bolsterers

Updated: May 15, 2025

For this toleration a lesson which statesmen like Buys and Barneveld had learned in the school of William the Silent the opposition-party were denounced as bolsterers of Papists, and Papists themselves at heart, and "worshippers of idolatrous idols." From words, too, the government of Leicester passed to acts.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1586d

For this toleration a lesson which statesmen like Buys and Barneveld had learned in the school of William the Silent the opposition-party were denounced as bolsterers of Papists, and Papists themselves at heart, and "worshippers of idolatrous idols." From words, too, the government of Leicester passed to acts.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)

For this toleration a lesson which statesmen like Buys and Barneveld had learned in the school of William the Silent the opposition-party were denounced as bolsterers of Papists, and Papists themselves at heart, and "worshippers of idolatrous idols." From words, too, the government of Leicester passed to acts.

John Lothrop Motley - PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete

For this toleration a lesson which statesmen like Buys and Barneveld had learned in the school of William the Silent the opposition-party were denounced as bolsterers of Papists, and Papists themselves at heart, and "worshippers of idolatrous idols." From words, too, the government of Leicester passed to acts.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete