CHAP. XXVII.
I. IN all theſe times, the condition of the church of the Brothers was moſt heavy, but neither were the Calixtines free from affliction, eſpecially the purer ſort of them, being thoſe who were moſt zealous againſt the Papiſts; for in the year 1408. Mr. Michael Polach, paſtor of St. Ades in old Prague, a man of unblemiſhed life, and an excellent preacher, with three other Parſons, Mr. Wenceſlaus Slane, Iohn Miczta, and Mr. Wenceſlaus Piſcene, were apprehended by the command of King Wladiſlaus, becauſe they affirmed the Pope to be Antichriſt. They were carried into the Caſtle of Calreiſteine where the firſt of them periſhed by hunger, and the naſtineſſe of the priſon; the other with much adoe were diſmiſſed by the order of the States. At which time, many other who were more reformed in their judgements, were either driven from Prague, as Mr. Mathias Macheeke profeſsor of the Univerſity, or willingly departed, as Lucas Pragene, batchelour of Art, an excellent man (who afterwards, as before I have recited was a Biſhop amongſt the Brothers) there alſo forſooke the Vniverſity of their own accord, Mr. Iohn
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