. The New England magazine. e star of Grotius had been contin-ually rising; but theology came uponthe scene to change his fortune. Hebecame a victim of the controversybetween the Arminians and the Synodof Dort; and when Barneveld was putto death, Grotius was sentenced toimprisonment for life in LoevesteinCastle. Prince Maurice, the son ofWilliam the Silent, was largely instru-mental in securing Grotiuss convic-tion, and had him confined behindthirteen ponderous locks; but the better witness of this should be neededthan his defence of the North Ameri-can Indian, whom he describes as adescendant
. The New England magazine. e star of Grotius had been contin-ually rising; but theology came uponthe scene to change his fortune. Hebecame a victim of the controversybetween the Arminians and the Synodof Dort; and when Barneveld was putto death, Grotius was sentenced toimprisonment for life in LoevesteinCastle. Prince Maurice, the son ofWilliam the Silent, was largely instru-mental in securing Grotiuss convic-tion, and had him confined behindthirteen ponderous locks; but the better witness of this should be neededthan his defence of the North Ameri-can Indian, whom he describes as adescendant of the Northmen, the dis-coverers of America. The sky-scraping Nieuwe Kerk, orNew Church, built in the thirteenthand fourteenth centuries, and severaltimes partly destroyed by fire, may beregarded as the finest church in Delft,though architecturally as much of amonstrosity perhaps as the OudeKerk, its predecessor. Two features,however, have long made it famousand are likely to continue to draw the 14- DELFT AND DELFT traveller to its portals. Its steeplecontains a chime made in 1663 by JanCal, the supposed inventor of auto-matic brass chimes; and to-day, asthrough hundreds of years of sadnessand joy, this exquisite chime, secondonly to those of Bruges in the Nether-lands, plays automatically each quar-ter of an hour, and is played upon byorder of the town fathers duringthe busy hours of market days,when the square below is black withpeople and wares. A greater attraction in thechurch is the tomb of William theSilent and the royal family of Hol-land. When the Prince of Orangewas assassinated an imposing statefuneral was held, and he was in-terred in the Nieuwe Kerk, ofwhich he was a member. TheStates General soon after commis-sioned De Keyser to design a na-tional monument; and this, themost elaborate sculpturing in Hol-land, was finished in 1619. Renais-sance in style, it is too magnificentand pretentious for the plainchurch. It includes the figure ofthe beloved prince,
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