About the year 1300, a sect of the same kind called the Turlupins (which
word rather seems to have been a nickname than a serious appellation of
that sect) made their appearance in France, again declaring themselves,
as well by their example as by their words, for freedom from
accoutrements. To these the Picards, a century afterwards, succeeded in
Germany, who carrying their opinion on the sanctity of nakedness and
their abhorrence of such unhallowed thing as clothing, farther than the
Adamites had done, made at all times their appearance in a perfect state
of nature. A certain party of Anabaptists adopting the doctrine of these
Picards, tried, on the thirteenth day of February, in the year 1535, to
make an excursion in the streets of Amsterdam, in the hallowed state we
mention; but the Magistracy, not taking the joke so well as they ought
to have done, used these adventurers in rather a severe manner.