any otherwiſe delicate, and they ſuggeſted to them how much it grieved his Imperiall Majeſty, that thoſe ancient families which formerly were the ornaments and props of their Countrey, ſhould run themſelves into the danger of baniſhment through meer unadviſedneſſe, that it would be better for them to remain and flouriſh under the favour both of God and Cæſar. By theſe and the like Stratagems of Satan, there was a great ruine of the Proteſtant Nobility, all of them, who thought their earthly Countrey better then the heavenly; or whoſe conſciences were ſtupified by their ſubtilties, ſliding into apoſtaſie or hypocriſie.
7. Notwithſtanding about a hundred families of both Sexes that loved heavenly things above earthly, (and who did reverence that command of the heavenly Emperour, Come out of Babylon my people.) leaving their inheritances, and all their poſſeſſions went away. Some were diſperſed through the neighbouring Provinces. Votland, Miſnia, Luſatia, Sileſia, Poland, Hungary; ſome who were more eaſily able to endure the troubles of baniſhment, went as farre as Pruſſia, Ruſſia, and Tranſylvania. Among theſe was the goodly old man Charles de Zerotine: who only could obtain leave to ſtay in his Countrey all the dayes of his life, if he would deprive himſelfe of the holy
