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The Hiſtory of

City to be Adminiſtrators for him in the Conſiſtory, who were by name Mr. Iohn Przibrams, Mr. Procope Pelſen, Mr. Iacobell, and Iohn Zeline, this was the beginning of the adminiſtration of the Sacrament under both kinds, which Sigiſmund afterwards reſtoring, did permit unto the States, and confirm by Oath.

3. Howſoever the enemies of the truth did murmur themſelves into tumults, & raged with petulant fury. In this place I ſhal give you an heroick exploit of one of them which on this year was performed on the 26. day of December: Hinek Czerwenohorsky a captain of Jarom having violently entred the Church at Kerchzim, in the time of divine ſervice, he killed ſome, and took others captive. Amongſt other acts of prophaneneſſe this was not the leaſt, that from the Communion Table he took the cup, being full of wine, and dranke unto his horſe, who having pledged him, he ſaid, his horſe was now one of the Reformadoes, and a communicant under both kinds.

CHAP. XIIII.

Wenceſlaus Swets, Martin Loquis, Procopius Jednooky, and others.

1. IN the year of our Lord 1421. & on the 23 of July, there was burned at Prague, one Wenceſlaus, a Taylor by his trade, who was ſhut up in a tub. It was objected againſt him, that at Monſtrance he

diſhonoured