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 dict is proclaimed (August 23.) to this effect: Whereas it was never the Kings Majeties pleaure to intitute a divorce between man and wife, thetefore it is ordered that every woman follow her owne huband, unlee he be minded to turn Catholick.

10. After the ame method having banihed other Citizens of chiefet note and eteeme, ometimes fewer, at other times more, ometimes eventy together contained in the ame act, after they had expelled ome hundreds, they deited; uppoing that the ret might be more eaily compelled: even as it came to pae. For by thee imprionments, & other preures (uch as we hall peak of happening to other Cities) were brought to univerall Apotacy, ome few onely excepted, which fled of their owne accord. And thus the three-fold City Prague, mot populous, and alwayes hating and didaining the Pope, is now, though mot unwillingly and with great reluctancy, made Antichrits harlot. Chap. 93.