Maurice was suspected of what were called Leicestrian projects, "Leycestrana consilia"-- for the Earl's plots to gain possession of Leyden and Utrecht had never been forgotten--while the Prince and those who acted with him asserted distinctly that it was the purpose of Barneveld to pave the way for restoring the Spanish sovereignty and the Popish religion so soon as the Truce had reached its end?
Spain and Orange.

Nothing for a faction fight could be neater.

Moreover the two words rhyme in Netherlandish, which is the case in no other language, "Spanje-Oranje." The sword was drawn and the banner unfurled.
The "Mud Beggars" of the Hague, tired of tramping to Ryswyk of a Sunday to listen to Henry Rosaeus, determined on a private conventicle in the capital.

The first barn selected was sealed up by the authorities, but Epoch Much, book-keeper of Prince Maurice, then lent them his house.

The Prince declared that sooner than they should want a place of assembling he would give them his own.