which deny, are thruſt into priſons: all the corners Sellers, and Roomes of the court are filled with arreſted perſons. Preſently, the Souldiers (being licentious enough) are ſcattered to every ones houſe and rage after a moſt inſolent manner, the fearefull Women and children and Families, runne to their arreſted husband and fathers, and weary them with teares and cryes: moſt of their courage began to faile, and one after another doe give their hands to the enemy, and deſire that ſome time might bee granted them to learn the Romiſh Religion. So one way and one fear drove theſe miſerable wretches into the Nets of Antichriſt which had been ſo long avoided becauſe they did not remember that they muſt reſiſt to the ſhedding of their bloud, and not only to impriſonment.
5. Eight and twenty onely, are found of ſo great a number of citizens, who would redeeme the treaſures of their consciences with the loſſe of their earthly wealth. And going out with their families to baniſhment (to wit) Simon Daniel, of Semianina, Iohn Iobolecius, Iohn Zak, Iohn Nigrinus, Paul Iacobius &c. moſt of them learned men, Amongſt whom was Aconſius, who not without trouble tooke care to be put in a coach and carried to Leſthua in Poland, whom a cettain Doctor of Divinity of Seleſia, being his friend when hee dwelt in the
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