# Seven Hundred Persons Oppressed And Persecuted At Berne.

17th century (source section) · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: SEVEN HUNDRED PERSONS OPPRESSED AND PERSECUTED AT BERNE.

Century of containing source section; exact event date not assigned

In the year 1671 there arose again a severe persecution
against the Anabaptists, in said dominion
of Berne; which persecution was so rigorous and
long-continued, that it seemed that the authorities
would not desist, until they should have utterly
driven that people out of their dominion, or exterminated
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them. In consequence of this it also happened,
that about seven hundred persons, small
and great, found themselves compelled to leave
their abode, forsake their property, and, many of
them, also their kindred, together with their earthly
fatherland, and betake themselves with the others
to the Palatinate, in hope that the Lord should so
order it, that they might find a place of abode
there. We were eye witnesses, as to how it went
when they arrived there, and we inspected place
after place whither they had come to find abodes.

However, as we, just before we went thither, had
received, from the persecuted people themselves, as
well as from others who wrote in their name, and as
they told them, several letters, which plainly state
the circumstances and condition of this persecution,
just as we had heard it from their own lips, we
deemed it advisable, to insert the same here, in
order that the Christian reader, reading them, may
fancy to himself, that he hears the account, not of
ear or eye witnesses, but even of the very people
that suffered said persecution. The letters read as
follows:





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