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A hard line on peace negotiations, in a popular dialogue


(TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE). Copye van een discours tusschen een Hollander ende een Zeeuw.

With a drop title.



(Middelburg?), (1607/08). Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Without a wrapper or a trace of binding. With a drop title. (8) pp.

A political pamphlet written as a popular dialogue between a (moderate) Hollander and an (uncompromising) Zeelander who happen to meet each other and discuss the peace negotiations that were to lead to the Twelve Years' Truce in 1609. The Zeelander asks if the Hollander has news of the peace negotiations. While the Hollander hopes for a quick settlement, the Zeelander puts more emphasis on a favourable and lasting peace. When the Hollander suggests that the Zeelanders demand too much, the Zeelander notes Spain's false dealings and argues against allowing the open practice of Catholicism, against returning any lands won in the war and against free navigation in the Dutch ports. His solution to religious strife is to allow Catholics to worship in private, but to forbid children to study at any except the Protestant schools and universities on pain of forfeiting their inheritance. The author cleverly puts his arguments to support the Zeelander into the mouth of the more moderate Hollander, who notes in passing that most of the lawyers at the Dutch court are Catholic and that many of the richest families have Jesuit tutors. While the Hollander never entirely embraces the Zeelander's views, he always sets the stage for the Zeelander to argue his case.
The pamphlet must have been first issued in 1607 or 1608 (it refers explicitly to the seven articles proposed by Spain), went through at least three editions, and was issued with all three editions of the Nederlandtsche Bye-Korf  before it was banned with most of the Bye-Korf pamphlets on 27 August 1608. In fact it is one of the most uncompromising pamphlets in the collection, and its author is unknown. The order of the editions is uncertain, but the present (signed with an * rather than an A as in the other two) may well be the first. Knuttel lists it before the other recorded there, and the watermark also appears to include the same initials as that in the first edition of the Bye-Korf , though the paper stock differs: some sort of countermark (perhaps a merchant's mark?) = Pot (bearing letters "J[?]B") topped by a crescent.

An unusually large-margined, very good copy, apparently sewn without wrapper (the threads are no longer present).- (Slightly browned, some tears on the fold of the outer bifolium).
Asher 26, 27 or 28/25; Knuttel 1454; Tiele 664; Simoni C173.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  Low Countries  Pamphlets  Politics  Spain  Zeeland 

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