being affrighted, and lamenting their ſad condition, The chiefe men of the Senate came, and undertooke before the Commiſſarie for the Miniſter, that he ſhould appeare whereſoever they ſhould command him, ſo that he would not ſuffer them to lay violent hands on him. He threatens him now being under arreſt ſhat he will ſend him to Prague, but importuned by the interceſſion of good women, was the next day moved to let him goe, provided, that within three dayes he ſhould depart the City, and thus the good & faithful ſhepheard, not without great lamentations baniſhed, & about 3 years after dyes of the plague, lying on his death-bed, he told his dreame to his friends. He thought he ſaw himſelfe placed in a very large Library, which when he had ſurveyed round about, he found a booke which had this Title in Latine, in golden letters, It is Just that the Just ſhould be ſlaine and then crowned. Which booke he having an earneſt deſire to peruſe, cunningly placed it under his left arme-pit, that he might read it over at a more convenient ſeaſon. But as he awaked, in ſtead of the booke, he found in that place a Peſtilentiall ſwelling, whereof within foure dayes he dyed. He wrote in the time of his baniſhment a booke concerning Apoſtacy, in his owne mother tongue: Alſo another, calling it the Idol of the world, and of the true knowledge of the Crucifix, which being printed have benefited very many, not onely teaching them
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