He represented his native town in the States General, in 1653, in which year he was sent Ambassador to England, and concluded a treaty of peace with that country in April, 16.54. Whilst Ambassador, he was appointed Treasurer General of the Uaited Provinces; he resigned that office in 1655. Exclusive of the negotiations with England, he was also one of the Plenipotentiaries in the peace concluded by the Dutch with the Bishop of Munster, with the French and Spaniards, and finally with the Elector of Cologne after having filled with honor many difiioult commissions, ;

he was finally sent to Nimcguen, as Ambassador Plenipotentiary, to expedite the peace which was signed there on the 10th of August, IBIS. After this, he retired to his farm in the vicinity of Leyden, where he devoted himself to agriculture. Mr. Beverninck died of a violent fever on the 30th October, 1690, aged 76 years. Mureri. -- En. Vol. I. 71

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donee utriusque reipublicas proceres aliter that each party should keep what it possessed

convenerint aut prcecidaneara banc conven- until the authorities of the two States should tionem ratihabuerint. determine otherwise, or should ratify this

convention. A sua parte ita etiam proponunt et condu- On their part, accordingly, the Ambassadors cere posse existimant unitarum provinciarum Extraordinary of the United Provinces propose extra ordinem legati. and recommend. Uti recti, certi, immotique limites ibi quam- That as soon as possible, there be established priinum constituantur, quos excedere, aut there, right, certain and immovable boundaries transgredi in posterum neutri nationum liceat. which neither nation shall be allowed to exceed or pass over. Parati quovis tempore subditorum suorum Being prepared at any time to show by maps, et incolarum ibi proprietates jurisdictiones et and to sustain by other documents, the proimmotas limites in mappis figuratis ad oculum prietorships, jurisdictions, and unchanged demonstrare, aliisque documentis astruere. boundaries of their subjects and of the inhabitants there resident.