March vi.
I attend his Excellency to the Hague, and the next day, being Sunday, I go to Rotterdam, there preach to the episcopal congregation, and return to the Hague that evening. The day following I walk from thence to the House in the wood, which is a fine summer retirement, neatly built, and furnished with good painting, by Frederic Henry, Prince of Orange.
March x.
I depart with Dr. Timeni for Leyden, where I now propose a long stay. And here I contract an acquaintance with Mr. Neufville, an ingenious and polite gentleman, master of a good library, and a curious collection of antiquities. With him also and Dr. Timeni I visit several of the professors, as Gronovius, Perizonius, and Triglandius; and see likewise the library, and especially the manuscripts of this university. Among other curiosities in the museum of Mr. Neufville, I observed the following inscriptions, cut in marble tablets.
CONSIMILES FRATRVM TRABEAS GESTAMINA HONORVM
TERTIA QVAE DEERANT ADDIDIMVS TITVLIS.
This, which follows, is on a stone opposite to the former.
DILECTAE PROBVS HAEC PERSOLVO MVNERA MATRI
RESTITVENS STATVIS PRAEMIA QVAE DEDERAT[142].
D. M.