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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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caſe being very much ſcorched, and ſo at length were buried.

2. Zahera himſelfe, when under a colour of inquiſition againſt the Piccardins, he had raiſed up civill commotions, by King Ferdinand his comınand, in the year 1529. on the ninth of Auguſt, hee was proſcribed and preſently on the ſelf ſame day (inſtead of the proceſſion which the day before he ſolemnized in the commemoration of St. Lawrence) is forced to leave his own country from whence hee went into Miſnia, but notice being taken by the Electour, what kind of man he was, he was again baniſhed, and died miſərably in Frantonia.

3. The ſame likewiſe happened to that cruell Paſchus the chief Conſull, in the year 1530. who in vaine caſt him down at the Kings feet, and ſued for pardon.

Chap. XXXIIII.

Perpetuall oppreſſions under Ferdinand the first.

I. ALL the Huſſites for denying the abſolute obedience to the Pope, were hated; but the Brethren for quite caſting him off, were utterly deteſted. Neither for any other end did the Papiſts diſſemble the obſervance of the Confederats, then

that