# Sentence Of Death Of Sander Wouterss Of Bommel And Evert Hendricks Of Warendorp.

16th century (source section) · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: SENTENCE OF DEATH OF SANDER WOUTERSS OF BOMMEL AND EVERT HENDRICKS OF WARENDORP.

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Whereas it has appeared to my lords of the court
that Sander Wouterss of Bommel and Evert Hendricks
of Warendorp, both tailors and inhabitants
of this city, prisoners at present, unmindful of the
obedience which they owed to our mother, the holy
church, and to His Royal Majesty, as their natural
lord and prince, and rejecting the ordinances of the
holy church, have for many years past not been to
confession, nor to the holy, worthy sacrament, and
have further dared repeatedly to attend the assembly
of the reprobated sect of the Mennonists, or Anabaptists,
and also to permit preaching after the manner
of the aforesaid sect to be done in their houses;
and the aforementioned Sander Wouterss, twelve
years ago, and the aforesaid Evert Hendricks, seven
years ago, renouncing and forsaking the baptism
received by them in their infancy from the holy
church, have also suffered themselves to be rebaptized,
and afterwards repeatedly received, the breaking
of the bread, according to the manner of the
aforementioned sect; and though they have been repeatedly
urged and admonished, by divers spiritual
persons, to forsake the aforementioned sect, and to
return to our mother, the holy church, they nevertheless
refuse to do the same, persisting in their
stubbornness and obstinacy, disturbing by said sect
the common peace and welfare of the land,334 according
to the import of the decrees of His Majesty existing
899in regard to this, which crimes, 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 having seen the
voluntary confession of the prisoners, and having
had regard to their stubbornness and obstinacy,
have condemned, and do condemn by these presents,
said prisoners, and each of them severally, to
be executed with fire, according to the decrees of
His Majesty, and declare all their property confiscated
for the benefit of His Majesty aforesaid. Done
in court, this 3d of September 1572, by all the
judges, and with the advice of all the burgomasters,
in presence of me the secretary. Signed.

W. Pieterss.

Thus extracted from the book of criminal sentences
of the city of Amsterdam, preserved in the
archives of that city.

N. N.





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