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 4. That this cruell conpiracy might be dicloed, Augusta being called forth by a feigned friend to dicoure as if to advie with them concerning the allaying of that michief, he is taken & carried back to Prague, & was by order three times mierably tortured by the hand of the hangman, his colleague John Billek, fared no better. But no unlawfull act being known, or any igne thereof appearing, they are left in prion for the pace of 17 years, at the length after the death of Ferdinand they are dimied in the year 1564.

VeeyVery [sic] many of the Miniters of the Gopell banibedbanished [sic].

Hen it was evidently knowne, that the brethren were not the authors of any conpiracy, but that the Orders in regard of the ancient league with the Saxons, and a new deire againt the protetants had acted this, Ferdinand bent all his endeavour to perecute the Lutheranes alo, having called a meeting in the year 1549 he caued thoe things which were formerly agreed upon to be confirmed, and the decree for the abolihing all other ects, (to wit the brethren and Lutheranes) to be publihed.

2. The effect whereof was, that awell the Ca- lixtines