The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland, 1614-17

Life of John of Barneveld,
1614-17

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THE LIFE AND DEATH of JOHN OF BARNEVELD, ADVOCATE
OF HOLLAND
WITH A VIEW OF THE PRIMARY CAUSES AND MOVEMENTS
OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
By John Lothrop Motley, D.C.L., LL.D.

MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg
Edition, Volume 93
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, v7, 1614-17

CHAPTER XI
.
The Advocate sounds the Alarm in Germany--His Instructions to
Langerac and his Forethought--The Prince--Palatine and his Forces
take Aachen, Mulheim, and other Towns--Supineness of the
Protestants--Increased Activity of Austria and the League--Barneveld
strives to obtain Help from England--Neuburg departs for Germany--
Barneveld the Prime Minister of Protestantism--Ernest Mansfield takes
service under Charles Emmanuel--Count John of Nassau goes to
Savoy--Slippery Conduct of King James in regard to the New Treaty

proposed--Barneveld's Influence greater in France than in England--
Sequestration feared--The Elector of Brandenburg cited to appear
before the Emperor at Prague--Murder of John van
Wely--Uytenbogaert incurs Maurice's Displeasure--Marriage of the
King of France with Anne of Austria--Conference between King James
and Caron concerning Piracy, Cloth Trade and Treaty of
Xanten--Barneveld's Survey of the Condition of Europe--His Efforts to
avert the impending general War.
I have thus purposely sketched the leading features of a couple of
momentous, although not eventful, years--so far as the foreign policy of
the Republic is concerned--in order that the reader may better
understand the bearings and the value of the Advocate's actions and
writings at that period. This work aims at being a political study. I
would attempt to exemplify the influence of individual humours and
passions--some of them among the highest and others certainly the
basest that agitate humanity- upon the march of great events, upon
general historical results at certain epochs, and upon the destiny of
eminent personages. It may also be not uninteresting to venture a
glance into the internal structure and workings of a republican and
federal system of government, then for the first time reproduced almost
spontaneously upon an extended scale.
Perhaps the revelation of some of its defects, in spite of the faculty and
vitality struggling against them, may not be without value for our own
country and epoch. The system of Switzerland was too limited and
homely, that of Venice too purely oligarchical, to have much moral for
us now, or to render a study of their pathological phenomena especially
instructive. The lessons taught us by the history of the Netherland
confederacy may have more permanent meaning.
Moreover, the character of a very considerable statesman at an all-
important epoch, and in a position of vast responsibility, is always an
historical possession of value to mankind. That of him who furnishes
the chief theme for these pages has been either overlooked and
neglected or perhaps misunderstood by posterity. History has not too
many really important and emblematic men on its records to dispense
with the memory of Barneveld, and the writer therefore makes no
apology for dilating somewhat fully upon his lifework by means of
much of his entirely unpublished and long forgotten utterances.

The Advocate had ceaselessly been sounding the alarm in Germany.
For the Protestant Union, fascinated, as it were, by the threatening look
of the Catholic League, seemed relapsing into a