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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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bore up manfully, perſevering in their firm and conſtant reſolution, being fully perſwaded, that although God had permitted them to fall into their enemies hands, yet they bridled their rage and madneſſe; as happened to Wenceſlaus Lipenius, and Daniel Tychikius, aged men, of ſeventy years of age, dwelling at Boſlavia, Mr. Daniel Alginus of Strakonicium, Laurentius Schramius of Czalavia, Victorinus Adam of Prague, Joſeph Thomaid, Petrus Grinæus, Jacobus Viterius, Johannes Hradſceus, Wenceſlaus Paſovius of Niclaſpurgum, Daniel Stephanidis of Znoyna, and many others in many other places, but none were diſmiſſed, but ſuch as gave ſomething under their hands that they would never return into their Country againe. Some on the other ſide were fined, and compelled to pay a great ſumme of money, others in diſgrace were led out of the City in a diſgracefull manner, as Daniel Alginus and others.

2. There was one man whom the rage of Antichriſt ſpared not, by name Matthæus Ulicius (Ulickie) Deacon of Czaſlavia, who was on this occaſion taken. A certaine nobleman of Bohemia, by name George Techemitz, who came with a Daniſh Army well appointed in the year 1927. and privately brought them into Sileſia, and had gathered together about four hundred men in a wood near to Gurimia; the rumor of this came to Prague,

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