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arrested. Anneessens and four other leaders were kept in confinement for six months. During this period they were denied contact with their families and denied
Catholic services. On 12 September 1719, Anneessens was condemned to death and the four other guild leaders to perpetual banishment. The full trial records were published in two volumes in 1862–1863.
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a cart while bound by his hands and feet. After reading the sentence, Anneessens refused to sign it, claiming to be innocent in the eyes of God. He was then brought to the scaffold on the Grand-Place where his wig was removed. When
Anneesens tried to address the crowd, his words were drowned by drum rolls. The executioner then beheaded him with a sword.
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To restore order de Prié ordered the arrest of those he saw to be the ringleaders in both the rioting and the refusal. Frans
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to plead for the preservation of the time honoured privileges of the craft guilds of
Brussels. The council rejected his plea and that of others and adopted a new regulation that curtailed the privileges of the guilds. The deans of the guilds refused to swear on this new regulation.
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Anneessens was as a slate cutter a member of the Nation of St. Nicholas and as a chair maker a member of the Nation of St. Christopher in
Brussels. In 1689 he was chosen as the dean of the Nation of St. Christopher. In 1699 he represented his guild before the
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were to swear to uphold the law, including a supplementary rider to the liberties of the city imposed in 1700. They refused to swear to uphold this last, with
Anneessens apparently the ring-leader in the refusal.
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