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At the end of three hours he was carried back to his cell, broken but indomitable.
The court condemned him to banishment; his accuser, Tichelaer, was not satisfied.
Before long, at his instigation, the mob collected about the prison, uttering imprecations against the judges and their clemency.

"They are traitors!" cried Tichelaer, "but let us first take vengeance on those whom we have." John van Witt had been brought to the prison by a message supposed to have come from the ruart.

In vain had his daughter conjured him not to respond to it.