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 from towne to towne teaches the word of God: untill the time that he was called to Contance, to give an account of Doctrine, receiving letters of afety from the Emperour: Hitories report, how he was there handled by the Romih Councell, to witte, in the yeare 1415. The 6 of Iuly, Hue, in the yeare 1416 the 30 of May Ierom were burnt. Conult the book, of Martyrs.

He adveraries were not atisfied with their blood, but uddainly took bloody Councell for the detruction of the whole nation: for when the chiefe nobles of ohemia 58 in number, in the name of the whole Comonalty in the yeare 1416 the 2 of September, ent letters from Prague ubcribed with their own hands, ard igned with their own eals, to the Councel, complaining & expotulating that their Pator, an innocent and holy man, a faithfull teacher of the truth was unjutly condemned, the Synod did not anwer them, neither did they anwer the Nobility of Moravia, which complained of like matters in letters of their own, but the Councell writ to the perons who were beotted with the Romih upertition men in eminency namely Iohn of Mecklesburg, Alicopeck of Dubba, Alburt of Colditz, intreating and obtet- ing