A TRUE ACCOUNT OF A LATE Horrid Conspiracy TO BETRAY HOLLAND TO THE FRENCH.  
And of the Trial, Confession, Condemnation and Execution of Jacob Martinet Sheriff of the Town of Sluys, and Cornelius Reolands' Master of the Ship called the Argle of Amsterdam, who were Executed for the said Conspiracy the Sixth of this Instant May, 1690.  
Done off of the Dutch Copy.  
LONDON: Printed for Richard Baldwin, near the Black Bull in the Old-Baily. 1690.   

A True Account of a late Horrid Conspiracy to Betray Holland to the French, etc.  
THE unwearied Aims of the French, for a great many years, to swallow up the States of Holland, are sufficiently known to all the World; and by their Intrigues with the late unhappy Pensioner de Wit, they were once within an Ace of overturning this Commonwealth for good and all. That the French continue in their former Methods of Bribing with their Money such Villains as are destitute of all Love to their Country, and who are willing to Sacrifice every thing to their accursed greediness of Money, we have a fresh Example in the Treason and Trial of these two Miscreants Jacob Martinet Sheriff or Scapen of the Town of Sluys, and Cornelius Reolands' Master of the Ship called the Argle of Amsterdam, which was as follows.  
On the Third day of April last, there was intercepted a Packet of Letters sewed within the Waistcoat of a Seaman, going from Sluys to Ostend by Land: which being opened by one of the Magistrates of Ostend, before whom the Fellow was brought, they were found to contain a dangerous Conspiracy to Betray to the French the strong Town of Sluys, and thereby a chief Key of Holland. Upon which the Seaman being examined, Declared that he came from Sluys the day before, and was designed to find some way to get thence to Dunkirk, and that he had received the Letters found about him from Cornelius Reolands' his Master at Sluys, and was to deliver them to one Monsieur Rayon a Colonel of a Regiment of French, lying in the Town of Dunkirk. He further confessed, That he had been three weeks before with Letters from his Master to the same Colonel, and that he had returned with Letters from the said Colonel, directed to his Master.  
The Fellow, after this Confession, was kept close Prisoner, and an Express immediately dispatched to acquaint the States with it, who thereupon ordered the Magistrates of Sluys to secure the said Cornelius Reolands' in close Prison, and to Examine him secretly about this Treason. Reolands' being taken, denied all at first, but the Letter he had written to Monsieur Rayon being produced against him, which had been taken at Ostend about his Servant, he not only confessed it was his, but also that Jacob Martinet the Sheriff of the Town was concerned in the Affair more than he, and that the Letter written in Ciphers, found about his man, was written by Martinets own hand.  
Upon this Martinet being secured, there was one Letter immediately directed to the Marquis of Castanage General Governor of the Netherlands from the Assembly of the States of Holland, to desire his Excellency would be pleased to send the Seamen taken in Ostend with the foresaid Letters, immediately under a Guard to the Town of Sluice, which his Excellency was pleased to do.  
All things being ready for the Trial of these two Traitors, Count Horn Governor of Sluys was ordered to repair to the Town to be present at, and to hasten the Trial. Upon the first day of this Instant May the Prisoners, Jacob Martinet and Cornelius Reolands, were brought to their Trial in the Townhouse of Sluys, before Judges appointed for that Effect, of whom Count Horn was one. Cornelius Reolands' being confronted with his own Servant, acknowledged, That he and the other Prisoner had kept Correspondence with one Monsieur Rayon, Colonel of a French Regiment in Dunkirk, and by his Means and Mediation with one Monsieur de Perry, Secretary of War under the Duke of Luxemburgh, who was to command the French Army in the Frontiers of Flanders this Summer. And that he and the said other Prisoner had received several Letters from the said Monsieur Rayon upon the same Subject, and in one of them a Line from the said Monsieur de Terry, directed to him and the other Prisoner, wherein he assured them, if they would promise to accomplish the Design in hand, he should cause to be paid them in hand, each of them Ten thousand Livers, and upon the performing of it, they should receive, each of them, Twenty thousand more, with an honourable Retreat and Employment in any place of France they pleased. He likewise acknowledged, That they were to receive the first Ten thousand Livers apiece at the Return of his Servant they had sent upon that Errand, when he was taken beside Ostend; and that the way of Returning the Money was by a Bill of Exchange from a Banker of Paris upon a Jew in Amsterdam, payable to the said other Prisoner Jacob Martinet. Adding, That his Servant knew nothing of the Secret, but only was employed to carry the Letters betwixt Martinet and him, and the said Monsieur Rayon. And that he knew nothing of the Design till Martinet drew him into it, and assured him, that there was the like Design in most of the Towns of Holland.  
Being desired to give account of the Design itself. He gave it thus: That the said Martinet and He were to let in a great many French by three and fours, under the notion of Deserters from the French Army, and that before hand, they were to provide several private Lodgings for them to be ready upon call. In the mean time he and Martinet were to provide a great many Firelocks, under the pretence of buying them, in order to sell them again to the new raised Regiments in Flanders. That when they had got into Town a competent number of French in the manner above mentioned, they were to concert with the said Monsieur Rayon a particular night, in which He with other two Regiments should be in readiness to march from the nearest places of the French Conquests, to Sluys, by such ways as was laid down in a plan agreed betwixt them. That at the night and hour appointed, the said Martinet and He were to have all the French in readiness with their Arms to fall upon the Garrison, there being ordinarily but two hundred men upon duty at a time; And having cut them off, they were at the same time to open the East Gate to the other French under the Command of Monsieur Ra●on, and being joined together to take Possession of, and keep the Town for the French King, whose Army at the same time was to fall down with all diligence and force upon the Frontiers of Holland. He further acknowledged, That he doubted not but the French were tampering with some in most of the Towns of Holland to the same effect; and that he knew, there were several great Sums of Money returned by Bill to Amsterdam to this end, and that there were several Agents up and down Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Bergen, U●som, the Bush, Utreght, Lyden, and all other Towns in Holland, who were busy in making Intrigues to betray the respective Towns to the French for several Sums of Money, and Promises of great Preferment.  
Cornelius Reolands' being found Guilty upon his Confession, was removed, and immediately thereafter Jacob Martinet, the other Prisoner, was brought to his Trial. Who stoutly denied he knew any thing of a Design to betray the Town of Sluys into the hands of the French, or that he had ever entertained Correspondence with Monsieur Royon, or Monsieur de Terry, to that or any other Effect. Whereupon Reolands' Servant, with whom the above written Letters were found, was produced against him as an Evidence; who being sworn, deposed, That he had received the Letters, which had been taken about him at Ostend, from his Master Reolands', and that he the said Jacob Martinet, was present when his Master gave them him, and that Martinet desired him to Return as soon as possible, giving him half a Pistol to drink, saying, That if he got a good Answer of some Money Business he had written about, he, the Deponent, should be well paid.  
Martinet briskly denied that he ever had seen this Witness, or had been in Company with Reolands but once in his Life, about six years ago. The Evidence immediately in open Court required two men, whom he knew, to declare, if they did not several times see his Master Reolands' and Martinet together at the Maurice Head Tavern in Sluys; who upon Oath declared they had often seen them both go into, and come out from that Tavern, they two all alone, and that within less than these two Months. Notwithstanding all which Martinet stood firmly to his Denial.  
At length the Declaration and Confession of his Accomplice Reolands' was read before him, whereat he seemed to be much stunned, having often changed colour the time of the Reading it. But insisting in his Denial, and the Law not allowing the Confession of one Accomplice to be sufficient proof, he was adjudged to be put to the Torture. Whereupon all things being ready for it, his Courage failed him, and he told the People appointed to put it in Execution, that he would confess all he knew of the Affair he was charged with, before the Judges.  
Being thereupon called into Court, He freely confessed His being upon a Plot with Reolands to deliver up the Town of Sluys to the French, after the manner contained in Reolands' Confession, with this particular Circumstance, That in a Letter Written to him by Monsieur de Terry, Secretary of War under the Duke of Luxemburgh, he was promised Ten Thousand Livers more than was to be given to Reolands, together with a place in the Presidial Court of Sedan, worth Three Thousand Livers per Annum. And thereafter being desired to decipher the Letter written in Ciphers found about Reolands' Man: He freely did it in these Words, as was dictated by him from the Letter given him in open Court.  
SIR,  
WE have fully concerted the manner we are to act here in delivering up the Town, and it rests only, that you be as ready to effectuate your part at a precise time to be appointed, which both Mr. Reolands and I think to be most proper sometime in the middle of May next, because the Army of the States will not be in the Field till the end of that Month at soon; You see what I venture to serve so great and generous a Prince, and it's but a small part of what I would do to serve him. Be sure you by the Bearer adjust the exact time and way of your being in a readiness to accomplish your part of the Design, and I think it were time, that some of these Soldiers should be stealing in, as you know. After receipt of yours, we will be every day making one step or other to forward the thing; And though I doubt not but by the same Bearer you will send the Bill as you promised; so I assure you, I am more persuaded of the reasonableness of having a greater Sum ready in some hand, to make use of for gaining others to our Interest, as perhaps the Affairs will require. I need not say more, but commit my Fortune to your Conduct, who am  
SIR, Your Faithful and Humble Servant, Ja. Martinet. Sluys April 1st. 1690.  
These Confessions of both Jacob Martinet and of Coruelius Reonalds being again read in open Court, they both of them received Sentence in these words.  
Forasmuch, as you Jacob Martinet, and you Cornelius Reolands', are by your own Confession, and other legal Proofs and Letters, found Guilty of holding a Correspondence with Monsieur Rayon Colonel of a French Regiment in the French Kings Army, and with Monsieur de Terry Secretary of War under the Marshal Duke of Luxenburgh, in order to betray the Garrison and Town of Sluys to the French for a Sum of Money, agreed to be paid by the said Monsieur de Terry, to you Jacob Martinet, and to you Cornelius Reolands for doing thereof. By which Action the whole Province of Holland, and Neighbouring Provinces would have been in eminent hazard of being thereupon ruined by the French Army. Therefore the Court does hereby adjudge you the said Jacob Martinet, to be taken back to Prison, and thence upon the Sixth of May Instant, to be drawn upon a Cart to the public Market place of this Town, and there to be hanged up by the Neck on a Gibbet, and being near dead, to have your Bowels ripped up▪ and thereafter being fully dead, to have your Body divided into four Quarters▪, to be disposed of as the Court shall afterwards think fit, and your Head to be severed from your Body, and affixed upon the very same Gate of this Town which you designed to open to the Enemy. Likewise the Court adjudges you the said Cornelius Reolands' to be taken back to the Prison, and upon the said Sixth of this Instant May, to be taken to the said Market place of this Town of Sluys, and there to be hanged up by the Neck upon a Gibbet until you be dead. And this we give for a final Sentence against you both, wishing God may show Mercy to your Souls.  
According to this Sentence, upon the said Sixth day of May Instant, the said Jacob Martinet was brought to the Place of Execution, where he behaved himself very impenitently, and refused to speak to the People, and had the Sentence executed upon him as aforesaid.  
After him came Cornelius Reolands', who both in Prison, and at the Place of Execution, carried himself very devoutly and penitently: And ask leave if he might speak to the People, he expressed himself in words to this purpose, a Copy whereof he had given beforehand to the Sheriff or Scapen that attended him.  
Good Christian People,  
I Am brought here justly, for designing to betray my Country to a Foreign Enemy for a Sum of Money; I confess myself Guilty of the Crime, and I beg God's forgiveness and your forgiveness for it, and am willing to die for it, as I justly deserve. I must say, I did for some Months resist the Offers that were made me by the unhappy man that is gone before me; but at length my Wants prevailed with me to accept what I thought would rid me out of them. This I do not say to excuse myself in the least; God forbid I should. And as I consented to betray this Town, so I did promise to do another Villainy, which indeed I forgot to tell my Judges at my Trial; and it was, to see if I could prevail with any Captains of Ships, to betray their Ships to the French, for which I was to receive Money from the French Secretary of War to give to those Captains. I hope your Displeasure against me for so Villainous Designs will end, when I have satisfied Justice with my Blood. I earnestly beg the assistance of your Prayers for me in this my Agony; and I commit my Soul to God, hoping to be saved by the Merits of Christ my Redeemer.  
Having delivered himself thus, and heard the Minister that waited on him pray, and having prayed himself, he was just going to be turned off, when pulling up the Handkerchief that was over his Eyes, he said, Good People, there is one thing my Conscience obliges me to tell you with my last Breath, and it's this; I am afraid there are a great many such Designs in hand up and down this Country like this for which I suffer; and I wish there may be some effectual means to prevent them; for I assure you the French Agents are very busy every where, and they spare no money to obtain their Ends I have no more to say, but again beg earnestly the Assistance of your Prayers: And I commit my Soul to God.  
Having thus said, he was turned over the Ladder, and his Body afterwards, by order of the Magistrates, was given to his Friends to be buried.  
Thus we have one sad Example more of the ill Effects of the French Money towards our Country and Commonwealth; but we hope God will disappoint all their Designs, and bring their Accomplices to just Punishment.  
FINIS.   

ADVERTISEMENT.  
THe Memoires of Monsieur Deageant: Containing the most secret Transactions and Affairs of France, from the Death of Henry IV. till the beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richelieu. To which is added a particular Relation of the Archbishop of Embrun's Voyage into England, and of his Negotiation for the Advancement of the Roman Catholic Religion here; together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair: which happened the last Years of King James I. his Reign. Faithfully Translated out of the French Original.  
Reflections upon a Form of Prayer, lately set forth for the Jacobites of the Church of England. And of an Abhorrence rendered by the late King, to some of our Dissenting Bishops, upon his present Majesties Landing.  
The New Nonconformist: Or, Dr. Sherlock's Case in Preaching after a Deprivation incurred by the Express Words of a Statute: Fairly Stared and Examined. With short Reflections upon Mr. Cook's Sermon'● February the 2 d. 1689-90. which was Licenced by the Archbishop's Chaplain.  
The Anatomy of a Jacobite-Tory: In a Dialogue between Whig▪ and Tory, Occasioned by the Act for Recognising King William and Queen Mary.  
A true Narrative of the Murders, Cruelties and Oppressions, Perpetrated on the Protestants in Ireland, by the late King James' Agents, since his Arrival there. Published for the Information of the Jacobites, that Endeavour his Return again.  
All these are to be Sold by R. Baldwin in the Old-Baily.