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 which all were commanded to confee and detet their crime, which was deceitfully done as afterwards appeared, For when the Princes of Germany advied the Emperour not to punih all without any difference for the Delinquency of a few perons, it was anwered. None were punihed but uch as were convinced by their own confeion.

3. It was preently forbidden by Letters Patents ent through all the Lordhips, that no man hould diminih or wat his Goods by elling any of them, or by any other pretence tranlating them to any other, but hould poes them as he did at that preent. A penalty was impoed upon thoe that hould do otherwie; that whatoever any man hould end to another place hould bee lot, and that whooever received any thing of another mans hould pay o much of his own to the Emperour.

4. Many were afterwards cited one after another to receive their final entence even ome that weredeadwere dead [sic] (as the L. Nicholas Bukowski de Huteizan purged two years before, &c.) others that had been for many years bed-ridden, ome that were blind who could not in any thing offend, whoe names were found in the Regiters of the Kingdom, and who were thought to be rich, which happened to the Lord Peter Skopek of Otradowitz Lord of Belehrade, and the Lord Iohn Charvat of Bieloesky: to whoe charge this crime was laid, that they had been preent in the Rh