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 uites anwered. ''That they had no caue to wonder, for that this proceeding was afe for them. For they were to deal with Hereticks as with children and madmen, to whom if you would get a knife from them, you mut hew and promie ome other things, though you do not give them. They might be content that they had provided for their oules, and therefore to tetifie their thankfulnee might more chearfully help the Emperour by contribution, and quartering of Souldiers.''

Hilt the Kingdome is emptied of gold and ilver, the Emperour commands that Cijpris money hould be made, and ilvered over, of everall values and that with uch abundance, that the common people not perceiving the deceite might imagine their great abundance, in the mean time the ouldiers extort onely good mony: the value of golde and ilver rie to ten times the price of it, o that an Imperiall Shilling was worth ten Bohemian Florenees. But in the year 1624. the Emperour unexpectedly did diminih the vallue of that money, and commanded that every piece of that mony hould be worth onely the tenth part: by