ABSTRACT
As a banker and diplomat, Francisco Lopes Suasso, alias Abraham Israel Suasso, lent Stadholder William III a million and a half guilders (around seventeen million euros in today’s money) to finance his crossing to England. He is said to have told the stadholder that he would not demand the money back should the course of the ‘Glorious Revolution’ prove less glorious than hoped. (‘If You are happy, I know that You will give them back to me; if You are unhappy, then I assent to having lost them.’)
