Mattheus Mair, A. D. 1592.

And hereby, honorable, most learned, wise, discreet, dear, particular, we commend you to God.

Gravenhage, on the 4th of March, 1593.

Signed:

Your very good friend,
Maurice de Nassau.

The superscription was: To the honorable, wise and discreet, our dear, particular Burgomasters, Judges and Rulers of Middelborgh, and was sealed with his Excellency’s seal.

Below was written: Compared with the original, and found to agree with it.

J. Milander.

Further Observation.—Upon this followed, it appears, some rest, so that the scattered flock of Christ began to increase some at that place, and to extend its membership. In the meantime, however, [in the dominion] of popery they were still persecuted to death; of whom, among others that lost their lives there, the following have come to our notice; from which the distress of that time, though there was rest in some places, can be inferred and judged.