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John of Leyden was made prisoner, together with his two chief men, Knipperdolling, his executioner, and Krechting, his chancellor, they being reserved for a slower and more painful fate. For six months they were carried through Germany, enclosed in iron cages, and exhibited as monsters to the people.
The Anabaptists took possession of the town, drove out all its wealthy citizens, elected two of themselves a clothier named Knipperdolling and one Krechting as burgomasters, and started off in a remarkable career of self-government under Anabaptist auspices. A community of property was the first measure inaugurated.
The three leaders, Bockelson, Krechting, and Knipperdollinck, after being carried round captives as an exhibition through the surrounding country, were, some months afterwards, on January 22, 1536, executed, after being most horribly tortured. Their bodies were subsequently suspended in three cages from the top of the tower of the Lamberti church.
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