# Elizabeth And Hadewijk; Of Whom The Former Was Drowned At Leeuwarden, And The Latter Escaped Death, In The Year Of Our Lord, 1549. · Page 1 of 3

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This Elizabeth was of a noble family, and had in
her youth been put by her parents into the convent
of Tieng, near Lier near East Friesia, there to learn
various arts, and also the Latin language. There
she accidentally, or rather through the direction of
God, came into possession of a Latin testament, by
the constant reading of which and meditating upon
it she obtained so much knowledge of the will of
God, that she became distressed on account of her
state of life, and seeing no chance to alter her life
according to the rule of said word in the convent,
much less under the parental roof, she resolved,
after much conflict and reflection, secretly to escape
from the convent, trusting to the fatherly providence
of Almighty God for help and guidance. To this
end, she made an agreement with a milk-maid of
the convent, that she should change clothes with
her, and thus assist her to escape from the convent
early in the morning, in the guise of a milk-maid;
which having been accomplished, she first came to
Lier, and without her knowing it, to a certain
house, in which there lived Anabaptists, who, upon
learning her circumstances and condition, took her
in, and instructed her still more fully in the way of
God, and, after some time, fearing that search
might be made for Elizabeth, brought her to Leeuwarden,
and there left her with a pious sister of the
Anabaptistic church, named Hadewijk, with whom
she was afterward apprehended.



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