4. One Bartholomew Lang a Serivenor was one of the ſtouteſt, who proteſted he had rather die by the ſword than deny the faith; he was thruſt with certaine others into a ſtinking place deſigned for the racking of malefactors, and there he was held for 17. weeks: his owne houſe, and the houſes of the reſt, in the mean time, being poſſeſſed by the barbarous Souldiers. But one of this Society, Georg Smidarskey, having contracted a diſeaſe from the ſtincke and filth of this priſon, dyed in the ſaid priſon very religiouſly: but they could ſcarce procure ſo much favour from thoſe wicked ones, that hee might be buryed.
5. When at this time, and by this meanes; they could ſhake none of their conſtancy, they let them goe, prefixing a further time to deliberate upon the buſineſſe: eſpecially, ſince the ſame yeare 1626, Behlem Gabor, waging warre with the Emperour, Count Manſfeilds and Warriors entering Syleſia at the ſame time with the King of Denmarks Army, ſtrooke a terror into theſe Tyrants; for in Auguſt there are ſent Proclamations to the Towns that it is not his Imperiall Majeſties will that any man ſhould be forced to the faith by violent meanes, but that upon ſuppoſition they could not agree with his Majeſty, it might be lawfull for them to depart &c. and this Proclamation gave theſe people of Boliſlavia a little reſpite.
