Note 16 — II.

This sketch is drawn chiefly from Motley’s Rise of the Dutch Republic and his History of the United Netherlands to the Twelve Years’ Truce—1609, the Geschiedenis des Vaderlands, by Mr. W. Bilderdyk, edited by Professor H. W. Tydeman, seven octavo volumes, issued at Amsterdam in 1832 to 1853, History of the People of the Netherlands, by Petrus Johannes Blok, Ph.D., four demi octavo volumes (English edition), published at New York and London, 1898 to 1907, (another volume still to appear), Handboek der Geschiedenis van het Vaderland, by Mr. G. Groen van Prinsterer, two octavo volumes (second edition), issued at Amsterdam in 1852, Histoire de Belgique, by Professor H. Pirenne, of the University of Ghent, second edition of Vol. I published at Brussels in 1902, Vol. II published at the same place in 1903, and Vol. III in 1907, (other volumes still to appear), and The History of Belgium, by Demetrius C. Boulger, published at London in 1902. Some other works consulted will be mentioned in notes.