ſilvania, where they found fit ſeates for them, and avoided thoſe evills, which were to be ſuffered by us who were left.
2. Theſe being gone they then conſulted about the election of the Piccards as they called them and Calviniſts: but this ſucceeded not according to their minds. Firſt, becauſe they had many noblemen to take their parts, who had not given Cæſar any cauſe to ſuſpect their fidelity. Neither could any colour bee found, why all ſhould bee involved in the ſame puniſhment, neither could their baniſhment be effected ſo eaſily as the Anabaptiſts was, who were deſtitute of all humane help. Then they could not well put a difference betweene the Lutheranes and Calviniſts, as they did between the Anabaptiſts and Proteſtants, and laſtly it was not now a time to provoke the Princes of the reformed Religion. At length it was agreed that they ſhould be looked upon alike, and proſecuted promiſcuouſly, as opportunities of oppreſſing them ſhould be offered.
3. By the event it appeared that it was their generall end in theſe actions to drive the opreſſed Proteſtants to Apoſtacy, and to caſt out the remainder of the faithfull more eaſily. Which ſeemed to bee the pollicy of that ſecret counſell at Rome, which we ſpake of before (in the 44 Chapter 2 ſection) and for this Paul Michna a crafty and Pragmaticall man laboured very dilligently. Hee was borne of
