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the Brethren Arvid Gradin, Conrad Lange, Michael
Rund & Zacharias Hirshell, who was come back out
of the Petersborough's Imprisonment, and was oblig'd
to hear many Reproaches that the two Brn Supterintendent
Gutsleff & the Parson Heltershoff was carried away from
the Island Oesel. I assure'd the Brn their and my Inn
cency & how I was not afraid but full of Faith and Confidence
and willing to undertake a Journey to Reval upon my
own Account to become a Partaker of their Sufferings
and Bonds, because there and from there out was enquir'd
after me, and by that means I would spare the Brethren
in Brinkenhoff all thier Trouble. I hid myself in our
dear matyr'd Lambs wounded Heart, and expected
all the outwardly Sufferings which my faithfull God
and Lord would let come over me. i was scarce ar
riv'd at Willhill five Miles from Reval to the House
of Br von Nothen, where came a captain with his guard
who should search for me thor'whole Livonia and
deliver me to Reval to the Captain of the Guard
R--ky. I went along like a sheep, but full of Faith &
Comfort and very happy. He brought me to the General
Gavernor Duke of Holsatia Beck, who send me
to the Captain of the Guarde in the suburbs. He receiv'd
me with these Words: You are my Prisoner, upon our
Imperial Majesty high Order. I answer'd: I Submit
myself with the greatest regard to the high Order of her
Imperial Majesty and behold there the Soldiers standing
with their naked swords all round about me, took from me
all what I had. He took the Pains to confer with me
over weighty matter and I witness'd full of Confi
dence of the Perogativ of the Children of God, of
the universal Grace, and bloody reconciliation of the
slaughter'd Lamb of God and of the Righteousness
of all poor Sinners. The 9th of June towards Evening
he brought me with Compassion from Reval to Petersburg
and the 22d in the Prison, in my destin'd Place. The
WatchWord was: Mache dich auf, und zeuch durch das
Land in die Lauge und Ernita, dann dir will ehsgebr
ze grosters Gnaden Gaster, als keines Bruders- Herz vor
nenthet. In the Fortress also included, in a little
wooden Room, with a Watch of three Man of the Guarde
who every three Days was changed, I sat seven Days
long in the greatest Want of all necessaries, and with
out the least Knowledge of the Russian language,
before any Body ask'd me, who art thou, and
what is thy Cause? At last I came to
be examined: the Chief Judge Count Sch--w has
beated me tho' serious yet as the same Time very
graciously. I had the Favour to see him twice, and
to explain me over my Plan, because that was the
Chief accusation which they had again me out of an inter
cepted Letter, in which I had call'd my Plan mystery
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he had the Children's Nursey at the Island Oesel in a Letter
to Br Kriegelstern call'd his Plan, who was a mystery yet
to the Enemies, which the Accusers, quite contrary to the
proper meaning took in a political sense, and accused
the Brn Krugelstern & Fritsch with a Dangerous Design against
the Government of her Majesty & Person, which was the Power of their