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will live as long as God pleaſe, neither, I hope, ſhall any man ſee that day wherein good old Budowecius, was ſaid to die with greif. Being examined of the Inquiſitors often, he ſtifly maintained the equity of the cauſe; and being condemned, he ſaid to the Judges, Yee have long time thirſted after my bloud, but know withall, ye will find God a revenger of innocent bloud, for whoſe cauſe we ſuffer.

4. The third day before the execution, hee told his dreame to his ſervant Zidnowskie. He dreamed that he thought he ſaw himſelfe walking in a pleaſant field, and thinking of the event of theſe, things with a heavie heart; when behold one comming to me offered me a booke, which when I looked into, I ſaw ſilken white leaves, and nothing therein written, but the fift verſe of the thirty ſeven Pſalme, Commit thy way unto the Lord, and put thy trust in him, and he ſhall bring it to paſſe: when he began againe to thinke what that meant, another came, and brought a white Robe, which he caſt upon him. The old man awaking, told it preſently to his ſervant: and as hee went on the Scaffold, hee ſaid to him, Now I goe covered with the cloth of Righteouſneſſe, that I may appeare before God in whom I hope.

5. After the pronunciation of the ſentence, as he was going into the Croſſe, two Capuchins met him, and told him, the cauſe of their comming, which

was