vnto the councell, who by chance was fallen into his handes, because he heard an euill report of hym, þ^t he was suspected of the heresies of Wickleffe: that the Councell might take order for him, whose part it was to correct & punish such as did erre and stray from the truth, besides many other flattering tales which were written in the sayd letter for the prayse of the Councell. After this they read the citation which was geuen out by the councell agaynst maister Hierome, wherof we haue spoken before. Then certayne of the Byshops sayd vnto hym: Hierom why diddest thou flye & runne awaye, and diddest not appeare when þ^m wast cited? MarginaliaThe coūcell neither would geue him libertie safely to come nor freely to go.He answered, because I could not haue any safecōduict, neither from you, neither from the king, as it appeareth by these letters patentes of the Barons, whiche you haue, neither by my open intimations could I obtain any safe conduict.

Wherfore I perceauing many of my greuous & heauy frendes to be here present in the Councell, would not my selfe be the occasion of my perils and daungers, but if I had known or had any vnderstanding of this citation, w^tout al doubt, albeit I had bene in Boheme, I would haue returned agayne. Then all the whole rabble rising vp, alledged diuers and sondry accusations and testimonies agaynst him with a great noyse and tumulte. When the rest held their peace, then spake maister Gerson the Chauncellour of Paris:MarginaliaM. Hierome was accused by M. Gersō with cōmendation of his eloquence. Hierome when thou wast at Paris, thou thoughtest thy selfe by meanes of thy eloquence to be an Angell, & diddest trouble the whole Vniuersitie, alledging openly in the schooles many erroneous conclusions with their correlaria, and specially in the question de vniuersalibus & de Idæis, with many other very offensiue questiōs.MarginaliaGerson renueth olde matters. Vnto whom Mayster Hierome sayd: I answere to you mayster Gerson: Those matters which I did put forth there in the Schooles at Paris, in the whiche also I aunswered to the argumentes of the Maysters, I did put them forth Philosophically and as a Philosopher, and mayster of the Vniuersitie: and if I haue put foorth anye questions whiche I ought not to haue put forth, teache me that they be erroneous, and I will most humbly be informed, and amend the same.

Whiles he was yet speaking, an other (as I suppose, the mayster of the Vniuersity of ColleyneMarginaliaThe maister of the vniuersitie of Coleine. vpon the Riuer of Rheine) rising vp sayd: MarginaliaThis man would accuse but he lacked matter.When thou wast also at Coleyn in thy position whiche thou diddest there determine, thou diddest propound many erroneous matters. Then sayd M. Hierome vnto hym, shew me first one errour whiche I propounded. Wherwithall he being in a maner astonished, sayd, I do not remember them now at the first, but hereafter they shalbe obiected agaynst you.

And by and by the thirde man rising vp, sayde:MarginaliaThe maister of the vniuersitie of Heidelberg. when þ^t you were also at Heidelberg, you propounded many erroneous matters as touching the Trinitie, and there painted out a certayne shield or scutchine, comparing the Trinitie of persons in diuinitie vnto water, snow, and yse, and such like. Vnto whō M. Hierome answered: Those thinges that I wrote or paynted there, the same will I also speake, write and paynt here, and teach me that they be erroneous, and I will most humbly reuoke and recant the same.

Then certayne cryed out, MarginaliaCrucifige, Crucifige eum.let hym be burned, let him be burned. Vnto whom he answered: if my death doe delight or please you, in the name of God let it be so.

Then sayd the archbishop of Salisburg, not so mayster Hierome, forsomuchy as it is written: I will not the death of a sinner, but rather that he conuert and liue. When these and many other tumultes and cryes were passed, whereby they did then most disorderly and outragiously witnes agaynst them, they deliuered the sayd mayster Hierome being bound, vnto þ^e officers of the Citty of Constance, to be caryed to prison for that night: and so euery one of them returned to their lodginges.

In the meane tyme, one of the friendes of M. I. Hus, looking out at a window of the Cloyster, sayd vnto hym, M. Hierome. Then sayd hee, you are welcome my deare brother. MarginaliaHierome is cōforted by the Notarie.Then sayd Peter vnto hym: Be constant & feare not to suffer death for the truth sake, of the whiche whē you were in tymes past at libertie, you dyd preache so muche goodnes. Vnto whome Hierome aunswered, truely brother I do not feare death, and for somuch as we know that we haue spoken much therof in times past: let vs now see what may be knowne or done in effect. By and by hys keepers comming to the window, threatning hym wyth strokes, dyd put away the sayd Peter from the window of the Cloyster.

Then came there one Vitus vnto M. Hierome & sayd mayster how doe you? Vnto whom he aunswered: truely brother, I do very well. MarginaliaEt tu de illis es. Luc. 22.Then hys keepers comming a-bout him, layd hold of the sayd Vitus,MarginaliaVitus the companion of Iohn de Clum. saying, this is also one of the number, and kept hym. When it drew towards euening, the archb. of Rigen, sent certayne of hys seruants which lead away M. Hierome, being strōgly bound with chaynes, both by the handes and by the neck, and kept him so for certayne houres. When night drew on, they caryed hym vnto a certayn tower of the Cittie in Sainct Paules Churchyarde, MarginaliaHierom straightly bound hande and foote.where as they tying him fast vnto a great blocke, and his feete in the stockes: hys handes also being made fast vppon them, they left hym: where as the blocke was so high, that he could by no meanes sit therupon, but that his head must hang downward. MarginaliaVitus had to the Archbishop of Rigen.They caryed also the sayd Vitus vnto the archbishop of Rygen, who demaunded of him, why he durst be so bold to talke with such a man being a reprobate of all men, and an hereticke: and when as he could finde no cause of imprisonment in hym, and þ^t he sayd he was maister Iohn de Clums friend (taking an otheMarginaliaVitus bound by othe. and promise of him that he should not go about to endamage the Councell, by reason of that imprisonment and captiuitie) so dismissed hym and sent him away.

Maister Hierom, vnknown vnto vs whether he was caryed, lay in the sayd tower two dayes & two nightes relieued onely with bread and water.MarginaliaHierome hanging in the stocks was fedde with bread & water. Then one of hys keepers comming vnto M. Peter, declared vnto him howe þ^t M. Hierome lay hard by in bondes aud chaines, and how he was fed. Then M. Peter desired that hee might haue leaue geuen hym to geue him meat, because he would procure the same vnto hym. MarginaliaPeter bringeth meate to Hierome.The keeper of the prison graunting hys request, caryed meate vnto hym. Within eleuen dayes after, so hanging by the heeles: he vsed so small repast, that he fell sore sicke euen vnto the death. When as he lying then in that captiuitie and prison, MarginaliaHierome in great sicknes calleth for a confessor.desired to haue a Confessor, they of the Councell, denyed that he shold haue any, vntill such time as by great importunitie he obtayned to haue one: hys friends being then there present in þ^e same prison and tower, MarginaliaM. Hierome was kept in iron in prisō the space of one yeare.wherein he then lay by the space of one yeare lacking but seuen dayes.

After they had put Iohn Hus to death, then about the feast of the natiuitie of Mary the Virgine, they brought forth M. Hierome, whom they had kept so long in chains, vnto the Churche of S. Paule: and threatning hym with death, being instant vpon him, they forced him to abiure & recant, and cōsent vnto the death of M. Iohn Hus, that he was iustly and truely condemned and put to death by thē. He, what for feare of death and hopying thereby to escape out of their handes, according to their will and pleasure: & according to the tenour whiche was exhibited vnto hym: did make abiuration, and that in the Cathedrall Churche and open Session, the draught whereof penned to hym by the Papistes, here ensueth.

MarginaliaThe forced abiuration of Hierome.I Hierome of Prage, Mayster of Arte, acknowledging the Catholicke Church and the Apostolicke fayth: do accurse and renounce all heresies, & specially that, whereof I haue hetherto bene infamed, and that which in tymes past Iohn Hus and Iohn Wickleffe haue holden and taught in theyr workes, treatises and sermons, made vnto the people and Clergy: for the whiche cause the sayde Wickliffe and Hus, together with the sayde doctrines & errours, are condēned by this Sinode of Constance, as heretickes and all the said doctrine sentencially condemned, and especially in certayne articles expressed in the sentences and iudgementes geuen agaynst them by this sacred Councell.

Also I do accorde and agree vnto the holy Churche of Rome, the Apostolick seate in this sacred Councel, & with my mouth and hart do professe in al thinges, and touching all thinges, and specially as touching the keyes, Sacramentes, orders and offices and ecclesiasticall censures, of pardons, reliques of Saintes, Ecclesiasticall libertie, also ceremonies and all other thinges pertayning vnto Christian Religion, as the Church of Rome, the Apostolick sea and this sacred Councel do professe: and specially that many of the sayd Articles are notoriously hereticall and lately reproued by the holy fathers, some of them blasphemous, other some erroneous: some offensiue vnto godly eares, & many of them temerarious and sedicious. And suche also were counted the Articles lately condemned by the sacred councell, and it was inhibited and forbidden to all and singular Catholicke men hereafter to preach, teach or presume to hold or mayntayne any of the sayd Articles, vnder payn of being accursed.

And I the sayd Hierome, forsomuch as I haue laboured by Scholasticall Artes, to perswade the opinion, De Vniuersalibus realibus, and that one substance of the common kinde should signifie many thinges subiect vnder the same