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Hoe things which we have hitherto already related, may eem very moderate, in comparion of thoe which we hall now adde, (to wit) Don Martin de Henerda, played the part of a Commiioner of Reformation, and certaine others full of Spanih zeal. For example ake at Bidove, a Towne tanding three miles from Hradecium and ten from Prague. When he arrived here with his ouldiers, and calling the citizens into the Court, hee commanded the Catholick Religion with an oration full of words; and John Kolacznik, whom they had choen for themelves, anwering, in the name of the corporation, that it was not in the power of man that one hould unlearn that in the pace of an hour, which he had been learning all his life, neither was it convenient, that any man hould forake that which hee had imbraced for the truth of God, unlee hee were taught better things out of the word of God. There Henerda, as it were ditracted and forgetting, all civility, roe hatily from the place where hee ate, and aaulting the man with a club which he held in his hand, gave him many trokes, and being full of rage commanded the Of- ficer