Sentence of Death of Anneken, Jan Ogiers' Daughter

Whereas Anneken, Jan Ogiers' daughter, and wife of Adriaen Boogaert, porcelain maker, prisoner, has confessed without torture and iron bonds that about thirteen years ago she rejected the Christian baptism she received in her infancy, and was rebaptized at Amsterdam, contrary to our Catholic faith, and the unity of the holy Roman church, and also in contempt of the decrees of his royal majesty, our most gracious lord; and what is still worse, though she has been instructed for the best concerning her error and heresy, she still obstinately persists in it; therefore the judges, having heard the demand made in conclusion by Jacob Foppens, bailiff, of this city of Haarlem, in the name of his majesty, as Count of Holland, against the said prisoner, that she should be condemned by their sentence to be conducted to the scaffold here, and executed with fire, until death should follow; and all her property confiscated for the benefit of his royal majesty, according to the decrees of his majesty just mentioned; have, for the reasons that have been mentioned, condemned the said Anneken, Jan Ogiers' daughter, prisoner, and by this present sentence do condemn her to be executed with water and drowned here in the city hall, until death follows, and the body to be buried under the gallows; and declare all her property forfeited for the benefit of his majesty. Thus read from the city hall, by the sound of the bell, on the 17th of June, in the year 1570, in the presence of Jacob Foppens, bailiff, Mr. Gerrit van Ravensberge, Mr. Lambrecht van Roosvelt, Mr. Huge Bol van Zanen, Aelbrecht van Schagen, Mr. Gijsbrecht van Nesse, Wouter van Rollandt, and Frans Janss Teyng, judges.

Extracted from the first book of penal sentences of the city of Haarlem (beginning in the year 1539, and ending the 27th of October, in the year 1582; preserved in the archives of the city of Haarlem) and, after comparison, found to agree with it; by me, the undersigned, secretary of the aforesaid city, the 14th of July, in the year 1659.

The sentence mentioned above we obtained, after much trouble, from the hands of the secretary of civil and criminal matters, or clerk of the criminal court of the city of Haarlem, through the help of one of our good friends, H. V., just as it was read in court at the hour of the death of the aforesaid woman, and it is still found today in the city records of that place; and from the particulars of it we have written the account that comes before the sentence.