BOSTON:
GO U L D A N D LINCOLN,

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

By E. H. GILLETT,

In the Clerk's Office District Court of the United States, for the

Southern District of New York.

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HUSS IN PRISON. HIS REFUSAL TO RECANT. FAREWELL

LETTERS. JUNE 8, 1415-JULY 1, 1415.

DEPRESSING CIRCUMSTANCES OF HUSS DENIED AN ADVOCATE — HIS LETTERS AND

COXVERSATION 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 UXSHAKEN 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 ITSELFLETTER 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 IUSS 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 AXXIOUS TO HAVE HIM RECANT - HIS FIRMNESS - HIS OPINIOX OF

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

COXSTANCE THE REFUSAL OF HUSS TO ABJURE-

DEPUTATION

FROM THE EMPEKOR - ADVICE OF CHLUM -- REPLY OF HUSS — THE DEPUTATION

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

BISHOP OF LODI — TIE 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 EACI -- IS SILENCED -

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

OF CLAIMING TO BE THE FOURTI 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 KUSS — THE EMPEROR'S BLUSA AT THE MENTION OF THE SAFE-CONDUCT

- SENTENCE PRONOUNCED AGAINST THE BOOKS OF AUSS-- HIS REPLY - SENTEXCE

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

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

HUSS STRIPPED OF HIS SACERDOTAL HABITS TONSURELUDRICOUS 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 ÆNEAS SYLVIUS - WHY HUSS WAS BURNED - NOT FOR HIS HETERODOXY

ODIUM PHILOSOPHICUM OF THE NOMINALISTS --THE PERSECUTING ZEAL OF THE

ENGLISH - THE

PREJUDICE OF THE GERMANSPALETZ AND MICHAEL DE CAUSIS

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

HIS CHARACTER,

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CHAPTER III.

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

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 SENTENCES

PERSECUTION REBUKED – THE BOLD TONE OF

JACOBEL'S TREATISE - 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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