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LETTER XVII.

to-day at the monastery. The Bishop of Constance has written to me that he would not treat any affair with me. The cardinals have done the same.

If you love the unfortunate Huss,[1] take care the king gives me guards of his own court, and that he delivers me from prison this evening.

Written in prison on Sunday evening.

My noble lord, delay not!


LETTER XVII.[2]

TO THE SAME.

[He tells him of the consolation which he has received in prison.]

I have received great consolation from the visit of the Bohemian noblemen, but I was much distressed at not having been permitted to see you.[3] Master Christian has left the city, bearing the message of Seignior Henry,

  1. Si diligitis miserum anserem.
  2. Hist. et Monum. Johann. Huss, Epist. Iv.
  3. The regret thus expressed by Huss would lead to the presumption that this letter, like the preceding, was addressed to John of Chlum, whose name is not found among those of the Seigniors and friends of John Huss, mentioned by the latter as having visited him in prison.