lavishly-paid

Updated: May 21, 2025

This naturally excited the wrath of the merchants and manufacturers of Holland and the other Provinces, who liked not that these hard-earned and lavishly-paid subsidies should be meddled with by any but the cleanest hands. The clergy, too, arrogated a direct influence in political affairs.

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

This naturally excited the wrath of the merchants and manufacturers of Holland and the other Provinces, who liked not that these hard-earned and lavishly-paid subsidies should be meddled with by any but the cleanest hands. The clergy, too, arrogated a direct influence in political affairs.

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

This naturally excited the wrath of the merchants and manufacturers of Holland and the other Provinces, who liked not that these hard-earned and lavishly-paid subsidies should be meddled with by any but the cleanest hands. The clergy, too, arrogated a direct influence in political affairs.

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

This naturally excited the wrath of the merchants and manufacturers of Holland and the other Provinces, who liked not that these hard-earned and lavishly-paid subsidies should be meddled with by any but the cleanest hands. The clergy, too, arrogated a direct influence in political affairs.

John Lothrop Motley - PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete