ABSTRACT
As Stadholder, William of Orange was keen to cultivate his relations with the English court. It was an odd bunch that was used to justify the expedition of William of Orange to England, culminating in the Glorious Revolution. Walten favours mixed government, based on popular sovereignty, the legislative authority of parliament and the executive power of a virtuous prince, such as William of Orange. Whilst the republican Sidney never refrained from condemning the House of Orange as the embodiment of doom and gloom for liberty, the radical Walten was happy to write on William of Orange's behalf, defending his policies and praising his glory as virtuous prince. Walten's arrest was related to his vigorous defence of Balthasar Bekker's dismissal of the materiality of the devil and of angels and witches in his book De Betooverde Weereld, published in 1691.
