Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 2

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De gravin van Portland aan Willem Bentinck

[B.M., Eg. 1716]

16 januari 1750

(Ik hoop, dat gij spoedig in Den Haag zult terug zijn), for I find you are lookt upon as wanted, when there¹⁾ will be sure to make no further promises²⁾ than what you are sure, you can make good; for it is a most material point to be depended on, if the towns can be kept quiet in paying the new taxe, it will raise you in esteem here, for the spirit shown in what past at Haerlem, had a good effect in this country, tho' I hear there has been a most impertinent Hague letter in the daily advertiser upon the Prince and the ill disposition of people to his government.

1) Invoegen: you?

2) Beloften aan het volk betreffende de belastingen?