The story of the surrender of the city to Don Romero under the pledge that life and property should be respected, and of the dastardly and fiendish disregard of this pledge by the Spaniards, is the most ghastly in the whole war.

From Motley I take the account of the tragedy:-- "On the 22nd of November a company of one hundred troopers was sent to the city gates to demand its surrender.

The small garrison which had been left by the Prince was not disposed to resist, but the spirit of the burghers was stouter than their walls.

They answered the summons by a declaration that they had thus far held the city for the King and the Prince of Orange, and, with God's help, would continue so to do.

As the horsemen departed with this reply, a lunatic, called Adrian Krankhoeft, mounted the ramparts, and discharged a culverine among them.