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Excerpt from History of the Netherlands: Holland and Belguim
Although the heroic period of Netherland history has been brilliantly illustrated by Mr. Motley, yet the researches of Dutch and Belgian scholars have brought to light important facts which present some of the prominent personages and events of that period in a new aspect. This book, which is designed for mature as well as young readers, gives an independent view of these and of later annals, with the aids which European and American scholarship has furnished for their elucidation. While availing myself of the researches of Motley and Prescott, of Davies and Grattan, my judgments of men and measures are mainly derived from a study of original authorities.
The Correspondence of William the Silent, of Philip II., of Alexander Farnese, the Relations of the Venetian Ambassadors, and other publications of the accomplished Gachard, have been of great service to me, as well as the Archives of the House of Orange-Nassau, edited by the learned Groen van Prinsterer. I have consulted the works of Van Meteren, Mendoza, Van der Vynckt, Grotius, Brandt, Le Clerc, Basnage, Wagenaar, De Thou, Dewez, Ranke, Mignet, Gerlache, Borgnet, Lafuente, Juste, Stern, Forneron, Hubert, Froude, Guizot, Gardiner, besides many contemporary chronicles, memoirs, and state papers.
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