worſhip of God, or covertly uſe it: yet he would rather be afflicted with the people of God, then enjoy temporary profits. Having ſold his poſſeſſions (but for halfe the price, a part of which alſo they extorted from him under colour of a certain Sute and Judgement, and other devices) he departed with Cæſars knowledge and leave to Preſland in Sileſia: but a little after a Declaration was annexed to the Imperiall letters, that if the Baron would depart from that City, it ſhould be lawfull for him to go whither he would, ſo that he came not back into the Emperours Provinces, or went not to the Emperours enemies.
8. The Enemies in the mean time not vouchſafing ſuch as had departed out of their Countrey, the name of baniſhed perſons, called them Departers, either in ſcorne, or elſe to upbraid their headineſſe (as not being ejected by Cæſar, but being blinded by meer obſtinacy, had paſſed out of their Countrey.) But when as they could not endure them in baniſhment, a proclamation came forth in the yeare 1628. Auguſt the 18th.) wherein the Emperour accuſing the perverſity of ſome, who had departed from Bohemia and Moravia, into Sileſia, & Luſatia only, proteſted that it was not his intention to remove thoſe obſtinate perſons out of Bohemia, and to ſuffer them in the accorporated Provinces. And therefore he commanded
