Further Observation

Whether this decree by those of Groningen and Sneeck caused any serious oppression, then or about that time, by way of banishment or the like, to those baptized according to Christ's ordinance, we have not been able to learn; but that they afterwards proceeded in those places much more severely than the decree justified, with harsh imprisonment and so on against those people, we have found only too true; yet it was to the great good and happiness of those who suffered this for the testimony of the Lord and His holy truth.

Moreover, that year did not end without the shedding of the blood of the saints, and the plundering of their goods, in the region of Witgensteyn, as will appear from the following account.