bium, it ſo carne to paſſe, that the yoake of the oxe being looſened, the bridge cleaved aſunder, and hee with his train was drowned in the water, ſix Knights only ſwimming out, ſaved their lives, and one young Nobleman, who at length in his old age died, but eſcaped alive to be a witnes of the daily revenging hand of God, but he avouched the Religion of the Brethren, for which he had had experience that God was watchfull. This man ſaw his Lord ſwimming above the waters of Danubium, and held him by his golden Chaine, untill fiſhermen, who were then comming toward him in a ſmall ſhip, came to help him. So the Baron was taken up, but dead: but the cheſt wherein he had locked his deadly inſtruments, ſunke into the Sea, that it was never ſeen any more, neither was there any one that would looke after it. Thuanus, maketh mention, of this Story in his 36 booke, and reports this accident to have happened on the fourth of the Ides of December.
5. Ten yeares after, in the yeare 1575. Maximilianus called a Parliament at Prague, and permitted all the Orders in the Kingdome under both kinds to be reconciled, by the common ſigne of the confesſion of one faith, the Jeſuites and falſe Huſsits endeavoured with might and main to hinder it. Among other things when they had uſed their beſt endeavours by petitions and proteſtations, alleadging that the Orders in both kinds doe not agree in their faith, but
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