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to Rotterdam. MIDDELBURG. 36. Route, 297
with 25 statues of counts and countesses of Zeeland and Holland,
from 1512-13, and the side-gable towards the Lange Noordstrast
from 1780-84. The exterior was restored in 1900 et seq. A statue
of Queen Wilhelmina with Princess Juliana in her arms was placed
above the gable facing the mark t-pl ace in 1910.
Interior (shown on ‘week-days 10-5, Sun. and holidays 12-5; adm. 25c.).
The old ‘Vrerscua or court-room, on the first floor, is lined with fine
panelling of the 16th itury. — The MunicrpaL Museum (‘Oudheidkamer’ ;
r of Jan and Cornelis Evertsen, two Dutch
naval heroes, who fell fighti ainst the English in 1666, and of other
members of the same f yj; a tankards and banners of the old guilds,
carvings, documents, pictures, etc. The wooden Renaissance seats of the
trates are preserved here; and among the documents is a charter
cranted to Middelburg in 1253, by the German king William of Holland. —
The MunictraL ARrct are open on Thurs. and Sat., 10-12 and 2-4.
The Gothic Meat t, under the W. side of the town-hall, contains
large paintings of oxen adorned with garlands. — The Vlas-Markt leads
to the W. to the Scheultershof (Pl. B, 3), in which is a beautiful old ban-
queting-hall.
The old town is enclosed by a ring of streets, of which the Lange
Delft forms part; the chief streets are the ‘Lange Burg’ and the
‘Korte Burg’, which lead past the Groenmarkt to the Abdy.
In the Groenmarkt stands the Protestant Nieuwe Kerk (Pl. C, 3;
sacristan, Wal 4), once the abbey-church, which contains the monu-
ments of Jan and Cornelis Evertsen (see above), by R. Verhulst
(4680-82), and mural tablets to William of Holland (d. 1256; see
above) and his brother Floris (d. 1258). The choir is separated
from the rest of the church and known as the Koor Kerk. The
Tower (‘de lange Jan’), 280 ft. high and re-erected in 1743-18,
contains a chime of 414 bells, and affords a wonderful view, extend-
ing in clear weather as far as Blankenberghe and Antwerp (visitors
admitted 10-412 and 2-5; keeper, Reiger-Straat).
The *Abbey (PI. ©, 2. adm. daily, 10-12 and 2-5), now partly
occupied by the Provincial Council, was founded in 1106 and passed
into the hands of the Premonstratensians in 1128; in 1505 it was
the scene of a brilliant meeting of the knights of the Golden Fleece,
and in 1559 became for a short time the seat of a bishop (p. xxiii).
The buildings, which were damaged by conflagrations in 1492 and
1568, have recently been restored by J. A. Frederiks. The two
vaulted chambers under the council-hall date from the 43th cent.,
and the handsome cloisters from the beginning of the 16th century.
The council-hall contains tapestry representing the battles between
the Maritime Provinces and the Spaniards, executed by Francois
Spierinck at Delft and by Jan de Maecht at Middelburg at the end
of the 16th century. In the upper rooms are four large mural
paintings by Ferdinand Bol, brought from a patrician house in
Utrecht, representing the Finding of Moses, Achilles and Thetis,
Joseph and his Brethren in Egypt, and Amaziah and the Man of God.
The quaint and picturesque Balans (Pl. ©, 2) forms the continu-
ation of the ‘Korte Burg’. — To the W., in the Wagenaar-Straat, |
