Dissertation_A Bick_May 25 - DataSpace at Princeton University
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provide the most complete record available of the WIC's history. Among many other documents, they include invitations and agendas for the meetings of the Heren XIX, copies of all major documents submitted to the States General either during the course of, or immediately following, the meetings, and petitions submitted by private individuals, city and provincial officials, merchants, and foreign diplomats. These sources can be supplemented, or in some cases corroborated, by resolutions of the committee on WIC affairs at the States General, recorded in detail in a thick and well-indexed book from the beginning of 1638. 114 If the dissertation is biased towards the political concerns of the States General, as opposed to those of merchants’ in the individual chambers, it is partially an artifact of the extensive use that has been made of these two sources. In addition, the dissertation draws on manuscript resolutions from the Amsterdam city council and the States General and printed resolutions from the States of Holland and Zeeland. In the case of Holland, the formal resolutions can be read against the private notes of Nicholas Stellingwerf (1592-1667), Pensionaris (Pensionary) of Medemblik, one of the eighteen cities represented in the States of Holland. For more than forty years, from 1622-1666, Stellingwerf kept meticulous, nearly verbatim notes on the proceedings, including the names of speakers and the positions taken by the various representatives. His notes, along with those of a contemporary, Sijbrant Schot (1592-1658), who served as Pensionaris of Purmerend from 1620-1627, are a spectacular and largely untapped source for WIC history. They have now been published for the 114 NA 1.01.03, inv.nr. 4845, Westindische Zaken 1638 tot 1651. 39
period 1620-1636. 115 For the remaining years one must patiently decipher the cramped script of Stellingwerf’s original notebooks preserved in the Westfries Archief in Hoorn, North Holland. 116 These resolutions have in turn been supplemented by printed primary sources and by correspondence, reports, memoranda, calculations, notes, journals, and other documents found in library special collections and municipal and national archives in Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Groningen, Haarlem, Hoorn, Leiden, London, Middelburg, New York, Utrecht, and Washington, DC. 115 N. Stellingwerff and S. Schot, Particuliere Notulen van de Vergaderingen der Staten van Holland, 1620-1640, ed. J. W. Veenendaal-Barth (’s-Gravenhage: Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 1992). 116 Westfries Archive, 0715, Oud archief stad Medemblik, aantekeningen door gedeputeerden van Medemblik in de vergaderingen van de Staten van Holland. 40
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provide the most complete record available of the WIC's history. Among many other documents,<br />
they include invit<strong>at</strong>ions and agendas for the meetings of the Heren XIX, copies of all major<br />
documents submitted to the St<strong>at</strong>es General either during the course of, or immedi<strong>at</strong>ely following,<br />
the meetings, and petitions submitted by priv<strong>at</strong>e individuals, city and provincial officials,<br />
merchants, and foreign diplom<strong>at</strong>s. These sources can be supplemented, or in some cases<br />
corrobor<strong>at</strong>ed, by resolutions of the committee on WIC affairs <strong>at</strong> the St<strong>at</strong>es General, recorded in<br />
detail in a thick and well-indexed book from the beginning of 1638. 114 If the dissert<strong>at</strong>ion is<br />
biased towards the political concerns of the St<strong>at</strong>es General, as opposed to those of merchants’ in<br />
the individual chambers, it is partially an artifact of the extensive use th<strong>at</strong> has been made of these<br />
two sources.<br />
In addition, the dissert<strong>at</strong>ion draws on manuscript resolutions from the Amsterdam city<br />
council and the St<strong>at</strong>es General and printed resolutions from the St<strong>at</strong>es of Holland and Zeeland. In<br />
the case of Holland, the formal resolutions can be read against the priv<strong>at</strong>e notes of Nicholas<br />
Stellingwerf (1592-1667), Pensionaris (Pensionary) of Medemblik, one of the eighteen cities<br />
represented in the St<strong>at</strong>es of Holland. For more than forty years, from 1622-1666, Stellingwerf<br />
kept meticulous, nearly verb<strong>at</strong>im notes on the proceedings, including the names of speakers and<br />
the positions taken by the various represent<strong>at</strong>ives. His notes, along with those of a contemporary,<br />
Sijbrant Schot (1592-1658), who served as Pensionaris of Purmerend from 1620-1627, are a<br />
spectacular and largely untapped source for WIC history. They have now been published for the<br />
<br />
114 NA 1.01.03, inv.nr. 4845, Westindische Zaken 1638 tot 1651.<br />
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