As for the excommunication which he hath so long sustained, they haue heard him often say, that he hath not resisted against the same by contumacye, or stubbernesse, but vnder euident appellation, and therupon referreth himself vnto the Actes of his causes, whyche were pleaded in the court of Rome, wherin all this is more largely contained, the which your reuerences may euidently perceiue and see in this our present publike transumpt, which wee haue offred vnto you vpon certaine poynts aforesayd.

As cōcerning his preaching, wherwithal his enemies do report and charge, MarginaliaI. Hus falsly reported to preach openly at Constance.that M. Iohn Hus did preach openly in the Citie of Constaunce: The Lordes aforesaide, and specially the Lord Iohn de Clum here present do answere that hee hath continually lodged wyth the sayde M. Iohn Hus here in Constaunce, and that whosoeuer they be, that haue bene so bolde, or dare be so bolde to say & affirme that M. Iohn Hus had preached (as is premised) or þ^t whyche lesse is, MarginaliaI. Hus falsely charged to preach comming to the councell.since the time of his comming vnto thys citie, euen vnto the very day & time of hys captiuitie and imprysonment, that he went but one step out of the house of his lodging, that the said Lord Iohn de Clum, will and is contēt to binde himselfe with any suche, as shall affirme the same, vnder what penalty so euer it be, or money or otherwyse, that which hee hath falsly reported vnto your reuerences, he shal neuer be able iustly & truely to affirme and prooue.

Thirdly, whereas your reuerences do say, that you do not vnderstād or know, what the Lords do meane, by the heretickes condemned, at the councel holden at Pisa, whether the mocking or deriding þ^e Pope, whose ambassadors came thither for vnitie or concorde, the which were suffered and gently entreated, as theyr Lordes were most enclined vnto vnitie and peace, or els that they did vnderstande or meane þ^e perticular heretickes, which were there condemned adioyning therunto: that the heretickes also comming vnto the councell, vnder the pretence of that vnitie, should be gently handled and entreated. &c. Reuerēd fathers and Lordes, whether they be counted the first, or that they be thought the second or last, þ^e Lordes aforesaid require none other thing, but that the said M. Iohn Hus may vse suche liberty as they vsed: forsomuch as he came willingly vnto this most sacred coūcel, not for any other purpose, but onely publikely to recognise his faith. And in what poynt soeuer he shall seeme to vary from the worde of God, and the vnion of the holy mother the church, that in that poynte he will willingly be vnited and reconciled againe thereunto, and not only himself, but also his fauorers and aherents, he would moue and prouoke therunto: MarginaliaI. Hus had many welwillers in Bohemia.of whom the greater number are in the kingdō of Boheme. Also he is come hether that he might purge and cleare the noble kingdome of Boheme, from the sinister and euil slaunder which was raised vpon it.

Last of all most reuerend fathers & Lordes, for so much as your reuerences haue most fauourably answered vnto the principal request made by the Lords aforesayd, that the processe of M. Iohn Hus through Gods helpe shoulde be determined and ended w^tal expedition and gentlenes: The Lordes aforesayd do render most harty thanks vnto your reuerences, and when soeuer theyr desire by Gods helpe shall come to the cnde or effecte long wished or looked for, they wil not onely hcre, but also before the whole kingdom of Boheme, and in all other places wheresoeuer they come render most immortall thankes vnto your reuerences for euer.

¶ Thys declaration of the nobles of Boheme aboue prefixed, may serue not only to the cōfutation of the bishop Luthonius thys Bohemian, but also against the cauillacions of Alanus Copus Anglus, Dial. 6. pag. 929. touching the safe conduct of Iohn Hus, wherof sufficiently before hath ben sayd, vide supra, pag. 596.

When as the noble men of Boheme by lōg time could receiue no answer of those supplications, whych they had alredy put vp, they determined þ^e last day of May following by an other supplication being put vp vnto the principals of the councell, to entreat that Iohn Hus myght be deliuered out of prison, and defend his owne cause openly: they also put the testimonial of the bishop of Nazareth, as touching Iohn Hus. MarginaliaVide supra. pag. 597.The copy wherof is expressed in the beginning of this hystorie, word by word.

MarginaliaAn other supplication of the Bohemians for Iohn Hus.MOst reuerend fathers and Lordes in Christ, of late there was a supplication put vp vnto your reuerences on the behalfe of the Lordes & nobles of Boheme, and the nation of Pole, wherin they most humbly desired your reuerences to consider how theinformations which were put vp vnto your reuerences, by the enemies of M. Iohn Hus, were insufficient. And with reuerence be it spoken, in many poynts vntrue, as in the safe conduict graunted by the kings maiestie, and also in other articles, as more plainely appeareth in the Scedule, which was then offred vnto you: vppon the whych sayde Scedule and other things at that presence being put vppe, they coulde not as yet receiue no aunswere. MarginaliaThe Lordes could haue no answere of their supplication.Wherefore the Lordes aforesayde, moste humbly require your fatherly reuerences, that it would please you to consider the said supplication, and to geue some answere to the Lordes aforesayd, therupon and specially hauing respect vnto the great iniuries and griefs which are done vnto the sayd M. Iohn Hus, the which may be vnderstād and knowen by the Scedule aforesayde, that you will mercifully consider and foresee, that all those griefes and euils so farre different from all brotherly loue and charitie are done vnto hym by his enemies euen for very malice and hatred.

To the intent therefore that the rancour and malice may be confounded and ouerthrowne, and the plaine and euident truth appeare, it may please your fatherly reuerēces to vnderstand that it is notified and knowen vnto the Barones, Nobles, Citizens, Clergie and Laitie of the kingdome of Boheme, that M. Iohn Hus in all his actes and doings as well Scholasticall as Ecclesiasticall, and specially in all his publike and open sermons, he hathe made and hathe accustomed to make these maner of protestations, the which without any thing to the contrary, hee hath alwaies endeuoured to haue them strong and firme, as by this his protestation here folowing, which he made about the determination of a certaine question, it may most eudidently and plainely appeare vnto euery man which would beholde and looke vpon the same: the forme and tenour wherof here followeth, and is such.

MarginaliaThe protestation of I. Hus.FOr so much as aboue all things I doe desire the honor of God, the profite of the holy Churche, and that I my selfe may be a faithfull member of our Lorde Iesu Christ, which is the heade and husband of the holy Church whych hee hath redemed: Therefore as heretofore oftentimes I haue done, euen so now againe I make this protestation, that I neuer obstinately sayd, or heereafter will say ny thing that shall be contrary vnto the truth and verity: and moreouer that I haue alwayes holden, do hold, and firmely desire for to holde the very true and infallible trueth and veritie, so that before that I would defende and maintaine any erroure contrary therunto, I would rather chuse by the hope and help of the Lorde to suffer extreeme punishment, euen vnto death: yea, and thorowe the helpe of God I am ready, euen to offer this my miserable lyfe vnto death for the law of Christ, the which I do beleue euery part and parcell thereof to be geuen and promulgate for the saluation of mankinde, by the counsaile and determination of the most holy Trinitie, and the saintes of God. &c. MarginaliaVid. in priore edit. pag. 207.

By the whiche his protestation, and also other protestations by the sayde M. Iohn Hus, being well obserued and noted, it may be easily gathered and known that his whole intent and purpose was and is, that hee neither would nor will haue spoken or written any thing in hys bookes, treatises, doctrines, or publike sermones, or els to haue affirmed any articles, the whyche willingly and wittingly he did vnderstand or know to be either erroneous, offensiue, seditious, hereticall, or offending the godly eare. All beit that these and suche like things are falsely imputed vnto hym by hys enemies. But it hath alwayes bene his chiefe intent and purpose, and so is, that euery poynt, conclusion or article contained in his bookes or articles, to haue put and affirmed them to thys ende, according to the truth of the Gospell, the holy Doctors and wryters vppon the holy Scriptures, and to that end and purpose, as is before expressed in his protestations: and if in any poynt, he shoulde be founde to varie or goe astray, or that he were not well vnderstanded of others by like information to be informed, vnderstanded, corrected and amended, and that he wil by no meanes sustaine or defend any maner of article against the holy Churche of Rome, or the Catholicke faith.

Wherefore most reuerende fathers, the premisses notwythstanding, his ennemies, through the extreeme hatred whych they beare vnto him, MarginaliaArticles foisted out of Husses bookes by enemies.hath picked and taken out by piece meale certain articles out of the booke of M. Iohn Hus, reiecting and not looking vppon the allegations and reasons, neither hauing any relation vnto the distinction of their equiuocations, haue compounded and made thereof certaine false and fained articles againste him, to thys ende, that all charitie and loue being sette aparte, they might the better ouerthrow hym, and bryng hym vnto death contrary vnto the safe conducte vppon good and iust occasion openly assigned, and geuen vnto the sayde maister Iohn Hus, by the most noble Prince the Lorde Sigismund king of the Romanes and of Hungarie, for his iust defence, against all the friuolous accusations and assaultes of the ennemies, not onely of the sayd M. Iohn Hus, but also of the famous kingdome of Boheme, and for