produced a new Decree of Cæſars, in the yeare 1625 in July, wherein a puniſhment was to be inflicted on ſuch as did conceale the Miniſters, and a reward to ſuch as would betray them. Theſe things were arbitrary, and not fully determined, yet it pleaſed ſome to put this in practiſe, and to make it a capitall fault, and proportioned to the Traytors fifty pieces of ſilver, and for the betraying of a Miniſter, they would increaſe it to ſuch a ſumme, as Judas could not reach unto, for the betraying of his Maſter.
Chap. LVII.
I. SOme of the Miniſters were taken, and thruſt into priſon, with whom this was the common way of proceeding, they were ſolicited by the Jeſuites and Monkes perſwaſions to Apoſtacy, or with their Sophiſtry in arguing and diſputing, or promiſes, or threatnings, or affrightments, But the ſucceſſe proved not alike in all, for fome either for feare of death, or perpetrall impriſonment, or elſe not being able to endure hunger, and the noyſome ſtench of the priſons, before hand fainted, and renounced the Miniſtery, of which ſort there were ſome: others
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