# Of A Certain Decree Published In England Against The Anabaptists, A. D. 1538, And What Followed Thereupon, A. D. 1539.

1538 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: OF A CERTAIN DECREE PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND AGAINST THE ANABAPTISTS, A. D. 1538, AND WHAT FOLLOWED THEREUPON, A. D. 1539.

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“After manifold tyranny, persecution and putting
to death,” writes P. J. Twisck, “in various countries
and kingdoms, against the Christian flock, also
in England a decree was proclaimed, in December,
A. D. 1538, against the believers baptized according
to the ordinance of Christ. By virtue of the same,
they, right in the face of cold winter, were banished
from the country, and had to flee whithersoever they
could.

Thus it came, that some of them fled for refuge
to Holland, and having come to Delft, they were
there spied out by their enemies, and fell into the
hands of the tyrants; and, after manifold trials, and
steadfastness in their faith, they were sentenced to
death for the truth, at said place, and, on the 7th
of January, A. D. 1539, put to death. Sixteen men
were beheaded with the sword, and fifteen women
drowned.

These sixteen men and fifteen women, thirty-one
persons in all, who, in the year 1539, fled from
England to Delft, and were there put to death in the
same year, for the true confession of Jesus Christ,
must plainly and positively be distinguished from
other twenty seven persons who lost their lives
there one year earlier, namely, A. D. 1538; whose
written examinations and death sentences we have
seen; but as we have not found sufficient light
therein, we pass them by, commending them to
God, and thus take our leave of them.





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