The Bloody Theater, or Martyrs Mirror, in plain modern English: edited chapter for chapter from the 1886 translation, with every scripture reference and abbreviation spelled out so it can be read aloud. The unaltered 1886 text is on the shelf as Martyrs Mirror.
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Contents
Old Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1540s
1Hans Simeraver, in the Year 15402Walter of Stoelwijk, in the Year 15413A Letter Written by Said Walter of Stoelwijk4Prayer5Dirk Pieters Krood, Pieter Trijnes, Claes Roders, Pieter Claes Jans, of Wormer6Jacob and Seli his Wife, of Wormer, in the Year 15427Jan Egtwercken, Claes Meliss, Aecht Meliss, William her Husband, Heyne Walings, in the Year 15428Balthasar Hubmor, and his Wife9Leonard Bernkop, in the Year 154210Hans Huber, in the Year 154211Damian of Algau, in the Year 154312Of a Certain Decree Published in All West Friesland Against Menno Simons, in the Year 154313George Libich, and Ursula, in the Year 154414Maria van Beckum, and Ursula, her Brother's Wife, in the Year 154415John Claess, and Lucas Lamberts, an Old Man, Called Grandfather16Another Testament of John Claess, to His Wife, in the Year 154417Account of the Sentence, Passed on John Claess, and the Old Man Named Lucas Lamberts of Beverwyck, Also Called Grandfather; and How They Died18A Number of Believers, Baptized According to the Command of Christ19Francis of Bolsweert, in the Year 154520Oswald of Jamnits, in the Year 154521Andrew Kofler, in the Year 154522Hans Blietel, in the Year 154523Michael Matschilder, Elizabeth his Wife, and Hans Gurtzham, in the Year 154624Quirinus Pieters of Groeningen, in the Year 154525Hans Staudtach, Antony Keyn, Blasius Beck, and Leonhard Schneider, in the Year 154626Dirk Pieters Smuel and Jacob den Geldersman, in the Year 154627Andrew Smuel and Dirk Dieters. The Defense and Confession of Faith which They…28Testament Written by Dirk Pieters Smuel, Deceased in Prison, to His Wife, When He Was Preparing to Die for the Name and Testimony of Jesus29A Letter of Consolation and Admonition, in the Year 154630Richst Heynes, in the Year 154731Claes Lecks, in the Year 154832Elizabeth, in the Year 154933Six Brothers and Two Sisters34Sentence of Death of Pieter Jans, Tobias Questinex, Jan Pennewaerts35Fije and Eelken at Leeuwarden, in the Year 154936Jacob Claess of Lantsmeer, and Cecilia Jeronymus his Wife37Sentence of Death of Jacob Claess of Lantsmeer38Sentence of Death of Cecilia Jeronymus39Elizabeth and Hadewijk; Of Whom the Former was Drowned at Leeuwarden