# Forty-Two Persons, Namely, Thirty-Four Men And Eight Women, Put To Death For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, In The Country Of Berne, Prior To And Until The Year A. D. 1566.

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As we were very desirous to know the present
condition of our fellow believers in Alsace, as also,
what transpired among them prior to this, with regard
to the persecutions suffered, we received,
through the instrumentality of a good friend of ours,
H. Vlaming, at present residing at Amsterdam, an
extract from a certain document which the elders
and teachers in Alsace drew up concerning this
matter, and sent hither. Translated from the Alsatian
vernacular, the extract reads as follows:

As regards the brethren that were executed for
the faith, in the country of Berne, there were executed
from the year 1528 until the year 1566, forty-two
persons, among whom were eight women. We
have in our possession a brief abstract of their names,
and surnames, as also, in what year and on what
day each of them was executed, etc.

Thus far the extract of said letter, signed, as a
whole, with the names and surnames of the elders
and teachers in Alsace, which we would insert here,
did we not fear that it might even at the present
day tend to augment persecution against them, of
which they are not entirely free, as shall be shown in
the proper place.



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