Four Persons, Namely, Huybert op der Straten, Tijnken His Wife, Pieter ten Hove, and Lijsken te Linschoten, in the Year 1601

In the year of our Lord sixteen hundred and one it happened that Johann von Steyn, Count of Witgensteyn, Lord of Hamburg, who was a member of the Calvinistic Church, set out to abolish the Romish and Lutheran doctrine, and at the same time laid his hands on the defenseless sheep of Christ, who were contemptuously called Anabaptists, and put them in prison.

Among these are mentioned by name Huybert op der Straten, Trijnken his wife, Pieter ten Hove, and Lijsken te Linschoten; the last of these, as we have learned, was an aged woman of over seventy years.

The first three mentioned were imprisoned twelve weeks, the last seventeen days, since she had been arrested much later.

They suffered much temptation, by way of bitter threats as well as by entreaties, in order to make them apostatize; but when they (the persecutors) could not destroy their souls, or cause them to apostatize or depart from the truth, all four were finally condemned upon a false accusation (namely, that they had been convicted by the holy Scriptures, which was completely untrue, and that they would nevertheless continue in their deceptive heresy of Anabaptism, and so on) in this manner:

That all their property should be forfeited, and that each should be scourged with rods, to the number of about forty stripes, and moreover be banished from the country forever; which was accordingly done.

Thus, say the authors, they stripped these innocent, pious persons, led them around the gallows, and scourged them, robbed them of their property, and shamefully drove them out with empty hands, and sent them out of the country. See preface to the old Offerboeck, of the year 1615, letter 3, column 1.