Charged with plotting a general conflagration of the villages and farmhouses, in conjunction with an invasion by Hierges and other Papist generals, they indignantly protested their innocence; but two of them, a certain Kopp Corneliszoon, and his son, nanning Koppezoon, were selected to undergo the most cruel torture which had yet been practised in the Netherlands.
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The son of Kopp, however, nanning Koppezoon, was a man in the full vigor of his years.
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Notwithstanding the promises of pardon, nanning was then condemned to death.
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