Jacob Cats

Jacob Cats was born in Brouwershaven, in Zeeland, on 10 November 1577. Trained in law at Leiden and Orléans, he practised at The Hague, where his defence of a woman accused of witchcraft earned him a reputation, and then grew rich by draining land. Pensionary of Middelburg, then of Dordrecht, twice Grand Pensionary of Holland, he carried out diplomatic missions in England to Charles I and then to Cromwell. His books, which his compatriots called by the name of Father Cats, furnished households alongside the Bible. He died on 12 September 1660, aged eighty-two.

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• PoetryHouwelijckJacob Cats · 1625not translated into EnglishLiterature