26 LEEUWENHOEK AND HIS “‘ LITTLE ANIMALS ”’ 
fine Buildings, and amongst them the Town-House,' with 
these two Verses on the Front. 
Haec domus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat, 
Nequitiam, Pacem, Crimina, Jura, Probos. 
Here is a spacious Market-Place between this House 
and the great Church,’ in which stands William‘ the 
First Prince of Orange (Great Grand-Father to his Sacred 
Majesty King William’) at full length, in Armor, in 
Copper Effigie . . . ’Tis the most Magnificent Tomb 
in all the Seventeen Provinces. Here that Prince kept 
his Court, and here was that brave Prince assassinated in 
the 5lst Year of his Age .. . 
In the t’other Church’ is a Monument of Admiral 
Trump’s' inrich’d with Miniature, and a fine Inscription 
In the same Church is Myn Heer Pithin’s Tomb‘, 
a very handsome one. . . . The Churches here, and in all 
the Seven United-Provinces, are generally bigger than ours 
in Hngland, but fewer in Number. 
Here is a large and neat Market, or Flesh-Hall (as they 
call it) for all sorts of Butchers Meat, which they have 
very good . . . They have also a good Fish-Market 
here, and another of Fruits, Roots, and Herbs. 
The People in this City are rich, trade much to Sea, and 
make much Porcelain, or fine Earthen Wares, to a great 
Perfection, tho’ far short of China, which they pretend to 
resemble, and brew good Beer here . . . yet it tastes 
" The Stadhuis or Town Hall. See Pl. VI, opp. p. 32. 
* “This House hates, loves, punishes, keeps, honours; Wickedness, 
Peace, Crimes, Oaths, the Righteous.’ This inscription is no longer to be 
seen—having been removed in the process of subsequent ‘‘ restoration.” 
* The New Church. 
* William I, the Silent (1533-1584); Stadholder. 
* William III of England and Orange (1650-1702). 
* The Old Church, where L. himself now also lies. See Pl. XIV, opp. 
p. 100. 
" Admiral Maarten Tromp (1598-1653). 
* Admiral Piet Hein (1572-1629).—All the tombs and places mentioned 
by Mountague can still be seen. 
