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Pauw was replaced as pensionary by Jacob Cats, and the objections of Richelieu were met and satisfied.

Grotius, when he was only thirty, was made pensionary of the city of Rotterdam.

His father was pensionary officer of justice; and the family, which consisted of three sons and two daughters, lived in the most delightful domestic harmony.

The first writer who is known to have attempted to obtain, on correct mathematical principles, the value of a life annuity, was Jan De Witt, grand pensionary of Holland and West Friesland.

The great Cardinal was already Charles’s pensionary, but the pension was several years in arrear.