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 your secretary Peter can arrange the petition for a hearing.

Item, if a hearing shall be granted to me, ask that after it is granted the King shall not allow me to be thrust back into prison; so that I can be free to avail myself of your counsels and those of my friends, and, if it should please God, to say something to my lord the King for his own good and that of Christianity.

I spent nearly all last night in writing answers to the charges which Palecz had drawn up against me. He is definitely working to bring about my condemnation. God have mercy on him and comfort my soul!

They are saying that the article “on the right to disendow” is heretical. You may give my lord the King the hint that if that article be condemned as heresy, he too will come to be condemned as a heretic for having taken away from the bishops their temporal goods, ay, as his father did before him, Emperor and King of Bohemia. Give no person letters to