Histoire de Guillaume III, roi d'Angleterre. La Haye 1703, 1704. 3. t. 8o.
De schrijver belooft op den titel 's vorsten levensgeschiedenis te geven, en echter eindigt hij reeds zijn derde deel met den dood van de prinses Douairière van Oranje in September 1675.
The Present State of Holland, Londen 1743, zegt er van (bl. 177):
[pagina 61]
[p. 61]
‘Mr. Samson, who has wrote the first part of King William's life so well, it is pity he could not find time to finish it. He understood the affairs of Europe and had a good talent of drawing up Memorials; in effect to which he was of use to several foreing Ministers and particularly to some of our own. Mr. Horace Walpole carried Samson with him from the Hague to the congres of Soissons in 1723. By the interest of that Minister he had now a considerable state in England, where he lives.’
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