MarginaliaLadislaus Huniades sonne. myng first toward the towne, obediently he opened to hym the gates. Foure thousand onely of armed souldiours he debarred from entryng the Citie.

In þ^e meane tyme while the kyng was there resident in the Citie, the Earle with other nobles did sit in counsaile, requiryng also Ladislaus to resorte vnto them: who first doubtyng with himselfe what he might do, at length putteth on a priuey coate of mayle, and commeth to them.MarginaliaDebate betwene Vlricus & Ladislaus Huniades sonne. Whether the Earle first began with him, or he with the Earle, it is not knowen. The opinion is of some, that Vlricus first called him traytour, for shutting the gates against the kynges souldiours. Howsoeuer the occasion began, this is vndoubted, that Vlricus takyng his sword from hys Page, let flye at his head. To breake the blow, some putting vp their handes, had their fingers cut of.MarginaliaVlricus Earle of Cicilia slayne. The Hungarians hearyng a noyse & tumulte within the chamber brake in vpon them, and there incontinent slue Vlrike the Earle, woundyng and cuttyng him almost all to peeces. The kyng hearyng thereof, although he was not a little discontented thereat in his mynde: yet seyng there was then no other remedy, dissembled his grief for a tyme.

MarginaliaThe cruell dissimulation of Ladislaus the king. From thence the kyng tooke his iourney agayne to Buda, accompanyed with the foresayd Ladislaus, who passing by the towne, where the wife of Huniades was mournyng for the death of her husband, seemed w^t many fayre wordes to comfort her: & after he had there sufficiently repasted him selfe, with such pretense of dissembled loue, & fayned fauour, that they were without all suspition and feare:MarginaliaThe ii. sonnes of Huniades, Ladislaus and Mathias. from thence he set forwaward in his iourney, takyng with him þ^e two sonnes of Huniades, Ladislaus and Mathias, who were right ready to wayte vpon him. The kyng beyng come to Buda (whether of his owne head, or by sinister counsayle set on) whē he had thē at a vantage, caused both the sonnes of Huniades: to witte, Ladislaus and Mathias, to be apprehended.MarginaliaLadislaus Huniades sonne, innocently put to death. And first was brought forth Ladislaus the elder sonne, to the place of execution, there to be beheaded: where meekely he suffered, beyng charged with no other crime, but this, published by the voyce of the cryer, saying: Thus are they to be chastened, whiche are rebels agaynst their Lord.MarginaliaA miraculous token at the death of Ladislaus. Peucerus writyng of his death, addeth this moreouer, that after the hangman had three blowes at his necke, yet notwithstandyng the sayd Ladislaus hauyng his handes bounde behynd him, after the third stroke, rose vp right vpon his feete, and lookyng vp to heauen, called vpon the Lord, and protested his innocency in that behalfe: and so laying downe his necke agayne, at the fourth blow was dispatched.MarginaliaEx Peucer. Chro. lib. 5. Mathias the other brother was led captiue with the kyng vnto Austria. The rest of the captiues brake the prison and escaped.

It was not long after this cruelty was wrought vpon Ladislaus, the kyng beyng about the age of xxij. yeares, that talke was made of the kynges Mariage, with Magdalene daughter to the French kyng.MarginaliaPreparation to the kinges mariage. The place of the Mariage was appointed at Prage, where great preparation was for the matter.MarginaliaLadislaus the kyng. receaued in Boheme. At the first entraunce of the kyng into the City of Prage, Rochezana with a company of ministers such as were fauourers of Iohn Hus, and of sincere Religiō, came with all solemnitie to receaue the kyng, makyng there hys Oration to gratulate the kynges most ioyfull and prosperous accesse into the same his owne Realme and countrey of Boheme. Vnto which Rochezana, after he had ended hys Oration, scarse the kyng would open his mouth to geue thankes to hym, nor any chearefull contenaunce vnto hys company,MarginaliaLadislaus the king an infest enemie agaynst the Hussians. but fiercely seemed to frowne vpon them. In the next Pagen after these, came forth the Priestes of the high Mynster, after the most Popish maner, meetyng him with Procession, and with the Sacrament of the aulter:MarginaliaThe sacrament of the aulter vsed to many purposes. For as Panacea among Phisitions serueth for all diseases, so the Sacrament of the popes aulter serueth for all pompes and Pagens. First it must lye vpon the aulter, then it must be holden vp with hādes, then it must hang in the pyxe, it must serue for the quicke, it must also help the dead, it must moreouer visite the sicke, it must walke about the Churchyarde, it must go about the streates, it must be caryed about the fields to make the grasse to grow, it must be had to the battayle, it must ride on horsebacke before the Pope, and final ly it must welcome kynges into Cities. Wherein these Catholicke fathers do seeme somewhat to forget themselues. For if the Pope, beyng inferiour to the Sacrament of the aultar, at the commyng of kyngs, do vse to sit still while the kynges come & kisse his feete, what reason is it that þ^e Sacrament of the aulter, which is (I trow) aboue the Pope, should meete kynges by the way, and welcome them to the towne? But this by the way of parenthesis: let vs now continue the text.

MarginaliaEx Ænea Siluio, in histo. Bohem. Whē Ladislaus this Catholicke kyng, who had shewed himselfe before so stoute and sterne agaynst Rochezana and his company, had sene these Catholique priestes with their Procession, and especially with their blessed Sacrament, to come: with all reuerence & much deuotion, he lighted downe from his horse, he embraced the crosse and kissed it, and with chearefull countenaunce saluted the Priestes in order. All this while his yong wife was not yet come out of Fraūce, but Legates were sent, after most sumptuous wise, to conduct her. Other Legates also were sent the same tyme, to the Emperour Fridericke, for cōclusion of peace. The third Legacie was directed likewise to Pope Calixtus about Religion, how to reduce the Bohemians to the Church of Rome. The authour of this story (which was pope Pius himselfe) declareth farther the opinion of some to be, that king Ladislaus the same tyme had entended, to make a finall end and destruction of all that sect in Bohemia, which held with the doctrine of Iohn Hus, and Hierome,MarginaliaA great concourse of Catholique princes intended agaynst the Hussites by the assemble and concourse of the Catholique Princes, and Popish Prelates, which were appointed there to meete together at that Mariage in Prage. For there should be first the Emperour Fridericke, Elizabeth the kynges mother, and his sisters Elizabeth and Anna, the Princes of Saxonie, Baioria, Slesia, Franconia, the Palatine, and other Princes of Rhene: many also of the Lordes of Fraunce, besides the Popes Cardinals, Legates, Prelates and such other potestates of the Popes Church. Who if they had altogether conuented in Boheme, no doubt but some great mischief had bene wrought there agaynst the Hussites: agaynst whom this Ladislaus, folowyng the steppes of Sigismundus his graūdfather, and Albertus his father, was euer an vtter enemye.MarginaliaMan purposeth but God disposeth. But when man hath purposed, yet God disposeth, as pleaseth him.

And therefore, truely it is written of Æneas Syluius in the same place, saying:MarginaliaEx Ænea Syluio. De regimine Ciuitatum, de mutatione regnorum, de orbis imperio, minimum est, quod homines possint (tum vero De religionis constitutione multo minus) magna magnus disponit Deus. MarginaliaGouernaūce of Imperies and kingdomes, is not in mans power, much lesse the goueruaūce of Religion. That is. In regiment of cities, in alteration of kyngdomes, in rulyng and gouernyng the world, it is lesse then nothyng that man can do: it is the hygh God that ruleth hygh thynges. Wherunto thē I may well adde this more ouer, and say: that if the gouernaunce of worldly kyngdomes standeth not in mans power, but in the disposition of God, much lesse is it then, that mans power can do in the regiment and gouernyng of Religion. Exāple wherof in this purposed deuise of Princes, doth euidētly appeare.MarginaliaThe great worke of God in defending hys poore seruauntes. For as this great preparation and solemnitie of mariage was in doyng, and the Princes ready to set forth, with a litle turne of Gods holy hand, all these great purposes were sodeinly turned and dashed.MarginaliaThe death of king Ladislaus. For in the middest of this busines, about the. xxi. day of Nouember. an. 1461. this great aduersary of Christes people, kyng Ladislaus, kyng of Boheme, of Hūgary. and prince of Austria, sickened and within. 36. houres dyed, some say of a pestilent sore in his gryne, some say of poyson.MarginaliaBloud reuēged by God. But how soeuer it was, as it came not without the iust iudgement of God, reuēgyng the innocent bloud of Ladislaus Huniades sonne, wrongfully put to death before: so by the oportune death of this kyng, the poore Churches of Boheme were gratiously deliuered. And this end made Ladislaus, one of the mightyest princes at that tyme, in all Europe: in whom three mighty kyngdomes were conioyned and cōbyned together, Austria, Hūngaria, & Bohemia: which countreys do lye Southeast from England, in the farthest partes of all Germany, toward Constantinople, and the dominion of the Turkes, and containe these principall townes in them.

MarginaliaThe large dominiō of Ladislaus.