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fered puniſhment for his diſobedience (as they called it) nine weeks.

2. But John Jahoda was fined a ſumme of money. For when he would not be preſent at an Idolatrous proceſſion, neither would erect an Altar before his houſe, he being called into the Court, was accuſed of blaſphemy againſt God, and Rebellion againſt the Magiſtrate. The puniſhment pronounced to him was impriſonment for 9. weeks, and the payment of 50. dollars (to help to get a new hoaſt) when the time of his impriſonment was run out, he laid down his money, proteſting, That he gave nothing to the Hoaſt (for he knew no other to waſh away the ſinnes of the world, then that which was lifted up on the Croſſe) but in obedience to the Magiſtrate, who might convert this money to what uſe he pleaſed. For which words being ſent back to priſon, he was not diſmiſſed till after a moneth, and with the payment of 50. ſhillings: But inſtantly driven out of the City with his wife. He was a very zealous man, who a little after dying of the plague at Prague, he piouſly ſlept.

3. John Bleyſſa when he had again offended, (having offered his Daughter privately to a Proteſtant Miniſter to be baptized) was firſt put into a ſtinking priſon, and after (with his wife lately delivered) puniſhed with baniſhment: The third

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