# Jan Van Paris, Pieter Van Cleves, Hendrick Maelschalck, And Lauwerens Pieters, A. D. 1568.

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Jan van Paris, Pieter van Cleves, Hendrick Maelschalck,
and Lauwerens Pieters, had not yet united
with the church, but were novices and ready to
unite; hence going to hear the word of God
preached, they were apprehended, at Ghent, in
Flanders, in the year 1568, and taken to the Count’s
Castle. After a bold confession of, and steadfast
adherence to, the faith, they were sentenced in
Passion-week, to be strangled and burned. But
when they had mounted the scaffold, the Spanish
Provost (there being at that time nineteen companies
of Spanish soldiers in Ghent), seeing that it was
the intention to strangle them, compelled the executioner
to fetch other appliances. Hence the executioner
spoke to the commander-in-chief, who ordered
him, contrary to the sentence pronounced, to
burn them alive. The Provost also severely kicked
and beat the brethren.

In the meanwhile the executioner fetched a basketful
of chains. When the brethren heard that
they were to be burnt alive, they raised their voices
and sang: “I call upon thee, O heavenly Father.”
Then the Spaniards beat them so dreadfully with
sticks, that the eye of one fell out on his cheek.
And thus they were burnt alive, the Spaniards
loudly vociferating, and throwing sticks into the
fire at a rapid rate, as desiring to have part in this
madness, as though they thought to do God service
thereby.



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