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This sagacious policy, together with the advantages of natural situation, contributed to their phenomenal develop- ment. Count Philip was none the less hostile to the aspira- tion after municipal independence, but the rights granted by his predecessors were only temporarily curtailed by his vigor- ous government, and expanded under his successors into complete autonomy. From this period, " the municipalities, " to quote M. Blok, a recent historian of the Netherlands, " really form small republi...cs within the State. " They were republics only in appearance, however, for their government was a monopoly in the hands of an aristocracy of wealth. The Flemish municipalities resemble in this respect those of the empire. A class of wealthy cloth merchants (Poorters, Geslachteri) secures municipal self-government. This wealthy caste reserves to itself the exercise of power, and excludes the artisans — the weavers and fullers. These artisans organise themselves in gilds and attempt to break down the usurpa- tion of power in the hands of this wealthy oligarchy, while this oligarchy opposes a staunch resistance to the attempted invasion of its privileges.
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