[ORANGISTS].
Kort verhael van den oorspronck en onderganck der Loevesteynsche factie. Mitsgaders een vertoogh van t recht dat de gemeente in Zeelandt gehad heeft, om in den jare 1672. Sijn Hoogheyt Prins Willem Hendrik, ... te herstellen ... ende hoe de bedienaers des goddelijcken woorts in Zeelandt haer daar omtrent gedragen hebben ...
[The Hague or Amsterdam?], voor de liefhebbers van Sijn Hoogheyd, 1673. 4to. Modern brown wrappers. [6] ll.
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The 1673 edition of an Orangist pamphlet, originally published in 1672 by a member of the Reformed Calvinist Church in the Province of Zeeland, defending the appointment of Willem Hendrik, Prince of Orange as stadholder Willem III of Zeeland (and Holland) in July 1672 (he was to be crowned King William III of England in 1689). The author rails against what he calls the "Loevestein faction": a Dutch States party in the second half of the 17th century, especially in the County of Holland, the dominant province of the Dutch Republic.
The pamphlet regards Johan and Cornelis de Witt, who were lynched and their bodies mutilated by an Orangist mob on 20 August 1672, as representatives of this "Loevenstein faction" and sees their murder by the mob, incited by and probably with the complicity of the stadtholder, as the downfall of this faction.
In good condition. Knuttel, 10690 (cf. 10264, the 1672 issue); STCN 863178286; Tiele 6169.
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