of which a Ieſuite beat out with his mallet, hee being himſelfe blind, blinded thoſe that were before blind.
9, But yet their fury did not onely expreſs it ſelfe againſt thoſe that were already buried, I will not mention how they did deny them an honeſt buriall in the Church-yards, and forced them to bee buried in fields, gardens, high-wayes, and in thoſe places that were ſet apart for the puniſhment of rogues. Certainly this was too barbarous that they did altogether deny, that ſome ſhould bee brought out of their houſes, and reſtored to our common mother the earth, for this onely end, that they might vomit out their hatred againſt thoſe that ſlept in Chriſt, and that they might deterre the living almoſt killed with the ſtink of their carkaſes, from the imitation of their conſtancy, this happened to a moſt holy man, John Mathrada Muſlen, preacher at Kutiberg, at Saint Batbera, who dying at his own houſe (in the yeare 1625 the 4. of October, who being privily returned from baniſhment departed;) the Arch-Deacon Apian, denied altogether that he ſhould be buried, not ſuffering himſelf to be wrought upon either by intreaties or by offers of money; at length after eight days, ſome good men by ſtealth taking away his carkaſſe in the night time buried it in a certaine place. That Belial in vain inquiring after the authors of ſo great wickedneſſe, and threatning death unto them, for a little
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