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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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and agree with us in the ſame faith, hee ſhall not be licenced to carry in our Kingdome, much leſſe to poſſeſſe his Goods. For wee Will, that all thoſe who are obſtinately ſtubborne, ſhall, telling their Goods among the Catholicks depart out of the Kingdome of Bohemia at the end of the terme, and never promiſe themſelves any return, unleſſe they turn Catholicks, &c.

3. Here one might ſee ſtrange alterations of minds and diverſities of Counſell. Thoſe that loved Religion and conſtancy at their hearts, did inſtantly ſeparate themſelves by baniſhment, others were troubled and wavered ſeeking holes and hiding places, ſoliciting ſar by Petitions either to change the decree or grant them a longer time or elſe indeavouring by words to obtaine it, as much as was in any mans power. There were not ſome wanting who pretending the diſcomodities of baniſhment, poverty, age, ſickneſſe, duties, and every thing elſe, thought it beſt to ſatisfie the Emperours will. Others were found who thinking to deceive the Emperour and Pope did buy with their gold, falſe teſtimonies of the Prieſts, that they had performed confeſſion and communicated in one kind. And it was ſo, that ſome did by thoſe bought bills, make a ſhew of diſſembled apoſtacy and by that means avoided baniſhment.

4. But ſuch a Marchandize of ſoules did not proſper well with ſome. For Lawrence Niezburski,

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