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 JEROME OF PRAGUE 49T of Majjars Poles, and Czechs ; nor was he whoUy unskilled in the use of the arms of the flesh. On his trial he admitted thit he had once been drawn into a quarrel with some monks n a monastery when two of them attacked him with swords and he defended bmself successfully with a weapon hiZ s'natched f^om the hand of a bystander. His enemies, indeed, accused ht friar anTofTv". ~f' '^""'^ ^ ^^^^^ -^ I>-i-c " mar and of having been only prevented by force from stabbi«<. ham to the death. AU of his contemporaries bear testimony t! his wonderful powers. His commandino- presence hi. o-^t! eyes, his sable hair and flowing beard, lifrepl/iCS over all with whom he came in contapf • wiiii^ i.- ■. stores of learning, his unmatched TZss^'S ^! ^ZZ his inteUect, rendered him an enemy of the Church onln^ gree less dangerous than the steadfai and itreprchaS Huts *" Jerome had watched from Prague the fate of his fr end w^^h daily increasing anxiety, and when the rupture between ^olTnd council seemed to promise immunity for the oBnoMu^,^n? archical corruption he could not resis^i the tempE tTai/in h " throw of the evils which he had so long combated April / 1415 he came secretly to Constance, but speedily found ho™ ,t ' were his hopes and how dangerousVas 'thrrtlS^eTof U^ place Christann of Prachaticz, one of Huss's chief Lc pies had r cent ly ventured to visit Constance, had been arrested and artf SL: nlT:f ;?B?-.^ P-r '^ ^^^-^ him, wh;n on te unTZ Z ^«I'emian ambassadors he had been libe-ated under oath to present himself when summoned_an oatF wh ch tented ht;' '^f P-''-P*l3^ --P-g to Bohemia. Jerom^ con tented himself with posting a notice on the walls afflrmint th. aTedt7alfS:-kt: ^t^^ " ^^ *^ neber;:^^^^ a moth hoverinTrrrd ^ ^Z^:^^::;^:^ Constance, where, April 7, he affixed another notice on the'hurch « B.h.e^ 1885, pp. 108-9.-Schr5dl, Passavia Sao:; pp ful " ''"'"'^'^