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Which Dutch provinces did Hugo Grotius serve as attorney general?

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Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing. — Hugo Grotius Portrait of Hugo de Groot (Hugo Grotius), oil on panel by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, 1631; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Hugo Grotius served as advocaat-fiscaal, or attorney general, for the provinces of:

Holland
Zeeland
West Friesland12

He was appointed to this position in 1607.2