Chapter I: Front Matter

THE LIFE OF HUGO GROTIUS

With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands

by

CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ.

Of Lincoln's-Inn

London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street.

M.DCCC.XXVI.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, THIS BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE MOST AMIABLE AND RESPECTABLE DEFENDERS OF THE NOBLE CAUSE OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, OF WHICH HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS HAS UNIFORMLY BEEN A CONSTANT AND POWERFUL ADVOCATE, IS (WITH HIS PERMISSION), MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THE AUTHOR,

Great Ormond Street

29 Sept. 1826

CONTENTS

In the following pages we shall attempt to present our Readers, with a Life of HUGO GROTIUS; and MINUTES OF THE CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS.

In writing these pages, we principally consulted his life, written in the French language, by _M. de Burigni_, Member of the French Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres; an English translation of it, was published in 1754, in one Volume, 8vo.;

_Hugonis Grotii Manes, ab iniquis obtrectationibus vindicati_; 2 vols. 8vo. 1727: the author of this work is said to be M. Lehman;

The article _Grotius_, in _Bayle's and Chalmers's Dictionaries_;

And many of the letters in _Hugonis Grotii Epistolæ_, published at Amsterdam in 1687, in one volume, folio; and many in the _Præstantium et Eruditorum Virorum Epistolæ Ecclesiasticæ_, published at Amsterdam in 1684, in one volume, 4to.

For what we have said on GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS, we principally consulted,

_Schmidt's Histoire des Allemands_;

_Pfeffell's Histoire Abregé de l'Allemagne_, 2 vols. 8vo.;

_Mr. Durnford's excellent Translation, of Professor Pütter's Historical Developement, of the Political History of the German Empire_; 3 vols. 8vo.;

And _Hugonis Grotii Annales, et Historiæ de Rebus Belgicis_, one vol. 8vo. Amsterdam, 1658.

In our account of the troubles on _Arminianism_, and the Synod of Dort; we principally consulted, the French Abridgment, in 3 vols. 8vo. of _Brand's History of the Netherlands_, and _Grotius's_ excellent _Apology_:

In every part of the work, we have consulted other publications;--three only of these we shall mention;

The three _Bibliothècques_ of Le Clerc;

_The Life of Arminius_, and

_Calvinism and Arminianism Compared_, by Mr. James Nichols.

From these materials the following pages have been composed: they may be found to contain,--

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER

A.D. 800-911.

I. 1. _Boundaries, and Devolution of the Empire of
Germany, during the Carlovingian dynasty_
2. _State of Literature, in the time of Charlemagne_
3. _Decline of Literature, under the Descendants of
Charlemagne_

A.D. 911-1024.

II. 1. _Boundaries, and Devolution of the empire of
Germany, during the Saxon dynasty_
2. _State of Literature, during the Saxon dynasty_

A.D. 1024-1138.

III. 1. _Boundaries, and State of Germany, during the
Franconian dynasty_
2. _State of German Literature, during the Franconian
dynasty_

A.D. 1138-1519.

IV. 1. _State of Germany, from the beginning of the
Suabian dynasty, until the accession of the
Emperor Charles V._
2. _State of German Literature, during this period_

A.D. 1138-1519.

V. 1. _Antient, and modern Geography of the Netherlands_
2. _The formation, of the different provinces of the
Netherlands, into one State_
3. _Brief view, of the History of the Netherlands, until
the acknowledgment of the Seven United Provinces,
by the Spanish monarch_
4. _Their constitution, and principal officers_

CHAPTER I.

A.D. 1582-1597.

BIRTH, AND EDUCATION OF GROTIUS

CHAPTER II.

A.D. 1597-1610.

GROTIUS, EMBRACES THE PROFESSION OF THE LAW

CHAPTER III.

THE EARLY PUBLICATIONS, OF GROTIUS

CHAPTER IV.

HISTORICAL MINUTES, OF THE UNITED PROVINCES, FROM THEIR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, TILL THE ARMINIAN CONTROVERSY

CHAPTER V.

A.D. 1610-1617.

THE FEUDS, IN THE UNITED PROVINCES, BETWEEN THE DISCIPLES OF CALVIN, AND THE DISCIPLES OF ARMINIUS, UNTIL THE SYNOD OF DORT

CHAPTER VI. A.D. 1618.

THE SYNOD OF DORT

CHAPTER VII.

A.D. 1618-1621.

TRIAL AND IMPRISONMENT OF GROTIUS; HIS ESCAPE FROM PRISON

CHAPTER VIII.

A.D. 1622

JAMES I. VORSTIUS

CHAPTER IX.

A.D. 1621-1634.

GROTIUS, AFTER HIS ESCAPE FROM PRISON, UNTIL HIS APPOINTMENT OF AMBASSADOR, FROM SWEDEN, TO THE COURT OF FRANCE

CHAPTER X.

SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS, OF GROTIUS 1. _New edition of Stobæus_ 2. _His treatise de Jure Belli et Pacis_ 3. ---- _de Veritate Religionis Christianæ_ 4. ---- _de Jure summarum potestatum circa sacra._--And _Commentatio ad loca quædam Novi Testamenti, quæ de Antichristo agunt, aut agere videntur_ 5. _His Commentaries on the Scriptures_ 6. _His other works_