ſed and abuſed by the Popiſh Nobility and Jeſuites. This was onely the difference, that thoſe who were freed from priſon, were reſtored to their credit and honour; but thoſe that had eſcaped by flight were commanded to be held as infamous, as thoſe, whoſe names had been fixed on the Gallowes
Chap. LXXXVI.
Wenceſlaus de Betow a Knight.
I. OF their number was Wenceſlaus Bitowski de Bitow, Lord of Pruſſiwick (one of the Governours of Moravia in the time of the vacancy: and when Frederick created him Captaine of the Order of Knight,) Who when he was taken in the Marquiſate of Brandenburgh, in the yeare 1627. in the moneth of Auguſt, and ſent back into Moravia, he was put to the torture by Cardinall Detrichsteine, (who hated him deadly) and being examined a long time, but in vain, concerning divers queſtions, at laſt he was condemned to be beheaded, and couragiouſly underwent it on a ſcaffold, at the Court of Brune.
2. If there had been leave given to any to have viſited him, or accompanied him to his death wee ſhould certainely have had ſomething which might have been an example. For he was a ſtout man and
