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flocks of Crowes and Dawes, flutted up and down; which at length by a great fight continued for a whole dayes ſpace, ſuffered a great diſtruction at the village of Bartoſchowitz, neare Fulnek; and indeed with other ſucceſſe then could bee expected; for the weaker part overcame the ſtronger, ſome thouſands of the Crowes being faſtened in the Dawes-bills, fell and periſhed, without the ruine of ſcarce any of the Dawes. The Country-men alſo running to behold this ſpectacle, filled their ſackes with Crowes.

8. In the yeare 1626. at Prague it rained Brimſtone, and not long after the Image of the Crucifixe ſet up at Waltave-bridge, was ſmitten and throwne downe by a Thunder-bolt. In the ſame place Kutterberg-gate opened of its owne accord, the poſt being removed for two or three nighrt, to the great aſtoniſhment of the Watch-men; which they were forced to averre upon oath. The like wonder was ſeene at Proſtanne in the City of Lichtenſteinium.

9. It cannot be deſervedly ſpunged out of the catalogue of miracles, that which we know happened to the Bibles at Zatek, in that they could not be burned. For when in the year 1630 the Books long before carried out ofthat City, by the joint authority of the Magiſtrates, were condemned and ſentenced unto the fire by the Commiſſaries, and kindled with

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