the one and the other shall suffer death Dated at Prague 13 December 1621. 2. Thus the Ministers of Bohemia for there was care had of the Germans in favour to the Saxons were cast out of Prague their Churches given to the Jesuites what drooping of the Godly what anguish of Consciences what lamentation of them that followed their Ministers was there and what bidding farewell to them even for ever cannot now bee expressed 3. These that follow were the names of the Parishes and Ministers of them George Dicastus was Minister neer to the delectable Pallace and Administrator of the Consistory under both kinds with his two Colleagues Wenâ—eslaus Viccarius and Iohn Lansman Old-Prague M. Victorius Vurbenins of St. Nicholas M. Samuel Martinius of Castuly Jacobus Iacobides of Martins Vitus Iakessius of St. Gallus Iohannes Lunacius of Giles Gallus Zolanius being a little before dead a man very eminent for his Orthodoxe writings with the Deacon John Vurssovius M. James Jacobus of St. Michaels New-Prague Vitus Pagellus of Henries M. Tobias Adelbertus of Clemens Matthias Stecius of Adelbert the greater Matthias Janda of Michaels Nicholas Matzick of Adelbert the lesser John Hartviâ—ins of Stephens Adam Clemens of Wenceslaus John Rasaceus of St. Nicholas of the lesser Prague 4. The Ministers of the Brethren John Cyrillus Senior of the Consistory and John Corvinus and Paul Fabricius partly departed and partly hid themselves for since their Auditours were not limited to one Parish but were dispersed throughout Prague for they fearing that the Church of Bethlehem might not be taken from them or not alwaies lawfull for them to make use of it began to build them a Church and had for a while to their use the Jesuites Church being at that time void of which when Prague was taken they possessed themselves In the mean while all places were full of Souldiers and affrightments they desired that they might not be called together in the Church of Bethlehem for none would appeare untill this hurly burly were over But these multitudes ceased not but rather were encreased dayly a publicke army once leaving off will not easily bee brought together again 5. And because the people of Bohemia were deprived of their Ministers they flocked to the German Churches as many as understood the German language for they had free exercise in their own Temples built in the time of Rodolphus the one at old Prague dedicated to our Saviour the other at the lesser Prague dedicated to the Trinity The Jesuites thought it better to move the Elector than to suffer this presse hard and obtaine that not a proscription but a gracious dismission should be given notice of to the Ministers of Germany to bee packing on the 29 of October of the year following M. How and the Elector protesting against it Therefore the Ministers of the Germans went from Prague M. Gasparus Wagner Mr. David Lippuck Mr. Fabinus Natus great company of people of both sorts follwing them Of whom in the middst of the field with great lamentation and howling they heard their farwell Sermon CHAP. LIII The Ministers are removed out of other Cities I. THe next thing that was in agitation was to remove the Ministers out of other free Cities which immediately in the same year they attempted and with severall insolencies put it in execution By Commissaries whereof I will give you one or two instances 2. Amongst those Commissaries of Reformation that were named in the Country of the Slanensians and Litomeritians George Michâ—a was one who having a troope of horse went about the Cities Assoone as he came to Slana on Saint Katharines day with his Guard he enters into the Church and there he beheld their Minister and Deacon Mr. John Kapillius a learned man and a man of a fervent spirit reading the Gospell and sendeth one of his Souldiers to bid him desist but he notwithstanding persisting he himselfe goes to him and having his sword drawn cries out aloud to him Thou foolish Preacher leave off your babling and withall dasheth the Bible out of his hands with his sword The Minister with eyes hands and voyce lift unto Heaven repeatteth often Woe woe unto you who neither enter into heaven your selves and forbid those that would enter woe woe woe be to you but those words were made a mock off and presently they layd hands on him and he was taken and thrust this way and that way When againe he said But I for the name of my Lord Jesus Christ am ready to suffer all this and whatsoever else Some of those caitiffes repeated those words of my Lord Jesu my Lord Jesu in scorn and derision cast the words back againe and we have a Lord even Caesar In the meane while the people being affrighted and lamenting their sad condition The chiefe men of the Senate came and undertooke before the Commissarie for the Minister that he should appeare wheresoever they should command him so that he would not suffer them to lay violent hands on him He threatens him now being under arrest that he will send him to Prague but importuned by the intercession of good women was the next day moved to let him goe provided that within three dayes he should depart the City and thus the good faithful shepheard not without great lamentations banished about 3 years after dyes of the plague lying on his death-bed he told his dreame to his friends He thought he saw himselfe placed in a very large Library which when he had surveyed round about he found a booke which had this Title in Latine in golden letters It is Just that the Just should be slaine and then crowned Which booke he having an earnest desire to peruse cunningly placed it under his left arme-pit that he might read it over at a more convenient season But as he awaked in stead of the booke he found in that place a Pestilentiall swelling whereof within foure dayes he dyed He wrote in the time of his banishment a booke concerning Apostacy in his owne mother tongue Also another calling it the Idol of the world and of the true knowledge of the Crucifix which being printed have benefited very many not onely teaching them perseverance but also stirring up their zeale in the known truth 3. And in the neighbouring City Laimensis when the Minister for feare of such barbarous proceedings went away yet notwithstanding the Commissaries in the place of punishment extort a great summe of money from the Church and banish him though absent 4. And they entring into Zatreum Zaza commanded the Deacon Iohn Regius to appeare in the Consulls House and immediately to forbeare going to the Church and to depart from his parish within three dayes the City within eight dayes Who when he had modestly required the cause of their so sudden proceeding was answered that Caesar by victorie had made all the parishes of the Kingdome subject to his power and that Preachers hitherto were tollerated but now they must be packing and
separate themselves and had by themselves a peculiar meeting at Prague accusing the other that they did admit of the sword propounded to defend themselves by outward force This Calumny being greedily received and brought to the Kings cars was the reason that the King said What do they think to bring back Ziscâ— again to us We shall take a speedy course to suppresse this insolence The brothers hearing of it did write a new Apology to the King giving him an account of their faith and removing from themselves the late accusations and the blasphemies attributed to the Piccardins which occasioned the King by one edict to mitigate another and commanded that those of the Vniversity and the consistory should have a friendly Colloquy with the Piccardins in which the chiefest of them should endeavour by the strength of reason to recall them from their errors 2. Therefore in the Calends of January in the year 1504. The Patrons of the Brothers the Barons were commanded to bring their greatest Doctor to this Colloquie with the Academians and these of the Consistory The businesse of the Edict being deliberately canvassed although they feared treachery yet because it was held inconvenient to forsake so good a cause and to exasperate the King it was resolved that there should be a meeting they sent therefore but as Sacrifices to the slaughter Francis Lucas of Prague and Laurence Krasonice two Pâ—llars of their Church with some others who were comended to the prayers of all the Brethren There is extant an Epistle of Bohusza Kostka Baron of Postupitz Lord of Litomissa which he sent to Francis Krasoâ—ice not long after he had taken his farewell of him I conceive it to be no lost labour to insert in this place some part thereof To love life said the Baron is naturall but thou my Brother having learned better things must remember that thy life is buried in Christ which that thou mayest injoy thou must dye in Christ Thou knowest whom thou hast believed how able he is to keep thy pledge unto that day c. Be strong therefore in the Lord and in the power of his might that thou mayst fight the good fight and mayst receive a Crowne of life What is the manner of this fight thou needest not to be taught though peradventure thou mayst be admonished But that I may no longer detain thee stand fast beloved brother As far as humane providence can direct us we have provided for your safety neither will we be wanting to you But if the fury of the enemy shall prevaile and it shal please God by your death to glorifie the cause of Christ be you prepared to say with Job God hath given and let God take this life as it pleaseth him so let it be Farewell my brother Dated at Litomissa on the day of the first Martyr Stephen 1503. There is also extant the farewell of Francis Lucas to the Brethren at Bolislave a most comfortable letter 3. But God who would preserve these instruments from the jawes of the Lions Mr. Martin Poczatece not the least of the Enemies of the truth dying suddenly that morning about the break of day in which they should appear at the consistory By which example the rest were feared and the whole City meeting together they desired that the colloquy might not be in private but in publick but they pretending I know not what new businesses adjourned the disputation to another time the brothers being lovingly dismissed CHAP. XXIIII The Proclamation of King Wladislaus for the banishing of the Brothers made frustrate by the intervention of some wonderfull Iudgements The Martyrs at Bora. I. THe enemies of the truth could not bee quiet but a new destruction was againe designed to this small flocke of the brothers for Iohn Bozake Bishop of Warade in Hungary a Moravian by his birth a subtile man and burning with an implacable hatred against the enemies of the truth entring into crafty counsell with other Bishops of Hungaria and Bohemia the Queen her selfe was suborned who great with child and so neere unto her delivery that it was believed the King would deny her nothing in that estate she sollicited him for a new edict against the Piccardins and comming to his Chamber as it was afterwards known by some Gentlemen of his Bedchamber and most worthy of beliefe she desired that favour that the King would give way to so many Petitions and severely prosecute against that so much hated fraternity The King being sad to heare that request only nodded with his head but gave no answer at all 2. Presently upon this the Bishops in the presence of the King did begin to write the Coppy of the Mandate The King going into his chamber did fall on his knees and with teares besought God to forgive the guilt of those bloudy Councels and grant no successe unto them God heard his voyce and shewed some Examples of horrid Judgment on the authors of this conspiracy The first example was the Queene her selfe who before hand delighting her selfe with the immagination of it did propose unto her fancy what gratefull spectacles she should behold at Prague when being delivered of her Child she should come to that City and see the Piccardines some burned some beheaded and some stifled in the water But Oh the Judgments of God for before the time of her delivery being prevented with the pangs thereof and not able to bring forth The Physitians that they might preserve one were of opinion that the Child should be cut out of the mothers womb and the Chyrurgions being come tooke out the child alive but because it was brought into the world before its time as yet unable to see This was Ludonick who afterward succeded his father in both Kingdomes but the Mother no longer able to indure the torment did expire and with her dyed the wicked contriveances of the enemyes of the Truth for that time This was at Buda in the year 1506. on the beginning of July 3. Two yeares after this the Bishops obtained what before they attempted and the King overcome by their importunity who cryed out that sharp remedies must be used to take away such a growing Evill he commanded that all the Piccardins whatsoever without difference either of sexe or Age should be punished with the losse of life This was in the year 1508. on the tenth of August 4. Ionh Bishop of Warade and Stanislaus Sturzo Bishop of Olumitz brought this Edict unto Bohemia and a full house of the states being called gave it to them But because many of the chiefe of the Nobility complained that this Decree was made without the knowledge of the Parliament they could not consent that it should carry any force with it The execution of it therefore went on but slowly and almost eighteene moneths were spent in disputations only and debates about it 5. At the last by the cunning Artifice and proceedings of Albert Chancellor of Kolowratte and his Accomplices this bloudy Edict
said of himselfe not of others The Baron replyed Thou liest for it followes not for me onely but for all those that wait for his comming Here the Sophister was mute and the Baron went forward As for that saying No man knoweth whether he deserve grace or hatred doe you thereby seeke to coope me up pray tell me where you find it written here is the Bible where doe you find it The one said If I be not deceived in the Epistle of Paul to Timothy The Baron being very angry said Thou Asse wouldest thou teach me the way of salvation which knows so little of the word of God Satan be gone from me and tempt me not At length being confuted they went their way and stood a far off while the Martyrs prepared themseves for suffering as they use to paint Devils when they are forced to leave forsake the sinner looking as we use to say as if he had eaten Bull-beef And it is probable that nothing so much troubled Satan than that all of them slighted him and his factors 7. Presently after the Baron was called and as he went on the Scaffold he carried his head stately and stroking his long beard he said My gray hairs Behold what honour remains for you that you should be crowned wiâ—h Martyrdome and then directing his speech to God hee prayed for the Church his Country his Enemies and recomended his soule to Christ whose head being cut off was set on the Tower and his body buried CHAP. LXIII Christopher Haraâ—t Baron of Bezdruzitz and Polzciz Lord of Petzka I. HE got himself a name and much experience by his travells in Europe Asia and Affirica which he published to the world in his native language he was made by Rodolphus one of his Privy-Chamber by Matthias a Privy-Counsellour lastly by Fredericke chiefe of the Kings Chamber This was the cause why the sentence of death was pronounced against him because he was present at the expedition of the Orders in Austria and not being absolved of his former Oath took an oath to be true to Frederick which thing was as wel done by others as by him so that it was evident that these Politicians sought their pretences meerly out of the hatred they did bear unto religion 2. Going to suffer he called unto him Rosacius a Minister of the Gospell and told him how much he was troubled for his wife and children for hee knew his wives coldnesse in religion and therefore feared what hee should commit to her shee now wanting a counsellour He remembers that he left in witing something with her which he doth desire to remember and therefore desirteh the Minister to rehearse them to him First that she should be constant in the Gospell Religion nor suffer her self by any allurements to be perswaded from it for he tels ther that therein is the readiest and most infallible way of Salvation and assurance of the mercy of God by the merits of Christ being mindful of him of that which she had heard from him that he had tried all Religion and compared them with the Scriptures and that he found none more sure solid than that which he was about to seal with his bloud that we attain Salvation by the bloud of the Lamb which he is certain very shortly to find Of which glory if she would be partaker she should persevere in the same faith Secondly he prayed that she would use more clemency to his Subjects and rather ease then overcharge them with burthens last of all to command that she would have a care of her Children and bring them up in pure Religion otherwise if through carelesnesse they were seduced he would cause them to appeare before Christ his tribunal This he spake with much zeal and solemn protestations but this meer woman being perfidious to God her conscience her children and her subjects observing nothing of all this For within a while after she did marry an Apostate committed her sonnes to the tuition of Jesuites she her self swerved from her Religion and did exercise tyranny over the soules and bodies of her subjects 3. Being called forth to execution he said I have travelled so many Countries so many barbarous nations have undergone so many dangers by sea and and now I suffer innocently in my owne Country and by their hands both for whose good I and my fore-fathers spent our Estates and Lives Father forgive them As he went forth he prayed In thee O Lord have I hoped let me not be confounded for ever Going on the Scaffold he lift up his eyes and said Into thy hands O Lord I commend my spirit Walking on the fatall cloth that was spread on the floore he made a little stand and brake forth againe into these words In thee O Lord have I trusted in my Youth I am confident that I shall be accepted by that ignominious death of my Saviour and falling downe on his knees he added To thee O God I commend my spirit thou God true and just hast redeemed me And seeing the Executioner came not for he was a Gospeller neither did he make too much hast untill they had finished their prayers he perceiving some delay prayed againe Lord Jesus Son of David be mercifull to me and receive my spirit and the sword from behind him cut off his speech with his head CHAP. LXIIII. Caspar Kaplirz of Sulewitz a Knight 86 yeares of age I. VVHen Rosacius the Minister of the Word came to visit him after his condemnation he received him with tears in his eyes but with a merry heart with these words Behold me a miserable old man who have often intreated my God that hee would have compassion on me and take me out of this life but I have not obtained it For God hath reserved me to be a spectacle in the world and a sacrifice to himself Let Gods will be done My death indeed is disgracefull in the eyes of men but glorious in the sight of God for God will account that death precious in his sight which I suffer for his glory and truth And when the Minister would have comforted him he desired him to heare his confession and to pronounce his absolution and to have that faith and hope which he had in God strengthened by the Lords Supper Having therefore confessed himselfe a sinner but especially that in his youth he committed something according to the custome of that age to please the world he praysed God that had not suffered him to be swallowed up but had called him to a more holy and upright course of life 2. At length he said Through the mercy of my God I have preserved my trust and conscience both to God my King and Country I have faithfully served four Emperours and that now such a reward should be given unto me I leave to God the just Judge who knowes that I sought not either honour or riches by any thing which I did in this businesse But I could not winke at the
space of three yeares aâ—d in those bonds hee died and afterwards was ignominiously buried near the place of punishment at Raudnice 23. There was also in the reformation of Litomislen a certain Country-man of the village of Strakow his name I have heard but it is now slipt out of my memory who did endure a long imprisonment vexed with the insultings of the Priests and of three thousand Subjects for so many that Lordship did containe was alone found constant and immovâ—ble He being sick by reason of the filthinesse of the prison was visited by a Jesuite and of him admonished to whom he thus answered Get thee hence thou tempter this day shall I sup with Christ and a little after he died and was buried in that place where they were wont to behead Malefactors 24. Yet more admirable was the constancy of a certain Scribe there was not any of whom I could learne his name but the thing it selfe I have read from the hands of faithfull and worthy witnesses in the Town of Dobrzisse This Towne as many of the neighbouring places were given by Caesar to Don Martin de Huerda but he disliking the service of so hard a Master resigned and lived with a certain Miller in the territories of the Suticens took upon him the office of a Schoolmaster when Don Martin came to hear of this he sent thus that they should bring the Scribe and the Miller bound in chains to the Tower of Welhartiâ—z and commanded that both should be cast into a deep place of the Tower in the year 1623 upon the Wednesday from whence the Miller was a little while after sent but the Scribe was kept there a whole year even to his death the prison was so foul and noysome that both his feet were rotted off but he being endued with a great measure of faith past away the whole time in singing Psalms and hymns as if he were in the enjoyments of all delights And it is worthy the notice taking when a little while before his death it was reported that both his feet were rotted off and that his body was full of worms Don Martin not beleeving it commanded that he should be brought forth that he might see him he refused saying The Tyrant was unworthy to enjoy the sight of his body And so remaining immovably united unto Christ he died about the same time upon the same Wednesday following namely 1624. When he was brought forth the Tyrant forbad that he should be carried out through the gate of the City through which he entred in but commanded that he should be cast over the wall into a ditch and from thence carried away by a Sheepheard and buried CHAP. CIIII. George Balthasar Martyr I. THis appendix of the former chapter shewing how the persecutors dealt with the common people will be a History famous to posterity In the year 1629. the fifth day of May two and twenty country men were brought captives from the village of Zlonice into the City of Slana singing with a pleasant voyce and triumphant hymnes about the resurrection of Christ it was brought in as a matter of charge against them that having before turned Catholicks they returned to Heresie and ministred to themselves holy things Being sent into several prisons they were forthwith brought to examination the Chieftain of these was said to be one George Balthasar an inhabitant in the village of Tmanus who had no learning and yet was a preacher among them his Master therefore Bohuchwal Walkaun having a little before turned Apostate least that he should draw upon himself Caesars anger or evill surmizes accuseth him in a letter written to the Senate of Slana and therein requires that justice should be done upon such a Rebellious fellow The Senate having summoned this man to appear causeth this writing to be read by the Solicitor and asked what he would give in by way of answer He requires time and promiseth that he would answer the writing leave being given him he frames this answer which out of the Bohemian tongue we have thus translated word for word I Have understood what charge was drawne up against me by Iames Swojanovius under the name of Mr. Bohuchwal Walkaun The first article is That I have been pernicious to God my Creator and to men in obligation in that having turned Catholick I have again fallen from the Roman Catholick faith and have violated my Oath To this I answer That heretofore being in a cruell prison I was prevailed upon to sinne against God my most righteous Judge because then I was weak in the faith not trusting God that he was able to deliver his out of the hands of men but God chastised me for this my fault holding my conscience captive for a whole year together so that I could have no hope in Gods mercy and yet I recalled to mind former sinners who did upon their repentance obtain mercy at the hands of God Thereupon I cryed to my God a whole year night and day I did water my bed with my teares because I thought my selfe damned but that true and righteous God who is not the cause of our destruction neither would that a sinner should die but rather that hee should be converted and live when he saw a fit time did not hide his mercies from me for I obtained what I did desire hee sent his Angell unto mee and mine eies saw his glory brighter than the sun and there was given to me in a moment the holy spirit and I was born again there was likewise afforded me a discerning of the Spirits so that I could distinguish between good and evill and with this great gift I did likewise receive a command of reproving the sinnes of men Nor am I deceived for the Spirit of God doth not hide himself from any man to whom he is given that he should not declare to the wicked things future but mercy to the penitents and therefore I was likewise forbid by the spirit to doe any more the workes of the flesh according to the lusts of the world which had conspired together what they might against the just Judge of the living and the dead and against the anointed ones whom he hath chosen to himselfe Nor is my Mr. Walkaun ignorant of this for they did hinder me from speaking the truth for the space of four years but by how much the more they hindred me so much the more did God confirme mee by his Spirit Likewise they may remember that I came to the Pallace of Zlonice that I might declare unto them the truth and invite them to repentance even as the Lord Jesus had commanded me by his holy Spirit and so to continue for three days together Friday Sabbath day and Munday upon which last day I had also my booke with me but where he saith I am a seducer of soules I answer and affirme that it is the certain will of the Lord that all you also should hear me neither were they so strong
as to snatch the book out of my hand Neverthelesse they did despise the glory of God for I ought to teach all how they might come to repentance but they had a signe given them when those three spiritual men went from me asking me a sign from Heaven but they are without excuse for they themselves held the books in their own hands and I wept greatly because they did not receive the Lords Anointed which indeed is no matter of wonder seeing even from the beginning of the world they did persecute those who being renewed of God doe good workes And it was necessary that it should so happen to me that every one might know the world to be an hater of the truth because the truth is not in it and that it also might appear that the world is an enemy of God Nothing therefore could so farre affright me nor had I respect to any thing that should hinder me from the chearfull doing of that work which God had vouchsafed to deliver unto me I would therefore know of you who are made of earth and of a lump of clay as well as I what place you will shew me that I might freely teach you without impediment if that you do refuse this there will a time come wherein you would desire to shew me a place but ye shal not have it Wherefore in the name of God I do exhort you that you would not receive this grace of God in vaine nor despise it for Gods rod is already tooke up with which God will shortly lash those that do not acknowledge his voyce There are more things for me to write unto you but seeing my selfe knowes not how to write I must have respect unto others whom I doe imploy and so briefly do conclude When I shall speak with you face to face I shall distinctly unfold all things in the mean while the grace of our Lord God be with us all Amen 2. This Epistle being read and they looking upon it as being of an unusual Stile there went to him but accesse was denyed to all others the Pastor of the place and strange Jesuites conferring with him face to face and endeavoured to disswade him from his purpose but he remitting any thing of his constancy did confesse that he was indeed a Lay man and had no learning but yet whatsoever hee did preach or afterwards should preach hee had it not from himselfe but from the Holy Spirit For so it is said he as lately I haue written and often I have said that I after that my abominable fall did speake a whole yeare in weeping but at length the Lord Jesus had mercy upon mee shewed mee his wounds with which the wound of my conscience in a moment was cured and hee gave mee also the revelation of the Holy Spirit and commanded that I should declare unto others the grace shewed to me and exhort them to repentance which I have done this foure yeares and will doe as long as my life shall last I know truly that the wicked world doth endeavour to take away my life but I am prepared to die because by my death I shall glorifie Christ Hee declared also that when hee did call upon God in the prison of Zlonice the Spirit of God answered him in his heart and spake great things which were not lawfull to be uttered as also that he was taken upon high above all the powers of this world lest there should be any which might prevaile against him As he had formerly declared all these things to the common people so he did now declare them in prison to the Jesuites themselves if they did descend to controversie about the Supper of the Lord and about one Mediator Christ c. he did fitly quote Scriptures and urged them strongly he did likewise denounce punishments to the persectuors of Gods people the seducers of souls and Masse-priests He foretold also the bringing back and gathering together of the flock of Christ now scattered abroad by the wolves 3. In fine when all these things did shew a spirit more noble than that it should be resisted they took care that hee should be brought to Prague the tenth day of August and upon the fourteenth day of the same moneth they punished him and that in such a manner as was a signe of a seared conscience for before morning light the people not knowing of it they commanded that hee should be brought forth and without the gates at the gallowes be beheaded and quartered the severall quarters being as a sight set in the high-wayes as being the members of some wicked Malefactors CHAP. CV The fury of the adversary against Churches books and the dead I. NOt without reason do we believe that the Kingdome of Antichrist was shewed to John under the forme of a beast for it doth indeed appeare before all eyes if we do but consider the cruelty and madnesse of that beast both against the living and the dead and against all things contrary to it and therefore yet it remaines to be shewed what rage they exercised against livelesse things Churches Books Images Sepulchers and the bones of the dead 2 As for the temples it is not necessary that we should remember or record how they did cleanse them from that heresie with their holy-water a superstition forsooth among them for whom this sanctification by the Word of God and prayer which the holy spirit taught the Christians 1. Timothy 4 5. is not sufficient this was ridiculous to the common people but to the wise a clear and evident token of their hatred to the word of Christ that they beat the Pulpits of the Churches from whence the Word of the Gospel sounded and the Altars from which the Sacrament was distributed under both kinds with rods and whips which was of all done in those chiefe cities Prague Iglavia Znoium the Jesuites of Prague being about to purge their Temple which under Ferdinand was granted to the Brethren they sprinkled powder upon the pavement and kindled it thinking to root out the contagion of heresie with fire and smoak 3. And because in most if not all the Churches and Towers and City-gates in memory of the religion of receiving under both kinds maintained by the sword there were erected Challices made of stone or brasse they went about to take this away a golden Chalice of great capacity in the Church at Prague was taken away in the year 1623 the 23 day of Jannuary and in its place the statue of Mary was erected the picture of Ferdinand armed with a sword against the Hereticks was placed in the room of George Rex standing by with a sword in the maintenance of the Challice at Hradicius they blotted out the picture of the cuppe which was over the doore of the house of Antonius and in the roome of it painted the Host and under that a cup turned upside downe with filthy thick water running out of it and writ this They have drunk up the dregs