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149: 141: 157: 126: 27: 309:. This former monastery had been used as a fencing school, and after the fire of 1652 as a temporary city hall, before becoming the administrators' office. Whenever the Prince of Orange visited Amsterdam, in his capacity of Admiral-General he resided in the Admiralty building. By law, the grounds were under his jurisdiction, obviating the need for him to be a guest of the city. It was for this reason that the building acquired, and retained, the name of 165: 427: 446:. The First Anglo-Dutch War ended infelicitously for the Dutch, and this added to the city administration's readiness to have the arsenal built. On 12 August 1655, the admiralty was given the entire western strip of Kattenburg island for the construction of a warehouse and timber-wharf, in exchange for so far enclosed grounds it had occupied in the area. 365:
that time meant Spain. The proceeds were meant to be spent on building and equipping men-of-war. In 1638 it was decided to lease out the proceeds of these Convooien and Licenten. The region of Holland, however, opposed the decision as it meant that authority for the leases came in the hands of private persons and bring them personal gain.
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Under the decisions of 1597, the Admiralty of Amsterdam provided seven commissioned officers, along with four appointed by the States of Holland and three by other provinces. Numbers and proportions later changed, and in 1739 the college provided twelve members, six from Holland and one from each of
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to recruit sailors for their fleets, as this was deemed incompatible with the freedom that was the proclaimed basis of the Republic. A sailor in the fleet received ten or eleven guilders per calendar month. None of the petty officers or men was in bound service to the admiralty. Sailors who enlisted
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The admiralty colleges had first and foremost been entrusted with equipping the Republic's naval fleets. In addition, they had to manage import and export taxes – collecting "Convooien" and "Licenten". Most important were the "Licenten", which were licenses on the trade with the enemy, which at
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Like petty officers and sailors in general, commissioned sea officers were also dependent on their posting, since they received no payment from the admiralty whilst in port. Indeed, even though for officers "meals at the captain's table were ... always free", pay was only thirty guilders for a
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rejected the idea that commissioned officers should be appointed by the States of Holland instead of the cities themselves. As a result, the commissioned officers resolved to remain in Amsterdam. On 28 August 1586, that decision formed the foundation of the Amsterdam Admiralty.
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Each province exerted itself to trade internally as much as possible, and thus to evade the rules. Earnings could only be maintained through smuggling and the confiscation of smuggled goods, a lesson especially learned by the Admiralty in Amsterdam. On the River
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On its façade is the Hollandic Lion, holding the coat of arms of the High College and guarding the Hollandic Yard, the symbol of territorial integrity and security. On the site of the new 1924 development stood a number of fine houses built by
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sanctioned the situation as it then was, so that Amsterdam too kept its own admiralty. These measures were intended to have a temporary character, but they remained in force until the end of the Republic in 1795.
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The conflict was ended by compromise. In the end, the West Frisian cities gave up their resistance to external appointments, and in 1589 Hoorn instituted its own admiralty college. On 14 June 1597, the
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went up in flames. It was a spectacular fire, and only the main supporting walls remained standing, for after a sack in 1740 extra load-bearing supports had been put in from the outside.
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was established at Oostenburg and was approximately 300 meters in length. Because of the ropes laid alongside each other, sometimes at lengths of up to 220 meters, it was called a
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by directors specially appointed for the purpose. The object was to increase efficiency, but the system did not work well and Holland, notably Amsterdam unser burgomaster
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Seats in the Admiralties in Amsterdam and Rotterdam were held to be especially lucrative. The Committee of the Admiralty of Amsterdam was nearly always filled by former
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were housed and fed by it and had to pay deductions for uniform clothing and equipment. Earnings through plundering or looting dried up in the eighteenth century.
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Gabriëls, A.J.C.M. (1990) De heren als dienaren en de dienaar als heer. Het stadhouderlijk stelsel in de tweede helft van de achttiende eeuw, p. 389-90.
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Plaat, G. van der (2003) Eendracht als opdracht. Lieuwe van Aitzema’s bijdrage aan het publieke debat in de zeventiende-eeuwse Republiek, p. 125-6.
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was no longer placed in the hands of the five admiralty colleges but given to a central organization, which was to operate from a single base at
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was the arsenal of the Amsterdam Admiralty, built in nine months and containing enormous supplies for the building and equipping of warships.
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Bruijn, J.R. (1970) De admiraliteit van Amsterdam in rustige jaren, 1713–1751: regenten en financiën, schepen en zeevarenden, p. 110.
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Heinse, W. (1784) Reise nach Holland. In: Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Carl Schüddekopf, 7. Band, Leipzig (1909), S. 309.
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Gezicht op de Admiraliteitswerf op Kattenburg te Amsterdam Gesicht van de Ammiraliteits werf van achteren, uyt het Y.
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Zwitser, H.L. (1991) 'De militie van den staat'. Het leger van de republiek der verenigde Nederlanden, p. 87-9.
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was commissioned to paint four huge allegorical paintings, for which he was paid 2,000 guilders.
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to write verses to be recited at the inauguration of the building. To adorn the interior,
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Inventory of the archive of the Admiralty colleges, with historical introduction
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Like all Dutch admiralties, the Admiralty of Amsterdam were forbidden from using
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The "Oostelijke Eilanden" in Amsterdam on a map by Gerrit de Broen, dated ~1782.
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there was an outpost of the Arnhem office of the Amsterdam Admiralty. The
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customs officer, however, whose jurisdiction extended as far as
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The administrators resided in the Prinsenhof (named the
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tried to create more unity in the fight against the
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