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 becaue of the working in the mines; not long after John Codeck Miniter of Gurim, which had admitted the Emperors party and many others, both Priets and Lay people were thus erved, for they bought thoe of Tabor, giving five florence for a Priet and one for a Laick, which was the caue of horrid butchery.

4. Thurmenus does witnee that which followes to be found in a certaine manucript, in the year 1420, ther were cat in at Cuttenburg in the firt mine about 1700. in the econd 1038, in the third 1334. therefore every year in the 18. of April there was a olemne meeting at that place, (where a Church as yet tands) and commemorations were uually made of the Martyrs to the year 1613. which Woreowetz the chiefe mater of the mint did in vaine endeavour to hinder, at length it eaed, in yeare 1621. when perecution prevailed.

His was a chief Merchant of Prague, who comming to trade at Prelaw a Town of Sileia (where at that time Sigimund the Emperour, and Fernandus the Popes Legate, were met to conult about the carrying on the war againt the Bohemians) and upon a fit occaion in his Inne di- puting