THE

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

JOHN HUSS;

OR, THE

Bohemian Reformation

OF

THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

BY

E. H. GILLETT.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED.

BOSTON:

GOULD AND LINCOLN,

59 WASHINGTON STREET.

NEW YORK: SHELDON AND COMPANY.
CINCINNATI: GEORGE S. BLANCHARD.

1864.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861,

BY E. H. GILLETT,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

BIBLIOTHECA

REGIA

MONAGENSIS

EDWARD 0. JENKINS,

Printer and Stereotyper,

20 NORTH WILLIAM STREET, N. Y.

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DEPRESSING CIRCUMSTANCES OF HUSS -
-DENIED AN ADVOCATE -HIS LETTERS AND

CONVERSATION IN PAST YEARS BROUGHT FORWARD WANT OF BOOKS - HOPE-

LESSNESS OF HIS CASE PRISON REFLECTIONS-ZABARELLA'S FORM OF RECANTA-

TION PRESENTED TO HIM REPLY OF HUSS-GRATITUDE FOR KINDNESS — PERSUA-

SIONS OF HIS FRIENDS ARGUMENT OF A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL TO OVERCOME

HIS SCRUPLES THE CRIME OF HUSS IN REFUSING SUBMISSION TO THE COUNCIL —

HIS UNSHAKEN PURPOSE VISIT OF PALETZ― ARGUMENT OF ONE OF THE DOCTORS

-EXPLANATORY LETTER OF HUSS-HIS ESTIMATE OF THE COUNCIL THE TREAT-

MENT OF HIS BOOKS THE COUNCIL CONDEMNS ITSELF LETTER TO HIS COUNTRY-

MEN AT PRAGUE-TIME OF HUSS' EXECUTION DEFERRED GENERAL EXPECTATION

THAT HE WOULD RECANT PROPOSED DECREE IN SUCH A CASE REASONS OF THE

EXPECTATION HOPES EXCITED IN HUSS BY THE DELAY LETTER ON THE PRO-

LONGED SPACE GIVEN TO PREPARE FOR DEATH-NO SURPRISE TO BE FELT AT

TRIBULATION REJOICING THAT HIS BOOKS HAD BEEN READ BY HIS ENEMIES

THE EMPEROR ANXIOUS TO HAVE HIM RECANT HIS FIRMNESS -HIS OPINION OF

THE EMPEROR FAREWELL LETTERS ASKS AN AUDIENCE-ASKS A CONFESSOR―

PALETZ DENIED HIM VISIT OF PALETZ -DREAMS OF HUSS SCRIPTURAL CONSO-

LATION CHLUM - DUBA CHRISTIANN- SECOND FAREWELL ΤΟ FRIENDS AT

PRAGUE-GREETINGS — POSTSCRIPT — DEBTS — ASKS CHLUM TO STAY TO THE LAST

-LETTER TO MARTIN ADDRESSES ALL CLASSES -MALICE OF CAUSIS HUSS IN

PRISON,

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CHAPTER II.

FINAL AUDIENCE AND EXECUTION OF HUSS. JULY 1, 1415-

JULY 6, 1415.

PERSUASIONS TO INDUCE HUSS TO RECANT-MICHAEL DE CAUSIS THE EMPEROR'S

ABSENCE FROM CONSTANCE-THE REFUSAL OF HUSS TO ABJURE DEPUTATION

FROM THE EMPEROR-ADVICE OF CHLUM-REPLY OF HUSS THE DEPUTATION

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FAILS OF ITS OBJECT- FIFTEENTH SESSION OF THE COUNCIL-SERMON OF THE

BISHOP OF LODI — THE SABBATH COUNCIL'S DECREE, ENJOINING SILENCE — SIXTY

ARTICLES OF WICKLIFFE CONDEMNED-STATEMENT IN REGARD TO HUSS THIRTY

ARTICLES OF HIS CONDEMNED HE ATTEMPTS TO REPLY TO EACH IS SILENCED —

AGAIN SILENCED ENTREATS TO BE HEARD DENIES SOME OF THE CHARGES-CHARGE

OF CLAIMING TO BE THE FOURTH PERSON IN THE GODHEAD HE INDIGNANTLY DENIES

IT CHARGE AGAINST HIM FOR HIS APPEAL CALLS ON CHRIST TO WITNESS THE

COUNCIL'S SCOFF AT APPEAL TO HIM CONTEMPT OF PAPAL EXCOMMUNICATION-

REPLY OF HUSS-THE EMPEROR'S BLUSH AT THE MENTION OF THE SAFE-CONDUCT

-SENTENCE PRONOUNCED AGAINST THE BOOKS OF HUSS HIS REPLY SENTENCE

AGAINST HUSS HIS COMMENTS UPON IT AS READ-HIS PRAYER-THE CEREMONY

OF DEGRADATION - THE WHITE ROBE ADDRESS TO THE ASSEMBLY — MURMURS

HUSS STRIPPED OF HIS SACERDOTAL HABITS-TONSURE-LUDRICOUS DISPUTE - THE

PAPER CROWN REMARK OF HUSS HE IS GIVEN OVER TO THE SECULAR ARM - IS

LED OUT TO EXECUTION UNDER CHARGE OF THE ELECTOR INDIRECT ROUTE-

BURNING OF THE BOOKS OF HUSS IN FRONT OF THE EPISCOPAL PALACE -CROSSING

OF THE BRIDGE ADDRESS OF HUSS, IN GERMAN, TO THE CROWD-HUSS PRAYS ON

REACHING THE PLACE OF EXECUTION-FAVORABLE IMPRESSION — A CONFESSOR —

THE PRIVILEGE OF ADDRESSING THE CROWD IS DENIED HUSS PRAYS HIS MITRE

FALLS OFF SPEAKS TO HIS KEEPERS - THE STAKE AND CORDS IS NOT ALLOWED

TO FACE THE EAST-THE SOOTY CHAIN HUSS ONCE MORE ASKED TO RECANT-

HIS REFUSAL THE CLOSING SCENE-BRUTALITY OF THE EXECUTIONERS TESTI-

MONY OF ENEAS SYLVIUS — WHY HUSS WAS BURNED-NOT FOR HIS HETERODOXY

-NOT HIS REPROOF OF SIN - HIS ATTACK OF PROFITABLE ABUSES -THE

ODIUM PHILOSOPHICUM OF THE NOMINALISTS THE PERSECUTING ZEAL OF THE

ENGLISH-THE PREJUDICE OF THE GERMANS-PALETZ AND MICHAEL DE CAUSIS

BRIBERY-HUSS REJECTS THE SUPREMACY OF THE COUNCIL OVER SCRIPTURE-

HIS CHARACTER,

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CHAPTER III.

JACOBEL, GERSON, AND VOLADAMIR. MAY, 1415-AUGUST, 1415.

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JACOBEL'S TREATISE

SENTENCES

THE USE OF THE CUP-DECREE OF THE COUNCIL REASONS ON WHICH IT WAS BASED

HISTORY OF THE USE OF THE CUP-JACOBEL'S TREATISE HIS ARGUMENT CHAR-

ACTERIZED — SHARP

PERSECUTION REBUKED - THE BOLD TONE OF

GREGORY'S ABDICATION - BENDICT XIII. SUMMONED — AFFAIR

OF JOHN PETIT HIS CHARACTER HIS PROPOSITIONS CONDEMNED AT PARIS-

THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY APPEALS TO THE POPE THE QUESTION BEFORE THE

COUNCIL THE ASPECT OF THE CASE CHANGED ENGLAND ALLIED WITH THE DUKE

OF BURGUNDY -TIMIDITY OF THE COUNCIL DISAPPOINTMENT OF GERSON - THE

KING OF POLAND AND THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS-SKETCH OF THE ORDER- - QUESTION

BEFORE THE COUNCIL PAUL VOLADAMIR AND HIS PROPOSITIONS—THEIR LIBERAL

TONE VON FALKENBURG APOLOGIZES FOR THE ORDER - HIS BOOK ESCAPES

CONDEMNATION GERSON'S MOTIVES — PERSONAL DANGER -ATTACKED BY FAL-

KENBURG FUTILE HOPES,
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