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Table 5. Seating for the delegations at the States General. 90
Table 6. Possible seating at the Heren XIX. 91
90 Adapted from Van Vree, Meetings, Manners, and Civilization, 150. Note that the chair rotated on a weekly basis
among the seven provinces. Gelderland always spoke first, followed by Holland and Zeeland.
91 There are no remaining images of the Heren XIX, so this diagram must be considered conjectural. The seating
order in Table 4 implies that members of the same chamber were not seated together, but this would be highly
unusual, since members of the same delegation sat together in both the States of Holland and the States General.
This is also consistent with the fact that statements from multiple delegates from the same chamber rarely appear in
the board’s minutes. Nevertheless, since voting was conducted by delegate, rather than by delegation, it is possible
that seating was organized as in Table 4 and thus that delegations did not sit together. It is impossible to say whether
the two assessors and the lawyer (who did not vote but likely recorded the minutes) would have been seated at the
table. Note that only two seats are allocated to representatives of the States General, though quite often the number
was higher, and only two seats to the chamber of the Maas, which in practice sent three delegates, consistent with
the argument presented above.
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