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others from venturing any stock, not knowing what determination will be taken, and
without it there can be very little made of the thing; all I desire is that some resolution
or other may be taken, that his Higness service may be advanced by sale, or that
such courses may be token as may make me capable of paying the rent. Since my
last being there in the middle of October there hath happned a very ill accident by
the indiscretion or negligence of a servant at the grange, whoe let a candle, as I
think - for perticuler relation I have had none - or some fire fall into the strawe of one
of the stables and that firing burnt another and that tooke hold of the farmehouse
itselfe and burnt it all, with some 40 or 50 loade of hay in some part of it, which could
not be put into the barnes; I was not heere when the bailifs letters came to me, which
is the cause I did not advertise it the last week. Accidents of this nature falls out soe
strangely sometimes as the greatest providence cannott prevent them; had I bin
there, I could say noe more to it then I doe now. If the thing be sold, the losse is
noething, for those that buy it will not refuse it because of that losse, but if it be not
sold, it will put his Higness to an expence, for the farme cannott be managed without
a howse.
I send you heere the memorialls of the saisies given me at my being last at
Chateau-Renard by the bailiff and procureur of his Higness, the originalls of which
proceedings I have sent Mons. Enflett 1) to acquaint the Councell with all, and doe
desire you to doe me the favor to acquaint them alsoe with what you think fitt of this
letter. Uppon recollection I remember, Mons. Buseroy hath the particulers of one of
the saisies already, soe that 't is not necessary to send you this. The one is for 15000
℔, the other is lesse. Though you are a greater master of my owne language then
I am my selfe, I assure you, I will contest with you for the substance, which is that
you cannott be more desirous then I am to be in all things ..... Paris, 29 th October
1654.
5376. Aan P. Scriverius 2)
. (K.A.)
Na mijn bezoek bij u heb ik het boek in de schuit gelezen 4) . Ik zend u hierbij mijn
vers 3) . Hagae Com., IV Kal. Nov. (= 29 Oct.) CIƆIƆCLIV.
Hierbij gaat ook een exemplaar van Hofwyck.
5377. Frederik, Rhijngraaf 5)
. (H.A.)
Nous avons icy une vererie qui est belle et bonne, comme vous auréz
1) Heenvliet?
2) Zie I, blz. 227.
4) Den 27 sten Oct. had Huygens, ‘navigans Leidâ Hagam’, het gedicht Op des Heeren Petri
Scriverii Toetsteen vande oude Goudsche Chronijck (vgl. Gedichten, V, blz. 134) geschreven.
3) Zeker het handschrift van het Byvoeghsel en Toet-steen van de oude Goudsche kronijk. In
1663, dus drie jaren na den dood van Scriverius, zag het licht Het oude Goutsche Chronycxken
van Hollandt, Zeelandt, Vrieslandt en Vtrecht. Door de Heer Petrus Scriverius. Op nieus
oversien en verbetert. Als mede met een Byvoeghsel en Toet-steen vermeerdert ....
Amsterdam.
5) Zie II, blz. 32.
Constantijn Huygens, Briefwisseling. Deel 5: 1649-1663