sentences:  The most well-known are the "Historie der gravelike regering in Holland" (History of the counts of Holland) and "De stadthouderlijcke regeeringe in Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt" (History of the stadholders of Holland and West-Friesland).Both books contain vivid albeit rather one-sided descriptions of the damage that had been done to the country by monarchical leaders since the Middle Ages.The "Interest van Holland" is one of the preeminent textbooks of economic and political freedom in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.