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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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CHAP. XXIX.

The Protestants baniſhed from Prague, and whipped with Rods.

I. THerefore that Zahere and Paſſoke might the better pleaſe both the King and Pope, they enforced all the Paſtors and citizens to ſubſcribe to their new Articles, and thoſe who refuſed were to bee baniſhed the city. In the firſt place ſixe Paſtors were proſcribed, Wenceſlaus Poczatek, Paſtor of St. Gallus, George Smahal, Paſtor of St. Henry, Matin Betlem, Paul de St. Michaell, Martin de Opatowitz, and John Maruſſa, after threeſcore and five of their chiefeſt citizens were proſcribed, amongſt whom was Burian de Cornitz Doctour of law and Chancellour of Prague, John Hlawſa, who was Exconſull and others. Likewiſe a coulour was ſought for the greater cruelty, a malicious invention being ſpread abroad concerning a certaine conſpiracy of the Goſpellers againſt the Calixtines, that they might extort the confeſſion hereof, they did bring three citizens John Bonuſſa, Matthew Hrzebenarz and Iohn Sliwkam to the rack, who rather choſe to ſuffer innocently, than to bear falſe witneſſe, a thing they utterly deteſted in their conſcience.

2. In the meane time while theſe firebrands of ſe-

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