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A76849	The fanatick history: or an exact relation and account of the old Anabaptists, and new Quakers. Being the summe of all that hath been yet discovered about their most blasphemous opinions, dangerous pactises [sic], and malitious endevours to subvert all civil government both in church and state. Together with their mad mimick pranks, and their ridiculous actions and gestures, enough to amaze any sober christian. Which may prove the death & burial of the fanatick doctrine. Published with the approbation of divers orthodox divines.	Blome, Richard, d. 1705.	1660 (1660)	Wing B3212; Thomason E1832_2; ESTC R7493	128,247	230

he had a great party in Holland and Frize And indeed Geles did all that the wit of man could do to raise troops for his King in those Countries which he put all in combustion as we shall hear in the following Chapter But he was killed in a tumult which he had raised in Amsterdam and same troops of his confederates that were coming to relieve Munster were defeated in Frize at Balswerd This poor Lord of misrule hearing those ill news cast off all hope and could no more put a good face to his desperate case For famine was fierce in the town bread was spent long ago horses dogs and cats were consumed the grass and the very roots were pickt out of the ground and the people solicited from the camp but more by their own extremity were taking counsel to take the King and deliver him to the enemie to buy their peace In that extremity the King commands the gates to be set open and that as many as would should go forth So in one day a thousand of all ages and sexes went out of the Town and yeilded to the mercy of the Prince who mildly received them o Mercie to many justice on few is both good policie and christ anity fed them and let them go A few days after famine increasing in the Town the King proclaimed that as many as wanted faith in Gods help should void the Town saying withall that those that should forsake the faith should be forsaken of God p True but not of his Faith Many were so blindly zealous that this speech staid them they chose rather to perish in the Town than seem to forsake the faith yet many weary to feed upon starved mice and broiled shoes and lean Prophesies harkened to good counsel and took the safety that was offered them Antonius Corvinus a Lutheran Divine writes that he hath seen books whose covering was eaten in the famine and that when the town was taken children half eaten were found in corners Yet in that general famine the King had six months provision left and kept a good table to the very last They had not held out so long but that the Princes met at Coblents could not agree about the contribution and so the siege went but slowly on but the Emperour made them meet again at Wormes in Aprill where fifty thousand crowns a month were granted to the Bishop for five months and it was ordered that after the taking of the Town the innocent people should be spared and that all the good Citizens that were come out or kept in by force should have restittuion of all their goods By order of the Princes the Army was delivered to Obersteyne who because the pay was slow which made the Souldiers q Mercenary unless in the Devils Service discontent and mutinous could do no great exploit Yet finally the town was taken in June 1535. having endured a siege of eigtheen months It was neither yeilded nor forced but surprized r They perish by themselves Vt solim si●●unc by the means of two that fled out of the town and guided Obersteyns souldiers in the night through the Town ditch where the water was fordable they scaled the walls killed the watches and put the next Court of guard to the sword The noise of it awaked the Townsmen who by reason of their light supper had but a light sleep They had time to make a strong barrecado in the market place and fought valiantly a long time putting the Bishops Souldiers to the worse till they broke open one of the Town gates and let in more men The Townsmen seeing themselves opprest with number craved quarter and had it But the King resisted to the last in S. Lamberts s Lambert futat Church-yard and was with much ado taken with Knipperdolling Rotman would not yeild but was slain in the conflict The Bishop entred into the City the next day with 1500 horse and brought out the spoil of the town from the souldiers the citizens that had yeilded were spared but the fierce Anabaptists that could never be tamed and lay hid in several holes were sought out and killed some Souldiers having made bold with the handsomest women were poisoned with them and found dead in their beds This caused the death of many women revenge being as hot as lust was before the fairy Queen either escaped or was killed for it was not known what became of her The King and no King was sent prisoner to a Castle four miles from Munster He went thither somewhat faster then he would being tyed to the tail of a galloping horse He had galloped enough and was now at his journeys end whereby his Majesty was no little discomposed Knipperdulling and Krechting another Prophet were sent prisoners to Horstmar soon after all three were brought to Telget where the Bishop asked John of Leyden by what authority he had made himself King over his City and his people John of Leyden asked him again who had given him any right or authority over that people the Bishop answered that he came to it by election of the Chapter and the people and I said John of Leyden came in by the will and calling of God Two Lutheran Divines Corvinus and Keymens were sent to u A good course when orderly taken confer with John of Leyden and Knipperdulling they made the first to abjure many of his errors and found him tractable enough and one that heard reason But Knipperdulling like a mad beast would neither hear nor answer reason but stood only upon revelations and a particular spirit w The foundation of the Quakers Of him John of Leyden complained much saying that he played the Pope and would affirm that he had the same power in things spiritual as the King had in things temporal and that it was fit there should be one King for the temporal and another for the spiritual They were condemned and executed as Traitors and Rebels being tied to a stake and pulled in divers parts of their bodies with hot pincers for an hour and more and then stricken in the heart with a dagger Krechting suffered the like death John of Leyden shewed a great constancy if persisting in evil may be called so for being at the stake and hearing his sentence read he maintained that he had indeed offended the Magistrate but that he had not offended God x Pure more affraid of Body then Soul After their death they were put in iron cages and hanged to a high steeple of S. Lambart John of Leyden hanging higher than the two others So died that imaginary King of Justice by the hand of Justice in the first year of his raign being but six and twenty years of age and there was an end of his Kingdom and his Prophesies He was of a fair proportion y The Divil knows who to make use of of an awful and yet lovely presence of a present wit and strong judgment

time he had contrived a most politick enterprise to make himself Master of the City In a night meeting he announced to his brotherhood the Oracle of Henry Hilversum that God had given to the King of Sion Amsterdam Wesell and Daventer for the first-fruits of his raign over the world perswading them that to invade Amsterdam was an easie matter having but to do with a few idle Bellies and that they had a fair opportunity at hand to kill them altogether in the Town-house the twelfth of the instant May a day kept festival by antient custom by the society of the Crosse who used to make a great Feast at night in the Town-house and invite all the Magistrates and men of means of the City and there to spend most part of the night in drinking and looking upon fire-works That day then was designed for the enterprize and their enemies noted and designed for the slaughter and the richest houses already shared amongst them they appointed for the signal of their rising the ringing of the Bell in the Town-house Before they parted John Geles gave to every one a Ducat for a bond of society and secrecy He and Henry Goethelit were to be the leaders The appointed night being come some Anabaptists were up before the signal which the rest looking for stayed so long that the enterprize was disappointed for the same day the Belrope was taken out of the way by a drunken fellow yet by an admirable providence of God n God above all rules over all so may England watching for the safety of the City and so there was no ringing and no great meeting The Magistrates and the society of the Crosse hearing that the Anabaptists were up in armes left their sport and went home Yet the Magistrates were so long consulting that they were almost surprized by their enemies who rushed with Colours flying and Drums beating into the Town-house and killed some of the Serjeants and Waiters and made the Masters that went before to go out of their Aldermans pace to save their lives Then coming to the great place where the Bonfires were burning they overthrew them that they might give more terrour and shoot undiscerned upon the multitude they killed many in the dark with Bullets which they had poisoned for fear of failing and the Burgmaster Peter Colin being come to encounter them with a Troop of Citizens was by them slain and his men put to flight then one Goswin a man of great authority in the City and one that had valour and skill in War commanded that the streets should be stopt with great sacks of Hops heaped up to be instead of Gabions against the shot of the Anabaptists And because he trusted not in the fearful and unexperienced Citizens he called Volunteers to whom he promised a months pay for that dayes service by that means he got many that had seen War before and made a gallant Company The night being dark he could attempt nothing till day onely he took an order that all the wayes to the market place where the Anabaptists stood in armes should be stopt and that the rest of the people should keep at home without noise this order frighted the Anabaptists seeing no hope to be assisted by their brethren who for want of the signal of the Bell were not come and now it was too late for them to come the waies being stopt and having lost the first opportunity of the fright of the people who now were come to themselves and stood upon their defence Then Goetbelit said to Geles this was my fear that beginning this enterprize with so few we should come short of it for they were not above forty now all that we have to do is to dye like men o They could not as Christians Nay said Geles if you will believe a Prophet we shall be Masters of the City before to morrow ten of the clock then they sung p Now against singing Psalms all night at the break of day the people perceiving them began to shoot at them which made them retire into the Town-house and there keep strong the people brought Ordinance before it and were ready to have battered it down but Goswin would try first to assault the door which was done with effect although the Anabaptists fought it out stoutly and but twelve of them were taken the rest were killed Goethelit one of them John Geles that would by any means cozen the hangman of his fees got upon a little Steeple where the Town Bell hung and gave a fair matk to the Soldiers below who shot him thorow whereof he fell down dead into the place The prisoners were executed and some more of the town and some living without the gates who hearing shooting of guns were come to pillage the City supposing that it was taken Two women were hanged and two drowned for poisoning the Bullets many more since were executed and amongst others some of those that daunced that Antique Masque of naked Men and Women and a Woman and her Son for receiving James of Kemp contrary to the order of the Magistrate For it had been proclaimed in the Town that whosoever should harbour him and not discover him before night should be hanged at his door but he that should discover him should have a great reward He was found hid in a heap of turves and executed with ignominy having a two horned Miter on his head because he played the Bishop His tongue was cut off wherewith he had preached Sedition and his hand wherewith he b●ptized without authority A little before the great plot fourteen had conspired when a solemn procession should go over the bridge to throw the Eucharist and them that carryed it down the bridge into the water the plot was detected and the Authors executed John Geles had warned three hundred men of Iselswin to meet him at Amsterdam three or four dayes after the intended enterprize intending with that Garrison to keep the Town They came neer it but hearing how matters went with their brethren they dispersed themselves presently and returned home by several wayes He had appointed more q In wickednesse brethren from several places to come at a certain day but they hearing the ill successe of their tribe took their way into England in two Ships and here it seemeth they have stayed ever since And now the heart of that Faction was broken in all the Low-Countreys for they left not searching and executing in every City till all that Generation was exstinct or brought so low that they left plotting Ten years after some reliques of that Faction would offer to stir at Leyden the Authors being taken and examined confest that the Anabaptists had chosen a King who was not crowned yet and was to succeed Iohn of Leyden and another to be his high Treasurer and that both were at Utrecht Both were apprehended and kept some months in prison Among other exploits of that elected King he