page_title: Hendrick Danielsz Slatius
section_title: Imprisonment and execution
hierarchical_section_title: Hendrick Danielsz Slatius / Imprisonment and execution
caption_attribution_description: English: Retrieval of the buried and hidden corpse of Slatius in 1623. Etching and paper. 268 × 230 mm. Rotterdam, Prentenkabinet Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (inv.no. BdH 13996 (PK)). Nederlands: Het vinden van het in het geheim begraven lijk van Slatius. Etching and paper. 268 × 230 mm. Rotterdam, Prentenkabinet Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (inv.no. BdH 13996 (PK)). Inscriptions / Inscripties: SLATIUS komt uÿt het Graff. en vaert op daer hy Voer aff. Wiens light ontstight Diens saeck volght wraeck. Waerachtich verhael/ hoe Hendric Slatius naer dat hy gestolen was/ weder te voorschijn gecomen is/ hier tot onser memorie figurtelijck afgebeelt. [...] t’AMSTERDAM, // By Claes Jansz. Visscher, wonende in de Klaverstraet
context_page_description: Hendrick Danielsz Slatius was a Netherlands remonstrant preacher and writer. He participated in a foiled plot to murder the Prince of Orange.
context_section_description: During his imprisonment, Slatius tried to avoid the death penalty by distancing himself from his Remonstrant views. When this vain hope turned out, he revoked this statement. He was sentenced to death after all. In his farewell letter to his wife, he wrote: "My soul is abhorred by the Calvinists". He also instructs her to give the children a Christian education, but to show them how evil the Calvinists are, so that they will dislike it. Until execution of the death penalty, he was detained in the Gevangenpoort in The Hague.
  An inscribed was made of the imprisoned pastor Slatius, dressed in peasant clothes and with handcuffs, by Claes Jansz Visscher (1587–1652), not only a skilled draftsman and etcher, but also a strict Calvinist.
caption: Retrieval of the buried and hidden corpse of Slatius in 1623, print room Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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