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Devil as the reſt had done, on the other ſide of the ſtaff was written, you would have ejected your K. but now your King hath ejected you, upon the third was written, go to, and learn to obey God and the King (for he had ſaid to the Reformers that his ſoul was not of ſo ſmall a value as to neglect it, alſo he asked if the Emperour ſhould deſtroy this ſoule whether he could give him another? Buketius his ſtaffe had the ſame written excepting the crime which was expreſt in this manner. John Bukac’s is therefore ſequeſtred, becauſe that he ſaid that all the new Catholicks were wicked Traitors & perfidious to God. It doth not yet appear what Stehlikius his ſtaffe had written upon it for ſo ſoon as he was paſt the gates of the City, he brake it, and threw it away.

3. After the eject on of theſe men, when the reſt did not (as yet) ſeeme to repent of what they have done, they are again warned into the Court and ſhut up into ſeverall Rooms, and thence called out one by one, and examined ſingly. Amongſt the firſt was Daniel Miconius Towne-Clarke, upon whoſe enterance, they hyred a certaine Rogue to ſtand in a corner, with a weapon in his hand: whom ſo ſoone as this fearefull man ſaw, from his too greedy deſire of life, promiſed to turne Catholick. They being glad at ſo happy a beginning, commanded the reſt to returne and goe home, and exhort them to doe the like, but be going to his friends; being amazed, tells them

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