# Of The Mandate Published Against The Anabaptists In The Duchy Of Prussia (But Not Unto Death), On The 12th Of November, A. D. 1586.

1586 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: OF THE MANDATE PUBLISHED AGAINST THE ANABAPTISTS IN THE DUCHY OF PRUSSIA (BUT NOT UNTO DEATH), ON THE 12TH OF NOVEMBER, A. D. 1586.

Source heading; not independently verified

When on account of the terrible burning and
scorching of the pious witnesses of Jesus that were
called by the name of Anabaptists, many of them
went from papistic regions, where the distress was
greatest, to the Prussian countries, in the hope that
the rulers there, who boasted of greater discretion
and mercy than those of general popery, should
grant them liberty to live according to their conscience,
it came to pass, that when they came there
they found themselves deceived in their opinion, inasmuch
as the Prince of that country, who then
reigned at Brandenburg, ordered them, by a public
mandate, to leave.

Concerning this, P. J. Twisck has given this account:

George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg,
commanded in a public mandate, on the 12th of
November, A. D. 1586, that the Anabaptists must
leave this whole Duchy of Prussia. Chron. van den
Ondergang, edition 1620, 2d part, 16th book, for
the year 1586, p. 1401, col. 1.





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