An Account of the wicked Design of Poisoning the PRINCE of Orange before he came out of Holland. ALSO A Relation from the City of Orange of a strange Meteor, representing a Crown of Light, that was there seen in the Air, May 6th, 1688.  
In a Letter from a Gentleman in Amsterdam, to his Friend in London. Octob. 1. 1688.  
SIR,  
THE two enclosed Relations are sent me from an Eminent Divine, now at the Hague, you will do well to make them public: The poisoning Business I doubt not but was contrived by a sort of Men that in all Ages stick at nothing to carry on their Bloody Religion.  

An Account of a Design of poisoning the PRINCE OF ORANGE.  
THere is a Man of Lunenburg Wolfenbuttel, who being fallen in Debt in Amsterdam, upon his Father's Death, his Brother taking no Care of him, was put in Prison and brought extreme low; yet he was brought out by the means of a Friend: And soon after a Man who pretended to know him, and to have seen him before, (though the German believes he never saw him) seemed to take pity on him, seeing him in a Coffeehouse, and gave him a Ducatoon, and promised he should never want; so he entered into a great familiarity with him, but would never let him know where he lodged, only he gave him Appointments in Coffeehouses and Taverns, and fed him from time to time with Money: At last, after some weeks, he drew him into a secret Walk in the Grounds that are not yet built, and asked him if he had a Heart to do a bold Thing? The Germane said he had, if it were not such a Thing as might bring him to a Scaffold. The other said, There was no Danger, only it would require a little hardiness. Then he asked an Oath of the Germane, That he would either do that which he was to propose to him, or presently go out of the Country. The Germane said, He could not go out of the Country, for he had no Money: And then he gave him eight Ducats in Gold, and then he swore the Oath: So the other proposed to him the poisoning the Prince of Orange: that startled him, but apprehending he should be killed if he refused it, he undertook it. The other told him, That in the last Age Men had tried Stabbing or Shooting, but these were dangerous Things, Poisoning was a safe and sure way: He added, That he should have 3000 Pistols in hand, and a Fortune besides. The Germane asked, From whom? The other, who called himself Corn, and spoke French like a Stranger, but the Germane cannot judge what Nation he was of; the other, I say, said to to him, That if he had the Money, he was not concerned know from whence it came. In short, he made a Proposition to the Germane, giving him a Quill with a Water in it, carefully stopped, and told him, that he (the German) lodged in the House of an inconsiderable Man, of whom no regard would be had; and if he would cut the Quill, so that one drop of the Liquor fell into any thing that his Landlord was to drink, he would be certainly dead before to Morrow; and if he would begin with him, one should come to him to such a place to Morrow, having a white Feather in his Hat, who should deliver him 1500 Pistols, and instruct him how to manage the Poisoning the Prince, which he should find would be easy and safe; then upon his going on he should have the rest of the Mony. The Germane went Home, but was struck with Horror, and so resolved to keep that part of his Oath of going out of the Country; yet he showed another his Gold, and told him of his going Home: But from Osnaburgh he writ to one about the Prince; this happened in the beginning of March last. So he was desired to come back, which he did, and the Matter being brought into the Court of Holland, upon an Oath of Secrecy, Mr. Halewyn Deputy of Dort, and another, were sent with him to Amsterdam; they found many collateral Confirmations of part of his Story, but no such Man could be seen in all the Places where he had met with him formerly; the Germane came to the Hague, and being in the Fair, seeing one of the Shows, and a Dane with him, as they came out in a huge Crowd, the Germane complained that one struck him on the Breast with a Battoon: But this was not minded till they were quite out, and he found one had struck at him, as it seems, with a Stiletto under the left Pap, his Cloak and Coat were cut, and the Wound proved but a slight Scratch; the Quill with the Poison in it sealed, is in the Court. It seems, a Germane was thought a fit Tool, being of a Nation that would not be easily suspected; and the putting it on a Lutheran would have been thought a Masterpiece. I give you this Account, which I will Answer for, to satisfy some of your Friends, both Here and in England, who will perhaps desire to know the Certainty of this Matter.   

A Relation from the City of Orange of a Crown of Light that was there seen in the Air, the 6th of May, 1688.  
ON the 6th of May, 1665, when his Royal Highness, the Prince of Orange, took Possession of that Principality, and whilst his Deputy Mr. Ziulechem was taking the Oath of Allegiance of all the People in the Prince's Name, which was done in the Fields, in the Enclosure of the old Roman Cirque that yet remains; over the Chair of State that was set there for the Prince, a Crown of Light appeared in the Air, and hovered over the Chair above an hour: And now this Year, 1688, the same day of the Month, in the same place, the like Crown appeared and continued there three hours, all the People of Orange looking on; all the difference between this Years Crown, and that of 1665, being, that this had an Edge of Red about it. This is writ from Orange by an old Professor of Physic, that is past sixty, and not apt to take things upon trust; he writes that he himself, as well as all the Town, looked on it for above two hours with great admiration of that strange Meteor. An account of that strange Meteor in 1665. is related by Aitrema in his 5th Tome, fol. 595. well attested, and he is a good Author.    
FINIS.  

Printed in the Year 1688.