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dition confirmed an agreement, betweene thoſe of Prague, that no man ſhould be queſtioned, concerning his faith (to wit the Piccardine & Lutheran) but that al ſhould be reſtored to their former freedom & enjoy the liberty of the city. It was requeſted that an Embaſſador ſhould bee diſpatched to Buda unto the K. for the confirmation of this ordinance. It was now lawfull for any to do what they pleaſed to thoſe of a good and right opinion. If one of them were found that was unwilling to pay what hee owed, they would lay to his charge that he was a Piccardine; ſome were not ſimply baniſhed, but ſhamefully brought forth, as Ludovicus Pictor, becauſe at the end of his ſermon hee had admoniſhed the Monk of St. Barbara prating fooliſhly. That it was far better that the people ſhould be inſtructed out of the Goſpell, than be detained with ſuch fables. By the clamors of the Monke hee was laid hold on by the common people that were called together, and hurried to priſon, and afterwards by a Serjeant was led out of the City.

3. A certain Cutler becauſe they had found about him a booke concerning the Sacraments, penned by a man of a ſincere opinion, was whipped openly in the market place and baniſhed. The like hapned to John Kelenetz, but hee was branded in the forehead, becauſe he being a Lay-man, was ſaid to adminiſter the Euchariſt to himſelf and his family. George

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