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Although those States had sent commissioners to concert measures with the Prince for that purpose, he had advised them to conceal their instructions until his own plan for the disbandment could be carried out. At a secret meeting in the house of Tresel, clerk of the States-General, between Grotius, Hoogerbeets, and other accomplices, it was decided that this advice should be taken.
The allusions to the trial of the Advocate referred to the preliminary examination which took place, like the first interrogatories of Grotius and Hoogerbeets, in the months of November and December. The thorough manner in which Maurice had reformed the States of Holland has been described. There was one department of that body however which still required attention.
It might be supposed that Barneveld and Grotius and Hoogerbeets knew something of the law and history of their country. But James knew much better, and so his envoy endeavoured to convince his audience. He received on the spot a temperate but conclusive reply from the delegates of Holland.
Information of this condition of affairs was conveyed to Hoogerbeets and Grotius by means of an ingenious device of the distinguished scholar, who was then editing the Latin works of the Hague poet, Janus Secundus.
It might be supposed that Barneveld and Grotius and Hoogerbeets knew something of the law and history of their country. But James knew much better, and so his envoy endeavoured to convince his audience. He received on the spot a temperate but conclusive reply from the delegates of Holland.
But the fact is curious as giving one more proof of the irregular, unphilosophical, and inequitable nature of these famous proceedings. Grotius urged to ask Forgiveness Grotius shows great Weakness Hoogerbeets and Grotius imprisoned for Life Grotius confined at Loevestein Grotius' early Attainments Grotius' Deportment in Prison Escape of Grotius Deventer's Rage at Grotius' Escape.
They were eight in number, three of whom, including Gillis van Ledenberg, lodged at the house of Daniel Tressel, first clerk of the States-General. The leaders of the Barneveld party, aware of the purport of this mission and determined to frustrate it, contrived a meeting between the Utrecht commissioners and Grotius, Hoogerbeets, de Haan, and de Lange at Tressel's house. Grotius was spokesman.
"I, too, recognize the States of Holland as sovereign; but we might at least listen to each other occasionally." Hoogerbeets, however, deeming that listening had been carried far enough, decided to leave the tribunal altogether, and to resume the post which he had formerly occupied as Pensionary or chief magistrate of Leyden. Here he was soon to find himself in the thick of the conflict.
Hoogerbeets laid the book aside, not taking much interest at that time in the works of the Hague poet. Constant efforts made to attract his attention to those poems however excited suspicion among his keepers, and the scheme was discovered before the Leyden pensionary had found the means to profit by it.
The austere stoicism both on the part of the sufferers and their relatives excites something like wonder. Three of the judges went in person to the prison chamber of Hoogerbeets, urging him to ask forgiveness himself or to allow his friends to demand it for him. "If my wife and children do ask," he said, "I will protest against it. I need no pardon. Let justice take its course.
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