Of a Certain Writing from Switzerland, in the Year 1645

Now when some brothers and sisters in the Swiss dominions had died in prison, of misery, want, hunger, and grief, while five were still living in confinement, those who remained out of bonds were threatened, especially by those of Berne, that they would drive them all out of the country, and seize their goods, and sell them. So they turned, next to God, with a humble and friendly letter, to their fellow believers in Holland and elsewhere in the Netherlands, asking that everywhere they would fervently call upon God the Lord on their behalf, for comfort and grace, so that they might patiently endure whatever might come upon them according to the flesh, for His holy name's sake.

This letter was written the 22nd of July, old style, in the year of our Lord 1645, and was signed by

What came of this, and how it afterward went with those who were imprisoned, can be seen in a later account, in a marginal note, in connection with Ully Wagman.

But as to how the poor wanderers who were not imprisoned managed in their misery and poverty, we have received no clear information, though it can be sufficiently inferred from the sad condition of affairs.