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Requeste, overgegeven aen de Ed: Achtb: Heeren, de Heeren Burgermeesteren ende Vroedschap der stad Utrecht, by ende van wegen Goris van Aldendorp, ende sijne mede-dienaren, op den 17. Julij 1665.
Aldendorp, Goris Hendriks van, -1672
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work is a 17th-century Dutch administrative petition concerning internal Mennonite disputes in Utrecht. Extensive searches across major library catalogs (including LOC, Internet Archive, and scholarly databases) yielded no evidence of any English translation. Given the ephemeral and highly specific nature of this document, it is extremely unlikely to have been translated.
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This document captures a desperate attempt by 17th-century Anabaptists to manipulate public perception during a heated religious dispute. Readers will see how a simple petition spiraled into a political scandal that forced the Utrecht City Council to intervene and publicly shame the authors.