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Acknowledgments and Overview of Literature and Sources
Republic and Its Jews, 1699–1715” is in Conflicts of Empires:
Spain, the Low Countries, and the Struggle for World Suprem-
acy, 1585–1713 (1997). Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portu-
guese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (2000) by Daniel
Swetschinski is a very good and comprehensive study of the Jew-
ish community in seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
The introduction in the Dutch edition (1939) of Joseph de la
Vega’s Confusión de confusiones was referred to earlier. The pre-
amble by Hermann Kellenbenz to the 1957 English translation
is also worth reading. Kellenbenz gives a good but nevertheless
not easily understandable summary of the parts of Confusión de
confusiones that contain explanations of how share trading took
place. Other interpretations of Vega’s book can be found in the
writings of Jose Luis Cardoso (“Confusion de confusiones: Ethics
and Options on Seventeenth-Century Stock Exchange Markets,”
2002) and Jonathan Israel (“Een merkwaardig literair werk en de
Amsterdamse effectenmarkt in 1688. Joseph Penso de la Vega’s
Confusión de confusiones,” 1990).
Anyone who wants to know more about civil case law in the
Republic should read Marie-Charlotte le Bailly’s books Hof van
Holland, Zeeland en West-Friesland: de hoofdlijnen van het pro-
cederen in civiele zaken voor het Hof van Holland, Zeeland en
West-Friesland zowel in eerste instantie als in hoger beroep (2008)
and, with Christel Verhas, Hoge Raad van Holland, Zeeland en
West- Friesland (1582–1795): de hoofdlijnen van het procederen
in civiele zaken voor de Hoge Raad zowel in eerste instantie als in
hoger beroep (2006).
Local Amsterdam regulations are published in Handvesten; ofte
Privilegien ende octroyen: mitsgaders willekeuren, costuimen, or-
donnantien en handelingen der stad Amstelredam (5 volumes,
1748–1678), compiled by Hermannus Noordkerk. The edicts
promulgated by the States General and the States of Holland
can be found in Groot placaet-boeck, vervattende de placaten,
ordonnantien ende edicten van de Staten Generael der Vereenighde
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