Chapter

 1 1 |           On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague,
 2 1 |           This young man was, in 1672, twenty-two years of age.
 3 1 |           on the 16th of August, 1672, Cornelius de Witt to be
 4 1 |           on the 20th of August, 1672, as we have already stated
 5 2 | Cornelius de Witt ~"August 20th, 1672." ~John, with tears in his
 6 5 |        the beginning of the year 1672, Cornelius de Witt came
 7 7 |         in the month of January, 1672. ~De Witt, although being
 8 7 |           On the 20th of August, 1672, at one o'clock, Cornelius
 9 8 |          To-day, 20th of August, 1672, I have taken up the mother
10 11|          day, the 23d of August, 1672, being on the point of rendering,
11 27|  Cornelius de Witt. ~"August 20, 1672." ~This slip of paper offered
12 31|        disastrous war as that of 1672, that the flooring of the