" == Secret letter to Charles II of Jan. 1672 == My hair stood on end when I read "" Meanwhile, William had written a secret letter to Charles in January 1672 asking his uncle to exploit the situation by exerting pressure on the States-General to appoint William stadtholder"" in the section ""Conflict with republicans."" Since when did the States-General appoint stadtholders? I looked at the citation given (Troost, pp. 65-66) and indeed no such claim is made there. In the quote from the letter, William speaks of ""the States,"" which has to refer to the States of Holland, his most-persistent opponents. Troost does not make the claim that ""States-General"" is intended here. I have deleted ""-General""
" == Secret letter to Charles II of Jan. 1672 == My hair stood on end when I read "" Meanwhile, William had written a secret letter to Charles in January 1672 asking his uncle to exploit the situation by exerting pressure on the States-General to appoint William stadtholder"" in the section ""Conflict with republicans."" Since when did the States-General appoint stadtholders? I looked at the citation given (Troost, pp. 65-66) and indeed no such claim is made there. In the quote from the letter, William speaks of ""the States,"" which has to refer to the States of Holland, his most-persistent opponents. Troost does not make the claim that ""States-General"" is intended here. I have deleted ""-General"" and