# Sentence Of Death Of Anneken Heyndricks, Surnamed De Vlaster.

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Whereas, Anna Heyndricks daughter, alias,
Anna de Vlaster, formerly citizeness of this city, at
present a prisoner here, unmindful of her soul’s salvation,
and the obedience which she owed to our
mother, the holy church, and to His Royal Majesty,
as her natural lord and prince, rejecting the ordinances
of the holy church, has neither been to confession,
nor to the holy, worthy sacrament, for six
or seven years since [but has dared], to go into the
assembly of the reprobated sect of the Mennonists,
or Anabaptists, and has also held conventicles or
meetings at her house; and has further, about three
years ago, forsaking and renouncing the baptism
received in her infancy from the holy church, been
rebaptized, and then received the breaking of bread
according to the manner of the Mennonist sect, and
was also married to her present husband in Mennonist
manner, by night, in a country house; and
though she, the prisoner, has, by my lords of the
court, as well as by divers ecclesiastical persons,
been urged and repeatedly admonished, to leave the
aforementioned reprobated sect, she nevertheless
refuses to do it, persisting in her obstinacy and
stubbornness, so that she, the prisoner, according
to what has been mentioned, has committed crime
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against divine and human majesty, as by said sect
disturbing the common peace and welfare of the
land, according to the import of the decrees of His
Majesty, existing in regard to this; which misdemeanors,
for an example unto others, ought not to
go unpunished; therefore, my lord of the court,
having heard the demand of my lord the Bailiff,
seen the confession of the prisoner, and having had
regard to her obstinacy and stubbornness, have condemned
her, and condemn her by these presents, to
be, according to the decrees of His Royal Majesty,
executed with fire, and declare all her property confiscated
for the benefit of His Majesty aforesaid.
Done in court, on the 10th of November, in the
year 1571, in presence of the judges, by the advice
of all the burgomasters, in my knowledge, as secretary,
and as was subscribed:

W. Pieterss.

Concerning the torturing of the aforementioned
Anna Heyndricks, and when this occurred.

She was tortured on the 27th of October, in the
year 1571, according to the previous sentence of the
judges, as appears from the record of the confession.

Thus extracted from the book of criminal sentences
of the city of Amsterdam. Preserved in the
archives there.

N. N.



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