EXPENSES OF INVASION ACT (1689). An Act for Appropriating certain Duties, for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Charges for His Majesty's Expedition into this Kingdom, and for other Uses.

GLORIOUS REVOLUTION. Great Britain. Parliament.

Published by London: Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1689

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Folio (10.5 inches). 1 William & Mary, Chapter 28. General title leaf + pages 431-434. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The cost for Williams invasion of England in 1688 was an estimated seven million Dutch guilders. Four million guilders were paid by the States General of the United Provinces (being the federal government of the Netherlands, a republic of seven provinces) and the city of Amsterdam (the world financial centre at the time), two million guilders were lent by Antonio Lopez Suasso, the prosperous Jewish banker and leading shareholder of the Dutch West India Company, and another undisclosed sum was lent by a most unexpected supporter, Pope Innocent XI (sworn enemy of Louis XIV). In this Act, William made provisions to repay the States General of the United Provinces the sum of six hundred thousand pounds for their assistance. Seller Inventory # 009

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Title: EXPENSES OF INVASION ACT (1689). An Act for ...

Publisher: London: Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb

Publication Date: 1689

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition