Anneken Ogiers, Daughter of Jan Ogiers, and Wife of Adriaen Boogaert, in the Year 1570

The misery of persecution continued, so that almost nowhere could liberty be found for an upright Christian soul. In this the people of Haarlem, in Holland, also incurred guilt; which appeared in the year of our Lord 1570, for then they laid their hands (which they had already several times stained in the blood of the saints) on a God fearing woman named Anneken, the daughter of Jan Ogiers, and wife of Adriaen Boogaert, who thirteen years before had turned from the darkness of popery to the true light of the Gospel, and, to prove that she desired to be a disciple of Jesus, had been baptized upon her faith, leaving and renouncing the pope and the Romish church, and, on the other hand, accepting and confessing Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and His church (namely, the cross bearing church of the Anabaptists) as His beloved bride, wife and own body, by which she was then recognized as a member and fellow sister.

When in her imprisonment she could by no means be turned from her faith, the rulers of the city of Haarlem concluded her trial, and, on the 17th of June, in the year 1570, publicly in court, pronounced sentence of death upon her, namely, that she should be drowned and buried under the gallows. The sentence (except the title) reads word for word as follows: