The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their savior, from the time of Christ to the year A.D. 1660

Part 272

Chapter 2721,930 wordsPublic domain

" Abelard dies in a dungeon, 281

" Bruis burnt, 282

" Koster, 427

" Gerrits and others, 429

" Joris " " , 429

" Kramer, 568

" of Spain, 615

Petolomenus put to death, 106

Phileas, bishop at Thumis, 169

" extract from letters, 169

Philemon put to death, 179

Philidian of Antioch beheaded, 130

Philip stoned, 71

" put to death, 137

" of Langenlonsheim, 422

" de Keurs, 431

Phocas put to death, 104

Photimus died in prison, 113

Pierijntgen Loosveldt or Neckers, 915

Pieter Bruynsen and others, 503

" " Van Weert, first lett’r, 503

" " " " sec’d " , 504

" Thymans and others, 515–516

" van Olman, a letter, 516–517

" Witses, a mason, 527

" " an admonition, 527

" " letter to his wife, 527

" with the lame foot, 529

" de Backer and others, 547

" the miller and others, 548

" van Eynoven, examination, 552–556

" van Maldegem, 630

" van Male, 630

" the shoemaker, 638

" van Oosthove, 640

" van der Meulen, 640

" van Cleves, 694

" Pieters Beckjen burnt, 708

" Verlonge, confession of faith, 734

" de Gulicker with his servant, 885–886

" Saymer, 1013

" Jans, six brethren, etc., burned, 465

" " and others sentenced, 466

" ten Hove and others, 1044

Pionius of Smyrna burned, 131

Pleuntgen van der Goes, 594

Plutarch and others put to death, 124

Plutarchus and others, 114

P. Mythius, 178

Polycarp put to death, 109

Pontius and others put to death, 137

Popes after A. D. 606, 50

Possession of Roman chair through secular power, 51

Porphyrius put to death, 84

Potvliet, Peter and Jelis, 631

Prayer of Hans Koch and Leonhard Meister, 399

" for the secular power, 1075

Prijntgen and Martijntgen Maelbouts, 644

Primus thrown to wild beasts, 174

Prisca martyred at Rome, 83

Priscus torn by wild beasts, 136

Privatus put to death, 137

" bishop at Gevauldan, beaten to death, 138

Probus put to death, 141

" first examination, 142

" second " , 144

" third " , 146

Probus account of death of, 147

Proculus, deacon at Pussolis, 176

Prohibition against the Anabaptists, 1046

" further observation, 1047

" remark as to what followed, 1047

Promus put to death, 177

Publius, 104

--Q--

Questions and answers, 99

Quirinus Pieters, 457

Quiritius, 126

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Rabanus Maurus, views of, 227

Raphel van den Velde, 974

" " " " first letter, 974

" " " " second " , 977

" " " " another " , 977

" " " " letter to his wife, 978

" " " " " " " son, 981

" " " " last letter to his wife, 982

Reason why we have pointed out the article of Holy Baptism, 16

Reason why we have called this work after the Anabaptists, 17

Regarding the old work, 18

Remarks on baptism, second century, 100

Remken Remaeckers, 478

Repentance and reformation, 38

Reply to the first passage, 44

" " " second " , 45

" " " third " , 45

Restoration of man, 37

Resurrection, 31, 41

Revenge, 40

Reyer Dircks, a boatman, burned, 483–484

" Egberts and others, 515–516

Reytse Aysess of Oldenborn, 943

" " first letter, 943

" " divers examinations, 944

" " another confession, 947

" " " " , 949

" " letter, 950

" " another confession, 951

" " letter to his father, 951

" " " " " mother, 951

" " " " " wife, 953

" " another letter to his wife, 953

" " death sentence, 954

Rhais burned alive, 124

Richst Heynes, 463

Ring Hans and others, 1060

Rogotian beheaded, 180

Roman succession from Peter, 46

" chair, 52, 53

Rommeken put to death, 529

Rudolph Bachman, 1059

" Bauman, 1059

Rudolf Suhner, 1061

Rufus and Rosimus beheaded, 102

Rutilius martyred, 122

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Saerken van Duerhove, 830

Samson and Sydonius and others, 223

Sanctus persecuted, 112

Sander Hendricks, Hans de Smit, Hans van Burculo and others, 561

Sander Wouterss of Bommel burnt, 898

Sarah Wanrij and others, 1061

Sebastian Glasmacher and Hans Grueufelder, 430

Second coming of Christ, 31

Secular authority, 40

Separation, 31, 40

Septimius Florens Tertullian’s apology for the Christians, 125

Serapion of Ephesus slain, 129

Serenevs put to death, 124

Seven brethren, 418, 428

" teachers and elders imprisoned at Berne, 1065

" hundred persecuted at Berne, 1065

" " extract from 1st letter, 1066

" " " " 2d " , 1066

" " " " 3d " , 1066

" " " " 4th " , 1067

" " " " 5th " , 1067

Several thousand persons burned under Maximin, A. D. 237, 127

Severe persecution, A. D. 130, 105

Shunning, 31, 41

Sicke Snyder, 425

Sijntgen Vercoilgen, 709

" van Rousselare put to death, 917

" " " letter, 919

" Barninge, 920

" Wens, 1013

Silas or Silvanus martyred in Macedonia, 83

Simon Peter crucified, 77

" Zelotes slain, 89

" Cleophas crucified, 101

" Simon the shop-keeper, 519

Six persons at Basel, 414

" brethren strangled, 546

Sixty martyrs put to death, A. D. 239, 127

Slanders against Anabaptists, 1048

Soetgen van der Houte and Martha, 621

" " " " a testament, 621

" " " " letter, 624

Some of the seventy slain, 91

" pious Christians apprehended, 177

Sonnet, 58

Sosius, deacon of Misenum, 176

Stability, durability, etc., of the church of God, 21

State of worship in the tenth century, 239

" " " further observations, 239

Stephen stoned, 69

" of Orleans, etc., 255

" an elder, burnt, 336

Steven de Graet and Sijntgen, 640

Stijntgen Jans, examination, torture and sentence, 552–556

Succession of the church of God, 25

" personal, 25

" of doctrine, 25

" of the Roman church, 43

Sufferings of Christians in Persia, 211

Summary of baptism, 61, 97, 114, 148, 181, 195, 206

" of the martyrs, 65, 101, 121, 166, 202, 209

" " " " 5th century, 190

" " baptism, 8th " , 212

" " " 9th " , 224

" " " 10th " , 238

" " " 11th " , 249

" " " 12th " , 260

" " " 13th " , 288

" " " 14th " , 309

" " " 15th " , 321

" " " 16th " , 351

" " the martyrs, 8th " , 219

" " " " 9th " , 231

" " " " 10th " , 245

" " " " 11th " , 254

" " " " 12th " , 279

" " " " 13th " , 288

" " " " 14th " , 314

" " " " 15th " , 327

" " " " 16th " , 395

" " " " 17th " , 1042

Superscription of letter to Berne, 1078

" " " " Zurich, 1078

Supplication to the city of Berne, 1060

" answer to same, 1060

Susanneken and Kalleken Claes, 941

Sybrant Jans, Hendrick Gijsbrechts van Kampen, Stephen Benedictus and others, 427

Sylvanus, bishop of Emissa, 176

Symphorian beheaded, 138

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Tanneken van der Leyen, 529

" " " Meulen, Jaecxken van Hussele and Jaecxken Teerlings, 727

" Walraven, 956

Ten persecutions under Nero, 76

Ten persons at Dortrecht burned, 831

Tertullian’s views, 116

" consolation and encouragement to the early martyrs, 1080

Teunis van Houstelraed, 477

Tharacus put to death, 141

" first examination, 141

" second " , 143

" third " , 145

" account of his death, 147

The bloody theatre, 58

Theodorus, Philemon and Cyrilla, put to death, 179

Theodosia, a maiden, drowned, 176

Theodosius and Honorius against the Anabaptists, 191

" threatens Cyril of Alexandria, 192

" bishop of Jerusalem, persecution of, 192

Theodulus, a lector, drowned, 175

Theonas, 176

Theonilla put to death, 139

The persons John baptized, 62

" sequel compared with the beginning of this history, 13

Thirty-nine persons burned at Bingen, 298

Thomas cast into a furnace, 86

" van Imbroeck, confession concerning baptism, 355

" van Imbroeck, defense, etc., 357

" Hermann and others, 406

" Balthaser and Dominicus, 412

" van Imbroeck, 556

" " " letter to his wife and brethren, 556

" van Imbroeck, letter to his wife, 557

Threatenings of Theodosius, 192

Three pious peasants, 136

" brothers crucified, 139

" brethren and two sisters, 413

" hundred and fifty persons, 421

" brethren at Antwerp, 479

Tijs van Lindt, 478

" a young man, 519

" Jeuriaenss, 787

" " first letter, 787

" " another letter, 791

Timothy stoned, 95

Title of this work, 15

Tjaert Reynerts, 438

Tobias Questinex, six brethren, etc., 465

Trijnken Keuts, 594

Truyken Boens, six brethren, etc., 465

Twelve pious Christians put to death, 110

" persons, men and women, burned, 431

Twenty-four persons burned at Paris, 297

" persons imprisoned in London, 957

Fourteen women driven from, etc., 957

Youth scourged behind a cart, 957

Hendrick Terwoort burned, 957

Jan Pieterss, 957

Gerrit van Byler, extract, etc., 958

Extract from old Martyrs Mirror in reference to above, 960

First letter from the above, 960

Another letter from the above, 965

Letter from Jaques de Somere, etc., 967

Supplication presented to queen, 970

Confession of faith of the above prisoners, 970

Answer to John Fox by the above, 971

Thomas Han, 1031

To the Bloody Theatre of the Anabaptists, 1079

Two sisters at Antioch, 178

" brethren and two sisters, 421

" young girls burned, 482

Tyranny of Theodosius, bishop of Jerusalem, 192

" " the King of Bulgaria, 233

Tyrants of this time, A. D. 401, 191

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Ulli Schedme or Schneider, 1055

Ully Wagman, 1063

Uly Baumgartner and others, 1065

Ulpian cast into the sea, 175

Ungodly life of Popes, 54

Ulrich Schneider, 1055

" Muller, 1059

Uprightness of these people, 312

Urban of Antioch beheaded, 130

Urticinus beheaded, 95

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Valedictory, 19

Valerianus put to death, 126

Valerius, school-master, martyred, 697

" " extract from his books, 697–701

Various arguments, 47

Veit Pelgrims at Glabbeck, 424

" Greyenburger, 804

Verena Landis, 1061

Vetius put to death, 111

Victor and Pieter de Backer, 547

Vigil Plaitner, 417

Vijntgen, Goudeken, Janneken de Jonkheer, Betgen van Maldegem and Sijntgen van Gelder, 630

Vilgard and Caspar Schoeneck, 413

Vitalus buried alive, 95

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Waldenses, dispersion of, 266

" of one belief with the, Baptists, 267

" called Anabaptists, 267

" reject infant baptism, 268

" on secular authority, 270

" " war, 270

" " swearing oaths, 271

" " other articles, 272

" " their confessions, 273

" and Albigenses, 274

" Moral precepts left by, 276

" Virtuous life of, 277

" unjustly accused, 278

" Time of, 279

" 100 burned at Strasburg, 298

" 39 " " Bingen, 298

" 18 " " Mentz, 298

" 80 " " Strasburg, 301

" Papal statutes against, 303

" severe persecutions of, 304

" many burnt, 304

" burnt in Toulouse, 306

" Mandate of Pope Urban, 307

" in France persecuted, 308, 309

" martyred at Steyer, 318

" great numbers burned at Zuidenitz, 318

" account of their death, 318

" four persons burnt, 318

" persecution of, by Pope John XXII., 319

" persecution in Bohemia, 319

" further observation, 319

" persecution in France, 320

" Flanders, 320

" thirty-six burned, 320

" persecution on the Baltic, 321

" 443 put to death, 321

" burnt in Flanders, 331

" put to death at Eichstaedt, 335

" and the Taborites, 325

Waechling Dirks, Maerten Schoenmaecker and Adriaen Pieters, 561

Walter Mair and two others, 424

" of Stoelwijk, 439

" " " letter from, 439

" " " prayer, 447

Werner Phister and his son’s wife, 1058

Weynken, a widow, burned, 407

Willeboort Corneliss put to death, 643

Willem, Maritgen, etc., 477

Willem, the cabinet-maker, beheaded, 505

" of Bierck and others, 506

" Droogscheerder, a letter, 547

" van Haverbeke, 560

" Goosen and Egbert de Hoedemaecker, 562

" de Kleermaecker, 619

" de Duyck, 659

" Aerts, 686

" de Snijder and wife, 696

" van Poperinge and wife, confession of faith, 734

" Janss of Waterland burned, 794

" de Rijcker, 914

William Swinderby burned, 328, 329

" Thorpe burned for the faith, 329

" White burnt, 332

" " confession of faith, 332

" " imprisonment, doctrine and death, 333

William Wiggers of Barsinghorn, 426

" van Robaeys, 506

" " Louvain, 529

" " Keppel, 636

Wolfgang Ulman, 412

" Brandhuber, Hans Niedermair and seventy others, 417

" Eslinger, 423

" Hueber, 593

" Mair, 593

" Pinder, 834

" Raufer, 1005

Wouter, Joris, etc., 484

" van Capelle, 519

" " Honschoten, 561

" Denijs, 727

" " first letter, 728

" " second letter, 729

" " third letter, 729

Writing from Switzerland on threats against the Anabaptists, 1062

Writing in defense of accusation against the Anabaptists, 1064

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Ydse Gaukes and Anneken, his wife, 844

" " first letter, 846

" " second letter, 847

" " third letter, 849

Young man burnt, 854

--Z--

Zenobia beheaded, 141

Zenobius " , 141

NOTICE.--The reader will observe that in this index the names of persons are arranged alphabetically after the first names instead of the surnames.

Spelling corrections:

Proper nouns: ---------- Adriaen Peters → Adriaen Pieters Andries → Andriess Annetge → Annetgen Apamia → Apamea ARMENTIERSS → ARMENTIERS Arragon → Aragon Baumgartner → Baumgarter Buysen → Buyse Cluniacensus → Cluniacensis Egly → Egli FEANCHOYS → FRANCHOYS FIERIJNTGEN → PIERIJNTGEN Francijntjen → Francijntgen Geschlacht → Geslacht Geslaght-register → Geslacht Grietken → Grietgen Gruthuysbusch → Gruthuysbosch Hanscken → Hansken Henrick → Hendrick Herman → Harman Hoedmaecker → Hoedemaecker Justinius → Justinus Kallaken → Kalleken KEESKOPER → KEESKOOPER Madgeburg → Magdeburg x3 Maeken → Maeyken MAERTENS → MAERTEN Maertens → Maertenss Matheus → Mattheus x2 Mehnring → Mehrning Michiel Buysen → Michael(?) Busye MIDDLEBORGH → MIDDELBORGH x2 (once in caps) Oorspronch der Nederlantsche → Oorsprong der Nederlandtsche Origin → Origen Peters → Pieters Philophilact → Theophilact Pieters → Pieterss Ryer → Reyer x2 SIJNTJGEN → SIJNTGEN Stoelwijck → Stoelwijk Tactitus → Tacitus Vistorinus → Victorinus WYJCKE → WIJCKE

In Index: ---------- Auxentices → Auxentius Balthaser → Balthasar Bassilla → Basilla Baumgartner → Baumgarter Bruynsen → Bruynen Cladius → Claudius Harring → Haring Honsschoten → Honschoten Isadorus → Isidorus Kampen → Campen Petolomenus → Ptolomeus Photimus → Photinus Serenevs → Serenus Zierick--Zee → Zierickzee