them wounded; ſome they brought from the Victualling houſes, and forced them to confeſſion, and received the Sacrament in one kind, Baron Kolowrat, ſet Muskets to the mouthes of thoſe that refuſed to receive the Sacrament after the ſame manner, or elſe by gags forced their mouths open, and commanded the Hoaſt to be thruſt down, perhaps in imitation of Smeczanius, who was uſed to do ſo before.
At Ronspurg in Toſta, and in certain other places, theſe wicked reformers are reported to have gone ſo farre in their wickedneſſe, as to force ſome of the people not only meerly to abjure the Cup, but alſo to throwe it upon the ground, and ſpit upon it, and tread it under their feete; and this was the uſuall forme of abjuring the Cup, and ſwearing to the Catholique Religion.
I ſweare before God Almighty and the Virgin Mary, and all the Saints, that I am not forced, but do voluntarily return to the holy Roman Catholique faith; and I do profeſſe, that it alone is true, ancient, ſaving faith: I do abjure the Cup, neither will I partake of the Cup for ever. Yea moreover, I will by all poſſible meanes diſwade my Children and thoſe that are committed to my truſt, from partaking of the Cup: I do alſo promiſe, that I will conſtantly perſevere in this Religion, and that I will oppoſe men of
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