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CHAPTER

IV.

THE COUNCIL AND THE BOHEMIANS. JEROME RECANTS.

AUG. 1, 1415-SEPT. 23, 1415.

IMPRESSIONS MADE BY THE EXECUTION OF HUSS- PASQUINADE - SERMOX OF THE

MONK OF MAYENCE - ITS SEVERITY_SIMILAR SERMONS

INFERENCE THE COUN-

CIL CONDEMNS ITSELF — DEATH OF HUSS KNOWN AT PRAGUE --- CONSTERNATION —

VENERATION FOR THE MEMORY OF HUSS UNANIMITY OF FEELING - VOICE

OF THE UNIVERSITY - JEROME VISITED BY A DEPUTATION OF THE COUNCIL

OTHER MATTERS - SIGISMUND ZEALOUS FOR THE CONDEMNATION OF PETIT'S PROPO-

SITIONS - HIS MISSION TO SPAIN - OBSTINACY OF BENEDICT - SIGISMUND PREPARES

FOR HIS JOURNEY — DECREE OF THE COUNCIL — SIGISMUND'S DEPARTURE - CONFER-

ENCE WITH BENEDICT — THE COUNCIL IN SIGISMUND'S ABSENCE — SLOW PROGRESS —

DISPUTES, GAMES, AND VIOLENCE -- MANY LEAVE CONSTANCE - GERSON'S SERMON —

THE COUNCIL'S LETTER TO BOHEMIA — ITS THREATS - PROVOCATION - EXCITEMENT

AT PRAGUE - - JEROME'S SEVERE IMPRISONMENT - PRESUMPTION OF HIS HEROISM —

IIS RECANTATION EXPLAINED QUALIFIED SUBMISSION TO THE COUNCIL - UNSATIS-

FACTORY - NINETEENTI SESSION -- JEROME'S SECOND FORM OF SUBMISSION - HIS

SPEECH, EXPLANATORY AND INTRODUCTORY — HOW FAR SINCERE,

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CHAPTER V.

VIOLENCE OF THE TIMES. LETTERS OF THE BOHEMIANS.

ZISCA. SEPT. 23, 1415-DEC. 19, 1418.

XEW COMMISSION ON HERESY - ANNATES - RAVAGES OF THE TURKS - CONFERENCE

OF BENEDICT XIII. AND SIGISMUND CANONIZATION COMMISSION APPOINTED

GERSON'S TREATISE — VIOLENCE AND ANARCHY OF THE TIMES — NARRATIVE OF

BERNARD WITT FREDERIC OF AUSTRIA AND THE BISHOP OF TRENT - MEASURES

OF THE COUNCIL AGAINST THE FORMER-CAROLINE CONSTITUTION- NASON'S com-

PLAINT LETTER FROM BOHEMIA - MISSION OF THE BISHOP OF LEITOMISCHEL —

REPLY OF THE BOHEMIAN STATES VINDICATION OF THE BOHEMIANS PRESENTED

TO THE COUNCIL THE PRINCIPLES AVOWED BY THE LATTER ON KEEPING FAITH

WITH HERETICS - THEY FAIL TO CONVINCE THE BOHEMIANS - MEASURES ADOPTED

AT PRAGUE - ZISCA — PERMISSION GRANTED HIM BY WENZEL,

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CHAPTER VI.

NEW CHARGES AGAINST JEROME. CONFERENCE WITH BENE.

DICT. VINCENT FERRARA. DEC. 19, 1415-FEB. 16, 1416.

MORE LENIENT FEELING TOWARDS JEROME- -NASON'S TAUNT - RESIGNATION OF THE

COMMISSION IN JEROME'S CASE - A NEW ONE APPOINTED - GERSON ON THE METHOD

OF DEALING WITH HERETICS NEW CHARGES AGAINST JEROME REPORT FROM THE

CONFERENCE WITH BENEDICT — HIS TERMS - TIE EMPEROR'S DISGUST - SPANISH

PROPOSITIOXS - CHEERING INTELLIGENCE — DEFECTION OF VINCENT FERRARA FROM

BENEDICT- HIS WONDERFUL CAREER AS A PREACHER — HIS GIFTS, ELOQUENCE,

AND VIRTUES - THE EMPEROR AT PARIS --HE ENDEAVORS TO SECURE A PEACE BE-

TWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND PETIT'S CASE IN THE COUNCIL - SERMON OF THEO-

DORIC OF MUNSTER — INVECTIVE AGAINST THE CLERGY,

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JEROME - HIS CONDITION AND STATE OF MIND IN PRISON — REFUSES TO RECOG-

NIZE HIS NEW JUDGES -- THE LIST OF CHARGES AGAINST HIM - HIS REPLIES ON

WICKLIFFE --ON CONTUMACY - VARIOUS CHARGES -- PHILOSOPHICAL SUBTLETIES -

TRANSUBSTANTIATION — SONGS WRITTEN AND SUNG—ALL MAY PREACH — UNJUST

EXCOMMUNICATION INVALID - INDULGENCES - TREATMENT OF THEM THAT SOLD THEM

- PAPAL BULLS PICTURES OF TIIE SAINTS - RELICS MARTYRS OF PRAGUE -

FAVOR TO THE GREEK CHURCH JEROME's RECANTATION HYPOCRITICAL - HIS

LETTER TO VIENNA— DISHONEST PURPOSE IN COMING TO CONSTANCE - WILL NOT

ACKNOWLEDGE HIS

ERRORS -- REFUSES

TO

FAST - DEMAND

THAT

HE

SHOULD

ANSWER ON OATH — EXTENDED PERIOD OF JEROME'S LIFE COVERED BY THE CHARGES

-JEROME'S REPLIES — ADMISSIONS, EXPLANATIONS, AND DENIALS – JEROME ALLOWED

A GENERAL DEFENCE — HIS VIEWS AND FEELINGS-HIS SPEECH - REFERS TO AN-

CIENT MARTYRS — UNIVERSITY OF PRAGUE - EULOGY OF HUSS-HIS COURSE -

JEROME'S VISIT TO CONSTANCE — HIS TREATMENT - HIS RECANTATION DISAVOWED-

HIS VIEWS OF WICKLIFFE - HIS SUBSTANTIAL ORTHODOXY HIS FATE SEALED BY

HIS APPROVAL OF HUSS-HEROISM OF JEROME — POGGIO BRACCIOLINI — HIS LET-

TER IN PRAISE OF JEROME -ABLE DEFENCE OF THE LATTER -HIS MANLY BEAR-

ING — HIS RETORTS — WONDERFUL POWERS — HIS MEMORABLE ELOQUENCE, · 195

CHAPTER VIII.

SENTENCE

AND EXECUTION OF JEROME.

MAY 26, 1416-MAY

30, 1416.

DISPOSITION OF THE COUNCIL TOWARD JEROME_EFFORTS TO SAVE HIM -- HIS FIRM

NESS — TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES - TWENTY-FIRST SESSION OF THE COUNCIL - EF-

FORTS TO INDUCE JEROME TO RECANT AND SUBMIT TO THE COUNCIL - THE CON-

FERENCE — JEROME'S ELOQUENT REPLY – THE BISHOP OF LODI'S SERMON - - THE

NECESSITY OF SEVERE MEASURES -TIE GUILT OF JEROME IN HIS PRESUMPTION AND

DEFENCE OF HIS ERRORS - CHARITY OF THE COUNCIL IN THE TREATMENT OF JEROME

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-HOW A HERETIC SHOULD BE DEALT WITH — SIX MISCHIEFS JEROME HAD DOXE

DY HIS SPEECH — JEROME'S REPLY TO THE SERMON, AND HIS OWN DEFENCE – AIS

CATHOLICITY - HIS APPEAL -THE SENTENCE - CASPAR SCHLICK'S PROTEST -

JEROME PREPARED FOR THE EXECUTION - HIS CONDUCT ON THE WAY TO THE STAKE

- SCEXES AT THE EXECUTION - JEROME ADDRESSES THE CROWD - HIS PROTRACTED

SUFFERINGS - HIS DEATH THE DUST REMOVED - THE EARTH ABOUT THE STAKE

CARRIED TO PRAGUE,

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CHAPTER IX.

INEFFICIENCY AND TUMULTS OF THE COUNCIL, ILL-SUCCESS

AND RETURN OF THE EMPEROR. MAY 31, 1416-JAN. 27, 1417.

ABSEXT MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL SUMMONED -- THE CITATION OF THE BOHEMIANS

CONSIDERED THE KNIGIT DE LATZEM BOCK - JOIN CREITH OF LIEGE - DILATORY

PROCEEDINGS AND TUMULTS OF THE COUNCIL - THE CARDINAL OF CAMBRAY ON

THE
ECCLESIASTICAL POWER — THE ENGLISH NATION IN

THE COUNCIL - NEW

MEMBERS — GERSON AND “THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION '_ THE COUNCIL'S LETTER

TO SIGISMUND IN REGARD TO BOHEMIA - ACCUSATIONS AGAINST WENZEL - SIGIS

MUND'S METHOD FOR QUIETING BOHEMIA — ILL-SUCCESS OF HIS PLAN — SERMONS

IN THE COUNCIL - VICES OF THE CLERGY CLASSIFIED SIGISMUND'S DEFEATED PRO-

JECTS - HIS RECEPTION AND TREATMENT IN ENGLAND - COUNCIL'S PROCEEDINGS

AGAINST BENEDICT - STIPILTZ AND PLANCHA CITE HIN-SCENE OF THEIR RECEP-

TION - LUDICROUS INCIDENTS SIGISMUND'S RETURN TO CONSTANCE – HIS RECEP-

TION,

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CHAPTER X.

BENEDICT DEPOSED.

ELECTED.

PROGRESS OF REFORM. MARTIN V.

JAN. 27, 1417-NOV. 21, 1418.

AFFAIRS OF BENEDICT -- BISHOP OF CUENZA — THE ENGLISH NATION - DISPUTE AS TO

THE PRECEDENCE OF REFORM OR THE ELECTION OF A POPE -- MEASURES OF REFORM

-- SERMONS OF MAURICE AND STEPHEX OF PRAGUE -- THE CARDINALS AGGRIEVED -

DEMAND THEIR PASSPORTS, TO LEAVE-REFUSED ---DIVISIONS IN THE COUNCIL

PRAYER FOR ELECTION-STATE OF BOHEMIA - WENZEL A CIPHER - HE BANISHES

NICOLAS DE HUSSINITZ - SCENES OF ANARCHY AND VIOLENCE — THE UNIVERSITY

PAVORS THE COMMUNION OF THE CUP – PETER D'UNETZOW - WENZEL LEAVES

PRAGUR -- URGED TO RETURN - ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF HUSS- - SERMON ON

THE OCCASION - EULOGY OF HUSS -- WILLIAM OF ROSENBERG AXD HIS VASSALS

VIOLENCE AND ROBBERY - MEASURES OF THE COUNCIL - SATIRE ON THE ROMISI
CHURCH - THE FLAGELLANTS - SKETCH OF THEIR HISTORY AND DOCTRINES-FA-

VORED BY VINCENT FERRARA — GERSON'S VIEWS - MEASURES OF THE COUNCIL

BENEDICT XIII. DEPOSED

QUESTION OF REFORM - THE NATIONS DIVIDED-SER-

MONS ON REFORM - ENGLISH NATION - DOCUMENT OF THE CARDINALS REPLY OF

THE GERMANS - IRRITATION OF THE EMPEROR - ALARM OF THE CARDINALS - DEATH

OF ROBERT HALLAM BRIBES ---THE GERMAN NATION WAVERS - - CONDITIONS FOR

PROCEEDING TO AN

ELECTION — SCHEME OF

REFORM - ELECTORS APPOINTED

OTHO DE COLLOXA CHOSEN POPE - CORONATION - SPLENDOR OF THE PROCESSION

- INCIDENTS - PONTIFICAL TRIUMPH OVER REFORM,

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CHAPTER XI.

MEASURES OF THE POPE AND COUNCIL AGAINST THE BOHE.

MIANS. NOV. 22, 1417-APRIL 15, 1418.

STATE OF BOHEMIA-ALARM OF THE CLERGY WHO ADHERED TO THE COUNCIL

DISORDER FLIGHT OF WENZEL APPREHENSIONS OF THE COUNCIL - GERSON's

TREATISE ON THE EUCHARIST — MAURICE OF PRAGUE - SIGISMUND'S LETTER TO

LAUNA-THREATENS A CRUSADE -HIS LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER, WENZEL -- THEIR

INSOLENCE AND DUPLICITY - LETTER OF MARTIN V. TO BOHEMIA - DEMANDS OF

THE COUNCIL — PROCESS AGAINST SUCH AS ARE SUSPECTED OF HERESY - TIE

BULL OF MARTIN V. — ITS CONTENTS - ITS SEVERITY - POINTS OF EXAMINATION

FOR THE SUSPECTED

HOW THE TRIAL WAS TO BE CONDUCTED - EXECUTION OF

LORD COBHAM TERROR OF A CRUSADE - CRUSADE AGAINST THE MOORS-INDIG-

XATION OF THE BOHEMIANS - NICHOLAS DE

HUSSINITZ-BOLDNESS

OF ZISCA-

1

COURSE OF JOHN DOMINIC — HE IS CONVINCED THAT ARMS ARE NECESSARY TO SUB-

DUE THE BOHEMIANS,

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CHAPTER XII.

.

FUTILE ISSUE OF THE COUNCIL. ITS DISSOLUTION. JAN. 1,

1418-APRIL 28, 1418.

MARTIN V. ANNOUNCES HIS ELECTION

RECEPTION OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT - THE

KING OF ARAGON DISSATISFIED-- FAVORS BENEDICT -THE REFORMATORY COLLEGE

- CONCORDATS — MEASURES FOR REFORM - DISSATISFACTION—THE SPANISH NATION

- PARODY OF THE MASS -- PRESENTED TO THE POPE - OTHER COMPLAINTS-MAR-

TIN V. EAGER TO RETURN TO ITALY -- GREEK CHURCH - THE EMPEROR - WANT OF

MONEY-DISAPPOINTMENT - LANGUAGE OF GERSON -- KING OF POLAND - VOLADIMIR

HIS PROTEST — SIMONY OF MARTIN V.- THE EMPEROR'S QUESTION – ANXIETY OF

MEMBERS TO LEAVE — HUMILIATION OF THE COUNCIL -LIBERALITY OF MARTIN V.

IN GRANTING INDULGENCES ---THE EMPEROR'S DISSATISFACTION — THE KING OF PO-

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CHAPTER XIII

ARMY

VIOLENCE OF PARTIES IN BOHEMIA. SIGISMUND'S

BEFORE PRAGUE, APRIL 15, 1418-JAN. 9, 1420.

RECEPTION OF THE DECREE OF THE COUNCIL IN BOHEMIA - THE REPLY OF THE Hrsg.

ITES -- ITS PROPOSITIONS — DOCTRINES - THE CELEBRATED FOUR ARTICLES — ZISCA
- DIS TACT AND ENERGY HIS LETTERS TO TAUSCH - POPULAR INDIGNATION -
COMMUNION OF THE CUP ON TABOR -- PLAN FOR ATTACKING PRAGUE - WexzEL
ABSENT FROM TUE CITY — ATTACK ON THE NEW CITY - ACTS OF VIOLENCE --

RELEASE OF PRISONERS DEMANDED AT THE TOWN HOUSE - TUMULT — ASSAULT -

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OF THE CITIZENS — THE QUEEN SEEKS AID OF THE EMPEROR — DEATH OF WENZEL

- ITS

CIRCUMSTANCES

PROJECTS OF THE EMPEROR -

CITIZENS CALL ON ZISCA

FOR AID -- SCENES OF VIOLENCE - - CONFLICTS AT PRAGUE FIGHT AT THE BRIDGE

- CONFLICT RENEWED THE NEXT DAY - CONTINUED SKIRMISHES A TRUCE EF-

FECTED - MOVEMENTS ELSEWHERE -- NEGLIGENT

OBSERVANCE OF THE

TRUCE -

JOUN NAAKUASA BORNED - GURIM ASSAULTED - THE SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN

- CONVENTION SIMMONED BY SIGISMUND AT BERAUN – HIS PROMISES - PRESENCE

OF THE BOHEMIANS AT BERAUN-THEIR SUBMISSION - CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY

SIGISMUND - HIS LETTER TO PRAGUE - COMPLIANCE OF THE HUSSITES INSULTS

OFFERED TUEN - PROCEEDIXGS OF SIGISMUND AT BRESLAU - HUSSITES DIVIDED IN-

TO CALIXTINES AND TABORITES -- POLICY AND VIEWS OF EACH -- THE ADAMITES

- THE FANATICISM OF THE TABORITES IN REGARD TO THE ADVENT OF CHRIST -

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THE CALIXTINE NOBILITY - THEIR POLITICAL SYMPATHIES - VIOLENCE OF THE I3-

PERIALISTS - JOHN

KRASA-NICHOLAS OF BETHLEHEM - THE

BURGOMASTER

OF

LEITMERITZ AND HIS CRUELTIES - TWENTY-FOUR DROWNED - REACTION OF FEELING

AT PRAGUE-JOHN OF ZELEW, TIE PREMONSTRANT MONK - CIRCULAR LETTERS -

SOME OF THE TABORITES LEAVE PRAGUE ZISCA A LEADER - BOHEMIAN LEAGUE

- PILSEN HELD BY TABORITES

BESIEGED BY THE IMPERIALISTS

ABANDONED BY

THE TABORITES

THE LATTER ATTACKED ON THEIR RETREAT TO TABOR - ALARM

AT PRAGUE - JOHN, THE PREMONSTRAXT MONK - SIGISMUND AT BRESLAU - JOHN

KRASA-THE BULL OF CRUSADE - ITS SCOPE AND SPIRIT - INDULGENCES PROMISED

IX IT - DANGER TO TIE BOHEMIANS-POPULAR FEELING AGAINST SIGISMOND - HIS

DIRECTIONS TO THE ROYAL GOVERNORS SUCCESS OF TUE LEAGUE AGAINST HIM --

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