Of an Edict of Those of Deventer Against (Among Others) the So Called Mennonists or Anabaptists, in the Year 1620

When the year sixteen hundred and twenty after the birth of Christ had come, the magistrates named above issued an edict, not only against the Romanists (from whom they had once suffered persecution themselves), but also against the Mennonites or Anabaptists, who had always shown themselves peaceable and friendly toward them and among them. By it they prohibited, among other things, the assemblies of the Anabaptists as well, though not on pain of death.

So that this may be well understood, we shall copy the edict accurately, as far as it is directed against the Anabaptists, and present it to the impartial reader.