72 HISTORY OF 



banished from Switzerland. Of those who suffered, and 

 who might be mentioned, were Hans Landis, at Zm-ich, 

 in Switzerland, Hans Miller, Hans Jacob Hess, Rudolph 

 Bachman, Ulrich Miller, Oswald Landis, Fanny Landis, 

 Barbara Neff, Hans Meyhn and two of his sons — all 

 these suffered between 1638 and 1643. 



JVIartin Meylin, son of Hans, was an eminent minister 

 of the gospel of the Mennonite church, in the Palatinate 

 and Alsace. His talents were above the mediocrity. — 

 He rendered himself conspicuous as an Ecclesiastical 

 writer ; his manuscripts on the sufferings of the Memio- 

 nites of 1645, and other works of his, as well as those 

 by Jeremiah Mantgalt, his colleague, were subsequently 

 published, and are copiously quoted, by that voluminous 

 writer, T. Von Bracht, author of the Maertyrer 

 Spiegel. 



Those who emigrated to Pennsylvania had fled from 

 the Cantons of Zurich, Bern, Shaflliausen, Switzerland, 

 to Alsace, above Strasburg,* where they remained for 

 some time, thence they came to the province of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



The offence of which they were guilty, bringing down 

 "upon them so much suffering and persecution, was their 

 non-conformity to what seemed to them, at least, a cor- 



*Many of the Mennonites fled from the Cantons of Zurich, 

 Berne, Schatfhausen, &c., Switzerland— several edicts were 

 issued forbidding them the free exercise of their religious 

 opinions. One at Schaflfhausen, A. D. 1650. One was issued 

 by the Prince of Ncwberg, A. D. 1653: in 1671, they were se- 

 verely persecuted, and extensively dispersed. — BradiVs His- 

 tory, p. 1019-102:3.— Erag-. Trans. 



Extract from a letter written by Jacob Evcrling in Obersuelt- 

 xen, April 7, 1671: "In answer to the inquiry of your friends, 

 touching the condition of our Swiss brethren in the department 

 oi' Bern, it is an unvarnished fact, that they are in a distressed 



