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Summons of the estates-general, 1614, being the last before the Revolution of 1789.

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This done, the remaining matters could be disposed of by the assembly of the estates-general.

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Doctor Leoninus, with a similar result, all attempts proving fruitless to induce him to abandon his position upon the subject of religion, or to accept a pardon on any terms save the departure of the foreign troops, the assembling of the estates-general, and entire freedom of religion.

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In the missive issued for this purpose, he formally agreed to abolish the whole tax, on condition that the estates-general of the Netherlands would furnish him with a yearly supply of two millions of florins.

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To enunciate these demands categorically, a deputation of the estates-general came to Luxemburg.

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While he was still at Duiveland, the estates-general sent him a long remonstrance against the misconduct of the soldiery, in answer to his demand for supplies.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 22: 1574-76 John Lothrop Motley 1845

On the contrary, the Queen accompanied the Duke, with a numerous and stately retinue, as far as Canterbury, and sent a most brilliant train of her greatest nobles and gentlemen to escort him to the Netherlands, communicating at the same time, by special letter, her wishes to the estates-general, that he should be treated with as much honor "as if he were her second self."

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"He asks you to disarm," continued William of Orange; "he invites you to furnish hostages, but the time has been when the lord of the land came unarmed and uncovered, before the estates-general, and swore to support the constitutions before his own sovereignty could be recognized."

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As to the matter of religion, he said he was willing to leave it to be settled by the estates-general; but doubted whether anything short of entire liberty of worship would ever satisfy the people.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 22: 1574-76 John Lothrop Motley 1845

By the estates-general they meant the same body before which, in 1555, Charles had resigned his sovereignty to

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