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The Rise of the Dutch Republic
Volume III.(of III) 1574-84

CHAPTER III
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It would be impossible for the exiles to dispose of their property, for all would, by the proposed measure, be sellers, while there would be no purchasers.
The royal plenipotentiaries, making answer to this communication upon the 1st of April, signified a willingness that the Spanish soldiers should depart, if the states would consent to disband their own foreign troops.
They were likewise in favor of assembling the states-general, but could not permit any change in the religion of the country.

His Majesty had sworn to maintain the true worship at the moment of assuming the sovereignty.

The dissenters might, however, be allowed a period of six months in which to leave the land, and eight or ten years for the sale of their property.

After the heretics had all departed, his Majesty did not doubt that trade and manufactures would flourish again, along with the old religion.

As for the Spanish inquisition, there was not, and there never had been, any intention of establishing it in the Netherlands.
No doubt there was something specious in this paper.


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