The Satisfactie van Haarlem was one of many treaties made at

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in 1577 by which

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ensured the loyalty of the towns under his rule.

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set his seal to the Satisfactie van Haarlem, promising that the Roman Catholics of Haarlem would give allegiance to

rather than to

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on condition that the Roman Catholics would keep the same rights as Protestants.''Beknopte geschiedenis van Haarlem'', by mej.dr.

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, Erven F. Bohn, 1946, Haarlem A year later, on 29 May 1578, the events of the '' Haarlemse Noon'' breached the treaty by disrupting and outlawing Roman Catholicism.

References

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