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Pieter Pieters (d. 1535)Pieter Pieters (Peter Petersz) of Leiden (called Borrekiek, Borrekierck, or Barekiek), an Anabaptist martyr, was beheaded at Amsterdam, Holland, on 10 July 1535 (not 15 May as van Braght states). He was a weaver, who had been (re)baptized in 1534 by Cornells wt den Briel. In the spring of 1535 he fled from Leiden to Amsterdam. In his confession he clearly showed that he did not agree with the revolutionary ideas of most of the Leiden Anabaptists. He had not been in the Roman Catholic church for two or three years and emphatically rejected the Catholic doctrine of the Mass. 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: 619. 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: 765. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: III, 372. Verhooren en Vonissen der Wederdoopers, betrokken bij de aanslagen op Amsterdam in 1534 en 1535, in Bijdragen en Mededeelingen van het Historisch Genootschap, vol. XLI. Amsterdam, 1920: 150-52. 
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