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with all curſing words, and commanded that they ſhould be burned in the Church-yard with the bones of lohn Popelius, lohn Iaphet, and Marthias Cobar, who were buried in the year 1599. 1614. 1616. and becauſe the Barons of Squilive, the Lord of the place were buried in the ſame Church, the wicked warden viſiting their ſepulchres, tooke off from their bodies their rings and gold chaines, and whatſoever was precious, laſtly, the body of Theobold Squiovius being taken out of the vault and out of the leaden cheſt wherein he lay, he commanded it being put into a woodden coffin, that it ſhould be caſt into ſome ditch about the Church-yard, and covered over with dung.

6. In the year 1623. the Church Czaſlavia, being taken from the Chriſtians, when they had found an Epitaph with this inſcription, In the year 1424 upon Thurſday lohn Lyski of Callis, departed this life, Governour of the Common-wealth, labouring in the name, and for the name of God, is buried in this place. Preſently they put to their hands that they might remove him from thence, that had reſted there for the ſpace of two hundred years within one: but having digged very deep, they found nothing beſides duſt: their rage therefore being turned againſt the Tombſtone (upon which his effigies were formerly ingraven but now worne our) they beat this to powder, and with the duſt of the grave they ſprink-

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