Lange Brug

LANGE BRUG:

Originally an open canal, it was vaulted over in the early seventeenth century and then became known as the Lange Brug, or Long Bridge. Pilgrim James Chilton and his family lived here, although exactly where is unknown. In 1619, coming home from church, he was surrounded by stone-throwing youths. Hit by a paving stone or brick, he was knocked unconscious.

The crowd had attacked him and his daughter because it was suspected that illegal religious gatherings of the followers of the theologian Jacobus Arminius (called Remonstrants) were being held in Chilton's house.

One block further along the Diefsteeg is the Pieterskerkstraat (left) and Pieterskerkgracht (right). There is a good view to the Pieterskerk. The low building on the left, with a simple classical front is the