Chap. XCV.
The Reformation of Litomeric.
IN the yeare 1517. the 21. of Auguſt the Town of Litomeric did ordaine by the comand, and unanimous conſent of all the Citizens, which order they had regeſtred in their publique bookes and kept in their ſeverall Companies; which order runne that none ſhould be inrouled into their catalogue of Citizensno; though he were borne in the City: and this Edict they made for their better agreement, and if at any time any man ſhould move that this order ſhould be nulled he ſhould be disfranchiſed and depart the City within a moneth. This law was ratified and obſerved inviolable for a hundred yeares, untill the time of Ferdinand, for in the yeare 1617. two Ieſuiticall brats were ſuborned (to wit) Nicolas Marazek, and Bartholomew Collius, who threatening their houſes, demanded to be made free-men of the City, which being denyed, they entered their complaint in the Chancery of the Kingdome, whither were warned three of the principall Senators, with the Town-clarke, who were entertained with rough words by the Chancelor and Paul Micna the Secretary, and were kept in the town of Prague for nine daies, till they ſhould agree; ſo
