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 VI. That priests being expelled from their benefices, should be restored again.

VII. That all profaners of churches should be punished after the canonical sanctions.

VIII. That such as had been promoters in the council against John Huss, should be permitted safely to return into Bohemia again, and to enjoy their benefices.

IX. That the relics and treasure taken out of the church of Prague, should be restored fully again.

X. That the university of Prague should be restored again and reformed, and that they who had been the disturbers thereof should be really punished.

XI. That the principal heretics and doctors of that sect should be sent up to the see apostolic; namely, Johannes Jessenetz, Jacobellus de Misnia, Simon de Bohemia. Tysna, Simon de Rochinzano, Christianas de Brachatitz, Johannes Cardinalis, Zdenko de Loben, the provost of Alhallows, Zaislaus de Suiertitz, and Michael de Czisko.

XII. That all secular men, who communicated under both kinds, should abjure that heresy, and swear to stop the same hereafter.

XIII. That they who were ordained priests by the suffragan of the archbishop of Prague, taken by the lord Zenco, should not be dispensed with, but sent up to the see apostolic.

XIV. That the treatises of John Wickliff, translated into the Bohemian tongue, by John Huss and Jacobellus, should be brought to the ordinary.

XV. That the treatises of John Huss, condemned in the council, should also be brought to the ordinary.

XVI. That all the tractations of Jacobellus, 'De Utraque specie de Antichristo' (wherein he calleth the pope Antichrist), and 'De Remanentia Panis post Consecrationem,' should likewise be brought and burned.

XVII. That all songs and ballads made to the prejudice of the council, and of the catholic persons of both states, should be forbid to be sung in cities, towns, and villages, under great and extreme punishment.

XVIII. That none should preach the word without the license of the ordidinary [sic], or of the parson of that place.

XIX. That ordinaries and prelates, having jurisdiction, should not be stopped in their jurisdiction by the secular power, under pain of excommunication.

XX. That all and singular persons shall be commanded to obedience, under pain of excommunication; and that whosoever knoweth any person to favour any Wicklevists, or their doctrine, or that keepeth company with suspect persons, he shall present the same to his diocesans or his officials.

XXI. That the confederacy of the seculars made between themselves, or any of the spiritualty, to the prejudice of the foresaid council, and of the apostolic see and church of Rome, in favour of John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and others in the said council condemned, shall be dissolved.

XXII. That the rights and ceremonies of the christian religion, touching God's service, images, and worshipping of relics, shall be observed, and transgressors of the same be punished.

XXIII. That all and singidar, either spiritual or secular, that shall preach, teach, hold, or maintain, the opinions and articles of John Wickliff, John Huss, and Jerome, in this council condemned and convicted of the same, shall be holden for heretics; and, falling in relapse, shall be burned.

XXIV. That all secular persons being monished and charged by the ordinaries, shall be bound to give their aid and furtherance unto them touching the premises.

The Bohemians, notwithstanding these cruel articles, contemning the vain devices of these prelates and fathers of the council, ceased not to proceed in their league and purpose begun, joining themselves more strongly together.

In the mean time it happened, that during this council of Constance, after the deposing of pope John, and spoiling of his goods,