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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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the Lawes of the Kingdome, not for any crime (unleſſe it were that in the late Parliament hee had more freely ſtood for the free election of a King) and is delivered to Smeczanius the bittereſt enemies of the Goſpellers, perchance that hee, becauſe lately hee could not inhibite the priviledge of Religion, might by cunning now begin to do it. He therefore began to diſturb them by inhibiting, the ſubjects of that do minion baptiſm and buriall.

9. The ſame enemies go forward elſewhere, and deſtroy the Churches of the Goſpellers in the Arch-Biſhops Town, Grob, (and by vertue of the Kings Patents the new built Church, Braumow of the Abbot Braumow. Alſo in Krumloviana they beginn the perſecution of the Goſpellers being Subjects, the government belonging to the King.

CHAA. XLIII.

The Bohemians being often provoked take up armes.

I. THe Governors of the Univerſity and conſiſtory in communion under bot hkinds being warned of theſe and other matters (which were publiſhed in the States Remonſtrance) were aſſembled together at Prague about the beginning of the yeare 1618, and having power formerly given them by

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