The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . Title Page of Broadside Circulated Among the Peasantry. ii8 The Pennsylvania-German Society. ings of Menno Simon, who gathered up the scatteredBaptists, resolved itself into the denominationsknown as Mennonites, Dunkers and similar congre-gations, who are now among our most peaceful andharmless Christians. Their haven of rest was event-ually found
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . Title Page of Broadside Circulated Among the Peasantry. ii8 The Pennsylvania-German Society. ings of Menno Simon, who gathered up the scatteredBaptists, resolved itself into the denominationsknown as Mennonites, Dunkers and similar congre-gations, who are now among our most peaceful andharmless Christians. Their haven of rest was event-ually found in the fertile valleys of our own Penn-sylvania,^ and their descendants are to-day amongour most thrifty and respected Title of the First German Bible.(Reduced Fac-Simile.) ^^^ The main cause for these excesses was a certain Johannes Bockhold,a tailor of Leyden, who came to IMiinster in 1533. Assuming the nameof John of Leyden. he excited a portion of the populace, and had him-self declared as king of New Zion. From this period 1534, Miinsterbecame the theatre of all the excesses of fanaticism, lust and city was captured June 24, 1535, by the forces under the Bishop ofMiinster, and the kingdom of the Anabaptists was destroyed by theexecution of the chief men. Council of Trent. ng In tlie year 1520, while tlie emperor Charles sojourning in Germany, a letter was handed tohim from America. This missive, dated July 16,1519, and now in the archives of the ImperialLibrary at Vienna, was from Hernando Cortez, andtold of the capture of a country rich in precious was welcome news to that impecunious returns for the next decade, however, failed tomake any great impression up
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