Jacob Claess of Lantsmeer, and Cecilia Jeronymus his Wife

The tribulation, anguish and distress of the beloved friends and children of God continued, for they did not stop persecuting and killing them, indeed, putting them to death in a dreadful, miserable and pitiful manner. In the year 1549 this appeared also in the city of Amsterdam, in Holland, in the case of two pious and very God fearing persons, named Jacob Claess of Lantsmeer, and Cecilia Jeronymus of Wormer. After suffering many assaults, conflicts and tribulations from secular as well as ecclesiastical persons, who sought to draw them away from the faith, they remained constant, and were sentenced to the fire as heretics. This punishment of death they steadfastly endured, on the 9th of November, in the year 1549, as appears from the following two sentences, which were publicly pronounced on the day of their death, in the court of Amsterdam. True copies of these, obtained by us through the clerk of the court there, we shall present here, for the further confirmation of this matter. [n688-1]