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	Charlie's Heretics History Tour - Munster
		Jan of Leiden, one of Jan Matthys' 12 apostles, arrived in town.
		Jan Matthys announced his intention of killing all the "godless" (those who refused to be rebaptized).
		Jan of Leiden ordered Mollenbecke and 7 accomplices bound to the lime trees near the cathedral with iron bounds around their necks.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/5578/munster.html (957 words)

	The Rise and Fall of the Anabapists by Belfort Bax
		Jan, who, like his master, Matthys, was no puritan, but, on the contrary, seems to have always had a taste for the dramatic and was never averse to display as such, arranged his court down to the smallest detail, with due regard to scenic effect.
		Jan and the Preachers unceasingly exhorted the people to regard the present condition of famine in the light of a fast ordained by God, which it was the duty of the Saints to observe till the time of feasting should come again.
		But Jan, with his practical sense, knowing that disaffection existed in the town and tended to increase with the growth of the famine and the apparent hopelessness of the situation, bethought himself of a plan of placing the defence of the gates in the hands of persons upon whom he could thoroughly rely.
	www.marxists.org /archive/bax/1903/anabaptists/ch07.htm (9391 words)

	Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, Part 2
		Isaac, of Jan Janse Van Aarnhem and Hester Fonda.
		Matthys, of Jan Henrikse Bout and Jannetje Scharp.
		Jan Dirk, of Jan Janse Van Aarnhem, decd., and Esther Fonda.
	aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/gen/albany/part2.html (8023 words)

	RR0829
		Matthys preached a sermon advocating a 'new Jerusalem purified of all uncleanness'.
		Matthys summoned the populace to a prayer-meeting in the marketplace where Matthys preached that the Lord was outraged by the slandering of his Prophet and that the slanderer had to be cut off from the Chosen People; Matthys was said to have stabbed the flsmith in front of those assembled.
		Jan Matthys was killed leading a sortie against the besieging forces.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /fac/arts/History/teaching/protref/RR0829.htm (891 words)

	The Rise and Fall of the Anabapists by Belfort Bax
		One night, as the two Bürgermeisters and Jan of Leyden were performing their duty, accompanied by two of the guards, they saw a great fire suspended in the air before the town, together with two gigantic swords.
		One day Jan Matthys invited some of his countrymen and others to a feast, for the doctrine of Matthys did not involve asceticism or the mortification of the flesh.
		Jan Matthys is described as a tall man with a long fl beard.
	www.marxists.org /archive/bax/1903/anabaptists/ch06.htm (3484 words)

	John of Leiden -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After his arrival Matthys - recognized as a prophet - became the principal leader in the city.
		Following a failed military attempt on Easter Sunday 1534, in which Matthys died, John of Leiden became King of Münster until its fall in June of 1535.
		He set up a (A political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)) theocracy in Münster and led a (A socialist who advocates communism) communistic and (additional info and facts about polygamous) polygamous state.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_of_leiden.htm (467 words)

	Pers 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		By eliminating the The Catholics from the city, Matthys and his cohorts not only heightened the sense of chiliastic expectation but they also came to realize that the outside world was growing intolerant of the developments within Münster, and that they were soon to be besieged.
		Matthys gave a speech in which he declared that God was outraged at this man's evil actions because he had defiled an otherwise pure town.
		On March 15, 1534, Matthys proclaimed that all books except the Old and New Testaments (which were deemed solely sufficient for conducting a holy life) were to be brought to the cathedral-square where they were burned to ashes.
	www.catholicapologetics.net /pers_8.htm (2414 words)

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		No person should remove or transfer any liquor until a return of the same was made and tax paid on forfeiture of the liquors, and five times its value to be applied, one- third to the officer, one-third to the informer and one-third to the church.
		On November 22, 1661, the court, Stuyvesant being present, adopted an ordinance that a new road be opened from the village to the new and undivided lands.
		On March 6, 1664, the child of Jan Lootman was returned, and on the 25th, the chief of the Wappingers brought back another child.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/ucutd002.html (11179 words)

	Charisma and History: The Case of Münster, Westphalia, 1534-1535. Tal Howard
		By presenting Matthys and Bockelszoon without Weberian conceptual support, I aim to highlight the shortcomings of charisma as a conceptual category, and thus call attention to the disadvantages which such theoretical devices, when not judiciously employed, often bring to the discipline of history.
		Soon after hearing of Hoffman's fate, the Haarlem baker Jan Matthys, in the presence of the Low Country Melchiorites, professed to be driven by the Spirit, and he told how God had revealed to him that he was Enoch, the second witness of the apocalypse (Hoffman had claimed to be the first witness, Elijah).
		Their clothing, beds, furniture, tables, weapons, and food were placed in a central area 36 and, after praying for three days, Matthys announced that God had given him a sign to appoint seven deacons to distribute the goods to the people.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /journals/EH/EH35/howard1.html (6918 words)

	HWC, Muenster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Early in 1533 they were joined by Jan Matthys and other Dutch refugees, and Matthys (a follower of Hoffman) soon emerged as the leading figure.
		Matthys ordered that no un-baptized adults should remain in the city, and many were baptized rather than leave the city and risk falling into Catholic hands.
		His place was taken by another Dutch leader, Jan Bockelson of Leyden, who abolished the city council completely, appointed twelve elders, and proclaimed himself king.
	history.boisestate.edu /WESTCIV/reformat/ana09.htm (344 words)

	Today in Odd History: Anabaptist Radicals Declare Muenster the "New Jerusalem" (p. 2)
		When Easter came, Matthys seized the goods of the exiled citizens and placed them in warehouses to be distributed to the poor, then insisted that everyone in the city bring forth their wealth so that it could be evenly divided amongst the populace.
		Jan van Leyden himself was captured, and tortured to death with hot irons.
		The cages in which the bodies of van Leyden and two other leaders were displayed still hang from the tower of the church.
	www.newsoftheodd.com /article1010_2.html (858 words)

	Matthys Jansen van Keulen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Matthys Jansen was born in London in 1601 or 1602, and was baptized in the Austin Friars Dutch Reformed Church there on 2 Feb. 1602.
		He was the son of Jan Mathijs van Keulen, who was from the Netherlands, and of Annetje Jans of Amsterdam.
		Matthys Matthysen's sons kept the name "van Keulen", changing the "l" to an "r" for unknown reasons, and all Van Keurens in America today that we know of are descended from Matthys Matthysen and his father Matthys Jansen van Keulen.
	www.ttinet.com /rsvk/family/vankeurenmj.html (507 words)

	Biographies of Famous Anabaptists
		Jan Matthys, the man who baptized him, sent him, as an apostle, to the city of Münster.
		Jan Matthys and Jan van Leiden were the leaders of Münster; when Matthys died in April 1534, Jan van Leiden declared himself king.
		Jan Matthijs and Jan van Leiden were their leaders.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/period/reformation/bioxrefanab.html (1480 words)

	The Anabaptists - Heads 35-49 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Matthys, the henchman of Beukels, therefore promptly resumed the rebaptisms previously suspended by Hoffmann.
		Matthys proclaimed himself King of Muenster, and announced his intention of killing all his enemies.
		After Matthys was killed in one of the predictable skirmishes, Beukels immediately took over and proclaimed a yet stricter form of communism.
	www.reformed.org /sacramentology/lee/anab_004.html (8286 words)

	ND surgeon OK after crash landing near Winsted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gary Alan Matthys, 36, originally from Argusville, ND, is at his home in Fargo, ND, and doing well, according to his mother Jan Matthys.
		From interviewing eyewitnesses and Gary Matthys himself, it appears that the helicopter was having mechanical failure, said McLeod County Chief Deputy Mark Taylor.
		Matthys was flying a 1991 Robinson R22 Beta Helicopter, according to the sheriff’s department.
	www.herald-journal.com /archives/2004/stories/heli.html (289 words)

	Today in Odd History: Anabaptist Radicals Declare Muenster the "New Jerusalem" (February 27, 1534)
		In Haarlem, Jan Matthys, a baker who perceived himself to be the heir to Melchoir's spiritual authority, suddenly announced that he was, in fact, Enoch, the second witness of the Book of Revelation.
		Jan van Leyden (sometimes identified as Jan Bockelson) and Gerard Boekbinder went to Muenster, where they found Bernhard Rothman already preaching Anabaptist sermons.
		Jan van Leyden and Bernard Knipperdolling took to the streets, preaching the Apocalypse.
	www.newsoftheodd.com /article1010.html (759 words)

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		No person should remove or transfer any liquor until a return of the same was made and tax paid on forfeiture of the liquors, and five times its value to be applied, onethird to the officer, onethird to the informer and onethird to the church.
		Blom 58 Juriaen Westphalen 33 Matthiees Roeloffs 16 Michiel Verre 3 Jan van Bremen 4 Gertruyd Andriessen 14 Jan Aertsen Smit 17 Cornelis Jansen, Wilm.
		1 4 Of Jan Joosten 1 2 Of Barent Harmensen 1 1 Of Grietje Westercamp 1 3 Of Jan Barents 1 1 Of Michiel Ferre.
	www.jrbooksonline.com /DOCs/van_buren_02.doc (8191 words)

	Three Monkeys Omnia sunt communia. Q by Luther Blisset - a review.
		Jan Bockelson of the Münster Anabaptists really was a tailor and Jan Matthys was a baker.
		I’ve promised them that they won’t have problems with the censors, we’ll have to be careful.” But sometimes it is too efficient: “My name’s Matthys, Jan Matthys, a baker from Haarlem”.
		A fight in part three is described in full, correct sentences (elsewhere there is a tendency to drop verbs in descriptions of fights in a not unsuccessful attempt to convey the confusion and speed of the action).
	www.threemonkeysonline.com /threemon_printable.php?id=139 (1010 words)

	Van Keuren Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The first Van Keuren in America was Matthys Jansen van Keulen (Ceulen), the Patroon of Zwaanendal.
		Matthys Matthysen's sons kept the name "van Keulen", changing the "l" to an "r" for unknown reasons, and all Van Keurens in America today are descended from Matthys Matthysen and his father Matthys Jansen van Keulen.
		Family tradition has is that Matthys Jansen's father was a painter living on the coast of Holland.
	www.ttinet.com /rsvk/family/vankeuren.html (288 words)

	A Doom Is A Wish Your Heart Makes - Page 1
		Fortunately for his rep, he chose that moment to wander casually outside the city’s walls and was promptly hacked to bits by an army of pissed-off Catholics and Lutherans.
		The cult that Jan gathered around him didn’t fall to pieces as easily as he did, however.
		There to hold the fearless band of fruitcakes together was another Jan, yet; Jan Beuckelson and he made Jan Matthys look like Mr.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/9941/doomwish1.html (3571 words)

	Historical Committee & Archives of the Mennonite Church
		He was later to assert that he and his followers had, at the time, been fully prepared to suffer for Christ like the early church, but the arrival of Jan of Leiden in Muenster in January 1534, and Jan Matthys in February 1534, changed everything.
		To rehabilitate his tarnished prophetic honor, Matthys decided, with a number of followers, to emulate Gideon of old and sally forth from the city to slay the enemy.
		Since it speaks of Jan of Leiden as still alive, it must have been written between Easter of 1535 and the collapse of Muenster in June of the same year.
	www.mcusa-archives.org /MHB/mhb-friesen.html (3920 words)

	bmj.com Rapid Responses for Benson et al., 331 (7508) 89
		Jan Matthys, General practitioner,vocational trainer University of Ghent, Belgium.
		Matthys J, De Meyere M, Mervielde I, Knottnerus JA, Den Hond E, Staessen J et al.
		Influence of the presence of doctors-in-training on the blood pressure of patients: a randomised controlled trial in 22 teaching practices.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/eletters/331/7508/89 (823 words)

	ipedia.com: Anabaptist Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was long popular to simply lump all Anabaptists as Munsterites and radicals associated with the Zwickau Prophets, Jan Matthys, John of Leiden (also Jan Bockelson van Leiden, Jan of Leyden), and Thomas Muentzer.
		Their Christology and negative attitude towards the state rather indicate, as in the case of John Wyclif, Jan Hus and the Fraticelli (Brethren), an affinity to the Cathars and other medieval sects.
		Later on Hermann Schyn claimed descent for the peaceful Baptists from the Waldensians, who certainly, as the records of the Flemish inquisition, collected by P. Fredericq, prove, were widespread during the 15th century over north France and Flanders.
	www.ipedia.com /anabaptist.html (3498 words)

	Melchior, Melchiorites
		However, Hoffman lay in prison for ten long years before dying in 1543.
		His Reformation in the Low Countries slowly matured into two wings: (1) The Peace Wing led by Jan Volkerts Trypmaker (martyred in 1531) and Jacob van Campen (martyred in 1535).
		Later leaders in this Peace Wing in Friesland were Obbe Philips, his brother Dirk Philips, and from 1536 Menno Simons.
	www.mb-soft.com /believe/txc/melchior.htm (263 words)

	PATRONYMICS
		His father was Jan, hence the surname Jansen.
		Van, or De) this would identify where he was from, or what he did for a living.
		Matthys Jansen Van Keulen, translated, means: Matthys, Jan’s son, of Cologne.
	www.angelfire.com /id/vancuren/patro.html (707 words)

	VAN KEULEN ARMORIAL
		His sons, Matthys and Jan are progenitors of the Van Keuren(also spelled Van Kuren and Van Curen) and Jansen(also Jonson, Johnson) families in America.
		As they had no children of their own, Thomas presented the Armorial to his stepsons Matthys and Jan in a ceremony on November 28, 1689.
		The Coat is a pale background, with a raised chevron emblazened with tiny vertical chamber pieces, and three large chamber pieces, fired proper, above and below the chevron.
	members.aol.com /Vancuren53/coat.html (254 words)

	Radical Reformation
		Under Jan Matthys, baptized as a disciple of Hofmann, and then under Jan van Leiden, who seized power at the death of Matthys, the revolutionary Melchiorites in the city of Munster gave a political and social expression to Hofmann's end - time kingdom.
		They transformed his idea of divine vengeance so that in Munster the members of the kingdom carried out vengeance upon anyone who opposed them.
		Following the fall of the city revolutionary Melchioritism died out, although it was carried on for a time by personages such as Jan van Batenburg.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/radrefor.htm (1743 words)

	Rev. William Anderson of Griquatown
		I found that it was entered in a summary time line history of South Africa -this means that someone sometime said it was critical.
		Official expedition of Truter, Somerville, Barrow and Daniell - with missionaries Jan Matthys Kok and William Edwards - reaches Dithakong
		Mary, who had been born at Griquatown, was still to meet David Livingstone, her future husband.
	griquatownandersons.com /ancestors/3.htm (895 words)

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