# Sentence Of Death Of Pieter Pieters Beckjen.

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Whereas Pieter Pieters, alias Beckjen, boatman,
prisoner, unmindful of his soul and salvation, and of
the obedience which he owed to the Lord God, and
to His Imperial Majesty, forsaking our mother, the
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holy church, and this from the time that he attained
to understanding, even until now, has refused to go
to the holy, worthy sacrament, despising and disregarding
the same, and has in twenty years been to
confession only once, contrary to the ordinance of
our mother, the holy church, and, moreover, has
attended the reprobated and prohibited assemblies,
or conventicles, of the Mennonists, etc., and has
himself, in his own boat, twice held conventicles of
the aforesaid Mennonists, in which abominable and
reprobated sect he so obstinately persists, that still
recently before his apprehension, his wife lying in
childbed, he took said child and conveyed it away,
not willing to tolerate or permit that said child
should be baptized according to the ceremonies of
the ancient Roman Catholic and Apostolical church;
in which he is still captive, persisting therein, and
not willing to return to our mother, the holy
church, notwithstanding he has at divers times, by
various ecclesiastical persons, and also by the aldermen
of this city, been admonished and urged to return
and to leave this accursed sect,—all of which
are crimes against the divine and the secular majesty,
as said before, which disturb the peace and the common
weal, and which ought therefore, for an example
to others, not to go unpunished; therefore, my
lords of the court, having seen the demand of my
lord the bailiff, also his information, the confession
of the prisoner, together with the poor defense of
said prisoner, and having duly considered all, have
condemned the aforesaid prisoner, as they by these
presents do condemn him, to be executed with fire,
according to the decrees of His Majesty; and declare
his entire property confiscated for the benefit of His
Majesty aforesaid, without prejudice to the privileges
and all other interests of this city.

Done in court this 26th of February, A. D. 1569,
in the presence of all the judges, by the advice of all
the burgomasters.

How said person was condemned to the rack, and
when this happened.

He was condemned to the torture, the 17th of
January, A. D. 1569, and examined and threatened
with torture on the same day, and in the
same place, as appears from the records of the
confession.

Thus extracted from the book of criminal sentences,
preserved in the archives of the city of
Amsterdam.

N. N.



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