them to depart, otherwiſe they ſhould be brought to puniſhment. Alſo by the ſame edict they were commanded to ſend back thoſe children which they had carried with them, upon the penalty of looſing all the goods which any of them could require in his Countrey.
9. Preſently after another Act is publiſhed, whereby the Non-Catholick wives of the Catholicks were commanded to be puniſhed with baniſhment, unleſſe they did repent. But when none (for no example is extant) would not ſuffer themſelves to be frighted, and ſome of the prime and chiefe Officers of the Kingdome had Proteſtant wives, and could not endure divorces; leave was obtained for them to ſtay. And an edict came forth (the firſt of May, in the year 1629.) whereby they were tolerated till the death of their husbands, and then ſhould be excluded from the inheritance, and ſent into baniſhment; in the meane time they ſhould be abſent from all nuptiall and feſtivall ſolemnities, or elſe ſhould take the loweſt place after the Catholicks. This was to ſtrike terrour into them.
10 But the Emperour had added expreſly this clauſe to the firſt Act (1627. the 31. of July) Leſt that any man ſhould think theſe things to be done for money, or depriving any man of his goods, and not for the ſole honour and glory of God, and the ſalvation of the ſoules of our Subjects; we
