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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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2. The Monkes being by the helpe of an Army, alwayes lying about the City, ſettled in the place of that Orthodox Paſtor, Iohn Regius, who was baniſhed; did ſeverall wayes trouble this City not onely according to their manner in their Sermons rayling againſt hereſie and Hereticks, but alſo beating their heads, and other parts of their bodies with canes, pulling off their hats, and giving them to the ſouldiers, who would not be preſent at the carrying about of the Hoſt, and kneel and uncover their heads. In the year 1625. they carried things in a more ſevere manner upon the day of the body, they bear about there breaden diety, accompanied with no ſmall number of the common people; the Conſul Bohuſlaus Strialus being abſent he was fined fifty royalls, the ſouldiers ſpent three whole dayes in junketting and uſing the creatures not onely to ſaciety, but alſo horribly abuſing them in like manner, other Senators and whoſoever were abſent were by them fin’d.

3. The ſame year, the twelfth day of Auguſt, Don Martin de Hewerda, cauſed two Mandates to bee proclaimed both in the church and Court, the former concerned the bringing in of Bibles and other Evangelicall bookes into the Court, and that upon pain of payment of a hundred Bohemian Florences, or five weekes impriſonment, in the other was required a conſtant attendance upon Church and Maſſe, upon the pain of payment of five Florences and three

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