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Borita, and Czalaus, and make a conſpiracy againſt their Prince, but are overcome in battell.

3. Woytichius being carried into Hungary, by ſom ſermons he converts to the faith and baptizes Stephen their Prince, who was not long after made their King; then returning home he is again baniſhed, he departs in Polonia, being about to confirm that nation, which was lately converted to the faith, by the marriage of Dubrawka, the daughter of Boliſlaus the Bohemian, with Miceſlaus the Leader of the Polonians.

4. From thence he makes his paſſage into Pruſia, and there neare to Fiſtaſhium is murthered by the darts of the Infidells, and is beheaded, his body was redeemed from the Barbarians and carried to Gueſua in Polonia, where he eſtabliſhed a Biſhopwrick, and according to the ſuperſtitious cuſtome of that age, hee was canoniſed for a Saint.

CHAP. V.

The first witneſſes unto the truth againſt the Papacy in Bohemia.

1. FOr when in theſe times (as Hiſtories teſtifie) the Pope of Rome, having uſurped domination over other Churches, would have had the rites & ceremonies of his will-worſhip, every where received and kept, it happened that ſuch things as were offenſive unto the minds of the Godly, were obtruded upon the Bohemians alſo; but moſt eſpecially the uſe of the

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