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N all thee times, the condition of the church of the Brothers was mot heavy, but neither were the Calixtines free from affliction, epecially the purer ort of them, being thoe who were mot zealous againt the Papits; for in the year 1408. Mr. Michael Polach, pator of St. Ades in old Prague, a man of unblemihed life, and an excellent preacher, with three other Parons, Mr. Wencelaus Slane, Iohn Miczta, and Mr. Wencelaus Picene, were apprehended by the command of King Wladilaus, becaue they affirmed the Pope to be Antichrit. They were carried into the Catle of Calreiteine where the firt of them perihed by hunger, and the natinee of the prion; the other with much adoe were dimied by the order of the States. At which time, many other who were more reformed in their judgements, were either driven from Prague, as Mr. Mathias Macheeke profesor of the Univerity, or willingly departed, as Lucas Pragene, atchelour of Art, an excellent man (who afterwards, as before I have recited was a Bihop amongt the Brothers) there alo forooke the Vniverity of their own accord, Mr. Iohn Snow