Henry Boller, in the Year 1644

It continued to be a common custom to let people die in prison. This appeared also in the case of a God-fearing brother named Henry Boller,* from the Seignioralty Wadischwyl, a man of very great age and very infirm in body. [n1257-1]

He was arrested and taken to the prison mentioned before, Othenbach at Zurich, and there put in bonds.

But since they treated him most unmercifully and without the least compassion, his many years and natural infirmity were not able to bear up under it; so, having commended his spirit into the hands of God, he died there in prison. But he shall be rewarded for this in the day of resurrection, when what the prophet says will be fulfilled: "Your dead men (O God!) shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust, for your dew is as the dew of herbs." Isaiah 26, verse 19. Compare Tract, Jer. Mang., folio 16, A., with the account of M. Meyli, folio 6, B., though, through a mistake in copying, instead of Henry, it reads Hans.

NOTE. On the 11th of June of the year 1644 an old brother from the Horgerberg named Conrad Stricke was arrested, who, though he had been arrested outside of the Zurich jurisdiction, was nevertheless imprisoned at Zurich, in the place Othenbach, and put in chains every night.

His wife was also arrested and imprisoned in the same place; however, she, by a certain means, keeping her faith, escaped again. But the previously mentioned Conrad, her husband, was not so successful, so that he remained in severe imprisonment until the close of the year 1645, after which time we have learned nothing of him or of his deliverance. See Jer. Mang. Tract, edition 1645, on the name Conrad.