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 BOHEMIA. 454 454: . T .^o sue. assemblage .ad W s.n ^ C— ^^^ -e I.^^ cent III., two centuries before, "^^b^jj^^^^^i^^ity to sit witb bim summoned the representatives of .^^^1^^/;"™ ^, ^.^ed beads intbeLateran. TJ^e later — :nigbt 1^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ than the -rUer, to ^^ J^^^^^ tf^ Ta^n^of rival popes, its mere primarily to sit m judgment onjn ^^^ successor convocation was a recognition of its '^V^^^J ^, and the of Peter. From its de~ tbere couW ^e no pp ^^^^^^^^^ questions to be submitted to it -«^^YtL'^l^^fathers. From wbicb bad tasked the consciences of ^l^-^ ^^Jf^^^ ,,.„rthiest to every part of Europe the «--ly-^^^te-l^^^^ Chancellor talcecounseltogetherintluscris^^^^^^^ as earnest f or re- Gerson and Cardinal Peter a ^u y „_ ^.ickliff or Huss them- f orm and as sensible of existing y^^^Jg^^^^^^^^^^ ^,,,,,, of tbeol- selves. Tbe ^-f ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ were there in person ogy and canon law., Pnnces ana p ^^^^ ofby their -f -entatives^iul^ro. ds^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ the noble to the 3-gf ^ ^^^^^ m nds of all contemporaries, produced a powerful effect on the ^^^^ ^ Ind the wildest «stunates were cmren^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ One chronicler assures us that the e. ere^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ council, sixty thousand Ave hundred perso p ^^^ ^^ teen thousand were of S'^ff^^^^^^^^ i there were four to princes. The «^^'^.^"^^^''"'^"^/^'rofflcial census of the coun- hundred and fifty public ^^-;^';;^;^^l2hT^t not less than seven cil,carefully taken, reports that be n^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ .^.^^^ .^ hundred, and ejen s-eeuhje^ ^^^t/ and the weakness, the the nefarious trade. Thus the st g ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ virtue and the vice of the ^"^^^;"^ ^ ^ ^i^^ troubles which getber to find relief as ^^^^^^2' ^r many doubts and Threatened to overwbehn t - Chuj*^. ^^ ^^ ^^^^^^,^
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I. 401). — Dacherii . ,0. ....pen. C..0. ann Ulo (Ha.. C.^ ^^^4:« XXUL Hist. Magnatum (Von der Hardt V-J« ;-,^^^^^ °;' ,. j,. Lib. I. c. 40 (lb. H. 888).-Nider Foimicai. i.id.