otherwiſe they ſhould forfeit five pounds, every time, but the buſineſſe did not proceed according to their deſire neither.
3. At laſt therefore they bring in more ſouldiers, and begin to act more furiouſly upon Corpus Chriſti day, (as they call it) they command all the people to be preſent at their Idolatrous proceſſions, and becauſe Paul Stranſki, Recorder of the Town would not be at this foppery, nor appear, they ſend a whole band of ſouldiers (hee hiding himſelfe in his houſe) they plunder him, and abuſe, and threaren his wife Katherin, whom they found ſitting by the fire. Mr. George Colſſin, ſon in law to a principle man in the City, is carried before the Councell of War, and is accuſed of Treaſon againſt the Catholicks, that hee did indeavour to ſhut up the Queriſter in the Church, for which thing Hiparchus Loreulius Medicius, an Italian, threatned he ſhould die, but in the interim hee commands him to bee kept in the court, but becauſe this was a ſcandalous fiction, with which Colſinus was abuſed, as alſo their other plots intended againſt the reſt, no way reſtraining the fury of the enemy, til theſe threatnings vaniſhed into ſmoak, the ſouldiery being preſently commanded away into Germany againſt the Dane.
4. In the beginning of the year 1626 they againe oppreſſe them with ſouldiers, and quarter in the principle mens houſes ten, in ſome twenty, in others
