States General

It ſhall be Lawful for his Royal Majeſty of Great-Britain, and the States-General, by common Advice, and for the Benefit and Enlargement of the Navigation and Commerce of their Subjects, to ſeize by their Forces, what Lands and Cities they can, belonging to the Spaniſh Dominions in the Indies; (…).

1712, Francis Hare, The Treaty Between Her Majesty and the States-General for Securing the Succession to the Crown of Great-Britain, and for Settling the Barrier for the States-General Against France, Consider'd, page 8

Had the States General, early after the discovery by Hudson, directed their attention to this western field […] a basis would have been laid securing probably a long and prosperous continuance.

1845, Thomas De Witt, “Sketches of New Netherland”, in Proceedings of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1844, page 57

J[ohn] A[dams] was fully aware that the States General would not accept a memorial from the minister of a nation as yet unrecognized, but he nevertheless went through the motions of presenting it.

2003, “Memorial to the States General, 19 April 1781”, in Gregg L. Lint, Richard Alan Ryerson, Anne Decker Cecere, Celeste Walker, Jennifer Shea, C. James Taylor., editors, The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, volume 11, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pages 272–282, footnote 2

Early letters by the Malay rulers are addressed to the “king of Holland” whom they affectionately call their “brother”, in other words as their imagined royal counterpart. In practice such letters were received and read by the stadtholder, the States General, or both.

2017, Peter Borschberg, “Lost in Translation? The Languages of Euro-Southeast Asian Diplomacy in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries”, in Susan Richter, Michael Roth, Sebastian Meurer, editors, Konstruktionen Europas in der Frühen Neuzeit, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, →DOI, pages 291-292