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their names in three Regiſter-books. In the firſt, the names of thoſe which were already Catholiques, (there were ſix Apoſtates lately made.) In the ſecond, the names of thoſe that would become Apoſtates in two weeks. In the third, the names of thoſe which were refractory and oppoſite to God and ſar; but when he ſaw that thoſe of the third ſord were far more in number then the other, he began to devote them to all cruelties, pronouncing them worthy of the Croſſe, the wheele, yea of hell it ſelf.

3. The day following being Thomas day, he compells all to appear in the Temple, and he, as an example to the reſt going before them, receives the Sacrament under one kind after dinner, again he commands that notice ſhould be given by the Bells, and entring the Temple when he ſaw no body preſent (for even the Monkes themſelves were not as yet come) he runnes out, and going through the Market, the ſtreetes, yea into the very houſes, drives all that he meetes with his ſtick to the Temple, being entred again, and there ſeeing M. John Felixteſſius a chief Citizen, and moſt odious unto him, becauſe a Calvineſt ſets upon him, beating him with his knobby Club (which he had taken from a certain Countrey-man ſtanding by) and followes him even to the Altar, ſaying, Thou wicked fellow who haſt ſet

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