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Parents, or Prentices, may be admitted unto any Arts or Trades, as Maſters, unleſſe they firſt have learned the Catholique Religion.

13. If any ſhall ſpeak unbeſeemingly of God, the bleſſed Virgin the Mother of God, of the Saints, Eccleſiaſticall rites, or the famous houſe of Auſtria; he ſhall looſe his head without all pardon or favour.

14. Whatſoever any Citizen painteth in his houſe (within or without) to the diſhonour of the Catholique Religion, he ſhall be carefull that it be blotted out, forthwith under paine of 30. florences. In like manner, whatſoever ſhall be ingraven or painted upon Gates, Temples, or other publique places, that they cauſe it to be broken in peeces, or blotted out, and the memorial of Chriſt crucified, or ſomething elſe ſet up in its place.

15. The poor people in Hoſpitalls, unleſſe they ſhall be converted before the feaſt of All-ſaints, this preſent yeare, let them be caſhiered, and not readmitted unleſſe they turn Catholiques, &c. The concluſion was this: Herein the conſtant and unalterable will of his ſacred Majeſty , and Lord of us all will reſt ſatisfied, &c.

Charles Prince of
Lichtenſtein.

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