The Prince met with no opposition to his designs: he deposed such magistrates as were relations or friends of the three illustrious prisoners, putting in their place others that were wholly devoted to him; and obliged some towns to receive a garrison, particularly Rotterdam.

The Arminians had hitherto been the more powerful party there[85], and had excluded the Contra-Remonstrants from preaching in the great Church: but the Prince took that church from them, and gave it, with all the rest, to the Gomarists, leaving only two to the Arminians.

He placed a garrison of an hundred men in the town and turned out and banished the Ministers who had distinguished themselves by their zeal for Arminianism, such as Vorstius, Utengobard, and Episcopius.

Ledenberg, Secretary of Utrecht, hearing of these violences, was so terrified, that he made away with himself in prison.
FOOTNOTES: [83] Du Maurier says the three prisoners were arrested the 22d of August; others assure us it was the 24th.

La Neuville, Le Clerc.