Anabaptist Church History
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Another Letter Of The Prisoners: In Which We Vindicate Ourselves Of That Which Is Reported Of Us, And Briefly Notice The Principal Points Of Our Faith, As Is Stated More Fully Below.

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Herewith we will commend your Royal Majesty to the Lord for this time; the Lord be with you and us all. Amen.

Written in our imprisonment, in London, on the 21st of July, in the year of our Lord 1575, by

Hendrick Terwoort,
Jan Pieters.

A clear account of the foregoing matters is contained in the following letter, written by one Jaques de Somere (a member of the Calvinistic church, resident at that time in London), and sent to his mother, Tanneken van der Varent, residing at Ghent, in Flanders; in which city he subsequently became a pensionary, while the Reformed ruled at Ghent, before the city was delivered up to the [Duke of] Parma, in the year 1584.