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and it was forbid that any ſhould teach them, upon pain of baniſhment.

8. Iohn Huſſe, when he ſaw the Univerſity-men of Germany to ſtrongly to ſide with the Pope, deeming that ſomething was to be done to reſtrain their inſolency, he made an Oration in a great concourſe of people (in Carolin Colledge) aſſerting that the plurallity of voices belonged to the Bohemians, who were natives, and not to the Germans who were ſtrangers: for although Charles, from the firſt inſtitution granted three voices unto ſtrangers, the fourth unto the Bohemians, in reſpect of their forcity, who then ſtudied learning, in his laſt pattin he explicated his minde, that the cuſtome of the Pariſian Univerſity ſhould be obſerved. Now it doth abundantly appear in France, ſtrangers have but one Suffrage, but the home-bred have three, the Germans being angry for this, Appealed to King VVenceſlaus, the Bohemians do the ſame, but the King after a yeares protraction, decides the Cauſe for the bohemians, in the year 1409. the 27. of Sept. the Germans interpreting this a diſgrace, leave Prague, and going into Miſina (a neighbouring place) and there give occaſion to the founding of Lipſick, & Erphord, Schools: in the mean time, the Bohemians created by voices, Iohn Huſſe their Rector.

9. The Monks being thus deſerted of the King & Univerſity, inſtigate the Arch-biſhop Shico of

Haſenburgh