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in his ſacred Imperial Majeſties name, that you deny to al the Citizens or inhabitants of the city of new Boliſlavia, who are not Catholicks the benefit of the law or their revenews, or to buy or ſel, or any other civil contract, & that you ſtrictly forbid that none of them for the future do attempt to do the things forbidden without our privity, unleſſe they do deſist from their obſtinacy, and herericall opinions, and ſubmit to the fatherly commands of his ſacred Imperiall Majesty, and imbrace the holy Catholick Religion, and produce a teſtimony of their doing ſo from their confeſſour. And again ſeriouſly adviſe them in our name, and ſtrictly command them, that without any delay, they imbrace the holy Catholick Religion by the last day of June this preſent year. Let every one of them make confeſſion to their ordinary Catholick Prieſt, and receive the Sacrament of the Altar devoutlie & reverentlie according to the cuſtome of the Roman-Catholick Church, under pain of baniſhment from the City, and the whole Kingdome of Bohemia. We will diligentlie promote your Petition concerning the removing of the ſouldiery from your citie, onely you ſhal endeavour that all your fellow Citizens, ſo much the ſooner profeſſe the Catholick faith, for by this meanes things will better ſuceeed with you all in this life, and the life to come, and the wil of his ſacred Imperiall Majestie