The Life and Death of John of Barneveld Advocate of Holland with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War (Volume 2); 2 Vol (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. Barneveld's Imprisonment--Ledenberg's Examination and Death--Remonstrance of De Boississe--Aerssens admitted to the Order of Knights--Trial of the Advocate--Barneveld's Defence--The States proclaim a Public Fast--Du Maurier's Speech before the Assembly--Barneveld's Sentence--Barneveld prepares for Death--Goes to Execution. The Advocate had been removed within a few days after the arrest from the chamber in Maurice's apartments, where he had originally been confined, and was now in another building. It was not a dungeon nor a jail. Indeed the commonplace and domestic character of the scenery in which these great events were transacted has in it something pathetic. There was and still remains a two-storied structure, then of modern date, immediately behind the antique hall of the old Counts within the Binnenhof. On the first floor was a courtroom of considerable extent, the seat of one of the chief tribunals of justice. The story above was divided into three chambers with a narrow corridor on each side. The first chamber, on the north-eastern side, was appropriated for the judges when the state prisoners should be tried. In the next Hugo Grotius was imprisoned. In the third was Barneveld. There was a tower at the north-east angle of the building, within which a winding and narrow staircase of stone led up to the corridor and so to the prisoners'.apartments. Rombout Hoogerbeets was confined in another building. As the Advocate, bent with age and a life of hard work, and leaning on hia staff, entered the room appropriated to him, after toiling up the steep staircase, he observed--"This is the Admiral of Arragon's apartment." It was true. Eighteen years before, the conqueror of Nieuwpoort had assigned this lodging to the chief prisoner of war in th...