It was exactly a week before the date of his letter that this riot had taken place at Amsterdam; very significant in its nature and nearly tragical in its results.

There were no Remonstrant preachers left in the city, and the people of that persuasion were excluded from the Communion service.

On Sunday morning, 17th February (1617), a furious mob set upon the house of Rem Bischop, a highly respectable and wealthy citizen, brother of the Remonstrant professor Episcopius, of Leyden.

The house, an elegant mansion in one of the principal streets, was besieged and after an hour's resistance carried by storm.

The pretext of the assault was that Arminian preaching was going on within its walls, which was not the fact.