Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1614-23)

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 Advocate sounds the Alarm in Germany--His Instructions to Langerac and his Forethought--The Prince--Palatine and his Forces take Aachen, Mulheim, and other Towns--Supineness...

Barneveld connected with the East India Company, but opposed to the West India Company--Carleton comes from Venice inimical to Barneveld--Maurice openly the Chieftain of the Con...

Fruitless Interview between Barneveld and Maurice--The Advocate, warned of his Danger, resolves to remain at the Hague--Arrest of Barneveld, of Qrotius, and of Hoogerbeets--The...

The Commonwealth bent on Self-destruction--Evils of a Confederate System of Government--Rem Bischop's House sacked--Aerssens' unceasing Efforts against Barneveld--The Advocate's...

Maurice revolutionizes the Provinces--Danckaert's libellous Pamphlet --Barneveld's Appeal to the Prince--Barneveld's Remonstrance to the States--The Stadholder at Amsterdam--The...

The widow of Barneveld had remained, since the last scene of the fatal tragedy on the Binnenhof, in hopeless desolation. The wife of the man who during a whole generation of man...

Two days after the execution of the Advocate, judgment was pronounced upon Gillis van Ledenberg. It would have been difficult to try him, or to extort a confession of high-treas...

Ferdinand of Gratz crowned King of Bohemia--His Enmity to Protestants--Slawata and Martinitz thrown from the Windows of the Hradschin--Real Beginning of the Thirty Years' War--T...

During this dark and mournful winter the internal dissensions and, as a matter of course, the foreign intrigues had become more dangerous than ever. While the man who for a whol...

James still presses for the Payment of the Dutch Republic's Debt to him--A Compromise effected, with Restitution of the Cautionary Towns--Treaty of Loudun--James's Dream of a Sp...

A Deputation from Utrecht to Maurice--The Fair at Utrecht--Maurice and the States' Deputies at Utrecht--Ogle refuses to act in Opposition to the States--The Stadholder disbands...

In the beautiful village capital of the "Count's Park," commonly called the Hague, the most striking and picturesque spot then as now was that where the transformed remains of t...