Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 2

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R. Wolters aan Willem Bentinck

[B.M., Eg. 1746]

15 oktober 1748¹⁾

All I have to tell you is, that the gingerbread puppy²⁾ goes on the same way and that he not onely has done, what I told you in my last to revenge the fall of Erbervelt upon Van der Cruyff etc., but that last Saturday coming from The Hague, he sent Oudaan to the bookseller Van Royen, to advise him to go to the fiscal and declare, what he knew, if he would safe himself and family from ruin, and that by these means he might even hope to be rewarded. Van Royen answered him as he ought to do and this morning had by a deurwarder a summons to appear next Thursday³⁾ before the fiscal. He has been with me and assures me that he has no hand in printing the Samenspraek⁴⁾ or any other pieces of that kind and as to the Refrynties⁵⁾ he does not think, even if it were true, that it could hurt him. I have sent him to a able lawyer to take his advice, as I could not see the Prince. I have acquainted him of Van der Meer's vilany in the affair of Van Royen.

About sixty people⁶⁾ have allready signed the petition of this city, which will next Saturday be ready to be presented. I hear that the people of Tergow⁷⁾ have shut their gates yesterday morning

1) Plaatsaanduiding ontbreekt. Waarschijnlijk in Rotterdam geschreven.

2) Laurens van der Meer.

3) 17 oktober

4) Zie Bentinck II, nr. 431.

5) Ibidem, nr. 441.

6) Op vrijdag 18 oktober hadden reeds meer dan zevenhonderd personen getekend.

7) Gouda. Zie hierover Ned.Jb. 1748, p. 960 vlg.

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upon a suspicion of some troops coming to them: they are busy att Dort⁸⁾.

8) Met het opstellen van de petitie. Zie Bentinck II, nr. 472.