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EXECUTION OF JEROME. The details of the execution were much the same, except that Jerome was stripped and a cloth tied around his loins. He sang the Creed and a litany, and when his voice could no longer b! heard m the flames his lips were stiU seen to move as though praymg to himself; after his beard was burned off, a blister the size of an egg was seen to form itself, showing that he still was alive, and h.s agony was unusually prolonged, through his extraor- dinary strength and vitality. Oneeye-witnesssaysthatheshrieked Z^I: m b " ""'™""^' ^"'"^^^^^^ •^*^!^- '^*^* h^ -^tinuel praying till his voice was checked by the fire, and Poggio who list "^ W^ r T ""P^'^^'^ ""^ ^'^ ^-rf"! — ^ to the T.JY'" kT i" *^' ^*"'^'^' *^" «^«"tioner offered to light "Come for ;> f ' ^"T ""' ^""^•^ "^"^ ^- '*' b-* ^^ refusfd: Conie forward " he said, "and light the fire where I can see it. Had I feared this, I would not have been here." ^neas Sylvius htTeXtft 'T ^^'"^ ""^^^ '^' *^^ "-"^P--*^ -"i-4 plonfl effect " ?' °r ^" "'^^"^' ^^«^^' •'^P' -^d ^U tis personal effects were brought from his dungeon and thrown upon int^fe' 'S.Z '- '"- "^'^^^ '-' -' ^^« -^- -- -: It only remained to secure the submission of John of Ohium he courageous defender of Huss. He had remained in ConstenTe and was in the power of the council. What means were adopted tl^hetr? t T?PP^"^' '"*' ^'^ "^'y 1' ^^ — to inafn tarn the faith, admitted that Huss and Jerome had suffered iustlv ^' Von der Hardt III. 64-71 • TV 77( 9 t?^^i. ^ i r. ., Vrie Hist. Cone. Constant. Lb:I' d7s; 3~ Lanr P ^^ P' f -T'^-<3- t Chron. Glassberger ann. 1416.