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against suffering by taking medicine. They might 
have added that he was twenty years younger 
than the Ruart. Probably, when he made the 
offer,he knew that it would not be accepted. 
Tichelaer’s account of his interview with the 
Ruart is full and precise. He was a perfect 
stranger. ‘The Ruart was sick in bed, yet at once 
proposed to him to assassinate the Prince of 
Orange. I shall not repeat, this, as it is to be 
found in common books. The Ruart’s wife, sus- 
pecting his purpose to be an attack upon her hus- 
band, left the bedroom-door ajar, and ordered a 
servant to watch. He did so, and swore. to a 
conversation which has the merit of probability. 
Tichelaer offered to communicate secrets, and the 
Ruart refused to hear anything that was not good 
(indien ’t wat goets was), upon which, Tichelaer, 
after another attempt, wished him ‘good day” 
and departed. This was stated by the servant in 
the presence of three persons, immediately. The 
interview lasted Jess than a quarter of an hour. 
Tichelaer did not give his information -for eight 
days. 
When the mob had surrounded the prison, 
Tichelaer seems to have gone in and out at his 
pleasure, and he addressed them from a window, 
crying, ‘“‘ Courage, mes amis! ce chien et son frére 
vont sortir tout-a-l’heure. Empéchez-les. Le 
temps presse, vengez vous de ces coquins, qui ont 
plus de cent complices.” — Basnage, ii. 307. I 
do not find that he took any manual. part. in the 
murder, nor that he appeared in public affairs till 
he applied to the High Court by petition to vindi- 
cate his charaeter, It, is not surprising that the 
court which, condémned Cornelius De Wit should 
have treated him favourably. Commissions were 
issued to enquire into the judgments of the court 
of Piershil, and. they were reversed. Copies are 
given in Tichelaer’s statement, the peroration of 
which I copy, having tried to translate freely 
and literally, but finding my English wholly in- 
adequate to represent the original : 
“Tin of nu schoon de bitse Nyd, in haer, slibberig en 
stinckend hol gedoocken nedersettende, niet en hock 
rusten haet vuyle tanden stomp te knagen op het. lijf 
van haer eygen gunstligen, en ’t uytgesoogen  fenyn 
tegen ons uit te braeken, om onze onnoselheyt verder te 
bespoeten; so Sullen wy ons daer tegen wapenien met het 
sap vafl een sincere conscientie vermengt sijnde met de 
wel rieckenden orangen balsam ; en.op Cerberus dns quam 
aen te blaffen, een broeck, van ’tselvye compositum in sijn 
holle keulen werpen, als so hy daer. an borsten, en sullen 
alsoo al de vergiftige pylen die op ons verder souden mogen 
afschooten worden dodr, eenich Helsch gedroght, cou- 
rageusement onder de genadé Gods van onse lyve aff- 
schudden.,” 
_ Ido not know who were the friends for wliose 
satisfaction Tichelaér published this statement ; 
but I cannot refrain from quoting an anecdote of 
one who claimed, and certainly deserved, hin as a 
friend, The author of La Vie et le Mort de C.et 
G. de Witte, describing the outrages of the mob 
on the dead bodies, says: 
“Un autre encore, voulant faire voir quil étoit un’ 
ennemi des De Witte, coupa au Ruart un morceau de chair 
vers la hanche, en disant, ‘ J’ai résolu de rétir ce morceau, 
pour le manger avec mon ami Tichelaer, quand je scaurois 
de crever sur le champ.’”—Tom. ii. p. 250. 
Tichelaer enjoyed for a long time the “orange 
balsam of good odour,” which he so handsomely 
acknowledges. Enumerating the rewarded assas- 
sins, Basnage says : 
“ Tichelaer fut. partagé plus honorablement., Il eut la 
charge de substitut au Baillage de Putten, qui. lui avoit 
été promise, et obtint une pension des états, qui lui fut ex- 
actement payée pendant la vie du Prince d’Orange; mais 
aprés la mort de son altesse on la lui 6ta. Privé de cette 
pension, sur laquelle étoit fondée sa subsistance, il seroit 
mort de faim, si la Diaconie de la Haye ne l’avoit. assisté, 
Il tomba sur ses vieux jours dans la derniére pauvreté, et 
mourut trés misérablement, et d’une maladie affreuse.” 
—Tom. ii. p. 328. 
In vol. ii. p. 232. of Beknopte Historie van ’t 
Vaderland, Amsterdam, 1786, it is said that 
Tichelaer, in his old age, was seen on crutches, 
begging in the streets of the Hague; that he lived 
in perpetual disquiet (ongerustheid), and some- 
times confessed in confidence that he had falsely 
aecused the Ruart, and caused the death of the 
two brothers: He died at the Hague about 1714. 
The book is anonymous, and gives no authorities, 
but is well arranged, and seems to be carefully 
written. 
The best history of these: affairs is in Basnage’s 
Annales des Provinces Unies, 2 tom. folio, La Haye, 
1719. It is well condensed in the 7th vol. of the 
History of England, in Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclo- 
pedia, in which, however, there is one error de- 
serving correction : 
“The disfigured remains were hung on a gallows by 
the heels. The person who acted the part of hangman, 
observing the pastor of the Hague, said ‘M. le Ministre, 
sont ils assez hauts?’ ‘Non,’ replied the minister of 
the Gospel, ‘pendez ce grand coquin un echélon plus 
haut.’ ” 
Basnage says “un pasteur.” The Hague had 
many pastors. One only ventured to express, in 
his pulpit, disapprobation of the murders, and he 
was speedily silenced. _ ae fh 
At. p.35. I haye stated August 22 as the day of 
the murder; it should be the 20th: and the Bek- 
nopte Historie, above cited, describes the torture 
as severe, and says that it took place on the 19th. 
H. B.C. 
U. U. Club: 
Although the subject of this Note may afford 
neither interest nor information to some of your 
correspondents, it will enable me to put a Query. 
I have in my possession a 12mo. vol. of 296 pages, 
with ai engraved title, Bibliotheca Wittiana, 
Pars 1. A second title, in letter-press, informs us 
