# Four Persons, Namely, Huybert Op Der Straten, Trijnken His Wife, Pieter Ten Hove, And Lijsken Te Linschoten, Near Witgensteyn Led Around The Gallows, Scourged, And Banished From The Country, A. D. 1601.

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In the year of our Lord sixteen hundred and one
it occurred that Johann von Steyn, Count of Witgensteyn,
Lord of Hamburg, being a member of
the Calvinistic church, purposed to abolish the
Romish and Lutheran doctrine, and at the same
time laid his hands on the defenseless sheep of
Christ, which were contemptuously called Anabaptists,
and put them in prison.

Among these are mentioned by name, Huybert
op der Straten, Trijnken his wife, Pieter ten Hove,
and Lijsken te Linschoten, which latter, as we have
learned, was an aged woman of over seventy years.

The first three mentioned were imprisoned twelve
weeks, the latter seventeen days, she having been
apprehended much later.

They suffered much temptation, by way of bitter
threats as well as by entreaties, in order to cause
them to apostatize; but when they (the persecutors)
could not destroy their souls, or cause them to
apostatize or depart from the truth all four were
finally condemned upon a false accusation (namely,
that they had been convicted with the holy Scriptures,
which was altogether untrue, and that they
would nevertheless continue in their deceptive heresy
of Anabaptism, etc.) in this manner:

That all their property should be forfeited, and
that each should be scourged with rods, to the
number of about forty stripes, and moreover be forever
banished from the country; which was accordingly
done.

Thus, say the authors, they stripped these innocent,
pious persons, led them around the gallows,
and scourged them, spoiled them of their property,
and shamefully drove them forth with empty hands,
and sent them out of the country. See preface to
the old Offerboeck, of the year 1615, letter iij, col. 1.



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