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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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contriveances of the enemyes of the Truth for that time. This was at Buda in the year 1506. on the beginning of July.

3. Two yeares after this, the Biſhops obtained what before they attempted, and the King overcome by their importunity, who cryed out that ſharp remedies muſt be uſed to take away ſuch a growing Evill, he commanded that all the Piccardins whatſoever without difference either of ſexe, or Age, ſhould be puniſhed with the loſſe of life. This was in the year 1508. on the tenth of Auguſt.

4. Ionh, Biſhop of Warade, and Staniſlaus Sturzo, Biſhop of Olumitz brought this Edict unto Bohemia; and a full houſe of the ſtates being called, gave it to them. But becauſe many of the chiefe of the Nobility complained, that this Decree was made without the knowledge of the Parliament, they could not conſent that it ſhould carry any force with it. The execution of it therefore went on but ſlowly, and almost eighteene moneths were ſpent in diſputations only, and debates about it.

5. At the laſt by the cunning Artifice, and proceedings of Albert Chancellor of Kolowratte and his Accomplices, this bloudy Edict received force by the aſſent of moſt of the Nobility, in the preſence of the King, at the Parliament held at Cutna in the year 1510, and it was ordered that it ſhould not only be ingroſſed in the Records of that Kingdome

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