I have carefully studied however nearly the whole of that correspondence, besides a mass of other papers.

The labour is not light, for the handwriting of the great Advocate is perhaps the worst that ever existed, and the papers, although kept in the admirable order which distinguishes the Archives of the Hague, have passed through many hands at former epochs before reaching their natural destination in the treasure-house of the nation.

Especially the documents connected with the famous trial were for a long time hidden from mortal view, for Barneveld's judges had bound themselves by oath to bury the proceedings out of sight.

And the concealment lasted for centuries.

Very recently a small portion of those papers has been published by the Historical Society of Utrecht.