ſouldiery brought in againe: who (December the ſixt) entering the Cicy, the buſineſs of Religion is taken up againe. The Citizens aſtoniſhed with the newes hereof (againſt ſuch manifeſt Covenants) they again humbly petition, that ſo much favour might be granted them (to keep the Workers in Mettall) that no violence be offered them. But inſtead of an Anſwer, a command is given to the Captaine (December 22.) that for Hlawſe the Conful, Paul Screte, Iohn Schreyter, Iohn Agathon, Sigiſmund Koſel, and M. Peter Capo, Senators, and chiefe Citizens, the abettors of the hereticall obſtinacy, to place twenty Muſquetiers in their houſes upon free quarter, untill he had received a Schedule from the Confeſsour, as a teſtimony of their Confeſſion made before him. The Souldiers domineering by reaſon of the licence given them, did not onely ſuck out and exhauſt good men by their profuſe living upon them, but did alſo abuſe them diverſe other wayes after their own pleaſure: whoſe patient conſtancy notwithſtanding overcame their tyrannicall behaviour: For ſo long as they were able, they afforded them proviſion; but this failing, part of them wihdrew themſelves by flight, to further danger; others reſigned the Government of their goods at home, delivering the Keyes to their landslords.
4. When they ſee their deſigne could not well proceed this way, the taske of reforming Kutterberg is committed to Don Martin of Hurſa, who guard-
