King, the men of Prague, and the clergy, for they know not what they do, and their hands are full of blood. Well beloved people, pray for your King, that God would give him the knowledge of truth, for he is miſled by the Biſhops and Clergy. And having ended this moſt Godly exhortation, they with it ended their lives Auguſt 29.
CHAP XXXIII.
I. DUchoſlaw a citizen of Prague, and a chiefe pickthanke of Zahera, ſo violently hated thoſe of the true faith, that he wiſhed all the Piccardines either to be hanged, beheaded, or burned by his own hands, all which by the juſt judgement of God befell him. For being greatly in debt in the yeare 1525 on St. Andrew’s day, he hanged himſelf at his own houſe, whom his kinſmen privily conveyed away, & buried obſcurely near unto a certain Village, but when the country people had notice thereof, they digged up the carkaſe and caſt it way, which by the commandement of the Magiſtrate was delivered to the executioner to bee burned, but when the great Wood-ſtack was conſumed, and he notwithſtanding was not burned, his head was taken off from the car-
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