He answered: “I did not err, but dealt with the word of God, and am sorry that I have been so long in darkness. I entreat you, citizens, read the Gospel, and live according to it; forsake your drunkenness, knavery, cursing and crossing yourselves,” etc.
The third woman said: “O God Almighty, do not lay upon me more than I can bear,” etc. Thus they gladly died.
The aforesaid Paul and his wife had an infant of nine months, which was still unbaptized; this they took from the mother in prison and baptized it. Lord Philip van Doorn, dean of St. John, Postulia, wife of Sir John van der Stegen, and Anna, wife of Sir Goosen van der Stegen acted as sponsors to said child.
All of them were then put to death, and on the fourteenth of September, at six o’clock in the morning, a young man of the above named sect was also beheaded.
Thus far the old document sent to us from Friesland. Compared with the account in the _History van den Opgang van’s Hertogenbosch, by Borre van Uytrecht_, concerning the persons who were brought thither as prisoners.
NOTE.--It appears that the entire above account was written by some one who had not yet come to the faith; since he calls the true faith of said persons who were put to death _a sect_; of whose death he seems to have been an eye witness; hence we can assume this with the greater confidence, since it is certain that the opponent of a belief will not embellish, but much rather speak against it.