 Then, in 1578, after the Alteratie on 26 May, he risked going back to Amsterdam.He lived on Nieuwendijk on the IJ.Hooft had been interested in theology, but was nevertheless tolerant - his wife Anna Jansdr Blaeu was a Mennonite, and he seems to have been a 'via media' man, declaring for neither the Remonstrants nor the Anti-Remonstrants.