# William Wiggers Of Barsinghorn, In North Holland, A. D. 1534.

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About the year 1534, a godfearing pious brother,
named William Wiggers, residing at Barsinghorn,
a village in North-Holland, near Schagen, was
brought thence to the castle at Schagen, for the
true faith and the practice of it. In that place he
was imprisoned for about eight days, and was then
beheaded with the sword, at early dawn, in the gate
of said castle, for the testimony of Jesus Christ,
enduring it with great steadfastness. And as he was
a godfearing and an agreeable man, he was often
employed by the lord of Schagen to transact his
temporal business. Hence it came that when the
servants of Schagen came to his house, for the purpose
of apprehending him, he supposed they had
come for former friendship and acquaintance’ sake;
hence he sent his wife to get some viands with which
to treat these servants; but before she returned, the
dean with his servants, sent by the Roman antichrist,
came and took this defenseless sheep of
Christ with them to Schagen, notwithstanding the
bailiff of Barsinghorn offered himself as security for
the prisoner. Wigger Hendericks, father of the beforementioned
William Wiggers, who was also secular
magistrate, having seen, that his godfearing son
had, without right and reason, been thus secretly
murdered with the sword, instantly forsook his
office, and would no longer administer the secular
power.



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