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<HEAD>By the Committee for the Affairs of the Poor Prote&s;tants in the <HI>Valleys of PIEDMONT.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe All-wi&s;e and Holy God, who&s;e ways of Providence are always righteous, though often &s;ecret and un&s;earchable, hath made it the con&s;tant lot and portion of his peo|ple in this world, to follow the Lord in bearing his Cro&s;s, and &s;uffering Per&s;ecutions, thereby holding forth and verifying that irreconcilable Enmity between the &s;eed of the Woman, and the &s;eed of the Ser|pent, which was vi&s;ible betimes in the Blood&s;hed of righteous <HI>Abel,</HI> whom <HI>Cain</HI> (though his brother) &s;lew, being of the wicked one, yea and for this cau&s;e, for that his own works were evil, and his brothers good. Thus they that are born after the fle&s;h, per&s;ecute them that are born after the &s;pirit to this day, and &s;o will do while the the world la&s;teth. In which Cau&s;e and Quarrel the Lord hath very many glorious ends. But &s;carcely have any &s;ort of the Churches Enemies more clearly followed the pernicious ways of <HI>Cain</HI> herein, then hath the Anti|chri&s;tian Faction of <HI>Rome</HI> done, that Mother of Harlots and Abominations, who&s;e garments are dyed red with the blood of Saints, which they have always cruelly &s;hed, and made them&s;elves drunk with, even the blood of tho&s;e holy Followers of the Lamb, chiefly who would not receive Antichri&s;ts mark, nor wor&s;hip his Image, nor drink of the golden Cup of his Fornications, but rather come out from them, and witne&s;s again&s;t them, though they did it in &s;ackcloth, and were &s;lain for it.</P>
<P>Among tho&s;e cho&s;en and faithful Witne&s;&s;es, the Lord &s;eemeth very &s;ignally to have rai&s;ed up tho&s;e Chri&s;tians, who (though di&s;per&s;ed in divers Countreys) have been commonly known by the name of <HI>Walden&s;es,</HI> who for
<PB N="2" REF="2">&s;ome Centuries of years have lived among their Enemies as Lambs among Wolves, to bear their Te&s;timony for the Truth of Chri&s;t, again&s;t the apo&s;ta&s;ies and bla&s;phemies of <HI>Rome,</HI> for which they have been killed all the day long, and appointed as &s;heep for the &s;laughter. Neverthele&s;s the Lord, the great Shepherd of the &s;heep, hath made their Blood thus &s;hed, to become a con&s;tant &s;eed of faith|ful and valiant Witne&s;&s;es for him; which is indeed the more marvellous in our eyes, that this Bu&s;h hath &s;o long burned, and is not yet con&s;umed.</P>
<P>This little Flock and Remnant which the Lord hath left and re&s;erved, are &s;cattered partly in the <HI>Valleys of Pied|mont,</HI> of who&s;e tragical Sufferings we have not long &s;ince heard, and have drawn forth our Bowels to them, where|of a very faithful Accompt is given to the world, both for &s;atisfaction of Brethren and Friends, and for &s;topping the mouthes of all Calumnies.</P>
<P>The other part of this poor; yet precious Remnant, have been di&s;per&s;ed in the Kingdoms of <HI>Bohemia</HI> and <HI>Po|land,</HI> who&s;e Sufferings, together with the Lords &s;ignal Providences about them, have been very eminent and remarkable, as hath been made appear unto Us by three godly per&s;ons, delegated by tho&s;e per&s;ecuted Churches, which are now the &s;ad Monuments of their Enemies Rage, and of the Lords &s;paring Mercies.</P>
<P>The&s;e have made their Addre&s;&s;es to His Highne&s;s the Lord Protector by Petition, declaring the deplorable e&s;tate wherein this per&s;ecuted Remnant now lieth, and with loud cries importuning the Chri&s;tian Bowels and Bounty of this Nation, which cannot but be moved to mourn over them, and to &s;hew mercy to them. And in|deed upon a due &s;en&s;e and con&s;ideration of this lament|able &s;ubject, even common humanity, but much more Chri&s;tian charity &s;hould provoke us to a Fellow-feeling of their pre&s;ent di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Condition.</P>
<P>The&s;e &s;ometimes flouri&s;hing Churches, were by de|grees worn out by the con&s;tant Underminings and open Outrages of the Antichri&s;tian party, being fir&s;t driven
<PB N="3" REF="2">out of <HI>Bohemia</HI> into <HI>Poland,</HI> then after their taking root and &s;preading in <HI>Poland</HI> unto a numerous Company, were for|ced out of the chief Cities there, and now at la&s;t by the Je&s;uited and inraged <HI>Poli&s;h</HI> Army per&s;ecuted in their few hiding places, with fire and &s;word.</P>
<P>Their Mini&s;ters were tortured to death by mo&s;t exqui|&s;ite and unheard of Barbari&s;m, by cutting out of the Tongues of &s;ome, pulling out the Eyes, and cruelly mangling the Bodies of others; nor did their Rage and bruti&s;h Cruelty reach onely to Mini&s;ters, but to others, yea even to women and yong children, who&s;e heads they cut off, and them at their dead mothers brea&s;ts.</P>
<P>Nay, their rage brake out, not onely upon the Living (not one of whom they &s;pared that fell into their hands) but al&s;o upon the dead, plucking the bodies of honorable Per&s;ons and others out of the graves, tearing them to pie|ces, and expo&s;ing them to publique &s;corn.</P>
<P>But the chief Eye-&s;ore and Object of their Fury was the City of <HI>Le&s;na,</HI> which (after plundring and murthering all whom they found therein) they burned to a&s;hes, and laid in rubbi&s;h; onely the Lord in his mercy having alarm'd the City of their Enemies approaching march, the great|e&s;t part of the Inhabitants (being three famous Churches) &s;aved them&s;elves by flight, and are now wandring up and down in <HI>Sile&s;ia,</HI> the Marqui&s;ate of <HI>Brandeuburg, Lu&s;a|tia</HI> and <HI>Hungary,</HI> poor, de&s;titute, afflicted and naked.</P>
<P>His Highne&s;s and the Council having referred unto this Committee the Te&s;timonials and Petitions &s;ent by the &s;aid Churches, We finding upon examination there|of, their ca&s;e to be thus deplorable, which is more at large &s;tated and declared in their own Narrative, have cau&s;ed the &s;aid Narrative to be tran&s;lated, and herewith publi&s;hed, thereby to &s;tir up the Lords people in the&s;e Nations to put on bowels of mercies towards the&s;e their exiled and afflicted brethren, refre&s;hing their hearts by your love, and the tokens of it in a cheerful and liberal &s;upply; which will not onely pre&s;erve this holy &s;eed
<PB N="4" REF="3">from peri&s;hing, that hath a ble&s;sing in it, but al&s;o up|hold among them the purity of Religion and Power of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>The rather con&s;idering the pre&s;ent freedom from the&s;e bloody outrages, we the people of the&s;e Nations do by the ble&s;sing of the Lord enjoy, the continuance whereof we may the more comfortably hope for, by how much our compa&s;sions are more freely extended to tho&s;e in mi|&s;ery. And if a cup of cold water given to one di&s;ciple, as &s;uch, &s;hall not lo&s;e its reward; how much more when a bountiful relief is given to more then five thou&s;and di|&s;ciples?</P>
<P>Which we &s;hould be the more forward to advance, becau&s;e they acknowledge they have received much con|firmation in the Religion for which they &s;uffer, by light received from our Countreyman <HI>Iohn Wicklef,</HI> that famous Witne&s;s of Chri&s;t again&s;t Antichri&s;t, even in the darke&s;t times of Popery.</P>
<P>And we doubt not but that God who hath lately open|ed your bowels to &s;o large and eminent a Contribution towards the per&s;ecuted Prote&s;tants of <HI>Piedmont,</HI> (for which many Thank&s;givings have been made to God on your behalf) will again draw out your hearts upon this like &s;ad occa&s;ion, to the like bountiful liberality, it be|ing our duty to ca&s;t our bread upon the waters, and to give a portion to &s;ix and al&s;o to &s;even, not being weary of well-doing, becau&s;e in due time we &s;hall reap, if we faint not. Con&s;idering al&s;o how honorable it is to act grace, and to lay out our &s;elves upon &s;uch occa&s;ions, we recommend it again as the work of God accompani|ed with his own voice, calling aloud upon us to inlarge our &s;elves in this mini&s;tration, and withal to pour out our hearts in faith and prayer, that the Lord would yet plea&s;e to rai&s;e up <HI>Sion</HI> upon the Ruins of <HI>Babylon,</HI> ha&s;tening his work, and ble&s;sing means to it.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>John Trevor</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chri&s;topher Pack</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Purefoy</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Cre&s;&s;et</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Vyner</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;eph Caryl</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Owen</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Jenkyn</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Philip Nye</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Cooper</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edmond Calamy.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="account">
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<HEAD>The utmo&s;t Fury of Antichri&s;t again&s;t the Prote|&s;tants or Reformed Church of the <HI>Bohemi|an</HI> Confe&s;sion in <HI>Poland,</HI> &s;et down in a brief (but faithful) Narrative, and according to the truth of the matter.</HEAD>
<P>THe Spou&s;e of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, &s;he who in the Cra|dle was be&s;prinkled with the blood of a Proto|martyr, hath always brought forth into the world men like <HI>Abel</HI> or <HI>Stephen,</HI> that &s;o there might never be wanting to cry from the earth unto God, and that the wounds of that Ro&s;e which lies among the Thorns of Per&s;ecution might not be concealed. Every age, and every year in each age, and every moneth and day in each year, hath produced new inundations of blood un|to this day; and yet the little flock of the Lord hath al|ways increa&s;ed under per&s;ecutions, one while here; an|other there, &s;hifting their &s;eats and habitations. While it plea&s;ed God by the means of <HI>Wicklef</HI> to kindle the light of the Go&s;pel in <HI>Great Britain, Iohn Hu&s;s</HI> a&s;&s;erted the truth of Je&s;us Chri&s;t in the mid&s;t of thick darkne&s;s of Popery in <HI>Bohemia,</HI> many thou&s;ands being &s;tirred up by God to receive it, who de&s;pi&s;ing all the cruelty of Tyrants, re|ceived it with joy, until by Gods a&s;si&s;tance they took rooting in the Kingdom, and grew up into flouri&s;hing Churches. In a &s;hort time after, Antichri&s;t breathing out his fury, the Truth was bani&s;hed out of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> and the Confe&s;&s;ors being driven out, tran&s;planted the Go|&s;pel into <HI>Poland;</HI> where being favorably entertained by King <HI>Sigi&s;mond,</HI> they in a &s;hort time encrea&s;ed to &s;o great a number, that being little inferior to the Papi&s;ts, they were able to boa&s;t of an equal authority and priviledges with them. Hence it came to pa&s;s that the Kings at their Coronations were wont not onely to promi&s;e, but &s;olemnly to &s;wear protection to &s;uch as di&s;agreed from the Roman Religion, and therefore they proceeded not
<PB N="6" REF="4">to open per&s;ecutions, &s;ave onely in tho&s;e Cities where the Je&s;uits had &s;eated them&s;elves in power (to wit) <HI>Cra|covia, Po&s;en, Lublin, Vilna,</HI> and where by their di&s;ciples, and by &s;tirring up the common people to fury, the Churches of the Reformed Profe&s;&s;ors were a good while ago demoli&s;hed, and divers Mini&s;ters cruelly ma&s;&s;acred. Neverthele&s;s the malice of the Enemies being no whit allayed, they were many ways afflicted, fir&s;t indirectly, afterwards by pretences under colour of Law, until tho&s;e Churches being worn out by degrees, and over|thrown, were not many years ago reduced to a very in|con&s;iderable number, e&s;pecially when as in the Reign of the late King, the enemies being confident they might do any thing, brought things to this pa&s;s at length, that there were no more then Twenty one Congregations re|maining in the Greater <HI>Poland,</HI> and tho&s;e al&s;o ready to pe|ri&s;h. But among the&s;e Twenty one remaining Churches, the chief, and as it were the Mother of them all, was that of <HI>Le&s;na,</HI> which was divided into three Congregations, the <HI>Bohemian,</HI> the <HI>Polonian</HI> and the <HI>German;</HI> each of which had their own Pa&s;tors, but the Communicants joyntly were about Two thou&s;and: Therefore it was that this Church was in the fir&s;t place expo&s;ed to the Enemies malice, and of late de&s;igned to the &s;laughter, as well by rea&s;on of its being very much frequented and grown famous, as al&s;o becau&s;e of the Synod there u&s;ually celebra|ted, as likewi&s;e a famous Univer&s;ity and Printing-hou&s;e, and Books frequently publi&s;hed to the world. When therefore in the year 1655. the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Army out of <HI>Pome|rania</HI> drew near to the borders of <HI>Poland,</HI> and the Nobi|lity were &s;ummoned to Arms, according to the Cu&s;tom of the Countrey, it came to pa&s;s that the Papi&s;ts brake forth into many furious expre&s;sions, crying out, That the Hereticks had invited the Enemy, and therefore they were fir&s;t of all to be put to the &s;word and extirpated; which reports, though mo&s;t fal&s;ly &s;cattered abroad (for the &s;earcher of hearts and reins knoweth, that we never &s;o much as dreamt of it) yet they ea&s;ily found credit
<PB N="7" REF="4">among the &s;worn enemies of the Go&s;pel, who &s;ought no|thing more then our ruine. Hereupon they who fir&s;t con&s;ulted to agree with the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Army, being terrifi|ed by its power, concluded about the Surrender of all Great <HI>Poland</HI> into the Kings protection, and namely, the Royal Cities of <HI>Po&s;en, Cali&s;&s;en, Me&s;erick,</HI> and to which al&s;o <HI>Le&s;na</HI> was expre&s;ly added: In a little time after they endeavored to ca&s;t off the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Yoke, and turned their Arms not again&s;t the <HI>Swedes,</HI> but fir&s;t again&s;t our Evan|gelical Profe&s;&s;ors, as con&s;piring with the <HI>Swedes</HI> upon the account of Religion, and none of them &s;crupled to take revenge upon them. They fir&s;t of all &s;et upon tho&s;e of <HI>Le&s;na,</HI> with re&s;olution of putting all to the &s;word, and de&s;troying that Heretical City by fire, and they had ef|fected both, unle&s;s God had by &s;ending &s;ome per&s;ons before, who by &s;ignifying the coming of the Enemy, and with what intent they came, had po&s;&s;e&s;t the Citi|zens with a panick fear, &s;o that leaving all their E&s;tates, they every man fled; and thus within the &s;pace of one hour, a mo&s;t populous City abounding with all maner of wealth, was left without Inhabitants, who in a mi&s;e|rable condition wandered then into the neighboring Woods and Mari&s;hes into <HI>Sile&s;ia.</HI> But the <HI>Poli&s;h</HI> Nobi|lity with their Army entring the City, did what they plea&s;ed, &s;laying a great number of decrepit old people, and &s;ick per&s;ons, that were not able to &s;ave them&s;elves by flight; then the City it &s;elf was fir&s;t plundred, and afterwards &s;o de&s;troyed by Fire for three days together, that no part of it remained be&s;ide rubbi&s;h and a&s;hes. In what maner they would have handled the Citizens, e&s;pecially their Pa&s;tors, they &s;hewed by their heroick actions performed in other places, by the mo&s;t &s;avage Slaughtering of divers Mini&s;ters of the Church, and other faithful Members of Chri&s;t of both Sexes; for of all that they laid hold on, they gave not one man quarter, but very cruelly put them to death with mo&s;t exqui&s;ite tortures. They endeavored to force M^r <HI>Samuel Cardus,</HI> Pa&s;tor of the Church of <HI>Czuertzinen,</HI> to renounce his Re|ligion,
<PB N="8" REF="5">after they had taken him, and mi&s;erably handled him with all maner of cruelty, but he &s;toutly re&s;i&s;ting, they fir&s;t put out his Eyes, and led him about for a Spe|ctacle, then they pulled off his Fingers ends with pin|cers; but he not yet conde&s;cending to their mad Fury, they found out a new kinde of torment, poured molten Lead into his mouth, and at length while he was yet half alive, they clapt his Neck between folding Doors, and violently pulling them together, &s;evered his Head from his Body. They took <HI>Iohn Iacobides,</HI> Pa&s;tor of the Church of <HI>Dembnick,</HI> and <HI>Alexander Wartens</HI> his Col|league, and another that was in company with them, as they pa&s;&s;ed through the Town of LUBIN, and hurry|ing them up and down for divers hours, and grievou&s;ly handling them after the maner of Tyrants, then la&s;t of all cutting their Throats with a Razor, threw them head|long, while they were yet breathing, into a great pit, which had been before-hand prepared for their Martyrs, and &s;tifled them by ca&s;ting down Dung and Dirt upon them. They a great while pur&s;ued <HI>Andrew Oxlitius</HI> a yong man de&s;igned for the Mini&s;tery, whom after long &s;eek|ing, they at la&s;t found in the open field, and in the end having taken him, they cut off his Head with a Sithe, chopping it into &s;mall pieces, and the dead carka&s;e al&s;o they &s;la&s;ht in a barbarous maner. The &s;ame fate befel <HI>Adam Milota</HI> a Citizen of <HI>Le&s;na;</HI> but they more grievou&s;ly handled an old man of above &s;eventy, who&s;e name was <HI>Simon Priten,</HI> and many others, who&s;e names it were too tedious to relate. Of that barbarous execution which they did upon the weaker Sex, there were be&s;ides other examples, horrid Trophies of Cruelty erected in the &s;aid City of <HI>Le&s;na:</HI> a pious Matron there, who was the mo|ther of three children, not being able quick enough to leave the City, and being &s;lain in the open &s;treet, they cut off her hands and feet, and cutting off her childrens heads, they laid two of them at her brea&s;ts, and the third by her &s;ide. In like maner, another woman having her hands and feet cut off, and her tongue cut out, being
<PB N="9" REF="5">inclo&s;ed and bound in a Sack, lived the &s;pace of two days, making mo&s;t mi&s;erable lamentation. Grief for|bids us to adde more, for they behaved them&s;elves &s;o fu|riou&s;ly towards us, that there remains not an example of any one man &s;aved of all tho&s;e that happened to fall into their hands. It is notoriou&s;ly known how that fury of theirs tyrannized al&s;o over the dead; &s;ome they dragd out of their graves and cut in pieces, as at <HI>Zichlin;</HI> others they expo&s;ed naked for a publique Spectacle, as at <HI>Le&s;na;</HI> of which outragious action we had an example, even in the dead Body of the mo&s;t Serene Landgrave of <HI>Ha&s;sia,</HI> which was drawn out of the grave, who was heretofore &s;lain in a mo&s;t barbarous and tyrannical maner at <HI>Ko&s;|cian,</HI> but buried by our Friends at <HI>Le&s;na.</HI> The like was acted al&s;o upon the Body of the mo&s;t Noble <HI>Arciszevius,</HI> heretofore the valiant Admiral of the <HI>Hollanders</HI> in <HI>Bra|zile,</HI> which was likewi&s;e dragd out of the grave, and be|ing &s;tript of the Grave-clothes, was found after the firing of <HI>Le&s;na.</HI> There are divers other examples, which the Chri&s;tian Reader may finde in the Book, Entituled, <HI>Le&s;nae Excidium,</HI> faithfully written, and lately &s;et forth in print; but they are &s;uch examples onely as are com|monly known, for who is able to relate all things in particular? as burning men alive, drowning others with &s;tones tyed about their necks, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Now <HI>Le&s;na</HI> being de&s;troyed, the fury of the Enemy proceeded to the per&s;ecutions of others, they in a &s;hort time utterly demoli&s;hed all our Congregations, not one|ly driving away the Pa&s;tors, but al&s;o either burning or leaving mo&s;t of the Temples de&s;olate, as at <HI>Karmin, Dembnick, Skochy, Czriuczin,</HI> &amp;c. yea and the Auditories them&s;elves were either &s;lain (as in the Town of <HI>Skochy,</HI> where there was a very flouri&s;hing Church of the <HI>Bohe|mian</HI> Exiles, Sixty per&s;ons, both men and women were cruelly put to death) or el&s;e they were &s;cattered abroad, &s;o that there remained not one place wherein the Wor|&s;hip of God may be celebrated. Lo, this is the mo&s;t mi|&s;erable &s;tate and condition of our Churches; moreover
<PB N="10" REF="6">our Countreymen, to the number of 5000 be&s;ides youths and children, being di&s;per&s;ed in bani&s;hment (which hath now befallen mo&s;t of us the &s;econd time) e&s;pecially throughout <HI>Sile&s;ia;</HI> as al&s;o through the <HI>Marck, Lu&s;atia, Hungary,</HI> &amp;c. finde no comfort, but much mi&s;ery, and are there expo&s;ed to the hatred and envy of men. We that are Pa&s;tors dare not openly mini&s;ter to our Au|ditories with the Word and Sacraments, but onely in private Meetings, or in Woods among Fenny places, God onely &s;eeing us, who is witne&s;s of the&s;e calamities, and our comfort in extremities. Indeed being thus de&s;ti|tute of all things, we lead a wretched life in bani&s;hment, being afflicted with hunger and nakedne&s;s, and are be|come next to the mo&s;t mi&s;erable <HI>Walden&s;es,</HI> the greate&s;t &s;pectacle of calamity to the Chri&s;tian World, for &s;o it hath &s;eemed good to that Soveraign Wi&s;dom that go|verns all things, that we &s;hould be inheritors of the Clo&s;s and per&s;ecution of tho&s;e men from whom we have deri|ved the original of our Doctrine and external Succe&s;si|on: For truly we are the remaining Progeny even of the <HI>Walden&s;es,</HI> with whom being rai&s;ed from the a&s;hes of ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Hu&s;s,</HI> and with whom combining into the &s;ame holy Fellow&s;hip of the Faith and afflictions of Chri&s;t, we have for two whole ages and more, been perpetually &s;ubject to the like &s;torms of Calamities, until at length we fell into this Calamity, greater then ever was known in the memory of our Fathers, and which threatens us with utter de&s;truction, unle&s;s God prevent it. The truth is, this bu&s;ine&s;s con&s;trains us to amazement and tears, greater then can be expre&s;t in words, to &s;et forth our af|fliction and &s;orrow: If there be any con&s;olation in Chri&s;t, if any comfort of love, if any fellow&s;hip of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, we de&s;ire that this af|fliction of <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> may be recommended, e&s;pecially to all that are of the hou&s;hold of Faith. Let them not &s;uffer tho&s;e to peri&s;h whom the &s;ame Faith, and the &s;ame Spi|rit of Chri&s;t hath joyned with them in &s;o near a relation; we be&s;eech them in the Name of Chri&s;t, that they would
<PB N="11" REF="6">rather make ha&s;te to relieve tho&s;e who are ready to pe|ri&s;h, we being a&s;&s;ured that we &s;uffer this per&s;ecution up|on no other account, then for the confe&s;sion of the Truth, from tho&s;e Enemies who have acted &s;uch things as the&s;e are again&s;t us in times pa&s;t, and are now at length by Gods permi&s;sion, pouring out their fury up|on us.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed in the name of the &s;aid di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Churches, by their Delegates and now Exiles for the Cau&s;e of Chri&s;t;
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<ITEM>Adam Samuel Hartman, <HI>Pa&s;tor of the Church of</HI> Le&s;na <HI>in</HI> Poland, <HI>and Rector of the famous Univer&s;ity there.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Paul Cyril <HI>a late Member of the Univer&s;ity of</HI> Ly&s;na.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by HEN. HILLS and JOHN FIELD, Printers to His Highne&s;s. <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1658.</P>
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