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... Dutch , all were landlords for a spell , until it came into comparative security in the hands of the Dutch East India Company in 1652 . For a time it prospered , until , with the decline of the Company , abuses crept in . Bad Governors ...
... Dutch , all were landlords for a spell , until it came into comparative security in the hands of the Dutch East India Company in 1652 . For a time it prospered , until , with the decline of the Company , abuses crept in . Bad Governors ...
Page 98
... Dutch remained unaffected . They adhered to Calvanism . Lord Charles Somerset , Governor of the Cape at that time , had attempted to wean the Dutch from their conservatism , and from their language . He had created schools with teachers ...
... Dutch remained unaffected . They adhered to Calvanism . Lord Charles Somerset , Governor of the Cape at that time , had attempted to wean the Dutch from their conservatism , and from their language . He had created schools with teachers ...
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... Dutch Reformed Church , from Hanover in the Cape Colony , who had recently been much in the public eye . He had successfully combated a charge of heresy brought against him by the Dutch Reformed Church because of his advanced views . He ...
... Dutch Reformed Church , from Hanover in the Cape Colony , who had recently been much in the public eye . He had successfully combated a charge of heresy brought against him by the Dutch Reformed Church because of his advanced views . He ...
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