Extracts from the Court Records of Criminal and Civil Matters of the City of…

The bailiff versus Olivier Wilhemssen, of Nimeguen, since he has dared to attend various forbidden conventicles, to sell books that are banned, and to have himself rebaptized in those forbidden conventicles, though he received baptism in his infancy, all of which is contrary to the prohibitions and decrees of his majesty; concludit capitaliter, that the defendant be punished according to the decrees named above, the defendant having openly confessed what the bailiff charged him with. Judicatum, that the plaintiff be granted his full demand.

This copy has been compared by us, the undersigned, secretary of the city of Antwerp, with the court records named above, and is found to agree with them.

PH. VALCKENISSEN.

The words concludit capitaliter, translated into Dutch [English], mean essentially that the bailiff demands that [the prisoner's] life and property be forfeited on his behalf. The word judicatum means that the lords pass sentence. This certifies the same.

PH. VALCKENISSEN.

NOTE. I have another authentic copy of this demand made by the bailiff of the judges, against Olivier Willemss, on which is written in the margin, Executio; as if to say: Execute, or punish, him according to your demand, that is, burn him alive, for this was the punishment of steadfast Anabaptists according to the imperial decree, on which the bailiff had founded his demand.