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man of great unconſtancy, induced with hope either of reward or dignity, did ſhew himſelf ſo eager in ſlaying Ziſca (cotinually raging with his virulent and malicious tongue, againſt the deceaſed Noble-man) that within a few dayes after, he breathed his laſt; either being broken with the ſedulous attempt, or elſe periſhing by a peculiar vengeance.

13. A certain novice Church-warden, very wicked and audacious in defacing the Churches of Litomerzicium, digged out the bottome of a ſtone Chalice, above Lawrence-houſe-gate, ſhortly after hee fell into a ſharp diſeaſe. For accuſing himſelf of wickedneſſe, he tore his cloathes from off his body, pulled off his hair, not ſuffering his wife or any come near him, although for horrour and ſtink none could come to him. At length after that he had belched up an incredible torrent of bloud, through his wicked throat, he was choaked by his own bloud, being an utter enemy to the bloud of Chriſt. When this was known to the whole City, there was no man (no not the Maſon) though of the Popes faction, (being terrified with this freſh example) which would ſo much as touch the marble Chalice, all guilded over found in the entrance of the other Church of Al-ſouls, (laid up in the wall of the larger Tower) in the year 1485. and afterwards trimmed up, which alſo was adorned with this inſcription, Veritas vincit. Truth at last triumphs. They therefore brought in a Male-

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