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4. Angry Shareholders
4. Angry Shareholders
1. Petition, March 1613, published in J. G. van Dillen, “Isaac le Maire en
de handel in actiën der Oost-Indische Compagnie,” Economisch Historisch
jaarboek 16 (1930): 1–165, doc. no. 82.
2. Johannes le Maire to Isaac le Maire, August 17, 1613, in van Dillen,
“Isaac le Maire,” doc. no. 83.
3. Van Dillen, “Isaac le Maire,” 3.
4. Bibliotheca Thysiana (hereafter BT), Thysius Archive (hereafter TA),
inv. no. 119g, fo. 224.
5. National Archives in The Hague (hereafter NA), Hof van Holland
(hereinafter HvH), inv. no. 632, nos. 1614–1650, 1614–1673, 1614–
1676.
6. De Velaer to l’Empereur, December 10, 1608, BT, TA, inv. no. 215,
no. a2/5.
7. See, for example, A. T. van Deursen, Rust niet voordat gy ze van buiten
kunt: de Tien Geboden in de 17e eeuw (Kampen, 2004), esp. the chapter
about the eighth commandment.
8. Petition, 1609, in van Dillen, “Isaac le Maire,” doc. no. 2.
9. Petition, 1609, in van Dillen, “Isaac le Maire,” doc. no. 3.
10. See Oscar Gelderblom, Abe de Jong, and Joost Jonker, “An Admiralty
for Asia. Isaac le Maire and Conflicting Conceptions About the Corporate
Governance of the VOC,” in The Origins of Shareholder Advocacy, ed.
Jonathan G. S. Koppell (Basingstoke, 2011), 29–60.
11. Statement, August 1609, in van Dillen, “Isaac le Maire,” doc. no. 4.
12. Petition, 19 January 1610, in van Dillen, “Isaac le Maire,” doc. no. 9.
13. Bill of February 27, 1610, in van Dillen, “Isaac le Maire,” doc. no. 14.
Also in Cornelis Cau et al., Groot placaet-boeck, vervattende de placaten,
ordonnantien ende edicten van de . . . Staten Generael der Vereenighde
Nederlanden, ende van de . . . Staten van Hollandt en West-Vrieslandt i (The
Hague, 1658), 554–555. See also M. F. J. Smith, Tijd-affaires in effecten aan
de Amsterdamsche beurs (The Hague, 1919), 57–58.
14. Notarial writs, van Dillen, “Isaac le Maire,” doc. no. 75–78.
15. Writ, December 16, 1613, in J. G. van Dillen, Het oudste aandeel-
houdersregister van de Kamer Amsterdam der Oost-Indische Compagnie
(The Hague, 1958), 100–102.
16. The shareholders’ protest around the year 1622 is treated at length in
Paul Frentrop, A History of Corporate Governance, 1602–2002 (Brussels,
2003). Henk den Heijer, De geoctrooieerde compagnie: de voc en de wic als
voorlopers van de naamloze vennootschap (Deventer, 2005). Matthijs de
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