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Show I Memo11ial~ 1[ out of their Magt!lracy , and many thou. fands of the overthrown opinion. But, in all thofe thin~s w~ereof I am accus'd,notll1ng was aeted by Me on my one head, but by command both of the States of Holland , and of the Rulers of the Town of 'R.!,tterodttm , to whom , and to no O· ther man living, was I bound by my Oath. To whom therefore, when I fhewed my Obedience, I was a Traitor to none, but gave that rHpe¢! bqth to the highefi and to the inferior pow~rs, which Nature and . my Office did require. If any one chough~ he had to complain of that which I had done as the Mmill:er of other men,He was not to pruceed againfi me, but againll my fuperiors. And , if I had done any thinr, by my own priyatc undertaking ( which is not fo) yet was I nor to be judged by my Adverfarics, nor by Jodges found of purpofe againfl me , nor by any one who had receiv'd power of judging from the Confederate States , but by the perpetual and my proper J 1.1._dges, as the Ccmmon Laws of our Counhey and the proper Laws of Towns (for which Laws we at fitll took Arms) appoint. As to my mind and intention , I tefiify before God and the world, it was no other,than to maintain that lawful form of Commonwealth undel' ~ which ' I was ' born and bred , and to procure the unity of the Church by a loving Compofure a. greeable to the divine Precepts: to whic~ end, the Author; tnd , many things I propofed, and many I had in readineis , when I was carryed away to prifon. Whofoever jud~e otherwife of my1 Intention, do me InJury, and have no juft ground of their mtfl:ake. My life hath been w'tth0ut fiain or fpot. The Rulers of Rotterodam , \n the time Gf my Office know what L.1bours I did underao for' the fafety and interefis of that fown. The Curators of the Trealury can wimefs, how exaCl:Jy and witho t fa v, ur or fear I defended the rights thercQf. The Benches of the Judges in Hol!.md_ have good experience of my integmy tn the profecution of df~ence3. They tl1a t have feen me in the AHembly of the s ~ tes of Holland, and in the Seffions of the Curators of that Commonwealth , can remember what pains I took, that by parfimony and improvemem of che Tribute the~e might be a fupply of Money. ~or ts Prince Maurice ignorant,h0w I fat1~fyed . his defi res in . priv:~.te pufindfes which he was plcafcd to commend unto my care. And , They that were together w~th me in the Affcmbly of the Confederates, are intreated co call to mind, how I omitted D(t- ~ ing that might conduce,to fecure the Publick aoainfl: the enemies force, to advance the t:JTrade through India, and America, to continue a fair An~ity and correfpondence with Kings and other our Confederates and Allies. Hovv heartily I dfected the glory of ou1· Commonwealth, and |
