voogd

Updated: May 16, 2025

The two sons delivered this petition at four o'clock in the morning into the hands of de Voogd, one of the judges. It was duly laid before the commission, but the prisoner was never informed, when declining a last interview with his family, how urgently they had themselves solicited the boon. Louise de Coligny, on hearing late at night the awful news, had been struck with grief and horror.

John Lothrop Motley - PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete

The two sons delivered this petition at four o'clock in the morning into the hands of de Voogd, one of the judges. It was duly laid before the commission, but the prisoner was never informed, when declining a last interview with his family, how urgently they had themselves solicited the boon. Louise de Coligny, on hearing late at night the awful news, had been struck with grief and horror.

John Lothrop Motley - 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)

"I thought too," he continued, "that My Lords the States-General would have had enough in my life and blood, and that my wife and children might keep what belongs to them. Is this my recompense for forty-three years' service to these Provinces?" President de Voogd rose: "Your sentence has been pronounced," he said. "Away! away!"

John Lothrop Motley - PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete

"I thought too," he continued, "that My Lords the States-General would have had enough in my life and blood, and that my wife and children might keep what belongs to them. Is this my recompense for forty-three years' service to these Provinces?" President de Voogd rose: "Your sentence has been pronounced," he said. "Away! away!"

John Lothrop Motley - Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623)

The two sons delivered this petition at four o'clock in the morning into the hands of de Voogd, one of the judges. It was duly laid before the commission, but the prisoner was never informed, when declining a last interview with his family, how urgently they had themselves solicited the boon. Louise de Coligny, on hearing late at night the awful news, had been struck with grief and horror.

John Lothrop Motley - Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-19

"I thought too," he continued, "that My Lords the States-General would have had enough in my life and blood, and that my wife and children might keep what belongs to them. Is this my recompense for forty-three years' service to these Provinces?" President de Voogd rose: "Your sentence has been pronounced," he said. "Away! away!

John Lothrop Motley - Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-19

"I thought too," he continued, "that My Lords the States-General would have had enough in my life and blood, and that my wife and children might keep what belongs to them. Is this my recompense for forty-three years' service to these Provinces?" President de Voogd rose: "Your sentence has been pronounced," he said. "Away! away!"

John Lothrop Motley - 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)

The two sons delivered this petition at four o'clock in the morning into the hands of de Voogd, one of the judges. It was duly laid before the commission, but the prisoner was never informed, when declining a last interview with his family, how urgently they had themselves solicited the boon. Louise de Coligny, on hearing late at night the awful news, had been struck with grief and horror.

John Lothrop Motley - Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623)