His epitaph, is concluded thus:--"Tandem Bello
Anglico tantum non victor, certe invictus, vivere et vincere
desiit." There is a sea-fight cut in marble, with the smoake,
the best expressed that ever I saw in my life. From thence to
the great church, that stands in a fine great market-place, over
against the Stadt-House, and there I saw a stately tombe of the
old Prince of Orange, of marble and brass; wherein among other
rarities there are the angels with their trumpets expressed as it
were crying. There were very fine organs in both the churches.
It is a most sweet town, with bridges, and a river in every
street. We met with Commissioner Pett going down to the water-
side with Major Harly, who is going upon a dispatch into England.
19th. Up early and went to Scheveling, where I found no getting
on board, though the Duke of York sent every day to see whether
he could do it or no. By waggon to Lausdune, where the 365
children were born, We saw the hill where they say the house
stood wherein the children were born. The basins wherein the
male and female children were baptised do stand over a large
table that hangs upon a wall, with the whole story of the thing
in Dutch and Latin, beginning, "Margarita Herman Comitissa," &c.
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