[791] Davies, ii, 32, 33. Cp. G. Brandt, History of the Reformation in the Low Countries, Eng. tr. 1720, folio, bk. xi, i, 310.
[792] Cp. Motley, Rise, pp. 581, 646; United Netherlands, iv, 558; M'Cullagh, p. 206 (where the chronology is inaccurate).
[793] See Motley, Rise, pp. 37, 38, as to the curtailment of clerical wealth in the Netherlands from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries by the feudal superiors, who, unlike their over-lords, did not need to look to the Church for support.
[794] Grattan, p. 69; Davies, i, 294.
[795] Cp. the Mémoires de Jean De Witt, as cited, p. 101, ptie. ii, ch. 2.
[796] Grattan, p. 71.
[797] Davies, ii, 636. Already at the death of Charles V the debt of the entire Netherlands was five or six million florins. At the armistice of 1609 the debt of the province of Holland alone was twenty-six millions. By 1648 the war was reckoned to have cost Spain in all fifteen hundred millions. M'Cullagh, ii, 330, 331.
[798] Davies, ii, 290.
[799] Of 250 Dutchmen who sailed, however, only 90 returned.
[800] Description des Pays Bas, ed. 1625, p. 319.