Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

Protestant burials; to harbor any of the banished
ministers was to incur fine and imprisonment; to
work on a Popish holiday was punishable with
imprisonment and a fine of ten florins; to laugh at a
priest, or at his sermon, inferred banishment and
confiscation of goods; to eat flesh on prohibited
(lays, without an indulgence from the Pope, was to
incur a fine of ten florins; to be absent from Church
on Sunday, or ca festival-mass days, to send one's
son to a non-Catholic school, or to educate one's
family at home, was forbidden under heavy
penalties; non-Catholics were not permitted to
make a will; if nevertheless they did so, it was null
and void; none were to be admitted into arts or
trades unless they first embraced the Popish faith.
If any should speak unbecomingly of the "Blessed
Virgin the Mother of God," or of the "illustrious
House of Austria," "he shall lose his head, without
the least favor or pardon." The poor in the hospitals
were to be converted to the Roman Catholic faith
before the feast of All Saints, otherwise they were
to be turned out, and not again admitted till they
had entered the Church of Rome. So was it enacted
in July, 1624, by Charles, Prince of Lichtenstein, as
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