Extract from the Appended Matters in the Old Martyrs Mirror, Edition of 1631

We received, too late, a certain chronicle of England, by Egmont Howes, a nobleman in London, printed in the year 1615, by Thomas Dauwson, in which on page 678 the following is related, as having occurred under Queen Elizabeth in the year 1575:

On Easter Day, the 3rd of April, about nine o'clock in the morning, a gathering of Dutch Anabaptists, Hollanders, was discovered in a house beyond the Aldgate; seventeen of them were arrested, and four thrown into prison.

On the 21st of May, on Whitsuntide eve, one man and ten women, Dutch Anabaptists, were condemned in the Consistory of Saint Paul's church to be burned in a place called Smithfield; however, after much labor and effort with them, only one woman turned, and the rest were banished from the country.

On the 22nd of July two Dutch Anabaptists were burned in the place called Smithfield, and they died in great terror, weeping and crying. That is all from the author named above.

We have thought it well to add this here, since it serves to confirm what goes before; and also to testify that they did not suffer for any reviling against her majesty (as some have circulated), but only for their faith. And this is all the more authentic, because it was recorded by the hand of their adversaries.