The master effected his escape over the roof into an adjoining building.

One of the ringleaders, a carpenter by trade, was arrested carrying an armful of valuable plunder.

He was asked by the magistrate why he had entered the house.

"Out of good zeal," he replied; "to help beat and kill the Arminians who were holding conventicle there." He was further asked why he hated the Arminians so much.

"Are we to suffer such folk here," he replied, "who preach the vile doctrine that God has created one man for damnation and another for salvation ?"--thus ascribing the doctrine of the church of which he supposed himself a member to the Arminians whom he had been plundering and wished to kill.
Rem Bischop received no compensation for the damage and danger; the general cry in the town being that the money he was receiving from Barneveld and the King of Spain would make him good even if not a stone of the house had been left standing.