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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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led it upon the ground without the church, ſo forſooth taking revenge upon him being dead, who whileſt he was alive troubled them living.

7. In the ſame yeare when that they were a purging the Church of Prague of the buried hereticks, they brought out a marble-ſtone, laid upon the grave of Rokizane, and beate that to powder, but they could not find the grave. Laſtly, in the yeare 1630. when P. Lucas the Jeſuite, the twenty fourth of December died, and there was in that place a moſt deep grave prepared for him, there was found at the bottome a certaine bedde of brick, which being plucked out, there appeared putrified bones with two cups, one of braſſe, and the other of Waxe, uncorrupted, and a piece of Damaske cloth, the Reliques of his Prieſtly covering, long red hairs ſtuck ſtill to his skull. Theſe bones being gathered together, they brought them in a basket into the Veſtry, untill they did know what their Superiour would command concerning them: but what was afterwards done with them, we doe not know, but what we do declare, was related to us by an eye-witneſſe. So Rokizane having laine in his Sepulcher about 159 years and 7 moneth (for he died in the year 1471 the 21 of February) gave place to another.

8. At Trebovea there were extant ſome ſtony Statues of ſome dead Paſtors, in the Church-yard, the eyes

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