HISTORY

OF THE

UNITED NETHERLANDS:

FROM THE DEATH OF WILLIAM THE SILENT TO

THE SYNOD OF DORT.

WITH

A FULL VIEW OF THE ENGLISH-DUTCH STRUGGLE AGAINST SPAIN,
AND OF THE ORIGIN AND DESTRUCTION OF

THE SPANISH ARMADA.

BY JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., D.C.L.,.

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE,
AUTHOR OF "THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC."

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

327 TO 335 PEARL STREET.

M8

1861
V.2

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by

JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.