He played his part so well that he was permitted to attend many meetings, in the course of which he sketched the portrait of the preacher, and delivered it to the Duchess Regent, together with minute statements as to his residence and daily habits.

Nevertheless, with all this assistance, the government could not succeed in laying hands on him.

He escaped to Breda, and continued his labors in spite of persecution.

The man's courage may be estimated from the fact that he preached on one occasion a sermon, advocating the doctrines of the reformed Church with his usual eloquence, in a room overlooking the market-place, where, at the very, instant, the execution by fire of several heretics was taking place, while the light from the flames in which the brethren of their Faith were burning, was flickering through the glass windows of the conventicle.

Such was the man who preached a sermon in Culemburg Palace on Parma's wedding-day.