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 that in the year, 1476. they indeavoured by a mot impudent invention, to tirre up againt them the hatred of all men. They had uborned a mot light man, by art a Polender, by name Lezka, which if you interpret it ignifies a lyar, the ound agreeing with the thing, who upholding that he came from the Piccardins, and was an Elder amongt them, would eem to dicover wonderfull ecrets, as how in their conventicles they would blapheme God, the Virgin Mary, and the Saints, traduce the Sacraments, with their coffings, mingle them elves incetuouly after the manner of the Adamites, commit murthers, practie witch-craft, heape up mot vate ummes of money, &c. This man they did leade through Townes and Cities as a pectacle, they brought him into their Temples, where he hould abjure his errours, and mot hainous crimes, and beeeched the people to pray for him mot wretched inner, and to take heed by his example, of the mot wicked Piccardins. They tooke alo his confeion in writing, and publihed it, being confirmed with the eales and ubcriptions of ome Deanes and Priets, that where Lezka himelfe could not come in peron, his confeion might be read in the Churches to the people.

3. But this indeavour of the Devill did come to nothing, for the Brothers by publick writings did confute their Lyes, and Lezka trembling o often to forwareforswear [sic]