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Barneveld's Sons plot against Maurice-The Conspiracy betrayed to

Maurice-Escape of Stoutenburg-Groeneveld is arrested-Mary of

Barneveld appeals to the Stadholder-Groeneveld condemned to Death-

Execution of Groeneveld.

The widow of Barneveld had remained, since the last scene of the fatal tragedy on the Binnenhof, in hopeless desolation.