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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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the point of the nail, and not long after hee gave up the Ghoſt.

3. Doctour Auguſtine, a civill Lawyer who by a moſt falſe and flanderous libell, indeavoured to ſtir up the Kings and all good mens hatred againſt the Brothers, died ſuddenly much about the ſame time at Olumitz as he was at ſupper at his owne houſe.

4. Puta de Swihow did forego theſe, who was alſo one amongſt the foremoſt in the bloudy counſells. A great Tempeſt then ariſing about his Caſtle, he ranne into the Cellar and there locked him ſelf. Not long after ſome Courtiers knocking at the door, and finding no man open to it, they ſent for a Black-ſmith, who brake it open, foure of the chiefeſt of them entring in, and making no long ſtay, they tooke order for the making of a Barge, which being covered with pitch, they put the maſter of the houſe in it, and gave fire to it, neither for a long time was it known who did do it.

5. Henry de novo Domo, a man of great authority of the Kingdome, and not the leaſt enemy in the truth, delighting much in hunting, when he was throwne off from his Carriage, his hunting ſhaft being faſtned to his ſide, comming up upon it, was forced ſo violently into his thigh, that the point thereof came forth at his loines, and brought unto him a moſt painfull death.

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