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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
This pamphlet contains not only the proceedings based on the official reports of the delegates of the States General but also a commentary written by the Frisian lawyer Agge Albada who played an important part at the Cologne conference. He frequently quotes authoritative texts such as Sebastian Castellio's treatise on the persecution of heretics (1554) and the Vindiciae contra tyrannos (1579). In the following passages he comments on the acceptance of Archduke Matthias by the States General in December 1577.
There are many elements which indicate that the king's dominion is bound under contract to the States or the people. However if one takes the contracts of all provinces into consideration, and in particular that of Brabant, it cannot be said that the king received supreme dominion from them. In almost all matters concerning the community he is not allowed to exercise his power without the people's approval. If you wish to criticise me for advancing propositions not specified in these contracts or alliances, the States answer that these contracts and alliances have the same purpose, to wit that the lives, honour and possessions of the common people should be preserved. They think this purpose has become far more important now, since things have come to such a pass that all we stand for is being openly challenged and contested by the Spaniards on behalf of the king. Now the common people have no other human help and remedy than force of arms to protect themselves and their possessions.
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