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 firt was courteous to her Husband, and the Chritian Nobility, and promied after her Catechiiug that he would be baptized: but this wicked woman did boldly deceive both thoe that intructed her, and thoe that were her Sponers in baptie ; for he was more cruell againt Chritians, then Iezabel was againt the Prophets.

§.4. Whilet her pious Husband lived, he cunningly diembled that hatred which was evilly conceived againt the Chritians: but he being buried, when the Grandmother Ludomilla did undertake to educate the elder on Wenceslaus, Drahomira requiring the younger Bolilawes to be under her tuition, hee uurped the Government, and traightway commanded by a publike Edict, that the Churches hould be hut againt the Chritians, that the exercie of their Worhip hould be hindred. She likewie prohibited Miniters from intructing the people, and Schoolmaters from teaching Youth: thoe that diobeyed were liable to imprionment, banihment, and death. At Prague, the Magitrates were changed, and the mot cruell Idolaters were ubtituted in the places of the Chritians, by whoſe incitement the Chritians were ecretly, openly, unworthily abued and murthered, without any punihment to the perpetrators of that michief; but if a Chritian had killed another in his own defence, ten were maacred for one.

5. The inatiable crueltie of Drahomira could not be atisfied with this punihment, her great deire of Rh