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Times had changed since last the community had been on Dutch soil. The ‘disaster year’ of 1672 and the revolution of that year had left five of the United Provinces under the direct control of William III of Orange, while Friesland and Groningen were under the governorship of Hendrick Casimir of Nassau-Dietz, third cousin to the prince. The relationship between the two was cool, so the eastern part of the land kept somewhat aloof. Moreover, the overt hostility of Grand Pensionary de Witt had been silenced by his assassination in the revolution, so the time was ripe for the Labadists to attempt reinstatement on Dutch soil. Indeed the climate at the stadholder’s court at Leeuwarden was pious and the governor’s mother, Albertine Agnes, was openly praised for her godly virtues by Anna van Schurman.1)
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Notes to Chapter 11
J. van Genderen, ‘Een officiële verantwoording der Labadisten’, Nederlands theologisch tijdschrift 10 (1955/56), 96–108.
For its earlier history, see J. Hepkema, Wieuwerd en zijn historie, 10th edn., Oosterend, 1977, pp. 9–11.
Such attention to meals as times of personal growth has ample parallels in other Christian communitarian groups; see T.J. Saxby, Pilgrims of a Common Life, Scottdale, Pa, 1987, esp. section on the 18th century Trevecka Family in Wales.
J. Reitsma, ‘Johannes Hesener en Balthasar Cohlerus’, De Vrije Fries 13 (1877), 142–43.
W.I. Hull, William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1935, pp. 13–14, 52. Barclay’s copy of Labadie’s Veritas sui vindex, with its attack on Quakerism, is at Oxford, Bodleian Library.
All quotations from Penn’s Travels in Holland and Germany, 1677, in Selected Works, 4th edn., vol.2, London, 1825, pp. 461–467.
S. Cuperus, Kerkelijk leven der hervormden in Friesland tijdens de Republiek, Leeuwarden, 1916, p. 174.
Details in W. Schmidt, ‘Verhör des Predigers Reiner Copper zu Duisburg’, Monatshefte für rheinische Kirchengeschichte 35 (1941), 180–187.
Goebel, Geschichte des christlichen Lebens 2 (1852), 359ff.
See also P. Vernière, Spinoza et la pensée française, vol. 1, pp. 43–48, Paris, 1954.
See L. Verduin, The Reformers and their Stepchildren, pp. 116–117, London, 1964.
Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres complètes, vol.8, p. 548, The Hague, 1899.
A.J.M. Lamers, Hendrik van Deventer, Assen, 1946, pp. 49–55, cites a later royal physician, Dr. Carl, writing in damning vein of what the Dutchman had done. He also reproduces valuable archival material on van Deventer’s passports and payments.
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Saxby, T.J. (1987). One Heart and Soul. Labadists at Wieuwerd, 1675–1692. In: The Quest for the New Jerusalem, Jean de Labadie and the Labadists, 1610–1744. Archives internationales d’histoire des idees/International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3567-9_11
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