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3. Concerning the lewd life of very many of them, I am aſhamed to ſpeak. We ſee the Whore of Babylon, who was formerly wont to be half aſhamed, hath how at the laſt flung of all modeſty and diſcovered her nakedneſſe. It was uſuall ſometime for a man to have his Concubine, Adulteries, Inceſts, Sodomies (ſins never heard of by our Nation) are now almoſt publikely practiſed. David Siſſius Chaplaine of Hadrianus Hradicenſis of Cæleſtine (but more truly Sceleſtine) that is ungratious, a moſt unſatiable reveller, an impudent Sodomite, a moſt obſcene ſcoffer; in one word I ſhall term him an Atheiſt, comming unto his lodging upon a time drunk, expoſed himſelf to the view of al men naked at his window falling from thence he wallowed in the dirt of the ſtreet, although Sceleſtinus with whom he had continuall War, ſaid, that the raſcall was thrown out of the window by the Devill and carried away.

4. Bohemo Brodenſis a Deacon and a Polonian by nation, after the committing of many horrid acts; carried away with him the wife of a certain Citizen, being a beautifull woman in mans apparell, her husbands name was lohn Paupeſſek, and fled with her into Polonia.

5. The Pariſh Prieſt of Pakovia, being reprehended by a worthy and eminent Goſpeller, by name me Knauponus, for his lewd and diſſolute life, with his Comrades as good as himſelf, broke in upon him

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