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<P>A True RELATION Of the bloudy Execution, lately per|formed by the Commaundment of the Em|perours Maie&s;tie, vpon the Per&s;ons of &s;ome Chiefe State&s;-men, and others; in <HI>Prague</HI> the chiefe Citie of the Kingdome of <HI>Bohemia.</HI> the 11. of <HI>Iune</HI> 1621.</P>
<P>VVith the manner and proceedings therein ob&s;erued.</P>
<P><HI>Faithfully Tran&s;lated out of the</HI> Dutch Copye.</P>
<P>Printed the 21. of Iuly 1621.</P>
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<HEAD>A true Relation, of the bloudy Exe|cution, lately performed (by the Command|ment of the Emperours Maie&s;tie) vpon the per&s;ons of &s;ome free States-men and others in <HI>Prague,</HI> the 22. of Iune 1621.</HEAD>
<P>_THere is no doubt but that many will be very de&s;irous to vnder&s;tand and be fully informed, of the la&s;t mo&s;t bloudy and cruell execution, with the criminal pro|ceedings concerning the &s;ame, again&s;t the Noble per&s;ons of &s;ome State&s;-men Directors &amp; other excellent and well qualified per&s;onages, in the famous Kingdome of Bohemia &amp; therefore we haue thought good to &s;et in writing and to cau&s;e openly to be printed the true di&s;cour&s;e thereof, to the end it may come to the knowledge of tho&s;e that de&s;ire to be certified of the true ground &amp; manner therof: And this Execution with the circum&s;tances concer|ning the &s;ame, was don and accompli&s;hed in &s;uch manner as followeth.</P>
<P>After that the Ma^t^i^e. of the Roman Emperour and King of Hungaria and Bohemia had ordained and giuen commi&s;&s;ion to his Excellencie the Prince of Lichten&s;tein (hauing to his a&s;&s;i&s;tance &s;ome other per&s;onages) concerning the Pri&s;oners in the King|dome of Bohemia, his Maie&s;tie gaue commandment that the Execution of them &s;hould be don and ac|compli&s;hed
<PB REF="3">vpon Monday being the 11. after the an|cient, and the 21. day of Iune, after the newe compu|tation: which according to the Impeariall Com|maundment is performed vpon the &s;ame day in the following manner.</P>
<P>On Thur&s;day, before namely the 17. of the &s;aid moneth of Iune, there came 7. Companies of Hor&s;e vnder the commaund of his Alteze the Ducke of Saxony in the Citty of Prague, whereof fiue Com|panies were ordained to lodge in the olde Citty and two Companies in the newe Citty, they kept their watches and &s;entinells from that day heere and there in the &s;euerall &s;treetes of the olde Citty, but in the great market place before the Townehou&s;e of the olde Citty, there watched euery night continu|ally a whole Company of the &s;aid Hor&s;men.</P>
<P>On Friday following being the 18. of Iune the Theatrum or Scaffold of timber which was to be erected, and wherevpon the following Execution of the pri&s;oners for the mo&s;t part was to be performed, was made ready and di&s;pached in the common Car|penters yarde of the olde Citty; and the &s;ame was the next day erected and &s;et vp in the great Market-place of the &s;aid Cittie clo&s;e and ioyning to the Towne-hou&s;e, &s;o that they might out of the &s;ame Towne-hou&s;e goe conueniently vpon the Scaffold through a dore purpo&s;ely made to that end. The Scaffold being high 4 ells: 22. paces broade, and 22. paces long, in a &s;quare forme: all of good &s;ub&s;tantial &s;trong timber and rayles made round about.</P>
<P>On Saterday the 19. of Iune, very earely in the morning there were 13. of the pri&s;oners out of the
<PB REF="3">olde Citty and 10 out of the new Citty; by the Coaches and Hor&s;es belonging to the Senators of the &s;aid Citty brought vpwards in the Court to the Ca&s;tle, conuaied with a &s;trong Guard of Hor&s;es and &s;ome Companyes of Musketieres, where the others a&s;well Lords and Knights who were of the Nomber of the Directors had beene kept pri&s;oners.</P>
<P>Whereupon they proceeded to the arraignement and condemnation of the pri&s;oners: which bu&s;ines was tooke in hand and effected in the Kings Court chamber right ouer the Chancery, where a Royall Throne or &s;eate of ru&s;&s;et Veluet was erected, and thereupon his Excellency the Prince of <HI>Lichten&s;tein,</HI> and the other Lords and Commi&s;&s;ioners were &s;it|ting by and about him.</P>
<P>Then the Pri&s;oners were one after another &s;ent for and brought before the Imperiall Court and Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners, when the Emperours At|turney came forth and indited euery particuler Pri|&s;oner one after another in the <HI>German</HI> and <HI>Bohemian</HI> &s;peech for matters enormious and criminall as hee alledged, reque&s;ting the Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners in his Ma&s;ters behalfe to decree and pronounce their finall Iudgement again&s;t them.</P>
<P>Whereupon Doctor <HI>Melander</HI> made an&s;wer in high Dutch; That the Iudgement was decreed al|ready, and &s;hould not be executed, but in &s;uch a &s;ort as might bee according to right and Iu&s;tice and to the Lawes of the Kingdome, and be&s;ides as may &s;tretch to the reputation and authority of the Em|perours Maie&s;ty.</P>
<P>After him Doctor <HI>Kapper</HI> made a &s;peech in the
<PB REF="4">Bohemian tongue being the &s;ame in effect; There|upon is the Arraignment and Iudgement pronoun|ced by the Imperiall Iudge of the lower part in the high Dutch, and pre&s;ently after him by another in the Bohemian Language. And thus were the 43. heereafter named per&s;ons, by the Iudges &s;entence in manner as followeth, adjudged and condemned to &s;euerall punitions.</P>
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<P>Fir&s;t of all &s;ome were condemned to impri&s;on|ment of their per&s;ons and other &s;ome to Corporall puni&s;hment.</P>
<P N="1">1 The Lord <HI>William Poppel</HI> of <HI>Lockowitz, &amp;c.</HI> High Steward of the Kingdome, who was brought forth fir&s;t of all, his Iudgement was, that grace &s;hould be offred vnto him, but yet vpon the good liking and ratification of the Emperours Maie&s;tye, was to re|maine in perpetuall pri&s;on.</P>
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<HEAD>The&s;e are condemned in like maner vpo~ his Ma^t^i^e^s liking, to per|petual impri&s;onment.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="2"><HI>Paul Rin&s;chan</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="3"><HI>Hans Wa&s;trowetz</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="4"><HI>Felix Wentzel Pietibesky</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="5"><HI>D. Matthias Borbonius.</HI></ITEM>
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<P N="6">6 <HI>Lucas Karabon</HI> is condemned to be Executed with the Sworde, but grace being &s;hewed him, his Iudgement is, that he &s;hall be &s;ent to <HI>Raab,</HI> and there to remaine in perpetuall pri&s;on.</P>
<P N="7">7 <HI>Wolfgang Ha&s;lawer,</HI> is to be &s;ent to <HI>Raab</HI> and there to be &s;hut vp in Iron chaynes.</P>
<P N="8">8 <HI>Melchior Dubrecht,</HI> is to be bani&s;hed out of the Land for euer, but grace &s;hewed him, is to be &s;ent to <HI>Raab</HI> and there to weare the Iron chaines for a yeare.</P>
<P N="9">9 <HI>George Sabiota</HI> is al&s;o condemned to be bani&s;h|ed for euer, but out of grace and vpon the Emperors
<PB REF="4">plea&s;ure, Execution is &s;u&s;pended.</P>
<P N="10">10 <HI>Paul Patzko</HI> &s;hall remaine in pri&s;on for a yeare.</P>
<P N="11">11 <HI>Ca&s;par V&s;zler</HI> is condemned to be hangd out of the Windowe of the new Cities Coun&s;el-hou&s;e, but by grace, till farther order, the Execution is &s;tay|ed, and he in the meane time to remaine in pri&s;on.</P>
<P N="12">12 <HI>Nicholas Diebis.</HI> Officer to the Burgama&s;ters of the olde Citty, is condemned to haue his tongue cut out of his throat, and it fa&s;tened to the gallowes, and after that to be &s;ent to <HI>Raah,</HI> there to be &s;hut vp in I|rons: but grace offered him, hee is to &s;tand with his tongue nayled on the poa&s;t of the Gallowes, for the &s;pace of an houre, and then to be &s;ent to <HI>Raab</HI> afore|&s;aid to perpetuall impri&s;onment.</P>
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<HEAD>Among&s;t the&s;e are 2. Bo|hemian Procurators, all 3. are co~demned to be whipt with Rods out of the citie and bani&s;ht the land.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="13"><HI>Wentzel Or&s;atzky,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="14"><HI>Io&s;eph Kubin,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="15"><HI>Hans Sirele.</HI></ITEM>
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<P N="16">16 <HI>Iohn Kammerit is,</HI> is to be bani&s;hed for one yeare.</P>
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<HEAD>The&s;e per&s;ons following were condemned to Death.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Fir&s;t men of Noble hou&s;es.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 The Lord <HI>Ioashim Andreas Schlick, &amp;c.</HI> chiefe Mini&s;ter of the Iu&s;tice in the Land of Bohemia, one of the priuy Coun&s;ell Director, and head Gouer|nour in vpper Lufatia, &amp;c. whome the Elector of Saxony &s;eut Pri&s;oner to <HI>Prague,</HI> hee had this heauy Sentence of condemnation pronounced again&s;t him, that fir&s;t his right hand &s;hould bee chopt off, then to be quartered aliue, and the quarters to be
<PB REF="5">hang'd vpon the high-wayes, his head and hand to be fa&s;tened on a pole vpon the Bridge Tower: But grace being offred vnto him, hee is to haue his head and then his right hand cut off, and both to be nay|led on the top of a Pole and &s;et vpon the Bridge Tower.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Lord <HI>Wentzel</HI> of <HI>Budowitz Senior,</HI> Pre&s;ident of the Appellations and Director, is condemned to the &s;ame penalty as the Earle of <HI>Sclick:</HI> Neuerthe|le&s;&s;e mercy being &s;hewed him, his Iudgement is mi|tigated, and is to be executed after the &s;ame manner as the &s;aid Earle of Sclick.</P>
<P N="3">3 The Lord <HI>Chri&s;tofer</HI> of <HI>Harrant,</HI> Pre&s;ident of the Bohemian Chamber and Director, out of grace is adiudged to be executed with the Sword.</P>
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<HEAD>The&s;e following were Knights and of the Gentry.</HEAD>
<P N="4">4 <HI>Bohu&s;zlaw</HI> of <HI>Michalowitz, &amp;c.</HI> Burghgraue of <HI>Conig, Gratzer, Craitz,</HI> and Director, &amp;c. &s;hall be exe|cuted with the Sword, and is to haue his right hand chopt off, and both to be &s;et and nayled fa&s;t vpon the Bridge Tower.</P>
<P N="5">5 <HI>Ca&s;per Kaplitz,</HI> Lord high Secretary of the King|dome of Bohemia and Director, is condemned to haue his head cut off, then to bee parted in fower quarters, &amp; the quarters to be hang'd vpon the high wayes: But out of grace mercy being &s;hewed vnto him, in con&s;ideration of his great age of fouer fcore yeares, this Iudgement is mitigated and he is to be Executed with the Sword and his head to be fa&s;te|ned with the others vpon the Bridge Tower.</P>
<P N="6">6 <HI>Hinrick Otto</HI> of <HI>Lo&s;z, &amp;c.</HI> Vnder burghgraue of
<PB REF="5">Carle&s;tein, al&s;o Vnder-chamberlaine of Bohemia, and Director, is condemned to be cut aliue in foure quarters, and the peeces to be hanged and &s;et vp, as of the former: But by grace this Iudgement is miti|gated, and is condemned to dye in &s;uch manner as the fore&s;aid <HI>Kaplitz.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7 <HI>Procopius Dwor&s;etzky,</HI> Vnder-chamberlaine of Bohemia, and</P>
<P N="8">8 <HI>Friderick van Bilaw,</HI> Captain of the Dutch Leen or feofe, both Directors, and both had &s;uch heauy Sentence as the afore&s;aid <HI>Kaplitz:</HI> But yet out of grace their Iudgement is altered and mittigated, as of the afore&s;aid Kaplitz, and they are to be executed with the Sword, their heads &s;et vp and fa&s;tened as a|fore&s;aid.</P>
<P N="9">9 <HI>Willem Koneg</HI> of <HI>Klumboky,</HI> Director, and</P>
<P N="10">10 <HI>Dioni&s;ius T&s;cher in,</HI> Captaine of the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Prague,</HI> by grace &s;hewed them, they are both &s;enten|ced to haue their heads cut off with the Sword.</P>
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<HEAD>The&s;e following, are of the Burge&s;&s;es and of the be&s;t Cittizens.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The three fir&s;t Direct|ors, but all foure con|demnd to be executed with the &s;word, &amp; ther heads on poles on the Bridge Tower.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="11"><HI>Valentine Kochan</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM N="12"><HI>Tobias Stefgeck</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="13"><HI>Chri&s;tofer Cober &s;enior</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="14"><HI>Iohn Theodorus</HI> &s;ixt.</ITEM>
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<P N="15">15 <HI>Iohn Schulthet&s;z</HI> Burgema&s;ter at <HI>Kuteenbergh,</HI> &amp;</P>
<P N="16">16 <HI>Maximilian Heo&s;telig, Primus</HI> at <HI>Satz,</HI> both the&s;e are condemned to haue their heads &s;troken off with the &s;worde, and the Head of the fir&s;t is to bee caryed to <HI>Kuttenbergh,</HI> and of the other to <HI>Satz,</HI> and
<PB REF="6">each to be nayled on poles and made fa&s;t vpon the Gallowes of their &s;eueral places.</P>
<P N="17">17 D. <HI>Iobannes Ie&s;&s;enius,</HI> a Doctor in Phy&s;icke, a famous Learned man, and one of the eloquente&s;t O|rators that Bohemia euer brought forth, a Profe&s;&s;or in the Colledge <HI>Carolini</HI> in the olde Citty of <HI>Prague,</HI> is &s;entenced to this grieuous and heauy Iudgement, to haue his tongue plukt out of his throat, and then to be quartered aliue: But by &s;peciall mercy offred him, he is condemned to haue his tongue cut off as afore&s;aid, and thereupon to be executed with the Sword, and then to be quartered in fower peeces, which quarters are to be hang'd by the Gallowes Tower vpon the high &s;treets there to remaine, but his head to be poled and &s;et vpon the Bridge Tower.</P>
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<HEAD> The&s;e &s;eauen recei|ued all grace and are to be executed with the Sword.</HEAD>
<ITEM N="18"><HI>Wentzel Ma&s;chir offizky</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="19"><HI>Hinrick Bock,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="20"><HI>Elias Ro&s;sin Senior,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="21"><HI>Elias Kotzaw,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="22"><HI>George Stzetzi&s;ckky,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="23"><HI>Michel Widman,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="24"><HI>Simon Wockat&s;chtz.</HI></ITEM>
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<P N="25">25 <HI>Iohn Kuttenaw,</HI> chiefe Captaine of the Citizens in the olde Citty, and</P>
<P N="26">26 <HI>Simon Su&s;sitz&s;zky,</HI> Commi&s;&s;ary of the Coun|&s;el, and of the Stewer-ampt, and al&s;o in former times Commi&s;&s;ary of the Ie&s;uites Colledge: both are con|demned to be hang'd out of the Window of the Towne-hou&s;e in the olde Citty on a beame or peece of Timber to that end &s;tretched out of the &s;ame window.</P>
<P N="27">27 <HI>Nathaniel Wodnian&s;zky,</HI> is condemned to be
<PB REF="6">hang'd and &s;trangled on the Gallowes in the Market place in the olde City.</P>
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<P>Immediately after this Iudgement and &s;entence of condemnation, it is likewi&s;e decreed and pro|nounced to all in generall, and to euery Pri&s;oner in particular (as well to tho&s;e that were left aline, as to them that were afterwards executed) that they had forfeited their Bodies, Liues, E&s;tates, Honours, Dig|nities, good and blood, and that their goods &s;hould be &s;eazed vpon (as already in &s;ome &s;ort it was affe|cted) but onely that &s;ome of their bed con&s;orts and wiues, &s;hould haue free their Ioynture that they brought with them at their mariage.</P>
<P>This bloody and tragicall Acte of condemnation. being ended, and brought to that periode; the Em|perors, Atourny in his Maie&s;ties name gaue harty thankes to the Lord Commi&s;&s;ioners both in the Dutch and Bohemian language, and thereupon the &s;aid Lord Commi&s;&s;ioners, returned againe to their hou&s;es, But the condemned Per&s;ons were conuayed againe to the place of their Impri&s;onment, &amp; there they obtained leaue, that euery one that knewe any of them might freely come to vi&s;ite them to &s;peake and conferre with them, and to comfort them in this their Extremity. But a&s;&s;oone as from their arraignment they were returned into their Pri&s;ons, there re&s;orted vnto them great Companyes of Ie&s;u|ites all two and two, who did their vttermo&s;t ende|uour with exceeding great per&s;wa&s;ions to turne them to their opinion and to conuert them, if any wi&s;e it were po&s;&s;ible) to their Idolatry and Popi&s;h Religion (they all being of the Augu&s;tine confe&s;&s;ion
<PB REF="7">and with great con&s;tancy profe&s;&s;ing the Lutheran re|ligion (except <HI>Wentzel Badowitz</HI> being of the refor|med Religion, &amp; <HI>Dioni&s;ius T&s;chkerin</HI> a Roman Catho|like) but they got &s;o much of the one as of the other, and in &s;umme effected nothing at all. And becau&s;e they di&s;puted more then an houre with D. <HI>Ie&s;&s;enius</HI> in the pre&s;ence of Mr. <HI>Dauid Lippach</HI> Mini&s;ter &amp; Prea|cher of the Augu&s;tan confe&s;&s;ion, at la&s;t he gaue them this for his finall an&s;wer &amp; expedition, that all what in his bapti&s;me he had promi&s;ed to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t his Lord and Sauiour, he was re&s;olued to liue and dye thereby, and was mo&s;t willing to ratifie &amp; &s;eale the &s;ame with his blood.</P>
<P>They likewi&s;e were &s;uffered either ingenerall or particular to haue with them a&s;well Duch as Bohe|mian Preachers, both of the confe&s;&s;ion of Ausburgh as of the Hu&s;&s;ites to their la&s;t end who did their be&s;t endeuour and tooke great paines with comforting them, and gaue them many good admonitions to dye con&s;tantly in the trew knowledge of God and their Redeemer Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, to their grrat &s;trength|ning in this their la&s;t conflict.</P>
<P>On the afore&s;aid Saterday in the night time, (be|&s;ides the 43. whereunder 27. were co~demned to dye) there were two pri&s;oners more adiudged to death in the manner as followeth, namely:</P>
<P N="1">1 <HI>Leander Ruppell</HI> being of the &s;ecret Coun&s;ell of the Elector Palatine of <HI>Heydelborgh,</HI> and al&s;o Coun|&s;eller and Agent for &s;ome other Princes, and</P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>George Hawen&s;childt</HI> Aduocate &amp; Coun&s;ellor of the Appellutions and Commi&s;&s;ary they were both &s;entenced to haue their heads &amp; hands cut of, and
<PB REF="7">then the &s;aid their heads and hands to be nayled on poales, and &s;et vpon the Bridg-Tower, and all their goods to be confi&s;cated: but becau&s;e that the&s;e two were not with the other pri&s;oners conuaied to the Ca&s;tle) their &s;entence was not then pronounced vn|to them, as to the others, and therefore their con|demnation was &s;ent to them in writing: and thus the execution which was to be done vpon their per|&s;ons was denounced vnto them in the &s;ame night.</P>
<P>On Sunday following being the 20 of Iune very early in the morning there came many of the con|demned &s;orowfull Wiues, children &amp; friends to his Excellency the Prince of <HI>Lichten&s;tyn,</HI> out of the very bottom of their heartes crying mo&s;t pittyfully for mercy, and interceeding their condemned Lords, Husbands, Fathers and Kin&s;men: at lea&s;t that their puni&s;hment might bee mitigated and their iudge|ment limmited, But they had a &s;ober an&s;wer to the &s;mall comfort of their &s;orrowes in this their mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>Vpon the &s;ame Sunday, the &s;aid Duch <HI>Lutherian</HI> Preacher ma&s;ter <HI>Lipp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ch</HI> in his Sermon did from the Pulpet mo&s;t erne&s;tly exhorte the people being there pre&s;ent in great multitude, no ioyne their in&s;tant &amp; &s;erious Chri&s;tian Prayers with him to God Almigh|ty for the condemned per&s;ones, that it would plea&s;e his Diuine Maie&s;ty to vouch&s;afe them a mo&s;t happy, con&s;tant and Chri&s;tian end, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eaue then &s;oules in the Eternall Glory which was done accordingly and therevpon the mo&s;t part of them that in great number were in the Church did weepe and lament mo&s;t bitterly: all which, as likewi&s;e the greuous and pitifull lamenting both before and after that, of
<PB REF="8">women and children, &amp; of other per&s;ons of all &s;ortes &s;truken with great compa&s;&s;ion at &s;uch a lamentable &s;pectacle, all bewailing and howling (the mo&s;t part of the inhabitans of <HI>Prague,</HI> doeing nothing ells but weepe and cry out ince&s;&s;antly, pitying their vn|fortunate and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed &s;tate) all which I &s;ay it were not po&s;&s;ible otherwi&s;e but it would moue any &s;tony heart, yea the &s;tones them&s;elues to commi&s;eration, But in the meane time the condemned per&s;ons them&s;elues were euer ioyfull within their &s;oules, &s;howing a chearefull Countenance, they re&s;olued all together to dye coragiou&s;ly in the chri&s;tian Faith, and were full of comfort to their very la&s;t ends.</P>
<P>In the afternoone Doctor <HI>Ie&s;&s;enius, Leander Ruppell</HI> and <HI>George Hawen&s;hild</HI> cau&s;ed in the Sermon againe Chri&s;tianly and feruently to be prayed for them, de|&s;iring that it might be denounced from the pulpet to all the people there pre&s;ent, that if they had in any wi&s;e offended any of them, out of Chri&s;tian charity they would be plea&s;ed to pardon them.</P>
<P>Towards night the Theatrum or Scaffold was o|uer and ouer and round about a&s;well at the &s;ides as towards the Towne-hou&s;e ouercouered &s;ome elles high with blacke Cloath: and a&s;&s;oone as after the Bohemian manner, the Clocke had &s;trucken 24. houres, all the condemned per&s;ons were in eight Coaches brought from the Ca&s;tle downe into the olde Citty, being conueyed thither with two com|panies of Hor&s;es and a company of Footmen, and immediately after that, the like is done with the o|ther Pri&s;oners that were in the new Citty. And in this night all the companies of Hor&s;e and Foot held
<PB REF="8">their watches in &s;euerall places of the City of <HI>Prague,</HI> But in the meane time the condemned Pri&s;oners pa&s;&s;ed and brought ouer all this night with conti|nuall Prayers and &s;inging of P&s;almes till the next following Munday early in the morning when the Execution &s;hould be done.</P>
<P>On Munday the 21. of Iune in the morning be|times when the clocke after the Dotch manner was not yet fiue, there were &s;eene in the Element two faire Rainbowes, &s;tanding cro&s;&s;e-wi&s;e one ouer ano|ther, what that &s;ignifieth God knoweth onely, that thereof is diuerfly di&s;cour&s;ed and iudged: And at the &s;ame time, as al&s;o the whole night before and as long as the then following execution did continue, two companies of Hor&s;es and three companies of Foot were placed in the great Market-place before the Towne-hou&s;e. And the Clocke &s;triking fiue af|ter the Dutch manner, a peece of Canon was di&s;|charged in the Ca&s;tle for a &s;igne and warning token, whereupon pre&s;ently all the Gates of the Citty, as al&s;o that of the Bridge Tower were &s;hut, and the Port-cullis let fall downe, and then they went for|wards with the Execution.</P>
<P>Vpon a le&s;&s;er &s;tage which al&s;o was made pur|po&s;ely ioyning to the great erected Theatrum or Scaffold was &s;itting the Imperiall Iudge, and with him the Coun&s;ell of the olde Citty, but the three Iudges of <HI>Prague</HI> gaue attendance to the condemned Pri&s;oners, to bring and conney them one after ano|ther to the place of execution. Vpon the &s;aid Scaf|fold in the &s;ame place; where they &s;hould receiue the mortall &s;troake, a Crucifix was &s;et by an vnknowne
<PB REF="9">di&s;gui&s;ed man, one (as it was thought) of the Citties Officers, whereby euery one of them that were con|demned did kneele downe vpon a blacke Cloath, and there with great patience receiued the corpo|rall puni&s;hment that he was to endure.</P>
<P>But in the meane time during the Execution, neere to the place thereof, &s;ome companies of Foot|men (who with &s;ome other companies of Hor&s;emen &s;tood there ranged in order of Battell in the great Market-place round about the Scaffold, excluding all other &s;pectators from thence as farre as they could) were charged to make a noy&s;e with their Drums, which was done accordingly, &s;o that there|by it was vnpo&s;&s;ible to any to heare his own wordes, much le&s;&s;e &s;uch thinges as by euery patient in parti|culer might haue beene related for the la&s;t time &amp; in the end of their liues, many being much de&s;irous to heare what &s;hould be by them vttered for their la&s;t confe&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t of all was brought forth the &s;aid Lord the Earle of Schlick in a blacke Silke gowne, hauing a little booke of Prayers in his hand: he was of a ioy|full countenance, and well animated, looking vp to Heauen, and without intermi&s;&s;ion powring out his feruent Prayers to God Almighty, he came to the Scaffold in all maner free and loo&s;e, as likewi&s;e were all the others that were Executed in that place: There one of his Seruants puld of his vpper gar|ment and Dublet, and he him&s;elfe with the helpe of his &s;aid &s;eruant vncouered and made naked the vp|per part of his body, then the Earle kneeled downe vpon the blacke Cloath which purpo&s;ely was laid
<PB REF="9">there, and with great patience calling vpon the Ble&s;+&s;ed name of the Lord, he &s;tretched forth his necke, holding vp his head, which the Executioner &s;trucke of with great dexterity and nimblenes; which being done, the &s;aid &s;eruant tooke his Mai&s;ters right hand, and layd it vpon a little blocke which the Exe|cutioner chopt of likewi&s;e with his &s;worde: The &s;aid &s;eruant taking pre&s;ently his &s;aid Mai&s;ters head and hand in his cu&s;todie, but the body was wrapped in the black cloath whereupon he was executed, and then was a&s;&s;oone caried away from the &s;caffold by &s;ix men, who were all di&s;gui&s;ed, and cloathed in black mourning Gownes, wearing black hats vpon their heads &amp; their faces couered with &s;ome kinde of black cypers to the end they might not be knowne, but were &s;ome officers of the Maie&s;trates and Citty of Prague (as is thought) &s;o that the Executioner touched not, nor layd hand on any place of the body of the &s;aid Earle, nor on his garments. The like was performed about all the others, being in all to the nomber of 24. that there were executed with the &s;worde (Doctor <HI>Ie&s;&s;enius</HI> onely excepted) And as &s;oone as the one was di&s;patched, then there was brought an other black cloath to the &s;caffold for him that &s;hould be the next, and it was layd downe in the place of the former, to be v&s;ed for the &s;ame end</P>
<P>The &s;aid Earle being di&s;patched, as is aboue rela|ted, the Lord <HI>Budowitz</HI> (being of the reformed Reli|gion) came forth to the &s;caffold, led by two of the &s;aid Iudges, no Prie&s;t nor Preacher being with him, He likewi&s;e offerrd his feruent prayers to God Al|mighty, and pre&s;ently after &s;uffered the corporall
<PB REF="10">puni&s;hment decreede again&s;t him, as is before men|tioned.</P>
<P>In like manner the other 22 who were yet remai|ning were brought one after an other to the &s;caffold and there their Iudgement, in &s;uch manner as it was pronounced again&s;t their Per&s;ons, was fully done and accompli&s;hed. And furthermore as often as one was di&s;patched, the body of him that was beheaded, was at an in&s;tant caried away from the &s;caffold by the aboue&s;aid &s;ix di&s;gui&s;ed men wrapped in the &s;aid blacke cloath, and in &s;teede thereof other two men di&s;gui&s;ed after the &s;aid manner came in and brought an other new black cloath laying it downe open for him that &s;hould be the next.</P>
<P>And thus all the afore&s;aid condemned men being euery one for his perticular and all ingenerall full re&s;olute and of good comfort, with powring out their deuout prayers continually to God, tru&s;ting to be &s;aued through the merits of our Sauiour Ie|&s;us Chri&s;t, lo&s;t their heads &amp; dyed like good Chri|&s;tians per&s;euering con&s;tantly in the Euangelical Re|ligion, accoridng to the confe&s;&s;ion of <HI>Au&s;purgh,</HI> co~|ming forth to the &s;caffold with Euangelicall Mini|ni&s;ters, onely excepted the &s;aid <HI>Dionius T&s;cherin,</HI> who dyed a Roman Catholique, hauing with him a Po|pi&s;h Chanon and a Ie&s;uite, and the aboue&s;aid Lord <HI>Budowitz,</HI> being of the reformed Religion, who was not permitted to haue a mini&s;ter of his religion, and refu&s;ed to haue other with him.</P>
<P><HI>Doct<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">r Ie&s;&s;enius</HI> comming to the &s;caffold la&s;t of all, the Executioner tooke him pre&s;ently and tyed his hands vpon his back, and then &s;itting downe vpon
<PB REF="10">his knees, a blacke cloth being laid open vnder him, he &s;till calling vpon the name of God, where the Ex|ecutioner with a litle payre of pincers puld out his tongue and cut it of with a knife, and therevpon pre&s;ently after, he cut of his head with his &s;word, which his decreed Iudgment corporall puni&s;hment he &s;uffered with great patience &amp; con&s;tancy, hauing fir&s;t offered his prayers with great deuotion to the Almighty God as is before&s;aid.</P>
<P>Thus the Executioner of the Citty of <HI>Prague,</HI> hath brought to death in manner as is before related, the aforenamed 24 per&s;ons; All which was performed with fower &s;wordes: with the fir&s;t were executed elleuen, with the &s;econd fiue, and with the other two, eight had their heads cut of; and all with great dexterity, not mi&s;&s;ing one &s;troake, as if the winde had blowen their heads from their &s;houlders.</P>
<P>After this hee tooke the three other men who were condemned to be hang'd and in the great Mar|ket place before the Townehou&s;e, he tyed their hands vpon their backs, whereof the two fir&s;t was hanged vp on a peece of timber, that was &s;truck out purpo&s;ely of the windowe of the Townehou&s;e, but the third was hanged on the ordinary Gallowes, &s;o that within the &s;pace of le&s;&s;e then fower howres and a halfe, by the Executioners own hands 27 men were put to death; and thus mi&s;erably lo&s;t their liues.</P>
<P>This bloody and cruelll execution was nothing els but a fearefull and mo&s;t lamentable &s;pectacle, which many of the &s;pectators did behold with the highe&s;t commi&s;eration and Chri&s;tian compa&s;ion; &s;o that many hundreth men, women and children
<PB REF="11">were then &s;eene &amp; heard in the Citty of <HI>Prague</HI> mo&s;t bitterly to weepe, lament &amp; bewaile, wringing their hands, with many heauy and wofull exclamations, which might haue mooued any heart were it neuer &s;o hard to compa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Which Execution was the more pittifull to be|holde, becau&s;e that tho&s;e that were condemned (no regard being had that many of them were of Noble blood and of eminent Dignities, of the be&s;t Hou&s;es of the Realme, and &s;ome of them being very olde men, whereof the mo&s;t part had faire gray hayres vp|on their graue heads, &amp; &s;now white Beards: among&s;t them Ten their yeares being accounted together, made vp the number of 700. yeares of Age) that tho&s;e graue and aunci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nt men I &s;ay were forced to loo&s;e their deate Liues in &s;uch a mi&s;erable manner, and were brought to this infamous and &s;hamefull end. But they all one with another went to their Death mo&s;t Chri&s;tianly &amp; willingly, with the grea|te&s;t ioy and patience, that may be related, remaining alwayes con&s;tant in their profe&s;&s;ed Religion, and in the &s;eruice of God to their la&s;t breath, &s;o that many &s;tood thereat amazed, and wondred of their great con&s;tancy. Wherof to the number of 25. haue mo&s;t happely ended their Liues in the profe&s;&s;ion of the Euangelical Lutheran Religion, no doubt but their &s;oules enioy at this time the glory and felicitie of Eternall life.</P>
<P><HI>Elias Ru&s;sin</HI> the Elder, and <HI>Iohn Theodorus</HI> Sixt were likewi&s;e, as is before mentioned, &s;entenced, and &s;hould haue &s;uffered the heauy puni&s;hment where|unto they were condemned, but thus farre is inter|ceeded
<PB REF="11">for them that the Execution is &s;tayed till his Imperiall Maie&s;ty him&s;elfe commeth to <HI>Prague,</HI> then to doe as it &s;hall plea&s;e him.</P>
<P>And the Executioner layde no hand on any of them that were put to Death (Doctor <HI>Ie&s;&s;enius</HI> one|ly excepted with the three that were executed with the Rope) but they them&s;elues with the helpe of e|uery one his &s;eruants &s;tript off their garments, till the vpper part of their bodyes was made naked, and thus they yeelded them&s;elues willingly to dye.</P>
<P>As &s;ooue as the head of any of them was &s;trucken off, as likewi&s;e any of the handes being &s;eperated from the arme, at the &s;ame in&s;tant one of the &s;er|uants tooke the head and hand of his Ma&s;ter and caryed it away, being in the meane time left in his keeping. And twelue of the&s;e heads were placed and fa&s;tened vpon the Bridge-tower, &s;ixe on the one &s;ide and &s;ixe on the other, and &s;ome of the handes were nayled to their heads: But the hand of <HI>Leander Ruppel</HI> was nayled and made fa&s;t on the Pillory, &s;tan|ding before the Towne-hou&s;e of the olde Citty.</P>
<P>After this, the dead Carca&s;&s;e of D. <HI>Ie&s;&s;enius</HI> was quartered by the gallowes Tower, and the 4. quar|ters were &s;et vpon Poles in the high &s;treetes there to remaine.</P>
<P>The dead bodies of the others were deliuered into the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of their Widdowes (whereof &s;ome al|ready were dead for very griefe) of the Children and their friends. And although the head of <HI>Leander Ruppel</HI> &s;hould haue been &s;et vpon the Bridge-tower (which al&s;o they went about to doe accordingly)
<PB REF="12">yet it is deliuered to the friends to be buryed with the dead body.</P>
<P>The Lord <HI>Budowitz</HI> his hand was chopt off: But the hand of the Earle of <HI>Schlick,</HI> his head being fa&s;te|ned vpon the Pole, then his hand that was chopt off, was nayled vpon his mouth. Thus there were in all Twelue heads and Foure hands &s;et vpon the Bridge Tower: that of the Earle <HI>Schlick,</HI> that of the Lord <HI>Bu|dowitz,</HI> that of <HI>Michalowitz,</HI> of <HI>Kaplitz,</HI> of <HI>Dwor&s;etzky,</HI> of <HI>Lo&s;&s;e,</HI> of <HI>Bilaw,</HI> of <HI>Kochan,</HI> of <HI>Steffet&s;chtz,</HI> of <HI>Cober,</HI> of <HI>Ie&s;&s;enius,</HI> and of <HI>Hawen&s;child.</HI> And the &s;aid Earle <HI>Schlick, Michalowitz, Ruppel,</HI> and <HI>Hawen&s;child,</HI> their hands were al&s;o &s;et vpon the Bridge-tower, being nayled on their heads.</P>
<P>On Tue&s;day then next following the 22. of Iune, the afore&s;aid <HI>Nicholas Diebis</HI> according to his Iudge|ment &s;tood for the time of an houre nayled with his tongue on the poa&s;t of the Gallowes, and after that was caryed againe into Pri&s;on, he was condemned (this penalty performed) to be lockt vp in Iron Chaines, and to be &s;ent to <HI>Raab</HI> in perpetuall impri|&s;onment: but through the vn&s;peakable great paine and torment, which he &s;uffered thus &s;tanding, he dy|ed the next Day after. On the &s;ame Tue&s;day, were likewi&s;e both the olde Citties Attornyes afore&s;aid, with another Officer of the &s;aid Citty, with roddes whipped through and out of the Citty, and for euer bani&s;hed out of the Kingdome of Bohemia.</P>
<P>On Wedne&s;day the 23. of Iune in the night time, one of the Heads that were &s;et on poales vpon the Bridge-tower, fell downe at the one &s;ide thereof, &s;o that no body doth know how it came down, neither
<PB REF="12">is it, or at lea&s;t it will not be knowne who&s;e head of them that were executed it was, onely very timely in the morning, it was caryed vp againe, and &s;et in the place where it &s;tood before.</P>
<TRAILER>And thus ended this bloody Tragedy.</TRAILER>
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<P>On Thur&s;day next the 24. of Iune, the &s;aid Ma|&s;ter <HI>Lippach,</HI> made an excellent and mo&s;t godly Ser|mon in the Dutch Church in the high Germane language, there with a hearty thanke&s;giuing to the Almighty God, he related that God through his Diuine mercy and goodnes, had heard the earne&s;t prayers, a&s;well of them that were Pri&s;oners, and now departed out of this mi&s;erable world, as of others vpright and true Chri&s;tians, &s;hewing &s;uch extraor|dinary great grace and clemency to tho&s;e that were condemned, in their la&s;t going out of this mortall life, that thereby they were &s;trengthened with great patience to per&s;euere in the con&s;tant profe&s;&s;ion of their Chri&s;tian Faith, in an a&s;&s;ured hope of their Re|&s;urrection to Eternall &s;aluation, in their Chri&s;tian and fraternal Charity, and in continuall Prayers and &s;upplications to God and his Son Ie&s;us Chri&s;t their Sauiour and Redeemer to the very la&s;t end of their liues; yea in the Death it &s;elfe, and that accordingly, as mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed and happy Chri&s;tians: no doubt but God Almighty had already receiued their &s;oules in|to his Eternall Glory, there to reioyce with him for euer. And that they, like a Hart thir&s;teth after fre&s;h waters, &s;o they haue longed for their temporall Death and &s;eperation out of this mi&s;erable Life, and contrary to all mens expectation, not without great
<PB REF="13">amazement of many, they apprehended and accep|ted mo&s;t willingly the happy la&s;t moment of their departure out of this vayle of mi&s;eries.</P>
<P>Doct. <HI>Luke,</HI> Doct. <HI>George Frederick,</HI> and other Pri|&s;oners more of quality &s;hall be likewi&s;e Executed within few dayes hereafter, according as the &s;en|tence of their Arraignment &s;hall be.</P>
<P>The common &s;peech goeth, that the next weeke after the Execution aboue rehear&s;ed, &s;ome other notable men being apprehended are likewi&s;e to be Arraigned and to &s;uffer death in the le&s;&s;er part of the Citty of Prague, &s;o that euery day there are yet more and more Arre&s;ted and Committed to Pri&s;on, and as men &s;ay, there is already a great number of per&s;ons of all conditions and quality noted and in|roled in the blacke regi&s;ter Booke.</P>
<P>The Emperours Maie&s;ty will be heere him&s;elfe within the&s;e Three weekes, then there &s;hall be pro|ceeded further in this bu&s;ines: what order &s;hall be then giuen at his arriuall, time will &s;howe. In the meane time, God graunt in his mercy, that now all troubles and &s;orowes may be once ended, and that the faire Sun-&s;hining light of Gods Loue towards vs mi&s;erable offenders, may &s;hine once againe in this Kingdome. To his Godly and continuall protecti|on, I commend herewithall the beneuolent Reader.</P>
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