Il pellegrino padri del New England e i loro successori puritana . ir arrivo, e in mezzo ai più impegnativi winterthat fosse stato noto per molti anni, Principe Maurice,frequentato da un illustre corteo, aveva lasciato l'Aia sullato ultimo giorno del mese di gennaio per incontrare il marchese Spinola, whohad percorsa dalla Spagna con un lungo treno di carrelli,cavalli, lacchè, cuochi, e segretarie, allo scopo ofnegotiating termini di pace. Nel frattempo gli uomini armati werestill marciato e contro-marcia, e tutti i para-phernalia della guerra ha incontrato la vista degli esiliati inglesi ontheir arrivo. C'era la solita diplomazia

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The Pilgrim fathers of New England and their Puritan successors . ir arrival, and in the midst of the severest winterthat had been known for many years, Prince Maurice, attended by a distinguished retinue, had left the Hague onthe last day of January to meet the Marquis Spinola, whohad travelled from Spain with a long train of carriages, horses, lackeys, cooks, and secretaries, for the purpose ofnegotiating terms of peace. Meantime armed men werestill marching and counter-marching, and all the para-phernalia of war met the view of the English exiles ontheir arrival. There was the usual diplomacy, involvingthe usual delays, and it was not till April 9, 1609, that theStates General signed that truce with the Spanish kingwhich was to last for twelve years to come. Thus thefugitives from Scrooby arrived in Holland just as the Five-and-Twenty Years War had spent itself; they departed in1620, when the Thirty Years War was bursting intoflame. The city of Amsterdam was the place they made for atfirst, and that for obvious reasons. It was the city which s >. THE EXILES IN HOLLAND. 113 had stood for Protestantism, for liberty of speech andthought through that long and desperate struggle withSpain which had ended in the foundation of the Nether-lands Republic in 1579, and in the Declaration of Inde-pendence on July 26, 1581. On the fifth of that monththe knights, nobles, and cities of Holland and Zealand hadcalled upon William the Silent to accept entire authorityas sovereign and chief of the land, directing him tomaintain the exercise only of the Reformed Evangelicalreligion, without, however, permitting that inquiries shouldbe made into any mans belief or conscience, or that anyinjury or hindrance should be offered to any man onaccount of his religion. Thus Amsterdam became theasylum of liberty, and as such drew to itself, from manylands, those who valued their freedom, whether civil orreligious. As a consequence, it drew to itself also theelements of national prosperity. T

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