4. That this cruell conſpiracy might be diſcloſed, Augusta being called forth by a feigned friend to diſcourſe as if to adviſe with them concerning the allaying of that miſchief, he is taken & carried back to Prague, & was by order three times miſerably tortured by the hand of the hangman, his colleague John Billek, fared no better. But no unlawfull act being known, or any ſigne thereof appearing, they are left in priſon for the ſpace of 17 years, at the length after the death of Ferdinand they are diſmiſſed in the year 1564.
Chap. XXXVII.
Veey many of the Miniſters of the Goſpell baniſbed.
I. WHen it was evidently knowne, that the brethren were not the authors of any conſpiracy, but that the Orders in regard of the ancient league with the Saxons, and a new deſire againſt the proteſtants had acted this, Ferdinand bent all his endeavour to perſecute the Lutheranes alſo, having called a meeting in the year 1549 he cauſed thoſe things which were formerly agreed upon to be confirmed, and the decree for the aboliſhing all other ſects, (to wit the brethren and Lutheranes) to be publiſhed.
2. The effect whereof was, that aſwell the Ca-
