# The States, Etc.

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To the city of Zurich in Switzerland:

Noble, very respectable, wise, prudent lords, especial
good friends and neighbors. From the complaints
of divers persons, delegated by their respective
churches, who here in this land are called
Mennonists, citizens and inhabitants of the cities of
Dortrecht, Harlem, Leyden, Amsterdam, Goude,
and Rotterdam, all situated in the province of Holland,
we have learned, that their fellow-believers,
under the name of Anabaptists, have suffered great
persecution at Zurich and everywhere in your dominion,
by virtue of very rigorous edicts enacted
against them, and that they have thereby been compelled
to leave every thing and to remove to other
countries, to their great inconvenience and total
ruin.

All this has moved us to Christian compassion,
and we could therefore not forbear, but on the contrary,
deemed it good, hereby to request you very
kindly and neighborly, also most earnestly, that
you, according to the good example of the magistrates
of the city of Schafthausen, release the property
of the fellow-believers of the supplicants, which
you have now for several years had managed by directors
appointed over them, and drawn the fruits
thereof, and deliver them to the aforesaid persons
interested, or those authorized by them, to be sold
within a certain sufficient time, and turned into
money for their benefit.

(The rest is identical word for word with the preceding
letter.)

Besides the aforementioned two letters of the
States General to the lords of Berne and Zurich,
which are dated the same day, namely, the 19th of
February, 1660, there followed yet a third letter, on
the 9th of March of the same year, serving partly as
a passport to the ambassador and bearer of said two
letters to the cities of Berne and Zurich, and partly
to request the neighboring potentates near and
around those parts, to promote said matter for the
protection of the Anabaptists. The contents thereof
are as follows:



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