 Vorstius responded in his "Christiana ac modesta responsio ad articulos quosdam nuper ex Anglia transmissos" (Leiden, 1611), but the States-General felt obliged to dismiss him, though continuing his salary, in 1612.He settled as an exile in Gouda, about May 1612.Attacks on Vorstius continued, and he pleaded his own cause in a series of polemics.