Dragoons, it was reported, were quartered on one.

Another had been held naked before a fire till he was half roasted.
All were forbidden, under the severest penalties, to celebrate the rites of their religion, or to quit the country into which they had, under false pretences, been decoyed.

The partisans of the House of Orange exclaimed against the cruelty and perfidy of the tyrant.

The opposition was abashed and dispirited.

Even the town council of Amsterdam, though strongly attached to the French interest and to the Arminian theology, and though little inclined to find fault with Lewis or to sympathize with the Calvinists whom he persecuted, could not venture to oppose itself to the general sentiment; for in that great city there was scarcely one wealthy merchant who had not some kinsman or friend among the sufferers.