# Enlarged And Improved From Various Credible Chronicles, Memoirs, Testimonies, Etc.

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[The following Part of the Martyrs Mirror, was not originally written by van Braght, but was the
outgrowth of a compilation from different authors, and published in different editions, which from time
to time were enlarged and improved. The original book, as appears from the writings of Samuel
W. Pennypacker, of Philadelphia, Pa., was published in Holland, in 1562, under the title, Het Offer des
Heeren. Later editions were printed in the years 1567, 1570, 1576, 1578, 1580, 1589, 1595, and 1599.
In 1617, a large quarto edition, containing 863 pages, written by Hans de Reis and Jacques Outerman,
and printed by Zacharias Cornelisz, at Hoorn, was published, bearing the title, Historie der Warachtighe
getuygen Jesu Christi. This book was succeeded by a folio volume of ten hundred and fifty-six pages,
printed at Hærlem, by Hans Passchiers, von Wesbusch, in 1631, entitled, Martelœrs Spiegel der Werelose
Christenen, that is, The Martyrs Mirror of the defenseless Christians. This book, our author,
van Braght, embodies as “Second Part,” in his own work under the title of The Bloody Theatre, or
Martyrs Mirror of the defenseless Christians, as he says, without change, except where some correction
was needed, adding, however, such matter as seemed profitable and necessary. This will explain to the
reader the above remark: “Old Book.”—Publishers.]



## Original source

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