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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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was remaining in which they might appeale, when they were wronged, beſides Heaven: did this one thing (thoſe that were capable to underſtand this miſtery of iniquity) viz. Solicite God with ſighs and groans to be the revenger of ſuch malice, otherwiſe there was no help left.

CHAP. LXXXIX.

The Proteſtant Nobility are baniſhed out of the Kingdome.

I. THe enemies being every day puft up with the ſucceſſe of their victories, ſet upon an action unlooked for, that all the Proteſtant ſtocks (of whom the Kingdom did partly conſiſt) ſhould altogether and at once be baniſhed the Kingdome. For they hoped that when the Provinces of Germany round about were ſubdued, and the King of Denmark with Mansfeild, and Winarienſis, and others were overcome, and upon that the hearts of many faint, it would come to paſſe that at length being ſtruck with this thunderbolt, moſt would forſake Religion, which happened accordingly.

In the year therefore 1627. July 31. (a day conſecrated to Ignatius Loyola, to witneſſe that it

was