Declaration of Breda Netherlands, and to date his letters as if they were posted from Breda. Charles left Brussels, his last residence in the Spanish Netherlands, and passing through Antwerp arrived in Breda on 4 April, and resided there until 14 May. Then he travelled to The Hague, where he was received by the States General of the Netherlands as a ruling King of England and grandiosely entertained, and departed for England on 2 June from Scheveningen on the "HMS Royal Charles", the former "Naseby" which was renamed on arrival at the Dutch coast. The declaration, however (actually several letters, addressed to Monck,
Michiel van Breda Michiel van Breda Michiel van Breda, a South African, was a Merino farmer, founder of Bredasdorp, Mayor of Cape Town and a South African Freemason. Van Breda was born on 12 August 1775 in Cape Town. His parents were Pieter van Breda and Catharina Sophia Myburg. He married three times. Out of his marriages with Gesina van Reenen, Beatrix Elizabeth Lategan and Maria Adriana Smalberger he became the father of nine children. He died in Cape Town on 12 August 1847. In 1817 van Breda was farming on Zoetendals Vallei farm in the region which is today called Overberg. He