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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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mongſt whom were three Divines, with one Caſca a Citizen, and George de Clatowe, and a certaine man called Abraham, it was laid to their charge that they forbad the torches to be lighted, at the Altar before the taking of the Sacrament.

CHAP. XV.

Iohn Zeline.

1. A Monk of the Order of Premonſtrates or Exemplars, was Paſtor in New Prague and a Teacher in White Maryes Church, one of the deſigned Adminiſtrators of the conſiſtory, a man more famous for his eloquence than his learning. He having alwayes a moſt frequent audience, did advance in his Pulpit the purer Doctrine of the Thaborites, and was author to the inhabitants of Prague for the reformation of their Senate, But Haschek de Weliſch a Captaine of old Prague, whom the ſaid Monk had often rebuked (having conſpired with the Senate who were half Romaniſts) betrayed this Monk with twelve more into the Common hall at Prague, and making a heady proceſſe, did ſuddenly behead them.

2. This was done on the 9 of March, in the year of our Lord 1422, which being diſcovered by the bloud, was the occaſion of a mighty Tumult. For the flowing of the bloud did cauſe ſuch a confluence of

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people,