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Mock-catholic pamphlet lamenting Dutch incursions in the Indies

[MULERIUS, Nicolaus and/or Willem USSELINCX?].
Bulle oft Mandaet des Paus van Roomen, aen de Gheestelicheydt al om bevolen, om haer advijs te vernemen opt stuck vanden Vrede-handel met de Hollantsche Ketters. Met oock de beschrijvinghe des Consiliums, ... Becomen buyten andere afgheworpen Brieven.

With a woodcut on the title-page showing a Spanish (or possibly cardinal's) hat protecting the papal mandate, flanked by bands of cast arabesque fleurons.

With a woodcut on the title-page showing a Spanish (or possibly cardinal's) hat protecting the papal mandate, flanked by bands of cast arabesque fleurons.

With a woodcut on the title-page showing a Spanish (or possibly cardinal's) hat protecting the papal mandate, flanked by bands of cast arabesque fleurons.



"Buyten Roomen" (i.e. not in Rome) (= Amsterdam), (1607/08). Small 4to. Nineteenth-century marbled wrappers. With a woodcut on the title-page showing a Spanish (or possibly cardinal's) hat protecting the papal mandate, flanked by bands of cast arabesque fleurons. (8) pp.

A pamphlet propagandizing against peace with Spain, presented in the form of a fictitious papal mandate requesting opinions on the proposed peace with the Dutch "heretics" followed by replies from the Cardinals, Archbishops, Jesuits and seventeen other Roman Catholic groups or orders, with three references to the Indies. The general consensus is that the Spanish Catholic forces are in trouble and therefore have to make peace with the Dutch to avoid losing the war, but that they can later double-cross them. It is written in rhymed verse, except for the one-page allegorical prologue, in which a belligerent but cowardly Saint Peter (the Pope) supported by heavily armed Saint Jacob (Spain) attempts futilely to beat Saint Mark (Venice) out of the calendar to give a second day to Saint Jacob. In the prologue Saint Jacob has lost part of his armour (the Dutch United Provinces), "Zee-hanen" (literally sea-cockerels, but the name for a kind of flying fish, representing the Dutch mariners) are snatching away his golden shells (the East Indies), and he fears they want to do more than "crack Indian nuts." The advice of the Carmelites notes that "our" soldiers are mutinying and "they" are climbing onto the East and West Indies, and the Lay Brothers also refer to events in the Indies.
The pamphlet was a response to the 4 May 1607 cease fire and beginnings of peace negotiations with Spain, which demanded limits on Dutch trade in the Indies as a condition for peace. It was first published before the first edition of the Nederlandtschen Bye-Korf early in 1608, and went through four editions. Some edition was issued with each of the three editions of the Bye-Korf (all before 27 August 1608), but more research is needed to determine the order of the editions and which was issued with which edition of the Bye-Korf. The present edition is listed as the first of three in Knuttel and Alden & Landis and may well be the first. The prologue also appears in Knuttel 1411a, published in 1608 under the name of Nicolaus Mulerius, apparently the astronomer (1564-1630) whose parents were victims of the Inquisition. Willem Usselincx, whose most beloved project was the establishment of the West India Company, wrote several of the key Bye-Korf pamphlets, but we do not know whether he had a hand in the present one.
An amusing Dutch Protestant satire of the Spanish Catholic enemy, with three references to the Indies.

Good copy.- (Slightly browned and with some old reinforcing at the head of the first leaf (covering but not obscuring the tops of three words on the verso).
Alden & Landis 608/17 (2 copies); Asher 26, 27 or 28/2; Knuttel 1444; Tiele 652; OCLC WorldCat (1 copy); cf. Simoni B 315 (ed. w/o prologue); not in JCB; for Mulerius, see NNBW II, cols. 952-954.

Related Subjects: Catholicism  East Indies  Pamphlets  Politics  VOC  WIC 

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