of Bavaria, and taking by ſtorme Pracatice and Piſek, (Proteſtant townes) put the Citizens to the ſword for a terror to others, and every where make great ſlaughters of the Proteſtants. At length they came as farre as Prague the Metropolis of the Kingdome, which being ſtruck with a Pannicke feare, after the overthrow of their forces in a ſet battell before the Walls (in 1620, the 8 of November) and the flight of their new King, is delivered unto them, and all Bohemia, Moravia and Sileſia. The Conquerour promiſing to keep articles, but afterwards performing them according to the manner of the Councell at Conſtance.
2. And now began the face of the Bohemian Church to appeare in ſadneſſe, at the rayſing that moſt cruell perſecution, which hath brought an utter ruine and deſtruction of the Proteſtants. They now carried on their deſignes otherwiſe than they formerly did in England, the Low-Countries and France: doing more miſchiefe by their milde (as they would have it ſeem) proceedings, than lately by their outragious furie, when the ſword, and fire, and wheele, were the inſtruments of their rage againſt the faithfull. Which was a new policy of the Whoreof Babylon, to appear couretous that ſhe might ſcare fear from her by her cruellty. For that their Privie Councel is open and manifeſt, wherein, when it was debated at Rome, about the time of the preparation for the war,
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