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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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thirſt, and filth, and cold, and heat. Joachim a Chyrurgion with others, was caſt into a Tower full of ſnakes at Plumlone. At Proſtanna were put together into the Caſtle Stable, and the window every where cloſed up, that being almoſt ſtrangled for want of aire, fainted; among others James Ulicky an old man of above 80 yeares of age was drawn out for dead (being an Inhabitant of Koſteleck, a little Town of the ſaid Kelted, whoſe ſon Matthew Ulicky, a Miniſter of the Word, was tormented at Czaſlavia, as we have related in the 57. Chapter) but Kunaſh the chiefe perſecutor often times repeating that they did counterfeit death, ſaid char he would raiſe the knaves, and ſo commanded that good ſtore of water ſhould be poured upon them. Some came to themſelves, but the old man died in his ſight, whom he commanded to be carried out and buried, the reſt not being diſmiſt, unleſſe they would promiſe confeſſion. In ſome places they proceeded to that degree of Barbariſme, that they ſhut up men in Privies to be poiſoned by the ſtink of excrements, which Nicholas Szarowetz, among others had experience at Koſenburg, alſo ſome of Slanen at Letomiſle, and elſe-where, they thruſt men and women together into the ſame place, that there was ſcarce any room for modeſty.

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