His brilliant success at the Bar, which he treats as ungrateful, procured him, however, a very considerable promotion.

The place of Advocate-general of the Fisc for Holland and Zealand becoming vacant, it was unanimously conferred on Grotius.

This is an employment of great distinction and authority, the person invested with it being charged with the preservation of the public peace and the prosecution of offenders.

It was in 1607 he took possession of this important office, which he filled with so much reputation, the States augmented his salary, and promised him a seat in the Court of Holland.
XVIII.

John Grotius, on his son's being made Advocate-general, began to think of a wife for him; and fixed upon Mary Reigersberg, of one of the first families in Zealand, whose father had been Burgomaster of Veer: the marriage was solemnised in July, 1608.