
preached
within
the
said
vnited
Prouinces
;
and
not
to
alter
the
same
,
nor
cause
or
suffer
any
alteration
therein
to
be
made
:
He
the
said
Ledenberch
,
sought
to
doe
the
contrarie
,
and
to
that
end
induced
strange
,
and
most
dangerous
maximes
for
the
State
of
the
Land
,
and
withall
maintained
that
each
particular
Prouince
,
had
power
and
authority
of
it selfe
in
their
seuerall
Prouinces
,
at
their
pleasure
,
to
exercise
and
vse
what
religion
they
will
,
without
any
consent
or
authoritie
from
the
other
Prouinces
in
generall
,
and
vnder
pretence
thereof
,
sought
to
perturbe
and
vex
the
true
reformed
Church
,
and
to
that
end
inuented
the
meanes
,
that
diuers
new
and
strange
opinions
,
against
the
order
of
the
reformed
religion
,
were
brought
into
the
same
,
and
many
rigorous
resolutions
executed
,
and
put
in
practise
against
those
of
the
true
reformed
religion
,
that
went
and
exercised
the
same
their
religion
,
in
publique
Churches
without
the
Towne
and
Prouince
of
Vtrecht
,
and
to
that
end
he
the
said
Ledenberch
,
then
being
Secretarie
to
the
States
of
Vtrecht
,
(
hauing
nothing
to
doe
with
the
politique
State
of
the
Towne
)
caused
a
sharpe
and
bitter
Proclamation
or
Edict
(
contrarie
to
his
vocation
)
to
be
made
,
and
in
the
name
of
the
Magistrate
of
Vtrecht
to
be
published
,
against
those
of
the
reformed
religion
.
Against
whom
he
proceeded
in
such
sharpe
and
bitter
manner
,
that
he
tearmed
them
to
be
mutinous
and
factious
persons
,
and
their
assemblies
to
bee
riotous
meetings
.
And
notwithstanding
that
the
KING
of
Great
Britaine
,
and
the
most
part
of
the
Prouinces
,
and
members
of
the
vnitie
,
(
for
the
extirping
of
the
differences
in
religion
)
thought
it
fit
and
necessarie
to
call
and
summon
a
nationall
Synode
,
which
accordingly
was
by
the
said
States
generall
published
and
proclaimed
;
He
deuised
the
meanes
,
that
the
States
of
the
Prouince
of
Vtrecht
,
refused
to
consent
and
agree
thereunto
.
And
perceiuing
that
he
could
not
vphold
and
maintaine
his
innouation
of
religion
,
without
that
he
and
his
complices
armed
themselues
against
the
vnited
States
,
because
the
ordinarie
Souldiers
that
then
lay
in
the
garrisons
,
were
bound
by
oath
,
onely
to
bee
true
vnto
those
that
maintained
and
vpheld
the
true
reformed
religion
,
and
that
diuers
Townes
in
Holland
agreeing
together
with
him
,
and
others
of
the
gouernment
of
Vtrecht
,
for
the
maintenance
of
the
innouation
of
religion
,
had
consented
vnto
a
resolute
determination
dated
the
4.
of
August
1617.
by
the
power
and
force
thereof
to
arme
and
strengthen
themselues
with
new
companies
of
Souldiers
,
as
also
that
Iohn
van
olden
Barneuelt
as
then
Aduocate
or
Councellor
of
Holland
,
at
that
time
was
come
to
Vtrecht
;
He
the
said
Ledenberch
,
held
certaine
secret
conferences
with
the
said
Barneuelt
,
and
thereby
agreed
presently
to
take
vp
new
companies
of
Souldiers
in
Vtrecht
,
at
the
first
mouing
the
same
vnto
some
of
his
particular
Confederates
,
and
after
in
the
Counsell-chamber
of
the
said
towne
,
before
and
among
some
of
the
gouernment
thereof
by
him
,
of
his
owne
authority
warned
to
appeare
there
at
an
vnaccustomed
time
,
with
whom
he
debated
and
determined
thereupon
without
the
knowledge
of
others
the
Councell
of
the
said
Towne
,
whom
hee
distrusted
,
and
against
whom
hee
in
the
said
assembly
alledged
certaine
causes
and
reasons
of
suspition
to
be
had
of
them
,
naming
in
the
register
of
the
said
secret
assembly
some
to
be
present
,
that
were
not
there
,
and
omitting
to
name
others
,
that
then
personally
appeared
.
And
when
the
Bourghemasters
of
Vtrecht
,
(
who
by
no
meanes
would
agree
to
the
taking
vp
and
raising
of
new
Souldiers
,
without
the
consent
of
the
States
)
sought
to
disswade
them
from
it
,
with
a
very
impertinent
demaund
,
(
whether
they
would
cause
the
Towne
bell
to
that
end
to
be
rung
,
and
put
it
to
the
popular
voice
)
he
found
the
meanes
,
that
without
any
further
deliberation
,
onely
by
the
States
within
the
towne
,
it
was
decreed
and
determined
,
that
600.
new
Souldiers
should
be
taken
vp
,
there
within
the
towne
of
Vtrecht
,
in
six
companies
,
which
was
likewise
put
in
effect
,
without
once
giuing
any
intelligence
thereof
vnto
the
Generall
States
,
or
his
Excellencie
as
their
State-holder
and
Captaine
generall
,
nor
yet
ioyning
the
said
new
Souldiers
then
taken
vp
,
(
by
the
aduice
and
counsell
of
the
said
Barneuelt
)
by
oath
with
the
garrisons
then
in
seruice
of
the
States
,
but
binding
them
by
a
particular
oath
to
be
obedient
onely
to
the
States
of
Vtrecht
,
and
to
imploy
themselues
in
the
seruice
(
both
within
and
without
Vtrecht
,
as
well
by
water
as
by
land
)
of
the
said
States
of
Vtrecht
,
or
of
their
good
neighbours
,
friends
,
and
complices
,
and
not
to
respect
or
regard
any
other
commaundement
,
then
that
onely
which
should
be
giuen
them
by
the
said
States
of
Vtrecht
.
Not
regarding
nor
respecting
that
the
towne
of
Vtrecht
euer
since
anno
1610.
was
still
burthened
with
a
great
garrison
of
the
generall
States
Souldiers
,
and
very
well
furnished
and
prouided
against
all
popular
troubles
and
vprores
:
And
further
that
the
security
of
the
said
towne
by
order
from
the
counsell
of
Estate
,
in
the
same
yeare
was
remitted
and
reserued
to
the
generalitie
;
Hee
the
said
Ledenberch
himselfe
acknowledging
and
confessing
,
that
the
said
leuying
of
Souldiers
,
was
made
against
the
rest
of
the
vnited
Prouinces
whom
they
held
to
be
their
Aduersaries
.
2
That
the
better
to
moue
the
said
States
,
to
the
willing
and
readie
raising
of
the
said
Souldiers
he
made
them
beleeue
and
perswaded
them
,
that
the
charge
thereof
should
be
borne
by
the
generality
,
or
for
want
therof
,
that
some
of
the
ordinarie
Souldiers
vnder
the
States
generall
should
not
be
paid
their
wages
.
3
And
when
,
the
generall
States
,
by
letters
sent
vnto
the
States
of
Vtrecht
writ
vnto
them
,
of
the
vnlawfull
,
and
disorderly
,
and
suspitious
manner
of
taking
,
and
raising
of
those
new
Souldiers
:
He
,
by
the
aduice
of
the
said
Barneuelt
,
vpon
the
6.
of
September
1617.
made
and
drew
an
answere
vnto
them
in
no
sort
agreeing
with
that
by
the
which
the
new
Souldiers
were
leuied
.
4
And
although
the
said
States
generall
once
againe
expresly
sent
to
Vtrecht
,
to
signifie
their
dislikes
and
opinions
of
the
aforesaid
vnreasonable
,
and
suspitious
raising
of
new
Souldiers
,
and
to
take
away
and
auoide
all
manner
of
pretences
,
to
tell
them
,
that
they
should
not
without
their
consents
lessen
the
garrison
there
,
but
rather
(
if
need
were
)
to
increase
the
same
,
at
their
owne
discretion
,
he
found
meanes
,
that
the
States
of
Vtrecht
refused
their
said
aduise
,
and
still
kept
and
maintained
the
new
Souldiers
,
to
the
great
charge
and
expence
of
the
said
Prouince
.
5
And
hauing
in
this
manner
brought
the
Sates
of
Vtrecht
to
vndertake
warre
against
the
rest
of
the
vnited
Prouinces
,
and
his
Excellencie
,
he
according
to
the
foresaid
aduise
and
conference
,
with
the
said
Barneuelt
,
dealt
in
such
manner
,
that
vpon
report
made
that
his
Excellencie
,
was
to
come
,
and
to
passe
by
Vtrecht
,
resolued
to
write
a
letter
vnto
his
said
Excellencie
,
thereby
,
(
notwithstanding
the
contradiction
of
some
of
the
States
of
the
towne
and
that
he
was
their
State
holder
,
)
desiring
him
not
to
come
thither
,
but
to
take
an
other
way
,
with
aduise
to
wish
him
to
follow
their
counsell
therein
:
penning
the
letter
in
such
manner
,
that
his
Excellencie
therby
was
taxed
to
be
the
Fauorer
of
those
that
went
about
to
make
popular
commotion
:
by
that
meanes
,
the
better
to
animate
the
States
of
Vtrecht
against
his
said
Excellencie
.
6
That
he
was
the
cause
that
the
said
letter
was
kept
a
certaine
time
at
the
Hage
by
Monsieur
Moersberghen
,
and
other
Committies
there
,
vnsealed
,
and
many
times
renued
,
vntill
that
in
March
1618.
his
Excellencie
was
to
go
to
the
assembly
in
Gelderland
,
and
then
the
said
letter
was
againe
renued
,
and
sealed
vp
,
and
that
one
copie
thereof
was
sent
to
the
Deputies
then
resident
in
the
Hage
,
to
be
deliuered
to
his
Excellencie
if
hee
were
not
gone
from
thence
,
and
that
the
like
letter
was
deliuered
vnto
his
said
Excellencie
at
Leyderdorp
,
by
Ter
Stege
,
Clarke
to
the
States
of
Vtrecht
:
And
fearing
that
his
Excellencie
should
neuerthelesse
come
thither
,
he
determined
,
to
send
certaine
Deptities
to
the
same
end
to
meete
with
him
in
the
way
,
to
diuert
him
,
or
else
that
the
gates
should
be
shut
against
him
.
And
lastly
,
that
if
hee
entred
into
the
towne
,
he
should
be
so
well
garded
with
shot
,
that
none
of
the
true
reformed
religion
,
should
haue
accesse
vnto
him
,
hauing
procured
so
much
that
at
the
same
time
it
was
resolued
,
and
after
effected
,
that
300.
new
souldiers
more
were
there
raised
and
intertained
.
7
Then
he
also
,
of
his
owne
authoritie
,
sent
watches
out
to
Hinderdame
and
other
places
,
there
to
arest
and
stay
all
Souldiers
that
were
at
his
Excellencies
commaund
that
should
passe
there
by
,
and
not
suffer
them
to
go
that
way
:
and
also
sent
some
to
Amersforth
,
with
charge
to
enquire
when
his
Excellencies
troupe
of
Horse-men
,
lying
there
in
garrison
should
come
thither
.
8
That
also
in
the
towne
of
Vtrecht
he
obtained
liberty
to
haue
4.
peeces
of
great
Ordinance
ready
,
to
vse
them
when
occasion
serued
,
thereby
to
animate
the
said
States
of
Vtrecht
to
resistance
.
9
That
certaine
Propositions
or
Articles
,
made
by
the
Magistrates
of
Hoerlem
,
were
sent
by
Committies
from
the
States
of
Vtrecht
,
to
the
said
Ledenberch
,
at
the
assemblie
of
the
States
of
Holland
and
West
freseland
,
&
by
him
there
presented
,
where
by
the
said
States
,
and
others
Deputies
of
townes
they
were
approued
and
allowed
,
and
afterward
by
letters
from
the
said
Deputies
it
was
ordered
,
that
their
deliberation
should
be
translated
into
French
,
and
secretly
sent
into
France
,
and
other
places
out
of
the
land
;
And
that
the
same
should
import
a
new
bond
of
vnitie
,
to
be
made
and
kept
among
the
good
and
assured
townes
,
which
should
be
drawn
into
a
contract
in
writing
.
And
that
the
meaning
of
the
said
townes
was
,
to
draw
other
good
townes
into
the
same
,
all
which
their
proceedings
in
their
contract
in
that
case
,
were
tearmed
fearefull
extreamities
,
that
might
be
procured
by
those
of
the
true
religion
,
he
the
said
Prisoner
keeping
all
these
things
secret
,
and
not
(
according
to
his
dutie
)
once
disclosed
the
same
.
10
And
when
he
vnderstood
,
and
had
intelligence
,
that
the
eight
vnited
townes
in
Holland
(
the
better
to
vnite
themselues
,
and
to
secure
their
state
against
the
other
vnited
Prouinces
,
and
his
Excellencie
,
and
so
to
make
the
greater
resistance
,
)
had
made
a
certaine
seuere
and
earnest
Procuration
,
or
act
of
league
and
sent
it
to
their
Deputies
;
He
found
the
meanes
,
that
the
greatest
number
of
the
two
third
parts
of
the
States
of
Vtrecht
by
voices
agreed
vpon
the
like
procuration
or
act
of
league
,
and
the
other
third
part
of
them
by
report
onely
,
and
after
drew
and
made
the
same
;
and
gaue
it
to
Monsieur
Moersberghen
going
to
the
Hage
,
as
if
it
had
beene
absolutely
consented
vnto
,
and
agreed
vpon
by
all
the
members
of
the
State
,
thereby
,
better
to
moue
and
incourage
the
States
of
Vtrecht
to
the
aforesaid
resistance
.
But
the
Magistrates
of
Vtrecht
perceiuing
their
intent
,
expresly
limited
their
commission
,
with
this
clause
,
that
it
should
not
be
vsed
,
for
the
furtherance
of
present
extremities
,
or
for
the
making
of
new
combinations
or
vnities
.
11
And
for
that
the
maintaining
of
new
companies
of
souldiers
,
tended
to
the
soaking
and
drawing
drie
of
the
meanes
and
treasure
of
the
Prouince
of
Vtrecht
,
and
the
confusion
of
their
State
:
And
that
thereupon
the
said
States
were
resolued
,
to
send
a
good
number
of
Deputies
,
(
and
among
the
rest
the
said
Ledenberch
)
to
the
Hage
,
to
giue
his
Excellency
an
ouerture
,
and
to
shew
him
that
the
said
States
were
content
and
willing
to
cashere
the
said
new
companies
of
Souldiers
:
He
presently
began
to
labour
and
to
worke
against
the
said
Commission
;
first
going
to
the
said
Barneuelt
,
and
consulted
with
him
how
that
that
their
Commission
might
be
kept
close
and
not
opened
:
And
after
went
to
Vtenbogaert
,
where
he
instructed
Haen
the
Pensionarie
,
Hogerbeth
,
and
Grotius
,
by
diuers
arguments
and
reasons
how
to
perswade
the
other
Deputies
of
Vtrecht
not
to
open
their
said
Commission
.
Yet
desiring
that
the
same
should
onely
be
kept
secret
to
his
fellow
Committies
and
himselfe
,
making
as
though
hee
knew
nothing
thereof
.
Whereby
vpon
the
25.
of
Iune
1618.
Stilo
veteri
,
at
Daniel
Tresels
house
,
it
being
in
question
there
,
the
Pensionarie
aforesaid
vsed
the
said
reasons
,
and
perswasions
,
thereby
to
moue
the
rest
of
the
Commissioners
to
grant
thereunto
,
to
whom
hee
gaue
such
an
answere
,
that
it
seemed
rather
to
tend
vnto
the
hinderance
then
furtherance
of
their
aforesaid
Commission
:
By
which
meanes
he
perswaded
the
better
part
of
his
fellow
Commissioners
so
farre
,
that
they
also
(
notwithstanding
further
reiteration
made
by
the
aforesaid
States
of
Vtrecht
to
the
contrarie
)
did
not
open
their
Commission
;
but
without
doing
any
thing
therein
,
went
backe
againe
to
Vtrecht
,
to
the
great
hinderance
of
the
States
of
the
Land
,
and
specially
those
of
the
towne
and
territorie
of
Vtrecht
;
onely
vpon
promise
and
hope
of
assistance
made
and
giuen
vnto
them
by
the
aforesaid
Barneuelt
and
his
aduise
,
that
they
should
be
constant
and
not
once
grant
nor
giue
consent
to
the
Synode
,
nor
seeke
to
discharge
their
new
Souldiers
,
but
rather
to
continue
them
still
:
and
withall
to
haue
a
care
of
their
watch
,
and
the
keeping
of
their
gates
for
the
safetie
of
their
towne
.
12
That
he
rather
sought
to
follow
that
aduice
,
then
to
fulfill
and
effect
the
Commission
of
his
principall
Commanders
,
and
yet
acknowledged
,
that
he
perceiued
that
there
was
some
sinister
and
bad
meaning
,
and
that
he
very
well
knew
,
that
the
said
Barneuelt
,
spake
much
to
the
preiudice
of
his
Excellencie
,
as
also
that
he
tooke
too
much
vpon
him
,
but
yet
that
by
his
great
authoritie
he
ouer-ruld
him
.
13
That
he
also
with
others
determined
vpon
strengthning
of
certaine
Forts
&
houses
in
the
Prouince
of
Vtrecht
,
as
the
house
of
Duersteed
,
the
house
of
Abconde
,
and
of
Eem
,
as
also
of
the
towne
of
Woerden
out
of
the
Prouince
of
Vtrecht
,
lying
in
Holland
.
14
That
he
did
not
as
he
ought
to
haue
done
,
truely
open
and
declare
,
the
aduises
by
Monsieur
van
Moersberghen
sent
vnto
him
from
the
Hage
,
to
the
States
of
Vtrecht
,
but
kept
them
secret
to
himselfe
.
15
And
when
his
Excellencie
with
diuers
Committies
of
the
generalitie
vpon
the
23.
of
Iuly
1618.
were
desired
to
go
to
Vtrecht
,
with
Commission
there
to
moue
the
States
of
Vtrecht
,
to
discharge
their
new
souldiers
,
and
to
the
consenting
to
the
Synode
,
or
to
cause
the
said
cashering
of
the
Souldiers
to
be
done
,
and
those
of
Vtrecht
were
aduertised
thereof
,
he
found
meanes
to
get
Monsieur
van
Moersberghen
to
bee
sent
vnto
the
Hage
,
from
them
of
Holland
,
(
following
the
aforesaid
procuration
)
to
seeke
for
counsell
against
his
said
Excellencie
,
and
the
Committies
for
the
generall
States
:
although
that
before
he
could
get
to
the
Hage
,
the
aforesaid
Barneuelt
,
contrarie
to
his
allegiance
,
had
in
the
name
of
the
States
of
Holland
sent
Hogerbeets
the
Pentionary
,
de
Groot
,
and
some
others
,
to
the
same
end
:
with
whom
the
said
Ledenberch
hauing
priuate
conference
,
counselled
them
presently
to
craue
audience
,
Giuing
them
aduice
what
they
should
propound
,
which
was
to
moue
them
of
Vtrecht
to
be
of
good
courage
,
and
that
they
should
in
the
name
of
the
States
of
Holland
offer
them
present
aide
,
and
assistance
both
of
men
and
meanes
:
which
before
the
comming
of
his
Excellencie
and
the
Committies
thither
,
they
did
.
16
And
that
when
they
were
come
to
Vtrecht
,
and
had
made
their
said
Commission
known
,
he
the
said
Ledenberch
,
for
an
answere
to
their
proposition
,
would
not
acknowledge
them
to
be
Committies
sent
from
the
general
States
,
notwithstanding
that
in
qualitie
thereof
they
had
deliuered
their
Commission
to
be
seene
,
and
made
certaine
speeches
in
open
audience
tending
to
the
same
end
.
17
That
purposely
to
hinder
his
Excellencie
and
the
other
Committies
from
effecting
their
Commission
,
he
had
secret
conference
with
those
that
were
sent
out
of
Holland
,
to
consult
about
the
setting
of
the
watch
,
for
order
to
be
taken
that
no
other
Souldiers
should
be
brought
into
the
towne
:
That
the
Artillery
men
should
watch
in
the
Towne
house
,
that
certaine
places
should
be
scized
vpon
and
holden
,
whereby
they
might
best
defend
the
States
chamber
,
and
the
Towne
house
;
as
also
,
to
hold
the
White
Nunnes
bridge
strong
,
and
to
place
certaine
peeces
of
Ordinance
vpon
it
,
giuing
Captaine
Herteuelt
commaundement
,
ouer
all
the
new
Souldiers
,
with
Commission
to
follow
the
commaundement
of
the
chiefe
Bourghemaster
of
Vtrecht
,
giuing
forth
,
that
if
they
that
were
sent
out
of
Holland
,
could
so
bring
it
to
passe
,
that
the
Companies
lying
in
the
towne
,
and
vnder
the
Hollanders
pay
,
would
be
quiet
and
stirre
not
,
that
they
had
taken
such
an
order
with
their
new
Souldiers
,
that
they
would
bring
their
purpose
well
to
passe
.
18
That
when
the
said
Herteuelt
perceiuing
that
he
should
be
employed
against
his
Excellencie
,
and
the
generall
States
,
made
difficultie
thereof
,
he
the
said
Ledenberch
in
a
secret
assembly
,
holden
in
an
extraordinarie
place
and
at
an
vnconuenient
time
,
told
him
that
it
was
a
point
of
faintnesse
in
him
,
and
that
he
should
rather
boldly
enterprise
the
same
,
the
better
to
moue
others
thereunto
,
and
that
if
any
Souldiers
made
difficultie
to
serue
in
that
manner
,
that
inquiry
should
be
made
of
them
,
that
for
an
example
to
others
they
might
be
punished
.
19
That
he
also
promised
them
,
to
continue
their
entertainment
,
and
that
if
they
were
cashered
,
that
he
would
bring
them
to
an
other
place
,
where
they
should
be
intertained
,
and
yet
he
knew
well
,
that
such
continuance
of
those
new
Souldiers
,
tended
to
the
vtter
decreasing
and
consuming
of
the
treasure
of
the
vnited
Prouinces
.
20
That
to
make
the
said
resistance
firme
,
the
day
before
the
new
Souldiers
were
cashered
,
he
desired
those
that
were
sent
out
of
Holland
,
to
deliuer
their
letters
which
they
had
,
in
the
name
of
the
States
of
Holland
to
the
Commanders
ouer
the
Souldiers
that
were
in
Vtrecht
vnder
the
Hollanders
pay
;
The
contents
thereof
being
,
that
the
said
Commanders
,
were
bound
and
obliged
to
be
faithfull
,
true
,
and
obedient
,
to
their
Paymasters
,
and
the
States
of
the
respectiue
Prouinces
,
wherein
they
were
,
or
lay
in
garrison
,
and
to
aide
and
assist
them
in
the
maintaining
and
vpholding
of
all
their
resolutions
,
without
doing
,
or
suffering
any
thing
to
be
done
to
the
contrarie
.
21
That
to
shew
his
great
desire
and
readinesse
,
to
the
furtherance
of
the
said
resistance
,
vpon
perswasion
of
some
of
them
that
came
out
of
Holland
,
with
all
his
might
he
withstood
,
that
they
of
Vtrecht
should
enter
into
no
further
dealing
with
his
Excellencie
,
giuing
forth
,
that
the
State
of
Vtrecht
could
not
beare
it
.
All
which
his
proceedings
tended
to
no
other
end
,
then
only
to
cut
off
all
the
waies
and
meanes
of
reformation
,
and
in
the
meane
time
to
stirre
vp
all
the
ordinarie
Souldiers
,
the
new
companies
,
and
the
Artillery
men
of
the
Towne
against
the
States
generall
and
his
Excellencie
.
Thereby
to
hinder
and
let
the
execution
of
their
commission
;
and
to
annihilate
their
authoritie
,
so
to
finde
the
meanes
to
make
the
towne
of
Vtrecht
a
sink
and
puddle
of
bloud
,
to
bring
the
whole
State
of
the
Land
,
and
his
Excellencie
into
vtter
ruine
,
and
destruction
,
and
to
open
the
doore
vnto
the
breach
of
the
vnitie
made
betweene
the
vnited
Netherland
Prouinces
.
And
after
that
the
cashering
of
the
souldiers
was
done
,
by
his
Excellencie
,
fearing
that
the
ground
,
and
intent
of
those
bad
proceedings
might
come
to
light
,
hee
tooke
the
greatest
part
of
the
letters
written
vnto
him
by
diuers
Deputies
of
the
States
,
out
of
the
Office
,
and
sent
them
to
the
said
Deputies
againe
.
And
at
last
being
apprehended
,
fearing
least
hee
should
be
compelled
to
discouer
and
disclose
the
ground
thereof
,
and
to
shew
the
cause
why
such
proceedings
were
in
that
sort
vsed
,
and
to
what
end
the
aforesaid
designe
should
at
last
haue
come
,
as
also
to
shun
the
punishment
which
he
thereby
had
deserued
,
he
purposed
secretly
to
murther
himselfe
;
And
to
that
end
,
with
premeditated
courage
,
vpon
the
17.
of
September
1618
Stilo
veteri
,
he
wrote
a
small
letter
in
French
with
his
owne
hand
,
the
contents
thereof
being
,
that
to
shun
and
preuent
confrontings
with
his
best
friends
,
torments
,
ignominious
sentence
,
and
confiscation
of
all
his
Lands
and
goods
,
he
was
determined
to
kill
himselfe
,
giuing
the
letter
to
Ioost
his
sonne
,
that
vnderstood
no
French
,
and
as
then
was
suffered
to
be
with
him
to
helpe
him
,
and
so
that
,
and
the
next
day
making
no
shew
at
all
of
any
bad
intent
,
that
way
,
betweene
the
18.
and
19.
daies
of
September
aforesaid
,
in
the
night
he
murthered
himselfe
,
with
a
knife
,
some
daies
before
laid
purposely
aside
to
that
end
,
with
two
stabs
in
his
belly
,
and
cut
off
his
—
And
for
that
all
the
actions
aforesaid
,
manifestly
tended
to
the
ouerthrowing
of
the
peace
of
the
land
,
to
breake
the
principall
bond
of
vnitie
,
to
stirre
vp
the
members
thereof
vnto
dissention
,
among
themselues
,
and
so
not
tolerable
,
but
worthily
to
be
punished
for
an
example
vnto
others
.
The
aforesaid
Iudges
,
by
ripe
deliberation
and
good
aduise
,
(
hauing
considered
and
well
weighed
all
the
circumstances
and
points
of
the
matter
aforesaid
,
)
In
the
behalfe
of
the
States
generall
of
the
vnited
Netherland
Prouinces
,
declare
and
pronounce
the
aforesaid
Gielis
van
Ledenberch
for
the
same
cause
to
haue
deserued
death
and
losse
of
all
his
goods
,
commanding
and
ordaining
,
that
the
dead
body
of
the
said
Gielis
should
be
laid
in
a
coffin
vpon
a
hurdle
,
and
drawne
to
the
place
of
execution
without
the
Hage
,
and
there
to
bee
hangd
vpon
the
Gallowes
,
declaring
all
his
goods
and
lands
to
be
confiscate
.
Giuen
by
the
said
Iudges
,
in
grauen
Hage
,
and
pronounced
the
15.
of
May
,
anno
1619.
Vnder
written
By
order
of
the
Iudges
aforesaid
.
Signed
H.
POTZ
.