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 lickly, to oppoe thoe publicke ins. And indeed o long as he hot his darts againt ecular men, he was highly eteemed off amongt the Divines, as one out of whoe mouth the Holy Ghot pake: but as oone as he began to thunder againt them alo, their minds being altered, they cryed out that he was mad, and the Devils Agent.

3. Thoe that write of him tell us, that the firt complaints againt him, were put up by certain of the Nobles unto the King (to wit, Wenceslaus) whom the Pope preented unto the German Princes, as a luggih peron unprofitable unto the Empire, hateful (yet not infamous in Hitoryes) becaue of his unwillingnes to execute his Buls, and his indulging the Hereticks, againt his will) and required him to forbid Hue of his turbulent preaching. But the Arch-Bihop (Wolbrom) denyed that it could be done, becaue Hue had bound himelf by Oath at his Ordination, to peak the truth without repect of perons.

4. But when in the year following, this ame Hue much thore harply reproved the Coveteounes, Luxury, and Sacriledges of Spirituall perons & the Arch-bihop, requeted of the King the ame which the Nobles did before. The King anwered that it could not poibly be done, becaue Hue was obliged by oath to peak the truth without repect of perons; the Lord himelf thus frutrating the wicked plots contrived againt this holy man, as his own Intrument. 5. There