Jacques Mesdagh, Willem Aerts, Joos Kasteel, and Karel, in the Year 1567

This Jacques Mesdagh was arrested (with three others, as he writes) on the first of March, 1566, and afterwards, on the eighth of November, 1567, was burned with three others, for the Word of God, at Kortrijck, in Flanders, in the marketplace before the city hall, having been confined in iron fetters on his feet for more than twenty months. He was from Capelle, to Poele, a league and a half from Ypres. [n919-1] With him died a young single man named Willem Aerts, and two other men, one of whom was Joos Kasteel, from the vicinity of Kortrijck, and the name of the other was Karel. All four were of very good cheer, and valiantly testified to the truth, and confirmed it with their death.