Sentence of Death of Pieter Jans, Tobias Questinex, Jan Pennewaerts

Whereas Pieter, son of Jans, a native of Lininckhuysen, and Tobias Questinex, a citizen of this city, shoemakers by trade; Jan Pennewaerts of Loenen, Gijsbert Jans of Woerden, and Ellert Jans, also a citizen of this city, tailors; Lucas Michiels of Dortrecht, a glazier by trade; Barbara Thielemaus of Dortrecht; and Truyken Boens, daughter of William Boens of

Antwerp, have been rebaptized by one Giles of Aix la Chapelle, and have joined the sect and heresy of the Anabaptists, holding pernicious views regarding the sacraments of the holy church, contrary to the holy Christian faith, the ordinances of the said holy church, and the written laws and decrees of his Imperial Majesty, our gracious lord; and, moreover, obstinately persist in their unbelief, errors and heresies; therefore, my lords the judges, having heard the demand made by my lord the bailiff concerning the said persons, together with their confession, and having duly considered the circumstances of the said case, condemn the said persons to be burned by the executioner; and furthermore declare all their property confiscated for the benefit of his Imperial Majesty, as Count of Holland and our gracious lord, without prejudice to the privileges of this city. So pronounced and ordered to be carried out, this 20th day of March, 1549, in the presence of the bailiff, Egbert Gabriels and Joost Buyck, burgomasters, and all the judges.

Of these offenders three were put to the torture, namely, Tobias Questinex, on the 14th of February, Pieter Jans, on the 15th of the same month, and Ellert Jans on the 8th of the present month, March.

Taken from the book of criminal sentences of the city of Amsterdam, in the keeping of the secretary there.

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