Touching the Court Proceedings and Death Sentences of the Aforementioned…

We spared no pains to have looked up, through the mediation of certain of our good friends at Breda, in the present archives of the year 1659, by the clerk of the recorder there, everything that might be noted, and could be found as recorded by the papistic rulers, of the year 1572, concerning the imprisonment, sufferings and death of the aforementioned pious witnesses of Jesus Christ. But soon after the search for it had begun, word was received that the archives where these and similar documents had been kept were destroyed and laid in ruins by a terrible fire a few years ago; for this reason nothing could be brought to light about the matter, except the particular recollections of old writers, from which the above is recorded. This by way of notice.