30 S. VISSERING 



6) Vide in Praefationis pagina 3. And as no man's story can be well written till 

 he is dead; so the account of this State could not be well given till its fall, which 

 may justly be dated from the Events of last summer (whatever fortunes may further 

 ^attend them) . . . ." 



7) Continet Libellus Capita VIII: 



I. Of the Rise aud Progress of their State. 



II. Of their Government. 



III. Of their Situation. 



IV. Of their People mid Dispositions. 

 V. Of their Religion. 



VI. Of their Trade. 

 VII. Of their Forces and Revenues. 

 VIII. Of the Causes of tJieir Fall in 1672. 



8) TEMPLE, O&serv. pag. 58. 11) TEMPLE, Ooserv. pag. 214. 



9) * 184. 12) -/ > 221. 

 10) i> , 263. 



13) Tellurem fecere dei, sua littora Belgae 

 Immensaeque patet molis uterque labor. 

 Di vacuo sparsas glomerarunt aethere terras 

 *Nil ubi quod coeptis posset obesse suis. 

 At Belgis maria et terrae et natura deorum 

 //Obstitit, obstantes hi domuere decs." 



14) TEMPLE, Observ. pag. IBS. 23) TEMPLE, Ooserv. pag. 214. sqq. 



15) * " 152. 24) // 209. 



16) " " 154. 25) * 149. 



17) " 151. 26) 155. 



18) *. 152. 27) > 210. 



19) i, i, 157. 28) i> a 242. coll. pag. 246. 



20) " 155. 29) // " " 233. 



21) 156. 30) " 102. 



22) " 209. 31) '/ 169. 



32) Tales querelas vide in: Consideratien over de hwjdendaegsche Commercie ofle navale 

 negotie, opgestelt bij den Commit Generaal MCLOCK in den jaare 1688, in Tij'dschrift 

 voor Slaathuishoudkunde en Statistiek door Mr. B. W. A. E. SLOET TOT OLDHUIS , Tom. X. 

 (1854) pag. 381 sqq. Et in: Beieijs dat door de hooge belastingen, hier te lande , op 

 eenige Coopmanschappen gestelt, den handel en vertier daarvan wert gediverteerd , en dat 

 daerom d'uytgaende Convoiilasten merTielijk behoorden te werden vermindert. Ibidem Tom. XIII. 

 (1856) pag. 1 sqq., maxime pag. 18. Aedificationem Curiae Amstelodamensis , inchoatam 

 anno 1648, ad annum 1685 et ultra protractam fuisse docet WAGENAAB, BescJirijving van 

 Amsterdam. Ed. 8. Tom. VII. pag. 10 sqq. cf. pag. 20. 



