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 ouldiery brought in againe: who (December the ixt) entering the Cicy, the buines of Religion is taken up againe. The Citizens atonihed with the newes hereof (againt uch manifet Covenants) they again humbly petition, that o much favour might be granted them (to keep the Workers in Mettall) that no violence be offered them. But intead of an Anwer, a command is given to the Captaine (December 22.) that for Hlawe the Conful, Paul Screte, Iohn Schreyter, Iohn Agathon, Sigimund Koel, and M. Peter Capo, Senators, and chiefe Citizens, the abettors of the hereticall obtinacy, to place twenty Muquetiers in their houes upon free quarter, untill he had received a Schedule from the Confesour, as a tetimony of their Confeion made before him. The Souldiers domineering by reaon of the licence given them, did not onely uck out and exhaut good men by their profue living upon them, but did alo abue them divere other wayes after their own pleaure: whoe patient contancy notwithtanding overcame their tyrannicall behaviour: For o long as they were able, they afforded them proviion; but this failing, part of them wihdrew themelves by flight, to further danger; others reigned the Government of their goods at home, delivering the Keyes to their landslords.

4. When they ee their deigne could not well proceed this way, the taske of reforming Kutterberg is committed to Don Martin of Hura, who guard- ed