With the single exception of Count Egmont, in whose province of Flanders the stadholders were excluded from the administration of justice,--all were likewise supreme judges in the civil and criminal tribunal.
All these stadholders were commanders-in-chief of the military forces in their respective provinces.
The peace party in the United Provinces headed by Oldenbarneveldt was opposed by the stadholders Maurice and William Louis, the great majority of the military and naval officers, the Calvinist preachers and many leading merchants.
The Emperor was in Vienna, but his tenstadholders were in Prague.
Thus reasoned the superficial public, as if the throwing out of window of twenty stadholders could have created a general war in Europe had not the causes of war lain deep and deadly in the whole framework of society.
The Advocate was wroth as he saw the procession graced by the twostadholders and their military attendants.
Aerssen, already distinguished as a diplomatist and noted for the prominent part he had taken in the recent overthrow of Oldenbarneveldt, was for many years to be the trusted councillor of the Stadholders Maurice and Frederick Henry.
The great influence and executive powers of theStadholders of the house of Orange were therefore a check upon the domination of these burgher oligarchies, and so by them resented accordingly.
A large number of the magistrates refused to take any part in the cruel persecution that arose, following the example of Orange, Egmont, Berghen and others of the stadholders and leading nobles.
At the same time strong family influence was brought to bear upon Henry Casimir of Friesland, and a reconciliation between the two stadholders was effected.
Margaret now felt herself strong enough to demand that the stadholders and leading nobles should, on pain of dismissal from their posts, take an oath "to serve the king and to act for and against whomsoever His Majesty might order.
At first he spoke to deaf ears, but he found now a powerful supporter in Maurice, and the two stadholders prevailed.
In the following year the stadholders turned their attention to the north-east corner of the land, which was still in the possession of the Spaniards.
It is certain that stadholders and all other magistrates ever since the establishment of independence were sworn to maintain the Reformed religion and to prevent a public divine worship under any other form.
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