# Ten Persons, Men As Well As Women, Burned For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, At Dordrecht, About The Year 1570.

c. 1570 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: TEN PERSONS, MEN AS WELL AS WOMEN, BURNED FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, AT DORDRECHT, ABOUT THE YEAR 1570.

Source heading; not independently verified

Ancient and credible memoirs tell us as indubitable
facts, that about the year of our Lord 1570,
two very devout persons, a man and a woman,
whose names we have not been able to ascertain,
were sought for by the bailiff of the city of Dordrecht,
because they were called Anabaptists, and
finally found in the Marienbon street of said city,
in a house from which was suspended the sign of
a boot. As they steadfastly adhered to their faith,
both were shortly after burnt in the market field,
beyond the scales, where then was the place of execution.

Also, that seven others, men as well as women,
of the same religion, who had come from Breda,326
when they could by no means be moved therefrom,
suffered like punishment, namely, by fire, until
death ensued; which took place in the plain, not
far from the Menne bridge, beyond the powder
magazine being the other place of execution.

832

About the end of the year, namely, in the month
of November, when that great and terrible flood,
that came on All-saints-day (of which almost every
one knows something) had come to an end, it
is stated, that a certain Anabaptist widow in the
Armetij street was taken from a room at the side
of a stairway by the bailiff and the stadtholder;
which widow some time afterwards, as she would
not apostatize from her faith, also had to die in the
flames.

We made search for the examinations and death
sentences of the aforementioned persons, in the
ordinary’s criminal city records of that time, but
did not find them, nor of J. W. van Kuyck and
Adriaentgen Jans van Molenaersgraef, who were put
to death two years afterwards; though there were
several living witnesses of it in our time, who saw
the death of said persons, together with all the
circumstances. This being the case it appears that
the papists were ashamed to put the court proceedings
and death sentences of said persons into the
city records, since it seemed that the country and
at the same time also this city should before long
change government and religion, which about two
years afterwards was accomplished through the coming
of William I., prince of Orange; and thus the
constraint over the faith and conscience ceased at
the same time, at said place.

Further Observation.—As regards the persons
who then (in the year 1570) sat in court, and administered
justice, they were, according to the record
of Johan van Beverwijck, in his Register of the
Magistracy of Dordrecht, as follows:

Adriaen van Bleyenbergh Adriaenss, Bailiff of
said city, who had entered on his office in the year
1549, and completed his time in the year 1571.

Arent van der Mijle Sir Corneliss, Burgomaster
of the community.

Together with nine judges: Gijsbrecht van Haerlem
Jans; Cornelis van Diemen Jacobss; Huybrecht
Jonge Adriaenss; Jan van Slingelandt Sir Ottenss;
Wourick van Drenkwaert Sir Wilmss; Jan Janss
Elandtss; Bondewijn Heerman Gijsbrechtss; Dierick
van Beverwijck Sir Philips; Cornelis van Mosyenbroeck
Sir Corneliss.

However, whether they all concurred in this sentence,
or only some of them, is not known to us.





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