# Sentence Of Death Of Gerrit Corneliss, Surnamed Boon.

16th century (source section) · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: SENTENCE OF DEATH OF GERRIT CORNELISS, SURNAMED BOON.

Century of containing source section; exact event date not assigned

Whereas Gerrit Corneliss, alias Gerrit Boon, boatman,
citizen of this city, at present a prisoner here,
unmindful of his soul’s salvation, and the obedience
which he owed to our mother the holy church, and
to His Imperial Majesty, as his natural lord and
prince, rejecting the ordinances of the holy church,
has been neither to confession nor to the holy sacrament
for ten years past, and has further dared repeatedly
to go into the assembly of the reprobated
sect of the Mennonists or Anabaptists, and has also,
about eight years ago, renouncing and forsaking the
baptism received by him in his infancy from the
holy church, been rebaptized, and afterwards repeatedly
received the breaking of bread according
to the manner of the aforesaid sect, and also attended
the assembly of the aforesaid sect, without
speaking to them when they met together; and
though he, the prisoner, has, by my lords of the
court as well as by divers ecclesiastical persons,
been urged, and repeatedly admonished, to forsake
the aforementioned reprobated sect, and to return
to our mother, the holy church, he nevertheless refuses
to do it, persisting in his obstinacy and stubbornness,
so that he, the prisoner, according to
what has been mentioned, has committed crime
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against divine and human majesty, as by said sect
perturbing the common peace and welfare of the
country, according to the import of the decrees of
His Majesty existing in regard to this; which misdemeanors,
for an example unto others, ought not to
go unpunished; 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 obstinacy and stubbornness, have
condemned said prisoner, and by these presents, do
condemn him to be executed with fire, according to
the decrees of His Royal Majesty, and declare all
his property confiscated for the benefit of His Majesty
aforesaid. Done in court, on the 26th of June,
A. D. 1571, in the presence of all the judges, by
the advice of Cornelis Jacobss Brouwer, and Hendrick
Cornelis, burgomasters; I being present as
secretary. Subscribed.

W. Pieterss.





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