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and rule of the inferior Governors, we leave to manifeſt the ſame, for fear of the abuſe by the evil and ungodly world. But thoſe that are provided and ſtored with the heavenly Antidote, they do without fear or hurt, tread on, and bruiſe the head of the old and evil ſerpent, which this our age is well fitted for: every ſide or wall had a door for a cheſt, wherein there ſay divers things, eſpecially all our books, which otherwiſe we had, beſides the Vocabular of Theoph. Far. Ho. and theſe which daily unfalſifieth we do participate. Herein alſo we found his Itinerarium, and vitam, whence this relation for the moſt part is taken. In another cheſt were looking-glaſſes of divers virtues, as alſo in other places were little bells, burning lamps, & chiefly wonderful artificial Songs; generally al done to that end,that if it ſhould happen after many hundred years, the Order or Fraternity ſhould come to nothing, they might by this onely Vault be reſtored again.

Now as yet we had not ſeen the dead body of our careful and wiſe father, we therfore removed the Altar aſide, there we

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