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Updated: May 15, 2025
Before leaving for Vianen in the middle of August of this year the Advocate had an interview with the Prince. There had been no open rupture between them, and Barneveld was most anxious to avoid a quarrel with one to whose interests and honour he had always been devoted. He did not cling to power nor office.
"I went then to Vianen, being much indisposed; thence I repaired to Utrecht to consult my old friend Doctor Saulo Saul, in whose hands I remained six weeks, not being able, as I hoped, to pass my seventieth birthday on the 24th September last in my birthplace, the city of Amersfoort. All this time I heard not one single word or proposal of accommodation.
"No!" said the offensive father, without taking the cigar from his mouth. "But you are the hotel-keeper at any rate?" I asked in a disagreeable state of uncertainty. "Yes," came the answer just as curtly, as though he wanted to say, "Are you through soon now? Then we'll go to sleep again." "But are you not then the father of Juffrouw Van Vianen, who lives in this house?" "No!" said the man.
It is remarkable that at Louvain Erasmus found his fiercest opponents in some compatriots, in the narrower sense of the word: Vincent Dirks of Haarlem, William of Vianen, Ruurd Tapper.
"That signifies nothing, Elsje I am not so proud of that." I was joking, but she understood me. "No, you are not proud, but still you have assurance. That I have not. Do you know how I got my name?" "Well?" "They called me Van Vianen, became I was found near Vianen. I have no parents." She said this deeply humiliated and ashamed.
"I went then to Vianen, being much indisposed; thence I repaired to Utrecht to consult my old friend Doctor Saulo Saul, in whose hands I remained six weeks, not being able, as I hoped, to pass my seventieth birthday on the 24th September last in my birthplace, the city of Amersfoort. All this time I heard not one single word or proposal of accommodation.
I too now found it unnecessary to talk longer around the subject. "Then would you kindly tell Juffrouw Van Vianen that there is someone who urgently desires to speak to her?" The cigar now fell from the gaping mouth and the solitary eye also opened perceptibly wider like that of a hippopotamus emerging from the water. I was scrutinized a while.
The VIANEN sighted the west coast in 1628, and kept in sight of it for some two hundred miles, reporting "a foul and barren shore, green fields; and very wild, black, barbarous inhabitants." The wreck of the BATAVIA on Houtman's Abrolhos, in 1629, is one of the most tragic incidents in early Australian history.
Commegys was from Vianen, and had had a Dutch woman for a wife, who had taught her children to speak the Dutch language; they therefore had a kind disposition towards Hollanders. After her death he married an English woman, and he had himself learned many of the English maxims, although it was against his feelings; for we were sensible that he dared not work for us with an open heart.
"I went then to Vianen, being much indisposed; thence I repaired to Utrecht to consult my old friend Doctor Saulo Saul, in whose hands I remained six weeks, not being able, as I hoped, to pass my seventieth birthday on the 24th September last in my birthplace, the city of Amersfoort. All this time I heard not one single word or proposal of accommodation.
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