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terwards was ignominiouſly buried near the place of puniſhment at Raudnice.

23. There was alſo in the reformation of Litomiſlen, a certain Country-man, of the village of Strakow (his name I have heard, but it is now ſlipt out of my memory) who did endure a long impriſonment, vexed with the inſultings of the Prieſts; and of three thouſand Subjects, (for ſo many that Lordſhip did containe,) was alone found conſtant and immovable. He being ſick by reaſon of the filthineſſe of the priſon, was viſited by a Jeſuite, and of him admoniſhed, to whom he thus anſwered: Get thee hence thou tempter, this day ſhall I ſup with Christ, and a little after he died, and was buried in that place where they were wont to behead Malefactors.

24. Yet more admirable was the conſtancy of a certain Scribe (there was not any of whom I could learne his name, but the thing it ſelfe I have read from the hands of faithfull and worthy witneſſes) in the Town of Dobrziſse. This Towne, as many of the neighbouring places, were given by ſar to Don Martin de Huerda: but he diſliking the ſervice of ſo hard a Maſter, reſigned, and lived with a certain Miller (in the territories of the Suticens) took upon him the office of a Schoolmaſter: when Don Martin came to hear of this, he ſent thus, that they ſhould bring the Scribe and the Miller bound in chains to the Tower of Welhartitz, and commanded that both

ſhould