"God knows," answered the heretic, "that if the whole world were of gold, and my own, I would give it all only to have them with me, even had I to live on bread and water and in bondage." "You have then," answered the inquisitor, "only to renounce the error of your opinions."-- "Neither for wife, children, nor all the world, can I renounce my God and religious truth," answered the prisoner.

Thereupon Titelmann sentenced him to the stake.

He was strangled and then thrown into the flames.
At about the same-time, Thomas Calberg, tapestry weaver, of Tournay, within the jurisdiction of this same inquisitor, was convicted of having copied some hymns from a book printed in Geneva.

He was burned alive.
Another man, whose name has perished, was hacked to death with seven blows of a rusty sword, in presence of his wife, who was so horror-stricken that she died on the spot before her husband.

His crime, to be sure, was anabaptism, the most deadly offence in the calendar.