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ved the Sacrament of the Altar in one ſpecies, according to the inſtitution of the holy Catholick Church, within the time by us allotted, but we perceive that the two ſectaries before mentioned, and the reſt of your Citizens ſtill continue in their inbred obſtinacy, and deſpiſe the Catholick Religion, and all wholeſome doctrine, and that none of them hitherto have imbraced the Catholick Religion wherefore ſince his ſacred Imperiall Majesty, will not afford his royall favour, nor allow any to abide or trade in the Kingdome of Bohemia, who ſhall refuſe to imbrace the ſame religion with him, but follow the fancies of their own brain, and thereby become incendiaries, and brothers of ſundry hereſies, whence ariſe for the most part ſeverall factions and diſturbances of the Commonwealth, and the whole Kingdome, therefore we ſeriouſly command you, that thoſe two Schiſmaticks be not onely out-lawed, and diſfranchiſed, but that they be preſently baniſhed from the City and whole Kingdome of Bohemia, without any reſpect of perſons or conditions, and that the very day allotted for their baniſhment, or the day after, they go out of the City by ſun-ſet, and for the future that they never returne into the City or any part of the Kingdome of Bohemia, upon pain of ſevere puniſhment, if at any time they ſhall returne, and be apprehended. Likewiſe we do ſeriouſly and ſtrictly command you

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