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ſuites urging it very hard, they are commanded to depart out of the gates of the City, before the break of day, and to depart the Kingdome within eight days. Upon thiscomma nd one and twenty went away, by name Georgius Paul, Cyprian Pelchinus, Vitrs Iakeſſius, Wenceſlaus Kerion, Gregorius Viti, lohannes Kubinius, Nicholas Debastus, Johannes Claudianus, Sigiſmundus Taſſicius, lohannes loramus, Iohannes Neuſtupius, Thomas Dentulinus, lohannes Priſtracus, lohannes Martis, lohannes Podaski, Sigiſmundus Piſcis, Iohannes Luxinus, Nicholaus Nowokolinus, Georgius Siſkarz, theſe being accompanied with ſome hundreds of Citizens, to whom Iohannes Matthiades expounded thoſe words of Chriſt. They ſhall caſt you out of the Sinagogues. This farewell Sermon did exhort to conſtancy, the whole Congregation much bewailing their loſſe; at the lenghth, the Heavens ringing againe with their ſongs, and their lamentations, with mutuall imbracings, and kiſſing each other, they did recommend themſelves to the divine protection and favour.

3. It was no where elſe permitted; but that either the Miniſters are caſt out oftheir livings, or caſt into priſons, ſome whereof after ſome few dayes or moneths are diſmiſſed, and commanded to depart the Kingdome under pain of death: others, as it then happened to Bohuſlaus Bolvinus, are ſtifled with th ſtench of the priſon.

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