If you know if this talk of his has any other root, please to enlighten me, that I may put a stop to false reports, for I know nothing of affairs except what you tell me." King James, on the other hand, thoroughly approved the promptness of the States-General in suppressing the tumult.
Nothing very serious of alike nature occurred in Utrecht until the end of the year, when a determined and secret conspiracy was discovered, having for its object to overpower the garrison and get bodily possession of Colonel John Ogle, the military commander of the town.

At the bottom of the movement were the indefatigable Dirk Kanter and his friend Heldingen.
The attempt was easily suppressed, and the two were banished from the town.

Kanter died subsequently in North Holland, in the odour of ultra-orthodoxy.

Four of the conspirators--a post-master, two shoemakers, and a sexton, who had bound themselves by oath to take the lives of two eminent Arminian preachers, besides other desperate deeds--were condemned to death, but pardoned on the scaffold.

Thus ended the first revolution at Utrecht.
Its effect did not cease, however, with the tumults which were its original manifestations.