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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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Haſenburgh an unlearned man, & obtained in the year 1410, the 16. of Iuly, that the books of lohn Huſſe ſhould be condemned and burned, there were therefore burned as Eneas Silvius teſtifies, above 200 volums fairly written, adorned with golden Boſſes, and precious covers. There are extant ſome Bohemian Rimes compoſed by one of the common people, in which that unlearned cenſor of books was wittily jerkt, for being made an Archbiſhop, then he ſtudied letters, but Huſſe in that time wrote a tract concerning the reading of Hereticall books and inſtituted a particular diſpute for the defence of lohn Wickliff, concerning the holy Trinity which they alſo burnt.

10. In the year 1411, when Pope Iohn the 23. founded an alarum againſt the King of Naples, he gave Indulgencies to thoſe that would take up arms for the Church: One that ſold thoſe toys came to Prague, and publickly in the pulpit divulged thoſe vanities. It ſo hapned that in three Churches ſome oppoſed them, aſſerting the Pope of Rome muſt bee Antichriſt, who brought miſery upon the Chriſtians, and ſtirred them up to mutuall wars. Thoſe three were taken Martin Krzidelko, Iohn Hudek and Stainis Lapolek a Taylor, and are carried to priſon, although the univerſity, and towne, interceded for them, yet they were brought forth into the market, and were beheaded. When this was noyſed a-

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