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 being affrighted, and lamenting their ad condition, The chiefe men of the Senate came, and undertooke before the Commiarie for the Miniter, that he hould appeare whereoever they hould command him, o that he would not uffer them to lay violent hands on him. He threatens him now being under arret hat he will end him to Prague, but importuned by the interceion of good women, was the next day moved to let him goe, provided, that within three dayes he hould depart the City, and thus the good & faithful hepheard, not without great lamentations banihed, & about 3 years after dyes of the plague, lying on his death-bed, he told his dreame to his friends. He thought he aw himelfe placed in a very large Library, which when he had urveyed round about, he found a booke which had this Title in Latine, in golden letters, It is Just that the Just hould be laine and then crowned. Which booke he having an earnet deire to perue, cunningly placed it under his left arme-pit, that he might read it over at a more convenient eaon. But as he awaked, in tead of the booke, he found in that place a Petilentiall welling, whereof within foure dayes he dyed. He wrote in the time of his banihment a booke concerning Apotacy, in his owne mother tongue: Alo another, calling it the Idol of the world, and of the true knowledge of the Crucifix, which being printed have benefited very many, not onely teaching them per-