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itizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still shown, where, on the charge of attempted murder preferred against him by the surgeon tyckelaer, cornelius de witt, the brother of the grand pensionary of holland was confined.
if the history of that time, and especially that of the year in the middle of which our narrative commences, were not indissolubly connected with the two names just mentioned, the few explanatory pages which we are about to add might appear quite supererogatory; but we will, from the very first, apprise the reader -- our old friend, to whom we are wont on the first page to promise amusement, and with whom we always try to keep our word as well as is in our power -- that this explanation is as indispensable to the right understanding of our story as to that of the great event itself on which it is based.
cornelius de witt, ruart de pulten, that is to say, warden of the dikes, ex-burgomaster of dort, his native town, and member of the assembly of the states of holland, was forty-nine years of age, when the dutch people, tired of the republic such as john de witt, the
