After his untimely death, she remarried to Jacob de Witte, who consequently inherited the lordship, since Van den Eydne had no children.

[1] Upon finishing his studies, he pursued a military career and was captain of an infantry regiment at the service of Maurice, Prince of Orange.

This collection of poems is divided into six sections,[2][1] namely: Nassovica; Belli Flandrici libri duo; Mars exul.

armatusne in te spiravit Apollo, Ac docuit quo sint bella gerenda modo?

Ole Borch commented on Van den Eynde's poems: Faverunt & Musae Jacobo Eyndio, Centurioni Batavo, cujus Bellum Flandricum [...] non parum gratiae habet: durior ejusdem Mars exul: venustiores Elegi, nec adeo in Nugis nugatur.

The State brought this work back to light by publishing it under the name of Chronici Zelandiae Libri duo auctore Jacobo Eyndio, Domino Haemstede.

[2] The 1634 edition of the Chronici includes a 22-page foreword, with a dedication to the State of Zeeland and acknowledgments to the editor Jean de Brune and the printer Simon Moulert; a few poems in honor of the author, and a very short preface.

The first book is very poetical, esoteric, seldom glossing the facts, and Eyndius presents the reader with "but a few citations, hors d'oeuvre, conjectures, and enigmas.

[5] Eyndius' work of demythologization was followed by such great names in Dutch historiography as Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660), Jan Uytenhage de Mist (1636-1668), and Simon van Leeuwen (1626-1682).