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leve to make choiſe of his time and whoſoever admitted it, it ſcarce goeth well with him. For preſently hee had a Maſſe Prieſt appointed him, who daily would trouble them. Very many underwent this trouble, whereby they might gain ſo much time, as to diſpoſe of their affaires. But when their time being almoſt expired, they ſaid, that they did acknowledge no other thing in their conſcience, they were ſaid to make a mock of ſars power, and ſo run themſelves into freſh dangers. But more particularly we ſhall recount hereafter in their places how theſe pretty Reformers handled buſineſſes.

Chap. L.

The Proceeding againſt the Ministers of the Word, and chiefly the ſeverall cruelties acted against them by the overmuch liberty of the Souldiers.

THe Preamble of this future Tyranny was the barbarous licence of the Kings Souldiers againſt the Miniſters of the Word even before the Victory againſt thoſe who fell into their hands, amongſt theſe who had experience of this, I will make mention of Wenceſlaus Woticius of Byſtrick (under Hoſtinus a Paſtor in Moravia) whom the Polonian Souldiers being led this way into Auſtria, without either regard

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