Shortly abbreviated edition of an important and renowned pamphlet in the history in the VOC, written by the lawyer Simon van Middelgeest, about whom less is known. It is a complaint against the management, the so-called "Heren XVII" of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), by the sharesholders who felt their concerns were being ignored. It is one of the many anonymous polemic pamphlets published by the so-called "doleanten" (participants, shareholders) in which they express their grievances on the self-enrichment and abuses of the "Heren XVII" of the VOC. It is a shortened edition of a 1622 pamphlet titled Nootwendich discours oft vertooch aan de hooch-mogende heeren Staten Generaal van de participanten der Oost-Indische Compagnie tegens bewintshebbers (Knuttel 3348; Landwehr VOC, 884), which was reprinted several times under different titles including the present. The publishers frequently changed the title because the States of Holland published a proclaimation prohibited Van Middelgeest's Nootwendich discours in 1622 (Knuttel 3349).
With the bookplate of professor Dr. Willy L. Braekman on the front paste-down. Leaves very slightly browned, otherwise in very good condition. Knuttel 3585a; Landwehr VOC 911; Sabin 99316; STCN (4 copies); USTC 1034730 (5 copies, including the same 4).