barons in Bohemia hold in trust for you?” Without doubt I was sorely harassed that day.
A bishop said, “You have set up a new law.” Another remarked, “You have preached all those articles.” I made a right stern reply, God helping me, saying, “Why do you wrong me in this way?”
You write not a word about those who have been cited. How is it that no proctor hath been sent to represent them either by the King[1] or the Prague citizens or by those that have been cited?[2]
The following letter is dated by Palackẏ as March 4, 1415, reckoning eight weeks from Hus’s removal to the refectory (see infra, p. 189), which he dates on January 8. As I have dated this on January 3, following Hardt, iv. 26–32 (see p. 168), the date will be rather February 28. Additional confirmation of this view will be found in the fact that we have other letters to Chlum, dated, it would appear, on March 4 (see p. 191).
XLVII. To John of Chlum
(Without date: February 28(?), 1415)
Gracious lord, I am very glad to hear of your good health and your continued loyal and kindly constancy in all the efforts you are making for your poor friend. God hath endowed you with constancy above all other men and given you to me as a helper, for your good, I trust, both in this present life and in eternity. I beg you then, by God’s mercy, to await the issue of my case, like a soldier of Jesus Christ. If Master (dominus) John of Janowicz [Cardinalis] is quite well—he spent much time with me—I beg you to confer with him.
I feel my debt to the noble Baron Wenzel de Duba.
