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 yielded and recanted Hue his Doctrine, which then began to be called Error.

4. Kraa tanding like an unhaken rock, againt all the perwaions of the Legate, told them. That all their hopes of any recantation from him were in vain. Hee was drawne lowly through the treets, the Legate at every turning inveighing againt him, and oftentimes (commanding the hangman to tay) crying to him. Pitty your elf and recant thoe errours which the Bohemians have o rahly pread abroad. But he anwered ‘I am ready to dye ‘for the Gopell of the Lord Jeus. At length being brought half alive to the place of execution, he was burnt, This was done in the year 1420. March 14. and preently on the following Lords day (being the 17 day of March ) the Legate commanded the excommunication of the Bohemians, made by Pope Martin, together with to be tucke on the Church-gates, and to be declared in the Pulpits.

Ichell the chief Magitrate of the City Litomericia a cruell and deceitfull man, having taken four and twenty of the chief Citizens (and among them his on in law) put then in the highet Tower at Michaells gate. At length having taken councell with