Act of Seclusion

The Seklusionsakt ( Dutch: van Seclusie Act ) was a secret clause in the Treaty of Westminster in 1654, in which the States of Holland to Decision Made a four -year-old Willem III. not to make of Orange- Nassau as the new governor.

The main initiators for the Seklusionsakt Johan de Witt, Cornelis de Graeff, Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam and Johann van Brederode were Wolfart. By this decision they were excluded from the governorship. When the secret file received recognition in the following years, the English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell and not De Witt was generally regarded as the inventor. In 1660, as the system of Cromwell was zusammgebrochen and related with the Orangemen again Stuart kings of England, were the acts of the States of Holland was declared invalid.

In 1667 De Witt presented the Eeuwig edict ( century decree) on the included the abolition of the governorship, and thus the final fall of the House of Orange. As the Orangemen again came to power in 1672 Rampjaar the edict was withdrawn by the States of Holland.