# Joost Van Der Straten, A. D. 1571.

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Joost van der Straten, born at Teems in the district
of Waes, in Flanders, a chairmaker by trade,
was, when he was about seventy years old, taken
from his work, and apprehended with his whole
household, outside of Antwerp, on the Kiel (where
now the fort stands), and they were, by the Spaniards,
who apprehended them, brought to Antwerp. His
wife and daughter, however, belonging to no religion;
were released in course of time; but upon
Joost many tortures were inflicted, in order to make
him apostatize. But as he remained steadfast, after
an imprisonment of three days, on Shrove Tuesday,
A. D. 1571, his mouth was screwed open, and he
was thus burnt alive in the market place, before
the city hall, and then suspended from a stake in
the gallows-field. The Duke of Alva was in Antwerp
at that time.

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