Everything about The Act Of Seclusion totally explained
The
Act of Seclusion is a secret annex in the
Treaty of Westminster (1654) between the
United Provinces and the
Commonwealth of England in which
William III, Prince of Orange, was excluded from the office of
Stadtholder. The First Stadtholderless Period was heralded in January 1651 by the regents during the so-called Grote Vergadering which was a meeting in
The Hague of representatives of the ruling classes of each of the United Provinces. This was caused by the death of
stadtholder William II on 6 November 1650.
Through the Treaty of Westminster
Johan de Witt,
Grand Pensionary of
Holland, not only ended the
First Anglo–Dutch War, but also ensured that the
orangist faction would no longer hinder the regents, so that republican English no longer needed to fear that William III could become a strong Dutch leader who could bring the
throne back to the
Stuarts to whom he was closely related. Ironically, William III would later drive out the last Stuart King,
James II and thereby end moves in England towards
monarchical absolutism.
According to Grand Pensionary De Witt, it was
Oliver Cromwell who demanded the secret annex and he managed to have it ratified by the
Estates-General only with the greatest effort. When the Act of Seclusion became known later, it was commonly assumed that De Witt masterminded it himself. In the
nineteenth century, investigation of his secret correspondence appeared to acquit him of this. Nowadays, different positions are taken in this matter stemming from the insight that De Witt may have manipulated these writings out of fear that they may fall into the wrong hands. He was seldomly spontaneous when writing or speaking.
When the
English Restoration brought
Charles II to the throne of England, the Estates-General declared that the Act of Seclusion had thereby lost its validity, since the Act was signed by the commonwealth which had now ceased to exist.
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