4. But when they ſaw that few were drawn unto them by their fox-like ſubtilty, they returned to their wolviſh cruelty, and compelled ſome by force to frequent their Maſſe, and therefore Catalogues are made through all the Churches, and puniſhment to thoſe that were abſent, the Sexton being to give notice.
5. If any went privately to the Neighbour Churches of the Proteſtants (while there were ſome yet remaining) or to their private religious Exerciſes, being known they were fined, impriſoned, and whipt; ſometimes ſouldiers were ſuborned who might diſtribute, and ruine the Proteſtant meetings, by their invaſion of which thing I will relate one example, when that the year 1623. was brought about, when as much people had met upon the Feaſt of the Nativity of Chriſt, in the Temple near to Kutiburg, and the Village Wyſoke (in the Oratory of the Barons of Dona) Beneda and Lazgeausky, Bohemian Noble-men, Collonels of Horſe, remaining in the Gariſon of Kutiburg, on a ſudden flie hither with their ſcame, incompaſſe the Temple, ruſh in, and draw from the Altar the Miniſter George Barthius; ſtrip off his clothes, and carry him away priſoner (but yet he eſcapt) and caſt the holy bread upon the earth, and poure out the wine, and trample upon it. They then take away with them
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