Grotius seeing so much opposition, judged it most proper to seek his fortune elsewhere; and left Holland.
FOOTNOTES:
[169] Ep. 297. p. 847.
[170] Ep. 301. p. 844.
[171] Ep. 304. p. 844.
[172] Ep. 305. p. 844.
[173] Ep. Vossii 38. p. 142.
[174] Ep. 289. p. 105.
[175] Praest. Vir. Epist. 507. p. 766.
[176] Praes. Vir. Ep. 508. p. 567.
XIII. It was on the seventeenth of March 1632 that he set out from Amsterdam on his way to Hamburg; but did not take up his residence in that City till the end of the year: the fine season[177] he passed at an agreeable country-seat, called Okinhuse, near the Elbe, belonging to William Morth, a Dutchman.
He had left many friends in France. William De Lusson, First President of the Court of Moneys, was one who adhered to him most steadily: and we find by Grotius’ letter to him that he was very active to obtain the payment of his pension though absent: In a letter whose date is false[178], Grotius informs him[179], that while he lived he would never forget the King’s goodness and the gracious reception with which that Prince honoured him: and promises to write to Boutillier, Superintendant of the finances, as soon as an occasion offered. It is probable this Minister had made him an offer of service; for in speaking of him Grotius says, “It is very agreeable to me to be approved by a man who in such a high station has not lost the taste for polite literature: I wish him and his family uninterrupted prosperity, and the art of enjoying it.”