not we do not know) of Ghent (do., p. 319), and in 1369 John de Rupe (Scissa). Cassel says, page 378, that in the fourteenth century the Kaiser of Bavaria sup- pressed the opposition of the Roman Church against Protestantism. There seems to have been some cessation of the persecutions in parts of Ger

Edwards was one of the Judges of Lancaster county from its organization, in 1729, and contin- ued in that office upwards of thirty years. He was one of the prominent figures of the early days of Pennsyl- vania. After the retirement of Judge John Wright, in 1742, Judge Edwards became President Judge. He