| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Holland also dealt more generously, for when in 1658 the Estates decided that the syndics, secretaries, and other officials which the cities employed at the assemblies of the Estates, should not be foreigners, they nevertheless affirmed that the foreigners then holding any of these offices might retain them (Section 7 of the decree of the Estates of Holland, dated May 14, 1658).3 In passing, it is
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