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Title page of the Act of Abjuration, Charles Silvius, Leiden,1581. Printed witness, not the manuscript minute. The supplied title-page extract is retained in full, including the library stamp.
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Europe / Faith

The Netherlands: petition, union and withdrawal of allegiance

Petitions, provincial agreements and the Act of Abjuration record changing answers to royal authority and religious coercion. Their differences resist a story of one united nation declaring a modern republic in a single moment.

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