bouring places, they found themſelves beſet with ſuch as would betray them, and ſo were either ſtreightway ſummoned and commanded to return, or brought back by the Souldiers, or by ſuch like forceible meanes: certaine edicts alſo were publiſhed in ſome Villages, forbidding any to entertaine or covertly to keep in his houſe any of them that fled, and whoſoever ſhould, was to pay an hundred pieces of ſilver. Afterwards in the yeare 1628. upon the third day of March, there was Proclamation made, that thoſe that ſhould act contrary to the former command, ſhould for each nights entertainment pay an hundred pieces of ſilver. What then ſhould theſe miſerable people do? it was hard for them to go out of the Kingdom; not being acquainted with any other language; nay, being ignorant both of the places and the waies; and theſe Goliahs the troublers of thoſe Iſraelites reported, that the ſame Tragedie was acted, or ere long ſhould be acted every where.
19. Hereupon ſome not knowing what courſe to take, applyed themſelves to deſperate remedies: viz. raiſing tumults and ſeditions, and taking up armes not onely againſt the cruell Souldiery, and thoſe impoſtors the Jeſuites; but alſo againſt the lawfull Magiſtrate: the event of whoſe undertakings was ſomewhat various, the
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