The History of the Bohemian Persecution
HISTORY
Of the
conversion to Christianity in the year
894. to the year 1632.
Ferdinand the 2. of Austria, Reigning.
licy, Counsells, Arts, and dreadfull Judge-
ments are exhibited
Printed by B. A. for Iohn Walker at the Star
Popes-Head Ally MDCL.
To the Godly Reader.
Fter that some of the banished Bohemians, who were in Holland, understood that the Edition of Fox’s booke of Martyrs, was by some learned men, and well-wishing to posterity, again intended in England, and that Additions were every where fought for, and that they were admonished to adde unto it, the History of our present Persecution and banishment; they did not intermit forthwith to write to their exiled friends, in Misnia, Polonia, and Hungaria, that so farre as they could, they would declare those memorable things which were acted in this unhappy tragedy, we thought nothing could be declared by us, of which there was not sufficient example, whether wee consider the most bitter hured and rage of Sathan against the Church or the fraudulent machinations of Antichrist, or humane fragillity in persecutions; or the most wise counsell and help of God in preserving his: but because it is neither unpleasant nor unprofitable for Godly spirits to looke upon many examples; partly, to see upon what various occasions God doth exercise his Church with afflictions; partly, how craftily the old Serpent doth circumvent the Saints of God, likewise how men being exposed to trials do severall wayes fall, and lastly, how valiantly God doth corroberate some valiantly to undergo disgraces, banishments, prisons, deaths, and all things grievous for his Name, and how they overcame the world by bearing. Therefore wee were willing to communicate our affaires to the Churches of Christ dispersed through-the World, and Godlinesse it selfe doth command us to declare unto posterity, as much as in us lies, what waters wee have past through, and in what furnaces of fire wee have beene heated, that knowing to what vicisitudes the Church millitant is subject (as the Moon which sometimes increases and sometines decreases, sometimes with a full countenance she defuseth her light, sometimes the suffers a sad Eclipse) they may be the lesse troubled in future times, that they may seasonably prepare their minds for all hazards, and may learn to seek securities and blessings, not under the Sun, but in Heaven, for this reason from the first Originall, we have have briefly deliniated all the most famous mutations of the Bohemian Church, especially since the story of our Martyrs under Gentilisme, Papacy, and fained Protestantisme is communicated but to a few; for beside Hus, Jerom of Prague, and Milisius (whom the Catologue of the witnesses of truth remembers) the book of Martyrs is silent of other sufferers: we thought good therefore by this occasion to join old stories with new, comprehending them both with as much brevity as possible, and faithfully to declare them in a Historical stile; the former stories we have taken out of our Historians; the latter are faithfully collected, either out of our own proper observation, or from the testimony of eye witnesses: and this last persecution of Ferdinand, although it may seem to bee raised on politick causes, and a great part of those miseries which befell the faithfull, to be acted by the licenciousnesse of Souldiers, by the course of War, yet none will deny, but that the constant asserters of the Gospel were Martyrs, who will consider those words in the 13 Revel. 7. and it was given to the Beast to make Warre with the Saints, and overcome. Had not Nebucadonozor a politick cause to destroy Jerusalem (to wit) the rash and obstinate defection of the Jewish people from him, yet you may know what account God makes of his destroying them: consult with Isaiah 47. 6, 7. Jer. 50. 18, 19. Zach. 1. 14, 18. and in many other places. Did not the Jewes give occasion to the persecution of Antioch, by their Domestical tumults, as may appear in the 2. of Machabees 5. 11? there is another intention in God, who chastises his Church for their faults; and in the enemy who seeks to destroy it, therefore we lawfully say, with that Martyr mentioned 2. Machabees 7. 32. We suffer for our sinnes. Yet thou who doth wage war with God in persecuting his servants, thou shalt not escape the judgement of the Almighty. We could have wished these things more copiously to have been collected, and more accurately set down, than our present state will suffer us; but in regard we have been often admonished to communicate some late transactions done in our Country and Church, we had rather give this, than not to satisfie the desires of those that are good. When God shall bring us home again, which we hope, other memorable things may be added and these things which are now written, declared with more evidence Farewell.
In our banishment in
the year, 1632.
N. N. N. &c.
The conversion of the Bohemians to Christianity; the Persecution that followed |
1 |
The Martyr Ludomilla |
5 |
The Martyrdome of Wenceslaus, Podivinius, and others |
6 |
Woytichius, otherwise Adalburtus Bishop of Prague, with his five own Brothers were Martyred |
9 |
The first witnesses unto the truth against the Papacy in Bohemia |
10 |
John Melice and Conrade Stickna |
15 |
Mathias Janovius, or the Parisian |
16 |
John Husse and Ierom of Prague with some other Martyrs |
19 |
All Bohemia condemned |
25 |
The Martyrs of Tabor |
28 |
John Krasa |
29 |
The Litomerician Martyrs |
31 |
Wenceslaus Preacher at Arnostowitz, with eight more burned. Conrade Arch-Bishop of Prague converted |
34 |
Wenceslaus Swets, Martin Loquis, Procopius Jednooky, and others. |
36 |
Iohn Zeline |
39 |
The Martyrdoms under the future Hussites |
41 |
The Taborites persecuted |
46 |
The beginning of the fraternity in Bohemia |
48 |
The first persecution of the sayd Brothers |
53 |
The Brothers erect to themselves a peculiar Ministery |
57 |
Abominable Lyes cast upon the Brothers. |
63 |
The Brothers proscribed from Moravia into Moldavia |
65 |
The Brethren in Bohemia cited to a colloquy |
66 |
The Proclamation of King Wladislaus for the banishing of the Brothers, made frustrate by the intervention of some wonderfull Iudgements: The Martyrs at Bora |
69 |
Some examples of Gods Iudgement on the enemies |
73 |
Andrew Policka a Martyr |
76 |
The persecutions which the more reformed of the Calixtines did endure |
79 |
The Persecution of the Orthodox Divines, under Zahera, or Trahere, the administrator a false Hussite |
83 |
The Protestants banished from Prague, and whipped with Rods |
87 |
Nicolas Wrzetenarz, with his Hostesse Clara burned |
90 |
Martha Porzizia burned |
92 |
A potter and a girdler burned |
93 |
The judgement of God upon Zaheram and his complices |
94 |
Perpetuall oppreſſions under Ferdinand the first |
95 |
The Churches of the Brethren every where shut up: and some of their Churches publiquely sold |
98 |
John Augusta, James Bileck, and George Israel taken |
100 |
Very many of the Ministers of the Gospell banished |
102 |
Jesuites brought into Bohemia |
104 |
The state of the Churches under Maximillian, under one common confession are reconciled |
105 |
Under Rodolphus the Gospellers had full liberty |
111 |
New stratagems of the enemies under Matthias |
115 |
Ferdinand the second a sworne enemie of the Evangelists is thrust out by the Bohemians |
120 |
The Bohemians being often provoked take up armes |
125 |
The Bohemians being overcome undergoe a terrible storme |
129 |
The General proceeding against all. Their first beginning with the Anabaptists |
134 |
The burthens of Taxes |
136 |
The horrible adulterating of Money |
139 |
The cruelty of their mockings |
140 |
142 |
The Proceeding againſt the Ministers of the Word, and chiefly the ſeverall cruelties acted against them by the overmuch liberty of the Souldiers |
144 |
The first compelling the Ministers of Prague to Apostacy |
152 |
The first publick edict against the Ministers of Prague |
153 |
The Ministers are removed out of other Cities |
157 |
Ungodly men are put into the places of the Ministers of the Gospell |
160 |
The Ministers in Cuttenburgh removed |
163 |
An Edict for the expulsion of all the Ministers out of the Kingdome |
165 |
The imprisonment of many of the Ministers of the Gospell, and the Martyrdome of one, by name Mattheus Ulicius |
166 |
Ministers cast out of Moravia |
172 |
Proceedings against Peeres & Noblemen, how many eminent & chiefmen were taken, & some condemned to death, others to perpetual imprisonment |
175 |
Twenty seven glorious Martyrs |
184 |
Joachimus Andreas, Schlik of Holeytsche Count of Assaw Lord of Swijan |
192 |
Wenceslaus Baron of Budowa a Monke of Grætium, Lord of Klastericke and Zazadka |
194 |
Christopher Harant Baron of Bezdruzitz, and Polzciz Lord of Petzka |
200 |
Caspar Kaplirz of Sulewitz, a Knight 86 yeares of age |
203 |
Procopius Dworzecski de Olbramowitz; &c |
208 |
Frederick de Bile Lord of Rzchlovice |
209 |
Henry Otto de Losse Lord of Komarove |
210 |
Dionisius Czervins de Cludezitz |
213 |
William Konezchlumski |
215 |
Bohoslaus de Michalowtz Lord of Rugenice |
216 |
John Theodore Sextus |
218 |
Valentine Kochan, a Citizen of new Prague |
219 |
Tobias Steffek, a Citizen of new Prague |
221 |
John Jessenius Doctor of Physick |
222 |
Christopher Khober a Citizen of little Prague |
225 |
John Shultis, Primate of Kutteberg |
226 |
Maximillian Hostialek |
227 |
John Kutnaur Senator of old Prague |
228 |
Simeon Sussickey |
230 |
Nathaniel Wodniansky |
231 |
Wenceslaw Gisbitsky alias Masterooussky |
233 |
Henry Kozel with others |
234 |
Martin Fruweyn de Podoli |
235 |
Matthias Borbonius a Physician |
239 |
Noblemen of Moravia imprisoned |
241 |
Wenceslaus de Betow a Knight |
242 |
The Protestant Noblemen are deprived of their Goods |
243 |
The Protestants are probibited from the exercise of Religion, and the benefit of the Law, even those that had not offended the Emperor |
250 |
The Protestant Nobility are banished out of the Kingdome |
253 |
Their Proceedings against the Free Cities |
266 |
Articles gathered out of the Instructions given to the Capitanes of Distresses, July 1624 |
268 |
271 |
The Reformation at Kutterberg |
279 |
The Reformation of Bolislavia |
283 |
The Reformation of Litomeric |
293 |
The Hradicensian Reformation |
296 |
The Reformation of Bidsove |
301 |
The Reformation of Zaticum |
302 |
The Reformation of Tustan |
308 |
The Reformation of Rokezan |
309 |
The Slanenseon Reformation |
313 |
The Reformation of Prachatice |
316 |
The Proceedings against the Common-People |
318 |
George Balthasar Martyr |
340 |
The fury of the adverſary, againſt Churches, books, and the dead |
346 |
Examples of Prodigies and punishments, whereby God sometimes affrighted his enemies |
354 |
Concerning the remainder of the faithfull in Bohemia after all this persecution |
367 |
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