Jan de Witt

(1625-1672)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672 LBT ID: JaWitt1672 VIAF ID: 14944172 LOC ID: n50048488	B/BAP: 1625-09-24 DIED: 1672-08-20
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Dutch republican leader who fought the English in the Dutch Wars; he was slain by a mob angered at his opposition to William III.
REFERENCES TO Jan de Witt: Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 30 April 1814 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 27 August 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 1 Life of Byron: 1822 Life of Byron: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 139 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1814