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 Latine tongue in the Ordinances, the unmarriageable etate of the Clergy, and the maiming of the Eucharit by debarring the people of the cup in that Sacrament. Of which it will not be tedious or in vain here to recite what we find expreed in our Annals; becaue they were the firt incitements unto the Bohemians and as it were the firt parks, which afterward (in the time of Hue) burt out into open flame.

2. In the yeare 965 when Bolelaus Pius had founded Epicopacy at Prague, was choen Bihop, and confirmed by Hatto Arch-Bihop of Maguntium, Dethmar the Saxon then Pope of Rome, intituted a form of Church-government, expreely charging that none hould any whit decline from the rites ceremonies and Roman canting, by him precribed; which the Bohemians took very ill, for that the ue of their native language was taken from them. Now therefore Dethmar the the Bihop hortly after dying in the ame year,and Woytich his ucceours having freed Rome from the whirle wind of perecution; two of the Clergy Bolehot and Mitibor with four others ''viz. Krzwan, Roilaw, Waymire, audand [sic] Iarek, were ent to Rome'' unto the Pope in the year 977, for to act with him both for the return of the Bihop, and retoring unto them the ue of their mother tongue, in the Ordinances, who (as the Annals tell us) did both obtain their deires of the Pope, and had ent them from the ihop a form of rayers writ in their natural lan- guage