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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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Sileſia. Another company having Turnovians, and ſome Brunduſians about 300 ſoules, they went with 50 Waggons by the mountains of Giants, and Sileſia the lower, The third the ſame way, containing the reſt of the Brunduſians. Yet all of them had experience of an admirable divine protection in their journey: (for both in one and an other place they met with ſuch as would have robbed them) and alſo in moſt places the Chriſtian commiſeration and liberality of men, yea even in Polonia (though they ſtood for the Pope) for at poſuania (where they all met) they were courteouſly admitted and entertained, before the Biſhop had obtained a Maudate from the King concerning the driving them out.

3. Which aſſoone as it came, they are forced to depart from thence, and to goe into the fartheſt parts of prusſia, by the leave of Duke Albert brandenburgh (unto whom they had ſent before ſome to ſolicite concerning a place of abode for baniſhed men) and there they that were knowne for brethren being examined of the Lutheran Divines of Regiomontum (for they had with them Miniſters of their owne, the chief of whom was Mathias Sionius the Elder one) and another town (by name Soldavia Guidzina, &c.) were ſhewed to them, wherein they might live quietly, and one Paulus Speratus biſhop of pomeſania being very courteous and charitable unto them, who in former time paſsing through

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