Clergy, and there whosoeuer will obiect to him either heresie or errour, let him obiect, byndyng himself to suffer the like payne, if he do not proue it.

4. Item, if no man wil set himselfe on the contrary part against him, then let the commaundement be made by our soueraigne Lord the kyng through all his Cities, and like wise let it be ordeined and proclaimed through all villages and townes, that maister Iohn Hus, is ready to render accoumpt of his fayth, and therfore if any will obiect vnto him any heresie or errour, let him write his name in the chauncery of the Lord Archbyshop, and to bryng forth his probations openly before both the parties.

5. Item, if no such shalbe founde to obiect, or whiche will write his name, then let them be called for, which caused to be noysed & rumored in the Popes Court, that in the kingdome of Boheme, in the Citie of Prage, and in in the Marquesdome of Morauia, many there be whose hartes be infected with heresie and errour, that they may proue who they be: and if they be not able to proue it, let them be punished.

6. Item, that commaundemēt be directed to Doctours of Diuinitie and of the cannon law, and to the Chapter of Cathedrall Churches, and that it be required of them all and of euery one particularly, that they will bryng forth his name, if they know any such to be an hereticke or erroneous. And if they deny to know any such, then let them make recognition therof, before the publike Notary, confirmyng the same with their seales.

7. Item, these things thus done & premised, then that our soueraigne Lord the kyng, & also that the Archb. will geue commaundement vnder payne that no man shall call one an other heretike or erroneous, vnles he will stand to the probation of that heresie or error, as it becommeth hym.

8. Item, after these things obtayned that our soueraigne lord the kyng, with the consent of his Barons, will then leuy a subsidy, or collect of the clergye, & direct an honest ambassie to the popes court, with the which embassadours, let them also go, vpō theyr owne proper charges or expenses for their purgation, which haue caused this kingdom falsly and greuously to be infamed in the Apostolicall court.

9. Item, in the meane season for the presence of maister I. Hus no Interdict ought to be made, as it was made of late, contrary to the order and determination of our holy mother church. &c.

As this matter was thus in alteration betwene the two partes, þ^e one obiecting, þ^e other aūswering in articles, as is aforesaid: In the meane time it happened by the occasion of Ladislaus king of Naples, who had besieged the Popes townes and territories, MarginaliaThe pope maketh warre.that Pope Iohn raisng vp warre against the sayd Ladislaus, gaue full remission of sinnes to all them which would warre on his side to defend þ^e church. When this Bull of þ^e popes indulgēce was come to Prage, and there published, the king Wenselaus, who thē fauoured that pope, gaue commaundemēt that no mā should attempt any thyng against the said popes indulgēces. But Hus with his followers, not able to abide the impietie of those pardōs, began manifestly to speake against them, of the which company were iij. certaine artificers, who hearing þ^e priest preachyng of these indulgences, did opēly speake against them, & called the pope Antichrist, which woulde set vp the crosse to fight against his euenchristened. Wherfore they were brought before the Senate, and committed to warde. But the people ioyning themselues together in armes, came to þ^e magistrates, requiring thē to be let loose. The magistrates with gentle words and faire promises satisfied the people, so that euery man returning home to his owne house, þ^e tumult was asswaged. MarginaliaIohn.
Martine.
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Martyrs.But the captiues being in prison, notwithstanding were there beheaded, whose names were Iohn, Martine, and Stascon. The death and martirdome of these three being knowen vnto the people, they tooke the bodies of them that were slaine, and with great solemnitie brought them vnto the church of Bethlem. At whose funerall diuers priestes fauouring that side, did sing in thys wise: These be the Saintes which for the testament of God gaue their bodies &c. And so their bodies were sumptuously interred in þ^e church of Bethlem, I. Hus preaching at þ^e same funerall, much cōmēding them for their constancy, and blessing God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which had hid the way of his veritie so from the prudent of thys world, and had reuealed it vnto the simple lay people and inferiour priestes, which chose rather to please God, then mē.

Thus the Citie of Prage was deuided. The prelates with the greatest parte of the clergie, and most of þ^e Barōs, which had any thing to lose, did hold with þ^e pope, MarginaliaSteuen Paletz a great enemy to Iohn Hus.especially Steuen Paletz, beyng the chiefest doer on that side. On þ^e contrary part the commons, wyth part of the clergie & students of the vniuersitie went with Iohn Hus. Wenslaus the kyng fearing least this would grow to a tumult, beyng moued by the doctours and prelates and councell of hys barons, MarginaliaI. Husse banished out of Prage.thought best to remoue Iohn Husse out of the Citie, who had bene excommunicated before by the Pope: And further to cease this dissention risen in the Church, comitted the matter to the dispositiō of the doctours and the clergie. They cōsulting together among thēselues, did set forth a decree, ratified and confirmed by the sentence of the king, contayning the summe of xviij. Articles, for the maintenaūce of the Pope and the see of Rome, agaynst the doctrine of Wickleffe and Iohn Husse. The names of the doctours of Diuinitie were these: Steuen Paletz: Stanislaus de Znoyma: Petrus de Ikoyma: Ioannes Heliæ: Andreas Broda: Ioannes Hildesen: Mattheus Monachus: Hermannus Heremita: Georgeus Bota: Simon VVenda. &c. Iohn Hus thus departing out of Prage, went to his countrey, where he being protected by the Lord of the Soile, cōtinued there preaching, to whom resorted a great concourse of people, neither yet was he so expelled out of Prage, but that sometimes he resorted to his church of Bethleem, and there also preached vnto the people.

Moreouer against the said decree of the doctors, I. Hus, with his company replied againe, and aunswered to their articles, with contrary articles againe, as foloweth.

FIrst, the foundation of the doctours whereupō they founde all their writynges and counsels, is false, Which foundatiō is this, where as they say that part of the clergie in þ^e kingdome of Boheme is pestilent and erroneous, and holdeth falsely of the Sacramentes.

2. The Doctours hereby do defame the kingdome of Boheme, and do raise vp new discordes.

3. Let them shew therefore those persons of the Clergye, whom they call pestilēt, and so let them verefie their report, binding themselues to suffer the like paine, if they be not able to proue it.

4. False it is þ^t they say, the pope and the Cardinals to be the true & manifest successours of Peter & of the Apostles, neither that any other successours of Peter or the Apostles, cā be found vpō earth besides thē. Whē as no mā knoweth whether he be worthy of hatred or of fauor. And all Byshops & priestes be successours of Peter and of the apostles.

5. Not the Pope, but Christ onely is the head: and not the Cardinals, but all Christes faithfull people be the body of the Catholicke church, as all holy Scripture and decrees of the holy fathers do testifie and affirme.

6. And as touching þ^e Pope, if he be a reprobate, it is plaine that he is no head, no nor member also of the holy church of God, but of the deuill, and of his sinagogue.

7. The clergie of the gospellers agreeing with the saying of S. Austen which they alledge, and according to the sanctions of the fathers, and determinations of the holy mother church, doe say, and affirme laudably: that the condemnatiō and prohibition of the xlv. articles is vnlawfull, and vniust, and rashly done: for that because not onely the Doctors, but also all Byshops and Archbishops, in such great causes, namely, touchyng faith (as these articles doe) haue no authoritie at all, as appeareth. De baptismo et eius effectu. Cap. Maiores. Et in Can. 17. dist. cap. Hinc sedi. &c.

8. The second cause of discord which they alleadge, also is most false: seeing the faith of whole Christendome cōcerning the church of Rome, is deuided in iij. partes by the reason of iij. popes, which now together do raigne: And þ^e iiij. part is newtrall. Neither is it true, that we ought to stand in all things to the determination of the pope, and of þ^e Cardinals, but so farreforth as they do agree with þ^e holy scripture of the olde and new Testament, from whence the sanctions of the fathers did first spring as is euident. De accusationibus cap. qualiter. &c.

9. In the iiij. Article they brast out into a certaine dotage, and are cōtrary to themselues. By reason that they doltishely haue reprehended the Gospellers, who in all their doings receaue the holy scripture (which is the lawe of God, the way of truth and life) for their iudge and measure: and afterward they themselues do alledge the scripture Deut. 17. where al iudges both popes & cardinals are taught to iudge and discerne betwene leaper & leaper, & in euery ecclesiastical cause, onely after the rule of Gods law. And so are they cōtrary vnto their secōd article, wherin they say: that in euery catholique matter we must runne to the pope: which is cōtrary to the foolishe condemnation of the Articles aforesaid.

10. Consequently, lyke idiots they doe most falsly alledge for their purpose the Canon, vnder the name and authoritie of Ierome written. 24. q. 1. Hæc est fides papa. & cet. where