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- ↑ Bram De Ridder and Violet Soen, "The Act of Cession, the 1598 and 1600 States General in Brussels and the Peace Negotiations during the Dutch Revolt", in The Twelve Years Truce (1609): Peace, Truce, War and Law in the Low Countries at the Turn of the 17th Century, ed. Randall Lesaffer (Leiden and Boston, 2014), p. 56n.
- ↑ Bruno Boute, Academic Interests and Catholic Confessionalisation (Leiden and Boston, 2010), p. 103.
- ↑ Mireille Jean, La Chambre des Comptes de Lille (1477-1667): L'institution et les hommes (Paris, 1992), p. 254.