Catalogue description Answer of the STATES GENERAL to the proposition made by Mr. Bodley.

--The States General-having examined what Mr. Thomas Bodley yesterday presented to them touching the placcart in relation to Geertrudenbergh-declare that they found it necessary for the service of the country to make known to all men the wicked, unhappy and disloyal treason plotted in that town, and to decree condign punishment against those who were guilty, in order to prevent the like proceedings in other places; to which placcart they annexed a true narrative of what had passed, not in general terms but in detail. And although, in this, it has been necessary to make mention of the carriage of Lord Willoughby, as of other subjects of her Majesty, in relation to the matter, it is by no means the intention of the States to go beyond the truth; wherefore, and considering that his comportment is not stated in general terms but very particularly, the States cannot understand what the general accusation is concerning which Mr. Bodley requires information. If he will make a more exact declaration of the points in question, they will do what they find fitting thereupon. Signed Van Olden Barnevelt and C. Aerssens.