MarginaliaThe popes church poysoned much wyth whoredome.The viij. Article is, that they commonly are called notorious whoremongers. This is manifestly sene in their concubines and children, which walke openly in all mens sight, and make many mens wiues whores or corrupt their daughters beyng virgins, and make them Priests harlots and rybauldes.

MarginaliaThe Popes church & monasteries commonly poysoned with deuelishe enuie.The ix. Article is, that they are full of deuilish enuy, and especially in all Monasteries they haue great enuy and hatred amongest themselues, because when any thyng is geuen or disposed to one Monastery or Colledge, then there are others, that hate it, and enuy at it, and would more gladly haue it themselues: Like as amōg dogs when any thing is geuen to the one and not to the other, which the other seyng, enuyeth his fellow, and the other likewise will rather deuour all himselfe then geue any part to his fellow. Wherfore it were well that they were brought from that great sinne of enuy in geuing nothyng vnto them: And it were better that their possessions were taken from them, and that they should do that which the Lord spake to his Disciples saying: Go ye and preach the Gospell to all men.

The x. article is, that they are idle, and chiefly the Byshops, Chanons, and other Prelates, which wil not labour dilligently in the holy Scripture, wherewith they might cure the miseries of Christendome, whereto they haue boūd thēselues,MarginaliaThe popes church poysoned with idlenes & belly cheare.and they eate the bread therof in idlenes, because when other men watch and labour to maintaine themselues and their little ones, thē are they with their lemmonns or els they walke in some Citie, carying hawkes on their fistes, or els they sit at the good wyne wt their Cōcubines. and there they sing and play the Lucians, & eate of the best and therfore all that willyngly bring and geue to them, shall be made partners of that curse whiche is geuen them of God, because they eate their bread vniustly, wherof Paule writeth in the ij. to the Thess. the 3. chapter: He that laboureth not, let hym not eate.

MarginaliaThe Popes church infamous with notorious lyes.The xi. Article is, that they are notorious lyers, because to the end that they may please mē, they tell many tales and lyes, which in the holy Scripture haue no foundation nor proofe. Of such writeth Iohn in the Apoca. 21.

The xij. Article is, MarginaliaThe Popes church erreth in diminishing one part of the Sacrament.that they do not rightly giue or minister to the people the body of our Lord Iesus Christ, and they geue it not as God hath instituted it and commaūded. This is a great and a deuilish sinne and to great malapertnesse. Herein we would ouercome them, with the testimonies of the Euangelistes: I say we would ouercome the Pope, and all his Priestes, with the authorities of Marke, Luke and Paule. Rom. 13. and we would suffer, that Kynges, Princes, Lordes and all that are willyng to heare, should heare it.

MarginaliaThe Popes church charged with partialitie.The xiij. Article is, that they sit in spirituall iudgement, and then many tymes they iudge accordyng to fauour, and not accordyng to the righteousnesse of God, and they take bribes giuyng sentence for him, which in Gods sight hath the wrongfull cause. Wo be to such sentences, as it is written in Isay v. Wo be to ye that. &c.

The xiiij. Article is, that they sit hearyng confessions, & when there come to them vsurers, raueners, and theeues, they take bribes of them of their ill gotten goodes, to spare them: and they willingly suffer them in cities and townes. And likewise of adulterers, and other notorious whoremōgers and whores, and they did neuer let or stay thē in their great sinnes, to the end that the Scripture may be fulfilled in them, which sayeth: Giftes and the loue of money do draw to hell, and do blynd the eyes of iudges.

The. xv. Article is, that they receiue tythes of men, and will of right haue them, and preach and say that men are bound to giue them tythes, and therein they say falsly: MarginaliaHe meaneth, of clayming tithes by mere necessitie of the old lawe: and not by the positiue lawe of princes.For they can not proue by the new Testament, that our Lord Iesus Christ commaunded it, and his Disciples warned no man to do so, neither did them selues receiue them. But although in the old Testament, it were commaunded to geue tythes, yet it can not thereby be proued, that Christiā men are bound thereto: For this precept of the old Testament had an end in the first yeare of our Lord Iesus Christ, lyke as the precept of Circumcision. Wherfore well beloued, consider and see, how your Byshops seduce you and shut your eyes with thynges that haue no proufe. Christ sayth in the xi. of Luke: Giue almes of those thynges that remaine, but he sayd not geue the tenth of the goodes, which ye possesse, but geue almes. But when they heare this word, they may saye as the Lawyer sayd to Christ: Maister when thou sayest so, thou geuest offence. Luke. xi.

MarginaliaThe popes church charged wyth vsury.The. xvi. Article is, that they in many places lend money or goodes to haue treasure or vsury, and they haue in Cities and townes, yearely paymentes and perpetuall reuenues, as great Princes and Lordes. Wherein they do a-gaynst the Gospell, which sayth, do not ye possesse gold nor siluer. And whereas they lend for gayne and vsury, agaynst that speaketh the Lord, Deut. 24: Lend not to vsury to thy brother. &c. Ye honest discret and well beloued Lordes, all the aforesayd Articles we will proue agaynst the Pope, and all his Priestes, with many testimonies of the holy Scripture, which for breuities sake, we haue not here mentioned. But note ye chiefly these iiij. Articles, for which we striue, and desire to defend them to the death.

The first Article is, that all publicke and customably mortall sinnes ought to be forbidden and prohibited to all Priestes and lay men, accordyng to the commaundement of the holy Scripture.

The second Article is, that riches ought to be taken from the Pope and all his Priestes, MarginaliaHe meaneth the immoderate riches & temporall possessions.from the highest to the lowest, and they ought to be made poore, as the Disciples of our Lord Iesus Christ were: who had nothyng of their owne, neither possessions in this world, neither worldly power.

MarginaliaMē appointed to preach may preach, though the pope forbid them.The third Article is, that the word of God ought to be free for euery man appointed and ordained thereto, to preach and read in all places, whether they shall come, without resistaunce of any man or without any inhibition of either spirituall or earthly power openly or manifestly.

The fourth Article is, that the body of our Lord Iesus Christ ought to be deliuered to euery Christiā as our Lord hath ordained it, and as the holy Euangelistes haue written. We haue also vnderstood that there shall be a Councell in Basile: MarginaliaWhen the pope holdeth hys councell, let men looke to their wiues and daughters where the councell is kept.Wherfore let no man be exalted, but let them diligently keepe their wiues, their daughters and their virgins from Byshops, Priestes, and monkes. And do not thinke that there is made any holy assembly of Bishops & Priests for the common cōmoditie and profite of Christendome, but onely to this end that they may hyde their secret vyces and heresies, with the cloke of hypocrisie, and let and hinder the righteousnes of God, which is much contrary to them: and for this cause consider ye diligently, that they will not make an holy assembly, but the congregation of Sathā. And take ye heede that it be not done as some did at Constance, who tooke money of Byshops and Prelates, and suffered them to sleepe with their wiues. Ye wellbeloued & honest Lordes, if ye finde any thyng in these aforesayd Articles or wordes written somwhat sharply, we did it not to offend or contēne you, but to the end that ye should diligently consider and deuise how Christendome is so ill kept and led by the Priests of this presēt age. Our Lord Iesus Christ keepe you both in body and soule. Amen. In the yeare of our Lord. 1430.

Procopus, Smaliors, Conradus, Samssinolich, Capi-
taines of Boemia.

Now to prosecute the warres of the Bohemiās agayne, MarginaliaGreat lamentation for Zisca.after Zisca was dead, wherof we did intreate before, there was great feare, sorow, and lamentation in the army, the Souldiours accusing fortune which gaue ouer such an inuincible Captaine to be ouercome with death. Immediatly there was diuision in the host, the one part chusing Procopius Magnus to be their captaine, the other part saying, that there was none could be found worthy to succede Zisca: whereupon they chusing oute certaine to serue the warres, named themselues Orphanes.

MarginaliaThe armie of Zisca deuided.Thus the Thaborites beyng diuided into two armyes, the one part retained their olde & accustomed name, and the other by meanes of the death of their captaine, named them selues Orphanes. And albeit, that often tymes there was dissension betwene them, yet when soeuer any forreine power came towardes them, they ioyned their powers together in one campe, and defended themselues. They seldome went vnto any fensed townes except it were to buy necessaries, but lyued with their wiues and children in their campe and tentes. They had amongest th? many carres, the which they vsed as a bulwarke: For whensoeuer they went vnto battaile, they made two wyngs of them, which closed in the footemen. MarginaliaThe order & policie that the army of Zisca vsed in warre after hys decease.The wynges of the horsemen were on þ^e out side, & whē as they saw their tyme for to ioyne battaile, the wagen men which led the wynges, goyng forth vnto the Emperours standerd, and compassing in such part of their enemyes as they would, did close themselues in together, wherby the enemyes beyng inclosed, so that they could not be rescued, they were partly by the footemen, and partly by the men that were in the carres with their dartes slayne. The horsemen fought without the fortification: and if it hapned that they were oppressed or put to flight, by and by the carres openyng themselues, receiued them as it were into a fensed Citie: & by this meanes they got many victories, for somuch as their enemyes were ignoraunt of these pollicies.

These two armyes went forth, the one into Slesia, and