The magistrates could exercise no authority over an army which they did not pay, or a people whom they did not protect.

There were endless quarrels between the various boards of municipal and provincial government--particularly concerning contributions and expenditures.
[When the extraordinary generosity of the Count himself; and the altogether unexampled sacrifices of the Prince are taken into account, it may well be supposed that the patience of the brothers would be sorely tried by the parsimony of the states.

It appears by a document laid before the states-general in the winter of 1580- 1581, that the Count had himself advanced to Orange 570,000 florins in the cause.

The total of money spent by the Prince himself for the sake of Netherland liberty was 2,200,000.

These vast sums had been raised in various ways and from various personages.