Chapter

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