grave which they had digg’d with their own hands, and cover them with earth, perſwading thoſe that remained with their example and ſpeech to the imitation of their piety.
2. This City when it begun again to be inhabited by the Survivers, and others flocking from other places, the Emperour gave to the Prince of Eckenberg, together with the Towns ſubjet to it Baworow and Strunkonitz, and all the Villages. In the year 1625. it was promiſed them by the Commiſſioners of reformation, that if they would become Catholicks, their Liberty, Priviledges, and Towns, with the Villages, ſhould be reſtored. They refuſing, were prohibited from their works and trades; and ſo put the diſobedient perſons, men, women, ſonnes and daughters, in divers priſons, and miſerably afflicted them four whole moneths, At length being made Catholicks, nothing was reſtored to them, that there might not want a teſtimony that theſe bloudy promiſers were his progeny, who promiſeth all things, and performeth nothing.
3. But what need we relate more? It is ſufficiently apparent by theſe, how wickedly, cruelly, and impudently they proceeded againſt free-men. For whatſoever was done with the other free Cities, not mentioned here, was made up of the ſame impoſtures, deceits, tyranny, and impudence.
