The overseers of Leyden University appointed Conrad Vorstius to be professor of theology in place of Arminius.

The selection filled to the brim the cup of bitterness, for no man was more audaciously latitudinarian than he.

He was even suspected of Socinianism.
There came a shriek from King James, fierce and shrill enough to rouse Arminius from his grave.

James foamed to the mouth at the insolence of the overseers in appointing such a monster of infidelity to the professorship.

He ordered his books to be publicly burned in St.Paul's Churchyard and at both Universities, and would have burned the Professor himself with as much delight as Torquemada or Peter Titelman ever felt in roasting their victims, had not the day for such festivities gone by.