headed, two quartered, and the reſt by Apoſtacy ſaved their lives.
20. Their ſafety was greater, who perſwaded themſelves that by conſtancy alone they ſhould prove invincible: of this ſort ſome were found of every ranck. We have mentioned ſome Miniſters before in their place: we will now ſpeak of one of the Nobility Catharine Otti of Loſſe (formerly a Lady of Teſchobuſe) who, notwithſtanding the baniſhment which Cæſar threatned againſt widowes, did neither forſake her Religion, nor her Countrey: when the Commiſſaries required that ſhe ſhould chuſe one of thoſe two things, ſhe anſwered them, That ſhe could not ſuffer baniſhment, becauſe ſhe wanted an eſtate, but yet that it was not lawful for her to change her religion, and that becauſe of her conſcience; and therefore ſhe would doe neither: if that they would ordain a third thing concerning her, ſhe would leave it to their wils, but commit her ſelfe wholly unto God: hereupon they diſmiſt her, either for ſhame, or elſe becauſe it was not yet appointed that any ſhould loſe their lives meerly for religion: we have already mentioned ſome Citizens, unto which we may joyn theſe; Martin Stransky Citizen of Daczicum, and Simeon Siakowsky, Citizen of Crumlovia, in Moravia; neither of which could be bowed by fair promiſes, nor be prevailed
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