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 65 [sic]. After his death the enemies began to dipere themelves, and ome letters were in his poeion found, the which (if hee could have happily joined himelfe to the multitude of editious countrymen) hee intended to have dipered throughout the whole Kingdome, and incited all men to take up armes for the defence of adminitring the Cup in the Sacrament. But with thoe that knew the man better, this forgery got no credit; for that he was known to be of a quiet dipoition, and truly Godly, and was wont to ay very often that tears were the arms of the Church; nay, he was o far from any uch thing, that he eemed not to approve that the Orders hould defend their religion by armes. Unlee by chance being matered by impatience, he might happily join with them in their deperare Councells, which he only knows from whom nothing is hid. ThisweThis we [sic] are certain of, that it is no new device, for the enemies of the Church, to lay uch notable aperions upon the Godly, that they might put a fairer gloe upon their tyranny. We will hereafter acquaint you how the Father of this Martyr (a man of eighty yeares of age) laid his life downe for Religion in the ame yeare at Protanna in Moravia. Chap. 58