... not to suffer any occasion to pass for promoting the well-being of their city, for advancing the prosperity of the citizens, to render their names dear to their contemporaries, and make them ... Lordships, to direct, by their powerful influence, thing in such sort, that, in the Assembly highly respected of their noble and grand Mightinesses the Lords the Statesof Holland and West Friesland, there ... that, to the end to provide for it, their noble and grandMightinesses, and the States of the other Provinces in this respect, unanimous with them, should make use of the power which belongs to...