which all were commanded to confeſſe and deteſt their crime, which was deceitfully done as afterwards appeared, For when the Princes of Germany adviſed the Emperour not to puniſh all without any difference for the Delinquency of a few perſons, it was anſwered. None were puniſhed but ſuch as were convinced by their own confeſſion.
3. It was preſently forbidden by Letters Patents ſent through all the Lordſhips, that no man ſhould diminiſh or waſt his Goods by ſelling any of them, or by any other pretence tranſlating them to any other, but ſhould poſſeſs them as he did at that preſent. A penalty was impoſed upon thoſe that ſhould do otherwiſe; that whatſoever any man ſhould ſend to another place ſhould bee loſt, and that whoſoever received any thing of another mans ſhould pay ſo much of his own to the Emperour.
4. Many were afterwards cited one after another to receive their final ſentence even ſome that weredead (as the L. Nicholas Bukowski de Huſteizan purged two years before, &c.) others that had been for many years bed-ridden, ſome that were blind who could not in any thing offend, whoſe names were found in the Regiſters of the Kingdom, and who were thought to be rich, which happened to the Lord Peter Skopek of Otradowitz Lord of Belehrade, and the Lord Iohn Charvat of Bieloſſesky: to whoſe charge this crime was laid, that they had been preſent in the
