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 twice travelled from Boruia into Moravia (where the Miniters forced from Bohemia did lurk & had gone through olonia the greater, in ome places (as occaion offered it elfe) hee preached the Gopell with uch ucces, that he gained many of the nobility and in thee the allatines and Catellanes, and within fewe years erected about twenty Churches in olonia the greater: and this was the firt originall of Churches in Polonia, which as yet retaine the Cerimonies of the ohemian Confeion.

3. The enemies o rejoyced for the imprionment of John Auguta, as the hilitimsPhilistins [sic] did when they had taken Sampon; for he was a man renowned through the whole Country, not o much for that he was the chief bihop among the brethren, but for his diputations both by words and writings with his adveraries the Calixtines, who as Luther, the ope in Germany, o he confounded his adveraries in ohemia. For he was ometimes Luther’s auditor, and did often afterwards receive Letters from him. y which meanes the enemies laid all the blame of the diobedience of the Orders towards Ferdinand, upon Augusta alone, as if he with his had caued (the ret of the Order cunningly being drawn into the faction) that Ferdinand being driven out, they might advance lohn Frederick the Elector of Saxony unto the Kingdome; which had auredly been brought about, if Cæar had been overthrown in war. Rh