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Pieter de Meulenaer (d. 1557)Pieter de Meulenaer (Peter the Miller), an Anabaptist martyr, burned at the stake (van Braght's Martyrs' Mirror says erroneously beheaded) at Antwerp, Belgium, on 22 May 1557. His official name was Pieter van Beke; he was a miller and a weaver, a native of Petegem, near Deinze, Flanders. His name is found in the hymn "Aenhoort Godt, hemelsche vader" (Hear, O God, heavenly Father), No.16 of the Lietboecxken. BibliographyBraght, Thieleman J. van. Het Bloedigh Tooneel of Martelaers Spiegel der Doops-gesinde of Weereloose Christenen, Die om 't getuygenis van Jesus haren Salighmaker geleden hebben ende gedood zijn van Christi tijd of tot desen tijd toe. Den Tweeden Druk. Amsterdam: Hieronymus Sweerts, …, 1685. Part II: 185. Braght, Thieleman J. van. The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus Their Saviour . . . to the Year A.D. 1660. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 569. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm. Dit Boec wort genoemt: Het Offer des Herren, om het inhout van sommighe opgheofferde kinderen Godts . . . N.p., 1562, 1567, 1570, 1578, 1580, Amsterdam, 1590, n.p., 1591, Amsterdam, 1595, Harlingen, 1599. The 1570 edition is cited as reproduced in BRN II., 51-486, including Een Lietboecxken, tracterende van den Offer des Heeren (pp. 499-617): 564. Génard, P. Antwerpsch archievenblad VIII, 434, 438; XIV, 22 f., No. 245. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: III, 180. Wolkan, Rudolf. Die Lieder der Wiedertäufer. Berlin, 1903. Reprinted Nieuwkoop : B. De Graaf, (1965): 63, 71. 
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