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An engraving depicting the execution of Jan Smit. The image shows Smit hung by the ankle from a gallows outside of Haarlem.

An engraving depicting Hans Knevel before the margrave. The image shows Knevel, bound and with a chain on his leg, brought before the margrave after being arrested.

An engraving depicting the torture of Geleyn Corneliusz. The image depicts Corneliusz hanging from a crossbeam by one wrist, a weight tied around his opposite ankle, while his torturers play cards on the other side of the room.

An engraving depicting the execution of Jan Wouterss van Kuyck and Adriaen Jans of Molenaersgraef. The image shows Jans being bound to a post atop an execution platform while Wouterss addresses the crowd.

An engraving depicting the execution of Hans Misel. The image shows Misel kneeling with blood spurting from his neck as his head lays on the ground beside him, his executioner moving to kick is body over as a crowd watches.

An engraving depicting the public execution of a dozen people. The image shows a card of people being brought to an execution platforms where several have already been bound to stakes which are being prepared to be burned.

An engraving depicting the execution of Wolfgang Pinder. The image shows Pinder bound and on the ground as his executioner cuts at his neck with a sword while a crowd watches.

An engraving depicting the execution of Anne Hendricks. The image shows Hendricks, bound to a ladder, being lifted towards a bonfire as a crowd watches.

An engraving depicting the arrest of Hans van den Wege. The image shows van den Wege being aprehended by guardsmen on horseback while at the fishmarket.

An engraving depicting the torture of Ursel, a schoolteacher. The image shows Ursel hung by her wrists from a post in a torture chamber being scourged by a man while a crowd watches.

An engraving depicting the execution of Willem Janss. The image shows Janss stepping up onto a bundle of wood beside a post as a monk and crowd watch.

An engraving depicting a debate between Jacob de Roore, the Chandler, and Friar Cornelius before de Roore's execution. The image shows de Roore chained in a dungeon, sitting across from the friar and two noblemen as they debate.

An engraving depicting Dirk Willems, who as later burned at the stake, rescuing his pursuer from an icy body of water.

An engraving depicting Pieter Pieters Beckjen, who was later burned at the stake, preaching to a group in his boat. The image shows a group of nine gathered in a boat while a man at the bow reads from a Bible, the city of Amsterdam visible behind them.

An engraving depicting the execution of Jacob Dircks and his two older sons. The image shows Dircks and his older sons being led towards a trio of posts where they are to be burned while Dircks' youngest son wraps his arms around his father's neck.

An engraving depicting the execution of Christian Langedul and three others. The image shows the four bound men being led inside a straw lean-to and chained to posts within while a brazier sits to the side ready to light the lean-to on fire.

An engraving depicting the execution of Matthias Servaes. The image shows Servaes being led towards the execution site with hands held in prayer (right) while a young man (left) and woman (right) who had wished to speak with him and were apprehended are ordered to be releasted by a nobleman (right, on horse).

An engraving depicting the execution of Heyndrick Eemkens. The image shows Eemkens bound by his neck to a post (right) and his executioner holding out a burning bundle of straw laced with gunpowder towards him.

An engraving depicting the torture of Joost Joosten before his execution. The image shows a young man seated and bound as three torturers drive spikes through his knees and out the tops of his ankles.

An engraving depicting the execution of Lanaert Plovier, Jenne van Aken, and Marie van Aken. The image shows Plovier praying as he is placed in a sack (left), one of the van Aken's lying on the ground already bound in a sack (bottom), and the other van Aken (also bound in a sack) being placed head-first in a barrel of water.

An engraving depicting the arrest of Andries Langedul. The image shows Langedul seated on a porch witha Bible open on his lap, the open door behind him showing his family inside the house, as a man accompanied by guards approaches him from the street.