Martyrs Mirror 941JACQUES MESDAGH, WILLEM AERTS, JOGS KAS; TEEL, AND KAREL, A. D. 1567

This Jacques Mesdagh was apprehended (with three others; as he writes) on the lst of March, 1566, and was afterwards, on the 8th of November, 1567, burnt with three others, for the Word of God, at Kortrijck, in Flanders, in the marketplace before the city hall, having been confined, with iron fetters on his feet, for more than twenty months. He was from Capelle, to Poele, a league and a ,half from Ypres. With him died a young single man, named Willem Aerts, and two other men, one of whom was Joos Kasteel, from the vicinity of Kortrijck, and. the name of the other was Karel, All four were of very good cheer and valiantly testified to the truth, and confirmed it with their death.