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 neare, and that the one and twentieth day of June was the appointed day: And therefore they did advice that each of them would have a care of his owne oule, and therefore that they hould end for a Jeuite, or Capuchin, or Miniter of the AngutineAugustine [sic] Confeion, and o fit himelfe for death; but that none of them mut have any thought to have any Miniter of the Order; becaue that would not be granted unto them. Which was ad newes to them; becaue the greater part of the Martyres had beene auditors of the Brethren: neither could this inhibition otherwie be taken, than either from ome exact or ome ancient rooted malice againt them, or to cat a mit before the eyes of the Saxons, as though Cæar did not much dilike their Order.

4. Which thing being done, the foreaid Jeuites and the Capuchines, not taying till they were called for, flew thither like o many flies, uing many perwaions to them, even to deparation and deniall of the truth, and by putting ome in hope of life. But God o trengthned them, that all thoe endeavours of Sathan and his Imps were in vaine, whatoever they proteted to the contrary; calling Heaven and Earth to witnes, that they hall not be guilty of their eternall damnation, ince that they o obtinately refued the Grace of God.

5. The Miniters of the Gopell are therefore called. Iohannes Roueins from the leser Prague went to the