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 bium, it o carne to pae, that the yoake of the oxe being looened, the bridge cleaved aunder, and hee with his train was drowned in the water, ix Knights only wimming out, aved their lives, and one young Nobleman, who at length in his old age died, but ecaped alive to be a witnes of the daily revenging hand of God, but he avouched the Religion of the Brethren, for which he had had experience that God was watchfull. This man aw his Lord wimming above the waters of Danubium, and held him by his golden Chaine, untill fihermen, who were then comming toward him in a mall hip, came to help him. So the Baron was taken up, but dead: but the chet wherein he had locked his deadly intruments, unke into the Sea, that it was never een any more, neither was there any one that would looke after it. Thuanus, maketh mention, of this Story in his 36 booke, and reports this accident to have happened on the fourth of the Ides of December.

5. Ten yeares after, in the yeare 1575. Maximilianus called a Parliament at Prague, and permitted all the Orders in the Kingdome under both kinds to be reconciled, by the common igne of the confesion of one faith, the Jeuites and fale Husits endeavoured with might and main to hinder it. Among other things when they had ued their bet endeavours by petitions and protetations, alleadging that the Orders in both kinds doe not agree in their faith, but that