[54] Jacob Boehme (1575-1624), a pious German shoemaker, author of many noted mystical writings.
[55] We are left to infer that Margaret Philipse also, like Jan, had some relation to the Labadists, and perhaps that she had just visited them. But her husband, Frederick Philipse, was a native of the town of Bolsward, mentioned above, and she may therefore have gone there.
[56] These are channels leading out around the Helder, the Nieuwe Diep close to that cape on the inside, the Lands Diep close to it on the outside. Farther out lay the old channel and the Spaniard's Channel.
[57] In this translation distances are stated in English miles.
[58] The Texel channel being the great western passage out from the Zuider Zee, the other or eastern passage was the Vlie, lying on the other side of the great shoal known as the Bree Sand, and leading out between the islands of Vlieland and Schelling.
[59] A guilder or florin was equivalent to about 40 cents.
[60] West Friesland was the ancient name for the northern part of the province of Holland, Alkmaar one of its chief towns.
[61] The westernmost island of the province of Zeeland.
[62] Evert Duyckinck; see post, p. [28], note 2.
[63] In the fragmentary manuscript journal of the voyage of 1683, Danckaerts notices, on land, between Canterbury and Dover, the same great abundance of beetles, which every evening fly out to sea from Dover in great numbers.