Grotius then asked for a
clergyman. _John Quistorpius_ was brought to him. Quistorpius, in a
letter to Calovius, gives the following particulars of Grotius's last
moments:
"You are desirous of hearing from me, how that Phoenix of
Literature, Hugo Grotius, behaved in his last moments, and I am
going to tell you. He embarked at Stockholm for Luebec, and after
having been tossed for the three days, by a violent tempest, he was
shipwrecked, and got to shore on the coast of Pomerania, from
whence he came to our town of Rostock, distant above sixty miles,
in an open wagon through wind and rain. He lodged with Balleman;
and sent for M. Stochman, the physician, who observing that he was
extremely weakened by years, by what he suffered at sea, and by the
inconveniences attending the journey, judged that he could not live
long. The second day after Grotius's arrival in this town, that is,
on the 18th of August, O.S. he sent for me, about nine at night, I
went, and found him almost at the point of death: I said, 'There
was nothing I desired more, than to have seen him in health, that I
might have the pleasure of his conversation.
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