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 out of it, and writ this, They have drunk up the dregs anda lland all [sic]. At the lintell of the doore they writ this entance in golden letters, [My houe is a houe of prayer, but not thy houe O mot cured Calvin.] They carried out of the Church the mot ancient Pictures of Litomeritius, Hus, and Ierom, and o burned them; afterwards they hewed their rage againt the holy Martyrs.

4. How they et upon the books every one perhaps have already heard, a thouand bibles (that I might not mention other good books) were taken away by thee Furies, that Antichrit might hew himelf nothing inferiour to Antiochus (1 Macabees 1. 5, 9.) commonly they burned them (onely the Count of Nahud that mot pervere Apotate having covered his holy books with ilk and Gold (for hee was umptuous & proud) having taken off onely the gold and the ilver, commands that they hould bee buried in the ink (himelf being preent ) but the manner was divere, ome having taken them away from the Chritians did burne them privately at home imulating the modety of Joochim (6. Jer. 23.) others brought them in baskets to the market-place, as was done at Fulneck; others brought them in carts without the walls, as was done at Zalicum and Frutnovia: others brought them in heaps to the Gallows, and other places detined for the punihment of mallefactors, as at Hraditium & o in great heaps burned them: