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Schurman, with his wife, who was of the family of the Barons of Lumey, Counts of la Marck, left Antwerp for Cologne, abandoning position and property, rather than give up his evangelical faith. On that day, the Duchess of Parma, Regent of the Netherlands, had caused to be stabbed and burnt, Christopher Smith, known as the Monk Fabricius, from the monastery at Bruges. Frederich, their son, in 1602, married Eva von Harf, of a noble family of Cologne. They had four children, the youngest of whom, Wilhelm, died in his sixth year. The eldest was Heinrich Frederich, born 1603, died 1632. The second, Johann Gottschalk, was born in 1605, and died in 1664. He was an evangelical minister, and was carried by his zeal into Germany, and in 1661 - 62 to Basle, Switzerland, but re turned to Utrecht. Anna Maria was born the 5th of November, 1607, and died single, in 1678, at Wieuward, in Friesland, as a member of the Labadist community. Her father had died in 1623, and the mother removed the family to Utrecht, probably, because of the Thirty Years' War, which was devastating Germany. Anna had, at Utrecht, an elegant cabinet - edel pond - which was the resort of the learned and titled persons of Europe. The affianced Queen of Poland, Louise Marie Gonzaga, with an escort, called informally upon her; and, in conversation, she responded in Italian to the Bishop of Orange; in French to the Queen's secretary; in Greek to M. Corrade, the Queen's physician; and she carried on a dis~ cussion on some point in theology, in the Latin tongue. It has not been ascertained whether either of her brothers was married.
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