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86 | Christian Wessely www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 67–93 Concerning the vicar Johann Guster, I do not know more than the protocol says, and I hope that I and the late master Tez will be found more trust- worthy than such a person. And it is not true that I beat two priests while visiting their parishes, for all my life I have never beaten a cleric with a single stroke, God is my witness. It is true that I found two spoiled priests, namely in Heiligenblut and in St. Leonhard zu Windisch Matrei. The one in Heiligenblut has had his concubine for 36 years, and he was even incarcerated for copulation. And when he was removed from Heili- genblut, he took with him the best and most valuable things and garments and locked them away in his chest. The provost pointed me to that chest, which I hardly was able to open, and Tez retrieved from it the aforementioned things. But the priest raised his stick, which was heavy as a hammer and he attempted to hit him on the head. I shouted out “Tez, watch out!” and caught his arm, else he would have killed him [Tez] and myself. Then I asked him whether he was a murderer.