A copy of this book was found recently found by the Flevoland archives in a moving box originally from the Rijksdienst voor de Ijsselmeerpolders and won a contest for "archive piece of the year".

[1] In Amsterdam he became one of the founding members of the chamber of rhetoric called Wit lavender for which he wrote two plays.

He became friends with many Southern Netherlands refugees in Amsterdam and Haarlem, including Karel van Mander and others.

Heyns moved to Zwolle in 1606, where he opened a publishing company located behind what is now the Vrouwenhuis.

It is there where he wrote an account of the 1609 international rhetoric contest in Haarlem for Trou moet Blycken.