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 thought not evill of the Brotherhood, but being commanded by his uperiors, he could not but put his charge in execution.

3. The King believing the flanderous accuations of thee evill men, that the Brothers attempted ome edition, as the Thaborites before them, he commanded the holy man Gregory to be tortured, who being tranported into an extaie, did feele no ence of paine at all, and being believed by the Tormentors to be dead, he was taken downe from the Rack. His Unckle Rokizane comming to him (for he heard he dyed on the Rack) did with many teares lament him, repeating againe, and againe, O my Gregory, would I had bin in thy place, but he after ome houres comming againe to himelfe, revealed the Viion which he had eene, which was, that he was brought into a mot pleaant field, in the middle whereof, there tood a tree loaden with fruit, on which divers Birds of everall kinds, itting on the branches, did feed, and in the middet of them there tood a young man, who did o rule them with his rod, that not one of them did move or tirre out of order. No doubt but by this Revelation, God hewed him the Image of that little Church, of which he was as Patriarck. He aw alo three, other men who eemed to be keepers of the aid tree, whom ixe yeares afterward, when by uffrages they were choen to be over-eers in his Church, he witnesed that in this Viion he had eene, and