| 21. | This court pronounced the death penalty in 1619 . Duyck became Grand Pensionary of Holland in 1621.
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| 22. | He was the son of Grand Pensionary Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck and a member of the Dutch Reformed Church.
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| 23. | The earliest pensionaries in Holland were those of Dordrecht ( 1468 ) and of Haarlem ( 1478 ).
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| 24. | The pensionary conducted the legal business of the town, and was the secretary of the city council.
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| 25. | It is also known as the Pensionary Parliament for the many pensions it granted to adherents of the King.
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| 26. | Rotterdam Pensionary De Groot, the would-be signer of the capitulation, had to flee to Antwerp.
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| 27. | As such he was a staunch adherent of the States-Party faction of Grand Pensionary Johan de Wit.
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| 28. | The Holland leadership was emasculated by making sure that the position of Grand Pensionary would henceforth be filled by Orangists.
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| 29. | Most of the other provinces ( except Friesland, whose government was actually very different ) had their own pensionary.
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| 30. | Grand Pensionary Johan van Oldenbarnevelt offered to only suspend trade with the West in exchange for the Twelve Years'Truce.
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