in the year 1617. how they ſhould deale with the Bohemians and other Germanes after the Conqueſt; it was agreed That ſeeing thoſe ſtrong purges, which had bin administred for the expelling hereticall humors had wrought weakely, they would try whether they could be cured by a temperate diet. And therefore it was not commodious to put the Hereticikes to death (wherein they did glory as in Martyrdome) but to uſe ſome other meanes whereby to weary them and reduce them to their obedience. And to change the hatefull and rigid name of Inquiſition, into the milder name of Reformation.
3. And according to this decree they proceeded aganiſt the Moravians, Bohemians and Sileſians, to that all that profeſſed the pure doctrine of the Goſpell were oppreſſed, and had onely the favour of not being utterly extinguiſhed, few among them obtaining the glory of Martyrdome. Don Martine de Huerda (by Nation a Spaniard, by trade a Taylor, but being brought up from his youth in Bohemia, had enobled himſelfe by the ſtealing away the Counteſſe of Serivia of the houſe of Kolowrat, and afterwards for hs valour advanced to a Barons degree, end enriched with a great eſtate) was often heard to boaſt to the Proteſtants faces, that when he brought the newes of the victory to Vienna, ſtanding at Cæſars ſide, he adviſed him to command them
