Deductie, ofte declaratie van de Staten van Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt, behelsende een waerachtich, ende grondich bericht van de fondamente[n] der regieringe vande vrye Vereenichde Nederlanden ... ingestelt ende diendende tot justificatie van 't verlenen van seeckere Acte van Seclusie, raeckende 't employ vanden heere prince van Oraigne ...
By: na de copije in 'sGraven-Hage, by de weduwe, ende erfgenamen van wylen Hillebrandt Jacobsz van Wouw ... 1654
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1654
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: dut
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Anglo-Dutch War, 1652-1654; Politics and government; Sources; History; United Provinces of the Netherlands; Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654) fast (OCoLC)fst00808930
Notes: Rare Book (Offsite) copy: Bound with other titles

Justification of the famous Act of Seclusion, which was enacted by the States of Holland in May 1654 and came to be accepted as the position of the United Provinces as a whole. The Act promised that no member of the House of Orange would ever be accepted as stadholder or Captain-General, a condition for peace with England required by the Protector Oliver Cromwell.

30 lines on title page (compare with Knuttel 7545, with 20 lines and Knuttel 7546, with 22 lines).

T.p. vignette shows Dutch lion without border or garden.

Rare Book (Offsite) copy: Marked extensively in red pencil

Knuttel 7548