Chap. X.
The Martyrs of Tabor.
1 BUt ſome things are to be diſcourſed of more briefly in reſpect of places and perſons and diſtinctly it muſt be opened, how the Roman faction being incited by the Antichriſtian alarum of Martine did perſecute the faithfull.
2 When after the death of Wenſiſlaus in the yeare 1419, Sygiſmund took the Kingdom, and by his Delegates (he not being preſent there, till he came after with an army) ordered ſeverall things which did ſtreighten the liberty of their conſciences, ſome thouſands of thoſe that imbraced the pure Religion, gathered together to a ſtony mountaine, ten miles from Prague, which they named Tabor, that mountaine they compaſſed about with a wall, and conſtituted a common-wealth determining to defend it by armes if need were.
3. The Papiſts and thoſe that were called Calikstins, being enraged againſt them, perſecuted them all manner of ways: & firſt when they ſent their Embaſſadors, Gallus Perſtenus, and Mathias Blacils, for peace ſake, to Cuttenburg, theſs men were caſt headlong into the moſt deepe mines of mettall, but the Cuttenburghians, who were devoted to the Emperor, and for the moſt part the Germaine nation,
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