Lopatski, being one of thoſe that was baniſhed, when as the King had wrote that hee liked not ſuch proceedings and had commanded the baniſhed to be reſtored; ſuppoſing that it had beene confirmed returned home to his houſe at Prague, but being apprehended, he was thruſt into priſon & there murthered.
4. In the meane time the Aſſembiies of the Kingdome being held, and thoſe wicked pragmatical men urging it, it was agreed upon, that the communicants under one and both kinds, by the violence of thoſe that were joyned together ſhould bee one body, but the commands of Wladiſlaus ſhould bee put in execution againſt the Piccardins. From whence aroſe a new perſecution to the brethren, their Church doores being ſhut up, and their exerciſe forbidden.
5. Seeing theſe things were ſo way wardly done, one Matthias an Eremite, a plaine man, but of an holy converſation of life, who came to Prague in the year 1419. and hitherto was wont to exhort the people in the ſtreets and market places, flocking unto him in great companies in the fear of God, and repentance, the Clergy in vaine ſtriving to inhibit him, felt the ſevere hand of Zahera. For when he had admoniſhed Zahera the chiefe Magiſtrate by letters which he wrote unto him in the year 1525 of Theologicall moderation, that men ſhould bee converted to the faith by Scripture, not by impriſonments,
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