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Updated: June 20, 2025
On the 25th of May, 1585, at an hour after midnight, he had a secret interview with Count Meurs, stadholder for the States of Gelderland, and agreed to transfer his mercenary allegiance to the republic. He made good terms. He was to be lieutenant-governor of Gelderland, and he was to have rank as marshal of the camp in the States' army, with a salary of twelve hundred and fifty guilders a month.
Your time to die will also come; and if you are not then so fortunate as to have a son, you will let my name grow extinct, and my guilders, which no one has ever fingered but my father, myself, and the coiner, will have the surprise of passing to an unknown master.
These different emoluments amount to a good deal more than what is necessary for paying the salaries of officers, and defraying the expense of management. What is paid for the keeping of bullion upon receipts, is alone supposed to amount to a neat annual revenue of between 150,000 and 200,000 guilders. Public utility, however, and not revenue, was the original object of this institution.
These hundred thousand guilders and Heaven knows I do not regret them these hundred thousand guilders I have here in this paper, for they are won by the three bulbs wrapped up in it, which you may take, Rosa, as I make you a present of them." "Mynheer Cornelius!" "Yes, yes, Rosa, you may take them; you are not wronging any one, my child.
In this he had declared his cousin prince Frison of Nassau, stadtholder of Friesland, his sole and universal heir, and appointed the states-general his executors. By a codicil annexed, he had bequeathed the lordship of Breevert, and a legacy of two hundred thousand guilders, to the earl of Albemarle.
The wedding was celebrated at Brill with Calvinist rites. The union, whether legitimate or not, was undoubtedly one of great happiness. Meanwhile the governor-general, unable to obtain any financial help from Spain, had managed to persuade the provinces, always in dread of the excesses of the mutinous soldiery, to raise a loan of 1,200,000 guilders to meet their demands for arrears of pay.
Placing the paper again in his pocket-book, he took out another and a larger one. It was a check for three thousand guilders. But Weingarten had regained his composure. He knew that men acting thus must be spies or criminals; that they were testing him, or luring him on to some unworthy act. In either case, he must be on his guard.
Even so, said he, we preachers set forth the most dainty dishes, the forgiveness of sins, and the grace of God; but they turn up their snouts, and grub for guilders. This precept is one side of the truth. The other is the adaptation of the gospel to all men, and the obligation on us to preach it to all.
It is indeed time that you retire good-night, Mynheer Poots. I will but ask a lamp, and then I leave you Amine, good-night." "Good-night," said Amine, extending her hand, "and many, many thanks." "Thousands of guilders!" muttered the old man, as Philip left the room and went below.
"But you may be wrecked again, and then the money will be all lost. No, no; go yourself, Mynheer Philip; but you must not take your guilders." "Indeed I will," replied Philip; "when I leave this, I shall take all my money with me."
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