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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
Don John of Austria, the king's half-brother and Requesens' successor as governor of the Netherlands, was reluctant to subscribe to the Pacification of Ghent and found support among members of the aristocracy at Brussels. The prince of Orange sought to counteract loyalist tendencies by making the States General re-affirm in a solemn declaration the main points contained in the Pacification. The delegates of Holland and Zeeland signed this declaration – called the First Union of Brussels – although they had reservations about the passages on religion which they thought were not quite in accordance with the Ghent treaty.
We the undersigned, prelates, clergymen, seigniors, nobles, judges, magistrates of the towns and rural districts and others who constitute and represent the States General of the Netherlands now assembled in this town of Brussels, and others who owe obedience to the most exalted, powerful and illustrious prince, King Philip, our sovereign lord and natural prince etc., inform every one now and for the future that as we saw our common fatherland being oppressed by the Spaniards in a most barbarous and tyrannical way, we were moved, urged and compelled to unite and join together and to help each other with arms, advice, men and money against the said Spaniards and their allies, declared to be rebels to His Majesty and to be our enemies. And we declare that this union and association has since been ratified by the Pacification recently concluded on the authority and with the approval of the Council of State entrusted by His Majesty with the general government of these provinces.
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