bring the truth. We must resist euery mā to his face, whether he be Paule or Peter, if he walk not directly to the truth of the Gospell, which thing I am glad, and so are we all, to heare that your vniuersitye hath done in thys councell of Basell. For a certayne treatise of yours is broughte hether vnto vs, wherein you reprehende the rudenes, or rather þ^e rashnes of such, which do deny the bishop of Rome, and the Consistorye of hys iudgement, to be subiect vnto the generall Councell, MarginaliaThe tribunall seate standeth not in one byshop.and that the supreame tribunall seate of iudgement standeth in the Church, and in no one Bishop. Such mē as denye this, you so confounde wyth lyuely reasons and truth of the scriptures, that neyther they are able to slyde awaye lyke slippery Eeles, neyther to cauill or bryng anye obiection agaynst you. These be the wordes of Æneas.

MarginaliaThe authoritie of the Councell of Basill mayntained by the Emperour, and the French kyng, so long as they liued.Furthermore, as touching the autoritye and approbation of the foresayd Councell, this is to be noted, that during the lyfe of Sigismund the Emperour, no man resisted thys Councel. Also continuing the time of Charles the. vij. the French kyng, the sayd Councell of Basil was fully and wholy receiued through all Fraunce. But after þ^e death of Sigismund, whē Eugenius was deposed, & Fœlix, duke of Sauoy, was elected Pope, great discordes arose, & much practise was wrought, but especially on Eugenius part. MarginaliaThe practise of pope Eugenius, to vndoe the Coūcell of Basill.Who being now excōmunicate by þ^e coūcell of Basill, to make his part more strong, made. xviij. new Cardinals. Thē he sent his Oratours vnto þ^e Germains, labouring by all perswasions to dissolue the Coūcell of Basil. The Germaines at that time were so diuided, that some of them did hold with Fœlix, and the Councell of Basil: other some, with Eugenius and the councel of Ferraria: and some were neuters. After this, the French kyng being dead, which was Charles the. vij. about the yeare of our Lord. 1444. MarginaliaThe pope styrreth vp warre.the Pope beginneth a new practise, after the old guise of Rome, to excite (as is supposed) the Dolphyn of Fraunce, by force of armes, to dissipate that Councell collected agaynst him. Who leading an army of. xv. thousand men into Alsatia, did cruellye waste and spoyle þ^e countrey: after that, layde siege vnto Basil to expell and driue out the prelats of the Councell. MarginaliaThe Dolphyn driuē away by a fewe Germaynes.But the Heluetians most stoutly meeting their enemies wyth a small power, did vanquish the Frenchmen, and put thē to sword and flight: lyke as the Lacedemonians onelye with three hundred, dyd suppresse, and scattered all the mighty army of Xerxes, at Thermopylæ.

Although Basill thus by the valiauntnes of the Heluetians was defended, yet notwithstandyng the Councell through these tumultes, could not continue by reason of þ^e princes Ambassadours, whiche shronke away, & would not tary: MarginaliaThe dissolution of the Councel of Basil.So þ^t at lēgth Eugenius brought to passe, partly through þ^e helpe of Fridericke MarginaliaFredericke of Austrich crowned Emperour, great grandfather to thys Ferdinando.(being not yet Emperour, but labouryng for the Empire) partly by his Oratours (in the nūber of whom was Æneas Syluius, aboue mētioned) amongest þ^e Germanes, þ^t they were content to geue ouer both the Coūcell of Basill & their neutrality.

This Fridericke of Austrich being not yet Emperour, but towards the Empire, brought also to passe, that Fœlix, whiche was chosen of the Councell of Basill, to bee Pope, was contented to renoūce and resigne his Papacie to Nicolaus the fifte, successour to Eugenius. Of the which Nicolaus, the sayde Fridericke was confirmed at Rome to be Emperour, and there crowned. an. 1451.

MarginaliaThe Legates of the Grekes condescend fyrst to the popes law.As these thynges were doing at Basill, in the meane season, pope Eugenius brought to passe in his conuocatiō at Florence, that the Emperour, and the Patriarke of Constantinople, with the rest of the Grecians there present, were persuaded to receaue the sentēce of þ^e church of Rome, concernyng the procedyng of the holy Ghost: also to receaue the communion in vnleauened bread, to admitte Purgatory, and to yelde them selues to the authoritie of the Romishe Byshop. Whereunto notwithstandyng, the other churches of Grecia would in no wise assente, at their commyng home: In so much, that with a publike execration they did condemne afterwarde allMarginaliaThe Greke churches refuse the popes doctrine.those Legates, which had consented to these Articles, that none of them should be buried in Christen buriall: which was. an. 1439. Ex Casp. Peucer.

And thus endeth the story, both of the Coūcel of Basill, and of the Councell of Florence, also of the Emperour Sigismund, and of the Schisme betwene pope Eugenius, and pope Fœlix, and also of the Bohemians. The whiche Bohemians notwithstandyng all these troubles and tumultes, aboue said, did right wel, and were strōg enough agaynst all their enemies, MarginaliaThe inconueniency of discorde.till at length, through discorde, partly betwene the. ij. preachers of the old and the new citie of Prage, partly also through the discord of the messengers and captaines, taking sides one against þ^e other, they made their enemies stronge & infeabled thē selues. Albeit afterward, in proces of tyme, they so defēded the cause of their religiō, not by sword, but by argument and disputation, that the Byshop of Rome could neuer yet to this daye, remoue the Thaborites, and citie of Prage, from the communiō of both the kynds, nor could euer cause them to kepe the cōditions, whiche in þ^e begynnyng of the Coūcell, was enioyned their priestes to obserue, MarginaliaEx Cochleo. lib. 8. hist. Hußit.as testifieth Cochleus. Lib. 8. hist. Huss. With whom also accordeth Antoninus, who in. 3. part. hist. sayth, that the doctrine of the Bohemians, whiche he termeth by the name of Zizania, did take so depe roote with them, and grew so fast, that afterward, neither by fyre nor sword, it could be extinct.MarginaliaEx Antonin. 3. part hist. tit. 22 . c. 10. Antoninus. 3. part. hist. tit. 22. capit. 10.

Concerning the which Bohemians, briefly and in a generall summe, to recapitulate their whole actes & doings, here is to be noted, that they in their own defence, & in the quarell of Iohn Hus, & Hierome of Prage, prouoked by their catholike aduersaries to warre, fightyng vnder Zisca their captaine, had eleuen battayles wyth the Popes syde, and euer went away victours. Ex paral. Abb. Vrsp. in Epitaphio Ioā. Zisc. Moreouer in þ^e historye of Peucer MarginaliaEx hist. Caspars Peucer. lib. 5.it is testified, that Pope Martin. v. sending for the bishop of Wint. then Cardinall, had leuied. 3. maine armyes, entendyng to ouerrunne all the Bohemians: one army of the Saxones, vnder the prince Elector, the second of the Francones, vnder the Marques of Brandeburge, the thirde of Renates, Bauarians, and Suechers, vnder Otto archbishop of Treuers. With these, Sigismund also the Emperour, MarginaliaCardinall Iuliā the warrier, slaine in warre, and left naked in the field.and Cardinall Iulian the Popes Legate (who at last was slaine in warre, & being spoyled of all his attire, was left naked in þ^e fielde) ioyned all theyr force. Who ioyning together fyue times (sayth the story) with fiue sundry battayles, assayled and inuaded the Bohemians: at euery which battayle, MarginaliaMaruelous feare fallen vpon the popes armye.fyue tymes þ^e sayd aduersaries stroken and daunted with a sodaine feare, ranne away out of þ^e field, leauing their tentes, wyth all their implementes and furniture behinde them, before any stroke was geuen. Ex Casp. Peuc. lib. 5. Wherby it may appeare, the holy angels of God to fyght for thē which embraced the syncere doctrine of Christes gospell.

MarginaliaGods holy Angells pytche their tentes about them which feare hym, Psal.Thus the Bohemians, through the mighty protection of almighty God, continued a long time inuincible, during all the lyfe of Zisca, and also of Procopius, tyll at length, through discord growing betwene them & theyr Captaines, Procopius and Mainardus, they were subdued vnto their enemyes.

MarginaliaThe cruell deceite & wicked facte of Mainardus agaynst the souldiours of Boheme.And here by the way, is not to be omitted the wicked and cruell fact of Mainardus, who after the death of Procopius, thinking to purge the realm of Boheme of those chiefe and principall soldiours, which had bene long experte and trayned vp in warres, founde meanes by a proclamation made, as though he would warre against other coūtreies of their enemies bordering about them, craftely to trayne all them which were disposed to take wages, into certayne barnes or houels, prepared for the same purpose, MarginaliaCertaine thousandes of the Bohemian souldiours brent.and so shutting the doores vpon them, the wicked dissembler set fire vpon them, and brent of them