the day following, but he thinking that the morrow was not to be expected (ſaying that nothing was done by reaſon, but all by ſplene and fury) withdrew himſelf by night, leaving behind him his Mother of foure ſcore years of age, his wife and moſt dear Children.
6. The Earl ſeeing his hopes and expectation failed him, commands his goods to be confiſcated, his wife to be impriſoned, and thoſe that he had before forced to an Apoſtaſie: he now compells to ſubſcribe to a certain paper wherein the Citizens of Rokizan did teſtifie, that they did owe their ſafety to God, to the Virgin Mary, to the Lord Deacon of Collerate, and that they did imbrace the Catholique Religion freely, and with all readineſſer of mind, onely the cowle being the occaſion of it, and this they did teſtifie by the ſubſcription of their hands, and the Seale of the City, and ſo that miſerable Earle being ſoas to attempt the deceiving of God, Cæſar and himſelfe, within a ſhort time was commanded to appear at Vienna, and for ſome facts was there impriſoned.
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