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 otherwie they hould forfeit five pounds, every time, but the buinee did not proceed according to their deire neither.

3. At lat therefore they bring in more ouldiers, and begin to act more furiouly upon Corpus Chriti day, (as they call it) they command all the people to be preent at their Idolatrous proceions, and becaue Paul Stranki, Recorder of the Town would not be at this foppery, nor appear, they end a whole band of ouldiers (hee hiding himelfe in his houe) they plunder him, and abue, and threaren his wife Katherin, whom they found itting by the fire. Mr. George Colin, on in law to a principle man in the City, is carried before the Councell of War, and is accued of Treaon againt the Catholicks, that hee did indeavour to hut up the Queriter in the Church, for which thing Hiparchus Loreulius Medicius, an Italian, threatned he hould die, but in the interim hee commands him to bee kept in the court, but becaue this was a candalous fiction, with which Colinus was abued, as alo their other plots intended againt the ret, no way retraining the fury of the enemy, til thee threatnings vanihed into moak, the ouldiery being preently commanded away into Germany againt the Dane.

4. In the beginning of the year 1626 they againe oppree them with ouldiers, and quarter in the principle mens houes ten, in ome twenty, in others thirty,