Old Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1560s
Deaf Betgen, Betgen of Ghent, and Lijsken Smits, A. D. 1560
A. D. 1560, also three imprisoned sisters, namely, Deaf Betgen, Betgen of Ghent, and Lijsken Smits, were sentenced to death and drowned in a tub, in the city of Antwerp, because they could not be brought from the truth and the love of their Saviour.