A vindication of the severall actions at law, brought against the heires of Sr. Peter Courten, Knight, and Peter Boudaen, merchants deceased by George Carew, Esqr., James Boeve, merchant, and Hester de Weyer ; with the arraignment of a most scandalous pamphlet called, De quade Minees en practiken van seeckeren George Carew, ontdeckt en opengeleght, tot onderrichtingh en waerschouw aen Nederlandt, door d'Erfgenamen van P.B.C., Zalr. 1675, privately given out to the magistrates in Zeeland.
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- A vindication of the severall actions at law, brought against the heires of Sr. Peter Courten, Knight, and Peter Boudaen, merchants deceased by George Carew, Esqr., James Boeve, merchant, and Hester de Weyer ; with the arraignment of a most scandalous pamphlet called, De quade Minees en practiken van seeckeren George Carew, ontdeckt en opengeleght, tot onderrichtingh en waerschouw aen Nederlandt, door d'Erfgenamen van P.B.C., Zalr. 1675, privately given out to the magistrates in Zeeland.
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- Carew, George, Esq.
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- 1675.
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"A vindication of the severall actions at law, brought against the heires of Sr. Peter Courten, Knight, and Peter Boudaen, merchants deceased by George Carew, Esqr., James Boeve, merchant, and Hester de Weyer ; with the arraignment of a most scandalous pamphlet called, De quade Minees en practiken van seeckeren George Carew, ontdeckt en opengeleght, tot onderrichtingh en waerschouw aen Nederlandt, door d'Erfgenamen van P.B.C., Zalr. 1675, privately given out to the magistrates in Zeeland." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34133.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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To His Highness THE Prince of Orange.
Sir,
IT was given for a Maxime (a∣mongst other Policies of Go∣vernment) to the States of the United Provinces, by Prince William of Nassaw, your great Grandfather, that they should doe Justice unto all Strangers; It being the greatest support of a Nation, and the want of it, the chiefest cause of their fall. I am grieved that such occasions are given me, to write upon this Subject, or to say that these Netherlands, have long mourned for the transgres∣sions of evill doers.
Before the Law of Property, there was noe theft, all things remained in common to every man; but after the Laws of Nations were established, all mens rights, be∣came distinguished and preserved, by certaine Rules and order of good Governement.
May it please your Highness, I am obleiged as an Englishman, a Gentle-man, and a Subject, of the King of
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Great BRITTAIGNE, publiquely to vindicate my self, my Country, and the Judicature of England, since severall Advocates and their Clyants in Middelburgh, have taken the boldnes, and liberty, publiquely to scandalize and re∣proach all three, by belching out their calumnies and asper∣sions, against us, in the ordinary Courts of Justice there.
And since your Highnes by a wonderfull Providence, is not only restored, to the ancient Offices, and Dignities, of your most Noble and Princely Ancestors, but that the chiefe Office of Statholder, in Holland and Zeeland is intailed upon your Highnes and your Heires for ever, as a remarkable testimo∣ny of your personall merits, and the common gratitude of the people, for the many and great Services, that your Ancestors had done for these Provinces. I shall therefore implore your Highnes to recommend my Causes, that I may at last find common Justice, in these Netherlands, without respect of Persons: And that in the meane time, your Highnes would give your selfe the trouble of reading this short Narative of them; wherein I have not offered any thing, impertinent to the busines in hand. So leaving the scope of the whole matter, unto your Highnes most serious considerations; submitting the same to your great wisdome and judgment, as the chief President of all Judicature, in these Provinces.
Great Sr.
I remaine your Highnes most humble Servant, GEORGE CAREW.
Middelburgh in Zeeland, September 2. 1675.