The History of the Bohemian Persecution/Chapter 33
CHAP XXXIII.
I. DUchoslaw a citizen of Prague, and a chiefe pickthanke of Zahera, so violently hated those of the true faith, that he wished all the Piccardines either to be hanged, beheaded, or burned by his own hands, all which by the just judgement of God befell him. For being greatly in debt in the yeare 1525 on St. Andrew’s day, he hanged himself at his own house, whom his kinsmen privily conveyed away, & buried obscurely near unto a certain Village, but when the country people had notice thereof, they digged up the carkase and cast it way, which by the commandement of the Magistrate was delivered to the executioner to bee burned, but when the great Wood-stack was consumed, and he notwithstanding was not burned, his head was taken off from the carcase being very much scorched, and so at length were buried.
2. Zahera himselfe, when under a colour of inquisition against the Piccardins, he had raised up civill commotions, by King Ferdinand his comınand, in the year 1529. on the ninth of August, hee was proscribed and presently on the self same day (instead of the procession which the day before he solemnized in the commemoration of St. Lawrence) is forced to leave his own country from whence hee went into Misnia, but notice being taken by the Electour, what kind of man he was, he was again banished, and died misərably in Frantonia.
3. The same likewise happened to that cruell Paschus the chief Consull, in the year 1530. who in vaine cast him down at the Kings feet, and sued for pardon.