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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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from his mouth and noſtrills. Whereupon the Biſhop returned him to the Collonel who again ſent him back to the Biſhop, who after he had made him his ſubject of mirth & ſcorn for all that night; on the day following being Sunday, they were all brought unto the ſtake and faſtned with ſuch a method that theſe poor champions of the Truth (as near as the invention of their malice could diſpoſe of them) were placed in the lap of Wenceſlaus. And when the Biſhop did admoniſh them to abjure that part of the Sacrament in which the Cup is uſed, the faithfull Curat made anſwer for him and his. God forbid, we had rather ſuffer under a hundred deaths than deny a truth ſo clearly revealed in the Goſpell. On this the executioner was commanded to give fire unto the faggot, who immediately with the flame did ſend them up a gratefall ſacrifice to the Almighty, Wenceſlaus being the laſt that gave up the Ghoſt. This was done in the year 1420. on the 8 day of July,

2. On which very day Conrade the Arch-Biſhop of Prague being offended at ſuch horrible cruelty, having firſt expreſſed himſelf againſt the unrighteouſneſſe of the Papall cauſe, and declared himſelf for the Sacrament under both kinds, he put off his Miter to put on his Helmet, and was commander in chief in the Militia of Prague againſt the Church of Rome, having choſen four Divines of that

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