sentences:  Publication of the first volume of his sumptuously illustrated "Flandria illustrata" (1641) nearly bankrupted him, and he was rescued from ruination by an award of 1,000 florins through the Lille Chamber of Accounts.Further such subventions in support of his work followed in 1645, 1651, 1655 and 1662.In 1654 he was appointed penitentiary at Ypres.