Chap. 99.
The Reformation of Tuſtan.
DOnazelce is not accounted the meaneſt among the free Cities in the Kingdom, which the neighbouring Germans call Tusta, Przikik Jeniſſek an Officer of the Kingdom, did ſollicit this City to a defection but in vaine, and when he had made complaint of, and bemoaned their obſtinacy at Prague, in the Colledge of the Jeſuites, Don Martin being by chance there preſent, laught at him, and promiſed that if he did not effect it, he would be lyable to pay 500. Crownes.
2. Taking therefore with him ſome of his Souldiery, he enters the City, and ſends forth 20. Souldiers againſt tenne of the Senators, giving them liberty of troubling them in what way they would, and ſo by this meanes in a ſhort time, many if not all of them were forced to an Apoſtaſie, and ſo he receive again the pledge which he had left with the Confeſſour.
3. But he being bitterly ſet againſt the Citizens of Tuſta, becauſe not for his ſake, but for the ſake of another, they became Catholiques, ſets a fine upon them, and ſo the miſerable Profeſſors of the Goſpel were made like Tennis-Balles being toſſed
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