licks, that which indeed was a thunder-bolt which ſhook the mindes of many, eſpecially thoſe which intended to marry. The want of baptiſme and diſgrace of buriall (becauſe they were to be buried by the gardens, fields, and high-wayes, without any ceremony) could be endured more eaſily: if any one were privately married, or had his infant baptized, his puniſhment was a long impriſonment, unleſſe that he could procure his liberty either by apoſtaſie, or by ſome great fine.
8. In the Towns, both thoſe that belonged to the King, and to the Nobility, workes, and trades, and all means of getting their living were forbidden, at length buying of food was prohibited, as at Litomſte, being oppreſt therefore with want and hunger, there was a neceſſity either to flie (but whether ſo for ever while the ſame face of things did appear) or deſpair or apoſtatize, as moſt of them did.
9. They did ſet the Countrey-men into the Towns, they took thoſe who denied to come, either by a Troop of Souldiers ſent, or by their Court-flatterers, or elſe they did apprehend them in the night, draw them out of their chambers, and drive them by troops like beaſts, even in the ſharpeſt cold; and filled the common-priſon, the Towers, Sellers, Stables, and Hog-ſties with them, where they were killed with hunger, and
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