Communism of goods was introduced and also polygamy.

The city was now besieged by its suzerain, the Bishop of Muenster, and after horrible sufferings had been inflicted on the population, taken by storm on June 25, 1535.

The surviving leaders were put to death by torture.
The defeat itself was not so disastrous to the Anabaptist cause as were the acts of the leaders when in power.

As the Reformer Bullinger put it: "God opened the eyes of the governments by the revolt at Muenster, and thereafter no one would trust even those Anabaptists who claimed to be innocent." Their lack of unity and organization told against them.
Nevertheless the sect smouldered on in the lower classes, constantly subject to the fires of martyrdom, until, toward the close of the century, it attained some cohesion and respectability.

The later Baptists, Independents, and Quakers all inherited some portion of its spiritual legacies.