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 formerly it flourihed) began after a trange manner to be diolved. Wherefore this liberty bringing along with it carnall ecurity, did not pleae all godly men, and ome began to preage ill, that o a horrible tempet from ome Ferdinand hould againe overwhelme them. It was a Propheticall peech, in peace my bitternee is mot bitter and fullfilled, of which it followeth.

Mut begin higher, that the bottom of our calamity may be more apparent. The occaion of the grant of this ample Religious Liberty, by Rodolphus to the Bohemians and Sileians, was becaue the Hungarians with Autrians and Moravians foraking Rodolphus, for ome civile caues, had created his brother Matthew Archduke, King, Duke and Marquis, and with a great army in the year, 1608. entring into Bohemia, even unto Prague, did not only demand the Crowne of Hungarie, which was there kept, but courted the Bohemians to a revolting, but they with the Sileians, were faithfull to him, and Mathew with the Crowne of Hungarie, and hope for ucceion in the Kingdom of Bohemia after the death of Rodolphus, being ent away, they asked Rh