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to be brought, Officers were then preſent, they bind his hands and feete with Iron, and put upon his neck an Iron choller, with a thick chaine from whence Manacles hung down, and ſo bring him thus bound into the Dungeon, where for the ſpace of three weeks, [none being permitted to come to him, no not his Wife nor Children] being tormented with hard chaines, and ſuſtained with nothing but bread and water, he was alſo continually vexed and infected by the Ieſuites, when that they had diſcovered unto him the ſentence of death [becauſe that in a rebellious Sermon he ſought to move tumults among the common people] he ſeemed willingly rather to chooſe this then Apoſtaſie. P. Chanowskie the Ieſuite ſaid, that he was poſſeſſed with the Devill, and commanded that he ſhould be more ſtrictly bound; ſo the good man ſeeing himſelf neither to be in likelihood of life or death, being in a moſt weak condition, does now at laſt conſent to the auricular confeſsion, and having obtained leave to go to the bathes, for the recovery of his health, he betook himſelf to Aniburgh of Miſnia intending not to return to the Tyrants.

7. In like manner all the beſt of the Citizens did deſire baniſhment, and becauſe that the gates were more ſtrictly beſer, leaſt that any ſhould get out or carry away any thing of their Houſhold-

ſtuffe,