Thence he did not emerge again till the course of events released him, upon the 15th of October, 1574.
This report was far from agreeable to the Governor, and it became the object of a fresh correspondence between his confidential agent, Champagny, and the learned and astute Junius de Jonge, representative of the Prince of Orange and Governor of Yeere.

The communication of De Jonge consisted of a brief note and a long discourse.

The note was sharp and stinging, the discourse elaborate and somewhat pedantic.

Unnecessarily historical and unmercifully extended, it was yet bold, bitter, and eloquent: The presence of foreigners was proved to have been, from the beginning of Philip's reign, the curse of the country.

Doctor Sonnius, with his batch of bishops, had sowed the seed of the first disorder.