# Clement Hendrickss, A Sail-Maker, Burnt For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, At Amsterdam, On The Twelfth Of March, In The Year 1569.

1569 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: CLEMENT HENDRICKSS, A SAIL-MAKER, BURNT FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, AT AMSTERDAM, ON THE TWELFTH OF MARCH, IN THE YEAR 1569.

Source heading; not independently verified

The awful fury and blood-thirstiness of the papistic
rulers in the city of Amsterdam continued,
and on the same day pronounced sentence of death
upon a fourth person of said Anabaptistic religion,
named Clement Hendrickss, a sail-maker by trade.

He, though possessing a living, effectual and holy
faith, yet through want of opportunity or some
other reason had also, like the preceding martyr,
Cornelis Janss, not yet received baptism upon his
faith, which grieved him not a little when he was
in bonds; but he did not on this account cast away
his hope in the grace of God, since this had not
been omitted through contempt of this holy ordinance
of Christ, but from want of opportunity, on
account of the pressure of persecution.

The authorities of the abovementioned city also
viewed it in this light, and sentenced him to the
fire, according to the imperial decree, as though
he had already been baptized upon faith, because
he confessed being desirous of it. This severe punishment
of death he valiantly and steadfastly endured,
and was thus numbered by the pious, with
the number of the faithful martyrs of Jesus Christ,
though according to the judgment of the papists
he died as a heretic, as appears from the following
sentence which was publicly read to him in court,
just before his death, by the rulers of darkness, in
these words:

Sentence of death of Clement Hendrickss, sail-maker.

Whereas Clement Hendrickss, sail-maker, citizen
of this city, at present a prisoner here, unmindful
of his soul’s salvation,317 and the obedience which
he owed to our mother, the holy church, and to
His Imperial Majesty, as his natural lord and prince,
has so apostatized from the holy church, that he,
despising her ordinances, has for five years and
longer been neither to confession nor to the holy
sacrament, and has at three different times attended
the assembly of the reprobated and accursed sect
of the Mennonists, the last time about a year ago;
and is so hardened in said sect, that even while a
prisoner he has declared that he is sorry that he is
not rebaptized, and has not received the breaking
of bread; and has also repeatedly attended the meetings;
to which abovementioned reprobated sect of
Mennonists, he, the prisoner, still persistently clings,
refusing to return to our mother, the holy church,
notwithstanding he has repeatedly, by divers clerical
persons as well as by the court of this city, been
urged thereto and instructed; so that the prisoner,
according to what has been mentioned, has committed
crime against divine and human majesty,
as disturbing by his sect the common peace and
welfare; therefore, my lords of the court, having
heard the demand of my lord the Bailiff, and seen
the confession of the prisoner, and having had regard
to his great stubbornness and obstinacy, and
duly considered everything, have condemned said
prisoner, and by these presents do condemn him
to be executed with fire, according to the decrees
of His Majesty; and declare all his property confiscated
for the benefit of His Majesty aforesaid, without
prejudice to the privilege of this city in all other
matters. Done in court, in presence, etc.

Of the torturing of the abovementioned Clement
Hendrickss, and when this took place.

The aforesaid person was tortured, according to
the previous sentence of the judges, on the fourth
of March, A. D. 1569, 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.

Here follow several letters from the aforementioned
martyrs, the first from Jan Quirijnss, and
the other from Clement Hendrickss.





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