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the Lord has comforted me. I was happy to hear of the Seignior Henry Snopek being in good health. I wish to have a Bible sent me. Do not grieve on my account. I conjure you to treat well this faithful friend, to whom I am under particular obligations.

 

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LETTER XIV.^[1]

 

TO THE SAME.

 

[[[Author:Jan Hus|Huss]] desires to have several things in his prison to beguile the time, and fortify himself by the perusal of the Holy Scriptures.]

 

My good Seignior, endeavour to obtain a Bible for me, and send it by this excellent man;^[2] and if Peter, your secretary, has any ink, let him give me some, with a few pens and an inkstand.

I have no news of my Polish servant, nor of Master Cardinal; I have learned only that your noblemen are here with the Emperor; wherefore, I conjure you to entreat his Majesty in my favour, and in the name of Almighty

 

1. Hist. et Monum. Johan. Huss, Epist. Iiii.
2. Huss transmits, without doubt, this message by one of the keepers, whom he praises in another letter.