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from the bottom of my prison. I do not doubt but that you will make some mention of me.

[Written on the eve before St Fabin’s day.]

 

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LETTER XII.^[1]

 

TO JOHN OF CHLUM.

 

[He exhorts him not to depart, as likewise his friends, before the end of the trial.]

 

Excellent Lord, I rejoice greatly at your good health, your presence here, and the firm perseverance of your good and faithful heart in the trouble which you take for me in my misfortunes. God has given you that constancy to a higher degree than to any other person; he bestows you on me for my support, and I hope it will be for your welfare in this life and in the next.

I beseech you, then, by the mercy of God, to wait for the termination of the affair, like a soldier of Jesus Christ. If the Seignior John of Janowitz, who lived with us, is in good health, I ask you to keep him also near you.

 

1. Hist. et Monum. Johann. Huss, Epist. li.