speak in Latin before the gaolers, and in going out your man Peter[1] should give them a gratuity in keeping with your rank. I have not dared to keep the articles by me. Make Peter copy my tract on the Commandments.[2]
I will answer the charges of the Paris Chancellor if I live;[3] but if I die, God will answer them at the Day of Judgment. I do not know where Železný Jan [John Barbatus] is, faithful brother in Christ that he is.
I do not know whether Master Christian is with you. Pray greet him and Baron Wenzel and the rest of the faithful Bohemians.
Do not give way to worry because expenses run up here. Meet the situation as you can. If God shall free the Goose from his prison, He will give you good reason for not regretting these expenses. Please do what is sufficient by means of promises.
If Lord Henry of Plumlow[4] or Stibor of Boczi is with you, please greet them and all the Bohemians.
To-morrow it will be eight weeks since Hus was lodged in the refectory.
Noble and gracious lord, guardian of the truth
- ↑ P.: vester Pater, following Ep. Piiss. i. 2a. Read Petr.—i.e., Petrus Mladenowic.
- ↑ See pp. 154 and 171, and Mon. i. 296.
- ↑ Gerson, the great Chancellor of Paris, had despatched to archbishop Conrad of Prague (September 24, 1414) a series of articles culled from Hus’s De Ecclesia (see Doc. 523–8). The arrival of Gerson at Constance on February 26 (for date see Finke, op. cit. 259) brought them into prominence, and made Chlum, as we have seen, anxious to smuggle out an answer to them from Hus. Hus’s intentions seem to have been frustrated by illness, and we find him in later letters still harping on his intended answer to Gerson. The answer, if ever completed, is now lost.
- ↑ Cf. p. 232. Boczi is a very uncertain reading from the Ep. Piiss.
