Two days after presenting the petition, she was discharged, and suffered to carry away every thing that belonged to her in Louvestein.
Grotius continued some time at Antwerp.

March 30, he wrote to the States-General that in procuring his liberty he had employed neither violence nor corruption with his keepers; that he had nothing to reproach himself with in what he had done; that he gave those counsels which he thought best for appeasing the troubles that had arisen before he was concerned in public business; that he only obeyed the Magistrates of Rotterdam his masters, and the States of Holland his sovereigns; and that the persecution he had suffered would never diminish his love to his Country, for whose prosperity he heartily prayed.
Grotius's escape exercised the pens of the most famous poets of that period.

Barlaeus wrote some very good verses on it[113]: and also celebrated his wife's magnanimity[114].

Rutgersius composed a poem on his imprisonment, in which he places the day of his arrest among the most unfortunate for the Republic[115].

Grotius himself wrote some verses on his happy deliverance, which were translated into Flemish by the famous poet John Van Vondel.