Page:The History of the Bohemian Persecution (1650).djvu/42



Ut ome things are to be dicoured of more briefly in repect of places and perons and ditinctly it mut be opened, how the Roman faction being incited by the Antichritian alarum of Martine did perecute the faithfull.

2 When after the death of Wenilaus in the yeare 1419, Sygimund took the Kingdom, and by his Delegates (he not being preent there, till he came after with an army) ordered everall things which did treighten the liberty of their conciences, ome thouands of thoe that imbraced the pure Religion, gathered together to a tony mountaine, ten miles from Prague, which they named Tabor, that mountaine they compaed about with a wall, and contituted a common-wealth determining to defend it by armes if need were.

3. The Papits and thoe that were called Calikstins, being enraged againt them, perecuted them all manner of ways: & firt when they ent their Embaadors, Gallus Pertenus, and Mathias Blacils, for peace ake, to Cuttenburg, thes men were cat headlong into the mot deepe mines of mettall, but the Cuttenburghians, who were devoted to the Emperor, and for the mot part the Germaine nation, becaue