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 ^3g THE HUSSITES. A peace in which all parties distrusted each other and placed radically different interpretations on its conditions was not hkely to heal dissensions so profound. The very day after the solemn ratification of the Compactata an ominous disturbance showed how superficial was the reconcihation. In the presence of an im- mense crowd, at the high altar of the church of Iglau, where the final conferences were held, the Bishop of Coutances, chief of the legation of the council, celebrated mass and returned thanks to God. After this the letters of agreement were read in Bohemian, and Kokyzana commented upon them in the same language, much to the discomfort of the legates. He had been celebrating mass at a side altar, and when the reading was finished he called out, " If any one wishes communion in both elements let him come to this altar and it will be given to him." The legates rushed over to him and twice forbade him, but he quietly disregarded them and administered the sacrament to eight or ten persons. The in- cident excited intense feehng on both sides. The Bohemians de- manded that a church be assigned to them in Iglau where during then- stay they could receive the sacrament m both kinds; the le-ates refused the request, although urged by the emperor, and finally after threats of departure, the Bohemians were forced to content themselves with celebrating, as they had previously done, in private houses.* When Sigismund was fairly seated on the throne, there foUowed an endless series of bickerings, as the rites and ceremomes and usao-es of the Eoman Church were restored, supplanting the sim- pler worship which had prevailed for twenty years. Consecra- tions, confirmations, images, relics, holy water, benedictions, were one by one introduced-even the hated rehgious orders were sur- reptitiously smuggled in. The canonical hours and chants were renewed in the churches, and every effort was made to accustom the people to a resurrection of the old order of things. On Cor- pus Christi day. May 30, 1437, a gorgeous procession swept through the streets of Prague bearing the host on high; the legate, the Archbishop of Kalocsa, and the Bishop of Segnia headed it, ana were dutifully foUowed by the emperor and empress, the nobles Naucleri Chron. ann. 1436.
 * Th. Ebendorferi Diar. (loc. cit. 83).-Jo. de Turonis Regest. (lb. 821-22).-