CHAP. XCVII.
The Reformation of Bidſove.
I. THoſe things which we have hitherto already related, may ſeem very moderate, in compariſon of thoſe which we ſhall now adde, (to wit) Don Martin de Henerda, played the part of a Commiſſioner of Reformation, and certaine others full of Spaniſh zeal. For example ſake at Bidſove, a Towne ſtanding three miles from Hradecium and ten from Prague. When he arrived here with his ſouldiers, and calling the citizens into the Court, hee commanded the Catholick Religion with an oration full of words; and John Kolacznik, whom they had choſen for themſelves, anſwering, in the name of the corporation, that it was not in the power of man that one ſhould unlearn that in the ſpace of an hour, which he had been learning all his life, neither was it convenient, that any man ſhould forſake that which hee had imbraced for the truth of God, unleſſe hee were taught better things out of the word of God. There Henerda, as it were diſtracted and forgetting, all civility, roſe haſtily from the place where hee ſate, and aſſaulting the man with a club which he held in his hand, gave him many ſtrokes, and being full of rage commanded the Of-
