Sir Horace Vere in Holland and the Rhineland, 1610–12*

Abstract The article presents and interprets (based on primary as well as secondary sources) transcriptions of five letters of Sir Horace Vere, written from the Netherlands to the Stuart court in 1610 and 1612. The letters reveal new data about the 1610 Cleves–Ju¨lich War, a precursor of the Thirty Years War; cast new light on the Arminian crisis, especially in the Netherlands; and illustrate in detail the workings of military patronage in early seventeenth‐century England and Holland.