78/2499 [The Hague]. Lot of ±90 manuscript documents, pen and ink on paper, 13x on vellum, dated between 1546-1939, partly w. paper seals attached, various sizes.

= Interesting collection concerning properties, inheritances, appointments etc., all written in or concerning The Hague. Incl. five extracts "uijte resolutien van de heeren staten van Hollandt ende Westfrieslant" of events dated between 1621 and 1651 concerning i.a. the acquittal of the state members who were imprisoned in Slot Loevesteijn in 1650 and the estate of the executed Johan van Oldenbarnevelt; ±50 contracts concerning the sale and maintenance of a property on the "Oude Raemstraat" (dating from 1611 to 1883); a 16th century "brieve een jaerlicxe losrente" for a property in the Heulstraat (dated 9 June 1546) and a letter by Herbert van Beaumont (secretary and "chartermeester" of the Staten van Holland and Westvrieslant from 1640 onward) in which he discusses the political situation on the continent and recommends to aid the Catalan and Portuguese war against Spain by sending a warfleet in the hope of ending the war between the Republic and Spain.